Hamlet Act 4 Reviewer

Front 1

Define: lauds

Back 1

religious hymns

Front 2

Who said this line and in what context:
"How much I had to do to calm his rage!/ Now I fear it will give it start again."

Back 2

Claudius says in the context of Laertes finding out about his sister's death and he is crying after Claudius has spent his time trying to motivate and encourage the enflamed emotions of Laertes. Claudius here is being selfish, thinking only about his plans and not for the honor of Laertes.

Front 3

"But long it could not be/ Till that her __________, heavy with their drink." (Queen, Scene 7)

Back 3

garments

Front 4

Who said this line and in what context:
"But so much was our love, We would not understand what was most fit..."

Back 4

Claudius says the line in the context that he finds out that Hamlet has killed Polonius. He lies about loving Hamlet for the sake of Gertrude, but he really wants Hamlet dead.

Front 5

Define: countenance

Back 5

favorable looks

Front 6

Who said this line and in what context:
"I forbid my tears"

Back 6

Laertes says the line in the context that he found out about Ophelia's death and is currently weeping for her. He says that he is holding back his tears because it makes him look like a woman but he is crying rivers of them.

Front 7

"Her clothes spread wide,/ And ______________ awhile they bore her up" (Queen, Scene 7)

Back 7

mermaid-like

Front 8

"I bought an ____________ of a mountebank" (Laertes, Scene 7)

Back 8

unction

Front 9

"He's loved of the distracted ___________,
Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes;
And where 'tis so, th' offender's ___________ is weighed." (King, Scene 3)

Back 9

multitude
scourge

Front 10

Who says the line and in what context:
"Deliberate pause. Diseases desperate grown/ By desperate appliance are relieved/ Or not at all"

Back 10

Claudius says this in the context of him talking to the council, known as people he calls he wisest friends. he mentions that he did not punish Hamlet because he is loved by the people. Therefore he cannot give a sudden punishment.

Front 11

Who says the line and in what context:
"Besides, to be demanded of a sponge, what replication should be made by the son of a king?"

Back 11

Hamlet says this to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the context that they are trying to ask Hamlet where he hid the body of Polonius.
He instead insults them for being like a sponge to the king that absorbs everything the king demands them to.The king is only using them for this plans and after he is through squeezing them out, they will just be thrown away.

Front 12

"For like the __________ in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me." (Claudius, Scene 3)

Back 12

hectic

Front 13

"Which we do _____________, as we dearly _______
For that which thou has done" (Claudius, Scene 3)

Back 13

tender
grieve

Front 14

"Man and wife is one ______ and so my mother" (Hamlet, Scene 3)

Back 14

flesh

Front 15

Define: cicatrice

Back 15

scar

Front 16

"We go to gain a little ______ of ground
That hath in it no profit but the ________" (Captain, Scene 4)

Back 16

patch
name

Front 17

Define: impostume

Back 17

abscess

Front 18

Who says the line:
"That inward breaks, and shows no cause without Why the man dies."

Back 18

Hamlet

Front 19

"How all ___________ do inform against me, and spur my ______ revenge" (Hamlet, Scene 4)

Back 19

occasions
dull

Front 20

Define: trick of fame

Back 20

illustration of honor

Front 21

"A thought which __________, hath but one part ________ and ever three part coward" (Hamlet, Scene 4)

Back 21

quartered
wisdom

Front 22

Who says the line:
"There's tricks in the world, and hems, and beats her heart, Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt"

Back 22

Gentleman to Gertrude referring to Ophelia being mad.

Front 23

Who says the line:
"Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds"

Back 23

Horatio

Front 24

"Which is not tomb enough and ____________
To hide the slain? O, from this ______ forth
My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth" (Hamlet, Scene 4)

Back 24

continent
time

Front 25

"To my ________ soul, as sin's true nature is,
Each toy seems __________ to some great amiss." (Queen, scene 5)

Back 25

sick
prologue

Front 26

Who says the line:
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be split"

Back 26

Queen

Front 27

What does Ophelia's first song in Scene 5 talk about?

Back 27

Ophelia talks about a loved one away in a pilgrimage and the death of a loved one.

Front 28

Who says the line"
"How do you do pretty lady?"

Back 28

Claudius

Front 29

Who says the line:
"Where the body is bestowed my lord
We cannot get from him"

Back 29

Rosencrantz

Front 30

Who says the line:
"A 'thing' my lord?"

Back 30

Guildenstern

Front 31

"Yes, it is already _________" (Captain, Scene 4)

Back 31

garrisoned

Front 32

"To all that fortune, death and danger ________
Even for an eggshell" (Hamlet, Scene 4)

Back 32

dare

Front 33

"When honour's at the _________. How stand I then,
That have a father killed, a _________ stained" (Hamlet Scene 4)

Back 33

stake
mother

Front 34

Who says the line and in what context:
"y Gis and by Saint Charity, Alack, and fie for shame! Young men will do it, if they come to it - By cock they are to blame. Quoth she, before you tumbled, You promised me to wed"

Back 34

Ophelia sings about how she is not as pure as we thought. She sings about the broken promise of Hamlet to be married but intend just lost her virginity.

Front 35

"When sorrows come they come in not in single _______ but in battalions:" (Claudius, Scene 5)

Back 35

spies

Front 36

Who says the line:
"So would I a done, by yonder sun, an thou hadst not come to my bed."

Back 36

Ophelia

Front 37

"How ___________ on the false trail they cry! O, this is counter, you false Danish _________!" (Queen, Scene 5)

Back 37

cheerfully
dogs

Front 38

Define: Switzers

Back 38

swiss body guards

Front 39

Who says the line:
"Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers"

Back 39

Claudius in Scene 5 on of the causes of grief of Ophelia

Front 40

"With pestilent __________ of his father's death,
Wherein necessity of matter ___________
With nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear." (Claudius, Scene 5)

Back 40

speeches
beggared

Front 41

Who says the line:
"Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
The ratifiers and props of every word,"

Back 41

Messenger

Front 42

Who says the line:
"That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard, Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot"

Back 42

Laertes

Front 43

"even here, between the chaste ____________ brow of my true mother" (Laertes, Scene 5)

Back 43

unsmirched

Front 44

"There's such _________ doth hedge a king
That treason can but ______ to what it would
Acts little of his will" (Claudius, Scene 5)

Back 44

divinity
peep

Front 45

Who says the line:
"Why, not you speak, Like a good child and a true gentleman. "

Back 45

Claudius

Front 46

"That both the worlds, I give to _____________," (Laertes, Scene 5)

Back 46

negligence

Front 47

Who says the line:
"To hell allegiance! Vows to the blackest devil!"

Back 47

Laertes, Scene 5

Front 48

Who says the line and in what context:
O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt Burns out the sense and virtue of mine eye.

Back 48

laertes says this as Ophelia enters the seen. He is surprised that his dear sister has gone crazy.

Front 49

"By heave, thy madness shall be paid with ___________
Till our scale turn the beam!" (Laertes, Scene 5)

Back 49

weight

Front 50

"Thoughts and afflictions,__________, hell itself
She turn to _______ and to prettiness." (Laertes, Scene 5)

Back 50

passion
favor

Front 51

Who says the line and in what context:
"This nothing's more than matter"

Back 51

Laertes says the line as he sees his sister insane. He mentions that though she is crazy she is speaking more than a rational speech.

Front 52

Define: hatchment

Back 52

tablet displaying a coat of arms

Front 53

"Laertes, I must _____________ with your grief, Or you deny my right." (Claudius, Scene 5)

Back 53

commune

Front 54

Who says the line:
"be you content to lend your patience to us, and we shall jointly labour with your soul to give it due content"

Back 54

Claudius

Front 55

Who says the line and in what context:
"I do not know from what part of the world I should be greeted"

Back 55

Horatio says this line as he receives a letter. He mentions than no other person in the world will send him a letter than Hamlet.

Front 56

Who says the line:
"you must put me in your heart for friend, sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear, That he which hath your noble father slain Pursued my life."

Back 56

Claudius

Front 57

Who says the line and in what context:
"But tell me why you proceeded not against these feats, So crimeful and so capital in nature"

Back 57

Laertes says the line as he asks Claudius why didn't he punish Hamlet for killing his father. Claudius will later explain that it is because of Gertrude, she will be devastated is Hamlet was killed and the people love him.

Front 58

"And so have I a noble father lost, A sister driven into _______________ terms, Whose worth, if praises may go back again"

Back 58

desperate

Front 59

Define: unsinewed

Back 59

weak

Front 60

"That we are made of ____________ so flat and dull that we can let our beard be shook with ____________ and think it pastime." (King, Scene 7)

Back 60

stuff
danger

Front 61

Who says this line and in what context:
"I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come."

Back 61

laertes says the line in the context that Claudius just read the letter from Hamlet that he is alive and he has something planned. Laertes says this line that he is ready for Hamlets return so he can kill him.

Front 62

Who is Lamord?

Back 62

Lamord is one of the best fencers. Even he cannot keep up with the skills of Laertes.

Front 63

Who says the line and in what context:
"And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality
Wherein they say you shine."

Back 63

Claudius says this to flatter Laertes in his skills in fencing that it is one of his strengths. Claudius is trying to tempt Laertes in doing the dirty work of killing Hamlet for him.

Front 64

Who says the line
"The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his sables and his weeds.
Importing health and graveness."

Back 64

Claudius

Front 65

"Was your father dear to you? or are you like the ________ of a sorrow, a face without a heart?"

Back 65

painting

Front 66

Define: scrimers

Back 66

fencers

Front 67

Define: pleurisy

Back 67

an excess

Front 68

Who said this line and in what context:
"I know live is begun by time"

Back 68

Claudius says this to Laertes in the context where he asks him how grave is his relationship with his father, is it real or is he only pretending because as time passes love loses its flame. He wants to know if he is still motivated to avenge his father.

Front 69

"There lives with the very flame of love
A kind of wick of snuff that will __________ it" (Claudius, Scene 7)

Back 69

abate

Front 70

Define: snuff

Back 70

burnt part of a the wick of a candle

Front 71

"No place indeed should murder _____________
Revenge should have no ________" (Claudius, Scene 7)

Back 71

sanctuarize
bounds

Front 72

"And hath abatements and delays as many as there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, and then this 'should' is like a ____________ sigh" (Claudius, Scene 7)

Back 72

spendthrift

Front 73

Who says the line:
"This is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point with this contagion, that if I gall him slightly, It may be death"

Back 73

laertes

Front 74

"There is a willow grows _______ the brook" (Queen, Scene 7)

Back 74

askant

Front 75

Define: askant

Back 75

aslant

Front 76

Who says the line:
"One woe doth thread upon another's heel
So fast they follow"

Back 76

Queen

Front 77

"I'll have prepare him a ___________ for the nonce, " (Claudius, Scene 7)

Back 77

chalice

Front 78

Define: cataplasm

Back 78

poultice or plaster