Laertes says to Ophelia that Hamlet’s love isn’t serious | For hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,Hold it a fashion and toy in blood,A violet in the youth of primary nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,The perfume and suppliance of a minute.No more. |
Laertes says that Hamlet can’t marry whoever he wants as someone with lesser birth might be able to do | His greatness weighed, his will is not his own,For he himself is subject to his birth.He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself |
Ophelia says to her father that hamlet expressed his feelings for her | He hath, my lord, of late made my tenders of his affection to me |
Ophelia says persistently declares his love for her | My lord, he hath importuned me with loveIn honourable fashion |
Polonius bands Ophelia from seeing or talking to hamlet | I would not, in plain terms, from this time forthHave you so slander any moment leisureAs to give words or talk with lord hamlet.Look t’ot, I charge you. Come your ways |
Ophelia says to Laertes don’t tell her things he doesn’t practise | Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,And recks not his own rede |
… | And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as night the day,Thou canst not then he false to any man |
Hamlet Quotes- act 1 scene 3
July 11, 2019