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cannot but make the judicious grieve;
Ham. What ho, Horatio! Enter Horatio.
Nay, do not think I flatter, For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter’d?
this is...this is like, a backhanded compliment. this is really not that nice. i mean he's RIGHT and i'm sure horatio literally doesn't even have the equipment to care about this, but in a modern sense, like, why would you say this.
like: i can't GET anything from you (except your friendship), which is sweet, but it's like :/
and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well co-meddled, That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger To sound what stop she please.
I eat the air, promise-cramm’d—you
hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year,
a must build churches then, or else shall ’a suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is, “For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot.”
In second husband let me be accurs’d! None wed the second but who kill’d the first.
A second time I kill my husband dead, When second husband kisses me in bed.
The great man down, you mark his favorite flies, The poor advanc’d makes friends of enemies.
Queen. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
i think she should smack him, i think, given that he is forcing her to sit through this, she is 100% within her rights to smack him. thank you.
literally, your adult son is suicide baiting you and the whole country and makes you sit through a play that so far is just about a woman swearing she won't get remarried if her husband dies, and then he turns to you and is like: so...what do you think?
literally the way claudius is like. ehh idk hamlet what
Your Majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not. Let the gall’d jade winch, our withers are unwrung.
Ham. I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see the puppets dallying.
for for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into more choler.
You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend.
Now could I drink hot blood, And do such [bitter business as the] day Would quake to look on.
Hazard so near ’s as doth hourly grow Out of his brows.
but much more That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests The lives of many.
The cess of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What’s near it with it.
What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
so ’a goes to heaven, And so am I [reveng’d].
My mother stays, This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
’A will come straight. Look you lay home to him.
And that your Grace hath screen’d and stood between Much heat and him.
I’ll [warr’nt] you, fear me not. Withdraw, I hear him coming.
you
And would it were not so, you are my mother.
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks;