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Quotation from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
“I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory”
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1524, modern spelling)
Hamlet describes his melancholy to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern before praising man as the paragon of animals and the quintessence of dust.
Citation: "I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory" — William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1524, modern spelling). (id hamlet-q5)
Portrait: Hamlet Q1 Frontispiece 1603, William Shakespeare, Public domain.
