Shakespeare, HAMLET, Act I, scene v (Hamlet's father's ghost speaks to Hamlet):
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
(lines 24-26)
P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves makes frequent reference to this quote in the Bertie Wooster and Jeeves series of novels. Bertie is forever complaining that Shakespeare must not have been a very good speller!
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Shakespeare, HAMLET, Act I, scene v (Hamlet's father's ghost speaks to Hamlet):
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
(lines 24-26)
P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves makes frequent reference to this quote in the Bertie Wooster and Jeeves series of novels. Bertie is forever complaining that Shakespeare must not have been a very good speller!
July 21, 2009