...time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness 140 That I have uttered. Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would...Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.98 Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, 3,4 no 3,4 To make...

...salvation. (Western Daily Press, Bristol) Hamlet indeed begins with priestly language. Forrest knelt. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering...speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. Hamlet images the ugliest of festering cancers,...

...yours doth temperately keep time And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have uttered. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering...speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. QUEEN. O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart...

...keep time And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have uttered. Bring me to the test, And I the matter will reword, which madness Would...speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's...

...memorial husband and redirected it to Claudius), Gertrude judges him mad. But Hamlet firmly disabuses her: Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering...speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's...

...mad. He might well have said to anxious adherents of the Establishment what Hamlet said to his mother: Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks. From the dutifully horrified press the response was a pretense of amused disdain. What's a reporter...

...see? With the Ghost's exit, she thinks that her son is mad again, which Hamlet indignantly denies: Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks. (146-147) The Ghost has commanded him to "step between her and her fighting soul!" (114), so he tries...

...time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness 145 That I have uttered. Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would...soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks. 150 It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects...

...feminine; and the ulcer image directly parallels the terms in which Hamlet will address his guilty mother: "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). Women, in fact, were especially...

...gambol from. Mother, Don't even think of looking for a way out effacing your guilt. HAMLET (continuing) for love of grace Lay not that flattering unction...soul That not your trespass but my madness speaks. Who are you trying to kid? HAMLET (continuing) It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whilst...