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“comonty”

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Act Introduction,

Scene 2

Lines 133-138

An explanation of the word “comonty” in Introduction 2 of myShakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.

Messenger

Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life.

Sly

Marry, I will. Let them play it. Is not a comonty a

Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick?

Page

No, my good lord; it is more pleasing stuff.

Sly

What, household stuff?

Page

It is a kind of history.

Never having seen a play before, Sly doesn’t know the word comedy, which he mispronounces.

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