Act 1: Scene 3

Question 1

For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor,

Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,

Answer 1

Laertes to Ophelia

Question 2

Perhaps he loves you now,
And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
The virtue of his will, but you must fear.
His greatness weighed, his will is not his own,
For he himself is subject to his birth.

Answer 2

Laertes to Ophelia

Question 3

Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain

Answer 3

Laertes to Ophelia

Question 4

Be wary, then. Best safety lies in fear.

Answer 4

Laertes to Ophelia

Question 5

But, good my brother,

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,

Answer 5

Ophelia to Laertes

Question 6

Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

Answer 6

Polonius to Laertes

Question 7

Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear ’t that th’ opposèd may beware of thee.

Answer 7

Polonius to Laertes

Question 8

‘Tis in my memory locked,

And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

Answer 8

Ophelia to Laertes

Question 9

you speak like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
Do you believe his “tenders,” as you call them?

Answer 9

Polonius to Ophelia

Question 10

I do know,
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows.

Answer 10

Polonius to Ophelia

Question 11

Believe so much in him that he is young,
And with a larger tether may he walk
Than may be given you.

Answer 11

Polonius to Ophelia

Question 12

I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,
Have you so slander any moment leisure,
As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.

Answer 12

Polonius to Ophelia