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

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

Enter KING CLAUDIUS and LAERTES.\ufffd<\/p>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nNow must your conscience my acquaintance seal,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd you must put me in your heart for friend,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat he which hath your noble father slain<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nPursued my life.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nIt well appears: but tell me<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy you proceeded not against these feats,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSo crimeful and so capital in nature,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs by your safety, wisdom, all things else,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYou mainly were stirr'd up.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nO, for two special reasons;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhich may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd,<\/td>\n\ufffd10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLives almost by his looks; and for myself––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMy virtue or my plague, be it either which––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nShe's so conjunctive to my life and soul,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat, as the star moves not but in his sphere,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI could not but by her. The other motive,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy to a public count I might not go,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIs the great love the general gender bear him;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWho, dipping all his faults in their affection,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWould, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,<\/td>\n\ufffd20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nConvert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nToo slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWould have reverted to my bow again,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd not where I had aim'd them.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd so have I a noble father lost;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA sister driven into desperate terms,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhose worth, if praises may go back again,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nStood challenger on mount of all the age<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor her perfections: but my revenge will come.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nBreak not your sleeps for that: you must not think<\/td>\n\ufffd30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat we are made of stuff so flat and dull<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat we can let our beard be shook with danger<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI loved your father, and we love ourself;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd that, I hope, will teach you to imagine––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter a Messenger.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHow now! what news?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMessenger\ufffd<\/td>\nLetters, my lord, from Hamlet:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThis to your majesty; this to the queen.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nFrom Hamlet! who brought them?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMessenger\ufffd<\/td>\nSailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey were given me by Claudio; he received them<\/td>\n\ufffd40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf him that brought them.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nLaertes, you shall hear them. Leave us.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit Messenger.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nReads.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHigh and mighty, You shall know I am set naked on<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nyour kingdom. To–morrow shall I beg leave to see<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nyour kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\npardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nand more strange return. 'HAMLET.'<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat should this mean? Are all the rest come back?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOr is it some abuse, and no such thing?<\/td>\n\ufffd50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nKnow you the hand?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nTis Hamlets character. "Naked!"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd in a postscript here, he says "alone."<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nCan you advise me?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nI'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIt warms the very sickness in my heart,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat I shall live and tell him to his teeth,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThus didest thou.'<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nIf it be so, Laertes––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs how should it be so? how otherwise?––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWill you be ruled by me?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nAy, my lord;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSo you will not o'errule me to a peace.<\/td>\n\ufffd60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nTo thine own peace. If he be now return'd,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs checking at his voyage, and that he means<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNo more to undertake it, I will work him<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo an exploit, now ripe in my device,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nUnder the which he shall not choose but fall:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut even his mother shall uncharge the practise<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd call it accident.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nMy lord, I will be ruled;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe rather, if you could devise it so<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat I might be the organ.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nIt falls right.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYou have been talk'd of since your travel much,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality<\/td>\n\ufffd70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWherein, they say, you shine: your sum of parts<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDid not together pluck such envy from him<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs did that one, and that, in my regard,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf the unworthiest siege.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat part is that, my lord?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nA very riband in the cap of youth,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYet needful too; for youth no less becomes<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe light and careless livery that it wears<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThan settled age his sables and his weeds,<\/td>\n\ufffd80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nImporting health and graveness. Two months since,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHere was a gentleman of Normandy:––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI've seen myself, and served against, the French,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd they can well on horseback: but this gallant<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHad witchcraft in't; he grew unto his seat;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd to such wondrous doing brought his horse,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs he had been incorpsed and demi–natured<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWith the brave beast: so far he topp'd my thought,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat I, in forgery of shapes and tricks,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nCome short of what he did.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nA Norman was't?<\/td>\n\ufffd90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nA Norman.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nUpon my life, Lamond.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nThe very same.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nI know him well: he is the brooch indeed<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd gem of all the nation.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nHe made confession of you,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd gave you such a masterly report<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor art and exercise in your defence<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd for your rapier most especially,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf one could match you: the scrimers of their nation,<\/td>\n\ufffd100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHe swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf you opposed them. Sir, this report of his<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDid Hamlet so envenom with his envy<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat he could nothing do but wish and beg<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYour sudden coming o'er, to play with him.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNow, out of this,––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat out of this, my lord?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nLaertes, was your father dear to you?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOr are you like the painting of a sorrow,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA face without a heart?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy ask you this?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nNot that I think you did not love your father;<\/td>\n\ufffd110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut that I know love is begun by time;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd that I see, in passages of proof,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTime qualifies the spark and fire of it.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThere lives within the very flame of love<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd nothing is at a like goodness still;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor goodness, growing to a plurisy,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDies in his own too much: that we would do<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWe should do when we would; for this 'would' changes<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd hath abatements and delays as many<\/td>\n\ufffd120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer:––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHamlet comes back: what would you undertake,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo show yourself your father's son in deed<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMore than in words?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nTo cut his throat i' the church.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nNo place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nRevenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWill you do this, keep close within your chamber.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHamlet return'd shall know you are come home:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWe'll put on those shall praise your excellence<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd set a double varnish on the fame<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd wager on your heads: he, being remiss,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMost generous and free from all contriving,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWill not peruse the foils; so that, with ease,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOr with a little shuffling, you may choose<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA sword unbated, and in a pass of practise<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nRequite him for your father.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nI will do't:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword.<\/td>\n\ufffd140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI bought an unction of a mountebank,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSo mortal that, but dip a knife in it,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhere it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nCollected from all simples that have virtue<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nUnder the moon, can save the thing from death<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWith this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIt may be death.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nLet's further think of this;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWeigh what convenience both of time and means<\/td>\n\ufffd149<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMay fit us to our shape: if this should fail,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd that our drift look through our bad performance,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTwere better not assay'd: therefore this project<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nShould have a back or second, that might hold,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf this should blast in proof. Soft! let me see:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWe'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings: I ha't.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhen in your motion you are hot and dry––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs make your bouts more violent to that end––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping,<\/td>\n\ufffd160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOur purpose may hold there.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter QUEEN GERTRUDE.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHow now, sweet queen!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nOne woe doth tread upon another's heel,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSo fast they follow; your sister's drown'd, Laertes.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nDrown'd! O, where?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nThere is a willow grows aslant a brook,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThere with fantastic garlands did she come<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf crow–flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat liberal shepherds give a grosser name,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThere, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds<\/td>\n\ufffd170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nClambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhen down her weedy trophies and herself<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd, mermaid–like, awhile they bore her up:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhich time she chanted snatches of old tunes;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs one incapable of her own distress,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOr like a creature native and indued<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nUnto that element: but long it could not be<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTill that her garments, heavy with their drink,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nPull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay<\/td>\n\ufffd180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo muddy death.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nAlas, then, she is drown'd?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nDrown'd, drown'd.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nToo much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd therefore I forbid my tears: but yet<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIt is our trick; nature her custom holds,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLet shame say what it will: when these are gone,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe woman will be out. Adieu, my lord:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut that this folly douts it.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nLet's follow, Gertrude:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHow much I had to do to calm his rage!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNow fear I this will give it start again;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTherefore let's follow.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExeunt<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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