“I must be cruel, only to be kind: / Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.Act III, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★★→
“Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, / Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state, / Have we, as ’twere with a defeated joy, / With one auspicious and one dropping eye, / With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, / In equal scale weighing delight and dole, / Taken to wife;Act I, Scene 2 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“But with a crafty madness keeps aloof / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.Act III, Scene 1 · ★★★☆☆→
“Her father and myself, lawful espials, / Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen, / We may of their encounter frankly judge,Act III, Scene 1 · Claudius · ★★★☆☆→
“I must be cruel, only to be kind: / Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.Act III, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★★→
“Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, / Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state, / Have we, as ’twere with a defeated joy, / With one auspicious and one dropping eye, / With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, / In equal scale weighing delight and dole, / Taken to wife;Act I, Scene 2 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“But with a crafty madness keeps aloof / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.Act III, Scene 1 · ★★★☆☆→
“Her father and myself, lawful espials, / Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen, / We may of their encounter frankly judge,Act III, Scene 1 · Claudius · ★★★☆☆→
