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 haue,<br> Then flie to others we know not of.<br> Thus conſcience dooes make cowards,<br> And thus the natiue hiew of reſolution<br> Is ſickled ore with the pale caſt of thought,<br> And enterpriſes of great pitch and moment,<br> With this regard theyr currents turne awry,<br> And loose the name of action. Soft you now,<br> The faire "Ophelia", Nimph in thy orizons<br> Be all my ſinnes remembred. "Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies", published by Isaac Jaggard and Ed Blount in 1623 and better known as the "First Folio", includes an edition of "Hamlet" largely similar to the Second Quarto. The