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| <H3>SCENE II. A room of state in the castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET, POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, and Attendants</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1>Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>The memory be green, and that it us befitted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>To be contracted in one brow of woe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>That we with wisest sorrow think on him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Together with remembrance of ourselves.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>The imperial jointress to this warlike state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>With an auspicious and a dropping eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>With this affair along. For all, our thanks.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Holding a weak supposal of our worth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Or thinking by our late dear brother's death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Importing the surrender of those lands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>To our most valiant brother. So much for him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Thus much the business is: we have here writ</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>His further gait herein; in that the levies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>The lists and full proportions, are all made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>Out of his subject: and we here dispatch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Giving to you no further personal power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>To business with the king, more than the scope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Of these delated articles allow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CORNELIUS</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>VOLTIMAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=40>In that and all things will we show our duty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=41>We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=42>And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>The head is not more native to the heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>The hand more instrumental to the mouth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>What wouldst thou have, Laertes?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=51>My dread lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Your leave and favour to return to France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>To show my duty in your coronation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=58>Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LORD POLONIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=59>He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>By laboursome petition, and at last</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>I do beseech you, give him leave to go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=63>Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>And thy best graces spend it at thy will!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=66>[Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=67>How is it that the clouds still hang on you?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=68>Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=69>Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>Do not for ever with thy vailed lids</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>Seek for thy noble father in the dust:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>Passing through nature to eternity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=75>Ay, madam, it is common.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=76>If it be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>Why seems it so particular with thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=78>Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>Nor customary suits of solemn black,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>For they are actions that a man might play:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>But I have that within which passeth show;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>These but the trappings and the suits of woe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=89>'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>To give these mourning duties to your father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>But, you must know, your father lost a father;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=93>In filial obligation for some term</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>In obstinate condolement is a course</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>An understanding simple and unschool'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>For what we know must be and is as common</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>As any the most vulgar thing to sense,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>Why should we in our peevish opposition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>To reason most absurd: whose common theme</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>From the first corse till he that died to-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>This unprevailing woe, and think of us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>As of a father: for let the world take note,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>You are the most immediate to our throne;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>And with no less nobility of love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>Than that which dearest father bears his son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>Do I impart toward you. For your intent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=115>In going back to school in Wittenberg,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>It is most retrograde to our desire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>And we beseech you, bend you to remain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=120>Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=121>I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=122>I shall in all my best obey you, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=123>Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=126>Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>And the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but HAMLET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=131>O, that this too too solid flesh would melt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=132>Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=134>His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=135>How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=136>Seem to me all the uses of this world!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=137>Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=138>That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=139>Possess it merely. That it should come to this!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=140>But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>So excellent a king; that was, to this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=143>That he might not beteem the winds of heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=144>Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=145>Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=146>As if increase of appetite had grown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=147>By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=149>A little month, or ere those shoes were old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=150>With which she follow'd my poor father's body,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=151>Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=152>O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=153>Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=154>My father's brother, but no more like my father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=155>Than I to Hercules: within a month:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=156>Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=157>Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=158>She married. O, most wicked speed, to post</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=159>With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=160>It is not nor it cannot come to good:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=161>But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=162>Hail to your lordship!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=163>I am glad to see you well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=164>Horatio,--or I do forget myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=165>The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=166>Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=167>And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MARCELLUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=168>My good lord--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=169>I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=170>But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=171>A truant disposition, good my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=172>I would not hear your enemy say so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=173>Nor shall you do mine ear that violence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=174>To make it truster of your own report</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=175>Against yourself: I know you are no truant.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=176>But what is your affair in Elsinore?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=177>We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=178>My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=179>I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=180>I think it was to see my mother's wedding.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=181>Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=182>Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=183>Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=184>Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=185>Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=186>My father!--methinks I see my father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=187>Where, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=188> In my mind's eye, Horatio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=189>I saw him once; he was a goodly king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=190>He was a man, take him for all in all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=191>I shall not look upon his like again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=192>My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=193>Saw? who?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=194>My lord, the king your father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=195>The king my father!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=196>Season your admiration for awhile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=197>With an attent ear, till I may deliver,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=198>Upon the witness of these gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=199>This marvel to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=200>For God's love, let me hear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=201>Two nights together had these gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=202>Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=203>In the dead vast and middle of the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=204>Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=205>Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=206>Appears before them, and with solemn march</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=207>Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=208>By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=209>Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distilled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=210>Almost to jelly with the act of fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=211>Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=212>In dreadful secrecy impart they did;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=213>And I with them the third night kept the watch;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=214>Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=215>Form of the thing, each word made true and good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=216>The apparition comes: I knew your father;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=217>These hands are not more like.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=218>But where was this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MARCELLUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=219>My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=220>Did you not speak to it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=221>My lord, I did;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=222>But answer made it none: yet once methought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=223>It lifted up its head and did address</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=224>Itself to motion, like as it would speak;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=225>But even then the morning cock crew loud,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=226>And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=227>And vanish'd from our sight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=228>'Tis very strange.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=229>As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=230>And we did think it writ down in our duty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=231>To let you know of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=232>Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=233>Hold you the watch to-night?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>MARCELLUS</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>BERNARDO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=234>We do, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=235>Arm'd, say you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MARCELLUS</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BERNARDO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=236>Arm'd, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=237>From top to toe?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>MARCELLUS</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>BERNARDO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=238>My lord, from head to foot.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech59><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=239>Then saw you not his face?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=240>O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=241>What, look'd he frowningly?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=242>A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=243>Pale or red?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=244>Nay, very pale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=245> And fix'd his eyes upon you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=246>Most constantly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=247> I would I had been there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=248>It would have much amazed you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=249>Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=250>While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>MARCELLUS</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>BERNARDO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=251>Longer, longer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=252>Not when I saw't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=253> His beard was grizzled--no?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=254>It was, as I have seen it in his life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=255>A sable silver'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=256> I will watch to-night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=257>Perchance 'twill walk again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=258>I warrant it will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=259>If it assume my noble father's person,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=260>I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=261>And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=262>If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=263>Let it be tenable in your silence still;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=264>And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=265>Give it an understanding, but no tongue:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=266>I will requite your loves. So, fare you well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=267>Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=268>I'll visit you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=269> Our duty to your honour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>HAMLET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=270>Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but HAMLET</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=271>My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=272>I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=273>Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=274>Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
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