Alas, poor yorick!


alas, poor yorick!

words from the play hamlet, by william shakespeare. hamlet says this in a graveyard as he meditates upon the skull of yorick, a court jester he had known and liked as a child. hamlet goes on to say that though “my lady” may put on “paint [make-up] an inch thick, to this favour [condition] she must come.”

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