...on him as if increase Of appetite had grown by what it look'd on." In the amended copy we have — " Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if...increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on.'' Such changes are not the work of shorthand writers. The interview of Horatio, Bernardo, and Mareellus,...

...Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead — nay, not so much, not two — Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite...within a month — Let me not think on't — Frailty, they name is woman — (1.2.135-46) Grief over his father's death is overlaid and supplanted by obsessive...

...primarily, of course, Hamlet who upbraids his mother in this way — in terms of who she is ingesting: "Why, she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite...and yet within a month — / Let me not think on't" (I.ii. 143-46; cf. Iv55-57). Yet "think on't" he does, and, in trying not to dwell on it, his fantasies...

...counterpart for the troubled workings of his mind. Consider this single sentence from the first soliloquy: Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite...it fed on; and yet within a month Let me not think on 't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed...

...(1.5.5557). 26 Hamlet has earlier depicted Gertrude's original love for her first husband in similar terms: "Why, she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite...yet within a month — / Let me not think on't— " (1.2.143-46). Yet "think on't" he does, and, in trying not to dwell on it, his fantasies take on...

...only a little less sickened by the thought of the avidity with which she and his father went at it: Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on. (1.2. 143)" The worry is that such avidity is less a demonstration of love for the other than a blind...

...understands nothing, he cannot see how his mother accepted his father's death and married again: . . . and yet within a month Let me not think on't. Frailty, thy name is woman! [A little month] , or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all...

...Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead — nay, not so much, not two — Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite...me not think on't — Frailty, thy name is woman. . . . (11. 135-^46) Grief over his father's death is overlaid and supplanted by obsessive disgust over...

...mother / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! / Must I remember ? Why, she would hang on him / As...increase of appetite had grown / By what it fed on . . .' But there is an absence of clinching verbal echoes. 33. part] depart from. 36. Brake] old form...

...(1.2.143-56) In Davenant's revision Hamlet's mind, and his syntax, are altogether more controlled: She used to hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown...Let me not think on't, frailty thy name is woman, [CUT] married with my uncle, My father's brother; but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: [CUT].26...