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-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>KING CLAUDIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,</LINE>

<LINE>To give these mourning duties to your father:</LINE>

<LINE>But, you must know, your father lost a father;</LINE>

<LINE>That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound</LINE>

<LINE>In filial obligation for some term</LINE>

<LINE>To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever</LINE>

<LINE>In obstinate condolement is a course</LINE>

<LINE>Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;</LINE>

<LINE>It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,</LINE>

<LINE>A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,</LINE>

<LINE>An understanding simple and unschool'd:</LINE>

<LINE>For what we know must be and is as common</LINE>

<LINE>As any the most vulgar thing to sense,</LINE>

<LINE>Why should we in our peevish opposition</LINE>

<LINE>Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,</LINE>

<LINE>A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,</LINE>

<LINE>To reason most absurd: whose common theme</LINE>

<LINE>Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,</LINE>

<LINE>From the first corse till he that died to-day,</LINE>

<LINE>'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth</LINE>

<LINE>This unprevailing woe, and think of us</LINE>

<LINE>As of a father: for let the world take note,</LINE>

<LINE>You are the most immediate to our throne;</LINE>

<LINE>And with no less nobility of love</LINE>

<LINE>Than that which dearest father bears his son,</LINE>

<LINE>Do I impart toward you. For your intent</LINE>

<LINE>In going back to school in Wittenberg,</LINE>

<LINE>It is most retrograde to our desire:</LINE>

<LINE>And we beseech you, bend you to remain</LINE>

<LINE>Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,</LINE>

<LINE>Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>OPHELIA</SPEAKER>

<LINE>My lord, he hath importuned me with love</LINE>

<LINE>In honourable fashion.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>Ghost</SPEAKER>

<LINE>I am thy father's spirit,</LINE>

<LINE>Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,</LINE>

<LINE>And for the day confined to fast in fires,</LINE>

<LINE>Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature</LINE>

<LINE>Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid</LINE>

<LINE>To tell the secrets of my prison-house,</LINE>

<LINE>I could a tale unfold whose lightest word</LINE>

<LINE>Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,</LINE>

<LINE>Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,</LINE>

<LINE>Thy knotted and combined locks to part</LINE>

<LINE>And each particular hair to stand on end,</LINE>

<LINE>Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:</LINE>

<LINE>But this eternal blazon must not be</LINE>

<LINE>To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!</LINE>

<LINE>If thou didst ever thy dear father love--</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift</LINE>

<LINE>As meditation or the thoughts of love,</LINE>

<LINE>May sweep to my revenge.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>Ghost</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,</LINE>

<LINE>With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--</LINE>

<LINE>O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power</LINE>

<LINE>So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust</LINE>

<LINE>The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:</LINE>

<LINE>O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!</LINE>

<LINE>From me, whose love was of that dignity</LINE>

<LINE>I made to her in marriage, and to decline</LINE>

<LINE>Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor</LINE>

<LINE>To those of mine!</LINE>

<LINE>But virtue, as it never will be moved,</LINE>

<LINE>Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,</LINE>

<LINE>So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,</LINE>

<LINE>Will sate itself in a celestial bed,</LINE>

<LINE>And prey on garbage.</LINE>

<LINE>But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air;</LINE>

<LINE>Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,</LINE>

<LINE>My custom always of the afternoon,</LINE>

<LINE>Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,</LINE>

<LINE>With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,</LINE>

<LINE>And in the porches of my ears did pour</LINE>

<LINE>The leperous distilment; whose effect</LINE>

<LINE>Holds such an enmity with blood of man</LINE>

<LINE>That swift as quicksilver it courses through</LINE>

<LINE>The natural gates and alleys of the body,</LINE>

<LINE>And with a sudden vigour doth posset</LINE>

<LINE>And curd, like eager droppings into milk,</LINE>

<LINE>The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine;</LINE>

<LINE>And a most instant tetter bark'd about,</LINE>

<LINE>Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,</LINE>

<LINE>All my smooth body.</LINE>

<LINE>Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand</LINE>

<LINE>Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:</LINE>

<LINE>Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,</LINE>

<LINE>Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,</LINE>

<LINE>No reckoning made, but sent to my account</LINE>

<LINE>With all my imperfections on my head:</LINE>

<LINE>O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!</LINE>

<LINE>If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;</LINE>

<LINE>Let not the royal bed of Denmark be</LINE>

<LINE>A couch for luxury and damned incest.</LINE>

<LINE>But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,</LINE>

<LINE>Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive</LINE>

<LINE>Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven</LINE>

<LINE>And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,</LINE>

<LINE>To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!</LINE>

<LINE>The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,</LINE>

<LINE>And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire:</LINE>

<LINE>Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!</LINE>

<STAGEDIR>They swear</STAGEDIR>

<LINE>So, gentlemen,</LINE>

<LINE>With all my love I do commend me to you:</LINE>

<LINE>And what so poor a man as Hamlet is</LINE>

<LINE>May do, to express his love and friending to you,</LINE>

<LINE>God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;</LINE>

<LINE>And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.</LINE>

<LINE>The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,</LINE>

<LINE>That ever I was born to set it right!</LINE>

<LINE>Nay, come, let's go together.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>LORD POLONIUS</SPEAKER>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>LORD POLONIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>This is the very ecstasy of love,</LINE>

<LINE>Whose violent property fordoes itself</LINE>

<LINE>And leads the will to desperate undertakings</LINE>

<LINE>As oft as any passion under heaven</LINE>

<LINE>That does afflict our natures. I am sorry.</LINE>

<LINE>What, have you given him any hard words of late?</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>LORD POLONIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>I am sorry that with better heed and judgment</LINE>

<LINE>I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle,</LINE>

<LINE>And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy!</LINE>

<LINE>By heaven, it is as proper to our age</LINE>

<LINE>To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions</LINE>

<LINE>As it is common for the younger sort</LINE>

<LINE>To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:</LINE>

<LINE>This must be known; which, being kept close, might</LINE>

<LINE>More grief to hide than hate to utter love.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>LORD POLONIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful.</LINE>

<STAGEDIR>Reads</STAGEDIR>

<LINE>'Doubt thou the stars are fire;</LINE>

<LINE>Doubt that the sun doth move;</LINE>

<LINE>Doubt truth to be a liar;</LINE>

<LINE>But never doubt I love.</LINE>

<LINE>'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers;</LINE>

<LINE>I have not art to reckon my groans: but that</LINE>

<LINE>I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.</LINE>

<LINE>'Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst</LINE>

<LINE>this machine is to him, HAMLET.'</LINE>

<LINE>This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me,</LINE>

<LINE>And more above, hath his solicitings,</LINE>

<LINE>As they fell out by time, by means and place,</LINE>

<LINE>All given to mine ear.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>KING CLAUDIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Received his love?</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>LORD POLONIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>I would fain prove so. But what might you think,</LINE>

<LINE>As I perceived it, I must tell you that,</LINE>

<LINE>Before my daughter told me--what might you,</LINE>

<LINE>Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,</LINE>

<LINE>If I had play'd the desk or table-book,</LINE>

<LINE>Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,</LINE>

<LINE>Or look'd upon this love with idle sight;</LINE>

<LINE>What might you think? No, I went round to work,</LINE>

<LINE>And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:</LINE>

<LINE>'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star;</LINE>

<LINE>This must not be:' and then I precepts gave her,</LINE>

<LINE>That she should lock herself from his resort,</LINE>

<LINE>Admit no messengers, receive no tokens.</LINE>

<LINE>Which done, she took the fruits of my advice;</LINE>

<LINE>And he, repulsed--a short tale to make--</LINE>

<LINE>Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,</LINE>

<LINE>Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,</LINE>

<LINE>Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,</LINE>

<LINE>Into the madness wherein now he raves,</LINE>

<LINE>And all we mourn for.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>LORD POLONIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him:</LINE>

<LINE>Be you and I behind an arras then;</LINE>

<LINE>Mark the encounter: if he love her not</LINE>

<LINE>And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,</LINE>

<LINE>Let me be no assistant for a state,</LINE>

<LINE>But keep a farm and carters.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>LORD POLONIUS</SPEAKER>

-<LINE>

<STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR>

How say you by that? Still harping on my

</LINE>

<LINE>daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I</LINE>

<LINE>was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and</LINE>

<LINE>truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for</LINE>

<LINE>love; very near this. I'll speak to him again.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by</LINE>

<LINE>the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of</LINE>

<LINE>our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved</LINE>

<LINE>love, and by what more dear a better proposer could</LINE>

<LINE>charge you withal, be even and direct with me,</LINE>

<LINE>whether you were sent for, or no?</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

-<LINE>

<STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR>

Nay, then, I have an eye of you.--If you

</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>LORD POLONIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter</LINE>

<LINE>that I love passing well.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>KING CLAUDIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;</LINE>

<LINE>For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,</LINE>

<LINE>That he, as 'twere by accident, may here</LINE>

<LINE>Affront Ophelia:</LINE>

<LINE>Her father and myself, lawful espials,</LINE>

<LINE>Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,</LINE>

<LINE>We may of their encounter frankly judge,</LINE>

<LINE>And gather by him, as he is behaved,</LINE>

<LINE>If 't be the affliction of his love or no</LINE>

<LINE>That thus he suffers for.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>To be, or not to be: that is the question:</LINE>

<LINE>Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer</LINE>

<LINE>The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,</LINE>

<LINE>Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,</LINE>

<LINE>And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;</LINE>

<LINE>No more; and by a sleep to say we end</LINE>

<LINE>The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks</LINE>

<LINE>That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation</LINE>

<LINE>Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;</LINE>

<LINE>To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;</LINE>

<LINE>For in that sleep of death what dreams may come</LINE>

<LINE>When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,</LINE>

<LINE>Must give us pause: there's the respect</LINE>

<LINE>That makes calamity of so long life;</LINE>

<LINE>For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,</LINE>

<LINE>The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,</LINE>

<LINE>The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,</LINE>

<LINE>The insolence of office and the spurns</LINE>

<LINE>That patient merit of the unworthy takes,</LINE>

<LINE>When he himself might his quietus make</LINE>

<LINE>With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,</LINE>

<LINE>To grunt and sweat under a weary life,</LINE>

<LINE>But that the dread of something after death,</LINE>

<LINE>The undiscover'd country from whose bourn</LINE>

<LINE>No traveller returns, puzzles the will</LINE>

<LINE>And makes us rather bear those ills we have</LINE>

<LINE>Than fly to others that we know not of?</LINE>

<LINE>Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;</LINE>

<LINE>And thus the native hue of resolution</LINE>

<LINE>Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,</LINE>

<LINE>And enterprises of great pith and moment</LINE>

<LINE>With this regard their currents turn awry,</LINE>

<LINE>And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!</LINE>

<LINE>The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons</LINE>

<LINE>Be all my sins remember'd.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner</LINE>

<LINE>transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the</LINE>

<LINE>force of honesty can translate beauty into his</LINE>

<LINE>likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the</LINE>

<LINE>time gives it proof. I did love you once.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>KING CLAUDIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Love! his affections do not that way tend;</LINE>

<LINE>Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little,</LINE>

<LINE>Was not like madness. There's something in his soul,</LINE>

<LINE>O'er which his melancholy sits on brood;</LINE>

<LINE>And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose</LINE>

<LINE>Will be some danger: which for to prevent,</LINE>

<LINE>I have in quick determination</LINE>

<LINE>Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England,</LINE>

<LINE>For the demand of our neglected tribute</LINE>

<LINE>Haply the seas and countries different</LINE>

<LINE>With variable objects shall expel</LINE>

<LINE>This something-settled matter in his heart,</LINE>

<LINE>Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus</LINE>

<LINE>From fashion of himself. What think you on't?</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>LORD POLONIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>It shall do well: but yet do I believe</LINE>

<LINE>The origin and commencement of his grief</LINE>

<LINE>Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia!</LINE>

<LINE>You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said;</LINE>

<LINE>We heard it all. My lord, do as you please;</LINE>

<LINE>But, if you hold it fit, after the play</LINE>

<LINE>Let his queen mother all alone entreat him</LINE>

<LINE>To show his grief: let her be round with him;</LINE>

<LINE>And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear</LINE>

<LINE>Of all their conference. If she find him not,</LINE>

<LINE>To England send him, or confine him where</LINE>

<LINE>Your wisdom best shall think.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>As woman's love.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>Player King</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round</LINE>

<LINE>Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground,</LINE>

<LINE>And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen</LINE>

<LINE>About the world have times twelve thirties been,</LINE>

<LINE>Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands</LINE>

<LINE>Unite commutual in most sacred bands.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>Player Queen</SPEAKER>

<LINE>So many journeys may the sun and moon</LINE>

<LINE>Make us again count o'er ere love be done!</LINE>

<LINE>So far from cheer and from your former state,</LINE>

<LINE>That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,</LINE>

<LINE>Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:</LINE>

<LINE>For women's fear and love holds quantity;</LINE>

<LINE>In neither aught, or in extremity.</LINE>

<LINE>Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know;</LINE>

<LINE>And as my love is sized, my fear is so:</LINE>

<LINE>Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;</LINE>

<LINE>Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>Player King</SPEAKER>

<LINE>'Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too;</LINE>

<LINE>My operant powers their functions leave to do:</LINE>

<LINE>And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,</LINE>

<LINE>Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind</LINE>

<LINE>For husband shalt thou--</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>Player Queen</SPEAKER>

<LINE>O, confound the rest!</LINE>

<LINE>Such love must needs be treason in my breast:</LINE>

<LINE>In second husband let me be accurst!</LINE>

<LINE>None wed the second but who kill'd the first.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>Player Queen</SPEAKER>

<LINE>The instances that second marriage move</LINE>

<LINE>Are base respects of thrift, but none of love:</LINE>

<LINE>A second time I kill my husband dead,</LINE>

<LINE>When second husband kisses me in bed.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>Player King</SPEAKER>

<LINE>I do believe you think what now you speak;</LINE>

<LINE>But what we do determine oft we break.</LINE>

<LINE>Purpose is but the slave to memory,</LINE>

<LINE>Of violent birth, but poor validity;</LINE>

<LINE>Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree;</LINE>

<LINE>But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.</LINE>

<LINE>Most necessary 'tis that we forget</LINE>

<LINE>To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt:</LINE>

<LINE>What to ourselves in passion we propose,</LINE>

<LINE>The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.</LINE>

<LINE>The violence of either grief or joy</LINE>

<LINE>Their own enactures with themselves destroy:</LINE>

<LINE>Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;</LINE>

<LINE>Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.</LINE>

<LINE>This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange</LINE>

<LINE>That even our loves should with our fortunes change;</LINE>

<LINE>For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,</LINE>

<LINE>Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.</LINE>

<LINE>The great man down, you mark his favourite flies;</LINE>

<LINE>The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.</LINE>

<LINE>And hitherto doth love on fortune tend;</LINE>

<LINE>For who not needs shall never lack a friend,</LINE>

<LINE>And who in want a hollow friend doth try,</LINE>

<LINE>Directly seasons him his enemy.</LINE>

<LINE>But, orderly to end where I begun,</LINE>

<LINE>Our wills and fates do so contrary run</LINE>

<LINE>That our devices still are overthrown;</LINE>

<LINE>Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own:</LINE>

<LINE>So think thou wilt no second husband wed;</LINE>

<LINE>But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>I could interpret between you and your love, if I</LINE>

<LINE>could see the puppets dallying.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His</LINE>

<LINE>name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in</LINE>

<LINE>choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murderer</LINE>

<LINE>gets the love of Gonzago's wife.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>ROSENCRANTZ</SPEAKER>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>GUILDENSTERN</SPEAKER>

<LINE>unmannerly.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,</LINE>

<LINE>Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose</LINE>

<LINE>From the fair forehead of an innocent love</LINE>

<LINE>And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows</LINE>

<LINE>As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed</LINE>

<LINE>As from the body of contraction plucks</LINE>

<LINE>The very soul, and sweet religion makes</LINE>

<LINE>A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow:</LINE>

<LINE>Yea, this solidity and compound mass,</LINE>

<LINE>With tristful visage, as against the doom,</LINE>

<LINE>Is thought-sick at the act.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Look here, upon this picture, and on this,</LINE>

<LINE>The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.</LINE>

<LINE>See, what a grace was seated on this brow;</LINE>

<LINE>Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;</LINE>

<LINE>An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;</LINE>

<LINE>A station like the herald Mercury</LINE>

<LINE>New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;</LINE>

<LINE>A combination and a form indeed,</LINE>

<LINE>Where every god did seem to set his seal,</LINE>

<LINE>To give the world assurance of a man:</LINE>

<LINE>This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:</LINE>

<LINE>Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear,</LINE>

<LINE>Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?</LINE>

<LINE>Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,</LINE>

<LINE>And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?</LINE>

<LINE>You cannot call it love; for at your age</LINE>

<LINE>The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,</LINE>

<LINE>And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment</LINE>

<LINE>Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,</LINE>

<LINE>Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense</LINE>

<LINE>Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,</LINE>

<LINE>Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd</LINE>

<LINE>But it reserved some quantity of choice,</LINE>

<LINE>To serve in such a difference. What devil was't</LINE>

<LINE>That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?</LINE>

<LINE>Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,</LINE>

<LINE>Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,</LINE>

<LINE>Or but a sickly part of one true sense</LINE>

<LINE>Could not so mope.</LINE>

<LINE>O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,</LINE>

<LINE>If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,</LINE>

<LINE>To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,</LINE>

<LINE>And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame</LINE>

<LINE>When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,</LINE>

<LINE>Since frost itself as actively doth burn</LINE>

<LINE>And reason panders will.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,</LINE>

<LINE>Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love</LINE>

<LINE>Over the nasty sty,--</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>HAMLET</SPEAKER>

<LINE>Ecstasy!</LINE>

<LINE>My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,</LINE>

<LINE>And makes as healthful music: it is not madness</LINE>

<LINE>That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,</LINE>

<LINE>And I the matter will re-word; which madness</LINE>

<LINE>Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,</LINE>

<LINE>Lay not that mattering unction to your soul,</LINE>

<LINE>That not your trespass, but my madness speaks:</LINE>

<LINE>It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,</LINE>

<LINE>Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,</LINE>

<LINE>Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;</LINE>

<LINE>Repent what's past; avoid what is to come;</LINE>

<LINE>And do not spread the compost on the weeds,</LINE>

<LINE>To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue;</LINE>

<LINE>For in the fatness of these pursy times</LINE>

<LINE>Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,</LINE>

<LINE>Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>KING CLAUDIUS</SPEAKER>

<LINE>O heavy deed!</LINE>

<LINE>It had been so with us, had we been there:</LINE>

<LINE>His liberty is full of threats to all;</LINE>

<LINE>To you yourself, to us, to every one.</LINE>

<LINE>Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?</LINE>

<LINE>It will be laid to us, whose providence</LINE>

<LINE>Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt,</LINE>

<LINE>This mad young man: but so much was our love,</LINE>

<LINE>We would not understand what was most fit;</LINE>

<LINE>But, like the owner of a foul disease,</LINE>

<LINE>To keep it from divulging, let it feed</LINE>

<LINE>Even on the pith of Life. Where is he gone?</LINE>

</SPEECH>

-<SPEECH>

<SPEAKER>KING CLAUDIUS</SPEAKER>