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English: With a caption taken from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, seated in his throne, asks a skeptical Senator Carl Schurz (with a concerned Senator Thomas W. Tipton standing beside him) to play on a flute which he proffers.
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Source Harper's Weekly, April 27, 1872, p. 321.
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Thomas Nast  (1840–1902)  wikidata:Q214957 s:en:Author:Thomas Nast
 
Thomas Nast
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Thos. Nast; Nast; Th Nast; Th. Nast
Description American-German cartoonist and caricaturist
Date of birth/death 27 September 1840 Edit this at Wikidata 7 December 1902 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Landau, Germany Guayaquil, Ecuador
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NOT SO EASILY PLAYED UPON.

  U. S. G. “Will you play upon this pipe?”

  C. S. “My lord, I can not.”
  U. S. G. “ 'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops.”
  C. S. “But these can not I command to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill.”

  U. S. G. “Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet can not you make it speak. Why, do you think, I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you can not play upon me.”

— Hamlet, Act III., Scene II.

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