Scene 1. Me v. Shakespeare

Enter SHAKESPEARE'S IAGO, a fictional character, and HOLMES, a very real person

SHAKESPEARE's IAGO:

And let me the canakin clink, clink;

And let me the canakin clink:
A soldier's a man;
A life's but a span;
Why, then, let a soldier drink.

HOLMES:

And let me the author debunk, bunk;
The rhyme-cheating 'Speare I would flunk:
His meter, so off;
His old words make me cough;
Why, then, let a writer get drunk.

TOGETHER: Some wine, ho!
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