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A plain in Denmark.
[Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching
FORTINBRAS
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Go* cap|tain, from / me greet | the Dan|ish king,
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Tell him | that by | his lic|ense, Fort|inbras
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Craves the | convey|ance of | a prom|ised march
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Over his | kingdom.| You know | the rend|ezvous:
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If that | his maj|esty | would aught | with us,
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We shall | express | our du|ty in | his eye,
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And let | him know | so.
CAPTAIN
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I | will do it,| my lord.
FORTINBRAS
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Go safe|ly on. \\
[Exeunt FORTINBRAS and Soldiers. Enter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ,
GUILDENSTERN, and others]
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Good sir,| whose powers | are these?
CAPTAIN
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They are | of Nor|way, sir. (tri with prev)
HAMLET
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How pur|posed sir,| I pray | you?
CAPTAIN
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Against | some part | of Po|land.
(tetra with prev)
HAMLET
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Who com|mands them | sir? \\
CAPTAIN
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The neph|ews to / old Nor|way, Fort|inbras.
HAMLET
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Goes it | against | the main | of Pol|and sir,
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Or for some | frontier? \\
CAPTAIN
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Truly | to speak,| and with | no ad|dition,
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We go | to gain | a lit|tle patch | of ground
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That hath | in it | no prof|it but | the name.
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To pay five duc|ats, five,| I would not | farm
it;
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Nor will | it yield | to Nor|way or | the Pole
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A rank|er rate,| should it | be sold | in fee.
HAMLET
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Why* then | the Pol|ack^never | will | defend
it.
CAPTAIN
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Yes,| it is | alrea|dy gar|risoned.
HAMLET
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Two thous|and souls | and twen|ty thous|and
duc||ats
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Will not | debate | the ques|tion of |
this^straw:
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This is | the impost|hume of | much wealth and
peace,
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That in|ward breaks,| and shows | no* cause |
without
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Why the / man dies.| I hum|bly thank | you, sir.
CAPTAIN
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God be with | you, sir.
[Exit]
ROSENCRANTZ
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Wilt please | you go,| my lord?
[Exeunt all except HAMLET]
HAMLET
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I'll be | with you | straight go a little
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How all | occa|sions do in|form a|gainst me,
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And spur | my dull | revenge.| What is | a man,
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If his / chief good | and mark|et of | his time
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Be but | to sleep | and feed?| A beast,| no more.
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Sure he | that made | us with / such large |
discourse,
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Looking | before | and aft|er, gave | us not
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That cap|abil|ity | and god-like reason
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To fust | in us | unused.| Now wheth|er it be
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Bestial | obliv|ion, or | some crav|en scrup||le
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Of think|ing too | precise|ly on | the event,
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A thought | which quart|ered hath | but one part
wis||dom
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And ere | three parts cow|ard. I | do not^know
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Why yet | I live | to say | this thing's | to do,
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Since I | have cause | and will | and strength |
and means
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To do it.| Examp|les gross | as earth | exhort ||
me:
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Wit|ness this | army of | such mass and charge
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Led by | a del|icate | and tend|er prince,
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Whose spir|it with | divine | ambi|tion puffed
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Makes mouths / at the | invi|sible | event,
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Expos|ing what | is mort|al and / unsure
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To all | that for|tune, death,| and dang|er dare,
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Even | for an / egg-shell.| Rightly | to be great
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Is not | to stir | without | great arg/ument,
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But great|ly to / find quar|rel in | a straw
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When hon|or's at | the stake.| How stand | I
then,
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That have | a fath|er killed,| a moth|er stained,
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Excite|ments of | my reas|on and | my blood,
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And let all sleep?| While* to | my shame,| I see
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The im|minent death | of twen|ty thous|and men,
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That for | a fant|asy | and trick | of fame,
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Go to their | graves like beds,| fight for | a
plot
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Whereon | the num|bers can|not try | the cause,
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Which is / not tomb | enough | and cont|inent
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To hide | the slain?| O from | this time forth,
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My thoughts | be blood|y, or | be noth|ing worth.
[Exit]]]]]