Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? Malvolio: Fool, there …

William Shakespeare
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Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? Malvolio: Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. Feste: But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool. ✨ William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno (2004). Twelfth Night Or What You Will, p.141, Cambridge University Press
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