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Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison’d by their wives; some sleeping kill’d;
All murder’d for within the hollow crown.
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— eatsleeptv:
for within the hollow crown
that rounds the mortal temples of a king
keeps death his court and there the antic sits
HENRY IV, pt i | (x)
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