Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. Actus Primus, Scena Prima • Paragraph 464
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[Footnote I.123: _Antick disposition_] _i.e._, strange, foreign to my nature, a disposition which Hamlet assumes as a protection against the danger which he apprehends from his uncle, and as a cloak for the concealment of his own meditated designs.]