 | Charles Ludlam - 1979 - 76 ページ
...Here, take back your rabbit's foot. CARL. I never gave that to you. ELFIE. You did, but take it back. For to the noble mind, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. CARL, (sarcastically) I saw the movie. ELFIE. Carl, I know that you're going through something terrible... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1980 - 388 ページ
...she and her family have enforced. With feeble coquetry, she insists upon returning his love tokens: 'For to the noble mind | Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind' (III.1.ioo-1oi). The trite little couplet is recognizably Polonian. It is also rather baffling: what... | |
 | Dieter Mehl - 1986 - 286 ページ
...her own initiative, her reproachful complaint about Hamlet's change of mind is somewhat surprising: for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. (111.1.1O0-I) As we have, so far, only been told about her own obedience in refusing any love-tokens... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 ページ
...does not acknowledge their recent meeting ("many a day"; "long longed"), and her sententious rhymes ("for to the noble mind, / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind" [99100]) quickly betray her seeming. Hamlet quickly reassumes his antic pose. But here there is a difference.... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 ページ
...for Ophelia to give up the remembrances and writings, and she holds on to them, even at Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. "The solemn platitude ... is so very like her father," McKenzie writes; and Polonius' voice has been... | |
 | Lars Engle - 1993 - 284 ページ
...the disjunction of two discursive systems both of which Ophelia tries to inhabit: OPHELIA: Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord. HAMLET: Ha, ha! Are you honest? OPHELIA: My lord? HAMLET: Are you fair? OPHELIA: What means your lordship?... | |
 | 1996 - 264 ページ
...breath compos'd As made the things more rich. She tries to be hard. Their perfume lost, Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind There, my lord He lashes out at the letters, sending them flying from her hand across the hall. HAMLET Ha, ha? Are... | |
 | Jean Battlo - 1999 - 76 ページ
...with them words of so sweet breath compos'd As made the thing more rich. Their perfume lost Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. SAM. (As HAMLET:) Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what is to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 ページ
...them words of so sweet breath compos'd As made the things more rich. Their perfume lost, Take these again, for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord. Ha, ha? Are you honest? My lord? Are you fair? What means your lordship? That if you be honest and... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 ページ
...them, words of so sweet breath compos'd As made the things more rich : their perfume lost, Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord. Hamlet Ha, ha! are you honest? Ophelia My lord? Hamlet Are you fair? Ophelia What means your lordship?... | |
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As made the things more rich; their perfume lost, Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 
