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A room in the castle.
[Enter CLAUDIUS, GERTRUDE, [[[[ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN]]]]]
CLAUDIUS
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There's mat|ter in | these^sighs.
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These* pro/found heaves
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You must^trans|late; tis | fit we | under|stand them.
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Where is | your son? \\
GERTRUDE
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[[[[ Bestow | this place | on us | a lit|tle while.]]]]
[Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
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Ah my | good lord,| what have | I seen | tonight?
CLAUDIUS
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What Gertrude?| How does | Hamlet?|
GERTRUDE
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Mad as | the seas,| and wind,| when both |
contend
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Which is | the might|ier, in | his law|less fit
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Behind | the ar|ras, hear|ing some|thing stir,
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He whips his rapier out, and cries a rat, a rat, ????
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And in | this brain|ish ap|prehen|sion kills
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The unseen good | old^man.
CLAUDIUS
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O hea|vy deed:
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It had | been so | with us | had we | been there:
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His lib|erty | is full | of threats | to all,
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To you | yourself,| to us,| to eve|ry one.
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Alas,| how shall this | bloody | deed be |
answered?
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It will | be laid | to us,| whose prov|idence
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Should have / kept short,| restrained,| and out |
of haunt,
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This mad | young^man.| But so | much was | our love,
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We would | not und|erstand | what was / most fit,
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But like | the own|er of | a foul | disease,
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To keep | it from | divulg|ing, lets | it feed
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Even on | the pith | of Life.| Where is | he
gone?
GERTRUDE
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To draw | apart | the bod|y he | hath killed,
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Ore* whom | his ve|ry mad|ness like | some
ore
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Among | a min|eral | of met|als base
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Shows itself pure.| He weeps | for what | is
done.
CLAUDIUS
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O Gertrude,| come a|way:|
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The sun | no soon|er shall | the mount|ains touch,
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But we | will ship | him hence,| and this / vile
deed,
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We must | with all | our maj|esty | and skill
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Both count|enance, and | excuse.
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Ho Guild|enstern:
[Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
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Friends both go | join you | with some furth|er
aid:
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Hamlet | in mad|ness hath | Polon|ius slain,
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And from his | mother's | closets | hath he |
dragged him.
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Go* seek | him out,| speak fair, and bring | the
bo||dy
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In|to the chapel.| I pray | you haste | in this.
[Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
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Come Gertrude,| we'll call | up our wis|est
friends,
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To let | them know | both^what | we mean | to do,
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And what's | untime|ly done.| Oh come | away,
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My soul | is full | of dis|cord and | dismay.
[Exeunt]