Sentence No. 135 · 9 August 2026
In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it, for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing (1598) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
The semicolon here marks the pivot: everything before it explains the speaker's resolve, everything after defends it. When a sentence contains a semicolon, treat it as a hinge and sort the fragments into a 'before' half and an 'after' half first.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 7 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A newly reconciled man declares his resolve to marry, dismissing all mockery. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.
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