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In Act 1, Hamlet hears Claudius engaging in drunken merriment, and, disgusted, Hamlet tells Horatio that the whole world is feeling the same contempt for Denmark's drunken king and his cohorts:
This heavy headed revel east and west Makes us traduc'd, and tax'd of other nations; They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our addition; and indeed it takes From our achievements, though perform'd at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute.
