...Esq., Saturday, June 24). 3. "they suffered not . . . too roughly": Adapted from Hamlet 1.2.1 39-42: So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly .......

...Hamlet. Hamlet muses, in his first soliloquy, on the contrast between his dead father and the new king; So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr. (I.ii.139ff.) He remembers the flawless love between his father and mother— so loving to my mother....

...nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead! nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven...

...precisely this emphasis: That it should come to this! But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven...

...does not surface at first. The care is for the father. A new triangle surfaces: Hamlet-father-uncle. So excellent a king! that was to this Hyperion to a satyr . . . Hamlet's "mythologizing" of his parents — father a God, mother a god's consort — made some...

...danger. Even Hamlet's attempt to imagine a protective father in the soliloquy returns him to this danger: So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven...

...Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead — nay not so much, not two — So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, 140 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly....

...Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead — nay, not so much, not two — So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven...

...nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven...

...sexually by the bond of a common woman. Hamlet remarks the difference between his father and Claudius — "So excellent a king, that was to this / Hyperion to a satyr" (1.2.139-40); and he interjects the difference between his cowardly self and the archetypal hero into...