...I was born to set it right! 10202 Hamlet Brevity is the soul of wit. 10203 Hamlet Doubt 1 1 H 11 1 e not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbow I love. 10204 Hamlet Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out often thousand....

...come and be my bouncing bride, My Valentine, my side-by-side, I am in love with you. c^> Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love." — William Shakespeare "T\s better to have loved and lost Then never to have loved at all.'...

...Hamlet to her? POLONIUS Good madam stay awhile, I will be faithful. 'Doubt thou the stars are fire, 115 Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. 'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers, I have not art to reckon my groans; but that I...

...skeptical joke, somewhat at Hamlet's expense, in the doggerel poem Hamlet writes to Ophelia: "Doubt thou the stars are fire / Doubt that the sun doth move, / Doubt truth to be a liar, / But never doubt I love" (2.2.115-18). The burden of the doubt is much greater than its immediate context, since what...

...stars. As Ophelia reads a letter from Hamlet, the reference to Copernicus is meant to be taken lightly:3 Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun...doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. (Hamlet, Act II, scene ii, lines 116-19) Only a few years later, Galileo's observations demonstrated...

...bosom, these.' Came this from Hamlet to her? Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful. 'Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not The Tragedie of Hamlet 69 What Maiestie...

...anything but Hamlet's love. Yet, the meaning of the word "doubt" itself becomes ambiguous: Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. (2.2.115-18) In the first two and the last lines, "doubt" means "disbelieve." In the third...

...merkwürdigsten Zweifel haben sich erhoben; so Hamlet in seinem Briefgedicht an Ophelia: Doubt t hon the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. 0 dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers, 1 have not art to reckon my groans ... Thine evermore,...

...POLONIUS Good madam, stay a while. I will be faithful. 115 [Reads.] "Doubt thou the stars are fire; lie Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. 0 dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not 120 art to reckon my groans, but that...

...feet hurt. Tell me you have it started. (Desperately) You have begun? WILL (struggling with his boots) Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move . . . HENSLOWE No, no, we haven't the time. Talk prose. Where is my play? WILL (tapping his forehead...