Today’s Totally Random
Lines
‘Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot
be
But I am pigeon-liver’d, and lack gall
To make oppression bitter; or, ere this,
I should have fatted all the region kites
With this slaves offal:- bloody, bawdy villain!
Hamlet
Hamlet
Act II,
Scene ii, Line 586
Today’s Lines are
from the middle of the O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! soliloquy.
We’ve picked from this speech before, but it was towards the beginning of it.
Today we’re right in the middle. Recall that this speech is Hamlet lamenting
that he’s not taken action yet against his uncle, the king, for murdering his
father. The slave he’s referring to is his Uncle Claudius, the king/murderer.
Further on from
here, in this same speech, he decides he needs a little more proof that Claudius
is guilty, and he decides to have the players do a scene which reenacts the
murder. He believes Claudius’s reaction to seeing this will prove his guilt. He then ends this
soliloquy with the famous lines
-the play's the thing
Wherein I’ll
catch the conscience of the king.
Well, how about
that: we’ve actually and randomly picked a line from a very famous
Shakespearean soliloquy. I guess it’s bound to happen occasionally.
Pssst, you know what they say, Mr. Blagys: even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.
Thank you for that amazing insight, Mojo.
