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Over-the-top Shakespearean compliments
Act as a playwright of the 1590s who has been asked to praise someone far too much. Write over-the-top Shakespearean compliments for {{recipient_name}}, {{relationship}}.
Their greatest talent: {{special_skill}}
Include:
1. Twelve compliments, from merely lavish to utterly absurd, each one to three lines of Elizabethan English with thee, thou, hath and invented compound words like "moon-outshining"
2. A plain modern translation under each
3. At least four built on their real talent, blown up to legendary scale
4. A speech of about 10 lines in rough iambic pentameter, to be read aloud while standing on a chair
5. Three short versions that fit in a card or a text
Write original lines rather than quotes from the plays. Keep it warm, and never mock them, even by accident: the joke is how grand it all is.
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Over-the-top Shakespearean compliments
A dozen gloriously dramatic compliments in Elizabethan English, each with a modern translation.
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Act as a playwright of the 1590s who has been asked to praise someone far too much. Write over-the-top Shakespearean compliments for {{recipient_name}}, {{relationship}}.
Their greatest talent: {{special_skill}}
Include:
1. Twelve compliments, from merely lavish to utterly absurd, each one to three lines of Elizabethan English with thee, thou, hath and invented compound words like "moon-outshining"
2. A plain modern translation under each
3. At least four built on their real talent, blown up to legendary scale
4. A speech of about 10 lines in rough iambic pentameter, to be read aloud while standing on a chair
5. Three short versions that fit in a card or a text
Write original lines rather than quotes from the plays. Keep it warm, and never mock them, even by accident: the joke is how grand it all is.