Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. Actus Primus, Scena Prima • Paragraph 381
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[Footnote I.45: _No jocund health, that Denmark drinks to-day_,] Dr. Johnson remarks, that the king's intemperance is very strongly impressed; everything that happens to him gives him occasion to drink. The Danes were supposed to be hard drinkers.]