Ham. Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once. Oph. Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. Ham. You should not have believ’d me, for virtue cannot so [inoculate] our old stock but we shall relish of it. I lov’d you not.
iohlkjlk i would love to know what he's talking about, but i am at work AND listening to music, all ophelia knows is that she's been roped into a sting operation and is now being insulted :(
honesty = virginity but also general state of character; he is talking of pardoxes; he loves her and does not at the same time; does he know even here that ophelia is working against him.
