Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul, and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow: Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.

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Skippy

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23 May, 18:18

Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul, and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow: Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.

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Carly Petersen · Answer 1

This statement was made by Hamlet to the Queen Gertrude in Shakespeare's Hamlet when he inquired of him the reason why he spoke rudely to her.

Hamlet told her that she has done something so bad that qualifies her to be called a hypocrite and someone who has lost her virtue. He described her action as immodest and one that is against the oath of marriage.