Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed,

But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother

Lives almost by his looks, and for myself—

My virtue or my plague, be it either which—

She’s so conjunctive to my life and soul,

That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,

I could not but by her. The other motive

Why to a public count I might not go,

Is the great love the general gender bear him,

Who, dipping all his faults in their affection..." Basically Claudius is explaining that he won't seek revenge against Hamlet just yet because he doesn't want to lose his wife, Hamlets mother, and because the public love Hamlet and would overlook any faults.