O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s eye, tongue, sword;
The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
The observed of all observers!

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. Ophelia says this when Hamlet leaves the stage after his "Get thee to a nunnery" speech. She is convinced that he is mad and she mourns the downfall of one of Denmark’s most promising young men. In bewailing the lost of such a "noble mind," her own descent into madness is being foreshadowed. Ophelia’s speech is poignantly ironic. Having no inkling of Hamlet’s true motivations for his cruelty, mocking and rejection of her, nor any idea of the real reason for his madness, she sings his praises as a soldier, scholar and courtier.