Act 4 quotes: who said, and to whom?

Question 1

Mad as the sea and wind when both contend/Which is the mightier. In his lawless fit./Behind the arras hearing something stir,/Whips out his rapier, cries, “A rat, a rat!”

Answer 1

Queen Gertrude to King Claudius

Question 2

“O heavy deed!/It had been so with us, had we been there./His liberty is full of threats to all–to you yourself, to us, to everyone.”

Answer 2

King Claudius to Queen Gertrude

Question 3

“It will be laid to us, whose providence/Should have kept short, restrained, and out of haunt, this mad young man. But so much was out love, We would not understand what was most fit, but like the owner of a foul disease, to keep it from divulging, let if feed even on the pith of life.”

Answer 3

King Claudius to Queen Gertrude

Question 4

The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch but we will ship him hence and this vile deed we must, with all out majesty and skill, both countenance and excuse.

Answer 4

King Claudius to Queen Gertrude

Question 5

So dreaded slander–whose whisper o’er the world’s diameter, as level as the cannon to his blank, transports the poisoned shot, may miss out name and hit the woundless air.

Answer 5

King Claudius to Queen Gertrude

Question 6

Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! What replication should be made by the son of a king?

Answer 6

Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz

Question 7

But such officers do the king best service in the end. He keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw, first mouthed to be last swallowed. When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry again.

Answer 7

Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Question 8

He’s loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement but their eyes. And where ‘tis so, th’ offender’s scourge is weighed, but never the offense. To bear all smooth and even, this sudden sending him away must seem deliberate pause.

Answer 8

King Claudius to himself

Question 9

Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved, or not at all.

Answer 9

King Claudius to himself

Question 10

Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e’en at him.

Answer 10

Prince Hamlet to King Claudius

Question 11

Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service–two dishes, but to onw table. That’s the end.

Answer 11

Prince Hamlet to King Claudius

Question 12

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm…Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

Answer 12

Prince Hamlet to King Claudius

Question 13

In heaven. Send hither to to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i’th’other place youself. But if indeed you find him not within in this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

Answer 13

Prince Hamlet to King Claudius

Question 14

Therefore prepare thyself, the bark is ready and the wind at help, th’associates tend, and everything is bent for England.

Answer 14

King Claudius to Prince Hamlet

Question 15

So is it, if thou knew’st our purposes.

Answer 15

King Claudius to Prince Hamlet

Question 16

My mother. Father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother–Come, for England!

Answer 16

Prince Hamlet to King Claudius

Question 17

And, England, if my love thou hold’st at aught–as my great power thereof may give thee sense, since yet yhy cicatrice looks raw and red after the Danish sword and thy free awe pays homage to us–thou mayst not coldly set our sovereign process, which imports at full, by letter congruing to that effect, the present death of Hamlet.

Answer 17

King Claudius to himself

Question 18

Do it, England, for like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me. Till I know ‘tis done, Howe’er my haps, my joys were ne’er begun.

Answer 18

King Claudius to himself

Question 19

You know the rendezvous.
If that his majesty would aught with us,
We shall express our duty in his eye,
And let him know so.

Answer 19

Fortinbras to Captain

Question 20

Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it.
Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.

Answer 20

Captain to Prince Hamlet

Question 21

This is th’ impostume of much wealth and peace,
That inward breaks and shows no cause without
Why the man dies.

Answer 21

Prince Hamlet to Captain

Question 22

How stand I then,
That have a father killed, a mother stained,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep —while, to my shame, I see
The imminent death of twenty thousand men,
That for a fantasy and trick of fame
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain? Oh, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

Answer 22

Prince Hamlet to himself

Question 23

What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused.

Answer 23

Prince Hamlet to himself

Question 24

Now, whether it be
Bestial 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—I do not know
Why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do,”

Answer 24

Prince Hamlet to himself

Question 25

Her speech is nothing,
Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
The hearers to collection. They aim at it,
And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts,
Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield them,
Indeed would make one think there might be thought,
Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.

Answer 25

Gentleman

Question 26

‘Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew
Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.

Answer 26

Horatio

Question 27

To my sick soul (as sin’s true nature is)
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Answer 27

Queen Gertrude to herself

Question 28

They say the owl was a baker’s
daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what
we may be. God be at your table.

Answer 28

Ophelia to King Claudius

Question 29

We must be patient, but I
cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him i’
th’ cold ground. My brother shall know of it, and so I
thank you for your good counsel.

Answer 29

Ophelia to King Claudius and Queen Gertrude

Question 30

When sorrows come, they come not single spies
But in battalions. First, her father slain.
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove.

Answer 30

King Claudius to Queen Gertrude

Question 31

The people muddied,
Thick, and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius’ death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him. Poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts.

Answer 31

King Claudius to Queen Gertrude

Question 32

Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father’s death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.

Answer 32

King Claudius to Queen Gertrude

Question 33

this,
Like to a murdering piece, in many places
Gives me superfluous death.

Answer 33

King Claudius to Queen Gertrude

Question 34

The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impiteous haste
Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,
O’erbears your officers.

Answer 34

Messenger to King Claudius

Question 35

How cheerfully on the false trail they cry.
O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!

Answer 35

Queen Gertrude to herself

Question 36

That drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me bastard,
Cries “Cuckold!” to my father, brands the “harlot”
Even here between the chaste unsmirchèd brow
Of my true mother.

Answer 36

Laertes to King Claudius and Queen Gertrude

Question 37

Do not fear our person.
There’s such divinity doth hedge a king
That treason can but peep to what it would,
Acts little of his will.

Answer 37

King Claudius to Queen Gertrude

Question 38

How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.
To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation. To this point I stand
That both the worlds I give to negligence.
Let come what comes, only I’ll be revenged
Most thoroughly for my father.

Answer 38

Laertes to King Claudius and Queen Gertrude

Question 39

To his good friends thus wide I’ll ope my arms
And, like the kind life-rendering pelican,
Repast them with my blood

Answer 39

Laertes to King Claudius and Queen Gertrude

Question 40

That I am guiltless of your father’s death
And am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgment pierce
As day does to your eye.

Answer 40

King Claudius to Laertes

Question 41

O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt,
Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!
By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,
Till our scale turn the beam.

Answer 41

Laertes to Ophelia

Question 42

O heavens, is ’t possible a young maid’s wits
Should be as mortal as an old man’s life?
Nature is fine in love, and where ’tis fine,
It sends some precious instance of itself
After the thing it loves.

Answer 42

Laertes to Ophelia

Question 43

There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you,
love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for
thoughts.
There’s fennel for you, and columbines.—There’s rue for
you, and here’s some for me. We may call it “herb of
grace” o’ Sundays.—Oh, you must wear your rue with a
difference.— There’s a daisy. I would give you some
violets, but they withered all when my father died. They
say he made a good end

Answer 43

Ophelia to Laertes, King Claudius, and Queen Gertrude

Question 44

If by direct or by collateral hand
They find us touched, we will our kingdom give,
Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours,
To you in satisfaction.

Answer 44

King Claudius to Laertes

Question 45

Let this be so.
His means of death, his obscure funeral—
No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o’er his bones,
No noble rite nor formal ostentation—
Cry to be heard as ’twere from heaven to earth,
That I must call ’t in question.

Answer 45

Laertes to King Claudius

Question 46

And where the offense it, let the great ax fall.

Answer 46

King Claudius to Laertes

Question 47

It well appears. But tell me
Why you proceeded not against these feats,
So criminal and so capital in nature,
As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,
You mainly were stirred up.

Answer 47

Laertes to King Claudius

Question 48

Why to a public count I might not go,
Is the great love the general gender bear him,
Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
Convert his gyves to graces —so that my arrows,
Too slightly timbered for so loud a wind,
Would have reverted to my bow again,
And not where I had aimed them.

Answer 48

King Claudius to Laertes

Question 49

You must not think
That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
That we can let our beard be shook with danger
And think it pastime.

Answer 49

King Claudius to Laertes

Question 50

High and mighty,
You shall know I am set naked on your kingdom. Tomorrow
shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes, when I
shall, first asking your pardon thereunto, recount the
occasion of my sudden and more strange return.

Answer 50

Prince Hamlet to King Claudius

Question 51

It warms the very sickness in my heart
That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
“Thus diddest thou.”

Answer 51

Laertes to King Claudius

Question 52

A very ribbon in the cap of youth,
Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness.

Answer 52

King Claudius to Laertes

Question 53

There lives within the very flame of love
A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
And nothing is at a like goodness still.
For goodness, growing to a pleurisy,
Dies in his own too-much.

Answer 53

King Claudius to Laertes