...no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ï [Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.] Dost thou hear ? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice...

...of Hamlet against the new-fashioned heavy drinking prevalent at court, and boldly says — Let tlie candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. If any other proof were wanting of his unrecorded Scotch tour,...

...no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flattered ? 70 No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear ? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice...

...proposal submitted by Senator Bayh (S. 1127) on historically identified command-influence problems. ... let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Hamlet, Act III, Scene ii IN ADOPTING the Uniform...

...rejection of the polite self-fashioning of the court ("I know not 'seems'"), the sweet poison of etiquette ("No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee" [3.2.60-61]), and the orotund style of courtly diction, which he apes (5.2.112-23). Everything...

...real, not like the others who are always fanning compliments at each other. I add, almost jokingly: ... let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. What a mass of metaphor and analogies; hardly a word wasted -...

...from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee 60 Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,...

...of the court's selfish Osric type, so unlike the loyal Horatio. Why should the poor be flatter 'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Hamlet can be as snobbish about courtiers as about peasants;...

...foppish courtiers draws on several elements of Spurgeon's cluster to suggest pre-oedipal devotion: "let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow /awning" (Ham. 3.2.60-62; italics added). In this description of what...

...Hamlet keeps up a running commentary on the vagaries that attend the pursuit of courtly advancement: "No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning" (3.2.60-62). Yet this expression of disdain is itself a standard...