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"Body"
Wordplay
Act 4,
Scene 2
Lines 25-26

Play on the word body in Act 4, Scene 2 of myshakespeare's Hamlet.

Hamlet

The body is with the king, but the king is not with
the body. The king is a thing ...

Perhaps Shakespeare takes us all as fools since (no)body is able to make any sense out of this remark.