...inaction. Hamlet's own "cause" fails to produce the expected result, to move him to sweep to his revenge: I do not know Why yet I live to say this thing's to...cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't. Reflections on "Cause" in Hamlet In the following essay I propose to explore the workings of the word...

...sudden explosion of three lines of ferocious monosyllables in 'How all occasions do inform against me': I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's...have cause and will and strength and means To do't . . . (4.4.43-6) These are small bricks in a big wall, but necessary; and I suppose at this time we...

...oblivion, or some craven scruple 40 4,4 Of thinking too precisely on th'event (A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward),...delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine amb1tion puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event, 50 Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that...

...Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event,— A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom...This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause, and will, and strenght, and means To do't. Examples, gross as earth, exhort me: Witness this army, of such mass and...

...oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th' event — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward...cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't. (IV.iv. 39-46) Since Gonzago, however, he has had one splendid opportunity to do the thing, while Claudius...

...wisdom And ever three parts coward — (39-43) The merciless truth suddenly rings out in the baffled I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's...have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't ... (43-46) and yet, until now he has done nothing: Examples gross as earth exhort me. Witness this...

...oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th' event — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward...tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed, Makes mouths at the invisible event, HAMLET becomes smaller and smaller in frame as we continue...

...oblivion, or some craven scruple 40 Of thinking too precisely on th' event — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward...Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, 45 To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led by a...

...Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely in th' event A thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom. And ever three parts coward...and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...

...oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward...cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't. (IV. iv. 32-46) While arguing that discourse and reason are to be put to use — a notion we will consider...