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"we will fetters put upon this fear"
Metaphor
Act 3,
Scene 3
Lines 24-26b

An explanation of the word “fetters” In Act 3, Scene 3 of myShakespeare’s Hamlet.

Claudius

Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage, 
For we will fetters put upon this fear    
Which now goes too free-footed.

Both

                                                     We will haste us.

Fetters are leg shackles placed on humans and animals so that they can’t run free, or go “free-footed” as Claudius says. Claudius is speaking metaphorically; he isn’t actually going to put the Royal Prince in chains.