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Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n

ACT I SCENE III\ufffd<\/b> Setting: A room in Polonius' house.<\/p>\n

[Enter\ufffdLAERTES and OPHELIA]<\/p>\n\nLAERTES<\/td>\nMy necessaries are embark'd: farewell:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd, sister, as the winds give benefit<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd convoy is assistant, do not sleep,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBut let me hear from you.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA<\/td>\nDo you doubt that?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES<\/td>\nFor Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nHold it a fashion and a toy in blood,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nA violet in the youth of primy nature,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nForward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThe perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA<\/td>\nNo more but so?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES<\/td>\nThink it no more;<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nFor nature, crescent, does not grow alone<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nIn thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThe inward service of the mind and soul<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nGrows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThe virtue of his will: but you must fear,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nHis greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nFor he himself is subject to his birth:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nHe may not, as unvalued persons do,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nCarve for himself; for on his choice depends<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThe safety and health of this whole state;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd therefore must his choice be circumscribed<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nUnto the voice and yielding of that body<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nIt fits your wisdom so far to believe it<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAs he in his particular act and place<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nMay give his saying deed; which is no further<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThan the main voice of Denmark goes withal.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThen weigh what loss your honour may sustain,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nIf with too credent ear you list his songs,<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nOr lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nTo his unmaster'd importunity.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nFear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd keep you in the rear of your affection,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nOut of the shot and danger of desire.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThe chariest maid is prodigal enough,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nIf she unmask her beauty to the moon:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nVirtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThe canker galls the infants of the spring,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nToo oft before their buttons be disclosed,<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd in the morn and liquid dew of youth<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nContagious blastments are most imminent.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBe wary then; best safety lies in fear:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nYouth to itself rebels, though none else near.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA<\/td>\nI shall the effect of this good lesson keep,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAs watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nDo not, as some ungracious pastors do,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nShow me the steep and thorny way to heaven;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nHimself the primrose path of dalliance treads,<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd recks not his own rede.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES<\/td>\nO, fear me not.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nI stay too long: but here my father comes.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n[Enter\ufffdPOLONIUS]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nA double blessing is a double grace,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nOccasion smiles upon a second leave.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLORD POLONIUS<\/td>\nYet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThe wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd these few precepts in thy memory<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nSee thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nNor any unproportioned thought his act.<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBe thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThose friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nGrapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBut do not dull thy palm with entertainment<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nOf each new–hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nOf entrance to a quarrel, but being in,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBear't that the opposed may beware of thee.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nGive every man thy ear, but few thy voice;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nTake each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nCostly thy habit as thy purse can buy,<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBut not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nFor the apparel oft proclaims the man,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd they in France of the best rank and station<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAre of a most select and generous chief in that.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nNeither a borrower nor a lender be;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nFor loan oft loses both itself and friend,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThis above all: to thine ownself be true,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd it must follow, as the night the day,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThou canst not then be false to any man.<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nFarewell: my blessing season this in thee!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES<\/td>\nMost humbly do I take my leave, my lord.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLORD POLONIUS<\/td>\nThe time invites you; go; your servants tend.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES<\/td>\nFarewell, Ophelia; and remember well<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhat I have said to you.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA<\/td>\n'Tis in my memory lock'd,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd you yourself shall keep the key of it.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES<\/td>\nFarewell.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n[Exit]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLORD POLONIUS<\/td>\nWhat is't, Ophelia, be hath said to you?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA<\/td>\nSo please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLORD POLONIUS<\/td>\nMarry, well bethought:<\/td>\n90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\n'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nGiven private time to you; and you yourself<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nHave of your audience been most free and bounteous:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nIf it be so, as so 'tis put on me,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd that in way of caution, I must tell you,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nYou do not understand yourself so clearly<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAs it behoves my daughter and your honour.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhat is between you? give me up the truth.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA<\/td>\nHe hath, my lord, of late made many tenders<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nOf his affection to me.<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLORD POLONIUS<\/td>\nAffection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nUnsifted in such perilous circumstance.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nDo you believe his tenders, as you call them?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA<\/td>\nI do not know, my lord, what I should think.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLORD POLONIUS<\/td>\nMarry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThat you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhich are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nOr––not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nRunning it thus––you'll tender me a fool.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA<\/td>\nMy lord, he hath importuned me with love<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nIn honourable fashion.<\/td>\n110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLORD POLONIUS<\/td>\nAy, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA<\/td>\nAnd hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWith almost all the holy vows of heaven.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLORD POLONIUS<\/td>\nAy, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhen the blood burns, how prodigal the soul<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nLends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nGiving more light than heat, extinct in both,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nEven in their promise, as it is a–making,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nYou must not take for fire. From this time<\/td>\n120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBe somewhat scanter of your maiden presence;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nSet your entreatments at a higher rate<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThan a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBelieve so much in him, that he is young<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd with a larger tether may he walk<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThan may be given you: in few, Ophelia,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nDo not believe his vows; for they are brokers,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nNot of that dye which their investments show,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBut mere implorators of unholy suits,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBreathing like sanctified and pious bawds,<\/td>\n130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThe better to beguile. This is for all:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nI would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nHave you so slander any moment leisure,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAs to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nLook to't, I charge you: come your ways.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA<\/td>\nI shall obey, my lord.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n[Exeunt]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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