...husband — Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain...you eyes? You cannot call it love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment, and what judgment 70 Would...

...image: Look you now what follows: Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain...feed. And batten on this moor? ha, have you eyes? (3.4.63-67) Hamlet's vision of Claudius as a rotting head of corn upon which Gertrude gorges herself...

...her present husband, he drives home what seems to us the clouded vision of an inflamed adolescent: Ha! Have you eyes? You cannot call it love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment. (3.4.67-70) menopausal women...

...state of sin, in particular the sin of gluttony. Hamlet characterizes Gertrude as a perverse feeder: "Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, / And batten on this moor? Ha? Have you eyes?" (3.4.65-6). Since all feeding is anathema to Hamlet, Gertrude's sexual appetite is considered inordinate...