39 Time to turn back and descend the stair, 40 With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -- 41 (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!") ... S. ... dying fall: love-sick Duke Orsino's opening line in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, "That strain again! ... Prince Hamlet: not Shakespeare's noble prince, who resisted the temptation to commit suicide in his "To be or not to be" speech (alluded to at line's end), but instead characters like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (cf. 112-16), Polonius (cf. 117), and Osric (cf. 118). ... the Fool: Shakespeare's plays...

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• Grade Level: High School