hamlet@0 HAMLET hamlet@8 hamlet@9 hamlet@10 DRAMATIS PERSONAE hamlet@29 hamlet@30 hamlet@31 CLAUDIUS king of Denmark. (KING CLAUDIUS:) hamlet@74 hamlet@75 HAMLET son to the late, and nephew to the present king. hamlet@131 hamlet@132 POLONIUS lord chamberlain. (LORD POLONIUS:) hamlet@176 hamlet@177 HORATIO friend to Hamlet. hamlet@203 hamlet@204 LAERTES son to Polonius. hamlet@229 hamlet@230 LUCIANUS nephew to the king. hamlet@259 hamlet@260 hamlet@261 VOLTIMAND | hamlet@273 | hamlet@276 CORNELIUS | hamlet@288 | hamlet@291 ROSENCRANTZ | courtiers. hamlet@317 | hamlet@320 GUILDENSTERN | hamlet@335 | hamlet@338 OSRIC | hamlet@346 hamlet@347 hamlet@348 A Gentleman, (Gentlemen:) hamlet@375 hamlet@376 A Priest. (First Priest:) hamlet@403 hamlet@404 hamlet@405 MARCELLUS | hamlet@417 | officers. hamlet@431 BERNARDO | hamlet@442 hamlet@443 hamlet@444 FRANCISCO a soldier. hamlet@465 hamlet@466 REYNALDO servant to Polonius. hamlet@496 Players. hamlet@506 (First Player:) hamlet@523 (Player King:) hamlet@539 (Player Queen:) hamlet@556 hamlet@557 Two Clowns, grave-diggers. hamlet@585 (First Clown:) hamlet@601 (Second Clown:) hamlet@618 hamlet@619 FORTINBRAS prince of Norway. (PRINCE FORTINBRAS:) hamlet@669 hamlet@670 A Captain. hamlet@682 hamlet@683 English Ambassadors. (First Ambassador:) hamlet@725 hamlet@726 GERTRUDE queen of Denmark, and mother to Hamlet. hamlet@775 (QUEEN GERTRUDE:) hamlet@794 hamlet@795 OPHELIA daughter to Polonius. hamlet@825 hamlet@826 Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, hamlet@883 and other Attendants. (Lord:) hamlet@914 (First Sailor:) hamlet@931 (Messenger:) hamlet@945 hamlet@946 Ghost of Hamlet's Father. (Ghost:) hamlet@982 hamlet@983 hamlet@984 hamlet@985 SCENE Denmark. hamlet@1000 hamlet@1001 hamlet@1002 hamlet@1003 hamlet@1004 HAMLET hamlet@1012 hamlet@1013 hamlet@1014 ACT I hamlet@1020 hamlet@1021 hamlet@1022 hamlet@1023 SCENE I Elsinore. A platform before the castle. hamlet@1071 hamlet@1072 hamlet@1073 [FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO] hamlet@1121 hamlet@1122 BERNARDO Who's there? hamlet@1144 hamlet@1145 FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. hamlet@1199 hamlet@1200 BERNARDO Long live the king! hamlet@1229 hamlet@1230 FRANCISCO Bernardo? hamlet@1250 hamlet@1251 BERNARDO He. hamlet@1264 hamlet@1265 FRANCISCO You come most carefully upon your hour. hamlet@1315 hamlet@1316 BERNARDO 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco. hamlet@1377 hamlet@1378 FRANCISCO For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold, hamlet@1435 And I am sick at heart. hamlet@1460 hamlet@1461 BERNARDO Have you had quiet guard? hamlet@1496 hamlet@1497 FRANCISCO Not a mouse stirring. hamlet@1529 hamlet@1530 BERNARDO Well, good night. hamlet@1557 If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, hamlet@1596 The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. hamlet@1642 hamlet@1643 FRANCISCO I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there? hamlet@1698 hamlet@1699 [Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS] hamlet@1730 hamlet@1731 HORATIO Friends to this ground. hamlet@1763 hamlet@1764 MARCELLUS And liegemen to the Dane. hamlet@1800 hamlet@1801 FRANCISCO Give you good night. hamlet@1832 hamlet@1833 MARCELLUS O, farewell, honest soldier: hamlet@1872 Who hath relieved you? hamlet@1896 hamlet@1897 FRANCISCO Bernardo has my place. hamlet@1930 Give you good night. hamlet@1952 hamlet@1953 [Exit] hamlet@1961 hamlet@1962 MARCELLUS Holla! Bernardo! hamlet@1989 hamlet@1990 BERNARDO Say, hamlet@2004 What, is Horatio there? hamlet@2029 hamlet@2030 HORATIO A piece of him. hamlet@2054 hamlet@2055 BERNARDO Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. hamlet@2107 hamlet@2108 MARCELLUS What, has this thing appear'd again to-night? hamlet@2164 hamlet@2165 BERNARDO I have seen nothing. hamlet@2195 hamlet@2196 MARCELLUS Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, hamlet@2241 And will not let belief take hold of him hamlet@2283 Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: hamlet@2331 Therefore I have entreated him along hamlet@2369 With us to watch the minutes of this night; hamlet@2414 That if again this apparition come, hamlet@2451 He may approve our eyes and speak to it. hamlet@2493 hamlet@2494 HORATIO Tush, tush, 'twill not appear. hamlet@2533 hamlet@2534 BERNARDO Sit down awhile; hamlet@2560 And let us once again assail your ears, hamlet@2601 That are so fortified against our story hamlet@2642 What we have two nights seen. hamlet@2673 hamlet@2674 HORATIO Well, sit we down, hamlet@2701 And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. hamlet@2742 hamlet@2743 BERNARDO Last night of all, hamlet@2771 When yond same star that's westward from the pole hamlet@2822 Had made his course to illume that part of heaven hamlet@2873 Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, hamlet@2916 The bell then beating one,-- hamlet@2946 hamlet@2947 [Enter Ghost] hamlet@2962 hamlet@2963 MARCELLUS Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again! hamlet@3024 hamlet@3025 BERNARDO In the same figure, like the king that's dead. hamlet@3081 hamlet@3082 MARCELLUS Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. hamlet@3134 hamlet@3135 BERNARDO Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio. hamlet@3191 hamlet@3192 HORATIO Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder. hamlet@3247 hamlet@3248 BERNARDO It would be spoke to. hamlet@3279 hamlet@3280 MARCELLUS Question it, Horatio. hamlet@3312 hamlet@3313 HORATIO What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, hamlet@3369 Together with that fair and warlike form hamlet@3411 In which the majesty of buried Denmark hamlet@3451 Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak! hamlet@3505 hamlet@3506 MARCELLUS It is offended. hamlet@3532 hamlet@3533 BERNARDO See, it stalks away! hamlet@3581 hamlet@3582 HORATIO Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak! hamlet@3632 hamlet@3633 [Exit Ghost] hamlet@3647 hamlet@3648 MARCELLUS 'Tis gone, and will not answer. hamlet@3690 hamlet@3691 BERNARDO How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale: hamlet@3745 Is not this something more than fantasy? hamlet@3787 What think you on't? hamlet@3809 hamlet@3810 HORATIO Before my God, I might not this believe hamlet@3858 Without the sensible and true avouch hamlet@3896 Of mine own eyes. hamlet@3915 hamlet@3916 MARCELLUS Is it not like the king? hamlet@3969 hamlet@3970 HORATIO As thou art to thyself: hamlet@4002 Such was the very armour he had on hamlet@4038 When he the ambitious Norway combated; hamlet@4078 So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle, hamlet@4124 He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. hamlet@4166 'Tis strange. hamlet@4181 hamlet@4182 MARCELLUS Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, hamlet@4239 With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. hamlet@4286 hamlet@4287 HORATIO In what particular thought to work I know not; hamlet@4342 But in the gross and scope of my opinion, hamlet@4385 This bodes some strange eruption to our state. hamlet@4433 hamlet@4434 MARCELLUS Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows, hamlet@4492 Why this same strict and most observant watch hamlet@4539 So nightly toils the subject of the land, hamlet@4582 And why such daily cast of brazen cannon, hamlet@4625 And foreign mart for implements of war; hamlet@4666 Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task hamlet@4716 Does not divide the Sunday from the week; hamlet@4759 What might be toward, that this sweaty haste hamlet@4805 Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day: hamlet@4855 Who is't that can inform me? hamlet@4885 hamlet@4886 HORATIO That can I; hamlet@4906 At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, hamlet@4953 Whose image even but now appear'd to us, hamlet@4995 Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, hamlet@5039 Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride, hamlet@5084 Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet-- hamlet@5136 For so this side of our known world esteem'd him-- hamlet@5188 Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact, hamlet@5240 Well ratified by law and heraldry, hamlet@5276 Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands hamlet@5325 Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror: hamlet@5370 Against the which, a moiety competent hamlet@5409 Was gaged by our king; which had return'd hamlet@5452 To the inheritance of Fortinbras, hamlet@5487 Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant, hamlet@5538 And carriage of the article design'd, hamlet@5577 His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras, hamlet@5626 Of unimproved mettle hot and full, hamlet@5662 Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there hamlet@5707 Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes, hamlet@5748 For food and diet, to some enterprise hamlet@5787 That hath a stomach in't; which is no other-- hamlet@5834 As it doth well appear unto our state-- hamlet@5875 But to recover of us, by strong hand hamlet@5913 And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands hamlet@5959 So by his father lost: and this, I take it, hamlet@6004 Is the main motive of our preparations, hamlet@6045 The source of this our watch and the chief head hamlet@6094 Of this post-haste and romage in the land. hamlet@6138 hamlet@6139 BERNARDO I think it be no other but e'en so: hamlet@6184 Well may it sort that this portentous figure hamlet@6230 Comes armed through our watch; so like the king hamlet@6279 That was and is the question of these wars. hamlet@6324 hamlet@6325 HORATIO A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. hamlet@6373 In the most high and palmy state of Rome, hamlet@6416 A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, hamlet@6457 The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead hamlet@6507 Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: hamlet@6552 As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, hamlet@6601 Disasters in the sun; and the moist star hamlet@6643 Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands hamlet@6689 Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse: hamlet@6732 And even the like precurse of fierce events, hamlet@6778 As harbingers preceding still the fates hamlet@6819 And prologue to the omen coming on, hamlet@6856 Have heaven and earth together demonstrated hamlet@6901 Unto our climatures and countrymen.-- hamlet@6940 But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again! hamlet@6985 hamlet@6986 [Re-enter Ghost] hamlet@7004 hamlet@7005 I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion! hamlet@7057 If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, hamlet@7099 Speak to me: hamlet@7113 If there be any good thing to be done, hamlet@7153 That may to thee do ease and grace to me, hamlet@7196 Speak to me: hamlet@7210 hamlet@7211 [Cock crows] hamlet@7225 hamlet@7226 If thou art privy to thy country's fate, hamlet@7268 Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak! hamlet@7318 Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life hamlet@7357 Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, hamlet@7398 For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, hamlet@7451 Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus. hamlet@7502 hamlet@7503 MARCELLUS Shall I strike at it with my partisan? hamlet@7552 hamlet@7553 HORATIO Do, if it will not stand. hamlet@7587 hamlet@7588 BERNARDO 'Tis here! hamlet@7608 hamlet@7609 HORATIO 'Tis here! hamlet@7628 hamlet@7629 MARCELLUS 'Tis gone! hamlet@7650 hamlet@7651 [Exit Ghost] hamlet@7665 hamlet@7666 We do it wrong, being so majestical, hamlet@7704 To offer it the show of violence; hamlet@7739 For it is, as the air, invulnerable, hamlet@7777 And our vain blows malicious mockery. hamlet@7816 hamlet@7817 BERNARDO It was about to speak, when the cock crew. hamlet@7869 hamlet@7870 HORATIO And then it started like a guilty thing hamlet@7918 Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, hamlet@7957 The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, hamlet@8001 Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat hamlet@8049 Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, hamlet@8093 Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, hamlet@8135 The extravagant and erring spirit hies hamlet@8175 To his confine: and of the truth herein hamlet@8216 This present object made probation. hamlet@8253 hamlet@8254 MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. hamlet@8301 Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes hamlet@8347 Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, hamlet@8391 The bird of dawning singeth all night long: hamlet@8436 And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; hamlet@8486 The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, hamlet@8537 No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, hamlet@8585 So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. hamlet@8627 hamlet@8628 HORATIO So have I heard and do in part believe it. hamlet@8679 But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, hamlet@8724 Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill: hamlet@8771 Break we our watch up; and by my advice, hamlet@8813 Let us impart what we have seen to-night hamlet@8855 Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life, hamlet@8894 This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. hamlet@8939 Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it, hamlet@8986 As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? hamlet@9030 hamlet@9031 MARCELLUS Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know hamlet@9085 Where we shall find him most conveniently. hamlet@9129 hamlet@9130 [Exeunt] hamlet@9140 hamlet@9141 hamlet@9142 hamlet@9143 hamlet@9144 HAMLET hamlet@9152 hamlet@9153 hamlet@9154 ACT I hamlet@9160 hamlet@9161 hamlet@9162 hamlet@9163 SCENE II A room of state in the castle. hamlet@9203 hamlet@9204 hamlet@9205 [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET, hamlet@9252 POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, hamlet@9301 and Attendants] hamlet@9318 hamlet@9319 KING CLAUDIUS Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death hamlet@9379 The memory be green, and that it us befitted hamlet@9425 To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom hamlet@9476 To be contracted in one brow of woe, hamlet@9514 Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature hamlet@9561 That we with wisest sorrow think on him, hamlet@9603 Together with remembrance of ourselves. hamlet@9644 Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, hamlet@9691 The imperial jointress to this warlike state, hamlet@9738 Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,-- hamlet@9781 With an auspicious and a dropping eye, hamlet@9821 With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, hamlet@9872 In equal scale weighing delight and dole,-- hamlet@9917 Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd hamlet@9959 Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone hamlet@10004 With this affair along. For all, our thanks. hamlet@10050 Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras, hamlet@10097 Holding a weak supposal of our worth, hamlet@10136 Or thinking by our late dear brother's death hamlet@10182 Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, hamlet@10226 Colleagued with the dream of his advantage, hamlet@10271 He hath not fail'd to pester us with message, hamlet@10318 Importing the surrender of those lands hamlet@10358 Lost by his father, with all bonds of law, hamlet@10402 To our most valiant brother. So much for him. hamlet@10449 Now for ourself and for this time of meeting: hamlet@10496 Thus much the business is: we have here writ hamlet@10542 To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,-- hamlet@10583 Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears hamlet@10626 Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress hamlet@10670 His further gait herein; in that the levies, hamlet@10716 The lists and full proportions, are all made hamlet@10762 Out of his subject: and we here dispatch hamlet@10804 You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand, hamlet@10846 For bearers of this greeting to old Norway; hamlet@10891 Giving to you no further personal power hamlet@10932 To business with the king, more than the scope hamlet@10980 Of these delated articles allow. hamlet@11014 Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty. hamlet@11063 hamlet@11064 hamlet@11065 CORNELIUS | hamlet@11077 | In that and all things will we show our duty. hamlet@11127 VOLTIMAND | hamlet@11139 hamlet@11140 hamlet@11141 KING CLAUDIUS We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell. hamlet@11195 hamlet@11196 [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS] hamlet@11230 hamlet@11231 And now, Laertes, what's the news with you? hamlet@11276 You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes? hamlet@11323 You cannot speak of reason to the Dane, hamlet@11364 And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes, hamlet@11419 That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? hamlet@11464 The head is not more native to the heart, hamlet@11507 The hand more instrumental to the mouth, hamlet@11549 Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. hamlet@11595 What wouldst thou have, Laertes? hamlet@11629 hamlet@11630 LAERTES My dread lord, hamlet@11653 Your leave and favour to return to France; hamlet@11697 From whence though willingly I came to Denmark, hamlet@11746 To show my duty in your coronation, hamlet@11783 Yet now, I must confess, that duty done, hamlet@11825 My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France hamlet@11874 And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon. hamlet@11923 hamlet@11924 KING CLAUDIUS Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius? hamlet@11988 hamlet@11989 LORD POLONIUS He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave hamlet@12049 By laboursome petition, and at last hamlet@12086 Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent: hamlet@12127 I do beseech you, give him leave to go. hamlet@12168 hamlet@12169 KING CLAUDIUS Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, hamlet@12227 And thy best graces spend it at thy will! hamlet@12270 But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,-- hamlet@12312 hamlet@12313 HAMLET [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind. hamlet@12373 hamlet@12374 KING CLAUDIUS How is it that the clouds still hang on you? hamlet@12433 hamlet@12434 HAMLET Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. hamlet@12484 hamlet@12485 QUEEN GERTRUDE Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, hamlet@12542 And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. hamlet@12592 Do not for ever with thy vailed lids hamlet@12630 Seek for thy noble father in the dust: hamlet@12670 Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, hamlet@12722 Passing through nature to eternity. hamlet@12759 hamlet@12760 HAMLET Ay, madam, it is common. hamlet@12792 hamlet@12793 QUEEN GERTRUDE If it be, hamlet@12818 Why seems it so particular with thee? hamlet@12857 hamlet@12858 HAMLET Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.' hamlet@12910 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, hamlet@12954 Nor customary suits of solemn black, hamlet@12992 Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, hamlet@13033 No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, hamlet@13073 Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, hamlet@13114 Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, hamlet@13164 That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, hamlet@13210 For they are actions that a man might play: hamlet@13255 But I have that within which passeth show; hamlet@13299 These but the trappings and the suits of woe. hamlet@13346 hamlet@13347 KING CLAUDIUS 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, hamlet@13412 To give these mourning duties to your father: hamlet@13459 But, you must know, your father lost a father; hamlet@13507 That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound hamlet@13559 In filial obligation for some term hamlet@13595 To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever hamlet@13637 In obstinate condolement is a course hamlet@13675 Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief; hamlet@13721 It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, hamlet@13764 A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, hamlet@13804 An understanding simple and unschool'd: hamlet@13845 For what we know must be and is as common hamlet@13888 As any the most vulgar thing to sense, hamlet@13928 Why should we in our peevish opposition hamlet@13969 Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven, hamlet@14017 A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, hamlet@14063 To reason most absurd: whose common theme hamlet@14106 Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, hamlet@14154 From the first corse till he that died to-day, hamlet@14202 'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth hamlet@14250 This unprevailing woe, and think of us hamlet@14290 As of a father: for let the world take note, hamlet@14336 You are the most immediate to our throne; hamlet@14379 And with no less nobility of love hamlet@14414 Than that which dearest father bears his son, hamlet@14461 Do I impart toward you. For your intent hamlet@14502 In going back to school in Wittenberg, hamlet@14542 It is most retrograde to our desire: hamlet@14580 And we beseech you, bend you to remain hamlet@14620 Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, hamlet@14664 Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son. hamlet@14709 hamlet@14710 QUEEN GERTRUDE Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet: hamlet@14770 I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg. hamlet@14820 hamlet@14821 HAMLET I shall in all my best obey you, madam. hamlet@14868 hamlet@14869 KING CLAUDIUS Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply: hamlet@14920 Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come; hamlet@14960 This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet hamlet@15003 Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof, hamlet@15048 No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day, hamlet@15094 But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, hamlet@15142 And the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again, hamlet@15193 Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away. hamlet@15234 hamlet@15235 [Exeunt all but HAMLET] hamlet@15260 hamlet@15261 HAMLET O, that this too too solid flesh would melt hamlet@15312 Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! hamlet@15349 Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd hamlet@15388 His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! hamlet@15435 How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, hamlet@15477 Seem to me all the uses of this world! hamlet@15517 Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, hamlet@15561 That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature hamlet@15614 Possess it merely. That it should come to this! hamlet@15663 But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: hamlet@15712 So excellent a king; that was, to this, hamlet@15753 Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother hamlet@15798 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven hamlet@15844 Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! hamlet@15891 Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, hamlet@15937 As if increase of appetite had grown hamlet@15975 By what it fed on: and yet, within a month-- hamlet@16021 Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!-- hamlet@16075 A little month, or ere those shoes were old hamlet@16120 With which she follow'd my poor father's body, hamlet@16168 Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she-- hamlet@16213 O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, hamlet@16263 Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, hamlet@16314 My father's brother, but no more like my father hamlet@16363 Than I to Hercules: within a month: hamlet@16400 Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears hamlet@16444 Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, hamlet@16487 She married. O, most wicked speed, to post hamlet@16531 With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! hamlet@16574 It is not nor it cannot come to good: hamlet@16613 But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue. hamlet@16662 hamlet@16663 [Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO] hamlet@16705 hamlet@16706 HORATIO Hail to your lordship! hamlet@16737 hamlet@16738 HAMLET I am glad to see you well: hamlet@16772 Horatio,--or I do forget myself. hamlet@16806 hamlet@16807 HORATIO The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever. hamlet@16862 hamlet@16863 HAMLET Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you: hamlet@16923 And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus? hamlet@16979 hamlet@16980 MARCELLUS My good lord-- hamlet@17005 hamlet@17006 HAMLET I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir. hamlet@17056 But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg? hamlet@17103 hamlet@17104 HORATIO A truant disposition, good my lord. hamlet@17148 hamlet@17149 HAMLET I would not hear your enemy say so, hamlet@17192 Nor shall you do mine ear that violence, hamlet@17234 To make it truster of your own report hamlet@17273 Against yourself: I know you are no truant. hamlet@17318 But what is your affair in Elsinore? hamlet@17356 We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. hamlet@17403 hamlet@17404 HORATIO My lord, I came to see your father's funeral. hamlet@17458 hamlet@17459 HAMLET I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; hamlet@17511 I think it was to see my mother's wedding. hamlet@17555 hamlet@17556 HORATIO Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon. hamlet@17604 hamlet@17605 HAMLET Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats hamlet@17661 Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. hamlet@17708 Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven hamlet@17750 Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! hamlet@17789 My father!--methinks I see my father. hamlet@17828 hamlet@17829 HORATIO Where, my lord? hamlet@17853 hamlet@17854 HAMLET In my mind's eye, Horatio. hamlet@17906 hamlet@17907 HORATIO I saw him once; he was a goodly king. hamlet@17953 hamlet@17954 HAMLET He was a man, take him for all in all, hamlet@18000 I shall not look upon his like again. hamlet@18039 hamlet@18040 HORATIO My lord, I think I saw him yesternight. hamlet@18088 hamlet@18089 HAMLET Saw? who? hamlet@18106 hamlet@18107 HORATIO My lord, the king your father. hamlet@18146 hamlet@18147 HAMLET The king my father! hamlet@18174 hamlet@18175 HORATIO Season your admiration for awhile hamlet@18217 With an attent ear, till I may deliver, hamlet@18258 Upon the witness of these gentlemen, hamlet@18296 This marvel to you. hamlet@18317 hamlet@18318 HAMLET For God's love, let me hear. hamlet@18354 hamlet@18355 HORATIO Two nights together had these gentlemen, hamlet@18404 Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, hamlet@18445 In the dead vast and middle of the night, hamlet@18488 Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father, hamlet@18539 Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe, hamlet@18574 Appears before them, and with solemn march hamlet@18618 Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd hamlet@18667 By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes, hamlet@18712 Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distilled hamlet@18767 Almost to jelly with the act of fear, hamlet@18806 Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me hamlet@18851 In dreadful secrecy impart they did; hamlet@18889 And I with them the third night kept the watch; hamlet@18938 Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time, hamlet@18983 Form of the thing, each word made true and good, hamlet@19033 The apparition comes: I knew your father; hamlet@19076 These hands are not more like. hamlet@19108 hamlet@19109 HAMLET But where was this? hamlet@19136 hamlet@19137 MARCELLUS My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. hamlet@19192 hamlet@19193 HAMLET Did you not speak to it? hamlet@19225 hamlet@19226 HORATIO My lord, I did; hamlet@19250 But answer made it none: yet once methought hamlet@19295 It lifted up its head and did address hamlet@19334 Itself to motion, like as it would speak; hamlet@19377 But even then the morning cock crew loud, hamlet@19420 And at the sound it shrunk in haste away, hamlet@19463 And vanish'd from our sight. hamlet@19493 hamlet@19494 HAMLET 'Tis very strange. hamlet@19520 hamlet@19521 HORATIO As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true; hamlet@19572 And we did think it writ down in our duty hamlet@19615 To let you know of it. hamlet@19639 hamlet@19640 HAMLET Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me. hamlet@19691 Hold you the watch to-night? hamlet@19721 hamlet@19722 hamlet@19723 MARCELLUS | hamlet@19735 | We do, my lord. hamlet@19754 BERNARDO | hamlet@19765 hamlet@19766 hamlet@19767 HAMLET Arm'd, say you? hamlet@19790 hamlet@19791 hamlet@19792 MARCELLUS | hamlet@19804 | Arm'd, my lord. hamlet@19824 BERNARDO | hamlet@19835 hamlet@19836 hamlet@19837 HAMLET From top to toe? hamlet@19861 hamlet@19862 hamlet@19863 MARCELLUS | hamlet@19875 | My lord, from head to foot. hamlet@19918 BERNARDO | hamlet@19929 hamlet@19930 hamlet@19931 HAMLET Then saw you not his face? hamlet@19965 hamlet@19966 HORATIO O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up. hamlet@20014 hamlet@20015 HAMLET What, look'd he frowningly? hamlet@20050 hamlet@20051 HORATIO A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. hamlet@20103 hamlet@20104 HAMLET Pale or red? hamlet@20124 hamlet@20125 HORATIO Nay, very pale. hamlet@20149 hamlet@20150 HAMLET And fix'd his eyes upon you? hamlet@20204 hamlet@20205 HORATIO Most constantly. hamlet@20230 hamlet@20231 HAMLET I would I had been there. hamlet@20282 hamlet@20283 HORATIO It would have much amazed you. hamlet@20322 hamlet@20323 HAMLET Very like, very like. Stay'd it long? hamlet@20368 hamlet@20369 HORATIO While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. hamlet@20429 hamlet@20430 hamlet@20431 MARCELLUS | hamlet@20443 | Longer, longer. hamlet@20462 BERNARDO | hamlet@20473 hamlet@20474 hamlet@20475 HORATIO Not when I saw't. hamlet@20501 hamlet@20502 HAMLET His beard was grizzled--no? hamlet@20555 hamlet@20556 HORATIO It was, as I have seen it in his life, hamlet@20603 A sable silver'd. hamlet@20622 hamlet@20623 HAMLET I will watch to-night; hamlet@20671 Perchance 'twill walk again. hamlet@20701 hamlet@20702 HORATIO I warrant it will. hamlet@20729 hamlet@20730 HAMLET If it assume my noble father's person, hamlet@20776 I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape hamlet@20826 And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all, hamlet@20869 If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight, hamlet@20913 Let it be tenable in your silence still; hamlet@20955 And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, hamlet@20996 Give it an understanding, but no tongue: hamlet@21038 I will requite your loves. So, fare you well: hamlet@21085 Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve, hamlet@21131 I'll visit you. hamlet@21148 hamlet@21149 All Our duty to your honour. hamlet@21196 hamlet@21197 HAMLET Your loves, as mine to you: farewell. hamlet@21242 hamlet@21243 [Exeunt all but HAMLET] hamlet@21268 hamlet@21269 My father's spirit in arms! all is not well; hamlet@21315 I doubt some foul play: would the night were come! hamlet@21367 Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise, hamlet@21420 Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. hamlet@21473 hamlet@21474 [Exit] hamlet@21482 hamlet@21483 hamlet@21484 hamlet@21485 hamlet@21486 HAMLET hamlet@21494 hamlet@21495 hamlet@21496 ACT I hamlet@21502 hamlet@21503 hamlet@21504 hamlet@21505 SCENE III A room in Polonius' house. hamlet@21542 hamlet@21543 hamlet@21544 [Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA] hamlet@21573 hamlet@21574 LAERTES My necessaries are embark'd: farewell: hamlet@21621 And, sister, as the winds give benefit hamlet@21661 And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, hamlet@21701 But let me hear from you. hamlet@21728 hamlet@21729 OPHELIA Do you doubt that? hamlet@21756 hamlet@21757 LAERTES For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour, hamlet@21808 Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, hamlet@21847 A violet in the youth of primy nature, hamlet@21887 Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, hamlet@21932 The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more. hamlet@21982 hamlet@21983 OPHELIA No more but so? hamlet@22014 hamlet@22015 LAERTES Think it no more; hamlet@22041 For nature, crescent, does not grow alone hamlet@22084 In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes, hamlet@22131 The inward service of the mind and soul hamlet@22172 Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now, hamlet@22218 And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch hamlet@22260 The virtue of his will: but you must fear, hamlet@22304 His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; hamlet@22353 For he himself is subject to his birth: hamlet@22394 He may not, as unvalued persons do, hamlet@22431 Carve for himself; for on his choice depends hamlet@22477 The safety and health of this whole state; hamlet@22521 And therefore must his choice be circumscribed hamlet@22569 Unto the voice and yielding of that body hamlet@22611 Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you, hamlet@22666 It fits your wisdom so far to believe it hamlet@22708 As he in his particular act and place hamlet@22747 May give his saying deed; which is no further hamlet@22794 Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. hamlet@22839 Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, hamlet@22886 If with too credent ear you list his songs, hamlet@22931 Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open hamlet@22981 To his unmaster'd importunity. hamlet@23013 Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister, hamlet@23057 And keep you in the rear of your affection, hamlet@23102 Out of the shot and danger of desire. hamlet@23141 The chariest maid is prodigal enough, hamlet@23180 If she unmask her beauty to the moon: hamlet@23219 Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes: hamlet@23266 The canker galls the infants of the spring, hamlet@23311 Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, hamlet@23355 And in the morn and liquid dew of youth hamlet@23396 Contagious blastments are most imminent. hamlet@23438 Be wary then; best safety lies in fear: hamlet@23479 Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. hamlet@23527 hamlet@23528 OPHELIA I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, hamlet@23581 As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, hamlet@23629 Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, hamlet@23669 Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; hamlet@23714 Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, hamlet@23761 Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, hamlet@23809 And recks not his own rede. hamlet@23838 hamlet@23839 LAERTES O, fear me not. hamlet@23863 I stay too long: but here my father comes. hamlet@23907 hamlet@23908 [Enter POLONIUS] hamlet@23926 hamlet@23927 A double blessing is a double grace, hamlet@23965 Occasion smiles upon a second leave. hamlet@24003 hamlet@24004 LORD POLONIUS Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! hamlet@24064 The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, hamlet@24109 And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee! hamlet@24164 And these few precepts in thy memory hamlet@24202 See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, hamlet@24252 Nor any unproportioned thought his act. hamlet@24293 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. hamlet@24336 Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, hamlet@24388 Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; hamlet@24435 But do not dull thy palm with entertainment hamlet@24480 Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware hamlet@24528 Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, hamlet@24569 Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. hamlet@24614 Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; hamlet@24658 Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. hamlet@24710 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, hamlet@24750 But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; hamlet@24796 For the apparel oft proclaims the man, hamlet@24836 And they in France of the best rank and station hamlet@24885 Are of a most select and generous chief in that. hamlet@24935 Neither a borrower nor a lender be; hamlet@24972 For loan oft loses both itself and friend, hamlet@25016 And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. hamlet@25060 This above all: to thine ownself be true, hamlet@25103 And it must follow, as the night the day, hamlet@25146 Thou canst not then be false to any man. hamlet@25188 Farewell: my blessing season this in thee! hamlet@25232 hamlet@25233 LAERTES Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord. hamlet@25282 hamlet@25283 LORD POLONIUS The time invites you; go; your servants tend. hamlet@25343 hamlet@25344 LAERTES Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well hamlet@25389 What I have said to you. hamlet@25415 hamlet@25416 OPHELIA 'Tis in my memory lock'd, hamlet@25450 And you yourself shall keep the key of it. hamlet@25494 hamlet@25495 LAERTES Farewell. hamlet@25513 hamlet@25514 [Exit] hamlet@25522 hamlet@25523 LORD POLONIUS What is't, Ophelia, be hath said to you? hamlet@25578 hamlet@25579 OPHELIA So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet. hamlet@25638 hamlet@25639 LORD POLONIUS Marry, well bethought: hamlet@25676 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late hamlet@25716 Given private time to you; and you yourself hamlet@25761 Have of your audience been most free and bounteous: hamlet@25814 If it be so, as so 'tis put on me, hamlet@25850 And that in way of caution, I must tell you, hamlet@25896 You do not understand yourself so clearly hamlet@25939 As it behoves my daughter and your honour. hamlet@25983 What is between you? give me up the truth. hamlet@26027 hamlet@26028 OPHELIA He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders hamlet@26080 Of his affection to me. hamlet@26105 hamlet@26106 LORD POLONIUS Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl, hamlet@26166 Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. hamlet@26207 Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? hamlet@26254 hamlet@26255 OPHELIA I do not know, my lord, what I should think. hamlet@26308 hamlet@26309 LORD POLONIUS Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby; hamlet@26369 That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, hamlet@26418 Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly; hamlet@26472 Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, hamlet@26519 Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool. hamlet@26562 hamlet@26563 OPHELIA My lord, he hath importuned me with love hamlet@26612 In honourable fashion. hamlet@26636 hamlet@26637 LORD POLONIUS Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to. hamlet@26694 hamlet@26695 OPHELIA And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, hamlet@26754 With almost all the holy vows of heaven. hamlet@26796 hamlet@26797 LORD POLONIUS Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, hamlet@26855 When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul hamlet@26900 Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter, hamlet@26948 Giving more light than heat, extinct in both, hamlet@26995 Even in their promise, as it is a-making, hamlet@27038 You must not take for fire. From this time hamlet@27082 Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence; hamlet@27128 Set your entreatments at a higher rate hamlet@27168 Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet, hamlet@27212 Believe so much in him, that he is young hamlet@27254 And with a larger tether may he walk hamlet@27292 Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia, hamlet@27333 Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, hamlet@27381 Not of that dye which their investments show, hamlet@27428 But mere implorators of unholy suits, hamlet@27467 Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, hamlet@27511 The better to beguile. This is for all: hamlet@27552 I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, hamlet@27604 Have you so slander any moment leisure, hamlet@27645 As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. hamlet@27693 Look to't, I charge you: come your ways. hamlet@27735 hamlet@27736 OPHELIA I shall obey, my lord. hamlet@27767 hamlet@27768 [Exeunt] hamlet@27778 hamlet@27779 hamlet@27780 hamlet@27781 hamlet@27782 HAMLET hamlet@27790 hamlet@27791 hamlet@27792 ACT I hamlet@27798 hamlet@27799 hamlet@27800 hamlet@27801 SCENE IV The platform. hamlet@27824 hamlet@27825 hamlet@27826 [Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS] hamlet@27866 hamlet@27867 HAMLET The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. hamlet@27915 hamlet@27916 HORATIO It is a nipping and an eager air. hamlet@27958 hamlet@27959 HAMLET What hour now? hamlet@27981 hamlet@27982 HORATIO I think it lacks of twelve. hamlet@28036 hamlet@28037 HAMLET No, it is struck. hamlet@28062 hamlet@28063 HORATIO Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the season hamlet@28125 Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. hamlet@28168 hamlet@28169 [A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within] hamlet@28226 hamlet@28227 What does this mean, my lord? hamlet@28258 hamlet@28259 HAMLET The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, hamlet@28315 Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; hamlet@28367 And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, hamlet@28416 The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out hamlet@28459 The triumph of his pledge. hamlet@28487 hamlet@28488 HORATIO Is it a custom? hamlet@28512 hamlet@28513 HAMLET Ay, marry, is't: hamlet@28537 But to my mind, though I am native here hamlet@28578 And to the manner born, it is a custom hamlet@28618 More honour'd in the breach than the observance. hamlet@28668 This heavy-headed revel east and west hamlet@28707 Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations: hamlet@28754 They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase hamlet@28804 Soil our addition; and indeed it takes hamlet@28844 From our achievements, though perform'd at height, hamlet@28896 The pith and marrow of our attribute. hamlet@28935 So, oft it chances in particular men, hamlet@28974 That for some vicious mole of nature in them, hamlet@29021 As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty, hamlet@29071 Since nature cannot choose his origin-- hamlet@29112 By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, hamlet@29151 Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, hamlet@29201 Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens hamlet@29246 The form of plausive manners, that these men, hamlet@29293 Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, hamlet@29336 Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,-- hamlet@29381 Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace, hamlet@29428 As infinite as man may undergo-- hamlet@29462 Shall in the general censure take corruption hamlet@29508 From that particular fault: the dram of eale hamlet@29554 Doth all the noble substance of a doubt hamlet@29595 To his own scandal. hamlet@29616 hamlet@29617 HORATIO Look, my lord, it comes! hamlet@29650 hamlet@29651 [Enter Ghost] hamlet@29666 hamlet@29667 HAMLET Angels and ministers of grace defend us! hamlet@29715 Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, hamlet@29761 Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, hamlet@29816 Be thy intents wicked or charitable, hamlet@29854 Thou comest in such a questionable shape hamlet@29896 That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, hamlet@29947 King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me! hamlet@29988 Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell hamlet@30029 Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, hamlet@30073 Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, hamlet@30121 Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, hamlet@30159 Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, hamlet@30201 To cast thee up again. What may this mean, hamlet@30245 That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel hamlet@30293 Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, hamlet@30336 Making night hideous; and we fools of nature hamlet@30382 So horridly to shake our disposition hamlet@30420 With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? hamlet@30468 Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do? hamlet@30517 hamlet@30518 [Ghost beckons HAMLET] hamlet@30542 hamlet@30543 HORATIO It beckons you to go away with it, hamlet@30586 As if it some impartment did desire hamlet@30623 To you alone. hamlet@30638 hamlet@30639 MARCELLUS Look, with what courteous action hamlet@30700 It waves you to a more removed ground: hamlet@30740 But do not go with it. hamlet@30764 hamlet@30765 HORATIO No, by no means. hamlet@30790 hamlet@30791 HAMLET It will not speak; then I will follow it. hamlet@30840 hamlet@30841 HORATIO Do not, my lord. hamlet@30866 hamlet@30867 HAMLET Why, what should be the fear? hamlet@30922 I do not set my life in a pin's fee; hamlet@30960 And for my soul, what can it do to that, hamlet@31002 Being a thing immortal as itself? hamlet@31037 It waves me forth again: I'll follow it. hamlet@31079 hamlet@31080 HORATIO What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, hamlet@31136 Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff hamlet@31176 That beetles o'er his base into the sea, hamlet@31218 And there assume some other horrible form, hamlet@31262 Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason hamlet@31310 And draw you into madness? think of it: hamlet@31351 The very place puts toys of desperation, hamlet@31393 Without more motive, into every brain hamlet@31432 That looks so many fathoms to the sea hamlet@31471 And hears it roar beneath. hamlet@31499 hamlet@31500 HAMLET It waves me still. hamlet@31526 Go on; I'll follow thee. hamlet@31552 hamlet@31553 MARCELLUS You shall not go, my lord. hamlet@31590 hamlet@31591 HAMLET Hold off your hands. hamlet@31619 hamlet@31620 HORATIO Be ruled; you shall not go. hamlet@31656 hamlet@31657 HAMLET My fate cries out, hamlet@31683 And makes each petty artery in this body hamlet@31725 As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. hamlet@31763 Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen. hamlet@31805 By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me! hamlet@31856 I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee. hamlet@31895 hamlet@31896 [Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET] hamlet@31923 hamlet@31924 HORATIO He waxes desperate with imagination. hamlet@31969 hamlet@31970 MARCELLUS Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. hamlet@32025 hamlet@32026 HORATIO Have after. To what issue will this come? hamlet@32076 hamlet@32077 MARCELLUS Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. hamlet@32132 hamlet@32133 HORATIO Heaven will direct it. hamlet@32164 hamlet@32165 MARCELLUS Nay, let's follow him. hamlet@32198 hamlet@32199 [Exeunt] hamlet@32209 hamlet@32210 hamlet@32211 hamlet@32212 hamlet@32213 HAMLET hamlet@32221 hamlet@32222 hamlet@32223 ACT I hamlet@32229 hamlet@32230 hamlet@32231 hamlet@32232 SCENE V Another part of the platform. hamlet@32270 hamlet@32271 hamlet@32272 [Enter GHOST and HAMLET] hamlet@32298 hamlet@32299 HAMLET Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further. hamlet@32358 hamlet@32359 Ghost Mark me. hamlet@32374 hamlet@32375 HAMLET I will. hamlet@32397 hamlet@32398 Ghost My hour is almost come, hamlet@32446 When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames hamlet@32490 Must render up myself. hamlet@32514 hamlet@32515 HAMLET Alas, poor ghost! hamlet@32540 hamlet@32541 Ghost Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing hamlet@32589 To what I shall unfold. hamlet@32614 hamlet@32615 HAMLET Speak; I am bound to hear. hamlet@32649 hamlet@32650 Ghost So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. hamlet@32703 hamlet@32704 HAMLET What? hamlet@32717 hamlet@32718 Ghost I am thy father's spirit, hamlet@32750 Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, hamlet@32796 And for the day confined to fast in fires, hamlet@32840 Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature hamlet@32888 Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid hamlet@32937 To tell the secrets of my prison-house, hamlet@32978 I could a tale unfold whose lightest word hamlet@33021 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, hamlet@33072 Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, hamlet@33130 Thy knotted and combined locks to part hamlet@33170 And each particular hair to stand on end, hamlet@33213 Like quills upon the fretful porpentine: hamlet@33255 But this eternal blazon must not be hamlet@33292 To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! hamlet@33342 If thou didst ever thy dear father love-- hamlet@33385 hamlet@33386 HAMLET O God! hamlet@33400 hamlet@33401 Ghost Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. hamlet@33451 hamlet@33452 HAMLET Murder! hamlet@33467 hamlet@33468 Ghost Murder most foul, as in the best it is; hamlet@33514 But this most foul, strange and unnatural. hamlet@33558 hamlet@33559 HAMLET Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift hamlet@33614 As meditation or the thoughts of love, hamlet@33654 May sweep to my revenge. hamlet@33680 hamlet@33681 Ghost I find thee apt; hamlet@33704 And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed hamlet@33751 That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, hamlet@33794 Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear: hamlet@33845 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, hamlet@33891 A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark hamlet@33940 Is by a forged process of my death hamlet@33976 Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth, hamlet@34020 The serpent that did sting thy father's life hamlet@34066 Now wears his crown. hamlet@34088 hamlet@34089 HAMLET O my prophetic soul! My uncle! hamlet@34127 hamlet@34128 Ghost Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, hamlet@34178 With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,-- hamlet@34232 O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power hamlet@34277 So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust hamlet@34318 The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: hamlet@34363 O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! hamlet@34404 From me, whose love was of that dignity hamlet@34445 That it went hand in hand even with the vow hamlet@34490 I made to her in marriage, and to decline hamlet@34533 Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor hamlet@34578 To those of mine! hamlet@34597 But virtue, as it never will be moved, hamlet@34637 Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, hamlet@34685 So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, hamlet@34729 Will sate itself in a celestial bed, hamlet@34767 And prey on garbage. hamlet@34789 But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air; hamlet@34835 Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, hamlet@34881 My custom always of the afternoon, hamlet@34917 Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, hamlet@34955 With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, hamlet@34996 And in the porches of my ears did pour hamlet@35036 The leperous distilment; whose effect hamlet@35075 Holds such an enmity with blood of man hamlet@35115 That swift as quicksilver it courses through hamlet@35161 The natural gates and alleys of the body, hamlet@35204 And with a sudden vigour doth posset hamlet@35242 And curd, like eager droppings into milk, hamlet@35285 The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; hamlet@35332 And a most instant tetter bark'd about, hamlet@35373 Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, hamlet@35422 All my smooth body. hamlet@35443 Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand hamlet@35486 Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd: hamlet@35536 Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, hamlet@35577 Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd, hamlet@35614 No reckoning made, but sent to my account hamlet@35657 With all my imperfections on my head: hamlet@35696 O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible! hamlet@35738 If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; hamlet@35781 Let not the royal bed of Denmark be hamlet@35818 A couch for luxury and damned incest. hamlet@35857 But, howsoever thou pursuest this act, hamlet@35897 Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive hamlet@35944 Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven hamlet@35991 And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, hamlet@36037 To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once! hamlet@36086 The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, hamlet@36129 And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire: hamlet@36170 Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me. hamlet@36206 hamlet@36207 [Exit] hamlet@36215 hamlet@36216 HAMLET O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else? hamlet@36269 And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart; hamlet@36325 And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, hamlet@36368 But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee! hamlet@36408 Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat hamlet@36456 In this distracted globe. Remember thee! hamlet@36498 Yea, from the table of my memory hamlet@36532 I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, hamlet@36574 All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, hamlet@36625 That youth and observation copied there; hamlet@36667 And thy commandment all alone shall live hamlet@36709 Within the book and volume of my brain, hamlet@36750 Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven! hamlet@36794 O most pernicious woman! hamlet@36820 O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! hamlet@36866 My tables,--meet it is I set it down, hamlet@36905 That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; hamlet@36955 At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark: hamlet@36999 hamlet@37000 [Writing] hamlet@37011 hamlet@37012 So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word; hamlet@37055 It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.' hamlet@37091 I have sworn 't. hamlet@37109 hamlet@37110 hamlet@37111 MARCELLUS | hamlet@37123 | [Within] My lord, my lord,-- hamlet@37156 HORATIO | hamlet@37166 hamlet@37167 hamlet@37168 MARCELLUS [Within] Lord Hamlet,-- hamlet@37202 hamlet@37203 HORATIO [Within] Heaven secure him! hamlet@37239 hamlet@37240 HAMLET So be it! hamlet@37257 hamlet@37258 HORATIO [Within] Hillo, ho, ho, my lord! hamlet@37300 hamlet@37301 HAMLET Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come. hamlet@37346 hamlet@37347 [Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS] hamlet@37378 hamlet@37379 MARCELLUS How is't, my noble lord? hamlet@37414 hamlet@37415 HORATIO What news, my lord? hamlet@37443 hamlet@37444 HAMLET O, wonderful! hamlet@37465 hamlet@37466 HORATIO Good my lord, tell it. hamlet@37515 hamlet@37516 HAMLET No; you'll reveal it. hamlet@37545 hamlet@37546 HORATIO Not I, my lord, by heaven. hamlet@37581 hamlet@37582 MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord. hamlet@37608 hamlet@37609 HAMLET How say you, then; would heart of man once think it? hamlet@37669 But you'll be secret? hamlet@37692 hamlet@37693 hamlet@37694 HORATIO | hamlet@37704 | Ay, by heaven, my lord. hamlet@37749 MARCELLUS | hamlet@37761 hamlet@37762 hamlet@37763 HAMLET There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark hamlet@37818 But he's an arrant knave. hamlet@37845 hamlet@37846 HORATIO There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave hamlet@37905 To tell us this. hamlet@37923 hamlet@37924 HAMLET Why, right; you are i' the right; hamlet@37983 And so, without more circumstance at all, hamlet@38026 I hold it fit that we shake hands and part: hamlet@38071 You, as your business and desire shall point you; hamlet@38122 For every man has business and desire, hamlet@38162 Such as it is; and for mine own poor part, hamlet@38206 Look you, I'll go pray. hamlet@38231 hamlet@38232 HORATIO These are but wild and whirling words, my lord. hamlet@38288 hamlet@38289 HAMLET I'm sorry they offend you, heartily; hamlet@38333 Yes, 'faith heartily. hamlet@38356 hamlet@38357 HORATIO There's no offence, my lord. hamlet@38394 hamlet@38395 HAMLET Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio, hamlet@38448 And much offence too. Touching this vision here, hamlet@38498 It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you: hamlet@38544 For your desire to know what is between us, hamlet@38589 O'ermaster 't as you may. And now, good friends, hamlet@38639 As you are friends, scholars and soldiers, hamlet@38683 Give me one poor request. hamlet@38710 hamlet@38711 HORATIO What is't, my lord? we will. hamlet@38748 hamlet@38749 HAMLET Never make known what you have seen to-night. hamlet@38802 hamlet@38803 hamlet@38804 HORATIO | hamlet@38814 | My lord, we will not. hamlet@38839 MARCELLUS | hamlet@38851 hamlet@38852 hamlet@38853 HAMLET Nay, but swear't. hamlet@38878 hamlet@38879 HORATIO In faith, hamlet@38897 My lord, not I. hamlet@38914 hamlet@38915 MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord, in faith. hamlet@38969 hamlet@38970 HAMLET Upon my sword. hamlet@38992 hamlet@38993 MARCELLUS We have sworn, my lord, already. hamlet@39054 hamlet@39055 HAMLET Indeed, upon my sword, indeed. hamlet@39093 hamlet@39094 Ghost [Beneath] Swear. hamlet@39118 hamlet@39119 HAMLET Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there, hamlet@39171 truepenny? hamlet@39183 Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage-- hamlet@39233 Consent to swear. hamlet@39252 hamlet@39253 HORATIO Propose the oath, my lord. hamlet@39306 hamlet@39307 HAMLET Never to speak of this that you have seen, hamlet@39357 Swear by my sword. hamlet@39377 hamlet@39378 Ghost [Beneath] Swear. hamlet@39402 hamlet@39403 HAMLET Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground. hamlet@39454 Come hither, gentlemen, hamlet@39479 And lay your hands again upon my sword: hamlet@39520 Never to speak of this that you have heard, hamlet@39565 Swear by my sword. hamlet@39585 hamlet@39586 Ghost [Beneath] Swear. hamlet@39610 hamlet@39611 HAMLET Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast? hamlet@39672 A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends. hamlet@39722 hamlet@39723 HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! hamlet@39778 hamlet@39779 HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. hamlet@39831 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, hamlet@39884 Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come; hamlet@39934 Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, hamlet@39978 How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, hamlet@40020 As I perchance hereafter shall think meet hamlet@40063 To put an antic disposition on, hamlet@40096 That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, hamlet@40145 With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake, hamlet@40192 Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, hamlet@40236 As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,' hamlet@40294 Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,' hamlet@40354 Or such ambiguous giving out, to note hamlet@40393 That you know aught of me: this not to do, hamlet@40437 So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear. hamlet@40492 hamlet@40493 Ghost [Beneath] Swear. hamlet@40517 hamlet@40518 HAMLET Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! hamlet@40555 hamlet@40556 [They swear] hamlet@40570 hamlet@40571 So, gentlemen, hamlet@40596 With all my love I do commend me to you: hamlet@40638 And what so poor a man as Hamlet is hamlet@40675 May do, to express his love and friending to you, hamlet@40726 God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together; hamlet@40779 And still your fingers on your lips, I pray. hamlet@40825 The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, hamlet@40868 That ever I was born to set it right! hamlet@40907 Nay, come, let's go together. hamlet@40938 hamlet@40939 [Exeunt] hamlet@40949 hamlet@40950 hamlet@40951 hamlet@40952 hamlet@40953 HAMLET hamlet@40961 hamlet@40962 hamlet@40963 ACT II hamlet@40970 hamlet@40971 hamlet@40972 hamlet@40973 SCENE I A room in POLONIUS' house. hamlet@41008 hamlet@41009 hamlet@41010 [Enter POLONIUS and REYNALDO] hamlet@41041 hamlet@41042 LORD POLONIUS Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo. hamlet@41103 hamlet@41104 REYNALDO I will, my lord. hamlet@41130 hamlet@41131 LORD POLONIUS You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo, hamlet@41192 Before you visit him, to make inquire hamlet@41231 Of his behavior. hamlet@41249 hamlet@41250 REYNALDO My lord, I did intend it. hamlet@41303 hamlet@41304 LORD POLONIUS Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir, hamlet@41367 Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris; hamlet@41413 And how, and who, what means, and where they keep, hamlet@41465 What company, at what expense; and finding hamlet@41509 By this encompassment and drift of question hamlet@41554 That they do know my son, come you more nearer hamlet@41602 Than your particular demands will touch it: hamlet@41647 Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him; hamlet@41700 As thus, 'I know his father and his friends, hamlet@41746 And in part him: ' do you mark this, Reynaldo? hamlet@41794 hamlet@41795 REYNALDO Ay, very well, my lord. hamlet@41828 hamlet@41829 LORD POLONIUS 'And in part him; but' you may say 'not well: hamlet@41889 But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild; hamlet@41930 Addicted so and so:' and there put on him hamlet@41973 What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank hamlet@42021 As may dishonour him; take heed of that; hamlet@42063 But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips hamlet@42108 As are companions noted and most known hamlet@42148 To youth and liberty. hamlet@42171 hamlet@42172 REYNALDO As gaming, my lord. hamlet@42201 hamlet@42202 LORD POLONIUS Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling, hamlet@42265 Drabbing: you may go so far. hamlet@42295 hamlet@42296 REYNALDO My lord, that would dishonour him. hamlet@42340 hamlet@42341 LORD POLONIUS 'Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge hamlet@42402 You must not put another scandal on him, hamlet@42444 That he is open to incontinency; hamlet@42478 That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly hamlet@42537 That they may seem the taints of liberty, hamlet@42580 The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, hamlet@42621 A savageness in unreclaimed blood, hamlet@42657 Of general assault. hamlet@42678 hamlet@42679 REYNALDO But, my good lord,-- hamlet@42709 hamlet@42710 LORD POLONIUS Wherefore should you do this? hamlet@42754 hamlet@42755 REYNALDO Ay, my lord, hamlet@42777 I would know that. hamlet@42797 hamlet@42798 LORD POLONIUS Marry, sir, here's my drift; hamlet@42859 And I believe, it is a fetch of wit: hamlet@42897 You laying these slight sullies on my son, hamlet@42941 As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you, hamlet@43002 Your party in converse, him you would sound, hamlet@43048 Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes hamlet@43092 The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured hamlet@43137 He closes with you in this consequence; hamlet@43178 'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,' hamlet@43227 According to the phrase or the addition hamlet@43268 Of man and country. hamlet@43289 hamlet@43290 REYNALDO Very good, my lord. hamlet@43319 hamlet@43320 LORD POLONIUS And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I hamlet@43383 about to say? By the mass, I was about to say hamlet@43430 something: where did I leave? hamlet@43461 hamlet@43462 REYNALDO At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,' hamlet@43522 and 'gentleman.' hamlet@43540 hamlet@43541 LORD POLONIUS At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry; hamlet@43598 He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman; hamlet@43638 I saw him yesterday, or t' other day, hamlet@43677 Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you say, hamlet@43733 There was a' gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse; hamlet@43782 There falling out at tennis:' or perchance, hamlet@43827 'I saw him enter such a house of sale,' hamlet@43868 Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. hamlet@43904 See you now; hamlet@43918 Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth: hamlet@43968 And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, hamlet@44008 With windlasses and with assays of bias, hamlet@44050 By indirections find directions out: hamlet@44088 So by my former lecture and advice, hamlet@44125 Shall you my son. You have me, have you not? hamlet@44171 hamlet@44172 REYNALDO My lord, I have. hamlet@44198 hamlet@44199 LORD POLONIUS God be wi' you; fare you well. hamlet@44262 hamlet@44263 REYNALDO Good my lord! hamlet@44286 hamlet@44287 LORD POLONIUS Observe his inclination in yourself. hamlet@44338 hamlet@44339 REYNALDO I shall, my lord. hamlet@44366 hamlet@44367 LORD POLONIUS And let him ply his music. hamlet@44408 hamlet@44409 REYNALDO Well, my lord. hamlet@44433 hamlet@44434 LORD POLONIUS Farewell! hamlet@44458 hamlet@44459 [Exit REYNALDO] hamlet@44476 hamlet@44477 [Enter OPHELIA] hamlet@44494 hamlet@44495 How now, Ophelia! what's the matter? hamlet@44533 hamlet@44534 OPHELIA O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! hamlet@44590 hamlet@44591 LORD POLONIUS With what, i' the name of God? hamlet@44636 hamlet@44637 OPHELIA My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, hamlet@44684 Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; hamlet@44729 No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, hamlet@44774 Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle; hamlet@44816 Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; hamlet@44867 And with a look so piteous in purport hamlet@44906 As if he had been loosed out of hell hamlet@44944 To speak of horrors,--he comes before me. hamlet@44987 hamlet@44988 LORD POLONIUS Mad for thy love? hamlet@45020 hamlet@45021 OPHELIA My lord, I do not know; hamlet@45071 But truly, I do fear it. hamlet@45097 hamlet@45098 LORD POLONIUS What said he? hamlet@45126 hamlet@45127 OPHELIA He took me by the wrist and held me hard; hamlet@45177 Then goes he to the length of all his arm; hamlet@45221 And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, hamlet@45267 He falls to such perusal of my face hamlet@45304 As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so; hamlet@45345 At last, a little shaking of mine arm hamlet@45384 And thrice his head thus waving up and down, hamlet@45430 He raised a sigh so piteous and profound hamlet@45472 As it did seem to shatter all his bulk hamlet@45512 And end his being: that done, he lets me go: hamlet@45558 And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd, hamlet@45604 He seem'd to find his way without his eyes; hamlet@45649 For out o' doors he went without their helps, hamlet@45696 And, to the last, bended their light on me. hamlet@45741 hamlet@45742 LORD POLONIUS Come, go with me: I will go seek the king. hamlet@45799 This is the very ecstasy of love, hamlet@45834 Whose violent property fordoes itself hamlet@45873 And leads the will to desperate undertakings hamlet@45919 As oft as any passion under heaven hamlet@45955 That does afflict our natures. I am sorry. hamlet@45999 What, have you given him any hard words of late? hamlet@46049 hamlet@46050 OPHELIA No, my good lord, but, as you did command, hamlet@46101 I did repel his fetters and denied hamlet@46137 His access to me. hamlet@46156 hamlet@46157 LORD POLONIUS That hath made him mad. hamlet@46213 I am sorry that with better heed and judgment hamlet@46260 I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle, hamlet@46311 And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy! hamlet@46363 By heaven, it is as proper to our age hamlet@46402 To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions hamlet@46444 As it is common for the younger sort hamlet@46482 To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king: hamlet@46528 This must be known; which, being kept close, might hamlet@46580 move hamlet@46586 More grief to hide than hate to utter love. hamlet@46631 hamlet@46632 [Exeunt] hamlet@46642 hamlet@46643 hamlet@46644 hamlet@46645 hamlet@46646 HAMLET hamlet@46654 hamlet@46655 hamlet@46656 ACT II hamlet@46663 hamlet@46664 hamlet@46665 hamlet@46666 SCENE II A room in the castle. hamlet@46697 hamlet@46698 hamlet@46699 [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, hamlet@46751 GUILDENSTERN, and Attendants] hamlet@46782 hamlet@46783 KING CLAUDIUS Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern! hamlet@46841 Moreover that we much did long to see you, hamlet@46885 The need we have to use you did provoke hamlet@46926 Our hasty sending. Something have you heard hamlet@46971 Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it, hamlet@47012 Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man hamlet@47054 Resembles that it was. What it should be, hamlet@47097 More than his father's death, that thus hath put him hamlet@47151 So much from the understanding of himself, hamlet@47195 I cannot dream of: I entreat you both, hamlet@47235 That, being of so young days brought up with him, hamlet@47286 And sith so neighbour'd to his youth and havior, hamlet@47336 That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court hamlet@47384 Some little time: so by your companies hamlet@47424 To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather, hamlet@47469 So much as from occasion you may glean, hamlet@47510 Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus, hamlet@47560 That, open'd, lies within our remedy. hamlet@47599 hamlet@47600 QUEEN GERTRUDE Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you; hamlet@47659 And sure I am two men there are not living hamlet@47703 To whom he more adheres. If it will please you hamlet@47751 To show us so much gentry and good will hamlet@47792 As to expend your time with us awhile, hamlet@47832 For the supply and profit of our hope, hamlet@47872 Your visitation shall receive such thanks hamlet@47915 As fits a king's remembrance. hamlet@47946 hamlet@47947 ROSENCRANTZ Both your majesties hamlet@47979 Might, by the sovereign power you have of us, hamlet@48026 Put your dread pleasures more into command hamlet@48070 Than to entreaty. hamlet@48089 hamlet@48090 GUILDENSTERN But we both obey, hamlet@48139 And here give up ourselves, in the full bent hamlet@48185 To lay our service freely at your feet, hamlet@48226 To be commanded. hamlet@48244 hamlet@48245 KING CLAUDIUS Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern. hamlet@48304 hamlet@48305 QUEEN GERTRUDE Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz: hamlet@48365 And I beseech you instantly to visit hamlet@48403 My too much changed son. Go, some of you, hamlet@48446 And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is. hamlet@48490 hamlet@48491 GUILDENSTERN Heavens make our presence and our practises hamlet@48548 Pleasant and helpful to him! hamlet@48578 hamlet@48579 QUEEN GERTRUDE Ay, amen! hamlet@48604 hamlet@48605 [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and some hamlet@48650 Attendants] hamlet@48663 hamlet@48664 [Enter POLONIUS] hamlet@48682 hamlet@48683 LORD POLONIUS The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, hamlet@48740 Are joyfully return'd. hamlet@48764 hamlet@48765 KING CLAUDIUS Thou still hast been the father of good news. hamlet@48825 hamlet@48826 LORD POLONIUS Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege, hamlet@48881 I hold my duty, as I hold my soul, hamlet@48917 Both to my God and to my gracious king: hamlet@48958 And I do think, or else this brain of mine hamlet@49002 Hunts not the trail of policy so sure hamlet@49041 As it hath used to do, that I have found hamlet@49083 The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy. hamlet@49119 hamlet@49120 KING CLAUDIUS O, speak of that; that do I long to hear. hamlet@49176 hamlet@49177 LORD POLONIUS Give first admittance to the ambassadors; hamlet@49233 My news shall be the fruit to that great feast. hamlet@49282 hamlet@49283 KING CLAUDIUS Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in. hamlet@49342 hamlet@49343 [Exit POLONIUS] hamlet@49360 hamlet@49361 He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found hamlet@49407 The head and source of all your son's distemper. hamlet@49457 hamlet@49458 QUEEN GERTRUDE I doubt it is no other but the main; hamlet@49510 His father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage. hamlet@49559 hamlet@49560 KING CLAUDIUS Well, we shall sift him. hamlet@49599 hamlet@49600 [Re-enter POLONIUS, with VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS] hamlet@49651 hamlet@49652 Welcome, my good friends! hamlet@49683 Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway? hamlet@49730 hamlet@49731 VOLTIMAND Most fair return of greetings and desires. hamlet@49784 Upon our first, he sent out to suppress hamlet@49825 His nephew's levies; which to him appear'd hamlet@49869 To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack; hamlet@49910 But, better look'd into, he truly found hamlet@49951 It was against your highness: whereat grieved, hamlet@49999 That so his sickness, age and impotence hamlet@50040 Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests hamlet@50086 On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys; hamlet@50129 Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine hamlet@50171 Makes vow before his uncle never more hamlet@50210 To give the assay of arms against your majesty. hamlet@50259 Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy, hamlet@50299 Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee, hamlet@50347 And his commission to employ those soldiers, hamlet@50393 So levied as before, against the Polack: hamlet@50435 With an entreaty, herein further shown, hamlet@50476 hamlet@50477 [Giving a paper] hamlet@50495 hamlet@50496 That it might please you to give quiet pass hamlet@50541 Through your dominions for this enterprise, hamlet@50586 On such regards of safety and allowance hamlet@50627 As therein are set down. hamlet@50653 hamlet@50654 KING CLAUDIUS It likes us well; hamlet@50686 And at our more consider'd time well read, hamlet@50730 Answer, and think upon this business. hamlet@50769 Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour: hamlet@50819 Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together: hamlet@50868 Most welcome home! hamlet@50888 hamlet@50889 [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS] hamlet@50923 hamlet@50924 LORD POLONIUS This business is well ended. hamlet@50985 My liege, and madam, to expostulate hamlet@51022 What majesty should be, what duty is, hamlet@51061 Why day is day, night night, and time is time, hamlet@51109 Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. hamlet@51157 Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, hamlet@51203 And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, hamlet@51254 I will be brief: your noble son is mad: hamlet@51295 Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, hamlet@51340 What is't but to be nothing else but mad? hamlet@51383 But let that go. hamlet@51401 hamlet@51402 QUEEN GERTRUDE More matter, with less art. hamlet@51463 hamlet@51464 LORD POLONIUS Madam, I swear I use no art at all. hamlet@51514 That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity; hamlet@51563 And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure; hamlet@51607 But farewell it, for I will use no art. hamlet@51648 Mad let us grant him, then: and now remains hamlet@51693 That we find out the cause of this effect, hamlet@51737 Or rather say, the cause of this defect, hamlet@51779 For this effect defective comes by cause: hamlet@51822 Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend. hamlet@51873 I have a daughter--have while she is mine-- hamlet@51918 Who, in her duty and obedience, mark, hamlet@51957 Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise. hamlet@52003 hamlet@52004 [Reads] hamlet@52013 hamlet@52014 'To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most hamlet@52062 beautified Ophelia,'-- hamlet@52086 That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is hamlet@52140 a vile phrase: but you shall hear. Thus: hamlet@52182 hamlet@52183 [Reads] hamlet@52192 hamlet@52193 'In her excellent white bosom, these, &c.' hamlet@52237 hamlet@52238 QUEEN GERTRUDE Came this from Hamlet to her? hamlet@52283 hamlet@52284 LORD POLONIUS Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful. hamlet@52343 hamlet@52344 [Reads] hamlet@52353 hamlet@52354 'Doubt thou the stars are fire; hamlet@52387 Doubt that the sun doth move; hamlet@52418 Doubt truth to be a liar; hamlet@52445 But never doubt I love. hamlet@52470 'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers; hamlet@52515 I have not art to reckon my groans: but that hamlet@52561 I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu. hamlet@52612 'Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst hamlet@52652 this machine is to him, HAMLET.' hamlet@52686 This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me, hamlet@52734 And more above, hath his solicitings, hamlet@52773 As they fell out by time, by means and place, hamlet@52820 All given to mine ear. hamlet@52844 hamlet@52845 KING CLAUDIUS But how hath she hamlet@52876 Received his love? hamlet@52896 hamlet@52897 LORD POLONIUS What do you think of me? hamlet@52954 hamlet@52955 KING CLAUDIUS As of a man faithful and honourable. hamlet@53006 hamlet@53007 LORD POLONIUS I would fain prove so. But what might you think, hamlet@53070 When I had seen this hot love on the wing-- hamlet@53115 As I perceived it, I must tell you that, hamlet@53157 Before my daughter told me--what might you, hamlet@53202 Or my dear majesty your queen here, think, hamlet@53246 If I had play'd the desk or table-book, hamlet@53287 Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb, hamlet@53332 Or look'd upon this love with idle sight; hamlet@53375 What might you think? No, I went round to work, hamlet@53424 And my young mistress thus I did bespeak: hamlet@53467 'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star; hamlet@53511 This must not be:' and then I precepts gave her, hamlet@53561 That she should lock herself from his resort, hamlet@53608 Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. hamlet@53649 Which done, she took the fruits of my advice; hamlet@53696 And he, repulsed--a short tale to make-- hamlet@53738 Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, hamlet@53778 Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, hamlet@53822 Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension, hamlet@53871 Into the madness wherein now he raves, hamlet@53911 And all we mourn for. hamlet@53934 hamlet@53935 KING CLAUDIUS Do you think 'tis this? hamlet@53973 hamlet@53974 QUEEN GERTRUDE It may be, very likely. hamlet@54013 hamlet@54014 LORD POLONIUS Hath there been such a time--I'd fain know that-- hamlet@54078 That I have positively said 'Tis so,' hamlet@54117 When it proved otherwise? hamlet@54144 hamlet@54145 KING CLAUDIUS Not that I know. hamlet@54176 hamlet@54177 LORD POLONIUS [Pointing to his head and shoulder] hamlet@54227 hamlet@54228 Take this from this, if this be otherwise: hamlet@54272 If circumstances lead me, I will find hamlet@54311 Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed hamlet@54358 Within the centre. hamlet@54378 hamlet@54379 KING CLAUDIUS How may we try it further? hamlet@54438 hamlet@54439 LORD POLONIUS You know, sometimes he walks four hours together hamlet@54502 Here in the lobby. hamlet@54522 hamlet@54523 QUEEN GERTRUDE So he does indeed. hamlet@54575 hamlet@54576 LORD POLONIUS At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him: hamlet@54636 Be you and I behind an arras then; hamlet@54672 Mark the encounter: if he love her not hamlet@54712 And be not from his reason fall'n thereon, hamlet@54756 Let me be no assistant for a state, hamlet@54793 But keep a farm and carters. hamlet@54823 hamlet@54824 KING CLAUDIUS We will try it. hamlet@54854 hamlet@54855 QUEEN GERTRUDE But, look, where sadly the poor wretch comes reading. hamlet@54924 hamlet@54925 LORD POLONIUS Away, I do beseech you, both away: hamlet@54974 I'll board him presently. hamlet@55001 hamlet@55002 [Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, and hamlet@55046 Attendants] hamlet@55059 hamlet@55060 [Enter HAMLET, reading] hamlet@55085 hamlet@55086 O, give me leave: hamlet@55110 How does my good Lord Hamlet? hamlet@55141 hamlet@55142 HAMLET Well, God-a-mercy. hamlet@55168 hamlet@55169 LORD POLONIUS Do you know me, my lord? hamlet@55208 hamlet@55209 HAMLET Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. hamlet@55254 hamlet@55255 LORD POLONIUS Not I, my lord. hamlet@55285 hamlet@55286 HAMLET Then I would you were so honest a man. hamlet@55332 hamlet@55333 LORD POLONIUS Honest, my lord! hamlet@55364 hamlet@55365 HAMLET Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be hamlet@55424 one man picked out of ten thousand. hamlet@55461 hamlet@55462 LORD POLONIUS That's very true, my lord. hamlet@55503 hamlet@55504 HAMLET For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a hamlet@55563 god kissing carrion,--Have you a daughter? hamlet@55607 hamlet@55608 LORD POLONIUS I have, my lord. hamlet@55639 hamlet@55640 HAMLET Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a hamlet@55692 blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive. hamlet@55742 Friend, look to 't. hamlet@55763 hamlet@55764 LORD POLONIUS [Aside] How say you by that? Still harping on my hamlet@55828 daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I hamlet@55878 was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and hamlet@55927 truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for hamlet@55976 love; very near this. I'll speak to him again. hamlet@56024 What do you read, my lord? hamlet@56052 hamlet@56053 HAMLET Words, words, words. hamlet@56081 hamlet@56082 LORD POLONIUS What is the matter, my lord? hamlet@56125 hamlet@56126 HAMLET Between who? hamlet@56146 hamlet@56147 LORD POLONIUS I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. hamlet@56204 hamlet@56205 HAMLET Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here hamlet@56261 that old men have grey beards, that their faces are hamlet@56314 wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and hamlet@56360 plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of hamlet@56414 wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir, hamlet@56466 though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet hamlet@56518 I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, for hamlet@56571 yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab hamlet@56625 you could go backward. hamlet@56649 hamlet@56650 LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method hamlet@56717 in 't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord? hamlet@56764 hamlet@56765 HAMLET Into my grave. hamlet@56787 hamlet@56788 LORD POLONIUS Indeed, that is out o' the air. hamlet@56834 hamlet@56835 [Aside] hamlet@56844 hamlet@56845 How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness hamlet@56898 that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity hamlet@56951 could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will hamlet@57002 leave him, and suddenly contrive the means of hamlet@57049 meeting between him and my daughter.--My honourable hamlet@57102 lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you. hamlet@57150 hamlet@57151 HAMLET You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will hamlet@57210 more willingly part withal: except my life, except hamlet@57262 my life, except my life. hamlet@57288 hamlet@57289 LORD POLONIUS Fare you well, my lord. hamlet@57327 hamlet@57328 HAMLET These tedious old fools! hamlet@57360 hamlet@57361 [Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@57399 hamlet@57400 LORD POLONIUS You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is. hamlet@57459 hamlet@57460 ROSENCRANTZ [To POLONIUS] God save you, sir! hamlet@57506 hamlet@57507 [Exit POLONIUS] hamlet@57524 hamlet@57525 GUILDENSTERN My honoured lord! hamlet@57556 hamlet@57557 ROSENCRANTZ My most dear lord! hamlet@57588 hamlet@57589 HAMLET My excellent good friends! How dost thou, hamlet@57638 Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both? hamlet@57697 hamlet@57698 ROSENCRANTZ As the indifferent children of the earth. hamlet@57752 hamlet@57753 GUILDENSTERN Happy, in that we are not over-happy; hamlet@57804 On fortune's cap we are not the very button. hamlet@57850 hamlet@57851 HAMLET Nor the soles of her shoe? hamlet@57885 hamlet@57886 ROSENCRANTZ Neither, my lord. hamlet@57916 hamlet@57917 HAMLET Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of hamlet@57975 her favours? hamlet@57989 hamlet@57990 GUILDENSTERN 'Faith, her privates we. hamlet@58028 hamlet@58029 HAMLET In the secret parts of fortune? O, most true; she hamlet@58086 is a strumpet. What's the news? hamlet@58119 hamlet@58120 ROSENCRANTZ None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. hamlet@58182 hamlet@58183 HAMLET Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true. hamlet@58240 Let me question more in particular: what have you, hamlet@58292 my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune, hamlet@58344 that she sends you to prison hither? hamlet@58382 hamlet@58383 GUILDENSTERN Prison, my lord! hamlet@58413 hamlet@58414 HAMLET Denmark's a prison. hamlet@58441 hamlet@58442 ROSENCRANTZ Then is the world one. hamlet@58477 hamlet@58478 HAMLET A goodly one; in which there are many confines, hamlet@58533 wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst. hamlet@58586 hamlet@58587 ROSENCRANTZ We think not so, my lord. hamlet@58625 hamlet@58626 HAMLET Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing hamlet@58683 either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me hamlet@58736 it is a prison. hamlet@58753 hamlet@58754 ROSENCRANTZ Why then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too hamlet@58813 narrow for your mind. hamlet@58836 hamlet@58837 HAMLET O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count hamlet@58895 myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I hamlet@58948 have bad dreams. hamlet@58966 hamlet@58967 GUILDENSTERN Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very hamlet@59027 substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. hamlet@59088 hamlet@59089 HAMLET A dream itself is but a shadow. hamlet@59128 hamlet@59129 ROSENCRANTZ Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a hamlet@59191 quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. hamlet@59234 hamlet@59235 HAMLET Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and hamlet@59292 outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we hamlet@59344 to the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason. hamlet@59392 hamlet@59393 hamlet@59394 ROSENCRANTZ | hamlet@59408 | We'll wait upon you. hamlet@59432 GUILDENSTERN | hamlet@59447 hamlet@59448 hamlet@59449 HAMLET No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest hamlet@59506 of my servants, for, to speak to you like an honest hamlet@59559 man, I am most dreadfully attended. But, in the hamlet@59608 beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore? hamlet@59662 hamlet@59663 ROSENCRANTZ To visit you, my lord; no other occasion. hamlet@59717 hamlet@59718 HAMLET Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I hamlet@59775 thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are hamlet@59825 too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it hamlet@59877 your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, hamlet@59929 deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak. hamlet@59975 hamlet@59976 GUILDENSTERN What should we say, my lord? hamlet@60018 hamlet@60019 HAMLET Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were sent hamlet@60076 for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks hamlet@60130 which your modesties have not craft enough to colour: hamlet@60185 I know the good king and queen have sent for you. hamlet@60236 hamlet@60237 ROSENCRANTZ To what end, my lord? hamlet@60271 hamlet@60272 HAMLET That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by hamlet@60330 the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of hamlet@60382 our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved hamlet@60434 love, and by what more dear a better proposer could hamlet@60487 charge you withal, be even and direct with me, hamlet@60535 whether you were sent for, or no? hamlet@60570 hamlet@60571 ROSENCRANTZ [Aside to GUILDENSTERN] What say you? hamlet@60622 hamlet@60623 HAMLET [Aside] Nay, then, I have an eye of you.--If you hamlet@60680 love me, hold not off. hamlet@60704 hamlet@60705 GUILDENSTERN My lord, we were sent for. hamlet@60745 hamlet@60746 HAMLET I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation hamlet@60799 prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king hamlet@60853 and queen moult no feather. I have of late--but hamlet@60902 wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all hamlet@60956 custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily hamlet@61008 with my disposition that this goodly frame, the hamlet@61057 earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most hamlet@61109 excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave hamlet@61158 o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted hamlet@61211 with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to hamlet@61264 me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. hamlet@61319 What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! hamlet@61372 how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how hamlet@61421 express and admirable! in action how like an angel! hamlet@61474 in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the hamlet@61525 world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, hamlet@61573 what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not hamlet@61626 me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling hamlet@61677 you seem to say so. hamlet@61698 hamlet@61699 ROSENCRANTZ My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts. hamlet@61760 hamlet@61761 HAMLET Why did you laugh then, when I said 'man delights not me'? hamlet@61827 hamlet@61828 ROSENCRANTZ To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what hamlet@61891 lenten entertainment the players shall receive from hamlet@61944 you: we coted them on the way; and hither are they hamlet@61996 coming, to offer you service. hamlet@62027 hamlet@62028 HAMLET He that plays the king shall be welcome; his majesty hamlet@62088 shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight hamlet@62138 shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not hamlet@62190 sigh gratis; the humourous man shall end his part hamlet@62241 in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose hamlet@62291 lungs are tickled o' the sere; and the lady shall hamlet@62342 say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt hamlet@62394 for't. What players are they? hamlet@62425 hamlet@62426 ROSENCRANTZ Even those you were wont to take delight in, the hamlet@62487 tragedians of the city. hamlet@62512 hamlet@62513 HAMLET How chances it they travel? their residence, both hamlet@62570 in reputation and profit, was better both ways. hamlet@62619 hamlet@62620 ROSENCRANTZ I think their inhibition comes by the means of the hamlet@62683 late innovation. hamlet@62701 hamlet@62702 HAMLET Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was hamlet@62762 in the city? are they so followed? hamlet@62798 hamlet@62799 ROSENCRANTZ No, indeed, are they not. hamlet@62837 hamlet@62838 HAMLET How comes it? do they grow rusty? hamlet@62879 hamlet@62880 ROSENCRANTZ Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace: but hamlet@62943 there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, hamlet@62995 that cry out on the top of question, and are most hamlet@63046 tyrannically clapped for't: these are now the hamlet@63093 fashion, and so berattle the common stages--so they hamlet@63146 call them--that many wearing rapiers are afraid of hamlet@63198 goose-quills and dare scarce come thither. hamlet@63242 hamlet@63243 HAMLET What, are they children? who maintains 'em? how are hamlet@63302 they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no hamlet@63349 longer than they can sing? will they not say hamlet@63395 afterwards, if they should grow themselves to common hamlet@63449 players--as it is most like, if their means are no hamlet@63501 better--their writers do them wrong, to make them hamlet@63552 exclaim against their own succession? hamlet@63591 hamlet@63592 ROSENCRANTZ 'Faith, there has been much to do on both sides; and hamlet@63657 the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to hamlet@63702 controversy: there was, for a while, no money bid hamlet@63753 for argument, unless the poet and the player went to hamlet@63807 cuffs in the question. hamlet@63831 hamlet@63832 HAMLET Is't possible? hamlet@63854 hamlet@63855 GUILDENSTERN O, there has been much throwing about of brains. hamlet@63917 hamlet@63918 HAMLET Do the boys carry it away? hamlet@63952 hamlet@63953 ROSENCRANTZ Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too. hamlet@64019 hamlet@64020 HAMLET It is not very strange; for mine uncle is king of hamlet@64077 Denmark, and those that would make mows at him while hamlet@64131 my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, an hamlet@64179 hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in little. hamlet@64230 'Sblood, there is something in this more than hamlet@64277 natural, if philosophy could find it out. hamlet@64320 hamlet@64321 [Flourish of trumpets within] hamlet@64352 hamlet@64353 GUILDENSTERN There are the players. hamlet@64389 hamlet@64390 HAMLET Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands, hamlet@64449 come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion hamlet@64500 and ceremony: let me comply with you in this garb, hamlet@64552 lest my extent to the players, which, I tell you, hamlet@64603 must show fairly outward, should more appear like hamlet@64654 entertainment than yours. You are welcome: but my hamlet@64705 uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. hamlet@64749 hamlet@64750 GUILDENSTERN In what, my dear lord? hamlet@64786 hamlet@64787 HAMLET I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is hamlet@64842 southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. hamlet@64883 hamlet@64884 [Enter POLONIUS] hamlet@64902 hamlet@64903 LORD POLONIUS Well be with you, gentlemen! hamlet@64946 hamlet@64947 HAMLET Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too: at each ear a hamlet@65005 hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet hamlet@65055 out of his swaddling-clouts. hamlet@65085 hamlet@65086 ROSENCRANTZ Happily he's the second time come to them; for they hamlet@65150 say an old man is twice a child. hamlet@65184 hamlet@65185 HAMLET I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players; hamlet@65244 mark it. You say right, sir: o' Monday morning; hamlet@65293 'twas so indeed. hamlet@65311 hamlet@65312 LORD POLONIUS My lord, I have news to tell you. hamlet@65360 hamlet@65361 HAMLET My lord, I have news to tell you. hamlet@65402 When Roscius was an actor in Rome,-- hamlet@65440 hamlet@65441 LORD POLONIUS The actors are come hither, my lord. hamlet@65492 hamlet@65493 HAMLET Buz, buz! hamlet@65510 hamlet@65511 LORD POLONIUS Upon mine honour,-- hamlet@65545 hamlet@65546 HAMLET Then came each actor on his ass,-- hamlet@65588 hamlet@65589 LORD POLONIUS The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, hamlet@65653 comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, hamlet@65699 historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical- hamlet@65752 comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or hamlet@65804 poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor hamlet@65853 Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the hamlet@65901 liberty, these are the only men. hamlet@65935 hamlet@65936 HAMLET O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou! hamlet@66000 hamlet@66001 LORD POLONIUS What a treasure had he, my lord? hamlet@66048 hamlet@66049 HAMLET Why, hamlet@66061 'One fair daughter and no more, hamlet@66094 The which he loved passing well.' hamlet@66129 hamlet@66130 LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Still on my daughter. hamlet@66175 hamlet@66176 HAMLET Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah? hamlet@66220 hamlet@66221 LORD POLONIUS If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter hamlet@66287 that I love passing well. hamlet@66314 hamlet@66315 HAMLET Nay, that follows not. hamlet@66345 hamlet@66346 LORD POLONIUS What follows, then, my lord? hamlet@66389 hamlet@66390 HAMLET Why, hamlet@66402 'As by lot, God wot,' hamlet@66425 and then, you know, hamlet@66446 'It came to pass, as most like it was,'-- hamlet@66489 the first row of the pious chanson will show you hamlet@66539 more; for look, where my abridgement comes. hamlet@66584 hamlet@66585 [Enter four or five Players] hamlet@66615 hamlet@66616 You are welcome, masters; welcome, all. I am glad hamlet@66667 to see thee well. Welcome, good friends. O, my old hamlet@66719 friend! thy face is valenced since I saw thee last: hamlet@66772 comest thou to beard me in Denmark? What, my young hamlet@66824 lady and mistress! By'r lady, your ladyship is hamlet@66872 nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the hamlet@66923 altitude of a chopine. Pray God, your voice, like hamlet@66974 apiece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the hamlet@67027 ring. Masters, you are all welcome. We'll e'en hamlet@67075 to't like French falconers, fly at any thing we see: hamlet@67129 we'll have a speech straight: come, give us a taste hamlet@67182 of your quality; come, a passionate speech. hamlet@67227 hamlet@67228 First Player What speech, my lord? hamlet@67263 hamlet@67264 HAMLET I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was hamlet@67319 never acted; or, if it was, not above once; for the hamlet@67372 play, I remember, pleased not the million; 'twas hamlet@67422 caviare to the general: but it was--as I received hamlet@67473 it, and others, whose judgments in such matters hamlet@67522 cried in the top of mine--an excellent play, well hamlet@67573 digested in the scenes, set down with as much hamlet@67620 modesty as cunning. I remember, one said there hamlet@67668 were no sallets in the lines to make the matter hamlet@67717 savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might hamlet@67766 indict the author of affectation; but called it an hamlet@67818 honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very hamlet@67869 much more handsome than fine. One speech in it I hamlet@67919 chiefly loved: 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido; and hamlet@67967 thereabout of it especially, where he speaks of hamlet@68016 Priam's slaughter: if it live in your memory, begin hamlet@68069 at this line: let me see, let me see-- hamlet@68109 'The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast,'-- hamlet@68160 it is not so:--it begins with Pyrrhus:-- hamlet@68202 'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, hamlet@68245 Black as his purpose, did the night resemble hamlet@68291 When he lay couched in the ominous horse, hamlet@68334 Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd hamlet@68384 With heraldry more dismal; head to foot hamlet@68425 Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd hamlet@68466 With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, hamlet@68516 Baked and impasted with the parching streets, hamlet@68563 That lend a tyrannous and damned light hamlet@68603 To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire, hamlet@68655 And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore, hamlet@68697 With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus hamlet@68745 Old grandsire Priam seeks.' hamlet@68774 So, proceed you. hamlet@68792 hamlet@68793 LORD POLONIUS 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and hamlet@68861 good discretion. hamlet@68879 hamlet@68880 First Player 'Anon he finds him hamlet@68912 Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword, hamlet@68962 Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls, hamlet@69007 Repugnant to command: unequal match'd, hamlet@69047 Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; hamlet@69095 But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword hamlet@69142 The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium, hamlet@69192 Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top hamlet@69237 Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash hamlet@69283 Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword, hamlet@69333 Which was declining on the milky head hamlet@69372 Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick: hamlet@69420 So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood, hamlet@69461 And like a neutral to his will and matter, hamlet@69505 Did nothing. hamlet@69519 But, as we often see, against some storm, hamlet@69562 A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, hamlet@69611 The bold winds speechless and the orb below hamlet@69656 As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder hamlet@69701 Doth rend the region, so, after Pyrrhus' pause, hamlet@69750 Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work; hamlet@69790 And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall hamlet@69831 On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne hamlet@69873 With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword hamlet@69921 Now falls on Priam. hamlet@69942 Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods, hamlet@69991 In general synod 'take away her power; hamlet@70031 Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, hamlet@70081 And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven, hamlet@70131 As low as to the fiends!' hamlet@70158 hamlet@70159 LORD POLONIUS This is too long. hamlet@70191 hamlet@70192 HAMLET It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee, hamlet@70251 say on: he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he hamlet@70302 sleeps: say on: come to Hecuba. hamlet@70335 hamlet@70336 First Player 'But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen--' hamlet@70395 hamlet@70396 HAMLET 'The mobled queen?' hamlet@70423 hamlet@70424 LORD POLONIUS That's good; 'mobled queen' is good. hamlet@70475 hamlet@70476 First Player 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames hamlet@70539 With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head hamlet@70582 Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, hamlet@70628 About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins, hamlet@70671 A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up; hamlet@70715 Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd, hamlet@70765 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have hamlet@70809 pronounced: hamlet@70822 But if the gods themselves did see her then hamlet@70867 When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport hamlet@70910 In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, hamlet@70958 The instant burst of clamour that she made, hamlet@71003 Unless things mortal move them not at all, hamlet@71047 Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, hamlet@71098 And passion in the gods.' hamlet@71125 hamlet@71126 LORD POLONIUS Look, whether he has not turned his colour and has hamlet@71191 tears in's eyes. Pray you, no more. hamlet@71228 hamlet@71229 HAMLET 'Tis well: I'll have thee speak out the rest soon. hamlet@71287 Good my lord, will you see the players well hamlet@71332 bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for hamlet@71383 they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the hamlet@71434 time: after your death you were better have a bad hamlet@71485 epitaph than their ill report while you live. hamlet@71532 hamlet@71533 LORD POLONIUS My lord, I will use them according to their desert. hamlet@71599 hamlet@71600 HAMLET God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man hamlet@71655 after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? hamlet@71706 Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less hamlet@71760 they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. hamlet@71809 Take them in. hamlet@71824 hamlet@71825 LORD POLONIUS Come, sirs. hamlet@71851 hamlet@71852 HAMLET Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow. hamlet@71909 hamlet@71910 [Exit POLONIUS with all the Players but the First] hamlet@71962 hamlet@71963 Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the hamlet@72012 Murder of Gonzago? hamlet@72032 hamlet@72033 First Player Ay, my lord. hamlet@72059 hamlet@72060 HAMLET We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need, hamlet@72118 study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which hamlet@72172 I would set down and insert in't, could you not? hamlet@72222 hamlet@72223 First Player Ay, my lord. hamlet@72249 hamlet@72250 HAMLET Very well. Follow that lord; and look you mock him hamlet@72308 not. hamlet@72314 hamlet@72315 [Exit First Player] hamlet@72336 hamlet@72337 My good friends, I'll leave you till night: you are hamlet@72390 welcome to Elsinore. hamlet@72412 hamlet@72413 ROSENCRANTZ Good my lord! hamlet@72439 hamlet@72440 HAMLET Ay, so, God be wi' ye; hamlet@72470 hamlet@72471 [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@72510 hamlet@72511 Now I am alone. hamlet@72531 O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! hamlet@72572 Is it not monstrous that this player here, hamlet@72616 But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, hamlet@72658 Could force his soul so to his own conceit hamlet@72702 That from her working all his visage wann'd, hamlet@72748 Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, hamlet@72793 A broken voice, and his whole function suiting hamlet@72841 With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! hamlet@72890 For Hecuba! hamlet@72903 What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, hamlet@72943 That he should weep for her? What would he do, hamlet@72991 Had he the motive and the cue for passion hamlet@73034 That I have? He would drown the stage with tears hamlet@73084 And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, hamlet@73132 Make mad the guilty and appal the free, hamlet@73173 Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed hamlet@73214 The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, hamlet@73259 A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, hamlet@73299 Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, hamlet@73344 And can say nothing; no, not for a king, hamlet@73386 Upon whose property and most dear life hamlet@73426 A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? hamlet@73468 Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? hamlet@73514 Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face? hamlet@73561 Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, hamlet@73617 As deep as to the lungs? who does me this? hamlet@73661 Ha! hamlet@73666 'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be hamlet@73712 But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall hamlet@73751 To make oppression bitter, or ere this hamlet@73791 I should have fatted all the region kites hamlet@73834 With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain! hamlet@73883 Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! hamlet@73939 O, vengeance! hamlet@73954 Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, hamlet@73998 That I, the son of a dear father murder'd, hamlet@74042 Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, hamlet@74086 Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, hamlet@74135 And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, hamlet@74174 A scullion! hamlet@74187 Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard hamlet@74235 That guilty creatures sitting at a play hamlet@74276 Have by the very cunning of the scene hamlet@74315 Been struck so to the soul that presently hamlet@74358 They have proclaim'd their malefactions; hamlet@74400 For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak hamlet@74450 With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players hamlet@74503 Play something like the murder of my father hamlet@74548 Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; hamlet@74592 I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, hamlet@74639 I know my course. The spirit that I have seen hamlet@74686 May be the devil: and the devil hath power hamlet@74730 To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps hamlet@74776 Out of my weakness and my melancholy, hamlet@74815 As he is very potent with such spirits, hamlet@74856 Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds hamlet@74897 More relative than this: the play 's the thing hamlet@74945 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. hamlet@74993 hamlet@74994 [Exit] hamlet@75002 hamlet@75003 hamlet@75004 hamlet@75005 hamlet@75006 HAMLET hamlet@75014 hamlet@75015 hamlet@75016 ACT III hamlet@75024 hamlet@75025 hamlet@75026 hamlet@75027 SCENE I A room in the castle. hamlet@75057 hamlet@75058 hamlet@75059 [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, hamlet@75108 OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@75149 hamlet@75150 KING CLAUDIUS And can you, by no drift of circumstance, hamlet@75206 Get from him why he puts on this confusion, hamlet@75251 Grating so harshly all his days of quiet hamlet@75293 With turbulent and dangerous lunacy? hamlet@75331 hamlet@75332 ROSENCRANTZ He does confess he feels himself distracted; hamlet@75389 But from what cause he will by no means speak. hamlet@75437 hamlet@75438 GUILDENSTERN Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, hamlet@75493 But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof, hamlet@75535 When we would bring him on to some confession hamlet@75582 Of his true state. hamlet@75602 hamlet@75603 QUEEN GERTRUDE Did he receive you well? hamlet@75661 hamlet@75662 ROSENCRANTZ Most like a gentleman. hamlet@75697 hamlet@75698 GUILDENSTERN But with much forcing of his disposition. hamlet@75753 hamlet@75754 ROSENCRANTZ Niggard of question; but, of our demands, hamlet@75808 Most free in his reply. hamlet@75833 hamlet@75834 QUEEN GERTRUDE Did you assay him? hamlet@75868 To any pastime? hamlet@75885 hamlet@75886 ROSENCRANTZ Madam, it so fell out, that certain players hamlet@75942 We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him; hamlet@75992 And there did seem in him a kind of joy hamlet@76033 To hear of it: they are about the court, hamlet@76075 And, as I think, they have already order hamlet@76117 This night to play before him. hamlet@76149 hamlet@76150 LORD POLONIUS 'Tis most true: hamlet@76180 And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties hamlet@76227 To hear and see the matter. hamlet@76256 hamlet@76257 KING CLAUDIUS With all my heart; and it doth much content me hamlet@76318 To hear him so inclined. hamlet@76344 Good gentlemen, give him a further edge, hamlet@76386 And drive his purpose on to these delights. hamlet@76431 hamlet@76432 ROSENCRANTZ We shall, my lord. hamlet@76463 hamlet@76464 [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@76503 hamlet@76504 KING CLAUDIUS Sweet Gertrude, leave us too; hamlet@76566 For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, hamlet@76611 That he, as 'twere by accident, may here hamlet@76653 Affront Ophelia: hamlet@76671 Her father and myself, lawful espials, hamlet@76711 Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen, hamlet@76759 We may of their encounter frankly judge, hamlet@76801 And gather by him, as he is behaved, hamlet@76839 If 't be the affliction of his love or no hamlet@76882 That thus he suffers for. hamlet@76909 hamlet@76910 QUEEN GERTRUDE I shall obey you. hamlet@76943 And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish hamlet@76982 That your good beauties be the happy cause hamlet@77026 Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues hamlet@77078 Will bring him to his wonted way again, hamlet@77119 To both your honours. hamlet@77142 hamlet@77143 OPHELIA Madam, I wish it may. hamlet@77173 hamlet@77174 [Exit QUEEN GERTRUDE] hamlet@77197 hamlet@77198 LORD POLONIUS Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you, hamlet@77261 We will bestow ourselves. hamlet@77288 hamlet@77289 [To OPHELIA] hamlet@77303 hamlet@77304 Read on this book; hamlet@77329 That show of such an exercise may colour hamlet@77371 Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,-- hamlet@77420 'Tis too much proved--that with devotion's visage hamlet@77471 And pious action we do sugar o'er hamlet@77506 The devil himself. hamlet@77526 hamlet@77527 KING CLAUDIUS [Aside] O, 'tis too true! hamlet@77576 How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! hamlet@77631 The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, hamlet@77682 Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it hamlet@77727 Than is my deed to my most painted word: hamlet@77769 O heavy burthen! hamlet@77787 hamlet@77788 LORD POLONIUS I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord. hamlet@77846 hamlet@77847 [Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS] hamlet@77884 hamlet@77885 [Enter HAMLET] hamlet@77901 hamlet@77902 HAMLET To be, or not to be: that is the question: hamlet@77952 Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer hamlet@77995 The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, hamlet@78041 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, hamlet@78085 And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; hamlet@78130 No more; and by a sleep to say we end hamlet@78169 The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks hamlet@78217 That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation hamlet@78261 Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; hamlet@78303 To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; hamlet@78355 For in that sleep of death what dreams may come hamlet@78404 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, hamlet@78449 Must give us pause: there's the respect hamlet@78490 That makes calamity of so long life; hamlet@78528 For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, hamlet@78578 The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, hamlet@78629 The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, hamlet@78675 The insolence of office and the spurns hamlet@78715 That patient merit of the unworthy takes, hamlet@78758 When he himself might his quietus make hamlet@78798 With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, hamlet@78843 To grunt and sweat under a weary life, hamlet@78883 But that the dread of something after death, hamlet@78929 The undiscover'd country from whose bourn hamlet@78972 No traveller returns, puzzles the will hamlet@79012 And makes us rather bear those ills we have hamlet@79057 Than fly to others that we know not of? hamlet@79098 Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; hamlet@79144 And thus the native hue of resolution hamlet@79183 Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, hamlet@79232 And enterprises of great pith and moment hamlet@79274 With this regard their currents turn awry, hamlet@79318 And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! hamlet@79363 The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons hamlet@79404 Be all my sins remember'd. hamlet@79432 hamlet@79433 OPHELIA Good my lord, hamlet@79455 How does your honour for this many a day? hamlet@79498 hamlet@79499 HAMLET I humbly thank you; well, well, well. hamlet@79544 hamlet@79545 OPHELIA My lord, I have remembrances of yours, hamlet@79592 That I have longed long to re-deliver; hamlet@79632 I pray you, now receive them. hamlet@79663 hamlet@79664 HAMLET No, not I; hamlet@79682 I never gave you aught. hamlet@79707 hamlet@79708 OPHELIA My honour'd lord, you know right well you did; hamlet@79763 And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed hamlet@79814 As made the things more rich: their perfume lost, hamlet@79865 Take these again; for to the noble mind hamlet@79906 Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. hamlet@79953 There, my lord. hamlet@79970 hamlet@79971 HAMLET Ha, ha! are you honest? hamlet@80002 hamlet@80003 OPHELIA My lord? hamlet@80020 hamlet@80021 HAMLET Are you fair? hamlet@80042 hamlet@80043 OPHELIA What means your lordship? hamlet@80077 hamlet@80078 HAMLET That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should hamlet@80137 admit no discourse to your beauty. hamlet@80173 hamlet@80174 OPHELIA Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than hamlet@80231 with honesty? hamlet@80246 hamlet@80247 HAMLET Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner hamlet@80301 transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the hamlet@80355 force of honesty can translate beauty into his hamlet@80403 likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the hamlet@80455 time gives it proof. I did love you once. hamlet@80498 hamlet@80499 OPHELIA Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. hamlet@80548 hamlet@80549 HAMLET You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot hamlet@80607 so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of hamlet@80658 it: I loved you not. hamlet@80680 hamlet@80681 OPHELIA I was the more deceived. hamlet@80714 hamlet@80715 HAMLET Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a hamlet@80767 breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; hamlet@80820 but yet I could accuse me of such things that it hamlet@80870 were better my mother had not borne me: I am very hamlet@80921 proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at hamlet@80974 my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, hamlet@81020 imagination to give them shape, or time to act them hamlet@81073 in. What should such fellows as I do crawling hamlet@81120 between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, hamlet@81169 all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. hamlet@81221 Where's your father? hamlet@81243 hamlet@81244 OPHELIA At home, my lord. hamlet@81270 hamlet@81271 HAMLET Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the hamlet@81331 fool no where but in's own house. Farewell. hamlet@81376 hamlet@81377 OPHELIA O, help him, you sweet heavens! hamlet@81417 hamlet@81418 HAMLET If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for hamlet@81476 thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as hamlet@81525 snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a hamlet@81577 nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs hamlet@81624 marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough hamlet@81676 what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, hamlet@81727 and quickly too. Farewell. hamlet@81755 hamlet@81756 OPHELIA O heavenly powers, restore him! hamlet@81796 hamlet@81797 HAMLET I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God hamlet@81857 has given you one face, and you make yourselves hamlet@81906 another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and hamlet@81954 nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness hamlet@82007 your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath hamlet@82058 made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages: hamlet@82111 those that are married already, all but one, shall hamlet@82163 live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a hamlet@82208 nunnery, go. hamlet@82222 hamlet@82223 [Exit] hamlet@82231 hamlet@82232 OPHELIA O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! hamlet@82281 The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; hamlet@82340 The expectancy and rose of the fair state, hamlet@82384 The glass of fashion and the mould of form, hamlet@82429 The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! hamlet@82480 And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, hamlet@82524 That suck'd the honey of his music vows, hamlet@82566 Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, hamlet@82613 Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; hamlet@82663 That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth hamlet@82711 Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me, hamlet@82748 To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! hamlet@82796 hamlet@82797 [Re-enter KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS] hamlet@82836 hamlet@82837 KING CLAUDIUS Love! his affections do not that way tend; hamlet@82894 Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little, hamlet@82946 Was not like madness. There's something in his soul, hamlet@83000 O'er which his melancholy sits on brood; hamlet@83042 And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose hamlet@83085 Will be some danger: which for to prevent, hamlet@83129 I have in quick determination hamlet@83160 Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England, hamlet@83211 For the demand of our neglected tribute hamlet@83252 Haply the seas and countries different hamlet@83292 With variable objects shall expel hamlet@83327 This something-settled matter in his heart, hamlet@83372 Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus hamlet@83420 From fashion of himself. What think you on't? hamlet@83467 hamlet@83468 LORD POLONIUS It shall do well: but yet do I believe hamlet@83521 The origin and commencement of his grief hamlet@83563 Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia! hamlet@83610 You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said; hamlet@83655 We heard it all. My lord, do as you please; hamlet@83700 But, if you hold it fit, after the play hamlet@83741 Let his queen mother all alone entreat him hamlet@83785 To show his grief: let her be round with him; hamlet@83832 And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear hamlet@83879 Of all their conference. If she find him not, hamlet@83926 To England send him, or confine him where hamlet@83969 Your wisdom best shall think. hamlet@84000 hamlet@84001 KING CLAUDIUS It shall be so: hamlet@84031 Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. hamlet@84077 hamlet@84078 [Exeunt] hamlet@84088 hamlet@84089 hamlet@84090 hamlet@84091 hamlet@84092 HAMLET hamlet@84100 hamlet@84101 hamlet@84102 ACT III hamlet@84110 hamlet@84111 hamlet@84112 hamlet@84113 SCENE II A hall in the castle. hamlet@84144 hamlet@84145 hamlet@84146 [Enter HAMLET and Players] hamlet@84174 hamlet@84175 HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to hamlet@84234 you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, hamlet@84287 as many of your players do, I had as lief the hamlet@84334 town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air hamlet@84385 too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; hamlet@84437 for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, hamlet@84491 the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget hamlet@84545 a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it hamlet@84594 offends me to the soul to hear a robustious hamlet@84639 periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to hamlet@84691 very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who hamlet@84745 for the most part are capable of nothing but hamlet@84791 inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such hamlet@84844 a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it hamlet@84890 out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. hamlet@84929 hamlet@84930 First Player I warrant your honour. hamlet@84966 hamlet@84967 HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion hamlet@85027 be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the hamlet@85076 word to the action; with this special o'erstep not hamlet@85128 the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is hamlet@85181 from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the hamlet@85234 first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the hamlet@85286 mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, hamlet@85340 scorn her own image, and the very age and body of hamlet@85391 the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, hamlet@85443 or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful hamlet@85492 laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the hamlet@85542 censure of the which one must in your allowance hamlet@85591 o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be hamlet@85641 players that I have seen play, and heard others hamlet@85690 praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, hamlet@85743 that, neither having the accent of Christians nor hamlet@85794 the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so hamlet@85842 strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of hamlet@85893 nature's journeymen had made men and not made them hamlet@85945 well, they imitated humanity so abominably. hamlet@85990 hamlet@85991 First Player I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, hamlet@86056 sir. hamlet@86062 hamlet@86063 HAMLET O, reform it altogether. And let those that play hamlet@86119 your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; hamlet@86173 for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to hamlet@86226 set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh hamlet@86278 too; though, in the mean time, some necessary hamlet@86325 question of the play be then to be considered: hamlet@86373 that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition hamlet@86426 in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready. hamlet@86473 hamlet@86474 [Exeunt Players] hamlet@86492 hamlet@86493 [Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@86542 hamlet@86543 How now, my lord! I will the king hear this piece of work? hamlet@86603 hamlet@86604 LORD POLONIUS And the queen too, and that presently. hamlet@86657 hamlet@86658 HAMLET Bid the players make haste. hamlet@86693 hamlet@86694 [Exit POLONIUS] hamlet@86711 hamlet@86712 Will you two help to hasten them? hamlet@86747 hamlet@86748 hamlet@86749 ROSENCRANTZ | hamlet@86763 | We will, my lord. hamlet@86785 GUILDENSTERN | hamlet@86800 hamlet@86801 hamlet@86802 [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@86841 hamlet@86842 HAMLET What ho! Horatio! hamlet@86867 hamlet@86868 [Enter HORATIO] hamlet@86885 hamlet@86886 HORATIO Here, sweet lord, at your service. hamlet@86929 hamlet@86930 HAMLET Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man hamlet@86974 As e'er my conversation coped withal. hamlet@87013 hamlet@87014 HORATIO O, my dear lord,-- hamlet@87041 hamlet@87042 HAMLET Nay, do not think I flatter; hamlet@87096 For what advancement may I hope from thee hamlet@87139 That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, hamlet@87183 To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? hamlet@87243 No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, hamlet@87289 And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee hamlet@87332 Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? hamlet@87382 Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice hamlet@87429 And could of men distinguish, her election hamlet@87473 Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been hamlet@87523 As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, hamlet@87572 A man that fortune's buffets and rewards hamlet@87614 Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those hamlet@87665 Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, hamlet@87715 That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger hamlet@87762 To sound what stop she please. Give me that man hamlet@87811 That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him hamlet@87861 In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, hamlet@87908 As I do thee.--Something too much of this.-- hamlet@87954 There is a play to-night before the king; hamlet@87997 One scene of it comes near the circumstance hamlet@88042 Which I have told thee of my father's death: hamlet@88088 I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, hamlet@88132 Even with the very comment of thy soul hamlet@88172 Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt hamlet@88215 Do not itself unkennel in one speech, hamlet@88254 It is a damned ghost that we have seen, hamlet@88295 And my imaginations are as foul hamlet@88328 As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note; hamlet@88372 For I mine eyes will rivet to his face, hamlet@88413 And after we will both our judgments join hamlet@88456 In censure of his seeming. hamlet@88484 hamlet@88485 HORATIO Well, my lord: hamlet@88508 If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing, hamlet@88560 And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft. hamlet@88605 hamlet@88606 HAMLET They are coming to the play; I must be idle: hamlet@88658 Get you a place. hamlet@88676 hamlet@88677 [Danish march. A flourish. Enter KING CLAUDIUS, hamlet@88726 QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, hamlet@88775 GUILDENSTERN, and others] hamlet@88802 hamlet@88803 KING CLAUDIUS How fares our cousin Hamlet? hamlet@88846 hamlet@88847 HAMLET Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat hamlet@88906 the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so. hamlet@88960 hamlet@88961 KING CLAUDIUS I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words hamlet@89028 are not mine. hamlet@89043 hamlet@89044 HAMLET No, nor mine now. hamlet@89069 hamlet@89070 [To POLONIUS] hamlet@89085 hamlet@89086 My lord, you played once i' the university, you say? hamlet@89140 hamlet@89141 LORD POLONIUS That did I, my lord; and was accounted a good actor. hamlet@89208 hamlet@89209 HAMLET What did you enact? hamlet@89236 hamlet@89237 LORD POLONIUS I did enact Julius Caesar: I was killed i' the hamlet@89298 Capitol; Brutus killed me. hamlet@89326 hamlet@89327 HAMLET It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf hamlet@89387 there. Be the players ready? hamlet@89417 hamlet@89418 ROSENCRANTZ Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience. hamlet@89473 hamlet@89474 QUEEN GERTRUDE Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me. hamlet@89529 hamlet@89530 HAMLET No, good mother, here's metal more attractive. hamlet@89584 hamlet@89585 LORD POLONIUS [To KING CLAUDIUS] O, ho! do you mark that? hamlet@89644 hamlet@89645 HAMLET Lady, shall I lie in your lap? hamlet@89683 hamlet@89684 [Lying down at OPHELIA's feet] hamlet@89716 hamlet@89717 OPHELIA No, my lord. hamlet@89738 hamlet@89739 HAMLET I mean, my head upon your lap? hamlet@89777 hamlet@89778 OPHELIA Ay, my lord. hamlet@89799 hamlet@89800 HAMLET Do you think I meant country matters? hamlet@89845 hamlet@89846 OPHELIA I think nothing, my lord. hamlet@89880 hamlet@89881 HAMLET That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. hamlet@89938 hamlet@89939 OPHELIA What is, my lord? hamlet@89965 hamlet@89966 HAMLET Nothing. hamlet@89982 hamlet@89983 OPHELIA You are merry, my lord. hamlet@90015 hamlet@90016 HAMLET Who, I? hamlet@90031 hamlet@90032 OPHELIA Ay, my lord. hamlet@90053 hamlet@90054 HAMLET O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do hamlet@90110 but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my hamlet@90158 mother looks, and my father died within these two hours. hamlet@90216 hamlet@90217 OPHELIA Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord. hamlet@90262 hamlet@90263 HAMLET So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for hamlet@90319 I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two hamlet@90367 months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hamlet@90416 hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half hamlet@90469 a year: but, by'r lady, he must build churches, hamlet@90518 then; or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with hamlet@90571 the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is 'For, O, for, O, hamlet@90623 the hobby-horse is forgot.' hamlet@90652 hamlet@90653 [Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters] hamlet@90692 hamlet@90693 [Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen hamlet@90745 embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes hamlet@90795 show of protestation unto him. He takes her up, hamlet@90844 and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down hamlet@90896 upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep, hamlet@90945 leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his hamlet@90996 crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's hamlet@91046 ears, and exit. The Queen returns; finds the King hamlet@91097 dead, and makes passionate action. The Poisoner, hamlet@91147 with some two or three Mutes, comes in again, hamlet@91194 seeming to lament with her. The dead body is hamlet@91240 carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with hamlet@91289 gifts: she seems loath and unwilling awhile, but hamlet@91339 in the end accepts his love] hamlet@91369 hamlet@91370 [Exeunt] hamlet@91380 hamlet@91381 OPHELIA What means this, my lord? hamlet@91415 hamlet@91416 HAMLET Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief. hamlet@91475 hamlet@91476 OPHELIA Belike this show imports the argument of the play. hamlet@91535 hamlet@91536 [Enter Prologue] hamlet@91554 hamlet@91555 HAMLET We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot hamlet@91611 keep counsel; they'll tell all. hamlet@91644 hamlet@91645 OPHELIA Will he tell us what this show meant? hamlet@91691 hamlet@91692 HAMLET Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you hamlet@91748 ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means. hamlet@91809 hamlet@91810 OPHELIA You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play. hamlet@91870 hamlet@91871 Prologue For us, and for our tragedy, hamlet@91914 Here stooping to your clemency, hamlet@91947 We beg your hearing patiently. hamlet@91979 hamlet@91980 [Exit] hamlet@91988 hamlet@91989 HAMLET Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? hamlet@92039 hamlet@92040 OPHELIA 'Tis brief, my lord. hamlet@92069 hamlet@92070 HAMLET As woman's love. hamlet@92094 hamlet@92095 [Enter two Players, King and Queen] hamlet@92132 hamlet@92133 Player King Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round hamlet@92196 Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground, hamlet@92243 And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen hamlet@92287 About the world have times twelve thirties been, hamlet@92337 Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands hamlet@92384 Unite commutual in most sacred bands. hamlet@92423 hamlet@92424 Player Queen So many journeys may the sun and moon hamlet@92478 Make us again count o'er ere love be done! hamlet@92522 But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, hamlet@92564 So far from cheer and from your former state, hamlet@92611 That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust, hamlet@92657 Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must: hamlet@92700 For women's fear and love holds quantity; hamlet@92743 In neither aught, or in extremity. hamlet@92779 Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know; hamlet@92828 And as my love is sized, my fear is so: hamlet@92869 Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; hamlet@92921 Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. hamlet@92977 hamlet@92978 Player King 'Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too; hamlet@93040 My operant powers their functions leave to do: hamlet@93088 And thou shalt live in this fair world behind, hamlet@93136 Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind hamlet@93178 For husband shalt thou-- hamlet@93204 hamlet@93205 Player Queen O, confound the rest! hamlet@93240 Such love must needs be treason in my breast: hamlet@93287 In second husband let me be accurst! hamlet@93325 None wed the second but who kill'd the first. hamlet@93372 hamlet@93373 HAMLET [Aside] Wormwood, wormwood. hamlet@93409 hamlet@93410 Player Queen The instances that second marriage move hamlet@93466 Are base respects of thrift, but none of love: hamlet@93514 A second time I kill my husband dead, hamlet@93553 When second husband kisses me in bed. hamlet@93592 hamlet@93593 Player King I do believe you think what now you speak; hamlet@93651 But what we do determine oft we break. hamlet@93691 Purpose is but the slave to memory, hamlet@93728 Of violent birth, but poor validity; hamlet@93766 Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree; hamlet@93817 But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be. hamlet@93859 Most necessary 'tis that we forget hamlet@93895 To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt: hamlet@93940 What to ourselves in passion we propose, hamlet@93982 The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. hamlet@94026 The violence of either grief or joy hamlet@94063 Their own enactures with themselves destroy: hamlet@94109 Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; hamlet@94157 Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. hamlet@94204 This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange hamlet@94253 That even our loves should with our fortunes change; hamlet@94307 For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, hamlet@94350 Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. hamlet@94400 The great man down, you mark his favourite flies; hamlet@94451 The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. hamlet@94496 And hitherto doth love on fortune tend; hamlet@94537 For who not needs shall never lack a friend, hamlet@94583 And who in want a hollow friend doth try, hamlet@94626 Directly seasons him his enemy. hamlet@94659 But, orderly to end where I begun, hamlet@94695 Our wills and fates do so contrary run hamlet@94735 That our devices still are overthrown; hamlet@94775 Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own: hamlet@94827 So think thou wilt no second husband wed; hamlet@94870 But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead. hamlet@94921 hamlet@94922 Player Queen Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light! hamlet@94983 Sport and repose lock from me day and night! hamlet@95029 To desperation turn my trust and hope! hamlet@95069 An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope! hamlet@95111 Each opposite that blanks the face of joy hamlet@95154 Meet what I would have well and it destroy! hamlet@95199 Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, hamlet@95246 If, once a widow, ever I be wife! hamlet@95281 hamlet@95282 HAMLET If she should break it now! hamlet@95317 hamlet@95318 Player King 'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile; hamlet@95378 My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile hamlet@95426 The tedious day with sleep. hamlet@95455 hamlet@95456 [Sleeps] hamlet@95466 hamlet@95467 Player Queen Sleep rock thy brain, hamlet@95502 And never come mischance between us twain! hamlet@95546 hamlet@95547 [Exit] hamlet@95555 hamlet@95556 HAMLET Madam, how like you this play? hamlet@95594 hamlet@95595 QUEEN GERTRUDE The lady protests too much, methinks. hamlet@95648 hamlet@95649 HAMLET O, but she'll keep her word. hamlet@95685 hamlet@95686 KING CLAUDIUS Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in 't? hamlet@95756 hamlet@95757 HAMLET No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence hamlet@95817 i' the world. hamlet@95832 hamlet@95833 KING CLAUDIUS What do you call the play? hamlet@95874 hamlet@95875 HAMLET The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play hamlet@95932 is the image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is hamlet@95985 the duke's name; his wife, Baptista: you shall see hamlet@96037 anon; 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o' hamlet@96086 that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it hamlet@96138 touches us not: let the galled jade wince, our hamlet@96186 withers are unwrung. hamlet@96208 hamlet@96209 [Enter LUCIANUS] hamlet@96227 hamlet@96228 This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king. hamlet@96271 hamlet@96272 OPHELIA You are as good as a chorus, my lord. hamlet@96318 hamlet@96319 HAMLET I could interpret between you and your love, if I hamlet@96376 could see the puppets dallying. hamlet@96409 hamlet@96410 OPHELIA You are keen, my lord, you are keen. hamlet@96455 hamlet@96456 HAMLET It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge. hamlet@96513 hamlet@96514 OPHELIA Still better, and worse. hamlet@96547 hamlet@96548 HAMLET So you must take your husbands. Begin, murderer; hamlet@96604 pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come: hamlet@96653 'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.' hamlet@96700 hamlet@96701 LUCIANUS Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing; hamlet@96770 Confederate season, else no creature seeing; hamlet@96816 Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, hamlet@96865 With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected, hamlet@96917 Thy natural magic and dire property, hamlet@96955 On wholesome life usurp immediately. hamlet@96993 hamlet@96994 [Pours the poison into the sleeper's ears] hamlet@97038 hamlet@97039 HAMLET He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His hamlet@97093 name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in hamlet@97143 choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murderer hamlet@97196 gets the love of Gonzago's wife. hamlet@97230 hamlet@97231 OPHELIA The king rises. hamlet@97255 hamlet@97256 HAMLET What, frighted with false fire! hamlet@97295 hamlet@97296 QUEEN GERTRUDE How fares my lord? hamlet@97330 hamlet@97331 LORD POLONIUS Give o'er the play. hamlet@97365 hamlet@97366 KING CLAUDIUS Give me some light: away! hamlet@97406 hamlet@97407 All Lights, lights, lights! hamlet@97435 hamlet@97436 [Exeunt all but HAMLET and HORATIO] hamlet@97473 hamlet@97474 HAMLET Why, let the stricken deer go weep, hamlet@97522 The hart ungalled play; hamlet@97547 For some must watch, while some must sleep: hamlet@97592 So runs the world away. hamlet@97617 Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers-- if hamlet@97669 the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me--with two hamlet@97722 Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a hamlet@97768 fellowship in a cry of players, sir? hamlet@97806 hamlet@97807 HORATIO Half a share. hamlet@97829 hamlet@97830 HAMLET A whole one, I. hamlet@97853 For thou dost know, O Damon dear, hamlet@97888 This realm dismantled was hamlet@97915 Of Jove himself; and now reigns here hamlet@97953 A very, very--pajock. hamlet@97976 hamlet@97977 HORATIO You might have rhymed. hamlet@98008 hamlet@98009 HAMLET O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a hamlet@98065 thousand pound. Didst perceive? hamlet@98098 hamlet@98099 HORATIO Very well, my lord. hamlet@98127 hamlet@98128 HAMLET Upon the talk of the poisoning? hamlet@98167 hamlet@98168 HORATIO I did very well note him. hamlet@98202 hamlet@98203 HAMLET Ah, ha! Come, some music! come, the recorders! hamlet@98257 For if the king like not the comedy, hamlet@98295 Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy. hamlet@98338 Come, some music! hamlet@98357 hamlet@98358 [Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@98399 hamlet@98400 GUILDENSTERN Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you. hamlet@98457 hamlet@98458 HAMLET Sir, a whole history. hamlet@98487 hamlet@98488 GUILDENSTERN The king, sir,-- hamlet@98518 hamlet@98519 HAMLET Ay, sir, what of him? hamlet@98548 hamlet@98549 GUILDENSTERN Is in his retirement marvellous distempered. hamlet@98607 hamlet@98608 HAMLET With drink, sir? hamlet@98632 hamlet@98633 GUILDENSTERN No, my lord, rather with choler. hamlet@98679 hamlet@98680 HAMLET Your wisdom should show itself more richer to hamlet@98733 signify this to his doctor; for, for me to put him hamlet@98785 to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far hamlet@98837 more choler. hamlet@98851 hamlet@98852 GUILDENSTERN Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame and hamlet@98918 start not so wildly from my affair. hamlet@98955 hamlet@98956 HAMLET I am tame, sir: pronounce. hamlet@98990 hamlet@98991 GUILDENSTERN The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of hamlet@99056 spirit, hath sent me to you. hamlet@99086 hamlet@99087 HAMLET You are welcome. hamlet@99111 hamlet@99112 GUILDENSTERN Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right hamlet@99178 breed. If it shall please you to make me a hamlet@99222 wholesome answer, I will do your mother's hamlet@99265 commandment: if not, your pardon and my return hamlet@99313 shall be the end of my business. hamlet@99347 hamlet@99348 HAMLET Sir, I cannot. hamlet@99370 hamlet@99371 GUILDENSTERN What, my lord? hamlet@99399 hamlet@99400 HAMLET Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased: but, hamlet@99460 sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command; hamlet@99512 or, rather, as you say, my mother: therefore no hamlet@99561 more, but to the matter: my mother, you say,-- hamlet@99609 hamlet@99610 ROSENCRANTZ Then thus she says; your behavior hath struck her hamlet@99672 into amazement and admiration. hamlet@99704 hamlet@99705 HAMLET O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother! But hamlet@99764 is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's hamlet@99814 admiration? Impart. hamlet@99835 hamlet@99836 ROSENCRANTZ She desires to speak with you in her closet, ere you hamlet@99901 go to bed. hamlet@99913 hamlet@99914 HAMLET We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have hamlet@99972 you any further trade with us? hamlet@100004 hamlet@100005 ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you once did love me. hamlet@100048 hamlet@100049 HAMLET So I do still, by these pickers and stealers. hamlet@100102 hamlet@100103 ROSENCRANTZ Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you hamlet@100166 do, surely, bar the door upon your own liberty, if hamlet@100218 you deny your griefs to your friend. hamlet@100256 hamlet@100257 HAMLET Sir, I lack advancement. hamlet@100289 hamlet@100290 ROSENCRANTZ How can that be, when you have the voice of the king hamlet@100355 himself for your succession in Denmark? hamlet@100396 hamlet@100397 HAMLET Ay, but sir, 'While the grass grows,'--the proverb hamlet@100455 is something musty. hamlet@100476 hamlet@100477 [Re-enter Players with recorders] hamlet@100512 hamlet@100513 O, the recorders! let me see one. To withdraw with hamlet@100565 you:--why do you go about to recover the wind of me, hamlet@100619 as if you would drive me into a toil? hamlet@100658 hamlet@100659 GUILDENSTERN O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too hamlet@100723 unmannerly. hamlet@100736 hamlet@100737 HAMLET I do not well understand that. Will you play upon hamlet@100794 this pipe? hamlet@100806 hamlet@100807 GUILDENSTERN My lord, I cannot. hamlet@100839 hamlet@100840 HAMLET I pray you. hamlet@100859 hamlet@100860 GUILDENSTERN Believe me, I cannot. hamlet@100895 hamlet@100896 HAMLET I do beseech you. hamlet@100921 hamlet@100922 GUILDENSTERN I know no touch of it, my lord. hamlet@100967 hamlet@100968 HAMLET 'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with hamlet@101025 your lingers and thumb, give it breath with your hamlet@101075 mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. hamlet@101126 Look you, these are the stops. hamlet@101158 hamlet@101159 GUILDENSTERN But these cannot I command to any utterance of hamlet@101219 harmony; I have not the skill. hamlet@101251 hamlet@101252 HAMLET Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of hamlet@101311 me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know hamlet@101363 my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my hamlet@101410 mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to hamlet@101462 the top of my compass: and there is much music, hamlet@101511 excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot hamlet@101562 you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am hamlet@101609 easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what hamlet@101659 instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you hamlet@101713 cannot play upon me. hamlet@101735 hamlet@101736 [Enter POLONIUS] hamlet@101754 hamlet@101755 God bless you, sir! hamlet@101776 hamlet@101777 LORD POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and hamlet@101836 presently. hamlet@101848 hamlet@101849 HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? hamlet@101915 hamlet@101916 LORD POLONIUS By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. hamlet@101974 hamlet@101975 HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel. hamlet@102012 hamlet@102013 LORD POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel. hamlet@102055 hamlet@102056 HAMLET Or like a whale? hamlet@102080 hamlet@102081 LORD POLONIUS Very like a whale. hamlet@102114 hamlet@102115 HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. They fool hamlet@102173 me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by. hamlet@102223 hamlet@102224 LORD POLONIUS I will say so. hamlet@102253 hamlet@102254 HAMLET By and by is easily said. hamlet@102287 hamlet@102288 [Exit POLONIUS] hamlet@102305 hamlet@102306 Leave me, friends. hamlet@102326 hamlet@102327 [Exeunt all but HAMLET] hamlet@102352 hamlet@102353 Tis now the very witching time of night, hamlet@102395 When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out hamlet@102447 Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, hamlet@102502 And do such bitter business as the day hamlet@102542 Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother. hamlet@102591 O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever hamlet@102635 The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: hamlet@102676 Let me be cruel, not unnatural: hamlet@102709 I will speak daggers to her, but use none; hamlet@102753 My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites; hamlet@102796 How in my words soever she be shent, hamlet@102834 To give them seals never, my soul, consent! hamlet@102879 hamlet@102880 [Exit] hamlet@102888 hamlet@102889 hamlet@102890 hamlet@102891 HAMLET hamlet@102899 hamlet@102900 hamlet@102901 ACT III hamlet@102909 hamlet@102910 hamlet@102911 hamlet@102912 SCENE III A room in the castle. hamlet@102944 hamlet@102945 hamlet@102946 [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@103000 hamlet@103001 KING CLAUDIUS I like him not, nor stands it safe with us hamlet@103058 To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you; hamlet@103108 I your commission will forthwith dispatch, hamlet@103152 And he to England shall along with you: hamlet@103193 The terms of our estate may not endure hamlet@103233 Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow hamlet@103274 Out of his lunacies. hamlet@103296 hamlet@103297 GUILDENSTERN We will ourselves provide: hamlet@103337 Most holy and religious fear it is hamlet@103373 To keep those many many bodies safe hamlet@103410 That live and feed upon your majesty. hamlet@103449 hamlet@103450 ROSENCRANTZ The single and peculiar life is bound, hamlet@103501 With all the strength and armour of the mind, hamlet@103548 To keep itself from noyance; but much more hamlet@103592 That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest hamlet@103637 The lives of many. The cease of majesty hamlet@103678 Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw hamlet@103723 What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel, hamlet@103769 Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, hamlet@103812 To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things hamlet@103861 Are mortised and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, hamlet@103911 Each small annexment, petty consequence, hamlet@103953 Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone hamlet@103995 Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. hamlet@104041 hamlet@104042 KING CLAUDIUS Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage; hamlet@104100 For we will fetters put upon this fear, hamlet@104141 Which now goes too free-footed. hamlet@104174 hamlet@104175 hamlet@104176 ROSENCRANTZ | hamlet@104190 | We will haste us. hamlet@104211 GUILDENSTERN | hamlet@104226 hamlet@104227 hamlet@104228 [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@104267 hamlet@104268 [Enter POLONIUS] hamlet@104286 hamlet@104287 LORD POLONIUS My lord, he's going to his mother's closet: hamlet@104345 Behind the arras I'll convey myself, hamlet@104383 To hear the process; and warrant she'll tax him home: hamlet@104438 And, as you said, and wisely was it said, hamlet@104481 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, hamlet@104531 Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear hamlet@104581 The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege: hamlet@104631 I'll call upon you ere you go to bed, hamlet@104670 And tell you what I know. hamlet@104697 hamlet@104698 KING CLAUDIUS Thanks, dear my lord. hamlet@104734 hamlet@104735 [Exit POLONIUS] hamlet@104752 hamlet@104753 O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven; hamlet@104797 It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, hamlet@104838 A brother's murder. Pray can I not, hamlet@104875 Though inclination be as sharp as will: hamlet@104916 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; hamlet@104961 And, like a man to double business bound, hamlet@105004 I stand in pause where I shall first begin, hamlet@105049 And both neglect. What if this cursed hand hamlet@105093 Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, hamlet@105141 Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens hamlet@105188 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy hamlet@105236 But to confront the visage of offence? hamlet@105276 And what's in prayer but this two-fold force, hamlet@105323 To be forestalled ere we come to fall, hamlet@105363 Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up; hamlet@105407 My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer hamlet@105454 Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'? hamlet@105503 That cannot be; since I am still possess'd hamlet@105547 Of those effects for which I did the murder, hamlet@105593 My crown, mine own ambition and my queen. hamlet@105636 May one be pardon'd and retain the offence? hamlet@105681 In the corrupted currents of this world hamlet@105722 Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, hamlet@105767 And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself hamlet@105810 Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; hamlet@105852 There is no shuffling, there the action lies hamlet@105898 In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, hamlet@105947 Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, hamlet@105994 To give in evidence. What then? what rests? hamlet@106039 Try what repentance can: what can it not? hamlet@106082 Yet what can it when one can not repent? hamlet@106124 O wretched state! O bosom black as death! hamlet@106167 O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, hamlet@106211 Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! hamlet@106256 Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel, hamlet@106312 Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe! hamlet@106352 All may be well. hamlet@106370 hamlet@106371 [Retires and kneels] hamlet@106393 hamlet@106394 [Enter HAMLET] hamlet@106410 hamlet@106411 HAMLET Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; hamlet@106460 And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven; hamlet@106506 And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd: hamlet@106552 A villain kills my father; and for that, hamlet@106594 I, his sole son, do this same villain send hamlet@106638 To heaven. hamlet@106650 O, this is hire and salary, not revenge. hamlet@106692 He took my father grossly, full of bread; hamlet@106735 With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; hamlet@106786 And how his audit stands who knows save heaven? hamlet@106835 But in our circumstance and course of thought, hamlet@106883 'Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged, hamlet@106929 To take him in the purging of his soul, hamlet@106970 When he is fit and season'd for his passage? hamlet@107016 No! hamlet@107021 Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent: hamlet@107067 When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, hamlet@107109 Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed; hamlet@107152 At gaming, swearing, or about some act hamlet@107192 That has no relish of salvation in't; hamlet@107231 Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, hamlet@107282 And that his soul may be as damn'd and black hamlet@107328 As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays: hamlet@107372 This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. hamlet@107415 hamlet@107416 [Exit] hamlet@107424 hamlet@107425 KING CLAUDIUS [Rising] My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: hamlet@107492 Words without thoughts never to heaven go. hamlet@107536 hamlet@107537 [Exit] hamlet@107545 hamlet@107546 hamlet@107547 hamlet@107548 hamlet@107549 HAMLET hamlet@107557 hamlet@107558 hamlet@107559 ACT III hamlet@107567 hamlet@107568 hamlet@107569 hamlet@107570 SCENE IV The Queen's closet. hamlet@107599 hamlet@107600 hamlet@107601 [Enter QUEEN MARGARET and POLONIUS] hamlet@107638 hamlet@107639 LORD POLONIUS He will come straight. Look you lay home to him: hamlet@107702 Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, hamlet@107757 And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between hamlet@107810 Much heat and him. I'll sconce me even here. hamlet@107856 Pray you, be round with him. hamlet@107886 hamlet@107887 HAMLET [Within] Mother, mother, mother! hamlet@107928 hamlet@107929 QUEEN GERTRUDE I'll warrant you, hamlet@107962 Fear me not: withdraw, I hear him coming. hamlet@108005 hamlet@108006 [POLONIUS hides behind the arras] hamlet@108041 hamlet@108042 [Enter HAMLET] hamlet@108058 hamlet@108059 HAMLET Now, mother, what's the matter? hamlet@108098 hamlet@108099 QUEEN GERTRUDE Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. hamlet@108158 hamlet@108159 HAMLET Mother, you have my father much offended. hamlet@108208 hamlet@108209 QUEEN GERTRUDE Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. hamlet@108268 hamlet@108269 HAMLET Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. hamlet@108319 hamlet@108320 QUEEN GERTRUDE Why, how now, Hamlet! hamlet@108357 hamlet@108358 HAMLET What's the matter now? hamlet@108388 hamlet@108389 QUEEN GERTRUDE Have you forgot me? hamlet@108424 hamlet@108425 HAMLET No, by the rood, not so: hamlet@108457 You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife; hamlet@108508 And--would it were not so!--you are my mother. hamlet@108556 hamlet@108557 QUEEN GERTRUDE Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak. hamlet@108621 hamlet@108622 HAMLET Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge; hamlet@108680 You go not till I set you up a glass hamlet@108718 Where you may see the inmost part of you. hamlet@108761 hamlet@108762 QUEEN GERTRUDE What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me? hamlet@108821 Help, help, ho! hamlet@108838 hamlet@108839 LORD POLONIUS [Behind] What, ho! help, help, help! hamlet@108891 hamlet@108892 HAMLET [Drawing] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead! hamlet@108951 hamlet@108952 [Makes a pass through the arras] hamlet@108986 hamlet@108987 LORD POLONIUS [Behind] O, I am slain! hamlet@109026 hamlet@109027 [Falls and dies] hamlet@109045 hamlet@109046 QUEEN GERTRUDE O me, what hast thou done? hamlet@109088 hamlet@109089 HAMLET Nay, I know not: hamlet@109113 Is it the king? hamlet@109130 hamlet@109131 QUEEN GERTRUDE O, what a rash and bloody deed is this! hamlet@109186 hamlet@109187 HAMLET A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, hamlet@109237 As kill a king, and marry with his brother. hamlet@109282 hamlet@109283 QUEEN GERTRUDE As kill a king! hamlet@109314 hamlet@109315 HAMLET Ay, lady, 'twas my word. hamlet@109365 hamlet@109366 [Lifts up the array and discovers POLONIUS] hamlet@109411 hamlet@109412 Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! hamlet@109460 I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune; hamlet@109507 Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger. hamlet@109552 Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down, hamlet@109604 And let me wring your heart; for so I shall, hamlet@109650 If it be made of penetrable stuff, hamlet@109686 If damned custom have not brass'd it so hamlet@109727 That it is proof and bulwark against sense. hamlet@109772 hamlet@109773 QUEEN GERTRUDE What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue hamlet@109838 In noise so rude against me? hamlet@109868 hamlet@109869 HAMLET Such an act hamlet@109888 That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, hamlet@109932 Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose hamlet@109976 From the fair forehead of an innocent love hamlet@110020 And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows hamlet@110067 As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed hamlet@110110 As from the body of contraction plucks hamlet@110150 The very soul, and sweet religion makes hamlet@110191 A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow: hamlet@110238 Yea, this solidity and compound mass, hamlet@110277 With tristful visage, as against the doom, hamlet@110321 Is thought-sick at the act. hamlet@110350 hamlet@110351 QUEEN GERTRUDE Ay me, what act, hamlet@110383 That roars so loud, and thunders in the index? hamlet@110431 hamlet@110432 HAMLET Look here, upon this picture, and on this, hamlet@110482 The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. hamlet@110528 See, what a grace was seated on this brow; hamlet@110572 Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; hamlet@110618 An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; hamlet@110662 A station like the herald Mercury hamlet@110697 New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; hamlet@110736 A combination and a form indeed, hamlet@110770 Where every god did seem to set his seal, hamlet@110813 To give the world assurance of a man: hamlet@110852 This was your husband. Look you now, what follows: hamlet@110904 Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, hamlet@110948 Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? hamlet@110996 Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, hamlet@111044 And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? hamlet@111089 You cannot call it love; for at your age hamlet@111131 The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, hamlet@111179 And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment hamlet@111227 Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have, hamlet@111281 Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense hamlet@111335 Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err, hamlet@111377 Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd hamlet@111421 But it reserved some quantity of choice, hamlet@111463 To serve in such a difference. What devil was't hamlet@111512 That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind? hamlet@111558 Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, hamlet@111604 Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, hamlet@111652 Or but a sickly part of one true sense hamlet@111692 Could not so mope. hamlet@111712 O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, hamlet@111759 If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, hamlet@111802 To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, hamlet@111842 And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame hamlet@111887 When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, hamlet@111933 Since frost itself as actively doth burn hamlet@111975 And reason panders will. hamlet@112001 hamlet@112002 QUEEN GERTRUDE O Hamlet, speak no more: hamlet@112042 Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; hamlet@112085 And there I see such black and grained spots hamlet@112131 As will not leave their tinct. hamlet@112163 hamlet@112164 HAMLET Nay, but to live hamlet@112188 In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, hamlet@112227 Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love hamlet@112275 Over the nasty sty,-- hamlet@112298 hamlet@112299 QUEEN GERTRUDE O, speak to me no more; hamlet@112338 These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears; hamlet@112386 No more, sweet Hamlet! hamlet@112410 hamlet@112411 HAMLET A murderer and a villain; hamlet@112444 A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe hamlet@112490 Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; hamlet@112532 A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, hamlet@112572 That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, hamlet@112618 And put it in his pocket! hamlet@112645 hamlet@112646 QUEEN GERTRUDE No more! hamlet@112670 hamlet@112671 HAMLET A king of shreds and patches,-- hamlet@112710 hamlet@112711 [Enter Ghost] hamlet@112726 hamlet@112727 Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings, hamlet@112772 You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure? hamlet@112827 hamlet@112828 QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, he's mad! hamlet@112859 hamlet@112860 HAMLET Do you not come your tardy son to chide, hamlet@112908 That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by hamlet@112954 The important acting of your dread command? O, say! hamlet@113007 hamlet@113008 Ghost Do not forget: this visitation hamlet@113045 Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose. hamlet@113089 But, look, amazement on thy mother sits: hamlet@113131 O, step between her and her fighting soul: hamlet@113175 Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works: hamlet@113219 Speak to her, Hamlet. hamlet@113242 hamlet@113243 HAMLET How is it with you, lady? hamlet@113276 hamlet@113277 QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, how is't with you, hamlet@113317 That you do bend your eye on vacancy hamlet@113355 And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? hamlet@113403 Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep; hamlet@113449 And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm, hamlet@113494 Your bedded hair, like life in excrements, hamlet@113538 Starts up, and stands on end. O gentle son, hamlet@113583 Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper hamlet@113625 Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look? hamlet@113671 hamlet@113672 HAMLET On him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares! hamlet@113725 His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones, hamlet@113777 Would make them capable. Do not look upon me; hamlet@113824 Lest with this piteous action you convert hamlet@113867 My stern effects: then what I have to do hamlet@113909 Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood. hamlet@113960 hamlet@113961 QUEEN GERTRUDE To whom do you speak this? hamlet@114003 hamlet@114004 HAMLET Do you see nothing there? hamlet@114037 hamlet@114038 QUEEN GERTRUDE Nothing at all; yet all that is I see. hamlet@114092 hamlet@114093 HAMLET Nor did you nothing hear? hamlet@114126 hamlet@114127 QUEEN GERTRUDE No, nothing but ourselves. hamlet@114169 hamlet@114170 HAMLET Why, look you there! look, how it steals away! hamlet@114224 My father, in his habit as he lived! hamlet@114262 Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal! hamlet@114313 hamlet@114314 [Exit Ghost] hamlet@114328 hamlet@114329 QUEEN GERTRUDE This the very coinage of your brain: hamlet@114381 This bodiless creation ecstasy hamlet@114413 Is very cunning in. hamlet@114434 hamlet@114435 HAMLET Ecstasy! hamlet@114451 My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, hamlet@114500 And makes as healthful music: it is not madness hamlet@114549 That I have utter'd: bring me to the test, hamlet@114593 And I the matter will re-word; which madness hamlet@114639 Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, hamlet@114686 Lay not that mattering unction to your soul, hamlet@114732 That not your trespass, but my madness speaks: hamlet@114780 It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, hamlet@114827 Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, hamlet@114871 Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven; hamlet@114916 Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; hamlet@114960 And do not spread the compost on the weeds, hamlet@115005 To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue; hamlet@115054 For in the fatness of these pursy times hamlet@115095 Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, hamlet@115135 Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good. hamlet@115180 hamlet@115181 QUEEN GERTRUDE O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. hamlet@115241 hamlet@115242 HAMLET O, throw away the worser part of it, hamlet@115286 And live the purer with the other half. hamlet@115327 Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed; hamlet@115372 Assume a virtue, if you have it not. hamlet@115410 That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, hamlet@115457 Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, hamlet@115497 That to the use of actions fair and good hamlet@115539 He likewise gives a frock or livery, hamlet@115577 That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night, hamlet@115618 And that shall lend a kind of easiness hamlet@115658 To the next abstinence: the next more easy; hamlet@115703 For use almost can change the stamp of nature, hamlet@115751 And either [ ] the devil, or throw him out hamlet@115803 With wondrous potency. Once more, good night: hamlet@115850 And when you are desirous to be bless'd, hamlet@115892 I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord, hamlet@115939 hamlet@115940 [Pointing to POLONIUS] hamlet@115964 hamlet@115965 I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so, hamlet@116010 To punish me with this and this with me, hamlet@116052 That I must be their scourge and minister. hamlet@116096 I will bestow him, and will answer well hamlet@116137 The death I gave him. So, again, good night. hamlet@116183 I must be cruel, only to be kind: hamlet@116218 Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. hamlet@116261 One word more, good lady. hamlet@116288 hamlet@116289 QUEEN GERTRUDE What shall I do? hamlet@116321 hamlet@116322 HAMLET Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: hamlet@116371 Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed; hamlet@116415 Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse; hamlet@116464 And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, hamlet@116507 Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, hamlet@116558 Make you to ravel all this matter out, hamlet@116598 That I essentially am not in madness, hamlet@116637 But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know; hamlet@116686 For who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise, hamlet@116735 Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib, hamlet@116777 Such dear concernings hide? who would do so? hamlet@116823 No, in despite of sense and secrecy, hamlet@116861 Unpeg the basket on the house's top. hamlet@116899 Let the birds fly, and, like the famous ape, hamlet@116945 To try conclusions, in the basket creep, hamlet@116987 And break your own neck down. hamlet@117018 hamlet@117019 QUEEN GERTRUDE Be thou assured, if words be made of breath, hamlet@117079 And breath of life, I have no life to breathe hamlet@117126 What thou hast said to me. hamlet@117154 hamlet@117155 HAMLET I must to England; you know that? hamlet@117196 hamlet@117197 QUEEN GERTRUDE Alack, hamlet@117219 I had forgot: 'tis so concluded on. hamlet@117256 hamlet@117257 HAMLET There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows, hamlet@117314 Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd, hamlet@117358 They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, hamlet@117406 And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; hamlet@117447 For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hamlet@117488 Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard hamlet@117537 But I will delve one yard below their mines, hamlet@117583 And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet, hamlet@117631 When in one line two crafts directly meet. hamlet@117675 This man shall set me packing: hamlet@117707 I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room. hamlet@117751 Mother, good night. Indeed this counsellor hamlet@117795 Is now most still, most secret and most grave, hamlet@117843 Who was in life a foolish prating knave. hamlet@117885 Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you. hamlet@117929 Good night, mother. hamlet@117950 hamlet@117951 [Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging in POLONIUS] hamlet@118000 hamlet@118001 hamlet@118002 hamlet@118003 hamlet@118004 HAMLET hamlet@118012 hamlet@118013 hamlet@118014 ACT IV hamlet@118021 hamlet@118022 hamlet@118023 hamlet@118024 SCENE I A room in the castle. hamlet@118054 hamlet@118055 hamlet@118056 [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, hamlet@118108 and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@118127 hamlet@118128 KING CLAUDIUS There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves: hamlet@118196 You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them. hamlet@118246 Where is your son? hamlet@118266 hamlet@118267 QUEEN GERTRUDE Bestow this place on us a little while. hamlet@118322 hamlet@118323 [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@118362 hamlet@118363 Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night! hamlet@118409 hamlet@118410 KING CLAUDIUS What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet? hamlet@118457 hamlet@118458 QUEEN GERTRUDE Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend hamlet@118516 Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit, hamlet@118560 Behind the arras hearing something stir, hamlet@118602 Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!' hamlet@118648 And, in this brainish apprehension, kills hamlet@118691 The unseen good old man. hamlet@118717 hamlet@118718 KING CLAUDIUS O heavy deed! hamlet@118746 It had been so with us, had we been there: hamlet@118790 His liberty is full of threats to all; hamlet@118830 To you yourself, to us, to every one. hamlet@118869 Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd? hamlet@118916 It will be laid to us, whose providence hamlet@118957 Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt, hamlet@119011 This mad young man: but so much was our love, hamlet@119058 We would not understand what was most fit; hamlet@119102 But, like the owner of a foul disease, hamlet@119142 To keep it from divulging, let it feed hamlet@119182 Even on the pith of Life. Where is he gone? hamlet@119227 hamlet@119228 QUEEN GERTRUDE To draw apart the body he hath kill'd: hamlet@119282 O'er whom his very madness, like some ore hamlet@119325 Among a mineral of metals base, hamlet@119358 Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done. hamlet@119405 hamlet@119406 KING CLAUDIUS O Gertrude, come away! hamlet@119443 The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, hamlet@119489 But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed hamlet@119537 We must, with all our majesty and skill, hamlet@119579 Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern! hamlet@119627 hamlet@119628 [Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@119669 hamlet@119670 Friends both, go join you with some further aid: hamlet@119720 Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, hamlet@119760 And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him: hamlet@119811 Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body hamlet@119860 Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this. hamlet@119905 hamlet@119906 [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@119945 hamlet@119946 Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends; hamlet@119997 And let them know, both what we mean to do, hamlet@120042 And what's untimely done [ ] hamlet@120087 Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, hamlet@120129 As level as the cannon to his blank, hamlet@120167 Transports his poison'd shot, may miss our name, hamlet@120217 And hit the woundless air. O, come away! hamlet@120259 My soul is full of discord and dismay. hamlet@120299 hamlet@120300 [Exeunt] hamlet@120310 hamlet@120311 hamlet@120312 hamlet@120313 hamlet@120314 HAMLET hamlet@120322 hamlet@120323 hamlet@120324 ACT IV hamlet@120331 hamlet@120332 hamlet@120333 hamlet@120334 SCENE II Another room in the castle. hamlet@120371 hamlet@120372 hamlet@120373 [Enter HAMLET] hamlet@120389 hamlet@120390 HAMLET Safely stowed. hamlet@120412 hamlet@120413 hamlet@120414 ROSENCRANTZ: | hamlet@120429 | [Within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet! hamlet@120465 GUILDENSTERN: | hamlet@120481 hamlet@120482 hamlet@120483 HAMLET What noise? who calls on Hamlet? hamlet@120523 O, here they come. hamlet@120543 hamlet@120544 [Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@120582 hamlet@120583 ROSENCRANTZ What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? hamlet@120644 hamlet@120645 HAMLET Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin. hamlet@120695 hamlet@120696 ROSENCRANTZ Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence hamlet@120755 And bear it to the chapel. hamlet@120783 hamlet@120784 HAMLET Do not believe it. hamlet@120810 hamlet@120811 ROSENCRANTZ Believe what? hamlet@120837 hamlet@120838 HAMLET That I can keep your counsel and not mine own. hamlet@120892 Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what hamlet@120935 replication should be made by the son of a king? hamlet@120985 hamlet@120986 ROSENCRANTZ Take you me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet@121033 hamlet@121034 HAMLET Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his hamlet@121092 rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the hamlet@121144 king best service in the end: he keeps them, like hamlet@121195 an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to hamlet@121248 be last swallowed: when he needs what you have hamlet@121296 gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you hamlet@121348 shall be dry again. hamlet@121369 hamlet@121370 ROSENCRANTZ I understand you not, my lord. hamlet@121413 hamlet@121414 HAMLET I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a hamlet@121467 foolish ear. hamlet@121481 hamlet@121482 ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go hamlet@121546 with us to the king. hamlet@121568 hamlet@121569 HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with hamlet@121628 the body. The king is a thing-- hamlet@121661 hamlet@121662 GUILDENSTERN A thing, my lord! hamlet@121693 hamlet@121694 HAMLET Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after. hamlet@121755 hamlet@121756 [Exeunt] hamlet@121766 hamlet@121767 hamlet@121768 hamlet@121769 hamlet@121770 HAMLET hamlet@121778 hamlet@121779 hamlet@121780 ACT IV hamlet@121787 hamlet@121788 hamlet@121789 hamlet@121790 SCENE III Another room in the castle. hamlet@121828 hamlet@121829 hamlet@121830 [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, attended] hamlet@121863 hamlet@121864 KING CLAUDIUS I have sent to seek him, and to find the body. hamlet@121925 How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! hamlet@121972 Yet must not we put the strong law on him: hamlet@122016 He's loved of the distracted multitude, hamlet@122057 Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes; hamlet@122106 And where tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd, hamlet@122160 But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even, hamlet@122213 This sudden sending him away must seem hamlet@122253 Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown hamlet@122297 By desperate appliance are relieved, hamlet@122335 Or not at all. hamlet@122351 hamlet@122352 [Enter ROSENCRANTZ] hamlet@122373 hamlet@122374 How now! what hath befall'n? hamlet@122404 hamlet@122405 ROSENCRANTZ Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord, hamlet@122459 We cannot get from him. hamlet@122484 hamlet@122485 KING CLAUDIUS But where is he? hamlet@122516 hamlet@122517 ROSENCRANTZ Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure. hamlet@122579 hamlet@122580 KING CLAUDIUS Bring him before us. hamlet@122615 hamlet@122616 ROSENCRANTZ Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord. hamlet@122664 hamlet@122665 [Enter HAMLET and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@122698 hamlet@122699 KING CLAUDIUS Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? hamlet@122744 hamlet@122745 HAMLET At supper. hamlet@122763 hamlet@122764 KING CLAUDIUS At supper! where? hamlet@122796 hamlet@122797 HAMLET Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain hamlet@122856 convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your hamlet@122908 worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all hamlet@122956 creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for hamlet@123008 maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but hamlet@123060 variable service, two dishes, but to one table: hamlet@123109 that's the end. hamlet@123126 hamlet@123127 KING CLAUDIUS Alas, alas! hamlet@123153 hamlet@123154 HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a hamlet@123209 king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. hamlet@123264 hamlet@123265 KING CLAUDIUS What dost you mean by this? hamlet@123307 hamlet@123308 HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a hamlet@123359 progress through the guts of a beggar. hamlet@123399 hamlet@123400 KING CLAUDIUS Where is Polonius? hamlet@123433 hamlet@123434 HAMLET In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger hamlet@123490 find him not there, seek him i' the other place hamlet@123539 yourself. But indeed, if you find him not within hamlet@123589 this month, you shall nose him as you go up the hamlet@123638 stairs into the lobby. hamlet@123662 hamlet@123663 KING CLAUDIUS Go seek him there. hamlet@123696 hamlet@123697 [To some Attendants] hamlet@123719 hamlet@123720 HAMLET He will stay till ye come. hamlet@123754 hamlet@123755 [Exeunt Attendants] hamlet@123776 hamlet@123777 KING CLAUDIUS Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,-- hamlet@123839 Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve hamlet@123880 For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence hamlet@123934 With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself; hamlet@123984 The bark is ready, and the wind at help, hamlet@124026 The associates tend, and every thing is bent hamlet@124072 For England. hamlet@124086 hamlet@124087 HAMLET For England! hamlet@124125 hamlet@124126 KING CLAUDIUS Ay, Hamlet. hamlet@124152 hamlet@124153 HAMLET Good. hamlet@124166 hamlet@124167 KING CLAUDIUS So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes. hamlet@124221 hamlet@124222 HAMLET I see a cherub that sees them. But, come; for hamlet@124275 England! Farewell, dear mother. hamlet@124308 hamlet@124309 KING CLAUDIUS Thy loving father, Hamlet. hamlet@124350 hamlet@124351 HAMLET My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man hamlet@124408 and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England! hamlet@124470 hamlet@124471 [Exit] hamlet@124479 hamlet@124480 KING CLAUDIUS Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard; hamlet@124543 Delay it not; I'll have him hence to-night: hamlet@124588 Away! for every thing is seal'd and done hamlet@124630 That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste. hamlet@124684 hamlet@124685 [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] hamlet@124724 hamlet@124725 And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught-- hamlet@124775 As my great power thereof may give thee sense, hamlet@124823 Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red hamlet@124866 After the Danish sword, and thy free awe hamlet@124908 Pays homage to us--thou mayst not coldly set hamlet@124954 Our sovereign process; which imports at full, hamlet@125001 By letters congruing to that effect, hamlet@125039 The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; hamlet@125085 For like the hectic in my blood he rages, hamlet@125128 And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done, hamlet@125175 Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun. hamlet@125219 hamlet@125220 [Exit] hamlet@125228 hamlet@125229 hamlet@125230 hamlet@125231 hamlet@125232 HAMLET hamlet@125240 hamlet@125241 hamlet@125242 ACT IV hamlet@125249 hamlet@125250 hamlet@125251 hamlet@125252 SCENE IV A plain in Denmark. hamlet@125281 hamlet@125282 hamlet@125283 [Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching] hamlet@125338 hamlet@125339 PRINCE FORTINBRAS Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king; hamlet@125401 Tell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras hamlet@125444 Craves the conveyance of a promised march hamlet@125487 Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous. hamlet@125531 If that his majesty would aught with us, hamlet@125573 We shall express our duty in his eye; hamlet@125612 And let him know so. hamlet@125634 hamlet@125635 Captain I will do't, my lord. hamlet@125665 hamlet@125666 PRINCE FORTINBRAS Go softly on. hamlet@125698 hamlet@125699 [Exeunt FORTINBRAS and Soldiers] hamlet@125733 hamlet@125734 [Enter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others] hamlet@125789 hamlet@125790 HAMLET Good sir, whose powers are these? hamlet@125831 hamlet@125832 Captain They are of Norway, sir. hamlet@125865 hamlet@125866 HAMLET How purposed, sir, I pray you? hamlet@125904 hamlet@125905 Captain Against some part of Poland. hamlet@125942 hamlet@125943 HAMLET Who commands them, sir? hamlet@125974 hamlet@125975 Captain The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras. hamlet@126022 hamlet@126023 HAMLET Goes it against the main of Poland, sir, hamlet@126071 Or for some frontier? hamlet@126094 hamlet@126095 Captain Truly to speak, and with no addition, hamlet@126141 We go to gain a little patch of ground hamlet@126181 That hath in it no profit but the name. hamlet@126222 To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; hamlet@126270 Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole hamlet@126311 A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee. hamlet@126353 hamlet@126354 HAMLET Why, then the Polack never will defend it. hamlet@126404 hamlet@126405 Captain Yes, it is already garrison'd. hamlet@126444 hamlet@126445 HAMLET Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats hamlet@126498 Will not debate the question of this straw: hamlet@126543 This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace, hamlet@126593 That inward breaks, and shows no cause without hamlet@126641 Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir. hamlet@126685 hamlet@126686 Captain God be wi' you, sir. hamlet@126715 hamlet@126716 [Exit] hamlet@126724 hamlet@126725 ROSENCRANTZ Wilt please you go, my lord? hamlet@126766 hamlet@126767 HAMLET I'll be with you straight go a little before. hamlet@126820 hamlet@126821 [Exeunt all except HAMLET] hamlet@126849 hamlet@126850 How all occasions do inform against me, hamlet@126891 And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, hamlet@126933 If his chief good and market of his time hamlet@126975 Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. hamlet@127020 Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, hamlet@127070 Looking before and after, gave us not hamlet@127109 That capability and god-like reason hamlet@127146 To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be hamlet@127188 Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple hamlet@127230 Of thinking too precisely on the event, hamlet@127271 A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom hamlet@127325 And ever three parts coward, I do not know hamlet@127369 Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' hamlet@127414 Sith I have cause and will and strength and means hamlet@127465 To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: hamlet@127510 Witness this army of such mass and charge hamlet@127553 Led by a delicate and tender prince, hamlet@127591 Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd hamlet@127633 Makes mouths at the invisible event, hamlet@127671 Exposing what is mortal and unsure hamlet@127707 To all that fortune, death and danger dare, hamlet@127752 Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great hamlet@127796 Is not to stir without great argument, hamlet@127836 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw hamlet@127876 When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, hamlet@127923 That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, hamlet@127969 Excitements of my reason and my blood, hamlet@128009 And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see hamlet@128055 The imminent death of twenty thousand men, hamlet@128099 That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, hamlet@128139 Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot hamlet@128187 Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, hamlet@128230 Which is not tomb enough and continent hamlet@128270 To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, hamlet@128315 My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! hamlet@128360 hamlet@128361 [Exit] hamlet@128369 hamlet@128370 hamlet@128371 hamlet@128372 hamlet@128373 HAMLET hamlet@128381 hamlet@128382 hamlet@128383 ACT IV hamlet@128390 hamlet@128391 hamlet@128392 SCENE V Elsinore. A room in the castle. hamlet@128432 hamlet@128433 hamlet@128434 [Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE, HORATIO, and a Gentleman] hamlet@128484 hamlet@128485 QUEEN GERTRUDE I will not speak with her. hamlet@128527 hamlet@128528 Gentleman She is importunate, indeed distract: hamlet@128575 Her mood will needs be pitied. hamlet@128607 hamlet@128608 QUEEN GERTRUDE What would she have? hamlet@128644 hamlet@128645 Gentleman She speaks much of her father; says she hears hamlet@128701 There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart; hamlet@128762 Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt, hamlet@128815 That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing, hamlet@128866 Yet the unshaped use of it doth move hamlet@128904 The hearers to collection; they aim at it, hamlet@128948 And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts; hamlet@128999 Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures hamlet@129044 yield them, hamlet@129057 Indeed would make one think there might be thought, hamlet@129110 Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily. hamlet@129152 hamlet@129153 HORATIO 'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew hamlet@129213 Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds. hamlet@129259 hamlet@129260 QUEEN GERTRUDE Let her come in. hamlet@129292 hamlet@129293 [Exit HORATIO] hamlet@129309 hamlet@129310 To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, hamlet@129353 Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss: hamlet@129399 So full of artless jealousy is guilt, hamlet@129438 It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. hamlet@129480 hamlet@129481 [Re-enter HORATIO, with OPHELIA] hamlet@129515 hamlet@129516 OPHELIA Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark? hamlet@129567 hamlet@129568 QUEEN GERTRUDE How now, Ophelia! hamlet@129601 hamlet@129602 OPHELIA [Sings] hamlet@129618 hamlet@129619 How should I your true love know hamlet@129653 From another one? hamlet@129672 By his cockle hat and staff, hamlet@129702 And his sandal shoon. hamlet@129725 hamlet@129726 QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? hamlet@129783 hamlet@129784 OPHELIA Say you? nay, pray you, mark. hamlet@129822 hamlet@129823 [Sings] hamlet@129832 hamlet@129833 He is dead and gone, lady, hamlet@129861 He is dead and gone; hamlet@129883 At his head a grass-green turf, hamlet@129916 At his heels a stone. hamlet@129939 hamlet@129940 QUEEN GERTRUDE Nay, but, Ophelia,-- hamlet@129976 hamlet@129977 OPHELIA Pray you, mark. hamlet@130001 hamlet@130002 [Sings] hamlet@130011 hamlet@130012 White his shroud as the mountain snow,-- hamlet@130054 hamlet@130055 [Enter KING CLAUDIUS] hamlet@130078 hamlet@130079 QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, look here, my lord. hamlet@130120 hamlet@130121 OPHELIA [Sings] hamlet@130137 hamlet@130138 Larded with sweet flowers hamlet@130165 Which bewept to the grave did go hamlet@130199 With true-love showers. hamlet@130224 hamlet@130225 KING CLAUDIUS How do you, pretty lady? hamlet@130264 hamlet@130265 OPHELIA Well, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a baker's hamlet@130324 daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not hamlet@130375 what we may be. God be at your table! hamlet@130414 hamlet@130415 KING CLAUDIUS Conceit upon her father. hamlet@130454 hamlet@130455 OPHELIA Pray you, let's have no words of this; but when they hamlet@130516 ask you what it means, say you this: hamlet@130554 hamlet@130555 [Sings] hamlet@130564 hamlet@130565 To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, hamlet@130602 All in the morning betime, hamlet@130630 And I a maid at your window, hamlet@130660 To be your Valentine. hamlet@130683 Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, hamlet@130725 And dupp'd the chamber-door; hamlet@130755 Let in the maid, that out a maid hamlet@130789 Never departed more. hamlet@130811 hamlet@130812 KING CLAUDIUS Pretty Ophelia! hamlet@130842 hamlet@130843 OPHELIA Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't: hamlet@130903 hamlet@130904 [Sings] hamlet@130913 hamlet@130914 By Gis and by Saint Charity, hamlet@130944 Alack, and fie for shame! hamlet@130971 Young men will do't, if they come to't; hamlet@131012 By cock, they are to blame. hamlet@131041 Quoth she, before you tumbled me, hamlet@131076 You promised me to wed. hamlet@131101 So would I ha' done, by yonder sun, hamlet@131138 An thou hadst not come to my bed. hamlet@131173 hamlet@131174 KING CLAUDIUS How long hath she been thus? hamlet@131217 hamlet@131218 OPHELIA I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I hamlet@131277 cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him hamlet@131331 i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it: hamlet@131381 and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my hamlet@131433 coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; hamlet@131487 good night, good night. hamlet@131512 hamlet@131513 [Exit] hamlet@131521 hamlet@131522 KING CLAUDIUS Follow her close; give her good watch, hamlet@131575 I pray you. hamlet@131588 hamlet@131589 [Exit HORATIO] hamlet@131605 hamlet@131606 O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs hamlet@131655 All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude, hamlet@131707 When sorrows come, they come not single spies hamlet@131754 But in battalions. First, her father slain: hamlet@131799 Next, your son gone; and he most violent author hamlet@131848 Of his own just remove: the people muddied, hamlet@131893 Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers, hamlet@131948 For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly, hamlet@132005 In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia hamlet@132050 Divided from herself and her fair judgment, hamlet@132095 Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts: hamlet@132147 Last, and as much containing as all these, hamlet@132191 Her brother is in secret come from France; hamlet@132235 Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds, hamlet@132282 And wants not buzzers to infect his ear hamlet@132323 With pestilent speeches of his father's death; hamlet@132371 Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd, hamlet@132411 Will nothing stick our person to arraign hamlet@132453 In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this, hamlet@132496 Like to a murdering-piece, in many places hamlet@132539 Gives me superfluous death. hamlet@132568 hamlet@132569 [A noise within] hamlet@132587 hamlet@132588 QUEEN GERTRUDE Alack, what noise is this? hamlet@132630 hamlet@132631 KING CLAUDIUS Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door. hamlet@132693 hamlet@132694 [Enter another Gentleman] hamlet@132721 hamlet@132722 What is the matter? hamlet@132743 hamlet@132744 Gentleman Save yourself, my lord: hamlet@132778 The ocean, overpeering of his list, hamlet@132815 Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste hamlet@132861 Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, hamlet@132901 O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord; hamlet@132953 And, as the world were now but to begin, hamlet@132995 Antiquity forgot, custom not known, hamlet@133032 The ratifiers and props of every word, hamlet@133072 They cry 'Choose we: Laertes shall be king:' hamlet@133118 Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds: hamlet@133171 'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!' hamlet@133211 hamlet@133212 QUEEN GERTRUDE How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! hamlet@133271 O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs! hamlet@133315 hamlet@133316 KING CLAUDIUS The doors are broke. hamlet@133351 hamlet@133352 [Noise within] hamlet@133368 hamlet@133369 [Enter LAERTES, armed; Danes following] hamlet@133410 hamlet@133411 LAERTES Where is this king? Sirs, stand you all without. hamlet@133468 hamlet@133469 Danes No, let's come in. hamlet@133494 hamlet@133495 LAERTES I pray you, give me leave. hamlet@133548 hamlet@133549 Danes We will, we will. hamlet@133573 hamlet@133574 [They retire without the door] hamlet@133606 hamlet@133607 LAERTES I thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king, hamlet@133661 Give me my father! hamlet@133681 hamlet@133682 QUEEN GERTRUDE Calmly, good Laertes. hamlet@133737 hamlet@133738 LAERTES That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard, hamlet@133799 Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot hamlet@133846 Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow hamlet@133893 Of my true mother. hamlet@133913 hamlet@133914 KING CLAUDIUS What is the cause, Laertes, hamlet@133974 That thy rebellion looks so giant-like? hamlet@134015 Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person: hamlet@134062 There's such divinity doth hedge a king, hamlet@134104 That treason can but peep to what it would, hamlet@134149 Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes, hamlet@134193 Why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude. hamlet@134244 Speak, man. hamlet@134257 hamlet@134258 LAERTES Where is my father? hamlet@134286 hamlet@134287 KING CLAUDIUS Dead. hamlet@134307 hamlet@134308 QUEEN GERTRUDE But not by him. hamlet@134339 hamlet@134340 KING CLAUDIUS Let him demand his fill. hamlet@134379 hamlet@134380 LAERTES How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with: hamlet@134432 To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! hamlet@134483 Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! hamlet@134530 I dare damnation. To this point I stand, hamlet@134572 That both the worlds I give to negligence, hamlet@134616 Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged hamlet@134660 Most thoroughly for my father. hamlet@134692 hamlet@134693 KING CLAUDIUS Who shall stay you? hamlet@134727 hamlet@134728 LAERTES My will, not all the world: hamlet@134764 And for my means, I'll husband them so well, hamlet@134810 They shall go far with little. hamlet@134842 hamlet@134843 KING CLAUDIUS Good Laertes, hamlet@134871 If you desire to know the certainty hamlet@134908 Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge, hamlet@134965 That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe, hamlet@135019 Winner and loser? hamlet@135038 hamlet@135039 LAERTES None but his enemies. hamlet@135069 hamlet@135070 KING CLAUDIUS Will you know them then? hamlet@135109 hamlet@135110 LAERTES To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms; hamlet@135166 And like the kind life-rendering pelican, hamlet@135209 Repast them with my blood. hamlet@135237 hamlet@135238 KING CLAUDIUS Why, now you speak hamlet@135271 Like a good child and a true gentleman. hamlet@135312 That I am guiltless of your father's death, hamlet@135357 And am most sensible in grief for it, hamlet@135396 It shall as level to your judgment pierce hamlet@135439 As day does to your eye. hamlet@135465 hamlet@135466 Danes [Within] Let her come in. hamlet@135513 hamlet@135514 LAERTES How now! what noise is that? hamlet@135551 hamlet@135552 [Re-enter OPHELIA] hamlet@135572 hamlet@135573 O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt, hamlet@135624 Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye! hamlet@135668 By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight, hamlet@135717 Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May! hamlet@135763 Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! hamlet@135803 O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits hamlet@135850 Should be as moral as an old man's life? hamlet@135892 Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine, hamlet@135938 It sends some precious instance of itself hamlet@135981 After the thing it loves. hamlet@136008 hamlet@136009 OPHELIA [Sings] hamlet@136025 hamlet@136026 They bore him barefaced on the bier; hamlet@136064 Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny; hamlet@136098 And in his grave rain'd many a tear:-- hamlet@136138 Fare you well, my dove! hamlet@136163 hamlet@136164 LAERTES Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge, hamlet@136221 It could not move thus. hamlet@136246 hamlet@136247 OPHELIA [Sings] hamlet@136263 hamlet@136264 You must sing a-down a-down, hamlet@136294 An you call him a-down-a. hamlet@136321 O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false hamlet@136367 steward, that stole his master's daughter. hamlet@136411 hamlet@136412 LAERTES This nothing's more than matter. hamlet@136453 hamlet@136454 OPHELIA There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, hamlet@136510 love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts. hamlet@136570 hamlet@136571 LAERTES A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted. hamlet@136635 hamlet@136636 OPHELIA There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue hamlet@136696 for you; and here's some for me: we may call it hamlet@136745 herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with hamlet@136799 a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you hamlet@136848 some violets, but they withered all when my father hamlet@136900 died: they say he made a good end,-- hamlet@136938 hamlet@136939 [Sings] hamlet@136948 hamlet@136949 For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. hamlet@136987 hamlet@136988 LAERTES Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself, hamlet@137042 She turns to favour and to prettiness. hamlet@137082 hamlet@137083 OPHELIA [Sings] hamlet@137099 hamlet@137100 And will he not come again? hamlet@137129 And will he not come again? hamlet@137158 No, no, he is dead: hamlet@137179 Go to thy death-bed: hamlet@137201 He never will come again. hamlet@137228 hamlet@137229 His beard was as white as snow, hamlet@137262 All flaxen was his poll: hamlet@137288 He is gone, he is gone, hamlet@137313 And we cast away moan: hamlet@137337 God ha' mercy on his soul! hamlet@137365 hamlet@137366 And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' ye. hamlet@137422 hamlet@137423 [Exit] hamlet@137431 hamlet@137432 LAERTES Do you see this, O God? hamlet@137464 hamlet@137465 KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, I must commune with your grief, hamlet@137520 Or you deny me right. Go but apart, hamlet@137557 Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will. hamlet@137608 And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me: hamlet@137658 If by direct or by collateral hand hamlet@137694 They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give, hamlet@137743 Our crown, our life, and all that we can ours, hamlet@137791 To you in satisfaction; but if not, hamlet@137828 Be you content to lend your patience to us, hamlet@137873 And we shall jointly labour with your soul hamlet@137917 To give it due content. hamlet@137942 hamlet@137943 LAERTES Let this be so; hamlet@137967 His means of death, his obscure funeral-- hamlet@138010 No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, hamlet@138059 No noble rite nor formal ostentation-- hamlet@138099 Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth, hamlet@138149 That I must call't in question. hamlet@138182 hamlet@138183 KING CLAUDIUS So you shall; hamlet@138211 And where the offence is let the great axe fall. hamlet@138261 I pray you, go with me. hamlet@138286 hamlet@138287 [Exeunt] hamlet@138297 hamlet@138298 hamlet@138299 hamlet@138300 hamlet@138301 HAMLET hamlet@138309 hamlet@138310 hamlet@138311 ACT IV hamlet@138318 hamlet@138319 hamlet@138320 hamlet@138321 SCENE VI Another room in the castle. hamlet@138358 hamlet@138359 hamlet@138360 [Enter HORATIO and a Servant] hamlet@138391 hamlet@138392 HORATIO What are they that would speak with me? hamlet@138440 hamlet@138441 Servant Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you. hamlet@138499 hamlet@138500 HORATIO Let them come in. hamlet@138526 hamlet@138527 [Exit Servant] hamlet@138543 hamlet@138544 I do not know from what part of the world hamlet@138587 I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet. hamlet@138634 hamlet@138635 [Enter Sailors] hamlet@138652 hamlet@138653 First Sailor God bless you, sir. hamlet@138686 hamlet@138687 HORATIO Let him bless thee too. hamlet@138719 hamlet@138720 First Sailor He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for hamlet@138786 you, sir; it comes from the ambassador that was hamlet@138835 bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am hamlet@138888 let to know it is. hamlet@138908 hamlet@138909 HORATIO [Reads] 'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked hamlet@138968 this, give these fellows some means to the king: hamlet@139018 they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old hamlet@139071 at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us hamlet@139125 chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on hamlet@139179 a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded hamlet@139229 them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so hamlet@139282 I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with hamlet@139335 me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they hamlet@139386 did; I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king hamlet@139438 have the letters I have sent; and repair thou to me hamlet@139491 with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I hamlet@139540 have words to speak in thine ear will make thee hamlet@139589 dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of hamlet@139640 the matter. These good fellows will bring thee hamlet@139688 where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their hamlet@139741 course for England: of them I have much to tell hamlet@139790 thee. Farewell. hamlet@139807 'He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.' hamlet@139846 Come, I will make you way for these your letters; hamlet@139897 And do't the speedier, that you may direct me hamlet@139944 To him from whom you brought them. hamlet@139980 hamlet@139981 [Exeunt] hamlet@139991 hamlet@139992 hamlet@139993 hamlet@139994 hamlet@139995 HAMLET hamlet@140003 hamlet@140004 hamlet@140005 ACT IV hamlet@140012 hamlet@140013 hamlet@140014 SCENE VII Another room in the castle. hamlet@140052 hamlet@140053 hamlet@140054 [Enter KING CLAUDIUS and LAERTES] hamlet@140089 hamlet@140090 KING CLAUDIUS Now must your conscience my acquaintance seal, hamlet@140151 And you must put me in your heart for friend, hamlet@140198 Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear, hamlet@140244 That he which hath your noble father slain hamlet@140288 Pursued my life. hamlet@140306 hamlet@140307 LAERTES It well appears: but tell me hamlet@140362 Why you proceeded not against these feats, hamlet@140406 So crimeful and so capital in nature, hamlet@140445 As by your safety, wisdom, all things else, hamlet@140490 You mainly were stirr'd up. hamlet@140519 hamlet@140520 KING CLAUDIUS O, for two special reasons; hamlet@140562 Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd, hamlet@140611 But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother hamlet@140664 Lives almost by his looks; and for myself-- hamlet@140709 My virtue or my plague, be it either which-- hamlet@140755 She's so conjunctive to my life and soul, hamlet@140798 That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, hamlet@140846 I could not but by her. The other motive, hamlet@140889 Why to a public count I might not go, hamlet@140928 Is the great love the general gender bear him; hamlet@140976 Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, hamlet@141025 Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone, hamlet@141077 Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows, hamlet@141126 Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind, hamlet@141169 Would have reverted to my bow again, hamlet@141207 And not where I had aim'd them. hamlet@141240 hamlet@141241 LAERTES And so have I a noble father lost; hamlet@141284 A sister driven into desperate terms, hamlet@141323 Whose worth, if praises may go back again, hamlet@141367 Stood challenger on mount of all the age hamlet@141409 For her perfections: but my revenge will come. hamlet@141457 hamlet@141458 KING CLAUDIUS Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think hamlet@141523 That we are made of stuff so flat and dull hamlet@141567 That we can let our beard be shook with danger hamlet@141615 And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more: hamlet@141667 I loved your father, and we love ourself; hamlet@141710 And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine-- hamlet@141757 hamlet@141758 [Enter a Messenger] hamlet@141779 hamlet@141780 How now! what news? hamlet@141801 hamlet@141802 Messenger Letters, my lord, from Hamlet: hamlet@141843 This to your majesty; this to the queen. hamlet@141885 hamlet@141886 KING CLAUDIUS From Hamlet! who brought them? hamlet@141931 hamlet@141932 Messenger Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not: hamlet@141986 They were given me by Claudio; he received them hamlet@142035 Of him that brought them. hamlet@142062 hamlet@142063 KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, you shall hear them. Leave us. hamlet@142117 hamlet@142118 [Exit Messenger] hamlet@142136 hamlet@142137 [Reads] hamlet@142146 hamlet@142147 'High and mighty, You shall know I am set naked on hamlet@142199 your kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see hamlet@142249 your kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your hamlet@142300 pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden hamlet@142353 and more strange return. 'HAMLET.' hamlet@142406 What should this mean? Are all the rest come back? hamlet@142458 Or is it some abuse, and no such thing? hamlet@142499 hamlet@142500 LAERTES Know you the hand? hamlet@142527 hamlet@142528 KING CLAUDIUS 'Tis Hamlets character. 'Naked! hamlet@142574 And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.' hamlet@142618 Can you advise me? hamlet@142638 hamlet@142639 LAERTES I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come; hamlet@142690 It warms the very sickness in my heart, hamlet@142731 That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, hamlet@142777 'Thus didest thou.' hamlet@142798 hamlet@142799 KING CLAUDIUS If it be so, Laertes-- hamlet@142836 As how should it be so? how otherwise?-- hamlet@142878 Will you be ruled by me? hamlet@142904 hamlet@142905 LAERTES Ay, my lord; hamlet@142926 So you will not o'errule me to a peace. hamlet@142967 hamlet@142968 KING CLAUDIUS To thine own peace. If he be now return'd, hamlet@143025 As checking at his voyage, and that he means hamlet@143071 No more to undertake it, I will work him hamlet@143113 To an exploit, now ripe in my device, hamlet@143152 Under the which he shall not choose but fall: hamlet@143199 And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe, hamlet@143250 But even his mother shall uncharge the practise hamlet@143299 And call it accident. hamlet@143322 hamlet@143323 LAERTES My lord, I will be ruled; hamlet@143357 The rather, if you could devise it so hamlet@143396 That I might be the organ. hamlet@143424 hamlet@143425 KING CLAUDIUS It falls right. hamlet@143455 You have been talk'd of since your travel much, hamlet@143504 And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality hamlet@143549 Wherein, they say, you shine: your sum of parts hamlet@143598 Did not together pluck such envy from him hamlet@143641 As did that one, and that, in my regard, hamlet@143683 Of the unworthiest siege. hamlet@143710 hamlet@143711 LAERTES What part is that, my lord? hamlet@143747 hamlet@143748 KING CLAUDIUS A very riband in the cap of youth, hamlet@143797 Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes hamlet@143841 The light and careless livery that it wears hamlet@143886 Than settled age his sables and his weeds, hamlet@143930 Importing health and graveness. Two months since, hamlet@143981 Here was a gentleman of Normandy:-- hamlet@144018 I've seen myself, and served against, the French, hamlet@144069 And they can well on horseback: but this gallant hamlet@144119 Had witchcraft in't; he grew unto his seat; hamlet@144164 And to such wondrous doing brought his horse, hamlet@144211 As he had been incorpsed and demi-natured hamlet@144254 With the brave beast: so far he topp'd my thought, hamlet@144306 That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks, hamlet@144348 Come short of what he did. hamlet@144376 hamlet@144377 LAERTES A Norman was't? hamlet@144401 hamlet@144402 KING CLAUDIUS A Norman. hamlet@144426 hamlet@144427 LAERTES Upon my life, Lamond. hamlet@144457 hamlet@144458 KING CLAUDIUS The very same. hamlet@144487 hamlet@144488 LAERTES I know him well: he is the brooch indeed hamlet@144537 And gem of all the nation. hamlet@144565 hamlet@144566 KING CLAUDIUS He made confession of you, hamlet@144607 And gave you such a masterly report hamlet@144644 For art and exercise in your defence hamlet@144682 And for your rapier most especially, hamlet@144720 That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed, hamlet@144767 If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation, hamlet@144822 He swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye, hamlet@144873 If you opposed them. Sir, this report of his hamlet@144919 Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy hamlet@144956 That he could nothing do but wish and beg hamlet@144999 Your sudden coming o'er, to play with him. hamlet@145043 Now, out of this,-- hamlet@145064 hamlet@145065 LAERTES What out of this, my lord? hamlet@145100 hamlet@145101 KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, was your father dear to you? hamlet@145153 Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, hamlet@145196 A face without a heart? hamlet@145221 hamlet@145222 LAERTES Why ask you this? hamlet@145248 hamlet@145249 KING CLAUDIUS Not that I think you did not love your father; hamlet@145310 But that I know love is begun by time; hamlet@145350 And that I see, in passages of proof, hamlet@145389 Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. hamlet@145431 There lives within the very flame of love hamlet@145474 A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it; hamlet@145519 And nothing is at a like goodness still; hamlet@145561 For goodness, growing to a plurisy, hamlet@145598 Dies in his own too much: that we would do hamlet@145642 We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes hamlet@145696 And hath abatements and delays as many hamlet@145736 As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; hamlet@145785 And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, hamlet@145837 That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer:-- hamlet@145894 Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake, hamlet@145940 To show yourself your father's son in deed hamlet@145984 More than in words? hamlet@146005 hamlet@146006 LAERTES To cut his throat i' the church. hamlet@146047 hamlet@146048 KING CLAUDIUS No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize; hamlet@146107 Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes, hamlet@146158 Will you do this, keep close within your chamber. hamlet@146209 Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home: hamlet@146256 We'll put on those shall praise your excellence hamlet@146305 And set a double varnish on the fame hamlet@146343 The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together hamlet@146395 And wager on your heads: he, being remiss, hamlet@146439 Most generous and free from all contriving, hamlet@146484 Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease, hamlet@146532 Or with a little shuffling, you may choose hamlet@146576 A sword unbated, and in a pass of practise hamlet@146620 Requite him for your father. hamlet@146650 hamlet@146651 LAERTES I will do't: hamlet@146672 And, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword. hamlet@146718 I bought an unction of a mountebank, hamlet@146756 So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, hamlet@146796 Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, hamlet@146840 Collected from all simples that have virtue hamlet@146885 Under the moon, can save the thing from death hamlet@146932 That is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point hamlet@146983 With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, hamlet@147035 It may be death. hamlet@147053 hamlet@147054 KING CLAUDIUS Let's further think of this; hamlet@147115 Weigh what convenience both of time and means hamlet@147162 May fit us to our shape: if this should fail, hamlet@147209 And that our drift look through our bad performance, hamlet@147263 'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project hamlet@147314 Should have a back or second, that might hold, hamlet@147362 If this should blast in proof. Soft! let me see: hamlet@147412 We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings: I ha't. hamlet@147465 When in your motion you are hot and dry-- hamlet@147508 As make your bouts more violent to that end-- hamlet@147555 And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him hamlet@147608 A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, hamlet@147655 If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck, hamlet@147699 Our purpose may hold there. hamlet@147728 hamlet@147729 [Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE] hamlet@147753 hamlet@147754 How now, sweet queen! hamlet@147784 hamlet@147785 QUEEN GERTRUDE One woe doth tread upon another's heel, hamlet@147840 So fast they follow; your sister's drown'd, Laertes. hamlet@147894 hamlet@147895 LAERTES Drown'd! O, where? hamlet@147922 hamlet@147923 QUEEN GERTRUDE There is a willow grows aslant a brook, hamlet@147978 That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; hamlet@148028 There with fantastic garlands did she come hamlet@148072 Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples hamlet@148125 That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, hamlet@148170 But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: hamlet@148223 There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds hamlet@148271 Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; hamlet@148317 When down her weedy trophies and herself hamlet@148359 Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; hamlet@148412 And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: hamlet@148457 Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes; hamlet@148504 As one incapable of her own distress, hamlet@148543 Or like a creature native and indued hamlet@148581 Unto that element: but long it could not be hamlet@148626 Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, hamlet@148675 Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay hamlet@148722 To muddy death. hamlet@148739 hamlet@148740 LAERTES Alas, then, she is drown'd? hamlet@148794 hamlet@148795 QUEEN GERTRUDE Drown'd, drown'd. hamlet@148828 hamlet@148829 LAERTES Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, hamlet@148880 And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet hamlet@148922 It is our trick; nature her custom holds, hamlet@148965 Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, hamlet@149015 The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord: hamlet@149055 I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, hamlet@149104 But that this folly douts it. hamlet@149135 hamlet@149136 [Exit] hamlet@149144 hamlet@149145 KING CLAUDIUS Let's follow, Gertrude: hamlet@149183 How much I had to do to calm his rage! hamlet@149223 Now fear I this will give it start again; hamlet@149266 Therefore let's follow. hamlet@149291 hamlet@149292 [Exeunt] hamlet@149302 hamlet@149303 hamlet@149304 hamlet@149305 hamlet@149306 HAMLET hamlet@149314 hamlet@149315 hamlet@149316 ACT V hamlet@149322 hamlet@149323 hamlet@149324 hamlet@149325 SCENE I A churchyard. hamlet@149347 hamlet@149348 hamlet@149349 [Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c] hamlet@149386 hamlet@149387 First Clown Is she to be buried in Christian burial that hamlet@149444 wilfully seeks her own salvation? hamlet@149479 hamlet@149480 Second Clown I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave hamlet@149542 straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it hamlet@149595 Christian burial. hamlet@149614 hamlet@149615 First Clown How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her hamlet@149678 own defence? hamlet@149692 hamlet@149693 Second Clown Why, 'tis found so. hamlet@149726 hamlet@149727 First Clown It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else. For hamlet@149790 here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly, hamlet@149842 it argues an act: and an act hath three branches: it hamlet@149896 is, to act, to do, to perform: argal, she drowned hamlet@149947 herself wittingly. hamlet@149967 hamlet@149968 Second Clown Nay, but hear you, goodman delver,-- hamlet@150018 hamlet@150019 First Clown Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here hamlet@150078 stands the man; good; if the man go to this water, hamlet@150130 and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he hamlet@150178 goes,--mark you that; but if the water come to him hamlet@150230 and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he hamlet@150279 that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. hamlet@150343 hamlet@150344 Second Clown But is this law? hamlet@150374 hamlet@150375 First Clown Ay, marry, is't; crowner's quest law. hamlet@150425 hamlet@150426 Second Clown Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been hamlet@150489 a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o' hamlet@150540 Christian burial. hamlet@150559 hamlet@150560 First Clown Why, there thou say'st: and the more pity that hamlet@150619 great folk should have countenance in this world to hamlet@150672 drown or hang themselves, more than their even hamlet@150720 Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient hamlet@150768 gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: hamlet@150822 they hold up Adam's profession. hamlet@150855 hamlet@150856 Second Clown Was he a gentleman? hamlet@150889 hamlet@150890 First Clown He was the first that ever bore arms. hamlet@150940 hamlet@150941 Second Clown Why, he had none. hamlet@150972 hamlet@150973 First Clown What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the hamlet@151035 Scripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:' hamlet@151081 could he dig without arms? I'll put another hamlet@151126 question to thee: if thou answerest me not to the hamlet@151177 purpose, confess thyself-- hamlet@151205 hamlet@151206 Second Clown Go to. hamlet@151226 hamlet@151227 First Clown What is he that builds stronger than either the hamlet@151287 mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? hamlet@151329 hamlet@151330 Second Clown The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a hamlet@151388 thousand tenants. hamlet@151407 hamlet@151408 First Clown I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows hamlet@151468 does well; but how does it well? it does well to hamlet@151518 those that do in: now thou dost ill to say the hamlet@151566 gallows is built stronger than the church: argal, hamlet@151617 the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come. hamlet@151669 hamlet@151670 Second Clown 'Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or hamlet@151735 a carpenter?' hamlet@151750 hamlet@151751 First Clown Ay, tell me that, and unyoke. hamlet@151793 hamlet@151794 Second Clown Marry, now I can tell. hamlet@151830 hamlet@151831 First Clown To't. hamlet@151849 hamlet@151850 Second Clown Mass, I cannot tell. hamlet@151884 hamlet@151885 [Enter HAMLET and HORATIO, at a distance] hamlet@151928 hamlet@151929 First Clown Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull hamlet@151991 ass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when hamlet@152043 you are asked this question next, say 'a hamlet@152085 grave-maker: 'the houses that he makes last till hamlet@152135 doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan: fetch me a hamlet@152182 stoup of liquor. hamlet@152200 hamlet@152201 [Exit Second Clown] hamlet@152222 hamlet@152223 [He digs and sings] hamlet@152244 hamlet@152245 In youth, when I did love, did love, hamlet@152283 Methought it was very sweet, hamlet@152313 To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove, hamlet@152360 O, methought, there was nothing meet. hamlet@152399 hamlet@152400 HAMLET Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he hamlet@152459 sings at grave-making? hamlet@152483 hamlet@152484 HORATIO Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. hamlet@152543 hamlet@152544 HAMLET 'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath hamlet@152600 the daintier sense. hamlet@152621 hamlet@152622 First Clown [Sings] hamlet@152642 hamlet@152643 But age, with his stealing steps, hamlet@152678 Hath claw'd me in his clutch, hamlet@152709 And hath shipped me intil the land, hamlet@152746 As if I had never been such. hamlet@152776 hamlet@152777 [Throws up a skull] hamlet@152798 hamlet@152799 HAMLET That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: hamlet@152858 how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were hamlet@152911 Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It hamlet@152959 might be the pate of a politician, which this ass hamlet@153010 now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, hamlet@153060 might it not? hamlet@153075 hamlet@153076 HORATIO It might, my lord. hamlet@153103 hamlet@153104 HAMLET Or of a courtier; which could say 'Good morrow, hamlet@153159 sweet lord! How dost thou, good lord?' This might hamlet@153210 be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord hamlet@153255 such-a-one's horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not? hamlet@153315 hamlet@153316 HORATIO Ay, my lord. hamlet@153337 hamlet@153338 HAMLET Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and hamlet@153397 knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade: hamlet@153447 here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to hamlet@153495 see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, hamlet@153546 but to play at loggats with 'em? mine ache to think on't. hamlet@153605 hamlet@153606 First Clown: [Sings] hamlet@153627 hamlet@153628 A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, hamlet@153663 For and a shrouding sheet: hamlet@153691 O, a pit of clay for to be made hamlet@153724 For such a guest is meet. hamlet@153751 hamlet@153752 [Throws up another skull] hamlet@153779 hamlet@153780 HAMLET There's another: why may not that be the skull of a hamlet@153839 lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, hamlet@153891 his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he hamlet@153944 suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the hamlet@153995 sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of hamlet@154049 his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be hamlet@154099 in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, hamlet@154152 his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, hamlet@154204 his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and hamlet@154256 the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine hamlet@154306 pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him hamlet@154359 no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than hamlet@154412 the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The hamlet@154465 very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in hamlet@154515 this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha? hamlet@154575 hamlet@154576 HORATIO Not a jot more, my lord. hamlet@154609 hamlet@154610 HAMLET Is not parchment made of sheepskins? hamlet@154654 hamlet@154655 HORATIO Ay, my lord, and of calf-skins too. hamlet@154699 hamlet@154700 HAMLET They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance hamlet@154758 in that. I will speak to this fellow. Whose hamlet@154803 grave's this, sirrah? hamlet@154826 hamlet@154827 First Clown Mine, sir. hamlet@154850 hamlet@154851 [Sings] hamlet@154860 hamlet@154861 O, a pit of clay for to be made hamlet@154894 For such a guest is meet. hamlet@154921 hamlet@154922 HAMLET I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in't. hamlet@154979 hamlet@154980 First Clown You lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not hamlet@155039 yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine. hamlet@155099 hamlet@155100 HAMLET 'Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: hamlet@155160 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest. hamlet@155221 hamlet@155222 First Clown 'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away gain, from me to hamlet@155286 you. hamlet@155292 hamlet@155293 HAMLET What man dost thou dig it for? hamlet@155331 hamlet@155332 First Clown For no man, sir. hamlet@155361 hamlet@155362 HAMLET What woman, then? hamlet@155387 hamlet@155388 First Clown For none, neither. hamlet@155419 hamlet@155420 HAMLET Who is to be buried in't? hamlet@155453 hamlet@155454 First Clown One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead. hamlet@155525 hamlet@155526 HAMLET How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the hamlet@155581 card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, hamlet@155631 Horatio, these three years I have taken a note of hamlet@155682 it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the hamlet@155734 peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he hamlet@155786 gaffs his kibe. How long hast thou been a hamlet@155829 grave-maker? hamlet@155843 hamlet@155844 First Clown Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day hamlet@155906 that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras. hamlet@155954 hamlet@155955 HAMLET How long is that since? hamlet@155986 hamlet@155987 First Clown Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it hamlet@156050 was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that hamlet@156104 is mad, and sent into England. hamlet@156136 hamlet@156137 HAMLET Ay, marry, why was he sent into England? hamlet@156185 hamlet@156186 First Clown Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits hamlet@156249 there; or, if he do not, it's no great matter there. hamlet@156303 hamlet@156304 HAMLET Why? hamlet@156316 hamlet@156317 First Clown 'Twill, a not be seen in him there; there the men hamlet@156379 are as mad as he. hamlet@156398 hamlet@156399 HAMLET How came he mad? hamlet@156423 hamlet@156424 First Clown Very strangely, they say. hamlet@156462 hamlet@156463 HAMLET How strangely? hamlet@156485 hamlet@156486 First Clown Faith, e'en with losing his wits. hamlet@156532 hamlet@156533 HAMLET Upon what ground? hamlet@156558 hamlet@156559 First Clown Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man hamlet@156622 and boy, thirty years. hamlet@156646 hamlet@156647 HAMLET How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot? hamlet@156703 hamlet@156704 First Clown I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we hamlet@156767 have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce hamlet@156820 hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year hamlet@156874 or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year. hamlet@156923 hamlet@156924 HAMLET Why he more than another? hamlet@156957 hamlet@156958 First Clown Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that hamlet@157023 he will keep out water a great while; and your water hamlet@157077 is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. hamlet@157124 Here's a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth hamlet@157178 three and twenty years. hamlet@157203 hamlet@157204 HAMLET Whose was it? hamlet@157225 hamlet@157226 First Clown A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was? hamlet@157297 hamlet@157298 HAMLET Nay, I know not. hamlet@157322 hamlet@157323 First Clown A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a hamlet@157384 flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, hamlet@157437 sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. hamlet@157482 hamlet@157483 HAMLET This? hamlet@157496 hamlet@157497 First Clown E'en that. hamlet@157520 hamlet@157521 HAMLET Let me see. hamlet@157540 hamlet@157541 [Takes the skull] hamlet@157560 hamlet@157561 Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow hamlet@157611 of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath hamlet@157663 borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how hamlet@157716 abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at hamlet@157768 it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know hamlet@157820 not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your hamlet@157864 gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, hamlet@157913 that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one hamlet@157965 now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? hamlet@158017 Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let hamlet@158070 her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must hamlet@158120 come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell hamlet@158174 me one thing. hamlet@158189 hamlet@158190 HORATIO What's that, my lord? hamlet@158220 hamlet@158221 HAMLET Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i' hamlet@158280 the earth? hamlet@158292 hamlet@158293 HORATIO E'en so. hamlet@158310 hamlet@158311 HAMLET And smelt so? pah! hamlet@158337 hamlet@158338 [Puts down the skull] hamlet@158361 hamlet@158362 HORATIO E'en so, my lord. hamlet@158388 hamlet@158389 HAMLET To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may hamlet@158446 not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, hamlet@158498 till he find it stopping a bung-hole? hamlet@158537 hamlet@158538 HORATIO 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. hamlet@158596 hamlet@158597 HAMLET No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with hamlet@158657 modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as hamlet@158704 thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, hamlet@158749 Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of hamlet@158803 earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he hamlet@158857 was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel? hamlet@158908 Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, hamlet@158952 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: hamlet@158994 O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, hamlet@159044 Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw! hamlet@159091 But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. hamlet@159140 hamlet@159141 [Enter Priest, &c. in procession; the Corpse of hamlet@159190 OPHELIA, LAERTES and Mourners following; KING hamlet@159237 CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, their trains, &c] hamlet@159282 hamlet@159283 The queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow? hamlet@159335 And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken hamlet@159382 The corse they follow did with desperate hand hamlet@159429 Fordo its own life: 'twas of some estate. hamlet@159472 Couch we awhile, and mark. hamlet@159500 hamlet@159501 [Retiring with HORATIO] hamlet@159526 hamlet@159527 LAERTES What ceremony else? hamlet@159555 hamlet@159556 HAMLET That is Laertes, hamlet@159580 A very noble youth: mark. hamlet@159607 hamlet@159608 LAERTES What ceremony else? hamlet@159636 hamlet@159637 First Priest Her obsequies have been as far enlarged hamlet@159690 As we have warrantise: her death was doubtful; hamlet@159738 And, but that great command o'ersways the order, hamlet@159788 She should in ground unsanctified have lodged hamlet@159835 Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers, hamlet@159883 Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her; hamlet@159936 Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants, hamlet@159980 Her maiden strewments and the bringing home hamlet@160025 Of bell and burial. hamlet@160046 hamlet@160047 LAERTES Must there no more be done? hamlet@160083 hamlet@160084 First Priest No more be done: hamlet@160114 We should profane the service of the dead hamlet@160157 To sing a requiem and such rest to her hamlet@160197 As to peace-parted souls. hamlet@160224 hamlet@160225 LAERTES Lay her i' the earth: hamlet@160255 And from her fair and unpolluted flesh hamlet@160295 May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, hamlet@160346 A ministering angel shall my sister be, hamlet@160387 When thou liest howling. hamlet@160413 hamlet@160414 HAMLET What, the fair Ophelia! hamlet@160445 hamlet@160446 QUEEN GERTRUDE Sweets to the sweet: farewell! hamlet@160492 hamlet@160493 [Scattering flowers] hamlet@160515 hamlet@160516 I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife; hamlet@160567 I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, hamlet@160620 And not have strew'd thy grave. hamlet@160653 hamlet@160654 LAERTES O, treble woe hamlet@160676 Fall ten times treble on that cursed head, hamlet@160720 Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense hamlet@160764 Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile, hamlet@160810 Till I have caught her once more in mine arms: hamlet@160858 hamlet@160859 [Leaps into the grave] hamlet@160883 hamlet@160884 Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead, hamlet@160929 Till of this flat a mountain you have made, hamlet@160974 To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head hamlet@161017 Of blue Olympus. hamlet@161035 hamlet@161036 HAMLET [Advancing] What is he whose grief hamlet@161082 Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow hamlet@161130 Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand hamlet@161182 Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I, hamlet@161223 Hamlet the Dane. hamlet@161241 hamlet@161242 [Leaps into the grave] hamlet@161266 hamlet@161267 LAERTES The devil take thy soul! hamlet@161318 hamlet@161319 [Grappling with him] hamlet@161341 hamlet@161342 HAMLET Thou pray'st not well. hamlet@161372 I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat; hamlet@161417 For, though I am not splenitive and rash, hamlet@161460 Yet have I something in me dangerous, hamlet@161499 Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand. hamlet@161548 hamlet@161549 KING CLAUDIUS Pluck them asunder. hamlet@161583 hamlet@161584 QUEEN GERTRUDE Hamlet, Hamlet! hamlet@161615 hamlet@161616 All Gentlemen,-- hamlet@161633 hamlet@161634 HORATIO Good my lord, be quiet. hamlet@161684 hamlet@161685 [The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave] hamlet@161745 hamlet@161746 HAMLET Why I will fight with him upon this theme hamlet@161795 Until my eyelids will no longer wag. hamlet@161833 hamlet@161834 QUEEN GERTRUDE O my son, what theme? hamlet@161871 hamlet@161872 HAMLET I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers hamlet@161920 Could not, with all their quantity of love, hamlet@161965 Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? hamlet@162009 hamlet@162010 KING CLAUDIUS O, he is mad, Laertes. hamlet@162047 hamlet@162048 QUEEN GERTRUDE For love of God, forbear him. hamlet@162093 hamlet@162094 HAMLET 'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do: hamlet@162136 Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself? hamlet@162194 Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile? hamlet@162234 I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine? hamlet@162276 To outface me with leaping in her grave? hamlet@162318 Be buried quick with her, and so will I: hamlet@162360 And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw hamlet@162409 Millions of acres on us, till our ground, hamlet@162452 Singeing his pate against the burning zone, hamlet@162497 Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, hamlet@162544 I'll rant as well as thou. hamlet@162572 hamlet@162573 QUEEN GERTRUDE This is mere madness: hamlet@162610 And thus awhile the fit will work on him; hamlet@162653 Anon, as patient as the female dove, hamlet@162691 When that her golden couplets are disclosed, hamlet@162737 His silence will sit drooping. hamlet@162769 hamlet@162770 HAMLET Hear you, sir; hamlet@162792 What is the reason that you use me thus? hamlet@162834 I loved you ever: but it is no matter; hamlet@162874 Let Hercules himself do what he may, hamlet@162912 The cat will mew and dog will have his day. hamlet@162957 hamlet@162958 [Exit] hamlet@162966 hamlet@162967 KING CLAUDIUS I pray you, good Horatio, wait upon him. hamlet@163022 hamlet@163023 [Exit HORATIO] hamlet@163039 hamlet@163040 [To LAERTES] hamlet@163054 hamlet@163055 Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech; hamlet@163109 We'll put the matter to the present push. hamlet@163152 Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son. hamlet@163198 This grave shall have a living monument: hamlet@163240 An hour of quiet shortly shall we see; hamlet@163280 Till then, in patience our proceeding be. hamlet@163323 hamlet@163324 [Exeunt] hamlet@163334 hamlet@163335 hamlet@163336 hamlet@163337 HAMLET hamlet@163345 hamlet@163346 hamlet@163347 ACT V hamlet@163353 hamlet@163354 hamlet@163355 hamlet@163356 SCENE II A hall in the castle. hamlet@163387 hamlet@163388 hamlet@163389 [Enter HAMLET and HORATIO] hamlet@163417 hamlet@163418 HAMLET So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other; hamlet@163477 You do remember all the circumstance? hamlet@163516 hamlet@163517 HORATIO Remember it, my lord? hamlet@163547 hamlet@163548 HAMLET Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting, hamlet@163602 That would not let me sleep: methought I lay hamlet@163648 Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly, hamlet@163696 And praised be rashness for it, let us know, hamlet@163742 Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, hamlet@163786 When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us hamlet@163841 There's a divinity that shapes our ends, hamlet@163883 Rough-hew them how we will,-- hamlet@163914 hamlet@163915 HORATIO That is most certain. hamlet@163945 hamlet@163946 HAMLET Up from my cabin, hamlet@163971 My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark hamlet@164014 Groped I to find out them; had my desire. hamlet@164057 Finger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew hamlet@164102 To mine own room again; making so bold, hamlet@164143 My fears forgetting manners, to unseal hamlet@164183 Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,-- hamlet@164234 O royal knavery!--an exact command, hamlet@164271 Larded with many several sorts of reasons hamlet@164314 Importing Denmark's health and England's too, hamlet@164361 With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life, hamlet@164406 That, on the supervise, no leisure bated, hamlet@164449 No, not to stay the grinding of the axe, hamlet@164491 My head should be struck off. hamlet@164522 hamlet@164523 HORATIO Is't possible? hamlet@164546 hamlet@164547 HAMLET Here's the commission: read it at more leisure. hamlet@164602 But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed? hamlet@164644 hamlet@164645 HORATIO I beseech you. hamlet@164668 hamlet@164669 HAMLET Being thus be-netted round with villanies,-- hamlet@164721 Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, hamlet@164764 They had begun the play--I sat me down, hamlet@164805 Devised a new commission, wrote it fair: hamlet@164847 I once did hold it, as our statists do, hamlet@164888 A baseness to write fair and labour'd much hamlet@164932 How to forget that learning, but, sir, now hamlet@164976 It did me yeoman's service: wilt thou know hamlet@165020 The effect of what I wrote? hamlet@165049 hamlet@165050 HORATIO Ay, good my lord. hamlet@165076 hamlet@165077 HAMLET An earnest conjuration from the king, hamlet@165122 As England was his faithful tributary, hamlet@165162 As love between them like the palm might flourish, hamlet@165214 As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear hamlet@165262 And stand a comma 'tween their amities, hamlet@165303 And many such-like 'As'es of great charge, hamlet@165347 That, on the view and knowing of these contents, hamlet@165397 Without debatement further, more or less, hamlet@165440 He should the bearers put to sudden death, hamlet@165484 Not shriving-time allow'd. hamlet@165512 hamlet@165513 HORATIO How was this seal'd? hamlet@165542 hamlet@165543 HAMLET Why, even in that was heaven ordinant. hamlet@165589 I had my father's signet in my purse, hamlet@165628 Which was the model of that Danish seal; hamlet@165670 Folded the writ up in form of the other, hamlet@165712 Subscribed it, gave't the impression, placed it safely, hamlet@165769 The changeling never known. Now, the next day hamlet@165816 Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent hamlet@165865 Thou know'st already. hamlet@165888 hamlet@165889 HORATIO So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. hamlet@165938 hamlet@165939 HAMLET Why, man, they did make love to this employment; hamlet@165995 They are not near my conscience; their defeat hamlet@166042 Does by their own insinuation grow: hamlet@166079 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes hamlet@166123 Between the pass and fell incensed points hamlet@166166 Of mighty opposites. hamlet@166188 hamlet@166189 HORATIO Why, what a king is this! hamlet@166223 hamlet@166224 HAMLET Does it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon-- hamlet@166279 He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother, hamlet@166330 Popp'd in between the election and my hopes, hamlet@166376 Thrown out his angle for my proper life, hamlet@166418 And with such cozenage--is't not perfect conscience, hamlet@166472 To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd, hamlet@166527 To let this canker of our nature come hamlet@166566 In further evil? hamlet@166584 hamlet@166585 HORATIO It must be shortly known to him from England hamlet@166638 What is the issue of the business there. hamlet@166680 hamlet@166681 HAMLET It will be short: the interim is mine; hamlet@166727 And a man's life's no more than to say 'One.' hamlet@166774 But I am very sorry, good Horatio, hamlet@166810 That to Laertes I forgot myself; hamlet@166844 For, by the image of my cause, I see hamlet@166882 The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours. hamlet@166931 But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me hamlet@166979 Into a towering passion. hamlet@167005 hamlet@167006 HORATIO Peace! who comes here? hamlet@167037 hamlet@167038 [Enter OSRIC] hamlet@167053 hamlet@167054 OSRIC Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark. hamlet@167108 hamlet@167109 HAMLET I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly? hamlet@167167 hamlet@167168 HORATIO No, my good lord. hamlet@167194 hamlet@167195 HAMLET Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to hamlet@167253 know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a hamlet@167302 beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at hamlet@167356 the king's mess: 'tis a chough; but, as I say, hamlet@167404 spacious in the possession of dirt. hamlet@167441 hamlet@167442 OSRIC Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I hamlet@167496 should impart a thing to you from his majesty. hamlet@167544 hamlet@167545 HAMLET I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of hamlet@167598 spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head. hamlet@167660 hamlet@167661 OSRIC I thank your lordship, it is very hot. hamlet@167706 hamlet@167707 HAMLET No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is hamlet@167758 northerly. hamlet@167770 hamlet@167771 OSRIC It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed. hamlet@167818 hamlet@167819 HAMLET But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my hamlet@167876 complexion. hamlet@167889 hamlet@167890 OSRIC Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry,--as hamlet@167941 'twere,--I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his hamlet@167988 majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a hamlet@168039 great wager on your head: sir, this is the matter,-- hamlet@168093 hamlet@168094 HAMLET I beseech you, remember-- hamlet@168127 hamlet@168128 [HAMLET moves him to put on his hat] hamlet@168166 hamlet@168167 OSRIC Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith. hamlet@168222 Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes; believe hamlet@168273 me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent hamlet@168324 differences, of very soft society and great showing: hamlet@168378 indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or hamlet@168432 calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the hamlet@168483 continent of what part a gentleman would see. hamlet@168530 hamlet@168531 HAMLET Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; hamlet@168587 though, I know, to divide him inventorially would hamlet@168638 dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw hamlet@168687 neither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the hamlet@168739 verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of hamlet@168788 great article; and his infusion of such dearth and hamlet@168840 rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his hamlet@168888 semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace hamlet@168939 him, his umbrage, nothing more. hamlet@168972 hamlet@168973 OSRIC Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him. hamlet@169024 hamlet@169025 HAMLET The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman hamlet@169083 in our more rawer breath? hamlet@169110 hamlet@169111 OSRIC Sir? hamlet@169122 hamlet@169123 HORATIO Is't not possible to understand in another tongue? hamlet@169182 You will do't, sir, really. hamlet@169211 hamlet@169212 HAMLET What imports the nomination of this gentleman? hamlet@169266 hamlet@169267 OSRIC Of Laertes? hamlet@169285 hamlet@169286 HORATIO His purse is empty already; all's golden words are spent. hamlet@169352 hamlet@169353 HAMLET Of him, sir. hamlet@169373 hamlet@169374 OSRIC I know you are not ignorant-- hamlet@169410 hamlet@169411 HAMLET I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did, hamlet@169467 it would not much approve me. Well, sir? hamlet@169509 hamlet@169510 OSRIC You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is-- hamlet@169569 hamlet@169570 HAMLET I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with hamlet@169629 him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to hamlet@169682 know himself. hamlet@169697 hamlet@169698 OSRIC I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation hamlet@169755 laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed. hamlet@169806 hamlet@169807 HAMLET What's his weapon? hamlet@169833 hamlet@169834 OSRIC Rapier and dagger. hamlet@169859 hamlet@169860 HAMLET That's two of his weapons: but, well. hamlet@169905 hamlet@169906 OSRIC The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary hamlet@169961 horses: against the which he has imponed, as I take hamlet@170014 it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their hamlet@170063 assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: three of the hamlet@170114 carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very hamlet@170165 responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, hamlet@170216 and of very liberal conceit. hamlet@170246 hamlet@170247 HAMLET What call you the carriages? hamlet@170283 hamlet@170284 HORATIO I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done. hamlet@170352 hamlet@170353 OSRIC The carriages, sir, are the hangers. hamlet@170396 hamlet@170397 HAMLET The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we hamlet@170457 could carry cannon by our sides: I would it might hamlet@170508 be hangers till then. But, on: six Barbary horses hamlet@170559 against six French swords, their assigns, and three hamlet@170612 liberal-conceited carriages; that's the French bet hamlet@170664 against the Danish. Why is this 'imponed,' as you call it? hamlet@170724 hamlet@170725 OSRIC The king, sir, hath laid, that in a dozen passes hamlet@170780 between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you hamlet@170831 three hits: he hath laid on twelve for nine; and it hamlet@170884 would come to immediate trial, if your lordship hamlet@170933 would vouchsafe the answer. hamlet@170962 hamlet@170963 HAMLET How if I answer 'no'? hamlet@170992 hamlet@170993 OSRIC I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial. hamlet@171056 hamlet@171057 HAMLET Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his hamlet@171116 majesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me; let hamlet@171170 the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the hamlet@171224 king hold his purpose, I will win for him an I can; hamlet@171277 if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits. hamlet@171337 hamlet@171338 OSRIC Shall I re-deliver you e'en so? hamlet@171376 hamlet@171377 HAMLET To this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature will. hamlet@171443 hamlet@171444 OSRIC I commend my duty to your lordship. hamlet@171486 hamlet@171487 HAMLET Yours, yours. hamlet@171508 hamlet@171509 [Exit OSRIC] hamlet@171523 hamlet@171524 He does well to commend it himself; there are no hamlet@171574 tongues else for's turn. hamlet@171600 hamlet@171601 HORATIO This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head. hamlet@171660 hamlet@171661 HAMLET He did comply with his dug, before he sucked it. hamlet@171717 Thus has he--and many more of the same bevy that I hamlet@171769 know the dressy age dotes on--only got the tune of hamlet@171821 the time and outward habit of encounter; a kind of hamlet@171873 yesty collection, which carries them through and hamlet@171923 through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do hamlet@171976 but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out. hamlet@172028 hamlet@172029 [Enter a Lord] hamlet@172045 hamlet@172046 Lord My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young hamlet@172102 Osric, who brings back to him that you attend him in hamlet@172156 the hall: he sends to know if your pleasure hold to hamlet@172209 play with Laertes, or that you will take longer time. hamlet@172264 hamlet@172265 HAMLET I am constant to my purpose; they follow the king's hamlet@172324 pleasure: if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now hamlet@172377 or whensoever, provided I be so able as now. hamlet@172423 hamlet@172424 Lord The king and queen and all are coming down. hamlet@172473 hamlet@172474 HAMLET In happy time. hamlet@172496 hamlet@172497 Lord The queen desires you to use some gentle hamlet@172543 entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play. hamlet@172594 hamlet@172595 HAMLET She well instructs me. hamlet@172625 hamlet@172626 [Exit Lord] hamlet@172639 hamlet@172640 HORATIO You will lose this wager, my lord. hamlet@172683 hamlet@172684 HAMLET I do not think so: since he went into France, I hamlet@172739 have been in continual practise: I shall win at the hamlet@172792 odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here hamlet@172845 about my heart: but it is no matter. hamlet@172883 hamlet@172884 HORATIO Nay, good my lord,-- hamlet@172913 hamlet@172914 HAMLET It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of hamlet@172965 gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman. hamlet@173013 hamlet@173014 HORATIO If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will hamlet@173070 forestall their repair hither, and say you are not hamlet@173122 fit. hamlet@173128 hamlet@173129 HAMLET Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special hamlet@173182 providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, hamlet@173234 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be hamlet@173286 now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the hamlet@173332 readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he hamlet@173385 leaves, what is't to leave betimes? hamlet@173422 hamlet@173423 [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES, hamlet@173471 Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, &c] hamlet@173517 hamlet@173518 KING CLAUDIUS Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me. hamlet@173580 hamlet@173581 [KING CLAUDIUS puts LAERTES' hand into HAMLET's] hamlet@173631 hamlet@173632 HAMLET Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong; hamlet@173686 But pardon't, as you are a gentleman. hamlet@173725 This presence knows, hamlet@173747 And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd hamlet@173797 With sore distraction. What I have done, hamlet@173839 That might your nature, honour and exception hamlet@173885 Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. hamlet@173930 Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet: hamlet@173975 If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, hamlet@174014 And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, hamlet@174061 Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it. hamlet@174105 Who does it, then? His madness: if't be so, hamlet@174150 Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd; hamlet@174193 His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy. hamlet@174230 Sir, in this audience, hamlet@174254 Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil hamlet@174295 Free me so far in your most generous thoughts, hamlet@174343 That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, hamlet@174388 And hurt my brother. hamlet@174410 hamlet@174411 LAERTES I am satisfied in nature, hamlet@174445 Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most hamlet@174494 To my revenge: but in my terms of honour hamlet@174536 I stand aloof; and will no reconcilement, hamlet@174579 Till by some elder masters, of known honour, hamlet@174625 I have a voice and precedent of peace, hamlet@174665 To keep my name ungored. But till that time, hamlet@174711 I do receive your offer'd love like love, hamlet@174754 And will not wrong it. hamlet@174778 hamlet@174779 HAMLET I embrace it freely; hamlet@174807 And will this brother's wager frankly play. hamlet@174852 Give us the foils. Come on. hamlet@174881 hamlet@174882 LAERTES Come, one for me. hamlet@174908 hamlet@174909 HAMLET I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance hamlet@174962 Your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night, hamlet@175015 Stick fiery off indeed. hamlet@175040 hamlet@175041 LAERTES You mock me, sir. hamlet@175067 hamlet@175068 HAMLET No, by this hand. hamlet@175093 hamlet@175094 KING CLAUDIUS Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet, hamlet@175157 You know the wager? hamlet@175178 hamlet@175179 HAMLET Very well, my lord hamlet@175205 Your grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side. hamlet@175256 hamlet@175257 KING CLAUDIUS I do not fear it; I have seen you both: hamlet@175311 But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds. hamlet@175362 hamlet@175363 LAERTES This is too heavy, let me see another. hamlet@175410 hamlet@175411 HAMLET This likes me well. These foils have all a length? hamlet@175469 hamlet@175470 [They prepare to play] hamlet@175494 hamlet@175495 OSRIC Ay, my good lord. hamlet@175519 hamlet@175520 KING CLAUDIUS Set me the stoops of wine upon that table. hamlet@175577 If Hamlet give the first or second hit, hamlet@175618 Or quit in answer of the third exchange, hamlet@175660 Let all the battlements their ordnance fire: hamlet@175706 The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; hamlet@175755 And in the cup an union shall he throw, hamlet@175796 Richer than that which four successive kings hamlet@175842 In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups; hamlet@175891 And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, hamlet@175933 The trumpet to the cannoneer without, hamlet@175972 The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth, hamlet@176023 'Now the king dunks to Hamlet.' Come, begin: hamlet@176069 And you, the judges, bear a wary eye. hamlet@176108 hamlet@176109 HAMLET Come on, sir. hamlet@176130 hamlet@176131 LAERTES Come, my lord. hamlet@176172 hamlet@176173 [They play] hamlet@176186 hamlet@176187 HAMLET One. hamlet@176199 hamlet@176200 LAERTES No. hamlet@176212 hamlet@176213 HAMLET Judgment. hamlet@176230 hamlet@176231 OSRIC A hit, a very palpable hit. hamlet@176265 hamlet@176266 LAERTES Well; again. hamlet@176287 hamlet@176288 KING CLAUDIUS Stay; give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine; hamlet@176352 Here's to thy health. hamlet@176375 hamlet@176376 [Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within] hamlet@176422 hamlet@176423 Give him the cup. hamlet@176443 hamlet@176444 HAMLET I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile. Come. hamlet@176502 hamlet@176503 [They play] hamlet@176516 hamlet@176517 Another hit; what say you? hamlet@176545 hamlet@176546 LAERTES A touch, a touch, I do confess. hamlet@176586 hamlet@176587 KING CLAUDIUS Our son shall win. hamlet@176620 hamlet@176621 QUEEN GERTRUDE He's fat, and scant of breath. hamlet@176685 Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows; hamlet@176731 The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet. hamlet@176775 hamlet@176776 HAMLET Good madam! hamlet@176795 hamlet@176796 KING CLAUDIUS Gertrude, do not drink. hamlet@176844 hamlet@176845 QUEEN GERTRUDE I will, my lord; I pray you, pardon me. hamlet@176900 hamlet@176901 KING CLAUDIUS [Aside] It is the poison'd cup: it is too late. hamlet@176964 hamlet@176965 HAMLET I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by. hamlet@177012 hamlet@177013 QUEEN GERTRUDE Come, let me wipe thy face. hamlet@177056 hamlet@177057 LAERTES My lord, I'll hit him now. hamlet@177092 hamlet@177093 KING CLAUDIUS I do not think't. hamlet@177125 hamlet@177126 LAERTES [Aside] And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience. hamlet@177186 hamlet@177187 HAMLET Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally; hamlet@177239 I pray you, pass with your best violence; hamlet@177282 I am afeard you make a wanton of me. hamlet@177320 hamlet@177321 LAERTES Say you so? come on. hamlet@177350 hamlet@177351 [They play] hamlet@177364 hamlet@177365 OSRIC Nothing, neither way. hamlet@177393 hamlet@177394 LAERTES Have at you now! hamlet@177419 hamlet@177420 [LAERTES wounds HAMLET; then in scuffling, they hamlet@177469 change rapiers, and HAMLET wounds LAERTES] hamlet@177513 hamlet@177514 KING CLAUDIUS Part them; they are incensed. hamlet@177558 hamlet@177559 HAMLET Nay, come, again. hamlet@177584 hamlet@177585 [QUEEN GERTRUDE falls] hamlet@177609 hamlet@177610 OSRIC Look to the queen there, ho! hamlet@177663 hamlet@177664 HORATIO They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord? hamlet@177718 hamlet@177719 OSRIC How is't, Laertes? hamlet@177744 hamlet@177745 LAERTES Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric; hamlet@177800 I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery. hamlet@177845 hamlet@177846 HAMLET How does the queen? hamlet@177873 hamlet@177874 KING CLAUDIUS She swounds to see them bleed. hamlet@177919 hamlet@177920 QUEEN GERTRUDE No, no, the drink, the drink,--O my dear Hamlet,-- hamlet@177986 The drink, the drink! I am poison'd. hamlet@178024 hamlet@178025 [Dies] hamlet@178033 hamlet@178034 HAMLET O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd: hamlet@178080 Treachery! Seek it out. hamlet@178105 hamlet@178106 LAERTES It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain; hamlet@178158 No medicine in the world can do thee good; hamlet@178202 In thee there is not half an hour of life; hamlet@178246 The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, hamlet@178290 Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practise hamlet@178332 Hath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie, hamlet@178374 Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd: hamlet@178419 I can no more: the king, the king's to blame. hamlet@178466 hamlet@178467 HAMLET The point!--envenom'd too! hamlet@178501 Then, venom, to thy work. hamlet@178528 hamlet@178529 [Stabs KING CLAUDIUS] hamlet@178552 hamlet@178553 All Treason! treason! hamlet@178575 hamlet@178576 KING CLAUDIUS O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt. hamlet@178632 hamlet@178633 HAMLET Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, hamlet@178687 Drink off this potion. Is thy union here? hamlet@178730 Follow my mother. hamlet@178749 hamlet@178750 [KING CLAUDIUS dies] hamlet@178772 hamlet@178773 LAERTES He is justly served; hamlet@178820 It is a poison temper'd by himself. hamlet@178857 Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet: hamlet@178902 Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, hamlet@178950 Nor thine on me. hamlet@178968 hamlet@178969 [Dies] hamlet@178977 hamlet@178978 HAMLET Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee. hamlet@179029 I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu! hamlet@179073 You that look pale and tremble at this chance, hamlet@179121 That are but mutes or audience to this act, hamlet@179166 Had I but time--as this fell sergeant, death, hamlet@179213 Is strict in his arrest--O, I could tell you-- hamlet@179261 But let it be. Horatio, I am dead; hamlet@179297 Thou livest; report me and my cause aright hamlet@179341 To the unsatisfied. hamlet@179362 hamlet@179363 HORATIO Never believe it: hamlet@179389 I am more an antique Roman than a Dane: hamlet@179430 Here's yet some liquor left. hamlet@179460 hamlet@179461 HAMLET As thou'rt a man, hamlet@179486 Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have't. hamlet@179536 O good Horatio, what a wounded name, hamlet@179574 Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! hamlet@179627 If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart hamlet@179668 Absent thee from felicity awhile, hamlet@179703 And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, hamlet@179753 To tell my story. hamlet@179772 hamlet@179773 [March afar off, and shot within] hamlet@179808 hamlet@179809 What warlike noise is this? hamlet@179838 hamlet@179839 OSRIC Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland, hamlet@179895 To the ambassadors of England gives hamlet@179932 This warlike volley. hamlet@179954 hamlet@179955 HAMLET O, I die, Horatio; hamlet@179981 The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit: hamlet@180028 I cannot live to hear the news from England; hamlet@180074 But I do prophesy the election lights hamlet@180113 On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; hamlet@180152 So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, hamlet@180202 Which have solicited. The rest is silence. hamlet@180246 hamlet@180247 [Dies] hamlet@180255 hamlet@180256 HORATIO Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: hamlet@180315 And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! hamlet@180361 Why does the drum come hither? hamlet@180393 hamlet@180394 [March within] hamlet@180410 hamlet@180411 [Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors, hamlet@180456 and others] hamlet@180469 hamlet@180470 PRINCE FORTINBRAS Where is this sight? hamlet@180509 hamlet@180510 HORATIO What is it ye would see? hamlet@180543 If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search. hamlet@180590 hamlet@180591 PRINCE FORTINBRAS This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death, hamlet@180652 What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, hamlet@180697 That thou so many princes at a shot hamlet@180734 So bloodily hast struck? hamlet@180760 hamlet@180761 First Ambassador The sight is dismal; hamlet@180799 And our affairs from England come too late: hamlet@180844 The ears are senseless that should give us hearing, hamlet@180897 To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd, hamlet@180940 That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead: hamlet@180985 Where should we have our thanks? hamlet@181019 hamlet@181020 HORATIO Not from his mouth, hamlet@181048 Had it the ability of life to thank you: hamlet@181090 He never gave commandment for their death. hamlet@181134 But since, so jump upon this bloody question, hamlet@181181 You from the Polack wars, and you from England, hamlet@181230 Are here arrived give order that these bodies hamlet@181277 High on a stage be placed to the view; hamlet@181317 And let me speak to the yet unknowing world hamlet@181362 How these things came about: so shall you hear hamlet@181410 Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, hamlet@181450 Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, hamlet@181495 Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, hamlet@181542 And, in this upshot, purposes mistook hamlet@181581 Fall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I hamlet@181629 Truly deliver. hamlet@181645 hamlet@181646 PRINCE FORTINBRAS Let us haste to hear it, hamlet@181707 And call the noblest to the audience. hamlet@181746 For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune: hamlet@181789 I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, hamlet@181836 Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me. hamlet@181883 hamlet@181884 HORATIO Of that I shall have also cause to speak, hamlet@181934 And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more; hamlet@181985 But let this same be presently perform'd, hamlet@182028 Even while men's minds are wild; lest more mischance hamlet@182082 On plots and errors, happen. hamlet@182112 hamlet@182113 PRINCE FORTINBRAS Let four captains hamlet@182149 Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage; hamlet@182193 For he was likely, had he been put on, hamlet@182233 To have proved most royally: and, for his passage, hamlet@182285 The soldiers' music and the rites of war hamlet@182327 Speak loudly for him. hamlet@182350 Take up the bodies: such a sight as this hamlet@182392 Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. hamlet@182439 Go, bid the soldiers shoot. hamlet@182468 hamlet@182469 [A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead hamlet@182514 bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off]