...guilt defeats my strong intent, And like a man to double business bound And both neglect. What if tins cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer but this twofold force,...

...sig. D4r); 'All the water in the sea cannot wash out this stain' (Dent w8s, citing Ado 4.i.i40f.); 'What if this cursed hand / Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens / To wash it white as snow' (Ham. 3.3.43-6, Q2 and F, cited by Slater, p. 5). 63 Neptune Classical god of the seas. 65 multitudinous...

...stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound. I stand in pause where I shall first begin. And both neglect. What if this...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer but this twofold force,...

..."revenge" as...' • What chiefly stands in the way of forgiveness and then repentance for Claudius? And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker...blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 45 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's...

...texts, 'words' do not only contain letters. Consider the following lines from Hamlet Act 3, Scene 3: Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer but this two-fold...

...stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin. And both neglect. What if this...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence ? And what's in prayer but this twofold...

...stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer but this two-fold...

...stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, 40 And like a man to double business bound I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this...blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 45 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? 47 And what's...

...action.35 We will see why at the end of the speech. Claudius indicates what he would pray for, if he could: What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? (3.3.43-46) Claudius would pray for mercy. Mercy, however, does not mean avoiding a just accusation,...

...Heaven' (ni. ni. 36): . . . What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with hrother's hlood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? He fears that his prayer is worthless....