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The apparel does "not" proclaim the man -- / Polonius lied like a partisan, / And Salomon still would a hero seem / If (Heaven dispel the impossible dream!) / He stood in a shroud on the hangman's trap, / His eye burning holes in the black, black cap.
And the crowd below would exclaim amain: / "He's ready to fall for his country again!"