Note to Hamlet, 2.2.104: "Thus it remains, and the remainder thus."


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Act 2, Scene 2, line 104
Thus it remains, and the remainder thus: i.e., it remains true that Hamlet's madness has a cause, and the remainder of what is to be said is what I am about to say. In this line Polonius enhances his use of antanaclasis with another figure of speech, antistrophe, the repetition of words in an inverse order.