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"commend"
Wordplay
Act 5,
Scene 2
Lines 137-140

An explanation of the word “commend” in Act 5, Scene 2 of myShakespeare’s Hamlet.

Osric   

I commend my duty to your lordship.

Hamlet   

Yours, yours. 
[Exit Osric.] 
He does well to commend it himself; there are no
tongues else for's turn.    

"Commend" can mean either to offer or to praise. Orsic states “I commend (offer) my duty (service) to your lordship (Hamlet).” But in his curt reply, “Yours, yours”, Hamlet sarcastically means, “I commend (praise) the service you are rendering to your lord (King Claudius).”