...prides himself that he does not need to flatter anyone and that his compliments therefore are sincere: For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no...hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? (3.2.55-7) iut where does that leave Horatio? How sincere is he? He may be held to worship Hamlet,...

...rejection of the polite self-fashioning of the court ("I know not'seems'"), the sweet poison of etiquette ("No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee" [3.2.60-61]), and the orotund style of courtly diction, which he apes (5.2.112-23). Everything at Elsinore...

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...real, not like the others who are always fanning compliments at each other. I add, almost jokingly: ... let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook...hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. What a mass of metaphor and analogies; hardly a word wasted - pure beef and no fat. I make a small...

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...art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversat1on coped withal. HORATIO O, my dear lord, — HAMLET Nay, do not think I flatter, For what advancement may I...spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee 60...

...of the court's selfish Osric type, so unlike the loyal Horatio. Why should the poor be flatter 'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook...hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Hamlet can be as snobbish about courtiers as about peasants; what comes clear is that he is in fact...