All 15 Uses of
therefore
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night; That, if again this apparition come He may approve our eyes and speak to it.†
Scene 1.1
- Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state, Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,— With an auspicious and one dropping eye, With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole,— Taken to wife; nor have we herein barr'd Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone With this affair along:—or all, our thanks.†
Scene 1.2
- Perhaps he loves you now; And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch The virtue of his will: but you must fear, His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; For he himself is subject to his birth: He may not, as unvalu'd persons do, Carve for himself; for on his choice depends The safety and health of this whole state; And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd Unto the voice and yielding of that body Whereof he is the head.†
Scene 1.3
- And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.†
Scene 1.5 *
- Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief:—your noble son is mad: Mad call I it; for to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?†
Scene 2.2
- Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased: but, sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command; or rather, as you say, my mother: therefore no more, but to the matter: my mother, you say,— Ros.†
Scene 3.2
- Therefore prepare you; I your commission will forthwith dispatch, And he to England shall along with you: The terms of our estate may not endure Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow Out of his lunacies.†
Scene 3.3
- Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,— Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve For that which thou hast done,—must send thee hence With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself; The bark is ready, and the wind at help, The associates tend, and everything is bent For England.†
Scene 4.3
- 'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project Should have a back or second, that might hold If this did blast in proof.†
Scene 4.7
- Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out.†
Scene 4.7
- Now fear I this will give it start again; Therefore let's follow.†
Scene 4.7
- I tell thee she is; and therefore make her grave straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.†
Scene 5.1
- You lie out on't, sir, and therefore 'tis not yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, yet it is mine.†
Scene 5.1
- Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.†
Scene 5.1
- I do not fear it; I have seen you both; But since he's better'd, we have therefore odds.†
Scene 5.2
Definition:
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(therefore) for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)