1646-7 ===Enter the King, Queene, and Lordes.
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**King Lordes, can you by no meanes finde
1649-51 The cause of our sonne Hamlets lunacie?
1031-2 You being so neere in loue, euen from his youth,
_______Me thinkes should gaine more than a stranger should.
_______**Gil. My lord, we haue done all the best we could,[F1v
_______To wring from him the cause of all his griefe,
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But still he puts vs off, and by no meanes
1654-7 Would make an answere to that we exposde.
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**Ross. Yet was he something more inclin'd to mirth
1668
Before we left him, and I take it,
1668-9 He hath giuen order for a play to night,
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1671-2 At which he craues your highnesse company.
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**King With all our heart, it likes vs very well:
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1674-6 Gentlemen, seeke still to increase his mirth,
_______Spare for no cost, our coffers shall be open,
_______And we vnto your selues will still be thankefull.
1677
**Both In all wee can, be sure you shall commaund.
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**Queene Thankes gentlemen, and what the Queene of ↓
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May pleasure you, be sure you shall not want. ===(Denmarke
_______**Gil. Weele once againe vnto the noble Prince.
_______**King Thanks to you both: Gertred you'l see this play.
1673'
**Queene My lord I will, and it ioyes me at the soule
1674
He is inclin'd to any kinde of mirth.
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Cor. Madame, I pray be ruled by me:
_______And my good Soueraigne, giue me leaue to speake,
_______We cannot yet finde out the very ground
_______Of his distemperance, therefore
_______I holde it meete, if so it please you,
_______Else they shall not meete, and thus it is.
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_______**King What i'st Corambis? ===================(done,
1837-8 **Cor. Mary my good lord this, soone when the sports are ↑
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Madam, send you in haste to speake with him,
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And I my selfe will stand behind the Arras,
1839-40 There question you the cause of all his griefe,
0…-_____And then in loue and nature vnto you, hee'le tell you all:
0…-_____My Lord, how thinke you on't?
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**King It likes vs well, Gerterd, what say you?
0…-_____**Queene With all my heart, soone will I send for him.
0…-_____**Cor. My selfe will be that happy messenger,
1846
Who hopes his griefe will be reueal'd to her. ==exeunt omnes
1646-7 ===Enter King, Queene, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencraus,Guyl-
1647
=============densterne, Lords.
1648
@#King. An can you by no drift of conference
1649
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
1650
Grating so harshly all his dayes of quiet
1651
With turbulent and dangerous lunacie?
1652
@#Ros. He dooes confesse he feeles himselfe distracted,
1653
But from what cause, a will by no meanes speake.
1654
@#Guyl. Nor doe we find him forward to be sounded,
1655
But with a craftie madnes keepes aloofe
1656
When we would bring him on to some confession
1657
Of his true state.[G1v
1658
@#Quee. Did he receiue you well?
1659
@#Ros. Most like a gentleman.
1660
@#Guyl. But with much forcing of his disposition.
1661
@#Ros. Niggard of question, but of our demaunds
1662
====Most free in his reply.
1663
@#Quee. Did you assay him to any pastime?
1664
@#Ros. Maddam, it so fell out that certaine Players
1665
We ore-raught on the way, of these we told him,
1666
And there did seeme in him a kind of ioy
1667
To heare of it: they are heere about the Court,
1668
And as I thinke, they haue already order
1669
This night to play before him.
1670
@#Pol. Tis most true,
1671
And he beseecht me to intreat your Maiesties
1672
To heare and see the matter.
1673
@#King. With all my hart,
1673'
And it doth much content me
1674
To heare him so inclin'd.
1674-5 Good gentlemen giue him a further edge,
1675-6 And driue his purpose into these delights.
1677
@#Ros. We shall my Lord. ===Exeunt. Ros. & Guyl.
1678
@#King. Sweet Gertrard, leaue vs two,
1679
For we haue closely sent for Hamlet hether,
1680
That he as t'were by accedent, may heere
1681
Affront Ophelia; her father and my selfe,
1682
Wee'le so bestow our selues, that seeing vnseene,
1683
We may of their encounter franckly iudge,
1684
And gather by him as he is behau'd,
1685
Ift be th'affliction of his loue or no
1686
That thus he suffers for.
1687
@#Quee. I shall obey you.
1688
And for your part Ophelia, I doe wish
1689
That your good beauties be the happy cause
1690
Of Hamlets wildnes, so shall I hope your vertues,
1691
Will bring him to his wonted way againe,
1692
To both your honours.
1693
@#Oph. Maddam, I wish it may.
1694
@#Pol. Ophelia walke you heere, gracious so please you,
1695
We will bestow our selues; reade on this booke,[G2r
1696
That show of such an exercise may cullour
1697
Your lowlines; we are oft too blame in this,
1698
Tis too much proou'd, that with deuotions visage
1699
And pious action, we doe sugar ore
1700
The deuill himselfe.
1701
@#King. O tis too true,
1702
How smart a lash that speech doth giue my conscience.
1703
The harlots cheeke beautied with plastring art,
1704
Is not more ougly to the thing that helps it,
1705
Then is my deede to my most painted word:
1706
O heauy burthen.
1707
@#Pol. I heare him comming, with-draw my Lord.
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-===-------------==-Enter Hamlet.
1710
@#Ham. To be, or not to be, that is the question,
1711
Whether tis nobler in the minde to suffer
1712
The slings and arrowes of outragious fortune,
1713
Or to take Armes against a sea of troubles,
1714
And by opposing, end them, to die to sleepe
1715
No more, and by a sleepe, to say we end
1716
The hart-ake, and the thousand naturall shocks
1717
That flesh is heire to; tis a consumation
1718
Deuoutly to be wisht to die to sleepe,
1719
To sleepe, perchance to dreame, I there's the rub,
1720
For in that sleepe of death what dreames may come
1721
When we haue shuffled off this mortall coyle
1722
Must giue vs pause, there's the respect
1723
That makes calamitie of so long life:
1724
For who would beare the whips and scornes of time,
1725
Th'oppressors wrong, the proude mans contumely,
1726
The pangs of despiz'd loue, the lawes delay,
1727
The insolence of office, and the spurnes
1728
That patient merrit of th'vnworthy takes,
1729
When he himselfe might his quietas make
1730
With a bare bodkin; who would fardels beare,
1731
To grunt and sweat vnder a wearie life,
1732
But that the dread of something after death,
1733
The vndiscouer'd country, from whose borne
1734
No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will,[G2v
1735
And makes vs rather beare those ills we haue,
1736
Then flie to others that we know not of.
1737
Thus conscience dooes make cowards,
1738
And thus the natiue hiew of resolution
1739
Is sickled ore with the pale cast of thought,
1740
And enterprises of great pitch and moment,
1741
With this regard theyr currents turne awry,
1742
And loose the name of action. Soft you now,
1743
The faire Ophelia, Nimph in thy orizons
1744
Be all my sinnes remembred.
1745
@#Oph. Good my Lord,
1746
How dooes your honour for this many a day?
1747
@#Ham. I humbly thanke you well.
1748
@#Oph. My Lord, I haue remembrances of yours
1749
That I haue longed long to redeliuer,
1750
I pray you now receiue them.
1751
@#Ham. No, not I, I neuer gaue you ought.
1752
@#Oph. My honor'd Lord, you know right well you did,
1753
And with them words of so sweet breath composd
1754
As made these things more rich, their perfume lost,
1755
Take these againe, for to the noble mind
1756
Rich gifts wax poore when giuers prooue vnkind,
1757
There my Lord.
1758
@#Ham. Ha, ha, are you honest.
1759
@#Oph. My Lord.
1760
@#Ham. Are you faire?
1761
@#Oph. What meanes your Lordship?
1762-3 @#Ham. That if you be honest & faire, you should admit
1763
no discourse to your beautie.
1764
@#Oph. Could beauty my Lord haue better comerse
1765
Then with honestie?
1766-7 @#Ham. I truly, for the power of beautie will sooner transforme ho-
1767-8 nestie from what it is to a bawde, then the force of honestie can trans-
1768-9 late beautie into his likenes, this was sometime a paradox, but now the
1769-70 time giues it proofe, I did loue you once.
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@#Oph. Indeed my Lord you made me belieue so.
1772-3 @#Ham. You should not haue beleeu'd me, for vertue cannot so
1773-4 euocutat our old stock, but we shall relish of it, I loued you not.
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1775
@#Oph. I was the more deceiued.[G3r
1776-7 @#Ham. Get thee a Nunry, why would'st thou be a breeder of sin-
1777-8 ners, I am my selfe indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse mee of
1778-9 such things, that it were better my Mother had not borne mee: I am
1779-80 very proude, reuengefull, ambitious, with more offences at my beck,
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1781-2 then I haue thoughts to put them in, imagination to giue them shape,
1782-3 or time to act them in: what should such fellowes as I do crauling be-
1783-4 tweene earth and heauen, wee are arrant knaues, beleeue none of vs,
1784-5 goe thy waies to a Nunry. Where's your father?
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1786
@#Oph. At home my Lord.
1787
@#Ham. Let the doores be shut vpon him,
1787-8 That he may play the foole no where but in's owne house,
1788
Farewell.
1789
@#Oph. O helpe him you sweet heauens.
1790-1 @#Ham. If thou doost marry, Ile giue thee this plague for thy dow-
1791-2 rie, be thou as chast as yce, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape ca-
1792-3 lumny; get thee to a Nunry, farewell. Or if thou wilt needes marry,
1793-4 marry a foole, for wise men knowe well enough what monsters you
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1795-6 make of them: to a Nunry goe, and quickly to, farewell.
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1797
@#Oph. Heauenly powers restore him.
1798-9 @#Ham. I haue heard of your paintings well enough, God hath gi-
1799-1800 uen you one face, and you make your selfes another, you gig & am-
1800-1 ble, and you list you nickname Gods creatures, and make your wan-
1801-2 tonnes ignorance; goe to, Ile no more on't, it hath made me madde,
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1803-4 I say we will haue no mo marriage, those that are married alreadie, all
1804-5 but one shall liue, the rest shall keep as they are: to a Nunry go. =Exit.
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1806
@#Oph. O what a noble mind is heere orethrowne!
1807
The Courtiers, souldiers, schollers, eye, tongue, sword,
1808
Th'expectation, and Rose of the faire state,
1809
The glasse of fashion, and the mould of forme,
1810
Th'obseru'd of all obseruers, quite quite downe,
1811
And I of Ladies most deiect and wretched,
1812
That suckt the honny of his musickt vowes;
1813
Now see what noble and most soueraigne reason
1814
Like sweet bells iangled out of time, and harsh,
1815
That vnmatcht forme, and stature of blowne youth
1816
Blasted with extacie, ô woe is mee
1817
T'haue seene what I haue seene, see what I see. ===Exit.
1818
=============Enter King and Polonius.[G3v
1819
@#King. Loue, his affeƈtions doe not that way tend,
1820
Nor what he spake, though it lackt forme a little,
1821
Was not like madnes, there's something in his soule
1822
Ore which his melancholy sits on brood,
1823
And I doe doubt, the hatch and the disclose
1824
VVill be some danger; which for to preuent,
1825
I haue in quick determination
1826
Thus set it downe: he shall with speede to England,
1827
For the demaund of our negleƈted tribute,
1828
Haply the seas, and countries different,
1829
With variable obieƈts, shall expell
1830
This something setled matter in his hart,
1831
Whereon his braines still beating
1831-2 Puts him thus from fashion of himselfe.
1832
What thinke you on't?
1833
@#Pol. It shall doe well.
1833-4 But yet doe I belieue the origin and comencement of his greefe,
1835
Sprung from negleƈted loue: How now Ophelia?
1836
You neede not tell vs what Lord Hamlet said,
1837
We heard it all: my Lord, doe as you please,
1838
But if you hold it fit, after the play,
1839
Let his Queene-mother all alone intreate him
1840
To show his griefe, let her be round with him,
1841
And Ile be plac'd (so please you) in the eare
1842
Of all their conference, if she find him not,
1843
To England send him: or confine him where
1844
Your wisedome best shall thinke.
1845
@#King. It shall be so,
1846-7 Madnes in great ones must not vnmatcht goe. ==Exeunt.
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1646
===Enter King, Queene, Polonius, Ophelia, Ro-
1647
=======sincrance, Guildenstern, and Lords.
1648
@#King. And can you by no drift of circumstance
1649
Get from him why he puts on this Confusion:
1650
Grating so harshly all his dayes of quiet
1651
With turbulent and dangerous Lunacy.[oo5r
1652
@#Rosin. He does confesse he feeles himselfe distracted,
1653
But from what cause he will by no meanes speake.
1654
@#Guil. Nor do we finde him forward to be sounded,
1655
But with a crafty Madnesse keepes aloofe:
1656
When we would bring him on to some Confession
1657
Of his true state.
1658
@#Qu. Did he receiue you well?
1659
@#Rosin. Most like a Gentleman.
1660
@#Guild. But with much forcing of his disposition.
1661
@#Rosin. Niggard of question, but of our demands
1662
Most free in his reply.
1663
@#Qu. Did you assay him to any pastime?
1664
@#Rosin. Madam, it so fell out, that certaine Players
1665
We ore-wrought on the way: of these we told him,
1666
And there did seeme in him a kinde of ioy
1667
To heare of it: They are about the Court,
1668
And (as I thinke) they haue already order
1669
This night to play before him.
1670
@#Pol. 'Tis most true:
1671
And he beseech'd me to intreate your Maiesties
1672
To heare, and see the matter.
1673
@#King. With all my heart, and it doth much content me
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1674
To heare him so inclin'd. Good Gentlemen,
1675
Giue him a further edge, and driue his purpose on
1676
To these delights.
1677
@#Rosin. We shall my Lord. =====Exeunt.
1678
@#King. Sweet Gertrude leaue vs too,
1679
For we haue closely sent for Hamlet hither,
1680
That he, as 'twere by accident, may there
1681
Affront Ophelia. Her Father, and my selfe (lawful espials)
1682
Will so bestow our selues, that seeing vnseene
1683
We may of their encounter frankely iudge,
1684
And gather by him, as he is behaued,
1685
If't be th'affliction of his loue, or no.
1686
That thus he suffers for.
1687
@#Qu. I shall obey you,
1688
And for your part Ophelia, I do wish
1689
That your good Beauties be the happy cause
1690
Of Hamlets wildenesse: so shall I hope your Vertues
1691
Will bring him to his wonted way againe,
1692
To both your Honors.
1693
@#Ophe. Madam, I wish it may.
1694
@#Pol. Ophelia, walke you heere. Gracious so please ye
1695
We will bestow our selues: Reade on this booke,
1696
That shew of such an exercise may colour
1697
Your lonelinesse. We are oft too blame in this,
1698
'Tis too much prou'd, that with Deuotions visage,
1699
And pious Action, we do surge o're
1700
The diuell himselfe.
1701
@#King. Oh 'tis true:
1702
How smart a lash that speech doth giue my Conscience?
1703
The Harlots Cheeke beautied with plaist'ring Art
1704
Is not more vgly to the thing that helpes it,
1705
Then is my deede, to my most painted word.
1706
Oh heauie burthen!
1707
@#Pol. I heare him comming, let's withdraw my Lord.
1708
=====Exeunt.
1709
=====Enter Hamlet.
1710
@#Ham. To be, or not to be, that is the Question:
1711
Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer
1712
The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune,
1713
Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,
1714
And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe
1715
No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end
1716
The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes
1717
That Flesh is heyre too? 'Tis a consummation
1718
Deuoutly to be wish'd. To dye to sleepe,
1719
To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there's the rub,
1720
For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come,
1721
When we haue shufflel'd off this mortall coile,
1722
Must giue vs pawse. There's the respect
1723
That makes Calamity of so long life:
1724
For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time,
1725
The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely,
1726
The pangs of dispriz'd Loue, the Lawes delay,
1727
The insolence of Office, and the Spurnes
1728
That patient merit of the vnworthy takes,
1729
When he himselfe might his Quietus make
1730
With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardles beare
1731
To grunt and sweat vnder a weary life,
1732
But that the dread of something after death,
1733
The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne
1734
No Traueller returnes, Puzels the will,
1735
And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue,
1736
Then flye to others that we know not of.
1737
Thus Conscience does make Cowards of vs all,
1738
And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution
1739
Is sicklied o're, with the pale cast of Thought,
1740
And enterprizes of great pith and moment,
1741
With this regard their Currants turne away,
1742
And loose the name of Action. Soft you now,
1743
The faire Ophelia? Nimph, in thy Orizons
1744
Be all my sinnes remembred.
1745
@#Ophe. Good my Lord,
1746
How does your Honor for this many a day?
1747
@#Ham. I humbly thanke you: well, well, well.
1748
@#Ophe. My Lord, I haue Remembrances of yours,
1749
That I haue longed long to re-deliuer.
1750
I pray you now, receiue them.
1751
@#Ham. No, no, I neuer gaue you ought.
1752
@#Ophe. My honor'd Lord, I know right well you did,
1753
And with them words of so sweet breath compos'd,
1754
As made the things more rich, then perfume left:
1755
Take these againe, for to the Noble minde
1756
Rich gifts wax poore, when giuers proue vnkinde.
1757
There my Lord.
1758
@#Ham. Ha, ha: Are you honest¦?
1759
@#Ophe. My Lord.
1760
@#Ham. Are you faire?
1761
@#Ophe. What meanes your Lordship?
1762
@#Ham. That if you be honest and faire, your Honesty
1763
should admit no discourse to your Beautie.
1764
@#Ophe. Could Beautie my Lord, haue better Comerce
1765
then your Honestie?
1766
@#Ham. I trulie: for the power of Beautie, will sooner
1767
transforme Honestie from what it is, to a Bawd, then the
1768
force of Honestie can translate Beautie into his likenesse.
1769
This was sometime a Paradox, but now the time giues it
1770
proofe. I did loue you once.
1771
@#Ophe. Indeed my Lord, you made me beleeue so.
1772
@#Ham. You should not haue beleeued me. For vertue
1773
cannot so innocculate our old stocke, but we shall rellish
1774
of it. I loued you not.
1775
@#Ophe. I was the more deceiued.
1776
@#Ham. Get thee to a Nunnerie. Why would'st thou
1777
be a breeder of Sinners? I am my selfe indifferent honest,
1778
but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were bet-
1779
ter my Mother had not borne me. I am very prowd, re-
1780
uengefull, Ambitious, with more offences at my becke,
1781
then I haue thoughts to put them in imagination, to giue
1782
them shape, or time to acte them in. What should such
1783
Fellowes as I do, crawling betweene Heauen and Earth.[oo5v
1784
We are arrant Knaues all, beleeue none of vs. Goe thy
1785
wayes to a Nunnery. Where's your Father?
1786
@#Ophe. At home, my Lord.
1787
@#Ham. Let the doores be shut vpon him, that he may
1788
play the Foole no way, but in's owne house. Farewell.
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1789
@#Ophe. O helpe him, you sweet Heauens.
1790
@#Ham. If thou doest Marry, Ile giue thee this Plague
1791
for thy Dowrie. Be thou as chast as Ice, as pure as Snow,
1792
thou shalt not escape Calumny. Get thee to a Nunnery.
1793
Go, Farewell. Or if thou wilt needs Marry, marry a fool:
1794
for Wise men know well enough, what monsters you
1795
make of them. To a Nunnery go, and quickly too. Far-
1796
well.
1797
@#Ophe. O heauenly Powers, restore him.
1798
@#Ham. I haue heard of your pratlings too wel enough.
1799
God has giuen you one pace, and you make your selfe an-
1800
other: you gidge, you amble, and you lispe, and nickname
1801
Gods creatures, and make your Wantonnesse, your Ig-
1802
norance. Go too, Ile no more on't, it hath made me mad.
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I say, we will haue no more Marriages. Those that are
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married already, all but one shall liue, the rest shall keep
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as they are. To a Nunnery, go. =====Exit Hamlet.
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@#Ophe. O what a Noble minde is heere o're-throwne?
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The Courtiers, Soldiers, Schollers: Eye, tongue, sword,
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Th'expectansie and Rose of the faire State,
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The glasse of Fashion, and the mould of Forme,
1810
Th'obseru'd of all Obseruers, quite, quite downe.
1811
Haue I of Ladies most deiect and wretched,
1812
That suck'd the Honie of his Musicke Vowes:
1813
Now see that Noble, and most Soueraigne Reason,
1814
Like sweet Bels iangled out of tune, and harsh,
1815
That vnmatch'd Forme and Feature of blowne youth,
1816
Blasted with extasie. Oh woe is me,
1817
T'haue seene what I haue seene: see what I see.
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=====Enter King, and Polonius.
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@#King. Loue? His affections do not that way tend,
1820
Nor what he spake, though it lack'd Forme a little,
1821
Was not like Madnesse. There's something in his soule?
1822
O're which his Melancholly sits on brood,
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And I do doubt the hatch, and the disclose
1824
Will be some danger, which to preuent
1825
I haue in quicke determination
1826
Thus set it downe. He shall with speed to England
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For the demand of our neglected Tribute:
1828
Haply the Seas and Countries different
1829
With variable Obiects, shall expell
1830
This something setled matter in his heart:
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Whereon his Braines still beating, puts him thus
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1832
From fashion of himselfe. What thinke you on't?
1833
@#Pol. It shall do well. But yet do I beleeue
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The Origin and Commencement of this greefe
1835
Sprung from neglected loue. How now Ophelia?
1836
You neede not tell vs, what Lord Hamlet saide,
1837
We heard it all. My Lord, do as you please,
1838
But if you hold it fit after the Play,
1839
Let his Queene Mother all alone intreat him
1840
To shew his Greefes: let her be round with him,
1841
And Ile be plac'd so, please you in the eare
1842
Of all their Conference. If she finde him not,
1843
To England send him: Or confine him where
1844
Your wisedome best shall thinke.
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@#King. It shall be so:
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Madnesse in great Ones, must not vnwatch'd go.
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===============Exeunt.
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