...Their defeat / Does by their own insinuation grow" (5.2.57-59). Like Polonius, they chose to be spies. '"Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes / Between...pass and fell incensed points / Of mighty opposites" (5.2.60-62). Hamlet must follow his destiny, as they theirs. Unfortunately for his old friends, they...

...is not near Hamlet's conscience. "Their defeat," he maintains, Does by their own insinuation grow. 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (V.ii.58-62) Just as it was perfect conscience to send Rosencrantz and Guildenst' ern to their death,...

...this employment. They are not near my conscience. Their defeat Doth by their own insinuation grow. 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between...fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. HORATIO has little choice but to agree. Or change the subject. HORATIO HAMLET Why, what a king is this! Does...

...which he arranged: They are not near my conscience; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow. Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (5.2.58-62) Hamlet and Claudius are the two mighty opposites, and the references to "pass and fell"...

...Hamlet answers coldly: They are not near my conscience. Their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow. 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (V, ii, 58-62) To him their lives are not even worth considering. Hamlet also now views himself and...

...this employment. They are not near my conscience. Their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow. Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (57-62) In immediate context, this is a further piece of self-justification; the point is that it is...

...this employment. They are not near my conscience, their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow. 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (5.2.57-62) Initially (57-59), Hamlet suggests that he has merely responded defensively to their own...

...during the shipboard passage.25 Hamlet's justification for dispensing with the hapless messengers—" 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes / Between...pass and fell incensed points / Of mighty opposites" (5.2.60-63) — barely conceals the fact that it is the sacrifice of the intermediaries, their reduction...

...revenge on King Claudius is, after all the latter's misdeeds, completely justified: Does it not, think thee. stand me now upon — He that hath kill'd my king and whor'd my mother, Popp'd in between th'election and my hopes. Thrown out his angle for my proper life And with such coz'nage — is't not...

...actions are therefore justified. Nor does he feel guilt: Their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow, 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (V, ii, 58-62) By the final scene, Hamlet finds equilibrium when he exchanges forgiveness with Laertes,...