All His Crimes

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.

And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?

But in our circumstance and course of thought

'Tis heavy with him
-copied from here.

This passage is quoted in Perish By The Sword, 10, p. 97.

Curious, I googled and was surprised to learn that it was Hamlet.

Trygve Yamamura's illustrious predecessor, Sherlock Holmes, is a real person in Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series. Hamlet, Macbeth and all other Shakespearean characters are historical figures in Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest. All can meet in the Old Phoenix and, indeed, Holmes is seen there.

This first Yamamura novel is one small part of Anderson's comprehensive fictional multiverse.