that this too too sallied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
this is the first time i've actually seen sallied. i think what i read last used the, apparently, imposed "sullied" since, "sallied" isn't actually a word that makes a lot of sense here. i am reading a blog post about this as i type. i learned it as solid, think i've actually heard it as soiled at least once, and i am sympathetic to "solid." your flesh is TOO solid, TOO permanent, a sentiment i was very keen on in the Eleventh Grade. a different time, a different word, maybe i would have been more taken with sullied.
anyway, i'm trying to figure out how sallied would work, but i think it's probably just simply NOT sallied :/. i of course, am not going to presume to go against like, two centuries of shakespeare scholarship, but it seems strange to just write off sallied altogether, in the context of me literally focusing on the military aspect of hamlet. like me and those two guys who wrote that novel cannot be the only people in five hundred years who are like: hey you know there's an entire ARMY at their doorstep, this whole time. and i mean, in fairness to those two guys, without them i would not be able to make that observation in the text here.
but like:a sudden charge out of a besieged place against the enemy; a sortie? I don't think it's particularly LIKELY that this is the usage, since it's a little bit a stretch. but can hamlet not think of his own flesh being BESEIGED -- with grief, with change. he's being forced to stay home, his own promised crown is being held over his head, there IS a military conflict that is probably playing into this decision, being made for him. again, not the most likely usage and also perhaps one that fell out of usage pretty quickly. solid makes more intuitive sense, especially in the context of the soliloquy, and sallied DOESN'T make that much immediate sense. and also people, especially hamlet, keep forgetting that there IS an army at their doorstep. whatever, u know. i just thoguht.
