Chapter 13

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is _sicklied o’er_ with the pale cast of thought.

Notwithstanding the condemnation of Shakespeare in the _Present State of Polite Learning_, and elsewhere, Goldsmith frequently weaves Shakespearean recollections into his work. Cf. _She Stoops to Conquer_, 1773, Act i, p. 13, ‘We wanted no ghost to tell us that’ (_Hamlet_,