We shall obey, were she ten times our mother.

Oooh. Hamlet getting imperial. Getting all “Royal We” on these guys. Royalty up the language, getting super formal. Ten times our mother is a lot of mother but in the obeying, there is a resistance and a pointing toward his own status, which must, inevitably, diminish theirs.

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