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Hamlet (4,4) My Thoughts Be Bloody
Apr. 18th, 2014 08:37 amBefore being taken aboard and abroad to England, Hamlet gets a chance to query a captain in Fortinbras’ army about the military mission at hand, and learns of the paltry stakes over which the armies will fight and die for. The captain says:
Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
Hamlet marvels over the waste, calls it “the imposthume of much wealth and peace, That inward breaks, and shows no cause without Why the man dies.” Yet, he is awed by what men will do for honor alone. This leads to the big soliloquy of the scene, in which Hamlet finally finds his resolve.
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Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
Hamlet marvels over the waste, calls it “the imposthume of much wealth and peace, That inward breaks, and shows no cause without Why the man dies.” Yet, he is awed by what men will do for honor alone. This leads to the big soliloquy of the scene, in which Hamlet finally finds his resolve.
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