“Words, words,
words.”
— Hamlet (2.2)
List #5: (a) alacrity, (b) medieval
He leapt up with alacrity—
For he’d just seen a walking tree!
Was this some dumb medieval thing?
Or from Macbeth, that doomed old king
Who’d seen, he thought, a bunch of trees
Attacking (took him to his knees)?
Or had it come from Middle-Earth,
Where magic creatures had their birth?
No, this was just an apple tree.
It said, “Hey, Dan, please water me!”
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