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Lacking art, which in this case means sophistication. Gertrude in Hamlet says "So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt." She means that lacking sophistication, the guilty give themselves away by trying to hide their guilt.
Angel Volkman
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∙ 11y ago"So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
"Art" means skill, skillfulness, so that "artless" means clumsy, unskilled, or crude.
What Gertrude means is that when you feel guilty, you get full of jealousy or suspicion of everything around you. Your judgement and skill in being able to tell real dangers from imaginary ones is blunted. You leap to the first crude artless conclusion all the time. As a result, in trying to keep from giving yourself away, you give yourself away. (Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat is a great example of this)
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'artless' has 2 syllables. Art-less.
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