If we offend, it is with our good will.
That you should think, we come not to offend,
But with goodwill. To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
Consider then, we come but in despite.
We do not come, as minding to content you,
Our true intent is. All for your delight
We are not here. That you should here repent you,
The actors are at hand, and, by their show,
You shall know all that you are like to know.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, Scene 1. Quince recites his totally ludicrous Prologue to Pyramus and Thisbe. It is full of incorrect punctuation, misuse of the English language, and sentence fragments that say the opposite of what he means. While he wishes to tell the palace audience that the players don’t wish to offend, he ends up saying the very opposite.