...behaviour, as his mother recognizes so clearly, swings between deadly lethargy and impulsive rashness: And thus a while the fit will work on him. Anon, as...dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed, His silence will sit drooping. (Vi) This switching back and forth between "a jealousy of doubt" and...

...privileged to know what it imports and what its course will be: This is mere madness, And thus awhile the fit will work on him; Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclos'd, His silence will sit drooping. (5.1.284-88) Does Gertrude believe her son mad, which would...

...mourning Laertes at Ophelia's grave and exclaims, "Nay and thou'll mouth, I'll rant as well as thou": And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions...pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart! (5.1.280-83) I32 SHAKESPEARE AND MARLOWE Rather than parody Marlowe's style on a word-by-word basis,...

...grave? Be buried quick w1th her, and so will I. And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw 270 Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing...pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart! 165 Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. QUEEN This is mere madness, And thus awhile the...

...buried quick with her, and so will I. And if thou prate of Mountains; let them throw Millions of Acres19 on us, till our ground Singeing his pate against the burning Zone, Make Ossa like a wart. Nay, and thoul't mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. (FF.5.1: 3474-81) They will be buried alive together:...

..."buried quick" (5.1.274) with Ophelia, an act of hyperbolic excess that he vows to imitate mimetically: And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions...against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart. Nay, and thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. (5.1.275-79) Hamlet and Laertes become indistinguishable...

...defines sublimity" (245). 3. See also Flibbert, Melville and the Art of Burlesque, 134. 4. Hamlet says: And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions...against the burning zone Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, and thoul't mouth I'll rant as well as thou. (5.1.279-83) The affinities with Nietzsche's text are...

...returns, two acts later, to the lovely conceit of nesting bird and hatched young, and to disclosure: This is mere madness, And thus a while the fit will...female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed His silence will sit drooping. (5. i. 281-6) A momentary check. I said Claudius returns to the theme....

...do't. Dost thou come here to whine, To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I And if thou prate of mountains, let...Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. GERTRUDE (to Laertes) This is mere madness, And thus awhile the fit will work on him. Anon, as patient...

...do't. Dost come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? 2>o Be buried quick with her, and so will I. And if thou prate of mountains, let...zone, Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, 255 I'll rant as well as thou. QUEEN. This is mere madness; 223. Pelion a mountain in Thessaly. like...