Hamlet Soliloquy Glossary: O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! (2.2.555-612)
Make mad the guilty
"By his description of the crime he would drive those spectators mad who had any such sin on their conscience, and would horrify even the innocent" (Kittredge 68).
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Reference
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. George Kittredge. Toronto: Ginn and Company, 1967.
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