...the Player, but still use him as a stick for self-beating. The lowest things inform against Hamlet: Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army...prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event — Unlike Hamlet, who thinks too precisely on the unknown future,...

...Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event,— A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom...This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause, and will, and strenght, and means To do't. Examples, gross as earth, exhort me: Witness this army, of such mass and...

...of late lost all his mirth, forgone all custom of exercises. Still less can he tell why he delays: "I do not know Why yet I live to say, 'This thing's...I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do 't" (4-4-43)Thus the mysteriousness of Hamlet's world is of a piece. It is not simply a matter of...

...oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th' event — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward...cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't. (IV.iv. 39-46) Since Gonzago, however, he has had one splendid opportunity to do the thing, while Claudius...

...wisdom And ever three parts coward — (39-43) The merciless truth suddenly rings out in the baffled I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's...have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't ... (43-46) and yet, until now he has done nothing: Examples gross as earth exhort me. Witness this...

...the rival prince, as if to undermine the validity of the distinction between valour and cowardice: Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army...tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff 'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...

...oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th' event — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward...tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed, Makes mouths at the invisible event, HAMLET becomes smaller and smaller in frame as we continue...

...oblivion, or some craven scruple 40 Of thinking too precisely on th' event — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward...Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, 45 To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led by a...

...invisible, marks Fortinbras's quick passage over the stage in act 4, described by Hamlet in soliloquy. Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army...prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death,...

...leading his troops into battle against Poland as the kind of "example" students were enjoined to follow: Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army...tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff 'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event. Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...