...his love for Ophelia, Hamlet hyperbolically challenges that love: "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum" (272-74). Hamlet, in short, will not let Laertes "outface" him. Nor will he allow Laertes to assume...

...a wind, a time of day . . . and this woman, neither young nor old: 'I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum.' And Spalding Gray! You can't criticize him, really! He too is a time of day, a season, a fact....

...utter himself but that will be left to the spectators to pronounce. I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? (Vi 265-67)* Hamlet has obviously not managed to leave the stage yet,...

...brothers' wager" (5.2.249). This would make him loving brother to Ophelia as well: "Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum" (5.1.264-66). 4o. Samuel Schoenbaum itemizes John Shakespeare's debts and losses as well as his...

...(3.1.114-19) In the graveyard scene Hamlet declares to all and sundry, I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. (5.1.269-71) It seems impossible to discern the genuineness of his affection for Ophelia from...

...loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers 260 Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? KING O, he is mad, Laertes. QUEEN 263 For love of God, forbear him. HAMLET 'Swounds, show me what thou't do. 265 Woo't weep? woo't fight?...

...Until my eyelids will no longer wag! Queen O my son, what theme? Hamlet I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum! - What wilt thou do for her? The Tragedie of Hamlet 205 Ham. What, the faire Ophelia? Queene....

...of woman's frailty; and his last thought of her is no repudiation: "I lov'd Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. " In how different a tone rings out the last despairing cry of Troilus: "O Cressidl 0 false Cressidl...

...("I loved you not" [3.1.118-19]), he now declares it over her corpse: I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? (5.1.264-66) One's actions demonstrate one's love. Much as Claudius...

...my eyelids will no longer wag. Gertrude O my son, what theme? Hamlet I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum . — What wilt thou do for her? Claudius O, he is mad, Laertes. Gertrude For love of God, forbear...