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The Queen's closet.
[Enter GERTRUDE and POLONIUS]
POLONIUS
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He will / come straight:
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Look you | lay home to him,
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Tell him his | pranks have | been too*| broad to
| bear with,
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And that | your grace | hath screened,| and stood
| between
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Much^heat,| and him.| I'll sconce | me ev|en
here:
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Pray you be | round with him.
HAMLET [Within]
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Mother,| mother,| mother.
GERTRUDE
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I'll war|rant you, fear | me not. \\
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Withdraw,| I hear | him com|ing. \\
[POLONIUS hides behind the arras. Enter HAMLET]
HAMLET
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Now moth|er, what's | the matter? \\
GERTRUDE
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Hamlet,| thou hast thy | father | much of|fended.
HAMLET
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Mother,| you have my | father | much of|fended.
GERTRUDE
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Come, come, you | answer | with an / idle tongue.
HAMLET
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Go go, you | question | with a wick|ed tongue.
GERTRUDE
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Why how | now* Ham|let?
HAMLET
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What's | the mat|ter now?
GERTRUDE
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Have you for|got me?
HAMLET
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No by the | rood, not so:
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You are | the queen,| your hus|band's broth|er's
wife,
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But would | you were / not so.| you are my |
mother.
GERTRUDE
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Nay, then | I'll set | those to | you that | can speak.
HAMLET
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Come, come, and sit | you down,| you shall | not
budge:
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You go | not till | I set | you up | a glass,
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Where you | may see | the in|most* part | of you?
GERTRUDE
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What wilt | thou do?| Thou wilt | not murd|er me?
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Help, help, ho.
POLONIUS
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What ho,| help, help, help.
HAMLET
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How now,| a rat?| Dead for | a duc|at, dead.
[Kills POLONIUS]
POLONIUS
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Oh I | am slain.
GERTRUDE
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O me,| what hast | thou done?
HAMLET
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Nay I | know | not,| Is it | the king?
GERTRUDE
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Oh what | a rash,| and blood|y deed | is this?
HAMLET
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A blood|y deed,| almost | as bad,| good moth|er,
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As kill | a king,| and mar|ry with | his
broth|er. (hex with prev)
GERTRUDE
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As kill | a king?
HAMLET
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Aye la/dy, 'twas | my word.
[Lifts up the array and discovers POLONIUS]
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Thou wretch|ed, rash,| intrud|ing fool |
farewell,
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I took | thee* for | thy betters,| take thy |
fortune,
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Thou findst | to be | too bu/sy, is some*|
danger.
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Leave wring/ing of | your hands,| peace, sit^|you down,
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And let | me wring | your heart,| for so | I shall
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If it | be made | of pen|etra|ble stuff;
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If damn|ed cust|om have | not* brazed | it so,
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That it | is proof | and bul|wark a/gainst sense.
GERTRUDE
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What have | I done,| that thou / darst wag | thy
tongue,
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In noise | so rude | against | me?
HAMLET
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Such | an act
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That blurs | the grace | and blush | of mod|esty,
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Calls^vir|tue hyp|ocrite,| takes^off | the rose
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From the / fair fore|head of | an in|nocent love,
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And sets | a blist|er there.| Makes^mar|riage vows
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As false | as dic|ers'^oaths.| Oh* such | a deed,
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As from | the bo|dy of | contrac|tion plucks
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The ve|ry soul,| and sweet | relig|ion makes
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A rhap|sody of / words. heav|en's face | doth
glow,
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Yea this so|lidi|ty and | compound mass,
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With trist|ful vis|age, as | against | the doom,
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Is thought-|sick at | the act. \\
GERTRUDE
Aye me; what act, that roars so loud, and thunders in the index.
HAMLET
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Look^here | upon this pic|ture, and | on this,
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The count|erfeit | present|ment of two |
brothers:
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See what | a grace | was seat|ed on / this brow,
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Hyper|ion's curls,| the front | of Jove |
himself,
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An eye like Mars,| to threat|en and | command
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A sta|tion, like | the her|ald Mer|cury
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New light/ed on | a heav|en-kiss|ing hill:
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A com|bina|tion, and | a form | indeed,
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Where eve|ry god | did seem | to set | his seal,
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To give | the world | assur|ance of | a man.
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This was your | husband.| Look you | now what
| follows.
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Here is | your hus|band, like | a mildewed ear
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Blasting | his whole|some broth|er. Have | you
eyes?
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Could^you | on this / fair mount|ain leave | to
feed,
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And bat|ten on | this moor? | Ha? Have | you
eyes?
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You can|not call | it love:| for at | your age,
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The hey-|day in the | blood is | tame, it's |
humble,
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And waits | upon | the judg|ment: and | what
judg||ment
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Would step | from this,| to this?| [[[[Sense, sure
you* have,
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Else could you | not have | motion,| but sure,|
that sense
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Is ap|oplexed;| for mad|ness would | not err,
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Nor sense | to ecs|tasy | was nere | so thralled
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But it | reserved | some quan|tity | of choice,
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To serve | in such | a dif|ference.]]]] What / devil
was it,
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That thus | hath coz|ened you | at
hood|man-blind?
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[[[[ Eyes with|out feel|ing, feel|ing with/out sight,
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Ears with|out hands | or eyes,| smelling |
sans^all,
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Or but a | sickly | part of | one true sense
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Could not | so mope. \\ ]]]]
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O shame!| where is | thy blush?| Rebel|lious
hell,
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If thou | canst mut|iny | in a ma|tron's bones,
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To flam|ing youth,| let vir|tue be | as wax,
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And melt | in her / own fire.| Proclaim | no
shame,
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When the | compuls|ive ard|or gives | the charge,
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Since frost | itself,| as act|ively / doth burn,
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And reas|on pand|ers will.
GERTRUDE
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O Ham|let, speak || no more.
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Thou turnst | mine^eyes | into my ve|ry soul,
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And there | I see | such^black | and grain|ed
spots,
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As will | not leave | their tinct.
HAMLET
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Nay, but | to live
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In the rank | sweat of | an en/seamed bed,
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Stewed in || corrup|tion; hon|eying | and
mak|ing love
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Over the | nasty | sty.
GERTRUDE
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Oh | speak to me,| no more,
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These words | like dag|gers ent|er in |
mine^ears.
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No more | sweet* Ham|let.
HAMLET
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A murd|erer, and | a villain:
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A slave,| that is / not twent|ieth part | the
tithe
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Of your | prece|dent lord.| a vice | of kings,
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A cut|purse of | the em|pire and | the rule,
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That from | a shelf,| the pre|cious di|adem
stole,
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And put | it in | his pocket.
GERTRUDE
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No more.|
[Enter Ghost]
HAMLET
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A king | of shreds | and patch|es.
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Save me;| and hov|er ore | me with | your wings
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You heaven|ly guards.| What would your | gracious | figure?
GERTRUDE
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Alas | he's mad. \\
HAMLET
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Do you | not come | your tar|dy son | to chide,
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That lapsed | in time | and pas|sion, lets | go
by
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The impor|tant ac|ting of your dread | command?|
Oh say.
GHOST
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Do not | forget:| this vis|ita|tion
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Is but | to whet | thy al|most blunt|ed
purpose. ??
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But look,| amaze|ment on | thy moth|er sits;
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O step | between | her, and | her fight|ing soul,
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Conceit | in weak|est bod|ies, strong|est works.
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Speak to her | Hamlet. \\
HAMLET
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How is it | with you,| lady?
GERTRUDE
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Alas, | how is it | with you? (tri with prev)
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That you | do bend | your eye | on vac|ancy,
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And with | their corp|oral air | do hold |
discourse.
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Forth at | your eyes,| your spir|its wild|ly peep,
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And as | the sleep|ing sol|diers in | the alarm,
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Your bed|ded hair,| like life | in ex|crements,
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Starts^up,| and stand | an end.| Oh gent|le son,
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Upon | the heat | and flame | of thy |
distemp||er
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Sprink|le cool | patience.| Whereon | do you look?
HAMLET
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On him,| on him:| Look you | how pale | he
glares,
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His form | and cause | conjoined,| preaching | to
stones,
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Would make | them cap|able. Do / not look | upon
|| me,
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Lest | with this pit|eous ac|tion you | convert
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My stern | effects:| then what | I have | to do,
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Will want| true color; tears | perchance | for
blood.
GERTRUDE
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To whom | do you speak | this?
HAMLET
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Do you | see noth|ing there?
GERTRUDE
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Nothing | at all,| yet all | that is | I see.
HAMLET
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Nor did you | nothing | hear?
GERTRUDE
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No, noth|ing but ourselves.
HAMLET
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Why look | you there:| look how | it steals |
away:
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My fath|er in | his hab|it, as | he lived,
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Look where he | goes e|ven^now | out at the |
portal.
[Exit Ghost]
GERTRUDE
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This is | the ve|ry coin|age of | your brain,
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This bod|iless | creat|ion ec|stasy || is ve|ry
cun|ning in.
HAMLET
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Ecsta|sy?
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My pulse | as yours | doth temp|erately / keep
time,
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And makes | as health|ful mus|ic, it is / not
mad||ness
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That I | have ut|tered; bring | me to | the
test
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And I | the matter | will re-|word: which |
madness
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Would gam|bol from.| Mother,| for love | of
grace,
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Lay* not | that mat|tering unc|tion to | your
soul,
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That not | your tres/pass, but | my mad|ness
speaks: ??
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It will | but skin | and film | the ul|cerous place,
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Whilst^rank | corrup|tion min|ing all | within,
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Infects | unseen.| Confess | yourself | to
heaven,
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Repent | what's^past,| avoid | what is | to
come,
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And do / not spread | the com|post^on | the
weeds,
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To make | them rank.| Forgive | me this | my
vir||tue,
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For | in the fat|ness of | these pur|sy times,
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Virtue | itself,| of vice | must pard|on beg,
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Yea curb,| and woo,| for leave | to do | him
good.
GERTRUDE
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O Ham|let,
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Thou | hast cleft | my heart | in
twain.
HAMLET
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O throw | away | the wors|er part | of it,
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And live | the pur|er with | the oth|er half.
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Good night,| but go | not to | mine^unc|le's bed,
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not, refrain tonight, ????
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[[[[ That monst|er, cust|om, who^/all sense | doth^eat,
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Of hab|its devil,| is ang|el yet | in this,
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That to | the use | of ac|tions fair | and good
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He like|wise gives a frock | or liv|ery,
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That apt|ly is / put on.| Refrain | tonight,]]]]
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And that | shall lend | a kind | of eas|iness
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To the next | absti|nence. [[[[The | next
more^|easy,
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For use | almost can | change the | stamp of |
nature,
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And eith|er mast|er the devil | or throw | him
out
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With wond|rous pot|ency.|]]]] Once^more | good night,
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And when | you are | desir|ous to | be blessed,
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I'll bles|sing beg | of you.| For this | same^lord,
[Pointing to POLONIUS]
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I do | repent:| but heaven | hath pleased | it
so,
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To pun|ish me | with this,| and this | with me,
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That I | must be | their scourge | and min|ister.
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I will | bestow | him, and | will ans|wer well
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The death | I gave | him: So | again,| good night.
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I must | be cru|el, on|ly to | be kind;
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Thus bad | begins,| and worse | remains | behind.
GERTRUDE
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What shall | I do? \\
HAMLET
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Not this | by no | means that | I bid | you do:
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Let the blunt king | tempt you | again | to
bed,
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Pinch want/on on | your cheek,| call you | his
mouse,
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And let | him for a | pair of | reechy | kisses,
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Or pad|dling in | your neck | with his damned |
fingers,
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Make you | to rav|el all | this mat|ter out,
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That I | essen|tially am / not in | madness,
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But mad | in craft.| 'Twere good | you let | him
know,
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For who | that's but a // queen, fair, sob|er,
wise,
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Would from | a pad|dock, from | a bat,| a gib,
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Such^dear | concern|ings hide,| Who would | do so,
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No in | despite | of sense | and sec|recy,
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Unpeg | the bask|et on | the hou|se's top:
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Let the birds fly,| and like | the fam|ous ape
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To try | conclu|sions in | the bask|et, creep
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And break | your own^/neck down. \\
GERTRUDE
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Be thou | assured,| if words | be made | of
breath,
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And breath | of life:| I have | no life | to
breathe
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What thou | hast said | to me. \\
HAMLET
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I must | to Eng|land, you / know that?
GERTRUDE
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Alack || I had | forgot:| 'tis so | conclud|ed on.
HAMLET
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[[[[ There's let|ters sealed:| and my / two
school|fellows,
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Whom I | will trust | as I | will ad|ders fanged,
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They bear | the man|date, they | must sweep | my
way
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And mar|shal me | to knave|ry. Let | it work,
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For 'tis | the sport | to have | the en|gineer
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Hoist with | his own | petard:| and it shall | go
hard
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But I | will delve | one yard below | their
mines,
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And blow | them at | the moon:| O* 'tis |
most^sweet,
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When in one | line two crafts | direct|ly meet.]]]]
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This man | shall set | me pack|ing:
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I'll lug | the guts | into | the neigh|bor room,
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Mother | good night.| Indeed | this couns|ellor
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Is now most still,| most^sec|ret, and / most
grave,
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Who was | in life,| a fool|ish prat|ing knave.
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Come sir,| to draw | toward | an end | with you.
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Good night | mother. \\
[Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging POLONIUS]