Alas, poor Yorick! I know him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where are your gibes now? You gambols? Your songs? You flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? [William Shakespeare, Hamlet]

Yorick is a fictional character from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare. He was a yester on the courd of King Hamlet, Prince Hamlets murdered father. His remains are exhumed by the gravedigger in the first scene of Act 5. The sight of Yorick's Skull conjures a monolog from price Hamlet, which is one of the most famous in theater history and one of the most used Memento Mori Theme in Art