Hamlet vocabulary

the hart being pierced with the dart, runs out of hand to the herb Dictranum

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)

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This mean I now by mighty Theseus,

That for to hunten is so desirous —

And namely the greate hart in May —

That in his bed there dawneth him no day

Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

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HAMLET. Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet