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" I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and... "
The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Page 221
by William Shakespeare - 1767
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Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 34

Catherine E. Ingrassia, Jeffrey S. Ravel - 2005 - 364 pages
...blazoned upon the skin, may ultimately hasten one's end. Like Hamlet's address to Yorick's skull — "Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come"cosmetics remind the mercurial woman that she cannot — as one contemporary observer...
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Look Again in Baltimore

John R. Dorsey - 2005 - 236 pages
...but it is the slow and continuous that has the deeper meaning, and we all know what it is. Get thee to my lady's chamber and tell her let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come. THE RENAISSANCE OF EMOTION Memory, mourning sculpture, by Hans Schuler, 7907,...
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Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle, and Early ...

Jeremy J. Smith - 2005 - 268 pages
...Now get you to my Ladies Chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thicke. to this fauour she must come. Make her laugh at that: prythee Horatio tell me one thing. Hor. What's that my Lord? Ham. Dost thou thinke Alexander lookt o'this fashion i'th' earth? Hor. E'ene...
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Where There's a Will There's a Way: Or, All I Really Need to Know I Learned ...

Laurie E. Maguire - 2006 - 246 pages
...we see Hamlet with a skull in his hand — a typical memento mori pose. Hamlet addresses the skull: "Get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor [face] she must come" (5.1.192-94). (In other words: go and tell women that this is what a female...
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Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage

Paul Menzer - 2006 - 252 pages
...the more familiar folio version, Hamlet urges the skull to act as a spokesman for memento mori: "Go to my lady's chamber and tell her let her paint an inch thick to this favor she must come."6 (Incidentally, this remark recalls for us, if not for Hamlet, his earlier excoriation...
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Winona; or, The Foster-Sisters

Isabella Valancy Crawford - 2006 - 340 pages
...triumph, some spectre had 1 See Shakespeare, Hum/efV.i.2 1 1 -13, in which Hamlet contemplates a skull: "Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an 1nch thick, to this favour she must come stalked ominous of disaster. He was at once and without new...
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Looking for Hamlet

Marvin W. Hunt - 2007 - 272 pages
...conclusion of his meditation on Yorick's skull, Hamlet seems to allude to the aged Queen Elizabeth with "Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint [her face] an inch thick, to this favor she must come." He then recalls other rulers, Alexander and...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

Penny Gay - 2008
...infinite jest, of most excellent fancy . . . Not one now, to mock your own grinning? - quite chop-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. (5.1.156-64) then with the fresh corpse of his crazed, suicidal beloved. The image of...
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