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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13

Note 361 — ACT V., SCENE I.

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So in "Hamlet," act iii. sc. 4—

"This is the very coinage of your brain; This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in."

Mr Steevens observes that in this place, and many others, ecstasy means a temporary alienation of mind, a fit.

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