Note to Much Ado About Nothing, 5.2.39: "for 'school', 'fool', a babbling rhyme"


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Act 5, Scene 2, line 39.
for 'school', 'fool', a babbling rhyme: —In the popular love poetry of Shakespeare's time, the lady often schools the lover in the ways of love, teaching him to be humble and respectful, and the lover is an eternal fool, forever babbling on about his love.