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Elizabeth Dialectical Journal

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1) “Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,/That can denote me truly.” (1.2.82-83)
2) “O that this too too solid flesh would melt,/Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,/Or that the Everlasting had not fixed/His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter.” (1.2.129-132)
3) “If it assume my noble father’s person,/I’ll speak to it though hell itself should gape/And bid me hold my peace.” (1.2.244-245)
4) “Why, what should be the fear?/I do not set my life at a pin’s fee,/And for my soul, what can it do to that,/Being a thing immortal as itself?/It waves me forth again. I’ll follow it.” (1.4.64-68)
5) “Here as before, never so help you mercy,/How strange, or odd some’er I bear myself,/As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/To put an antic disposition …show more content…

6) “I doubt it is no other but the main:/His father’s death, and our o’erhasty marriage.” (2.2.56-57)
7) “For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good/kissing carrion—Have you a daughter?” …show more content…

A certain convocation/of politic worms are e’en at him. Your worm is your only emperor/for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for/maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service,/tow dishes, but to one table; that’s the end.” (4.3.19-23)
18) “But if indeed you find him/not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs/into the lobby.” (4.3.32-33)
19) “How stand I then,/That have a father killed, a mother stained,/Excitements of my reason and my blood” (4.4.56-58)
20) “Oh from this time forth,/My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth.” (4.4.65-66)
21) “How came he mad?” (5.1.132)
22) “What is he whose grief/Bears such an emphasis? Whose phrase of sorrow/Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand/Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,/Hamlet the Dane.” (5.1.221-225)
23) “Let the foils be brought, the/gentleman willing, and the king hold his purpose, I will win for/him and I can. If not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.” (5.2.154-157)
24) “What I have done,/That might your nature, honour and exception/Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.” (5.2.202-204)
25) “If’t be so,/Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged,/His madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy.”

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