...original: This "was your husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?...to feed And batten on this moor? Ha, have you eyes? (3.4.62-66) "Look you now what follows" refers, first of all, to the staged order of Hamlet's presentation...

...defined as anything which can be used for the purpose of lying. Terry Eagleton, William Shakespeare' Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave...feed, And batten on this moor? ha, have you eyes? William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III.iv.65—7 2 Even though a masque of blackness was not a uniquely ‘bright...

..."Have you eyes?" he asks his mother after comparing the true picture of grace with its counterfeit, "Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed / And batten on this moor? Ha, have you eyes?" (3.4.65-67). He continues: You cannot call it love; for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame,...

...of a man. This was your husband — Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?...love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment, and what judgment 70 Would step from this to this? Sense...

...through ekphrasis — a debased image: Look you now what follows: Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?...feed. And batten on this moor? ha, have you eyes? (3.4.63-67) Hamlet's vision of Claudius as a rotting head of corn upon which Gertrude gorges herself...

...her present husband, he drives home what seems to us the clouded vision of an inflamed adolescent: Ha! Have you eyes? You cannot call it love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment. (3.4.67-70) menopausal women have surrendered their sexuality....

...state of sin, in particular the sin of gluttony. Hamlet characterizes Gertrude as a perverse feeder: "Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, / And batten on this moor? Ha? Have you eyes?" (3.4.65-6). Since all feeding is anathema to Hamlet, Gertrude's sexual appetite is considered inordinate...

...hard-working man? Up with the lark at labour; sober, honest. Of an unblemished character? (I. i. 33-4) 103 'You cannot call it love; for at your age / The heyday in the blood is tame [...]', William Shakespeare, Hamlet, The Arden Shakespeare, ed. by Harold Jenkins (London: Methuen,...

...that while the other appetites last indefinitely and must be satisfied, sexual appetites die young. You cannot call it love, for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame . . . said Hamlet to his mother, Queen Gertrude. He could not understand why she married with such...