fret
“me, yet you cannot play upon me—Though you can,”
HAMLET, iii. 2. 362.
“Here is a play on words, and a double meaning. Hamlet says,
though you can vex me, you cannot impose on me; though you
can stop the instrument, you cannot play on it”
(DOUCE)
. See the next article.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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