{"id":11565,"date":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11565"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","slug":"HamletCtext2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/HamletCtext2\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 3, page 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

ACT III SCENE III\ufffd<\/b> Setting: A room in the castle.<\/p>\n

[Enter KING CLAUDIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN]<\/p>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\nI like him not, nor stands it safe with us<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nTo let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nI your commission will forthwith dispatch,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd he to England shall along with you:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThe terms of our estate may not endure<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nHazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nOut of his lunacies.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGUILDENSTERN<\/td>\nWe will ourselves provide:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nMost holy and religious fear it is<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nTo keep those many many bodies safe<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThat live and feed upon your majesty.<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nROSENCRANTZ<\/td>\nThe single and peculiar life is bound,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWith all the strength and armour of the mind,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nTo keep itself from noyance; but much more<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThat spirit upon whose weal depend and rest<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThe lives of many. The cease of majesty<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nDies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhat's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nFix'd on the summit of the highest mount,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nTo whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAre mortised and adjoin'd; which, when it falls,<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nEach small annexment, petty consequence,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAttends the boisterous ruin. Never alone<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nDid the king sigh, but with a general groan.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\nArm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nFor we will fetters put upon this fear,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhich now goes too free–footed.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGUILDENSTERN<\/td>\nWe will haste us.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

[Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN][Enter POLONIUS]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
LORD POLONIUS<\/td>\nMy lord, he's going to his mother's closet:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBehind the arras I'll convey myself,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo hear the process; and warrant she'll tax him home:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, as you said, and wisely was it said,<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTis meet that some more audience than a mother,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSince nature makes them partial, should o'erhear<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI'll call upon you ere you go to bed,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd tell you what I know.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\nThanks, dear my lord.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Exit POLONIUS]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt hath the primal eldest curse upon't,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA brother's murder. Pray can I not,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThough inclination be as sharp as will:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, like a man to double business bound,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI stand in pause where I shall first begin,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd both neglect. What if this cursed hand<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWere thicker than itself with brother's blood,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs there not rain enough in the sweet heavens<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut to confront the visage of offence?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd what's in prayer but this two–fold force,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo be forestalled ere we come to fall,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up;<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCan serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat cannot be; since I am still possess'd<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf those effects for which I did the murder,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy crown, mine own ambition and my queen.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMay one be pardon'd and retain the offence?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn the corrupted currents of this world<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOffence's gilded hand may shove by justice,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBuys out the law: but 'tis not so above;<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThere is no shuffling, there the action lies<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEven to the teeth and forehead of our faults,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo give in evidence. What then? what rests?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTry what repentance can: what can it not?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYet what can it when one can not repent?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO wretched state! O bosom black as death!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO limed soul, that, struggling to be free,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nArt more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBe soft as sinews of the newborn babe!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAll may be well.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Retires and kneels]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Enter HAMLET]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nNow might I do it pat, now he is praying;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA villain kills my father; and for that,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI, his sole son, do this same villain send<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo heaven.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO, this is hire and salary, not revenge.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHe took my father grossly, full of bread;<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd how his audit stands who knows save heaven?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut in our circumstance and course of thought,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTis heavy with him: and am I then revenged,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo take him in the purging of his soul,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen he is fit and season'd for his passage?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUp, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;<\/td>\n90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAt gaming, swearing, or about some act<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat has no relish of salvation in't;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThen trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd that his soul may be as damn'd and black<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis physic but prolongs thy sickly days.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Exit]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\n[Rising]\ufffdMy words fly up, my thoughts remain below:<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWords without thoughts never to heaven go.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Exit]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/h3>\n

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