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The Second Quarto publication of ''Hamlet'' has no word before ''flints,'' and the First Folio has "Shardes," which would be "shards" in modern spelling.  However, in a search of the Shakespeare canon, I find that Shakespeare never used the word "shards" in that way in any other of his writing.
 
The Second Quarto publication of ''Hamlet'' has no word before ''flints,'' and the First Folio has "Shardes," which would be "shards" in modern spelling.  However, in a search of the Shakespeare canon, I find that Shakespeare never used the word "shards" in that way in any other of his writing.
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The three other uses of "shard" or a form of it are
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The three other uses of "shard" or a form of it are:
    
  Antony and Cleopatra [III, 2]: "They are his shards, and he their beetle."
 
  Antony and Cleopatra [III, 2]: "They are his shards, and he their beetle."
 
  Macbeth [III, 2]: "The shard-borne beetle..."
 
  Macbeth [III, 2]: "The shard-borne beetle..."
  
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