![]() ![]() ![]() What does Horatio mean here you ask? Well, the term mettle refers to “a person’s character, disposition, or temperament” ( OED 10 Apr. Now, sir, young Fortinbras, / Of unimproved mettle hot and full, / Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there / sharked up a list of lawless resolutes / For food and diet to some enterprise / That hath a stomach in’t which is no other – / As it doth well appear unto our state – / But to recover of us, by strong hand / And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands / So by his father lost. Fortinbras feels like he has to avenge his father’s death, and now he is marching on Denmark. ![]() ![]() Fortinbras is the prince of Norway, and Old Hamlet killed his father in battle.
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