...heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and 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 on't. — Frailty, thy name is woman ! — A little...

...upbraids his mother in this way — in terms of who she is ingesting: "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 on't" (I.ii. 143-46; cf. Iv55-57). Yet "think on't" he...

...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 had grown By what it fed on; and yet within a month — Let me not think on't — Frailty, they name is woman — (1.2.135-46) Grief...

...increase or breeding but from the adulteration associated with the frailty and sexual appetite of woman ("As if increase of appetite had grown / By what it fed on. . . . Frailty, thy name is woman!" I.ii. 144-46). As an attempt to forestall increase, Hamlet's countermanding...

...of heaven Visit her face too roughly! Heaven and 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 on't; frailty, thy name is woman He turns to face away...

...of heaven Visit her face too roughly! Heaven and 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 on't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those...

...makes hungry / Where most she satisfies." Cf. also Hamlet 1.2.143-45: "Why, she should hang on him / As if increase of appetite had grown / By what it fed on." 16. Fowler, Paradise Lost, 298 n. v6336-40. 17. Adam's thirst and satisfaction and thirsting again...

...workings of his mind. Consider this single sentence from the first soliloquy: 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 on 't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those...

...depicted Gertrude's original love for her first husband in similar terms: "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 on't— " (1.2.143-46). Yet "think on't" he does, and,...

...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...