Original artwork, not a still
Much Ado About Nothing · 1600
The world must be peopled!
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
An emphatic declaration that humanity must keep growing and filling the earth. The speaker treats the need for more people as urgent and self-evident, and the exclamation gives it the force of an argument. It reads as a confident claim about duty or necessity, though it is only the speaker's view.
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