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Ophelia: I told you beware the ides of March.
Hamlet: They are not on us yet. Forsooth, I would trade my horse for another, yet the ice cream is good, so let’s tarry awhile here.
Ophelia: A dish fit for the gods. Yet it is neither ice nor cream.
Hamlet: What’s in a name? Chocolate by any other name would taste as sweet, nay?
Ophelia: Tis neither here nor there.
Hamlet: I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. Yet that man is taking my likeness too oft for his own good, we must to horse before I beat him to a pulp. Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys is jollity for apes and grief for boys.
Ophelia: Good sentences and well pronounced, my lord. On, on, to unpathed waters, to undreamed shores!
[Exeunt]
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Voiceover
Antique dialogue has been experimented with in modern contexts. Results are unpredictable; voices from the past can sound uneasy in the street clatter of industrialized society, but with a little suspension of disbelief, across a busy piazza, these Danish motorcyclists could be speaking Global English (in the Shakespearean sense).
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