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Act Too of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. This is a
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Act Too, Scene one, A room in Polonius's house. Enter Polonius,
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and Rinaldo.
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Give him this money of these needs.
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Rinaldo, I will, Malond.
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You shall do marvelous, wisely good Rinaldo before you visit him,
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to make inquire of his behavior.
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Melond I didn'tend it.
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Mary Well said, very well, said look, your sa inquire
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be first what Danskers are in Paris, and how and who,
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what means, and where they keep, what company, at what expense?
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And findee by this encompassment and thrift to question that
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they do know my son. Come you more nearer than
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your particular demands will touch it. Take you as twere
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some distant knowledge of him, as thus I know his
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father and his friends and in part him. Do you
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mark this Rinaldo, I very well, my lord, and in
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part him. But you must say not well. But if
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t be he, I mean he's very wild, addicted so
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and so and there put on him what forgeries you
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please marry none so rank is me dishonor him take
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heed of that? But as such wanton, wild, unusual lips,
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as our companions noted, and most known to youth and liberty,
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as I mean, my lord, a or drinking, a fencing, swearing, quarreling, drabbing.
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You may go so far the lord is that what
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is owner him?
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Faith? No, as you may seize it in the charge,
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you must not put another scandal on him that he
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is open to incontinency. That's not my meaning. But breathe
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his faults so quaintly that they may seem the taints
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of liberty, the flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
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a savageness in the unreclaimed blood of general assault.
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That's my good lord.
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Wherefore should you do this?
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I'm the lord.
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I would know that, Mary sir, here's my drift, and
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I believe it is a fetch of wit. You laying
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the slight salis on my son, a swear, a thing
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little soiled in the working mark you your party in
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converse him, you would sound have you ever seen in
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the prenominant crimes the youth? You breathe of guilty? He assured,
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He closes with you in his consequence good sir or sir,
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or friend or gentleman, according to the phrase or the
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addition of man.
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And country, very good lord.
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And then sir does he this? He does? What was
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I about to say? By the mass I was about
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to say something? Where did I leave?
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It closes in the consequence A friends, sir and gentlemen.
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At closes, in the consequence I marry he closes. Thus
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I know the gentleman. I saw him yesterday or till
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the day, or then, or then with such or such,
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And as you say, there was a gaming there overtook
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in rouse. Therefore the out at tennis, or perchance I
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saw him enter such a house of sail, videlicet, a brothel,
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or say forth see you now, your bit of falsehood
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takes this carp of truth. And thus do we of
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wisdom and of reach, with windlesses and essays of buyers,
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by indirections, find directions out. So by my former lecture
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and advice, shall you, my son, you have me?
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Have you not, my lord?
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I have God be with you? Fare you well, good,
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my lord, observe his inclination in yourself, I shall, my lord,
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and let him ply his music well farewell.
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Exit enter Ophelia.
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Oh, no, Ophelia. What's the matter, o, my.
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Lord my lord? I have been so affrighted with what
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he the name of God, my lord, as I was
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sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all umbraced,
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no hat upon his head, his stockings fowled ungartered and
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down give to his ankle, pale as his shirt, his
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knees knocking each other, and with a look so piteous
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in purport, as if he had been loosed out of
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hell to speak of horrors, he comes.
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Before me mad for thy love, my.
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Lord, I do not know, but truly I do fear it.
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What should he?
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He took me by the wrist and held me hard.
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Then goes he to the length of all his arm,
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and with his other hand thus o'er his brow, he
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falls to such perusal of my face as he would
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draw it. Long stayed he so at last a little
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shaking of mine arm, and thrice his head, thus waving
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up and down, he raised a sigh so piteous and
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profound as it did seem to shatter all his bulk
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and int his being that done, he lets me go,
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and with his head over his shoulder turned, he seemed
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to find his way without his eyes. For out o
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doors he went without their helps, and to the last
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bended their light on me.
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Come go with me, I will go seek the king.
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This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property
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for does itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings,
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as oft as any passion under heaven that does afflict
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now natures. I am sorry, what have you given him?
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Any hard words of late?
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No, my good lord, But as you did command, I
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did repel his fetters and denied his access to me,
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that has.
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Made him mad. I am sorry that, with better heed
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and judgment I had not quoted him. I feared he
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did but trifle and meant direct thee. But beshrew my jealousy.
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By Heaven, it is as proper to our age to
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cast yond ourselves in our opinions, as it is common
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for the younger sort to lack discretion. Come go we
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to the king. This must be known, which, being kept close,
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might move more grief to hide than hate to utter love.
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Exellant scene too, a room in the castle, Enter King Claudius,
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Queen Gertrude, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and attendants.
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Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Moreover, that we much did
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long to see you. The need we have to use
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you did provoke our hasty sending something. Have you heard
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of Hamlet's transformation, so call it sith nor the exterior
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nor the inward man resembles that it was what it
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should be, more than his father's death, that thus hath
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put him so much from the understanding of himself I
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cannot dream of. I entreat you both, that, being of
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so young days brought up with him, and Syth so
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neighbored to his youth, and haveavior that you vouchsafe your
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rest here in our court some little time, so by
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your companies to draw him on to pleasures, and to
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gather so much as from occasion you may glean, whether
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aught to us unknown afflicts him. Thus that opened lies
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within our remedy.
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Good gentleman, he hath much talked of you, and sure
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I am two men there are not living to whom
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anymore adheares. If it will please you to show us
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so much gentle try and good will as to expend
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your time with us awhile for the supply and profit
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of our hope your visitation shall receive such thanks as
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fits a king's remembrance.
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Both your majesties might, by the sovereign power you have
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of us, put your dread pleasures more into command than
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to entreaty.
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But we both obey and here give up ourselves in
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the full bent to lay our service freely at your
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feet to be commanded.
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Thanks Rosenkrantz, and Gentle Guildenstern.
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Thanks Guildenstern, and Gentle Rosenkrantz, and I beseech you instantly
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to visit my too much changed son. Go some of
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you and bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.
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Heavens make our presence and our practices pleasant and helpful
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to him.
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I amen, Excellent Rosenkrantz, Guildenstern, and so attendants, enter Polonius.
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The ambassadors from Norway, my good Lord, are joyfully returned.
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Thou still hast been the father of good news, Have I.
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My Lord, as sure by good lieeds, I hold thy
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duty as I hold thy soul, both to my God
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and my gracious King. And I do think or else.
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The breed of man haunts not the trail of policies,
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as sure as it hath used to do that. I
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have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunus hair.
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Oh, speak of that that do I long to hear?
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Give first admittance to the ambassadors mine you shall be
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the fruit to that great feast thyself.
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Do grace to the man to bring them in. Exit Polonius,
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he tells me, my dear Gertrudieth found the head and
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source of all your son's distemper.
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I doubt it is no other but the main his
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father's death, and ah O hasty marriage.
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Well we shall sift him.
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Re enter Polonius with Voltemond and Cornelius.
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Welcome, my good friends. Say Voltemond want from our brother Norway.
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Most fair return of greetings and desires upon our First,
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he set out to suppress his nephew's levies, which to
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him appeared to be a preparation against the Polock. But
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beduked into he truly found it was against your highness.
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Where is grieved that so a sickness, age and impodence
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was falsely born in hand, sends oud'ress on Fortembros, which
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he in brief obeys, receives rebuke from Norway, and in
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fine makes vow before his uncle never more to give
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the essay of arms against your majesty, whereon Old Norway,
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overcome with joy, gives him three thousand crowns an annual fee,
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and his commission to employ those soldiers so levied as
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before against the Polac, with an entreaty. Herein further showing
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giving a paper that it might please you to give
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quiet pass through your dominions for this enterprise on such
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regard of safety and allowance as therein are set down.
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It likes us well, and at our more considered time,
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we'll read answer and think upon this business. Meantime, we
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thank you. If we are well to labor, go to
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your arrest. At night we'll feast together.
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Most welcome home, excellent Voltemont and Cornelius.
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This business is well ended, my liege and madam. To
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expostulate what majesty should be, What duty is? Why day's day, night,
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night and time? Is time worth nothing but to waste
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a night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the
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soul of wit, and he lisners the limbs and outward flourishes,
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I will be brief. Your noble son is mad mad
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call I it for to define through madness what is
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but to be nothing else but mad. But let that go.
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More matter with less art, Madam.
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I swear I use no art at all. That he
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is mad tis true, tis true, tis pity and pity
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tis tis true, a foolish figure. But farewell it, for
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I will use no art. Mad Let us grant him then,
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and now remains, that we find out the cause of
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this effect, or rather say the cause of this defect,
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For this effect defective comes by cause. Thus it remains,
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and the remainder thus per penned. I have a daughter
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have why she is mine, who, in her duty and
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obedience mark hath given me this. Now gather and surmise.
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Reads to the celestial and my soul's idle, the most beautified, Ophelia.
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That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase. Beautified is a
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vile phrase. But you shall hear. Thus reads in her
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excellent white bosom, theseer et cetera.
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Came this from Hamlet to her.
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Good Madam, stay awhile I will be faithful.
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Reads.
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Doubt thou the star's a fire, doubt that the sun
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doth move truth to be a liar, But never doubt.
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I love, oh dear Feilia. I am ill at these
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numbers I have not art to reckon my groans, but
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that I love thee best o most best. Believe it.
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Adieu thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this machine is
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to him, hamlet this in obedience. Hath my daughter shown me?
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And more above, hath his solicitings as they fell out,
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by time, by means and place, all given to mine ear?
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But how hath she received his love?
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What do you think of me as.
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Of a man faithful and honorable?
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I would fain prove, sir. But what might you think
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when I had seen this hot love on the wing
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as I perceived it? I must tell you that before
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my daughter told me, what might you, or my dear majesty,
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your queen heir, think, if I had play'd the desk
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or table book, or given my heart a winking mute
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and dumb, or look'd upon his love with idle sight?
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What might you think?
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No?
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I went round to work, and my young mistress, thus
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I did bespeak, Lord hablet is a prince out of
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thy star. This must not be. And then I precepts
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gave her that she should lock herself from his resort
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amid no messengers, received no tokens, which done. She took
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the fruits of my advice, and he repulsed a short
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tale to make fell into his sadness, then into a fast,
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thence to watch, thence into a weakness thanks to a lightness,
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and by this declension into the madness, wherein now he raves,
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and all we mourn.
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For do you think 'tis this?
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It may be very likely.
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Had there been such a time, I'd fain know that
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that I have positively said, tis sir, when it proved otherwise.
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Not that I know, pointing to his head and shoulder.
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Take this from this if this be otherwise, if circumstances
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lead me, I will find where truth is hid, though
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it were hid indeed within the center.
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How may we try it further?
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You know sometimes he walks four hours together here in the.
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Lobby, so he does. Indeed, at such.
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A time I'll loose my daughter to him. Be you
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an eye behind an arras, then mark the encounter if
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he love her not, and be not from his reason
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for thereon, let me be no assistant for estate, but
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keep a farm and Carter's.
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We will try it, but look, we're sadly.
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The poor wretch comes reading away.
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I do beseech you both away. I'll board him presently.
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Excellent King Claudius, Queen Gertrude and attendants enter Hamlet, reading.
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Ooh you believe, Oh, does my good lord halet.
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Well got a mercy?
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Do you know me?
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My lord excellent? Well, you are a fishmonger?
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Not I, my lord?
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Then I would you were so honest?
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A man honest, my lord, I sir.
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To be honest as this world goes, is to be
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one man picked out of ten thousand.
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That's very true, my lord.
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For if the sun breed maggots and a dead dog
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being a good kissing carrion. Have you a daughter?
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I have, my Lord, let her.
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Not walk in the sun. Conception is a blessing, but
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not as your daughter may conceive.
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Friend, look to it aside, I'll see you by that
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still harpy on my daughter. Yet he knew me, not
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at first? He said I was a fisionmonger. He is
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far gone, far gone, and truly in my youth I
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suffered much extremity for love very near this. I'll speak
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to him again. What do you read, my lord?
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Words?
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Words?
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Words?
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What is the matter, my lord?
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Between who I mean?
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The matter that you read? My lord?
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Slanders, sir for the satirical rogue says here that old
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men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their
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eyes purging thick amber and plum tree gum, and that
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they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most
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weak hands, All which, Sir, though I most powerfully and
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potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have
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it thus set down for yourself, Sir, should be as
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old as I am, if like a crab, you.
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Could go backward aside, though this be madness, yet there
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is method in will you walk.
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Out of the air, my lord, into my grave?
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Indeed, that is out of the air aside, how pregnant,
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Sometimes his replies are happiness that often madness hits, on
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which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of.
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I will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of
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meeting between him and my daughter. My honorable lord, I
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wilmost humbly take my leave of you.
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You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will
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more willingly part withal except my life. Accept my life,
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Accept my life.
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Fare you well, my lord.
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These tedious old fools.
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Enter Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, you go to shake.
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The lord Hamlet there he is.
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God save you, sir, Exit Polonius.
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My honored lord, my most dear.
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Lord, my excellent good friends, How dost thou Guildenstern, rosen Krantz,
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good lads? How do ye both, as.
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The indifferent children of the earth happy?
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And that we are not over happy? Unfortune's cap We
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are not the very button.
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Nor the soles of her shoes.
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Neither, my lord.
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Then you live about her waist or in the middle
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of her favors, faith, her pride, in the secret parts
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of fortune. Oh, most true, she is a strumpet. What's
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the news?
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None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest?
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Then is doomsday near? But your news is not true?
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Let me question more, in particular, what have you, my
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good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune that she
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sends you to prison?
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Hither prison, my lord?
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Denmark's a prison?
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Then is the world one a goodly.
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One in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons,
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Denmark being one of the worst.
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We think not so, my lord?
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Why then tis none to you? For there is nothing
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either good or bad, but thinking makes it so?
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To me?
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It is a prison.
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Why then your ambition makes it one? Tis too narrow
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for your mind?
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Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and
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count myself a king of infinite space. Were it not
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that I have bad dreams?
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Which dream indeed or ambition? For the very substance of
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the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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A dream itself is but a shadow, truly, And I
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hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that
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it is but a shadow's shadow.
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Then are our beggar's bodies, and our monarchs and outstretched
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heroes the beggar's shadows? Shall we to the court, For
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by my fay I cannot reason?
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Will you wait upon you, my lord?
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No such matter. I will not sort you with the
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rest of my servants, For to speak to you like
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an honest man, I am most dreadfully attended. But in
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the beaten way of friendship. What make you at elsinore.
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To visit you, my lord? No other occasion.
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Beggar that I am. I am even poor in thanks,
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but I thank you, And sure, dear friends, my thanks
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are too dear. A halfpenny were you not sent?
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For?
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Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation.
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Come deal justly with me. Come, come, nay.
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Speak What should we say, my lord?
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Why anything but to the purpose you were sent for?
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And there is a kind of confession in your looks
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which your modesties have not craft enough to color. I
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know the good King and Queen have sent for you.
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To what end, my lord, that you must teach me?
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But let me conjure you by the rights of our fellowship,
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by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of
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our ever preserved love, And by what more, dear a
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better proposer could charge you withal Be even and direct
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with me, whether you were sent for or no?
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Aside to Guildenstern, What say you nay?
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Then I have an eye of you. If you love me,
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Hold not off.
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My lord, we were sent for.
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I will tell you why so shall my anticipation prevent
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your discovery and your secrecy to the King and Queen
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molt no fe I have of late, But wherefore I
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know not lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises.
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And indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that
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this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory,
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this most excellent canopy the air. Look you, this brave
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o'er hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.
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Why it appears no other thing to me than a
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foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of
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work is a man? How noble in reason, how infinite
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in faculty, in form and moving, How express and admirable
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in action? How like an angel in apprehension, How like
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a god? The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals?
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And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Men?
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Delights not me, no nor woman neither, though by your
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smiling you seem to say so.
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My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
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Why did you laugh then when I said, man delights
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not me?
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To think? My lord, if you delight not in man?
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What lent and entertainment the players shall receive from you?
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We cotted them on the way, and hither they are
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coming to offer you service.
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He the place the king shall be welcome. His majesty
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shall have tribute of me. The adventurous knight shall use
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his foil and target. The lover shall not sigh gratis.
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The humorous man shall end his part in peace. The
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clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickled to
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the seer, and the lady shall say her mind freely,
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or the blank verse shall halt for it. What players
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are they?
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Even those you are wont to take delight in the
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tragedians of the city.
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How chance is it they travel their residence both in
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reputation and profit was better both ways?
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I think their inhibition comes by the means of the
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late innovation?
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Do they hold the same estimation they did when I
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was in the city? Are they so followed?
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No, indeed they are not.
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How comes it do they grow rusty?
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Nay? Their endeavor keeps in the wanted place? But there is, sir,
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and area of children, little iases that cry out on
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the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for it.
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These are now the fashion and so baradal the common stages.
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So they call them that. Many wearing rapiers are afraid
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of goose quills, and dare scarce come thither?
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What are they children? Who maintains them? How are they escotted?
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Will they pursue the quality no longer than they can sing?
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Will they not say afterwards if they should grow themselves
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to common players, as it is most like, if their
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means are no better. Their writers do them wrong to
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make them exclaim against their own succession.
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Faith.
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There has been much to do on both sides, and
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the nation holded no sin to tar them to controversy.
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That there was for a while no money bid for
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argument unless the poet and the player went to cuffs
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in the question.
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Is it possible?
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Oh, there has been much throwing about of brains.
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Do the boys carry it away?
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Aye? That they do. My Lord Hercules and his load too.
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It is not very strange, for mine uncle is king
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of Denmark, and those that would make mose at him
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while my father lived give twenty forty fifty one hundred
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ducats apiece for his picture in little Splood. There is
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something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find
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it out.
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Flourish of trumpets within there are the players.
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Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands come. Then.
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The impertinence of welcome is fashion and ceremony. Let me
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comply with you in this scarb lest my extent to
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the players, which I tell you must show fairly outward,
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should more appear like entertainment than yours. You are welcome,
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But my uncle father and aunt mother.
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Are deceived in what my dear lord I.
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Am but mad north northwest when the wind is southerly,
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I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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Enter Polonius.
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Well be with you, gentlemen.
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Hark you Gildenstern, and you two at each ear a hearer.
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That great baby you see there is not yet out
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of his swaddling clouts.
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Haply he's the second time come to them, For they
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say an old man is twice a child.
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I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the
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player's market. You say, right, sir, a Monday morning twas so.
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Indeed, my lord, I have news to tell you.
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My Lord, I have news to tell you. When Rosius
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was an actor in Rome.
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The actors are come hither, my.
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Lord, buzz buzz upon mine honor. Then came each actor
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on his ass.
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The best actors in the world, either of a tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral, comical,
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historical pastoral, tragical historical, tragical, comical historical pastoral, seen, individable
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or poem unlimited. Cynica cannot be too heavy nor plotters
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too light for the law of writ and liberty. These
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are the only men.
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Oh, Jeptha, Judge of Israel, What a treasure hast thou?
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What a treasure had he?
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My Lord?
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Why one fair daughter and no more the witch he loved?
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Passing well?
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Still on my daughter?
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Am I not the right old Jeptha?
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If you call me Jephtha? My Lord, I have a
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daughter that I love passing wells?
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Nay that follows?
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Not what follows? Then, my lord?
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Why as by lot God? What? And then you know
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it came to pass as most like it was the
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first row of the pious Chanson will show you more.
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For look where my abridgment comes.
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Enter four or five players.
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You are welcome, masters, Welcome all. I am glad to
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see thee well welcome, good friends, O, my old friend,
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thy face is valanced since I saw thee last comest
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Thou to beard me in Denmark? What my young lady
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and mistress? By your lady, your ladyship is nearer to
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Heaven than when I saw you last. By the altitude
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of a chopping pray God, your voice, like a piece
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of uncurrant gold, be not cracked within the ring. Masters,
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you are all welcome. We'll into it like French falconers
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fly at anything we see. We'll have a speech straight.
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Come give us a taste of your quality. Come a
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passionate speech.
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What speech, my lord?
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I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it
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was never acted, or if it was not above once
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for the play, I remember pleased not the million twas
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caviare to the general, but it was as I received it,
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and others whose judgments in such matters cried in the
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top of mine, an excellent play, well digested in the scenes,
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set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember.
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One said there were no salats in the lines to
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make the matter savory, nor no matter in the phrase
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that might indicte the author of affectation, but called it
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an honest method, as wholesome, as sweet, and by very
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much more handsome than fine one speech in it. I
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chiefly loved twas aeneas tail to Dido and thereabout of it,
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especially where he speaks of pri am slaughter. If it
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live in your memory, begin at this line. Let me see,
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let me see the rugged peerest like the Hyrcanian beast.
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It is not so. It begins with pearis the rugged peeress,
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he whose sable arms black as his purpose did the
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night resemble when he lay couched in the ominous horse hath.
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Now this dread and black complexion smeared with heraldry more
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dismal head to foot. Now is he total ghouls, horridly
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tricked with blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, baked and
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impasted with the parching streets that lend a tyrannous and
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damned light to their lord's murder. Roasted in wrath and fire,
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and thus oor sized with coagulate gore, with eyes like carbuncles,
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the hellish peeress old grandsire Priam seeks so precede you.
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For God, my Lord. Well spoken with good accent and
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good Discrecian.
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Anon, he finds him striking too short at Greeks, his
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antique sword, rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,
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repugnant to command, unequal man match'd pirus et. Priam drives
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in rage, strikes wide, but with the whiff and wind
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of his fell sword, the unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,
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seeming to feel this blow with flaming top, stoops to
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his base and with a hideous crash, takes prisoner, Pirus
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ear for lo his sword, which was declining on the
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milky head of Reverend Priam, seemed the air to stick.
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So as a painted tyrant, Pirus stood, and, like a
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neutral to his will and matter did nothing. But, as
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we often see against some storm, a silence in the heavens,
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the rack stands still, the bold winds speechless, and the
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orb below as hush as death Anon, the dreadful thunder
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doth rend the region. So after Piris pause, aroused, vengeance
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sets him new a work, And never did the cyclops
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hammers fall on Mars's armor, forged for proof, return with
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less remorse than peeress. Bleeding sword now falls on Priam.
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Out out thou, strumpet fortune, all.
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You gods in general Synod, take away her power, break
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all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, and bowl
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the round, knave down the hill of heaven as low
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as to the fiends.
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This is too long.
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It shall to the barbers with your beard, prithee, say on,
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he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or
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he sleeps, say on, come to Hakuba.
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But who oh, who hath seen the mobled queen?
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The mobled queen that's good.
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Malbled Queen is Wood.
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Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames with bisson
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room a clout upon that head where late the diadem stood,
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and for a robe about her lank and all o'er
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teimid loins a blanket in the alarm of fear caught
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up who this had seen with tongue and venoms deeped
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gainst fortune's state, would treason have pronounced? But if the
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gods themselves did see her, then when she saw Peerus
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make malicious sport en mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,
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the instant burst of clamor that she made, unless things
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mortal move them not at all, would have made milch
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the burning eyes of heaven and passion in the gods.
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Look whether he has not turned his color and has
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tears in SyES. Pray you no more.
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Well, I'll have thee speak out the rest soon. Good,
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my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do
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you hear? Let them be well used, for they are
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the abstract and brief chronicles of the time after your death.
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You were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report.
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While you live, my lord, I will use them according
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to their dessert.
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God's bodykins man much better, use every man after his dessert,
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and who should scape whipping? Use them after your own
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honor and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit
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is in your bounty.
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Take them in come czars.
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Follow him, friends, we'll hear a play tomorrow.
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Exit Polonius with all the players, but the first.
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Dost thou hear me? Old friend? Can you play the
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murder of Gonzago?
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I'm my lord?
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Will hat tomorrow night? You could, for a need study
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a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I
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would set down and insertens, could you not? I, my
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lord very well? Follow that lord, and look you mock him?
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Not exit first player, My.
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Good friends, I'll leave you till night. You are welcome
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to Elsinore.
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Good my lord, ay, so God.
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Be with ye.
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Exellunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
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Now I am alone? What a rogue and peasant slave?
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Am I?
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Is it not monstrous that this player here but in
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a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his
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soul so to his own conceit that from her working
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all his visage wand tears in his eyes, distraction in
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his aspect a broken voice, and his whole functions suiting
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with forms to his conceit, and all for nothing for Hecuba.
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What's Hecuba to him? Or he to Hecuba that he
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should weep for her? What would he do? Had he
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the motive and the cue for passion that I have,
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He would drown the stage with tears, and cleave the
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general ear with horrid speech, make mad the guilty, and
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appall the free, confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed the
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very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I a dull
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and muddy, mettled rascal pique like John a dreams, unpregnant
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of my cause, and can say nothing, no, not for
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a king upon whose property and most dear life a
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damned defeat was made. Am I a coward who calls
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me villain, breaks my pay across, plucks off my beard
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and blows it in my face, tweaks me by the nose,
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gives me the lie the throat as deep as.
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To the lungs.
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Who does me this? Ha swoons, I should take it,
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for it cannot be. But I am pigeon livered and
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lack gall to make oppression bitter or ere this I
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should have fatted all the region kites with this slave's awful,
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bloody body. Villain, remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain, Oh vengeance,
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Why what an ass am? I this is most brave,
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that I, the son of a dear father, murdered, prompted
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to my revenge by Heaven and hell, must like a
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whore unpack my heart with words and fall a cursing
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like a very drab a scullion, figh upon it about
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my brain. I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at
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a play have, by the very cunning of the scene,
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been struck so to the soul that presently they have
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proclaimed their malefactions for murder, though it have no tongue,
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will speak with most miraculous organ I'll have these players
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play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle.
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I'll observe his looks. I'll tent him to the quick
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if he but blench, I know, my course, the spirit
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that I have seen may be the devil, and the
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devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and
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perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy, as he
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is very potent with such spirits abuses me, to damn me,
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I'll have grounds more relative than this. The plays, the thing,
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wherein i'll catch the conscience of the
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King exit, and of act too,
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Act Too of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. This is a
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Act Too, Scene one, A room in Polonius's house. Enter Polonius,
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and Rinaldo.
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Give him this money of these needs.
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Rinaldo, I will, Malond.
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You shall do marvelous, wisely good Rinaldo before you visit him,
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to make inquire of his behavior.
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Melond I didn'tend it.
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Mary Well said, very well, said look, your sa inquire
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be first what Danskers are in Paris, and how and who,
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what means, and where they keep, what company, at what expense?
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And findee by this encompassment and thrift to question that
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they do know my son. Come you more nearer than
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your particular demands will touch it. Take you as twere
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some distant knowledge of him, as thus I know his
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father and his friends and in part him. Do you
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mark this Rinaldo, I very well, my lord, and in
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part him. But you must say not well. But if
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t be he, I mean he's very wild, addicted so
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and so and there put on him what forgeries you
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please marry none so rank is me dishonor him take
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heed of that? But as such wanton, wild, unusual lips,
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as our companions noted, and most known to youth and liberty,
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as I mean, my lord, a or drinking, a fencing, swearing, quarreling, drabbing.
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You may go so far the lord is that what
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is owner him?
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Faith? No, as you may seize it in the charge,
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you must not put another scandal on him that he
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is open to incontinency. That's not my meaning. But breathe
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his faults so quaintly that they may seem the taints
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of liberty, the flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
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a savageness in the unreclaimed blood of general assault.
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That's my good lord.
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Wherefore should you do this?
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I'm the lord.
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I would know that, Mary sir, here's my drift, and
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I believe it is a fetch of wit. You laying
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the slight salis on my son, a swear, a thing
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little soiled in the working mark you your party in
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converse him, you would sound have you ever seen in
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the prenominant crimes the youth? You breathe of guilty? He assured,
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He closes with you in his consequence good sir or sir,
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or friend or gentleman, according to the phrase or the
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addition of man.
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And country, very good lord.
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And then sir does he this? He does? What was
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I about to say? By the mass I was about
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to say something? Where did I leave?
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It closes in the consequence A friends, sir and gentlemen.
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At closes, in the consequence I marry he closes. Thus
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I know the gentleman. I saw him yesterday or till
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the day, or then, or then with such or such,
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And as you say, there was a gaming there overtook
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in rouse. Therefore the out at tennis, or perchance I
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saw him enter such a house of sail, videlicet, a brothel,
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or say forth see you now, your bit of falsehood
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takes this carp of truth. And thus do we of
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wisdom and of reach, with windlesses and essays of buyers,
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by indirections, find directions out. So by my former lecture
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and advice, shall you, my son, you have me?
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Have you not, my lord?
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I have God be with you? Fare you well, good,
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my lord, observe his inclination in yourself, I shall, my lord,
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and let him ply his music well farewell.
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Exit enter Ophelia.
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Oh, no, Ophelia. What's the matter, o, my.
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Lord my lord? I have been so affrighted with what
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he the name of God, my lord, as I was
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sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all umbraced,
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no hat upon his head, his stockings fowled ungartered and
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down give to his ankle, pale as his shirt, his
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knees knocking each other, and with a look so piteous
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in purport, as if he had been loosed out of
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hell to speak of horrors, he comes.
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Before me mad for thy love, my.
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Lord, I do not know, but truly I do fear it.
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What should he?
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He took me by the wrist and held me hard.
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Then goes he to the length of all his arm,
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and with his other hand thus o'er his brow, he
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falls to such perusal of my face as he would
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draw it. Long stayed he so at last a little
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shaking of mine arm, and thrice his head, thus waving
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up and down, he raised a sigh so piteous and
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profound as it did seem to shatter all his bulk
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and int his being that done, he lets me go,
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and with his head over his shoulder turned, he seemed
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to find his way without his eyes. For out o
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doors he went without their helps, and to the last
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bended their light on me.
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Come go with me, I will go seek the king.
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This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property
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for does itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings,
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as oft as any passion under heaven that does afflict
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now natures. I am sorry, what have you given him?
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Any hard words of late?
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No, my good lord, But as you did command, I
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did repel his fetters and denied his access to me,
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that has.
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Made him mad. I am sorry that, with better heed
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and judgment I had not quoted him. I feared he
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did but trifle and meant direct thee. But beshrew my jealousy.
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By Heaven, it is as proper to our age to
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cast yond ourselves in our opinions, as it is common
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for the younger sort to lack discretion. Come go we
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to the king. This must be known, which, being kept close,
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might move more grief to hide than hate to utter love.
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Exellant scene too, a room in the castle, Enter King Claudius,
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Queen Gertrude, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and attendants.
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Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Moreover, that we much did
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long to see you. The need we have to use
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you did provoke our hasty sending something. Have you heard
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of Hamlet's transformation, so call it sith nor the exterior
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nor the inward man resembles that it was what it
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should be, more than his father's death, that thus hath
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put him so much from the understanding of himself I
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cannot dream of. I entreat you both, that, being of
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so young days brought up with him, and Syth so
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neighbored to his youth, and haveavior that you vouchsafe your
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rest here in our court some little time, so by
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your companies to draw him on to pleasures, and to
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gather so much as from occasion you may glean, whether
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aught to us unknown afflicts him. Thus that opened lies
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within our remedy.
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Good gentleman, he hath much talked of you, and sure
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I am two men there are not living to whom
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anymore adheares. If it will please you to show us
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so much gentle try and good will as to expend
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your time with us awhile for the supply and profit
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of our hope your visitation shall receive such thanks as
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fits a king's remembrance.
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Both your majesties might, by the sovereign power you have
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of us, put your dread pleasures more into command than
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to entreaty.
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But we both obey and here give up ourselves in
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the full bent to lay our service freely at your
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feet to be commanded.
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Thanks Rosenkrantz, and Gentle Guildenstern.
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Thanks Guildenstern, and Gentle Rosenkrantz, and I beseech you instantly
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to visit my too much changed son. Go some of
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you and bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.
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Heavens make our presence and our practices pleasant and helpful
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to him.
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I amen, Excellent Rosenkrantz, Guildenstern, and so attendants, enter Polonius.
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The ambassadors from Norway, my good Lord, are joyfully returned.
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Thou still hast been the father of good news, Have I.
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My Lord, as sure by good lieeds, I hold thy
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duty as I hold thy soul, both to my God
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and my gracious King. And I do think or else.
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The breed of man haunts not the trail of policies,
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as sure as it hath used to do that. I
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have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunus hair.
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Oh, speak of that that do I long to hear?
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Give first admittance to the ambassadors mine you shall be
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the fruit to that great feast thyself.
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Do grace to the man to bring them in. Exit Polonius,
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he tells me, my dear Gertrudieth found the head and
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source of all your son's distemper.
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I doubt it is no other but the main his
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father's death, and ah O hasty marriage.
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Well we shall sift him.
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Re enter Polonius with Voltemond and Cornelius.
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Welcome, my good friends. Say Voltemond want from our brother Norway.
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Most fair return of greetings and desires upon our First,
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he set out to suppress his nephew's levies, which to
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him appeared to be a preparation against the Polock. But
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beduked into he truly found it was against your highness.
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Where is grieved that so a sickness, age and impodence
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was falsely born in hand, sends oud'ress on Fortembros, which
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he in brief obeys, receives rebuke from Norway, and in
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fine makes vow before his uncle never more to give
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the essay of arms against your majesty, whereon Old Norway,
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overcome with joy, gives him three thousand crowns an annual fee,
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and his commission to employ those soldiers so levied as
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before against the Polac, with an entreaty. Herein further showing
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giving a paper that it might please you to give
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quiet pass through your dominions for this enterprise on such
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regard of safety and allowance as therein are set down.
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It likes us well, and at our more considered time,
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we'll read answer and think upon this business. Meantime, we
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thank you. If we are well to labor, go to
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your arrest. At night we'll feast together.
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Most welcome home, excellent Voltemont and Cornelius.
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This business is well ended, my liege and madam. To
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expostulate what majesty should be, What duty is? Why day's day, night,
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night and time? Is time worth nothing but to waste
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a night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the
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soul of wit, and he lisners the limbs and outward flourishes,
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I will be brief. Your noble son is mad mad
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call I it for to define through madness what is
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but to be nothing else but mad. But let that go.
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More matter with less art, Madam.
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I swear I use no art at all. That he
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is mad tis true, tis true, tis pity and pity
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tis tis true, a foolish figure. But farewell it, for
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I will use no art. Mad Let us grant him then,
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and now remains, that we find out the cause of
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this effect, or rather say the cause of this defect,
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For this effect defective comes by cause. Thus it remains,
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and the remainder thus per penned. I have a daughter
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have why she is mine, who, in her duty and
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obedience mark hath given me this. Now gather and surmise.
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Reads to the celestial and my soul's idle, the most beautified, Ophelia.
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That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase. Beautified is a
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vile phrase. But you shall hear. Thus reads in her
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excellent white bosom, theseer et cetera.
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Came this from Hamlet to her.
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Good Madam, stay awhile I will be faithful.
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Reads.
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Doubt thou the star's a fire, doubt that the sun
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doth move truth to be a liar, But never doubt.
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I love, oh dear Feilia. I am ill at these
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numbers I have not art to reckon my groans, but
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that I love thee best o most best. Believe it.
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Adieu thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this machine is
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to him, hamlet this in obedience. Hath my daughter shown me?
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And more above, hath his solicitings as they fell out,
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by time, by means and place, all given to mine ear?
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But how hath she received his love?
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What do you think of me as.
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Of a man faithful and honorable?
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I would fain prove, sir. But what might you think
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when I had seen this hot love on the wing
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as I perceived it? I must tell you that before
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my daughter told me, what might you, or my dear majesty,
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your queen heir, think, if I had play'd the desk
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or table book, or given my heart a winking mute
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and dumb, or look'd upon his love with idle sight?
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What might you think?
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No?
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I went round to work, and my young mistress, thus
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I did bespeak, Lord hablet is a prince out of
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thy star. This must not be. And then I precepts
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gave her that she should lock herself from his resort
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amid no messengers, received no tokens, which done. She took
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the fruits of my advice, and he repulsed a short
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tale to make fell into his sadness, then into a fast,
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thence to watch, thence into a weakness thanks to a lightness,
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and by this declension into the madness, wherein now he raves,
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and all we mourn.
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For do you think 'tis this?
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It may be very likely.
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Had there been such a time, I'd fain know that
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that I have positively said, tis sir, when it proved otherwise.
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Not that I know, pointing to his head and shoulder.
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Take this from this if this be otherwise, if circumstances
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lead me, I will find where truth is hid, though
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it were hid indeed within the center.
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How may we try it further?
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You know sometimes he walks four hours together here in the.
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Lobby, so he does. Indeed, at such.
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A time I'll loose my daughter to him. Be you
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an eye behind an arras, then mark the encounter if
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he love her not, and be not from his reason
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for thereon, let me be no assistant for estate, but
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keep a farm and Carter's.
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We will try it, but look, we're sadly.
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The poor wretch comes reading away.
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I do beseech you both away. I'll board him presently.
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Excellent King Claudius, Queen Gertrude and attendants enter Hamlet, reading.
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Ooh you believe, Oh, does my good lord halet.
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Well got a mercy?
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Do you know me?
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My lord excellent? Well, you are a fishmonger?
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Not I, my lord?
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Then I would you were so honest?
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A man honest, my lord, I sir.
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To be honest as this world goes, is to be
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one man picked out of ten thousand.
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That's very true, my lord.
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For if the sun breed maggots and a dead dog
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being a good kissing carrion. Have you a daughter?
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I have, my Lord, let her.
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Not walk in the sun. Conception is a blessing, but
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not as your daughter may conceive.
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Friend, look to it aside, I'll see you by that
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still harpy on my daughter. Yet he knew me, not
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at first? He said I was a fisionmonger. He is
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far gone, far gone, and truly in my youth I
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suffered much extremity for love very near this. I'll speak
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to him again. What do you read, my lord?
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Words?
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Words?
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Words?
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What is the matter, my lord?
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Between who I mean?
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The matter that you read? My lord?
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Slanders, sir for the satirical rogue says here that old
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men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their
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eyes purging thick amber and plum tree gum, and that
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they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most
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weak hands, All which, Sir, though I most powerfully and
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potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have
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it thus set down for yourself, Sir, should be as
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old as I am, if like a crab, you.
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Could go backward aside, though this be madness, yet there
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is method in will you walk.
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Out of the air, my lord, into my grave?
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Indeed, that is out of the air aside, how pregnant,
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Sometimes his replies are happiness that often madness hits, on
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which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of.
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I will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of
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meeting between him and my daughter. My honorable lord, I
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wilmost humbly take my leave of you.
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You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will
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more willingly part withal except my life. Accept my life,
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Accept my life.
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Fare you well, my lord.
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These tedious old fools.
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Enter Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, you go to shake.
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The lord Hamlet there he is.
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God save you, sir, Exit Polonius.
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My honored lord, my most dear.
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Lord, my excellent good friends, How dost thou Guildenstern, rosen Krantz,
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good lads? How do ye both, as.
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The indifferent children of the earth happy?
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And that we are not over happy? Unfortune's cap We
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are not the very button.
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Nor the soles of her shoes.
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Neither, my lord.
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Then you live about her waist or in the middle
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of her favors, faith, her pride, in the secret parts
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of fortune. Oh, most true, she is a strumpet. What's
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the news?
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None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest?
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Then is doomsday near? But your news is not true?
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Let me question more, in particular, what have you, my
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good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune that she
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sends you to prison?
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Hither prison, my lord?
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Denmark's a prison?
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Then is the world one a goodly.
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One in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons,
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Denmark being one of the worst.
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We think not so, my lord?
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Why then tis none to you? For there is nothing
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either good or bad, but thinking makes it so?
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To me?
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It is a prison.
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Why then your ambition makes it one? Tis too narrow
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for your mind?
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Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and
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count myself a king of infinite space. Were it not
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that I have bad dreams?
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Which dream indeed or ambition? For the very substance of
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the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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A dream itself is but a shadow, truly, And I
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hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that
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it is but a shadow's shadow.
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Then are our beggar's bodies, and our monarchs and outstretched
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heroes the beggar's shadows? Shall we to the court, For
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by my fay I cannot reason?
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Will you wait upon you, my lord?
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No such matter. I will not sort you with the
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rest of my servants, For to speak to you like
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an honest man, I am most dreadfully attended. But in
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the beaten way of friendship. What make you at elsinore.
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To visit you, my lord? No other occasion.
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Beggar that I am. I am even poor in thanks,
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but I thank you, And sure, dear friends, my thanks
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are too dear. A halfpenny were you not sent?
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For?
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Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation.
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Come deal justly with me. Come, come, nay.
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Speak What should we say, my lord?
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Why anything but to the purpose you were sent for?
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And there is a kind of confession in your looks
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which your modesties have not craft enough to color. I
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know the good King and Queen have sent for you.
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To what end, my lord, that you must teach me?
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But let me conjure you by the rights of our fellowship,
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by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of
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our ever preserved love, And by what more, dear a
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better proposer could charge you withal Be even and direct
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with me, whether you were sent for or no?
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Aside to Guildenstern, What say you nay?
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Then I have an eye of you. If you love me,
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Hold not off.
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My lord, we were sent for.
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I will tell you why so shall my anticipation prevent
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your discovery and your secrecy to the King and Queen
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molt no fe I have of late, But wherefore I
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know not lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises.
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And indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that
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this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory,
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this most excellent canopy the air. Look you, this brave
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o'er hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.
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Why it appears no other thing to me than a
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foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of
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work is a man? How noble in reason, how infinite
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in faculty, in form and moving, How express and admirable
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in action? How like an angel in apprehension, How like
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a god? The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals?
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And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Men?
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Delights not me, no nor woman neither, though by your
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smiling you seem to say so.
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My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
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Why did you laugh then when I said, man delights
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not me?
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To think? My lord, if you delight not in man?
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What lent and entertainment the players shall receive from you?
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We cotted them on the way, and hither they are
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coming to offer you service.
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He the place the king shall be welcome. His majesty
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shall have tribute of me. The adventurous knight shall use
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his foil and target. The lover shall not sigh gratis.
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The humorous man shall end his part in peace. The
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clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickled to
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the seer, and the lady shall say her mind freely,
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or the blank verse shall halt for it. What players
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are they?
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Even those you are wont to take delight in the
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tragedians of the city.
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How chance is it they travel their residence both in
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reputation and profit was better both ways?
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I think their inhibition comes by the means of the
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late innovation?
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Do they hold the same estimation they did when I
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was in the city? Are they so followed?
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No, indeed they are not.
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How comes it do they grow rusty?
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Nay? Their endeavor keeps in the wanted place? But there is, sir,
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and area of children, little iases that cry out on
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the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for it.
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These are now the fashion and so baradal the common stages.
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So they call them that. Many wearing rapiers are afraid
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of goose quills, and dare scarce come thither?
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What are they children? Who maintains them? How are they escotted?
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Will they pursue the quality no longer than they can sing?
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Will they not say afterwards if they should grow themselves
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to common players, as it is most like, if their
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means are no better. Their writers do them wrong to
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make them exclaim against their own succession.
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Faith.
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There has been much to do on both sides, and
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the nation holded no sin to tar them to controversy.
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That there was for a while no money bid for
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argument unless the poet and the player went to cuffs
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in the question.
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Is it possible?
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Oh, there has been much throwing about of brains.
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Do the boys carry it away?
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Aye? That they do. My Lord Hercules and his load too.
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It is not very strange, for mine uncle is king
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of Denmark, and those that would make mose at him
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while my father lived give twenty forty fifty one hundred
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ducats apiece for his picture in little Splood. There is
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something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find
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it out.
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Flourish of trumpets within there are the players.
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Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands come. Then.
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The impertinence of welcome is fashion and ceremony. Let me
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comply with you in this scarb lest my extent to
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the players, which I tell you must show fairly outward,
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should more appear like entertainment than yours. You are welcome,
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But my uncle father and aunt mother.
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Are deceived in what my dear lord I.
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Am but mad north northwest when the wind is southerly,
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I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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Enter Polonius.
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Well be with you, gentlemen.
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Hark you Gildenstern, and you two at each ear a hearer.
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That great baby you see there is not yet out
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of his swaddling clouts.
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Haply he's the second time come to them, For they
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say an old man is twice a child.
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I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the
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player's market. You say, right, sir, a Monday morning twas so.
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Indeed, my lord, I have news to tell you.
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My Lord, I have news to tell you. When Rosius
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was an actor in Rome.
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The actors are come hither, my.
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Lord, buzz buzz upon mine honor. Then came each actor
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on his ass.
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The best actors in the world, either of a tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral, comical,
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historical pastoral, tragical historical, tragical, comical historical pastoral, seen, individable
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or poem unlimited. Cynica cannot be too heavy nor plotters
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too light for the law of writ and liberty. These
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are the only men.
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Oh, Jeptha, Judge of Israel, What a treasure hast thou?
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What a treasure had he?
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My Lord?
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Why one fair daughter and no more the witch he loved?
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Passing well?
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Still on my daughter?
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Am I not the right old Jeptha?
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If you call me Jephtha? My Lord, I have a
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daughter that I love passing wells?
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Nay that follows?
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Not what follows? Then, my lord?
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Why as by lot God? What? And then you know
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it came to pass as most like it was the
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first row of the pious Chanson will show you more.
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For look where my abridgment comes.
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Enter four or five players.
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You are welcome, masters, Welcome all. I am glad to
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see thee well welcome, good friends, O, my old friend,
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thy face is valanced since I saw thee last comest
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Thou to beard me in Denmark? What my young lady
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and mistress? By your lady, your ladyship is nearer to
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Heaven than when I saw you last. By the altitude
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of a chopping pray God, your voice, like a piece
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of uncurrant gold, be not cracked within the ring. Masters,
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you are all welcome. We'll into it like French falconers
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fly at anything we see. We'll have a speech straight.
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Come give us a taste of your quality. Come a
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passionate speech.
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What speech, my lord?
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I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it
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was never acted, or if it was not above once
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for the play, I remember pleased not the million twas
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caviare to the general, but it was as I received it,
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and others whose judgments in such matters cried in the
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top of mine, an excellent play, well digested in the scenes,
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set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember.
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One said there were no salats in the lines to
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make the matter savory, nor no matter in the phrase
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that might indicte the author of affectation, but called it
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an honest method, as wholesome, as sweet, and by very
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much more handsome than fine one speech in it. I
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chiefly loved twas aeneas tail to Dido and thereabout of it,
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especially where he speaks of pri am slaughter. If it
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live in your memory, begin at this line. Let me see,
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let me see the rugged peerest like the Hyrcanian beast.
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It is not so. It begins with pearis the rugged peeress,
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he whose sable arms black as his purpose did the
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night resemble when he lay couched in the ominous horse hath.
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Now this dread and black complexion smeared with heraldry more
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dismal head to foot. Now is he total ghouls, horridly
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tricked with blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, baked and
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impasted with the parching streets that lend a tyrannous and
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damned light to their lord's murder. Roasted in wrath and fire,
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and thus oor sized with coagulate gore, with eyes like carbuncles,
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the hellish peeress old grandsire Priam seeks so precede you.
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For God, my Lord. Well spoken with good accent and
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good Discrecian.
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Anon, he finds him striking too short at Greeks, his
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antique sword, rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,
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repugnant to command, unequal man match'd pirus et. Priam drives
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in rage, strikes wide, but with the whiff and wind
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of his fell sword, the unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,
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seeming to feel this blow with flaming top, stoops to
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his base and with a hideous crash, takes prisoner, Pirus
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ear for lo his sword, which was declining on the
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milky head of Reverend Priam, seemed the air to stick.
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So as a painted tyrant, Pirus stood, and, like a
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neutral to his will and matter did nothing. But, as
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we often see against some storm, a silence in the heavens,
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the rack stands still, the bold winds speechless, and the
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orb below as hush as death Anon, the dreadful thunder
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doth rend the region. So after Piris pause, aroused, vengeance
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sets him new a work, And never did the cyclops
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hammers fall on Mars's armor, forged for proof, return with
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less remorse than peeress. Bleeding sword now falls on Priam.
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00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:22.559
Out out thou, strumpet fortune, all.
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You gods in general Synod, take away her power, break
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all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, and bowl
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the round, knave down the hill of heaven as low
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as to the fiends.
562
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:39.559
This is too long.
563
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It shall to the barbers with your beard, prithee, say on,
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he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or
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he sleeps, say on, come to Hakuba.
566
00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:54.000
But who oh, who hath seen the mobled queen?
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00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:57.599
The mobled queen that's good.
568
00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:00.679
Malbled Queen is Wood.
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Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames with bisson
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00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:10.000
room a clout upon that head where late the diadem stood,
571
00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:13.719
and for a robe about her lank and all o'er
572
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:17.639
teimid loins a blanket in the alarm of fear caught
573
00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.840
up who this had seen with tongue and venoms deeped
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00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:28.480
gainst fortune's state, would treason have pronounced? But if the
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gods themselves did see her, then when she saw Peerus
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00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:38.719
make malicious sport en mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,
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00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:43.280
the instant burst of clamor that she made, unless things
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00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:47.000
mortal move them not at all, would have made milch
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the burning eyes of heaven and passion in the gods.
580
00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:55.320
Look whether he has not turned his color and has
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tears in SyES. Pray you no more.
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00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:04.000
Well, I'll have thee speak out the rest soon. Good,
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my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do
584
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you hear? Let them be well used, for they are
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00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:13.840
the abstract and brief chronicles of the time after your death.
586
00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:16.679
You were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report.
587
00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:20.239
While you live, my lord, I will use them according
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to their dessert.
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God's bodykins man much better, use every man after his dessert,
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00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:30.039
and who should scape whipping? Use them after your own
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honor and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit
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is in your bounty.
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00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:37.239
Take them in come czars.
594
00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:40.159
Follow him, friends, we'll hear a play tomorrow.
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Exit Polonius with all the players, but the first.
596
00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:48.280
Dost thou hear me? Old friend? Can you play the
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murder of Gonzago?
598
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:50.639
I'm my lord?
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00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.800
Will hat tomorrow night? You could, for a need study
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a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I
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00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:00.440
would set down and insertens, could you not? I, my
602
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:04.960
lord very well? Follow that lord, and look you mock him?
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Not exit first player, My.
604
00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:10.519
Good friends, I'll leave you till night. You are welcome
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00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:11.159
to Elsinore.
606
00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:13.639
Good my lord, ay, so God.
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00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:14.079
Be with ye.
608
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:16.840
Exellunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
609
00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:22.440
Now I am alone? What a rogue and peasant slave?
610
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:22.760
Am I?
611
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:27.079
Is it not monstrous that this player here but in
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a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his
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00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:33.880
soul so to his own conceit that from her working
614
00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:38.000
all his visage wand tears in his eyes, distraction in
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00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:42.199
his aspect a broken voice, and his whole functions suiting
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00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:47.880
with forms to his conceit, and all for nothing for Hecuba.
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00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:51.519
What's Hecuba to him? Or he to Hecuba that he
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00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:56.639
should weep for her? What would he do? Had he
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00:38:56.719 --> 00:38:59.400
the motive and the cue for passion that I have,
620
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:05.239
He would drown the stage with tears, and cleave the
621
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:09.639
general ear with horrid speech, make mad the guilty, and
622
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:14.000
appall the free, confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed the
623
00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:19.559
very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I a dull
624
00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:24.639
and muddy, mettled rascal pique like John a dreams, unpregnant
625
00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:28.960
of my cause, and can say nothing, no, not for
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00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:32.880
a king upon whose property and most dear life a
627
00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:38.920
damned defeat was made. Am I a coward who calls
628
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:42.400
me villain, breaks my pay across, plucks off my beard
629
00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:45.320
and blows it in my face, tweaks me by the nose,
630
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:47.800
gives me the lie the throat as deep as.
631
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:48.280
To the lungs.
632
00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:53.159
Who does me this? Ha swoons, I should take it,
633
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:56.719
for it cannot be. But I am pigeon livered and
634
00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:00.920
lack gall to make oppression bitter or ere this I
635
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:05.320
should have fatted all the region kites with this slave's awful,
636
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:15.679
bloody body. Villain, remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain, Oh vengeance,
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00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:21.039
Why what an ass am? I this is most brave,
638
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:26.079
that I, the son of a dear father, murdered, prompted
639
00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:29.639
to my revenge by Heaven and hell, must like a
640
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:33.639
whore unpack my heart with words and fall a cursing
641
00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:40.519
like a very drab a scullion, figh upon it about
642
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:46.000
my brain. I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at
643
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:49.079
a play have, by the very cunning of the scene,
644
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:52.480
been struck so to the soul that presently they have
645
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:58.360
proclaimed their malefactions for murder, though it have no tongue,
646
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:03.800
will speak with most miraculous organ I'll have these players
647
00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:07.480
play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle.
648
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:11.440
I'll observe his looks. I'll tent him to the quick
649
00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:16.119
if he but blench, I know, my course, the spirit
650
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:18.840
that I have seen may be the devil, and the
651
00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:22.440
devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and
652
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:26.280
perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy, as he
653
00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:30.280
is very potent with such spirits abuses me, to damn me,
654
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:36.119
I'll have grounds more relative than this. The plays, the thing,
655
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:38.679
wherein i'll catch the conscience of the
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King exit, and of act too,