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He says, "I have, of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercise, and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory." He is, of course, telling them what they want to hear. We know that he has not foregone all custom of exercise at all; later he tells Horatio that he has kept in continual practice. This is part of the antic disposition intended to bamboozle the simple-minded Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

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