Alas, poor students! I knew it, Hamlet: a play of infinite boredom . . . - Scamlet Origin of Alas, Poor Yorick!
This phrase occurs in William Shakespare’s play Hamlet. The main character Hamlet says this line when he is speaking to a gravedigger. Hamlet looks around the dead bodies and finds the skull of Yorick, the royal jester. Holding the skull, Hamlet speaks to it as if Yorick is alive: “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”
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