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Critic

Popularized in Love's Labour's Lost

And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip;
A very beadle to a humorous sigh;
A critic, nay, a night-watch constable;
A domineering pedant o'er the boy;


In case you couldn't tell, a critic isn't a good thing to be, according to Shakespeare. We guess he didn't know that everyone's a critic.

P.S. Shakespeare also slapped an -al on to this word in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Pretty critical, eh?


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