Yorick&#39;s weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #39: An eponymous epic am I; With marsh mother and monster I vie Hailed as hero -- their bane -- Become king, long I reign Dealt draconic defeat, so I died.

0400: Lorick #40, All labour, no play, would be wrong

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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! 

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