O wretched state! o bosom black as death! ✨ William Shakespeare, Edmon…

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O wretched state! o bosom black as death! ✨ William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1790). The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello, p.327
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O wretched state! o bosom black as death! ✨ William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1790). The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello, p.327

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