Act 1

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Act one of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. This is a
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Cast of characters.
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Bernardo read by emste Battinama.
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Francisco, Cornelias, Gentlemen, Another Gentleman and Danes Osirik read by
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Martin Geeson.
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Horatio read by Robert.
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Hoffman, Marcellus read by Christine G.
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Claudius, Second Clown read by Elisabeth Klatt.
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Voltemont read by David.
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Lawrence, Leaeties read by Nathaniel W. C.
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Higgins, Holonius, Fortinbrass, Servant Diane read by al G.
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Pag Hamlet read by ri L.
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Lipshaw, Queen Gertrude read by Emmy Graymore.
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Ophelia read by Miss Avarice.
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Ghost First Player, player King read by Bob.
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Gonzales, Rinaldo read by April Gonzales.
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Rosenkrantz read by Gray Skirrett, Guildenstern read by Chuck Williamson.
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Player Queen read by Kapricia Page.
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Prolog and Lucians read by Emily Fuca.
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Captain Danes, first Priest read by Bupa Hippo.
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First Sailor read by Rick F.
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Messenger, read by Annos.
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Simon, First Clown, First Ambassador read by Alan master.
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Lord read by Adam Brack.
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Stage directions by Cynthia Moyer. Act one, Scene one, Snor
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a platform before the castle. Francisco at his post, entered
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to him, Bernardo, who's there?
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Nay? Answer? May stand and unfold yourself.
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Long live the king, Bernardo.
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He you come most carefully upon your hour.
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This now struck twelve, give thee to bide. Francisco, what
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this relief?
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Much? Thanks? Lot is bitter cold, and I am sick
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at heart.
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Have yet quiet God, not.
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A mouse tyren Well, good night.
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If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, the rivals of
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my watch, bid them make haste.
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I think I hear them stand ho who's there?
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Enter Horatio and Marcellus.
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Friends to this ground, and liegeman to the Dane.
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Give you good night, Oh, farewell, honest soldier, who hath really?
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Bernardo has my place? Give you good night?
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Exit Holla Bernardo, say what is Horatio there?
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A piece of him?
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Welcome Horatio, Welcome, good to marcellas What.
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Has this thing appeared again tonight? I have seen nothing,
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Horatio says, tis but our fantasy, and will not let
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believe take hold of him touching this dreaded sight twice
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seen of us. Therefore I haven't treated him along with
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us to watch the minutes of this night, that if
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again this apperation come, he may approve our eyes and
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speak to it.
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Touch, touch to nad appear.
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Sit down a while and let us once again assail
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your ears that are so fortified against our story. What
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we have two nights seen?
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Well, Sit we down and let us hear Bernardo speak
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of this.
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Last night of all when yon same star that's westwards
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from the pole had made it cause to illumined that
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part of heaven where now it burns Marcella's and myself
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the bell then beating one, enter.
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Ghost, please break thee off. Look where it comes again, in.
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The same figure, like the king that's dead.
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Thou art a scholar? Speak to it? Horatio?
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Looks it not like the king?
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Market to Ratio, most like it harrows me with fear
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and wonder.
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It would be spoke to question it?
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Horatio, What art thou that usurpas this time of night together?
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With that fair and warlike form in which the Majesty
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of buried Denmark did sometimes march by heaven. I charge
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thee speak.
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It is offended, see it stalks away, stay speak speak,
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I charge thee speak.
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Exit, ghost tis gone?
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And will thos answer?
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Oh?
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Now, Horatio, you tremble and look pale? This something more
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than fantasy? What think you want?
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Before? My God? I might not this believe without the
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sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes? Is it
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not like the king, as thou art to thyself. Such
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was the very armor he had on when he the
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ambitious Norway combated, so frowned he once, when in an
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angry pearl he smote the sledded poleaxe on the ice.
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Tis strange thus twice before and jump at this dead
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hour with Marshall sto Katharine gone by our watch.
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In what particular thought to work? I know not, But
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in the gross and scope of my opinion this bodes
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some strange eruption to our state.
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Good Now, sit down and tell me he that knows
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why this same strict and most observant watch so nightly
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toils the subject of the land, and why such days
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cast of brazen cannon and foreign mass for implements of war.
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Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task does not
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divide Sunday from the week, What might be toward that
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this sweety haste doth make the night joint laborer with
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the day? Who is that can inform me?
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That?
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Can I? At least the whisper goes Our last king,
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whose image even but now appeared to us, was, as
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you know, by Fortinbrass of Norway. There, too, pricked on
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by a most emulate pride, dared to the combat in
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which our valiant Hamlet, for so this side of our
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known world esteemed him, did slay this Fortinbras, who, by
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a sealed compact well ratified by law and heraldry, did
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forfeit with his life all those his lands which he
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stood seized of to the conqueror against the which a
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miety competent was gaged by our king, which had returned
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to the inheritance of Fortembross, had he been vanquisher as
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by the same covenant and carriage of the article designed
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his felt a Hamlet, now sir young Fortonbross, of unimproved metal,
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hot and full hath in the skirts of Norway here
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and there sharked up a list of lawless resolutes for
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food and diet. Tis some enterprise that hath a stomach
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in it, which is no other, as it doth well
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appear under our state, but to recover of us by
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strong hands and terms compulsatory those foresaid lands, so by
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his father lost. And this I take it is the
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main motive of our preparations. The source of this our watch,
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and the chief head of this post hasse and Romage
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in the land.
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I think it be no other, But in so well
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med sort, this potentous figure comes armed through our watch.
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So like the king that was and is the question
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of these wars.
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A motive is to trouble the mind's eye. In the
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most high and palmy state of Rome, a little ere,
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the mightiest Julius fell, the graves stood tentantless, and the
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sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Romans streets,
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as stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
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disasters in the sun and the moist star, upon whose
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influence Neptune's empire stance was sick almost to doomsday. With
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eclipse and even the light precursor of fierce events as
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harbingers proceeding still the fates and prolog of the omen
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coming on, have Heaven and Earth together demonstrated unto our
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climatterres and countrymen. But soft behold lo where it comes again.
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Re enter ghost.
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I'll cross it, though it blast me, stay illusion. If
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thou hast any sound, or yus a voice, speak to me,
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if there be any good thing to be done that
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may to thee do ease and grace to me.
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Speak to me, cuck crows.
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If thou art privy to thy country's fate, which happily,
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for knowing may avoid, oh speak, Or if thou hast
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uphoorded in thy life extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
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for which they say you spirits oft walk in death,
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speak of it, stay and speak stop it, marcellus.
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Shall I strike at it with my partisan.
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Do if it will not stand tis here tis here
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tis gone?
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Exit ghost.
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We do it wrong, being so majestical to offer it
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the show of violence, for it is asked the air invulnerable,
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and our vain blows malicious mockery.
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It was about to speak when the cock crew.
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And then it started, like a guilty thing upon a
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fearful summons. I have heard the cock, that is the
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trumpet to the morn, doth with his lofty and shrill
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sounding throat, awake the God of day, and at his warning,
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whether and sea or fire, in earth or air, the
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extravagant and erring spirit hies to his confine and of
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the truth. Herein this present object made probation.
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It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say
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that ever against the season comes wherein our savious birth
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is celebrated, the bird of dawning singeth all night long.
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And then they say, no spirit days stare abroad, the
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nights are wholesome. Then no planets strike, no fairy takes,
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nor witch hath powers to charm, so hallowed and so
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gracious as the time.
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So have I heard, and do in part believe it.
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But look the morn in russet, mantle clad walks o'er
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the dew of yon high eastward hill break we our
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watch up, and by my advice, let us impart what
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we have seen to night unto young Hamlet, For upon
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my life this spirit dumb to us, will speak to him.
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Do you consent, we shall acquaint him with it as
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needful in our loves, fitting our duty.
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Let's do it, I pray, and I this morning know
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where we shall find him most conveniently.
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Exeunt scene too a room of state in the castle
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enter King Clodius, Queen Gertrude, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Voltamont, Cornelius,
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lords and attendants.
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Though yet of Hamlet, our dear brother's death, the memory
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be green, and that it us befitted to bear our
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hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom to be contracted
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in one brow of woe. Yet so far hath discretion
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fought with nature, that we with wisest sorrow think on him,
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together with remembrance of ourselves. Therefore, our sometimes sister, now
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our Queen, the imperial jointress, to this warlike state, have
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we as twere with a defeated joy, with an auspicious
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and a dropping eye, with mirth and funeral, and with
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dirge in marriage in equal scale weighing delight and dole
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taken to wife. Nor have we herein barred your better wisdoms,
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which have freely gone with this affair along for all
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our thanks now follows that you know, young Fortinbrass, holding
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a weak supposal of our worth, or thinking, by our
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late dear brother's death, our state to be disjoint and
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out of frame, colleagued with the dream of his advantage,
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he hath not failed to pester us with message importing
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the surrender of those lands lost by his father, with
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all bonds of law to our most valiant brother. So
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much for him, now for ourself, and for this time
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of meeting, Thus much the business is we have here
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writ to Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras, who impotent and
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bedrid scarcely hears of this his nephew's purpose to suppress
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his further gait herein in that the levees, the lists,
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and full proportions are all made out of his subject.
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And we here despatch you good Cornelius, and you Voltamont,
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forbearers of this greeting to old Norway, giving to you
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no further personal power to business with the King more
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than the scope of these dilated articles. Allow farewell, and
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let your haste commend your duty in that.
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And all things we will show show our duty.
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We doubt it nothing heartily.
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Farewell, excellent Voltemond and Cornelius.
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And now Laertes, what's the news with you? You told
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us of some suit. What ist Laertes, you cannot speak
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of reason to the day and loose your voice? What
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wouldst thou beg Laertes, That shall not be my offer,
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not thy asking. The head is not more native to
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the heart, the hand more instrumental to the mouth than
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is the throne of Denmark to thy father? What wouldst
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thou have, Laerties, My.
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Dread lord, you'll leave in favor to return to France.
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From once so willingly I came to Denmark to show
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my duty in your coronation. Yet now I must confess
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that duty done. My thoughts and wishes bend again toward
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France and bow them to your gracious leave and pardon?
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Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?
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He earth my lord wrung from me, I slow leave
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thy lavisme petition, And at last upon his will I
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seared my hard concerned, I do beseech you give him
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leave to.
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Go take thy fair hour, Laerties, time be thine, and
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thy best grace is spent at thy will. But now
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my cousin hamlet n my son aside.
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A little more than kin and less than kind.
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How is it that the cloud still hang on you.
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Not so, my lord, I am too much of the sun.
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Good Hamlet cast thy nighted color off, and let thine
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eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not forever,
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with thy veiled lids seek for thy noble father in
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the dust. Thou knowest tis common all that lives must die,
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passing through nature to eternity. I, madam, it is common,
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if it be, Why seems it so particular with thee.
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Seems, madam? Nay it is, I know not seems tis
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not alone my inky cloak, good mother, nor customary suits
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of solemn black, nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No,
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nor the fruitful river in the eye, nor the dejectedhavior
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of the visage, together with all forms, moods, shapes of
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grief that can denote me. Truly, these indeed seem, for
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they are actions that a man might play. But I
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have that within which passeth show these. But the trappings
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and the suits of woe.
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Tis sweet and commendable in your nature. Hamlet to give
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these mourning duties to your father. But you must know
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your father lost a father, that father lost lost his
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and the survivor bound in filial obligation for some term
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to do obsequious sorrow, but to persever in obstinate condolement
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is a course of impious stubbornness, tis unmanly grief. It
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shows a will most incorrect to heaven, a heart unfortified,
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a mind impatient, an understanding simple and unschooled. For what
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we know must be, and is as common as any,
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the most vulgar thing to sense. Why should we, in
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our peevish opposition, take it to heart? Fie tis a
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fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, a fault
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to nature, to reason most absurd, whose common theme is
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death of father's and who still hath cried from the
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first course till he that died to day? This must
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be so. We pray you throw to earth this unprevailing woe,
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and think of us as of a father, For let
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the world take note. You are the most immediate to
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our throne, and with no less nobility of love than
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that which dearest father bears his son. Do I impart
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toward you for your intent in going back to school
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in Wittenberg. It is most retrogade to our desire, and
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we beseech you bend you to remain here in the
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cheer and comfort of our eye, our chief, courtier, cousin,
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and our son.
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Let not thy mother lose her prayers. Hamlet, I pray
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thee stay with us, go not to Wittenberg.
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I shall, in all my best obey you, Madam.
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Why tis a loving and a fair reply, be as
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ourself in Denmark, Madam, Come this gentle and unforced accord
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of Hamlet, sits smiling to my heart in grace. Whereof
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no jock and health that Denmark drinks to day. But
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the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, and the
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kings rouse. The heavens all breet again, respeaking earthly thunder
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come away.
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Excellent all but Hamlet.
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Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw
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and resolve itself into adow, Or that the Everlasting had
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not fixed his cannon against self slaughter. Oh, God, God,
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how we are stale, flat and unprofitable. Seemed to me
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all the uses of this world. Fie aunt ah, fie
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tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank
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and gross in nature. Possess it merely that it should
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come to this, but two months dead, Nay, not so much,
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not too so excellent A king that was to this
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hyperion to a satter so loving to my mother that
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he might not beteem the winds of heaven. Visit her
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face too roughly, Heaven and Earth. Must I remember why
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she would hang on him, as if increase of appetite
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had grown by what it fed on. And yet within
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a month, let me not think aunt frailty thy name
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is woman? A little month? Or ere those shoes were old,
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with which she followed my poor father's body like naya
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be all tears. Why she even she, Oh God, a
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beast that wants discourse of reason, would have mourned longer
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married with my uncle, my father's brother, but no more
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like my father than I to Hercules. Within a month ere,
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yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the
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flushing in her galled eyes. She married, Oh, most wicked speed,
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to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets. It is
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not nor it cannot come to good, but break my heart,
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for I must hold my tongue.
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Enter, Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo.
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Hail to your lordship.
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I'm glad to see you well, Horatio, or I do
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forget myself.
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The same, my lord and your poor servant.
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Ever sir, my good friend, I'll change that name with you.
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And what make you from Wittenberg? Horatio Marcellus, my good lord,
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I am very glad to see you, good even, sir,
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But what in faith make you from Wittenberg?
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A truant disposition? Good, my Lord, I.
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Would not hear your enemy say so, nor shall you
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do mine ear that violence to make it? Trust her
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of your own report against yourself. I know you are
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no truant, but what is your affair? In Elsinore? Will
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teach you to drink deep?
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Ere you depart, my Lord. I came to see your
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father's funeral.
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I pray thee do not mock me, fellow student, I
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think it was to see my mother's wedding.
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Indeed, my Lord, it followed.
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Hard upon thrift thrift, Horatio, the funeral baked meats did
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coldly furnish forth the marriage tables what I had met,
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my dearest foe in heaven or ever I had seen
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that day, Horatio, my father methinks, I.
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See my father where, my lord?
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In my mind's eye, Horatio, I.
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Saw him once. He was a goodly king, he was
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a man.
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Take him for all in all, I shall not look
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upon his like again, my.
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Lord, I think I saw him yesternight, saw who, my lord,
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the king, your father, the king, my father, seizon your
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admiration for a while with an attent ear, till I
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may deliver upon the witness of these gentlemen this marvel
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to you.
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For God's love.
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Let me hear two knights together, had these gentlemen, Marcellus
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and Bernardo, on their watch in the dead, vast and
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middle of the night, been thus encountered a figure like
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your father, armed at point exactly capape, appears before them,
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and with solemn march, goes slow and stately by them.
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Thrice he walked by their oppressed and fear surprised eyes,
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within his truncheon's length, whilst they distilled almost to jelly
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with the act of fear. Stand dumb and speak not
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to him this to me in dreadful secrecy. In part
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they did, and I with them. The third knight kept
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the watch. Where as they had delivered both in time
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form of the thing, each word made true and good.
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The apparition comes. I knew your father, these hands are
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not more like.
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But where was this, my lord, upon the platform when
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we watched?
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Did you not speak to it?
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My Lord, I did, but answer made it none. Yet
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once methought, it lifted up its head and did address
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itself to motion, like as it would speak. But even
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then the morning cock crew loud, and at the sound
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it shrunk in haste away and vanished from our sight.
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Tis very strange, as I.
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Do live, my honored lord, tis true, and we did
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think it written down in our duty to let you
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know of it.
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Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me. Hold you the
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watch tonight, we do, my lord armed? Say you armed,
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my lord from top to toe? Then saw you not
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his face?
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Oh yes, my lord, he wore his beaver up. What
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looked he frowning, a countenance more in sorrow than.
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In anger, pale or red, nay, very pale, and fixed
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his eyes upon you most constantly.
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I would I had been there, It would have much amazed.
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You, very like, very like, stayed it long.
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While one with moderate taste might tell a hundred.
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Longer, longer, longer.
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Not when I saw it, his beard was grizzled. No,
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it was as I have seen it in life, a
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sable silvered.
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I will watch tonight perchance to will walk again.
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I warrant it well.
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If it assumed my noble father's person. I'll speak to it,
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though Hell itself should gape and bid me hold my peace.
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I pray you all, if you have hitherto concealed this sight,
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let be tenable in your silence still, and whatsoever else
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shall have tonight, give it an understanding, but no tongue.
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I will requite your loves, so fare you well. Upon
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the platform TwixT eleven and twelve, I'll visit you our
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duty to your your loves as mine to you.
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Farewell, exey OOnt all, but Hamlet, my.
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Father's spirit in arms, all is not well. I doubt
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some foul play. Would the night were come till then
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sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise, though all
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the earth overwhelm them to men's eyes.
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Exit Scene three, a room in Polonius's house. Enter layer
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Ties and Ophelia.
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My necessaries are embarked. Farewell, and sister, as the winds
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give benefit, and Convoy as assistant. Do not sleep, But
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let me hear from you.
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Do you doubt that.
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For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor, hold it
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to fashion and a toy in blood, a violet in
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the youth of prime nature. Forward not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
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the perfume and suppliance.
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Of a minute no more, no more, but so.
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Think it no more, or nature crescent does not grow
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alone in theuse and bulk, but as his temple waxes,
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the inward service of the mind and soul grows wide withal.
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Perhaps he loves you now and now no soil nor
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caudal doth besmirch the virtue of his will. But you
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must fear his greatness. Weide his will is not his own,
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for he himself is subject to his birth. He may not,
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as unvalued persons do, carve for himself, whereon his choice
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depends the safety and the health of his whole state,
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And therefore must his choice be circumscribed unto the voice
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and yielding of that body whereof he is the head.
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Then if he says he loves you, it fits your
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wisdom so far to believe it, as he, in his
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particular act and place may give his saying deed, which
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is no further than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
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Then way what loss your honor may sustain if with
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too credent ear you list his songs, or lose your
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heart or your chaste treasure open to his unmastered importunity.
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Feart Ophelia, fiert my dear sister, and keep you in
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the rear of your affection, out of the shot and
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danger of desire. The charyist maid is prodigal enough if
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she unmask her beauty to the moon. Virtue itself escapes,
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not calumnious strokes. The canker galls the infants of the
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spring too oft before their buttons be disclosed. And in
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the morn and liquid dew of youth, contagious blastments are
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most imminent. Be wary. Then best safety lies in fear.
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Youth through itself rebels, though none else near, I.
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Shall the effect of this good lesson. Keep as watchmen
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to my heart. But good, my brother, do not, as
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some ungracious pastures do, show me the steep and thorny
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way to heaven. Whiles like a puffed and reckless libertine
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himself the primrose path of Dalliant's treads and recks, not
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his own reed.
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Oh fear me not I stay too long. But here
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my father comes.
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And her Polonius.
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A double blessing is a double grace, occasion smiles upon
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a second leaf.
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Yet here laats aboard aboard for shame. The window sits
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in the shoulder of your sail, and you are stay'd
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for there my blessing with THEE. And these few precepts
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in thy memory. See thou character, give thy thoughts, no tongue,
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nor any unproportion'd thought is act. Be thou familiar, but
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by no means vulgar. Those friends Thou hast and their
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adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
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But do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each
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new hatch'd unfrenched. Comrade, beware of entrance to a quarrel,
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But being in beert, thou the opposed, may beware of THEE.
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. Take
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each man said jo but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy
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habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy, rich,
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not gaudy, for the apparel, OFT proclaims the man and
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they in France of the best rank and station, are
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of a most select and generous chief, in that neither
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a borrower nor a lender be for lone. OFT loses
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both itself and friend, and borrowing dows the edge of husbandry.
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This above all to thine own self be true, and
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it must follow as the knight of the day. Thou
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canst not then be false to any man. Farewell, my
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blessing season.
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This in thee most humbly do I take my leave,
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my Lord the.
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Time advite you go your servants tend.
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Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well what I have said to
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you tis.
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In my memory locked, and you yourself shall keep the
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key of it.
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Farewell exit.
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What is it, Ophelia? He hath said to you.
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So please you? Something touching the Lord hamlet.
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Mary well bethought tis told me. He hath very oft
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of late, given private time to you, and you yourself
497
00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:35.759
have of your audience been most free and bounteous. If
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it be so, as so it is put on me,
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and that in way of caution, I must tell you
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you do not understand yourself so clearly as it beholdes
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my daughter and your honor? What is between you? Give
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me up the truth?
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He hath, my Lord of Late made many tenders of
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his affection to me.
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Affection poor, oh, you speak like a green girl, and
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sifted in such perilous circumstance. Do you believe his tenders,
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as you call them.
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I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
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Mary. I'll teach you think yourself a baby, that you
510
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obtain his tenders for true pay, which are not sterling.
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Tend to yourself, my dearly, or not to crack the
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wind of the poor phrase running it. Thus you'll tend
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to me a fool.
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My Lord, he hath importuned me with love in honorable.
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Fashion, a fashion you may call it.
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Go to, go to, and hath given countenance to his speech,
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my lord, with almost all the holy vows of heaven.
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Ay springs to catch woodcocks. I do know when the
519
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blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue of bows.
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00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:06.880
These blazers daughter, giving more light than he'd extinct in both,
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even in their brobbers. As it is a making you
522
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must not take for fire. From this time, be somewhat
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scatter of your maiden presents. Set your entreatments at a
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higher rate than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet
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believe so much in him that he is young, and
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with a larger tether may he walk than may be
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given you in few failure. Do not believe his vows,
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for they are brokers, not of that die which their
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investments show, but may implorators of unhurly suits, breathing like
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sanctified and pious boards. The better to beguile. This is
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for all I would not in play darms from this
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00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:59.839
time forth? Have you so slander any moment leisure as
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to words or talk with the Lord Halet look to it.
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I charge you come your ways.
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I shall obey, my lord excellant.
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Scene four the platform enter Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus.
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The air bites shrewdly. It is very cold.
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It is a nipping an eager air.
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00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:25.720
What hour now?
540
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I think it lacks twelve? No, it is struck, indeed
541
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I heard it not. Then it draws near the season
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00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:35.119
wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.
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A flourish of trumpets and ordnance shot off within.
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What does this mean? My lord?
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The king doth wake tonight and takes his rouse, keeps
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wassail and the swaggering up spring reels, and as he
547
00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:52.720
drains his drafts of rhenish down, the cattle, drum and
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00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:55.880
trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge.
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00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:58.400
Is it a custom I marryest?
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But to my mind, though I am native here and
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to the manner born. It is a custom more honored
552
00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:09.000
in the breach than the observance. This heavy headed revel
553
00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:13.559
east and west makes us traduced and taxed of other nations.
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They cleep us drunkards, and with Swinish phrase, soil our addition.
555
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And indeed it takes from our achievements, though performed at height,
556
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the pith and marrow of our attribute. So oft it chances,
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in particular men that for some vicious mole of nature
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in them, as in their birth, wherein they are not guilty,
559
00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:38.559
since nature cannot choose his origin by the ore growth
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of some complexion oft breaking down the pales and forts
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of reason, or by some habit that too much o'er
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leavens the form of plausive manners that these men carrying,
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I say, the stamp of one defect being nature's livery
564
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or fortune star their virtues. Else be they as pure
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as grace, as infinite as man may undergo, shall in
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the general censure take corruption from that particular fault. The
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dram of eel doth all the noble substance of a
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doubt to his own scandal.
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Look, my lord, it comes enter ghost.
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Angels and ministers of grace defend us. Be thou a
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spirit of health or goblin damned? Bring with thee airs
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from heaven or blast from hell? Be thy intense, wicked
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or charitable. Thou comest in such a questionable shape that
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I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet, king father,
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royal Dane. Oh answer me. Let me not burst in ignorance,
576
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:43.519
but tell why thy canonized bones, hersed and death have
577
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:47.559
burst their cerements. Why the sepulcher, wherein we saw thee
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00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:51.719
quietly urned, hath OpEd his ponderous and marble jaws to
579
00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:56.960
cast thee up again? What may this mean? That thou dead?
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Coarse again? In complete steel rever is? It's thus the
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glimpses of the moon making night hideous, And we fools
582
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:08.400
of nature so horridly to shake our disposition with thoughts
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beyond the reaches of our souls, say, why is this?
584
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:14.760
Wherefore what should we do?
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00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:17.440
The ghost beckons Hamlet.
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00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:20.639
It beckons you to go away with it, as if
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00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:23.039
it's some impartment to desire to you alone.
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00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:27.039
Look with that courteous action, it waives you to a
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00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:29.960
more removed ground. But do not go with.
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00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:33.840
It no, by no means it will not speak.
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Then I will follow it.
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00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:37.000
Do not, my lord?
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00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:40.280
Why what should be the fear? I do not set
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00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:42.920
my life in a pin's fee, and for my soul?
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00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:44.960
What can it do to that? Being a thing immortal
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00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:48.400
as itself? It waves me forth again, I'll follow it.
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00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:51.800
What if attempt you toward the flood, my lord, or
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00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:54.079
to the dreadful summit of the cliff that beadles o'er
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00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:56.880
his base into the sea, and there assume some other
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00:36:56.960 --> 00:37:00.480
horrible form which might deprive your sovereignty of reason and
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00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:04.360
draw you into madness? Think of it. The very place
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00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:08.639
puts toys of desperation without more motive into every brain
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that looks so many fathoms to the sea, and hears
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00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:12.199
it roar beneath.
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00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:16.440
It waves me still, Come on, I'll follow thee.
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00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:19.800
You shall not go, my lord, Hold off your.
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Hands, be ruled. You shall not go.
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My fate cries out and makes each petty artery in
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00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:30.679
this body as hardy as the nemian lion's nerve. Still
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00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:34.480
am I called? Unhand me? Gentlemen, by heaven, I'll make
611
00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:37.079
a ghost of him that lets me I say away,
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go on, I'll follow.
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Thee excellant Ghost and Hamlet.
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00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:45.119
He waxes desperate with imagination.
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00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:48.559
Let's follow tis not fit? Thus to obey him?
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00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:52.519
Have after to what issue will this come?
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00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:56.719
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Heaven will
618
00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:59.840
direct it, nay, Let's follow him.
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Excellent Scene five, another part of the platform. Enter Ghost
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00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:08.320
and Hamlet.
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00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:10.280
Where wilt thou lead me?
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00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:11.280
Speak?
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I'll go no further? Mark me, I will.
624
00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:21.480
My hour is almost come when I, to sulfurous and
625
00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:25.079
tormenting flames, must render up.
626
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:27.960
Myself alas poor ghost.
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00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:32.079
Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing to what
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00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:34.360
I shall unfold speak.
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00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:35.400
I am bound to.
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00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:40.320
Hear, so art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear
631
00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:45.800
what I am thy father's spirit, doomed for a certain
632
00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:50.000
term to walk the night, and for the day confined to.
633
00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:53.960
Fast in fires, till the foul crimes done in my
634
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:58.800
days of nature are burnt and purged away. But that
635
00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:01.920
I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison house.
636
00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:06.760
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow
637
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:11.119
up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two
638
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:15.639
eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and
639
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:19.920
combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand
640
00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:25.280
on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this
641
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:30.400
eternal blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood.
642
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:42.239
List list o list, If thou didst ever thy dear father, love,
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00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:51.960
oh God, revenge his foul and most unnatural murder, murder, murder,
644
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:55.840
most foul as in the best it is. But this
645
00:39:56.360 --> 00:40:00.599
most foul, strange and unnatural.
646
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:03.559
Haste me to know it, that I, with wings as
647
00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:06.679
swift as meditation, or the thoughts of love, may sweep
648
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:07.760
to my revenge.
649
00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:12.679
I find thee apt and duller. Shouldst thou be than
650
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:17.039
the fat weed that roots itself in ease on leathy wharf?
651
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:23.639
Wouldst thou not stir in this now hamlet? Here tis
652
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given out that sleeping in my orchard, a serpent stung me.
653
00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:32.199
So the whole ear of Denmark is by a forged
654
00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:38.000
process of my death rankly abused. But know thou, noble youth,
655
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:43.960
the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears
656
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:44.920
his crown.
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00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:48.440
Oh, my prophetic soul, my uncle.
658
00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:54.960
Aye, that incestuous, that adulterate beast with witchcraft of his wit,
659
00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.360
with traitorous gifts, Oh, wicked wit, and gifts have the
660
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:05.960
power so to seduce one to his shameful lust. The
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00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:12.320
will of my most seeming virtuous queen, O Hamlet, What
662
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:16.679
a falling off was there from me, whose love was
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00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:20.519
of that dignity that it went hand in hand even
664
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:23.800
with the vow I made to her in marriage. And
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00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:29.119
to decline upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
666
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:33.360
to those of mine. But virtue as it never will
667
00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:37.199
be mov'd, though lewdness caught it in a shape of heaven.
668
00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:43.480
So lust, though to a radiant angel linked, will sate
669
00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:49.079
itself in a celestial bed and prey on garbage. But
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00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.559
soft methinks I scent the morning air brief. Let me
671
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:57.079
be sleeping within my orchard, my custom always of the afternoon,
672
00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:02.880
upon my secure hour, my uncle stole with juice of
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cursed heavenon and a vial, and in the porches of
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00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:12.559
my ears did pour the leprous distillment, whose effect holds
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00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:17.199
such an enmity with blood of man, that swift as quicksilver,
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00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:21.000
it courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body,
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and with a sudden vigor, doth poset and curd like
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00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:30.920
eager droppings into milk, the thin and wholesome blood, So
679
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:35.480
did it mine, And a most instant tetter barked about,
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most laserlike, with vile and loathsome crust all my smooth body.
681
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:48.599
Thus was I sleeping by a brother's hand of life
682
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:54.480
of crown of Queen. At once dispatch'd cut off even
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00:42:54.559 --> 00:43:00.719
in the blossoms of my sin, unhouseled, disappointed, un anneeld,
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00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:05.280
no reckoning maid, but sent to my account, with all
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00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:16.199
my imperfections on my head. Oh horrible, oh horrible, most horrible.
686
00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:22.000
If thou hast nature in thee bear it not, let
687
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:25.519
not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for
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00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:31.559
luxury and damned incest. But howsoever thou pursuest this act,
689
00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:37.280
taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive against
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00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:42.079
thy mother. Aught, leave her to heaven and to those
691
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.920
thorns that in her bosom lodge, to prick and sting
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00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:49.679
her fare thee well. At once the glow worm shows
693
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:53.440
the matin to be near, and gins to pale his
694
00:43:53.679 --> 00:44:05.119
uneffectual fire. Adieu, adieu, oh hamlet remember me.
695
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:13.000
Exit, oh all you host of heaven, oh Earth? What else?
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00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:19.920
And shall I couple hell, oh fie, hold hold my
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00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:22.840
heart and you my sinews grow not instant old, but
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bear me stiffly up. Remember thee aye, thou poor ghost,
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00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:32.800
while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe, remember
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00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:36.159
thee yea from the table of my memory. I'll wipe
701
00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:40.920
away all trivial fond records, all saws of books, all forms,
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00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:45.400
all pressures past that youth and observation copied there and
703
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:48.599
thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and
704
00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:53.679
volume of my brain, unmixed with baser matter. Yes, by heaven,
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Oh most pernicious woman, Oh villain, villain, smiling, damned villain,
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00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:04.880
my tables meat it is. I set it down that
707
00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:08.800
one may smile and smile and be a villain. At
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00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:11.760
least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark writing
709
00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:16.360
So uncle, there you are now to my word, it
710
00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:21.840
is a jew, a jew, Remember me. I have sworn it.
711
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:26.559
My lord, my lord, my lord, lord, hamlet.
712
00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:28.960
Heaven secure him, so be it.
713
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:34.039
Hello ho ho, my lord, Hello ho ho boy, come bird, come.
714
00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:37.199
Enter Horatio and Marcellus.
715
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:41.840
How ist my noble lord, what news, my lord? Oh
716
00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:46.239
wonderful good my lord? Tell it No, you'll reveal it,
717
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:49.800
not I, my lord, by heaven, nor I my lord?
718
00:45:50.239 --> 00:45:50.800
How say you?
719
00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:51.079
Then?
720
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:54.400
Would heart of man once think it? But you'll be secret?
721
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:56.440
Aye, by heaven, my lord.
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There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark, but he's
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an errant knave.
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There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
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to tell us this.
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Why right? You heard the right? And so without more
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circumstance at all, I hold it fit that we shake
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hands in part you as your business and desire shall
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point you for every man hath business and desire such
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as it is, and for mine own poor part. Look you,
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I'll go pray.
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These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.
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I'm sorry they offend you heartily, Yes, faith heartily.
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There's no offense, my lord.
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Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is horatio and much
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offense too touching this vision here, it is an honest
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ghost that let me tell you for your desire to
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know what is between us, or master it as you may.
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And now, good friends, as you are, friends, scholars and soldiers,
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give me one poor request.
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What is it? My lord?
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We will never make known what you have seen tonight,
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my lord.
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Nay, but swear it in faith, my lord, nor.
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I my lord, in faith upon my sword.
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We have sworn, my Lord already.
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Indeed upon my sword, indeed swear Aha, boy, sayest thou
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so art thou there true penny. Come on you hear
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this fellow in the celaridge consent to.
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Swear, propose the oath, my lord.
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Never to speak of this that you have seen, swear
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by my sword, swear hic et ubique. Then we'll shift
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our ground. Come hither, gentlemen, and lay your hands again
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upon my sword. Never to speak of this that you
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have heard. Swear by my sword. Swir well, said old mole.
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Canst work of the earth so fast a worthy pioneer?
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Once more, remove, good friends.
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Oh day and night. But this is wondrous, strange, and.
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Therefore as a stranger, give it welcome. There.
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There are more.
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Things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
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in your philosophy. But come here as before, never so
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help you mercy, how strange or odd, soeer I bear
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myself as I perchance hereafter shall think me to put
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an antic disposition on that you at such time seeing me,
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never shall with arms encumbered thus or this head shake,
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or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase as well, well
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we know, or we could, and if we would, or
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if we list to speak, or there be, and if
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there might, or such ambiguous giving out to note that
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you know aught of me this not to do so.
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Grace and mercy at your most need, help you swear
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swell rest rest perturbed spirit, They swear so, gentlemen, with
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all my love, I do commend me to you. And
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what so poor a man as Hamlet is may do
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to express his love and friending to you, God willing
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shall not lack. Let us go in together, And still
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your fingers on your lips. I pray the time is
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out of joint, oh cursed spite that ever I was
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born to set it right. Nay, come, let's go together.
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Excellent end of Act one
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