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Question
Find 2/4 expressions of humour from the extract.
Solution
Some expressions of humour from the extract are as follows:
- An ass‘s nole I fixed on his head.
- And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, - Sever themselves, and madly sweep the sky, So, at his sight, away from his fellows fly;
- Then will two at once woo one;
That must need to be sport alone:
And those things do best please me
That befall preposterously. - Away, you Ethiope!
- Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,
Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent! - Get you gone, you dwarf;
You minimus, of hind'ring knot-grass made;
You bead, you acorn. - Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray:
My legs are longer though, to run away.
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