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"better, and worse"
Cultural Allusion
Act 3,
Scene 2
Lines 232-233

An allusion to wedding vows in Act 3, Scene 2 of myshakespeare's Hamlet.

Ophelia

Still better, and worse.    

Hamlet

So you mis-take your husbands. 

In Ophelia’s line, Shakespeare plays on the part in the wedding vows where the wife takes her husband for “better or worse”. In one final line of this bawdy repartee, Hamlet accuses Ophelia of cheating on her husband by taking another (mis-taking) man to bed.