All 4 Uses of
repent
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Try what repentance can: what can it not?†
Scene 3.3 *
- Yet what can it when one cannot repent?†
Scene 3.3
- Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; And do not spread the compost on the weeds, To make them ranker.†
Scene 3.4
- ] I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so, To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister.†
Scene 3.4
Definition:
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(repent) to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future