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| <H3>SCENE V. Elsinore. A room in the castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE, HORATIO, and a Gentleman</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1>I will not speak with her.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2>She is importunate, indeed distract:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Her mood will needs be pitied.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4>What would she have?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5>She speaks much of her father; says she hears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Yet the unshaped use of it doth move</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>The hearers to collection; they aim at it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>yield them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Indeed would make one think there might be thought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HORATIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=16>'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=18>Let her come in.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit HORATIO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=19>To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>So full of artless jealousy is guilt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter HORATIO, with OPHELIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=23>Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=24>How now, Ophelia!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=25>[Sings]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>How should I your true love know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>From another one?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>By his cockle hat and staff,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>And his sandal shoon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=30>Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=31>Say you? nay, pray you, mark.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=32>He is dead and gone, lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>He is dead and gone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>At his head a grass-green turf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>At his heels a stone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=36>Nay, but, Ophelia,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=37>Pray you, mark.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=38>White his shroud as the mountain snow,--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING CLAUDIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=39>Alas, look here, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=40>[Sings]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>Larded with sweet flowers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Which bewept to the grave did go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>With true-love showers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=44>How do you, pretty lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=45>Well, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a baker's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>what we may be. God be at your table!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=48>Conceit upon her father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=49>Pray you, let's have no words of this; but when they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>ask you what it means, say you this:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=51>To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>All in the morning betime,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>And I a maid at your window,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>To be your Valentine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>And dupp'd the chamber-door;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Let in the maid, that out a maid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>Never departed more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=59>Pretty Ophelia!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=60>Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=61>By Gis and by Saint Charity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>Alack, and fie for shame!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>Young men will do't, if they come to't;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>By cock, they are to blame.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>Quoth she, before you tumbled me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>You promised me to wed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>An thou hadst not come to my bed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=69>How long hath she been thus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=70>I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>good night, good night.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=76>Follow her close; give her good watch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>I pray you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit HORATIO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=78>O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>When sorrows come, they come not single spies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>But in battalions. First, her father slain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>Next, your son gone; and he most violent author</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>Of his own just remove: the people muddied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>Divided from herself and her fair judgment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>Last, and as much containing as all these,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>Her brother is in secret come from France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>And wants not buzzers to infect his ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=93>With pestilent speeches of his father's death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>Will nothing stick our person to arraign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>Like to a murdering-piece, in many places</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>Gives me superfluous death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A noise within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=99>Alack, what noise is this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=100>Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter another Gentleman</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=101>What is the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=102>Save yourself, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>The ocean, overpeering of his list,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>And, as the world were now but to begin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>Antiquity forgot, custom not known,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>The ratifiers and props of every word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>They cry 'Choose we: Laertes shall be king:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=113>How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=115>The doors are broke.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Noise within</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter LAERTES, armed; Danes following</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=116>Where is this king? Sirs, stand you all without.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Danes</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=117>No, let's come in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=118> I pray you, give me leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Danes</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=119>We will, we will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They retire without the door</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=120>I thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=121>Give me my father!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=122> Calmly, good Laertes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=123>That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=126>Of my true mother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=127> What is the cause, Laertes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>There's such divinity doth hedge a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=131>That treason can but peep to what it would,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=132>Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>Why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=134>Speak, man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=135>Where is my father?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=136>Dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>QUEEN GERTRUDE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=137>But not by him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=138>Let him demand his fill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=139>How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=140>To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>I dare damnation. To this point I stand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=143>That both the worlds I give to negligence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=144>Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=145>Most thoroughly for my father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=146>Who shall stay you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=147>My will, not all the world:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>And for my means, I'll husband them so well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=149>They shall go far with little.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=150>Good Laertes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=151>If you desire to know the certainty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=152>Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=153>That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=154>Winner and loser?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=155>None but his enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=156>Will you know them then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=157>To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=158>And like the kind life-rendering pelican,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=159>Repast them with my blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=160>Why, now you speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=161>Like a good child and a true gentleman.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=162>That I am guiltless of your father's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=163>And am most sensible in grief for it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=164>It shall as level to your judgment pierce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=165>As day does to your eye.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>Danes</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=166>[Within] Let her come in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=167>How now! what noise is that?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter OPHELIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=168>O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=169>Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=170>By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=171>Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=172>Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=173>O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=174>Should be as moral as an old man's life?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=175>Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=176>It sends some precious instance of itself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=177>After the thing it loves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=178>[Sings]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=179>They bore him barefaced on the bier;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=180>Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=181>And in his grave rain'd many a tear:--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=182>Fare you well, my dove!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=183>Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=184>It could not move thus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=185>[Sings]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=186>You must sing a-down a-down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=187>An you call him a-down-a.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=188>O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=189>steward, that stole his master's daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=190>This nothing's more than matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=191>There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=192>love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=193>A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=194>There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=195>for you; and here's some for me: we may call it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=196>herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=197>a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=198>some violets, but they withered all when my father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=199>died: they say he made a good end,--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=200>For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=201>Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=202>She turns to favour and to prettiness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>OPHELIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=203>[Sings]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=204>And will he not come again?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=205>And will he not come again?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=206>No, no, he is dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=207>Go to thy death-bed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=208>He never will come again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=209>His beard was as white as snow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=210>All flaxen was his poll:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=211>He is gone, he is gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=212>And we cast away moan:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=213>God ha' mercy on his soul!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=214>And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' ye.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=215>Do you see this, O God?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=216>Laertes, I must commune with your grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=217>Or you deny me right. Go but apart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=218>Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=219>And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=220>If by direct or by collateral hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=221>They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=222>Our crown, our life, and all that we can ours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=223>To you in satisfaction; but if not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=224>Be you content to lend your patience to us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=225>And we shall jointly labour with your soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=226>To give it due content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>LAERTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=227>Let this be so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=228>His means of death, his obscure funeral--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=229>No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=230>No noble rite nor formal ostentation--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=231>Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=232>That I must call't in question.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>KING CLAUDIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=233>So you shall;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=234>And where the offence is let the great axe fall.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=235>I pray you, go with me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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