...If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a sowced gurnet ; I have misused the king's prest. id. From my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all prestares past. That youth and observation copied there. Id. Concerning the musters and presses for...

...— O fie ! — Hold, hold, my heart ; And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! — Remember thee ? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.7 Remember thee ? Yea, from the tables of my memory 1 In Sc. iv. we have eager air for sharp,...

...Hamlet's ear, and Hamlet's immediate reaction is to imagine a material alteration in his mental faculties: From the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial...past That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandement all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain (1.5.98-103) In Bright's treatise...

...slander any moment leisure As to give words to talk with the Lord Hamlet.' POLONIUS (Act 1 scene 3) 4 ' Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records' HAMLET (Act 1 scene 5) 5 'He took me by the wrist, and held me hard; Then he goes to the length of...

...attitude and intemperate displays of grief. Now he sets out to transform his whole existence: . . . from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial...pressures past, That youth and observation copied there . . . (iv) Henceforward Hamlet is a changed man; and his first move is to cast off Ophelia, child of...

...followup memorialization - "The Murder of Gonzago." But at the same time, remembering entails forgetting: "Remember thee! / Yea, from the table of my memory...All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past" (1.5.97-100). In the mnemonic economy suggested here, there is always a loss when something is remembered....

...schwört, spricht er schon selber die Sprache der neuen Philosophie: Yes, f rom the table of my memory Fll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books,...past, That youth and observation copied there; And t hy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain (I, 5). Das ist einerseits...

...hell? O fie! Hold, hold, my heart, 93 And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory...holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? 97 Yea, from the table of my memory 98 I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, 99 All saws of books,...

...instant Old; But beare me stiffely vp: Remember thee? I, thou poore Ghost, while memory holds a seate In this distracted Globe: Remember thee? Yea, from the Table of my Memory, He wipe away all triuiall fond Records, All sawes of Bookes, all formes, all presures past, That youth...

...it is that so tortures Hamlet and, itself utterly abnormal, wrenches him from all normal pursuits : Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all...pressures past, That youth and observation copied there. (iv 98) So the gaping Death to which he swears fealty on the battlements of Elsinore enthrones itself...