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[Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS]
HAMLET
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The air | bites shrewd/ly: is | it ve|ry cold?
HORATIO
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It is | a nip|ping and | an eag|er air.
HAMLET
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What ho|ur now?
HORATIO
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I think | it lacks | of
twelve.
HAMLET
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No, it | is struck. \\
HORATIO
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Indeed | I heard it | not: then it | draws near
the season, ??
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Wherein | the spir|it held | his wont | to walk.
[A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within]
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What does | this mean | my lord? \\
HAMLET
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The king | doth wake | tonight,| and takes | his
rouse,
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Keeps was|sail and | the swag|gering
ups|pring^reels,
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And as | he drains | his drafts | of Rhen|ish
down,
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The ket|tle-drum | and trump|et thus | bray^out
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The tri|umph of | his pledge.
HORATIO
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Is it a | custom?
HAMLET
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Aye mar|ry is it; \\
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And to / my mind,| though I | am nat|ive here,
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And to | the man|ner born:| it is a | custom
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More hon|ored in | the breach,| than the
ob|servance.
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[[[[ This heav|y-head|ed rev|el east | and west
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Makes us tra|duced and | taxed of | other | nations:
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They clepe | us drunk|ards, and | with swin|ish
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Soil our | addi|tion, and | indeed | it takes
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From our | achieve|ments, though | performed | at
height,
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The pith | and mar|row of | our at|tribute.
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So oft | it chan|ces in | partic|ular men,
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That for some | vicious | mole of | nature | in
them,
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As in | their birth |(wherein | they are not |
guilty,
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Since na|ture can|not choose | his or|igin)
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By the / oregrowth | of some | complex|ion,
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Oft || breaking | down the | pales and | forts of |
reason,
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Or by | some habit | that too | much ore-|leavens
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The form | of plaus|ive man|ners that / these
men,
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Carrying,| I say,| the stamp | of one | defect,
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Being na|ture's liv|ery,| or for|tune's star
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Their vir|tues else |(be they | as pure | as grace,
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As in|finite | as man | may und|ergo)
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Shall in the | general | censure | take
cor|ruption
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From that | partic|ular fault:| the dram | of ale
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Doth all | the nob|le sub|stance of | a doubt
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To his / own scan|dal.]]]]
HORATIO
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Look|
my lord,| it comes.
[Enter Ghost]
HAMLET
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Angels | and min|isters | of grace | defend us:
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Be thou | a spirit | of health,| or gob|lin
damned,
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Bring with | thee airs | from heaven,| or blasts
| from hell,
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Be thy | intents | wicked | or char|itable,
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Thou comst | in such | a ques|tiona|ble shape
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That I | will speak | to thee. I'll | call thee
| Hamlet,
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King, father, royal | Dane:| oh, oh, | answer me,
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Let me | not* burst | in ig|norance;| but tell
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Why thy | canon|ized bones hearsed | in death,
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Have burst | their cer|ements,| why the
sep|ulchre
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Wherein | we saw | thee qui|etly | inurned,
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Hath oped | his pond|erous | and marb|le jaws,
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To cast | thee up | again?| What may | this mean?
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That thou / dead corse | again | in com/plete steel,
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Revis|its thus | the glimp|ses of | the moon,
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Making | night hid/eous? And | we fools | of
na||ture,
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So hor|ridly | to shake | our dis|posi||tion,
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With thoughts | beyond | thee; reach|es of | our
souls,
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Say, why | is this?| Wherefore?| What should | we do?
[Ghost beckons HAMLET]
HORATIO
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It beck|ons you | to go | away | with it,
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As if | it some | impart|ment did | desire
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To you | alone.
MARCELLUS
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Look with | what court|eous ac||tion
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It waves | you to | a more | remov|ed ground:
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But do | not go | with it.
HORATIO
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No, by | no means.
HAMLET
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It will | not speak:| then I | will fol|low it.
HORATIO
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Do not | my lord.
HAMLET
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Why, what / should be | the fear?
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I do | not set | my life | in a / pin's fee;
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And for | my soul,| what can | it do | to that?
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Being | a thing | immort|al as | itself:
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It waves | me forth | again;| I'll fol|low it.
HORATIO
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What if | it tempt | you toward | the flood |
my lord?
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Or to | the dread|ful sum|mit of | the cliff,
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That bee|tles ore | his base | into | the sea,
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And there | assumes | some oth|er hor|rible form,
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Which might | deprive | your sove|reignty | of
reason,
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And draw | you in|to mad|ness think | of it?
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[[[[ The ve|ry place | puts toys of des|pera||tion
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Without | more* mot|ive, in|to eve|ry brain
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That looks | so ma|ny fath|oms to | the sea
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And hears | it roar | beneath. ]]]]
HAMLET
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It waves | me still:| Go on,| I'll fol|low thee.
MARCELLUS
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You shall | not go | my lord.
HAMLET
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Hold^off | your
hand.
HORATIO
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Be ruled,| you shall | not go.
HAMLET
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My fate | cries^out,
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And makes | each petty art|ery | in this bo||dy,
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As har|dy as | the Neme|an li|on's nerve:
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Still am | I called?| Unhand | me gent|lemen:
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By heaven,| I'll make | a ghost | of him | that
lets || me:
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I say | away,| go on,| I'll fol|low thee.
[Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET]
HORATIO
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He wax|es des|perate with i|magi|nation.
MARCELLUS
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Let's fol/low; 'tis | not fit^|thus to o|bey
him.
HORATIO
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Have aft/er, to | what is/sue will | this come?
MARCELLUS
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Something is | rotten | in the | state of |
Denmark.
HORATIO
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Heaven will di|rect it.
MARCELLUS
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Nay, let's | follow him.
[Exeunt]