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Now Lonergan appears upon the boards, / And Truth and Error sheathe their lingual swords.
No more in wordy warfare to engage, / The commentators bow before the stage, / And bookworms, militant for ages past, / Confess their equal foolishness at last, / Reread their Shakspeare in the newer light / And swear the meaning's obvious to sight.
For centuries the question has been hot: / Was Hamlet crazy, or was Hamlet not? / Now, Lonergan's illuminating art / Reveals the truth of the disputed "part," / And shows to all the critics of the earth / That Hamlet was an idiot from birth!