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

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

Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE, HORATIO, and a Gentleman.\ufffd<\/p>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nI will not speak with her.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGentleman\ufffd<\/td>\nShe is importunate, indeed distract:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHer mood will needs be pitied.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat would she have?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGentleman\ufffd<\/td>\nShe speaks much of her father; says she hears<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThere's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSpurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYet the unshaped use of it doth move<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe hearers to collection; they aim at it,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;<\/td>\n\ufffd10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhich, as her winks, and nods, and gestures<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nyield them,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIndeed would make one think there might be thought,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThough nothing sure, yet much unhappily.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nTwere good she were spoken with; for she may strew<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDangerous conjectures in ill–breeding minds.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nLet her come in.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit HORATIO.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAside. To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEach toy seems prologue to some great amiss:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSo full of artless jealousy is guilt,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIt spills itself in fearing to be spilt.<\/td>\n\ufffd20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nRe–enter HORATIO, with OPHELIA.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nWhere is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nHow now, Ophelia!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHow should I your true love know<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFrom another one?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBy his cockle hat and staff,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd his sandal shoon.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nAlas, sweet lady, what imports this song?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nSay you? nay, pray you, mark.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHe is dead and gone, lady,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHe is dead and gone;<\/td>\n\ufffd30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAt his head a grass–green turf,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAt his heels a stone.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nNay, but, Ophelia,––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nPray you, mark.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhite his shroud as the mountain snow,––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter KING CLAUDIUS<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nAlas, look here, my lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLarded with sweet flowers<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhich bewept to the grave did go<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWith true–love showers.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nHow do you, pretty lady?<\/td>\n\ufffd40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nWell, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a baker's<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ndaughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nwhat we may be. God be at your table!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nConceit upon her father.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nPray you, let's have no words of this; but when they<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nask you what it means, say you this:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSings<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo–morrow is Saint Valentine's day,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAll in the morning betime,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd I a maid at your window,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo be your Valentine.<\/td>\n\ufffd50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThen up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd dupp'd the chamber–door;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLet in the maid, that out a maid<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNever departed more.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nPretty Ophelia!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nIndeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBy Gis and by Saint Charity,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAlack, and fie for shame!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYoung men will do't, if they come to't;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBy cock, they are to blame.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nQuoth she, before you tumbled me,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYou promised me to wed.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSo would I ha' done, by yonder sun,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAn thou hadst not come to my bed.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nHow long hath she been thus?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nI hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ncannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ni' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nand so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ncoach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngood night, good night.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nFollow her close; give her good watch,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI pray you.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit HORATIO.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAll from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,<\/td>\n\ufffd60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhen sorrows come, they come not single spies<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut in battalions. First, her father slain:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNext, your son gone; and he most violent author<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf his own just remove: the people muddied,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIn hugger–mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDivided from herself and her fair judgment,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWithout the which we are pictures, or mere beasts:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLast, and as much containing as all these,<\/td>\n\ufffd70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHer brother is in secret come from France;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFeeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd wants not buzzers to infect his ear<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWith pestilent speeches of his father's death;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWherein necessity, of matter beggar'd,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWill nothing stick our person to arraign<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIn ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLike to a murdering–piece, in many places<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGives me superfluous death.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA noise within.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nAlack, what noise is this?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nWhere are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter a Messenger.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat is the matter?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGentleman\ufffd<\/td>\nSave yourself, my lord:<\/td>\n\ufffd81<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe ocean, overpeering of his list,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEats not the flats with more impetuous haste<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThan young Laertes, in a riotous head,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd, as the world were now but to begin,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAntiquity forgot, custom not known,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe ratifiers and props of every word,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey cry 'Choose we: Laertes shall be king:'<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nCaps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds:<\/td>\n\ufffd90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLaertes shall be king, Laertes king!'<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nHow cheerfully on the false trail they cry!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nThe doors are broke.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNoise within.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter LAERTES, armed; Danes following.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nWhere is this king? Sirs, stand you all without.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDanes\ufffd<\/td>\nNo, let's come in.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nI pray you, give me leave.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDanes\ufffd<\/td>\nWe will, we will.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey retire without the door.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nI thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGive me my father!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nCalmly, good Laertes.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nThat drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard,<\/td>\n\ufffd100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nCries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEven here, between the chaste unsmirched brow<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf my true mother.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat is the cause, Laertes,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat thy rebellion looks so giant–like?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLet him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThere's such divinity doth hedge a king,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat treason can but peep to what it would,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nActs little of his will. Tell me, Laertes,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSpeak, man.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nWhere is my father?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nDead.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nBut not by him.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nLet him demand his fill.<\/td>\n\ufffd110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nHow came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nConscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI dare damnation. To this point I stand,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat both the worlds I give to negligence,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLet come what comes; only I'll be revenged<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMost thoroughly for my father.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nWho shall stay you?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nMy will, not all the world:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd for my means, I'll husband them so well,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey shall go far with little.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nGood Laertes,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf you desire to know the certainty<\/td>\n\ufffd121<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWinner and loser?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nNone but his enemies.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nWill you know them then?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nTo his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd like the kind life–rendering pelican,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nRepast them with my blood.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, now you speak<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLike a good child and a true gentleman.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat I am guiltless of your father's death,<\/td>\n\ufffd130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd am most sensible in grief for it,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIt shall as level to your judgment pierce<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs day does to your eye.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDanes\ufffd<\/td>\nWithin.\ufffdLet her come in.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nHow now! what noise is that?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nRe–enter OPHELIA.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBurn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBy heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTill our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits<\/td>\n\ufffd140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nShould be as moral as an old man's life?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIt sends some precious instance of itself<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAfter the thing it loves.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey bore him barefaced on the bier;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd in his grave rain'd many a tear:––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFare you well, my dove!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nHadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIt could not move thus.<\/td>\n\ufffd150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYou must sing a–down a–down,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAn you call him a–down–a.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nsteward, that stole his master's daughter.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nThis nothing's more than matter.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nThere's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nlove, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nA document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.<\/td>\n\ufffd159<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nThere's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nfor you; and here's some for me: we may call it<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nherb–grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\na difference. There's a daisy: I would give you<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nsome violets, but they withered all when my father<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ndied: they say he made a good end,––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nThought and affliction, passion, hell itself,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nShe turns to favour and to prettiness.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOPHELIA\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd will he not come again?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd will he not come again?<\/td>\n\ufffd170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNo, no, he is dead:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGo to thy death–bed:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHe never will come again.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHis beard was as white as snow,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAll flaxen was his poll:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHe is gone, he is gone,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd we cast away moan:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGod ha' mercy on his soul!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' you.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nDo you see this, O God?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nLaertes, I must commune with your grief,<\/td>\n\ufffd180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOr you deny me right. Go but apart,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMake choice of whom your wisest friends you will.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf by direct or by collateral hand<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOur crown, our life, and all that we can ours,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo you in satisfaction; but if not,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBe you content to lend your patience to us,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd we shall jointly labour with your soul<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo give it due content.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nLet this be so;<\/td>\n\ufffd190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHis means of death, his obscure funeral––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNo trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNo noble rite nor formal ostentation––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nCry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat I must call't in question.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nSo you shall;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd where the offence is, let the great axe fall.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI pray you, go with me.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExeunt<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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