{"id":11621,"date":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11621"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","slug":"HamletEtext1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/HamletEtext1\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 5, page 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ACT V SCENE II\ufffd<\/b> Setting:A hall in the castle.<\/b> Setting:<\/b> Setting:Enter HAMLET and HORATIO.<\/p>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nSo much for this, sir: now shall you see the other;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nYou do remember all the circumstance?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nRemember it, my lord?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nSir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThat would not let me sleep: methought I lay<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWorse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nAnd praised be rashness for it, let us know,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nOur indiscretion sometimes serves us well,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWhen our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThere's a divinity that shapes our ends,<\/td>\n\ufffd10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nRough–hew them how we will,––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nThat is most certain.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nUp from my cabin,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nMy sea–gown scarf'd about me, in the dark<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nGroped I to find out them; had my desire.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nFinger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nTo mine own room again; making so bold,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nMy fears forgetting manners, to unseal<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nTheir grand commission; where I found, Horatio,––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nO royal knavery!––an exact command,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nLarded with many several sorts of reasons<\/td>\n\ufffd20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nImporting Denmark's health and England's too,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWith, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThat, on the supervise, no leisure bated,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nNo, not to stay the grinding of the axe,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nMy head should be struck off.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nIs't possible?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHere's the commission: read it at more leisure.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nBut wilt thou hear me how I did proceed?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nI beseech you.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nBeing thus be–netted round with villanies,––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nEre I could make a prologue to my brains,<\/td>\n\ufffd30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nThey had begun the play––I sat me down,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nDevised a new commission, wrote it fair:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nI once did hold it, as our statists do,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nA baseness to write fair and labour'd much<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nHow to forget that learning, but, sir, now<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIt did me yeoman's service: wilt thou know<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe effect of what I wrote?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nAy, good my lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nAn earnest conjuration from the king,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs England was his faithful tributary,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs love between them like the palm might flourish,<\/td>\n\ufffd40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd stand a comma 'tween their amities,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd many such–like 'As'es of great charge,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat, on the view and knowing of these contents,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWithout debatement further, more or less,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHe should the bearers put to sudden death,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNot shriving–time allow'd.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nHow was this seal'd?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, even in that was heaven ordinant.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI had my father's signet in my purse,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhich was the model of that Danish seal;<\/td>\n\ufffd50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFolded the writ up in form of the other,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSubscribed it, gave't the impression, placed it safely,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe changeling never known. Now, the next day<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWas our sea–fight; and what to this was sequent<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThou know'st already.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nSo Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, man, they did make love to this employment;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey are not near my conscience; their defeat<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDoes by their own insinuation grow:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTis dangerous when the baser nature comes<\/td>\n\ufffd60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBetween the pass and fell incensed points<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf mighty opposites.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, what a king is this!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nDoes it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHe that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nPopp'd in between the election and my hopes,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThrown out his angle for my proper life,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd with such cozenage––is't not perfect conscience,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo let this canker of our nature come<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIn further evil?<\/td>\n\ufffd70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nIt must be shortly known to him from England<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat is the issue of the business there.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nIt will be short: the interim is mine;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd a man's life's no more than to say 'One.'<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut I am very sorry, good Horatio,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat to Laertes I forgot myself;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor, by the image of my cause, I see<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe portraiture of his: I'll court his favours.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nInto a towering passion.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nPeace! who comes here?<\/td>\n\ufffd80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter OSRIC<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nYour lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water–fly?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nNo, my good lord.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nknow him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nbeast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthe king's mess: 'tis a chough; but, as I say,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nspacious in the possession of dirt.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nSweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nshould impart a thing to you from his majesty.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI will receive it, sir, with all diligence of<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nspirit. Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head.<\/td>\n\ufffd91<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nI thank your lordship, it is very hot.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nNo, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nnortherly.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nIt is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nBut yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ncomplexion.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nExceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry,––as<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ntwere,––I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nmajesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngreat wager on your head: sir, this is the matter,––<\/td>\n\ufffd100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI beseech you, remember––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHAMLET moves him to put on his hat.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nNay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSir, here is newly come to court Laertes; believe<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nme, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ndifferences, of very soft society and great showing:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nindeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ncalendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ncontinent of what part a gentleman would see.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nSir, his definement suffers no perdition in you;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthough, I know, to divide him inventorially would<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ndizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nneither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nverity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngreat article; and his infusion of such dearth and<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nrareness, as, to make true diction of him, his<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nsemblable is his mirror; and who else would trace<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhim, his umbrage, nothing more.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nYour lordship speaks most infallibly of him.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThe concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nin our more rawer breath?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nSir?<\/td>\n\ufffd119<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nIs't not possible to understand in another tongue?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYou will do't, sir, really.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat imports the nomination of this gentleman?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nOf Laertes?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nHis purse is empty already; all's golden words are spent.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nOf him, sir.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nI know you are not ignorant––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nit would not much approve me. Well, sir?<\/td>\n\ufffd129<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nYou are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI dare not confess that, lest I should compare with<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhim in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nknow himself.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nI mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nlaid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat's his weapon?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nRapier and dagger.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThat's two of his weapons: but, well.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nThe king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhorses: against the which he has imponed, as I take<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nit, six French rapiers and poniards, with their<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nassigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: three of the<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ncarriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nresponsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nand of very liberal conceit.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat call you the carriages?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nI knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nThe carriages, sir, are the hangers.<\/td>\n\ufffd148<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThe phrase would be more german to the matter, if we<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ncould carry cannon by our sides: I would it might<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nbe hangers till then. But, on: six Barbary horses<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nagainst six French swords, their assigns, and three<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nliberal–conceited carriages; that's the French bet<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nagainst the Danish. Why is this 'imponed,' as you call it?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nThe king, sir, hath laid, that in a dozen passes<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nbetween yourself and him, he shall not exceed you<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthree hits: he hath laid on twelve for nine; and it<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nwould come to immediate trial, if your lordship<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nwould vouchsafe the answer.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHow if I answer 'no'?<\/td>\n\ufffd159<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nI mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nSir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nmajesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me; let<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthe foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nking hold his purpose, I will win for him an I can;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nif not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nShall I re–deliver you e'en so?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nTo this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature will.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nI commend my duty to your lordship.<\/td>\n\ufffd170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nYours, yours.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit OSRIC<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHe does well to commend it himself; there are no<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ntongues else for's turn.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nThis lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHe did comply with his dug, before he sucked it.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThus has he––and many more of the same bevy that I<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nknow the dressy age dotes on––only got the tune of<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthe time and outward habit of encounter; a kind of<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nyesty collection, which carries them through and<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthrough the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nbut blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter a Lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLord\ufffd<\/td>\nMy lord, his majesty commended him to you by young<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOsric, who brings back to him that you attend him in<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthe hall: he sends to know if your pleasure hold to<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nplay with Laertes, or that you will take longer time.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI am constant to my purpose; they follow the king's<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\npleasure: if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nor whensoever, provided I be so able as now.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLord\ufffd<\/td>\nThe king and queen and all are coming down.<\/td>\n\ufffd190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nIn happy time.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLord\ufffd<\/td>\nThe queen desires you to use some gentle<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nentertainment to Laertes before you fall to play.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nShe well instructs me.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit Lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nYou will lose this wager, my lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI do not think so: since he went into France, I<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhave been in continual practise: I shall win at the<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nodds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nabout my heart: but it is no matter.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nNay, good my lord,––<\/td>\n\ufffd200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nIt is but foolery; but it is such a kind of<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngain–giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nIf your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nforestall their repair hither, and say you are not<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nfit.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nNot a whit, we defy augury: there's a special<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nprovidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ntis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nnow; if it be not now, yet it will come: the<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nreadiness is all: since no man has aught of what he<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nleaves, what is't to leave betimes?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA table prepared; trumpets, drums and Officers. Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES, Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, &c.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nCome, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nKING CLAUDIUS puts LAERTES' hand into HAMLET's.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nGive me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut pardon't, as you are a gentleman.<\/td>\n\ufffd212<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThis presence knows,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWith sore distraction. What I have done,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat might your nature, honour and exception<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nRoughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWas't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,<\/td>\n\ufffd220<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThen Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWho does it, then? His madness: if't be so,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHis madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSir, in this audience,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLet my disclaiming from a purposed evil<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFree me so far in your most generous thoughts,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd hurt my brother.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nI am satisfied in nature,<\/td>\n\ufffd229<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhose motive, in this case, should stir me most<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo my revenge: but in my terms of honour<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI stand aloof; and will no reconcilement,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTill by some elder masters, of known honour,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI have a voice and precedent of peace,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo keep my name ungored. But till that time,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI do receive your offer'd love like love,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd will not wrong it.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI embrace it freely;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd will this brother's wager frankly play.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGive us the foils. Come on.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nCome, one for me.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance<\/td>\n\ufffd240<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYour skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nStick fiery off indeed.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nYou mock me, sir.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nNo, by this hand.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nGive them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYou know the wager?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nVery well, my lord<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYour grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nI do not fear it; I have seen you both:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut since he is better'd, we have therefore odds.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nThis is too heavy, let me see another.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThis likes me well. These foils have all a length?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey prepare to play.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nAy, my good lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd251<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nSet me the stoops of wine upon that table.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf Hamlet give the first or second hit,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOr quit in answer of the third exchange,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLet all the battlements their ordnance fire:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd in the cup an union shall he throw,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nRicher than that which four successive kings<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIn Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd let the kettle to the trumpet speak,<\/td>\n\ufffd260<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe trumpet to the cannoneer without,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNow the king dunks to Hamlet.' Come, begin:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd you, the judges, bear a wary eye.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nCome on, sir.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nCome, my lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey play.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nOne.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nNo.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nJudgment.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nA hit, a very palpable hit.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nWell; again.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nStay; give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHere's to thy health.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTrumpets sound, and cannon shot off within.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGive him the cup.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI'll play this bout first; set it by awhile. Come.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey play.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnother hit; what say you?<\/td>\n\ufffd270<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nA touch, a touch, I do confess.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nOur son shall win.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nHe's fat, and scant of breath.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHere, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nGood madam!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nGertrude, do not drink.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nI will, my lord; I pray you, pardon me.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nAside.\ufffdIt is the poison'd cup; it is too late.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI dare not drink yet, madam; by and by.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nCome, let me wipe thy face.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nMy lord, I'll hit him now.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nI do not think't.<\/td>\n\ufffd280<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nAside.\ufffdAnd yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nCome, for the third, Laertes: you but dally;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI pray you, pass with your best violence;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI am afeard you make a wanton of me.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nSay you so? come on.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThey play.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nNothing, neither way.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nHave at you now!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLAERTES wounds HAMLET; then in scuffling, they change rapiers, and HAMLET wounds LAERTES.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nPart them; they are incensed.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nNay, come, again.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nQUEEN GERTRUDE falls.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nLook to the queen there, ho!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nThey bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nHow is't, Laertes?<\/td>\n\ufffd290<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHow does the queen?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nShe swounds to see them bleed.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nNo, no, the drink, the drink,––O my dear Hamlet,––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe drink, the drink! I am poison'd.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDies<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nO villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTreachery! Seek it out.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nIt is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNo medicine in the world can do thee good;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIn thee there is not half an hour of life;<\/td>\n\ufffd300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe treacherous instrument is in thy hand,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nUnbated and envenom'd: the foul practise<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNever to rise again: thy mother's poison'd:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI can no more: the king, the king's to blame.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThe point!––envenom'd too!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThen, venom, to thy work.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nStabs KING CLAUDIUS.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAll\ufffd<\/td>\nTreason! treason!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nO, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHere, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDrink off this potion. Is thy union here?<\/td>\n\ufffd311<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFollow my mother.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nKING CLAUDIUS dies.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nHe is justly served;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIt is a poison temper'd by himself.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMine and my father's death come not upon thee,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNor thine on me.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDies.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHeaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYou that look pale and tremble at this chance,<\/td>\n\ufffd320<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat are but mutes or audience to this act,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHad I but time––as this fell sergeant, death,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIs strict in his arrest––O, I could tell you––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut let it be. Horatio, I am dead;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThou livest; report me and my cause aright<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo the unsatisfied.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nNever believe it:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI am more an antique Roman than a Dane:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHere's yet some liquor left.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nAs thou'rt a man,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGive me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have't.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO good Horatio, what a wounded name,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThings standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!<\/td>\n\ufffd330<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf thou didst ever hold me in thy heart<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAbsent thee from felicity awhile,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo tell my story.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMarch afar off, and shot within<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat warlike noise is this?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOSRIC\ufffd<\/td>\nYoung Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo the ambassadors of England gives<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThis warlike volley.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nO, I die, Horatio;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe potent poison quite o'er–crows my spirit:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI cannot live to hear the news from England;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut I do prophesy the election lights<\/td>\n\ufffd340<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOn Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSo tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhich have solicited. The rest is silence.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDies.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nNow cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy does the drum come hither?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMarch within.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors, and others.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPRINCE FORTINBRAS\ufffd<\/td>\nWhere is this sight?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat is it ye would see?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIf aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPRINCE FORTINBRAS\ufffd<\/td>\nThis quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat feast is toward in thine eternal cell,<\/td>\n\ufffd350<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat thou so many princes at a shot<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSo bloodily hast struck?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Ambassador\ufffd<\/td>\nThe sight is dismal;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd our affairs from England come too late:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe ears are senseless that should give us hearing,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo tell him his commandment is fulfill'd,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThat Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhere should we have our thanks?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nNot from his mouth,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHad it the ability of life to thank you:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHe never gave commandment for their death.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut since, so jump upon this bloody question,<\/td>\n\ufffd360<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYou from the Polack wars, and you from England,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAre here arrived give order that these bodies<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHigh on a stage be placed to the view;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd let me speak to the yet unknowing world<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHow these things came about: so shall you hear<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf accidental judgments, casual slaughters,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd, in this upshot, purposes mistook<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I<\/td>\n\ufffd370<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTruly deliver.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPRINCE FORTINBRAS\ufffd<\/td>\nLet us haste to hear it,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd call the noblest to the audience.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI have some rights of memory in this kingdom,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhich now to claim my vantage doth invite me.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nOf that I shall have also cause to speak,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd from his mouth whose voice will draw on more;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut let this same be presently perform'd,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEven while men's minds are wild; lest more mischance<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOn plots and errors, happen.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPRINCE FORTINBRAS\ufffd<\/td>\nLet four captains<\/td>\n\ufffd380<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor he was likely, had he been put on,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo have proved most royally: and, for his passage,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe soldiers' music and the rites of war<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSpeak loudly for him.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTake up the bodies: such a sight as this<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBecomes the field, but here shows much amiss.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGo, bid the soldiers shoot.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA dead march. 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