Letters to the Editor
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@be bop-o - re: Words
POLONIUS. What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET. Words, words - words.
POLONIUS. What is the matter, my lord?
HAMLET. Between who?
POLONIUIS. I mean the matter that you read, my lord.
HAMLET. Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams. All which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honestly to have it thus set down, for you yourself, sir, should be as old as I am if, like a crab, you could go backward.
- Hamlet/II,ii
- Shakespeare