...Oscar Wilde (London: Penguin Books, 1988), 448. 10. Harold Jenkins, Introduction to Hamlet, 85-89. 1 1. "From the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, . . . / And thy commandment all alone shall live / Within the book and volume of my brain, / Unmixed...

...Remember thee? Ay thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past 100 That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment...

...intensified, and it generates enough energy to fuel his intentions for much of the rest of the play: Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandement...

...Antiqua et Hodierna" depicting Swedish castles and manor houses Fig. 49. Gesner's slate table-book. Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment...

...he asserts his determination to follow the Ghost, and then in affirming the injunction to remember: Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records . . . And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmixed with...

...distracted globe." Immediately, Hamlet recalls this potentially devastating determination: "Remember thee! / Yea, from the table of my memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records" (Hamlet, 1.2). Ablaut reduplication (me mo) suggests the stutterer's dramatic struggle not to stutter....

...than a simple moral revulsion. It alienates Hamlet from all humanity, even the highest and happiest: Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past . . . (I. v. 98-100) The perfection of the courtier's...

...novice, in answer to his father's last injunction "Remember me! "the Prince replies: Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment...

..."Remember thee! /Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe. Remember thee! /Yea, from the table of my memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records." 28 Perhaps "bitter" price? As is often the case, Sterne ended his entry at an earlier point, with "my...

...which Hamlet swears to do (Ivl 12), pledging to devote his energies to nothing else. "Yea," he says, "from the table of my memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records" (98-99). It is worth noting that the Ghost's call for revenge need not mean that it is an evil spirit...