...Here, take back your rabbit's foot. CARL. I never gave that to you. ELFIE. You did, but take it back. For to the noble mind, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. CARL, (sarcastically) I saw the movie. ELFIE. Carl, I know that you're going through something terrible...

...she and her family have enforced. With feeble coquetry, she insists upon returning his love tokens: 'For to the noble mind | Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind' (III.1.ioo-1oi). The trite little couplet is recognizably Polonian. It is also rather baffling: what...

...her own initiative, her reproachful complaint about Hamlet's change of mind is somewhat surprising: for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. (111.1.1O0-I) As we have, so far, only been told about her own obedience in refusing any love-tokens...

...does not acknowledge their recent meeting ("many a day"; "long longed"), and her sententious rhymes ("for to the noble mind, / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind" [99100]) quickly betray her seeming. Hamlet quickly reassumes his antic pose. But here there is a difference....

...for Ophelia to give up the remembrances and writings, and she holds on to them, even at Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. "The solemn platitude ... is so very like her father," McKenzie writes; and Polonius' voice has been...

...the disjunction of two discursive systems both of which Ophelia tries to inhabit: OPHELIA: Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord. HAMLET: Ha, ha! Are you honest? OPHELIA: My lord? HAMLET: Are you fair? OPHELIA: What means your lordship?...

...breath compos'd As made the things more rich. She tries to be hard. Their perfume lost, Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind There, my lord He lashes out at the letters, sending them flying from her hand across the hall. HAMLET Ha, ha? Are...

...with them words of so sweet breath compos'd As made the thing more rich. Their perfume lost Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. SAM. (As HAMLET:) Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what is to...

...them words of so sweet breath compos'd As made the things more rich. Their perfume lost, Take these again, for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord. Ha, ha? Are you honest? My lord? Are you fair? What means your lordship? That if you be honest and...

...words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich. Their perfume lost, 100 Take these again, for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord. 103 HAMLET Ha, ha! Are you honest? OPHELIA My lord? HAMLET Are you fair? OPHELIA What means your lordship?...