Does Lorick #25 still bedevil you? Here it is again: Took no stock in dead people did I, And I warn’t much for schoolin’ - no lie. My pap&#39;s mean as a cuss so i set out to bust... Faked my death, took to raft, no goodbye! Hint: I set out lookin&#39; for freedom without Tom. Tom didn&#39;t need it, but Jum sure &#39;nuff&#39; did! Can you solve this lorick in time?

0260: Solving Lorick #25 and Introducing #26: In a time ere the pyramids' rise

Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? 
Try this Lorick on for size:

A tempestuous prince was misled
by incestuous king, hast'ly wed
there's a ghost, and a play,
and soliloquies fey...
in the end, nearly everyone's dead!

Hint: his father ghosted him.

Answer: Hamlet! Get it?

Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! 

If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! 

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