Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Yorick
Let me see. Alas, poor Yorick!
I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (Hamlet to Horatio.)
Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (Hamlet addressing Yorick’s skull.)