All 6 Uses of
discourse
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer,—married with mine uncle, My father's brother; but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month; Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married:— O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!†
Scene 1.2
- That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.†
Scene 3.1 *
- Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame, and start not so wildly from my affair.†
Scene 3.2
- 'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your finger and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.†
Scene 3.2
- Alas, how is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy, And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?†
Scene 3.4
- Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd.†
Scene 4.4
Definition:
a serious speech, writing, or conversation on a particular topic
or much more rarely: to speak or write formally on a particular topic; or to have a conversation
or much more rarely: to speak or write formally on a particular topic; or to have a conversation