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"'Tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature posess it merely." The images of rottenness pop up throughout the play: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, Do not spread the compost on the weeds, My offence is rank, it smells to heaven, How long will a man lie i' th' earth before he rot.

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