Hamlet, Prince of Denmark • Paragraph 204
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It does not appear whether _Ophelia's_ Madness was chiefly for her Father's Death, or for the Loss of _Hamlet_. It is not often that young Women run mad for the Loss of their Fathers. It is more natural to suppose, that like _Chimene_ in the _Cid_, her great Sorrow proceeded from her Father's being kill'd by the Man she lov'd, and thereby making it indecent for her ever to marry him.