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[Enter CLAUDIUS, GERTRUDE, HAMLET, POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS,
Lords, and Attendants]
CLAUDIUS
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Though yet | of Ham|let our / dear broth|er's death
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The mem|ory be green:| and that it | us be|fitted
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To bear | our hearts | in grief,| and our whole |
kingdom
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To be | contract|ed in / one brow | of woe:
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Yet so | far hath di|scretion | fought with |
nature,
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That we | with wis|est sor|row think | on him,
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Togeth|er with | remem|brance of | ourselves.
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Therefore | our some|time sis|ter, now | our
queen,
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The imper|ial joint|ress of this // warlike
state,
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Have we,| as it were,| with a | defeat|ed joy,
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With one | auspic|ious, and / one drop|ping eye,
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With mirth | in fun|eral, and | with
dirge | in marriage,
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In e|qual scale | weighing | delight | and dole
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Taken | to wife;| nor have | we here|in barred
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Your better wis|doms, which | have free|ly gone
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With this | affair | along,| for all | our
thanks.
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Now fol/lows, that you | know young Fort|inbras,
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Holding | a weak | suppos|al of / our worth;
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Or think|ing by our // late dear broth|er's death,
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Our state | to be | disjoint,| and out | of frame,
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Colleagued / with the | dream of | his
ad|vantage;
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He hath not | failed to | pester | us with
| message,
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Import/ing the | surrend|er of / those lands
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Lost by | his fath|er: with / all bonds | of law
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To our most | valiant | brother.| So much | for him.
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Now for our|self, and | for this | time of |
meeting
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Thus much the bus|iness is.| We have / here
writ
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To Norway, unc|le of / young Fort|inbras,
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Who imp/otent | and bed-rid, scarce|ly hears
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Of this | his neph|ew's pur|pose, to | suppress
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His furth|er gait | herein.| In that the |
levies,
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The lists,| and full | propor|tions are / all
made
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Out of his sub|ject: and | we here | dispatch
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You good*| Cornel|ius, and / you Volt|imand,
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For bear|ing of this | greeting | to old Norway,
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Giving | to you no furth|er pers|onal power
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To bus|iness with | the king,| more than | the
scope
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Of these | delat|ed art|icles | allow.
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Farewell | and let | your haste | commend | your
du||ty.
VOLTIMAND
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In that,| and all | things, will we | show our | duty.
CLAUDIUS
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We doubt | it noth|ing, heart|ily | farewell.
[Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS]
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And now | Laer|tes, what's | the news | with you?
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You told | us of some | suit. What | is it
La|ertes?
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You can|not speak | of reas|on to | the Dane,
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And lose | your voice.| What wouldst | thou beg |
Laertes,
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That shall not | be my | offer,| not thy |
asking?
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The head | is not | more nat|ive to | the heart,
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The hand | more inst|rument|al to | the mouth,
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Than^is | the throne | of Den|mark to thy |
father.
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What wouldst | thou have | Laer|tes?
LAERTES
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Dread | my lord,
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Your leave | and fav|or to | return | to France,
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From whence,| though wil/lingly* I | came to Denmark
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To show | my du|ty in your cor|ona|tion,
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Yet now | I must | confess,| that du|ty done,
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My thoughts | and wish|es bend | again towards
France,
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And bow | them to your | gracious | leave and |
pardon.
CLAUDIUS
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Have you your | father's | leave?
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What | says
Po|lonius?
POLONIUS
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He hath | my lord: [[[[wrung from^|me my / slow
leave
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By lab|orsome | peti|tion, and | at last
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Upon | his will |I sealed | my hard | consent:]]]]
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I do | beseech | you give | him leave | to go.
CLAUDIUS
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Take thy | fair^hour | Laer|tes, time | be thine,
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And thy / best gra|ces spend | it at | thy will:
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But now | my cous|in Ham|let, and | my son?
HAMLET
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A lit|tle more | than kin,| and less | than kind.
CLAUDIUS
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How is it | that the / clouds still | hang on
you?
HAMLET
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Not so | my lord,| I am / too much | in the sun.
GERTRUDE
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Good Ham|let cast | thy night|ly col|or off,
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And let | thine^eye | look like a | friend on |
Denmark. ??
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Do not | for ev|er with | thy veil|ed lids
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Seek for | thy nob|le fath|er in | the dust;
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Thou knowst | 'tis com|mon, all | that lives |
must die,
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Passing | through nat|ure, to | etern|ity.
HAMLET
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Aye mad/am, it | is com|mon.
GERTRUDE
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If | it be;
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Why seems | it so | partic|ular | with thee.
HAMLET
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Seems madam? Nay,| it is:| I know not seems:
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'Tis not a|lone my | inky | cloak (good*| mother)
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Nor cust|oma|ry suits | of sol|emn black,
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Nor wind|y sus|pira|tion of / forced breath,
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No, nor the fruit|ful riv|er in | the eye,
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Nor the de|jected be|havior | of the | visage,
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Togeth|er with all | forms, moods, shows | of
grief,
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That can de|note me | truly.| these in/deed seem,
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For they | are ac|tions that | a man | might
play:
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But I | have that | within,| which pas|seth show;
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These, but | the trap|pings, and | the suits | of
woe.
CLAUDIUS
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'Tis sweet | and com|mendable
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In your |
nature | Hamlet, (tri with prev)
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To give | these^mourn|ing dut|ies to | your father:
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But you | must^know,| your father lost | a father,
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That father lost,| lost^his,| and the surviv|or
bound
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In fil|ial ob|liga|tion, for / some term
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To do | obse|quious sor|row. But | to persev||er
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In obs|tinate | condole|ment, is | a course
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Of imp|ious stub|bornness. 'Tis | unman|ly grief,
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It shows | a will | most^in|correct | to heaven,
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A heart | unfort|ified,| a mind | impa||tient,
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An und|erstand|ing simp|le, and / unschooled:
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For, what | we know | must be,| and is | as common
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As an|y the / most vul|gar thing | to sense,
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Why should | we in our | peevish | oppo|sition
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Take it | to heart?| Fie, 'tis | a fault | to
heaven,
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A fault | against | the dead,| a fault | to
na||ture, ??
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To reas|on most | absurd,| whose com|mon theme
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Is death | of fath|ers, and | who still | hath
cried,
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From the / first corse,| till he | that died |
today,
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This^must | be so.| We pray | you throw | to
earth
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This un|prevail|ing woe,| and think | of us
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As of | a father;| for let | the world take note,
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You are | the most | immed|iate to | our throne,
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And with | no less | nobil|ity | of love,
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Than that | which dear|est fath|er bears | his
son,
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Do I | impart | toward^you.| For your | intent
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In go|ing back | to school | in Wit|tenberg,
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It is | most^ret|rograde | to our | desire:
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And we | beseech | you, bend | you to | remain
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Here in | the cheer | and com|fort of / our eye,
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Our chief|est court|ier cous|in, and | our son.
GERTRUDE
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Let not | thy moth|er lose | her prayers | Hamlet:
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I prith|ee stay | with us,| go not^to |
Wittenberg.
HAMLET
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I shall | in all | my best
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Obey | you madam.
CLAUDIUS
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Why* 'tis | a lov|ing, and | a fair | reply,
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Be as | ourself | in Den|mark. Madam come,
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This gentle | and un|forced ac|cord of | Hamlet
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Sits smil/ing to | my heart;| in grace |
whereof,
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No joc|und health | that Den|mark drinks today,
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But the / great can|non to | the clouds | shall
tell,
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And the / king's rouse,| the heavens | shall
bruit | again,
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Re-speak|ing earth|ly thund|er. Come | away.
[Exeunt all but HAMLET]
HAMLET
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Oh that this | too too sol|id flesh,| would melt,
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Thaw, and | resolve | itself | into | a dew:
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Or that | the Ev|erlast|ing had / not fixed
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His canon | gainst self-slaughter.| O God,| O
God!
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How^wear|y, stale,| flat, and | unprof/itable
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Seem to | me all | the us|es of / this world?
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Fie on it?| Oh fie,| fie, 'tis an | unweed|ed
garden
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That grows | to seed:| things rank, and gross |
in na||ture
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Possess | it mere|ly. That | it should come | to
this:
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But two months dead:| nay, not | so much;|
not^two,
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So ex|cellent | a king,| that was | to this
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Hype|rion | to a satyr:| so lov|ing to | my
moth||er,
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That | he might not | beteem | the winds | of
heaven
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Visit | her face | too rough|ly. Heaven | and
earth
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Must^I | remem|ber: why | she would hang | on him,
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As if | increase | of ap|petite | had grown
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By what it | fed on;| and yet | within | a month?
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Let me not | think on it:| Frailty, thy | name is
| woman.
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A lit|tle month,| or ere | those shoes | were old,
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With which | she fol|lowed my poor | father's
| body
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Like Nio|be, all tears. | Why she,| even she.
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(O Heaven!| A beast | that wants | discourse | of
reason
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Would have mourned | longer)| married | with mine
| uncle,
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My father's | brother: but | no more like | my
father, ??
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Than I | to Herc|ules.| Within | a month?
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Ere yet | the salt | of most | unright|eous tears
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Had left | the flush|ing of | her gal|led eyes,
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She mar|ried. O | most wicked speed,| to post
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With such | dexter|ity | to inces|tuous sheets:
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It is | not, nor | it can|not come | to good.
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But break | my heart,| for I | must hold | my
tongue.
[Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO]
HORATIO
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Hail to | your lord|ship.
HAMLET
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I am glad | to see | you well:
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Hora|tio, or | I do | forget | myself.
HORATIO
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The same | my lord,
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And your poor | servant | ever.
HAMLET
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Sir my | good* friend,
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I'll change | that name |
with you:
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And what | make you from | Witten|berg Ho|ratio?
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Mar|cellus.
MARCELLUS
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My good
| lord. \\
HAMLET
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I am ver|y glad | to see
| you: Good^/even sir.
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But what | in faith | make^you | from Wit|tenberg?
HORATIO
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A tru|ant dis|posi|tion, good | my lord.
HAMLET
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I would | not^have | your en|emy / say so;
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Nor shall | you do | mine^ear | that vi|olence,
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To make | it trust|er of | your own | report
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Against | yourself.| I know | you are no | truant:
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But what | is your | affair | in Els|inore?
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We'll teach | you to drink | deep, ere / you
de|part.
HORATIO
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My || lord, I | came to | see your | father's |
funeral.
HAMLET
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I pray | thee do not | mock me |(fellow |
student)
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I think | it was | to see | my moth|er's wed||ding.
HORATIO
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Indeed | my lord,| it fol|lowed hard | upon.
HAMLET
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Thrift, thrift Hora|tio:| the fun|eral / baked
meats
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Did cold|ly furn|ish forth | the mar|riage
tab|les, (hex with prev)
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Would I | had met | my dear|est foe | in heaven,
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Ere I had | ever | seen that | day Ho|ratio.
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My fath/er, me|thinks I | see my | father.
HORATIO
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Oh^where | my lord?
HAMLET
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In my mind's | eye (Ho|ratio).
HORATIO
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I saw | him once;| he was | a good|ly king.
HAMLET
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He was | a man,| take him | for all | in all:
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I shall | not look | upon | his like | again.
HORATIO
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My lord,| I think | I saw | him yest|ernight.
HAMLET
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Saw? | Who?
HORATIO
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My | lord, the | king your | father.
HAMLET
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The king | my fath|er?
HORATIO
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Seas|on your ad|mira||tion for a while
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With an at/tent ear;| till I | may de|liver
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Upon | the wit|ness of / these gent|lemen,
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This marv|el to | you.
HAMLET
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For / Heaven's love | let me hear.
HORATIO
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Two nights | togeth|er, had | these gent|lemen
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(Marcel|lus and | Bernar|do) on | their watch
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In the / dead vast | and mid|dle of | the night
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Been thus en|countered.| A fig|ure like | your
fath||er,
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Armed at all points | exact|ly, cap-|a-pe,
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Appears | before | them, and | with sol|emn march
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Goes slow and state|ly: by | them thrice | he
walked,
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By their | oppressed | and fear-|surpris|ed eyes,
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Within | his trunch|eon's length;| whilst^they |
bestilled
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Almost | to jel|ly with | the act | of fear,
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Stand dumb and speak | not to | him. This | to
me
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In dread|ful sec|recy | impart | they did,
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And I | with them the | third night kept | the
watch,
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Whereas | they had | deliv|ered both | in time,
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Form of the | thing; each word | made^true | and good,
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The ap|pari|tion comes.| I knew | your father:
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These^hands | are not | more* like.
HAMLET
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But where | was this?
MARCELLUS
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My lord | upon | the plat|form where | we
watched.
HAMLET
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Did you | not speak | to it?
HORATIO
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My lord,| I did;
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But ans|wer made | it none:| yet once | methought
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It lift|ed up | its head,| and did | address
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Itself | to mo|tion, like | as it | would speak:
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But eene | then, the | morning | cock crew
loud;
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And at | the sound | it shrunk | in haste | away,
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And van|ished from | our sight.
HAMLET
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'Tis ve|ry strange.
HORATIO
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As I | do live | my hon|ored lord | 'tis true;
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And we | did think | it writ | down in our | duty
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To let | you know | of it. \\
HAMLET
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Indeed,| indeed | sirs; but | this troub|les me.
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Hold you | the watch | tonight?
MARCELLUS BERNARDO
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We do | my lord.
HAMLET
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Armed, say you?
MARCELLUS BERNARDO
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Armed, my lord. (di with prev)
HAMLET
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From top | to toe?
MARCELLUS and BERNARDO
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My lord,| from head | to foot.
HAMLET
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Then saw | you not | his face? \\
HORATIO
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O yes,| my lord,| he wore | his beav|er up.
HAMLET
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What, looked he frown|ingly? \\
HORATIO
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A counte|nance more | in sorrow | than in
| anger.
HAMLET
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Pale, or red? \\
HORATIO
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Nay* ve|ry pale.
HAMLET
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And fixed | his eyes | upon || you?
HORATIO
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Most | constant|ly.
HAMLET
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I would | I had / been there.
HORATIO
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It would | have much | amazed || you. ????
HAMLET
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Ve|ry like,| very / like: stayed | it long?
HORATIO
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While one | with mod|erate haste | might tell a | hundred.
MARCELLUS BERNARDO
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Longer, longer. \\
HORATIO
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Not when | I saw it.
HAMLET
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His beard | was griz|ly? No.
HORATIO
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It was,| as I | have seen | it in | his life,
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A sab|le silv|ered. \\
HAMLET
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I'll watch | tonight;| perchance |'twill walk | again.
HORATIO
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I war|rant it will. \\
HAMLET
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If it as|sume my | noble | father's | person,
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I'll speak | to it,| though hell | itself | should gape
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And bid | me hold | my peace.| I pray | you all,
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If you | have hith|erto | concealed | this sight;
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Let it | be treb|le in | your sil|ence still:
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And what|soev|er else | shall hap | tonight,
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Give it | an und|erstand|ing but / no tongue;
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I will | requite | your loves;| So*, fare | ye
well:
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Upon | the plat|form 'twixt elev|en and
twelve,
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I'll visit | you.
ALL
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Our | duty | to your | honor.
[Exeunt all but HAMLET]
HAMLET
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Your love,| as mine | to you:| fare|well.
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My fath|er's spirit | in arms? | All is not well:
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I doubt | some foul | play: would | the night | were come;
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Till then sit | still my | soul; foul deeds |
will rise,
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Though all | the earth | orewhelm | them to /
men's eyes.
[Exit]