Which is the best paraphrase for this excerpt?

Hamlet: ] it will but skin and film the ulcerous place, whiles rank corruption, mining all within, infects unseen. confess yourself to heaven; repent what’s past; avoid what is to come; and do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker. —hamlet, william shakespeare what is the central motif in the passage? the passage of time madness disease and decay gardening

In the poem, collins suggests that memories do what as people age

In melville's "bartleby the scrivener," why does the narrator refuse to fire bartleby even after bartleby has told him he will never write for him again? select all that apply