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ACT IV SCENE IV\ufffd<\/b> Setting: A plain in Denmark.<\/p>\n

Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching.\ufffd<\/p>\n\nPRINCE FORTINBRAS\ufffd<\/td>\nGo, captain, from me greet the Danish king;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nCraves the conveyance of a promised march<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOver his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf that his majesty would aught with us,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWe shall express our duty in his eye;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd let him know so.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCaptain\ufffd<\/td>\nI will do't, my lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPRINCE FORTINBRAS\ufffd<\/td>\nGo softly on.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExeunt FORTINBRAS and Soldiers.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nGood sir, whose powers are these?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCaptain\ufffd<\/td>\nThey are of Norway, sir.<\/td>\n\ufffd10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHow purposed, sir, I pray you?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCaptain\ufffd<\/td>\nAgainst some part of Poland.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWho commands them, sir?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCaptain\ufffd<\/td>\nThe nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nGoes it against the main of Poland, sir,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOr for some frontier?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCaptain\ufffd<\/td>\nTruly to speak, and with no addition,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWe go to gain a little patch of ground<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat hath in it no profit but the name.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;<\/td>\n\ufffd20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNor will it yield to Norway or the Pole<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, then the Polack never will defend it.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCaptain\ufffd<\/td>\nYes, it is already garrison'd.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nTwo thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWill not debate the question of this straw:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThis is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat inward breaks, and shows no cause without<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCaptain\ufffd<\/td>\nGod be wi' you, sir.<\/td>\n\ufffd30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nROSENCRANTZ\ufffd<\/td>\nWill't please you go, my lord?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI'll be with you straight go a little before.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExeunt all except HAMLET.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHow all occasions do inform against me,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd spur my dull revenge! What is a man,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf his chief good and market of his time<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBe but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSure, he that made us with such large discourse,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLooking before and after, gave us not<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat capability and god–like reason<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo fust in us unused. Now, whether it be<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBestial oblivion, or some craven scruple<\/td>\n\ufffd40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf thinking too precisely on the event,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd ever three parts coward, I do not know<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSith I have cause and will and strength and means<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWitness this army of such mass and charge<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLed by a delicate and tender prince,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhose spirit with divine ambition puff'd<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMakes mouths at the invisible event,<\/td>\n\ufffd50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExposing what is mortal and unsure<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo all that fortune, death and danger dare,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEven for an egg–shell. Rightly to be great<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIs not to stir without great argument,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut greatly to find quarrel in a straw<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhen honour's at the stake. How stand I then,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExcitements of my reason and my blood,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe imminent death of\ufffdtwenty thousand men,<\/td>\n\ufffd60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat, for a fantasy and trick of fame,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGo to their graves like beds, fight for a plot<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhereon the numbers cannot try the cause,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhich is not tomb enough and continent<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo hide the slain? O, from this time forth,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMy thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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