...Mov'd me to manage arms against thy state. What better precedent than mighty Jove? Nature, that fram'd us of four elements Warring within our breasts for...infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss...

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...of four elements, Warring within our breast for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous...infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss...

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...exposition of Shakespeare's general meantug will be found m Marlowe's famous lines from Tamburlame: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world . . My contention is that Hamlet, in surveying man's various anributes, characterizes, by his comparison...

...of the iambic pentameter (I use capitals and brackets to clarify the construction): (62) OUR SOULES, (whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous Architecture of the world: And measure euery wandring planets course,] |Still climing after knowledge infinite, And alwais mouing as the restles...