• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o’erhear the speech.

    • Hamlet, Act III, Scene 3

    There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me As if I were their well-acquainted friend

    • The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3

    Sounds like the gender was known.