CLOWN: Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i' th' nose thus?

MUSICIAN: How, sir? How?

CLOWN: Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?

MUSICIAN: Ay, marry, are they, sir.

CLOWN: Oh, thereby hangs a tail.

MUSICIAN: Whereby hangs a tale, sir?

CLOWN: Marry sir, by many a wind instrument that I know. But, masters, here's money for you, and the general so likes your music that he desires you, for love's sake, to make no more noise with it.

CLOWN:If you have any music that may not be heard, to 't again. But, as they say, to hear music the general does not greatly care.

(III.iii)

Shakespeare never fails to add comic relief to his plays; in this way, his plays appear beyond their time. I actually enjoy when the clown enters. He plays with words and experiments with language. The idea of comic relief is still used in movies and plays today. I know Shakespeare is responsible for the invention of hundreds of words, but is he responisble fo the use of comic relief as well?