...oh fie ! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely. That it should come to this ! But two months...Hyperion to a satyr: so loving to my mother, That he permitted not the winds of Heav'n Visit her face too roughly. Heav'n and earth ! Must I remember !...

...and he deludes himself by degrees into the opinion of an interval shorter than the real one: Hamlet. That it should come to this ! But two months dead...Hyperion to a satyr : so loving to my mother, That he permitted not the winds of heav'n Visit her face too roughly. Heav'n and earth ! Must I remember —...

...forgetfulness of his father, and the indecency of her hasty marriage. • That it should come to this ! Bnt two months dead ! nay, not so much, not two ! So excellent...satyr : so loving to my mother, That he might not let e'en the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly, Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why she...

...'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely. 8 That it should come to this ! But two months dead...excellent a king ; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr9 : so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem l the winds of heaven Visit her face too...

...turns his thoughts on her sudden forgetfulness of his father, and the indecency of her hasty marriage. -That it should come to this! But two months dead...not two ! So excellent a King! that was, to this, That he might not let e'en the winds of Heaven Hyperion to a satyr : so loving to my mother, Visit...

...'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.5 That it should come to this But two months dead !...not two . So excellent a king ; that was, to this, Hyperion6 to a satyr : so loving to my mother, That be might not beteem7 the winds of heaven Visit...

...and it has been suggested that the image is based on a descriptive phrase from Hainlet (1.2.139-40): "So excellent a king: that was to this / Hyperion to a satyr."" Hamlet's filial hyperbole may have played some part in shaping Fuseli's depiction, but it seems less...

...on't! oh fie! 'tis an un weeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months...earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: and yet, within a month — Let me not think...

...Gertrude's haste belies her love. Hamlet describes his father, first, as a king and, then, as a husband: So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to...beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. King Hamlet and Claudius were as different as the sun god and a satyr. The one was more than human,...

...'tis an vnweeded Garden That growes to Seed: Things rank, and grosse in Nature Possesse it meerely. That it should come to this: But two months dead:...much; not two, So excellent a King, that was to this Hiperion to a Satyre: so louing to my Mother, That he might not beteene the windes of heauen Visit...