Does Lorick #54 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I swore hatred and marched over mountains clever leader: I outflank and surround them empires rise and they fall in elephantine brawl... I was great. I was feared. I was beaten. Hint: Skip, my African fate...

Does Lorick #54 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I swore hatred and marched over mountains clever leader: I outflank and surround them empires rise and they fall in elephantine brawl... I was great. I was feared. I was beaten. Hint: Skip, my African fate...

0541: Clue #54, I swore hatred and marched over mountains

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! 

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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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