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   dajames Teacher
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   They are preparing for WAR!

   MARCELLUS Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,
   Why this same strict and most observant watch
   So nightly toils the subject of the land,
   And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,

   (they are making weapons of war)

   
   And foreign mart for implements of war;

   (and buying supplies and weapons)

   Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
   Does not divide the Sunday from the week;

   (and working 24/7 building ships for war)

   
   What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
   Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:

   Who is't that can inform me?

   All this information is presented at the top of the play...thereby hinting of the problems to come.

    

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   Posted by dajames on Sunday March 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM