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'show"
Double Entendre
Act 3,
Scene 2
Lines 134-136

A double entendre of the word "show" in Act 3, Scene 2 of myshakespeare's Hamlet.

Ophelia

Will they tell us what this show meant?

Hamlet

Ay, or any show that you will show him. Be not you 
ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means.

Hamlet turns Ophelia’s use of the word “show” into a bawdy double entendre, interpreting show as meaning to expose one's private parts.