Quotes - Act 1, Sc 2

Question 1

Claudius

Answer 1

How is it that the clouds still hang on you?

Question 2

Hamlet

Answer 2

I know not seems

Question 3

Gertrude

Answer 3

cast thy nightly colour off

Question 4

Claudius

Answer 4

‘tis unmanly grief

Question 5

Claudius

Answer 5

unprevailing woe

Question 6

Hamlet

Answer 6

I have that within which passeth show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Question 7

Hamlet

Answer 7

‘tis an unweeded garden

Question 8

Hamlet

Answer 8

With such dexterity to incestuous sheets

Question 9

Gertrude

Answer 9

Do not forever with thy vailed lids / Seek for thy noble father in the dust

Question 10

Gertrude

Answer 10

Thou know’st ‘tis common - all that lives must die

Question 11

Claudius

Answer 11

it us befitted / To bear our hearts in grief

Question 12

Claudius

Answer 12

Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state

Question 13

Claudius

Answer 13

So much for him

Question 14

Claudius

Answer 14

mirth (joy) in funeral, and with dirge (mourn) in marriage

Question 15

Claudius

Answer 15

The head is not more native to the heart, / The hand more instrumental to the mouth, / Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.

Question 16

Hamlet

Answer 16

I am too much in the sun

Question 17

Hamlet

Answer 17

For they are the actions that a man might play

Question 18

Claudius

Answer 18

To give these mourning duties to your father

Question 19

Claudius

Answer 19

An understanding simple and unschool’d

Question 20

Hamlet

Answer 20

I shall in all my best obey you, madam

Question 21

Hamlet

Answer 21

The funeral bak’d meats / Did coldy furnish forth the the marriage tables

Question 22

Hamlet

Answer 22

All is not well. / I doubt some foul play.