Ophelia what the other characters interpret as grief for her father. She talks in riddles and rhymes, and sings some "mad" and bawdy songs about death and a maiden losing her virginity. She exits after bidding everyone a "good night". The last time Ophelia appears in the play is after Laertes comes to the castle to challenge Claudius over the death of his father, Polonius. Ophelia sings more songs and hands out flowers, citing their symbolic meanings, although interpretations of the meanings differ. The only herb that Shakespeare gives Ophelia herself is rue; "...there's rue for you, and here's some for
To be, or not to be that we know not of.<br> Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,<br> And thus the native hue of Resolution<br> Is sicklied o'er, with the pale cast of Thought,<br> And enterprises of great "pitch" and moment, [F: "pith"]<br> With this regard their Currents turn "awry", [F: "away"]<br> And lose the name of Action. Soft you now,<br> The fair Ophelia? Nymph, in thy Orisons<br> Be all my sins remember'd. The "First Quarto" (Q1) is the earliest edition of "Hamlet" but is considered a bad quarto (essentially a theatrical knock-off) rather than a first or earlier draft, and although some parts of