...both form and substance : or (as the following extract will exemplify) retains the outward form only. My liege and madam ! to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, 148 day is day, night night, and time it timr, Were nothing but to waste night, day and timr. Therefore...

...feast together : Most welcome home ! ^Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelnn. Pol. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...will be brief: Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it j for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go. Queen....

...feast together: Most welcome home! [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS. POL. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate' What majesty...time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, Andtediousnessthelimbs and outward flourishes,— I will be brief: Your noble son is mad: Mad call...

...way of introducing his solution of Hamlet's madness. But that witty play on words in the outset — " My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...night, day, and time. Therefore — since brevity "s the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief," &c shews him...

...way of introducing his solution of Hamlet's madness. But that witty play on words in the outset — " My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should...night, day, and time. Therefore — since brevity 's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief," &c.— shews...

...does the poet ridicule the reasoning in fashion, where he makes Polonius remark on Hamlet's madness : What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night, night, and time is time, ness. It was madness indeed, yet Polonius could comfort himself with this reflection, that at least...

...night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore — since brevity 's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief," &c.— shews him to have been a complete master of the grace of insinuation. I do not think it necessary...

...bred in courts, exercised in business, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. v/Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, \ And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, 1 1 will be brief : Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it : for, to define true madness, What is't,...

...words in the outset— What majesty should be, what duty is, " My liege, and madam, to expostulate Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore—since brevity's the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, •I...

...[Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS. Pol. This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate3 What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day,...is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and tune. 3 My liege, and madam, to expostulate — ] To expostulate, for to enquire or discuss. WABBUKTON...