Unit 40: I Loved You, I Love You Not Flashcards
OPHELIA: Good my lord,
How does your honour for this many a day?
I humbly thankyou, well.
OPHELIA: My lord, I have remembrances of yours
I pray you now receive them.
No, not I.
No, not I.
I never gave you aught.
OPHELIA:…Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Ha! Ha! Are you honest?
OPHELIA: My lord?
Are you fair?
OPHELIA: What means your lordship?
That if you be honest
That if you be honest
and fair you should admit
and fair you should admit
no discourse to your beauty.
OPHELIA: Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with Honesty?
Ay, truly.
Ay, truly.
For the power of beauty
For the power of Beauty
Will sooner transform Honesty
will sooner transform Honesty
from what it is to a bawd
from what it is to a bawd
than the force of honesty
can translate Beauty into his likeness.
This was sometime a paradox,
This was sometime a paradox,
but now the time gives it proof.
but now the time gives it proof.
I did love you once.
OPHELIA: Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.
You should not have believe me.
You should not have believed me.
I loved you not.
OPHELIA: I was the more deceived.
Get thee to a nunnery!
Get thee to a nunnery!
Why wouldst thou
Why wouldst thou
be a breeder of sinners?
be a breeder of sinners?
I am myself indifferent
I am myself indifferent
honest
honest
but yet I could accuse me of
but yet I could accuse me
of such things
of such things
that it were better my mother had not borne me.
that it were better my mother had not borne me.
I am very proud,
I am very proud,
revengeful,
revengeful,
ambitious.
ambitious,
with more offences at my beck
with more offences at my beck
than I have thoughts to put them in.
than I have thoughts to put them in,
imagination to give them shape,
imagination to give them shape,
or time to act them in.
or time to act them in.
What should such fellows as I do
What should such fellows as I do
crawling between earth and heaven?
crawling between earth and heaven?
We are arrant knaves-
We are arrant knaves-
believe none of us.
believe none of us.
Go thy ways to a nunnery!
Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Where’s your father?
OPHELIA: At home, my lord.
Let the doors
Let the doors
be shut upon him
be shut upon him
that he may play the fool nowhere
that he may play the fool
nowhere but in’s own house.
nowhere but in’s own house.
Farewell.
OPHELIA: O help him, you sweet heavens.
I have heard of your paintings well enough.
I have heard of your paintings well enough.
God hath given you face
God hath given you face
and you make yourselves another.
and you make yourselves another.
You jig
You jig
and amble
and amble
and you lisp.
and you lisp,
you nickname God’s creatures
you nickname God’s creatures
and make your wantonness ignorance.
and make your wantonness ignorance.
Go to,
Go to,
I’ll no more on’t.
I’ll no more on’t.
It hath made me mad.
It hath made me mad.
I say we will have no more marriage.
I say we will have no more marriage.
To a nunnery, go.!
