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" ... and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough... "
The Works of Shakespeare in Twelve Volumes: Collated with the Oldest Copies ... - Page 125
by William Shakespeare - 1772
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 596 pages
...the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent. To hide the slain ?— O, ) ) [Ex. SCENE V.— Elsinore. A room in tht cattle. Enter Queen and Horatio. </-i:ii. 1 will not apeak...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent, To hide the slain ? — O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth. [Ex. SCENE F.— EUinore. A room in the castie. Enter Queen and Horatio. Queen. • 1 will not speak...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...Whereon the numbers eannot try the eause, Whieh is not tomb enough, and eontinent, To hide the slain ? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! Skake-Hald. Am I then reveng'd To take him in the purging of his soul, When he is fit and season'd...
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The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 380 pages
...the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent, To hide the slain ?— O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! [Exit, SCENE V.— Elsinore. A Room in the Cattii. Enter QUEEN and HORATIO. Queen. I will not speak with her. Hor....
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 574 pages
...numbers cannot try the cause ; Which is not tomb enough, and continent,6 To hide the slain ? — O ! from this time forth, \My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! [Exit. 4 Provocations which excite both my reason and my passions to vengeance. 5 Continent means that which...
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The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight, Volumes 17-22

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent, To hide the slain ? — O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! SCENE V. — Elsinore. A Room in the Castle. Enter QUEEN and HORATIO. QUEEN. I will not speak with...
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The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...numbers cannot try the cause, — • Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain ! — Oa from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! [Exit. SCENE V. — Elsinore. A Room in the Castle. Enter QUEEN and HORATIO. Queen. I will not speak with her. HOT....
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Talking Back to Shakespeare

Martha Tuck Rozett - 1994 - 234 pages
..."kills" all of the players with a toy sword, and says, to the accompaniment of their "derisive laughter," "From . . . this . . . time . . . forth .... My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth" (67- 69). The implication is that his thoughts — and words — are indeed "nothing worth," since,...
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Hamlet and Narcissus

John Russell - 1995 - 260 pages
...Fortinbras's dynamic self-assertion, Hamlet determines to initiate a resolute course of action: "O, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" (IV.iv.65-66).6 Having thus rededicated himself to his father's dread command, he exits, and we do...
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Hamlet

Anthony Dawson - 1995 - 276 pages
...that Garrick made to the last two lines. The quarto's final couplet is tantalizingly uncertain: 'O from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth' (emphasis added), following which Hamlet is marched off to England. Garrick, in keeping with his general...
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