Original artwork, not a still
Much Ado About Nothing · 1600
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Benedick measures rapid speech against the speed he would like from his horse. The comparison turns another person’s tongue into a model of swift movement. It gives the verbal exchange a physical scale without telling us whether he welcomes the talk or finds it exhausting.
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