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Much Ado About Nothing • 1600
Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion? Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker complains that men seem destined for marriage and its accompanying suspicions, wondering whether any sixty-year-old bachelors remain. The exaggerated questions express mock dismay at the disappearance of lifelong single men. Marriage is treated as a doubtful bargain rather than an unquestioned happy ending.
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