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Hamlet by William Shakespeare cast of

characters Bernardo read by MC Patti

nama Francisco Cornelius gentleman

another gentleman and Danes

austriac read by Martin Gleason Horatio

read by Robert Hoffman

Marcellus read by Christine G Claudius

second clown read by elizabeth klett

Volta Hmong read by david lawrence

ladies read by Nathaniel WC Higgins

Polonius fourteen brass servant Dane

read by algy pug Hamlet read by arielle

lip Shaw Queen Gertrude read by Amy gray

more o philia but by miss avarice ghost

first player player King

read by Bob gongs allah's ronaldo read

by April Gonzalez

Rosencrantz read by grace carat

Guildenstern read by Chuck Williamson

player Queen read by Capricia page

prologue and Luciano's read by Emily

Fuuka captain Danes

first priest read by the people first

sailor read by Rick F messenger read by

honest human first plane first

ambassador read by Alan monster Lord

read by Aden brac stage directions by

Cynthia Moyer act 1 scene 1 Elsinore a

platform before the castle Francisco at

his post enter to him Bernardo who's

there and I answer May

stand and unfold yourself long live the

king

Naruto he you come most carefully upon

your hour this now struck 12:00 get thee

to bed Francisco but this relief much

thanks Mart is bitter cold and I am sick

at heart have yet quiet got not a mouse

stirring well good night if you do meet

Horatio and Marcellus are the rivals of

my watched

Witham make haste I think I hear them

stand Oh who's there

enter Horatio and Marcellus friends to

this ground and Leachman to the Dame

give you a good night well honest

soldier who hath relieved you Bernardo

has my place give you good night exit

hello

Bernardo say what is her Asia there a

piece of him welcome Horatio

welcome good to Marcellus what that's

this thing appeared again tonight I have

seen nothing Horatio says tis but our

fantasy and win lot less relief take

hold of him touching this dreaded site

twice seen of us therefore I have

entreated him along with us to watch the

minutes of this night that if again this

operation come he may approve our eyes

and speak to it tush tush twill not

appear sit down a while and let us once

again assail your ears that are so

fortified against our story what we have

tonight's scene well sit we down and let

us hear Bernardo speak of this last

night of all when you aren't same star

that's westward from the pole had made

his cause to a human dat part of heaven

where now it burns Marcellus and myself

the Bell then beating one enter ghost

please break the off look where it comes

again in the same figure like the king

that's did thou art a scholar speak to

it Horatio looks it not like the king

market or a show most like it harrows me

with fear

and wonder it would be spoke to question

is Horatio what art thou that you

surpassed this time of night together

with that fair and warlike form in which

the majesty of buried Denmark did

sometimes march by heaven I charge thee

speak it is offended see it Stokes away

stay

speak speak I charge they speak

exit ghost tis gone and will not answer

oh no Horatio you tremble in look pale

it's not this something more than

fantasy what think you want before my

god

I might not disbelieve without the

sensible and true of out of mine own

eyes

is it not connect the king as thou art

to thyself such was the very armour he

had on when he the ambitious Norway

combated so frowned he once when in an

angry parle he smote the sledded pollaxe

on the ice tis strange thus twice before

and jump at this dead hour with martial

stock hath a gun by our watch in what

particular thought to work I know not

but in the gross and scope of my opinion

this bodes some strange eruption to our

state good now sit down and tell me he

that knows why this same strict and most

observant watch so nightly toils the

subject of the land and why such daily

cast of brace and cannon and foreign

mass for implements of war

why such impress of shipwrights who's

sought ask does not divide a Sunday from

the week what might be toward that this

sweetie haste doth make the night joint

laborer with a day Gustaf can inform me

that can I at least the whisper goes our

last king whose image even but now

appeared to us was as you know by

Fortinbras of Norway there too pricked

on by a most amulet pride dared to the

combat in which our valiant Hamlet

four so this side of our known world

esteemed him did slay this Fortinbras

who by a sealed compact well ratified by

law and heraldry did forfeit with his

life all those his lands which he stood

seized of to the Conqueror against the

witch a mighty competent was gaged by

our King which had returned to the

inheritance of Fortinbras had he been

vanquished sure as by the same covenant

and carriage of the article designed his

fell to hamlet now sir young Fortinbras

of unimproved mental hot and full hath

in the skirts of norway here and there

shucked up a list of lawless Resolute's

for food and diet to some enterprise

that hath a stomach in it which is no

other as it does well appear unto our

state but to recover of us by strong

hands and terms compulsory those for

said lands so by his father lost and

this I take it is the main motive of our

preparations the source of this our

watch in the chief head of this

posthaste and Roman in the land I think

it be no other but in silver well me it

sought the dis pretentious figure comes

armed through our watch so leg the king

that was and is the question of these

wars a mote it is to trouble the mind's

eye in the most high and palmy state of

rome a little ere the mightiest julius

fell the graves stood tenantless and the

sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in

the roman streets as stars with trains

of fire and dews of blood disasters in

the Sun and the moist star upon whose

influence Neptune's Empire stands was

sick almost to doomsday with eclipses

and even the like pre curse of fierce

events as harbingers proceeding still

the fates and prologue of the omen

coming on have heaven and earth together

demonstrated unto our climate chores and

countrymen but soft behold lo where it

comes again

reenter ghost I'll cross it though it

blast me stay illusion if thou hast any

sound or use a voice speak to me if

there be any good thing to be done

that made to thee do ease and grace to

me speak to me crows if thou art

privy to thy country's fate which

happily foreknowing may avoid Oh speak

or if thou has deported in thy life

extorted treasure in the womb of earth

for which they say you spirits oft walk

in death speak of it stay and speak stop

it Marcellus shall I strike it with my

partisan do if it will not stand just

here tis here she's gone

exit ghost we do it wrong being so

majestical to offer it the show of

violence for it is as the air

invulnerable and our vein blows

malicious mockery it was about to speak

when it got true and then it started

like a guilty thing upon a fearful

summons I have heard the that is

the trumpet to the mourn death with his

lofty and shrill sounding throat awake

the god of day and at his warning

whether in sea or fire in earth or air

the extravagant and erring spirit highs

to his confine and of the truth here in

this present object made probation it

faded on the crowing of the some

say that ever against a season comes

wherein our saviours birth is celebrated

the bird of dawning singeth all night

long and then they say no spirit dares

stare abroad the nights are wholesome

there no planets strike no fairy takes

nor witch hath power to charm so

hallowed and so gracious as to time so

have I heard and do in part believe it

but look the morn in russet mantle clad

walks or the dew of yon high eastward

Hill break we are watch up and by my

advice let us impart what we have seen

tonight unto young Hamlet for upon my

life this spirit dumb to us will speak

to him do you consent we shall acquaint

him with it as needful in our love's

fitting our duty let's do

I pray and I this morning know where we

shall find him most conveniently exeunt

scene 2 a room of state in the castle

enter King Claudius Queen Gertrude

Hamlet Polonius Laertes volta monde

Cornelius lords and attendants though

yet of Hamlet our dear brothers death

the memory be green and that it us

befitted to bear our hearts in grief and

our whole kingdom to be contracted in

one brow of woe yet so far hath

discretion fought with nature that we

with wisest sorrow think on him together

with remembrance of ourselves therefore

our sometime sister now our queen the

imperial join tryst to this warlike

state have we as twere with a defeated

joy with an auspicious and a dropping

eye with mirth and funeral and with

dirge in marriage an equal scale

weighing delight and dole taken to wife

nor have we here in bard your better

wisdoms which are freely gone with this

affair along for all our thanks now

follows that you know young Fortinbras

holding a week suppose I love our worth

or thinking by our late dear brothers

death our states to be disjoint and out

of frame colleague with the dream of his

advantage he had not failed to pester us

with message importing the surrender of

those lands lost by his father with all

bonds of law to our most valiant brother

so much for him now for our self and for

this time of meeting thus much the

businesses we have here rich to Norway

uncle of young Fortinbras who impotent

and bed-rid scarcely hears of this his

nephews purpose to suppress his further

gate herein in that the levees the lists

and full proportions are all made out of

his subject and we hear dispatch

you good Cornelius and you volt amount

for bearers of this greeting to old

Norway giving to you no further personal

power to business with the King more

than the scope of these deleted articles

allow farewell and let your haste

commend your duty in that we will show

our duty we doubted nothing heartily

farewell exeunt Volta Monde and

Cornelius and now Laertes what's the

news with you you told us of some suit

what is clarity's you cannot speak of

reason to the Dane and loose your voice

what wouldst thou beg Laertes that shall

not be my offer not by asking the head

is not more native to the heart the hand

more instrumental to the mouth than is

the throne of Denmark to thy father what

wouldst thou have Laertes my dread Lord

you'll leave in favour to return to

France from whence though willingly I

came to Denmark to show my duty in your

coronation it's now I must confess that

Duty done my thoughts and wishes Bend

again toward France and bow them to your

gracious leave and pardon have you your

father's leave what says Polonius yes my

lord wrung from me my slow leave by

labour some petition and at last upon

his world I seared my heart concerned I

do beseech you give him leave to go take

thy fair hour Laertes time be thine and

thy best Grace's spend it at I will but

now my cousin Hamlet and my son aside a

little more than kin and less than kind

how is it that the clouds still hang on

you not so my lord I am too much of the

Sun good Hamlet cast thy nighted color

off and let thine eye look like a friend

on Denmark

do not forever with thy vailed lids seek

for thy noble father and the dust thou

knowest tis common all that lives must

die passing through nature to eternity

I'm Adam it is common if it be why seems

it so particular with thee seems madam

nay it is I know not seems tis not alone

my inky cloak good mother nor customary

suits of solemn black nor windy

suspiration of forced breath no nor the

fruitful river in the eye nor the

dejected havior of the visage together

with all forms moods shapes of grief

that can denote me truly these indeed

seem for they are actions that a man

might play but I have that within which

passeth show these but the trappings and

the suits of woe tis sweet and

commendable in your nature Hamlet to

give these mourning duties to your

father but you must know your father

lost a father that father lost lost his

and the survivor bound in filial

obligation for some term to do

obsequious sorrow but to persever in

obstinate condole meant as a course of

impious stubbornness tis unmanly grief

it shows a will most incorrect to heaven

a heart unfortified a mind impatient an

understanding simple and unschooled for

what we know must be and is as common as

any the most vulgar thing to sense why

should we in our peevish opposition take

it to heart fie tis a fault to heaven a

fault against the dead a fault to nature

to reason most absurd whose common theme

is death of fathers and who still hath

cried from the first course till he that

died today this must be so we pray you

throw to earth this unproven woe and

think of us as of a father for let the

world take note you are the most

to our throne and with no less nobility

of love than that which dearest father

bears his son do I in part toward you

before your intent in going back to

school in Wittenberg it is most

retrograde to our desire and we beseech

you then do to remain here in the cheer

and comfort of our eye our chiefest

courtier cousin and our son not thy

mother lose her prayers Hamlet I pray

they stay with us go not to Wittenberg I

shall in all my best obey you madam why

to the loving and a fair reply be as

ourself in Denmark madam come this

gentle and unforced Accord of Hamlet

sits smiling to my heart in grace

whereof no jocund health that Denmark

drinks today but the great cannon to the

clouds shall tell and the Kings rouse

the heavens all breat again respeaking

earthly thunder come away

exeunt all but Hamlet oh that this too

too solid flesh would melt thaw and

resolve itself and she would do or that

the everlasting had not fixed his Canon

gainst self-slaughter Oh God God how

weary stale flat and unprofitable seem

to me all the uses of this world fie ant

ah fie tis an unweeded garden that grows

to seed things rank and gross in nature

possess it merely that it should come to

this but two months dead nay not so much

not to so excellent a king that was to

this Hyperion to a satyr so loving to my

mother that he might not beteem the

winds of heaven visit her face too

roughly heaven and earth must I remember

why she would hang on him as if increase

of appetite had grown by what it fed on

and yet within a month let me not think

on frailty thy name is woman a little

month or ere those shoes were old with

which she followed my poor

fathers body like Niobe all tears why

she even she Oh God a beast that wants

discourse of reason would have mourned

longer married with my uncle my father's

brother but no more like my father than

I to Hercules within a month ere yet the

salt of most unrighteous tears had left

the flushing in her galled eyes she

married almost wicked speed to post with

such dexterity to incestuous sheets it

is not nor it cannot come to good but

break my heart for I must hold my tongue

enter Horatio Marcellus and Bernardo

hail to your lordship I'm glad to see

you well Horatio

all right you forget myself the same my

lord and your poor servant ever sir my

good friend I'll change that name with

you and what make you from Wittenberg

Horatio Marcellus

my good lord I am very glad to see you

good even sir but what in faith make you

from Wittenberg a truant disposition

good my lord I would not hear your enemy

say so nor shall you do my near that

violence to make it truster of your own

report against yourself I know you are

no truant but what is your affair in

Elsinore will teach you to drink deep

ere you depart my lord I came to see

your father's funeral

I pray thee do not mock me

fellow-student

I think it was to see my mother's

wedding indeed my lord it followed hard

upon thrift thrift Horatio the funeral

baked meats did coldly furnish forth the

marriage tables what I had met my

dearest foe in heaven or ever I had seen

that day Horatio my father methinks I

see my father where my lord in my mind's

eye Horatio I saw him once he was a

goodly king he was a man take him for

all in all I shall not look upon his

like again

my lord I think I saw him yesternight

saw who

my lord the king your father the king my

father season your admiration for a

while with an attent ear till I may

deliver upon the witness of these

gentlemen this Marvel to you for God's

love let me hear two nights together had

these gentlemen Marcellus and Bernardo

on their watch in the dead vast and

middle of the night been thus

encountered a figure like your father

armed at Pointe exactly Kappa P appears

before them and with solemn March goes

slow and stately by them thrice he

walked by their oppressed and fear

surprised eyes within his truncheon

'he's length whilst they distilled

almost to jelly with the act of fear

stand dumb and speak not to him this to

me and dreadful secrecy impart they did

and I with them the third night kept the

watch where as they had delivered both

in time form of the thing each word made

true and good the apparition comes I

knew your father these hands are not

more like but where was this my lord

upon the platform where we watched did

you not speak to it my lord I did but

answer made it none yet once methought

it lifted up its head and did address

itself to motion like as it would speak

but even then the morning crew loud

and at the sound a trunk and haste away

and vanished from our sight tis very

strange as I do live my honored Lord tis

true and we did think it writ down in

our duty to let you know of it indeed

indeed sirs but this troubles me hold

you the watch tonight we do we do my

lord

arms say you armed from top to toe then

saw you not his face oh yes my lord he

wore his beaver up what looked he

frowningly countenance more in sorrow

than in anger pale or red nay very pale

and fixed his eyes upon you most

constantly I would I have been there it

would have much amazed you very like

very like stayed it long while one with

moderate haste might tell a hundred

longer longer not when I saw it

his beard was grizzled no it was as I

have seen it in life a sable silvered I

will watch tonight perchance twill walk

again I warrant it will if it assumed my

noble father's person I'll speak to it

though Hell itself should gate and bid

me hold my peace I pray you all if you

have hitherto concealed this sight let's

be tenable in your silence still and

whatsoever else shall have tonight give

it an understanding but no tongue

I will requite your loves so fare you

well upon the platform twixt eleven and

twelve I'll visit you to your honour

your loves as mine to you farewell

exeunt all but Hamlet my father's spirit

in arms all is not well I doubt some

foul play what the night were come till

then sit still my soul foul deeds will

rise though all the earth o'erwhelm them

to men's eyes exit scene three a room in

Polonius's house enter Laertes and

Ophelia my necessaries are embarked

farewell and sister as the winds give

benefit and convoy is assistant do not

sleep but let me hear from you do you

doubt that for Hamlet and the trifling

of his favor hold it a fashion and a toy

in blood a violet in the youth of prime

minister for word not permanent sweet

not lasting the perfume and suppliants

of a minute no more no more but so think

it no more

for nature Crescent does not grow alone

infuse and bulk but as this temple waxes

the inward service of the mind and soul

grows wide withal perhaps he loves you

now and now no soil nor cottle doth

besmirch the virtue of his will but you

must fear his greatness weighed his will

is not his own for he himself is subject

to his birth he may not as unvalued

persons do carve for himself fur on his

choice depends the safety and the health

of his whole state and therefore must

his choice be circumscribed on

the boys and yielding of that body we're

up he is the head then if he says he

loves you it fits your wisdom so far to

believe it as he and his particular act

and place may give his saying deed which

is no further than the main voice of

Denmark goes withal then weigh what loss

your honor may sustain if with to

ear you list his songs or lose your

heart or your chase treasure open to his

unmastered importunity fear to Philly

afeard my dear sister and keep you in

the rear of your affection out of the

shot in danger of design the Charest

maid is prodigal enough if she unmasked

her beauty to the moon virtue itself

escapes not calumnious strokes the

canker galls the infants of the spring

to oft before their buttons be disclosed

and in the morn and liquid dew of you

contagious plasmons our most eminent be

weary then best safety lies in fear

youth through itself rebels though none

else near I shall The effect of this

good lesson keep as watchman to my heart

but good my brother do not as some

ungracious pastors do show me the steep

and thorny way to heaven wiles like a

puffed and reckless libertine himself

the primrose path of dalliance treads

and recks not his own reed Oh fear me

not

I stay too long but here my father comes

enter Polonius a double blessing is a

double grace occasion smiles upon a

second leave for shame the window sits

in the shoulder of your sail and you are

stayed for there my blessing with thee

and these few precepts in thy memory see

their character give no thoughts no

tongue nor any unproportioned thought

his act be thou familiar but by no means

vulgar those friends thou hast and their

adoption tried grapple them to thy soul

with hoops of Steel

but do not dull they palm with

entertainment of each new hatched

unfledged comrade beware of entrance to

a quarrel but being in Beart that the

opposed may beware of thee give every

man thy air but few thy voice take each

man said but I reserve thy judgment

costly thy habit as thy purse can buy

but not expressed in fancy a rich not

gaudy air for the apparel oft proclaims

the man and then France of the best a

rank and station our most select and

generous chief in that neither a

borrower nor a lender be for loan oft

loses both itself and friend and

borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry

this above all to thine own self be true

and it must follow as the night the day

thou canst not then be false to any man

farewell my blessing season this in thee

most humbly do I take my leave my lord

the time advise you go your servants

tend farewell Ophelia and remember well

what I have said to you tis in my memory

locked and you yourself shall keep the

key of it

farewell exit what is athelia he hath

said to you so please you something

touching the Lord Hamlet marry well

bethought tis told me he hath very oft

of late given private time to you and

you yourself of your audience been most

free and bounteous it would be so as

though it is put on me and that in way

of caution I must tell you you do not

understand yourself so clearly as it

burrows my daughter and your honor what

is between you give me up the truth he

hath my lord of late made many tenders

of his affection to me affection

you speak like a green girl unsifted in

such perilous circumstance do you

believe his tenders as you call them I

do not know my lord what I should think

Marie I'll teach you think yourself a

baby that you obtained his tendons for

true pain which are not sterling tend to

yourself my DNA oh not to crack the wind

of the poor phrase running at us you'll

tend to me a fool My Lord he hath

importuned me with love in honorable

fashion fashion you me College go to go

to and hath given countenance to his

speech My Lord with almost all the holy

vows of heaven uh Springs to catch

Woodcock's

I do know when the blood burns how

prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows

these blazes daughter giving more alive

than heed extinct in both even in their

promise as it is a making you must not

take for fire from this time be somewhat

scatter of your maiden presence

set your entreat Minaya rate than a

command to parlay for Lord Hamlet

believed so much in him that he is young

and with a larger tether may he walk

than may be given you in fear of failure

do not believe his vows for they are

brokers not of that dye which their

investments show but mere employers of

unholy suits breathing like sanctified

and pious boards the better to beguile

this is for all I would not in plain

terms from this time forth have you so

slander any moment leisure as to give

words or talk with the Lord Hamlet look

to it I charge you come your ways I

shall obey my lord

exeunt scene for the plot

enter Hamlet Horatio and Marcellus the

air bites shrewdly it is very cold

it is a nipping and eager air what hour

now I think it lacks 12 no it is struck

indeed I heard it not then it draws near

the season wherein the spirit held his

wont to walk a flourish of trumpets and

ordnance shut off within what does this

mean my lord the King doth wake tonight

and takes his rouse keeps wassail and

the swaggering upspring reels and as he

drains his drafts of Rhenish down the

cattle drum and trumpet thus Bray out

the triumph of his pledge is it a custom

I merriest but to my mind though I am

native here into the manor born it is a

custom more honored in the breach than

the observance this heavy-headed revel

east and west makes us traduced and

taxed of other nations they keep us

drunkards and with swine ash phrase soil

our addition and indeed it takes from

our achievements though performed at

height the pith and marrow of our

attribute so often chances in particular

men that for some vicious mole of nature

in them as in their birth wherein they

are not guilty since nature cannot

choose his origin by the or growth of

some complexion oft breaking down the

pails and forts of reason or by some

habit that too much or leavens the form

of plaus of manners that these men

carrying I say the stamp of one defect

being nature's livery or fortune star

their virtues else be they as pure as

grace as infinite as man may undergo

shall in the general censure take

corruption from that particular fault

the DRAM of eel doth all the noble

substance of a doubt to his own scandal

look my lord

it comes enter ghosts angels and

ministers of grace defend us be thou a

spirit of health or goblin damn'd

bring with the heirs from heaven or

blasts from he'll be thy intents wicked

or charitable thou comest

two questionable shape that I will speak

to thee I'll call thee Hamlet King

father royal Dane Oh answer me

let me not burst in ignorance but tell

why thy canonized bones hearsed it in

death have burst their cerements why the

sepulchre wherein we saw the quietly an

earned hath oped his ponderous and

marble jaws to cast the up again what

may this mean that thou dead course

again in complete steel were visits thus

the glimpses of the moon

making night hideous and we fools of

nature so horridly to shake our

disposition with thoughts beyond the

reaches of our souls say why is this

wherefore what should we do a ghost

beckons Hamlet it beckons you to go away

with it as if it's some impartment did

desire to you alone look with that

courteous action it wastes you to a more

removed ground but do not go with it no

by no means

it will not speak then I will follow it

do not my lord why what should be the

fear I do not set my life in a pins fee

and for my soul what can it do to that

being a thing immortal as itself it

waves me forth again I'll follow it what

if it tempt you toward the flood my lord

or to the dreadful summit of the cliff

that beetles or his base into the sea

and there assumes some other horrible

form which might deprive your

sovereignty of reason and draw you into

madness think of it the very place puts

toys of desperation without more motive

into every brain that looks so many

fathoms to the sea and hears it roar

beneath it waves me still come on I'll

follow thee you shalt go my lord hold

off your hands be ruled you shall not go

my fate cries out and makes each petty

artery in this body as Hardy as than a

me and lion's nerve still am I called

unhand me gentleman by heaven I'll make

a ghost of him that lets me I say away

go on I'll follow thee exeunt ghost

Hamlet he waxes desperate with

imagination

let's follow does not fit thus to obey

him have after - what issue will this

come something is rotten in the state of

Denmark heaven will direct it nay let's

follow him

exeunt scene v another part of the

platform enter ghost and Hamlet where

wilt thou lead me speak I'll go no

further mark me I will my hour is almost

come when i to sulphurous and tormenting

flames must render up myself alas poor

ghost they do me not but lend thy

serious hearing to what I shall unfold

speak I am bound to hear so art thou to

revenge when thou shalt hear what I am

thy father's spirit doomed for a certain

term to walk the night and for the day

confined to fast in fires till the foul

crimes done in my days of nature are

burnt and purged away but that I am

forbid to tell the secrets of my

prison-house I could a tale unfold whose

lightest word would Harrow up thy soul

freeze thy young blood make thy two eyes

like Stars start from their spheres I

knotted and combined it locks to part

and each particular hair to stand on end

like quills upon the fretful porpentine

but this eternal blazon must not be two

ears a flesh and blood

list list o list if the how didst ever

thy dear father love O God revenge his

foul and most unnatural murder murder

murder most foul as

the best it is but this most foul

strange and unnatural haste me to know

it that I with wings as Swift as

meditation or the thoughts of love may

sweep to my revenge

I find the apt and duller should stir

though be than the fat weed that roots

itself in ease on Lethe Wharf wouldst

thou not stir in this now Hamlet here it

is given out that sleeping in my orchard

a serpent stung me so the whole ear of

Denmark is by a forged process of my

death rankly abused but know thou noble

youth the serpent that did sting thy

father's life now wears his crown o my

prophetic soul my uncle I rat incestuous

that adulterate beast with witchcraft of

his wit with traitorous gifts who wicked

wit and gifts that have the power so to

seduce one to his shameful lust the will

of my most seeming-virtuous queen Oh

Hamlet what a falling off was there from

me whose love was of that dignity that

it went hand in hand even with the vow I

made to her in marriage and to decline

upon a wretch whose natural gifts were

poor to those of mine but virtue as it

never will be moved though lewdness

courted in a shape of heaven so lust

though to a radiant angel linked will

sate itself in a celestial bed and prey

on garbage but soft methinks I scent the

morning air brief let me be sleeping

within my orchard my custom always of

the afternoon upon my secure hour

my uncle stole with juice of cursed at

heaven on in a vial and in the porches

of my ears did pour the leprous

distilment whose effect holds such an

enmity with blood of man that swift as

quicksilver it courses through the

natural gates and alleys of the body and

with a sudden vigour daf posset and curd

like eager droppings into milk the thin

and wholesome blood so did it mine and a

most instant tetter barked about most

laser-like with vile and loathsome crust

all my smooth body thus was i sleeping

by a brother's hand of life of crown of

queen at once dispatched cut off even in

the blossoms of my sin unhoused old

disappointed uh nanine oh rekt made but

sent to my account with all my

imperfections on my head Oh horrible Oh

horrible most horrible if thou hast

nature in thee bear it not let not the

Royal bed of Denmark be a couch for

luxury and Damned not incest but

howsoever thou pursuest this act taint

not thy mind nor let thy soul contrive

against thy mother aught leave her to

heaven and to those thorns that in her

bosom Lodge to prick and sting her fare

thee well at once the glow-worm shows

the matin to be near and gins to pale

his uneffectual fire adieu adieu

Hamlet remember me exit

oh you hosts of heaven

Oh earth what else and show I couple

hell Oh fie hold hold my heart and you

my sinews grow not instant old but bear

me stiffly up remember thee i thou or

ghost while memory holds a seat in this

distracted globe remember thee yet from

the table of my memory I'll wipe away

all trivial fond records all saws of

books all forms all pressures past that

youth and observation copied there and

to thy commandment all alone shall live

within the book and volume of my brain

unmixed with baser matter yes by heaven

o most pernicious woman Oh

villain villain smiling damned villain

my tables meet it is I set it down that

one may smile and smile and be a villain

at least I'm sure it may be so in

Denmark writing so uncle there you are

now to my word

it is a Jew a Jew remember me I have

sworn it my lord my lord my lord Lord

Hamlet heaven secure him so be it hello

ho ho my lord

hello ho ho boy come bird come enter

Horatio and Marcellus

how is my noble Lord what news my lord

Oh wonderful good my lord tell it no

you'll reveal it not I My Lord by heaven

nor I my lord

how say you then would heart of man once

think it but you'll be secret ah by

heaven my lord

there's NER a villain dwelling in all

Denmark but he's an arrant knave there

needs no ghost my lord come from the

grave to tell us this wife right you

heard the right and so without more

circumstance at all I hold it fit that

we shake hands in part you as your

business and desire shall points you for

every man hath business and desire such

as it is and for mine own poor part look

you

I'll go pray these are but wild and

whirling words my lord I'm sorry

they offend you heartily yes faith

heartily

there's no offense my lord yes by

thinked Patrick but there is Horatio and

much offence to touching this vision

here it is an honest ghost that let me

tell you for your desire to know what is

between us or master it as you may and

now good friends as you are friends

scholars and soldiers give me one poor

request what is it my lord we will never

make known what you have seen tonight my

lord

nay but swear it in faith my lord not I

nor I my lord in faith upon my sword

we have sworn my lord already indeed

upon my sword indeed swear ah ha boy say

stuff so art thou there true penny come

on you hear this fellow in the cellar

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consent to swear propose the oath my

lord never to speak of this that you

have seen swear by my sword swear HICC

@ub Kwai then we'll shift our ground

come hither gentlemen and lay your hands

again upon my sword never to speak of

this that you have heard swear by my

sword well said old mole canst work of

the earth so fast

a worthy pioneer once more remove good

friends Oh

day and night but this is wondrous

strange and therefore as a stranger give

it welcome there are more things in

heaven and earth Horatio than are dreamt

of in your philosophy but come here as

before never so help you mercy how

strange or odd so ere I bear myself as I

perchance hereafter shall think meet to

put an antic disposition on that's you

at such time seeing me never shall with

arms encumbered thus or this head shake

or by pronouncing of some doubtful

phrase as well well we know or we could

and if we would or if we list to speak

or there be and if there might or such

ambiguous giving out to note that you

know out of me

this not to do so grace and mercy as

your most need help you swear rest rest

perturbed spirit they swear

so gentleman with all my love I do

commend me to you and what so poor a man

as Hamlet is may do to express his love

and friending to you God willing shall

not lack let us go in together and still

your fingers on your lips I pray the

time is out of joint Oh curse its spite

that ever I was born to set it right

nay come let's go together exeunt end of

act 1 act 2 of Hamlet by William

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2 scene 1 a room in Polonius's house

enter Polonius and ring although I will

my lord

you shall do publish wisely good

Reynaldo before your visit him to make

inquire of his behavior milord I didn't

send it

marry well said very well said look

yousa inquiry first what dance kazar in

paris and how who what means and where

they keep what company at what expense

and finally by this encompassment and

thrift to question that they do know my

son come you more nearer than your

particular demands will touch it take

you as twere some distant knowledge of

him as thus I know his father in his

friends added pard him do you Marcus

Renaldo I very well the Lord and

empowered him but you must say not well

but if to be he I mean he's very wild

addicted so it sir and there are put on

him

what forgeries you please marry a nun

who drank as me disorder him you take

heed of that but as such wanton wild

usual slips as our companions noted and

most known to youth a Liberty as a I

mean milord Oh drinking fencing swearing

quarreling grabbing you may go so far

the Lord is that what is honor him faith

no as you may see zijn it in the charge

you must not put another scandal on him

that he is open to incontinence a that's

not my meaning

but breathe his faults sua quickly that

they may seem the Tate's of Liberty the

flash and outbreak of a fiery mind a

savageness in unreclaimed blood of

general assault that's my code Lord

wherefore should you do this I'm the

Lord I would know that marry sir here's

my drift and I believe it is a fetch of

wit

you'll a nice night sellers on my son as

twere a thing little soiled is the

working mark you your party in converse

him you would sound have you ever seen

in the predominant crimes the youth you

breed of guilty he assured he closes

with you in his consequence good sir

also or friend or gentleman according to

the phrase or the addition of man and

country very good my lord

and then does he this he does what was I

about to say

by the masses I was about to say

something where did I leave a closes in

the consequence at friendís oh and

gentlemen the consequence I marry he

closes thus I know the gentleman I saw

him yesterday or the other day or then

or there with such or such and as you

say there was a gaming there were two

installs there are 40 outed tennis or

perchance I saw him enter such a house

of sail village it a brothel or so forth

see you now your beta falsehood takes

this carp of truth and thus do we wisdom

and of reach with wind letters and

essays of buyers buy in directions find

directions out so by by formal lecture

and advice shall you my son

you have me have you not milord I have

God be with you fare you well good

milord observe his inclination in

yourselves

I shall milord and let him play his

music well milord

farewell exit Reynaldo enter o philia oh

no I feel ya what's the matter o my lord

my lord I have been so afraid o is what

he the name of God my lord as I was

sewing in my closet Lord Hamlet with his

doublet all unbraced no hat upon his

head his stockings fouled on gartered

and down dived to his ankle pale as his

shirt his knees knocking each other and

with a look so piteous in purport as if

he had been loosed out of hell to speak

of horrors he comes before me mad but I

love my lord I do not know but truly I

do fear it what said he

he took me by the wrist and held me hard

then goes he to the length of all his

arm and with his other hand thus o'er

his brow he falls to such perusal of my

face as he would draw it long stayed he

so at last a little shaking of mine arm

and thrice his head thus waving up and

down he raised a sigh so piteous and

profound as it did seem to shatter all

his bulk and in his being that done he

lets me go and with his head over his

shoulder turned he seemed to find his

way without his eyes for outer doors he

went without their helps and to the last

bended their light on me come go with me

I will go seek the king this is the very

ecstasy of love whose violent property

for does itself and leaves the will to

desperate undertakings as oft as any

passion under heaven that does afflict

our natures I am sorry what have you

given him any hard words of late no my

good lord

but as you did command I did repel his

fetters and denied his access to me that

has made him mad I am sorry that with

better heed and judgment I had not

quoted him I feared he did betrayal and

meant direct thee but before my jealousy

by heaven it is as proper to our age to

cast beyond ourselves in our opinions as

it is common for the younger sword to

lack discretion come go we to the king

this must be known which being kept

close might move more grief to hide than

hate to utter love exeunt scene 2 a room

in the castle enter King Claudius Queen

Gertrude Rosencrantz Guildenstern

and attendants welcome dear Rosencrantz

and Guildenstern moreover that we much

did long to see

you the need we have to use you did

provoke our hasty sending something have

you heard of Hamlet's transformation so

call it sit nor the exterior nor the

inward man resembles that it was what it

should be more than his father's death

that thus hath put him so much from the

understanding of himself I cannot dream

of I entreat you both that being of so

young days brought up with him and Sethe

sown a bird to his youth and havior that

you vouchsafe your rest here in our

court some little time so by your

companies to draw him onto pleasures and

to gather so much as from occasion you

may glean whether aught to us unknown

afflicts him thus that opens lies within

our remedy good gentlemen he hath much

talked of you and sure I am to men there

are not living to whom he more adheres

if it will please you to show us so much

gentry and goodwill as to expend your

time with us awhile for the supply and

profit of our hope your visitation shall

receives such thanks as fits a king's

remembrance both your Majesties might by

the sovereign power you have of us put

your dread pleasures more into command

than to entreaty

but we both obey and here give up

ourselves in the full bent to lay our

service freely at your feet to be

commanded

thanks Rosencrantz and gentle

Guildenstern thanks Guildenstern and

gentle Rosencrantz and I beseech you

instantly to visit my to much changed

son go some of you and bring these

gentlemen where Hamlet is heavens make

our presence and our practices pleasant

and helpful to him I are men exeunt

Rosencrantz Guildenstern and some

attendants enter Polonius yes it is from

Norway my good lord

joyfully returned thou still hast been

the father of good news

my lord sure my good nature by duty as I

held by CERN both to my god under my

gracious King and I do think else this

breed of man hunts not the trail of

policies as sure as it hath used to do

that I have found the very cause of

Hamlet's lunacy err

Oh speak of that that do I long to hear

you first admittance to the ambassadors

mine you shall be the fruit to that a

great feast thyself do grace to them and

bring them in exit Polonius he tells me

my dear Gertrude he hath found the head

and source of all your son's distemper

I doubt it is no other but the main his

father's death and our or hasty marriage

well we shall sit him reenter Polonius

with volta Monde and Cornelius welcome

my good friends say volta monde watch

from our brother Norway most fair return

of greetings and desires upon our first

he sent out to suppress his nephews

levies which to him appeared to be a

preparation against the

but better walked into he truly found it

was against your highness

where is grieved that so a sickness age

and impotence was falsely born in hand

sends out arrests on Fortinbras which he

in brief obeys receives rebuke from

Norway and in fine makes vow before his

uncle Nevermore to give the SA of arms

against your majesty

whereon old Norway overcome with joy

gives him three thousand crowns an

annual fee and his commission to employ

those soldiers so levied as before

against the with an entreaty

herein further showing giving a paper

that it might please you to give quiet

pass through your dominions for this

enterprise on such regard of safety and

allowance as therein are set down it

likes us well and as one more considered

time will read and

and think upon this business meantime we

thank you for your well took labour go

to arrest that night will feast together

most welcome home

excellent Volta menthe and Cornelius

this business is well ended my liege and

Madam to expostulate what Majesty should

be or Duty is why day and night night

and time is time well nothing but to

waste night day and time therefore since

brevity is the soul of wit and he is

knows the limbs and outward flourishes I

will be brief your noble son is mad mad

call I it for to define true madness

what is about to be nothing else but mad

would let that go more matter with less

art madam I swear I use no art at all

that he is mad tis true tis true tis

pity and pity tis tis true a foolish

figure but farewell it for I will use no

art mad let us grant him then and now

remains that we find out the cause of

this effect or rather say the cause of

this defect for this effect defective

comes by calls thus it remains and the

remainder thus prepend I have a daughter

have why she is mine who in her duty and

obedience mark hath given me this now

gather and surmise greets to the

celestial and my soul's Idol the most

beautified Ophelia that's an ill phrase

a vile phrase beautified is a vile

phrase but you should hear thus reads

in her excellent wide bosom these

etcetera came this from how much to her

good madam stay awhile

I will be faithful reads doubt thou the

stars are fire doubt that the Sun doth

move doubt truth to be a liar but never

doubt I love o dear Ophelia I am ill at

these numbers

I have not art to reckon my groans but

that I love the best

o most best believe it oh do they never

more most dear lady whilst this machine

is to him Hamlet this in obedience hath

my daughter showed me and more above

hath his soliciting 'he's as they fell

out by time by means and place all given

to mine here but how had she received

his love what do you think of me as of a

man faithful and honourable I would fain

prove sir but what am I to think when I

had seen this hot love on the wing as I

perceived it I must tell you that before

my daughter told me what might you or my

dear Majesty your queen here I think if

I had played the desk or table-book

or given my heart a winking mute and

dumb or looked upon this love with idle

sight what might you think no I went

round to work and my young mistress thus

I did bespeak Lord Hamlet is a prince

out of thy star this must not be

and then I precepts give her that she

should lock herself from his resort and

with no messengers received no tokens

which done

she took the fruits of my advice and he

repulsed a short tale

to make fell into a sadness then into a

fast then store watch thence into a

weakness learns to a lightness and by

this declension into the madness wherein

now he raves at all

we mourn for do you think tis this it

may be very likely that there be such a

time I'd fade know that that I have

positively said tis sir when he proved

otherwise not that I know pointing to

his head and shoulder take this from

this if this be otherwise if

circumstances lead me I will find where

truth is hid though it were hidden deed

within the centre how may we try it

further you know sometimes he walked for

hours together here in the lobby so he

does indeed at such a time I'll loose my

daughter to him be you and I behind an

Arras then mark the encounter if he love

her not and be not from his reason fall

thereon let me be no assistant for

estate but keep a farm and Carters we

will try it but look we're sadly the

poor wretch comes reading away I do

beseech you both the way I'll board him

presently exeunt King Claudius Queen

Gertrude and attendants enter Hamlet

reading well God of mercy do you know me

my lord excellent well you are a

fishmonger Lord then I would you were so

honest a man honest my lord I sir to be

honest as this world goes is to be one

man picked out of ten thousand that's

very true my lord for if the Sun breed

maggots in a dead dog being a good

kissing carrion have you

aughter I have my dog let her not walk

you the son conception is a blessing but

not as your daughter may conceive friend

look to it aside how see you by that

still harpy on my daughter yet he knew

me not at first

he said I was a fishmonger he is far

gone far gone and truly in my youth I

suffered much extremity for love very

near theirs I'll speak to him again what

do you read my lord words words words

what is the matter my lord

between who I mean the matter that you

read my lord slanders sir for the

satirical rogue says here that old men

have gray beards that their faces are

wrinkled their eyes purging thick amber

and Plumtree gum and that they have a

plentiful lack of wit together with most

weak hands all which sir though I most

powerfully and potently believe yet I

hold it not honesty to have it thus set

down for yourself sir should be as old

as I am if like a crab you could go

backward aside though this be madness

yet there is Method int will you walk

out of the air my lord

into my grave indeed that is out of the

air aside how pregnant sometimes his

replies are happiness that often madness

hits on which reason and sanity could

not shed prosperously be delivered of I

will leave him and suddenly contrive the

means of meeting between him and my

daughter my honourable Lord almost

humbly take my leave of you you cannot

sir take from me anything that I will

more willingly part withal except my

life except my life except my life fare

you well my lord these tedious old fools

enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

you go to seek the Lord Hamlet there he

is god save you sir exit Polonius my

honored Lord my most dear Lord my

excellent good friends how does the

Guildenstern up

Rosencrantz good lads how do you both as

the indifferent children of the earth

happy and that we are not over happy

unfortunate the very button nor the

soles of her shoes neither my lord then

you live about her waste store in the

middle of her favours faith her privates

we in the secret parts of fortune o most

true she is a strumpet

what's the news none my lord but that

the world's grown honest men is doomsday

near but your news is not true let me

question more in particular what have

you my good friends deserved at the

hands of Fortune that she sends you to

prison hither prison my lord Denmark's a

prison then is the world one a goodly

one in which there are many confines

wards and dungeons Denmark being one of

the worst we think not so my lord why

then tis none to you for there is

nothing either good or bad but thinking

makes it so to me it is a prison why

then your ambition makes it one tis too

narrow for your mind

o God I could be bounded in a nutshell

and count myself a king of infinite

space were it not that I have bad dreams

which dreams indeed or ambition for the

very substance of the ambitious is

merely the shadow of a dream a dream

itself is but a shadow truly and I hold

ambition of so airy and light equality

that it is but a shadow shadow then our

our beggar's bodies and our monarchs and

outstretched heroes the beggar shadows

shall we to the court for by my Fay I

cannot reason will wait upon you my lord

no such matter

I will not sort you with the rest of my

servants for to speak to you like an

honest man I am most dreadfully attended

but in the beaten way of friendship what

make you at Elsinore to visit you my

lord no other occasion beggar than I am

I am even poor in thanks but I thank you

and sure dear friends my banks are too

dear a halfpenny were you not sent for

is it your own inclining is it a free

visitation come deal justly with me come

come nay speak what should we say my

lord why anything but to the purpose you

were sent for and there is a kind of

confession in your looks which your

modesty's have not craft enough to color

I know the good king and queen have sent

for you

to what end my lord that you must teach

me but let me conjure you by the rights

of our fellowship by the consonance ii

of our youth by the obligation of our

ever preserved love and by what more

dear a better proposer could charge you

with all be even and direct with me

whether you were sent for or no aside to

Guildenstern let's say you Nathan I have

an eye of you if you love me hold not

off my lord we were sent for I will tell

you why so shall my anticipation prevent

your discovery and your secrecy to the

king and queen molt no feather I have of

late but wherefore I know not lost all

my mirth forgone all custom of exercises

and indeed it goes so heavily with my

disposition that this goodly frame the

earth seems to me a sterile promontory

this most excellent canopy the air look

you this brave or hanging firmament this

majestical roof fretted with golden fire

why it appears no other thing to me than

a foul and pestilent congregation of

vapors what a piece of work is a man how

noble in reason how infinite in faculty

in form and moving how Express and

admirable in action how like an angel

in apprehension how like a god the

beauty of the world the paragon of

animals and yet to me what is this

quintessence of dust men delights not me

no nor woman neither though by your

smiling you seem to say so my lord there

was no such stuff in my thoughts why did

you laugh then when I said man delights

not me

you think my lord if you delight not in

man what Lenten entertainment the

players shall receive from you we

Cottard them on the way and hither their

coming to offer you service he that

plays the King shall be welcome His

Majesty shall have tribute of me the

adventurous Knight shall use his foil

and target the lover shall not sigh

gratis the humorous man shall end his

part in peace

the clown shall make those laugh whose

lungs are tickle to the seer and the

lady shall say her mind freely or the

blank verse shall halt for it what

players are they even those who are want

to take delight in the tragedians of the

city how chance is it they travel their

residents both in reputation and profit

was better both ways I think their

inhibition comes by the means of the

late innovation do they hold the same

estimation they did when I was in the

city are they so followed no indeed they

are not how comes it do you think rule

rusty nay their endeavor keeps in the

wanted place but there is Sir and area

of children little IOC's that cry out on

the top of question and are most

tyrannically clapped for it these are

now the fashion and sober idol the

common stages so they call them that

many wearing rape years are afraid of

goose quills and dare scarce come

thither what are they children who

maintains them how are they escorted

will they pursue the quality no longer

than they can sing will they not say

afterwards if they should grow

themselves to common players as it is

most like if their means are no better

their writers do them wrong to make them

exclaim against their own succession

faith there has been much to do on both

sides

and the nation holds it no sin to tar

them to controversy if there was for a

while no money bid for argument unless

the poet and the player went to cuffs in

the question it's possible oh there has

been much throwing about of brains do

the boys carry it away

I thought they do my lord Hercules and

his load too he's not very strange for

mine uncle is king of Denmark and those

that would make Mo's at him while my

father lived to give twenty forty fifty

a hundred ducats a piece for his picture

and little splud there is something in

this more than natural if philosophy

could find it out flourish of trumpets

within they are the players gentlemen

you are welcome to Elsinore your hands

come then the appurtenance of welcome is

fashioned in ceremony

let me comply with you in this scar

blessed my extent to the players which I

tell you must show Fairly outward should

more appear like entertainment than

yours you are welcome but my uncle

father and aunt mother are deceived in

what my dear Lord I am but mad

north-northwest when the wind is

southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw

enter Polonius well be with you

gentlemen

hark you Guildenstern and you too at

each ear a hearer that great baby you

see there is not yet out of his

swaddling clouts happily he's the second

time come to them for they say an old

man is twice a child I will prophesy he

comes to tell me of the players market

you say right sir on Monday morning twas

so indeed my lord I have news to tell

you my lord I have news to tell you when

Russia was an actor in Rome the actors

are come hither my lord

Buzzz Buzzz upon my honor then came each

actor on his ass for the best actors in

the world either for tragedy comedy

history pastoral pastoral comical

historical-pastoral tragic historical

tragical comical historical-pastoral

seen in dividable or perm unlimited

Seneca cannot be too heavy nor plotters

too light for the law of writ and

Liberty these are the only men Oh Jeff

the judge of Israel what a treasure

hadst thou what a treasure had he my

lord why one fair daughter and no more

the which he loved passing well still on

my daughter am I not at the right old

jet sir if you go new jets my lord I

have a daughter that I love passing

words nay that follows not what follows

then my lord why as by lot God wot and

then you know it came to pass as most

like it was the first row of the Piyush

and son will show you more for look

where my abridgement comes enter four or

five players

you are welcome masters welcome all I am

glad to see thee well welcome good

friends Poe my old friend thy face is

valence since I saw the last comes down

to beard me in Denmark what my young

lady and Mistress by your lady your

ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I

saw you last by the altitude of a

chopping pray God your voice like a

piece of unger and gold be not cracked

within the ring masters you are all

welcome will into it like French

falconers fly at anything we see will

have a speech straight come give us a

taste of your quality come a passionate

speech what speech my lord

I heard thee speak me a speech once but

it was never acted or if it was not

above once for the play

I remember pleased not the million twas

caviar to the general but it was as I

received it and others whose judgments

in such matters cried in the top of mine

an excellent play well digested in the

scenes set down with as much modesty as

cunning I remember one said there were

no salads in the lines to make the

matter savoury nor no matter in the

phrase that might indict the author of

affectation but called it an honest

method as wholesome as sweet

and by very much more handsome than fine

one speech in it I chiefly loved twas

Aeneas tale to Dido and thereabout of it

especially where he speaks of Priam's

slaughter if it live in your memory

begin at this line let me see let me see

the rugged Pyrrhus like the hurricane ii

and beast it is not so it begins with

Pyrrhus the rugged Pyrrhus he whose

sable arms black as his purpose did the

night resemble when he lay couch it in

the ominous horse hath now this dread

and black complexion smeared with

heraldry more dismal head to foot now is

he total ghouls horridly tricked with

blood of fathers mothers daughters sons

baked and impacted with the parching

streets that lend a tyrannous and damn

need light to their Lords murder roasted

in wrath and fire and thus or size it

with coagulate gore with eyes like

carbuncles the hellish pyrrhus old

grandsire priam seeks so proceed you O

God my lord well spoken with good accent

and good discretion anon he finds him

striking to short at Greeks his antique

sword rebellious to his arm lies where

it falls repugnant to command unequal

matched Pyrrhus at Priam drives in rage

strikes wide but with the whiff and wind

of his fell sword the unnerved father

Falls then senseless ilium seeming to

feel this blow with flaming top Stoops

to his base and with a hideous crash

takes prisoner Pyrrhus ear for lo his

sword which was declining on the milky

head of Reverend Priam seemed the air to

stick so as a painted tyrant Pyrrhus

stood and like a neutral to his will and

matter did nothing but as we often see

against some storm a silence in the

even's the rack stand still the bold

wins speechless and the orb below as

hush as death anon the dreadful thunder

doth rend the region so after paris

pause aroused vengeance sets him new

a-work and never did the Cyclops hammers

fall on Mars his armor forged for proof

returned with less remorse than Pyrrhus

bleeding sword now falls on Priam out

out now strumpet fortune all you gods in

General Synod take away her power break

all the spokes and fellies from her

wheel and ball the round knave down the

hill of heaven as low as to the fiends

this is too long it shall to the barbers

with your beard pretty say on he's for a

jig or a tale of bawdry or he sleeps say

on come to Hecuba but who oh who had

seen the mob let queen mo bleed queen

that's good

mobled queen is good run barefoot up and

down threatening the flames with bisson

rheum a clout upon that head we're late

the diadem stood and for a robe about

her lank and all or team at loins a

blanket in the alarm of fear caught up

who this had seen with tongue in venom

steeped gainst fortunes state would

treason have pronounced but if the gods

themselves did see her then when she saw

Pyrrhus make malicious sport in mincing

with his sword

her husband's limbs the instant burst of

clamour that she made unless things

mortal move them not at all would have

made Milch the burning eyes of heaven

and passion in the gods look whether he

has not turned his color and has tears

inside pray

no more tis well I'll have these speak

out the rest soon good My Lord will you

see the players well bestowed do you

hear let them be well used for they are

the abstract and brief chronicles of the

time after your death you were better

have a bad epitaph than their I'll

report while you live according to their

desert God's body kinsmen much better

use every man after his desert and who

should scape whipping use them after

your own honor and dignity the less they

deserve the more merit is in your bounty

take them in come follow him friends

will hear a play tomorrow exit Polonius

with all the players but the first dust

thou hear me old friend

can you play the murder of Gonzago I'm a

noob will hat tomorrow night you could

for a need study a speech of some dozen

or 16 lines which I would set down and

in certain Scott high my lord very well

follow that Lord and look you mock him

not exit first player my good friends

I'll leave you till night you are

welcome to Elsinore good my lord I so

God be wiki exeunt Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern now I am alone what a rogue

and peasant slave am I is it not

monstrous that this player here but in a

fiction in a dream of passion could

force his soul so to his own conceit

that from her working all his visit wand

tears in his eyes distraction in his

aspect a broken voice and his whole

function suiting with forms to his

conceit and all for nothing

for Hecuba what's Hecuba to him or he to

Hecuba that he should weep for her what

would he do had he the motive and the

cue for passion that I have he would

drown the stage with tears and cleave

the general ear with horrid speech make

mad at the guilty and appall the free

found the ignorant and amaze indeed the

very faculties of eyes and ears yet I a

dull and muddy metal drascalo I canna

dreams unpregnant of my cause and can

say nothing no not for a king

upon whose property and most dear life a

damned defeat was made am i a coward who

calls me villain breaks my pate across

plucks off my beard and blows it in my

face

tweaks me by the nose gives me the lie

of the throat as deepest to the lungs

who does me this ha swoons I should take

it for it cannot be but I am pigeon

livered and lack gall to make oppression

bitter or ere this i should have fatted

all the region kites with this slave's

awful bloody bawdy villain remorseless

treacherous lecherous kind less villain

Oh vengeance

why what an ass am i this is most brave

that I the son of a dear father murdered

prompted to my revenge by heaven and

hell must like a unpack my heart

with words and fall a-cursing like a

very drab a Scullion fie upon it

about my brain I have heard that guilty

creatures sitting at a play have by the

very cunning of the scene been struck so

to the soul that presently they have

proclaimed their malefactions for murder

that would have no tongue will speak

with most miraculous organ I'll have

these players play something like the

murder of my father before mine uncle

I'll observe his looks I'll tent him to

the quick if he but blench I know my

course the spirit that I have seen may

be the devil and the devil hath power to

assume a pleasing shape yay

and perhaps out of my weakness and

my melancholy as he is very potent with

such spirits abuses me to damn me I'll

have grounds more relative than this the

plays the thing wherein I'll catch the

conscience of the king exit end of act 2

act 3 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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3 scene 1 a room in the castle enter

King Claudius Queen Gertrude Polonius o

philia Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and

can you by no drift of circumstance get

from him why he puts on this confusion

grating so harshly all his days of quiet

with turbulent and dangerous lunacy he

does confess himself distracted but from

what cause he will by no means speak nor

do we find him forward to be sounded but

with the crafty madness keeps aloof when

we would bring him on to some confession

of his true state did he receive you

well boast like a gentleman but with

much forcing of his disposition

did you assay him to any pastime madam

it so fell out that certain players we

are out on the way of this we told him

and there did seem in him a kind of joy

to hear it they are about the court and

as I think they have already ordered

this night to play before him these days

true that he beseech me to entreat your

majesties to hear and see the matter

with all my heart and it doth much

content me to hear him so inclined good

gentleman give him a further edge and

drive his purpose on to these delights

we shall my lord exeunt Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern

sweet Gertrude leave us two for we have

closely sent for Hamlet hither that he

as to air by accident may here affront

Ophelia her father and myself lawful

espías will so bestow ourselves that

seeing unseen we may have their

encounter frankly judge and gather by

him as he is behaved if to be the

affliction of his love or know that thus

he suffers for I shall obey you and for

your part o failure

I do wish that your good beauties be the

happy cause of Hamlet's wildness so

shall I hope your virtues will bring him

to his wonted way again to both your

honors madam I wish it may exit Queen

Gertrude o philia walk you here gracious

sir please you we will bestow ourselves

to o failure read on this book that sure

of such an exercise may color your

loneliness we are off to blaming this

tis too much proved that with devotions

visited by section we do sugar or the

devil himself aside no tis too true how

smart a lash that speech doth give my

conscience

the harlots cheek Beauty dwith

plastering art is not more ugly to the

thing that helps it than is my deed to

my most painted word o heavy burden hear

him coming let's withdraw my lord exeunt

King Claudius and Polonius

enter Hamlet to be or not to be that is

the question whether tis nobler in the

mind to suffer the slings and arrows of

outrageous fortune or to take arms

against a sea of troubles and by

opposing end them

to die to Sleep No More and by a sleep

to say we end the heartache and the

thousand natural shocks that flesh is

heir to two

the consummation devoutly to be wish'd

to die to sleep to sleep perchance to

dream

aye there's the rub for in that sleep of

death what dreams may come when we have

shuffled off this mortal coil must give

us pause there's the respect that makes

calamity of so long life for who would

bear the whips and scorns of time the

oppressors wrong the proud man's

contumely the pangs of despised love the

laws delay the insolence of office and

the spurns that patient merit of the

unworthy takes when he himself might his

Quietus make with a bare bodkin who

would fardels bear to grunt and sweat

under a weary life but that the dread of

something after death the undiscovered

country from whose Bourn no traveler

returns puzzles the will and makes us

rather bear those ills we have than fly

to others that we know not of

thus conscience does make cowards of us

all and thus the native hue of

resolution is sicklied o'er with the

pale cast of thought and enterprises of

great pith and moment with this regard

their currents turn awry and lose the

name of action

soft you now the fair Ophelia nymph in

thy orisons be all my sins remember'd

good my lord how does your honor for

this many a day I humbly thank you well

well well my lord I have remembrances of

yours that I have longed long to

redeliver I pray you now receive them no

not I I never gave you what my honored

Lord you know right well you did and

with them words of so sweet breath

composed as made the things more rich

their perfume lost take these again for

to the noble mind rich gifts wax poor

when givers prove unkind

there my lord haha are you honest my

lord are you fair what means your

lordship that if you be honest and fair

your honesty should admit no discourse

to your beauty could Beauty my lord have

better commerce than with honesty I

truly for the power of beauty will

sooner transform honesty from what it is

to a bawd than the force of honesty can

translate Beauty into his likeness this

was sometime a paradox but now the time

gives it proof I did love you once

indeed my lord you made me believe so

you should not have believed me for

virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock

but we shall relish of it I loved you

not I was the more deceived get thee to

a nunnery why wouldst thou be a breeder

of sinners I am myself indifferent

honest but yet I could accuse me of such

things that it were better my mother had

not borne me I am very proud revengeful

ambitious with more offenses at my Beck

than I have thoughts to put them in

imagination to give them shape or time

to act them in what should such fellows

as I do crawling between Earth and

heaven we are arrant knaves all believe

none of us go thy ways to a nunnery

where's your father at home my lord let

the doors be shut upon him that he may

play the fool nowhere but in zone house

farewell

Oh help him you sweet heavens if thou

dost marry I'll give thee this plague

for thy dowry be thou as chaste as ice

as pure as snow thou shalt not escape

calumny get thee to a nunnery go

farewell or if thou wilt needs marry

marry a fool for wise men know well

enough what monsters you make of them to

a nunnery go and quickly to farewell o

heavenly powers restore him I have heard

of your paintings too well enough God

has given you one face and you make

yourselves another you jig you amble and

you Lisp and nickname God's creatures

and make your wantonness your ignorance

go to

I'll know morant it hath made me mad I

say we will have no more marriages those

that are married already all but one

shall live the rest shall keep as they

are to a nunnery go exit oh what a noble

mind is here o'erthrown the courtiers

soldiers scholars eye tongue sword the

expectancy and Rose of the fair state

the glass of fashion and the mould of

form the observed of all observers quite

quite down and i of ladies most deject

and wretched that suck'd the honey of

his music vows now see that noble and

most sovereign reason like sweet bells

jangled out of tune in harsh that

unmatched form and feature of blown

youth blasted with ecstasy oh woe is me

to have seen what I have seen see what I

see reenter King Claudius and Polonius

love his affections do not that way tend

nor what he spake though it lacked form

a little was not like madness there's

something in his soul or which his

melancholy sits on brood and I do doubt

the hatch and the disclose will be some

danger which for to prevent I have in

quick determination thus set it down he

shall with speed to England for the

demand of our neglected tribute happily

the seas and countries different with

variable objects shall expel this

something settled matter in his heart or

on his brains still beating puts him

thus from fashion of himself what think

you want it shall do well yet do I

believe the origin and commencement of

his grief

sprung from neglected love how now

Ophelia you need not tell us what Lord

Hamlet said we heard it all my lord do

as you please but if you heard it feared

after the play let his Queen mother

all alone entreat him to show his grief

let her be round with him

and I'll be pleased so please you in the

air of all their conference if she find

him nod to England send him or confine

him where your wisdom best shouting it

shall be so madness and great ones must

not unwatched go exeunt scene 2 a hole

in the castle enter Hamlet and players

speak the speech I pray you as I

pronounced it to you trippingly on the

tongue but if you mouth it as many of

your players do I had as lief the town

crier spoke my lines nor do not saw the

air too much with your hand thus but use

all gently for in the very torrent

Tempest and as I may say the whirlwind

of passion you must acquire and beget a

temperance that may give it smoothness

oh it offends me to the soul to hear a

robust gist Perry wig pated fellow tear

a passion to tatters to very rags to

split the ears of the groundlings who

for the most part are capable of nothing

but inexplicable dumb shows and noise I

would have such a fellow whipped for or

doing termagant it out Herod's Herod

pray you avoid it I warrant your honor

be not too tame neither but let your own

discretion be your tutor suit the action

to the word the word to the action with

this special observance that you or step

not the modesty of nature for anything

so overdone is from the purpose of

playing whose end both at the first and

now was and is to hold as twere the

mirror up to nature to show virtue her

own feature scorn her own image and the

very age and body of the time his form

and pressure

now this overdone or come tardy off

though it makes the unskillful laugh

cannot but make the judicious grieve the

censure of the which one must in your

allowance or way a whole theater of

others oh there be players that I have

seen play and heard others praise and

that highly not to speak it profanely

that neither having the accent of

Christians nor the

Gate of Christian pagan nor man have so

strutted and bellowed that I have

thought some of nature's journeymen had

made men and not made them well they

imitated humanity so abominably I hope

we have reformed that indifferently with

us sir Oh reformed it all together and

let those that play your clowns speak no

more than is set down for them for there

be of them that will themselves laugh to

set on some quantity of barren

spectators to laugh too though in the

meantime some necessary question of the

play be then to be considered that's

villainous and shows a most pitiful

ambition in the fool that uses it go

make you ready exeunt players enter

Polonius Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

how now my lord will the King hear this

piece of work

I'm the queen - and that presently did

the players make haste exit Polonius

will you to help to hasten them we will

my lord exeunt Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern what ho Horatio enter

Horatio here sweet lord at your service

Horatio thou art eanes just a man as

heir my conversation coped withal oh my

dear Lord nay do not think I flat her

for what advancement may I hope from

thee that no revenge' hast but thy good

spirits to feed and clothe thee why

should the poor be flattered no let the

candied tongue lick absurd pomp and

crook the pregnant hinges of the knee

where thrift may follow fawning dust

thou here since my dear soul was

mistress of her choice and could have

men distinguished her election hath

sealed thee for herself for thou hast

been as one in suffering all that

suffers nothing a man that fortunes

buffets and rewards has to tain with

equal thanks and blessed are those whose

blood and judgment are so welcoming gold

that they are not a pipe for fortunes

finger to sound what stop she please

give me that man that is not passions

slave and I will wear him in my heart

score I in my heart apart

I do thee something too much of this

there is a play tonight before the king

one scene of it comes near the

circumstance which I have told thee of

my father's death I prithee when now

seus to that act afoot

even with the very comment of thy soul

observe mine uncle if his occulted guilt

do not itself unkennel in one speech it

is a damned nerd ghost that we have seen

and my imaginations are as foul as

Vulcans steady give him a heedful note

for I mine eyes will rivet to his face

and after we will both our judgments

join in censure of his seeming well my

lord if he still aught the whilst this

play is playing and scape detecting I

will pay the theft they are coming to

the play I must be idle get you a place

Danish March a flourish enter King

Claudius Queen Gertrude Polonius o

philia Rosencrantz Guildenstern and

others how fares our cousin Hamlet

excellent to fade of the chameleons dish

I each the heir promised crams you

cannot feed capons so I have nothing

with this answer Hamlet these words are

not mine no nor mine now - Polonius my

lord you played once at the University

you say that did I my lord

I was accounted a good actor what did

you enact I didn't actor Julius Caesar I

was killed in the capital Brutus killed

me it was a brute part of him to kill so

capital a calf there be the players

ready I my lord they stood upon your

patience come hither my dear Hamlet sit

by me no good mother here's metal more

attractive to King Claudius oh that lady

shall I lie in your lap no my lord I

mean my head upon your lap I my lord do

you think I meant country matters I

think nothing my lord that's a fair

thought to lie between me

legs what is my lord nothing you are

Mary my lord who I I my lord oh god

you're only jig maker what should a man

do but be merry for look you how

cheerfully my mother looks and my father

died within these two hours nay tis

twice two months my lord

so long nay then let the devil wear

black for I'll have a suit of stables oh

heavens died two months ago and not

forgotten yet then there's hope a great

man's memory may outlive his life half a

year but by a lady he must build

churches then or else shall he suffer

not thinking on with the hobbyhorse

who's epitaph is 404 oh the hobbyhorse

is forgot how to eyes play the dumb show

enters enter a king and a queen very

lovingly the Queen embracing him and he

her she kneels and makes show of

protestation unto him he takes her up

and declines his head upon her neck lays

him down upon a bank of flowers she

seeing him asleep leaves him anon comes

in a fellow takes off his crown kisses

it and pours poison in the Kings ears

and exit the Queen returns

finds the King dead and makes passionate

action the poisoner with some two or

three mutes comes in again seeming to

lament with her the dead body is carried

away the poisoner Woo's the Queen with

gifts

she seems loath and unwilling a while

but in the end accepts his love

excellent what means this my lord Mary

this is me ching malik oh it means

mischief be like this show imports the

argument of the play enter prologue we

shall know by this fellow the players

cannot keep counsel they'll tell all

will he tell us what the show meant

I or any show that you'll show him be

not you ashamed to show he'll not shame

to tell you what it means you are not

you are not all mark the play for us and

for our tragedy here stooping to your

clemency we beg your hearing patiently

exit is this a prologue or the posy of a

ring tis brief my lord as woman's love

enter two players king and queen full

thirty times have Phoebus cart gone

round Neptune salt wash and tellus orbit

ground and 30 dozen moons with borrowed

Sheen about the world half times twelve

thirties beam since love our hearts and

hymen did our hands unite commute Yule

in most sacred bands so many journeys

may the Sun and Moon make us again count

or our love be done but what was me you

are so sick of late so far from cheer

and from your former state that I just

trust you yet though I distrust

discomfort you my lord

it's nothing must for woman's fear and

love holds quantity in neither art nor

in extremity

now what my love is proof hath made you

know and as my love is sighs my fear is

so where love is great the littlest

doubts are fear where little fears grow

great great love grows their faith I

must leave the love and shortly to my

operant powers their functions leave to

do and thou shalt live in this fair

world behind honored beloved and happily

one as kind for husband shalt thou who

can't found the rest such love must

needs be treason in my breast in second

husband let me be accurst none where'd

the second but who killed the first

wormwood wormwood the instances that

second marriage move our base

specs of thrift but none of love a

second time I kill my husband dead when

second husband kisses me in bed I do

believe you think what now you speak but

what we do determine oft we break

purpose is but the slave to memory a

violent birth but poor validity which

now like fruit unripe sticks on the tree

but fall on shaken when they mellow be

most necessary tis that we forget to pay

ourselves what to ourselves is debt what

to ourselves in passion we propose the

passion ending Duff the purpose lose the

violence of either grief or joy their

own enactors with themselves destroy

where joy most revels grief doth most

lament grief Joy's joy grieves on

slender accident this world is not for

aye nor tis not strange that even our

love's should with our fortunes change

for tis a question left us yet to prove

whether love lead fortune or else

fortune love the great man down you mark

his favorite flies the poor advanced

makes friends of enemies and hither to

death love on Fortune tend for who not

needs shall never lack a friend and who

in want a hollow friend doth try

directly seasons him his enemy but

orderly to end where I begun our wills

and fates do so contrary run that our

devices still are overthrown our

thoughts are ours their ends

none of our own so think thou wilt know

second husband Wed but died thy thoughts

when thy first Lord is dead no earth to

me give food no heaven light sport and

repose lock from me day and night to

desperation turn my trust and hope and

anchors cheer in prison be my scope

each opposite that blanks the face of

joy meet what I would have well and it

destroy both here and hence pursue me

lasting strife if once a widow ever I be

wife if she should break it now it is

deeply sworn sweet leave me here a while

my spirits grow dull and fain I would

beguile the tedious day with sleep sleep

Rock thy brain and never come miss

chance between us Twain exit madam how

like you this play the lady protests too

much methinks

oh but she'll keep her word have you

heard the argument is there no offense

and no no they do but jest poison ingest

no offence of the world what do you call

the play the mousetrap

Mary how tropically this play is the

image of a murder done in Vienna Gonzaga

is the Dukes name his wife

Baptista you shall see anon tis a

knavish piece of work but what are that

your majesty and we that have free Souls

it touches us not let the gold jade

wince our withers are on rung enter Lucy

honest this is one Lucy honest nephew to

the king you are as good as a chorus my

lord I could interpret between you and

your love if I could see the puppets

dallying you are king my lord you are

keen it would cost you a groaning to

take off my edge

still better and worse so you must take

your husband's begin murderer pox leave

thy damnable faces and begin come the

croaking Raven doth bellow for revenge

thoughts black hands apt drugs fit and

time agreeing Confederate season else no

creature seeing the mixture rank of

midnight weeds collected with Hecate ban

thrice blasted thrice infected thy

natural magic and dire property

on wholesome life usurp immediately

pours the poison into the sleepers ears

he poisons him in the garden for his

estate

his name's Gonzago the story is extant

and written choice Italian you shall see

anon how the murderer gets the love of

Gonzaga's wife the King Rises what

frighted with false fire how fares my

lord you go all the play give me some

light away exeunt all but Hamlet and

Horatio why let the stricken deer go

weep the heart on garland play for some

must watch while some must sleep so runs

the world away with not this sir and a

forest of feathers if the rest of my

fortunes turn Turk with me with two

provincial roses on my raised shoes

give me a fellowship in a cry of players

sir half a share a whole one eye for

that a snow Oh Damon dear this realm

dismantled was of jove himself and now

reigns here a very dairy page jacques

you might have rhymed o good Horatio

I'll take the ghosts word for a thousand

pound didst perceive very well my lord

upon the talk of the poisoning I did

very well note him aha come some music

come the recorders first the King liked

not the comedy why then belike he likes

it not Purdy come some music reenter

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

good my lord vouchsafe me a word with

you sir

a whole history the King sir I sir what

of him is in his retirement marvelous

distempered

with drink sir no my lord

rather with color your wisdom should

show itself more richer to signify this

to his doctor for for me to put him to

his predation would perhaps plunge him

into far more collar

good my lord put your discourse into

some frame and start not so wildly from

my affair I am tame sir pronounced the

queen your mother in most great Affleck

enough spirit hath sent me to you you

are welcome nay good my lord this

courtesy is not of the right breed if it

shall please you to make me a wholesome

answer I will do your mother's

commandment if not your pardon and my

return shall be the end of my business

sir I cannot what my lord make you a

wholesome answer my wits diseased but

Sir such answers I can make you shall

command or rather as you say my mother

therefore no more but to the matter my

mother you say then thus she says your

behavior has struck her into amazement

and admiration Oh wonderful son that can

so astonish a mother but is there no

sequel at the heels of this mother's

admiration in part she desires to speak

with you in our closet there you go to

bed we shall obey where she 10 times our

mother have you any further trade with

us my lord you once did love me so I do

still buy these pickers and stealers

good my lord what is your cause of

distemper you do surely bar the door

upon your own liberty if you deny your

griefs to your friend sir I lack

advancement how can that be when you

have the voice of the king himself for

your succession in Denmark I but sir

while the grass grows the proverb is

something musty re-enter players with

recorders oh the recorders let me see

one to withdraw with you why do you go

about to recover the wind of me as if

you would drive me into a toil oh my

lord if my duty be to bold my love

its to one man early I do not well

understand that will you play upon this

pipe my lord I cannot I pray you believe

me I cannot I do beseech you I know no

touch of it my lord

tis as easy as lying govern these

vintages with your fingers and thumb

give it breath with your mouth and it

will discourse most eloquent music look

you these are the stops but these I

cannot command to any utter

of harmony I have not the skill why look

you now how unworthy a thing you make of

me you would play upon me you would seem

to know my stops you would pluck out the

heart of my mystery you would sound me

from my lowest note to the top of my

compass and there is much music

excellent voice in this little organ yet

cannot you make it speak splud do you

think I am easier to be played on than a

pipe call me what instruments you will

though you can fret me yet you cannot

play upon me enter Polonius god bless

you sir my lord the Queen would speak

with you and present layers

do you see yonder cloud that's almost in

shape of a camel by the mass ant is like

a camel indeed methinks it is like a

weasel it is like a weasel or like a

whale very like a whale then I will come

to my mother by and by they fool me to

the top of my bent I will come by and by

I will say sir by and by is easily said

exit Polonius leave me friends exeunt

all but Hamlet tis now the very witching

time of night when churchyards yawn and

Hell itself breathes out contagion to

this world now could I drink hot blood

and do such bitter business as the day

would quake to look on soft now to my

mother

Oh heart lose not by Nature let not ever

the soul of Nero enter this firm bosom

let me be cruel not unnatural

I will speak daggers to her but use none

my tongue and soul in this be hypocrites

how in my words so ever she be shent

to give them seals never my soul consent

exit scene 3 a room in the castle enter

King Claudius Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern I like him not nor stand

it's safe with us to let his madness

range

therefore prepare you I your Commission

will forthwith dispatch

and he to England shall along with you

the terms of our state may not endure

hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow

out of his lunacies we will ourselves

provide most holy and religious fear it

is to keep those many many bodies safe

that live and feed upon your majesty the

single and peculiar life is bound with

all the strength and armour of the mind

to keep itself from noise but much more

that spirit upon whose weal depend and

rest the lives of many the cease of

majesty dies not alone but like a gulf

does it draw what's near it with it it

is a massy wheel fixed on the summit of

the highest mount to use huge spokes ten

thousand lesser things are more de stand

joined which when it falls

each small annex mitt petty consequence

attends the boisterous ruin never alone

did the King say but with general groan

arm you I pray you to this speedy voyage

for we will fetters put upon this fear

which now goes to free footed we will

leave us exeunt Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern enter Polonius my lord he's

going to his mother's closet behind the

Arras I'll convey myself to here are the

process and warrant sure tax him home

and as you said and wisely was it said

tis meat that some more audience than a

mother since nature makes impartial

should overhear the speech advantage

fare you well my liege

I'll call upon you ere you go to bed and

tell you what I know thanks dear my lord

exit Polonius oh my offense is rank it

smells to heaven it hath the primal

eldest curse upon't a brother's murder

pray can I not though inclination be as

sharp as will my stronger guilt defeats

my strong intent and like a man to

double business found I stand in pause

where I

first begin and both neglect what if

this curse at hand was thicker than

itself with brother's blood his there

not rain enough in the sweet heavens to

wash it white as snow where to serves

mercy but to confront the village of

offense and what's in prayer but this

twofold force to be forced all dare we

come to fall or pardoned being down then

I look up my fault is past but oh what

form of Prayer can serve my turn

forgive me my foul murder that cannot be

since I am still possessed of those

effects for which I did the murder

my crown mine own ambition and my queen

may one be pardoned and retained the

offense in the corrupted currents of

this world offenses gilded hand may

shove by justice and oft his scene the

wicked prize itself buys out the law but

is not so above there is no shuffling

there the action lies in his true nature

and we ourselves compelled even to the

teeth and forehead of our faults to give

in evidence what then what rests try

what repentance can what can it not yet

what can it when one cannot repent o

wretched state o bosom black as death

hole I midsole that struggling to be

free art more engaged help angels make

us a bow stubborn knees and heart with

strings of steel be soft as sinews of

the newborn babe all may be well

retires and Neil's enter Hamlet now

might I do it Pat now he is praying and

now I'll do it

and so he goes to heaven and so am i

revenged that would be scanned a villain

kills my father and for that I his sole

son do this same villain send to heaven

well this is higher in salary not

revenge he took my father grossly full

of bread with all his crimes broad blown

as flesh as May and how his audit stands

who knows save heaven but in our

circumstance and course of thought his

heavy with him and am I then revenged to

take him in the purging of his soul when

he is fit and seasoned for his passage

no up sword and no thou a more horrid

hent when he is drunk asleep or in his

rage or in the incestuous pleasure of

his bed at gaming swearing or about some

apps that has no relish of salvation int

then trip him that his heels make kick

at heaven and that his soul may be as

damned and black as hell whereto it goes

my mother stays this physic but prolongs

nice sickly days exit rising my words

fly up my thoughts remain below words

without thoughts never to heaven go exit

scene for the Queen's closet enter Queen

Gertrude and Polonius he will come

straight look you lay home to him tell

him his pranks have been too broad to

bear with and that your grace had

screened and stood between much heat in

him I'm sconce me even here pray you be

round with him within mother mother

mother I warrant you fear me not

withdraw I hear him

coming Polonius hides behind the Arras

enter Hamlet now mother what's the

matter Hamlet thou hast thy father much

offended mother you have my father much

offended come come you answer with an

idle tongue Go Go you question with a

wicked tongue why how now Hamlet what's

the matter now have you forgot me no by

the Rood not so you are the Queen your

husband's brother's wife and would it

were not so you are my mother

nay then I'll set those to you that can

speak come come and sit you down you

shall not budge you go not till I set

you up a glass where you may see the

inmost part of you what wilt thou do

that would not murder me help help ho

behind what drawing how now a rat dead

for a Duquette dead makes a pass through

the Arras falls and dies Oh nay I know

not is it the king oh what a ration but

it did is this a bloody deed almost as

bad good mother as kill a king and marry

with his brother Eskew a king i lady

twas my word lift up the heiress and

discovers Polonius thou wretched rash

intruding fool farewell

I took thee for thy better take my

fortune though fights to be to busy is

some danger leave wringing of your hands

peace sit you down and let me wring your

heart for so I shall if it be made of

penetrable stuff

if damned need custom have not brassed

it so that it is proof and bulwark

against sense what have I done that thou

darest wag thy tongue in noise so rude

against me such an act that blurs the

Grace and blush of modesty call

virtue hypocrite takes off the roads

from the fair forehead of an innocent

love and sets a blister there makes

marriage vows as false as Dicers oaths

Oh such a deed as from the body of

contraction plucks the very soul and

sweet religion makes a Rhapsody of words

heavens face doth glow yay this solidity

and compound mass with tryst foliage as

against the doom is thought sick at the

act I me what act that roars so loud and

thunders in the index look here upon

this picture and on this the counterfeit

presentment of two brothers see what a

grace was seated on this brow

Hyperion's curls the front of jove

himself an eye like mars to threaten and

command a station like the herald

mercury new lighted on a heaven kissing

hill a combination and a form indeed

where every God did seemed to set his

seal to give the world Assurance of a

man this was your husband look you now

what follows here is your husband like a

mildewed ear blasting his wholesome

brother have you eyes could you on this

fair Mountain leave to feed and batten

on this Moor have you eyes you cannot

call it love

first your age the heyday in the blood

is tame its humble and waits upon the

judgment and what judgment would step

from this to this sense sure you have

else could you not have motion but sure

that sense is a perplexed from madness

would not air nor sense to ecstasy was

near so thrilled but it reserved some

quantity of choice to serve in such a

difference

what devil wast that thus have cousin

dyou at Hoodman blind eyes without

feeling feeling without sight ears

without hands or eyes smelling sands all

or but a sickly part of one true sense

could not so mope Oh shame where is thy

blush rebellious hell if thou canst

mutant in a matrons bones too

leeming youth let virtue be as wax and

melt in her own fire proclaim no shame

when the compulsive ardor gives the

charge since frost itself is actively

doth burn and reason panders will Oh

Hamlet speak no more though turnest mine

eyes into my very soul and there I see

such black and grained spots as will not

leave their tinct nay but to live in the

ranks sweat of an inseam in bed stood in

corruption honeying and making love over

the nasty sty Oh speak to me no more

these words like daggers enter in mine

ears no more sweet Hamlet a murderer and

a villain a slave that is not twentieth

part the tithe of your precedent Lord a

vice of Kings a cut purse of the Empire

and the rule that from a shelf the

precious diadem stole and put it in his

pocket no more a king of shreds and

patches enter ghosts save me and hover

o'er me with your wings You Heavenly

guards

what would your gracious figure alas

he's mad do not you come your tardy son

to chide that lapsed in time and passion

let's go by the important acting of your

dread command o say do not forget this

visitation is but to whet thy almost

blunted purpose but look amazement on