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Death is quoting from ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’, the song from the Irvin Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun, also performed by Ethel Merman in the 1954 movie There’s No Business Like Show Business.

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Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, act 5, scene 1: “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him”.

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Macbeth, act 5, scene 5, from a another famous soliloquy:


To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

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Shakespeare’s Henry V was just such a king, and Terry is referring here to the ‘St Crispin’s Day’ speech in King Henry V, act 4, scene 3:


And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

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