Act 3: Scene 4

Question 1

you have my father much offended

Answer 1

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 2

You are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife,

And—would it were not so!—you are my mother.

Answer 2

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 3

Come, come, and sit you down. You shall not budge.

Answer 3

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 4

How now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!

Answer 4

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 5

Oh, what a rash and bloody deed is this!

Answer 5

Gertrude to Hamlet

Question 6

Almost as bad, good mother,

As kill a king and marry with his brother.

Answer 6

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 7

Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell.
I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune.
Thou find’st to be too busy is some danger.

Answer 7

Hamlet to Polonius

Question 8

Leave wringing of your hands. Peace. Sit you down
And let me wring your heart. For so I shall
If it be made of penetrable stuff,

Answer 8

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 9

What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue

In noise so rude against me?

Answer 9

Gertrude to Hamlet

Question 10

makes marriage vows

As false as dicers’ oaths

Answer 10

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 11

Ay me, what act

That roars so loud and thunders in the index?

Answer 11

Gertrude to Hamlet

Question 12

This was your husband. Look you now, what follows.
Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear
Blasting his wholesome brother

Answer 12

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 13

. What devil was ’t
That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?
Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,

Answer 13

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 14

where is thy blush?
Rebellious hell,
If thou canst mutine in a matron’s bones,
To flaming youth let virtue be as wax
And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame

Answer 14

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 15

Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul,
And there I see such black and grainèd spots
As will not leave their tinct.

Answer 15

Gertrude to Hamlet

Question 16

 A murderer and a villain,

A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe

Answer 16

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 17

Do you not come your tardy son to chide,

That, lapsed in time and passion

Answer 17

Hamlet to Ghost

Question 18

This visitation Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.

Answer 18

Ghost to Hamlet

Question 19

It is not madness

That I have uttered. Bring me to the test

Answer 19

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 20

thou hast cleft my heart in twain.

Answer 20

Gertrude to Hamlet

Question 21

throw away the worser part of it,

And live the purer with the other half.

Answer 21

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 22

And when you are desirous to be blessed,

I’ll blessing beg of you

Answer 22

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 23

I must be cruel only to be kind.

Answer 23

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 24

Make you to ravel all this matter out:

That I essentially am not in madness

Answer 24

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 25

I have no life to breathe

What thou hast said to me.

Answer 25

Gertrude to Hamlet

Question 26

Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged,

Answer 26

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 27

They must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work,
For ’tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard

Answer 27

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 28

But I will delve one yard below their mines,

And blow them at the moon.

Answer 28

Hamlet to Gertrude