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  The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare. Dramatis Persone,
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  Ghost of Hamlet, the Late King of Denmark read by Dolohoff. King Claudius
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  his Brother read by Michael Surroa Queen Gertrude of Denmark Widow of King Hamlet now
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  wife of Claudius, read by Elisabeth Klett. Prince Hamlet, son of King
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  Hamlet and Queen Gertrude read by John Gonzalez. Polonius a Lord read by Andy
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  Minter. Laertes, son of Polonius, read by Denny Sayers. Ophelia,
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  Daughter of Polonius, read by Kristin Hughes. Rainaldo, Servant of Polonius,
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  read by Thomas Wells. Horatio, Friend of Hamlet read by David Nicol Rosencrantz
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  Friend of Hamlet read by Cara Shallenberg Guildensterne Friend of Hamlet read by Karen Savage.
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  Francisco a Soldier read by Andrew le Brunn. Bernardo a Soldier read by
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  David O'Connell. Marcellus a Soldier read by Jordan Mueller. Voldemond a Courtier read
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  by Thomas Wells. Osrick a Courtier read by Alex A Gentleman read by David
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  Jacquey. Another Gentleman read by M. B. Clown. One Gravedigger read
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  by Brennan Holtzklaw Clown two Gravedigger read by Christy Noak. A Priest read by
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  Kevin o'coyne. Fortenbross, Prince of Norway read by M. B. A
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  Captain in his Army read by Andrew le Brunn. English Ambassador read by Andrew
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  le Brunn. First Player read by Rosalind Wills. Player King read by Denny
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  Sayers. Player Queen read by Kirsten Ferrari. Play Mary Lucianus read by Alex.
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  Group of Dames read by David O'Connell. A Lord read by Laurent T.
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  A Servant read by Christine Oak And the stage directions read by Rosalind Wills.
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  End of Dramatis persone, Act one, seem one elsinore a platform before
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  the castle. Francisco at his post. Enter to him, Bernardo, who's
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  there? Nay? Ands me stand and unfold yourself. Long live the King,
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  Bernardo. He you come most carefully upon your hour tis now struck twelve.
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  Get thee to bed. Francisco for this relief, much thanks, tis
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  bitter cold, and I am sick at heart. Have you had quiet guard?
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  Not a mouse stirring? Well? Good night? If you do meet
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  Horatio and Marcellus the rifles of my watch, bid them make haste. I
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  think I hear them stand Ho, who's there? Enter Horatio and Marcellus,
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  friends to this ground, and liegemen to the dane. Give you good knight.
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  Oh, farewell, honest soldier who hath relieved you? Bernardo has my
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  place, Give you good night. Exit Francisco Halla, Bernardo, say what
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  is Horatio there? A piece of him? Welcome Horatio, Welcome, good
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  Marcellus. What has this thing appeared again to night? I have seen nothing,
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  Horatio says, tis but our fantasy, and will not let belief take
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  hold of him touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us. Therefore, I
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  have entreated him along with us, to watch the minutes of this night,
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  that if again this apparition come, he may approve our eyes and speak to
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  it. Tush, tush, twill not appear. Sit down, awhile,
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  and let us once again assail your ears that are so fortified against our story.
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  But we two knights have seen well. Sit we down and let us.
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  Hear Bernardos speak of this last night of all when Yon same star that's
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  worstward from the pole had made his course to illume that part of heaven where
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  now it burns Marcellus and myself. The bell then beating one, Enter ghost,
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  peace, break thee off Look where it comes again in the same figure,
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  like the king that's dead. Thou art a scholar? Speak to it?
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  Horatio? Looks it not like the king? Mark it, Horatio,
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  most like it harrows me with fear and wonder. It would be spoke to
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  question it? Horatio, What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,
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  together with that fair and warlike form in which the Majesty of Buried Denmark did
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  sometimes march by Heaven. I charge thee speak it is offended, See it
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  stalks away, stay speak speak, I charge thee speak Exit. Ghost tis
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  gone and will not answer. How now, Horatio, you tremble and look
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  pale? Is not this something northern fantasy? What think you on it?
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  Before? My God? I might not this believe without the sensible and true
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  vouch of mine own eyes? Is it not like the king? As thou
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  art to thyself? Such was the very armor he had on when he the
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  ambitious Norway combated, so frowned he once, when in an angry parle he
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  smote the sleddid polax on the ice? Tis strange thus twice before and jump
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  at this dead hour with martial stock. Hath he gone by our watch in
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  what particular thought to work? I know not, But in the gross and
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  scope of my opinion this bodes Psalm's strange eruption to our state. Good Now,
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  sit down and tell me he knows why this same strict and most observant
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  watch so nightly toils the subject of the land. And why such daily cast
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  of brazen cannon and foreign marked for implements of war. Why such impressive shipwrights,
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  whose sore task does not divide the Sunday from the week. What might
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  be toward that this sweaty haste doth make the night joint laborer with the day.
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  Who is it that can inform me? That can I at least the
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  whisper goes so? Our last king, whose image even but now appeared to
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  us, was, as you know, by Fortimbras of Norway, thereto pricked
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  on by a most eminent pride, dared to the combat in which our valiant
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  Hamlet, for so this side of the known world esteemed him, did slay
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  this fort Embras, who, by a sealed compact well ratified by law and
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  heraldry, did forfeit with his life all those his lands which he stood seized
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  of to the conqueror, against the which a moiety competent was gauged by our
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  king, which had returned to the inheritance of Fortimbrass, had he been vanquisher,
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  as by the same covenant and carriage of the article designed his fell the
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  hamlet, now, sir, young Fortembrass, of unimproved metal, hot and
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  full have in the skirts of Norway. Here and there sharked up a list
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  of lawless resolutes for food and diet to some enterprise that has a stomach in
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  it, which is no other, as it does well appear under our estate,
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  but to recover of us by strong hand and terms compulsatory those foresaid Lambs
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  so by his father lost. And this I take it is the main motive
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  of our preparations, the source of this our watch, and the chief head
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  of this post haste and roumage in the land. I think it be no
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  other but e'en. So while may it sort that this portentous figure comes armed
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  through our watch, so like the king that was, and is the question
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  of these wars a mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the
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  most high and palmy state of Rome, a little air, the mightiest Julius
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  fell, the graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber
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  in the Roman streets, as stars with trains of fire and jews of blood,
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  disasters in the sun, and the moist star upon whose influence Neptune's empire
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  stands, was sick almost to doomsday, with eclipse and even the like precurse
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  of fierce events as harbingers proceeding still the fates and prolog to the omen coming
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  on, have Heaven and Earth together demonstrated unto our climaches and countrymen. But
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  soft behold lo where it comes again, re enter ghost, I'll cross it,
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  though it blast me, stay illusion. If thou hast any sound or
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  use of voice, speak to me, if there be any good thing to
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  be done that may to thee do ease and grace to me, Speak to
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  me, carck crows. If thou art privy to thy country's fate, which
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  happily, for knowing may avoid. Oh, speak, or if thou hast
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  uphoarded in thy life extorted treasure in the womb of earth, for which they
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  say you spirits oft walk in death, speak of it, stay and speak
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  stop it, Marcellus, Shall I strike at it with my partisan do if
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  it will not stand tis here tis, here tis gone, exit ghost.
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  We do it wrong, being so majestical to offer it the show of violence,
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  for it is as the air invulnerable, and our vein will malicious mockery.
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  It was about to speak when the cock crew, and then it started,
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  like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons. I have heard the cock,
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  that is the trumpet to the morn doth with his lofty and shrill sounding
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  throat, awake the God of day, and at his warning, whether in
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  sea or fire, in earth or air, the extravagant and erring spirit hies
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  to his confine and of the truth. Herein this present object made probation.
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  It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that everginst that season
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  comes wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, the bird of dawning singeth all night
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  long, And then they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, the nights
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  are wholesome. Then no planets strike, no fairy takes, nor which hath
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  power to charm. So hallowed and so gracious is that time. So I
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  have heard, and do in part believe it. But look the morn in
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  russet mantle clad walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill break we our
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  watch up, and by my advice, let us impart what we have seen
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  to night unto young Hamlet, For upon my life this spirit dumb to us
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  will speak to him. Do you consent? We shall acquaint him with it
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  as needful in our loves, fitting our duty. But do it, I
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  pray, And I this morning know where we shall find him most conveniently.
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  Extant scene too, a room of state in the castle enter King Claudius,
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  Queen Gertrude, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Voldemann, Cornelius, lords and
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  attendants. Though yet of Hamlet, our dear brother's death, the memory be
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  green, and let it us be fitted to bear our hearts in grief,
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  and our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow of woe. Yet so
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  far hath discretion fought with nature, that we, with wisest sorrow think on
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  him together with remembrance of ourselves. Therefore, our sometimes sister, now our
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  Queen, the imperial jointerss to this warlike state, have we as twere with
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  a defeated joy, with an auspicious and a dropping eye, with mirth and
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  funeral, and with dirge in marriage an equal scale weighing delight and dule taken
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  to wife. Nor have we herein barred your better wisdoms, which have freely
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  gone with this affair along for all our thanks now follows that you know,
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  young Fortinbrass, holding a weak's supposal of our worth, or thinking by our
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  late dear brother's death our state to be disjointed out of frame, colleagued with
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  the dream of his advantage. He hath not failed to pester us with message
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  importing the surrender of those lands lost by his father, with all bonds of
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  law to our most valiant brother. So much for him, now for ourselves,
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  and for this time of meeting. This much the business is we have
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  here writ to Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras, who impotent in bedrid,
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  scarcely hears of this his nephew's purpose to suppress his further gait herein in that
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  the levies, the lists, and full proportions are all made out of his
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  subject. And we here despatch you good Cornelius, and you Voldemont, for
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  bearers of this greeting to old Norway, giving to you no further personal power
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  to business with the King more than the scope of these dilated articles. Allow
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  farewell, and let your haste command your duty in that and all things we
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  show our duty, We doubt it nothing heartily. Farewell exeunt Voltemont and Cornelius.
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  And now Laertes, what's the news with you? You told us of
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  some suit? What is t Laertes? You cannot speak of reason to the
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  Dane and loose your voice? What wouldst thou bear, Laertes? That shall
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  not be my offer, not thy asking? The head is not more native
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  to the heart, a hand more instrumental to the mouth than is the throne
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  of Denmark to thy father? What wouldst thou have, Laertes, your leave
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  and favor to return to France from whence? Though willingly I came to Denmark
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  to show my duty in your coronation, Yet now I must confess that duty
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  done. My thoughts and wishes, bend again toward France, and bow them
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  to your gracious leave and pardon. Have you your father's leave? What says
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  Polonius, He hath my lord wrung from me my slow leave by laboursome perdition,
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  and at last upon his will I sealed my heart consent. I do
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  beseech you to give him leave to go take thy fair eyes, our laities.
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  Time be thine, and thy best grace is spend it at thy will.
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  But now my cousin Hamlet and my son aside a little more than kin
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  and less than kind? How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
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  Not so, my lord, I am too much in the sun.
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  Good Hamlet, cast thy knighted color off, and let thine eye look like
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  a friend on Denmark. Do not, forever, with thy valid lives seek
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  for thy noble father in the dust. Thou knowest is common all that lives
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  must die, passing through nature to eternity. Ay, madam, it is
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  common? If it be? Why seems it so particular with thee seems,
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  madam? Nay it is I know not seems tis not alone my inky cloak,
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  good mother, nor customary suits of solemn black, no windy suspiration of
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  forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, nor the
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  dejectedhavior of the visage, together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief
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  that can denote me. Truly, these indeed seem, for they are actions
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  that a man might play. But I have that within which passeth show these.
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  But the trappings and the suits of woe tis sweet and commendable in your
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  nature. Hamlet to give these morning duties to your father. But you must
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  know your father lost a father, that father lost lost his and the survivor
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  bound in filial obligation for some term to do obsequious sorrow, but to persever
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  in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness, tis unmanly grief. It
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  shows a will most in correct to heaven, a heart unfortified, a mind
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  impatient, an understanding simple and unschooled. For what we know must be,
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  and is as common as any, the most vulgar thing to sense. Why
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  should we, in our peevish opposition, take it to heart. Fie tis
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  a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
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  to reason most absurd, whose common theme is death of fathers, than
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  who still hath cried from the first course till he that died to day.
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  This must be so. We pray you throw to earth this unprevailing woe,
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  and think of us as of a father. For let the world take note.
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  You are the most immediate to our throne, and with no less nobility
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  of love than that which dearest father bears his son. Do I impart toward
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  you for your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg. It is most
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  retrograde to our desire, and we beseech you, bend you to remain here
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  in the cheer and comfort of our eyes, our chiefest courtier, cousin,
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  and our son. Let not thy mother lose her prayers. Hamlet, I
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  pray thee stay with us, go not to Wittenberg. I shall, in
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  all my best obey you, Madam White. Is a loving and a fair
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  reply, be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come this gentle and unforced
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  accord of Hamlet sits smiling to my heart in grace. Whereof no jocunt health
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  that Denmark drinks to day. But the great cannon to the cloud shall tell,
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  and the kings rouse the heavens all brew it again re speaking earthly thunder,
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  come away excellent all but hamlet, Oh, that this too, too
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  solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew. Or that
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  the Everlasting had not fixed his canon gainst self slaughter, Oh God, God,
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  how weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seemed to me all the uses
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  of this world fi hunt well, Fi tis an unweeded garden that grows to
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  seed things rank and gross in nature. Possess it merely that it should come
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  to this, but two months dead. Nay, not so much, not
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  too so excellent. A king that was to this hyperion, to a satter,
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  so loving to my mother, that he might not be teem the winds
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  of heaven visit her face too roughly, Ah, Heaven and Earth, must
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  I remember why she would hang on him, as if increase of appetite had
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  grown by what it fed on. And yet within a month, let me
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  not think on't frailty thy name is woman? A little month? Oo?
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  Or ere those shoes were old with which she followed my poor father's body like
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  niobe all tears. Why she had even she? Oh God, a beast
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  that once discourse of reason would have mourned longer. Married with my uncle,
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  my father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules within
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  a month ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in
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  her galled eyes. She married, Oh, most wicked speed to post with
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  such dexterity to incestuous sheets. It is not nor it cannot come to good,
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  but break my heart, for I must hold my tongue. Enter Horatio
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  Marcellus, and Bernardo hailed your lordship. I am glad to see you well,
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  Horatio, or I do forget myself to say, my lord, and
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  your poor servant. Ever, sir, my good friend, I'll change that
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  name with you. And what make you from Wittenberg? Horatio Marcellus, my
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  good lord, I am very glad to see you good even, sir,
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  But what in faith make you from Wittenberg? A truant disposition? Good,
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  my lord, I would not hear your enemy say so, nor shall you
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  do mine ear that violence to make a trust her of your own report against
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  yourself. I know you are no truant, but what is your affair in
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  Elsinore? W'll er teach you to drink deep ere you depart, my Lord.
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  I came to see your father's funeral. I pray thee do not mock
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  me. Fellow student, I think it was to see my mother's wedding.
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  Indeed, my Lord, it followed hard upon thrift, hum thrift, Horatio,
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  the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I
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  had met my dearest foe in heaven, or ere I had seen that day?
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  Horatio? Why father, he thinks I see my father? Where my
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  lord? In my mind's eye, Horatio, I saw him once. He
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  was a goodly king, He was a man. Take him for all and
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  all that shall not look upon his like Again, my Lord, I think
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  I saw him yesternight? Saw who my lord the king, your father,
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  the king, my father. Season your admiration for a while with an attent
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  ear till I may deliver upon the witness of these gentlemen this marvel to you
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  for God's love. Let me hear two knights together, had these gentlemen,
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  Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch in the dead vast, in the middle
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  of the night, been thus encountered like your father, armed at point exactly
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  capape appears before them, and with solemn march, goes slow and stately by
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  them. Thrice he walked by their oppressed and fear surprised eyes within his truncheon's
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  length, whilst they distilled almost to jelly with the act of fear. Stand
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  dumb, and speak not to him, this to me in dreadful secrecy.
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  In part they did, and I with them the third night kept the watch
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  where as they had delivered, both in time form of the thing, each
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  word made true and good. The apparition comes. I knew your father,
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  these hands are not more like? But where was this, my lord,
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  upon the platform where we watched? Did you not speak to it? My
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  lord? I did, but answer made it none. Yet once methought,
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  it lifted up its head and did address itself to motion, like as it
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  would speak. But even then the morning cock grew loud, and at the
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  sound it shrunk in haste away and vanished from our sight. Tis very strange,
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  as I do live, my honored lord, tis true, and we
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  did think it written down in our duty to let you know of it.
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  Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me. Hold you the watch
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  tonight, we do, my lord? Armed? Say you armed? My
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  lord, from top to toe, my lord, from head to foot.
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  Then saw you not his face, Oh yes, my lord. He wore
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  his beaver up what looked frowningly, a countenance more in sorrow than in anger,
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  paleer red, nay very pale, and fixed his eyes upon you most
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  constantly. How would I have been there? It would have much amazed you,
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  very like, very like, stayed it long, while one with moderate
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  haste might tell a hundred longer longer. Not when I saw it, his
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  beard was grizzled. No, it was as I have seen it in his
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  life, a sable silvered. I will watch to night, perchance twill walk
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  again. I warrant it will. If it assume my noble father's person,
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  I'll speak to it, though Hell itself should keepe and bid me hold my
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  peace. I pray you all, if you have hitherto concealed this sight,
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  let it be tenable in your silence still, and whatsoever else shall hap to
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  night, give it an understanding, but no tongue. I will requite your
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  loves, so fare you well upon the platform TwixT eleven and twelve. I'll
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  visit you are a duty to your honor. Your loves has mine to you,
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  farewell, excellent all but hamlet my father's spirit in arms. All is
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  not well. I doubt some foul play what the night would come till.
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  Then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise, though all the
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  earth overwhelm them to men's eyes. Exit Scene three, a room in Polonius's
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  house. Enter Laertes and Ophelia, My necessaries are embarked. Farewell and sister,
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  as the winds give benefit, and convoy his assistant. Do not sleep,
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  but let me hear from you. Do doubt that for him, and
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  the trifling of his favor, hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,
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  a violet in the youth of primie. Nature forward, not permanent,
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  sweet, not lasting, the perfume and suppliance of a minute no more,
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  no more, But so think it no more, For nature crescent does not
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  grow alone in thews and bulk. But as this temple waxes, the inward
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  service of the mind and soul grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now
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  and now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch the virtue of his will. But
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  you must fear his greatness weighed. His will is not his own, for
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  he himself is subject to his birth. He may not, as unvalued persons
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  do carve for himself, for on his choice depends the safety and health of
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  this whole state, and therefore must his choice be circumscribed unto the voice and
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  yielding of that body whereof he is the head. Then if he says he
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  loves you, it fits your wisdom so far to believe it, as he,
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  in his particular act and place may give his saying deed, which is
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  no further than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. Then weigh what loss
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  your honor may sustain if, with too credent ear you list his songs,
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  or lose your heart or your chaste treasure open to his unmastered importunity. Fear
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  it, Ophelia. Fear it, my dear sister, and keep you in
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  the rear of your affection, out of the shot and danger of desire.
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  The cheriest maid is prodigal enough if she unmasked her beauty to the moon.
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  Virtue itself escapes not calumnious strokes. The canker galls the infants of the spring
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  too oft before their buttons be disclosed, and in the morn and liquid jew
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  of youth contagious blessments are most imminent. Be wary, then best safety lies
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  in fear youth to itself rebels, though none else near, I shall the
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  effect of this good lesson. Keep as watchmen to my heart. But good,
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  my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me
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  the steep and thorny way to heaven, whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine
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  himself the primrose path of Dalllyan's dreads and recks, not his own reed.
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  Oh fear me not I stay too long, But here my father comes,
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  Enter Polonius. A double blessing is a double grace, occasion smiles upon a
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  second leave. Yet here laerties a board, a board for shame. The
• 31:48
  wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, and you're stayed for augh.
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  Bear my blessing with thee and these few priests in thy memory. Look thou
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  character, give thy thoughts, no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought is act.
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  Be thou familiar, But my no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast
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  and their adoption tried grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel. But
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  do not dull thy palm, with entertainment of each new hatched unfledged comrade,
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  beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in bear that the opposed may
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  beware of thee give every man thine ear, but few thy voice, take
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  each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse
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  can buy, but not expressed in fancy, rich, not gaudy, for
• 32:52
  the apparel off, proclaims the man, and they in France, of the
• 32:55
  best rank and station, are most select and generous, in that neither a
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  borrower nor a lender be the loan oft loses both itself and friend, and
• 33:08
  borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, to thine own self
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  be true, and it must follow as the night the day thou canst not
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  then be falls to any man. Farewell, my blessing season. This in
• 33:24
  thee most humbly do I take my leaves, my Lord, the time invites
• 33:32
  you go your servants tend Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well what I have
• 33:42
  said to you tis in my memory locked, and you yourself shall keep the
• 33:45
  key of it. Farewell, exit lairtis what is Ophelia? He has said
• 33:52
  to you so please you something touching the Lord hamlet marry well bethought tis told
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  me. He hath very oft of late given private time to you, and
• 34:07
  you yourself have of your audience been most free and bounteous, if it be
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  so, as so tis put to me, and that in way of caution,
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  I must tell you you do not understand yourself so clearly as it behooves
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  my daughter and your honor. What is between you? Give me up the
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  truth. He hath my lord of Late made many tenders of his affection to
• 34:31
  me. Affection booh, you speak like a green girl unsifted in such perilous
• 34:38
  circumstance. Do you believe his tenders as you call them? I do not
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  know, my lord, what I should think. Mary. I will teach
• 34:50
  you think yourself a baby, that you who tend these tenders for true pay
• 34:53
  which are not sterling, tender yourself more dearly, or not to crack the
• 35:00
  wind of the poor phrase running it does you'll tender me a fool, my
• 35:06
  Lord. He has entertuned me with love and honorable fashion. Aye fashion,
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  you may call it go to go too, and hath given countenance to speech
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  my lord, with almost all the holy vows of heaven aye springs to catch
• 35:22
  woodcocks. I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends
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  the tongue vows these blazes daughter, giving more light than heat. Extinct in
• 35:34
  both even in their promise. As it is a making, you must not
• 35:37
  take for fire. From this time, be somewhat scanter of your maidenland presence.
• 35:45
  Set your entreatments at a higher rate than the command to parley. For
• 35:49
  Lord Hamlet, believe so much in him, that he is young, and
• 35:53
  with a larger tether may he walk than may be given you. In few
• 35:59
  of Elia do not believe his vows, for they are brokers, not of
• 36:04
  that die which their investments show, but mere implorators of unholy suits, breathing
• 36:10
  like sanctified and pious boards. The better to beguile. This is for all
• 36:16
  I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, have you
• 36:21
  so slander any moment leisure as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
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  Look to it. I charge you, come your ways. I shall
• 36:31
  obey, my lord, excellant. Scene four the platform enter Hamlet, Horatio
• 36:39
  and Marcellus. The air by shrewdly. It is very cold. It is
• 36:45
  a nipping and an eager air. What hour? Now? I think it
• 36:51
  lacks of twelve? No, it has struck, indeed I heard it not.
• 36:55
  Then it draws near the season where in this spirit held his wont to
• 36:59
  walk, A flourish of trumpets and ordnance shot off within. What does this
• 37:04
  mean? My lord? The king doth wake to night and takes his rows,
• 37:10
  keeps wassail, and the swaggering up spring reels, and as he drains
• 37:16
  his drafts of Rhenish down, the kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph
• 37:22
  of his pledge. Is it a custom, ay, marry ist. But
• 37:30
  to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born,
• 37:36
  it is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance. This heavy
• 37:42
  headed revel east and west makes us traduced and taxed of other nations. They
• 37:47
  cleap us drunkards, and with swinish frays soil our addition, And indeed it
• 37:55
  takes from our achievements, though performed at height, the pith and morrow of
• 38:01
  our attribute. So often chances, in particular men that for some vicious mole
• 38:09
  of nature in them, as in their birth, wherein they are not guilty,
• 38:15
  since nature cannot choose his origin by the oergrowth of some complexion, oft
• 38:22
  breaking down the pales and forts of reason, or by some habit that too
• 38:28
  much o'erlevens the form of plots of manners that these men carrying, I say,
• 38:35
  the stamp of one defect being nature's livery or fortune star their virtues.
• 38:42
  Else be they as pure as grace, as infinite as man may undergo,
• 38:50
  shall in the general censure take corruption from that particular fault the dram of eel
• 39:00
  doth all the noble substance of a doubt to his own scandal. Look,
• 39:07
  my lord, it comes, and to her ghost. The angels and ministers
• 39:13
  of grace defend us. Be thou a spirit of health or goblin? Damn'd
• 39:19
  bring with thee airs from heaven or blasphem hell? Be thy intense, wicked
• 39:24
  or charitable? Thou comest in such a questionable shape that I'll speak to thee.
• 39:32
  I'll call thee hamlet king father royal Dane. O answer me. Let
• 39:43
  me not burst in ignorance, but tell why thy canonized bones hurst in death
• 39:49
  have burst their cerements. Why the sepulcher wherein we saw thee quietly inured,
• 39:55
  hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws to cast thee up again? What may
• 40:02
  this mean that thou dead coarse again? In complete steel? Revisitest thus the
• 40:12
  glimpses of the moon making night hideous, And we fools of nature so horridly
• 40:19
  to shake our disposition with thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls, say,
• 40:25
  why is this? Wherefore what should we do? Ghost beckons hamlet, It
• 40:32
  beckons you to go away with it, as if it's some impartment to desire
• 40:37
  to you alone. Look with what courteous action it waves you to a more
• 40:42
  removed ground. But do not go with it? No, by no means
• 40:46
  it will not speak? Then I will follow it? Do not, my
• 40:52
  lord? Why what should be the fear? I do not set my life
• 40:57
  in a pin's fee and from my soul? What can it do to that?
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  Being a thing immortal as itself? It weighs me? Forth again,
• 41:05
  I'll follow it? What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
• 41:08
  or to the dreadful summit of the cliff that beetles o'er his base into
• 41:12
  the sea, and there assume some other horrible form which might deprive your sovereignty
• 41:15
  of reason and draw you into madness. Think of it. The very place
• 41:20
  puts toys of desperation without more motive into every brain that looks so many fathoms
• 41:25
  to the sea, and hears it roar beneath it waves me still, go
• 41:30
  on, I'll follow thee. You shall not go, my lord, hold
• 41:35
  off your hands, be ruled. You shall not go. My fate cries
• 41:39
  out and makes each petty artery in this body as hardy as a nemian lion's
• 41:45
  nerve. Still am I called? Unhand me? Gentlemen by Heaven, I'll
• 41:51
  make a ghost of him that lets me, I say, away, go
• 41:55
  on, I'll follow thee. Excell Ghost and Hamlet. He waxes desperate with
• 42:02
  imagination. Let's follow tis not fit? Thus to obey him? Have after
• 42:09
  to what issue? Will this come? Something is rotten in the state of
• 42:14
  Denmark. Heaven will direct it. Nay, Let's follow him. Excent Scene
• 42:21
  five, another part of the platform. Enter Ghost and Hamlet, Where wilt
• 42:27
  thou lead me? Speak? I'll go no further, mark me, I
• 42:32
  will. My hour is almost come. When I to sulfurous and tormenting flames,
• 42:38
  must render up myself alas poor ghost, hitting me not but led my
• 42:45
  serious hearing to what I shall unfold speak, I am bound to hear,
• 42:51
  So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear what I am my father's spirit
• 42:58
  doomed for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confined
• 43:01
  to waste in fires. So the foul crimes done in my days of nature
• 43:06
  are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid to tell the secrets
• 43:10
  of my prison house. I could a tail unfold whose latest word would harrow
• 43:14
  up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes, like
• 43:17
  stars start from their spheres, thy nodded and combined, and walks depart,
• 43:22
  and each particular hair to stand upon end, like quels upon the fretful porcupine.
• 43:28
  But this eternal blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood.
• 43:31
  List, oh, list, if thou didst ever thy dear father, love,
• 43:37
  oh God, revenge his foul and most unnatural murder, murder, murder,
• 43:45
  most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul,
• 43:50
  strange and unnatural haste me to note that I with wings as swift as
• 43:57
  meditation, or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge. I find
• 44:01
  the apt and duller. Shouldst thou be than the fat weed that roots itself
• 44:06
  in ease on laithe wharf? Would thou not stir in this? Now,
• 44:08
  Hamlet, here tis given out that sleeping in mine orchard, a serpent stung
• 44:14
  me. So the whole ear of Denmark is by a forged process of my
• 44:16
  death rankly abused. But know thou, noble youth, the serpent that did
• 44:22
  sting thy father's life, now wears his crown, Oh, my prophetic soul,
• 44:28
  My uncle aye, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, with witchcraft of
• 44:35
  his wit, with traitorous gifts, Oh, wicked wit, and gifts that
• 44:38
  have the power so to seduce one to his shameful lust the will of my
• 44:43
  most seeming virtuous queen, Oh Hamlet, what a falling off was there from
• 44:49
  me? Whose love was of that dignity that it went hand in hand even
• 44:52
  with the vow I made to her in marriage. And to decline upon a
• 44:57
  wretch whose natural gifts were poor to those of mine. But virtue as it
• 45:01
  never will be moved, though lewdness corded, and a shape of heaven.
• 45:06
  So lust though to a radiant angel linked will save itself in a celestial bed
• 45:09
  and prey on garbage. But soft methinks, I sent the morning air brief.
• 45:15
  Let me be sleeping within mine orchard, my custom always in the afternoon,
• 45:20
  upon my secure hour, thy uncle stole with juice or cursed heaven,
• 45:23
  And in a vial, and in the porches of mine ears did pour the
• 45:28
  leprous distillment, whose effect hold such an enmity with blood of man, that
• 45:31
  swiftest quicksilver it courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body, and
• 45:37
  with a sudden vigor if of posset and curd like eager droppings into milk,
• 45:40
  the thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine, And a most instant
• 45:45
  tendor barked about most lazarlike, with violin, loathsome crust all my smooth body.
• 45:51
  Thus was I sleeping by a brother's hand of life of crown of queen,
• 45:55
  at once dispatched, cut off even in the plossoms, my sin,
• 46:00
  unhousled, disappointed, unannaled, No reckoning made, but sent to my account
• 46:06
  with all my imperfections on my head. Oh horrible, oh horrible, most
• 46:12
  horrible. If thou hast nature in thee bear it not. Let not the
• 46:16
  royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest. But howsoever
• 46:22
  thou pursuest this act, tain't not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
• 46:27
  against thy mother aught leave her to Heaven, into those thorns that in her
• 46:31
  bosom lodge, to prick and sting her fairly well. At once the glow
• 46:36
  worm shows the matin to be near, and gins to tail his ineffectual fire.
• 46:40
  Adieu, Adieu, Hamlet remember me exit ghost, oh all you host
• 46:47
  of Heaven, Oh Earth? What else then shall I couple hell ah fie,
• 46:58
  oh my heart and you my sinews grow not instant old, but bear
• 47:05
  me stiffly up. Remember thee ay, thou poor ghost. While memory holds
• 47:14
  a seat in this distracted globe, remember thee yea from the table of my
• 47:21
  memory. I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, all saws of books,
• 47:28
  all forms, all pressures past that youth and observation copy there and thy commandment
• 47:35
  all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain, unmixed with
• 47:42
  base of matter. Yes, by Heaven, oh most pernicious woman, Oh
• 47:49
  villain, villain, smiling, damned villain, My table's meet it is.
• 47:57
  I set it down that one may smile and smile and be a villain at
• 48:01
  least I am sure it may be so in Denmark writing hmm, So uncle
• 48:09
  there you are now to my word. It is a due ade, remember
• 48:16
  me. I have sworn within, my lord, my lord, lord,
• 48:23
  hamlet heaven secure him. So be it within. Hello, ho ho ho,
• 48:30
  my lord, Hello ho ho boy, come bird, come enter Horatio
• 48:37
  and Marcellus. How is it, my noble lord? What news, my
• 48:40
  lord? No wonderful? Could my lord tell it? No? You'll reveal
• 48:47
  it? No, I, my lord, by heaven? Nor I my
• 48:52
  lord? How say you? Then? What heart of man once thinkth?
• 48:57
  But you'll be secret? Aye? By heaven, my lord. There's ne'er
• 49:00
  a villain dwelling in all Denmark, but he's an errant knave. There needs
• 49:05
  no ghost, my lord come from the grave to tell us this. Why
• 49:08
  right you are the right, and so, without more circumstance at all,
• 49:13
  I hold it fit that we shake hands and part you as your business and
• 49:15
  desire shall point you for every man, as business and desire such as it
• 49:20
  is and for mine own poor part. Look you are, I'll go pray
• 49:25
  these about wild and whirling words, my lord, I am sorry they offend
• 49:30
  you heartily, Yes, faith, heartily. There's no offense, my lord,
• 49:38
  yes, by Saint Patrick. But there is horatio and much offense too
• 49:45
  touching this vision here, it is an honest ghost that let me tell you
• 49:50
  for your desire to know what is between us, or master it as you
• 49:52
  may, and now good friends, as you are, friends, scholars and
• 49:59
  soldiers, give me one poor request, what is my lord? We will
• 50:06
  never make known what you have seen tonight, my lord. We will not
• 50:09
  nay, but swear it in faith, my lord, not I nor I
• 50:14
  my lord, in faith upon my sword. We have sworn, my Lord
• 50:19
  already indeed upon my sword. Indeed beneath ha boy, sayest thou so art
• 50:29
  thou there true penny. Come on you hear this fellow in the celaridge,
• 50:32
  consent to swear, propose the oath, my lord, never to speak of
• 50:37
  this that you have seen. Swear by my sword beneath hi hiccotupik eh ha
• 50:45
  ha. Then we'll shift our ground. Come here there, gentlemen, and
• 50:50
  lay your hands again upon my sword, never to speak of this that you
• 50:53
  have heard, swear by my sword beneath well said old mole Cat's work of
• 51:04
  the earth, so fast worthy pioneer once more removed. Good friends, oh
• 51:10
  daan knight, But this is wondrous, strange, and therefore as a stranger,
• 51:17
  give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
• 51:22
  than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come here as before never
• 51:30
  so help you mercy, how strange or odd, soe'er I bear myself as
• 51:35
  I perchance hereafter shall think meat to put an antic disposition on that you at
• 51:40
  such times seeing me, never shall with arms encumbered thus or this headshake,
• 51:45
  or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase as well. Well, we know all
• 51:52
  we could, and if we would, or if we list to speak,
• 51:55
  or there be and if they might, or such emby you giving out note
• 52:00
  that you know aught of me this not to do so, grace and mercy
• 52:07
  at your most need, help you swear beneath rest rest perturbed spirit, they
• 52:16
  swear so, gentlemen, with all my love, I do commend me to
• 52:22
  you. And what's so poor a man as Hamlet is may do to express
• 52:29
  his love and friending to you God willing shall not lack. Let us go
• 52:35
  in together, and still your fingers on your lips. I pray the time
• 52:42
  is out of joint, Oh, cursed spite that ever I was born to
• 52:49
  set it right. Hey, come, let's go together. Excellent. End
• 52:58
  of Act one, Act two seem one. A room in Polonius's house.
• 53:04
  Enter Polonius and rinaldo give him this money and these notes, Rainaldo, I
• 53:09
  will, my lord, you shall do Marvel's wisely good Rainaldo, before you
• 53:14
  visit him, to make inquire of his behavior. My Lord I did intend
• 53:20
  it. Mary Well said very well, said look you, sir, inquire
• 53:25
  me first what Danskers are in Paris, and how and who, what means?
• 53:30
  And where they keep, what company, at what expense, And finding
• 53:35
  by this encompassment and drift of question that they do know my son. Come
• 53:39
  you more nearer than your particular demands will touch it. Take you as to
• 53:45
  some distant knowledge of him, as thus I know his father and his friends,
• 53:51
  and in part him do you mark this, Rainaldo? Ay, very
• 53:54
  well, my lord, and in part him. But you may say not
• 54:00
  well, but if be he, I mean he's very wild addicted, so
• 54:05
  and so and there put on him what forgeries you please, were it none
• 54:09
  so rank as may dishonor him, take heed of that, But sir,
• 54:15
  such wanton, wild and usual slips as our companions noted, and most known
• 54:20
  to youth and liberty as gaming, my lord, I'll drinking, fencing,
• 54:25
  swearing, quarreling, drabbing. You may go so far, my lord,
• 54:30
  that would dishonor him faith. No, as you may season it in the
• 54:34
  charge, you must not put another scandal on him that he is open to
• 54:37
  incontinency. That's not my meaning. But breathe his faults so quaintly that they
• 54:44
  may seem the taints of liberty, the flash and outbreak of a firy mind,
• 54:47
  a savage nurse in unreclaimed blood, of general assaults. But my good
• 54:53
  lord, wherefore should you do this? Ay, my lord, I would
• 54:59
  know that Mary's sir, here's my drift, and I believe it is a
• 55:04
  fetch of warrant, you laying these slight sullies on my son, as to
• 55:08
  a thing a little soiled in the working mark you your party in converse him,
• 55:14
  you would sound, having ever seen in the prenominate crimes the use you
• 55:19
  breathe off guilty be assured. He closes with you in this consequence, good
• 55:23
  sir, or so or friend or gentleman, according to the phrase or the
• 55:29
  addition of man and country. Very good, my lord. And then sir,
• 55:35
  this does what was I about to say? By the mass, I
• 55:40
  was about to say something? Where did I leave? That closes in the
• 55:46
  consequence at friend orso? And gentleman closes in the consequence, Ay, Mary,
• 55:53
  he closes. Thus I know the gentleman. I saw him yesterday or
• 55:58
  t'other day, or then or then with such and such, and as you
• 56:00
  say, there was a gaming there, or Tukin's rouse there falling out at
• 56:06
  tennis, or perchance I saw him into such a house of sale, VI
• 56:10
  diligate a brothel or so forth. See you now, your bait of falsehood
• 56:15
  takes this carp of truth. And thus do we, of wisdom and of
• 56:21
  reach, with windlasses and with essays of bias, by indirections, find directions
• 56:27
  out. So by my former lecture and advice, shall you, my son,
• 56:34
  you have me? Have you not? My lord? I have God?
• 56:37
  Be we fare you well? Good, my lord, observe his inclination
• 56:44
  in yourself, I shall, my lord, and let him ply his music.
• 56:49
  Well, my lord, farewell, exit rinaldo enter Ophelia. How now,
• 56:57
  Ophelia, what's the matter, my lord, my lord? I have
• 57:00
  been so affrighted with what be the name of God? My Lord? As
• 57:06
  I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all umbraced,
• 57:10
  no hat upon his head, his stockings fowled, unguarded and downdrived to
• 57:15
  his ankle pale as his shirt, his knees knocking together, and with a
• 57:20
  look so piteous and purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to
• 57:23
  speak of horrors. He comes before me, mad that I love my lord,
• 57:29
  I do not know, but truly I do fear it, what said
• 57:32
  he? He took me by the wrist and held me hard. Then goes
• 57:37
  he to the length of all his arm, and with his other hand thus
• 57:42
  or his brow, he falls to such perusal of my face as he would
• 57:45
  draw it. Long stayed he so at last a little shaking of mine arm,
• 57:52
  and thrice his head, thus waving up and down, he raised a
• 57:55
  sigh so piteous and profound as it did seemed to shatter all his bulk,
• 58:01
  and end his being. That done, he lets me go and with his
• 58:07
  head or his shoulder turned. He seemed to find his way without his eyes.
• 58:13
  For out of doors he went without their hopes, and to the last
• 58:17
  bended the light on me. Come go with me, I will go seek
• 58:22
  the king. This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property or
• 58:28
  does itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings, as often as any passion
• 58:32
  under heaven that doth afflict our natures. I am sorry, what have you
• 58:38
  given him? Any hard words of late? No, my good lord,
• 58:43
  But as you did command, I did repel his fetters and denied his access
• 58:46
  to me. That hath made him mad. I am sorry that, with
• 58:52
  better heed and judgment I had not quoted him. I feared he did but
• 58:57
  trifle and meant to rack thee. But be true by jealousy by heaven.
• 59:01
  It is as proper to our age to cave beyond ourselves in our opinions.
• 59:07
  Thus is common for the younger sort to lack discretion. Come go we to
• 59:13
  the king. This must be known, which, being kept close, might
• 59:16
  move more grief to hide than hate t ought to love. Come excellent Scene
• 59:23
  two. A room in the castle, enter King Claudius, Queen Gertrude,
• 59:29
  Rosenkrantz, Guildenstern and attendants. Welcome, dear Rosenkrantz and Kildenstein. Moreover,
• 59:36
  that we much did long to see you. The need we have to use
• 59:38
  you did provoke our hasty sending something. Have you heard of Hamlet's transformation,
• 59:44
  So call it sith nor the exterior nor the inward man resembles that it was
• 59:51
  what it should be, more than his father's death, That thus hath put
• 59:53
  him so much from the understanding of himself I cannot dream of. I entreat
• 59:58
  you both that, being of so young days brought up with him, and
• 1:00:01
  sith so neighbored to his youth and behavior, that you vouchsafe your rest here
• 1:00:07
  in our court some little time so by your companies to draw him on too
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  pleasures and to gather so much as from occasion you may glean, whether ought
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  to us unknown afflicts him. Thus that opened lies within our remedy. Good
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  gentlemen, he hath much talked of you, and sure I am two men
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  there are not living to whom he more a tears. If it will please
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  you to show us so much gentry and good will as to expend your time
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  with us a while for the supply and profit of our hope. Your visitation
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  shall receive such thanks as befits a king's remembrance. Both your majesties might,
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  by the sovereign power you have of us, put your dread pleasures more into
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  command than to entreaty. We both obey and here give up ourselves in the
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  full bent to lay our service freely at your feet to be commanded. Thanks
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  rosen Krantz and Gentle Gildenstern. Thanks Guildenstern and Gentle Rosenkrantz, and I beseech
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  you instantly to visit my too much changed son. Go some of you and
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  bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is. Heavens make our presence and our practices pleasant
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  and helpful to him. I amen, Excellent Rosenkrantz, Guildenstern and some attendants
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  enter Polonius. The ambassadors from Norway, my good Lord, are joyfully returned.
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  Now still hast been the father of good news? Have I, my
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  Lord, assure you, my good liege, I hold my duty as I
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  hold my soul, both to my God and to my gracious King. And
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  I do think or else. This brain of mine hunts not the trail of
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  policies, So sure as it hath used to do that, I have found
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  the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy. Oh, speak of that that do I
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  long to hear first admittance to the ambassadors. My news shall be the fruit
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  to that great feast thy self. Do grace to them and bring them in
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  exit Polonius. He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found the
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  head and source of all your son's distemper. I doubt it is no other
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  but the main his father's death and our er hasty marriage. Well we shall
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  sift him re enter Polonius with Voltemand and Cornelius. Welcome, my good friends,
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  say voltemand what from our brother Norway, most fair return of greetings and
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  desires upon our First, he sent out to suppress his nephew's levies, which
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  to him appeared to be a preparation against the Pollock, But better looked into,
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  he truly found it was against your highness. Whereat grieved that so his
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  sickness, age and impotence was falsely born in hand, sends out arrests on
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  Fortinbras, which he in brief base receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine
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  makes vow before his uncle nevermore to give the essay of arms against your majesty,
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  whereon Old Norway, overcome with joy, gives him three thousand crowns an
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  annual fee, and his commission to employ these soldiers. So leve it as
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  before against the pollock, with an entreaty herein further shown giving a paper that
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  it might please you to give quiet pass through your dominions for this enterprise on
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  such regards of safety and allowance as therein are set down. It likes us
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  well, and at our more considered time, well read answer and think upon
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  this business. Meantime, we thank you for your well took labor. Go
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  to your rest at night, will feast together most welcome home, excellent Voltemann
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  and Cornelius. This business is well ended, my liege and madam. To
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  expostulate what majesty should be, what duty is? Why day is day,
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  night is night on time? T is time worth nothing but to waste night,
• 1:04:02
  day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit and
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  tediousness, the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble
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  son is mad mad call ay it for to define true madness, what ist
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  but to be nothing else but mad? But let that go more matter,
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  with less art, Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
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  That he is mad tis true, tis true, tis pity and pity tis
• 1:04:38
  tis true, a foolish figure. But farewell it, for I will use
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  no art. Mad Let us grant him then, and now remains that we
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  find out the cause of this effect, or rather say the cause of this
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  defect. For this effect defective comes by cause. Thus it remains, and
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  the remainder. Thus perpend I have a daughter, have while she is mine,
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  who, in her duty and obedience mark hath given me this. Now
• 1:05:15
  gather and surmise. Reads to the celestial and my soul's idol, the most
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  beautified, Ophelia. That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase. Beautified is
• 1:05:30
  a vile phrase. But you shall hear thus reads in her excellent white bosom,
• 1:05:39
  these, et cetera. Came this from Hamlet to her good Madam,
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  stay a while I will be faithful. Reads. Doubt thou the stars are
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  fire, doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be alive,
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  But never doubt. I love, oh dear, If he whre I am
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  ill at these numbers. I have not art to reckon my groans, but
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  that I love thee best, oh most best, believe it. Adieu thy
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  never more, most dear lady. While this machine is to him Hamlet.
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  This in obedience hath my daughter shown me? And more above hath his solicitings
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  as they fell out, by time, by means and place, all given
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  to mine? Ear? But how hath she received his love? What do
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  you think of me as of a man faithful and honorable? I would fain
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  prove so. But what might you think when I had seen this hot love
• 1:06:44
  on the wing as I perceived it? I must tell you that before my
• 1:06:48
  daughter told me, what might you, oh, my dear majesty, your
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  queen here, think, if I had played the desk or table book,
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  oh, given my heart a winking mute and dumb, or looked upon this
• 1:07:01
  love with idle sight? What might you think? No? I went round
• 1:07:06
  to work, and my young mistress, thus I did bespeak, Lord Hamlet
• 1:07:12
  is a prince out of thy star. This must not be. And then
• 1:07:15
  I prescripts gave her that she should lock herself from his resort. Admit no
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  messengers, receive no tokens, which done, she took the fruits of my
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  advice, and he repulsed a short tale to make fell into a sadness,
• 1:07:31
  then into a fast, then to a watch, thence into a weakness,
• 1:07:35
  thence to a lightness, and by this declension into the madness, wherein now
• 1:07:41
  he raves, and all we mourn. For do you think tis this?
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  It may be very likely. Hath there been such a time I would fain
• 1:07:51
  know that that I have positively said, tis so? When it proved otherwise,
• 1:07:57
  not that I know, pointing to his head and shoulder, take this
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  from this if this be otherwise, if circumstances lead me, I will find
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  where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed within the center. How
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  may we try it further? You know sometimes he walks for hours together here
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  in the lobby, so he does. Indeed, at such a time I'll
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  loose my daughter to him, be you and I behind an arras, then
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  mark the encounter. If he love her not, and he not from his
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  reason fallen thereon, let me be no assistant for a state, but keep
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  a farm and cotters. We will try it. But look where sadly the
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  poor wretch comes reading away. I do beseech you both away. I'll board
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  him presently. Oh, give me leave, excellent King Claudius, Queen Gertrude,
• 1:08:54
  and attendance. Enter Hamlet reading, How does my good lord Hamlet?
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  Well, god a mercy? Do you know me? My lord? Excellent?
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  Well, you're a fishmonger? Not I, my lord? Then I
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  would you were so honest? A man honest, my lord, I sir,
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  To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked
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  out of ten thousand. That's very true, my lord. For if the
• 1:09:25
  sun breed maggots and a dead dog being a god kissing carrion? Have you
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  a daughter? I have, my Lord, let her not walk in the
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  sun. Conception is a blessing, but not as your daughter may conceive.
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  Friend, look tot aside, I'll say you buy that, still harping on
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  my daughter. Yet he knew me? Not at first? He said I
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  was a fishmonger. He is far gone, far gone, and truly in
• 1:09:55
  my youth I suffered much extremity for love very near this. Yes, I'll
• 1:10:00
  speak to him again. What do you read, my lord? Words?
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  Words? Oh words? What is the matter, my lord? Between who
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  I mean? The matter that you read? My Lord Slanders, Sir,
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  for the satirical robe says here that old men have gray beards, that their
• 1:10:27
  faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum tree gum, and
• 1:10:31
  that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.
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  All words, Sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I
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  hold it not honesty to have it thus set down for yourself, Sir,
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  should be as old as I am. If like a crab you could go
• 1:10:47
  backward. Though this be madness, yet there's a method in it. Will
• 1:10:53
  you walk out of the air, my lord, into my grave? Indeed,
• 1:10:57
  that is out the air? Aside, how pregnant. Sometimes his replies
• 1:11:02
  are the happiness that often madness hits, on which reason and sanity could not
• 1:11:09
  so prosperously be delivered of. I will leave him and suddenly contrive the means
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  of meeting between him and my daughter. My honorable Lord, I will most
• 1:11:19
  humbly take my leave of you. You cannot so take for me anything that
• 1:11:25
  I will more willingly part withal accept my life, accept my life hum except
• 1:11:35
  my life. Fare you well, my lord. Tedious old fools enter Rosencrantz
• 1:11:44
  and Guildenstern, you go to see the Lord Hamlet. There he is to
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  Polonius, God save you, sir, Exit Polonius, My honored lord,
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  my most dear lord, my excellent good friend. How dost thou Gildenstone,
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  ah Rosencrantz, good lads? How do you both, as the indifferent children
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  of the earth happy in that? We are not over happy? On Fortune's
• 1:12:13
  cap We are not the very button nor the soles of her shoe. Neither,
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  my lord. Then you live about her waste or in the middle of
• 1:12:23
  her favors, faith her privates. We in the secret parts of fortune.
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  Ha ha ha, Oh, most true, she is a strumpet. What's
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  the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest?
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  Then is doomsday near? But your news is not true? Let me question
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  you more, in particular, what have you, my good friends, deserved
• 1:12:48
  at the hands of fortune that she sends you to prison? Hither prison,
• 1:12:54
  my lord? Denmark's a prison? Then is the world one a goodly one
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  in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one of
• 1:13:05
  the worst. We think not so, my lord? Why then tis none
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  to you? For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes
• 1:13:15
  it so. To me it is a prison? Why then your ambition makes
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  it one? Tis too narrow for your mind? God, I could be
• 1:13:25
  bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it
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  not that I have bad dreams? Which dreams? Indeed, our ambition,
• 1:13:33
  For the very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream.
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  A dream itself is but a shadow, truly, And I hold ambition of
• 1:13:43
  so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. Then
• 1:13:47
  are our beggar's bodies, and our monarchs and outstretched heroes, the beggars shadows?
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  Shall we to the court, For by my fee I cannot reason.
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  We'll wait upon you no such matter. I will not sort you with the
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  rest of my servants, for to speak to you like an honest man,
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  I am most dreadfully attended. But in the beaten way of friendship. What
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  make you at elsinore to visit you, my lord? No other occasion beggar
• 1:14:19
  that I am. I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you,
• 1:14:26
  and sure, dear friends, my things are too dear. A halfpenny
• 1:14:29
  were you not sent? For is it your own inclining is it a free
• 1:14:34
  visitation? Come deal justly with me? Come, come, nay speak What
• 1:14:44
  should we say, my lord? Why anything but to the purpose you were
• 1:14:49
  sent for? And there is a kind of confession in your looks which your
• 1:14:55
  modesties have not craft enough to color. I know the good King and Queen
• 1:15:01
  have sent for you. To what end, my lord, that you must
• 1:15:06
  teach me? But let me conjure you by the rights of our fellowship,
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  by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of our ever preserved love,
• 1:15:19
  And by what more, dear a better proposer could charge you withal Be
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  even and direct with me, whether you were sent for or no? Aside
• 1:15:31
  to Guildenstern, what say you aside? Nay? Then I have an eye
• 1:15:36
  of you. If you love me, Hold not off, my lord?
• 1:15:42
  We were sent for. I will tell you, why, so shall my
• 1:15:45
  anticipation prevent your discovery and your secrecy to the King and Queen molt no feather
• 1:15:55
  I have of late, But wherefore I know not? I've lost all my
• 1:16:00
  mirth, foregone all custom of exercises. And indeed it goes so heavily with
• 1:16:05
  my disposition that this goodly framed the earth seems to me a sterile promontory,
• 1:16:15
  This most excellent canopy the air. Look you, this brave, overhanging firmament,
• 1:16:21
  this majestical roof, fretted with gold and fire. Why it appears no
• 1:16:29
  other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a
• 1:16:35
  piece of work is man? How noble in reason? How infinite and faculty,
• 1:16:43
  and form and moving? How express an admirable in action? How like
• 1:16:50
  an angel in apprehension, How like a god? The beauty of the world,
• 1:17:00
  the paragon of animals? And yet to me, what is this quintessence
• 1:17:10
  of dust? Man delights not me, no nor woman neither, though by
• 1:17:17
  your smiling you seem to say so, my lord, there was no such
• 1:17:24
  stuff in my thoughts. Why did you laugh then when I said, man
• 1:17:30
  delights not me? To think, my lord? If you delight not in
• 1:17:34
  man? What lent and entertainment the players shall receive from you? We coated
• 1:17:39
  them on the way, and hither they are coming to offer you service.
• 1:17:43
  He the place the king shall be welcome. His majesty shall have tribute of
• 1:17:47
  me. The adventurous knight shall use his foil and target the lover shall not
• 1:17:53
  psygratis. The humorous man shall end his part in peace. The clown shall
• 1:17:58
  make those laugh whose lungs are too The sayer and the lady shall say her
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  mind freely, or the blank verse shall hertford? Or what players are they?
• 1:18:08
  Even those you were wont to take delight in the tragedians of the city.
• 1:18:12
  How chances that they travel their residence both in reputation and provid was better
• 1:18:16
  both ways? I think their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation?
• 1:18:23
  Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was in the city?
• 1:18:26
  Are they so followed? No? Indeed they are not. How comes
• 1:18:30
  it do they grow rusty? Nay? Their endeavor keeps in the wonted pace?
• 1:18:35
  But there is sir an airy of children, little iases that cry out
• 1:18:40
  on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for it. These
• 1:18:45
  are now the fashion and so beretal the common stages. So they call him
• 1:18:48
  that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose quills, and dare scarce come thither?
• 1:18:54
  What are they children? Who maintains them? How are they escotted?
• 1:19:00
  Will they pursue the quality no longer than they can sing. Will they not
• 1:19:05
  say afterwards if they should grow themselves to common players, as it is most
• 1:19:11
  like if their means are no better, their writers do them wrong to make
• 1:19:15
  them exclaim against their own succession. Faith. There has been much to do
• 1:19:19
  on both sides, and the nation holds it in no sin to tire them
• 1:19:23
  to controversy. There was for a while no money bid for argument unless the
• 1:19:28
  poet and the player went to cuffs in the question is it possible? Oh,
• 1:19:33
  there has been much throwing about of brains. Do the boys carry it
• 1:19:38
  away? Aye? That they do. My Lord Hercules and his load too.
• 1:19:42
  It is not very strange for mine uncle is King of Denmark, and
• 1:19:45
  those that would make mose it him while my father lived, give twenty forty
• 1:19:53
  fifty an hundred ducats apiece for his picture in little splud. There is something
• 1:19:59
  more in this then natural if philosophy could find it out. Flourish of trumpets
• 1:20:04
  within there are the players. Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinov your hands
• 1:20:11
  come. Then. The impertinence of welcome is fashion and ceremony. Let me
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  comply with you in this garb. Blest my extent to the players, which
• 1:20:20
  I tell you must show fairly outward, should appear more like entertainment than yours.
• 1:20:27
  You are welcome, But my uncle father and aunt mother are deceived in
• 1:20:33
  what my dear lord, I am but mad north northwest, when the wind
• 1:20:39
  is southerly. I know a hawk from a hand saw Enter Polonius. Well
• 1:20:45
  be with you, gentlemen, hark you, Gildenstern, and you too,
• 1:20:49
  at each ear a hearer a great baby. You see there is not out
• 1:20:55
  of his swaddling clothes. Happily he is the second time. Come to them,
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  For they say an old man is twice a child. I will prophecy
• 1:21:04
  he comes to tell me of the player's market. You say, right,
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  sir, oh, Monday morning twas so. Indeed, my lord, I
• 1:21:14
  have news to tell you. My Lord, I have news to tell you.
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  When Rosius was an actor in Rome, the actors are come hither,
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  my lord, buzz buzz upon mine honor. Then came each actor on his
• 1:21:27
  ass. The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy,
• 1:21:32
  history, pastoral, pastoral, comical, historical pastoral, tragical, historical,
• 1:21:39
  tragical, comical, historical, pastoral, seen individual or poem unlimited. Senneker
• 1:21:45
  cannot be too heavy, nor platter's too light. For the law of writ
• 1:21:49
  and the liberty. These are the only men, Oh Chap the judge of
• 1:21:55
  Israel, What a treasure hadst thou? What treasure had he? My Lord?
• 1:22:00
  Why? One fair daughter? And no more? The witch she loved?
• 1:22:03
  Passing well? Aside? Still on my daughter? Am I not to
• 1:22:10
  the right old Jephtha? If you call me Jephtha? My Lord, I
• 1:22:15
  have a daughter that I love passing well? Nay, that follows? Not
• 1:22:19
  what follows? Then, my lord? Why as by lot God? What?
• 1:22:32
  And then you know? Ah? It came to pass as most like
• 1:22:39
  it was the first row of the pious Chancellen will show you more. For
• 1:22:44
  look where my abridgment comes. Enter four or five players. You are welcome,
• 1:22:50
  masters, Welcome all. I am glad to see thee well, welcome,
• 1:22:55
  good friends. Oh, my old friend, thy face is valance.
• 1:23:05
  Since I saw THEE last, comes thou to beard me in Denmark. Ha,
• 1:23:12
  what my young lady and mistress? By your lady, your ladyship is
• 1:23:15
  nearer to Heaven than when I saw you last. By the altitude of a
• 1:23:20
  chopin pray God, your voice like a piece of uncurrant gold be not cracked
• 1:23:27
  within the ring. Masters, you are welcome all. We'll e into it
• 1:23:31
  like French falconers fly at anything we see. We'll have a speech straight.
• 1:23:36
  Come give us a taste of your quality. Come a passionate speech. What
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  speech, my lord? I heard thee speak a speech once. Oh,
• 1:23:45
  but it was never acted, or if it was not above once for the
• 1:23:49
  play, I remember, Please not a million twas caviare to the general.
• 1:23:55
  But it was as I received it, And others whose judgment in such matters
• 1:24:00
  cried in the top of mind an excellent play, well digested and seen,
• 1:24:04
  set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember one said there were
• 1:24:11
  no salads in the lines to make them at savory, nor no matter in
• 1:24:15
  the phrase that might indict the author of affectation, but called it an honest
• 1:24:20
  method, as wholesome, as sweet, and by very much more handsome than
• 1:24:26
  fine one speech in it. I chiefly loved twas Enaeus tale to Dido,
• 1:24:32
  and thereabout it, especially where he speaks of Priam's slaughter. If it live
• 1:24:39
  in your memory, begin at this line. Let me see, let me
• 1:24:42
  see the rugged purists like the Hyrcanian beast. No, it is not so.
• 1:24:50
  Ah. It begins with Pearis, the rugged peurist, he who sables
• 1:24:57
  arms black as his purpose did the the night resembled where he lay couched in
• 1:25:01
  the ominous horse hath. Now this dread and black complexion smeared with heraldry more
• 1:25:08
  dismal head to foot. Now is he total gulls, horridly tricked with blood
• 1:25:15
  of father's mother's daughter's sons, baked and impasted with the parching streets that lend
• 1:25:23
  a tyrannous and damnid light to the lord's murder, Roasted in wrath and fire,
• 1:25:29
  and thus oversighs with coagulant gore with eyes like carbuncles. The hellish peeress
• 1:25:38
  old grandsire Priam speaks, Ah, so precede you for God, my Lord,
• 1:25:45
  well spoken and with good accent and good discretion. Anon, he finds
• 1:25:50
  him striking too short at Greeks. His antique sword, rebellious to his arm,
• 1:25:55
  lies where it falls repugnant command unequal matched peeris at price, drives and
• 1:26:00
  rage strikes wide, but with the whiff and wind of his fellow sword,
• 1:26:03
  the unnerved father falls, then senseless Ilium, seeming to feel this blow with
• 1:26:08
  flaming top stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash, takes prisoner
• 1:26:12
  Peirris's ear for lo His sword, which was declining on the milky head of
• 1:26:15
  Reverend Priam, seemed to the air to stick. So as a painted tyrant
• 1:26:19
  Peerus stood and like a neutral to his will and matter did nothing. But,
• 1:26:24
  as we often see against some storm, a silence in the heavens,
• 1:26:27
  the racks stands still, the bold winds speechless in the ore below, as
• 1:26:30
  hush as death anon, the dreadful thunder doth rend the region. So after
• 1:26:34
  Peirus's paws aroused, vengeance sets him newer work. And never did the cyclop's
• 1:26:39
  hammers fall on Mars's armor forge for proof. A turn with less remorse than
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  Piirrs's bleeding sword now falls on Prium. Out out thou strumpet fortune, all
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  you gods in general Synod, take away her power, break all the spokes
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  and fellies from her wheel, and bowl the round knave down the hill of
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  heaven as low as to the fiends, this is too long, it shouter
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  the barbers with your beard, Prithee say on needs for a jig or a
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  taiale of bawdery, or he sleeps, say on, come to Hecuba.
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  But who oh, who had seen the mobiled queen? The mobled queen,
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  that's good. Mobiled queen is good. Run barefoot up and down, threatening
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  the flames with bison room, a clout upon that head where late the diadem
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  stood, and for a robe about her lank and all or timid loins a
• 1:27:26
  blanket in the alarm of fear caught up? Who this had seen? With
• 1:27:30
  tongue venoms steeped against fortune state, would treason have pronounced? But if the
• 1:27:34
  gods themselves did see her, then, when she saw Peerus make malicious sport
• 1:27:38
  in mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, the instant burst of clamor that
• 1:27:42
  she made, unless things mortal moved them not at all, would have made
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  milch the burning eyes of heaven and passion in the gods. Look where he
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  has not turned his color and has tears in his eyes. Prithee, no
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  more, tis well, I'll have thee speak out the rests soon. Good,
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  my lord, will you see the players well? Bestowed? Do you
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  hear? Let them be well used? For they are the abstract and brief
• 1:28:08
  chronicles of the time after your death. You were better have a bad epitaph
• 1:28:13
  than their ill report. While you live, my lord, I will use
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  them according to bad dessert, God's Bodkin's man. Much better, use every
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  man after his dessert, and who should scape whipping. Use them after your
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  own honor and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in
• 1:28:31
  your bounty. Take them in. Come, sirs, follow him, friends,
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  we'll hear a play tomorrow Exit Polonius with all players but the first,
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  dost thou hear me? Old friend? Can you play the Murder of Gonzago?
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  Ay? My lord, we'll have tomorrow night. You could, for
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  a need study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would
• 1:28:59
  set now insert int. Could you not? Ay? My lord? Very
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  well? Follow that lord, and look you mock him? Not exit first
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  player, My good friends, I'll leave you till night. You are welcome
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  to elsinor good my lord, Ay, sir, God be with ye,
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  excellent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Now I am alone? Oh what a rogue and
• 1:29:27
  peasants slave? Am I? Is it not monstrous that this player here but
• 1:29:32
  in a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his soul so
• 1:29:38
  to his own conceit that from her working all his visage wand tears in his
• 1:29:45
  eyes, distraction in his aspect, a broken voice, and his whole function
• 1:29:53
  suiting with forms to his conceit, and all for nothing for Hecuba A What's
• 1:30:03
  Hecuba? To him? Were he to Hecuba that he should weep for her?
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  What would he do? Had he the motive in cue for passion that
• 1:30:14
  I have, he would drown the stage with tears and cleave the general ear
• 1:30:20
  with horrid speech, make mad the guilty, and appall the free, confound
• 1:30:26
  the ignorant, and amaze indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet
• 1:30:30
  I a dull and muddy metalled rascal pique like Shauna, dreams, unpregnant of
• 1:30:40
  my cause, and can say nothing, Oh not for a king upon whose
• 1:30:49
  property and most dear life a damned defeat was made am I word? Who
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  calls me villain, breaks my pain across, plucks off my beard and blows
• 1:31:09
  it in my face, tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie
• 1:31:14
  the throat as deep as to the lungs. Who does me this? Hah
• 1:31:21
  swounds? I should take it, for it cannot be but I am pigeon
• 1:31:29
  livered and lack goll to make oppression bitter. Oh hear this, I should
• 1:31:33
  have fatted all the region's kites with this slave's awful, bloody body. Villain,
• 1:31:47
  remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain of vengeance. Oh, oh,
• 1:31:59
  what an ass am. I this is most brave that I, the
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  son of a dear father murdered, prompted to my revenge by Heaven and hell,
• 1:32:14
  must like a whore, unpack my heart with words and fall a cursing
• 1:32:20
  like a very drab a scullion, fire upont foe about my brain. I
• 1:32:32
  have heard the guilty creatures sitting at a play have, by the very cunning
• 1:32:40
  of the scene, been struck so to the soul that presently they have proclaimed
• 1:32:44
  their malefactions for murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most
• 1:32:50
  miraculous organ. I'll have these players place something the murder of my father before
• 1:33:02
  mine uncle. I'll observe his looks. I'll tend him to the quick if
• 1:33:09
  he but blench, I know, my course. The spirit that I have
• 1:33:14
  seen may be the devil, and the devil have power to assume a pleasing
• 1:33:18
  shape. Yeah, and perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy, as
• 1:33:23
  he is very potent with such spirits, abuses me to damn me. I'll
• 1:33:28
  have grounds more relative than this, the plays the thing wherein I'll catch the
• 1:33:35
  conscience of the king. Exit end of Act two, Act three seem one
• 1:33:45
  a room in the castle, Enter King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Polonius,
• 1:33:49
  Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and Guldenstern. And can you, by no drift of
• 1:33:55
  circumstance get from him? Why he puts on this confusion, grating so harshly
• 1:34:00
  all his days of quiet, with turbulent and dangerous lunacy. He does confess
• 1:34:04
  he feels himself distracted, But from what cause? He will, by no
• 1:34:09
  means speak, Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, but with
• 1:34:13
  a crafty madness keeps aloof when we would bring him on to some confession of
• 1:34:17
  his true state? Did he receive you well, most like a gentleman,
• 1:34:21
  but with much forcing of his disposition niggard of question, but of our demands
• 1:34:28
  most free? In his reply? Did you essay him tow any pastime?
• 1:34:31
  Madam? It so fell out that certain players we are wrought on the way
• 1:34:38
  of these we told him, and there did seem in him a kind of
• 1:34:41
  joy to hear of it. They are about the court, and as I
• 1:34:45
  think they have already ordered this night to play before him tis most true.
• 1:34:49
  And he beseeched me to entreat your majesties to hear and see the matter with
• 1:34:55
  all my heart. And it doth much content me to hear him so inclined,
• 1:35:00
  good gentleman, give him a further edge and drive his purpose on to
• 1:35:03
  these delights. We shall, my Lord Excellent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Sweet Gertrude,
• 1:35:11
  leave us too, for we have closely sent for Hamlet hither that he,
• 1:35:15
  as twere by accident, may hear of front. Ophelia, her father
• 1:35:18
  and myself lawfuleespiells will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen, we may of
• 1:35:25
  therein counter frankly judge and gather by him as he has behaved, if it
• 1:35:30
  be the affliction of his love, or know that thus he suffers. For
• 1:35:33
  I shall obey you, and for your part, Ophelia, I do wish
• 1:35:39
  that your good beauties be the happy cause of Hamlet's wildness. So shall I
• 1:35:44
  hope your virtues will bring him to his wonted way again to both your honors,
• 1:35:48
  Madam, I wish it may exit. Queen Gertrude, Ophelia, walk
• 1:35:55
  you here, gracious, so please you. We will bestow ourselves to Ophelia.
• 1:36:00
  Read on this book that show such an exercise may color your loneliness.
• 1:36:05
  We are oft to blame in this tis too much proved that with devotion's visage
• 1:36:10
  and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself aside? Who tis too
• 1:36:16
  true? How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience? The harlot's
• 1:36:21
  cheek, beautied with plastering art, is not more ugly to the thing that
• 1:36:26
  helps it than is my deed to my most painted word. O heavy burthen,
• 1:36:31
  I hear him coming. Let withdraw my lord, excellent King Claudius and
• 1:36:35
  Polonius enter Hamlet to be or not to be? That is the question?
• 1:36:46
  With tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
• 1:36:55
  or to take arms against the sea of troubles, and by opposing end
• 1:37:00
  them to die? To sleep no more, and by a sleep, to
• 1:37:11
  say we end the heartache and thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.
• 1:37:19
  Oh, the consummation devoutly to be wished to die, to sleep, to
• 1:37:30
  sleep perchance to dream. Ah, there's the rob For in that sleep of
• 1:37:40
  death, what dreams may come? When we have shuffled off this mortal coil?
• 1:37:47
  Must give us pause. There's the respect that makes calamity of so long
• 1:37:54
  life. For who would bear the whips and scores of time, the oppressors,
• 1:38:00
  wrongs of the proud man's Countumly the pangs have despised love, The laws
• 1:38:05
  delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns the patient merit of the
• 1:38:14
  unworthy takes when he himself might tis quite as make with a bare barkin.
• 1:38:21
  Who would fardles bear to grunt and sweat under a weary life? But that
• 1:38:30
  the tread of something after death, the undiscovered country from who's born no traveler
• 1:38:38
  returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than
• 1:38:47
  fly to others we know not of. Ah. Thus conscience does make cowards
• 1:38:57
  of us all. And thus the native hue of resolution is sickly dover with
• 1:39:05
  the pale cast of thought and enterprises of great pith and moment, with this
• 1:39:13
  regard their currents. Turn of rye and lose the name of action. Ah
• 1:39:23
  fluff, you know the fair of failure, nymph in thy orisons. Be
• 1:39:32
  all my sins remembered? Good, my lord? How does your honor for
• 1:39:38
  this many day? I humbly thank you? Well? Well, well,
• 1:39:45
  my lord, I have remembrances of yours that I have longed long to redeliver.
• 1:39:51
  I pray you now receive them. No, not I I never gave
• 1:39:58
  you aught, my honored lord, you know right well you did, and
• 1:40:03
  with them words of so sweet breath composed as made the things more rich,
• 1:40:10
  their perfume lost. Take these again, for to the noble mind rich gifts
• 1:40:15
  wax poor when givers prove unkind. There my lord, ha ha. Are
• 1:40:23
  you honest? My lord? Are you fair? What means, your lordship,
• 1:40:30
  that if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse
• 1:40:34
  to your beauty? Could beauty, my lord, have better calmerce than with
• 1:40:39
  honesty? Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty
• 1:40:47
  from what it is to a bawd. Then the force of honesty can translate
• 1:40:54
  beauty into his likeness. This was some time a paradox. But now the
• 1:40:58
  time give is it proof? I did love you once? Indeed, my
• 1:41:04
  Lord, you made me believe, so you should not have believed me.
• 1:41:11
  For virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock. But we shall relish of it.
• 1:41:17
  I loved you, not I was the more deceived. Get thee to
• 1:41:23
  a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself
• 1:41:30
  indifferent, honest, And yet I could accuse me of such things that it
• 1:41:33
  were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful,
• 1:41:42
  ambitious, with more offenses at my back than I have thoughts to put
• 1:41:47
  them in imagination, to give them shape or time to act them in What
• 1:41:51
  should fellows such as I do, crawling between earth and heaven? We are
• 1:41:57
  errant knaves, all believe. None of us us go thy ways to a
• 1:42:01
  nunnery? Where's your father at home? My lord? Let the doors be
• 1:42:09
  shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in his own
• 1:42:13
  house farewell, Oh help him, you, sweet heavens. If thou dost
• 1:42:19
  marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry. Be thou as chaste
• 1:42:25
  as eyes, as pure as snow. Thou shalt not escape Calumny, get
• 1:42:30
  thee to a nunnery. Go farewell, Nor if thou wilt needs Mary,
• 1:42:34
  marry a fool. For wise men know well enough what monsters you make of
• 1:42:40
  them to a nunnery. Go and quickly too, farewell. Oh, heavenly
• 1:42:51
  powers restore him. I have heard of your paintings too well enough. God
• 1:42:59
  has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. You jig,
• 1:43:04
  you amble, and you lisp and nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness,
• 1:43:11
  your ignorance, go too. I'll no more want it have made me
• 1:43:15
  mad. I'll say we will have no more marriages. Those that are married
• 1:43:20
  already, all but one shall live. The rest shall keep as they are
• 1:43:27
  to a nunnery. Go exit, Hamlet. Oh, what a noble mind
• 1:43:34
  is here? Our throne, the courtier's soldier's scarlet's eye, tongue sword,
• 1:43:41
  the expectancy and rose of the fair state, the glass of fashion and the
• 1:43:45
  mold of form, the observed of all observers quite quite down, and I
• 1:43:54
  of ladies most dejected and wretched, that suck'd the honey of his music vows.
• 1:44:00
  Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, like sweet bells jangled out
• 1:44:05
  of tune and harsh that unmatched form and feature of blown youth blasted with ecstasy.
• 1:44:15
  Oh woe is me to have seen what I have seen? See what
• 1:44:20
  I see? Re Enter King Claudius and Polonius Love. His affections do not
• 1:44:29
  that way tend. Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little,
• 1:44:32
  was not like madness. There's something in his soul or which his melancholy
• 1:44:38
  sits on brood. And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose will be
• 1:44:42
  some danger, which for to prevent I have in quick determination. Thus set
• 1:44:45
  it down. He shall, with speed to England for the demand of our
• 1:44:49
  neglected tribute. Haply the seas and country is different with variable objects, shall
• 1:44:54
  expel this something settled matter in his heart, whereon his brain still beating,
• 1:44:59
  puts him thus from fashion of himself. What think you on it? It
• 1:45:02
  shall do well? But yet do I believe the origin and commencement of his
• 1:45:08
  grief sprung from neglected love? How now, Ophelia, you need not tell
• 1:45:13
  us what Lord Hamlet said. We heard it all, my lord, do
• 1:45:16
  as you please, But if you hold it fit after the play let.
• 1:45:20
  His queen mother all alone, entreat him to show his grief. Let her
• 1:45:26
  be round with him, and I'll be placed, so please you, in
• 1:45:29
  the air of all their conference. If she find him not to England,
• 1:45:33
  send him or confine him where your wisdom best shall think. It shall be
• 1:45:39
  so madness and great ones must not unwatched, go excellant. Scene two.
• 1:45:46
  A hall in the castle, enter Hamlet, and players speak the speech I
• 1:45:51
  pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
• 1:45:56
  But if you mouth it as many of your players do, leave the town
• 1:46:00
  crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your
• 1:46:04
  hand. Thus, but use all gently, For in the very torrent tempest,
• 1:46:12
  and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must
• 1:46:15
  acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends
• 1:46:21
  me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig pated fellow tear a passion
• 1:46:28
  to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings,
• 1:46:31
  who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise.
• 1:46:38
  I would have such a fellow whipped for overdoing termagant it out Herod's Herod
• 1:46:44
  pray you avoid it. I warrant your honor be not too tame, neither,
• 1:46:50
  but let your own discretion be your tutor suit the action to the word,
• 1:46:55
  the word to the action. With this special oerstep not the modest of
• 1:47:00
  nature. For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end,
• 1:47:06
  both at the first and now was, and is to hold as towere
• 1:47:12
  the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her
• 1:47:16
  own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and
• 1:47:20
  pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, Though it make the unskillful
• 1:47:27
  laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve the censure of which one must in
• 1:47:33
  your allowance or way a whole theater of others. Oh, there be players
• 1:47:40
  that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly not
• 1:47:45
  to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians, nor the
• 1:47:49
  gait of Christian pagan nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have
• 1:47:56
  thought some of Nature's journeymen had made man and not made them well. They
• 1:48:00
  imitated humanity so abominably. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us,
• 1:48:05
  sir, Oh, reform it all together, and let those that play your
• 1:48:11
  clowns speak no more than is set down for them, For there be of
• 1:48:15
  them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to
• 1:48:19
  laugh too, Though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then
• 1:48:26
  to be considered. That's villainous, and chose the most pitiful ambition in the
• 1:48:30
  fool that uses it. Go make you ready, excellent players, Enter Polonius,
• 1:48:36
  Rosenkrantz and Guldenstern. How now, my lord, I will the king
• 1:48:42
  hear this piece of work, and the Queen too? And that presently did
• 1:48:46
  the players make haste? Exit Polonius, Will you two help to hasten them?
• 1:48:54
  We will, my lord. Excellent Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Enter Horatio. But
• 1:49:00
  ho, Horatio here, sweet lord, at your service, Horatio, thou
• 1:49:05
  art een as just a man, as e're my conversation coped withal. Oh,
• 1:49:10
  my dear lord, nay, do not think I flatter? For what
• 1:49:15
  advancement may hope from thee that no revenue hast but thy good spirits to feed
• 1:49:20
  and clothe thee. Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the
• 1:49:26
  candied tongue, lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hedges of the knee,
• 1:49:30
  where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou here, since my dear soul
• 1:49:35
  was mistress of her choice, and could of men distinguish her election, hath
• 1:49:40
  sealed thee for herself. For thou hast been as one in suffering all that
• 1:49:45
  suffers nothing. A man that fortunes, buffets and rewards hast tained with equal
• 1:49:53
  thanks. And blest are those whose blood and judgment are so well commingled that
• 1:50:00
  they are not a pipe for fortune's finger to sound? What stop? She?
• 1:50:03
  Please give me that man that is not Passion's slave, and I will
• 1:50:09
  wear him in my heart's core, ay in my heart of heart, as
• 1:50:14
  I do thee. There is something too much of this. There is a
• 1:50:18
  play to night before the king. One seen of it comes near the circumstance
• 1:50:24
  which I have told THEE of my father's death. I prithee when thou seest
• 1:50:29
  that act a foot, even with the very comment of thy soul. Observe
• 1:50:32
  mine uncle, if his occult of guilt, do not itself unknnel in one's
• 1:50:40
  speech. It is a damned ghost that we have seen, and my imaginations
• 1:50:43
  are as foul as vulcan stiffy. Give him heedful note for I mine eyes,
• 1:50:48
  rivet to his faith, and afterward we will both our judgments join in
• 1:50:53
  censure of his seeming. Well, my lord, if he steal aught the
• 1:50:57
  whilst this play is playing, and escape at I will pay the theft.
• 1:51:02
  They are coming to the play. I must be idle get you a place.
• 1:51:06
  Danish march, a flourish enter, King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Polonius,
• 1:51:13
  Ophelia, Rosenkrantz, Guildenstern, and others. How fears our cousin Hamlet
• 1:51:18
  excellent a faith of the chameleon's dish. I eat the air, promise crammed.
• 1:51:26
  You cannot feed capons, So I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet,
• 1:51:30
  these words are not mine, No, no mine. Now to Polonius,
• 1:51:36
  my lord, you once played in the university. You say that did
• 1:51:41
  I, my lord, and was accounted a good actor? What did you
• 1:51:45
  enact? I did act Julius Caesar. I was killed in the capitol.
• 1:51:49
  Brutus killed me. It was a brute part of him to kill, so
• 1:51:55
  capital a calf. There be the players, ready, I am lord,
• 1:52:00
  they stay upon your patience. Come hither, my dear Hamlet sit by me?
• 1:52:05
  No good, mother, here's metal more attractive to King Claudius. Oh
• 1:52:14
  ho, do you mark that? Lady? Shall I lie in your lap?
• 1:52:19
  Lying down at Ophelia's feet? O, my lord, I mean my
• 1:52:24
  head upon your lap? I my lord, do you think I meant country
• 1:52:30
  matters? I think nothing, my lord. That's a fair thought to lie
• 1:52:34
  between maid's legs. What is, my lord? Nothing? You are merry?
• 1:52:41
  My lord? Who II? I? My lord God, you're only
• 1:52:45
  chick maker? What should a men do but be merry? For look you,
• 1:52:48
  how cheerfully? My mother looks, and my father died within these two
• 1:52:53
  hours? Nay tis twice two months, my lord? So long, oh
• 1:52:59
  nay, and let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of
• 1:53:01
  sables. Our heavens died two months ago and not forgotten yet. Then there's
• 1:53:06
  hope. A great man's memory might outlive his life half a year. But
• 1:53:12
  by your lady, he must build churches then, or else shall he suffer?
• 1:53:16
  Not thinking on when the hobby horse whose epitat is for oh, for
• 1:53:21
  oh. The hobby horse is forgot hate boys play the dumb show enters enter
• 1:53:29
  a king and a queen very lovingly. The queen embracing him and he her.
• 1:53:33
  She kneels and makes show of protestation unto him. He takes her up
• 1:53:38
  and declines his head upon her neck, lays him down upon a bank of
• 1:53:41
  flowers. She, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in.
• 1:53:45
  A fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, and pours poison in
• 1:53:48
  the king's ears, and exit. The queen returns, finds the king dead
• 1:53:54
  and makes passionate action. The poisoner, with some two or three mutes,
• 1:53:58
  comes in again to lament with her. The dead body is carried away.
• 1:54:02
  The poisoner woos the queen with gifts. She seems loath and unwilling a while,
• 1:54:06
  but in the end accepts his love. Excellent. What means this,
• 1:54:13
  my Lord Mary, This is mitching malayko It means mischief like the show imports
• 1:54:20
  the argument of the play, enter prolog, we shall know by this fellow.
• 1:54:27
  The players cannot keep counseled. They'll tell all. Will he tell us
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  what the show meant? Hi or any show that you'll show him be not
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  you ashamed to show he'll not shame to tell you what it means you are
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  not. You are not. I'll mark the play for us, said for
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  our tragedy. Here stupid to your clemency, we beg your hearing patiently.
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  Exit prologue. Is this a prolog or the poesy of a ring? Tis
• 1:55:00
  brief? My lord, has woman's love? Enter? Two players, King
• 1:55:05
  and queen full thirty times hath Phoebus's cartt gone round, Neptune's salt wash and
• 1:55:15
  tell us his orbid ground? And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen about the
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  world have times twelve thirty's been since love, our hearts and hymen did our
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  hands, you knite commutual in most sacred bands, so many journeys. May
• 1:55:38
  the sun and moon make us again counter o'er our love be done? But
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  woe is me. You are so sick of late, so far from cheer
• 1:55:45
  and from your former state, that I distrust you. Yet though I distrust
• 1:55:50
  discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must. For women's fear and love
• 1:55:55
  holds quantity in neither aught nor in extremity. Now what my love is proof
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  hath made you know. And as my love is sized, my fear is
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  so. Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear. Where little
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  fears grow great great love grows. There faith I must leave thee love,
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  and shortly too my operant powers, their functions, leave to do, And
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  thou shalt live in this fair world behind, honored, beloved, and haply
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  one as kind for husband, shalt thou oh confound the rest such love must
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  needs be treason in my breast. In second husband, let me be accursed.
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  None wed the second, but who killed the first? Aside wormwood,
• 1:56:45
  wormwood, the instances that second marriage move are base respects of thrift, but
• 1:56:51
  none of love. A second time I kill my husband dead when second husband
• 1:56:57
  kisses me in bed, I do believe you think what now you speak,
• 1:57:02
  but what we do determine oft we break. Purpose is but the slave to
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  memory of violent birth, but poor validity, which now like fruit unripe,
• 1:57:18
  sticks on the tree, but fall unshaken when they mellow. Be most necessary
• 1:57:28
  tis that we forget to pay ourselves. What to ourselves is debt, What
• 1:57:33
  to ourselves in passion we propose the passion ending doth the purpose lose the violence
• 1:57:43
  of either grief or joy their own, and actures with themselves destroy. Where
• 1:57:51
  joy most revels, grief doth most lament grief joys joy grieves on slender accident.
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  This world is not for I nortis not strange that even our loves should,
• 1:58:10
  with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove
• 1:58:15
  whether love lead fortune or else fortune Love the great man down, you mark
• 1:58:25
  his favorite flies. The poor advanced makes friends of enemies, and hitherto doth
• 1:58:33
  love on fortune tend. For who not needs shall never lack a friend,
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  and who in want a hollow friend, doth try directly seasons him his enemy.
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  But orderly to end where I begun, our wills and fates do so
• 1:58:58
  contrary run that our devices still are overthrown, Our thoughts are ours. There
• 1:59:06
  ends none of our own. So think thou wilt no second husband wed,
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  but die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead. Nor earth to me
• 1:59:20
  give food, nor heaven, light, sport, and repose locke from me
• 1:59:25
  day and night to desperation. Turn my trust and hope and anchors cheer in
• 1:59:30
  prison. Be my scope. Each opposite that blanks the face of joy,
• 1:59:34
  meet what I would have well, and it destroy both here and hence pursue
• 1:59:39
  me lasting strife. If once a widow, ever I be wife. If
• 1:59:45
  she should break it now Tims deeply sworn, sweet Ah, leave me here,
• 1:59:53
  awhile my spirits grow dull and fain, I would beguiled thee tedious day
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  with sleep, sleeps, sleep, rock thy brain, and never come mischance
• 2:00:10
  between us Twain Exit player, Queen madam, how like you this play?
• 2:00:16
  The lady protests too much, thinks no, but she'll keep her word.
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  Have you heard the argument? Is there no offense in it? No?
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  No, they do but jest poison in jest, no offense of the world.
• 2:00:32
  What you call the play the mouse trap? Marry? How tropically this
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  play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is the Duke's
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  name, his wife Baptista. You shall see an on tis a knylish piece
• 2:00:46
  of work. But what are that, your majesty, and we that have
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  free souls? It touches us not that the gall in jade wins our withers
• 2:00:56
  are unwrong. Enter Lucianus. This one is Lucianus, nephew to the king
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  you are as good as a chorus. My lord, I could interpret between
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  you and your love if I could see the puppets dulling. You are keen,
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  my lord, you are keen. It would cost you a groaning to
• 2:01:15
  take off my edge still better and worse, So you must take your husband's
• 2:01:23
  begin murderer parks, leave thy damnable faces and begin come thy croaking ravent of
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  bellow for revenge thoughts, black hands, act drugs, fit and time,
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  agreeing confederate season else no creature seeing thou mixture rank of midnight weeds collected with
• 2:01:46
  hegetspan thrice blasted, thrice infected, thy natural magic and dire property on wholesome
• 2:01:56
  life. Usurp immediately pours the poison into the sleeper's ears. He poisons him
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  in the garden for his estate. His name's Gonzago. The story is extant
• 2:02:06
  and written choice Italian. You shall see anon. How the murderer gets the
• 2:02:10
  love of Gonzago's wife. The king rises got frighted with false fire. How
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  fares my lord give all the play, give me some light away? Why
• 2:02:28
  excellent all but Hamlet and Horatio? Why let the stricken dear go weep the
• 2:02:33
  heart on galled play, for some must watch while some must sleep. So
• 2:02:40
  runs the world away? Would not this, sir, and a forest are
• 2:02:45
  feathers. If the rest of my fortunes turn turk with me with two provincial
• 2:02:49
  roses on my raised shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players,
• 2:02:54
  Sir, half a share a whole, one eye, for thou dost
• 2:02:59
  know, o, damon dear, this realm dismantled, was of Jove himself,
• 2:03:02
  and now reigns here a very very pajock. You might have rhymed.
• 2:03:10
  Oh, good, Horatio. I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound
• 2:03:14
  disperceive very well, my lord, upon the talk of the poisoning, I
• 2:03:18
  did very well, note him. No, Come some music, come the
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  recorders, For if the king like not the comedy, why then belike he
• 2:03:29
  likes it not? Purdy, Come some music re enter Rosenkrantz and Goldenstern.
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  Good, my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you, sir, A
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  whole history the king, sir, Hi, sir, what of him is
• 2:03:43
  in his retirement marvelous? Distempered with drink? Sir? No, my lord,
• 2:03:48
  rather with cola, your wisdom should show itself more rich to signify this
• 2:03:54
  to his doctor, for for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps
• 2:03:59
  plunge him into far more color. Good, my lord, put your discourse
• 2:04:02
  into some frame, and start not so wildly from my affair. I am
• 2:04:06
  teamed, Sir, pronounce the Queen your mother in most great affliction of spirit
• 2:04:13
  hath sent me to you. You are welcome, nay, good, my
• 2:04:15
  lord, this courtesy is not of the right breed. If it shall please
• 2:04:19
  you to make me a wholesome answer, I will do your mother's commandment.
• 2:04:23
  If not, your pardon and my return shall be the end of my business.
• 2:04:28
  Sir, I cannot what, my lord, make you a wholesome answer.
• 2:04:32
  My wits diseased. But Sir, such answer as I can make you
• 2:04:38
  shall command, or rather as you say, my mother, therefore no more
• 2:04:43
  but to the matter my mother you say, Then, thus she says,
• 2:04:46
  your behavior hath struck her into amazement and admiration. Oh wonderful son, that
• 2:04:53
  can so astonish a mother? But is there no sequel at the heels of
• 2:04:56
  this mother's admiration? In part she desires to speak with you in her closet.
• 2:05:00
  Ere you go to bed, we shall obey. Were she ten times
• 2:05:04
  our mother, Have you any further trade with us? My lord? You
• 2:05:10
  once did love me, so I do still by these pickers and stealers.
• 2:05:15
  Good, my lord, what is the cause of your distemper? You do
• 2:05:19
  surely bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your
• 2:05:25
  friend, Sir, I lack advancement. How can that be when you have
• 2:05:30
  the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark? Hi, but
• 2:05:35
  sir, while the grass grows, the proverb is something musty re enter players
• 2:05:42
  with recorders? Oh, the recorders here? Let me see one to withdraw
• 2:05:46
  with you. Why do you go about to recover the wind of me?
• 2:05:50
  As you would drive me into a toil? Oh, my lord, if
• 2:05:54
  my duty be too bold, my love is too unmannerly. I do not
• 2:05:59
  well understand. And that will you play upon this pipe? My lord?
• 2:06:02
  I cannot I pray you believe me. I cannot I do beseech you.
• 2:06:08
  I know no touch of it, my lord, tis as easy as lying.
• 2:06:13
  Govern these vintages with your fingers and thumb, Give it breath with your
• 2:06:16
  mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are
• 2:06:20
  the stops. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony? I
• 2:06:25
  have not the skill. Oh I look you now, how unworthy a thing
• 2:06:28
  you make of me. You would play upon me, You would seem to
• 2:06:31
  know my stops. You would pluck out the heart of my mystery. You
• 2:06:35
  would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. And
• 2:06:39
  there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ. Yet cannot you
• 2:06:43
  make it speak splood? Do you think I am easier to be played under
• 2:06:46
  a pipe? Call me what instrument you will. Though you can fret me,
• 2:06:51
  you cannot play upon me. Enter Polonius, God bless you, sir,
• 2:06:59
  my lord the Queen would speak with you. And presently do you see
• 2:07:02
  yonder cloud that's almost in the shape of a camel by the mass, and
• 2:07:06
  tis like a camel. Indeed, methinks it is like a weasel. It
• 2:07:13
  is backed like a weasel, or like a whale, er very like a
• 2:07:18
  whale. Then I will come to my mother by and bye. They fool
• 2:07:24
  me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by.
• 2:07:28
  I will say so by and bye is easily said. Exit Polonius, Leave
• 2:07:33
  me friends, excellence. All but hamlet tis now the very witch in time
• 2:07:41
  of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathe out contagion to this world?
• 2:07:48
  Now could I drink hot blood and do such bitter business as the day
• 2:07:56
  would quake to look on to my mother? Now, heart lose not thy
• 2:08:03
  nature. Let not ever the soul of Nero enter this firm bosom that may
• 2:08:09
  be cruel not unnatural. I will speak daggers to her, but use none
• 2:08:18
  my tongue and soul. And this be hypocrites, how in my wordsoever she
• 2:08:26
  be shan'n't to give them seals? Never my soul consent. Exit Scene three.
• 2:08:37
  A room in the castle. Enter King Claudius Rosenkrantz and Guldenstern. I
• 2:08:43
  like him not, nor stands it safe with us to let his madness range.
• 2:08:46
  Therefore prepare you. I your commission will forthwith dispatch, and he to
• 2:08:52
  England shall along with you. The terms of our estate may not endure hazards
• 2:08:56
  so dangerous as doth hourly grow out of his lunacy. We will ourselves provide
• 2:09:01
  most holy and religious fear. It is to keep those many, many bodies
• 2:09:05
  safe that live and feed upon Your Majesty, the single and peculiar life is
• 2:09:09
  bound with all the strength and armor of the mind to keep itself from annoyance.
• 2:09:15
  But much more that spirit upon whose will depend and rest the lives of
• 2:09:18
  many. The seas of majesty dies not alone, but like a gulf,
• 2:09:24
  doth draw what's near with it. It is a massy wheel fixed on the
• 2:09:28
  summit of the highest mount, to whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things are
• 2:09:35
  mortised and adjoined, which, when it falls, each small annexment petty consequence
• 2:09:41
  attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone did the king sigh, but with a
• 2:09:46
  general groan arm you. I pray you to the speedy voyage, for we
• 2:09:52
  will fetters put upon this fear, which now goes too free footed. We
• 2:09:56
  will haste us Excellant Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Enter Polonius, my Lord, he's going
• 2:10:03
  to his mother's closet behind the arrass. I'll convey myself to hear the process.
• 2:10:07
  I'll warrant she'll tax him home. And as you said, and wisely
• 2:10:11
  was it said, tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since
• 2:10:16
  nature makes them partial, should'er hear the speech of vantage fare you well,
• 2:10:20
  my liege, I'll call upon you ere you go to bed, and tell
• 2:10:24
  you what I know. Thanks, dear my lord, exit Polonius. Oh
• 2:10:31
  my offense's rank, it smells to heaven. It hath the primal eldest curse
• 2:10:37
  upon it, a brother's murder? Pray? Can I not? Though inclination
• 2:10:41
  be as sharp as will? My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And
• 2:10:46
  like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall
• 2:10:50
  first begin, and both neglect? What if this cursed hand were thicker than
• 2:10:56
  itself with brother's blood? Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to
• 2:11:01
  wash it white as snow? Where too serves mercy? But to confront the
• 2:11:05
  visage of offense? And what's in prayer? But this twofold force to be
• 2:11:11
  forestalled? Ere we come to fall or pardoned, being down, then I'll
• 2:11:16
  look up. My fault is past, But oh, what form of prayer
• 2:11:22
  can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder? That cannot be,
• 2:11:28
  since I am still possessed of those effects for which I did the murder.
• 2:11:31
  My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardoned
• 2:11:35
  and retain the offense and the corrupted currents of this world. Offense's gilded hand
• 2:11:41
  may shove by justice and oft to seeing the wicked prize itself buys out the
• 2:11:46
  law, But tis not so above. There is no shuffling there. The
• 2:11:50
  action lies in his true nature. And we ourselves compelled even to the teeth
• 2:11:56
  and forehead of our faults, to give in evidence. What then, what
• 2:12:01
  rests? Try? What repentance can? What can it not? Yet?
• 2:12:07
  What can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state, Oh bosom,
• 2:12:13
  black as death, O limed soul that's struggling to be free? Art more
• 2:12:18
  engaged? Help angels make us say, Bow's dubborn knees and heart with strings
• 2:12:28
  of steel, be soft as sinews of the new born. Babe, all
• 2:12:33
  may be well, retires and kneels enter hamlet. Now might I do it?
• 2:12:39
  Pat? Now he is praying, and now I'll do it. And
• 2:12:45
  so he goes to heaven. And so I revenged. That would be scann'd
• 2:12:54
  villain kills my father, And for that I had soul son do this.
• 2:13:01
  Same villains ent to heaven. Oh, this is higher and salary, not
• 2:13:07
  revenge. He took my father grossly full of bread, with all his crimes
• 2:13:16
  broad, blown as flush as may, and how his art it stands?
• 2:13:22
  Who know save heaven, But in our circumstance and course of thought tis heavy
• 2:13:28
  with him. And am I then revenged to take him in the purging of
• 2:13:35
  his soul when he is fit and seasoned for his passage. No absord know
• 2:13:45
  thou on war horrid hent, when he is drunk asleep, or in his
• 2:13:52
  rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed at gaming swearing, or
• 2:13:58
  about somac that has no relish of salvation. And then trip him that his
• 2:14:03
  heels may kick at heaven, and that his soul may be as damned and
• 2:14:07
  black as hell. Whereto it goes. My mother stays this physic but prolongs
• 2:14:18
  thy sickly days. Exit Hamlet rising, My words fly up, My thoughts
• 2:14:28
  remain below words without thoughts, never to Heaven go. Exit Scene four The
• 2:14:39
  Queen's closet. Enter Queen Gertrude and Polonius. He will come straight. Look
• 2:14:45
  you lay home to him, Tell him his pranks have been too broad to
• 2:14:48
  bear with, and that your grace has screened and stood between much heat and
• 2:14:52
  him. I'll silence me even here. Pray you'll be round with him within.
• 2:15:00
  Mother, Mother, Mother, I'll warrant you fear me, not withdrawal.
• 2:15:09
  I hear him coming. Polonius hides behind the arras enter Hamlet, Now,
• 2:15:16
  mother, what's the matter? Hamlet? Thou hast thy father much offended?
• 2:15:22
  Mother? You have my father much offended? Come? Come, you
• 2:15:26
  answer with an idle tongue. Go go you question with a wicked tongue.
• 2:15:31
  Why how now, Hamlet? What's the matter? Now? Have you forgot
• 2:15:35
  me? No? By the rude? Not so you are the queen,
• 2:15:39
  your husband's brother's wife, And would it were not so? You are my
• 2:15:43
  mother? Nay? Then I'll set those to you that can speak. Come,
• 2:15:48
  come and sit you down. You shall not munch. You go not
• 2:15:52
  till I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of
• 2:15:56
  you. What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? Help help
• 2:16:01
  ho behind? What ho? Help? Help? Help? Drawing ow Now
• 2:16:09
  a rat dead for a ducat dead makes a pass through the arrass behind.
• 2:16:16
  I am slain, falls and dies. Oh me, what hast thou done?
• 2:16:22
  Nay? I know not? Is it the king? Oh? What
• 2:16:26
  a rash and bloody deed? Is this a bloody deed? Almost as bad
• 2:16:33
  good mother as kill a king, and marry with his brother as kill a
• 2:16:37
  king by lady. Twas my word lifts up the arrass and discovers Polonius,
• 2:16:43
  Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool Farewell, I took thee for thy better
• 2:16:52
  take thy fortune. Thou findst to be too busy is some danger? Leave
• 2:16:58
  wringing of your hands. Peace, Sit you down and let me wring your
• 2:17:01
  heart, For so I shall, if it be made of penetrable stuff.
• 2:17:05
  If damned custom have not breasted, so that is proof and bulwark against sense.
• 2:17:11
  What have I done that Thou dst wag thy tongue in noise so rude
• 2:17:16
  against me? Such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty calls
• 2:17:22
  virtue hypocrite takes the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets
• 2:17:28
  a blister there, makes marriage vows as false as dither's ose. Oh,
• 2:17:33
  such a deed as from the body of contraction, plucks the very soul and
• 2:17:39
  sweet religion makes a rhapsody of words. Heaven's face doth glow. Yeah.
• 2:17:45
  This solidity and compound mass with trystal visage as against the doom, is thought
• 2:17:52
  sick at the act? Ah me, what act that roars so loud and
• 2:17:56
  thunders in the index? Look upon this picture, and on this the counterfeit
• 2:18:03
  presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow.
• 2:18:09
  Hyperion's curls the front of Jove himself and I like Mars to threaten and command
• 2:18:15
  a station like the herald mercury new lighted on a heaven kissing hill. A
• 2:18:20
  combination and a form, indeed, where every god did seem to set his
• 2:18:24
  seal to give the world assurance of a man. This was your husband.
• 2:18:33
  Look you now? What follows here? Is your husband like a mildewed ear
• 2:18:39
  blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you, on this fair
• 2:18:43
  mountain leave to feed and batten on this moor? Ha? Have you eyes?
• 2:18:50
  You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the
• 2:18:52
  blood is tame. It's humble and waits upon the judgment. And what judgment
• 2:18:56
  would step from this to this sense? Sure you have else? Could you
• 2:19:03
  not have motion? But sure that sense is apoplexed, For madness would not
• 2:19:07
  air nor sense to ecstasy? Was ne'er so thralled, But it reserv'd some
• 2:19:13
  quantity of choice to serve in such a difference. What devil was that thus
• 2:19:20
  hath cozened you at hoodman blind eyes without feeling, feeling, without sight,
• 2:19:28
  ears without hands, or eyes smelling sands all or but a sickly part of
• 2:19:33
  one true sense could not so mope? How shame? Where is thy blush
• 2:19:41
  Pilia's hell? If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones to flaming youth,
• 2:19:46
  let virtue be as wax and melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame
• 2:19:54
  when the compulsive ardor gives the charge, since frost itself as actively doth burn
• 2:20:00
  and reason Pandur's will, Oh, Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st
• 2:20:05
  mine eyes into my very soul, and there I see such black and grained
• 2:20:11
  spots as will not leave their taint, nay, but to live in the
• 2:20:16
  rank sweat of an enceemed bed stowed in corruption, honeying and making love over
• 2:20:22
  the nasty sty Oh, speak to me no more, these words like daggers
• 2:20:26
  enter in mine ears. No more, Sweet Hamlet. A murderer and a
• 2:20:33
  villain, a slave that is not twentieth part the tide of your president,
• 2:20:37
  Lord, a vice of king's, a cut purse of the empire, and
• 2:20:41
  the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole and put it in his
• 2:20:46
  pocket no more a king of shreds and patches. Enter ghost, save me
• 2:20:54
  and hover o'er me with your wings, your heavenly gods, what would your
• 2:20:58
  graces figure? He's mad? Do not come your tardy son to chide that
• 2:21:03
  lapsed in time and passion. Let's go by the important acting of your dread
• 2:21:07
  commando, say, do not forget this visitation is but to wet thy almost
• 2:21:13
  blunted purpose. But look amazement on thy mother sits, Oh, step between
• 2:21:18
  her and her fighting soul, conceit in weakest body's strongest works. Speak to
• 2:21:24
  her, hamlet, howist with you, lady? Alas? How wist with
• 2:21:28
  you that you do bend your eye on vacancy and with the incorporal air do
• 2:21:31
  you hold discourse for that your eyes, your spirits wildly peep, And as
• 2:21:37
  the sleeping soldiers in the alarm, your bedded hairs, like life and excrements,
• 2:21:41
  start up and stand on end, Oh gentle son, upon the heat
• 2:21:48
  and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience, Where on do you look
• 2:21:54
  on him, on him, Look you how pale he glares his forem and
• 2:22:01
  cause conjoined preaching two stones would make them capable. Do not look upon me
• 2:22:07
  less with piteous action, you convert my stern effects. Then what I have
• 2:22:13
  to do will want true color, tears, perchance for blood. To whom
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  do you speak this? Do see nothing there? Nothing at all? Yet
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  all that is I see? Did you nothing here? No? Nothing but
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  ourselves? Oh? Oh, I look you there? How it steals away
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  my father in his habit as he lived. Look where he goes, even
• 2:22:37
  now out at the portal exit ghost. This is the very coinage of your
• 2:22:43
  brain, this bodiless creation. Ecstasy is very cunning. In ecstasy, my
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  pulse, as yours doth temperately keep time and makes his healthful music. It
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  is not madness that I have uttered, bring me to the test, and
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  I the matter will reword which madness would gamble from mother, for love of
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  grace, Lay not that mattering unction to your soul. That not your trespass,
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  but my madness speaks. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
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  while rank corruption mining all within infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven,
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  repent what's past, avoid what is to come, and do not spread the
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  compost on the weeds to make the rancor. Forgive me this my virtue.
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  For in the fatness of these percy times, virtue itself a vice. Must
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  pardon bank yea curb and woo for leave to do him good. Oh,
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  hamlet thou hast cleft my heart in twain, Oh throw away the worser part
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  of him, and live the purer with the other half. Good Night,
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  But go not to my uncle's bed. Assume a virtue if you have it.
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  Not that monster custom who all sense doth eat of habit's devil is angel.
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  Yet in this that to the use of actions fair and good heat likewise
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  gives a frock or livery that is aptly put on refrain tonight, and that
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  shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence, the next more easy,
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  for use almost can change the stamp of nature, and either curb the
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  devil or throw him out with wondrous potency once more. Good night, And
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  when you are desirous to be blessed, I blessing beg of you. For
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  this same Lord, to Polonius, I do repent, But heaven hath pleased
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  it so to punish me with this, and this with me, that I
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  must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him and will answer well
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  the death I gave him. So again, good night, I must be
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  cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. One
• 2:25:30
  would more, good, lady, what shall I do? Not? This
• 2:25:35
  by no means that I bid you do? Let the bloat king tempt you
• 2:25:41
  again to bed pince wanton on you. She call you as mouse, and
• 2:25:48
  let him for a pair of reach he kisses or padling in your neck with
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  his damned fingers. Make you to revel all this matter out, that I
• 2:25:58
  essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft tware. Good you let
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  him know for who that's but a queen fair sober wise would from a paddock,
• 2:26:13
  from a bat a jib, such a dear concerning side, who would
• 2:26:18
  do so? No, in despite of sense and secrecy, unpeg the basket
• 2:26:28
  on the house's top, Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape
• 2:26:35
  to try conclusions in the basket, creep and break your own neck down.
• 2:26:41
  Be thou assured, if words be made of breath and breath of life,
• 2:26:48
  I have no life to breathe what thou hast said to me, I must
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  to England. You know that a lack I had forgot tis so concluded on.
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  There's letters sealed, And my two schoolfellows, whom I trust as I
• 2:27:05
  will adders fanged. They bear the mandate. They must sweep my way and
• 2:27:13
  marshal me to knavery. Let it work for tis the sport to have the
• 2:27:18
  engineer hoist with his own petard, and shall go hard. But I will
• 2:27:26
  delve one yard below their minds and blow them at the moon. O tis
• 2:27:33
  most sweet wind. In one line, two crafts directly meet. This man
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  shall set me packing. I lug the guts into the neighbor room, Mother,
• 2:27:46
  good night. Indeed this counselor is now most still, most secret,
• 2:27:52
  and most grave, who was in life a foolish, prating knave. Come,
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  sir, to draw toward an end with you, good night, mother
• 2:28:09
  excelled severally Hamlet dragging in Polonius, end of Act three, Act four seem
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  one a room in the castle, enter King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Rosenkrantz
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  and Guldenstern. There's matter in these size, these profound heaves you must translate
• 2:28:30
  to fit we understand them. Where is your son? Bestow this place on
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  us a little while? Excellned Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern. Ah, My good lord,
• 2:28:41
  what if I seemed tonight? What Gertrude? How does hamlet mad as
• 2:28:48
  the sea and wind when both contend? Which is the mightier? In his
• 2:28:52
  gnawlus fit behind the arress, hearing something stir whips out his rapier, cries
• 2:28:58
  a rat, a rat, And in this brainish apprehension kills the unseen good
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  old man. Oh, heavy deed, it had been so with us,
• 2:29:09
  had we been there. His liberty is full of threats to all, to
• 2:29:13
  you, yourself, to us, to every one. Aleas, how shall
• 2:29:18
  this bloody deed be answered? It will be laid to us whose providence should
• 2:29:22
  have kept short, restrained and out of haunt this mad young man. But
• 2:29:26
  so much was our love we would not understand what was most fit. But
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  like the owner of a foul disease, to keep it from divulging, let
• 2:29:33
  it feed even on the pith of life. Where's he gone to draw apart
• 2:29:39
  the body he had killed? Or whom his very madness like some oree among
• 2:29:45
  a mineral of metal's base shows itself pure. He weeps for what is done.
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  Oh, Gertrude, come away the sun. No sooner shall the mountains
• 2:29:54
  touch, but we will ship him hence and this vile deed we must with
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  all our majesty and skill, countenance and excuse. Oh, Guildenstern, re
• 2:30:05
  enter Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, friends, both go join you with some further aid.
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  Hamlet and madness hath Polonius slain, and from his mother's closet hath he
• 2:30:15
  dragged him? Go seek him out, Speak fair, and bring the body
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  into the chapel. I pray you haste in this excellent Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern.
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  Come Gertrude, who call up our wisest friends, and let them know both
• 2:30:31
  what we mean to do and what's untimely done. Oh, come away,
• 2:30:35
  My soul is full of discord and dismay. Excellt scene too. Another room
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  in the castle, Enter Hamlet safely stowed within? Have it, Lord Hamlet?
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  What noise? Who calls on Hamlet? Oh? Here they come,
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  Enter Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern. What have you done, my lord with the dead
• 2:31:03
  body, compounded it with dust? Where to tis kin? Tell us where
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  it tis that we may take it, thence and bear it to the chapel.
• 2:31:11
  Do not believe it? Believe what that I can keep your counsel and
• 2:31:18
  not mine own. Besides, to be demanded of a sponge, what replication
• 2:31:24
  should be made by the son of a king? Take you me for a
• 2:31:30
  sponge, my lord, ay, sir, that soaks up the King's countenance,
• 2:31:35
  his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service.
• 2:31:41
  In the end he keeps them like an ape in the corner of his
• 2:31:46
  jaw, first mouthed, to be last swallowed when he needs what you have
• 2:31:50
  gleaned. It is but squeezing you and sponge you shall be dry again.
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  I understand you not, my lord, I am glad of it. A
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  knavish speech sleeps in a foolish here. My lord, you must tell us
• 2:32:07
  where the body is, and go with us to the king. The body
• 2:32:11
  is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The
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  king is a thing, a thing, my lord of nothing. Bring me
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  to him, Hide fox and all. After exeunt Scene three, another room
• 2:32:28
  in the castle. Enter King Claudius attended. I have sent to seek him
• 2:32:35
  and to find the body. How dangerous it is that this man goes loose?
• 2:32:39
  Yet must we not put the strong law on him? He's loved of
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  the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgment but their eyes. And
• 2:32:48
  where tis so? The offender's scourge is weighed, but never the offense to
• 2:32:52
  bear all smooth, And even this sudden sending him away must seem deliberate.
• 2:32:56
  Pause disease is desperate by desperate appliants are relieved or not at all. Enter
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  Rosenkrantz. How now, what have befallen? Where the dead body is bestowed?
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  My lord? We cannot get from him? But where is he without,
• 2:33:13
  my lord guarded? To know your pleasure? Bring him before us,
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  Ho, Guildenstern, Bring in, my lord, Enter Hamlet and Guildenstern,
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  Now Hamlet. Where's Polonius at supper? At supper? Where not where he
• 2:33:31
  eats, but where he is eaten? A certain convocation of politic worms are
• 2:33:35
  eaten at him. Your worm is your only emperor. For diet. We
• 2:33:39
  fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves from maggots.
• 2:33:46
  Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service two dishes, but
• 2:33:52
  to one table. That's the end. Alas alas. A man may fish
• 2:33:58
  with the worm that hath at of a king, and cat of the fish
• 2:34:05
  that hath fed of that worm. What dost thou mean by this nothing but
• 2:34:11
  to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a
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  beggar. Where is Polonius in Heaven? Send hither to see. If your
• 2:34:22
  messenger find him not there, seek him in the other place yourself. But
• 2:34:26
  indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall knows him.
• 2:34:31
  As you go up the stairs into the lobby, go seek him there
• 2:34:37
  to some attendants. He will stay till you come exit attendance. Hamlet this
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  deed for thine especial safety, which we do tender, as we dearly grieve
• 2:34:48
  for that which thou hast done. Must send thee hents with fiery quickness.
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  Therefore prepare thyself. The bark is ready, and the wind it help the
• 2:34:58
  associates, and everything is bent for England. For England, I hamlet good,
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  so ist if thou nowst our purposes. I see a cherub that seize
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  them, But come for England. Farewell, dear mother, thy loving father,
• 2:35:16
  Hamlet. My mother father and mother is man and wife. Man and
• 2:35:22
  wife is one flesh, and so my mother come for England. Exit Hamlet,
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  follow him at foot, tempt him with speed aboard. Delay it not,
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  I'll have him hence to night away, for everything is sealed and done.
• 2:35:39
  That else leans on the affair. Pray you make haste, excell Rosencrantz
• 2:35:43
  and Guildenstern and England. If my love thou holdst at art as my great
• 2:35:50
  power thereof may give thee sense. Since yet thy cicatriss looks raw and read
• 2:35:54
  after the Danish sword, and thy free owe pays homage to us, I
• 2:36:00
  mayst not coldly set our sovereign process, which imports at full by letters congruing
• 2:36:05
  to that effect the present death of Hamlet. Do it, England, For
• 2:36:09
  like the hectic in my blood, he rages, and thou must cure me
• 2:36:13
  till I know tis done. However, my HAPs my joys were ne'er begun.
• 2:36:18
  Exit Scene four. A plain in Denmark enter Fortinbrass, A captain and
• 2:36:26
  soldiers marching. Go. Captain from me greet the Danish king tell him that
• 2:36:33
  by his license, Fortinbrass craves the conveyance of a promised march over his kingdom,
• 2:36:39
  you know the rendezvous. If that his Majesty would aught with us,
• 2:36:43
  we shall express our duty in his eye and let him know so I will
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  do it, my Lord, go softly on excellent Fortinbrass and soldiers enter Hamlet,
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  Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and others. Good, Sir, whose powers are these?
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  They are of Norway? Sir? How purposed, sir? I pray
• 2:37:05
  you against some part of Poland? Who commands them? Sir? The nephews
• 2:37:11
  to old Norway Fortinbras goes it against the main of Poland, Sir, Or
• 2:37:16
  for some frontier, truly to speak, and with no addition, we go
• 2:37:20
  to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the
• 2:37:24
  name to pay five ducats five I would not farm it, nor will it
• 2:37:30
  yield to Norway or the Pole a rangor rate should it be sold in fee?
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  Why that the Polac never will defend it. Yes, it is already
• 2:37:39
  garrisoned. Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats will not debate the question of
• 2:37:45
  this straw. This is the impostume of much wealth and peace that inward breaks
• 2:37:52
  and shows no cause without why the man dies. I humbly thank you,
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  sir, God be with you, sir, exit Captain wilt please you go,
• 2:38:05
  my lord, I'll be with you straight go a little before excellent all
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  except Hamlet, how all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge.
• 2:38:20
  What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time
• 2:38:24
  be but to sleep and feed a beast? No more sure he that made
• 2:38:33
  us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that
• 2:38:39
  capability and godlike reason to de fust in us unused now, whether it be
• 2:38:48
  bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on the event,
• 2:38:56
  a thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom, and ever threepot coward.
• 2:39:01
  I do not know why, yet I live to say this thing's to do,
• 2:39:07
  sith. I have cause and will and strength and means to do it.
• 2:39:13
  Examples gross as earth exhort me. Witness this army of such mass in
• 2:39:20
  charge, led by a delicate and tender prince, whose spirit, with divine
• 2:39:26
  ambition puffed, makes mouths at the invisible event, exposing what is mortal and
• 2:39:33
  unsure to all that fortune, death, and danger dare even for an eggshell.
• 2:39:43
  Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument, but greatly
• 2:39:50
  to find quarrel in a straw when honors at the stake. I'll stand,
• 2:39:58
  I that have a father killed, a mother stained excitements of my reason and
• 2:40:05
  my blood, and let all sleep, while to my shame I see the
• 2:40:11
  imminent death of twenty thousand men that for a fantasy and trick of fame go
• 2:40:18
  to their graves like beds, fight for a plot where on the numbers cannot
• 2:40:24
  try the cause, which is not toomb enough incontinent to hide the slain.
• 2:40:33
  Oh, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, all be nothing
• 2:40:45
  worth. Exit Scene five Elsinore, a room in the castle. Enter Queen
• 2:40:54
  Gertrude, Horatio and a gentleman. I will not speak with her. She
• 2:41:00
  is importunate, indeed distract her mood. Will needs be pitied. What would
• 2:41:05
  she have? She speaks much of her father, says, she hears there's
• 2:41:09
  tricks of the world and hymns, and beats. Her heart spurns enviously at
• 2:41:13
  straws, speaks things in doubt that carry but half sense. Her speech is
• 2:41:16
  nothing yet the unshaped. Use of it doth move the hearers to collection.
• 2:41:22
  They aim at it and botch the words up fit to their own thoughts,
• 2:41:24
  which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield them, indeed, would
• 2:41:28
  make one think there might be thought, though nothing sure yet much unhappily for
• 2:41:33
  good she has spoken with, For she may strew dangerous conjectures in ill breeding
• 2:41:37
  minds. Let her come in exit Horatio to my sick soul. As sin's
• 2:41:46
  true nature is. Each toy seems prologued to some great amiss, so full
• 2:41:52
  of artless jealousy as guilt, it spills itself in, fearing to be spilt.
• 2:41:58
  Re enter Horatio with Ophelia. Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?
• 2:42:03
  How now, Ophelia sings? How should I you true love know from anotherl
• 2:42:15
  one? By his cockle, hat m staff and his sandal shoon alas sweet
• 2:42:28
  lady, what imports this song? Say you nay? Pray you Mark sings?
• 2:42:37
  He's dead and gone, lady, He's dead and gone. At his
• 2:42:48
  head grass green turf atis heel's a stone. Nay, But Ophelia, pray
• 2:42:58
  you Mark sings? Why tis shroud does the mountains snow enter King Claudius.
• 2:43:09
  Alas, look here, my lord, sings lorded with sweet flowers which bewept
• 2:43:22
  to the grave, did go with true love shows. How do you,
• 2:43:31
  pretty lady? Well? God ild you? They say the owl was a
• 2:43:37
  baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but not what we
• 2:43:41
  may be. God be at your table, conceit upon her father, pray
• 2:43:48
  you. Let's have no words of this. But when they ask you what
• 2:43:52
  it means, say you, this sings to morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
• 2:44:00
  all in the morning, betime, and I a maid at your window to
• 2:44:05
  be your val in time. Then up he rose and darned his clothes and
• 2:44:11
  dupped the chamber door. Let him the maid that out. A maid never
• 2:44:16
  departed more pretty, Ophelia, indeed low without an oath, I'll make an
• 2:44:22
  endant sings by Jeaston, by s and charity, a lack and fire for
• 2:44:28
  shame. Young men will do it if they come to it. By cock,
• 2:44:33
  they are to blame. Quoth she before you tumbled me, you promised
• 2:44:39
  me to wed, so would I had done? By yonder sun, and
• 2:44:43
  thou hadst not come to my bed? How long hath she been? Thus?
• 2:44:50
  I hope all will be well. We must be patient, but I
• 2:44:54
  cannot choose, but weep to think they should lay him in the cold ground.
• 2:45:00
  My brother shall know of it, and so I thank you for your
• 2:45:03
  good counsel. Come, my coach. Good night, ladies, good night,
• 2:45:09
  sweet ladies, good night, good night. Exit Ophelia, follow her
• 2:45:16
  close, give her good watch. I pray you exit, Horatio. Oh,
• 2:45:22
  this is the poison of deep grief. It springs all from her father's
• 2:45:26
  death. Oh, Gertrude, Gertrude, When sorrows come, they come not
• 2:45:31
  single spies, but in battalions. First her father slain, Next your son
• 2:45:35
  gone, and he most violent author of his own. Just remove the people,
• 2:45:41
  muddied, thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers for good Polonius's death.
• 2:45:45
  And we have done but greenly in huggermugger to inter him. Poor Ophelia,
• 2:45:50
  divided from herself and her fair judgment, without the which we are pictures
• 2:45:54
  or mere beasts glassed and as much containing as all these, Her brother is
• 2:46:00
  in secret, come from France, feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in
• 2:46:05
  clouds, and wants not buzzers to infect his ear with pestilent speeches of his
• 2:46:09
  father's death, where in necessity of matter beggard, will nothing stick our person
• 2:46:13
  to a reign in Ear and ear, oh, my dear Gertrude, this
• 2:46:18
  like to a murdering peace in many places, gives me superfluous death. A
• 2:46:24
  noise within, alack, what noise is this? Where are my switzers?
• 2:46:28
  Let them guard the door? Enter another, gentleman, What is the matter,
• 2:46:35
  Save yourself, my lord? The ocean overpeering of his list eats not
• 2:46:39
  the flats with more impetuous haste than young Laertes in a riot's head, or
• 2:46:46
  bears your officers. The rabble call him lord. And as the world were
• 2:46:52
  now, but to begin antiquity forgot custom not known. The ratifires and props
• 2:46:58
  of every word, they cry, Choose we Laertes shall be king, caps,
• 2:47:05
  hands and tongues. Applaud it to the clouds, larities shall be king
• 2:47:11
  Laarites king, how cheerfully on the false trail, they cry, Oh,
• 2:47:16
  this is counter, you false Danish dogs. The doors are broke, noise
• 2:47:22
  within, Enter Laertes, armed dames following, where is the king? Sirs?
• 2:47:30
  Stand you all without no I pray you give me leave, we will
• 2:47:39
  will they retire without the door? I thank you keep the door, Oh
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  thou vile king, give me my father calmly, good ladies. That drop
• 2:47:52
  of blood, that's calm, proclaims me. Bastard cries cuckled to my father
• 2:48:01
  brands the harlot even here between the chaste, unsmirched brow of my true mother.
• 2:48:09
  What is the cause, Laerities, that thy rebellion looks so giant like?
• 2:48:13
  Let him go, Gertrude, do not fear our person. There's such
• 2:48:16
  divinity, doth hedge a king that treason can but peep to what it would
• 2:48:20
  acts little of his will? Tell me, Laertes, why thou art thus
• 2:48:24
  incensed? Let him go, Gertrude, speak man, where is my father
• 2:48:31
  dead? But not by him? Let him demand his fill? How came
• 2:48:35
  he dead? I'll not be juggled with to hell allegiance vows to the blackest
• 2:48:43
  double conscience and grace to the profoundest pit. I dare damnation to this point.
• 2:48:54
  I stand that both the worlds I give to negligence. Let come what
• 2:48:58
  come ums only I'll be revenged most thoroughly for my father, who shall stay
• 2:49:07
  you My will not all the world, and for my means, I'll husband
• 2:49:15
  them so well they shall go far with little good laerties. If you desire
• 2:49:20
  to know the certainty of your dear father's death is writ in your revenge that
• 2:49:24
  swoopsteak, you will draw both friend and foe, winner and loser, none
• 2:49:30
  but his enemies. Will you know them? Then to his good friends thus
• 2:49:35
  wide, I'll open my arms, and, like the kind life rendering pelican,
• 2:49:43
  repace them with my blood. Why now you speak, like a good
• 2:49:46
  child and a true gentleman, that I am guiltless of your father's death,
• 2:49:52
  and a most sensible and grief for it. It shall as level to your
• 2:49:54
  judgment, pierce, as day does to your eye within. Let come in?
• 2:50:01
  How now, what noise is that? Re enter, Ophelia, Oh
• 2:50:07
  heat, dry up my brains, tears seven times salt, burn out the
• 2:50:15
  sense and virtue of mine eye by heaven, thy madness shall be paid by
• 2:50:22
  weight till our scale turned the beam, Oh rose of may, dear maid
• 2:50:31
  kind sister, sweet Ophelia, Oh heavens, is't possible? A young maid's
• 2:50:37
  wits should be as moral as an old man's life. Nature is fine in
• 2:50:46
  love, and where'tis fine? It sends some precious instance of itself after the
• 2:50:54
  thing it loves. Sings. They him birth based on the beer. Hey
• 2:51:03
  non nonny, nonny, Hey nonny, And in his grave reigned man yite
• 2:51:11
  fare you well. My dove hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge.
• 2:51:22
  It could not move. Thus sings You must sing a down a down,
• 2:51:28
  and you call him a downer. Oh, how the weel becomes it.
• 2:51:33
  It is the false steward that stole his master's daughter. This nothing's more
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  than matter. There's rosemary that's for remembrance, pray, love, remember,
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  And there's pansies that's for thoughts, a document in madness, thoughts and remembrance.
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  Fitted there's fennel for you and columbines. There's rue for you, and
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  here's some for me. We may call it herb grace Sundays. Oh,
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  you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy. I would
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  give you some violets, but they withered all. When my father died,
• 2:52:24
  they say he made a good end. Sings for Bonny, sweet Robin is
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  all my joy, thought and affliction, passion, hell itself. She turns
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  to favor and to prettiness sings, and will he not calmer again? And
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  will he not calm again? No? No, he is dead. Go
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  to thy death bed. He never will come again. His beard was as
• 2:53:05
  white as snow, oh flags, and was his pole. He is gone.
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  He is gone, and we cast away moon could in mercy on his
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  soul and of all Christian souls. I pray, God, God be with
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  ye exit ophilia. Do you see this, oh God Laertes. I must
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  commune with your grief, or you deny me right, Go but apart,
• 2:53:41
  make choice of whom your wisest friends you will, and they shall hear and
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  judge TwixT you and me. If by direct or by collateral hand, they
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  find us touched, we will our kingdom, give our crown, our life,
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  and all that we can ours to you in satisfaction. But if not,
• 2:53:58
  be you content to lend your to us, and we shall jointly labor
• 2:54:03
  with your soul to give it due content. Let this be so his means
• 2:54:09
  of death, his obscure funeral, No trophy sword, nor hatchment o'er his
• 2:54:20
  bones, no noble right nor formal ostentation. Cry to be heard as twere
• 2:54:28
  from heaven to earth, that I must cult in question. So you shall,
• 2:54:35
  and where the offense is, let the great axe fall. I pray
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  you go with me. Exit Scene six. Another room in the castle.
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  Enter Horatio and a servant. What are they that would speak with me?
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  Sailors, sir? They say they have letters for you. Let them come
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  in. Exit servant. I do not know from what part of the world
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  I should be great eat it? If not from Lord Hamlet enter sailors.
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  God bless you, sir. Let him bless thee too. He shall,
• 2:55:07
  sir, and please him. There's a letter for you, sir. It
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  comes from the ambassador that was bound for England. If your name be Horatio,
• 2:55:15
  as I am to let know, it is reads Horatio. When thou
• 2:55:24
  shalt have overlooked this, give these fellows some means to the king. They
• 2:55:28
  have letters for him. Ere we were two days old at sea, a
• 2:55:33
  pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail,
• 2:55:39
  we put on a compelled valor, and in the grapple I boarded them
• 2:55:45
  on the instant they got clear of our ship, so I alone became their
• 2:55:50
  prisoner. They have dealt with me like thieves of mercy. But they knew
• 2:55:54
  what they did. I am to do a good turn for them. The
• 2:56:00
  King have the letters I have sent, and repair thou to me with as
• 2:56:03
  much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I have words to speak in thine
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  ear will make THEE dumb. Yet they are much too light for the bore
• 2:56:11
  of the matter. These good fellows will bring thee where I am. Rosencranson,
• 2:56:16
  Guildenstone hold their course for England. Of them, I have much to
• 2:56:20
  tell thee. Farewell he that thou knowest thine Hamlet come. I will make
• 2:56:31
  you way for these your letters, and do it the speedia that you may
• 2:56:33
  direct me to him from whom you brought them. Excellent scene seven, another
• 2:56:41
  room in the castle. Enter King Claudius and Laertes. Now must your conscience,
• 2:56:46
  my acquaintance, seal, and you must put me in your heart for
• 2:56:50
  friend, sith you have heard and with a knowing ear, that he which
• 2:56:54
  hath your noble father slain, pursued my life. It well appears. But
• 2:57:01
  tell me why you proceeded not against these feats so crimeful and so capital in
• 2:57:07
  nature, as by your safety wisdom all things else you mainly were stirred up.
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  Oh for two special reasons, which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed,
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  but yet to me they are strong. The Queen his mother lives almost
• 2:57:24
  by his looks, and for myself, my virtue or my plague be at
• 2:57:28
  either which she is so conjunctive to my life and soul, that, as
• 2:57:31
  the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her.
• 2:57:37
  The other motive why to a public count I might not go, is
• 2:57:41
  the great love the general gender bear. Him who, dipping all his faults
• 2:57:45
  in their affection, would like the spring that turneth wood to stone, convert
• 2:57:50
  his gives to graces, so that my arrows, too slightly timbered, for
• 2:57:54
  so loud a wind would have reverted to my bow again, and not where
• 2:57:58
  I had aim'd them. And so have I A noble father lost, a
• 2:58:05
  sister driven into desperate terms, whose worth, if praises, may go back
• 2:58:11
  again, stood challenger on mount of all the age for her perfections. But
• 2:58:18
  my revenge will come break not your sleeps. For that you must not think
• 2:58:24
  that we are made of stuff so flat and dull that we can let our
• 2:58:28
  beard be shook with danger, and think it pastime. You shortly shall hear
• 2:58:31
  more I loved your father, and we love ourselves, and that I hope
• 2:58:37
  will teach you to imagine. Enter a messenger, how now, what news
• 2:58:43
  let us, my lord from Hamlet? This dear majesty gives to the queen
• 2:58:46
  from Hamlet who brought them savors? My lord, they say, I thought
• 2:58:52
  not. They were given me by Cardio. He received them of him that
• 2:58:54
  got them. Lati is you shall hear them leave us egg it, messenger
• 2:59:01
  reads High and mighty. You shall know I am set naked on your kingdom
• 2:59:05
  tomorrow? Shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes? When I shall
• 2:59:09
  first asking your pardon? Thereunto recount the occasion of my sudden and more strange
• 2:59:16
  return Hamlet? What should this mean? Where all the rest come back?
• 2:59:22
  Or is it some abuse? And no such thing? Know you the hand?
• 2:59:26
  But tis Hamlet's character naked, And in a PostScript here he says,
• 2:59:31
  alone, can you advise me? I'm lost in it, my lord,
• 2:59:35
  But let him come. It warms the very sickness in my heart that I
• 2:59:41
  shall live and tell him to his teeth. Thus, diddest thou if it
• 2:59:48
  be so, Laertes, as, how should it be so? How otherwise
• 2:59:54
  will you be ruled by me, I, my lord, so you will
• 2:59:58
  not or rule me to a peace to thine own peace. If he be
• 3:00:03
  now returned as checking at his voyage, and that he means no more to
• 3:00:07
  undertake it, I will work him to an exploit. Now ripen my device
• 3:00:13
  under which he shall not choose but fall, and for his death no wind
• 3:00:16
  of blame shall breathe, but even his mother shall uncharge the practice and call
• 3:00:20
  it accident. My Lord, I will be ruled the rather, if you
• 3:00:26
  could devise it so that I might be the organ it falls right. You
• 3:00:31
  have been talked of since your travel much, and that in Hamlet's hearing for
• 3:00:37
  a quality, wherein they say you shine. Your sum of parts did not
• 3:00:41
  together pluck such envy from him as did that one. And that in my
• 3:00:45
  regard of the unworthiest siege, what park is that, my lord, a
• 3:00:50
  very ribband in the cap of youth, yet needful too, For youth no
• 3:00:54
  less becomes the light and careless livery that it wears than settled age, his
• 3:00:58
  sable and his weeds, importing health and graveness. Two months since here was
• 3:01:03
  a gentleman of Normandy, I've seen myself and served against the French, and
• 3:01:07
  they can well on horseback, but this gallant had witchcraft in it. He
• 3:01:13
  grew unto his seat, and to such wondrous doing, brought his horse as
• 3:01:16
  he had been encorpsed, and DEMI natured with the brave beast. So far
• 3:01:20
  he topped my thought that I, in forgery of shapes and tricks, come
• 3:01:24
  short of what he did. A Norman West, a Norman upon my life
• 3:01:31
  la Monde, the very same, I know him well. He is the
• 3:01:35
  brooch, indeed, and gem of all the nation. He made confession of
• 3:01:41
  you, and gave you such a masterly report for art and exercise in your
• 3:01:45
  defense and for eurrapia. Most especially that he cried out, twould be a
• 3:01:50
  sight. Indeed, if one could match you. The scrimmers of their nation,
• 3:01:54
  he swore, had neither motion, guard nor eye if you opposed them,
• 3:01:58
  Sir, this report of his did ham It's so envenom with his envy,
• 3:02:01
  that he could nothing do but wish and beg your sudden coming, or
• 3:02:05
  to play with him. Now out of this? What out of this,
• 3:02:09
  my lord lairdies, was your father dear to you? Or are you like
• 3:02:13
  the painting of a sorrow a face without a heart. Why ask you this
• 3:02:18
  not that I think you did not love your father, but that I know
• 3:02:22
  love is begun by time, and that I see in passages of proof time
• 3:02:26
  qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of
• 3:02:30
  love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. And nothing is
• 3:02:33
  at alike goodness still, for goodness growing to a pleurisy dies in his own
• 3:02:39
  too much that we would do, we should do when we would. For
• 3:02:43
  this wood changes and hath abatements and delays, as many as there are tongues,
• 3:02:48
  our hands are accidents. And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh
• 3:02:54
  that hurts by easing, but to the quick of the ulcer, Hamlet it
• 3:03:00
  comes back. What would you undertake to show yourself your father's son? Indeed,
• 3:03:05
  more than in words, to cut his throat in the church. No
• 3:03:11
  place indeed should murder, sanctuarize. Revenge should have no bounds. But good
• 3:03:16
  later it is, will you do this? Keep close within your chamber,
• 3:03:20
  Hamlet return shall know you are come home. We'll put on those that shall
• 3:03:24
  praise your excellence, and set a double varnish on the fame. The Frenchman
• 3:03:28
  gave you. Bring you in fine together and wageerr on your heads. He
• 3:03:33
  being remiss, most generous and free from all contriving, will not peruse the
• 3:03:37
  foils, So that with ease, or with a little shuffling, you may
• 3:03:41
  choose a sword unbated, and in a passive practice, requite him for your
• 3:03:45
  father. I will do it, and for that purpose I'll anoint my sword.
• 3:03:52
  I bought an unction of a mountebank so mortal that but dip a knife
• 3:03:58
  in it where it draws blood. No cataplasm so rare collected from all simples
• 3:04:05
  that have virtue under the moon, can save the thing from death that is
• 3:04:11
  but scratched withal. I'll touch my point with this contagion, that if I
• 3:04:20
  gall him slightly, it may be death. Let's further think of this way,
• 3:04:26
  what convenience, both of time and means, may fit us to our
• 3:04:28
  shape. If this should fail, and that our drift look through our bad
• 3:04:33
  performance, twere better not hassayed. Therefore, this project should have a back
• 3:04:37
  or second that might hold if this should blast in proof soft let me see
• 3:04:45
  wholl make a solemn wager on your cunnings I have when in your motion you
• 3:04:50
  are hot and dry as make your bouts more violent. To that end,
• 3:04:54
  and that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him a chalice for the
• 3:04:58
  nonce wherein, But if he, by chance to escape your venom stuck,
• 3:05:03
  our purpose may hold air. Enter, Queen Gertrude, How now, sweet
• 3:05:07
  Queen, one woe doth tread upon another's heel so fast they follow your sisters,
• 3:05:16
  drowned, laities drowned. Oh, where there is a willow grows a
• 3:05:24
  slant brook that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic
• 3:05:31
  garlands, did she come of crow flowers, nettles, daisies, and long
• 3:05:35
  purples that liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead
• 3:05:41
  men's fingers call them. There on the pendent boughs, her coronet weeds,
• 3:05:48
  clambering to hang an envious sliver broke when down her weedy trophies, and herself
• 3:05:54
  fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide and mermaid like a while
• 3:06:01
  they bore her up, which time she chanted snatches of old tombs. Has
• 3:06:07
  one incapable of her own distress? Or like a creature native and endued unto
• 3:06:13
  that element. But long it could not be till that her garments, heavy
• 3:06:20
  with their drink, pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death.
• 3:06:26
  Alas then she is drowned, drowned, drowned too much of water.
• 3:06:37
  Hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears. But yet
• 3:06:46
  it is our trick nature her custom holds. Let shame say what it will.
• 3:06:54
  When these are gone, the woman will be out. O what you
• 3:07:05
  my lord? I have a speech of fire that fade wood blaze, but
• 3:07:11
  that this Holley doubts it. Exit Laerties. Let's follow Gertrude. How much
• 3:07:18
  I had to do to calm his rage? Now fear I this will give
• 3:07:22
  its start again. Therefore let's follow exit end of Act four, Act five,
• 3:07:31
  Scene one, a churchyard, enter, two clowns with spades, et
• 3:07:35
  cetera. Is she to be buried in Christian burial that wilfully seeks her own
• 3:07:41
  salvation? I tell thee she is, so make her grave straight. The
• 3:07:46
  crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial? How can that be?
• 3:07:50
  Unless she drowned herself in her own defense? Why tis found so it
• 3:07:56
  must be, say a fundendo. It cannot else. For here lies the
• 3:08:01
  point. If I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act, and an
• 3:08:05
  act hath three branches. It is to act, to do, to perform
• 3:08:09
  our gall She drowned herself wittingly. Nay, but hear you, goodman,
• 3:08:13
  delver, give me leave. Here lies water good, Here stands the man
• 3:08:18
  good. If the man go to this water and drown himself, it is
• 3:08:22
  will he nill he he goes? Mark you that. But if the water
• 3:08:28
  come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself. Our gall,
• 3:08:31
  he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life.
• 3:08:35
  But is this law? I merryest crowner's quest law? Will you have
• 3:08:41
  the truth? Aunt? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should
• 3:08:46
  have been buried out of Christian burial. Why there thou sayest? And that
• 3:08:50
  more pity that great folks should have countenance in this world to drown or hang
• 3:08:54
  themselves more than their even Christian Come my spade. There is no ay.
• 3:09:00
  Gentlemen, but gardners, ditchers and grave makers they hold up Adam's profession.
• 3:09:05
  Was he a gentleman? He was the first that ever bore arms? Why
• 3:09:09
  he had none? What art a heathen? How dost thou understand the scripture?
• 3:09:15
  The scripture says Adam digged? Could he dig without arms? If you
• 3:09:20
  answerest me not to the purpose, confess thyself. Go to what is he
• 3:09:26
  that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
• 3:09:31
  A gallows maker? For that frame outlives a thousand tenants? I like thy
• 3:09:37
  wit well in good faith? The gallows does well? But how does it
• 3:09:41
  well? It does well to those that do in. Now thou dost ill
• 3:09:46
  to say the gallows is built stronger than the church, our gall The gallows
• 3:09:50
  may do well? To thee toot Come again, who builds stronger than a
• 3:09:54
  mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter? Ay tell me that you know
• 3:10:01
  Marry Now I can tell to it mass. I cannot tell enter Hamlet and
• 3:10:07
  Horatio at a distance. Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your
• 3:10:13
  dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. And when you are asked
• 3:10:16
  this question, next, say a grave maker the houses that he makes last
• 3:10:20
  till doomsday. Go get thee to Johan, Fetch me a stoop of liquor
• 3:10:26
  exit. Second clown, first clown digs and sings in youth when I did
• 3:10:33
  love, did love, methought it was very sweet to contract, oh the
• 3:10:37
  time for a me behoove om he thought there was nothing meat. Has this
• 3:10:45
  fellow no feeling of his business that he sings grave making custom? Hath made
• 3:10:50
  it in him a property of easiness to see in so the hand of little
• 3:10:56
  employment, hath the daintier sense sings, but age with his stealing steps.
• 3:11:03
  Hath called me in his clutch, and hath shipped me into the land,
• 3:11:07
  as if I had never been such throws up a skull. That skull had
• 3:11:13
  a tongue in it, and could sing once how the knave jowls it to
• 3:11:18
  the ground, as if it were a king's jawbone that did the first murder.
• 3:11:24
  It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er
• 3:11:28
  reaches, one that would circumvent God, might it not? It might my
• 3:11:35
  lord, or of a courtier, which could say, good morrow, sweet
• 3:11:39
  Lord, how dost thou, good Lord? This might mean, by lord,
• 3:11:45
  such a one that praised my lord, such a one's horse when he
• 3:11:48
  meant to begin. It might it not I, my lord, my and
• 3:11:52
  so, and now my lady worms chapless knocked about the mazard with a sexton's
• 3:12:03
  spade. Here's fine revolution, and we add the trick to seat. Did
• 3:12:09
  these bones cost no more the breeding? But to play at loggards with him?
• 3:12:16
  Mine ache? To think aunt sings a pickaxe and a spade, a
• 3:12:20
  spade for a shrouding sheet. Oh, a pit of clay to be made
• 3:12:26
  for such a guest? Is meat throws up another skull? There's another?
• 3:12:33
  Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quidities?
• 3:12:39
  Now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?
• 3:12:46
  Why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce
• 3:12:50
  with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery?
• 3:12:58
  This fellow might be in time a great buyer of land, with his
• 3:13:03
  statues, his recognisances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries.
• 3:13:11
  Is this the fine of his fines and the recovery of his recoveries? To
• 3:13:18
  have his fine pate full of fine dirt? Will his vouchers vouch him no
• 3:13:24
  more of his purchases and double ones too than the length and breadth of a
• 3:13:33
  pair of indentures. The very conveyances of his land will hardly lie in this
• 3:13:39
  box, and must the interior himself have no more, huh, not a
• 3:13:45
  jot more, my lord, is not parchment made of sheepskins, I'm my
• 3:13:50
  lord, and of colfskins too. They are sheep and calves which seek out
• 3:13:54
  assurance in that I will speak to this fellow who's grave is this, Sarah
• 3:14:01
  mine, sir sings? Or a pit of clay to be made for such
• 3:14:05
  a guest is meet? I think it be thine. Indeed, for thou
• 3:14:09
  liest hint you lie out on it, sir, and therefore it is not
• 3:14:15
  yours. For my part, I do not lie in it, and yet
• 3:14:18
  it is mine. Thou dost lie int to be int and say it is
• 3:14:22
  thine tis for the dead, not for the quick. Therefore thou liest'tis a
• 3:14:28
  quick lie, sir. Twill away again from me to you. What man
• 3:14:33
  dost thou dig it? For? For no man? Sir? What woman?
• 3:14:37
  Then? For none neither? Who is to be buried int one that
• 3:14:43
  was a woman, sir? But rest her soul she's dead. How absolute
• 3:14:48
  the navis we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us by
• 3:14:56
  the Lord Horatio. These three years I have taken no of it. The
• 3:15:01
  age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the
• 3:15:05
  heel of the courtier he gaffs his kibe. How long hast thou been a
• 3:15:11
  grave maker of all the days of the year. I came to it that
• 3:15:16
  day that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortenbross. How long is that? Since?
• 3:15:20
  Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that it was the very
• 3:15:24
  day that young Hamlet was born? He that is mad and sent into England?
• 3:15:30
  Why? Mary? Why was he sent into England? Why? Because
• 3:15:35
  he was mad? He shall recover his wits there? Or if you do
• 3:15:39
  not, it's no great matter there? Why twill not be seen in him?
• 3:15:43
  There? There? The men are as mad as he? How came
• 3:15:46
  he mad? Very strangely, they say, oh, strangely faith Ian with
• 3:15:54
  losing his wits upon what ground? Why? Here in Denmark? I have
• 3:16:00
  been sext in here, man and boy thirty years? How long will a
• 3:16:03
  man lie the earth? Ere he rot? If faith, if he be
• 3:16:07
  not rotten before he die? As we have many parking courses nowadays that will
• 3:16:13
  scarce hold the laying in. He will last you some eight or nine year.
• 3:16:18
  A tanner will last you nine year? Why he more than another?
• 3:16:22
  Why sir, his height is so tanned with his trade that he will keep
• 3:16:26
  out water a great while. And your water is a sore decayur of the
• 3:16:30
  horse and dead body. Here's a skull. Now, this skull is layin
• 3:16:33
  in the earth three and twenty years. Whose was it? Horse? And
• 3:16:37
  mad fellows? It was? Whose do you think it was? Nay?
• 3:16:41
  And honat a pestilence on him for a mad rogue. I poured a flagon
• 3:16:46
  of rheinish on my head once. This same skull, Sir, was Yorick's
• 3:16:50
  skull. The king's jesture this in that, let me see, takes the
• 3:16:56
  skull ah last Poyorick, I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite
• 3:17:03
  jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a
• 3:17:11
  thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination? It tis my gorge
• 3:17:20
  rims at it he hung those lips I have kissed. I know not how
• 3:17:26
  oft would be your jibes, now, your gambols, your songs flashes of
• 3:17:37
  merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar, not one now
• 3:17:45
  to mock your own grinning, quite chopfallen. Now get you to my lady's
• 3:17:54
  chamber and tell her let her pay an inch thick to this favor. She
• 3:18:03
  must come make a laugh at that prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing?
• 3:18:13
  What's that? My lord? Dost thou think Alexander looked o this fashion
• 3:18:18
  in the earth? Mean so, and smelt so? Oh? Puts down
• 3:18:24
  the skull, Mean so, my lord? To what base uses we may
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  return her ratio? Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till
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  he find it stopping a bunghole? Twit to consider too curiously to consider so
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  no faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with modesty enough
• 3:18:48
  and likelihood to lead it as Thus Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander
• 3:18:58
  returneth into dust. The dust is of earth, of earth we make loan.
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  And why of that loan whereto he was converted? Might they not stop
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  a beer barer? Imperious Caesar dead turned to clay, might stop a hole
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  to keep the wind away? Oh? That that earth, which kept the
• 3:19:28
  world in awe, should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw soft soft
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  asiety. Here comes the king and to priest et cetera, in procession the
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  corpse of Ophelia. Laertes and mourners following King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, their
• 3:19:50
  trains, et cetera, the Queen, the courtiers. Who is they they
• 3:19:56
  follow and whose such main rites? The stuff betokened the course they followed did
• 3:20:01
  with desperate hand for do its own life. Twas of some estate couch we
• 3:20:09
  awhile in mark retiring with horatio, what ceremony else that is lairt is a
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  very noble use mark. Her obsequies have been as far enlarged as we have
• 3:20:24
  warranties. Her death was doubtful, and but that great command o'ersways the order
• 3:20:30
  she should in ground and sanctified, have lodged till the last trumpet for charitable
• 3:20:35
  prayers, shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her. Yet here
• 3:20:39
  she has allowed her virgin rites, her maid instruments, and the bringing home
• 3:20:45
  of bell and burial. Must there no more be done. No more be
• 3:20:50
  done we should profane the service of the dead, to sing a requiem and
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  set rest to her, as to peace. Parted souls lay her in the
• 3:20:58
  earth, and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring. I tell
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  thee churlish priest, a ministering angel, shall my sister be? When thou
• 3:21:15
  liest howling, what a ferophilia sweets to the sweet farewell scattering flowers. I
• 3:21:24
  hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife. I thought thy bride bed to
• 3:21:30
  have decked, sweet maid, And naught have strewed thy grave. Oh treble,
• 3:21:37
  woe fall ten times treble on that cursed head, whose wicked deed thy
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  most ingenious sense deprived thee of hold off the earth, while till I have
• 3:21:52
  caught her once more in mine arms, leaps into the grave. Now pile
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  yours upon the quick end dead, till of this flat a mountain you have
• 3:22:05
  made to o'er top old Pellian wre this skysh head of blue Olympus advancing.
• 3:22:15
  What is he whose grief bears such an emphasis, whose phrase of sorrow conjures
• 3:22:20
  the wandering stars and makes them stand like wonder wounded hearers. This is i
• 3:22:26
  Hamlet. The dane leaps into the grave. The devil take thy soul grappling
• 3:22:33
  with him. Thou prayest not well, I prethe take thy fingers from my
• 3:22:39
  throat, For though I am not splendive and rash, yet I have something
• 3:22:43
  in me dangerous, which let thy wiseness fear hold off thy hand pluck them
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  asunder Hamlet? Hamlet? Could my lord be clad? The attendants part them
• 3:22:58
  and they come out? Why I will fight with him upon this theme until
• 3:23:03
  my eyelids will no longer wag? Oh, my son, what theme I
• 3:23:09
  loved Ophelia? Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love
• 3:23:16
  make up my son? What wilt thou do for her? Oh? He
• 3:23:20
  is madly etes for love of God, forbear him spoons? Show me what
• 3:23:26
  thou do? What weep? What fight? What fast woods? Tere thyself?
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  What drink up easel? Eat a crocodile? I'll do it. Dost
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  thou come here to wine, to outface me with leaping in her grave?
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  Be buryed quick with her? And so I And if thou prate of mountains,
• 3:23:50
  let them throw millions of acres on us till our ground, singing his
• 3:23:54
  pate against the burning zone make osa like a wart nay, and the mouth
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  thou'll rent as well as thou. This is mere madness. And thus a
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  while the fit will work on him Anon as patient as the female dove.
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  When that are golden couplets are disclosed, his silence will sit drooping. Here
• 3:24:16
  you, sir, what is the reason that you use me? Thus?
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  I love you ever, But it is no matter. Let Hercules himself do
• 3:24:28
  what he may. The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
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  Exit Hamlet. I pray you good, Horatio, wait upon him.
• 3:24:39
  Exit Horatio to Laarties. Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech, will
• 3:24:46
  put the matter to the present. Push good Gertrude, set some watch over
• 3:24:50
  your son. This grave shall have a living monument, an hour of quiet.
• 3:24:54
  Shortly shall we see till then, in patience our proceeding excellent Scene two
• 3:25:03
  A hall in the castle. Enter Hamlet and Horatio. So much for this,
• 3:25:09
  sir, Now shall you see the other? You do remember all the
• 3:25:11
  circumstance, Remember it, my lord sir. In my heart there was a
• 3:25:18
  kind of fighting that would not let me sleep. Methought, I lay worse
• 3:25:22
  than the mutines in the Bilbos rashly, and praise be rashness for it.
• 3:25:31
  Let us know our indiscretion sometimes serves us well when our deep plots do paul,
• 3:25:39
  and that should teach us there's a divinity that shapes our ends. Rough
• 3:25:45
  you them how we will? That is most certain? Up from my cabin
• 3:25:50
  my sea gown, scarfed about me in the dark, groped eye to find
• 3:25:56
  out them had my desire, fingered their packet, and in fine withdrew to
• 3:26:05
  mine own room, again, making so bold my fears forgetting manners to unseal
• 3:26:13
  their grand commission, where I found Horatio of royal knavery, an exact command,
• 3:26:20
  larded with many several sorts of reasons, importing Denmark's health and England's too,
• 3:26:26
  with oh, such bugs and goblins in my life that on the supervise,
• 3:26:33
  no leisure baited, No, not to stay the grinding of the axe.
• 3:26:39
  My head should be struck off? Is it possible? Here's the commission?
• 3:26:46
  Read it at more leisure. But wilt thou hear me how I did
• 3:26:50
  proceed? I beseech you, being thus benetted round with villanies, ere I
• 3:26:58
  could make a prolugged my brains. They had begun the play. I sat
• 3:27:03
  me down, devised a new commission, wrote it fair. I once did
• 3:27:09
  hold it as our status do a baseness to write a fair and labored much
• 3:27:15
  how to forget that learning. But sir, now it did me Yeoman's service
• 3:27:22
  was there now the effect of what I wrote, I my good Lord in
• 3:27:26
  earnest conjuration from the king, as England was as faithful tributary as love between
• 3:27:33
  them, like the palm might flourish, as peace should stiffer wheaten garland ware,
• 3:27:39
  and stand a comma between their amities, and many such like. Ass
• 3:27:46
  is of great charge that on the view and knowing of these contents, without
• 3:27:50
  abatement. Further More or less, he should the bearers put to sudden death,
• 3:27:56
  no shriving time allowed. How is this sealed? Why even in that
• 3:28:01
  was heaven ordinant? I had my father's signet in my purse, which was
• 3:28:07
  the model of that Danish seal, folded the writ up and form of the
• 3:28:11
  other scribed it gave it the impression, placed it safely the changeling never known.
• 3:28:20
  Now. The next day was our sea fight? And what to this
• 3:28:22
  was sequenced? Thou know'st already so Guildenstern and rosencramps go to it by man.
• 3:28:31
  They did make love to this employment. They are not near my conscience.
• 3:28:37
  Their defeat does by their own insinuation grow tis dangerous when the baser nature
• 3:28:45
  comes between the pass and fell and sensed points of mighty opposites. Why what
• 3:28:50
  a king is this? Does it? Not? Thinks? They stand me
• 3:28:56
  now upon he that hath killed my king and hoard my mother popped in between
• 3:29:03
  the election and my hopes thrown out his angle for my proper life. And
• 3:29:11
  with such cosinach is not the perfect conscience to quit him with this arm,
• 3:29:18
  and is not to be damned to let this canker of our nature come in
• 3:29:22
  further evil. It must be shortly known to him from England. What is
• 3:29:26
  the issue of the business there? It will be short. The interim is
• 3:29:30
  mine and a man's life. No more than to say one but I'm very
• 3:29:37
  sorry, good Horatio, the two Laertes I forgot myself for by the image
• 3:29:43
  of my cause. I see the portraiture of his. I'll court his favors.
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  But sure the bravery of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
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  Peace, who comes here? Enter Ozrak, Your lord is right welcome
• 3:30:01
  back to Denmark. I humbly thank you. Sir, does know this waterfly?
• 3:30:09
  No, my good lord, thy state is the more gracious, for
• 3:30:11
  tis a vice to know him. He hath much land and fertile that a
• 3:30:18
  beastly lord of beasts and his crib shall stand in the king's mess tis a
• 3:30:22
  chow, but as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt. Week
• 3:30:28
  Lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should impart a thing to
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  you from his majesty. I will receive it, Sir, with all diligence
• 3:30:37
  of spirit. Put your bonnet to his right us tis for the head,
• 3:30:41
  I thank your lordship. It is very hot, No, believe me,
• 3:30:46
  tis very cold. The wind is northerly. It is indifferent cold, my
• 3:30:50
  lord, indeed. But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my
• 3:30:54
  complexion exceedingly, my lord. It is very sultry as it were. I
• 3:31:01
  cannot tell how, But my Lord, his majesty bad may signify to you
• 3:31:07
  that he has laid a great wager on your head. Sir, this is
• 3:31:11
  the matter I besie you. Remember Hamlet moves him to put on his hat.
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  Nay, good, my lord, for mine ease in good faith.
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  Sir, here is newly come to court. Laitis believe me an absolute gentleman,
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  full of most excellent differences, of very soft society and great showing.
• 3:31:35
  Indeed to speak feelingly of him. He is the card or calendar of gentry.
• 3:31:39
  For you shall find in him the continent of what part of gentleman would
• 3:31:43
  see. Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you, though I know
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  to divide him in victorially with dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet by
• 3:31:54
  your neither in respect of his quick sale. But in the verity of ex
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  installment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his
• 3:32:03
  infusion of such dearth and rareness as to make true diction of him. His
• 3:32:07
  semblance is his mirror, and who else would trace him his umbrage nothing more?
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  Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him. The concern is, Sir,
• 3:32:18
  why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath. It's not possible
• 3:32:24
  to understand in another tongue. He will do it, sir. Really,
• 3:32:28
  what imports the nomination of this gentleman? Oh, his purse is empty already
• 3:32:35
  all's golden words are spent of him, Sir. I know you are not
• 3:32:41
  ignorant. Would you did, sir, yet in faith? If you did,
• 3:32:46
  it would not much approve me. Well, Sir, you are not
• 3:32:50
  ignorant of what excellently it is is. I do not confess that lest I
• 3:32:54
  should compare with him in excellence. But to know a man well were to
• 3:32:58
  know him so yes, I mean, sir, for his weapon, but
• 3:33:03
  in the imputation laid on him by them in his meat, he's unfallowed.
• 3:33:09
  What's his weapon? Rapier and dagger. That's two of his weapons. But
• 3:33:15
  well, the king, Sir, hath waged with him six barbary horses against
• 3:33:20
  the witch. He has imposed, as I take it, six French rapiers
• 3:33:26
  and poniards, with their signs as girdles hangers themselves. Three of the carriages,
• 3:33:31
  in faith are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilt's most
• 3:33:37
  delicate carriages, and a very liberal conceit. What call you the carriages?
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  I knew you must be edified by the margin ere you had done. The
• 3:33:46
  carriages, sir, are the hangars. The phrase would be more germane to
• 3:33:52
  the matter. If he could carry cannon by our sides. Why would it
• 3:33:56
  might be hangers till then? But on six arbery horses against six French swords
• 3:34:03
  their assigns, and three liberal conceited carriages. That's the French beat against the
• 3:34:07
  Danish. Why is this impound? As you call it? The King,
• 3:34:13
  sir, have laid that in a dozen passes between yourself and him, he
• 3:34:16
  shall not exceed you three hits. He had laid on twelve for nine,
• 3:34:22
  and it would come to immediate trial if your lordship would vouchsafe the answer?
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  How if I answer no, I mean, my lord, the opposition of
• 3:34:33
  your person in trial, Sir. I will walk here in the hall,
• 3:34:39
  if it please his majesty, tis the breathing time of day with me.
• 3:34:43
  Let the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the King hold his
• 3:34:48
  purpose. I will win for him and I can. If not, I
• 3:34:52
  will gain nothing but my shame and the oddits? Shall I redeliver you in
• 3:34:56
  so to this effect? Sir? After what flourish your nature? Will I
• 3:35:03
  commend my duty to your lordship? Yours yours exit Ozric. He does well
• 3:35:09
  to commend it himself. There are no tongues else for's turn. This lap
• 3:35:13
  wing runs away with the shell on his head. He did comply with his
• 3:35:18
  doug before he sucked it. Thus, as he and many more of the
• 3:35:22
  same bevy that I know, the dressy age doats on only got the tune
• 3:35:28
  of the time and outward habit of encounter a kind of yesty collection which carries
• 3:35:35
  them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions, and do but blow
• 3:35:41
  them to their trial. Their bubbles are out. Enter a lord, my
• 3:35:48
  lord, his majesty commended him to you by young Ozric, who brings back
• 3:35:50
  to him that you attend him in the hall. He sends to know if
• 3:35:54
  your pleasure hold to play with laertes, or that you will take longer time.
• 3:35:58
  I am to my purpose. They follow the King's pleasure. If his
• 3:36:03
  fitness speaks, mine is ready now or whensoever provided I be so able.
• 3:36:09
  As now the King and Queen and all are coming down in happy time.
• 3:36:16
  The Queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to la or ties before you
• 3:36:20
  fall to play. She well instructs me, exit, Lord, you will
• 3:36:26
  lose this wage of my lord. I do not think so. Since he
• 3:36:31
  went into France, I have been in continual practice. I shall win at
• 3:36:35
  the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart?
• 3:36:43
  But it is no matter, nay, good, my lord, it
• 3:36:46
  is but foolery. But it is such a kind of gain giving as would
• 3:36:52
  perhaps trouble a woman. If your minds dislike anything, obey it. I
• 3:36:56
  will forestall their repair hither and say you are not fit. Not a whit
• 3:37:01
  we defy, augree. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
• 3:37:05
  If it be now, tis not to come. If it be not
• 3:37:11
  come, it will be now. If it be not now yet, it
• 3:37:16
  will come. The readiness is all, since no man has aught of what
• 3:37:24
  he leaves what is't to leave. Betimes, enter King Claudius, Queen Gertrude,
• 3:37:33
  Laerties, lords osric and attendants with foils, et cetera. Come,
• 3:37:39
  Hamlet, come and take this hand from me. King Claudius puts Larti's hand
• 3:37:45
  into Hamlet's give me your pardon, sir, I've done you wrong, but
• 3:37:50
  pardoned as you are a gentleman. The presence knows, and you must needs
• 3:37:56
  have heard how I am punished with sort of distraction what I have done that
• 3:38:03
  might your nature honor and exception. Roughly awake, I hear proclaim was madness?
• 3:38:09
  Was Hamlet wrong? Laertes? Never Hamlet. If Hamlet, from himself
• 3:38:13
  be tain away, and when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, then Hamlet
• 3:38:18
  does it not? Hamlet denies it? Who does it? Then his madness?
• 3:38:26
  If it be so, Hamlet is of the faction that has wrong.
• 3:38:30
  His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy. Sir, in this audience, let my
• 3:38:41
  disclaiming from a purposed evil free me so far in your most generous thoughts that
• 3:38:48
  I have shot mine arrow o'er the house and hurt my brother, I am
• 3:38:52
  satisfied in nature whose motive in this case should stir me most to my revenge.
• 3:39:01
  But in my terms of honor I stand aloof and will no reconcilement till
• 3:39:09
  by some elder masters of known honor. I have a voice and precedent of
• 3:39:13
  peace to keep my name on gourd. But till that time I do receive
• 3:39:22
  your offered love like love, and will not wrong it. I embrace it
• 3:39:28
  freely, and will this brother's wager frankly play. Give us the foils,
• 3:39:35
  Come on, come one for me. I'll be a foil ladies in mine
• 3:39:41
  ignorance, your skill shall like a star in the darkest night, stick fiery
• 3:39:46
  off. Indeed you mock me, sir, No, by this hand,
• 3:39:52
  give them the foils. Young Ozric cousin Hamlet. You know the wager very
• 3:39:58
  well. My lord race hath laid the odds of the weaker side. I
• 3:40:03
  do not fear it. I have seen you both. But since he is
• 3:40:07
  bettered, we have therefore odds. This is too heavy. Let me see
• 3:40:11
  another slkes me well, these foils have all a length. Ay, my
• 3:40:20
  good lord, set me the stoops of wine upon that table. If Hamlet
• 3:40:24
  give the first a second hit or quit in answer of the third exchange,
• 3:40:28
  let all the battlements their ordnance fire. The king shall drink to Hamlet's better
• 3:40:33
  breath, and in the cup an union shall he throw richer than that which
• 3:40:37
  four successive kings in Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups, and
• 3:40:43
  let the kettle to the trumpet. Speak the trumpet to the cannoneer without the
• 3:40:46
  cannons, to the heavens, the heavens to earth. Now the king dunks
• 3:40:50
  to Hamlet. Come begin, and you, the judges bear a wary eye.
• 3:40:58
  Come on, sir, come, my lord. They play one no
• 3:41:05
  judgment, a hit, a very palpable hit. Well again, stay,
• 3:41:13
  give me drink, Hamlet. This pearl is thine. Here's to thy health.
• 3:41:18
  Trumpet sound and cannon shut off within, give him the cup. I'll
• 3:41:24
  play this butt for sitter by a while. Come they play another hit.
• 3:41:28
  What say you A touch? A touch? I do confess our son shall
• 3:41:35
  win. He's fat and scant of breath. Here, Hamlet, take my
• 3:41:39
  napkin, rub thy brows. The queen carouses to thy fortune. Hamlet,
• 3:41:46
  Good, Madam Gertrude, do not drink, I will, my lord.
• 3:41:50
  I pray you pardon me a side. It is the poisoned cup. It
• 3:41:56
  is too late. I dare not drink yet, madam, by and bye,
• 3:42:01
  Come let me wipe thy face. My Lord, I'll hit him now.
• 3:42:07
  I do not think aside, and yet tis almost against my conscience.
• 3:42:16
  Come for the third claarties you do, but dally, I pray you pass
• 3:42:22
  with your best violence. I am afeared you make a wanton of me?
• 3:42:26
  Say you so? Come on? They play nothing neither way have at you
• 3:42:35
  now larities wounds Hamlet. Then in scuffling they change rapiers and Hamlet wounds laerties
• 3:42:41
  part them. They are incensed. Nay, come again, Queen Gertrude falls,
• 3:42:48
  look to the queen their hoe. They bleed on both sides. How
• 3:42:54
  ist, my lord? How is laitis? Why has a woodcock too?
• 3:43:00
  Mine own sprenge asick? I am justly killed with mine own treachery? How
• 3:43:07
  does the queen she swounds to see them bleed? No? No, the
• 3:43:13
  drink, the drink, Oh, my dear Hamlet the drink, the drink.
• 3:43:22
  I am poisoned, dies, Oh villainy, Oh, let the door
• 3:43:31
  be locked. Treachery, seek it out. It is here hem. Look
• 3:43:41
  thou art slain. No medicine in the world can do thee good in thee.
• 3:43:48
  There is not half an hour of life. The treacherous instrument is in
• 3:43:54
  thy hand, unbated and envenomed. Foul practice has turned itself on me.
• 3:44:05
  Lo here I lie, never to rise again. Thy mother's poisoned. I
• 3:44:18
  can't no more. The king, the kingens to blame the point envenomed two
• 3:44:28
  then venom to thy work stabs. King Claudius treasons reason. Oh yet defend
• 3:44:37
  me, friends, I am but hurt. Here thou insestious, murderous,
• 3:44:43
  damned in Dane. Drink off this potion is thy union. Here follow my
• 3:44:48
  mother. King Claudius dies, he is justly served. It is a poison
• 3:44:56
  tempered by himself, a exchange forgiveness with me, noble hamlet mine hah,
• 3:45:05
  and my father's death. Come not upon thee, nor thine on me.
• 3:45:15
  Dies. You haven't make THEE free of it. Oh, oh, I
• 3:45:22
  follow thee. I am dead, hur Rachel, Oh wretched queen. And
• 3:45:31
  you you that look pale and tremble at this chance, that are but mutes
• 3:45:39
  or audience to this act? Had I but time? Oh as this fell
• 3:45:45
  Sergeant death is tricked in his arrest. Oh, I could tell you God,
• 3:45:52
  let it be al ratio. I'm dead. Thou lifst report me and
• 3:46:03
  my cause are right to the unsatisfied, Never believe it. I am more
• 3:46:07
  of an antique Roman than a Dane. He has yet some liquor left,
• 3:46:11
  as thou art man, give me the cup. Let go by heaven.
• 3:46:16
  I'll have good horatio, what a wounded name. Things standing thus unknown shall
• 3:46:24
  live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, absent
• 3:46:31
  THEE from felicity a while, and in this harsh wart'll draw thy breath in
• 3:46:37
  pain to tell my story. March afar off and shot within, but warlike
• 3:46:43
  noises, this young thought in brass, with conquest come from Poland to the
• 3:46:48
  ambassadors of England, gives this warlike volley. Ah die Horatio, This potent
• 3:46:56
  poison quite occrows my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England,
• 3:47:03
  but I do prophecy. The election lights on Fortinbross. He has my
• 3:47:11
  dying voice, so tell him. With the occurrence, more and less which
• 3:47:18
  have solicited rest is silence dies now cracks a noble heart. Good night,
• 3:47:31
  sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. Why does
• 3:47:37
  the drum come hither? March within, enter Fortonbross, the English ambassadors and
• 3:47:43
  others? Where is this sight? What is it you would see? If
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  aught of woe or wonder? Cease your search? This quarry cries on havoc,
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  Oh, proud death. What feast is the word in thine eternal cell
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  that thou so many princes at a shot, so bloodily hast struck. The
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  sight is dismal, and our affairs from England come too late. The ears
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  are senseless that should give us hearing to tell him. His commandment is fulfilled.
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  That Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Where should we have our thanks?
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  Not from his mouth had it the ability of life to thank you? He
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  never gave commandment for their death. But since so jump upon this bloody question,
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  you from the Polack Wars, and you from England are here arrived.
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  Give order that these bodies, high on a stage, be placed to the
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  view. And let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came
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  about. So shall you hear of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, of
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  accidental judgments, casual slaughters, of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
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  and in this upshot purposes mistook fallen on the inventor's heads. All this
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  can I truly deliver. Let us haste to hear it, and call the
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  noblest to the audience. For me, with sorrow, I embrace my fortune.
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  I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, which now to claim
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  my vantage doth invite me of that? I shall have also cause to speak.
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  And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more. But let this
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  same be presently perform'd, even while men's minds are wild, lest more mischance
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  on plots and errors happen. Let. Four captains bear Hamlet like a soldier
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  to the stage, for he was likely, had he been put on,
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  to have prov'd most royally, and for his passage. The soldier's music and
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  the rights of war speak loudly for him. Take up the bodies. Such
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  a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. Go
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  bid the soldiers shoot a dead march excellent, bearing off the dead bodies,
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  after which a peal of ordinance is shot off. End of Act five.
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  End of Hamlet by William Shakespeare.