Ophelia me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays; O, you must wear your rue with a difference". Rue is well known for its symbolic meaning of regret, but the herb is also used to treat pain, bruises and has abortive qualities. In Act 4 Scene 7, Queen Gertrude reports that Ophelia had climbed into a willow tree ("There is a willow grows aslant the brook"), and that the branch had broken and dropped Ophelia into the brook, where she drowned. Gertrude says that Ophelia appeared "incapable of her own distress". Gertrude's announcement of Ophelia's death has been praised
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