WILLIAM SHAKESPARE: Hamlet
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It is here......., thou art slain;
No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour of life;
The treacherous instrument in thy hand,
Unbated and evenom'd; the foul practice
Hath turn'd itself on me; lo, here I lie
(Act 1, scene two, lines 298-303)

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