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He is a close observer, continually analyzing his own nature and that of others, letting fall his little drops of acid irony on all who come near him, to make them show what they are made of. Even Ophelia is not too sacred, Osrick not too contemptible for experiment. If such a man assumed madness, he would play his part perfectly.
The end of the scene where Osrick comes in, is also much shorter in the older play. 49: Florio, 330: 'We amend ourselves by privation of reason and by her drooping. Hamlet's conduct is only to be explained by his quietly sitting down until his reason should droop. 50: Florio, 608. 51: Florio, 609. There are in it several direct allusions to Montaigne's book, on which we shall touch later on.
If there be now and then an unmannerly rudeness and bitterness in it, as in the scenes with Polonius and Osrick, we must remember that Hamlet was just in the condition which spurs men to sallies of this kind: dissatisfied, at one neither with the world nor with himself, and accordingly casting about for something out of himself to vent his spleen upon.
Florio calls Montaigne's Essays 'Moral, Political, and Military Discourses. Osrick praises the qualities of the cavalier who has returned from France; and Hamlet replies that 'to divide him inventorily would dizzy the arithmetic of memory.
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