Jan 9, 2009
O proud death,- William Shakespeare Attribution: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Fortinbras, in Hamlet, act 5, sc. 2, l. 364-7. “Toward” means in preparation; “eternal cell” means the grave.
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,
That thou so many princes at a shot
So bloodily hast struck?
Categories: Death, Dramatist, Grave
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