...I was born to set it right! 10202 Hamlet Brevity is the soul of wit. 10203 Hamlet Doubt 1 1 H 11 1 e not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. 4540 10204 Hamlet Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out often thousand....

...come and be my bouncing bride, My Valentine, my side-by-side, I am in love with you. c^> Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love." — William Shakespeare "T\s better to have loved and lost Then never to have loved at all.' —Alfred...

...Hamlet to her? POLONIUS Good madam stay awhile, I will be faithful. 'Doubt thou the stars are fire, 115 Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. 'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers, I have not art to reckon my groans; but that I love thee...

...skeptical joke, somewhat at Hamlet's expense, in the doggerel poem Hamlet writes to Ophelia: "Doubt thou the stars are fire / Doubt that the sun doth move,...Doubt truth to be a liar, / But never doubt I love" (2.2.115-18). The burden of the doubt is much greater than its immediate context, since what is doubted...

...stars. As Ophelia reads a letter from Hamlet, the reference to Copernicus is meant to be taken lightly:3 Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun...Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. (Hamlet, Act II, scene ii, lines 116-19) Only a few years later, Galileo's observations demonstrated...

...bosom, these.' Came this from Hamlet to her? Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful. 'Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not The Tragedie of Hamlet 69 What Maiestie should...

...anything but Hamlet's love. Yet, the meaning of the word "doubt" itself becomes ambiguous: Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. (2.2.115-18) In the first two and the last lines, "doubt" means "disbelieve." In the third line, it...

...merkwürdigsten Zweifel haben sich erhoben; so Hamlet in seinem Briefgedicht an Ophelia: Doubt t hon the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. 0 dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers, 1 have not art to reckon my groans ... Thine evermore, ......

...POLONIUS Good madam, stay a while. I will be faithful. 115 [Reads.] "Doubt thou the stars are fire; lie Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. 0 dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not 120 art to reckon my groans, but that I love...

...feet hurt. Tell me you have it started. (Desperately) You have begun? WILL (struggling with his boots) Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move . . . HENSLOWE No, no, we haven't the time. Talk prose. Where is my play? WILL (tapping his forehead...