{"id":11563,"date":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11563"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","slug":"HamletCtext0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/HamletCtext0\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 3, page 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/content-restricted\/edmereading\/hamlet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Table of Contents<\/a><input type=\"button\" name=\"NextPage\" style=\"float : right; font-size : 20px;\" onclick=\"location.href=&#39;http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11564&#39;\" value=\"  Next Page  \"><\/p>\n<p><b>ACT III SCENE I\ufffd<\/b> Setting: A room in the castle.<\/p>\n<p>[Enter\ufffdKING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN ]<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\n<td>And can you, by no drift of circumstance,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Get from him why he puts on this confusion,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Grating so harshly all his days of quiet<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ROSENCRANTZ<\/td>\n<td>He does confess he feels himself distracted;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But from what cause he will by no means speak.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>GUILDENSTERN<\/td>\n<td>Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>When we would bring him on to some confession<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Of his true state.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\n<td>Did he receive you well?<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ROSENCRANTZ<\/td>\n<td>Most like a gentleman.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>GUILDENSTERN<\/td>\n<td>But with much forcing of his disposition.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ROSENCRANTZ<\/td>\n<td>Niggard of question; but, of our demands,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Most free in his reply.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\n<td>Did you assay him?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To any pastime?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ROSENCRANTZ<\/td>\n<td>Madam, it so fell out, that certain players<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>We o&#39;er&#8211;raught on the way: of these we told him;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And there did seem in him a kind of joy<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To hear of it: they are about the court,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And, as I think, they have already order<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>This night to play before him.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LORD POLONIUS<\/td>\n<td>Tis most true:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And he beseech&#39;d me to entreat your majesties<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To hear and see the matter.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\n<td>With all my heart; and it doth much content me<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To hear him so inclined.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And drive his purpose on to these delights.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ROSENCRANTZ<\/td>\n<td>We shall, my lord.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\n<td>Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That he, as &#39;twere by accident, may here<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Affront Ophelia:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Her father and myself, lawful espials,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>We may of their encounter frankly judge,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And gather by him, as he is behaved,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>If &#39;t be the affliction of his love or no<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That thus he suffers for.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\n<td>I shall obey you.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That your good beauties be the happy cause<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Of Hamlet&#39;s wildness: so shall I hope your virtues<\/td>\n<td>40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Will bring him to his wonted way again,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To both your honours.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>Madam, I wish it may.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Exit QUEEN GERTRUDE]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LORD POLONIUS<\/td>\n<td>Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>We will bestow ourselves.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[To OPHELIA]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Read on this book;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That show of such an exercise may colour<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Tis too much proved&#8211;&#8211;that with devotion&#39;s visage<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And pious action we do sugar o&#39;er<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The devil himself.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\n<td>[Aside]\ufffdO, &#39;tis too true!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!<\/td>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The harlot&#39;s cheek, beautied with plastering art,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Than is my deed to my most painted word:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>O heavy burthen!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LORD POLONIUS<\/td>\n<td>I hear him coming: let&#39;s withdraw, my lord.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS][Enter HAMLET]<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>To be, or not to be: that is the question:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Whether &#39;tis nobler in the mind to suffer<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;<\/td>\n<td>60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>No more; and by a sleep to say we end<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The heart&#8211;ache and the thousand natural shocks<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That flesh is heir to, &#39;tis a consummation<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Devoutly to be wish&#39;d. To die, to sleep;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there&#39;s the rub;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For in that sleep of death what dreams may come<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Must give us pause: there&#39;s the respect<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That makes calamity of so long life;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,<\/td>\n<td>70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The oppressor&#39;s wrong, the proud man&#39;s contumely,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The pangs of despised love, the law&#39;s delay,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The insolence of office and the spurns<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That patient merit of the unworthy takes,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>When he himself might his quietus make<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To grunt and sweat under a weary life,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But that the dread of something after death,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The undiscover&#39;d country from whose bourn<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>No traveller returns, puzzles the will<\/td>\n<td>80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And makes us rather bear those ills we have<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Than fly to others that we know not of?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And thus the native hue of resolution<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Is sicklied o&#39;er with the pale cast of thought,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And enterprises of great pith and moment<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With this regard their currents turn awry,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And lose the name of action.&#8211;&#8211;Soft you now!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Be all my sins remember&#39;d.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>Good my lord,<\/td>\n<td>90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>How does your honour for this many a day?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>I humbly thank you; well, well, well.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>My lord, I have remembrances of yours,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That I have longed long to re&#8211;deliver;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>I pray you, now receive them.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>No, not I;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>I never gave you aught.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>My honour&#39;d lord, you know right well you did;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>As made the things more rich: their perfume lost,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Take these again; for to the noble mind<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>There, my lord.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Ha, ha! are you honest?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>My lord?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Are you fair?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>What means your lordship?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>admit no discourse to your beauty.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>with honesty?<\/td>\n<td>110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>force of honesty can translate beauty into his<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>time gives it proof. I did love you once.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>it: I loved you not.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>I was the more deceived.<\/td>\n<td>120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>but yet I could accuse me of such things that it<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>were better my mother had not borne me: I am very<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>imagination to give them shape, or time to act them<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>in. What should such fellows as I do crawling<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Where&#39;s your father?<\/td>\n<td>130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>At home, my lord.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>fool no where but in&#39;s own house. Farewell.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>O, help him, you sweet heavens!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>If thou dost marry, I&#39;ll give thee this plague for<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>and quickly too. Farewell.<\/td>\n<td>140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>O heavenly powers, restore him!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>has given you one face, and you make yourselves<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>nick&#8211;name God&#39;s creatures, and make your wantonness<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>your ignorance. Go to, I&#39;ll no more on&#39;t; it hath<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>those that are married already, all but one, shall<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>nunnery, go.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Exit]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OPHELIA<\/td>\n<td>O, what a noble mind is here o&#39;erthrown!<\/td>\n<td>150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The courtier&#39;s, soldier&#39;s, scholar&#39;s, eye, tongue, sword;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The expectancy and rose of the fair state,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The glass of fashion and the mould of form,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That suck&#39;d the honey of his music vows,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Like sweet bells jangled out of tune, and harsh;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That unmatch&#39;d form and feature of blown youth<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,<\/td>\n<td>160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Re&#8211;enter KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS]<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\n<td>Love! his affections do not that way tend;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Nor what he spake, though it lack&#39;d form a little,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Was not like madness. There&#39;s something in his soul,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>O&#39;er which his melancholy sits on brood;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Will be some danger: which for to prevent,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>I have in quick determination<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For the demand of our neglected tribute<\/td>\n<td>170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Haply the seas and countries different<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With variable objects shall expel<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>This something&#8211;settled matter in his heart,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>From fashion of himself. What think you on&#39;t?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LORD POLONIUS<\/td>\n<td>It shall do well: but yet do I believe<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The origin and commencement of his grief<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>We heard it all. My lord, do as you please;<\/td>\n<td>180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But, if you hold it fit, after the play<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Let his queen mother all alone entreat him<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To show his grief: let her be round with him;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And I&#39;ll be placed, so please you, in the ear<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Of all their conference. 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