Polonius: And I do think, or else this brain of mine hunts not the trail of policy so sure as it hath used to do, that I have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet [to Polonius]: Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: My honourable Lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
Hamlet: You cannot, Sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal, except my life, my life.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius [aside]: Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: Brevity is the soul of wit.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.
line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: [Aside] How pregnant sometimes his replies are! A happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of.
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Polonius: By heaven, it is as proper to our age to cast beyond ourselves in our opinions as it is common for the younger sort to lack discretion.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful. [Reads.]
‘Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
‘O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers;
I have not art to reckon my groans: but that
I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.
‘Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this machine is to him,
HAMLET.’
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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The Trail
The trail in the Winter is lonely
The loneliest place I know
But the trail is the place that I go to
When my troubles I can't let go
The howl of the wind keeps me company
And it's stiff cold slap on my face
Awakens me to the moment
A moment that is filled with God's grace
I remember the sweet smell of Summer
The colors still fresh on my brain
But the odors and colors of Summer
Are replaced by the dampness and rain
Yet the pull of the trail is a strong one
And nothing could keep me away
Not ten pots of gold and a promise
That it all could be mine someday
'Cause the trail is my church and my temple
And no greater peace can be found
Than the peace and the glory around me
That in the forest abounds
Written by Sara Fielder © 1997
poem by Sara Fielder
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Polonius: At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him:
Be you and I behind an arras then;
Mark the encounter: if he love her not
And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,
Let me be no assistant for a state,
But keep a farm and carters.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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King Claudius: And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: If he do blench,
I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
May be the devil, and the devil hath power
T' assume a pleasing shape.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Sonnet XLI: Why Do I Speak of Joy
Love's Lunacy
Why do I speak of joy, or write of love,
When my heart is the very den of horror,
And in my soul the pains of Hell I prove,
With all his torments and infernal terror?
What should I say? What yet remains to do?
My brain is dry with weeping all too long,
My sighs be spent in uttering my woe,
And I want words wherewith to tell my wrong;
But, still distracted in Love's lunacy,
And, bedlam-like, thus raging in my grief,
Now rail upon her hair, then on her eye,
Now call her Goddess, then I call her thief,
Now I deny her, then I do confess her,
Now do I curse her, then again I bless her.
poem by Michael Drayton
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Queen Gertrude: O Hamlet, speak no more: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; and there I see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Ophelia: You are keen my lord, you are keen.
Hamlet: It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge.
line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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