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by foul and putrid Beth Duff Wilt This flower is surely it It blunts this beautiful day. I think it is. But the stench through your flapping wings i e partridge, listen to the insult and react to that insult as well. E don't know bythe

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yes, this is the Renaissance fair in Marin County, one week away from opening. And at this fair, the people putting it on have to learn a special way of doing, moving and talking before opening day. There's plenty of that kind of work to be done for

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sure. But this particular fair also involves some additional, rather unique preparation. Well, of course, first of all, bodies haven't changed that much. So they're there, all right physically to begin with. But mainly it's the speech. And so we refer to the King James version of the

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Bible, which, if you think about it, you realize that that was directly after the Elizabethan period. So if you've gone to Sunday school and been good, then you already have that in mind. And then, of course, Shakespeare himself is a very good source. And we have

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ah, marvelous old English dictionary that is three quarters full of insults of the period and because the streets of London were very crowded, people did insult each other, sometimes in funds, sometimes just preceding a sword fight which developed out of it. So we do a lot

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of insulting each other. The fair opens a week from today and will run for six weekends. Paddle Brian Channel five, Eyewitness News, Marin County Yeah.