... is. I know not "seems". Tis not alone my inky cloak, {good} mother, Nor customary suits if solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes' of grief, That can {denote} me truly. These indeed "seem," For they are actions that a man might play; But ... to lose by Hamlet's madness or feigned madness. Finally, a little later in the play the King's diagnosis of Hamlet is " [] Was not madness. There's something in his soul,/ Oer which his melancholy sits on brood,/ and I ...

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