Poison and Corruption quotes Flashcards
Laertes on Hamlets corruption of Ophelia
“the canker galls the infant of spring”
the ghost explaining his death
“with juice of cursed hebanon in a vial” “the leprous distilment”
Hamlet on even the sun being corrupt
“for if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion”
Hamlet on being hesitant to react
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
Hamlet on the withching time
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world:
Hamlet to Gertrude on her remarriage
takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love
And sets a blister there,
Hamlet on Claudius’s death
a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.
Hamlet on the royal bed being corrupt
“rank sweat of an enseamed bed/, stewed in corruption…over the nasty sty”
the Grave digger on the corruption of all of Denmark
“many pocky corses” - syphilitic
