...yours doth temperately keep time And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have uttered. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering...speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. QUEEN. O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart...

...yours doth temperately keep time And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have uttered. Bring me to the test, And I the matter will reword,...speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's...

...memorial husband and redirected it to Claudius), Gertrude judges him mad. But Hamlet firmly disabuses her: Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering...speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's...

...doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness 145 That I have uttered. Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word,...soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks. 150 It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects...

...feminine; and the ulcer image directly parallels the terms in which Hamlet will address his guilty mother: "Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, / That...speaks; / It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, / Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, / Infects unseen" (3.4.145-49). Women, in fact, were especially...

...gambol from. Mother, Don't even think of looking for a way out effacing your guilt. HAMLET (continuing) for love of grace Lay not that flattering unction...soul That not your trespass but my madness speaks. Who are you trying to kid? HAMLET (continuing) It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whilst...

...64-112); and the ulcer image directly parallels the terms in which Hamlet will address his guilty mother: "Lay not that flattering unction to your soul,/ That...madness speaks; /It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,/Whiles rank corruption, mining all within,/ Infects unseen" (Ill.iv. 145-9). Women, in fact,...

...angel come to 'scourge and minister' (III, iv, 175) to a world made fallen by the 'trespass' of woman: Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That...speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen . . . (III,iv, 145-1 49) The 'unweeded garden'...

..."ecstasy" or madness. Hamlet responds by asserting that he is not mad, and then, typically, offers a wager: Bring me to the test, And [I] the matter will reword,...speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. (III. ^.142-49) Hamlet reads Gertrude's...

...focusing on her "soul," Hamlet nevertheless describes it using images of bodily disease and corruption: Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That...speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. (3.4.145-49) Hamlet seems here to echo the...