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It's virtually impossible to answer this question, and here is why. The punctuation in Shakespeare's plays changes from edition to edition. This is not a modern invention--where we have different versions of the same play printed during Shakespeare's lifetime, the punctuation is drastically different. Very probably, the typesetters of the time considered the punctuation to be a minor issue and devoted as little thought to it as you do when you are choosing which emoticon to put in your text message.

Since then, scholarly editors have got hold of the plays and replaced a lot of the punctuation which originally appeared in them with punctuation of their own choosing. So, although the First Folio has

How weary, stale, flat, and vnprofitable

Seemes to me all the vses of this world?

Fie on't?

most editors since would replace those question marks with something else, probably exclamation points.

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