"This government cannot afford your healthcare, but would you look at my new marble tiles…"
"This government cannot afford your healthcare, but would you look at my new marble tiles…"
For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold
And I am sick at heart.
- Hamlet (1.1.10), Francisco to Barnardo
"sick at heart" acts in concert with Marcellus's "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (1.4) to provide an account of a diseased country. Their comments set the gloomy mood of a neglected populace and substantiate Hamlet's suspicions about Claudius's corruption.
"This government cannot afford your healthcare, but would you look at my new marble tiles…"
