...the stops. Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony ; I have not the skill. Ham. Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak.(59) 'Sblood, do you think that I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument...

...the skill. Ham. Why, look you, now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me j121 you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck...—and there is much music, excellent voice, in this litUe organ; yet cannot you make it speak. Why, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?...

...integrity to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after the play might have come from the soul of Ellen Terry: "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; . . . 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? ,/rt Call me what instrument you...

...Only two things the people anxiously desire, bread and circus games. Juvenal, Satires, X, c. AD 100 Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of...stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery . . . William Shakespeare, Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern None can love freedom heartily but...

...it will discourse most eloquent music ..." NIKITA IVANICH. "... I have not the skill! " SVETLOVIDOV. "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops ... and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood,...

...she please" can be taken as an image of bodily closure, made more explicit later in the same scene: "You would play upon me, you would seem to know my...stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery. . . . 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" (11. 355-61). 63. Benjamin, 140....

...here too. (Begins reading; then quotes as if she 's often thought of her former husband in this way.) "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...and there is much music; excellent voice, in this organ, yet cannot you make it speak 'Sblood, do you think I'm easier to be play'd on than a pipe? Call...

...explanatory prose. Instead, he appended A Lover's Complaint, as if to tell the wider lyric audience, "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make...stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery" (Hamlet 3.2.363-66). Why then, you figure it out. As Shakespeare warns us from the very outset of A...

...the stops. GUILDENSTERN But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony. I have not the skill. HAMLET Why look you now how unworthy a thing you make...play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you .t.1o would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of...

...its tone and resonances. Hamlet, mocking Guildenstern for imagining he can play him, says of himself, 'and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak'. What is studied is a living changing relationship, a song, not a still life, and a duet, not a solo....