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1849-50 ^^Ham. Pronounce me this speech trippingly a the tongue
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Mary and you mouth it, as a many of your players do
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I'de rather heare a towne bull bellow,
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Then such a fellow speake my lines.
1852-3 Nor do not saw the aire thus with your hands,
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But giue euery thing his action with temperance. =====(fellow,
1856-7 O it offends mee to the soule, to heare a rebustious periwig ↑
1857-8 To teare a passion in totters, into very ragges,
1858-9 To split the eares of the ignoraut, who for the =====(noises,
1859-60 Most parte are capable of nothing but dumbe shewes and ↑
1860-1 I would haue such a fellow whipt, for o're doing, tarmagant
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^^players My Lorde, wee haue indifferently reformed that
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^^Ham. The better, the better, mend it all together:
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1876-7 There be fellowes that I haue seene play,
1877-8 And heard others commend them, and that highly too,
1878-9 That hauing neither the gate of Christian, Pagan,
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Nor Turke, haue so strutted and bellowed,
1880-1 That you would a thought, some of Natures journeymen
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Had made men, and not made them well,
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They imitated humanitie, so abhominable:
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1886-7 ^^Ham. And doe you heare? let not your Clowne speake
1887-8 More then is set downe, there be of them I can tell you
1888-9 That will laugh themselues, to set on some
1889-90 Quantitie of barren spectators to laugh with them,
1890-1
Albeit there is some necessary point in the Play
1891-2 Then to be obserued: O t'is vile, and shewes
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A pittifull ambition in the foole the vseth it.
0…-_____And then you haue some agen, that keepes one sute
0…-_____Os ieasts, as a man is knowne by one sute of
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Apparell, and Gentlemen quotes his ieasts downe
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0…-_____Cannot you stay till I eate my porrige? and, you owe me
0…-_____A quarters wages: and, my coate wants a cullison:
0…-_____And your beere is sowre: and, blabbering with his lips,
0…-_____And thus keeping in his cinkapase of ieasts,
0…-_____When, God knows, the warme Clowne cannot make a iest
0…-_____Vnlesse by chance, as the blinde man catcheth a hare:
0…-_____Maisters tell him of it.
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^^players We will my Lord.
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^^Ham. Well, goe make you ready. ===exeunt players.
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^^Horatio. Heere my Lord.
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^^Ham. Horatio, thou art euen as iust a man,
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As e're my conuersation cop'd withall.
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^^Ham. Nay why should I flatter thee?
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Why should the poore be flattered?
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What gaine should I receiue by flattering thee,
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That nothing hath but thy good minde?
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Let flattery sit on those time-pleasing tongs,
1912-3 To glose with them that loues to heare their praise,
0…-_____And not with such as thou Horatio.
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1926-7 There is a play to night, wherein one Sceane they haue
1927-8 Comes very neere the murder of my father,
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When thou shalt see that Act afoote,
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Marke thou the King, doe but obserue his lookes,
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For I mine eies will riuet to his face:
1931-2 And if he doe not bleach, and change at that,
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It is a damned ghost that we haue seene.
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Horatio, haue a care, obserue him well.
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1939-40 ^^Hor. My lord, mine eies shall still be on his face,
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And not the smallest alteration
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That shall appeare in him, but I shall note it.
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1942-5 ===Enter King, Queene, Corambis, and other Lords. ===(a play?
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^^King How now son Hamlet, how fare you, shall we haue ↑
1949-50 ^^Ham. Yfaith the Camelions dish, not capon cramm'd,
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1953-4 I father: My lord, you playd in the Vniuersitie.
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1955-6 ^^Cor. That I did my L: and I was counted a good actor.
1957
^^Ham. What did you enact there?
1958-9 ^^Cor. My lord, I did act Iulius Caesar, I was killed
1958-9 in the Capitoll, Brutus killed me.
1960
^^Ham. It was a brute parte of him,
1960-1 To kill so capitall a calfe.
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Come, be these Players ready?
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^^Queene Hamlet come sit downe by me.
1964
^^Ham. No by my faith mother, heere's a mettle more at– ↓
1966-8 Lady will you giue me leaue, and so forth: ========(tractiue:
1966-8 To lay my head in your lappe?
1967
^^Ofel. No my Lord. ==================(trary matters?
1968-70 ^^Ham. Vpon your lap, what do you thinke I meant con– ↑
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1990-1 ==Enter in a Dumbe Shew, the King and the Queene, he sits
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1993-5 ====downe in an Arbor, she leaues him: Then enters Luci–
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====anus with poyson in a Viall, and powres it in his eares, and
1996-7 ====goes away: Then the Queene commeth and findes him
1997-2002 ==dead: and goes away with the other.
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2003-16 ^^Ofel. What meanes this my Lord? ===Enter the Prologue.
2004-5 ^^Ham. This is myching Mallico, that meanes my chiefe.
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^^Ofel. What doth this meane my lord?
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2008-9 ^^Ham. you shall heare anone, this fellow will tell you all.
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^^Ofel. Will he tell vs what this shew meanes?
2011
^^Ham. I, or any shew you'le shew him,
2011-2 Be not afeard to shew, hee'le not be afeard to tell:
2008-9 O these Players cannot keepe counsell, thei'le tell all.
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2016-7 ^^Prol. For vs, and for our Tragedie,
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Heere stowpiug to your clemencie,
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We begge your hearing patiently.
2020
^^Ham. I'st a prologue, or a poesie for a ring?
2021
^^Ofel. T'is short my Lord.
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========Enter the Duke and Dutchesse.
2024
^^Duke Full fortie yeares are past, their date is gone,
2028-9 Since happy time ioyn'd both our hearts as one:[F3v
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Runnes weakely in their pipes, and all the straines
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Of musicke, which whilome pleasde mine eare,
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Is now a burthen that Age cannot beare:
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And therefore sweete Nature must pay his due,
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2040-3 To heauen must I, and leaue the earth with you.
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^^Dutchesse O say not so, lest that you kill my heart,
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When death takes you, let life from me depart.
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^^Duke Content thy selfe, when ended is my date,
2043-4 Thon maist (perchance) haue a more noble mate,
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More wise, more youthfull, and one.
2045-7 ^^Dutchesse O speake no more for then I am accurst,
2048
None weds the second, but she kils the first:
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A second time I kill my Lord that's dead,
2053
When second husband kisses me in bed.
2049
^^Ham. O wormewood, wormewood!
2054
^^Duke I doe beleeue you sweete, what now you speake,
2055
But what we doe determine oft we breake,
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For our demises stil are ouerthrowne,
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Our thoughts are ours, their end's none of our owne:
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So thinke you will no second husband wed,
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But die thy thoughts, when thy first Lord is dead.
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^^Dutchesse Both here and there pursue me lasting strife,
2089
If once a widdow, euer I be wife.
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^^Ham. If she should breake now.
2091-2 ^^Duke T'is deepely sworne, sweete leaue me here a while,
2093-4 My spirites growe dull, and faine I would beguile the tedi–
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^^Dutchesse Sleepe rocke thy braine,
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And neuer come mischance betweene vs twaine. ==exit Lady
2097
^^Ham. Madam, how do you like this play?
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^^Queene The Lady protests too much.
2099
^^Ham. O but shee'le keepe her word.
2100-1 ^^King Haue you heard the argument, is there no offence
2102-3 ^^Ham. No offence in the world, poyson in iest, poison in ↓[F4r
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^^King What do you call the name of the play? =======(iest.
2105-6 ^^Ham. Mouse-trap: mary how trapically: this play is
2106
The image of a murder done in guyana, Albertus
2107
Was the Dukes name, his wife Baptista,
2108
Father, it is a knauish peece a worke: but what
2108-10 A that, it toucheth not vs, you and I that haue free
2110-2 Soules, let the galld iade wince, this is one
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Lucianus nephew to the King.
2113
^^Ofel. Ya're as good as a Chorus my lord.
2114-5 ^^Ham. I could interpret the loue you beare, if I sawe the
1975
^^Ofel. Y'are very pleasant my lord.
1976-8 ^^Ham. Who I, your onlie jig-maker, why what shoulde
1979-80 a man do but be merry? for looke how cheerefully my mo–
1980-1 ther lookes, my father died within these two houres.
1982
^^Ofel. Nay, t'is twice two months, my Lord.
1983
^^Ham. Two months, nay then let the diuell weare blacke,
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For i'le haue a sute of Sables: Iesus, two months dead,
1985
And not forgotten yet? nay then there's some
1986
Likelyhood, a gentlemans death may outliue memorie,
1987
But by my faith hee must build churches then,
1987-9 Or els hee must follow the olde Epitithe,
1989
With hoh, with ho, the hobi-horse is forgot.
2116
^^Ofel. Your iests are keene my Lord.
2117
^^Ham. It would cost you a groning to take them off.
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^^Ofel. Still better and worse.
2120-1 ^^Ham. So you must take your husband, begin. Murdred
2121-2 Begin, a poxe, leaue thy damnable faces and begin,
2122-3 Come, the croking rauen doth bellow for reuenge.
2124-5 ^^Murd. Thoughts blacke, hands apt, drugs fit, and time ↓
2126
Confederate season, else no creature seeing: =====(agreeing.
2127
Thou mixture rancke, of midnight weedes collected,
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With Hecates bane thrise blasted, thrise infected,
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Thy naturall magicke, and dire propertie,
2130
One wholesome life vsurps immediately.==exit.
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^^Ham. He poysons him for his estate.[F4v
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^^King Lights, I will to bed.
2136-41 ^^Cor. The king rises, lights hoe.
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^^Ham. What, frighted with false fires?
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Then let the stricken deere goe weepe,
2145
For some must laugh, while some must weepe,
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Thus runnes the world away.
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^^Hor. I Horatio, i'le take the Ghosts word
2158-9 For more then all the coyne in Denmarke.
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^^Ross. Now my lord, how i'st with you?
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^^Ham. And if the king like not the tragedy,
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Why then belike he likes it not perdy.
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^^Ross. We are very glad to see your grace so pleasant,
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My good lord, let vs againe intreate ===============(ture
2207-8 To know of you the ground and cause of your distempera– ↑
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^^Gil. My lord, your mother craues to speake with you.
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^^Ham. We shall obey, were she ten times our mother.
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2221-2 ^^Ham. I pray will you play vpon this pipe?
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^^Ross. Alas my lord I cannot.
2227-33 ^^Gil. I haue no skill my Lord.
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^^Ham. why looke, it is a thing of nothing,
2228-9 T'is but stopping of these holes,
2229-30 And with a little breath from your lips,
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It will giue most delicate musick.
2232-3 ^^Gil. But this cannot wee do my Lord.
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^^Ham. Pray now, pray hartily, I beseech you.
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^^Ros. My lord wee cannot. ===================(me?
2234-5 ^^Ham. Why how vnworthy a thing would you make of ↑
2235-6 You would seeme to know my stops, you would play vpon [G1r
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You would search the very inward part of my hart, ==mee,
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And diue into the secrect of my soule.
2240-1 Zownds do you thinke I am easier to be pla'yd
2241 On, then a pipe? call mee what Instrument
2241-2 You will, though you can frett mee, yet you can not
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Play vpon mee, besides, to be demanded by a spunge.
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^^Ros. How a spunge my Lord?
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^^Ham. I sir, a spunge, that sokes vp the kings
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Countenance, fauours, and rewardes, that makes
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His liberalitie your store house: but such as you,
2646-7 Do the king, in the end, best seruise;
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For hee doth keep you as an Ape doth nuttes,
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In the corner of his Iaw, first mouthes you,
2648-9 Then swallowes you: so when hee hath need
2649-50 Of you, t'is but squeesing of you,
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And spunge, you shall be dry againe, you shall.
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^^Ros. Wel my Lord wee'le take our leaue.
2242-3 ^^Ham Farewell, farewell, God blesse you.
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2245
^^Cor. My lord, the Queene would speake with you.
2247-8 ^^Ham. Do you see yonder clowd in the shape of a camell?
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^^Cor. T'is like a camell in deed.
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^^Ham. Now me thinkes it's like a weasel.
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^^Cor. T'is back't like a weasell.
2253-7 ^^Cor. Very like a whale. ===exit Coram.
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^^Ham. Why then tell my mother i'le come by and by.
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^^Hor. Good night vnto your Lordship. ===exit Horatio.
2263
^^Ham. My mother she hath sent to speake with me:
2264-5 O God, let ne're the heart of Nero enter
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Let me be cruell, not vnnaturall.
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I will speake daggers, those sharpe wordes being spent,[G1v
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To doe her wrong my soule shall ne're consent. ===exit.
1848
======Enter Hamlet, and three of the Players.
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1849-50 ^^Ham. Speake the speech I pray you as I pronoun'd it to you, trip-
1850-1 pingly on the tongue, but if you mouth it as many of our Players do,
1851-2 I had as liue the towne cryer spoke my lines, nor doe not saw the ayre
1852-3 too much with your hand thus, but vse all gently, for in the very tor-
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rent tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must
1855-6 acquire and beget a temperance, that may giue it smoothnesse, ô it
1856-7 offends mee to the soule, to heare a robustious perwig-pated fellowe
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tere a passion to totters, to very rags, to spleet the eares of the ground-[G4r
1859-60 lings, vvho for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplica-
1860-1 ble dumbe showes, and noyse: I would haue such a fellow whipt for
1861-2
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^^Player. I warrant your honour.
1864-5 ^^Hamlet. Be not too tame neither, but let your owne discretion be
1865-6 your tutor, sute the action to the word, the word to the aƈtion, with
1866-7 this speciall obseruance, that you ore-steppe not the modestie of na-
1867-8 ture: For any thing so ore-doone, is from the purpose of playing,
1868-9 whose end both at the first, and novve, was and is, to holde as twere
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1870-1 the Mirrour vp to nature, to shew vertue her feature; scorne her own
1871-2 Image, and the very age and body of the time his forme and pressure:
1872-3 Now this ouer-done, or come tardie off, though it makes the vnskil-
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1874-5 full laugh, cannot but make the iudicious greeue, the censure of
1875-6 which one, must in your allowance ore-weigh a whole Theater of o-
1876-7 thers. O there be Players that I haue seene play, and heard others
1877-8 praysd, and that highly, not to speake it prophanely, that neither ha-
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1879-80 uing th'accent of Christians, nor the gate of Christian, Pagan, nor
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1880-1 man, haue so strutted & bellowed, that I haue thought some of Na-
1881-2 tures Iornimen had made men, and not made them well, they imita-
1882-3 ted humanitie so abhominably.
1884-5 ^^Player. I hope we haue reform'd that indifferently with vs.
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1886-7 ^^Ham. O reforme it altogether, and let those that play your clownes
1887-8 speake no more then is set downe for them, for there be of them that
1888-9 wil themselues laugh, to set on some quantitie of barraine spectators
1889-91 to laugh to, though in the meane time, some necessary question of
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1891-2 the play be then to be considered, that's villanous, and shewes a most
1892-5 pittifull ambition in the foole that vses it: goe make you readie. How
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^^Pol. And the Queene to, and that presently.
1898-9 ^^Ham. Bid the Players make hast. Will you two help to hasten thē.
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^^Ros. I my Lord. ======Exeunt they two.
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1901-2 ^^Ham. What howe, Horatio. ===Enter Horatio.
1903
^^Hora. Heere sweet Lord, at your seruice.
1904
^^Ham. Horatio, thou art een as iust a man
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As ere my conuersation copt withall.
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˂Ham. ˃Nay, doe not thinke I flatter,[G4v
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For what aduancement may I hope from thee
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That no reuenew hast but thy good spirits
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To feede and clothe thee, why should the poore be flatterd?
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No, let the candied tongue licke absurd pompe,
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And crooke the pregnant hindges of the knee
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Where thrift may follow fauning; doost thou heare,
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Since my deare soule was mistris of her choice,
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And could of men distinguish her election,
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S'hath seald thee for herselfe, for thou hast been
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As one in suffring all that suffers nothing,
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A man that Fortunes buffets and rewards
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Hast tane with equall thanks; and blest are those
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Whose blood and iudgement are so well comedled,
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That they are not a pype for Fortunes finger
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To sound what stop she please: giue me that man
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That is not passions slaue, and I will weare him
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In my harts core, I in my hart of hart
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As I doe thee. Something too much of this,
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There is a play to night before the King,
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One scene of it comes neere the circumstance
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Which I haue told thee of my fathers death,
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I prethee when thou seest that act a foote,
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Euen with the very comment of thy soule
1931
Obserue my Vncle, if his occulted guilt
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Doe not it selfe vnkennill in one speech,
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It is a damned ghost that we haue seene,
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And my imaginations are as foule
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As Vulcans stithy; giue him heedfull note,
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For I mine eyes will riuet to his face,
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And after we will both our iudgements ioyne
1938
In censure of his seeming.
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If a steale ought the whilst this play is playing
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And scape detected, I will pay the theft.
1942
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^^Ham. They are comming to the play. I must be idle,
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^^King. How fares our cosin Hamlet?
1949-50 Of the Camelions dish, I eate the ayre,
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Promiscram'd, you cannot feede Capons so.
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^^King. I haue nothing with this aunswer Hamlet,
1951-2 These words are not mine.
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^^Ham. No, nor mine now my Lord.
1953-4 You playd once i'th Vniuersitie you say,
1955-6 ^^Pol. That did I my Lord, and was accounted a good Actor,
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^^Ham. What did you enact?
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^^Pol. I did enact Iulius Cæsar, I was kild i'th Capitall,
1960-1 ^^Ham. It was a brute part of him to kill so capitall a calfe there,
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^^Ros. I my Lord, they stay vpon your patience.
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^^Ger. Come hether my deere Hamlet, sit by me.
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^^Ham. No good mother, heere's mettle more attractiue.
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^^Pol. O ho, doe you marke that.
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^^Ham. Lady shall I lie in your lap?
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^^Ham. Doe you thinke I meant country matters?
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^^Oph. I thinke nothing my Lord.
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^^Ham. That's a fayre thought to lye betweene maydes legs.
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^^Oph. You are merry my Lord.
1978-9 ^^Ham. O God your onely Iigge-maker, what should a man do but
1979-80 be merry, for looke you how cheerefully my mother lookes, and my
1980-1 father died within's two howres.
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^^Oph. Nay, tis twice two months my Lord.
1983-4 ^^Ham. So long, nay then let the deule weare blacke, for Ile haue a
1984-5 sute of sables; ô heauens, die two months agoe, and not forgotten yet,
1985-6 then there's hope a great mans memorie may out-liue his life halfe a
1986-8 yeere, but ber Lady a must build Churches then, or els shall a suffer
1988-9 not thinking on, with the Hobby-horse, whose Epitaph is, for ô, for
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ô, the hobby-horse is forgot.
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1991-2 ==Enter a King and a Queene, the Queene embracing him, and he her, he
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1993-4 takes her vp, and declines his head vpon her necke, he lyes him downe vp-
1994-5 pon a bancke of flowers, she seeing him asleepe, leaues him: anon come in an
1995-7 other man, takes off his crowne, kisses it, pours poyson in the sleepers eares,
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1997-8 and leaues him: the Queene returnes, finds the King dead, makes passionate
1998-9 action, the poysner with some three or foure come in againe, seeme to con-
1999-2001dole with her, the dead body is carried away, the poysner wooes the Queene
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2001-2 with gifts, shee seemes harsh awhile, but in the end accepts loue.
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2003
^^Oph. VVhat meanes this my Lord?
2004-5 ^^Ham. Marry this munching Mallico, it meanes mischiefe.
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2006-7 ^^Oph. Belike this show imports the argument of the play.
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2008
^^Ham. We shall know by this fellow, =====Enter Prologue.
2008-9 The Players cannot keepe, they'le tell all.
2010
^^Oph. Will a tell vs what this show meant?
2011-2 ^^Ham. I, or any show that you will show him, be not you asham'd
2012-3 to show, heele not shame to tell you what it meanes.
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2014-5 ^^Oph. You are naught, you are naught, Ile mark the play.
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2017
^^Prologue. For vs and for our Tragedie,
2018
Heere stooping to your clemencie,
2019
We begge your hearing patiently.
2020
^^Ham. Is this a Prologue, or the posie of a ring?
2021
^^Oph. Tis breefe my Lord.
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2023
=====Enter King and Queene.
2024
^^King. Full thirtie times hath Phebus cart gone round
2025
Neptunes salt wash, and Tellus orb'd the ground,
2026
And thirtie dosen Moones with borrowed sheene
2027
About the world haue times twelue thirties beene
2028
Since loue our harts, and Hymen did our hands
2029
Vnite comutuall in most sacred bands.
2030
^^Quee. So many iourneyes may the Sunne and Moone
2031
Make vs againe count ore ere loue be doone,
2032
But woe is me, you are so sicke of late,
2033
So farre from cheere, and from our former state,
2034
That I distrust you, yet though I distrust,
2035
Discomfort you my Lord it nothing must.
2035+1 For women feare too much, euen as they loue,[H2r
2036
And womens feare and loue hold quantitie,
2037
Eyther none, in neither ought, or in extremitie,
2038
Now what my Lord is proofe hath made you know,
2039
And as my loue is ciz'd, my feare is so,
2039+1 Where loue is great, the litlest doubts are feare,
2039+2 Where little feares grow great, great loue growes there.
2040
^^King. Faith I must leaue thee loue, and shortly to,
2041
My operant powers their functions leaue to do,
2042
And thou shalt liue in this faire world behind,
2043
Honord, belou'd, and haply one as kind,
2045
^^Quee. O confound the rest,
2046
Such loue must needes be treason in my brest,
2047
In second husband let me be accurst,
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2048
None wed the second, but who kild the first. ======Ham. That's
2050
The instances that second marriage moue =========wormwood
2051
Are base respects of thrift, but none of loue,
2052
A second time I kill my husband dead,
2053
When second husband kisses me in bed.
2054
^^King. I doe belieue you thinke what now you speake,
2055
But what we doe determine, oft we breake,
2056
Purpose is but the slaue to memorie,
2057
Of violent birth, but poore validitie,
2058
Which now the fruite vnripe sticks on the tree,
2059
But fall vnshaken when they mellow bee.
2060
Most necessary tis that we forget
2061
To pay our selues what to our selues is debt,
2062
What to our selues in passion we propose,
2063
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose,
2064
The violence of eyther, griefe, or ioy,
2065
Their owne ennactures with themselues destroy,
2066
Where ioy most reuels, griefe doth most lament,
2067
Greefe ioy, ioy griefes, on slender accedent,
2068
This world is not for aye, nor tis not strange,
2069
That euen our loues should with our fortunes change:
2070
For tis a question left vs yet to proue,
2071
Whether loue lead fortune, or els fortune loue.
2072
The great man downe, you marke his fauourite flyes,
2073
The poore aduaunc'd, makes friends of enemies,[H2v
2074
And hetherto doth loue on fortune tend,
2075
For who not needes, shall neuer lacke a friend,
2076
And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
2077
Directly seasons him his enemy.
2078
But orderly to end where I begunne,
2079
Our wills and fates doe so contrary runne,
2080
That our deuises still are ouerthrowne,
2081
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our owne,
2082
So thinke thou wilt no second husband wed,
2083
But die thy thoughts when thy first Lord is dead.
2084
^^Quee. Nor earth to me giue foode, nor heauen light,
2085
Sport and repose lock from me day and night,
2085+1 To desperation turne my trust and hope,
2085+2 And Anchors cheere in prison be my scope,
2086
Each opposite that blancks the face of ioy,
2087
Meete what I would haue well, and it destroy,
2088
Both heere and hence pursue me lasting strife, ===Ham. If she should
2089
If once I be a widdow, euer I be a wife. ========breake it now.
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2091
^^King. Tis deeply sworne, sweet leaue me heere a while,
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2093
My spirits grow dull, and faine I would beguile
2094
The tedious day with sleepe.
2095
^^Quee. Sleepe rock thy braine,
2096
And neuer come mischance betweene vs twaine. ==Exeunt.
2097
^^Ham. Madam, how like you this play?
2098
^^Quee. The Lady doth protest too much mee thinks.
2099
^^Ham. O but shee'le keepe her word.
2100-1 ^^King. Haue you heard the argument? is there no offence in't?
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2102-3 ^^Ham. No, no, they do but iest, poyson in iest, no offence i'th world.
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2104
^^King. What doe you call the play?
2105-6 ^^Ham. The Mousetrap, mary how tropically, this play is the Image
2106-7 of a murther doone in Vienna, Gonszago is the Dukes name, his wife
2107-8 Baptista, you shall see anon, tis a knauish peece of worke, but what of
2108-10 that ? your Maiestie, and wee that haue free soules, it touches vs not,
2110-2 let the gauled Iade winch, our withers are vnwrong. This is one Lu-
2112
cianus, Nephew to the King.
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2113
^^Oph. You are as good as a Chorus my Lord.
2114
^^Ham. I could interpret betweene you and your loue
2115
If I could see the puppets dallying.[H3r
2116
^^Oph. You are keene my lord, you are keene.
2117-8 ^^Ham. It would cost you a groning to take off mine edge.
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2119
^^Oph. Still better and worse.
2120-1 ^^Ham. So you mistake your husbands. Beginne murtherer, leaue
2121-2 thy damnable faces and begin, come, the croking Rauen doth bellow
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2124-5 ^^Luc. Thoughts black, hands apt, drugges fit, and time agreeing,
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2126
Considerat season els no creature seeing,
2127
Thou mixture ranck, of midnight weedes collected,
2128
With Hecats ban thrice blasted, thrice inuected,
2129
Thy naturall magicke, and dire property,
2130
On wholsome life vsurps immediatly.
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2132-3 ^^Ham. A poysons him i'th Garden for his estate, his names Gonza-
2133-4 go, the story is extant, and written in very choice Italian, you shall see
2134-5 anon how the murtherer gets the loue of Gonzagoes wife.
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2138
^^Quee. How fares my Lord?
2139
^^Pol. Giue ore the play.
2140
^^King. Giue me some light, away.
2141-2 ^^Pol. Lights, lights, lights. ======= Exeunt all but Ham. & Horatio.
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2143
^^Ham. Why let the strooken Deere goe weepe,
2145
For some must watch while some must sleepe,
2146-7 Thus runnes the world away. Would not this sir & a forrest of fea-
2147-8 thers, if the rest of my fortunes turne Turk with me, with prouinciall
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2149-50 Roses on my raz'd shooes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players?
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2153
For thou doost know oh Damon deere
2154
This Realme dismantled was
2154-5 Of Ioue himselfe, and now raignes heere
2157
^^Hora. You might haue rym'd.
2158-9 ^^Ham. O good Horatio, Ile take the Ghosts word for a thousand
2160
^^Hora. Very well my Lord.
2161
^^Ham. Vpon the talke of the poysning.
2162
^^Hor. I did very well note him.
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2164
^^Ham. Ah ha, come some musique, come the Recorders,[H3v
2165
For if the King like not the Comedie,
2166
Why then belike he likes it not perdy.
2163
==================Enter Rosencraus and Guyldensterne.
2168
^^Guyl. Good my Lord, voutsafe me a word with you.
2169
^^Ham. Sir a whole historie.
2171
^^Ham. I sir, what of him?
2172
^^Guyl. Is in his retirement meruilous distempred.
2174
^^Guyl. No my Lord, with choller,
2175-6 ^^Ham. Your wisedome should shewe it selfe more richer to signifie
2176-7 this to the Doctor, for, for mee to put him to his purgation, would
2177-8 perhaps plunge him into more choller.
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2179-80 ^^Guyl. Good my Lord put your discourse into some frame,
2180
And stare not so wildly from my affaire.
2181
^^Ham. I am tame sir, pronounce.
2182-3 ^^Guyl. The Queene your mother in most great affliction of spirit,
2185-6 ^^Guyl. Nay good my Lord, this curtesie is not of the right breede, if
2186-7 it shall please you to make me a wholsome aunswere, I will doe your
2187-8 mothers commaundement, if not, your pardon and my returne, shall
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2192-3 ^^Ham. Make you a wholsome answer, my wits diseasd, but sir, such
2193-4 answere as I can make, you shall commaund, or rather as you say, my
2194-5 mother, therefore no more, but to the matter, my mother you say.
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2196-7 ^^Ros. Then thus she sayes, your behauiour hath strooke her into a-
2198-9 ^^Ham. O wonderful sonne that can so stonish a mother, but is there
2199-2200 no sequell at the heeles of this mothers admiration, impart.
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2201-2 ^^Ros. She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed.
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2203-4 ^^Ham. We shall obey, were she ten times our mother, haue you any
2205
^^Ros. My Lord, you once did loue me.
2206
^^Ham. And doe still by these pickers and stealers.
2207
^^Ros. Good my Lord, what is your cause of distemper, you do sure-[H4r
2208-9 ly barre the doore vpon your owne liberty if you deny your griefes to
2210
^^Ham. Sir I lacke aduauncement.
2211-2 ^^Ros. How can that be, when you haue the voyce of the King him-
2212
selfe for your succession in Denmarke.
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2215
=======Enter the Players with Recorders.
2213-4 ^^Ham. I sir, but while the grasse growes, the prouerbe is something
2214-6 musty, ô the Recorders, let mee see one, to withdraw with you, why
2217-8 doe you goe about to recouer the wind of mee, as if you would driue
2219-20 ^^Guyl. O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my loue is too vnmanerly.
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2221-2 ^^Ham. I do not wel vnderstand that, wil you play vpon this pipe?
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2223
^^Guyl. My lord I cannot.
2225
^^Guyl. Beleeue me I cannot.
2226
^^Ham. I doe beseech you.
2227
^^Guyl. I know no touch of it my Lord.
2228-9 ^^Ham. It is as easie as lying; gouerne these ventages with your fin-
2229-30 gers, & the vmber, giue it breath with your mouth, & it wil discourse
2230-1 most eloquent musique, looke you, these are the stops.
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2232-3 ^^Guil. But these cannot I commaund to any vttrance of harmonie, I
2234-5 ^^Ham. Why looke you now how vnwoorthy a thing you make of
2235-6 me, you would play vpon mee, you would seeme to know my stops,
2236-7 you would plucke out the hart of my mistery, you would sound mee
2237-9 from my lowest note to my compasse, and there is much musique ex-
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2239-40 cellent voyce in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak, s'bloud
2240-1 do you think I am easier to be plaid on then a pipe, call mee what in-
2241-2 strument you wil, though you fret me not, you cannot play vpon me.
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2245-6 ^^Pol. My Lord, the Queene would speake with you, & presently.
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2247-8 ^^Ham. Do you see yonder clowd that's almost in shape of a Camel?
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2249
^^Pol. By'th masse and tis, like a Camell indeed.
2250
^^Ham. Mee thinks it is like a Wezell.
2251
^^Pol. It is backt like a Wezell.
2253
^^Pol. Very like a Whale.
2254
˂Ham. ˃Then I will come to my mother by and by,[H4v
2255-6 They foole me to the top of my bent, I will come by & by,
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2257-8 I will, say so. By and by is easily said,
2259
Tis now the very witching time of night,
2260
When Churchyards yawne, and hell it selfe breakes out
2261
Contagion to this world: now could I drinke hote blood,
2262
And doe such busines as the bitter day
2263
Would quake to looke on: soft, now to my mother,
2264
O hart loose not thy nature, let not euer
2265
The soule of Nero enter this firme bosome,
2266
Let me be cruell, not vnnaturall,
2267
I will speake dagger to her, but vse none,
2268
My tongue and soule in this be hypocrites,
2269
How in my words someuer she be shent,
2270
To giue them seales neuer my soule consent. ===Exit.
1848
===Enter Hamlet, and two or three of the Players.
1849
^^Ham. Speake the Speech I pray you, as I pronounc'd
1850
it to you trippingly on the Tongue: But if you mouth it,
1851
as many of your Players do, I had as liue the Town-Cryer
1852
had spoke my Lines: Nor do not saw the Ayre too much
1853
your hand thus, but vse all gently; for in the verie Tor-
1854
rent, Tempest, and (as I may say) the Whirle-winde of
1855
Passion, you must acquire and beget a Temperance that
1856
may giue it Smoothnesse. O it offends mee to the Soule,
1857
to see a robustious Pery-wig-pated Fellow, teare a Passi-
1858
on to tatters, to verie ragges, to split the eares of the
1859
Groundlings: who (for the most part) are capeable of
1860
nothing, but inexplicable dumbe shewes, & noise: I could
1861
haue such a Fellow whipt for o're-doing Termagant: it
1862
out-Herod's Herod. Pray you auoid it.
1863
^^Player. I warrant your Honor.
1864
^^Ham. Be not too tame neyther: but let your owne
1865
Discretion be your Tutor. Sute the Action to the Word,
1866
the Word to the Action, with this speciall obseruance:
1867
That you ore-stop not the modestie of Nature; for any
1868
thing so ouer-done, is fro the purpose of Playing, whose
1869
end both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twer
1870
the Mirrour vp to Nature; to shew Vertue her owne
1871
Feature, Scorne her owne Image, and the verie Age and
1872
Bodie of the Time, his forme and pressure. Now, this
1873
ouer-done, or come tardie off, though it make the vnskil-
1874
full laugh, cannot but make the Iudicious greeue; The
1875
censure of the which One, must in your allowance o're-
1876
way a whole Theater of Others. Oh, there bee Players
1877
that I haue seene Play, and heard others praise, and that
1878
highly (not to speake it prophanely) that neyther hauing
1879
the accent of Christians, nor the gate of Christian, Pagan,
1880
or Norman, haue so strutted and bellowed, that I haue
1881
thought some of Natures Iouerney-men had made men,
1882
and not made them well, they imitated Humanity so ab-
1884
^^Play. I hope we haue reform'd that indifferently with
1886
^^Ham. O reforme it altogether. And let those that
1887
play your Clownes, speake no more then is set downe for
1888
them. For there be of them, that will themselues laugh,
1889
to set on some quantitie of barren Spectators to laugh
1890
too, though in the meane time, some necessary Question
1891
of the Play be then to be considered: that's Villanous, &
1892
shewes a most pittifull Ambition in the Foole that vses
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1893
it. Go make you readie. =======Exit Players.
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1894
====Enter Polonius, Rosincrance, and Guildensterne.
1896
Will the King heare this peece of Worke?
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1897
^^Pol. And the Queene too, and that presently.
1898
^^Ham. Bid the Players make hast. =====Exit Polonius.
1899
Will you two helpe to hasten them?
1900
^^Both. We will my Lord. =====Exeunt.
1902
^^Ham. What hoa, Horatio?
1903
^^Hora. Heere sweet Lord, at your Seruice.
1904
^^Ham. Horatio, thou art eene as iust a man
1905
As ere my Conuersation coap'd withall.
1907
^^Ham. Nay, do not thinke I flatter:
1908
For what aduancement may I hope from thee,
1909
That no Reuennew hast, but thy good spirits
1910
To feed & cloath thee. Why shold the poor be flatter'd?[oo6r
1911
No, let the Candied tongue, like absurd pompe,
1912
And crooke the pregnant Hindges of the knee,
1913
Where thrift may follow faining? Dost thou heare,
1914
Since my deere Soule was Mistris of my choyse,
1915
And could of men distinguish, her election
1916
Hath seal'd thee for her selfe. For thou hast bene
1917
As one in suffering all, that suffers nothing.
1918
A man that Fortunes buffets, and Rewards
1919
Hath 'tane with equall Thankes. And blest are those,
1920
Whose Blood and Iudgement are so well co-mingled,
1921
That they are not a Pipe for Fortunes finger,
1922
To sound what stop she please. Giue me that man,
1923
That is not Passions Slaue, and I will weare him
1924
In my hearts Core: I, in my Heart of heart,
1925
As I do thee. Something too much of this.
1926
There is a Play to night before the King,
1927
One Scoene of it comes neere the Circumstance
1928
Which I haue told thee, of my Fathers death.
1929
I prythee, when thou see'st that Acte a-foot,
1930
Euen with the verie Comment of my Soule
1931
Obserue mine Vnkle: If his occulted guilt,
1932
Do not it selfe vnkennell in one speech,
1933
It is a damned Ghost that we haue seene:
1934
And my Imaginations are as foule
1935
As Vulcans Stythe. Giue him needfull note,
1936
For I mine eyes will riuet to his Face:
1937
And after we will both our iudgements ioyne,
1938
To censure of his seeming.
1940
If he steale ought the whil'st this Play is Playing,
1941
And scape detecting, I will pay the Theft.
1942
===Enter King, Queene, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosincrance,
1943
=====Guildensterne, and other Lords attendant, with
1944
========his Guard carrying Torches. Danish
1945
===========March. Sound a Flourish.
1946
^^Ham. They are comming to the Play: I must be idle.
1948
^^King. How fares our Cosin Hamlet?
1949
^^Ham. Excellent Ifaith, of the Camelions dish: I eate
1950
the Ayre promise-cramm'd, you cannot feed Capons so.
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1951
^^King. I haue nothing with this answer Hamlet, these
1953
^^Ham. No, nor mine. Now my Lord, you plaid once
1954
i'th'Vniuersity, you say?
1955
^^Pol. That I did my Lord, and was accounted a good
1957
^^Ham. And what did you enact?
1958
^^Pol. I did enact Iulius Cæsar, I was kill'd i'th'Capitol:
1960
^^Ham. It was a bruite part of him, to kill so Capitall a
1961
Calfe there. Be the Players ready?
1962
^^Rosin. I my Lord, they stay vpon your patience.
1963
^^Qu. Come hither my good Hamlet, sit by me.
1964
^^Ha. No good Mother, here's Mettle more attractiue.
1965
^^Pol. Oh, ho, do you marke that?
1966
^^Ham. Ladie, shall I lye in your Lap?
1968
^^Ham. I meane, my Head vpon your Lap?
1970
^^Ham. Do you thinke I meant Country matters?
1971
^^Ophe. I thinke nothing, my Lord.
1972
^^Ham. That's a faire thought to ly between Maids legs
1975
^^Ophe. You are merrie, my Lord?
1978
^^Ham. Oh God, your onely Iigge-maker: what should
1979
a man do, but be merrie. For looke you how cheereful-
1980
ly my Mother lookes, and my Father dyed within's two
1982
^^Ophe. Nay, 'tis twice two moneths, my Lord.
1983
^^Ham. So long? Nay then let the Diuel weare blacke,
1984
for Ile haue a suite of Sables. Oh Heauens! dye two mo-
1985
neths ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope, a
1986
great mans Memorie, may out-liue his life halfe a yeare:
1987
But byrlady he must builde Churches then: or else shall
1988
he suffer not thinking on, with the Hoby-horsse, whose
1989
Epitaph is, For o, For o, the Hoby-horse is forgot.
1990
=====Hoboyes play. ==The dumbe shew enters.
1991
Enter a King and Queene, very louingly; the Queene embra-
1992
==cing him. She kneeles, and makes shew of Protestation vnto
1993
==him. He takes her vp, and declines his head vpon her neck.
1994
==Layes him downe vpon a Banke of Flowers. She seeing him
1995
==a-sleepe, leaues him. Anon comes in a Fellow, takes off his
1996
==Crowne, kisses it, and powres poyson in the Kings eares, and
1997
==Exits. The Queene returnes, findes the King dead, and
1998
==makes passionate Action. The Poysoner, with some two or
1999
==three Mutes comes in againe, seeming to lament with her.
2000
==The dead body is carried away: The Poysoner Wooes the
2001
==Queene with Gifts, she seemes loath and vnwilling awhile,
2002
==but in the end, accepts his loue. =========Exeunt
2003
^^Ophe. What meanes this, my Lord?
2004
^^Ham. Marry this is Miching Malicho, that meanes
2006
^^Ophe. Belike this shew imports the Argument of the
2008
^^Ham. We shall know by these Fellowes: the Players
2009
cannot keepe counsell, they'l tell all.
2010
^^Ophe. Will they tell vs what this shew meant?
2011
^^Ham. I, or any shew that you'l shew him. Bee not
2012
you asham'd to shew, hee'l not shame to tell you what it
2014
^^Ophe. You are naught, you are naught, Ile marke the
2016
==============Enter Prologue.
2017
=======For vs, and for our Tragedie,
2018
=======Heere stooping to your Clemencie:
2019
=======We begge your hearing Patientlie.
2020
^^Ham. Is this a Prologue, or the Poesie of a Ring?
2021
^^Ophe. 'Tis briefe my Lord.
2023
=======Enter King and his Queene.
2024
^^King. Full thirtie times hath Phoebus Cart gon round,
2025
Neptunes salt Wash, and Tellus Orbed ground:
2026
And thirtie dozen Moones with borrowed sheene,
2027
About the World haue times twelue thirties beene,
2028
Since loue our hearts, and Hymen did our hands
2029
Vnite comutuall, in most sacred Bands.
2030
^^Bap. So many iournies may the Sunne and Moone
2031
Make vs againe count o're, ere loue be done.
2032
But woe is me, you are so sicke of late,
2033
So farre from cheere, and from your forme state,
2034
That I distrust you: yet though I distrust,
2035
Discomfort you (my Lord) it nothing must:
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2036
For womens Feare and Loue, holds quantitie,
2037
In neither ought, or in extremity:[oo6v
2038
Now what my loue is, proofe hath made you know,
2039
And as my Loue is siz'd, my Feare is so.
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2040
^^King. Faith I must leaue thee Loue, and shortly too:
2041
My operant Powers my Functions leaue to do:
2042
And thou shalt liue in this faire world behinde,
2043
Honour'd, belou'd, and haply, one as kinde.
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For Husband shalt thou—————
2045
^^Bap. Oh confound the rest:
2046
Such Loue, must needs be Treason in my brest:
2047
In second Husband, let me be accurst,
2048
None wed the second, but who kill'd the first.
2049
^^Ham. Wormwood, Wormwood.
2050
^^Bapt. The instances that second Marriage moue,
2051
Are base respects of Thrift, but none of Loue.
2052
A second time, I kill my Husband dead,
2053
When second Husband kisses me in Bed.
2054
^^King. I do beleeue you. Think what now you speak:
2055
But what we do determine, oft we breake:
2056
Purpose is but the slaue to Memorie,
2057
Of violent Birth, but poore validitie:
2058
Which now like Fruite vnripe stickes on the Tree,
2059
But fall vnshaken, when they mellow bee.
2060
Most necessary 'tis, that we forget
2061
To pay our selues, what to our selues is debt:
2062
What to our selues in passion we propose,
2063
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
2064
The violence of other Greefe or Ioy,
2065
Their owne ennactors with themselues destroy:
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Where Ioy most Reuels, Greefe doth most lament;
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Greefe ioyes, Ioy greeues on slender accident.
2068
This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
2069
That euen our Loues should with our Fortunes change.
2070
For 'tis a question left vs yet to proue,
2071
Whether Loue lead Fortune, or else Fortune Loue.
2072
The great man downe, you marke his fauourites flies,
2073
The poore aduanc'd, makes Friends of Enemies:
2074
And hitherto doth Loue on Fortune tend,
2075
For who not needs, shall neuer lacke a Frend:
2076
And who in want a hollow Friend doth try,
2077
Directly seasons him his Enemie.
2078
But orderly to end, where I begun,
2079
Our Willes and Fates do so contrary run,
2080
That our Deuices still are ouerthrowne,
2081
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our owne.
2082
So thinke thou wilt no second Husband wed.
2083
But die thy thoughts, when thy first Lord is dead.
2084
^^Bap. Nor Earth to giue me food, nor Heauen light,
2085
Sport and repose locke from me day and night:
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2086
Each opposite that blankes the face of ioy,
2087
Meet what I would haue well, and it destroy:
2088
Both heere, and hence, pursue me lasting strife,
2089
If once a Widdow, euer I be Wife.
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^^Ham. If she should breake it now.
2091
^^King. 'Tis deepely sworne:
2092
Sweet, leaue me heere a while,
2093
My spirits grow dull, and faine I would beguile
2094
The tedious day with sleepe.
2095
^^Qu. Sleepe rocke thy Braine, =========Sleepes
2096
And neuer come mischance betweene vs twaine. ===Exit
2097
^^Ham. Madam, how like you this Play?
2098
^^Qu. The Lady protests to much me thinkes.
2099
^^Ham. Oh but shee'l keepe her word.
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^^King. Haue you heard the Argument, is there no Of-
2102
^^Ham. No, no, they do but iest, poyson in iest, no Of-
2104
^^King. What do you call the Play?
2105
^^Ham. The Mouse-trap: Marry how? Tropically:
2106
This Play is the Image of a murder done in Vienna: Gon-
2107
zago is the Dukes name, his wife Baptista: you shall see
2108
anon: 'tis a knauish peece of worke: But what o'that?
2109
Your Maiestie, and wee that haue free soules, it touches
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vs not: let the gall'd iade winch: our withers are vnrung.
2111
===============Enter Lucianus.
2112
This is one Lucianus nephew to the King.
2113
^^Ophe. You are a good Chorus, my Lord.
2114
^^Ham. I could interpret betweene you and your loue:
2115
if I could see the Puppets dallying.
2116
^^Ophe. You are keene my Lord, you are keene.
2117
^^Ham. It would cost you a groaning, to take off my
2119
^^Ophe. Still better and worse.
2120
^^Ham. So you mistake Husbands.
2121
Begin Murderer. Pox, leaue thy damnable Faces, and
2122
begin. Come, the croaking Rauen doth bellow for Re-
2124
^^Lucian. Thoughts blacke, hands apt,
2125
Drugges fit, and Time agreeing:
2126
Confederate season, else, no Creature seeing:
2127
Thou mixture ranke, of Midnight Weeds collected,
2128
With Hecats Ban, thrice blasted, thrice infected,
2129
Thy naturall Magicke, and dire propertie,
2130
On wholsome life, vsurpe immediately.
2131
=========Powres the poyson in his eares.
2132
^^Ham. He poysons him i'th'Garden for's estate: His
2133
name's Gonzago: the Story is extant and writ in choyce
2134
Italian. You shall see anon how the Murtherer gets the
2137
^^Ham. What, frighted with false fire.
2139
^^Pol. Giue o're the Play.
2140
^^King. Giue me some Light. Away.
2141
^^All. Lights, Lights, Lights. ========Exeunt
2142
=========Manet Hamlet & Horatio.
2143
^^Ham. Why let the strucken Deere go weepe,
2145
For some must watch, while some must sleepe;
2146
So runnes the world away.
2147
Would not this Sir, and a Forrest of Feathers, if the rest of
2148
my Fortunes turne Turke with me; with two Prouinciall
2149
Roses on my rac'd Shooes, get me a Fellowship in a crie
2153
For thou dost know: Oh Damon deere,
2154
This Realme dismantled was of Ioue himselfe,
2157
^^Hora. You might haue Rim'd.
2158
^^Ham. Oh good Horatio, Ile take the Ghosts word for
2159
a thousand pound. Did'st perceiue?
2160
^^Hora. Verie well my Lord.
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^^Ham. Vpon the talke of the poysoning?
2162
^^Hora. I did verie well note him.
2163
====Enter Rosincrance and Guildensterne.
2164
^^Ham. Oh, ha? Come some Musick. Come ye Recorders:
2165
For if the King like not the Comedie,
2166
Why then belike he likes it not perdie.
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2168
^^Guild. Good my Lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.
2169
^^Ham. Sir, a whole History.[pp1r
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^^Ham. I sir, what of him?
2172
^^Guild. Is in his retyrement, maruellous distemper'd.
2174
^^Guild. No my Lord, rather with choller.
2175
^^Ham. Your wisedome should shew it selfe more ri-
2176
cher, to signifie this to his Doctor: for for me to put him
2177
to his Purgation, would perhaps plundge him into farre
2179
^^Guild. Good my Lord put your discourse into some
2180
frame, and start not so wildely from my affayre.
2181
^^Ham. I am tame Sir, pronounce.
2182
^^Guild. The Queene your Mother, in most great affli-
2183
ction of spirit, hath sent me to you.
2185
^^Guild. Nay, good my Lord, this courtesie is not of
2186
the right breed. If it shall please you to make me a whol-
2187
some answer, I will doe your Mothers command'ment:
2188
if not, your pardon, and my returne shall bee the end of
2192
^^Ham. Make you a wholsome answere: my wits dis-
2193
eas'd. But sir, such answers as I can make, you shal com-
2194
mand: or rather you say, my Mother: therfore no more
2195
but to the matter. My Mother you say.
2196
^^Rosin. Then thus she sayes: your behauior hath stroke
2197
her into amazement, and admiration.
2198
^^Ham. Oh wonderfull Sonne, that can so astonish a
2199
Mother. But is there no sequell at the heeles of this Mo-
2201
^^Rosin. She desires to speake with you in her Closset,
2203
^^Ham. We shall obey, were she ten times our Mother.
2204
Haue you any further Trade with vs?
2205
^^Rosin. My Lord, you once did loue me.
2206
^^Ham. So I do still, by these pickers and stealers.
2207
^^Rosin. Good my Lord, what is your cause of distem-
2208
per? You do freely barre the doore of your owne Liber-
2209
tie, if you deny your greefes to your Friend.
2210
^^Ham. Sir I lacke Aduancement.
2211
^^Rosin. How can that be, when you haue the voyce of
2212
the King himselfe, for your Succession in Denmarke?
2213
^^Ham. I, but while the grasse growes, the Prouerbe is
2215
=====Enter one with a Recorder.
2216
O the Recorder. Let me see, to withdraw with you, why
2217
do you go about to recouer the winde of mee, as if you
2218
would driue me into a toyle?
2219
^^Guild. O my Lord, if my Dutie be too bold, my loue
2221
^^Ham. I do not well vnderstand that. Will you play
2223
^^Guild. My Lord, I cannot.
2225
^^Guild. Beleeue me, I cannot.
2227
^^Guild. I know no touch of it, my Lord.
2228
^^Ham. 'Tis as easie as lying: gouerne these Ventiges
2229
with your finger and thumbe, giue it breath with your
2230
mouth, and it will discourse most excellent Musicke.
2231
Looke you, these are the stoppes.
2232
^^Guild. But these cannot I command to any vtterance
2233
of hermony, I haue not the skill.
2234
^^Ham. Why looke you now, how vnworthy a thing
2235
you make of me: you would play vpon mee; you would
2236
seeme to know my stops: you would pluck out the heart
2237
of my Mysterie; you would sound mee from my lowest
2238
Note, to the top of my Compasse: and there is much Mu-
2239
sicke, excellent Voice, in this little Organe, yet cannot
2240
you make it. Why do you thinke, that I am easier to bee
2241
plaid on, then a Pipe? Call me what Instrument you will,
2242
though you can fret me, you cannot play vpon me. God
2244
============Enter Polonius.
2245
^^Polon. My Lord; the Queene would speak with you,
2247
^^Ham. Do you see that Clowd? that's almost in shape
2249
^^Polon. By'th'Misse, and it's like a Camell indeed.
2250
^^Ham. Me thinkes it is like a Weazell.
2251
^^Polon. It is back'd like a Weazell.
2253
^^Polon. Verie like a Whale.
2254
^^Ham. Then will I come to my Mother, by and by:
2255
They foole me to the top of my bent.
2257
^^Polon. I will say so. =====Exit.
2258
^^Ham. By and by, is easily said. Leaue me Friends:
2259
'Tis now the verie witching time of night,
2260
When Churchyards yawne, and Hell it selfe breaths out
2261
Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood,
2262
And do such bitter businesse as the day
2263
Would quake to looke on. Soft now, to my Mother:
2264
Oh Heart, loose not thy Nature; let not euer
2265
The Soule of Nero, enter this firme bosome:
2266
Let me be cruell, not vnnaturall,
2267
I will speake Daggers to her, but vse none:
2268
My Tongue and Soule in this be Hypocrites.
2269
How in my words someuer she be shent,
2270
To giue them Seales, neuer my Soule consent.