...What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event,...

...would like to believe that human reason is a godlike instrument by which people may act in the world: Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (4.4.36-39) At issue here is optimistic humanism — the strand in Renaissance thought that exalted...

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...88. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, IV, iv, 39. To "fust" means to "grow musty." The exact quotation is: Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, Looking...not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. 89. bovine: Like cattle; dull, stolid. tific branches, sometimes, too, in practice, not a portion...

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...back on the reason of that noble mind, struggling to see a shape to his life, As the Dane puts it: Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (Hamlet IV iv. 36-9) Initially, though. How It Is seems to resist, and remake Hamlet's query. The prepositional...

...paragon of animals ! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?' (n, ii, 303-5). He ponders: Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. (1v, ¡v, 36-9) But Hamlet is far from such cool judgement and unimpressed by the divine qualities...