Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. Actus Primus, Scena Prima • Paragraph 1730
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[Footnote V.17: _In youth, when I did love, did love._] The three stanzas sung here by the Grave-Digger, are extracted, with a slight variation, from a little poem called _The Aged Lover renounceth Love_, written by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who was beheaded in 1547. The song is to be found in Dr. Percy's _Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_.]