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Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Hearing a noise, the speaker promises brevity and then addresses a dagger directly. Calling it happy gives the weapon an unsettling welcome, while the sheath metaphor presents the speaker's body as its destination. The compressed wording joins interruption, personification and an explicit wish to die.
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