 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 868 pages
...welcome: but my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. GUIL. In what, my dear lord ? HAM. I am but There is a play to-night before the king ; One scene of it comes near the circu Enter POLONTOS. POL. Well be with you, gentlemen ! HAM. Hark you, Guildenstcrn, — and you too ; —... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1864 - 498 pages
...welcome : but my uncle-father, and aunt-mother, are deceived. Guil. In what, my dear lord ? Ham. I am but mad north-northwest : when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. Enter POLONIUS. Pol. Well be with you, gentlemen ! Ham. Hark you, Guildenstern, — and you too ; —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 212 pages
...welcome: but my uncle-father and auntmother are deceived. Guil. In what, my dear lord ? Ham. I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. 4 1 Carry it away.] Bear away the palm, gain the day. 2 Hercules, &e.] The allusion is to Shakspearc's... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1865 - 392 pages
...but there are several allusions to it. Hamlet, for instance, quotes the well known proverb, "I am but mad north-northwest; when the wind "is southerly, I know a hawk from a hand-saw,"^ (heronshaw.) Again, in the scene where Romeo has just left his lady love, Juliet calls him back. O,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 416 pages
...welcome : but my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. Guil. In what, my dear lord! Ham. I am but mad north-north-west : when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand saw. Eider POLONIUS. Pol. Well be with you, gentlemen ! Ham. Hark you, Guildenstern ; — and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 788 pages
...welcome : but my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. Gruil. In what, my dear lord ? Ham. I am but mad north-north-west : when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. Enter POLONIDS. Pol. Well be with you, gentlemen ! Ham. Hark you, Guildenstern ; — and you too ;... | |
 | James Alan Gardner - Outer space - 1997 - 364 pages
...bewildered. "Don't know how to take me, do you?" he grinned. "I'm not as senile as you might think. 'I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.' Who said that?" "Hamlet?" "Damned right, and aren't you glad I pressured the other admirals into requiring... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 418 pages
...dear lord?" asks Guildenstern. Hamlet draws them nearer to him, as though telling a secret: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."179 As he draws back from them Polonius speaks from off left: "Well be with you, gentlemen!"... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so. 10208 Hamlet I am but think! 9796 (in 1937) 10209 Hamlet Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? 10210 Hamlet The play's... | |
 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...cast on what Shakespeare intended when, during his apparent fit of madness, Hamlet remarks: I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.29 Since Marston's family coat of arms has a saw-like serrated edge known as Fess Dencetty,... | |
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I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. 
