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First Line: She rustles in with sweep of many laces
Last Line: Sighing with sentiment, she sits there, creaking.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Obesity; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


She rustles in with sweep of many laces,
Settles her skirts and leans back, stiffly proud,
Watching her entrance on her rivals' faces,
Finding her glasses, peers between the crowd
To glimpse the man who struts there, heavy-browed;
Her satin bosom heaves, well corseted.
Murmuring her approbation half aloud,
She sits and breathes in gasps till Hamlet's dead.
"To be or not to be." The dark man glowers. . . .
Her polished finger-tips toy with her beads;
She dotes on sweet Ophelia, likes her weeds,
And charming madness, babbling to flowers.
So while the artist on the stage is speaking,
Sighing with sentiment, she sits there, creaking.





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