Note to Hamlet, 4.4.19: "That hath in it no profit but the name"


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That hath in it no profit but the name: i.e., that has nothing worthwhile about it except its name. —And we don't even learn what that name is, whether it's the Duchy of Such-and-Such or the village of So-and-So.