Daily Inspiration Quote by William Shakespeare

Taste is the bluntest metaphor Shakespeare could have reached for here: intimate, evaluative, impossible to fake. "Praise us as we are tasted" makes approval conditional on contact, not reputation. You do not applaud the menu copy; you put the thing in your mouth. The line insists on a moral economy where esteem is earned through experience, where judgment is sensory, direct, and therefore harder to manipulate.

The pairing of "praise" and "allow" sharpens the social stakes. Praise is public and performative; allowance is permission, admission, a kind of civic clearance. Shakespeare folds both into a single test: we deserve applause only in proportion to what you actually encounter, and we deserve acceptance only in proportion to what we demonstrate. It is a compact rebuke to the era's obsession with appearances - a court culture where rank and flattery often outran merit, where a well-turned compliment could function like currency.

The syntax does quiet rhetorical work. Two imperatives, parallel structure, no ornament. The speaker doesn't plead; they set terms. "As we are tasted" and "as we prove" also move from immediate sensation to sustained evidence: first impression, then verification. Taste can be a momentary reaction; proof is endurance. That progression suggests Shakespeare's recurring suspicion of first-glance certainty, the way charm, costume, and language can counterfeit substance until time forces a reckoning.

In a theatre, this is also meta: the audience is literally "tasting" a performance as it happens. The line doubles as a dare to spectators and patrons alike: stop praising the idea of us. Watch us. Test us. Then decide.