...real, not like the others who are always fanning compliments at each other. I add, almost jokingly: ... let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook...hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. What a mass of metaphor and analogies; hardly a word wasted - pure beef and no fat. I make a small...

...flattered? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee 60 Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since...choice, And could of men distinguish, her election Hath sealed thee for herself; for thou hast been 93 As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing; A man...

...of the court's selfish Osric type, so unlike the loyal Horatio. Why should the poor be flatter 'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook...hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Hamlet can be as snobbish about courtiers as about peasants; what comes clear is that he is in fact...

...foppish courtiers draws on several elements of Spurgeon's cluster to suggest pre-oedipal devotion: "let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook...pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow /awning" (Ham. 3.2.60-62; italics added). In this description of what we might call "licking up,"40...

...Hamlet keeps up a running commentary on the vagaries that attend the pursuit of courtly advancement: "No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And...hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning" (3.2.60-62). Yet this expression of disdain is itself a standard pastoral line: "Renaissance pastoral...

...That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook...choice And could of men distinguish her election, S' hath sealed thee for herself, for thou hast been As one in sufPring all that suffers nothing, A...

...the door. HAMLET goes over to greet a cadet. HAMLET (continuing) Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook...hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. He leads HORATIO over to the desk and HORATIO sits down. HAMLET (continuing) Dost thou hear? — Since...

...shatter the mold of genre and the progression of history. HAMLET: Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook...choice And could of men distinguish her election, S'hath sealed thee for herself, for thou hast been As one in suff'ring all that suffers nothing, A...

...feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp 50 And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift...choice, And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself, for thou hast been 55 As one in suffering all that suffers nothing,...

...advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? No, let the candied...in suffering all, that suffers nothing; A man that Fortune buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and bless'd are those Whose blood and judgment...