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Description: An excerpt from the first surviving quarto (1598) of William Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost. It shows the word honorificabilitudinitatibus as used by Costard. The longest word in Shakespeare's oeuvre and is often listed among the longest words in English; it is also the longest word in the English language featuring alternating consonants and vowels.
Title: Love's Labour's Lost - first quarto (1598) - page 47 - honorificabilitudinitatibus
Credit: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/18/46/?zoom=1250
Author: William Shakespeare
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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