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PLAY: Hamlet ACT/SCENE: 2.2 SPEAKER: Hamlet CONTEXT: And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. DUTCH: En toch, voor mij, wat is ze mij, deze quintessence van stof?
MORE: Quintesssence in Shakespeare’s time meant the ‘fifth’ or pure essence ( also ‘quintessential’) Topics: insult

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