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"Nemean lion's nerve"
Allusion
Act 1,
Scene 4
Lines 56b-61

An explanation of the “Nemean lion” allusion in Act 1, Scene 4 of myShakespeare’s Hamlet.

Hamlet

                                                My fate cries out
And makes each petty artery in this body    
As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. 
Still am I called. Unhand me, gentlemen!
By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
I say, away! [To Ghost] Go on, I'll follow thee.

The Nemean lion was a fierce beast killed by Hercules. Hamlet is saying that his arteries will carry his strength and resolution throughout his body, just as the lion’s nerves carried his fierceness throughout its body.  

(Heracles and the Nemean Lion, artist unknown, c. 1831)