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Sample speech 1
All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me
And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,
Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire,
Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but
For every trifle are they set upon me;
Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me
And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which
Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I
All wound with adders who with cloven tongues
Do hiss me into madness.
Caliban
The Tempest
And here it is unpunctuated for the Punctuation! exercise (just copy and paste into a word processing programme)
All the infections that the sun sucks up from bogs fens flats on prosper fall and make him by inch-meal a disease his spirits hear me and yet I needs must curse but they’ll nor pinch fright me with urchin-shows pitch me i’th’mire nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark out of my way unless he bid ‘em but for every trifle are they set upon me sometimes like apes that mow and chatter at me and after bite me then like hedgehogs which lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount their pricks at my footfall sometime am I all wound with adders who with cloven tongues do hiss me into madness