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PLAY: Hamlet ACT/SCENE: 5.1 SPEAKER: Hamlet CONTEXT: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. DUTCH: Laas, arme Yorick! – Ik heb hem gekend, Horatio /
Ach, arme Yorick ! Ik heb hem gekend, Horatio
MORE: One of Shakespeare’s best-known speeches.
Often misquoted as “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well.” Topics: misquoted, still in use, friendship