{"id":11590,"date":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","slug":"HamletDtext0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/HamletDtext0\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 4, page 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

[Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN ]<\/p>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\nThere's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nYou must translate: 'tis fit we understand them.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhere is your son?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nBestow this place on us a little while.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

[Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]<\/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
<\/td>\nAh, my good lord, what have I seen to–night!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\nWhat, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nMad as the sea and wind, when both contend<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich is the mightier: in his lawless fit,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBehind the arras hearing something stir,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!'<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, in this brainish apprehension, kills<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe unseen good old man.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\nO heavy deed!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt had been so with us, had we been there:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHis liberty is full of threats to all;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo you yourself, to us, to every one.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAlas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt will be laid to us, whose providence<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShould have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis mad young man: but so much was our love,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe would not understand what was most fit;<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut, like the owner of a foul disease,\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo keep it from divulging, let it feed<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEven on the pith of Life. Where is he gone?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QUEEN GERTRUDE<\/td>\nTo draw apart the body he hath kill'd:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO'er whom his very madness, like some ore<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAmong a mineral of metals base,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShows itself pure; he weeps for what is done.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\nO Gertrude, come away!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe sun no sooner shall the mountains touch,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut we will ship him hence: and this vile deed<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe must, with all our majesty and skill,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBoth countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

[Re–enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nFriends both, go join you with some further aid:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGo seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nInto the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

[Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nCome, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd let them know, both what we mean to do,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd what's untimely done: [so, haply, slander],<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhose whisper o'er the world's diameter,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs level as the cannon to his blank,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTransports his poison'd shot, may miss our name,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd hit the woundless air. O, come away!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy soul is full of discord and dismay.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Exeunt]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/h3>\n

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