Note to Hamlet, 3.2.293-294: "For if the king like not the comedy, / Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy"


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Act 3, Scene 2, lines 293-294
Editors often put these two lines in quotation marks, as if it were a quotation from a ballad or other source, but I think Hamlet is just improvising a little verse for the occasion.