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" I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let... "
The Works of Shakespear: Troilus and Cressida. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello - Page 324
by William Shakespeare - 1768
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Byron and Shakespeare

George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...collected of ladies once clothed by a similar beauty, Byron is troubled after the manner of Hamlet's 'Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come' (Murray, 7 June, 24 Aug. 1819; LJ, iv, 313-14, 317, 349; Hamlet, v, i, 211). These descriptions,...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Hamlet— Hamlet Vi Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,...
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The Imperial Theme

George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. (vi 207) So it goes on, the mellow beauty of this resigned philosophy...
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Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic Variability ...

Ulrich Busse - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 366 pages
...Pritheesay on, he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps. Say on, come to Hecuba. (50) Hamlet: Now get you to my lady's [chamber], and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Horatio: What's that,...
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The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000

Herbert Blau - Performing Arts - 2002 - 378 pages
...body invaded by the leperous distilment. The Avenger becomes the Skull, the dead Fool, the Ghost. JUL: Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, MAR: My mother, — JUL: to this favor must she come. MAR: — -father and mother is man and wife,...
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The Kendall/Hunt Anthology: Literature to Write About

K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...were wont to set the table on a roar? 2 1 0 No one now, to mock your own jeering? Quite chop-fall 'n? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. 216 Hor. What's that, my...
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Stage Directions in Hamlet: New Essays and New Directions

Hardin L. Aasand - Drama - 2003 - 242 pages
...direction to the corpse of Polonius, he now incongruously gives directions to the skull of Yorick: "Now get you to my lady's [chamber], and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come; make her laugh at that" (192-95). A moment later, Laertes directs the pallbearers...
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Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare

Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - History - 2003 - 286 pages
...personal, but cryptic, tribute of affectionate memory to Campion, its conclusion makes far more sense. 'Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint her face an inch thick, to this favour she must come' (5.1.194). After Hamlet's rapprochement with...
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Shakespeare: Hamlet

Paul A. Cantor - Drama - 2004 - 122 pages
...(Ill.i. 142-4) His obsession with women's makeup culminates in his instructions to Yorick's skull: Now get you to my lady's chamber. and tell her. let her paint an inch thick. to this favor she must come; make her laugh at that. (Vi 192-5) The movement of this speech is characteristic...
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Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/sociological Divide

Laurel Richardson, Ernest Lockridge - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 278 pages
...skeleton's epic proportions. Ophelia's a-moldering outside somewhere in an unmarked, unhallowed ditch. Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come. We devour a dinner of delectable Danish ribs, two full racks, and spend the night...
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