¨What company, at what expense; and finding By this encompassment and drift of question That they do know my son, come you more nearer Than your particular demands will touch it.¨
Fake Friends
¨That she should lock herself from his resort, Admit no messengers, receive no tokens; ...And he, repelled (a short tale to make), Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension, Into the madness wherein now he raves And all we mourn for.¨
A Son´s Revenge
¨ old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams; all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward.¨
Inner Battles
¨ so shall my anticipationprevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the King and Queen molt no feather. ...and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, no, nor women neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so¨
¨Now is he total gules, horridly tricked With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, ...the hellish Pyrrhus Old grandsire Priam seeks.
¨ What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?¨