 | Sue Hosking, Dianne Schwerdt - English literature - 1999 - 228 pages
...angel come to 'scourge and minister' (III, iv, 175) to a world made fallen by the 'trespass' of woman: Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That...speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen . . . (III,iv, 145-1 49) The 'unweeded garden'... | |
 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 1999 - 238 pages
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 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...Hamlet."5 But Hamlet is perfectly capable of distancing himself from his madness, when it suits him. "Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, / That not your trespass but my madness speaks" he tells Gertrude (3.4.152-53). To Laertes, before the court, he proclaims This presence knows And... | |
 | Martin Harries - Philosophy - 2000 - 236 pages
..."ecstasy" or madness. Hamlet responds by asserting that he is not mad, and then, typically, offers a wager: Bring me to the test, And [I] the matter will reword,...speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. (III. ^.142-49) Hamlet reads Gertrude's... | |
 | Mary Thomas Crane - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 276 pages
...focusing on her "soul," Hamlet nevertheless describes it using images of bodily disease and corruption: Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That...speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. (3.4.145-49) Hamlet seems here to echo the... | |
 | Humanities - 1961 - 1318 pages
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Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. 
