Quotation by Shakespeare

In the gross and scope of mine opinion,
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Horatio, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 1, l. 68-9.

This appearance of the ghost foretells some political upheaval; "gross and scope" means general drift.
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