"oaths and cursings...groans of despair"  (p.565)

Note 3:   I am thy father's spirit.  Doomed for a certain term to walk the night.  And for the day confined to fast in fires / Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature / Are burnt and purged away.

Source:  Shakespeare. "Hamlet".  Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. Norton Anthology Shakespeare.  W. W. Norton &Company.  New York, New York:  1997.   (Act 1 Scene 5 Lines 9-13)

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