“FOOL’S PARADISE”

“FOOL’S PARADISE”

“FOOL’S PARADISE” should have been Shakespeare’s, but William Paston insisted in 1462 that “I would not be in a folis paradyce.” The phrase turns up in Love’s Labor’s Lost and Romeo and Juliet.

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