Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. Ophelia laments Hamlet’s loss of reason and that he is unrecognizable from the man she once knew. Using a simile, she compares his once noble and disciplined mind to bells that were sweet and now sound tuneless and harsh.

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