...worthless piece of land. Hamlet contrasts Fortinbras's absolute resolve with his own infirmity of purpose: Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness this army...and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...

...counter-image to the protagonist, ... a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what...fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell, (iv.iv) army through Denmark. Yet the quicksilvery hotspur we expect to meet completely surprises us...

...Fortinbras and his army: 91 Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what...fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. (4.4.48-53) 'Delicate and tender' was the title given to Babylon in the Genevan version of the Bible,58...

.../ Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do,'" he tells us. "Examples gross as earth exhort me": 98 Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led by...and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...

...know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do', Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me. Witness...delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine amb1tion puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event, 50 Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that...

...the Player, but still use him as a stick for self-beating. The lowest things inform against Hamlet: Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army...and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event — Unlike Hamlet, who thinks too precisely on the unknown...

...dull revenge!... Witness this army of such mass and charge Led by a delicate and tender prince, 10 Whose spirit with divine ambition puff d Makes mouths...to be great Is not to stir without great argument , But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a...

...know Why yet I live to say This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause, and will, and strenght, and means To do't. Examples, gross as earth, exhort me: Witness...tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puft, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...

...the rival prince, as if to undermine the validity of the distinction between valour and cowardice: Examples gross as earth exhort me, Witness this army...fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. 1v, iv, 46-53 In a seemingly half-conscious attempt to debunk what he otherwise admires, Hamlet finds...

...cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't ... (43-46) and yet, until now he has done nothing: Examples gross as earth exhort me. Witness this army...mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ... Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw...