My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty …

William Shakespeare
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. ✨ William Shakespeare (1963). Hamlet, p.41, CUP Archive
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