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ng this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:}\par }{\ql {Therefore I have entreated him along}\par }{\ql {With us to watch the minutes of this night;}\par }{\ql {Th at if again this apparition come,}\par }{\ql {He may approve our eyes and speak to it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Tush, tu sh, \lquote twill not appear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i BERNARDO }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {Sit down awhile;}\par }{\ql {And let us once again assail your e ars,}\par }{\ql {That are so fortified against our story}\par }{\ql {What we hav e two nights seen.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {Well, sit we down,}\par }{\ql {And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i BERNARDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Last night of all,} \par }{\ql {When yond same star that\rquote s westward from the pole}\par }{\ql {Had made his course to illume that part of heaven}\par }{\ql {Where now it burn s, Marcellus and myself,}\par }{\ql {The bell then beating one, \u8213\'3f}\par }{\ql {Enter Ghost}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par } {\ql {Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i BERNARDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {In the same figure, like the king tha t\rquote s dead.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i BERNARDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Most like: it har rows me with fear and wonder.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i BERNARDO }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {It would be spoke to.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCEL LUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Question it, Horatio.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What art thou that usurp\rquote st this time of night,}\par }{\ql {Together with that fair and warlike form}\par }{\ql {In which the majesty of buried Denmark}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Did sometimes march? by heave n I charge thee, speak!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {It is offended.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i BERNARDO }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {See, it stalks away!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 E xit Ghost}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rq uote Tis gone, and will not answer.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i BERNARDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:}\par }{\ql {I s not this something more than fantasy?}\par }{\ql {What think you on\rquote t?} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Before my God, I might not this believe}\par }{\ql {Without the sensible and true avouch}\par } {\ql {Of mine own eyes.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {Is it not like the king?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {As thou art to thyself:}\par }{\ql {Such was the very armou r he had on}\par }{\ql {When he the ambitious Norway combated;}\par }{\ql {So fr own\rquote d he once, when, in an angry parle,}\par }{\ql {He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis strange.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\ sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,}\par }{\ql {With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.}\par }{\qj \li3 00 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {In what particular thought to work I know not;}\par }{\ql {But in the gross and scope of my opinion,}\par }{\q l {This bodes some strange eruption to our state.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that kn ows,}\par }{\ql {Why this same strict and most observant watch}\par }{\ql {So ni ghtly toils the subject of the land,}\par }{\ql {And why such daily cast of braz en cannon,}\par }{\ql {And foreign mart for implements of war;}\par }{\ql {Why s uch impress of shipwrights, whose sore task}\par }{\ql {Does not divide the Sund ay from the week;}\par }{\ql {What might be toward, that this sweaty haste}\par }{\ql {Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:}\par }{\ql {Who is\rquot e t that can inform me?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {That can I;}\par }{\ql {At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,}\ par }{\ql {Whose image even but now appear\rquote d to us,}\par }{\ql {Was, as y ou know, by Fortinbras of Norway,}\par }{\ql {Thereto prick\rquote d on by a mos t emulate pride,}\par }{\ql {Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet--} \par }{\ql {For so this side of our known world esteem\rquote d him--}\par }{\ql

{Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal\rquote d compact,}\par }{\ql {Well rat ified by law and heraldry,}\par }{\ql {Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands}\par }{\ql {Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:}\par }{\ql {Again st the which, a moiety competent}\par }{\ql {Was gaged by our king; which had re turn\rquote d}\par }{\ql {To the inheritance of Fortinbras,}\par }{\ql {Had he b een vanquisher; as, by the same covenant,}\par }{\ql {And carriage of the articl e design\rquote d,}\par }{\ql {His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,}\ par }{\ql {Of unimproved mettle hot and full,}\par }{\ql {Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there}\par }{\ql {Shark\rquote d up a list of lawless resolutes, }\par }{\ql {For food and diet, to some enterprise}\par }{\ql {That hath a stoma ch in\rquote t; which is no other--}\par }{\ql {As it doth well appear unto our state--}\par }{\ql {But to recover of us, by strong hand}\par }{\ql {And terms c ompulsatory, those foresaid lands}\par }{\ql {So by his father lost: and this, I take it,}\par }{\ql {Is the main motive of our preparations,}\par }{\ql {The so urce of this our watch and the chief head}\par }{\ql {Of this post-haste and rom age in the land.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i BERNARDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {I think it be no other but e\rquote en so:}\par }{\ql {Well may it sort that this portentous figure}\par }{\ql {Comes armed through our watch; so like the ki ng}\par }{\ql {That was and is the question of these wars.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb 60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A mote it is to trouble the mind\rqu ote s eye.}\par }{\ql {In the most high and palmy state of Rome,}\par }{\ql {A l ittle ere the mightiest Julius fell,}\par }{\ql {The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead}\par }{\ql {Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:}\par } {\ql {As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,}\par }{\ql {Disasters in t he sun; and the moist star}\par }{\ql {Upon whose influence Neptune\rquote s emp ire stands}\par }{\ql {Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:}\par }{\ql {And even the like precurse of fierce events,}\par }{\ql {As harbingers preceding st ill the fates}\par }{\ql {And prologue to the omen coming on,}\par }{\ql {Have h eaven and earth together demonstrated}\par }{\ql {Unto our climatures and countr ymen.--}\par }{\ql {But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!}\par }{\ql {Re-e nter Ghost}\par }{\ql {I\rquote ll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion! }\par }{\ql {If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,}\par }{\ql {Speak to me:}\ par }{\ql {If there be any good thing to be done,}\par }{\ql {That may to thee d o ease and grace to me,}\par }{\ql {Speak to me:}\par }{\ql {Cock crows}\par }{\ ql {If thou art privy to thy country\rquote s fate,}\par }{\ql {Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!}\par }{\ql {Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy li fe}\par }{\ql {Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,}\par }{\ql {For which, th ey say, you spirits oft walk in death,}\par }{\ql {Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Shall I strike at it with my partisan?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Do, if it will not stand.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb6 0 {}\sb60 {\i BERNARDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis here!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis here!}\par }{\qj \li3 00 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis gone!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit Ghost}\par }{\ql {We do it wrong, being so majestical,}\par }{\ql { To offer it the show of violence;}\par }{\ql {For it is, as the air, invulnerabl e,}\par }{\ql {And our vain blows malicious mockery.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\ sb60 {\i BERNARDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It was about to speak, when the cock crew .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {And then it s tarted like a guilty thing}\par }{\ql {Upon a fearful summons. I have heard,}\pa r }{\ql {The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,}\par }{\ql {Doth with his lo fty and shrill-sounding throat}\par }{\ql {Awake the god of day; and, at his war ning,}\par }{\ql {Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,}\par }{\ql {The extra vagant and erring spirit hies}\par }{\ql {To his confine: and of the truth herei n}\par }{\ql {This present object made probation.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It faded on the crowing of the cock.}\par } {\ql {Some say that ever \lquote gainst that season comes}\par }{\ql {Wherein ou r Saviour\rquote s birth is celebrated,}\par }{\ql {The bird of dawning singeth all night long:}\par }{\ql {And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;}\pa r }{\ql {The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,}\par }{\ql {No fairy

takes, nor witch hath power to charm,}\par }{\ql {So hallow\rquote d and so grac ious is the time.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {So have I heard and do in part believe it.}\par }{\ql {But, look, the morn, i n russet mantle clad,}\par }{\ql {Walks o\rquote er the dew of yon high eastward hill:}\par }{\ql {Break we our watch up; and by my advice,}\par }{\ql {Let us i mpart what we have seen to-night}\par }{\ql {Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my lif e,}\par }{\ql {This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.}\par }{\ql {Do you co nsent we shall acquaint him with it,}\par }{\ql {As needful in our loves, fittin g our duty?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {L et\rquote s do\rquote t, I pray; and I this morning know}\par }{\ql {Where we sh all find him most conveniently.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET, POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, and Attendants }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N10676}{\*\bkmkend N10676}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE II. A room of state in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET, POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, and Attendants }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother\rquote s death}\par }{\ql {T he memory be green, and that it us befitted}\par }{\ql {To bear our hearts in gr ief and our whole kingdom}\par }{\ql {To be contracted in one brow of woe,}\par }{\ql {Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature}\par }{\ql {That we with wi sest sorrow think on him,}\par }{\ql {Together with remembrance of ourselves.}\p ar }{\ql {Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,}\par }{\ql {The imperial jointress to this warlike state,}\par }{\ql {Have we, as \lquote twere with a d efeated joy,--}\par }{\ql {With an auspicious and a dropping eye,}\par }{\ql {Wi th mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,}\par }{\ql {In equal scale weigh ing delight and dole,--}\par }{\ql {Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr\rquot e d}\par }{\ql {Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone}\par }{\ql {With thi s affair along. For all, our thanks.}\par }{\ql {Now follows, that you know, you ng Fortinbras,}\par }{\ql {Holding a weak supposal of our worth,}\par }{\ql {Or thinking by our late dear brother\rquote s death}\par }{\ql {Our state to be dis joint and out of frame,}\par }{\ql {Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,} \par }{\ql {He hath not fail\rquote d to pester us with message,}\par }{\ql {Imp orting the surrender of those lands}\par }{\ql {Lost by his father, with all bon ds of law,}\par }{\ql {To our most valiant brother. So much for him.}\par }{\ql {Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:}\par }{\ql {Thus much the busines s is: we have here writ}\par }{\ql {To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--}\par }{\ql {Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears}\par }{\ql {Of this his nephew \rquote s purpose,--to suppress}\par }{\ql {His further gait herein; in that the levies,}\par }{\ql {The lists and full proportions, are all made}\par }{\ql {Ou t of his subject: and we here dispatch}\par }{\ql {You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,}\par }{\ql {For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;}\par }{\ql { Giving to you no further personal power}\par }{\ql {To business with the king, m ore than the scope}\par }{\ql {Of these delated articles allow.}\par }{\ql {Fare well, and let your haste commend your duty.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i CORNELIUS VOLTIMAND }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {In that and all things will we show our duty.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt VOLTIMAND and COR NELIUS}\par }{\ql {And now, Laertes, what\rquote s the news with you?}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{You told us of some suit; what is\rquote t, Laertes?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And loose your vo ice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That shall not be my of fer, not thy asking?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The head is not more native to the hear t,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The hand more instrumental to the mouth,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What woulds t thou have, Laertes?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My dread lord,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Your leave and favour to return to Fra nce;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To show my duty in your coronation,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My thoughts and wishes bend ag ain toward France}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And bow them to your gracious leave and pa

rdon.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Hav e you your father\rquote s leave? What says Polonius?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{By laboursome petition, and at last}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Upon his will I seal\rquote d my hard consent:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I do b eseech you, give him leave to go.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUD IUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{And thy best graces spend it at thy will!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {[Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind.}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How is it that the cl ouds still hang on you?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Not so, my lord; I am too much i\rquote the sun.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb6 0 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Do not for ever with thy vailed lids}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Se ek for thy noble father in the dust:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thou know\rquote st \lq uote tis common; all that lives must die,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Passing through na ture to eternity.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, madam, it is common.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {If it be,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Why seems it so particular with thee?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Seems, ma dam! nay it is; I know not \lquote seems.\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Ti s not alone my inky cloak, good mother,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nor customary suits of solemn black,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nor the dejected \lquote havior of the visage,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That can denote me truly: th ese indeed seem,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For they are actions that a man might play: }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But I have that within which passeth show;}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{These but the trappings and the suits of woe.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis sweet and commendable in yo ur nature, Hamlet,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To give these mourning duties to your fat her:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, you must know, your father lost a father;}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{In filial obligation for some term}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To do obsequious sorro w: but to persever}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In obstinate condolement is a course}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Of impious stubbornness; \lquote tis unmanly grief;}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A heart un fortified, a mind impatient,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An understanding simple and uns chool\rquote d:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For what we know must be and is as common}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As any the most vulgar thing to sense,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Why should we in our peevish opposition}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Take it to heart? Fie! \lquote tis a fault to heaven,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A fault against the dead, a f ault to nature,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To reason most absurd: whose common theme}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{From the first corse till he that died to-day,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote This must be so.\rquote We pray you, throw to earth}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This un prevailing woe, and think of us}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As of a father: for let the world take note,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You are the most immediate to our throne;}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And with no less nobility of love}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Than th at which dearest father bears his son,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Do I impart toward yo u. For your intent}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In going back to school in Wittenberg,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It is most retrograde to our desire:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And w e beseech you, bend you to remain}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Here, in the cheer and com fort of our eye,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son. }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {I shall in all my best obey you, madam.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb

60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, \lquote tis a loving and a fair r eply:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come;}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But the great cannon to the clouds shall tel l,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And the king\rquote s rouse the heavens all bruit again,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Ex eunt all but HAMLET}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {O, that this too too solid flesh would melt}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thaw and res olve itself into a dew!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or that the Everlasting had not fix\ rquote d}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{His canon \lquote gainst self-slaughter! O God! God !}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{Seem to me all the uses of this world!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Fie on\rquote t! a h fie! \lquote tis an unweeded garden,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That grows to seed; t hings rank and gross in nature}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Possess it merely. That it sh ould come to this!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But two months dead: nay, not so much, no t two:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So excellent a king; that was, to this,}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That he m ight not beteem the winds of heaven}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Visit her face too rough ly. Heaven and earth!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Must I remember? why, she would hang o n him,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As if increase of appetite had grown}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let me not think on\rquote t--Frailty, thy name is woman!--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A little mo nth, or ere those shoes were old}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With which she follow\rquot e d my poor father\rquote s body,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Like Niobe, all tears:--wh y she, even she--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of r eason,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Would have mourn\rquote d longer--married with my unc le,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My father\rquote s brother, but no more like my father}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Than I to Hercules: within a month:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Ere y et the salt of most unrighteous tears}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{She married. O, most wicked speed, to po st}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{It is not nor it cannot come to good:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But break, my hea rt; for I must hold my tongue.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and B ERNARDO}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Hail to your lordship!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { I am glad to see you well:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Horatio,--or I do forget myself.} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The same, my lo rd, and your poor servant ever.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {Sir, my good friend; I\rquote ll change that name with you:}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My good lord--}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I am very glad to see y ou. Good even, sir.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But what, in faith, make you from Witten berg?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A truant disposition, good my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {I would not hear your enemy say so,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nor shall you do mine ear that violence,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To make it truster of your own r eport}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Against yourself: I know you are no truant.}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{But what is your affair in Elsinore?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We\rquote ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORA TIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I came to see your father\rquote s funeral.}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I pray thee, do no t mock me, fellow-student;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I think it was to see my mother\r quote s wedding.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Indeed, my lord, it follow\rquote d hard upon.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meat s}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or ever I h ad seen that day, Horatio!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My father!--methinks I see my fat

her.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Where, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {In my mind \rquote s eye, Horatio.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {I saw him once; he was a goodly king.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He was a man, take him for all in all,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{I shall not look upon his like again.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Saw? who?}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, the king your fathe r.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The king my f ather!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Season y our admiration for awhile}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With an attent ear, till I may del iver,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Upon the witness of these gentlemen,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{This marvel to you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {For God\rquote s love, let me hear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i H ORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Two nights together had these gentlemen,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In the dead vast and middle of the night,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Been thus encounter\rquote d. A figure like your father,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe ,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Appears before them, and with solemn march}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk\rquote d}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ By their oppress\rquote d and fear-surprised eyes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Within hi s truncheon\rquote s length; whilst they, distilled}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Almost t o jelly with the act of fear,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Stand dumb and speak not to hi m. This to me}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In dreadful secrecy impart they did;}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{And I with them the third night kept the watch;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{W here, as they had deliver\rquote d, both in time,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Form of th e thing, each word made true and good,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The apparition comes: I knew your father;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{These hands are not more like.}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {But where was this?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, upon the platform where we watch\rquote d.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Did you not speak to it?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I did;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But answer made it none: yet once methought}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It lifted up its head and did a ddress}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Itself to motion, like as it would speak;}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{But even then the morning cock crew loud,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And at th e sound it shrunk in haste away,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And vanish\rquote d from ou r sight.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis very strange.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {As I do live, my honour\rquote d lord, \lquote tis true;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {And we did think it writ down in our duty}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To let you know o f it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Indeed, in deed, sirs, but this troubles me.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hold you the watch to-nigh t?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS BERNARDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {W e do, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A rm\rquote d, say you?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS BERNARDO }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {Arm\rquote d, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAM LET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {From top to toe?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MA RCELLUS BERNARDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, from head to foot.}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Then saw you not his face?}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, yes, my lord; h e wore his beaver up.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par } {\ql {What, look\rquote d he frowningly?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HOR ATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Pale or red?}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, very pale.}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {And fix\rquote d his eyes up on you?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Most co nstantly.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I woul

d I had been there.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {It would have much amazed you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Very like, very like. Stay\rquote d it long?}\par }{\qj \li3 00 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS BERNARDO }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {Longer, longer.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Not when I saw\rquote t.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {His beard was grizzled--no?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It was, as I have seen it in his life,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A sable silver\rquote d.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I will watch to-night;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Perchanc e \lquote twill walk again.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {I warrant it will.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {If it assume my noble father\rquote s person,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{I\rquote ll speak to it, though hell itself should gape}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An d bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If you have hitherto conceal\rquote d this sight,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let it be tenable in your sile nce still;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{Give it an understanding, but no tongue:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I will r equite your loves. So, fare you well:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Upon the platform, \lq uote twixt eleven and twelve,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I\rquote ll visit you.}\par }{ \ql {All }\par }{\ql {Our duty to your honour.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt all but HAMLET}\par }{\ql {My father\rquote s spirit in arms! all is not well;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I doubt some foul play: would the night were co me!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Though all the earth o\rquote erwhelm them, to men\rquote s eyes .}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N10D2B}{\*\bkmkend N10D2B}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE III. A room i n Polonius\rquote house.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA }\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My necessaries are embar k\rquote d: farewell:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, sister, as the winds give benefit }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ But let me hear from you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {Do you doubt that?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Ho ld it a fashion and a toy in blood,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A violet in the youth of primy nature,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No more but so?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Think it no more;}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{For nature, crescent, does not grow alone}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In the ws and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The inward service o f the mind and soul}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{The virtue of his will: but you must fear,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{His greatne ss weigh\rquote d, his will is not his own;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For he himself i s subject to his birth:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{He may not, as unvalued persons do,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Carve for himself; for on his choice depends}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{The safety and health of this whole state;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And therefor e must his choice be circumscribed}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Unto the voice and yieldi ng of that body}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he l oves you,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It fits your wisdom so far to believe it}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{As he in his particular act and place}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{May give hi s saying deed; which is no further}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Than the main voice of De nmark goes withal.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Then weigh what loss your honour may sust ain,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If with too credent ear you list his songs,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To his unmaster\rquote d importunity.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Fear it, Ophelia, fear i t, my dear sister,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And keep you in the rear of your affectio

n,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Out of the shot and danger of desire.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {The chariest maid is prodigal enough,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If she unmask her bea uty to the moon:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Virtue itself \lquote scapes not calumnious strokes:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The canker galls the infants of the spring,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And in the morn and liquid dew of youth}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Contagious blastments a re most imminent.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be wary then; best safety lies in fear:}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.}\par }{\qj \li3 00 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I shall the effect of this goo d lesson keep,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother ,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whiles, like a puff\rquote d and reckless libertine,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Himself the primrose p ath of dalliance treads,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And recks not his own rede.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, fear me not.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I stay too long: but here my father comes.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter POLONIUS}\par }{\ql {A double blessing is a double grace,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O ccasion smiles upon a second leave.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POL ONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And you are stay\rquote d for. There; my blessing with thee!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An d these few precepts in thy memory}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nor any unproportioned thought his a ct.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Gra pple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But do not dull t hy palm with entertainment}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of each new-hatch\rquote d, unfle dged comrade. Beware}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Bear\rquote t that the opposed may beware of thee.}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Take each man\rquote s censure, but reserve thy judgment.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But not express\rquote d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For the apparel oft proclaims the ma n,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And they in France of the best rank and station}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{Are of a most select and generous chief in that.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ Neither a borrower nor a lender be;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For loan oft loses both itself and friend,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry .}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This above all: to thine ownself be true,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{And it must follow, as the night the day,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thou canst not then be false to any man.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POL ONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The time invites you; go; your servants tend.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What I have said to you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis in my memory lock\rquot e d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And you yourself shall keep the key of it.}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Farewell.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Wha t is\rquote t, Ophelia, be hath said to you?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet. }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Marry, w ell bethought:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Tis told me, he hath very oft of late }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Given private time to you; and you yourself}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{Have of your audience been most free and bounteous:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If it be so, as so \lquote tis put on me,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And that in way of ca ution, I must tell you,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You do not understand yourself so cl early}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As it behoves my daughter and your honour.}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{What is between you? give me up the truth.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders

}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of his affection to me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl ,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I do not know, my lord, what I should think.}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Marry, I\rq uote ll teach you: think yourself a baby;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That you have ta\r quote en these tenders for true pay,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or--not to crack the wind of t he poor phrase,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Running it thus--you\rquote ll tender me a f ool.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, h e hath importuned me with love}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In honourable fashion.}\par } {\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{With almost all the holy vows of heaven.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Giving mo re light than heat, extinct in both,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Even in their promise, as it is a-making,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You must not take for fire. From this tim e}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence;}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Set your entreatments at a higher rate}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Believe so much in him, that he is young}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And with a larger tether may he walk}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Do not believ e his vows; for they are brokers,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Not of that dye which thei r investments show,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But mere implorators of unholy suits,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {The better to beguile. This is for all:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I would not, in pla in terms, from this time forth,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Have you so slander any mome nt leisure,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Look to\rquote t, I charge you: come your ways.}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I shall obey, my lord.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N10FFF}{\*\bkmkend N10FFF}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE IV. The platform.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS }\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It is a nipping and an eager air.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What hour now?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I think it lacks of twelve.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i H AMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, it is struck.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the sea son}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.}\par }{\ql {A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within}\par }{\ql {What does this m ean, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Th e king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Keeps wassail , and the swaggering up-spring reels;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The kettle-drum and trumpet thus b ray out}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The triumph of his pledge.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 { }\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Is it a custom?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, marry, is\rquote t:}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{But to my mind, though I am native here}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And to the manne r born, it is a custom}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{More honour\rquote d in the breach th an the observance.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This heavy-headed revel east and west}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{Makes us traduced and tax\rquote d of other nations:}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{S oil our addition; and indeed it takes}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{From our achievements, though perform\rquote d at height,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The pith and marrow of o

ur attribute.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So, oft it chances in particular men,}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{That for some vicious mole of nature in them,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As , in their birth--wherein they are not guilty,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Since nature cannot choose his origin--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{By the o\rquote ergrowth of some complexion,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or by some habit that too much o\rquote er-leavens}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{The form of plausive manners, that these men,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Ca rrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Being nature\rquote s livery, or fortune\rquote s star,--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As infinite as man may undergo--}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{Shall in the general censure take corruption}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{From that particular fault: the dram of eale}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Doth all the noble substance of a doubt}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To his own scandal.}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Look, my lord, it comes!}\pa r }{\ql {\fs24 Enter Ghost}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {Angels and ministers of grace defend us!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be thy intents wicked or charitable,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thou comest in such a questionable shape}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{That I will speak to thee: I\rquote ll call thee Hamlet,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Why thy canonized bones, he arsed in death,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchr e,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To cast thee up again. What may this mean,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Revisit\rquote st thus the glimpses of the moon,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Making night hideous; and we fools of nature}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{So horridly to shake our disposition}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With though ts beyond the reaches of our souls?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Say, why is this? wheref ore? what should we do?}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Ghost beckons HAMLET}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It beckons you to go away with i t,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As if it some impartment did desire}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{T o you alone.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { Look, with what courteous action}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It waves you to a more remo ved ground:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But do not go with it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 { }\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, by no means.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It will not speak; then I will follow i t.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Do not, my l ord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, what s hould be the fear?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I do not set my life in a pin\rquote s fe e;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And for my soul, what can it do to that,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Being a thing immortal as itself?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It waves me forth agai n: I\rquote ll follow it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O r to the dreadful summit of the cliff}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That beetles o\rquote er his base into the sea,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And there assume some other horrib le form,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{And draw you into madness? think of it:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The very place puts toys of desperation,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Without more motive, in to every brain}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That looks so many fathoms to the sea}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And hears it roar beneath.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAML ET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It waves me still.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Go on; I\rquote l l follow thee.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You shall not go, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {Hold off your hands.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Be ruled; you shall not go.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My fate cries out,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And makes each petty artery in this body}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As hardy as the Nemean lion\r quote s nerve.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Still am I call\rquote d. Unhand me, gentleme

n.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{By heaven, I\rquote ll make a ghost of him that lets me!} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I say, away! Go on; I\rquote ll follow thee.}\par }{\ql {\fs 24 Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {} \par }{\ql {He waxes desperate with imagination.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let\rquote s follow; \lquote tis not fit thu s to obey him.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { Have after. To what issue will this come?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MA RCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.}\par } {\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Heaven will direct it .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, let\rq uote s follow him.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter GHOST and HA MLET }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N11293}{\*\bkmkend N11293}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCE NE V. Another part of the platform.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter GHOST and HAMLET }\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Where wilt thou le ad me? speak; I\rquote ll go no further.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Gho st }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Mark me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {I will.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My hour is almost come,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When I to sulphurous and tor menting flames}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Must render up myself.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb6 0 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Alas, poor ghost!}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Pity me not, but lend thy serious hea ring}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To what I shall unfold.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Speak; I am bound to hear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {So art thou to revenge, when thou sha lt hear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What?}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I am thy father\rq uote s spirit,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Doom\rquote d for a certain term to walk the night,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And for the day confined to fast in fires,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To tell the sec rets of my prison-house,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I could a tale unfold whose lightes t word}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thy knotted and combined locks to part}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And eac h particular hair to stand on end,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Like quills upon the fret ful porpentine:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But this eternal blazon must not be}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {If thou didst ever thy dear father love--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i H AMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O God!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Murder!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\ sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Murder most foul, as in the best it is;}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{But this most foul, strange and unnatural.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb 60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Haste me to know\rquote t, that I, wi th wings as swift}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As meditation or the thoughts of love,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{May sweep to my revenge.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Gh ost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I find thee apt;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And duller shoulds t thou be than the fat weed}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That roots itself in ease on Let he wharf,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear:} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ Is by a forged process of my death}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The serpent that did sting thy father\rquo te s life}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Now wears his crown.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O my prophetic soul! My uncle!}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, that incestuous, that adult erate beast,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gif ts,--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The will o f my most seeming-virtuous queen:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O Hamlet, what a falling-o

ff was there!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{From me, whose love was of that dignity}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That it went hand in hand even with the vow}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I made to her in marriage, and to decline}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To those of mine!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{But virtue, as it never will be moved,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Though lewdness cou rt it in a shape of heaven,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So lust, though to a radiant ang el link\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Will sate itself in a celestial bed,}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{And prey on garbage.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, soft! methinks I sc ent the morning air;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orc hard,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My custom always of the afternoon,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With juice of cursed h ebenon in a vial,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And in the porches of my ears did pour}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{The leperous distilment; whose effect}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Holds such an enmity with blood of man}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That swift as quicksilver it courses through}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The natural gates and alleys of the body, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And with a sudden vigour doth posset}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An d curd, like eager droppings into milk,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The thin and wholeso me blood: so did it mine;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And a most instant tetter bark\rqu ote d about,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{All my smooth body.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thus was I, sleepin g, by a brother\rquote s hand}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of life, of crown, of queen, a t once dispatch\rquote d:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Unhousel\rquote d, disappointed, unanel\rquote d,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{No reckoning made, but sent to my account}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Wi th all my imperfections on my head:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O, horrible! O, horrible ! most horrible!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let not the royal bed of Denmark be}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A cou ch for luxury and damned incest.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, howsoever thou pursues t this act,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To prick an d sting her. Fare thee well at once!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And \lquote gins to pale his uneffectual fire:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 E xit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O all you ho st of heaven! O earth! what else?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And shall I couple hell? O , fie! Hold, hold, my heart;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And you, my sinews, grow not in stant old,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee!}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In this distracted globe. Remember thee!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yea, from the table of my memory}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I\rquote ll wipe away all trivial fond records,}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{That youth and observation copied there;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And thy co mmandment all alone shall live}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Within the book and volume of my brain,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Unmix\rquote d with baser matter: yes, by heaven! }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O most pernicious woman!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O villain, vil lain, smiling, damned villain!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My tables,--meet it is I set it down,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{At least I\rquote m sure it may be so in Denmark:}\par }{\ql { \fs24 Writing}\par }{\ql {So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{It is \lquote Adieu, adieu! remember me.\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I h ave sworn \lquote t.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS HORATIO }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Within]}\par }{\ql {My lord, my lord,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Within]}\par }{\ql {Lord Haml et,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Withi n]}\par }{\ql {Heaven secure him!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {So be it!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {\i [Within]}\par }{\ql {Hillo, ho, ho, my lord!}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, com e.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60

{\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How is\rquote t, my noble lord?}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What news, my lord?}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, wonderful!}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good my lord, tell it.}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No; you\rquote ll reveal it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Not I, my lord, by heaven.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {Nor I, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {How say you, then; would heart of man once think it?}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{But you\rquote ll be secret?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO MAR CELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, by heaven, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {There\rquote s ne\rquote er a villain dwelli ng in all Denmark}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But he\rquote s an arrant knave.}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To tell us this.}\par }{\qj \li30 0 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, right; you are i\rquote th e right;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And so, without more circumstance at all,}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{I hold it fit that we shake hands and part:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You, as your business and desire shall point you;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For every man h as business and desire,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Such as it is; and for mine own poor part,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Look you, I\rquote ll go pray.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb6 0 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {These are but wild and whirling words , my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I\rqu ote m sorry they offend you, heartily;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yes, \lquote faith he artily.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {There\r quote s no offence, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A nd much offence too. Touching this vision here,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It is an hon est ghost, that let me tell you:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For your desire to know wha t is between us,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O\rquote ermaster \lquote t as you may. And now, good friends,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As you are friends, scholars and soldier s,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Give me one poor request.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What is\rquote t, my lord? we will.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Never make known what you have seen to-night.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, we will not.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, but swear\rquote t.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {In faith,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My lord, not I.}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nor I, my lord, in faith.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Upon m y sword.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i MARCELLUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We h ave sworn, my lord, already.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Beneath]}\par }{\ql {Swear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb 60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ah, ha, boy! say\rquote st thou so? a rt thou there,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{truepenny?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Come on--you h ear this fellow in the cellarage--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Consent to swear.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Propose the oath, my l ord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Never to sp eak of this that you have seen,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Swear by my sword.}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Beneath]}\par }{\ql {S wear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Hic et ubi que? then we\rquote ll shift our ground.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Come hither, gentle men,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And lay your hands again upon my sword:}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{Never to speak of this that you have heard,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Swear by my sword.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Benea th]}\par }{\ql {Swear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Well said, old mole! canst work i\rquote the earth so fast?}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O day and night, but this is wondrous

strange!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {And the refore as a stranger give it welcome.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Than are dreamt of in your phi losophy. But come;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Here, as before, never, so help you mercy ,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{How strange or odd soe\rquote er I bear myself,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{As I perchance hereafter shall think meet}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To put a n antic disposition on,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That you, at such times seeing me, n ever shall,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With arms encumber\rquote d thus, or this headsh ake,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{As \lquote Well, well, we know,\rquote or \lquote We could, an if we wo uld,\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or \lquote If we list to speak,\rquote or \lqu ote There be, an if they might,\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or such ambiguous gi ving out, to note}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That you know aught of me: this not to do, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Beneath]}\par }{\q l {Swear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!}\par }{\ql {They swear}\par }{\ql {So, gentlemen,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With all my love I do commend me to you:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And w hat so poor a man as Hamlet is}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{May do, to express his love a nd friending to you,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ That ever I was born to set it right!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nay, come, let\rquote s go together.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter POLONIUS and REY NALDO }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N117D8}{\*\bkmkend N117D8}\sa120 {\b \fs36 \f3 A CT II}\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N117E3}{\*\bkmkend N117E3}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCE NE I. A room in POLONIUS\rquote house.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter POLONIUS and REY NALDO }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Gi ve him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I will, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reyn aldo,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Before you visit him, to make inquire}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Of his behavior.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I did intend it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONI US }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An d how, and who, what means, and where they keep,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What compan y, at what expense; and finding}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{By this encompassment and dr ift of question}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That they do know my son, come you more near er}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Than your particular demands will touch it:}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Take you, as \lquote twere, some distant knowledge of him;}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{As thus, \lquote I know his father and his friends,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An d in part him: \lquote do you mark this, Reynaldo?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, very well, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote And in part him; bu t\rquote you may say \lquote not well:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, if\rquote t be he I mean, he\rquote s very wild;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Addicted so and so:\rquote and there put on him}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What forgeries you please; marry, non e so rank}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As may dishonour him; take heed of that;}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As ar e companions noted and most known}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To youth and liberty.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {As gaming, my lord .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Drabbing: you may go so far.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, that would dishonour him.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIU S }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{You must not put another scandal on him,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Th at he is open to incontinency;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That\rquote s not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That they may seem the t

aints of liberty,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A savageness in unreclaimed blood,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of gene ral assault.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {B ut, my good lord,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {Wherefore should you do this?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REY NALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, my lord,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I would know that.}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Marry, sir , here\rquote s my drift;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And I believe, it is a fetch of wi t:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You laying these slight sullies on my son,}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{As \lquote twere a thing a little soil\rquote d i\rquote the working, Mar k you,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Your party in converse, him you would sound,}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The y outh you breathe of guilty, be assured}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{He closes with you in this consequence;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Good sir,\rquote or so, or \lquo te friend,\rquote or \lquote gentleman,\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{According t o the phrase or the addition}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of man and country.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Very good, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{about to say? By the mass , I was about to say}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{something: where did I leave?}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {At \lquote closes in th e consequence,\rquote at \lquote friend or so,\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{and \lquote gentleman.\rquote }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {At \lquote closes in the consequence,\rquote ay, marry;}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{He closes thus: \lquote I know the gentleman;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {I saw him yesterday, or t\rquote other day,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or then, or th en; with such, or such; and, as you say,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{There was a\rquote gaming; there o\rquote ertook in\rquote s rouse;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{There fall ing out at tennis:\rquote or perchance,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote I saw him e nter such a house of sale,\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{See you now;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Your bait of fals ehood takes this carp of truth:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With windlasses and with assays of bias,}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{By indirections find directions out:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So by my fo rmer lecture and advice,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My l ord, I have.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {God be wi\rquote you; fare you well.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i RE YNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good my lord!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LO RD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Observe his inclination in yourself.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I shall, my lord.}\par } {\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {And let him ply his music.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i REYNALDO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We ll, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {Farewell!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit REYNALDO}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i Enter OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How now, Ophelia! what\rquote s the matter? }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLON IUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {With what, i\rquote the name of God?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, as I was sewing in my c loset,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced;}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{No hat upon his head; his stockings foul\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{Ungarter\rquote d, and down-gyved to his ancle;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Pale as hi s shirt; his knees knocking each other;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And with a look so p iteous in purport}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As if he had been loosed out of hell}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{To speak of horrors,--he comes before me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Mad for thy love?}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I do not know;}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{But truly, I do fear it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What said he?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i

OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He took me by the wrist and held me hard;}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Then goes he to the length of all his arm;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, with his other hand thus o\rquote er his brow,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{He falls to s uch perusal of my face}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As he would draw it. Long stay\rquote d he so;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{At last, a little shaking of mine arm}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{And thrice his head thus waving up and down,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{He rais ed a sigh so piteous and profound}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As it did seem to shatter all his bulk}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And end his being: that done, he lets me go:}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, with his head over his shoulder turn\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{He seem\rquote d to find his way without his eyes;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {For out o\rquote doors he went without their helps,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, t o the last, bended their light on me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD P OLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Come, go with me: I will go seek the king.}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{This is the very ecstasy of love,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whose violent property fordoes itself}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And leads the will to desperate unde rtakings}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As oft as any passion under heaven}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{That does afflict our natures. I am sorry.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What, have yo u given him any hard words of late?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, my good lord, but, as you did command,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{I did repel his fetters and denied}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{His access to me.}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {That hath ma de him mad.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I am sorry that with better heed and judgment}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I had not quoted him: I fear\rquote d he did but trifle,}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy!}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{By heaven, it is as proper to our age}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To cast beyond o urselves in our opinions}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As it is common for the younger sor t}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{This must be known; which, being kept close, might}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{mo ve}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{More grief to hide than hate to utter love.}\par }{\ql {\ fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and Attendants }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N11B14}{\*\bkmkend N11B14 }\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE II. A room in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KIN G CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and Attendants }\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Welcome, dear Rose ncrantz and Guildenstern!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Moreover that we much did long to see you,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The need we have to use you did provoke}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Our hasty sending. Something have you heard}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of Haml et\rquote s transformation; so call it,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Sith nor the exterio r nor the inward man}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Resembles that it was. What it should b e,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{More than his father\rquote s death, that thus hath put h im}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So much from the understanding of himself,}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That, being of so young days brought up with him,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And sith so neighbour\rqu ote d to his youth and havior,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Some little time: so by your companies}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {So much as from occasion you may glean,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whether aught, to u s unknown, afflicts him thus,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That, open\rquote d, lies with in our remedy.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good gentlemen, he hath much talk\rquote d of you;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An d sure I am two men there are not living}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To whom he more adh eres. If it will please you}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To show us so much gentry and go od will}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As to expend your time with us awhile,}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{For the supply and profit of our hope,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Your visitatio n shall receive such thanks}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As fits a king\rquote s remembra nce.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Both y our majesties}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Put your dread pleasures more into command}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{Than to entreaty.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {But we both obey,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And here give up ourselves, in

the full bent}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To lay our service freely at your feet,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To be commanded.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And I beseech you instantly to visit }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My too much changed son. Go, some of you,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Heavens make our presence and our practises} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Pleasant and helpful to him!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, amen!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt ROSE NCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and some Attendants}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter POLONIUS}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The ambassado rs from Norway, my good lord,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Are joyfully return\rquote d.} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Thou stil l hast been the father of good news.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD PO LONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Both to my God a nd to my gracious king:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And I do think, or else this brain o f mine}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hunts not the trail of policy so sure}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{As it hath used to do, that I have found}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The very cause of Hamlet\rquote s lunacy.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, speak of that; that do I long to hear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Give first admittance to the ambassadors;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My news shall be the fruit to that great feast .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit POLONIUS}\par }{\ql {He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The head and source of all your son\rquote s distemper.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Q UEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I doubt it is no other but the main;}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{His father\rquote s death, and our o\rquote erhasty marriage.}\par } {\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Well, we shall sift him.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Re-enter POLONIUS, with VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS}\par }{\ql {Welcome, my good friends!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i VOLTIMAND }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Most fair return of greetings and desires.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Upon our f irst, he sent out to suppress}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{His nephew\rquote s levies; wh ich to him appear\rquote d}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To be a preparation \lquote gains t the Polack;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, better look\rquote d into, he truly found }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It was against your highness: whereat grieved,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{That so his sickness, age and impotence}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Makes vow before his uncle never more}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To giv e the assay of arms against your majesty.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whereon old Norway , overcome with joy,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Gives him three thousand crowns in annu al fee,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And his commission to employ those soldiers,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So levied as before, against the Polack:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With a n entreaty, herein further shown,}\par }{\ql {Giving a paper}\par }{\ql {That it might please you to give quiet pass}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Through your dominions for this enterprise,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{On such regards of safety and allowance }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As therein are set down.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It likes us well;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And a t our more consider\rquote d time well read,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Answer, and thi nk upon this business.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Meantime we thank you for your well-t ook labour:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Go to your rest; at night we\rquote ll feast tog ether:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Most welcome home!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par } {\ql {This business is well ended.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My liege, and madam, to e xpostulate}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What majesty should be, what duty is,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Why day is day, night night, and time is time,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Were

nothing but to waste night, day and time.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And tediousness the limbs and ou tward flourishes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I will be brief: your noble son is mad:}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{What is\rquote t but to be nothing else but mad?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But let t hat go.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { More matter, with less art.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Madam, I swear I use no art at all.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That he is mad, \lquote tis true: \lquote tis true \lquote tis pity;}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{And pity \lquote tis \lquote tis true: a foolish figure;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {But farewell it, for I will use no art.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Mad let us grant hi m, then: and now remains}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That we find out the cause of this effect,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or rather say, the cause of this defect,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{For this effect defective comes by cause:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thus it r emains, and the remainder thus. Perpend.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I have a daughter-have while she is mine--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Who, in her duty and obedience, mar k,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise.}\par }{\ql { Reads}\par }{\ql {\rquote To the celestial and my soul\rquote s idol, the most}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{beautified Ophelia,\rquote --}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That\rquote s an ill phrase, a vile phrase; \lquote beautified\rquote is}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{a vile phrase: but you shall hear. Thus:}\par }{\ql {Reads}\par }{\ql {\rquot e In her excellent white bosom, these, & c.\rquote }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Came this from Hamlet to her?}\par } {\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good madam, sta y awhile; I will be faithful.}\par }{\ql {Reads}\par }{\ql {\rquote Doubt thou t he stars are fire;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Doubt that the sun doth move;}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Doubt truth to be a liar;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But never doubt I love.}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers;}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{I have not art to reckon my groans: but that}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I lov e thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Thine e vermore most dear lady, whilst}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{this machine is to him, HAMLE T.\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And more above, hath his solicitings,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As t hey fell out by time, by means and place,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{All given to mine ear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {But how hath she}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Received his love?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What do you think of me?}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {As of a man faithful and honourable.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I would fain prove so. But what might you think,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When I had seen this hot love on the wing--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As I perceived it, I must tell you that,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Before my daughter told me--what might you,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{If I had play\rquote d the desk or table-book,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or gi ven my heart a winking, mute and dumb,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or look\rquote d upon this love with idle sight;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What might you think? No, I went round to work,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star;}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{This must not be:\rquote and then I precepts gave her,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{That she should lock herself from his resort,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Admit no m essengers, receive no tokens.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which done, she took the fruit s of my advice;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And he, repulsed--a short tale to make--}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Then ce to a watch, thence into a weakness,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thence to a lightness , and, by this declension,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Into the madness wherein now he r aves,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And all we mourn for.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Do you think \lquote tis this?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It may be, very li kely.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Hat h there been such a time--I\rquote d fain know that--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I

have positively said \lquote Tis so,\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When it proved otherwise?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {Not that I know.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {\fs24 [Pointing to his head and shoulder]}\par }{\ql {Take this from this, if this be otherwise:}\par }{\ql {If circumstances lead me, I will find}\p ar }{\ql {Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed}\par }{\ql {Within the c entre.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ho w may we try it further?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {You know, sometimes he walks four hours together}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{Here in the lobby.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {So he does indeed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLO NIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {At such a time I\rquote ll loose my daughter to him:}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be you and I behind an arras then;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Mark t he encounter: if he love her not}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And be not from his reason fall\rquote n thereon,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let me be no assistant for a state,}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But keep a farm and carters.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We will try it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 { }\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {But, look, where sadly the poor w retch comes reading.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {} \par }{\ql {Away, I do beseech you, both away:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I\rquote ll b oard him presently.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, and Attendants}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET, reading}\par }{\ql {O, give me leave: }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{How does my good Lord Hamlet?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Well, God-a-mercy.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Do you know me, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {Not I, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {Then I would you were so honest a man.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LO RD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Honest, my lord!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{one man picked out of ten thousand.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {That\rquote s very true, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {For if th e sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{god kissing carri on,--Have you a daughter?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {I have, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {Let her not walk i\rquote the sun: conception is a}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{F riend, look to \lquote t.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Aside]}\par }{\ql {How say you by that? Still harping on my }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{tr uly in my youth I suffered much extremity for}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{love; very nea r this. I\rquote ll speak to him again.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What do you read, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Words, wo rds, words.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {What is the matter, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {Between who?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that old men have grey beards, that their fa ces are}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{tho ugh I most powerfully and potently believe, yet}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I hold it no t honesty to have it thus set down, for}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{yourself, sir, shoul d be old as I am, if like a crab}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{you could go backward.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Aside]}\p ar }{\ql {Though this be madness, yet there is method}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{in \lq

uote t. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Into my grave.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Indeed, that is out o\rquote the air.}\par }{\ql {Aside}\par }{\ql {How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ leave him, and suddenly contrive the means of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{meeting betwee n him and my daughter.--My honourable}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{lord, I will most humb ly take my leave of you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {more willingly part withal: except my life, except}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{my life, except my life.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Fare you well, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {These tedious old fools!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [To POLONIUS]}\par }{\ql {God save you , sir!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit POLONIUS}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILD ENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My honoured lord!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My most dear lord!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 { }\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My excellent good friends! How dost thou, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {As the indif ferent children of the earth.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Happy, in that we are not over-happy;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{On fortune\rquote s cap we are not the very button.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nor the soles of her shoe?}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Neither, my lord.}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Then you live about her wais t, or in the middle of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{her favours?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Faith, her privates we.}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {In the secret part s of fortune? O, most true; she}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{is a strumpet. What\rquote s the news?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { None, my lord, but that the world\rquote s grown honest.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let me question more in particular: what have you ,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that she sends you to prison hither?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Prison, my lord!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Denmark\rquote s a prison.}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Then is the world one.} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A goodly one; in which there are many confines,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o\rquote the worst.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We think not so, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, then, \lquote tis none to you; for there is n othing}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{it is a prison.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRAN TZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why then, your ambition makes it one; \lquote tis too}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{narrow for your mind.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAML ET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{have bad dreams.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A dream itself is but a shadow.}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Truly, and I h old ambition of so airy and light a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{quality that it is but a shadow\rquote s shadow.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\pa

r }{\ql {Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{o utstretched heroes the beggars\rquote shadows. Shall we}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{to the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We\rquote ll wait upon you.}\par } {\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{of my servants, for, to speak to you like an honest}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{man, I am most dreadfully attended. But, in the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore? }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To visit y ou, my lord; no other occasion.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{too d ear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{your own incli ning? Is it a free visitation? Come,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{deal justly with me: co me, come; nay, speak.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {} \par }{\ql {What should we say, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAM LET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were sent}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{which your modesties have not craft enough to colour:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{I know the good king and queen have sent for you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To what end, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {That you must teach me. But let m e conjure you, by}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the rights of our fellowship, by the conso nancy of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{love, and by what more dear a better proposer could}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{charge you withal, be even and direct with me,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{w hether you were sent for, or no?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Aside to GUILDENSTERN]}\par }{\ql {What say you?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Aside]}\par }{\ql {Nay, then, I have an eye of you.--If you}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{love me, hold not off.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My l ord, we were sent for.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{and queen moul t no feather. I have of late--but}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{custom of exercises; and indeed i t goes so heavily}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{with my disposition that this goodly frame , the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{o\rquote erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{me t han a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What a pie ce of work is a man! how noble in reason!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{how infinite in fa culty! in form and moving how}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{express and admirable! in acti on how like an angel!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{in apprehension how like a god! the be auty of the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {you seem to say so.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb 60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why did you laugh then, when I said \ lquote man delights not me\rquote ?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRA NTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{lenten entertainment the players shall receive from}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{you: we coted them on the way; and hither are they}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{c oming, to offer you service.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {He that plays the king shall be welcome; his majesty}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{sigh gratis; t he humourous man shall end his part}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{in peace; the clown shal

l make those laugh whose}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{lungs are tickled o\rquote the ser e; and the lady shall}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{say her mind freely, or the blank vers e shall halt}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{for\rquote t. What players are they?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Even those you were w ont to take delight in, the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{tragedians of the city.}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How chances it they trav el? their residence, both}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{in reputation and profit, was bett er both ways.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {I think their inhibition comes by the means of the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{late i nnovation.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Do th ey hold the same estimation they did when I was}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{in the city? are they so followed?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {} \par }{\ql {No, indeed, are they not.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How comes it? do they grow rusty?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, their endeavour keeps in the w onted pace: but}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{there is, sir, an aery of children, little e yases,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that cry out on the top of question, and are most}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{tyrannically clapped for\rquote t: these are now the}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{fashion, and so berattle the common stages--so they}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{call them--that many wearing rapiers are afraid of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{goose-q uills and dare scarce come thither.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What, are they children? who maintains \lquote em? how are}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{longer than they can sing? will they not say}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{afterwards , if they should grow themselves to common}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{players--as it is most like, if their means are no}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{better--their writers do t hem wrong, to make them}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{exclaim against their own succession ?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote F aith, there has been much to do on both sides; and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the natio n holds it no sin to tarre them to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{controversy: there was, f or a while, no money bid}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{for argument, unless the poet and t he player went to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{cuffs in the question.}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Is\rquote t possible?}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, there has been much throwing about of brains.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {Do the boys carry it away?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCR ANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too.} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It is not very s trange; for mine uncle is king of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Denmark, and those that wo uld make mows at him while}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{my father lived, give twenty, for ty, fifty, an}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in litt le.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Sblood, there is something in this more than}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{natural, if philosophy could find it out.}\par }{\ql {Flourish of trumpets within}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {There are the players.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{an d ceremony: let me comply with you in this garb,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{lest my ext ent to the players, which, I tell you,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{must show fairly outw ard, should more appear like}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{entertainment than yours. You a re welcome: but my}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {In what, my dear lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{southerly I k now a hawk from a handsaw.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter POLONIUS}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Well be with you, gentlemen!} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Hark you, Guilde nstern; and you too: at each ear a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{hearer: that great baby y ou see there is not yet}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{out of his swaddling-clouts.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Happily he\rquote

s the second time come to them; for they}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{say an old man is t wice a child.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{mark it. Y ou say right, sir: o\rquote Monday morning;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote twas so indeed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { My lord, I have news to tell you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I have news to tell you.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When Ros cius was an actor in Rome,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The actors are come hither, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Buz, buz!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Upon mine honour,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Then came each actor on his ass,-}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The best actors in the world, either for tragedy,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{comedy, history, p astoral, pastoral-comical,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{historical-pastoral, tragical-his torical, tragical-}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{comical-historical-pastoral, scene indivi dable, or}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{liberty, these are the only men.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What a tre asure had he, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote One fair daughter and no more,}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{The which he loved passing well.\rquote }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Aside]}\par }{\ql {Still on my da ughter.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Am I not i\rquote the right, old Jephthah?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POL ONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that I love passing well.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, that follows not.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What follows, then, my lord?}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {\rquote As by lot, God wot,\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{and then, you know,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote It came to pass, as most like it was,\rquote --}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the first row of the pious chanson will show you}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{more; for look, where my abridgement comes.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter four or fi ve Players}\par }{\ql {You are welcome, masters; welcome, all. I am glad}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{to see thee well. Welcome, good friends. O, my old}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{friend! thy face is valenced since I saw thee last:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{come st thou to beard me in Denmark? What, my young}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{lady and mist ress! By\rquote r lady, your ladyship is}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{nearer to heaven th an when I saw you last, by the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{altitude of a chopine. Pray G od, your voice, like}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{apiece of uncurrent gold, be not cracke d within the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ring. Masters, you are all welcome. We\rquote l l e\rquote en}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{to\rquote t like French falconers, fly at any thing we see:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{we\rquote ll have a speech straight: come, giv e us a taste}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{of your quality; come, a passionate speech.}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Player }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What speech, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{never acted; or, if it was, not above once; for the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{play, I remember, pleased n ot the million; \lquote twas}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{caviare to the general: but it was--as I received}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{it, and others, whose judgments in such m atters}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{cried in the top of mine--an excellent play, well}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{digested in the scenes, set down with as much}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{modesty as cunning. I remember, one said there}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{were no sa llets in the lines to make the matter}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{indict the author of affectation; but called it an}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and b y very}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{much more handsome than fine. One speech in it I}{\fs

16 \u10081\'3f}{chiefly loved: \lquote twas Aeneas\rquote tale to Dido; and}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{thereabout of it especially, where he speaks of}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{Priam\rquote s slaughter: if it live in your memory, begin}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{at this line: let me see, let me see--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote The rugge d Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast,\rquote --}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{it is not so: --it begins with Pyrrhus:--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote The rugged Pyrrhus, he w hose sable arms,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Black as his purpose, did the night resembl e}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When he lay couched in the ominous horse,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Hath now this dread and black complexion smear\rquote d}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ With heraldry more dismal; head to foot}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Now is he total gule s; horridly trick\rquote d}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With blood of fathers, mothers, d aughters, sons,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Baked and impasted with the parching streets ,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That lend a tyrannous and damned light}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {To their lord\rquote s murder: roasted in wrath and fire,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A nd thus o\rquote er-sized with coagulate gore,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With eyes lik e carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Old grandsire Priam seeks. \rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So, proceed you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Fore God, my lord, well spoken, wit h good accent and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{good discretion.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 { }\sb60 {\i First Player }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Anon he finds him}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Repugnant to com mand: unequal match\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in ra ge strikes wide;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But with the whiff and wind of his fell swo rd}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Stoo ps to his base, and with a hideous crash}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Takes prisoner Pyrr hus\rquote ear: for, lo! his sword,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which was declining on the milky head}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of reverend Priam, seem\rquote d i\rquote th e air to stick:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{And like a neutral to his will and matter,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{D id nothing.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, as we often see, against some storm,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{The bold winds speechless and the orb below}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As hush as dea th, anon the dreadful thunder}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Doth rend the region, so, afte r Pyrrhus\rquote pause,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Aroused vengeance sets him new a-wo rk;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And never did the Cyclops\rquote hammers fall}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{On Mars\rquote s armour forged for proof eterne}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{W ith less remorse than Pyrrhus\rquote bleeding sword}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Now fal ls on Priam.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In general synod \lquote take away her power;}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As low as to th e fiends!\rquote }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {This is too long.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {It shall to the barber\rquote s, with your beard. Prithee,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{say on: he\rquote s for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{sleeps: say on: come to Hecuba.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Player }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen-\rquote }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote The mobled queen?\rquote }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {That\rquote s good; \lquote mobled queen\rquote is good.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Player }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Run ba refoot up and down, threatening the flames}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With bisson rheum ; a clout upon that head}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Where late the diadem stood, and fo r a robe,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{About her lank and all o\rquote er-teemed loins,}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\r quote Gainst Fortune\rquote s state would treason have}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{prono unced:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But if the gods themselves did see her then}{\fs16 \u

10081\'3f}{When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In minc ing with his sword her husband\rquote s limbs,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The instant b urst of clamour that she made,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Unless things mortal move the m not at all,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Would have made milch the burning eyes of heav en,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And passion in the gods.\rquote }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Look, whether he has not turned his colour and has}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{tears in\rquote s eyes. Pray you, no more .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis we ll: I\rquote ll have thee speak out the rest soon.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Good my l ord, will you see the players well}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{bestowed? Do you hear, le t them be well used; for}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{they are the abstract and brief chr onicles of the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{time: after your death you were better have a bad}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{epitaph than their ill report while you live.}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I will us e them according to their desert.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {God\rquote s bodykins, man, much better: use every man}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{after his desert, and who should \lquote scape whipping?}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Take them in.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Come , sirs.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Follow h im, friends: we\rquote ll hear a play to-morrow.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit POLONIUS with all the Players but the First}\par }{\ql {Dost thou hear me, old friend; c an you play the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Murder of Gonzago?}\par }{\ql {First Player }\par }{\ql {Ay, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {We\rquote ll ha\rquote t to-morrow night. You could, for a need,}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{I would set down and insert in\rquote t, could you not?}\par }{\ql {Firs t Player }\par }{\ql {Ay, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Very well. Follow that lord; and look you mock him}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{not.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit First Player}\par }{\ql {My good friends, I\rquote ll leave you till night: you are}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{welcome to Elsinor e.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good my lord!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, so, Go d be wi\rquote ye;}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN}\par } {\ql {Now I am alone.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I !}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is it not monstrous that this player here,}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Could force hi s soul so to his own conceit}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That from her working all his v isage wann\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Tears in his eyes, distraction in\rquot e s aspect,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A broken voice, and his whole function suiting}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{For Hecuba!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What\rquote s Hecuba to him, or he to Hec uba,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That he should weep for her? What would he do,}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Had he the motive and the cue for passion}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I have? He would drown the stage with tears}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And cleave the ge neral ear with horrid speech,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Make mad the guilty and appal the free,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Like John-a-dreams, unpregn ant of my cause,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And can say nothing; no, not for a king,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Upon whose property and most dear life}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A d amn\rquote d defeat was made. Am I a coward?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Who calls me vi llain? breaks my pate across?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i\rq uote the throat,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As deep as to the lungs? who does me this? }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Ha!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But I am pigeon-liver\rquote d and lack gal l}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To make oppression bitter, or ere this}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {I should have fatted all the region kites}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With this slave\r

quote s offal: bloody, bawdy villain!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Remorseless, treachero us, lecherous, kindless villain!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O, vengeance!}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I, th e son of a dear father murder\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Prompted to my reven ge by heaven and hell,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Must, like a whore, unpack my heart w ith words,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{A scullion!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Fie upon\rquote t! foh! About, my brain ! I have heard}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That guilty creatures sitting at a play}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{Have by the very cunning of the scene}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Been st ruck so to the soul that presently}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{They have proclaim\rquote d their malefactions;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With most miraculous organ. I\rquote ll have the se players}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Play something like the murder of my father}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{Before mine uncle: I\rquote ll observe his looks;}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{I\rquote ll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I know my course. The spirit that I have seen}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{May be the devil : and the devil hath power}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Out of my weakness and my melancholy,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{As he is very potent with such spirits,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Abuses me to damn me: I\rquote ll have grounds}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{More relative than this : the play \lquote s the thing}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Wherein I\rquote ll catch the conscience of the king.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLA UDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN }\par }{ \ql {\*\bkmkstart N1299C}{\*\bkmkend N1299C}\sa120 {\b \fs36 \f3 ACT III}\par }{ \ql {\*\bkmkstart N129A7}{\*\bkmkend N129A7}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE I. A room in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {And can you, by no drift of circumstance,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Get from him why he puts on this confusion,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Gra ting so harshly all his days of quiet}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With turbulent and dan gerous lunacy?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {He does confess he feels himself distracted;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But from wh at cause he will by no means speak.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENS TERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When we wou ld bring him on to some confession}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of his true state.}\par } {\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Did he receive you well?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { Most like a gentleman.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {But with much forcing of his disposition.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 { }\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Niggard of question; but, of our dem ands,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Most free in his reply.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Did you assay him?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {To any pastime?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par } {\ql {Madam, it so fell out, that certain players}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We o\rquot e er-raught on the way: of these we told him;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And there did seem in him a kind of joy}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To hear of it: they are about the court,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, as I think, they have already order}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{This night to play before him.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis most true:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And he beseech\rquote d me to entreat your majesties}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To hear and se e the matter.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {With all my heart; and it doth much content me}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To hear him so inclined.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And drive his purpose on to these delights.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We shall, my lord.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That he, as \lquote twere by accident, may here}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Affront Ophelia:}{\fs16

\u10081\'3f}{Her father and myself, lawful espials,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We may of their enco unter frankly judge,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And gather by him, as he is behaved,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If \lquote t be the affliction of his love or no}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{That thus he suffers for.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTR UDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I shall obey you.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And for your part , Ophelia, I do wish}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That your good beauties be the happy ca use}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of Hamlet\rquote s wildness: so shall I hope your virtue s}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Will bring him to his wonted way again,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{To both your honours.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {Madam, I wish it may.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit QUEEN GERTRUDE}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ophelia, walk you he re. Gracious, so please you,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We will bestow ourselves.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 To OPHELIA}\par }{\ql {Read on this book;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That show of such an exercise may colour}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Tis too much proved--that wi th devotion\rquote s visage}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And pious action we do sugar o\r quote er}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The devil himself.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Aside]}\par }{\ql {O, \lquote tis too true!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The harlot\rquote s cheek, beautied with plastering art,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{Than is my deed to my most painted word:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O heavy burthen!} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I hear hi m coming: let\rquote s withdraw, my lord.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To be, or not to be: that is the question:}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Whether \lquote tis nobler in the mind to suffer}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or to take arm s against a sea of troubles,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And by opposing end them? To di e: to sleep;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{No more; and by a sleep to say we end}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Th at flesh is heir to, \lquote tis a consummation}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Devoutly to be wish\rquote d. To die, to sleep;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To sleep: perchance to d ream: ay, there\rquote s the rub;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For in that sleep of death what dreams may come}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Must give us pause: there\rquote s the respect}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That makes calamity of so long life;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For who wo uld bear the whips and scorns of time,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The oppressor\rquote s wrong, the proud man\rquote s contumely,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The pangs of desp ised love, the law\rquote s delay,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The insolence of office a nd the spurns}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That patient merit of the unworthy takes,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{When he himself might his quietus make}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To grunt and sweat un der a weary life,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But that the dread of something after deat h,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The undiscover\rquote d country from whose bourn}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{No traveller returns, puzzles the will}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And makes us rather bear those ills we have}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Than fly to others that w e know not of?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And thus the native hue of resolution}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is sicklied o\rquote er with the pale cast of thought,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And ent erprises of great pith and moment}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With this regard their cur rents turn awry,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {Be all my sins remember\rquote d.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good my lord,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{How does your honour for t his many a day?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { I humbly thank you; well, well, well.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELI A }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I have remembrances of yours,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{That I have longed long to re-deliver;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I pray you, now rec

eive them.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, n ot I;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I never gave you aught.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My honour\rquote d lord, you know right well you did;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As made the things more rich: their perfume lost,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Take these again; for to the noble mind}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{There, my lord.}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ha, ha! are you honest?}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord?}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Are you fair?}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What means your lordship ?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{admit no discourse to your beauty.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Co uld beauty, my lord, have better commerce than}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{with honesty? }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{force of honesty can translate beau ty into his}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now t he}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{time gives it proof. I did love you once.}\par }{\qj \li3 00 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Indeed, my lord, you made me b elieve so.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You s hould not have believed me; for virtue cannot}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{so inoculate o ur old stock but we shall relish of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{it: I loved you not.}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I was the more dec eived.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{but yet I could accuse me of suc h things that it}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{were better my mother had not borne me: I a m very}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{imagination to give them shape, or time to act them}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{in. What should such fellows as I do crawling}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{all; believe none of us. Go th y ways to a nunnery.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Where\rquote s your father?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {At home, my lord.}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let the doors be shut up on him, that he may play the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{fool no where but in\rquote s o wn house. Farewell.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {O, help him, you sweet heavens!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {If thou dost marry, I\rquote ll give thee this plague for}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{nu nnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{marry, marry a f ool; for wise men know well enough}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{and quickly too. Farewell.}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O heavenly powers, rest ore him!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{has given you one face, and you make yourselves}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{another: you jig, you ambl e, and you lisp, and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{nick-name God\rquote s creatures, and m ake your wantonness}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{your ignorance. Go to, I\rquote ll no mo re on\rquote t; it hath}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{those that are married already, all but one, shall}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{nunnery, go.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, what a noble mind is here o\rquote erthrown!} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The courtier\rquote s, soldier\rquote s, scholar\rquote s, e ye, tongue, sword;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The expectancy and rose of the fair state ,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The glass of fashion and the mould of form,}{\fs16 \u10081

\'3f}{The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That suck\rquote d th e honey of his music vows,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Now see that noble and most sover eign reason,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That unmatch\rquote d form and feature of blown youth}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Re-enter KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {Love! his affections do not that way tend;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nor what he s pake, though it lack\rquote d form a little,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Was not like ma dness. There\rquote s something in his soul,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O\rquote er whi ch his melancholy sits on brood;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And I do doubt the hatch an d the disclose}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Will be some danger: which for to prevent,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I have in quick determination}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For the demand of our neglected tribute}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Haply the seas and countries different}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{With variable objects shall expel}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This some thing-settled matter in his heart,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{From fashion of himself. What think yo u on\rquote t?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par } {\ql {It shall do well: but yet do I believe}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The origin and commencement of his grief}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Sprung from neglected love. How no w, Ophelia!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said;}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{We heard it all. My lord, do as you please;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ But, if you hold it fit, after the play}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let his queen mother all alone entreat him}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To show his grief: let her be round w ith him;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And I\rquote ll be placed, so please you, in the ea r}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of all their conference. If she find him not,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{To England send him, or confine him where}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Your wisdo m best shall think.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {It shall be so:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Madness in great ones must not un watch\rquote d go.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET and P layers }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N12E31}{\*\bkmkend N12E31}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 S CENE II. A hall in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET and Players }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Speak the speech, I p ray you, as I pronounced it to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{as many of your players do, I had as lief the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently;}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{a te mperance that may give it smoothness. O, it}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{offends me to th e soul to hear a robustious}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{periwig-pated fellow tear a pass ion to tatters, to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{very rags, to split the ears of the groun dlings, who}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{for the most part are capable of nothing but}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{a fellow whipped for o\rquote erdoing Termagant; it}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Player }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I warrant your honour.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Be not too tame neither, but let your own di scretion}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{word to the action; with this special o\rquote erstep not}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{f irst and now, was and is, to hold, as \lquote twere, the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{mir ror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{scorn her own image, and the very age and body of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the time his form an d pressure. Now this overdone,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{laugh, cannot but make the judicious grie ve; the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{censure of the which one must in your allowance}{\fs

16 \u10081\'3f}{o\rquote erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{players that I have seen play, and heard others}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that, ne ither having the accent of Christians nor}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the gait of Christ ian, pagan, nor man, have so}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{strutted and bellowed that I ha ve thought some of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{nature\rquote s journeymen had made men a nd not made them}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{well, they imitated humanity so abominably. }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Player }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{sir.}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, reform it altogether. And let those that play}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{your clowns speak no more than is set d own for them;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{for there be of them that will themselves laug h, to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{too; though, in the mean time, some necessary}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{question of the play be then to be considered:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that\rquot e s villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt Players}\par }{\ql { \fs24 Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN}\par }{\ql {How now, my lord ! I will the king hear this piece of work?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i L ORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {And the queen too, and that presently.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Bid the players make ha ste.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit POLONIUS}\par }{\ql {Will you two help to hasten the m?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {We will, my lord.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What ho! Horatio!}\ par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HORATIO}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {Here, sweet lord, at your service.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Horatio, thou art e\rquote en as just a man}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As e\rquote er my conversation coped withal.}\par }{\qj \li30 0 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, my dear lord,--}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, do not think I flatter; }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For what advancement may I hope from thee}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{That no revenue hast but thy good spirits,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To feed and cl othe thee? Why should the poor be flatter\rquote d?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost tho u hear?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And could of men distinguish, her election}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hat h seal\rquote d thee for herself; for thou hast been}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A man that fortune\ rquote s buffets and rewards}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hast ta\rquote en with equal th anks: and blest are those}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whose blood and judgment are so we ll commingled,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That they are not a pipe for fortune\rquote s finger}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To sound what stop she please. Give me that man}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{That is not passion\rquote s slave, and I will wear him}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{In my heart\rquote s core, ay, in my heart of heart,}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{As I do thee.--Something too much of this.--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{There is a play to-night before the king;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{One scene of it comes near t he circumstance}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which I have told thee of my father\rquote s death:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{Even with the very comment of thy soul}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Observe mi ne uncle: if his occulted guilt}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Do not itself unkennel in on e speech,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It is a damned ghost that we have seen,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{And my imaginations are as foul}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As Vulcan\rquote s stithy. Give him heedful note;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For I mine eyes will rivet t o his face,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And after we will both our judgments join}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In censure of his seeming.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HOR ATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Well, my lord:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If he steal aught t he whilst this play is playing,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And \lquote scape detecting, I will pay the theft.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par

}{\ql {They are coming to the play; I must be idle:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Get you a place.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Danish march. A flourish. Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How fares our cousin H amlet?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Excellent , i\rquote faith; of the chameleon\rquote s dish: I eat}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet ; these words}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{are not mine.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, nor mine now.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 To POLONIUS} \par }{\ql {My lord, you played once i\rquote the university, you say?}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {That did I, my lo rd; and was accounted a good actor.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What did you enact?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I did enact Julius Caesar: I was killed i\rquote the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Capitol; Brutus killed me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It was a brute part of him to kill so capita l a calf}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{there. Be the players ready?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb6 0 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HA MLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, good mother, here\rquote s metal more attractive.} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [To KI NG CLAUDIUS]}\par }{\ql {O, ho! do you mark that?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Lady, shall I lie in your lap?}\par }{\ql {Lyi ng down at OPHELIA\rquote s feet}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {No, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I mean, my head upon your lap?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Do you think I meant country matters?}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I think nothing, my lord.}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {That\rquote s a fai r thought to lie between maids\rquote legs.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What is, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nothing.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPH ELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You are merry, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Who, I?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OP HELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAML ET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ mother looks, and my father died within these two hours.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, \lquote tis twice two months, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {So long? N ay then, let the devil wear black, for}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I\rquote ll have a su it of sables. O heavens! die two}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{months ago, and not forgott en yet? Then there\rquote s}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{hope a great man\rquote s memory may outlive his life half}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{a year: but, by\rquote r lady, he must build churches,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{then; or else shall he suffer not thin king on, with}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is \lquote For, O, for, O,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the hobby-horse is forgot.\rquote }\par }{\ql {\ fs24 Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter a King and a Qu een very lovingly; the Queen embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes sh ow of protestation unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her nec k: lays him down upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Ano n comes in a fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the Kin g\rquote s ears, and exit. The Queen returns; finds the King dead, and makes pas sionate action. The Poisoner, with some two or three Mutes, comes in again, seem ing to lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Qu een with gifts: she seems loath and unwilling awhile, but in the end accepts his love}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb6

0 {}\par }{\ql {What means this, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HA MLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Belike this show imports the argument of the play.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter Prologue}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{keep counsel; they\rquote ll tell all.}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Will he tell us what this show meant?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par } {\ql {Ay, or any show that you\rquote ll show him: be not you}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{ashamed to show, he\rquote ll not shame to tell you what it means.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You are naught, you are na ught: I\rquote ll mark the play.}\par }{\ql {Prologue }\par }{\ql {For us, and f or our tragedy,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Here stooping to your clemency,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{We beg your hearing patiently.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquot e Tis brief, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par } {\ql {As woman\rquote s love.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter two Players, King and Quee n}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Player King }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Full thir ty times hath Phoebus\rquote cart gone round}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Neptune\rquote s salt wash and Tellus\rquote orbed ground,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And thirty doz en moons with borrow\rquote d sheen}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{About the world have tim es twelve thirties been,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Unite commutual in most sacred bands.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Player Queen }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {So many journeys may the sun and moon}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Make us again count o\rquote er ere love be done!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{So far from cheer and from your former state,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Discomfort you, my lo rd, it nothing must:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For women\rquote s fear and love holds quantity;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In neither aught, or in extremity.}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And as my love is sized, my fear is so:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Where love is great, the li ttlest doubts are fear;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Player King }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too;}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{My operant powers their functions leave to do:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Honour\rquote d, belo ved; and haply one as kind}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For husband shalt thou--}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Player Queen }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, confound the re st!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Such love must needs be treason in my breast:}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{In second husband let me be accurst!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{None wed the second but who kill\rquote d the first.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAML ET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Aside]}\par }{\ql {Wormwood, wormwood.}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Player Queen }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The instances that seco nd marriage move}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Are base respects of thrift, but none of lo ve:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A second time I kill my husband dead,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{When second husband kisses me in bed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Play er King }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I do believe you think what now you speak;}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{But what we do determine oft we break.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Purpose i s but the slave to memory,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of violent birth, but poor validi ty;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Most necessary \lquote tis that we forget}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To pay ourselves what t o ourselves is debt:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What to ourselves in passion we propose ,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{The violence of either grief or joy}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Their own enactures with themselves destroy:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This world is not for aye, nor \lquote tis not strange}{\fs16

\u10081\'3f}{That even our loves should with our fortunes change;}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{For \lquote tis a question left us yet to prove,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whet her love lead fortune, or else fortune love.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The great man d own, you mark his favourite flies;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The poor advanced makes f riends of enemies.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And hitherto doth love on fortune tend;}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For who not needs shall never lack a friend,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{And who in want a hollow friend doth try,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Directly seaso ns him his enemy.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, orderly to end where I begun,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Our wills and fates do so contrary run}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That our devices still are overthrown;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So think thou wilt no second husband w ed;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.}\par } {\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Player Queen }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Sport and repose lock from me d ay and night!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To desperation turn my trust and hope!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An anchor\rquote s cheer in prison be my scope!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {Each opposite that blanks the face of joy}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Meet what I would have well and it destroy!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Both here and hence pursue me las ting strife,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If, once a widow, ever I be wife!}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {If she should break it now!}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Player King }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My spirits grow d ull, and fain I would beguile}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The tedious day with sleep.}\p ar }{\ql {\fs24 Sleeps}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Player Queen }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {Sleep rock thy brain,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And never come mischance between us twain!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAM LET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Madam, how like you this play?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The lady protests too much, meth inks.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, but she \rquote ll keep her word.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in \lquote t?} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{i\rquote the world.}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What do you call the play?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{is the ima ge of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the duke\rquote s name; his wife, Baptista: you shall see}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{anon; \lquote tis a knavish piece of work: but what o\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{touches us not: let the gal led jade wince, our}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{withers are unwrung.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 E nter LUCIANUS}\par }{\ql {This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king.}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You are as good as a chorus , my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I cou ld interpret between you and your love, if I}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{could see the p uppets dallying.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You are keen, my lord, you are keen.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLE T }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Still better, and wors e.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {So you must t ake your husbands. Begin, murderer;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote the croaking raven doth bell ow for revenge.\rquote }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LUCIANUS }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing;}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Confederate season, else no creature seeing;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thou mix ture rank, of midnight weeds collected,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With Hecate\rquote s ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thy natural magic and dire property,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{On wholesome life usurp immediately.}\par }{\ ql {Pours the poison into the sleeper\rquote s ears}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He poisons him i\rquote the garden for\rquo

te s estate. His}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{name\rquote s Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murd erer}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{gets the love of Gonzago\rquote s wife.}\par }{\qj \li3 00 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The king rises.}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What, frighted with false fire !}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How fa res my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {Give o\rquote er the play.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Give me some light: away!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i All }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Lights, lights, lights!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt al l but HAMLET and HORATIO}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {Why, let the stricken deer go weep,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The hart ungall ed play;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For some must watch, while some must sleep:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So runs the world away.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Would not this, sir, an d a forest of feathers-- if}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the rest of my fortunes turn Tur k with me--with two}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{fellowship in a cry of players, sir?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Half a share.}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A whole one, I.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {For thou dost know, O Damon dear,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This realm dismantled was }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of Jove himself; and now reigns here}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A very, very--pajock.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {You might have rhymed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {} \par }{\ql {O good Horatio, I\rquote ll take the ghost\rquote s word for a}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{thousand pound. Didst perceive?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Very well, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Upon the talk of the poisoning?}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I did very well note him.}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ah, ha! Come, som e music! come, the recorders!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For if the king like not the c omedy,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy.}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Come, some music!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTE RN}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Sir, a whole history.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i G UILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The king, sir,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, sir, what of him?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Is in his retirement marvellous di stempered.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {With drink, sir?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, my lord, rather with choler.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Your wisdom should show itself more richer to}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{signify this to his doctor; for, for me to put him}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{to h is purgation would perhaps plunge him into far}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{more choler.} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good my lo rd, put your discourse into some frame and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{start not so wild ly from my affair.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {I am tame, sir: pronounce.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{spirit, hath sent me to you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAM LET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You are welcome.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GU ILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the r ight}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{breed. If it shall please you to make me a}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{wholesome answer, I will do your mother\rquote s}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{com mandment: if not, your pardon and my return}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{shall be the end of my business.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Sir, I cannot.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par } {\ql {What, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {Make you a wholesome answer; my wit\rquote s diseased: but,}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{or,

rather, as you say, my mother: therefore no}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{more, but to the matter: my mother, you say,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Then thus she says; your behavior hath struck her}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{into amazement and admiration.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAM LET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother! But}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{is there no sequel at the heels of this mother\rquote s}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{admiration? Impart.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {She desires to speak with you in her closet, ere you}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{go to bed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {you any further trade with us?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, you once did love me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {So I do still, by these pickers and stealers .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good my l ord, what is your cause of distemper? you}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{do, surely, bar th e door upon your own liberty, if}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{you deny your griefs to you r friend.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Sir, I lack advancement.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How can that be, when you have the voice of the king}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {himself for your succession in Denmark?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAM LET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, but sir, \lquote While the grass grows,\rquote --th e proverb}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{is something musty.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Re-enter Pla yers with recorders}\par }{\ql {O, the recorders! let me see one. To withdraw wi th}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{you:--why do you go about to recover the wind of me,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{as if you would drive me into a toil?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{unmannerly.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I do not well understand that. Will you play upon }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{this pipe?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I cannot.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAM LET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I pray you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDEN STERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Believe me, I cannot.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I do beseech you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I know no touch of it, my lord.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{your lingers and thumb, gi ve it breath with your}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{mouth, and it will discourse most elo quent music.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Look you, these are the stops.}\par }{\qj \li30 0 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {But these cannot I command to any utterance of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{harmony; I have not the skill.}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, look you now, how u nworthy a thing you make of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{my stops; you would pluck out the heart o f my}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{the top of my compass: and there is much music,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{you ma ke it speak. \lquote Sblood, do you think I am}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{instrument you will, tho ugh you can fret me, yet you}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{cannot play upon me.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter POLONIUS}\par }{\ql {God bless you, sir!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 { }\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, the queen would speak wit h you, and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{presently.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HA MLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Do you see yonder cloud that\rquote s almost in shape of a camel?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {By the mass, and \lquote tis like a camel, indeed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Methinks it is like a weasel.}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It is backed like a w easel.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Or like a whale?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {V ery like a whale.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql

{Then I will come to my mother by and by. They fool}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{me to t he top of my bent. I will come by and by.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LO RD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I will say so.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {By and by is easily said.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit POLONIUS}\par }{\ql {Leave me, friends.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt all but HAMLET }\par }{\ql {Tis now the very witching time of night,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When c hurchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Contagion to th is world: now could I drink hot blood,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And do such bitter bu siness as the day}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mo ther.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let me be c ruel, not unnatural:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I will speak daggers to her, but use no ne;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites;}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{How in my words soever she be shent,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To give them seal s never, my soul, consent!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING C LAUDIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N13932}{\*\bkmk end N13932}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE III. A room in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs2 4 Enter KING CLAUDIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I like him not, nor stands it safe with us}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{I your commission will forthwith dispatch,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ And he to England shall along with you:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The terms of our est ate may not endure}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Out of his lunacies.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUIL DENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We will ourselves provide:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Mos t holy and religious fear it is}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To keep those many many bodi es safe}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That live and feed upon your majesty.}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The single and peculiar l ife is bound,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With all the strength and armour of the mind,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To keep itself from noyance; but much more}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The lives of many. The cease of majesty}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What\rquote s near it with it: it is a massy whee l,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Fix\rquote d on the summit of the highest mount,}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ Are mortised and adjoin\rquote d; which, when it falls,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Each small annexment, petty consequence,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Did the king sigh, but with a general groa n.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Arm yo u, I pray you, to this speedy voyage;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For we will fetters pu t upon this fear,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which now goes too free-footed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We will haste us.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN}\par }{\ql {\fs2 4 Enter POLONIUS}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, he\rquote s going to his mother\rquote s closet:}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{Behind the arras I\rquote ll convey myself,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To hear th e process; and warrant she\rquote ll tax him home:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, as y ou said, and wisely was it said,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Since nature makes them partial , should o\rquote erhear}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The speech, of vantage. Fare you we ll, my liege:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I\rquote ll call upon you ere you go to bed,}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And tell you what I know.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Thanks, dear my lord.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit POLONIUS}\par }{\ql {O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{It hath the primal eldest curse upon\rquote t,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A brothe r\rquote s murder. Pray can I not,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Though inclination be as sharp as will:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, like a man to double business bound,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {I stand in pause where I shall first begin,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And both neglec t. What if this cursed hand}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Were thicker than itself with br

other\rquote s blood,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{But to confront the visage of offence?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And wh at\rquote s in prayer but this two-fold force,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To be foresta lled ere we come to fall,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or pardon\rquote d being down? The n I\rquote ll look up;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My fault is past. But, O, what form o f prayer}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Can serve my turn? \lquote Forgive me my foul murde r\rquote ?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That cannot be; since I am still possess\rquote d }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of those effects for which I did the murder,}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{My crown, mine own ambition and my queen.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{May one be p ardon\rquote d and retain the offence?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In the corrupted curr ents of this world}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Offence\rquote s gilded hand may shove by justice,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And oft \lquote tis seen the wicked prize itself}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Buys out the law: but \lquote tis not so above;}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{There is no shuffling, there the action lies}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In his t rue nature; and we ourselves compell\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Even to the t eeth and forehead of our faults,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To give in evidence. What t hen? what rests?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Try what repentance can: what can it not?}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yet what can it when one can not repent?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ O wretched state! O bosom black as death!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O limed soul, that , struggling to be free,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Art more engaged! Help, angels! Mak e assay!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of ste el,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{All may be well.}\par }{\ql {Retires and kneels}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLE T}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And now I\rquote ll do\rquote t. And so he goes to heaven;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And so am I revenged. That would be scann\rquote d:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A villain kills my father; and for that,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I, his sole son, do this same villain send}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{To heaven.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{He took my father grossly, full of bread;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Wit h all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And how his a udit stands who knows save heaven?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But in our circumstance a nd course of thought,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Tis heavy with him: and am I t hen revenged,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To take him in the purging of his soul,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When he is fit and season\rquote d for his passage?}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{No!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent:}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or i n the incestuous pleasure of his bed;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{At gaming, swearing, o r about some act}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That has no relish of salvation in\rquote t ;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{And that his soul may be as damn\rquote d and black}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This physic b ut prolongs thy sickly days.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Rising] }\par }{\ql {My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Words without thoughts never to heaven go.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Exit }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\fs2 4 Enter QUEEN MARGARET and POLONIUS }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N13B16}{\*\bkmkend N13B16}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE IV. The Queen\rquote s closet.}\par }{\ql {\fs 24 Enter QUEEN MARGARET and POLONIUS }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD P OLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He will come straight. Look you lay home to him:}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{And that your grace hath screen\rquote d and stood between}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{Much heat and him. I\rquote ll sconce me even here.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{Pray you, be round with him.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Within]}\par }{\ql {Mother, mother, mother!}\par }{\qj \li30 0 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I\rquote ll warrant you, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Fear me not: withdraw, I hear him coming.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 POLONIUS hides behind the arras}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET}\par }{\qj \li30 0 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Now, mother, what\rquote s the m

atter?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {H amlet, thou hast thy father much offended.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i H AMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Mother, you have my father much offended.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Come, come, you ans wer with an idle tongue.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, how now, Hamlet!}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What\rquote s the matter now?} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Have you forgot me?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, by the rood, not so:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You are the queen, your husband\rquote s brother\rquote s wife;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And--would it were not so!--you are my mother.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {Nay, then, I\rquote ll set those to you that can speak.}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Come, come, and sit you down; you sh all not budge;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You go not till I set you up a glass}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Where you may see the inmost part of you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What wilt thou do? thou wilt not m urder me?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Help, help, ho!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Behind] }\par }{\ql {What, ho! help, he lp, help!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Dr awing]}\par }{\ql {How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!}\par }{\ql {Makes a pass through the arras}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LORD POLONIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Behind]}\par }{\ql {O, I am slain!}\par }{\ql {Falls and dies} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O me, wh at hast thou done?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {Nay, I know not:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is it the king?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, what a rash and bloody deed i s this!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As kill a king, and marry with his brother.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {As kill a king!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {Ay, lady, \lquote twas my word.}\par }{\ql {Lifts up the array and di scovers POLONIUS}\par }{\ql {Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{Thou find\rquote st to be too busy is some danger.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Leave w ringing of your hands: peace! sit you down,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And let me wring your heart; for so I shall,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If it be made of penetrable stu ff,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If damned custom have not brass\rquote d it so}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{That it is proof and bulwark against sense.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 { }\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What have I done, that thou dares t wag thy tongue}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In noise so rude against me?}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Such an act}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Calls virtue hy pocrite, takes off the rose}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{From the fair forehead of an inn ocent love}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{As false as dicers\rquote oaths: O, such a deed}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{As from the body of contraction plucks}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The very soul, and sweet religion makes}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A rhapsody of words: heaven\rquote s face doth glow:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yea, this solidity and compound mass,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{With tristful visage, as against the doom,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I s thought-sick at the act.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay me, what act,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Look here, upon this picture, and on this,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The counte rfeit presentment of two brothers.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{See, what a grace was sea ted on this brow;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hyperion\rquote s curls; the front of Jove himself;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A station like the herald Mercury}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{New-lighted o n a heaven-kissing hill;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A combination and a form indeed,}{\

fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Where every god did seem to set his seal,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ To give the world assurance of a man:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Here is your husband; like a mi ldew\rquote d ear,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You cannot call it love; for at your age}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The hey-day in the blo od is tame, it\rquote s humble,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Would step from this to this? Sense, sure , you have,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Else could you not have motion; but sure, that s ense}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is apoplex\rquote d; for madness would not err,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nor sense to ecstasy was ne\rquote er so thrall\rquote d}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{But it reserved some quantity of choice,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To serve in such a difference. What devil was\rquote t}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That thus hath cozen\rquote d you at hoodman-blind?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or but a sickly part of one true sense}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Could not so mope.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O shame! where is thy blush? Reb ellious hell,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If thou canst mutine in a matron\rquote s bone s,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When the compu lsive ardour gives the charge,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Since frost itself as activel y doth burn}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And reason panders will.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O Hamlet, speak no more:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thou turn\rquote st mine eyes into my very soul;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{And there I see such black and grained spots}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As will not leave their tinct.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {Nay, but to live}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Stew\rquote d in corruption, honeying and making love}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Over the nasty sty,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERT RUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, speak to me no more;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{These word s, like daggers, enter in mine ears;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{No more, sweet Hamlet!} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A murderer and a villain;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A cu tpurse of the empire and the rule,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That from a shelf the pre cious diadem stole,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And put it in his pocket!}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No more!}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A king of shreds and patches, --}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter Ghost}\par }{\ql {Save me, and hover o\rquote er me w ith your wings,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You heavenly guards! What would your graciou s figure?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Alas, he\rquote s mad!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {Do you not come your tardy son to chide,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That, laps ed in time and passion, lets go by}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The important acting of y our dread command? O, say!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Ghost }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {Do not forget: this visitation}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, look, amazement on thy mother s its:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O, step between her and her fighting soul:}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Speak to her, Hamlet.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How is it with you, lady?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Alas, how is\rquote t with you,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That you do b end your eye on vacancy}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep;}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ Your bedded hair, like life in excrements,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Starts up, and st ands on end. O gentle son,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Upon the heat and flame of thy di stemper}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look?}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {On him, on him! Look yo

u, how pale he glares!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{His form and cause conjoin\rquote d, preaching to stones,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Would make them capable. Do not look up on me;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Lest with this piteous action you convert}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{My stern effects: then what I have to do}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEE N GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To whom do you speak this?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb 60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Do you see nothing there?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nothing at all; yet all that is I see.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {Nor did you nothing hear?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, nothing but ourselves.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, look you there! look, how it steals away!} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My father, in his habit as he lived!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Loo k, where he goes, even now, out at the portal!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit Ghost}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {This the ver y coinage of your brain:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This bodiless creation ecstasy}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Is very cunning in.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ecstasy!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My pulse, as yours, doth temper ately keep time,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And makes as healthful music: it is not mad ness}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I have utter\rquote d: bring me to the test,}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{And I the matter will re-word; which madness}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Lay not that m attering unction to your soul,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That not your trespass, but m y madness speaks:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It will but skin and film the ulcerous pla ce,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Repent wh at\rquote s past; avoid what is to come;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And do not spread t he compost on the weeds,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To make them ranker. Forgive me thi s my virtue;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For in the fatness of these pursy times}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yea, cur b and woo for leave to do him good.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GE RTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, throw away the worse r part of it,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And live the purer with the other half.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Good night: but go not to mine uncle\rquote s bed;}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{Assume a virtue, if you have it not.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That monster, cust om, who all sense doth eat,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That to the use of actions fair and good}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{He likewise gives a frock or livery,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That aptly is p ut on. Refrain to-night,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And that shall lend a kind of easin ess}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To the next abstinence: the next more easy;}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{For use almost can change the stamp of nature,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And e ither [ ] the devil, or throw him out}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With wondrous potency. Once more, good night:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And when you are desirous to be bles s\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I\rquote ll blessing beg of you. For this same l ord,}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Pointing to POLONIUS}\par }{\ql {I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To punish me with this and this with me, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I must be their scourge and minister.}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{I will bestow him, and will answer well}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The death I gave him. So, again, good night.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I must be cruel, only to be kin d:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{One word more, good lady.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUD E }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What shall I do?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAML ET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Pinch wanto n on your cheek; call you his mouse;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or paddling in your neck with his damn\rq uote d fingers,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Make you to ravel all this matter out,}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{That I essentially am not in madness,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But mad in craft. \lquote Twere good you let him know;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For who, tha

t\rquote s but a queen, fair, sober, wise,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Would from a padd ock, from a bat, a gib,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Such dear concernings hide? who woul d do so?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{No, in despite of sense and secrecy,}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{Unpeg the basket on the house\rquote s top.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let the bi rds fly, and, like the famous ape,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To try conclusions, in th e basket creep,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And break your own neck down.}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Be thou assured, if wo rds be made of breath,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And breath of life, I have no life to breathe}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What thou hast said to me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I must to England; you know that?}\par } {\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Alack,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I had forgot: \lquote tis so concluded on.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {There\rquote s letters seal\rquote d: an d my two schoolfellows,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whom I will trust as I will adders f ang\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {For \lquote tis the sport to have the engineer}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hoist with h is own petard: and \lquote t shall go hard}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But I will delve one yard below their mines,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And blow them at the moon: O, \l quote tis most sweet,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When in one line two crafts directly m eet.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This man shall set me packing:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I\rq uote ll lug the guts into the neighbour room.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Mother, good n ight. Indeed this counsellor}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is now most still, most secret and most grave,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Who was in life a foolish prating knave.}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ Good night, mother.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging in POLON IUS}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUIL DENSTERN }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N14079}{\*\bkmkend N14079}\sa120 {\b \fs36 \f 3 ACT IV}\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N14084}{\*\bkmkend N14084}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE I. A room in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERT RUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CL AUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {There\rquote s matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You must translate: \lquote tis fit we understand t hem.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Where is your son?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Bestow this place on us a little while.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN}\par }{\ql {Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Mad as the sea and wind, when both co ntend}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Behind the arras hearing something stir,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whips out his rapier, cries, \lquote A rat, a rat!\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, in thi s brainish apprehension, kills}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The unseen good old man.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O heavy deed! }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It had been so with us, had we been there:}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{His liberty is full of threats to all;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To you yourself, to us, to every one.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Alas, how shall this bloody deed be ans wer\rquote d?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It will be laid to us, whose providence}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Should have kept short, restrain\rquote d and out of haunt,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This mad young man: but so much was our love,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ We would not understand what was most fit;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, like the own er of a foul disease,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To keep it from divulging, let it feed }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Even on the pith of Life. Where is he gone?}\par }{\qj \li3 00 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To draw apart the body he hath kill\rquote d:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O\rquote er whom his very madness, li ke some ore}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Among a mineral of metals base,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O Gertrude, come away!}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We must, with all our ma

jesty and skill,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenste rn!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN}\par }{\ql {Friends both, go join you with some further aid:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hamlet in madness h ath Polonius slain,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And from his mother\rquote s closet hath he dragg\rquote d him:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Go seek him out; speak fair, and bri ng the body}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN}\par }{\ql {Come, Gertrude, we \rquote ll call up our wisest friends;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And let them know, bo th what we mean to do,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And what\rquote s untimely done. O, c ome away!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My soul is full of discord and dismay.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N1418A}{\ *\bkmkend N1418A}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE II. Another room in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {Safely stowed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ: GUILD ENSTERN: }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Within] }\par }{\ql {Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What noise? who call s on Hamlet?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O, here they come.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter ROSE NCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Compounded it with dust, whereto \lquote tis kin.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par } {\ql {Tell us where \lquote tis, that we may take it thence}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ And bear it to the chapel.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {Do not believe it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Believe what?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {That I can keep your counsel and not mine own.}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{replication sh ould be made by the son of a king?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRAN TZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Take you me for a sponge, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb 60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, sir, that soaks up the king\rquot e s countenance, his}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{rewards, his authorities. But such offi cers do the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{king best service in the end: he keeps them, lik e}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{be last swallowed: when he needs what you have}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{shall be dry again.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I understand you not, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{foolish ear.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{with us to the king.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The body is with the king, but the king is not with}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the bod y. The king is a thing--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i GUILDENSTERN }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A thing, my lord!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after.}\par }{\q l {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS, attended }\par }{\ql {\*\ bkmkstart N142BE}{\*\bkmkend N142BE}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE III. Another room in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS, attended }\par }{\qj \li30 0 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I have sent to seek him, and to find the body.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yet must not we put the strong law on him:}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{He\rquote s loved of the distracted multitude,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Wh o like not in their judgment, but their eyes;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And where tis so, the offender\rquote s scourge is weigh\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But nev er the offence. To bear all smooth and even,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This sudden sen ding him away must seem}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{By desperate appliance are relieved,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Or not at all.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Enter ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How now! what hath befall\rquote n?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Where the dead body is bestow\rquote d, m

y lord,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We cannot get from him.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {But where is he?}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Without, my lord; guarded, to k now your pleasure.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {Bring him before us.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i ROSENCRANTZ } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET and GUILDENSTERN}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Now, Hamlet, where\rquote s Polonius?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\ sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {At supper.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {At supper! where?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Not where he eats, but where he is eate n: a certain}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{convocation of politic worms are e\rquote en at him. Your}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ variable service, two dishes, but to one table:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that\rquote s the end.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Alas, alas!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What dost you mean by this?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb 60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nothing but to show you how a king ma y go a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{progress through the guts of a beggar.}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Where is Polonius?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {In heaven; send hith er to see: if your messenger}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{find him not there, seek him i\ rquote the other place}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{yourself. But indeed, if you find hi m not within}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{this month, you shall nose him as you go up the }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{stairs into the lobby.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Go seek him there.}\par }{\ql {To some Attend ants}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He will sta y till ye come.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt Attendants}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The bar k is ready, and the wind at help,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The associates tend, and e very thing is bent}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For England.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {For England!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, Hamlet.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KI NG CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {So is it, if thou knew\rquote st our purposes.} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I see a cherub t hat sees them. But, come; for}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{England! Farewell, dear mother .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Thy lov ing father, Hamlet.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{and wi fe is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Delay it not; I\rquote ll have him hence to-night:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Away! for every thing is seal\r quote d and done}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That else leans on the affair: pray you, ma ke haste.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN}\par }{\ql {And, England, if my love thou hold\rquote st at aught--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As my gr eat power thereof may give thee sense,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Since yet thy cicatri ce looks raw and red}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{After the Danish sword, and thy free aw e}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Pays homage to us--thou mayst not coldly set}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Our sovereign process; which imports at full,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{By lett ers congruing to that effect,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The present death of Hamlet. D o it, England;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For like the hectic in my blood he rages,}{\f

s16 \u10081\'3f}{And thou must cure me: till I know \lquote tis done,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{Howe\rquote er my haps, my joys were ne\rquote er begun.}\par }{\ql {\ fs24 Exit}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N14500}{\*\bkmkend N14500}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE IV . A plain in Denmark.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldier s, marching }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i PRINCE FORTINBRAS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Tell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Craves the conveyance of a promised march}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If that his majesty would aught with us,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ We shall express our duty in his eye;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And let him know so.}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Captain }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I will do\rquote t, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i PRINCE FORTINBRAS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Go softly on.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt FORTINBRAS and Soldiers}\par }{\q l {\fs24 Enter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good sir, whose powers are these?}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Captain }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {They are of Norw ay, sir.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How pur posed, sir, I pray you?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Captain }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {Against some part of Poland.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Who commands them, sir?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i Captain }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Goes it against the main o f Poland, sir,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or for some frontier?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Captain }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Truly to speak, and with no addition,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We go to gain a little patch of ground}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{T hat hath in it no profit but the name.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To pay five ducats, f ive, I would not farm it;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, then the Polack never wi ll defend it.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Captain }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Y es, it is already garrison\rquote d.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Will not debate the question of this straw:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This is t he imposthume of much wealth and peace,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That inward breaks, and shows no cause without}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Captain }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {God b e wi\rquote you, sir.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i ROSENCRANTZ }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Wilt please you go, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li30 0 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I\rquote ll be with you straight go a little before.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt all except HAMLET}\par }{\ql {How all occasions do inform against me,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If his chief good and market of his time}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Looking b efore and after, gave us not}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That capability and god-like re ason}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of thinking t oo precisely on the event,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A thought which, quarter\rquote d , hath but one part wisdom}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And ever three parts coward, I do not know}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Why yet I live to say \lquote This thing\rquote s to do;\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Sith I have cause and will and strength and m eans}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To do\rquote t. Examples gross as earth exhort me:}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Witness this army of such mass and charge}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Le d by a delicate and tender prince,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whose spirit with divine ambition puff\rquote d}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Makes mouths at the invisible event,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Exposing what is mortal and unsure}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To al l that fortune, death and danger dare,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Even for an egg-shell . Rightly to be great}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is not to stir without great argument, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But greatly to find quarrel in a straw}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{

When honour\rquote s at the stake. How stand I then,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That ha ve a father kill\rquote d, a mother stain\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Exciteme nts of my reason and my blood,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The imminent death of twenty thousand men,}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whereon the num bers cannot try the cause,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which is not tomb enough and cont inent}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\pa r }{\ql {\fs24 Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE, HORATIO, and a Gentleman }\par }{\ql {\*\bk mkstart N146BC}{\*\bkmkend N146BC}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE V. Elsinore. A room in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE, HORATIO, and a Gentleman }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I will not speak with her.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Gentleman }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {She is importunate, indeed distract:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Her mood will ne eds be pitied.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What would she have?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Gentleman }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {She speaks much of her father; says she hears}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {There\rquote s tricks i\rquote the world; and hems, and beats her heart;}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yet the unshaped use of it doth move}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The hearers to collection; they aim at it,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And botch the words up fit to their own tho ughts;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{yield them,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Indeed would make one think there mig ht be thought,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Dangerous conjecture s in ill-breeding minds.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {Let her come in.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit HORATIO}\par }{\ql {To my sick soul, as sin\rquote s true nature is,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So full of artless jealousy i s guilt,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Re-enter HORATIO, with OPHELIA}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHEL IA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How now, Ophelia!}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\fs24 [Sings]}\par }{\ql {How should I your true love know}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{From another one?}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{By his cockle hat and staff,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And his sand al shoon.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Say you? nay, pray you, mark.}\par }{\ql {Sings}\pa r }{\ql {He is dead and gone, lady,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{He is dead and gone;}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{At his head a grass-green turf,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{At his heel s a stone.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {Nay, but, Ophelia,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {Pray you, mark.}\par }{\ql {Sings}\par }{\ql {White his shroud as the m ountain snow,--}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Alas, look here, my lord.}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\fs24 [Sings]}\par }{\q l {Larded with sweet flowers}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which bewept to the grave did g o}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With true-love showers.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How do you, pretty lady?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Well, God \lquote ild you! They s ay the owl was a baker\rquote s}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{what we may be. God be at your table!} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Conceit u pon her father.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Pray you, let\rquote s have no words of this; but when they}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {ask you what it means, say you this:}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Sings}\par }{\ql {To-mor

row is Saint Valentine\rquote s day,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{All in the morning beti me,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And I a maid at your window,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To be y our Valentine.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Then up he rose, and donn\rquote d his clothe s,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And dupp\rquote d the chamber-door;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{L et in the maid, that out a maid}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Never departed more.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Pretty Ophelia!} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Indeed, la, wit hout an oath, I\rquote ll make an end on\rquote t:}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Sings}\par }{\ql {By Gis and by Saint Charity,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Alack, and fie for shame !}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Young men will do\rquote t, if they come to\rquote t;}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{By cock, they are to blame.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Quoth she, befor e you tumbled me,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You promised me to wed.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{So would I ha\rquote done, by yonder sun,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An thou hadst n ot come to my bed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {How long hath she been thus?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHEL IA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{i\rquote the cold ground. My brother shall know of it:}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{coach ! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{good night, good night.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAU DIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Follow her close; give her good watch,}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{I pray you.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit HORATIO}\par }{\ql {O, this is the poiso n of deep grief; it springs}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{All from her father\rquote s dea th. O Gertrude, Gertrude,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When sorrows come, they come not s ingle spies}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But in battalions. First, her father slain:}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Next, your son gone; and he most violent author}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Of his own just remove: the people muddied,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thick and un wholesome in their thoughts and whispers,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For good Polonius\ rquote death; and we have done but greenly,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In hugger-mugge r to inter him: poor Ophelia}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Divided from herself and her fa ir judgment,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Without the which we are pictures, or mere beas ts:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Last, and as much containing as all these,}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Her brother is in secret come from France;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Feeds on h is wonder, keeps himself in clouds,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And wants not buzzers to infect his ear}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With pestilent speeches of his father\rquote s death;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Wherein necessity, of matter beggar\rquote d,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Will nothing stick our person to arraign}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Like to a murdering-p iece, in many places}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Gives me superfluous death.}\par }{\ql {A noise within}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Alack, what noise is this?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAU DIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.}\par } {\ql {\fs24 Enter another Gentleman}\par }{\ql {What is the matter?}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Gentleman }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Save yourself, my lord:}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The ocean, overpeering of his list,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O\rquote erbears your officers. The rabbl e call him lord;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, as the world were now but to begin,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Antiquity forgot, custom not known,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The ra tifiers and props of every word,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{They cry \lquote Choose we: Laertes shall be king:\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Caps, hands, and tongues, ap plaud it to the clouds:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Laertes shall be king, Laert es king!\rquote }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!}\par }{\ql {KING CLAUDIUS }\par }{\ql {The d oors are broke.}\par }{\ql {Noise within}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter LAERTES, armed; Danes following}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Where is this king? Sirs, stand you all without.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i Danes }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, let\rquote s come in.}\par }{\qj \li300 \s

b60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I pray you, give me leave.}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Danes }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {We will, we will.}\par }{ \ql {They retire without the door}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king,}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{Give me my father!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {Calmly, good Laertes.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTE S }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {That drop of blood that\rquote s calm proclaims me bastar d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of my true mother.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {What is the cause, Laertes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person:}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{There\rquote s such divinity doth hedge a king,}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{That treason can but peep to what it would,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Acts litt le of his will. Tell me, Laertes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Why thou art thus incensed . Let him go, Gertrude.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Speak, man.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Where is my father?}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Dead.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb6 0 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {But not by him.}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let him demand his fill .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How came he d ead? I\rquote ll not be juggled with:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To hell, allegiance! v ows, to the blackest devil!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Conscience and grace, to the pro foundest pit!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I dare damnation. To this point I stand,}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{That both the worlds I give to negligence,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Le t come what comes; only I\rquote ll be revenged}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Most thoroug hly for my father.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {Who shall stay you?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My will, not all the world:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And for my means, I\rquote ll husband them so well,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{They shall go far with li ttle.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Goo d Laertes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If you desire to know the certainty}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Of your dear father\rquote s death, is\rquote t writ in your revenge,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{Winner and loser?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {None but his enemies.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAU DIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Will you know them then?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To his good friends thus wide I\rquote ll op e my arms;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And like the kind life-rendering pelican,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Repast them with my blood.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, now you speak}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Like a goo d child and a true gentleman.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I am guiltless of your fa ther\rquote s death,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And am most sensible in grief for it,}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It shall as level to your judgment pierce}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {As day does to your eye.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Danes }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {\i [Within]}\par }{\ql {Let her come in.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How now! what noise is that?}\par }{\ql {\fs2 4 Re-enter OPHELIA}\par }{\ql {O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O heavens! is\rquote t possible, a young mai d\rquote s wits}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Should be as moral as an old man\rquote s li fe?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nature is fine in love, and where \lquote tis fine,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{It sends some precious instance of itself}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Af ter the thing it loves.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {\fs24 [Sings]}\par }{\ql {They bore him barefaced on the bier;}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And in his grav e rain\rquote d many a tear:--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Fare you well, my dove!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Hadst thou thy wits,

and didst persuade revenge,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It could not move thus.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\fs24 [Sings]}\par }{\ ql {You must sing a-down a-down,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{An you call him a-down-a.}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{steward, that stole his master\rquote s daughter.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {This nothing\rquote s more than matter.}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {There\rquote s r osemary, that\rquote s for remembrance; pray,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{love, remember : and there is pansies. that\rquote s for thoughts.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A document in madness, thoughts and remembr ance fitted.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Th ere\rquote s fennel for you, and columbines: there\rquote s rue}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{for you; and here\rquote s some for me: we may call it}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{h erb-grace o\rquote Sundays: O you must wear your rue with}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{a difference. There\rquote s a daisy: I would give you}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{some v iolets, but they withered all when my father}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{died: they say he made a good end,--}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Sings}\par }{\ql {For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{She turns to f avour and to prettiness.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OPHELIA }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {\fs24 [Sings]}\par }{\ql {And will he not come again?}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{And will he not come again?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{No, no, he is dead:}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Go to thy death-bed:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{He never will come again.}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{His beard was as white as snow,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{All flaxe n was his poll:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{He is gone, he is gone,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ And we cast away moan:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{God ha\rquote mercy on his soul!}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi\rquote ye.}\ par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Do you see this, O God?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Laertes, I must commune with your grief,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{Or you deny me right. Go but apart,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Make choice of whom y our wisest friends you will.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And they shall hear and judge \ lquote twixt you and me:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If by direct or by collateral hand} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{They find us touch\rquote d, we will our kingdom give,}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{Our crown, our life, and all that we can ours,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{To you in satisfaction; but if not,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be you content to lend your patience to us,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And we shall jointly labour with your soul}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To give it due content.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let this be so;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{His means of death, his obscure funeral--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{No trophy, sword, nor hatchm ent o\rquote er his bones,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{No noble rite nor formal ostentat ion--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Cry to be heard, as \lquote twere from heaven to earth ,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I must call\rquote t in question.}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {So you shall;}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{And where the offence is let the great axe fall.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I pra y you, go with me.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HORATIO and a Servant }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N14CC6}{\*\bkmkend N14CC6}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f 3 SCENE VI. Another room in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HORATIO and a Se rvant }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What are they that would speak with me?}\par }{\ql {Servant }\par }{\ql {Sailors, sir: t hey say they have letters for you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let them come in.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit Servant}\par }{\ql {I do not know from what part of the world}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I should be greet ed, if not from Lord Hamlet.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter Sailors}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Sailor }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {God bless you, sir.}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let him bless thee too.} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Sailor }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He shall, sir, an\rquote t please him. There\rquote s a letter for}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{you , sir; it comes from the ambassador that was}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{bound for Engla nd; if your name be Horatio, as I am}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{let to know it is.}\par

}{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Reads] }\par }{ \ql {\rquote Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{this, give these fellows some means to the king:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{chase. Finding ourselves too slo w of sail, we put on}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; s o}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{did; I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{have the letters I have sent; and repair thou to me}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{have words to speak in th ine ear will make thee}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the matter. These good fellows will bring thee} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{course for England: of them I have much to tell}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ thee. Farewell.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.\ rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Come, I will make you way for these your letters;}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And do\rquote t the speedier, that you may direct me}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{To him from whom you brought them.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i Exeunt }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS and LAERTES }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N14DA6}{\*\bkmkend N14DA6}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE VII. Another r oom in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS and LAERTES }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Now must your consc ience my acquaintance seal,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And you must put me in your hear t for friend,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That he which hath your noble father slain}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{Pursued my life.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {It well appears: but tell me}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Why you proceeded not again st these feats,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So crimeful and so capital in nature,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yo u mainly were stirr\rquote d up.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDI US }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, for two special reasons;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which ma y to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Lives almost by his l ooks; and for myself--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My virtue or my plague, be it either which--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{She\rquote s so conjunctive to my life and soul,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{I could not but by her. The other motive,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Why to a publi c count I might not go,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is the great love the general gender bear him;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To o slightly timber\rquote d for so loud a wind,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Would have re verted to my bow again,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And not where I had aim\rquote d the m.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {And so have I a noble father lost;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A sister driven into desperate terms, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whose worth, if praises may go back again,}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Stood challenger on mount of all the age}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For her perfect ions: but my revenge will come.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIU S }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That we are made of stuff so flat and dull}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Tha t we can let our beard be shook with danger}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And think it pas time. You shortly shall hear more:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I loved your father, and we love ourself;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine --}\par }{\ql {Enter a Messenger}\par }{\ql {How now! what news?}\par }{\ql {Mes senger }\par }{\ql {Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This to y our majesty; this to the queen.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIU S }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {From Hamlet! who brought them?}\par }{\ql {Messenger }\pa r }{\ql {Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{They we

re given me by Claudio; he received them}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of him that brought them.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {La ertes, you shall hear them. Leave us.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit Messenger}\par }{\q l {\fs24 Reads}\par }{\ql {\rquote High and mighty, You shall know I am set nake d on}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{your kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{your kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{and more strange return. \lquote HAMLET.\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What should thi s mean? Are all the rest come back?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Know you the hand?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {\rquote Tis Hamlets character. \lquote Naked!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And in a postscript here, he says \lquote alone.\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Can yo u advise me?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I\ rquote m lost in it, my lord. But let him come;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It warms the very sickness in my heart,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I shall live and tell him t o his teeth,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Thus didest thou.\rquote }\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {If it be so, Laertes-}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As how should it be so? how otherwise?--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{Will you be ruled by me?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {} \par }{\ql {Ay, my lord;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So you will not o\rquote errule me to a peace.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {To thine own peace. If he be now return\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As chec king at his voyage, and that he means}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{No more to undertake i t, I will work him}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To an exploit, now ripe in my device,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{Under the which he shall not choose but fall:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But eve n his mother shall uncharge the practise}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And call it acciden t.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I w ill be ruled;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The rather, if you could devise it so}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{That I might be the organ.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It falls right.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You have been talk\rquote d of since your travel much,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And that in Hamlet\ rquote s hearing, for a quality}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Wherein, they say, you shine : your sum of parts}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Did not together pluck such envy from hi m}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As did that one, and that, in my regard,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{Of the unworthiest siege.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What part is that, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KI NG CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A very riband in the cap of youth,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The light and careless livery that it wears}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Than settled age his sabl es and his weeds,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Importing health and graveness. Two months since,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Here was a gentleman of Normandy:--}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{I\rquote ve seen myself, and served against, the French,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {And they can well on horseback: but this gallant}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Had witchc raft in\rquote t; he grew unto his seat;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And to such wondrou s doing brought his horse,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As he had been incorpsed and demi -natured}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With the brave beast: so far he topp\rquote d my th ought,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{Come short of what he did.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A Norman was\rquote t?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i K ING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A Norman.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Upon my life, Lamond.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The very same.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I know him well: he is the brooch inde ed}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And gem of all the nation.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He made confession of you,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{And gave you such a masterly report}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For art and exer cise in your defence}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And for your rapier most especially,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That he cried out, \lquote twould be a sight indeed,}{\fs16 \u

10081\'3f}{If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation,}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{He swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If yo u opposed them. Sir, this report of his}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Did Hamlet so enveno m with his envy}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That he could nothing do but wish and beg}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Your sudden coming o\rquote er, to play with him.}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{Now, out of this,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {What out of this, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Laertes, was your father dear to you?}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A face wi thout a heart?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { Why ask you this?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {Not that I think you did not love your father;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But that I know love is begun by time;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And that I see, in passag es of proof,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{There lives within the very flame of love}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A ki nd of wick or snuff that will abate it;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And nothing is at a like goodness still;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For goodness, growing to a plurisy,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{Dies in his own too much: that we would do}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ We should do when we would; for this \lquote would\rquote changes}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{And hath abatements and delays as many}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As there are t ongues, are hands, are accidents;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And then this \lquote shou ld\rquote is like a spendthrift sigh,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o\rquote the ulcer:--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To show yourself your father\rquo te s son in deed}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{More than in words?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To cut his throat i\rquote the church .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No plac e, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Will you do this, keep close wit hin your chamber.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hamlet return\rquote d shall know you are come home:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We\rquote ll put on those shall praise your excel lence}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And set a double varnish on the fame}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And wa ger on your heads: he, being remiss,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Most generous and free from all contriving,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Will not peruse the foils; so that, wit h ease,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or with a little shuffling, you may choose}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{A sword unbated, and in a pass of practise}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Requit e him for your father.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I will do\rquote t:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, for that purpose, I\rquote ll anoint my sword.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I bought an unction of a mountebank,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Wher e it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Collected from all si mples that have virtue}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Under the moon, can save the thing fr om death}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That is but scratch\rquote d withal: I\rquote ll to uch my point}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With this contagion, that, if I gall him slight ly,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It may be death.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KIN G CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let\rquote s further think of this;}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{Weigh what convenience both of time and means}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{May fi t us to our shape: if this should fail,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And that our drift l ook through our bad performance,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Twere better not as say\rquote d: therefore this project}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Should have a back or s econd, that might hold,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If this should blast in proof. Soft! let me see:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We\rquote ll make a solemn wager on your cunnin gs: I ha\rquote t.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When in your motion you are hot and dry-}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As make your bouts more violent to that end--}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{And that he calls for drink, I\rquote ll have prepared him}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If he by chance escape your venom\rquote d stuck,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Our purpose may ho ld there.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE}\par }{\ql {How now, sweet quee n!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {One w

oe doth tread upon another\rquote s heel,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So fast they follo w; your sister\rquote s drown\rquote d, Laertes.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Drown\rquote d! O, where?}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {There is a willow grows asla nt a brook,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{There with fantastic garlands did she come}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But our cold maids d o dead men\rquote s fingers call them:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Clambering to hang, an envious sli ver broke;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When down her weedy trophies and herself}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which time s he chanted snatches of old tunes;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As one incapable of her ow n distress,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or like a creature native and indued}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Unto that element: but long it could not be}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Till th at her garments, heavy with their drink,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Pull\rquote d the p oor wretch from her melodious lay}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To muddy death.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Alas, then, she is drown\ rquote d?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Drown\rquote d, drown\rquote d.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It is our trick; nature her custom holds,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let shame say what it will: when th ese are gone,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {But that this folly douts it.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let\rquote s follow, Gertrude:}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{How much I had to do to calm his rage!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Now f ear I this will give it start again;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Therefore let\rquote s follow.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter two Clowns, with spades , & c }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N151F9}{\*\bkmkend N151F9}\sa120 {\b \fs36 \f3 A CT V}\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N15204}{\*\bkmkend N15204}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCEN E I. A churchyard.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter two Clowns, with spades, & c }\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Is she to be burie d in Christian burial that}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{wilfully seeks her own salvation? }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I tell th ee she is: and therefore make her grave}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{straight: the crowne r hath sat on her, and finds it}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Christian burial.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How can that be, unle ss she drowned herself in her}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{own defence?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, \lquote tis found so.} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It must be \lquote se offendendo;\rquote it cannot be else. For}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{here l ies the point: if I drown myself wittingly,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{it argues an act : and an act hath three branches: it}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{is, to act, to do, to p erform: argal, she drowned}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{herself wittingly.}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, but hear you, goodm an delver,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{stands the man; good; if the man go to this water,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{and drown himself, i t is, will he, nill he, he}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{goes,--mark you that; but if the water come to him}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{and drown him, he drowns not himself: arga l, he}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his o wn life.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {B ut is this law?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {Ay, marry, is\rquote t; crowner\rquote s quest law.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Will you ha\rquote the truth on\ rquote t? If this had not been}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{a gentlewoman, she should hav e been buried out o\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Christian burial.}\par }{\qj \li

300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, there thou say\rquot e st: and the more pity that}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{great folk should have countena nce in this world to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{drown or hang themselves, more than the ir even}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers:}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{they hold up Adam\rquote s profession.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Was he a gentleman?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He was the first that ever bore ar ms.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, h e had none.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Scripture ? The Scripture says \lquote Adam digged:\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{could he d ig without arms? I\rquote ll put another}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{question to thee: i f thou answerest me not to the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{purpose, confess thyself--}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Go to.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What is he that builds stronger than either the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{mason, the shipwright, or th e carpenter?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{thousand ten ants.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I lik e thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{does well; but ho w does it well? it does well to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{those that do in: now thou d ost ill to say the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{gallows is built stronger than the church : argal,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the gallows may do well to thee. To\rquote t again, come.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rq uote Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{a ca rpenter?\rquote }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par } {\ql {Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Second C lown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Marry, now I can tell.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To\rquote t.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i Second Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Mass, I cannot tell.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET and HORATIO, at a distance}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Firs t Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{you are asked this question next, say \lquote a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{gr ave-maker: \lquote the houses that he makes last till}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{doomsd ay. Go, get thee to Yaughan: fetch me a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{stoup of liquor.}\pa r }{\ql {\fs24 Exit Second Clown}\par }{\ql {He digs and sings}\par }{\ql {In yo uth, when I did love, did love,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Methought it was very sweet, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove,}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{O, methought, there was nothing meet.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{sings at grave-making?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis e\rq uote en so: the hand of little employment hath}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the daintier sense.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\fs2 4 [Sings]}\par }{\ql {But age, with his stealing steps,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hath claw\rquote d me in his clutch,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And hath shipped me intil t he land,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As if I had never been such.}\par }{\ql {Throws up a skull}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {That sku ll had a tongue in it, and could sing once:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{how the knave jo wls it to the ground, as if it were}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Cain\rquote s jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{might be the pate of a politic ian, which this ass}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{now o\rquote er-reaches; one that would circumvent God,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{might it not?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It might, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Or of a courtier; which could say \lquote Good morrow,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{sweet lord! How dost thou, good lord?\rquote T his might}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord}{\fs16

\u10081\'3f}{such-a-one\rquote s horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not?} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, my lord.}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, e\rquote en s o: and now my Lady Worm\rquote s; chapless, and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{knocked abou t the mazzard with a sexton\rquote s spade:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{here\rquote s fi ne revolution, an we had the trick to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{see\rquote t. Did thes e bones cost no more the breeding,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{but to play at loggats wi th \lquote em? mine ache to think on\rquote t.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\fs24 [Sings]}\par }{\ql {A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For and a shrouding sheet:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{O, a pit of clay for to be made}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For such a guest is meet. }\par }{\ql {Throws up another skull}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {There\rquote s another: why may not that be the skull of a} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets,}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{in\rquote s time a great buyer of land, with his statutes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{his recognizances, his fin es, his double vouchers,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Not a jot more, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb 60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Is not parchment made of sheepskins?} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, my lord, an d of calf-skins too.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{in t hat. I will speak to this fellow. Whose}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{grave\rquote s this, sirrah?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Mi ne, sir.}\par }{\ql {Sings}\par }{\ql {O, a pit of clay for to be made}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{For such a guest is meet.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in\rquote t.}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You lie out o n\rquote t, sir, and therefore it is not}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{yours: for my part, I do not lie in\rquote t, and yet it is mine.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Thou dost lie in\rquote t, to be in\rquot e t and say it is thine:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote tis for the dead, not for t he quick; therefore thou liest.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Tis a quick lie, sir; \lquote twill away gain, from me to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {What man dost thou dig it for?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {For no man, sir.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\ sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What woman, then?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 { }\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {For none, neither.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Who is to be buried in\rquote t?} \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {One that wa s a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she\rquote s dead.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 { }\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Horatio, these three years I have taken a note of}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{pea sant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{gaffs his ki be. How long hast thou been a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{grave-maker?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Of all the days i\rquote th e year, I came to\rquote t that day}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{that our last king Hamle t overcame Fortinbras.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par

}{\ql {How long is that since?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{is mad, and sent into England.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, because he was mad: he sha ll recover his wits}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{there; or, if he do not, it\rquote s no great matter there.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {Why?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\r quote Twill, a not be seen in him there; there the men}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{are a s mad as he.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How came he mad?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {Very strangely, they say.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {How strangely?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {Faith, e\rquote en with losing his wits.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb6 0 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Upon what ground?}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, here in Denmark: I have be en sexton here, man}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{and boy, thirty years.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How long will a man lie i\rquote the earth ere he rot?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {} \par }{\ql {I\rquote faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{or ni ne year: a tanner will last you nine year.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i H AMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why he more than another?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\ sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with h is trade, that}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{he will keep out water a great while; and you r water}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Here\rquote s a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{three and twenty years.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Whose was it?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Cl own }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A whoreson mad fellow\rquote s it was: whose do you thi nk it was?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, I know not.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Clown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a\rquote poured a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{fla gon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{sir, was Yo rick\rquote s skull, the king\rquote s jester.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {This?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First C lown }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {E\rquote en that.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let me see.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Takes the skull}\par } {\ql {Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{of in finite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{borne me on hi s back a thousand times; and now, how}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{abhorred in my imagina tion it is! my gorge rims at}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{not how oft. Where be your gibes now? yo ur}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Now get you to my lady\rquote s chamber, and tell her, let}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{her pain t an inch thick, to this favour she must}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{come; make her laug h at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{me one thing.}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What\rquote s that, my lord ?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Dost thou thin k Alexander looked o\rquote this fashion i\rquote }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the eart h?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {E\rquote en so.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {And smelt so ? pah!}\par }{\ql {Puts down the skull}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORAT IO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {E\rquote en so, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why m ay}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,}{\fs16

\u10081\'3f}{till he find it stopping a bung-hole?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No , faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{modesty e nough, and likelihood to lead it: as}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{thus: Alexander died, A lexander was buried,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{earth we make loam; and why of that loam, wher eto he}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{Imperious Caesar, dead and turn\rquote d to clay,}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter Priest, & c. in procession; the Corpse of OPH ELIA, LAERTES and Mourners following; KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, their train s, & c}\par }{\ql {The queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow?}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The corse they follow did with desperate hand}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Fordo its own life : \lquote twas of some estate.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Couch we awhile, and mark.}\p ar }{\ql {\fs24 Retiring with HORATIO}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTE S }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What ceremony else?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i H AMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {That is Laertes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A very noble you th: mark.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What ceremony else?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Priest }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {Her obsequies have been as far enlarged}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As we have warr antise: her death was doubtful;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, but that great command o\rquote ersways the order,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{She should in ground unsanctifie d have lodged}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yet here she is allow\rquote d her virgin crants,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{Her maiden strewments and the bringing home}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of bell and b urial.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Must the re no more be done?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i First Priest }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {No more be done:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We should profane the service of the dead}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To sing a requiem and such rest to her}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{As to peace-parted souls.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Lay her i\rquote the earth:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And from her fair and unpolluted flesh}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A ministering angel shall my sister be,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{When thou liest howling.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HA MLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What, the fair Ophelia!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6 0 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Sweets to the sweet: farewell!}\par }{ \ql {\fs24 Scattering flowers}\par }{\ql {I hoped thou shouldst have been my Ham let\rquote s wife;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I thought thy bride-bed to have deck\rquo te d, sweet maid,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And not have strew\rquote d thy grave.}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, treble woe}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Fall ten times treble on that cursed head,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{W hose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Till I have caught her once more in mine arms:}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Leaps into the grave}\par }{\ql {Now pile your d ust upon the quick and dead,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Till of this flat a mountain yo u have made,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To o\rquote ertop old Pelion, or the skyish hea d}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of blue Olympus.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLE T }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Advancing]}\par }{\ql {What is he whose grief}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Like wond er-wounded hearers? This is I,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hamlet the Dane.}\par }{\ql { \fs24 Leaps into the grave}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {} \par }{\ql {The devil take thy soul!}\par }{\ql {Grappling with him}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Thou pray\rquote st not well .}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat;}{\fs16 \u10081

\'3f}{For, though I am not splenitive and rash,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Yet have I s omething in me dangerous,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {Pluck them asunder.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {Hamlet, Hamlet!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i All }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Gentlemen,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {} \par }{\ql {Good my lord, be quiet.}\par }{\ql {The Attendants part them, and th ey come out of the grave}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {Why I will fight with him upon this theme}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Until my eyelids will no longer wag.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O my son, what theme?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HA MLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{Could not, with all their quantity of love,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Make up m y sum. What wilt thou do for her?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUD IUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, he is mad, Laertes.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {For love of God, forbear him.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\rquote Swounds, show me w hat thou\rquote lt do:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Woo\rquote t weep? woo\rquote t fight ? woo\rquote t fast? woo\rquote t tear thyself?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Woo\rquote t drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I\rquote ll do\rquote t. D ost thou come here to whine?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To outface me with leaping in h er grave?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Be buried quick with her, and so will I:}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{M illions of acres on us, till our ground,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Singeing his pate a gainst the burning zone,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou \rquote lt mouth,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I\rquote ll rant as well as thou.}\par }{\ qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {This is mere mad ness:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And thus awhile the fit will work on him;}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{Anon, as patient as the female dove,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{When that her g olden couplets are disclosed,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{His silence will sit drooping. }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Hear you, sir;} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{What is the reason that you use me thus?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {I loved you ever: but it is no matter;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let Hercules himself do what he may,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The cat will mew and dog will have his day. }\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I pray you, good Horatio, wait upon him.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit H ORATIO}\par }{\ql {\fs24 To LAERTES}\par }{\ql {Strengthen your patience in our last night\rquote s speech;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{We\rquote ll put the matter to t he present push.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son .}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This grave shall have a living monument:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Till then, in pati ence our proceeding be.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exeunt}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET and HORATIO }\par }{\ql {\*\bkmkstart N15AA4}{\*\bkmkend N15AA4}\sa60 {\b \fs28 \f3 SCENE II. A hall in the castle.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter HAMLET and HORATIO } \par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {So much for this , sir: now shall you see the other;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You do remember all the circumstance?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {R emember it, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That wou ld not let me sleep: methought I lay}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And praised be rashness for it, let us know,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,}{\fs16 \ u10081\'3f}{When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{There\rquote s a divinity that shapes our ends,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Roughhew them how we will,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {That is most certain.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Up from my cabin,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My sea-gown scarf\rquote d about me, in the dark}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Groped I to find out them; had my desi re.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Finger\rquote d their packet, and in fine withdrew}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{To mine own room again; making so bold,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My fe

ars forgetting manners, to unseal}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Their grand commission; wh ere I found, Horatio,--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O royal knavery!--an exact command,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Larded with many several sorts of reasons}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{Importing Denmark\rquote s health and England\rquote s too,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That, on the s upervise, no leisure bated,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{No, not to stay the grinding of the axe,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{My head should be struck off.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb 60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Is\rquote t possible?}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Here\rquote s the commission: read it at more leisure.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But wilt thou hear me how I did pro ceed?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I beseech you.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Being thus be-netted round with villanies,--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Ere I could make a prolog ue to my brains,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{They had begun the play--I sat me down,}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{Devised a new commission, wrote it fair:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I once did hold it, as our statists do,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{A baseness to write fa ir and labour\rquote d much}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{How to forget that learning, but , sir, now}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It did me yeoman\rquote s service: wilt thou know }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The effect of what I wrote?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, good my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {An earnest conjuration from the king,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As England was his faithful tributary,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As love between them like the palm might flourish,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And stand a comma \lquote twe en their amities,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And many such-like \lquote As\rquote es of great charge,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That, on the view and knowing of these conten ts,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Without debatement further, more or less,}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{He should the bearers put to sudden death,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Not shrivin g-time allow\rquote d.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How was this seal\rquote d?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I had my father\rquote s signet in my purse,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which was the mo del of that Danish seal;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Folded the writ up in form of the o ther,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Subscribed it, gave\rquote t the impression, placed it safely,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The changeling never known. Now, the next day}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{Thou know\rquote st already.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to\rquote t.}\par }{\qj \li3 00 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, man, they did make love to this employment;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{They are not near my conscience; their def eat}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Does by their own insinuation grow:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ \rquote Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Between th e pass and fell incensed points}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of mighty opposites.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, what a king is th is!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Does it not, think\rquote st thee, stand me now upon--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{He that hath kill \rquote d my king and whored my mother,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Popp\rquote d in bet ween the election and my hopes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thrown out his angle for my proper life,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And with such cozenage--is\rquote t not perfect conscience,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To quit him with this arm? and is\rquote t not to be damn\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To let this canker of our nature come}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In further evil?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It must be shortly known to him from England}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{What is the issue of the business there.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It will be short: the interim is mine;}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{And a man\rquote s life\rquote s no more than to say \lquote One.\rquo te }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But I am very sorry, good Horatio,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{T hat to Laertes I forgot myself;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{For, by the image of my caus e, I see}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The portraiture of his: I\rquote ll court his favou rs.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me}{\fs16 \u

10081\'3f}{Into a towering passion.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Peace! who comes here?}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter OSRIC}\par } {\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\pa r }{\ql {I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly?}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, my good lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Thy state is the more gracious; f or \lquote tis a vice to}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{know him. He hath much land, and fe rtile: let a}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall sta nd at}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the king\rquote s mess: \lquote tis a chough; but, as I say,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{spacious in the possession of dirt.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{should impart a thing to you from his majesty. }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{spirit. Put your bonnet to hi s right use; \lquote tis for the head.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I thank your lordship, it is very hot.}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, believe me, \lquote tis very co ld; the wind is}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{northerly.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {But yet methinks it is ve ry sultry and hot for my}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{complexion.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, --as}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote twere,--I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{great wager on your head: sir, this is the matter,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I beseech you, remember--}\par }{\q l {\fs24 HAMLET moves him to put on his hat}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith.}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes; believe}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{diff erences, of very soft society and great showing:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{calendar of gentry , for you shall find in him the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{continent of what part a gen tleman would see.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{though, I know, to divide him inventorially would}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{dizzy the arithmeti c of memory, and yet but yaw}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{neither, in respect of his quic k sail. But, in the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{great article; and his infusion of such dearth and}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his}{\fs16 \u10081 \'3f}{semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{him, his umbrage, nothing more.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{in our more rawer breath?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Sir?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Is\rquote t not possible to understand in another tongue?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You will do\rquote t, sir, really.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What imports the nomination of th is gentleman?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Of Laertes?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {His pu rse is empty already; all\rquote s golden words are spent.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb 60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Of him, sir.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I know you are not ignorant--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{it would not much approve me. Well, si r?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You are not ig norant of what excellence Laertes is--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLE T }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with}{\fs1

6 \u10081\'3f}{him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{know himself.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{laid on him by them, in his meed he\rquote s unfellowed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What\rquote s his weapon?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Rapier and dagger.}\par }{\qj \li30 0 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {That\rquote s two of his weapons : but, well.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{horses: against the which he has imponed, as I take}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so : three of the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages,}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{and of very liberal conceit.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What call you the carriages?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I knew you must be edified by the marg ent ere you had done.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{ \ql {The carriages, sir, are the hangers.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HA MLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{could carry cannon by our sides: I would it might}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{be hangers till then. But, on: six Barbary horses}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{a gainst six French swords, their assigns, and three}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{liberal-c onceited carriages; that\rquote s the French bet}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{against the Danish. Why is this \lquote imponed,\rquote as you call it?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The king, sir, hath laid, that in a dozen passes}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{three hits: he hath laid on twelve for nine; and it}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{would come to immediate trial, if your lordship}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{would vouchsafe the answer.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {How if I answer \lquote no\rquote ?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I mean, my lord, the opposition of your perso n in trial.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{majesty, \lq uote tis the breathing time of day with me; let}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{king hold his purpo se, I will win for him an I can;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Shall I re-deliver you e\rquote en so?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {} \sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {To this effect, sir; after what flourish y our nature will.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { I commend my duty to your lordship.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Yours, yours.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit OSRIC}\par }{\ql {He do es well to commend it himself; there are no}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{tongues else for \rquote s turn.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\s b60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He did comply with his dug, before he sucked it.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thus has he--and many more of the same bevy that I}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{know the dressy age dotes on--only got the tune of}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{the time and outward habit of encounter; a kind of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ye sty collection, which carries them through and}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{through the m ost fond and winnowed opinions; and do}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{but blow them to thei r trial, the bubbles are out.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter a Lord}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Lord }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Osric, who brings back to him that you attend him in}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{the hall: he sends to know if your pleasure hold to}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{play with Laertes, or that you will take longer time.}\par }{ \qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I am constant to my pur pose; they follow the king\rquote s}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{pleasure: if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{or whensoever, provided I be so able as now.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Lord }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The k

ing and queen and all are coming down.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLE T }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {In happy time.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i Lord } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The queen desires you to use some gentle}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f} {entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb 60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {She well instructs me.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Exit Lord}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {You will lose this wager, my lord.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {I do not think so: since he went into France, I}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ha ve been in continual practise: I shall win at the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all\rquote s here}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{about my he art: but it is no matter.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\ par }{\ql {Nay, good my lord,--}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb6 0 {}\par }{\ql {It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 { \i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{forestall their repair hither, and say you are not}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{fit.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql { Not a whit, we defy augury: there\rquote s a special}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{provide nce in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{readiness is all: since no man ha s aught of what he}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{leaves, what is\rquote t to leave betimes ?}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES, Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, & c}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 KING CLAUDIUS puts LAERTES\rquote hand into HAMLET\rquote s}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Give me your pardon, sir: I \rquote ve done you wrong;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But pardon\rquote t, as you are a gentleman.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This presence knows,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And you must needs have heard, how I am punish\rquote d}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{With sore d istraction. What I have done,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That might your nature, honour and exception}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Was\rquote t Hamlet wrong\rquote d Laertes? Never Hamlet:}{\f s16 \u10081\'3f}{If Hamlet from himself be ta\rquote en away,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{And when he\rquote s not himself does wrong Laertes,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Who does it, then? His madness: if\rquote t be so,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hamlet is of the faction that i s wrong\rquote d;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{His madness is poor Hamlet\rquote s enemy. }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Sir, in this audience,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let my disclaimi ng from a purposed evil}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That I have shot mine arrow o\rquote er the house ,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And hurt my brother.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i L AERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I am satisfied in nature,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To my revenge: but in my terms of honour}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I stand aloof; and will no reconcilem ent,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Till by some elder masters, of known honour,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{I have a voice and precedent of peace,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To keep my name ungored. But till that time,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I do receive your offer\rq uote d love like love,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And will not wrong it.}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I embrace it freely;}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{And will this brother\rquote s wager frankly play.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{Give us the foils. Come on.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Come, one for me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {I\rquote ll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{Your skill shall, like a star i\rquote the darkest night,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Stick fiery off indeed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {You mock me, sir.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, by this hand.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING C LAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You know the wager?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET

}\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Very well, my lord}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Your grace hath lai d the odds o\rquote the weaker side.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING C LAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I do not fear it; I have seen you both:}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{But since he is better\rquote d, we have therefore odds.}\par }{\qj \li 300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {This is too heavy, let me see another.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {This l ikes me well. These foils have all a length?}\par }{\ql {They prepare to play}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ay, my good lord.}\ par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Set me the stoops of wine upon that table.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If Hamlet give the first or second hit,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Or quit in answer of the third exchange,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Let all the battlements their ordnance fire:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{T he king shall drink to Hamlet\rquote s better breath;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And in the cup an union shall he throw,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Richer than that which fou r successive kings}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In Denmark\rquote s crown have worn. Give me the cups;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,}{\fs1 6 \u10081\'3f}{The trumpet to the cannoneer without,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The can nons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{\rquote Now the k ing dunks to Hamlet.\rquote Come, begin:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And you, the judge s, bear a wary eye.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {Come on, sir.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\q l {Come, my lord.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 They play}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\ i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {One.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Judgment.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A hit, a very palpable hit.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Well; again.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {Stay; give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{Here\rquote s to thy health.}\par }{\ql {Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within}\par }{\ql {Give him the cup.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HA MLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I\rquote ll play this bout first; set it by awhile. Co me.}\par }{\ql {They play}\par }{\ql {Another hit; what say you?}\par }{\qj \li3 00 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {A touch, a touch, I do confess .}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Our son shall win.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ ql {He\rquote s fat, and scant of breath.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The queen carouses to thy fortune , Hamlet.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Good m adam!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Ger trude, do not drink.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {I will, my lord; I pray you, pardon me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\ sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Aside]}\par }{\ql {It is the poi son\rquote d cup: it is too late.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb6 0 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Come, let me wipe thy face.}\p ar }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {My lord, I\rquote ll hit him now.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {I do not think\rquote t.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {\i [Aside]}\par }{\ql {And yet \lquote tis almost \lquote gain st my conscience.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I pray you, p ass with your best violence;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I am afeard you make a wanton o f me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Say you s o? come on.}\par }{\ql {They play}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb 60 {}\par }{\ql {Nothing, neither way.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERT ES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Have at you now!}\par }{\ql {\fs24 LAERTES wounds HAMLET ; then in scuffling, they change rapiers, and HAMLET wounds LAERTES}\par }{\qj \ li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Part them; they are i ncensed.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Nay, co me, again.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 QUEEN GERTRUDE falls}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb6

0 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Look to the queen there, ho!}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How is\rquote t, Laertes?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I am j ustly kill\rquote d with mine own treachery.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {How does the queen?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {She swounds to see them bleed.}\par }{\q j \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i QUEEN GERTRUDE }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {No, no, the drink , the drink,--O my dear Hamlet,--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The drink, the drink! I am poison\rquote d.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Dies}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAM LET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O villany! Ho! let the door be lock\rquote d:}{\fs16 \u 10081\'3f}{Treachery! Seek it out.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LAERTES } \sb60 {}\par }{\ql {It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain;}{\fs16 \u10081\' 3f}{No medicine in the world can do thee good;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{In thee there is not half an hour of life;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Unbated and envenom\rquote d: the foul practise }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Hath turn\rquote d itself on me lo, here I lie,}{\fs16 \u10 081\'3f}{Never to rise again: thy mother\rquote s poison\rquote d:}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{I can no more: the king, the king\rquote s to blame.}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {The point!--envenom\rquote d too!}{\ fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Then, venom, to thy work.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Stabs KING CLAUDIU S}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i All }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Treason! treason! }\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i KING CLAUDIUS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, yet d efend me, friends; I am but hurt.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\s b60 {}\par }{\ql {Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Follow my mot her.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 KING CLAUDIUS dies}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i LA ERTES }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {He is justly served;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{It is a pois on temper\rquote d by himself.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Mine and my father\rquote s death come not up on thee,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Nor thine on me.}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Dies}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Heaven make thee free of it ! I follow thee.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu!} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You that look pale and tremble at this chance,}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{That are but mutes or audience to this act,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Had I but time--as this fell sergeant, death,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Is strict in his arrest --O, I could tell you--}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But let it be. Horatio, I am dead;}{ \fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Thou livest; report me and my cause aright}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f }{To the unsatisfied.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Never believe it:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I am more an antique Roman than a D ane:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Here\rquote s yet some liquor left.}\par }{\qj \li300 \ sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {As thou\rquote rt a man,}{\fs16 \u1 0081\'3f}{Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I\rquote ll have\rquote t.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{O good Horatio, what a wounded name,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Things sta nding thus unknown, shall live behind me!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Absent thee from felicity awhile,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,}{\fs16 \u10081\ '3f}{To tell my story.}\par }{\ql {March afar off, and shot within}\par }{\ql {W hat warlike noise is this?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i OSRIC }\sb60 {}\p ar }{\ql {Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ To the ambassadors of England gives}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{This warlike volley.}\pa r }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HAMLET }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {O, I die, Horatio;} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The potent poison quite o\rquote er-crows my spirit:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I cannot live to hear the news from England;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Bu t I do prophesy the election lights}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So tell him, with the occurrents, more and les s,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which have solicited. The rest is silence.}\par }{\ql {\f s24 Dies}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Now cr acks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And flights of

angels sing thee to thy rest!}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Why does the drum come hither? }\par }{\ql {March within}\par }{\ql {\fs24 Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambass adors, and others}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i PRINCE FORTINBRAS }\sb60 { }\par }{\ql {Where is this sight?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\ sb60 {}\par }{\ql {What is it ye would see?}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i PRINCE FORTINB RAS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,}{\fs16 \u100 81\'3f}{What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That tho u so many princes at a shot}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{So bloodily hast struck?}\par }{ \ql {First Ambassador }\par }{\ql {The sight is dismal;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And our affairs from England come too late:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The ears are sensele ss that should give us hearing,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To tell him his commandment is fulfill\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are d ead:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Where should we have our thanks?}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb6 0 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Not from his mouth,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{Had it the ability of life to thank you:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{He never gave co mmandment for their death.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But since, so jump upon this bloo dy question,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{You from the Polack wars, and you from England, }{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Are here arrived give order that these bodies}{\fs16 \u1008 1\'3f}{High on a stage be placed to the view;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And let me spe ak to the yet unknowing world}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{How these things came about: s o shall you hear}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,}{\fs 16 \u10081\'3f}{Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{ Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And, in this u pshot, purposes mistook}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Fall\rquote n on the inventors\rquot e reads: all this can I}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Truly deliver.}\par }{\qj \li300 \s b60 {}\sb60 {\i PRINCE FORTINBRAS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let us haste to hear it,} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And call the noblest to the audience.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Fo r me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{I have some rights o f memory in this kingdom,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.}\par }{\qj \li300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i HORATIO }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Of that I shall have also cause to speak,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{And from his mouth wh ose voice will draw on more;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{But let this same be presently perform\rquote d,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Even while men\rquote s minds are wild; le st more mischance}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{On plots and errors, happen.}\par }{\qj \l i300 \sb60 {}\sb60 {\i PRINCE FORTINBRAS }\sb60 {}\par }{\ql {Let four captains} {\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{For he was likely, had he been put on,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{To have proved mos t royally: and, for his passage,}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{The soldiers\rquote music and the rites of war}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Speak loudly for him.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3 f}{Take up the bodies: such a sight as this}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Becomes the fiel d, but here shows much amiss.}{\fs16 \u10081\'3f}{Go, bid the soldiers shoot.}\p ar }{\ql {\fs24 A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off}\par }\sect }