Who said sweets to the sweet

Email Address:. Sign me up! It can have a sinister bent; it can be the most romantic of sayings. So who originally coined this phrase? Shakespeare, of course. This entry was posted on July 6, at am and is filed under Idioms from the 17th Century.

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Hamlet the Dane. Hold off thy hand. I may not be rash and quick to anger, but I have something dangerous in me which you should beware of. Take your hands off. Test your knowledge Take the Act 5, scene 1 Quick Quiz.

Popular pages: Hamlet. Take a Study Break. Original Text. Modern Text. When Laertes' is cut by his own sword, again he speaks for Hamlet, "Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric. I am justly killed with mine own treachery.

Why what a king is this? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do not know that Hamlet has replaced the letters, and thus, according to Hamlet, their demise will be due to their own actions in delivering the letters to the English king. Claudius' behavior horrifies Horatio. What wilt thou do for her? I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers, if you added all their love together, couldn't match mine.

For the love of God, be patient with him. What does Gertrude say before dying? Was Gertrude's death an accident or a suicide? What are Laertes dying words? The queen moans that the cup must have been poisoned, calls out to Hamlet, and dies. How does Hamlet die? Laertes succeeds in wounding Hamlet, though Hamlet does not die of the poison immediately.