"the false steward ..."Cultural AllusionAct 4,Scene 5Lines 170-172A discussion of Ophelia's song in Act 4, Scene 5 of myshakespeare's Hamlet. Ophelia You must sing "a-down, a-down," an you call him "a-down-a." Oh, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false steward that stole his master's daughter. Ophelia is instructing the others to join in singing the refrain of this ballad about a servant who seduces the daughter of the household.
