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"porches of mine ears"
Metaphor
Act 1,
Scene 5
Lines 63-64

An explanation of a metaphor using parts of the body to illustrate a building in Act 1, Scene 5 of myshakespeare's Hamlet.

Ghost 

And in the porches of mine ears did pour
The leperous distillment, whose effect

In this metaphor, the human body is a building, the ears are the entrances to the building, and the external parts of the ears are porches leading to those entrances.