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

ACT III SCENE IV\ufffd<\/b> Setting: The Queen's closet.<\/p>\n

[Enter QUEEN MARGARET and POLONIUS]<\/p>\n\nLORD POLONIUS<\/td>\nHe will come straight. Look you lay home to him:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nTell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd that your grace hath screen'd and stood between<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nMuch heat and him. I'll sconce me even here.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nPray you, be round with him.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\n[Within]\ufffdMother, mother, mother!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nI'll warrant you,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nFear me not: withdraw, I hear him coming.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n[POLONIUS hides behind the arras]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n[Enter HAMLET]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\nNow, mother, what's the matter?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nHamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\nMother, you have my father much offended.<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nCome, come, you answer with an idle tongue.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\nGo, go, you question with a wicked tongue.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nWhy, how now, Hamlet!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\nWhat's the matter now?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nHave you forgot me?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\nNo, by the rood, not so:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nYou are the queen, your husband's brother's wife;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd––would it were not so!––you are my mother.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nNay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\nCome, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nYou go not till I set you up a glass<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhere you may see the inmost part of you.<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nWhat wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nHelp, help, ho!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLORD POLONIUS<\/td>\n[Behind]\ufffdWhat, ho! help, help, help!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\n[Drawing]\ufffdHow now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

[Makes a pass through the arras]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
LORD POLONIUS<\/td>\n[Behind]\ufffdO, I am slain!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Falls and dies]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nO me, what hast thou done?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nNay, I know not:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs it the king?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nO, what a rash and bloody deed is this!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nA bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs kill a king, and marry with his brother.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nAs kill a king!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nAy, lady, 'twas my word.<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

[Lifts up the arras and discovers 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\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\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
<\/td>\nThou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI took thee for thy better: take thy fortune;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou find'st to be too busy is some danger.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLeave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd let me wring your heart; for so I shall,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf it be made of penetrable stuff,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf damned custom have not brass'd it so<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat it is proof and bulwark against sense.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nWhat have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn noise so rude against me?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nSuch an act<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat blurs the grace and blush of modesty,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCalls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFrom the fair forehead of an innocent love<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd sets a blister there, makes marriage–vows<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs from the body of contraction plucks<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe very soul, and sweet religion makes<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYea, this solidity and compound mass,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith tristful visage, as against the doom,<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs thought–sick at the act.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nAy me, what act,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat roars so loud, and thunders in the index?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nLook here, upon this picture, and on this,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe counterfeit presentment of two brothers.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSee, what a grace was seated on this brow;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAn eye like Mars, to threaten and command;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA station like the herald Mercury<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNew–lighted on a heaven–kissing hill;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA combination and a form indeed,<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhere every god did seem to set his seal,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo give the world assurance of a man:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis was your husband. Look you now, what follows:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHere is your husband; like a mildew'd ear,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBlasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCould you on this fair mountain leave to feed,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou cannot call it love; for at your age<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe hey–day in the blood is tame, it's humble,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd waits upon the judgement: and what judgement<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWould step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nElse could you not have motion; but sure, that sense<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs apoplex'd; for madness would not err,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut it reserved some quantity of choice,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo serve in such a difference. What devil was't<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman–blind?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEyes without feeling, feeling without sight,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEars without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr but a sickly part of one true sense<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCould not so mope.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo flaming youth let virtue be as wax,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen the compulsive ardour gives the charge,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSince frost itself as actively doth burn<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd reason panders will.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nO Hamlet, speak no more:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd there I see such black and grained spots<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs will not leave their tinct.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nNay, but to live<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nStew'd in corruption, honeying and making love<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOver the nasty sty,––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nO, speak to me no more;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThese words, like daggers, enter in mine ears;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo more, sweet Hamlet!<\/td>\n93<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nA murderer and a villain;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA slave that is not twentieth part the tithe<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf your precedent lord; a vice of kings;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA cutpurse of the empire and the rule,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat from a shelf the precious diadem stole,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd put it in his pocket!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nNo more!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nA king of shreds and patches,––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Enter Ghost]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSave me, and hover o'er me with your wings,<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nAlas, he's mad!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nDo you not come your tardy son to chide,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe important acting of your dread command? O, say!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ghost<\/td>\nDo not forget: this visitation<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut, look, amazement on thy mother sits:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO, step between her and her fighting soul:<\/td>\n110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nConceit in weakest bodies strongest works:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSpeak to her, Hamlet.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nHow is it with you, lady?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nAlas, how is't with you,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat you do bend your eye on vacancy<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd with the incorporal air do hold discourse?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nForth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYour bedded hair, like life in excrements,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nStarts up, and stands on end. O gentle son,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon the heat and flame of thy distemper<\/td>\n120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nOn him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHis form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWould make them capable. Do not look upon me;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLest with this piteous action you convert<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy stern effects: then what I have to do<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWill want true colour; tears perchance for blood.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nTo whom do you speak this?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nDo you see nothing there?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nNothing at all; yet all that is I see.<\/td>\n129<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nNor did you nothing hear?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nNo, nothing but ourselves.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nWhy, look you there! look, how it steals away!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy father, in his habit as he lived!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLook, where he goes, even now, out at the portal!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Exit Ghost]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nThis the very coinage of your brain:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis bodiless creation ecstasy<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs very cunning in.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nEcstasy!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd makes as healthful music: it is not madness<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat I have utter'd: bring me to the test,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd I the matter will re–word; which madness<\/td>\n140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWould gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLay not that mattering unction to your soul,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat not your trespass, but my madness speaks:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt will but skin and film the ulcerous place,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhilst rank corruption, mining all within,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nInfects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRepent what's past; avoid what is to come;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd do not spread the compost on the weeds,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor in the fatness of these pursy times<\/td>\n150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nVirtue itself of vice must pardon beg,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nO Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nO, throw away the worser part of it,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd live the purer with the other half.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGood night: but go not to mine uncle's bed;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAssume a virtue, if you have it not.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf habits devil, is angel yet in this,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat to the use of actions fair and good<\/td>\n160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHe likewise gives a frock or livery,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat aptly is put on. Refrain to–night,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd that shall lend a kind of easiness<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo the next abstinence: the next more easy;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor use almost can change the stamp of nature,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd either … the devil, or throw him out<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith wondrous potency. Once more, good night:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd when you are desirous to be bless'd,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Pointing to POLONIUS]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo punish me with this and this with me,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat I must be their scourge and minister.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI will bestow him, and will answer well<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe death I gave him. So, again, good night.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI must be cruel, only to be kind:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThus bad begins and worse remains behind.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOne word more, good lady.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nWhat shall I do?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nNot this, by no means, that I bid you do:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet the bloat king tempt you again to bed;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMake you to ravel all this matter out,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat I essentially am not in madness,<\/td>\n180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWould from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSuch dear concernings hide? who would do so?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo, in despite of sense and secrecy,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUnpeg the basket on the house's top.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet the birds fly, and, like the famous ape,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo try conclusions, in the basket creep,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd break your own neck down.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nBe thou assured, if words be made of breath,<\/td>\n190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd breath of life, I have no life to breathe<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat thou hast said to me.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nI must to England; you know that?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nAlack,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI had forgot: 'tis so concluded on.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nThere's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThey bear the mandate; they must sweep my way,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd marshal me to knavery. Let it work;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor 'tis the sport to have the engineer<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHoist with his own petar: and 't shall go hard<\/td>\n200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut I will delve one yard below their mines,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen in one line two crafts directly meet.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis man shall set me packing:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMother, good night. Indeed this counsellor<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs now most still, most secret and most grave,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWho was in life a foolish prating knave.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCome, sir, to draw toward an end with you.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGood night, mother.<\/td>\n210<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

[Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging in POLONIUS]<\/table>\n

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