Hamlet vocabulary

The first row of the pious chanson will show you more. For look where my abridgement comes.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet

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I am sure that in a book — and to that extent my feelings were closely akin to those of Françoise — such a conception of mourning, in the manner of the Chanson de Roland* and of the porch of Saint-André-des-Champs, would have seemed most attractive.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way

*an ancient French story