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This Is A Reproduction Of Three Tragic Plays - Falbe Publishing

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394<br />

A Trio of Tragedies:<br />

MacBeth, Hamlet &<br />

King Lear<br />

by<br />

William Shakespeare<br />

enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died,<br />

Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is<br />

earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he<br />

was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel?<br />

Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay,<br />

Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.<br />

O, that that earth which kept the world in awe<br />

Should patch a wall to expel the winter’s flaw!<br />

But soft! but soft! aside!--Here comes the king.<br />

[Enter priests, &c, in procession; the corpse of Ophelia,<br />

Laertes, and Mourners following; King, Queen, their Trains, &c.]<br />

The queen, the courtiers: who is that they follow?<br />

And with such maimed rites? <strong>This</strong> doth betoken<br />

The corse they follow did with desperate hand<br />

Fordo it own life: ‘twas of some estate.<br />

Couch we awhile and mark.<br />

[Retiring with Horatio.]<br />

LAERTES.<br />

What ceremony else?<br />

HAMLET.<br />

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