Translate Beowulf intentionally wrong:

What? We Gardeners in the Yeardays have frowned on the thrum of the Theedkings! How the athelings framed Ellen! Oft Shield Shaving from scathing threats, from many megas, tee’d off the mead-settles and made the Earlies go EY! Ever since he was early found a fastshaft, he for that bade fruffers and waxed under the Welkin, thawed worthminds out until eewelch of the umbsitters over the ronroad should hear and yield him great gombs. That was good cunning.

This is Linus. He's emerging from the bottom of a chair. He hides some of his toys under that chair.

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Have even more Shakespeare in Early Modern pronunciation.

Here's my reading of Hamlet's famous soliloquy in a reconstruction of (one possible form of) early 17th (or late 16th) century pronunciation.

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