Hamlet

act 3 scene 2

What do you think in hamlets view is the "capon"?

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The "capon" is a pretty obscure word. As far as I understand it, the word has something to do with fattening a bird before slaughter. Hamlet is drawing a reference to himself being flattened before a slaughter. 

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