Does Lorick #40 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! All labour, no play, would be wrong. It is time to compete for the throng! There is boxing and wrestling, their athletics they're testing... sweaty men chasing glory in thongs! Hint: Although founded in Greece - now my grounds have increased!

Does Lorick #40 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! All labour, no play, would be wrong. It is time to compete for the throng! There is boxing and wrestling, their athletics they're testing... sweaty men chasing glory in thongs! Hint: Although founded in Greece - now my grounds have increased!

0401: Clue #40, All labour, no play, would be wrong

Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? 
Try this Lorick on for size:

A tempestuous prince was misled
by incestuous king, hast'ly wed
there's a ghost, and a play,
and soliloquies fey...
in the end, nearly everyone's dead!

Hint: his father ghosted him.

Answer: Hamlet! Get it?

Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! 

If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! 

E'en subscribe! If you dare...

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Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? Try this Lorick on for size: A tempestuous prince was misled by incestuous king, hast'ly wed there's a ghost, and a play, and soliloquies fey... in the end, nearly everyone's dead! Hint: his father ghosted him. Answer: Hamlet! Get it? Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! E'en subscribe! If you dare...

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