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Gertrude's first line in Hamlet is: "Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off and let thy eye look like a friend on Denmark." She and Claudius are complaining that Hamlet seems to be carrying on this mourning for his father shtick for too long.

You must be very careful not to invert your first line as Gertrude so that instead of saying "Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off" you say, "Good Hamlet, cast off thy coloured nightie." It's apparently a famous cock-up (Ken Branagh, In the Bleak Midwinter)

After that, who can forget that line?

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