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<a name="line-SD1.1.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 1.1.0" title="SD 1.1.0">Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0001"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0001">FTLN 0001</span><span id="line-1.1.1" title="1.1.1">Who’s there?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FRANCISCO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0002"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0002">FTLN 0002</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.2" title="1.1.2">Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0003"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0003">FTLN 0003</span><span id="line-1.1.3" title="1.1.3">Long live the King!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FRANCISCO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0004"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0004">FTLN 0004</span><span id="line-1.1.4" title="1.1.4">Barnardo.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0005"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0005">FTLN 0005</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.5">5</span><span id="line-1.1.5" title="1.1.5">He.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FRANCISCO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0006"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0006">FTLN 0006</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.6" title="1.1.6">You come most carefully upon your hour.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0007"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0007">FTLN 0007</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.7" title="1.1.7">’Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to bed, Francisco.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FRANCISCO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0008"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0008">FTLN 0008</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.8" title="1.1.8">For this relief much thanks. ’Tis bitter cold,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0009"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0009">FTLN 0009</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.9" title="1.1.9">And I am sick at heart.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0010"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0010">FTLN 0010</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.10">10</span><span id="line-1.1.10" title="1.1.10">Have you had quiet guard?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FRANCISCO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0011"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0011">FTLN 0011</span><span id="line-1.1.11" title="1.1.11">Not a mouse stirring.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0012"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0012">FTLN 0012</span><span id="line-1.1.12" title="1.1.12">Well, good night.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0013"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0013">FTLN 0013</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.13" title="1.1.13">If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0014"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0014">FTLN 0014</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.14" title="1.1.14">The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD1.1.14.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 1.1.14.1" title="SD 1.1.14.1">Enter Horatio and Marcellus.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">FRANCISCO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0015"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0015">FTLN 0015</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.15" title="1.1.15">I think I hear them.—Stand ho! Who is there?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0016"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0016">FTLN 0016</span><span id="line-1.1.16" title="1.1.16">Friends to this ground.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0017"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0017">FTLN 0017</span><span id="line-1.1.17" title="1.1.17">And liegemen to the Dane.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FRANCISCO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0018"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0018">FTLN 0018</span><span id="line-1.1.18" title="1.1.18">Give you good night.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0019"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0019">FTLN 0019</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.19" title="1.1.19">O farewell, honest <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">soldier</span><span id="line-1.1.19" title="1.1.19">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.1.19" title="1.1.19"> Who hath relieved</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0020"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0020">FTLN 0020</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.1.20" title="1.1.20">you?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FRANCISCO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0021"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0021">FTLN 0021</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.21" title="1.1.21">Barnardo hath my place. Give you good night.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.1.21.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.1.21.1" title="SD 1.1.21.1">Francisco exits.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0022"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0022">FTLN 0022</span><span id="line-1.1.22" title="1.1.22">Holla, Barnardo.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0023"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0023">FTLN 0023</span><span id="line-1.1.23" title="1.1.23">Say, what, is Horatio there?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0024"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0024">FTLN 0024</span><span id="line-1.1.24" title="1.1.24">A piece of him.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0025"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0025">FTLN 0025</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.25" title="1.1.25">Welcome, Horatio.—Welcome, good Marcellus.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0026"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0026">FTLN 0026</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.26" title="1.1.26">What, has this thing appeared again tonight?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0027"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0027">FTLN 0027</span><span id="line-1.1.27" title="1.1.27">I have seen nothing.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0028"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0028">FTLN 0028</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.28" title="1.1.28">Horatio says ’tis but our fantasy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0029"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0029">FTLN 0029</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.29" title="1.1.29">And will not let belief take hold of him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0030"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0030">FTLN 0030</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.30" title="1.1.30">Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0031"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0031">FTLN 0031</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.31" title="1.1.31">Therefore I have entreated him along</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0032"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0032">FTLN 0032</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.32" title="1.1.32">With us to watch the minutes of this night,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0033"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0033">FTLN 0033</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.33" title="1.1.33">That, if again this apparition come,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0034"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0034">FTLN 0034</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.34" title="1.1.34">He may approve our eyes and speak to it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0035"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0035">FTLN 0035</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.35" title="1.1.35">Tush, tush, ’twill not appear.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0036"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0036">FTLN 0036</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 128px;"> </span><span id="line-1.1.36" title="1.1.36">Sit down awhile,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0037"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0037">FTLN 0037</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.37" title="1.1.37">And let us once again assail your ears,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0038"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0038">FTLN 0038</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.38" title="1.1.38">That are so fortified against our story,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0039"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0039">FTLN 0039</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.39" title="1.1.39">What we have two nights seen.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0040"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0040">FTLN 0040</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 158px;"> </span><span id="line-1.1.40" title="1.1.40">Well, sit we down,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0041"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0041">FTLN 0041</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.41" title="1.1.41">And let us hear Barnardo speak of this.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0042"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0042">FTLN 0042</span><span id="line-1.1.42" title="1.1.42">Last night of all,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0043"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0043">FTLN 0043</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.43" title="1.1.43">When yond same star that’s westward from the pole</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0044"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0044">FTLN 0044</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.44" title="1.1.44">Had made his course t’ illume that part of heaven</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0045"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0045">FTLN 0045</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.45" title="1.1.45">Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0046"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0046">FTLN 0046</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.46" title="1.1.46">The bell then beating one—</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD1.1.46.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 1.1.46.1" title="SD 1.1.46.1">Enter Ghost.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0047"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0047">FTLN 0047</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.47" title="1.1.47">Peace, break thee off! Look where it comes again.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0048"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0048">FTLN 0048</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.48" title="1.1.48">In the same figure like the King that’s dead.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><a name="line-SD1.1.49.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.1.49.0" title="SD 1.1.49.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to</span><span id="line-SD 1.1.49.0" title="SD 1.1.49.0"> Horatio<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0049"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0049">FTLN 0049</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.49" title="1.1.49">Thou art a scholar. Speak to it, Horatio.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0050"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0050">FTLN 0050</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.50" title="1.1.50">Looks he not like the King? Mark it, Horatio.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0051"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0051">FTLN 0051</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.51" title="1.1.51">Most like. It <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">harrows<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.1.51" title="1.1.51"> me with fear and wonder.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0052"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0052">FTLN 0052</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.52" title="1.1.52">It would be spoke to.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0053"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0053">FTLN 0053</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 75px;"> </span><span id="line-1.1.53" title="1.1.53">Speak to it, Horatio.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0054"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0054">FTLN 0054</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.54" title="1.1.54">What art thou that usurp’st this time of night,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0055"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0055">FTLN 0055</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.55" title="1.1.55">Together with that fair and warlike form</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0056"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0056">FTLN 0056</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.56" title="1.1.56">In which the majesty of buried Denmark</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0057"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0057">FTLN 0057</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.57" title="1.1.57">Did sometimes march? By heaven, I charge thee,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0058"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0058">FTLN 0058</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.1.58" title="1.1.58">speak.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0059"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0059">FTLN 0059</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.59" title="1.1.59">It is offended.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0060"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0060">FTLN 0060</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 33px;"> </span><span id="line-1.1.60" title="1.1.60">See, it stalks away.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0061"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0061">FTLN 0061</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.61" title="1.1.61">Stay! speak! speak! I charge thee, speak!</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.1.61.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.1.61.1" title="SD 1.1.61.1">Ghost exits.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0062"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0062">FTLN 0062</span><span id="line-1.1.62" title="1.1.62">’Tis gone and will not answer.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0063"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0063">FTLN 0063</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.63" title="1.1.63">How now, Horatio, you tremble and look pale.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0064"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0064">FTLN 0064</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.64" title="1.1.64">Is not this something more than fantasy?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0065"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0065">FTLN 0065</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.65" title="1.1.65">What think you on ’t?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0066"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0066">FTLN 0066</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.66" title="1.1.66">Before my God, I might not this believe</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0067"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0067">FTLN 0067</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.67" title="1.1.67">Without the sensible and true avouch</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0068"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0068">FTLN 0068</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.68" title="1.1.68">Of mine own eyes.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 1</div>
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<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0069"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0069">FTLN 0069</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 61px;"> </span><span id="line-1.1.69" title="1.1.69">Is it not like the King?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0070"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0070">FTLN 0070</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.70">70</span><span id="line-1.1.70" title="1.1.70">As thou art to thyself.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0071"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0071">FTLN 0071</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.71" title="1.1.71">Such was the very armor he had on</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0072"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0072">FTLN 0072</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.72" title="1.1.72">When he the ambitious Norway combated.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0073"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0073">FTLN 0073</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.73" title="1.1.73">So frowned he once when, in an angry parle,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0074"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0074">FTLN 0074</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.74" title="1.1.74">He smote the sledded <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Polacks<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-1.1.74" title="1.1.74"> on the ice.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0075"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0075">FTLN 0075</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.75" title="1.1.75">’Tis strange.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0076"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0076">FTLN 0076</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.76" title="1.1.76">Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0077"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0077">FTLN 0077</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.77" title="1.1.77">With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0078"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0078">FTLN 0078</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.78" title="1.1.78">In what particular thought to work I know not,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0079"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0079">FTLN 0079</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.79" title="1.1.79">But in the gross and scope of mine opinion</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0080"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0080">FTLN 0080</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.80" title="1.1.80">This bodes some strange eruption to our state.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0081"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0081">FTLN 0081</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.81" title="1.1.81">Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0082"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0082">FTLN 0082</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.82" title="1.1.82">Why this same strict and most observant watch</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0083"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0083">FTLN 0083</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.83" title="1.1.83">So nightly toils the subject of the land,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0084"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0084">FTLN 0084</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.84" title="1.1.84">And <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">why<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.1.84" title="1.1.84"> such daily <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">cast<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.1.84" title="1.1.84"> of brazen cannon</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0085"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0085">FTLN 0085</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.85" title="1.1.85">And foreign mart for implements of war,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0086"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0086">FTLN 0086</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.86" title="1.1.86">Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0087"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0087">FTLN 0087</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.87" title="1.1.87">Does not divide the Sunday from the week.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0088"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0088">FTLN 0088</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.88" title="1.1.88">What might be toward that this sweaty haste</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0089"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0089">FTLN 0089</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.89" title="1.1.89">Doth make the night joint laborer with the day?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0090"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0090">FTLN 0090</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.90" title="1.1.90">Who is ’t that can inform me?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0091"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0091">FTLN 0091</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 154px;"> </span><span id="line-1.1.91" title="1.1.91">That can I.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0092"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0092">FTLN 0092</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.92" title="1.1.92">At least the whisper goes so: our last king,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0093"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0093">FTLN 0093</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.93" title="1.1.93">Whose image even but now appeared to us,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0094"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0094">FTLN 0094</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.94" title="1.1.94">Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0095"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0095">FTLN 0095</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.95" title="1.1.95">Thereto pricked on by a most emulate pride,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0096"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0096">FTLN 0096</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.96" title="1.1.96">Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0097"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0097">FTLN 0097</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.97" title="1.1.97">(For so this side of our known world esteemed him)</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0098"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0098">FTLN 0098</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.98" title="1.1.98">Did slay this Fortinbras, who by a sealed compact,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0099"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0099">FTLN 0099</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.99" title="1.1.99">Well ratified by law and heraldry,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0100"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0100">FTLN 0100</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.100" title="1.1.100">Did forfeit, with his life, all <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">those<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.1.100" title="1.1.100"> his lands</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0101"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0101">FTLN 0101</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.101" title="1.1.101">Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 1</div>
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<a name="ftln-0102"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0102">FTLN 0102</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.102" title="1.1.102">Against the which a moiety competent</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0103"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0103">FTLN 0103</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.103" title="1.1.103">Was gagèd by our king, which had <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">returned<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0104"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0104">FTLN 0104</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.104" title="1.1.104">To the inheritance of Fortinbras</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0105"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0105">FTLN 0105</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.105" title="1.1.105">Had he been vanquisher, as, by the same comart</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0106"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0106">FTLN 0106</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.106" title="1.1.106">And carriage of the article <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">designed</span><span id="line-1.1.106" title="1.1.106">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0107"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0107">FTLN 0107</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.107" title="1.1.107">His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0108"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0108">FTLN 0108</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.108" title="1.1.108">Of unimprovèd mettle hot and full,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0109"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0109">FTLN 0109</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.109" title="1.1.109">Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0110"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0110">FTLN 0110</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.110" title="1.1.110">Sharked up a list of lawless resolutes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0111"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0111">FTLN 0111</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.111" title="1.1.111">For food and diet to some enterprise</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0112"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0112">FTLN 0112</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.112" title="1.1.112">That hath a stomach in ’t; which is no other</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0113"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0113">FTLN 0113</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.113" title="1.1.113">(As it doth well appear unto our state)</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0114"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0114">FTLN 0114</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.114" title="1.1.114">But to recover of us, by strong hand</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0115"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0115">FTLN 0115</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.115">115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.115" title="1.1.115">And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0116"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0116">FTLN 0116</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.116" title="1.1.116">So by his father lost. And this, I take it,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0117"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0117">FTLN 0117</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.117" title="1.1.117">Is the main motive of our preparations,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0118"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0118">FTLN 0118</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.118" title="1.1.118">The source of this our watch, and the chief head</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0119"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0119">FTLN 0119</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.119" title="1.1.119">Of this posthaste and rummage in the land.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">BARNARDO</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0120"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0120">FTLN 0120</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.120" title="1.1.120">I think it be no other but e’en so.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0121"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0121">FTLN 0121</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.121" title="1.1.121">Well may it sort that this portentous figure</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0122"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0122">FTLN 0122</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.122" title="1.1.122">Comes armèd through our watch so like the king</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0123"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0123">FTLN 0123</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.123" title="1.1.123">That was and is the question of these wars.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0124"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0124">FTLN 0124</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.124" title="1.1.124">A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0125"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0125">FTLN 0125</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.125">125</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.125" title="1.1.125">In the most high and palmy state of Rome,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0126"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0126">FTLN 0126</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.126" title="1.1.126">A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0127"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0127">FTLN 0127</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.127" title="1.1.127">The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0128"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0128">FTLN 0128</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.128" title="1.1.128">Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0129"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0129">FTLN 0129</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.129" title="1.1.129">As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0130"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0130">FTLN 0130</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.130" title="1.1.130">Disasters in the sun; and the moist star,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0131"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0131">FTLN 0131</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.131" title="1.1.131">Upon whose influence Neptune’s empire stands,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0132"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0132">FTLN 0132</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.132" title="1.1.132">Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0133"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0133">FTLN 0133</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.133" title="1.1.133">And even the like precurse of <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">feared<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-1.1.133" title="1.1.133"> events,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0134"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0134">FTLN 0134</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.134" title="1.1.134">As harbingers preceding still the fates</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0135"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0135">FTLN 0135</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.135">135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.135" title="1.1.135">And prologue to the omen coming on,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 1</div>
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<a name="ftln-0136"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0136">FTLN 0136</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.136" title="1.1.136">Have heaven and earth together demonstrated</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0137"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0137">FTLN 0137</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.137" title="1.1.137">Unto our climatures and countrymen.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD1.1.137.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 1.1.137.1" title="SD 1.1.137.1">Enter Ghost.</span></span><br>
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<a name="ftln-0138"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0138">FTLN 0138</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.138" title="1.1.138">But soft, behold! Lo, where it comes again!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0139"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0139">FTLN 0139</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.139" title="1.1.139">I’ll cross it though it blast me.—Stay, illusion!</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.1.139.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.1.139.1" title="SD 1.1.139.1">It spreads his arms.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0140"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0140">FTLN 0140</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.140">140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.140" title="1.1.140">If thou hast any sound or use of voice,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0141"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0141">FTLN 0141</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.141" title="1.1.141">Speak to me.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0142"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0142">FTLN 0142</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.142" title="1.1.142">If there be any good thing to be done</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0143"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0143">FTLN 0143</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.143" title="1.1.143">That may to thee do ease and grace to me,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0144"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0144">FTLN 0144</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.144" title="1.1.144">Speak to me.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0145"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0145">FTLN 0145</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.145">145</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.145" title="1.1.145">If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0146"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0146">FTLN 0146</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.146" title="1.1.146">Which happily foreknowing may avoid,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0147"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0147">FTLN 0147</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.147" title="1.1.147">O, speak!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0148"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0148">FTLN 0148</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.148" title="1.1.148">Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0149"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0149">FTLN 0149</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.149" title="1.1.149">Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0150"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0150">FTLN 0150</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.150">150</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.150" title="1.1.150">For which, they say, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">you<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.1.150" title="1.1.150"> spirits oft walk in death,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0151"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0151">FTLN 0151</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.151" title="1.1.151">Speak of it.</span><a name="line-SD1.1.151"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.1.151" title="SD 1.1.151">The cock crows.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0152"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0152">FTLN 0152</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 100px;"> </span><span id="line-1.1.152" title="1.1.152">Stay and speak!—Stop it, Marcellus.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0153"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0153">FTLN 0153</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.153" title="1.1.153">Shall I strike it with my partisan?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0154"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0154">FTLN 0154</span><span id="line-1.1.154" title="1.1.154">Do, if it will not stand.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0155"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0155">FTLN 0155</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.155">155</span><span id="line-1.1.155" title="1.1.155">’Tis here.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0156"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0156">FTLN 0156</span><span id="line-1.1.156" title="1.1.156">’Tis here.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.1.156.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.1.156.1" title="SD 1.1.156.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Ghost</span><span id="line-SD 1.1.156.1" title="SD 1.1.156.1"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0157"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0157">FTLN 0157</span><span id="line-1.1.157" title="1.1.157">’Tis gone.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0158"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0158">FTLN 0158</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.158" title="1.1.158">We do it wrong, being so majestical,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0159"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0159">FTLN 0159</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.159" title="1.1.159">To offer it the show of violence,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0160"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0160">FTLN 0160</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.160">160</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.160" title="1.1.160">For it is as the air, invulnerable,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0161"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0161">FTLN 0161</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.161" title="1.1.161">And our vain blows malicious mockery.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0162"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0162">FTLN 0162</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.162" title="1.1.162">It was about to speak when the cock crew.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0163"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0163">FTLN 0163</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.163" title="1.1.163">And then it started like a guilty thing</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0164"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0164">FTLN 0164</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.164" title="1.1.164">Upon a fearful summons. I have heard</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-0165"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0165">FTLN 0165</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.165">165</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.165" title="1.1.165">The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0166"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0166">FTLN 0166</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.166" title="1.1.166">Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0167"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0167">FTLN 0167</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.167" title="1.1.167">Awake the god of day, and at his warning,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0168"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0168">FTLN 0168</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.168" title="1.1.168">Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0169"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0169">FTLN 0169</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.169" title="1.1.169">Th’ extravagant and erring spirit hies</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0170"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0170">FTLN 0170</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.170">170</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.170" title="1.1.170">To his confine, and of the truth herein</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0171"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0171">FTLN 0171</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.171" title="1.1.171">This present object made probation.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0172"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0172">FTLN 0172</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.172" title="1.1.172">It faded on the crowing of the cock.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0173"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0173">FTLN 0173</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.173" title="1.1.173">Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0174"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0174">FTLN 0174</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.174" title="1.1.174">Wherein our Savior’s birth is celebrated,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0175"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0175">FTLN 0175</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.175">175</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.175" title="1.1.175">This bird of dawning singeth all night long;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0176"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0176">FTLN 0176</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.176" title="1.1.176">And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0177"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0177">FTLN 0177</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.177" title="1.1.177">The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0178"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0178">FTLN 0178</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.178" title="1.1.178">No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0179"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0179">FTLN 0179</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.179" title="1.1.179">So hallowed and so gracious is that time.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0180"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0180">FTLN 0180</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.180">180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.180" title="1.1.180">So have I heard and do in part believe it.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0181"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0181">FTLN 0181</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.181" title="1.1.181">But look, the morn in russet mantle clad</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0182"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0182">FTLN 0182</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.182" title="1.1.182">Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0183"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0183">FTLN 0183</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.183" title="1.1.183">Break we our watch up, and by my advice</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0184"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0184">FTLN 0184</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.184" title="1.1.184">Let us impart what we have seen tonight</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0185"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0185">FTLN 0185</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.185" title="1.1.185">Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0186"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0186">FTLN 0186</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.186" title="1.1.186">This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0187"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0187">FTLN 0187</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.187" title="1.1.187">Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0188"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0188">FTLN 0188</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.188" title="1.1.188">As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0189"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0189">FTLN 0189</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.189" title="1.1.189">Let’s do ’t, I pray, and I this morning know</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0190"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0190">FTLN 0190</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.1.190">190</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.1.190" title="1.1.190">Where we shall find him most convenient.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="line-SD1.2.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.2.0" title="SD 1.2.0">Flourish.</span></span><span id="line-SD 1.2.0" title="SD 1.2.0"> </span><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.2.0" title="SD 1.2.0">Enter Claudius, King of Denmark, Gertrude the</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 1.2.0" title="SD 1.2.0">Queen, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">the<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 1.2.0" title="SD 1.2.0"> Council, as Polonius, and his son Laertes,</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 1.2.0" title="SD 1.2.0">Hamlet, with others, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">among</span><span id="line-SD 1.2.0" title="SD 1.2.0"> them Voltemand and</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 1.2.0" title="SD 1.2.0">Cornelius.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0191"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0191">FTLN 0191</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.1" title="1.2.1">Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0192"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0192">FTLN 0192</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.2" title="1.2.2">The memory be green, and that it us befitted</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0193"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0193">FTLN 0193</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.3" title="1.2.3">To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0194"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0194">FTLN 0194</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.4" title="1.2.4">To be contracted in one brow of woe,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0195"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0195">FTLN 0195</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.5" title="1.2.5">Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0196"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0196">FTLN 0196</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.6" title="1.2.6">That we with wisest sorrow think on him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0197"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0197">FTLN 0197</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.7" title="1.2.7">Together with remembrance of ourselves.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0198"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0198">FTLN 0198</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.8" title="1.2.8">Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0199"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0199">FTLN 0199</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.9" title="1.2.9">Th’ imperial jointress to this warlike state,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0200"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0200">FTLN 0200</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.10" title="1.2.10">Have we (as ’twere with a defeated joy,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0201"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0201">FTLN 0201</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.11" title="1.2.11">With an auspicious and a dropping eye,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0202"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0202">FTLN 0202</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.12" title="1.2.12">With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0203"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0203">FTLN 0203</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.13" title="1.2.13">In equal scale weighing delight and dole)</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0204"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0204">FTLN 0204</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.14" title="1.2.14">Taken to wife. Nor have we herein barred</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0205"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0205">FTLN 0205</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.15" title="1.2.15">Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0206"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0206">FTLN 0206</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.16" title="1.2.16">With this affair along. For all, our thanks.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0207"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0207">FTLN 0207</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.17" title="1.2.17">Now follows that you know. Young Fortinbras,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0208"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0208">FTLN 0208</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.18" title="1.2.18">Holding a weak supposal of our worth</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0209"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0209">FTLN 0209</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.19" title="1.2.19">Or thinking by our late dear brother’s death</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0210"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0210">FTLN 0210</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.20" title="1.2.20">Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0211"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0211">FTLN 0211</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.21" title="1.2.21">Colleaguèd with this dream of his advantage,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0212"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0212">FTLN 0212</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.22" title="1.2.22">He hath not failed to pester us with message</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0213"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0213">FTLN 0213</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.23" title="1.2.23">Importing the surrender of those lands</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0214"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0214">FTLN 0214</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.24" title="1.2.24">Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0215"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0215">FTLN 0215</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.25" title="1.2.25">To our most valiant brother—so much for him.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0216"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0216">FTLN 0216</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.26" title="1.2.26">Now for ourself and for this time of meeting.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0217"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0217">FTLN 0217</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.27" title="1.2.27">Thus much the business is: we have here writ</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0218"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0218">FTLN 0218</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.28" title="1.2.28">To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0219"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0219">FTLN 0219</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.29" title="1.2.29">Who, impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-0220"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0220">FTLN 0220</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.30" title="1.2.30">Of this his nephew’s purpose, to suppress</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0221"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0221">FTLN 0221</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.31" title="1.2.31">His further gait herein, in that the levies,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0222"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0222">FTLN 0222</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.32" title="1.2.32">The lists, and full proportions are all made</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0223"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0223">FTLN 0223</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.33" title="1.2.33">Out of his subject; and we here dispatch</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0224"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0224">FTLN 0224</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.34" title="1.2.34">You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0225"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0225">FTLN 0225</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.35" title="1.2.35">For bearers of this greeting to old Norway,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0226"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0226">FTLN 0226</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.36" title="1.2.36">Giving to you no further personal power</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0227"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0227">FTLN 0227</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.37" title="1.2.37">To business with the King more than the scope</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0228"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0228">FTLN 0228</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.38" title="1.2.38">Of these dilated articles allow.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.2.38.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.2.38.1" title="SD 1.2.38.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Giving</span><span id="line-SD 1.2.38.1" title="SD 1.2.38.1"> them a paper.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0229"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0229">FTLN 0229</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.39" title="1.2.39">Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">CORNELIUS / VOLTEMAND</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0230"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0230">FTLN 0230</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.40" title="1.2.40">In that and all things will we show our duty.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0231"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0231">FTLN 0231</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.41" title="1.2.41">We doubt it nothing. Heartily farewell.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.2.41.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.2.41.1" title="SD 1.2.41.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Voltemand</span><span id="line-SD 1.2.41.1" title="SD 1.2.41.1"> and Cornelius exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0232"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0232">FTLN 0232</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.42" title="1.2.42">And now, Laertes, what’s the news with you?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0233"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0233">FTLN 0233</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.43" title="1.2.43">You told us of some suit. What is ’t, Laertes?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0234"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0234">FTLN 0234</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.44" title="1.2.44">You cannot speak of reason to the Dane</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0235"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0235">FTLN 0235</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.45" title="1.2.45">And lose your voice. What wouldst thou beg,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0236"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0236">FTLN 0236</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.2.46" title="1.2.46">Laertes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0237"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0237">FTLN 0237</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.47" title="1.2.47">That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0238"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0238">FTLN 0238</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.48" title="1.2.48">The head is not more native to the heart,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0239"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0239">FTLN 0239</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.49" title="1.2.49">The hand more instrumental to the mouth,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0240"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0240">FTLN 0240</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.50" title="1.2.50">Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0241"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0241">FTLN 0241</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.51" title="1.2.51">What wouldst thou have, Laertes?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0242"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0242">FTLN 0242</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 182px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.52" title="1.2.52">My dread lord,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0243"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0243">FTLN 0243</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.53" title="1.2.53">Your leave and favor to return to France,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0244"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0244">FTLN 0244</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.54" title="1.2.54">From whence though willingly I came to Denmark</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0245"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0245">FTLN 0245</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.55" title="1.2.55">To show my duty in your coronation,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0246"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0246">FTLN 0246</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.56" title="1.2.56">Yet now I must confess, that duty done,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0247"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0247">FTLN 0247</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.57" title="1.2.57">My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0248"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0248">FTLN 0248</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.58" title="1.2.58">And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0249"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0249">FTLN 0249</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.59" title="1.2.59">Have you your father’s leave? What says Polonius?</span><br>
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<div class="pageNbr">25</div>
<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0250"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0250">FTLN 0250</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.60" title="1.2.60">Hath, my lord, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">wrung</span><span id="line-1.2.60" title="1.2.60"> from me my slow leave</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0251"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0251">FTLN 0251</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.61" title="1.2.61">By laborsome petition, and at last</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0252"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0252">FTLN 0252</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.62" title="1.2.62">Upon his will I sealed my hard consent.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0253"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0253">FTLN 0253</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.63" title="1.2.63">I do beseech you give him leave to go.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0254"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0254">FTLN 0254</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.64" title="1.2.64">Take thy fair hour, Laertes. Time be thine,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0255"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0255">FTLN 0255</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.65" title="1.2.65">And thy best graces spend it at thy will.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0256"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0256">FTLN 0256</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.66" title="1.2.66">But now, my cousin Hamlet and my son—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><a name="line-SD1.2.67.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.2.67.0" title="SD 1.2.67.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0257"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0257">FTLN 0257</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.67" title="1.2.67">A little more than kin and less than kind.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0258"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0258">FTLN 0258</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.68" title="1.2.68">How is it that the clouds still hang on you?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0259"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0259">FTLN 0259</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.69" title="1.2.69">Not so, my lord; I am too much in the sun.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0260"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0260">FTLN 0260</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.70" title="1.2.70">Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0261"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0261">FTLN 0261</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.71" title="1.2.71">And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0262"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0262">FTLN 0262</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.72" title="1.2.72">Do not forever with thy vailèd lids</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0263"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0263">FTLN 0263</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.73" title="1.2.73">Seek for thy noble father in the dust.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0264"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0264">FTLN 0264</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.74" title="1.2.74">Thou know’st ’tis common; all that lives must die,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0265"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0265">FTLN 0265</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.75" title="1.2.75">Passing through nature to eternity.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0266"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0266">FTLN 0266</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.76" title="1.2.76">Ay, madam, it is common.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0267"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0267">FTLN 0267</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 145px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.77" title="1.2.77">If it be,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0268"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0268">FTLN 0268</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.78" title="1.2.78">Why seems it so particular with thee?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0269"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0269">FTLN 0269</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.79" title="1.2.79">“Seems,” madam? Nay, it is. I know not “seems.”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0270"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0270">FTLN 0270</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.80" title="1.2.80">’Tis not alone my inky cloak, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">good<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.2.80" title="1.2.80"> mother,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0271"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0271">FTLN 0271</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.81" title="1.2.81">Nor customary suits of solemn black,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0272"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0272">FTLN 0272</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.82" title="1.2.82">Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0273"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0273">FTLN 0273</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.83" title="1.2.83">No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0274"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0274">FTLN 0274</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.84" title="1.2.84">Nor the dejected havior of the visage,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0275"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0275">FTLN 0275</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.85" title="1.2.85">Together with all forms, moods, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">shapes<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-1.2.85" title="1.2.85"> of grief,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0276"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0276">FTLN 0276</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.86" title="1.2.86">That can <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">denote<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.2.86" title="1.2.86"> me truly. These indeed “seem,”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0277"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0277">FTLN 0277</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.87" title="1.2.87">For they are actions that a man might play;</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-0278"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0278">FTLN 0278</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.88" title="1.2.88">But I have that within which passes show,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0279"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0279">FTLN 0279</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.89" title="1.2.89">These but the trappings and the suits of woe.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0280"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0280">FTLN 0280</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.90" title="1.2.90">’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0281"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0281">FTLN 0281</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.2.91" title="1.2.91">Hamlet,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0282"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0282">FTLN 0282</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.92" title="1.2.92">To give these mourning duties to your father.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0283"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0283">FTLN 0283</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.93" title="1.2.93">But you must know your father lost a father,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0284"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0284">FTLN 0284</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.94" title="1.2.94">That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0285"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0285">FTLN 0285</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.95" title="1.2.95">In filial obligation for some term</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0286"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0286">FTLN 0286</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.96" title="1.2.96">To do obsequious sorrow. But to persever</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0287"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0287">FTLN 0287</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.97" title="1.2.97">In obstinate condolement is a course</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0288"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0288">FTLN 0288</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.98" title="1.2.98">Of impious stubbornness. ’Tis unmanly grief.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0289"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0289">FTLN 0289</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.99" title="1.2.99">It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0290"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0290">FTLN 0290</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.100" title="1.2.100">A heart unfortified, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">a<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.2.100" title="1.2.100"> mind impatient,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0291"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0291">FTLN 0291</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.101" title="1.2.101">An understanding simple and unschooled.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0292"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0292">FTLN 0292</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.102" title="1.2.102">For what we know must be and is as common</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0293"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0293">FTLN 0293</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.103" title="1.2.103">As any the most vulgar thing to sense,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0294"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0294">FTLN 0294</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.104" title="1.2.104">Why should we in our peevish opposition</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0295"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0295">FTLN 0295</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.105" title="1.2.105">Take it to heart? Fie, ’tis a fault to heaven,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0296"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0296">FTLN 0296</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.106" title="1.2.106">A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0297"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0297">FTLN 0297</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.107" title="1.2.107">To reason most absurd, whose common theme</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0298"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0298">FTLN 0298</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.108" title="1.2.108">Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0299"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0299">FTLN 0299</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.109" title="1.2.109">From the first corse till he that died today,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0300"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0300">FTLN 0300</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.110" title="1.2.110">“This must be so.” We pray you, throw to earth</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0301"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0301">FTLN 0301</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.111" title="1.2.111">This unprevailing woe and think of us</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0302"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0302">FTLN 0302</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.112" title="1.2.112">As of a father; for let the world take note,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0303"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0303">FTLN 0303</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.113" title="1.2.113">You are the most immediate to our throne,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0304"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0304">FTLN 0304</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.114" title="1.2.114">And with no less nobility of love</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0305"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0305">FTLN 0305</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.115">115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.115" title="1.2.115">Than that which dearest father bears his son</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0306"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0306">FTLN 0306</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.116" title="1.2.116">Do I impart toward you. For your intent</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0307"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0307">FTLN 0307</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.117" title="1.2.117">In going back to school in Wittenberg,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0308"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0308">FTLN 0308</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.118" title="1.2.118">It is most retrograde to our desire,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0309"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0309">FTLN 0309</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.119" title="1.2.119">And we beseech you, bend you to remain</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0310"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0310">FTLN 0310</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.120" title="1.2.120">Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0311"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0311">FTLN 0311</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.121" title="1.2.121">Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.</span><br>
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<div class="pageNbr">29</div>
<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0312"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0312">FTLN 0312</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.122" title="1.2.122">Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0313"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0313">FTLN 0313</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.123" title="1.2.123">I pray thee, stay with us. Go not to Wittenberg.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0314"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0314">FTLN 0314</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.124" title="1.2.124">I shall in all my best obey you, madam.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0315"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0315">FTLN 0315</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.125">125</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.125" title="1.2.125">Why, ’tis a loving and a fair reply.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0316"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0316">FTLN 0316</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.126" title="1.2.126">Be as ourself in Denmark.—Madam, come.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0317"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0317">FTLN 0317</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.127" title="1.2.127">This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0318"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0318">FTLN 0318</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.128" title="1.2.128">Sits smiling to my heart, in grace whereof</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0319"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0319">FTLN 0319</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.129" title="1.2.129">No jocund health that Denmark drinks today</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0320"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0320">FTLN 0320</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.130" title="1.2.130">But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0321"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0321">FTLN 0321</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.131" title="1.2.131">And the King’s rouse the heaven shall bruit again,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0322"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0322">FTLN 0322</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.132" title="1.2.132">Respeaking earthly thunder. Come away.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.2.132.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.2.132.1" title="SD 1.2.132.1">Flourish.</span></span><span id="line-SD 1.2.132.1" title="SD 1.2.132.1"> </span><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.2.132.1" title="SD 1.2.132.1">All but Hamlet exit.</span></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0323"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0323">FTLN 0323</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.133" title="1.2.133">O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0324"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0324">FTLN 0324</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.134" title="1.2.134">Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0325"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0325">FTLN 0325</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.135">135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.135" title="1.2.135">Or that the Everlasting had not fixed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0326"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0326">FTLN 0326</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.136" title="1.2.136">His canon ’gainst <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">self-slaughter</span><span id="line-1.2.136" title="1.2.136">!<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.2.136" title="1.2.136"> O God, God,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0327"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0327">FTLN 0327</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.137" title="1.2.137">How <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">weary</span><span id="line-1.2.137" title="1.2.137">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.2.137" title="1.2.137"> stale, flat, and unprofitable</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0328"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0328">FTLN 0328</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.138" title="1.2.138">Seem to me all the uses of this world!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0329"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0329">FTLN 0329</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.139" title="1.2.139">Fie on ’t, ah fie! ’Tis an unweeded garden</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0330"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0330">FTLN 0330</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.140">140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.140" title="1.2.140">That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0331"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0331">FTLN 0331</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.141" title="1.2.141">Possess it merely. That it should come <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">to</span><span id="line-1.2.141" title="1.2.141"> this:<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0332"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0332">FTLN 0332</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.142" title="1.2.142">But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0333"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0333">FTLN 0333</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.143" title="1.2.143">So excellent a king, that was to this</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0334"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0334">FTLN 0334</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.144" title="1.2.144">Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0335"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0335">FTLN 0335</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.145">145</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.145" title="1.2.145">That he might not beteem the winds of heaven</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0336"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0336">FTLN 0336</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.146" title="1.2.146">Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0337"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0337">FTLN 0337</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.147" title="1.2.147">Must I remember? Why, she <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">would<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.2.147" title="1.2.147"> hang on him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0338"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0338">FTLN 0338</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.148" title="1.2.148">As if increase of appetite had grown</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0339"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0339">FTLN 0339</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.149" title="1.2.149">By what it fed on. And yet, within a month</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0340"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0340">FTLN 0340</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.150">150</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.150" title="1.2.150">(Let me not think on ’t; frailty, thy name is woman!),</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0341"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0341">FTLN 0341</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.151" title="1.2.151">A little month, or ere those shoes were old</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0342"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0342">FTLN 0342</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.152" title="1.2.152">With which she followed my poor father’s body,</span><br>
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<div class="pageNbr">31</div>
<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-0343"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0343">FTLN 0343</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.153" title="1.2.153">Like Niobe, all tears—why she, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">even</span><span id="line-1.2.153" title="1.2.153"> she<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0344"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0344">FTLN 0344</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.154" title="1.2.154">(O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0345"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0345">FTLN 0345</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.155">155</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.155" title="1.2.155">Would have mourned longer!), married with my</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0346"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0346">FTLN 0346</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.2.156" title="1.2.156">uncle,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0347"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0347">FTLN 0347</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.157" title="1.2.157">My father’s brother, but no more like my father</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0348"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0348">FTLN 0348</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.158" title="1.2.158">Than I to Hercules. Within a month,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0349"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0349">FTLN 0349</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.159" title="1.2.159">Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0350"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0350">FTLN 0350</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.160">160</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.160" title="1.2.160">Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0351"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0351">FTLN 0351</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.161" title="1.2.161">She married. O, most wicked speed, to post</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0352"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0352">FTLN 0352</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.162" title="1.2.162">With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0353"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0353">FTLN 0353</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.163" title="1.2.163">It is not, nor it cannot come to good.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0354"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0354">FTLN 0354</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.164" title="1.2.164">But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.</span><br>
<br>
<a name="line-SD1.2.164.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 1.2.164.1" title="SD 1.2.164.1">Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Barnardo.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0355"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0355">FTLN 0355</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.165">165</span><span id="line-1.2.165" title="1.2.165">Hail to your Lordship.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0356"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0356">FTLN 0356</span><span id="line-1.2.166" title="1.2.166">I am glad to see you well.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0357"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0357">FTLN 0357</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.167" title="1.2.167">Horatio—or I do forget myself!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0358"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0358">FTLN 0358</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.168" title="1.2.168">The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0359"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0359">FTLN 0359</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.169" title="1.2.169">Sir, my good friend. I’ll change that name with you.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0360"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0360">FTLN 0360</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.170">170</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.170" title="1.2.170">And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio?—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0361"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0361">FTLN 0361</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.171" title="1.2.171">Marcellus?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0362"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0362">FTLN 0362</span><span id="line-1.2.172" title="1.2.172">My good lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0363"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0363">FTLN 0363</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.173" title="1.2.173">I am very glad to see you.</span><a name="line-SD1.2.173"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.2.173" title="SD 1.2.173"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">To</span><span id="line-SD 1.2.173" title="SD 1.2.173"> Barnardo.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span id="line-1.2.173" title="1.2.173"> Good</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0364"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0364">FTLN 0364</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.2.174" title="1.2.174">even, sir.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0365"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0365">FTLN 0365</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.175">175</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.175" title="1.2.175">But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0366"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0366">FTLN 0366</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.176" title="1.2.176">A truant disposition, good my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0367"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0367">FTLN 0367</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.177" title="1.2.177">I would not hear your enemy say so,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0368"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0368">FTLN 0368</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.178" title="1.2.178">Nor shall you do my ear that violence</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0369"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0369">FTLN 0369</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.179" title="1.2.179">To make it truster of your own report</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0370"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0370">FTLN 0370</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.180">180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.180" title="1.2.180">Against yourself. I know you are no truant.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0371"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0371">FTLN 0371</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.181" title="1.2.181">But what is your affair in Elsinore?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0372"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0372">FTLN 0372</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.182" title="1.2.182">We’ll teach you to drink <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">deep<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.2.182" title="1.2.182"> ere you depart.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0373"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0373">FTLN 0373</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.183" title="1.2.183">My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0374"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0374">FTLN 0374</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.184" title="1.2.184">I prithee, do not mock me, fellow student.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0375"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0375">FTLN 0375</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.185" title="1.2.185">I think it was to <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">see<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.2.185" title="1.2.185"> my mother’s wedding.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0376"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0376">FTLN 0376</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.186" title="1.2.186">Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0377"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0377">FTLN 0377</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.187" title="1.2.187">Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0378"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0378">FTLN 0378</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.188" title="1.2.188">Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0379"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0379">FTLN 0379</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.189" title="1.2.189">Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0380"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0380">FTLN 0380</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.190">190</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.190" title="1.2.190">Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0381"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0381">FTLN 0381</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.191" title="1.2.191">My father—methinks I see my father.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0382"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0382">FTLN 0382</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.192" title="1.2.192">Where, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0383"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0383">FTLN 0383</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 70px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.193" title="1.2.193">In my mind’s eye, Horatio.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0384"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0384">FTLN 0384</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.194" title="1.2.194">I saw him once. He was a goodly king.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0385"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0385">FTLN 0385</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.195">195</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.195" title="1.2.195">He was a man. Take him for all in all,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0386"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0386">FTLN 0386</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.196" title="1.2.196">I shall not look upon his like again.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0387"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0387">FTLN 0387</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.197" title="1.2.197">My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0388"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0388">FTLN 0388</span><span id="line-1.2.198" title="1.2.198">Saw who?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0389"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0389">FTLN 0389</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.199" title="1.2.199">My lord, the King your father.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0390"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0390">FTLN 0390</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.200">200</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 160px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.200" title="1.2.200">The King my father?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0391"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0391">FTLN 0391</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.201" title="1.2.201">Season your admiration for a while</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0392"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0392">FTLN 0392</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.202" title="1.2.202">With an attent ear, till I may deliver</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0393"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0393">FTLN 0393</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.203" title="1.2.203">Upon the witness of these gentlemen</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0394"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0394">FTLN 0394</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.204" title="1.2.204">This marvel to you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0395"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0395">FTLN 0395</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.205">205</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 86px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.205" title="1.2.205">For God’s love, let me hear!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0396"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0396">FTLN 0396</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.206" title="1.2.206">Two nights together had these gentlemen,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0397"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0397">FTLN 0397</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.207" title="1.2.207">Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch,</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-0398"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0398">FTLN 0398</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.208" title="1.2.208">In the dead waste and middle of the night,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0399"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0399">FTLN 0399</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.209" title="1.2.209">Been thus encountered: a figure like your father,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0400"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0400">FTLN 0400</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.210">210</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.210" title="1.2.210">Armed at point exactly, cap-à-pie,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0401"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0401">FTLN 0401</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.211" title="1.2.211">Appears before them and with solemn march</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0402"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0402">FTLN 0402</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.212" title="1.2.212">Goes slow and stately by them. Thrice he walked</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0403"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0403">FTLN 0403</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.213" title="1.2.213">By their oppressed and fear-surprisèd eyes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0404"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0404">FTLN 0404</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.214" title="1.2.214">Within his truncheon’s length, whilst they, distilled</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0405"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0405">FTLN 0405</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.215">215</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.215" title="1.2.215">Almost to jelly with the act of fear,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0406"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0406">FTLN 0406</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.216" title="1.2.216">Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0407"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0407">FTLN 0407</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.217" title="1.2.217">In dreadful secrecy impart they did,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0408"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0408">FTLN 0408</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.218" title="1.2.218">And I with them the third night kept the watch,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0409"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0409">FTLN 0409</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.219" title="1.2.219"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Where</span><span id="line-1.2.219" title="1.2.219">, as<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-1.2.219" title="1.2.219"> they had delivered, both in time,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0410"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0410">FTLN 0410</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.220">220</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.220" title="1.2.220">Form of the thing (each word made true and good),</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0411"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0411">FTLN 0411</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.221" title="1.2.221">The apparition comes. I knew your father;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0412"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0412">FTLN 0412</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.222" title="1.2.222">These hands are not more like.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0413"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0413">FTLN 0413</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 163px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.223" title="1.2.223">But where was this?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0414"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0414">FTLN 0414</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.224" title="1.2.224">My lord, upon the platform where we watch.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0415"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0415">FTLN 0415</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.225">225</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.225" title="1.2.225">Did you not speak to it?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0416"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0416">FTLN 0416</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 113px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.226" title="1.2.226">My lord, I did,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0417"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0417">FTLN 0417</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.227" title="1.2.227">But answer made it none. Yet once methought</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0418"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0418">FTLN 0418</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.228" title="1.2.228">It lifted up its head and did address</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0419"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0419">FTLN 0419</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.229" title="1.2.229">Itself to motion, like as it would speak;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0420"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0420">FTLN 0420</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.230">230</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.230" title="1.2.230">But even then the morning cock crew loud,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0421"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0421">FTLN 0421</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.231" title="1.2.231">And at the sound it shrunk in haste away</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0422"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0422">FTLN 0422</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.232" title="1.2.232">And vanished from our sight.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0423"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0423">FTLN 0423</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 151px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.233" title="1.2.233">’Tis very strange.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0424"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0424">FTLN 0424</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.234" title="1.2.234">As I do live, my honored lord, ’tis true.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0425"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0425">FTLN 0425</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.235">235</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.235" title="1.2.235">And we did think it writ down in our duty</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0426"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0426">FTLN 0426</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.236" title="1.2.236">To let you know of it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0427"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0427">FTLN 0427</span><span id="line-1.2.237" title="1.2.237">Indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0428"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0428">FTLN 0428</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.238" title="1.2.238">Hold you the watch tonight?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ALL</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0429"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0429">FTLN 0429</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 175px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.239" title="1.2.239">We do, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0430"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0430">FTLN 0430</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.240">240</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.240" title="1.2.240">Armed, say you?</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">ALL</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0431"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0431">FTLN 0431</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 97px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.241" title="1.2.241">Armed, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0432"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0432">FTLN 0432</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 187px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.242" title="1.2.242">From top to toe?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ALL</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0433"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0433">FTLN 0433</span><span id="line-1.2.243" title="1.2.243">My lord, from head to foot.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0434"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0434">FTLN 0434</span><span id="line-1.2.244" title="1.2.244">Then saw you not his face?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0435"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0435">FTLN 0435</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.245">245</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.245" title="1.2.245">O, yes, my lord, he wore his beaver up.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0436"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0436">FTLN 0436</span><span id="line-1.2.246" title="1.2.246">What, looked he frowningly?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0437"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0437">FTLN 0437</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.247" title="1.2.247">A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0438"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0438">FTLN 0438</span><span id="line-1.2.248" title="1.2.248">Pale or red?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0439"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0439">FTLN 0439</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.249" title="1.2.249">Nay, very pale.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0440"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0440">FTLN 0440</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.250">250</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 56px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.250" title="1.2.250">And fixed his eyes upon you?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0441"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0441">FTLN 0441</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.251" title="1.2.251">Most constantly.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0442"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0442">FTLN 0442</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 70px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.252" title="1.2.252">I would I had been there.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0443"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0443">FTLN 0443</span><span id="line-1.2.253" title="1.2.253">It would have much amazed you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0444"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0444">FTLN 0444</span><span id="line-1.2.254" title="1.2.254">Very like. Stayed it long?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0445"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0445">FTLN 0445</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.255">255</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.255" title="1.2.255">While one with moderate haste might tell a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0446"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0446">FTLN 0446</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.2.256" title="1.2.256">hundred.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">BARNARDO/MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0447"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0447">FTLN 0447</span><span id="line-1.2.257" title="1.2.257">Longer, longer.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0448"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0448">FTLN 0448</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.258" title="1.2.258">Not when I saw ’t.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0449"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0449">FTLN 0449</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 77px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.259" title="1.2.259">His beard was grizzled, no?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0450"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0450">FTLN 0450</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.260">260</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.260" title="1.2.260">It was as I have seen it in his life,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0451"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0451">FTLN 0451</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.261" title="1.2.261">A sable silvered.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0452"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0452">FTLN 0452</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 68px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.262" title="1.2.262">I will watch <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">tonight</span><span id="line-1.2.262" title="1.2.262">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0453"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0453">FTLN 0453</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.263" title="1.2.263">Perchance ’twill walk again.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0454"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0454">FTLN 0454</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 141px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.264" title="1.2.264">I warrant it will.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0455"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0455">FTLN 0455</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.265">265</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.265" title="1.2.265">If it assume my noble father’s person,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0456"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0456">FTLN 0456</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.266" title="1.2.266">I’ll speak to it, though hell itself should gape</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0457"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0457">FTLN 0457</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.267" title="1.2.267">And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0458"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0458">FTLN 0458</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.268" title="1.2.268">If you have hitherto concealed this sight,</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-0459"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0459">FTLN 0459</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.269" title="1.2.269">Let it be tenable in your silence still;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0460"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0460">FTLN 0460</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.270">270</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.270" title="1.2.270">And whatsomever else shall hap tonight,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0461"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0461">FTLN 0461</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.271" title="1.2.271">Give it an understanding but no tongue.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0462"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0462">FTLN 0462</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.272" title="1.2.272">I will requite your loves. So fare you well.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0463"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0463">FTLN 0463</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.273" title="1.2.273">Upon the platform, ’twixt eleven and twelve,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0464"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0464">FTLN 0464</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.274" title="1.2.274">I’ll visit you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ALL</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0465"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0465">FTLN 0465</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.275">275</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 71px;"> </span><span id="line-1.2.275" title="1.2.275">Our duty to your Honor.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0466"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0466">FTLN 0466</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.276" title="1.2.276">Your loves, as mine to you. Farewell.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.2.276.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.2.276.1" title="SD 1.2.276.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">All</span><span id="line-SD 1.2.276.1" title="SD 1.2.276.1"> but Hamlet<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 1.2.276.1" title="SD 1.2.276.1"> exit.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0467"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0467">FTLN 0467</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.277" title="1.2.277">My father’s spirit—in arms! All is not well.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0468"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0468">FTLN 0468</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.278" title="1.2.278">I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0469"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0469">FTLN 0469</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.279" title="1.2.279">Till then, sit still, my soul. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Foul<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.2.279" title="1.2.279"> deeds will rise,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0470"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0470">FTLN 0470</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.2.280">280</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.2.280" title="1.2.280">Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0471"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0471">FTLN 0471</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.2.281" title="1.2.281">eyes.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.2.281.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.2.281.1" title="SD 1.2.281.1">He exits.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0472"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0472">FTLN 0472</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.1" title="1.3.1">My necessaries are embarked. Farewell.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0473"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0473">FTLN 0473</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.2" title="1.3.2">And, sister, as the winds give benefit</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0474"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0474">FTLN 0474</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.3" title="1.3.3">And convey <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">is<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.3.3" title="1.3.3"> assistant, do not sleep,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0475"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0475">FTLN 0475</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.4" title="1.3.4">But let me hear from you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0476"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0476">FTLN 0476</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 131px;"> </span><span id="line-1.3.5" title="1.3.5">Do you doubt that?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0477"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0477">FTLN 0477</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.6" title="1.3.6">For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0478"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0478">FTLN 0478</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.7" title="1.3.7">Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0479"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0479">FTLN 0479</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.8" title="1.3.8">A violet in the youth of primy nature,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0480"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0480">FTLN 0480</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.9" title="1.3.9">Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0481"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0481">FTLN 0481</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.10" title="1.3.10">The perfume and suppliance of a minute,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0482"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0482">FTLN 0482</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.11" title="1.3.11">No more.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0483"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0483">FTLN 0483</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 21px;"> </span><span id="line-1.3.12" title="1.3.12">No more but so?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0484"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0484">FTLN 0484</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 141px;"> </span><span id="line-1.3.13" title="1.3.13">Think it no more.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-0485"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0485">FTLN 0485</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.14" title="1.3.14">For nature, crescent, does not grow alone</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0486"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0486">FTLN 0486</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.15" title="1.3.15">In thews and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">bulk</span><span id="line-1.3.15" title="1.3.15">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.3.15" title="1.3.15"> but, as this temple waxes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0487"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0487">FTLN 0487</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.16" title="1.3.16">The inward service of the mind and soul</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0488"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0488">FTLN 0488</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.17" title="1.3.17">Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0489"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0489">FTLN 0489</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.18" title="1.3.18">And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0490"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0490">FTLN 0490</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.19" title="1.3.19">The virtue of his will; but you must fear,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0491"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0491">FTLN 0491</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.20" title="1.3.20">His greatness weighed, his will is not his own,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0492"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0492">FTLN 0492</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.21" title="1.3.21"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">For</span><span id="line-1.3.21" title="1.3.21"> he himself is subject to his birth.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0493"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0493">FTLN 0493</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.22" title="1.3.22">He may not, as unvalued persons do,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0494"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0494">FTLN 0494</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.23" title="1.3.23">Carve for himself, for on his choice depends</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0495"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0495">FTLN 0495</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.24" title="1.3.24">The safety and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">the<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-1.3.24" title="1.3.24"> health of this whole state.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0496"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0496">FTLN 0496</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.25" title="1.3.25">And therefore must his choice be circumscribed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0497"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0497">FTLN 0497</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.26" title="1.3.26">Unto the voice and yielding of that body</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0498"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0498">FTLN 0498</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.27" title="1.3.27">Whereof he is the head. Then, if he says he loves</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0499"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0499">FTLN 0499</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.3.28" title="1.3.28">you,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0500"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0500">FTLN 0500</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.29" title="1.3.29">It fits your wisdom so far to believe it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0501"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0501">FTLN 0501</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.30" title="1.3.30">As he in his particular act and place</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0502"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0502">FTLN 0502</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.31" title="1.3.31">May give his saying deed, which is no further</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0503"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0503">FTLN 0503</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.32" title="1.3.32">Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0504"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0504">FTLN 0504</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.33" title="1.3.33">Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0505"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0505">FTLN 0505</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.34" title="1.3.34">If with too credent ear you list his songs</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0506"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0506">FTLN 0506</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.35" title="1.3.35">Or lose your heart or your chaste treasure open</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0507"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0507">FTLN 0507</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.36" title="1.3.36">To his unmastered importunity.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0508"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0508">FTLN 0508</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.37" title="1.3.37">Fear it, Ophelia; fear it, my dear sister,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0509"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0509">FTLN 0509</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.38" title="1.3.38">And keep you in the rear of your affection,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0510"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0510">FTLN 0510</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.39" title="1.3.39">Out of the shot and danger of desire.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0511"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0511">FTLN 0511</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.40" title="1.3.40">The chariest maid is prodigal enough</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0512"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0512">FTLN 0512</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.41" title="1.3.41">If she unmask her beauty to the moon.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0513"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0513">FTLN 0513</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.42" title="1.3.42">Virtue itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0514"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0514">FTLN 0514</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.43" title="1.3.43">The canker galls the infants of the spring</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0515"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0515">FTLN 0515</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.44" title="1.3.44">Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0516"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0516">FTLN 0516</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.45" title="1.3.45">And, in the morn and liquid dew of youth,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0517"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0517">FTLN 0517</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.46" title="1.3.46">Contagious blastments are most imminent.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0518"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0518">FTLN 0518</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.47" title="1.3.47">Be wary, then; best safety lies in fear.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0519"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0519">FTLN 0519</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.48" title="1.3.48">Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0520"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0520">FTLN 0520</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.49" title="1.3.49">I shall the effect of this good lesson keep</span><br>
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<div class="pageNbr">43</div>
<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 3</div>
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<a name="ftln-0521"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0521">FTLN 0521</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.50" title="1.3.50">As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0522"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0522">FTLN 0522</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.51" title="1.3.51">Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0523"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0523">FTLN 0523</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.52" title="1.3.52">Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0524"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0524">FTLN 0524</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.53" title="1.3.53">Whiles, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">like<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.3.53" title="1.3.53"> a puffed and reckless libertine,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0525"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0525">FTLN 0525</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.54" title="1.3.54">Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0526"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0526">FTLN 0526</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.55" title="1.3.55">And recks not his own rede.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0527"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0527">FTLN 0527</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 143px;"> </span><span id="line-1.3.56" title="1.3.56">O, fear me not.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD1.3.56.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 1.3.56.1" title="SD 1.3.56.1">Enter Polonius.</span></span><br>
<br>
<a name="ftln-0528"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0528">FTLN 0528</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.57" title="1.3.57">I stay too long. But here my father comes.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0529"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0529">FTLN 0529</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.58" title="1.3.58">A double blessing is a double grace.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0530"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0530">FTLN 0530</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.59" title="1.3.59">Occasion smiles upon a second leave.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0531"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0531">FTLN 0531</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.60" title="1.3.60">Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0532"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0532">FTLN 0532</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.61" title="1.3.61">The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0533"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0533">FTLN 0533</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.62" title="1.3.62">And you are stayed for. There, my blessing with</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0534"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0534">FTLN 0534</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.3.63" title="1.3.63">thee.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0535"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0535">FTLN 0535</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.64" title="1.3.64">And these few precepts in thy memory</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0536"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0536">FTLN 0536</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.65" title="1.3.65">Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0537"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0537">FTLN 0537</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.66" title="1.3.66">Nor any unproportioned thought his act.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0538"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0538">FTLN 0538</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.67" title="1.3.67">Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0539"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0539">FTLN 0539</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.68" title="1.3.68">Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0540"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0540">FTLN 0540</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.69" title="1.3.69">Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0541"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0541">FTLN 0541</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.70" title="1.3.70">But do not dull thy palm with entertainment</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0542"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0542">FTLN 0542</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.71" title="1.3.71">Of each new-hatched, unfledged courage. Beware</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0543"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0543">FTLN 0543</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.72" title="1.3.72">Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0544"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0544">FTLN 0544</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.73" title="1.3.73">Bear ’t that th’ opposèd may beware of thee.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0545"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0545">FTLN 0545</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.74" title="1.3.74">Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0546"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0546">FTLN 0546</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.75" title="1.3.75">Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0547"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0547">FTLN 0547</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.76" title="1.3.76">Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0548"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0548">FTLN 0548</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.77" title="1.3.77">But not expressed in fancy (rich, not gaudy),</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0549"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0549">FTLN 0549</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.78" title="1.3.78">For the apparel oft proclaims the man,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0550"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0550">FTLN 0550</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.79" title="1.3.79">And they in France of the best rank and station</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0551"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0551">FTLN 0551</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.80" title="1.3.80"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Are<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.3.80" title="1.3.80"> of a most select and generous chief in that.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0552"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0552">FTLN 0552</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.81" title="1.3.81">Neither a borrower nor a lender <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">be</span><span id="line-1.3.81" title="1.3.81">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0553"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0553">FTLN 0553</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.82" title="1.3.82">For <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">loan<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.3.82" title="1.3.82"> oft loses both itself and friend,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 3</div>
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<a name="ftln-0554"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0554">FTLN 0554</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.83" title="1.3.83">And borrowing <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">dulls</span><span id="line-1.3.83" title="1.3.83"> the<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.3.83" title="1.3.83"> edge of husbandry.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0555"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0555">FTLN 0555</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.84" title="1.3.84">This above all: to thine own self be true,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0556"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0556">FTLN 0556</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.85" title="1.3.85">And it must follow, as the night the day,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0557"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0557">FTLN 0557</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.86" title="1.3.86">Thou canst not then be false to any man.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0558"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0558">FTLN 0558</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.87" title="1.3.87">Farewell. My blessing season this in thee.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0559"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0559">FTLN 0559</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.88" title="1.3.88">Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0560"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0560">FTLN 0560</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.89" title="1.3.89">The time invests you. Go, your servants tend.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0561"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0561">FTLN 0561</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.90" title="1.3.90">Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0562"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0562">FTLN 0562</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.91" title="1.3.91">What I have said to you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0563"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0563">FTLN 0563</span><span id="line-1.3.92" title="1.3.92">’Tis in my memory locked,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0564"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0564">FTLN 0564</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.93" title="1.3.93">And you yourself shall keep the key of it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0565"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0565">FTLN 0565</span><span id="line-1.3.94" title="1.3.94">Farewell.</span><a name="line-SD1.3.94"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.3.94" title="SD 1.3.94">Laertes exits.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0566"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0566">FTLN 0566</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.95" title="1.3.95">What is ’t, Ophelia, he hath said to you?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0567"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0567">FTLN 0567</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.96" title="1.3.96">So please you, something touching the Lord</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0568"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0568">FTLN 0568</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.3.97" title="1.3.97">Hamlet.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0569"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0569">FTLN 0569</span><span id="line-1.3.98" title="1.3.98">Marry, well bethought.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0570"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0570">FTLN 0570</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.99" title="1.3.99">’Tis told me he hath very oft of late</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0571"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0571">FTLN 0571</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.100" title="1.3.100">Given private time to you, and you yourself</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0572"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0572">FTLN 0572</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.101" title="1.3.101">Have of your audience been most free and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0573"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0573">FTLN 0573</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.3.102" title="1.3.102">bounteous.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0574"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0574">FTLN 0574</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.103" title="1.3.103">If it be so (as so ’tis put on me,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0575"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0575">FTLN 0575</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.104" title="1.3.104">And that in way of caution), I must tell you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0576"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0576">FTLN 0576</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.105" title="1.3.105">You do not understand yourself so clearly</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0577"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0577">FTLN 0577</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.106" title="1.3.106">As it behooves my daughter and your honor.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0578"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0578">FTLN 0578</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.107" title="1.3.107">What is between you? Give me up the truth.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0579"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0579">FTLN 0579</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.108" title="1.3.108">He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0580"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0580">FTLN 0580</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.109" title="1.3.109">Of his affection to me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0581"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0581">FTLN 0581</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.110" title="1.3.110">Affection, puh! You speak like a green girl</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0582"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0582">FTLN 0582</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.111" title="1.3.111">Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0583"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0583">FTLN 0583</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.112" title="1.3.112">Do you believe his “tenders,” as you call them?</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 3</div>
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<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0584"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0584">FTLN 0584</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.113" title="1.3.113">I do not know, my lord, what I should think.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0585"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0585">FTLN 0585</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.114" title="1.3.114">Marry, I will teach you. Think yourself a baby</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0586"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0586">FTLN 0586</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.115">115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.115" title="1.3.115">That you have ta’en these tenders for true pay,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0587"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0587">FTLN 0587</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.116" title="1.3.116">Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0588"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0588">FTLN 0588</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.117" title="1.3.117">Or (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0589"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0589">FTLN 0589</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.118" title="1.3.118"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Running<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-1.3.118" title="1.3.118"> it thus) you’ll tender me a fool.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0590"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0590">FTLN 0590</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.119" title="1.3.119">My lord, he hath importuned me with love</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0591"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0591">FTLN 0591</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.120" title="1.3.120">In honorable fashion—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0592"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0592">FTLN 0592</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.121" title="1.3.121">Ay, “fashion” you may call it. Go to, go to!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0593"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0593">FTLN 0593</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.122" title="1.3.122">And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0594"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0594">FTLN 0594</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.123" title="1.3.123">With almost all the holy vows of heaven.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0595"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0595">FTLN 0595</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.124" title="1.3.124">Ay, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">springes<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.3.124" title="1.3.124"> to catch woodcocks. I do know,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0596"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0596">FTLN 0596</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.125">125</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.125" title="1.3.125">When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0597"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0597">FTLN 0597</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.126" title="1.3.126">Lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0598"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0598">FTLN 0598</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.127" title="1.3.127">Giving more light than heat, extinct in both</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0599"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0599">FTLN 0599</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.128" title="1.3.128">Even in their promise as it is a-making,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0600"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0600">FTLN 0600</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.129" title="1.3.129">You must not take for fire. From this time</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0601"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0601">FTLN 0601</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.130" title="1.3.130">Be something scanter of your maiden presence.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0602"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0602">FTLN 0602</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.131" title="1.3.131">Set your entreatments at a higher rate</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0603"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0603">FTLN 0603</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.132" title="1.3.132">Than a command to parle. For Lord Hamlet,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0604"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0604">FTLN 0604</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.133" title="1.3.133">Believe so much in him that he is young,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0605"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0605">FTLN 0605</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.134" title="1.3.134">And with a larger <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">tether<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.3.134" title="1.3.134"> may he walk</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0606"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0606">FTLN 0606</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.135">135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.135" title="1.3.135">Than may be given you. In few, Ophelia,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0607"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0607">FTLN 0607</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.136" title="1.3.136">Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0608"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0608">FTLN 0608</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.137" title="1.3.137">Not of that dye which their investments show,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0609"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0609">FTLN 0609</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.138" title="1.3.138">But mere <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">implorators<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.3.138" title="1.3.138"> of unholy suits,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0610"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0610">FTLN 0610</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.139" title="1.3.139">Breathing like sanctified and pious <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">bawds<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0611"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0611">FTLN 0611</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.140">140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.140" title="1.3.140">The better to <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">beguile</span><span id="line-1.3.140" title="1.3.140">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.3.140" title="1.3.140"> This is for all:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0612"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0612">FTLN 0612</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.141" title="1.3.141">I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0613"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0613">FTLN 0613</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.142" title="1.3.142">Have you so slander any moment leisure</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-0614"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0614">FTLN 0614</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.143" title="1.3.143">As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0615"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0615">FTLN 0615</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.3.144" title="1.3.144">Look to ’t, I charge you. Come your ways.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0616"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0616">FTLN 0616</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.3.145">145</span><span id="line-1.3.145" title="1.3.145">I shall obey, my lord.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD1.4.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 1.4.0" title="SD 1.4.0">Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0617"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0617">FTLN 0617</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.1" title="1.4.1">The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0618"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0618">FTLN 0618</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.2" title="1.4.2">It is <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">a<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.4.2" title="1.4.2"> nipping and an eager air.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0619"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0619">FTLN 0619</span><span id="line-1.4.3" title="1.4.3">What hour now?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0620"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0620">FTLN 0620</span><span id="line-1.4.4" title="1.4.4">I think it lacks of twelve.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0621"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0621">FTLN 0621</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.5">5</span><span id="line-1.4.5" title="1.4.5">No, it is struck.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0622"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0622">FTLN 0622</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.6" title="1.4.6">Indeed, I heard it not. It then draws near the season</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0623"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0623">FTLN 0623</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.7" title="1.4.7">Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.4.7.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.4.7.1" title="SD 1.4.7.1">A flourish of trumpets and two pieces goes off.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0624"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0624">FTLN 0624</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.8" title="1.4.8">What does this mean, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0625"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0625">FTLN 0625</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.9" title="1.4.9">The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0626"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0626">FTLN 0626</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.10" title="1.4.10">Keeps wassail, and the swagg’ring upspring reels;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0627"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0627">FTLN 0627</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.11" title="1.4.11">And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0628"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0628">FTLN 0628</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.12" title="1.4.12">The kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0629"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0629">FTLN 0629</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.13" title="1.4.13">The triumph of his pledge.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0630"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0630">FTLN 0630</span><span id="line-1.4.14" title="1.4.14">Is it a custom?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0631"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0631">FTLN 0631</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.15">15</span><span id="line-1.4.15" title="1.4.15">Ay, marry, is ’t,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0632"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0632">FTLN 0632</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.16" title="1.4.16">But, to my mind, though I am native here</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0633"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0633">FTLN 0633</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.17" title="1.4.17">And to the manner born, it is a custom</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0634"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0634">FTLN 0634</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.18" title="1.4.18">More honored in the breach than the observance.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0635"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0635">FTLN 0635</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.19" title="1.4.19"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">This</span><span id="line-1.4.19" title="1.4.19"> heavy-headed <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">revel<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-1.4.19" title="1.4.19"> east and west</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0636"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0636">FTLN 0636</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.20" title="1.4.20">Makes us traduced and taxed of other nations.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0637"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0637">FTLN 0637</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.21" title="1.4.21">They clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrase</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0638"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0638">FTLN 0638</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.22" title="1.4.22">Soil our addition. And, indeed, it takes</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-0639"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0639">FTLN 0639</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.23" title="1.4.23">From our achievements, though performed at</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0640"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0640">FTLN 0640</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.4.24" title="1.4.24">height,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0641"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0641">FTLN 0641</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.25" title="1.4.25">The pith and marrow of our attribute.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0642"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0642">FTLN 0642</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.26" title="1.4.26">So oft it chances in particular men</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0643"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0643">FTLN 0643</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.27" title="1.4.27">That for some vicious mole of nature in them,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0644"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0644">FTLN 0644</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.28" title="1.4.28">As in their birth (wherein they are not guilty,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0645"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0645">FTLN 0645</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.29" title="1.4.29">Since nature cannot choose his origin),</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0646"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0646">FTLN 0646</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.30" title="1.4.30">By <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">the<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-1.4.30" title="1.4.30"> o’ergrowth of some complexion</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0647"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0647">FTLN 0647</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.31" title="1.4.31">(Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason),</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0648"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0648">FTLN 0648</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.32" title="1.4.32">Or by some habit that too much o’erleavens</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0649"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0649">FTLN 0649</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.33" title="1.4.33">The form of plausive manners—that these men,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0650"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0650">FTLN 0650</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.34" title="1.4.34">Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0651"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0651">FTLN 0651</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.35" title="1.4.35">Being nature’s livery or fortune’s star,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0652"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0652">FTLN 0652</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.36" title="1.4.36">His virtues else, be they as pure as grace,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0653"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0653">FTLN 0653</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.37" title="1.4.37">As infinite as man may undergo,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0654"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0654">FTLN 0654</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.38" title="1.4.38">Shall in the general censure take corruption</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0655"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0655">FTLN 0655</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.39" title="1.4.39">From that particular fault. The dram of <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">evil<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0656"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0656">FTLN 0656</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.40" title="1.4.40">Doth all the noble substance of a doubt</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0657"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0657">FTLN 0657</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.41" title="1.4.41">To his own scandal.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD1.4.41.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 1.4.41.1" title="SD 1.4.41.1">Enter Ghost.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0658"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0658">FTLN 0658</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 90px;"> </span><span id="line-1.4.42" title="1.4.42">Look, my lord, it comes.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0659"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0659">FTLN 0659</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.43" title="1.4.43">Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0660"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0660">FTLN 0660</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.44" title="1.4.44">Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0661"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0661">FTLN 0661</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.45" title="1.4.45">Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0662"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0662">FTLN 0662</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.4.46" title="1.4.46">hell,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0663"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0663">FTLN 0663</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.47" title="1.4.47">Be thy intents wicked or charitable,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0664"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0664">FTLN 0664</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.48" title="1.4.48">Thou com’st in such a questionable shape</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0665"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0665">FTLN 0665</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.49" title="1.4.49">That I will speak to thee. I’ll call thee “Hamlet,”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0666"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0666">FTLN 0666</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.50" title="1.4.50">“King,” “Father,” “Royal Dane.” O, answer me!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0667"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0667">FTLN 0667</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.51" title="1.4.51">Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0668"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0668">FTLN 0668</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.52" title="1.4.52">Why thy canonized bones, hearsèd in death,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0669"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0669">FTLN 0669</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.53" title="1.4.53">Have burst their cerements; why the sepulcher,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0670"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0670">FTLN 0670</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.54" title="1.4.54">Wherein we saw thee quietly interred,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0671"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0671">FTLN 0671</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.55" title="1.4.55">Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 4</div>
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<a name="ftln-0672"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0672">FTLN 0672</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.56" title="1.4.56">To cast thee up again. What may this mean</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0673"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0673">FTLN 0673</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.57" title="1.4.57">That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0674"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0674">FTLN 0674</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.58" title="1.4.58">Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0675"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0675">FTLN 0675</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.59" title="1.4.59">Making night hideous, and we fools of nature</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0676"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0676">FTLN 0676</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.60" title="1.4.60">So horridly to shake our disposition</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0677"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0677">FTLN 0677</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.61" title="1.4.61">With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0678"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0678">FTLN 0678</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.62" title="1.4.62">Say, why is this? Wherefore? What should we do?</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.4.62.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.4.62.1" title="SD 1.4.62.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Ghost<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 1.4.62.1" title="SD 1.4.62.1"> beckons.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0679"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0679">FTLN 0679</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.63" title="1.4.63">It beckons you to go away with it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0680"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0680">FTLN 0680</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.64" title="1.4.64">As if it some impartment did desire</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0681"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0681">FTLN 0681</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.65" title="1.4.65">To you alone.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0682"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0682">FTLN 0682</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 26px;"> </span><span id="line-1.4.66" title="1.4.66">Look with what courteous action</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0683"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0683">FTLN 0683</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.67" title="1.4.67">It waves you to a more removèd ground.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0684"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0684">FTLN 0684</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.68" title="1.4.68">But do not go with it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0685"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0685">FTLN 0685</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 95px;"> </span><span id="line-1.4.69" title="1.4.69">No, by no means.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0686"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0686">FTLN 0686</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.70" title="1.4.70">It will not speak. Then I will follow it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0687"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0687">FTLN 0687</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.71" title="1.4.71">Do not, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0688"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0688">FTLN 0688</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 68px;"> </span><span id="line-1.4.72" title="1.4.72">Why, what should be the fear?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0689"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0689">FTLN 0689</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.73" title="1.4.73">I do not set my life at a pin’s fee.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0690"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0690">FTLN 0690</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.74" title="1.4.74">And for my soul, what can it do to that,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0691"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0691">FTLN 0691</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.75" title="1.4.75">Being a thing immortal as itself?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0692"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0692">FTLN 0692</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.76" title="1.4.76">It waves me forth again. I’ll follow it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0693"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0693">FTLN 0693</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.77" title="1.4.77">What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0694"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0694">FTLN 0694</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.78" title="1.4.78">Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0695"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0695">FTLN 0695</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.79" title="1.4.79">That beetles o’er his base into the sea,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0696"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0696">FTLN 0696</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.80" title="1.4.80">And there assume some other horrible form</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0697"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0697">FTLN 0697</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.81" title="1.4.81">Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0698"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0698">FTLN 0698</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.82" title="1.4.82">And draw you into madness? Think of it.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0699"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0699">FTLN 0699</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.83" title="1.4.83"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">The</span><span id="line-1.4.83" title="1.4.83"> very place puts toys of desperation,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0700"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0700">FTLN 0700</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.84" title="1.4.84">Without more motive, into every brain</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0701"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0701">FTLN 0701</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.85" title="1.4.85">That looks so many fathoms to the sea</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0702"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0702">FTLN 0702</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.86" title="1.4.86">And hears it roar beneath.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 5</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0703"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0703">FTLN 0703</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.87" title="1.4.87">It waves me still.—Go on, I’ll follow thee.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0704"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0704">FTLN 0704</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.88" title="1.4.88">You shall not go, my lord.</span><a name="line-SD"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-1.4.88" title="1.4.88"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">They</span><span id="line-1.4.88" title="1.4.88"> hold back Hamlet.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0705"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0705">FTLN 0705</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 132px;"> </span><span id="line-1.4.89" title="1.4.89">Hold off your hands.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0706"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0706">FTLN 0706</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.90" title="1.4.90">Be ruled. You shall not go.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0707"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0707">FTLN 0707</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 137px;"> </span><span id="line-1.4.91" title="1.4.91">My fate cries out</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0708"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0708">FTLN 0708</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.92" title="1.4.92">And makes each petty arture in this body</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0709"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0709">FTLN 0709</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.93" title="1.4.93">As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0710"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0710">FTLN 0710</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.94" title="1.4.94">Still am I called. Unhand me, gentlemen.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0711"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0711">FTLN 0711</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.95" title="1.4.95">By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0712"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0712">FTLN 0712</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.96" title="1.4.96">I say, away!—Go on. I’ll follow thee.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.4.96.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.4.96.1" title="SD 1.4.96.1">Ghost and Hamlet exit.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0713"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0713">FTLN 0713</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.97" title="1.4.97">He waxes desperate with imagination.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0714"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0714">FTLN 0714</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.98" title="1.4.98">Let’s follow. ’Tis not fit thus to obey him.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0715"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0715">FTLN 0715</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.99" title="1.4.99">Have after. To what issue will this come?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0716"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0716">FTLN 0716</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.4.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.100" title="1.4.100">Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0717"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0717">FTLN 0717</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.4.101" title="1.4.101">Heaven will direct it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0718"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0718">FTLN 0718</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 76px;"> </span><span id="line-1.4.102" title="1.4.102">Nay, let’s follow him.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.4.102.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.4.102.1" title="SD 1.4.102.1">They exit.</span></span><br>
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<a name="line-1.5.0"></a>
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<span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Scene</span> <span>5<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span>
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<a name="line-SD1.5.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 1.5.0" title="SD 1.5.0">Enter Ghost and Hamlet.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0719"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0719">FTLN 0719</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.1" title="1.5.1">Whither wilt thou lead me? Speak. I’ll go no</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0720"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0720">FTLN 0720</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.5.2" title="1.5.2">further.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0721"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0721">FTLN 0721</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.3" title="1.5.3">Mark me.</span><br>
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<div class="pageNbr">57</div>
<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 1. SC. 5</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0722"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0722">FTLN 0722</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 21px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.4" title="1.5.4">I will.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0723"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0723">FTLN 0723</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 80px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.5" title="1.5.5">My hour is almost come</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0724"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0724">FTLN 0724</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.6" title="1.5.6">When I to sulf’rous and tormenting flames</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0725"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0725">FTLN 0725</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.7" title="1.5.7">Must render up myself.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0726"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0726">FTLN 0726</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 114px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.8" title="1.5.8">Alas, poor ghost!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0727"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0727">FTLN 0727</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.9" title="1.5.9">Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0728"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0728">FTLN 0728</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.10" title="1.5.10">To what I shall unfold.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0729"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0729">FTLN 0729</span><span id="line-1.5.11" title="1.5.11">Speak. I am bound to hear.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0730"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0730">FTLN 0730</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.12" title="1.5.12">So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0731"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0731">FTLN 0731</span><span id="line-1.5.13" title="1.5.13">What?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0732"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0732">FTLN 0732</span><span id="line-1.5.14" title="1.5.14">I am thy father’s spirit,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0733"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0733">FTLN 0733</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.15" title="1.5.15">Doomed for a certain term to walk the night</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0734"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0734">FTLN 0734</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.16" title="1.5.16">And for the day confined to fast in fires</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0735"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0735">FTLN 0735</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.17" title="1.5.17">Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0736"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0736">FTLN 0736</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.18" title="1.5.18">Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0737"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0737">FTLN 0737</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.19" title="1.5.19">To tell the secrets of my prison house,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0738"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0738">FTLN 0738</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.20" title="1.5.20">I could a tale unfold whose lightest word</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0739"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0739">FTLN 0739</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.21" title="1.5.21">Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0740"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0740">FTLN 0740</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.22" title="1.5.22">Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0741"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0741">FTLN 0741</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.5.23" title="1.5.23">spheres,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0742"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0742">FTLN 0742</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.24" title="1.5.24">Thy knotted and combinèd locks to part,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0743"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0743">FTLN 0743</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.25" title="1.5.25">And each particular hair to stand an end,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0744"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0744">FTLN 0744</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.26" title="1.5.26">Like quills upon the fearful porpentine.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0745"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0745">FTLN 0745</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.27" title="1.5.27">But this eternal blazon must not be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0746"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0746">FTLN 0746</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.28" title="1.5.28">To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0747"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0747">FTLN 0747</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.29" title="1.5.29">If thou didst ever thy dear father love—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0748"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0748">FTLN 0748</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.30">30</span><span id="line-1.5.30" title="1.5.30">O God!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0749"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0749">FTLN 0749</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.31" title="1.5.31">Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0750"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0750">FTLN 0750</span><span id="line-1.5.32" title="1.5.32">Murder?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0751"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0751">FTLN 0751</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.33" title="1.5.33">Murder most foul, as in the best it is,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0752"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0752">FTLN 0752</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.34" title="1.5.34">But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0753"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0753">FTLN 0753</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.35" title="1.5.35">Haste me to know ’t, that I, with wings as swift</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-0754"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0754">FTLN 0754</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.36" title="1.5.36">As meditation or the thoughts of love,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0755"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0755">FTLN 0755</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.37" title="1.5.37">May sweep to my revenge.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0756"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0756">FTLN 0756</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 148px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.38" title="1.5.38">I find thee apt;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0757"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0757">FTLN 0757</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.39" title="1.5.39">And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0758"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0758">FTLN 0758</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.40" title="1.5.40">That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0759"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0759">FTLN 0759</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.41" title="1.5.41">Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0760"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0760">FTLN 0760</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.42" title="1.5.42">’Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0761"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0761">FTLN 0761</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.43" title="1.5.43">A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0762"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0762">FTLN 0762</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.44" title="1.5.44">Is by a forgèd process of my death</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0763"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0763">FTLN 0763</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.45" title="1.5.45">Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0764"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0764">FTLN 0764</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.46" title="1.5.46">The serpent that did sting thy father’s life</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0765"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0765">FTLN 0765</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.47" title="1.5.47">Now wears his crown.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0766"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0766">FTLN 0766</span><span id="line-1.5.48" title="1.5.48">O, my prophetic soul! My uncle!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0767"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0767">FTLN 0767</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.49" title="1.5.49">Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0768"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0768">FTLN 0768</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.50" title="1.5.50">With witchcraft of his wits, with traitorous gifts—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0769"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0769">FTLN 0769</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.51" title="1.5.51">O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0770"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0770">FTLN 0770</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.52" title="1.5.52">So to seduce!—won to his shameful lust</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0771"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0771">FTLN 0771</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.53" title="1.5.53">The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0772"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0772">FTLN 0772</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.54" title="1.5.54">O Hamlet, what <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">a<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.5.54" title="1.5.54"> falling off was there!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0773"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0773">FTLN 0773</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.55" title="1.5.55">From me, whose love was of that dignity</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0774"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0774">FTLN 0774</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.56" title="1.5.56">That it went hand in hand even with the vow</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0775"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0775">FTLN 0775</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.57" title="1.5.57">I made to her in marriage, and to decline</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0776"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0776">FTLN 0776</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.58" title="1.5.58">Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0777"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0777">FTLN 0777</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.59" title="1.5.59">To those of mine.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0778"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0778">FTLN 0778</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.60" title="1.5.60">But virtue, as it never will be moved,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0779"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0779">FTLN 0779</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.61" title="1.5.61">Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0780"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0780">FTLN 0780</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.62" title="1.5.62">So, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">lust</span><span id="line-1.5.62" title="1.5.62">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.5.62" title="1.5.62"> though to a radiant angel linked,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0781"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0781">FTLN 0781</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.63" title="1.5.63">Will <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">sate<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.5.63" title="1.5.63"> itself in a celestial bed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0782"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0782">FTLN 0782</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.64" title="1.5.64">And prey on garbage.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0783"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0783">FTLN 0783</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.65" title="1.5.65">But soft, methinks I scent the morning air.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0784"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0784">FTLN 0784</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.66" title="1.5.66">Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0785"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0785">FTLN 0785</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.67" title="1.5.67">My custom always of the afternoon,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0786"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0786">FTLN 0786</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.68" title="1.5.68">Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0787"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0787">FTLN 0787</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.69" title="1.5.69">With juice of cursèd hebona in a vial,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0788"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0788">FTLN 0788</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.70" title="1.5.70">And in the porches of my ears did pour</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-0789"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0789">FTLN 0789</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.71" title="1.5.71">The leprous distilment, whose effect</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0790"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0790">FTLN 0790</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.72" title="1.5.72">Holds such an enmity with blood of man</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0791"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0791">FTLN 0791</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.73" title="1.5.73">That swift as quicksilver it courses through</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0792"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0792">FTLN 0792</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.74" title="1.5.74">The natural gates and alleys of the body,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0793"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0793">FTLN 0793</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.75" title="1.5.75">And with a sudden vigor it doth <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">posset<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0794"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0794">FTLN 0794</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.76" title="1.5.76">And curd, like eager droppings into milk,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0795"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0795">FTLN 0795</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.77" title="1.5.77">The thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0796"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0796">FTLN 0796</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.78" title="1.5.78">And a most instant tetter barked about,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0797"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0797">FTLN 0797</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.79" title="1.5.79">Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0798"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0798">FTLN 0798</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.80" title="1.5.80">All my smooth body.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0799"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0799">FTLN 0799</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.81" title="1.5.81">Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0800"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0800">FTLN 0800</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.82" title="1.5.82">Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0801"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0801">FTLN 0801</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.83" title="1.5.83">Cut off, even in the blossoms of my sin,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0802"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0802">FTLN 0802</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.84" title="1.5.84">Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0803"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0803">FTLN 0803</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.85" title="1.5.85">No reck’ning made, but sent to my account</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0804"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0804">FTLN 0804</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.86" title="1.5.86">With all my imperfections on my head.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0805"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0805">FTLN 0805</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.87" title="1.5.87">O horrible, O horrible, most horrible!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0806"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0806">FTLN 0806</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.88" title="1.5.88">If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0807"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0807">FTLN 0807</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.89" title="1.5.89">Let not the royal bed of Denmark be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0808"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0808">FTLN 0808</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.90" title="1.5.90">A couch for luxury and damnèd incest.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0809"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0809">FTLN 0809</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.91" title="1.5.91">But, howsomever thou pursues this act,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0810"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0810">FTLN 0810</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.92" title="1.5.92">Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0811"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0811">FTLN 0811</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.93" title="1.5.93">Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0812"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0812">FTLN 0812</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.94" title="1.5.94">And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0813"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0813">FTLN 0813</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.95" title="1.5.95">To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0814"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0814">FTLN 0814</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.96" title="1.5.96">The glowworm shows the matin to be near</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0815"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0815">FTLN 0815</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.97" title="1.5.97">And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0816"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0816">FTLN 0816</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.98" title="1.5.98">Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.</span><a name="line-SD1.5.98"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.5.98" title="SD 1.5.98"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">He</span><span id="line-SD 1.5.98" title="SD 1.5.98"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0817"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0817">FTLN 0817</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.99" title="1.5.99">O all you host of heaven! O Earth! What else?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0818"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0818">FTLN 0818</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.100" title="1.5.100">And shall I couple hell? O fie! Hold, hold, my heart,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0819"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0819">FTLN 0819</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.101" title="1.5.101">And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0820"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0820">FTLN 0820</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.102" title="1.5.102">But bear me <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">stiffly<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.5.102" title="1.5.102"> up. Remember thee?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0821"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0821">FTLN 0821</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.103" title="1.5.103">Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0822"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0822">FTLN 0822</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.104" title="1.5.104">In this distracted globe. Remember thee?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0823"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0823">FTLN 0823</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.105" title="1.5.105">Yea, from the table of my memory</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-0824"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0824">FTLN 0824</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.106" title="1.5.106">I’ll wipe away all trivial, fond records,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0825"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0825">FTLN 0825</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.107" title="1.5.107">All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0826"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0826">FTLN 0826</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.108" title="1.5.108">That youth and observation copied there,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0827"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0827">FTLN 0827</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.109" title="1.5.109">And thy commandment all alone shall live</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0828"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0828">FTLN 0828</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.110" title="1.5.110">Within the book and volume of my brain,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0829"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0829">FTLN 0829</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.111" title="1.5.111">Unmixed with baser matter. Yes, by heaven!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0830"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0830">FTLN 0830</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.112" title="1.5.112">O most pernicious woman!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0831"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0831">FTLN 0831</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.113" title="1.5.113">O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0832"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0832">FTLN 0832</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.114" title="1.5.114">My tables—meet it is I set it down</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0833"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0833">FTLN 0833</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.115">115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.115" title="1.5.115">That one may smile and smile and be a villain.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0834"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0834">FTLN 0834</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.116" title="1.5.116">At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.5.116.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.5.116.1" title="SD 1.5.116.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 1.5.116.1" title="SD 1.5.116.1"> writes.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-0835"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0835">FTLN 0835</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.117" title="1.5.117">So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0836"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0836">FTLN 0836</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.118" title="1.5.118">It is “adieu, adieu, remember me.”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0837"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0837">FTLN 0837</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.119" title="1.5.119">I have sworn ’t.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD1.5.119.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 1.5.119.1" title="SD 1.5.119.1">Enter Horatio and Marcellus.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0838"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0838">FTLN 0838</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.120">120</span><span id="line-1.5.120" title="1.5.120">My lord, my lord!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0839"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0839">FTLN 0839</span><span id="line-1.5.121" title="1.5.121">Lord Hamlet.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0840"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0840">FTLN 0840</span><span id="line-1.5.122" title="1.5.122">Heavens secure him!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0841"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0841">FTLN 0841</span><span id="line-1.5.123" title="1.5.123">So be it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0842"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0842">FTLN 0842</span><span id="line-1.5.124" title="1.5.124">Illo, ho, ho, my lord!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0843"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0843">FTLN 0843</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.125">125</span><span id="line-1.5.125" title="1.5.125">Hillo, ho, ho, boy! Come, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">bird</span><span id="line-1.5.125" title="1.5.125">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-1.5.125" title="1.5.125"> come!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0844"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0844">FTLN 0844</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.126" title="1.5.126">How is ’t, my noble lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0845"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0845">FTLN 0845</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 124px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.127" title="1.5.127">What news, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0846"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0846">FTLN 0846</span><span id="line-1.5.128" title="1.5.128">O, wonderful!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0847"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0847">FTLN 0847</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.129" title="1.5.129">Good my lord, tell it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0848"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0848">FTLN 0848</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 100px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.130" title="1.5.130">No, you will reveal it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0849"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0849">FTLN 0849</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.131" title="1.5.131">Not I, my lord, by heaven.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0850"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0850">FTLN 0850</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 108px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.132" title="1.5.132">Nor I, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0851"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0851">FTLN 0851</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.133" title="1.5.133">How say you, then? Would heart of man once think</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0852"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0852">FTLN 0852</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.5.134" title="1.5.134">it?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0853"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0853">FTLN 0853</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.135">135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.135" title="1.5.135">But you’ll be secret?</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HORATIO/MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0854"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0854">FTLN 0854</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 14px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.136" title="1.5.136"> Ay, by heaven, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">my</span><span id="line-1.5.136" title="1.5.136"> lord.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0855"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0855">FTLN 0855</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.137" title="1.5.137">There’s never a villain dwelling in all Denmark</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0856"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0856">FTLN 0856</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.138" title="1.5.138">But he’s an arrant knave.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0857"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0857">FTLN 0857</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.139" title="1.5.139">There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0858"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0858">FTLN 0858</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.140">140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.140" title="1.5.140">To tell us this.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0859"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0859">FTLN 0859</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 53px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.141" title="1.5.141">Why, right, you are in the right.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0860"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0860">FTLN 0860</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.142" title="1.5.142">And so, without more circumstance at all,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0861"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0861">FTLN 0861</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.143" title="1.5.143">I hold it fit that we shake hands and part,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0862"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0862">FTLN 0862</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.144" title="1.5.144">You, as your business and desire shall point you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0863"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0863">FTLN 0863</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.145">145</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.145" title="1.5.145">(For every man hath business and desire,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0864"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0864">FTLN 0864</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.146" title="1.5.146">Such as it is), and for my own poor part,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0865"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0865">FTLN 0865</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.147" title="1.5.147">I will go pray.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0866"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0866">FTLN 0866</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.148" title="1.5.148">These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0867"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0867">FTLN 0867</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.149" title="1.5.149">I am sorry they offend you, heartily;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0868"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0868">FTLN 0868</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.150">150</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.150" title="1.5.150">Yes, faith, heartily.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0869"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0869">FTLN 0869</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 81px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.151" title="1.5.151">There’s no offense, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0870"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0870">FTLN 0870</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.152" title="1.5.152">Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0871"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0871">FTLN 0871</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.153" title="1.5.153">And much offense, too. Touching this vision here,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0872"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0872">FTLN 0872</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.154" title="1.5.154">It is an honest ghost—that let me tell you.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0873"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0873">FTLN 0873</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.155">155</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.155" title="1.5.155">For your desire to know what is between us,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0874"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0874">FTLN 0874</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.156" title="1.5.156">O’ermaster ’t as you may. And now, good friends,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0875"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0875">FTLN 0875</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.157" title="1.5.157">As you are friends, scholars, and soldiers,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0876"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0876">FTLN 0876</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.158" title="1.5.158">Give me one poor request.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0877"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0877">FTLN 0877</span><span id="line-1.5.159" title="1.5.159">What is ’t, my lord? We will.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0878"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0878">FTLN 0878</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.160">160</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.160" title="1.5.160">Never make known what you have seen tonight.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO/MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0879"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0879">FTLN 0879</span><span id="line-1.5.161" title="1.5.161"> My lord, we will not.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0880"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0880">FTLN 0880</span><span id="line-1.5.162" title="1.5.162">Nay, but swear ’t.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0881"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0881">FTLN 0881</span><span id="line-1.5.163" title="1.5.163">In faith, my lord, not I.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0882"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0882">FTLN 0882</span><span id="line-1.5.164" title="1.5.164">Nor I, my lord, in faith.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0883"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0883">FTLN 0883</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.165">165</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.165" title="1.5.165">Upon my sword.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">MARCELLUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0884"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0884">FTLN 0884</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 45px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.166" title="1.5.166">We have sworn, my lord, already.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0885"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0885">FTLN 0885</span><span id="line-1.5.167" title="1.5.167">Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><a name="line-SD1.5.168"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.5.168" title="SD 1.5.168"> cries under the stage</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0886"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0886">FTLN 0886</span><span id="line-1.5.168" title="1.5.168">Swear.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0887"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0887">FTLN 0887</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.169" title="1.5.169">Ha, ha, boy, sayst thou so? Art thou there,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0888"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0888">FTLN 0888</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.170">170</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.5.170" title="1.5.170">truepenny?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0889"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0889">FTLN 0889</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.171" title="1.5.171">Come on, you hear this fellow in the cellarage.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0890"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0890">FTLN 0890</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.172" title="1.5.172">Consent to swear.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0891"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0891">FTLN 0891</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 73px;"> </span><span id="line-1.5.173" title="1.5.173">Propose the oath, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0892"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0892">FTLN 0892</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.174" title="1.5.174">Never to speak of this that you have seen,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0893"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0893">FTLN 0893</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.175">175</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.175" title="1.5.175">Swear by my sword.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><a name="line-SD1.5.176"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.5.176" title="SD 1.5.176">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">beneath<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0894"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0894">FTLN 0894</span><span id="line-1.5.176" title="1.5.176">Swear.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0895"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0895">FTLN 0895</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span class="italic"><span id="line-1.5.177" title="1.5.177">Hic et ubique?</span></span><span id="line-1.5.177" title="1.5.177"> Then we’ll shift our ground.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0896"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0896">FTLN 0896</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.178" title="1.5.178">Come hither, gentlemen,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0897"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0897">FTLN 0897</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.179" title="1.5.179">And lay your hands again upon my sword.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0898"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0898">FTLN 0898</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.180">180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.180" title="1.5.180">Swear by my sword</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0899"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0899">FTLN 0899</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.181" title="1.5.181">Never to speak of this that you have heard.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><a name="line-SD1.5.182"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.5.182" title="SD 1.5.182">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">beneath<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0900"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0900">FTLN 0900</span><span id="line-1.5.182" title="1.5.182">Swear by his sword.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0901"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0901">FTLN 0901</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.183" title="1.5.183">Well said, old mole. Canst work i’ th’ earth so fast?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0902"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0902">FTLN 0902</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.184" title="1.5.184">A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0903"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0903">FTLN 0903</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.185" title="1.5.185">O day and night, but this is wondrous strange.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0904"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0904">FTLN 0904</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.186" title="1.5.186">And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0905"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0905">FTLN 0905</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.187" title="1.5.187">There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0906"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0906">FTLN 0906</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.188" title="1.5.188">Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0907"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0907">FTLN 0907</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.189" title="1.5.189">Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0908"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0908">FTLN 0908</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.190">190</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.190" title="1.5.190">How strange or odd some’er I bear myself</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0909"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0909">FTLN 0909</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.191" title="1.5.191">(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0910"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0910">FTLN 0910</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.192" title="1.5.192">To put an antic disposition on)</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0911"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0911">FTLN 0911</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.193" title="1.5.193">That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0912"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0912">FTLN 0912</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.194" title="1.5.194">With arms encumbered thus, or this headshake,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0913"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0913">FTLN 0913</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.195">195</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.195" title="1.5.195">Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-0914"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0914">FTLN 0914</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.196" title="1.5.196">As “Well, well, we know,” or “We could an if we</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0915"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0915">FTLN 0915</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.5.197" title="1.5.197">would,”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0916"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0916">FTLN 0916</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.198" title="1.5.198">Or “If we list to speak,” or “There be an if they</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0917"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0917">FTLN 0917</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-1.5.199" title="1.5.199">might,”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0918"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0918">FTLN 0918</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.200">200</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.200" title="1.5.200">Or such ambiguous giving-out, to note</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0919"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0919">FTLN 0919</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.201" title="1.5.201">That you know aught of me—this do swear,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0920"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0920">FTLN 0920</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.202" title="1.5.202">So grace and mercy at your most need help you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><a name="line-SD1.5.203"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 1.5.203" title="SD 1.5.203">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">beneath<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0921"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0921">FTLN 0921</span><span id="line-1.5.203" title="1.5.203">Swear.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0922"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0922">FTLN 0922</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.204" title="1.5.204">Rest, rest, perturbèd spirit.—So, gentlemen,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0923"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0923">FTLN 0923</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.205">205</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.205" title="1.5.205">With all my love I do commend me to you,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0924"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0924">FTLN 0924</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.206" title="1.5.206">And what so poor a man as Hamlet is</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0925"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0925">FTLN 0925</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.207" title="1.5.207">May do t’ express his love and friending to you,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0926"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0926">FTLN 0926</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.208" title="1.5.208">God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0927"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0927">FTLN 0927</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.209" title="1.5.209">And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0928"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0928">FTLN 0928</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_1.5.210">210</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.210" title="1.5.210">The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0929"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0929">FTLN 0929</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.211" title="1.5.211">That ever I was born to set it right!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0930"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0930">FTLN 0930</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-1.5.212" title="1.5.212">Nay, come, let’s go together.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD1.5.212.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 1.5.212.1" title="SD 1.5.212.1">They exit.</span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD2.1.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 2.1.0" title="SD 2.1.0">Enter old Polonius with his man <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Reynaldo</span><span id="line-SD 2.1.0" title="SD 2.1.0">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0931"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0931">FTLN 0931</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.1" title="2.1.1">Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0932"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0932">FTLN 0932</span><span id="line-2.1.2" title="2.1.2">I will, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0933"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0933">FTLN 0933</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.3" title="2.1.3">You shall do marvelous wisely, good Reynaldo,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0934"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0934">FTLN 0934</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.4" title="2.1.4">Before you visit him, to make inquire</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0935"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0935">FTLN 0935</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.5" title="2.1.5">Of his behavior.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0936"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0936">FTLN 0936</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 50px;"> </span><span id="line-2.1.6" title="2.1.6">My lord, I did intend it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0937"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0937">FTLN 0937</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.7" title="2.1.7">Marry, well said, very well said. Look you, sir,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0938"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0938">FTLN 0938</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.8" title="2.1.8">Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0939"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0939">FTLN 0939</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.9" title="2.1.9">And how, and who, what means, and where they</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0940"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0940">FTLN 0940</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-2.1.10" title="2.1.10">keep,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0941"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0941">FTLN 0941</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.11" title="2.1.11">What company, at what expense; and finding</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0942"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0942">FTLN 0942</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.12" title="2.1.12">By this encompassment and drift of question</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0943"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0943">FTLN 0943</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.13" title="2.1.13">That they do know my son, come you more nearer</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0944"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0944">FTLN 0944</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.14" title="2.1.14">Than your particular demands will touch it.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0945"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0945">FTLN 0945</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.15" title="2.1.15">Take you, as ’twere, some distant knowledge of him,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0946"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0946">FTLN 0946</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.16" title="2.1.16">As thus: “I know his father and his friends</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0947"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0947">FTLN 0947</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.17" title="2.1.17">And, in part, him.” Do you mark this, Reynaldo?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0948"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0948">FTLN 0948</span><span id="line-2.1.18" title="2.1.18">Ay, very well, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0949"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0949">FTLN 0949</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.19" title="2.1.19">“And, in part, him, but,” you may say, “not well.</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-0950"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0950">FTLN 0950</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.20" title="2.1.20">But if ’t be he I mean, he’s very wild,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0951"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0951">FTLN 0951</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.21" title="2.1.21">Addicted so and so.” And there put on him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0952"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0952">FTLN 0952</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.22" title="2.1.22">What forgeries you please—marry, none so rank</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0953"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0953">FTLN 0953</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.23" title="2.1.23">As may dishonor him, take heed of that,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0954"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0954">FTLN 0954</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.24" title="2.1.24">But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0955"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0955">FTLN 0955</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.25" title="2.1.25">As are companions noted and most known</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0956"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0956">FTLN 0956</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.26" title="2.1.26">To youth and liberty.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0957"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0957">FTLN 0957</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 82px;"> </span><span id="line-2.1.27" title="2.1.27">As gaming, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0958"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0958">FTLN 0958</span><span id="line-2.1.28" title="2.1.28">Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0959"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0959">FTLN 0959</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.29" title="2.1.29">Quarreling, drabbing—you may go so far.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0960"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0960">FTLN 0960</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.30">30</span><span id="line-2.1.30" title="2.1.30">My lord, that would dishonor him.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0961"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0961">FTLN 0961</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.31" title="2.1.31">Faith, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">no</span><span id="line-2.1.31" title="2.1.31">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.1.31" title="2.1.31"> as you may season it in the charge.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0962"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0962">FTLN 0962</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.32" title="2.1.32">You must not put another scandal on him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0963"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0963">FTLN 0963</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.33" title="2.1.33">That he is open to incontinency;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0964"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0964">FTLN 0964</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.34" title="2.1.34">That’s not my meaning. But breathe his faults so</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0965"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0965">FTLN 0965</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-2.1.35" title="2.1.35">quaintly</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0966"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0966">FTLN 0966</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.36" title="2.1.36">That they may seem the taints of liberty,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0967"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0967">FTLN 0967</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.37" title="2.1.37">The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0968"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0968">FTLN 0968</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.38" title="2.1.38">A savageness in unreclaimèd blood,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0969"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0969">FTLN 0969</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.39" title="2.1.39">Of general assault.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0970"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0970">FTLN 0970</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.40">40</span><span id="line-2.1.40" title="2.1.40">But, my good lord—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0971"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0971">FTLN 0971</span><span id="line-2.1.41" title="2.1.41">Wherefore should you do this?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0972"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0972">FTLN 0972</span><span id="line-2.1.42" title="2.1.42">Ay, my lord, I would know that.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0973"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0973">FTLN 0973</span><span id="line-2.1.43" title="2.1.43">Marry, sir, here’s my drift,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0974"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0974">FTLN 0974</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.44" title="2.1.44">And I believe it is a fetch of wit.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0975"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0975">FTLN 0975</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.45" title="2.1.45">You, laying these slight sullies on my son,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0976"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0976">FTLN 0976</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.46" title="2.1.46">As ’twere a thing a little soiled <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">i’</span><span id="line-2.1.46" title="2.1.46"> th’<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.1.46" title="2.1.46"> working,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0977"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0977">FTLN 0977</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.47" title="2.1.47">Mark you, your party in converse, him you would</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0978"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0978">FTLN 0978</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-2.1.48" title="2.1.48">sound,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0979"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0979">FTLN 0979</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.49" title="2.1.49">Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0980"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0980">FTLN 0980</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.50" title="2.1.50">The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0981"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0981">FTLN 0981</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.51" title="2.1.51">He closes with you in this consequence:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0982"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0982">FTLN 0982</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.52" title="2.1.52">“Good sir,” or so, or “friend,” or “gentleman,”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0983"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0983">FTLN 0983</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.53" title="2.1.53">According to the phrase or the addition</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0984"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0984">FTLN 0984</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.54" title="2.1.54">Of man and country—</span><br>
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<div class="pageNbr">77</div>
<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 1</div>
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<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0985"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0985">FTLN 0985</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 92px;"> </span><span id="line-2.1.55" title="2.1.55">Very good, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0986"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0986">FTLN 0986</span><span id="line-2.1.56" title="2.1.56">And then, sir, does he this, he does—what</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0987"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0987">FTLN 0987</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.57" title="2.1.57">was I about to say? By the Mass, I was about to say</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0988"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0988">FTLN 0988</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.58" title="2.1.58">something. Where did I leave?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-0989"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0989">FTLN 0989</span><span id="line-2.1.59" title="2.1.59">At “closes in the consequence,” <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">at</span><span id="line-2.1.59" title="2.1.59"> “friend,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0990"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0990">FTLN 0990</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.60" title="2.1.60">or so,” and “gentleman.”<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-0991"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0991">FTLN 0991</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.61" title="2.1.61">At “closes in the consequence”—ay, marry—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0992"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0992">FTLN 0992</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.62" title="2.1.62">He closes thus: “I know the gentleman.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0993"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0993">FTLN 0993</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.63" title="2.1.63">I saw him yesterday,” or “th’ other day”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0994"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0994">FTLN 0994</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.64" title="2.1.64">(Or then, or then, with such or such), “and as you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0995"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0995">FTLN 0995</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-2.1.65" title="2.1.65">say,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0996"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0996">FTLN 0996</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.66" title="2.1.66">There was he gaming, there <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">o’ertook<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.1.66" title="2.1.66"> in ’s rouse,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0997"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0997">FTLN 0997</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.67" title="2.1.67">There falling out at tennis”; or perchance</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0998"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0998">FTLN 0998</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.68" title="2.1.68">“I saw him enter such a house of sale”—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-0999"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_0999">FTLN 0999</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span class="italic"><span id="line-2.1.69" title="2.1.69">Videlicet</span></span><span id="line-2.1.69" title="2.1.69">, a brothel—or so forth. See you now</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1000"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1000">FTLN 1000</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.70" title="2.1.70">Your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1001"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1001">FTLN 1001</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.71" title="2.1.71">And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1002"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1002">FTLN 1002</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.72" title="2.1.72">With windlasses and with assays of bias,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1003"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1003">FTLN 1003</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.73" title="2.1.73">By indirections find directions out.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1004"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1004">FTLN 1004</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.74" title="2.1.74">So by my former lecture and advice</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1005"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1005">FTLN 1005</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.75" title="2.1.75">Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1006"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1006">FTLN 1006</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.76" title="2.1.76">My lord, I have.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1007"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1007">FTLN 1007</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 54px;"> </span><span id="line-2.1.77" title="2.1.77">God be wi’ you. Fare you well.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1008"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1008">FTLN 1008</span><span id="line-2.1.78" title="2.1.78">Good my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1009"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1009">FTLN 1009</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.79" title="2.1.79">Observe his inclination in yourself.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1010"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1010">FTLN 1010</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.80">80</span><span id="line-2.1.80" title="2.1.80">I shall, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1011"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1011">FTLN 1011</span><span id="line-2.1.81" title="2.1.81">And let him ply his music.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">REYNALDO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1012"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1012">FTLN 1012</span><span id="line-2.1.82" title="2.1.82">Well, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1013"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1013">FTLN 1013</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.83" title="2.1.83">Farewell.</span><a name="line-SD2.1.83"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 2.1.83" title="SD 2.1.83">Reynaldo exits.</span></span><br>
<br>
<a name="line-SD2.1.83.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 2.1.83.1" title="SD 2.1.83.1">Enter Ophelia.</span></span><br>
<br>
<a name="ftln-1014"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1014">FTLN 1014</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 86px;"> </span><span id="line-2.1.84" title="2.1.84">How now, Ophelia, what’s the matter?</span><br>
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<div class="pageNbr">79</div>
<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 1</div>
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<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1015"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1015">FTLN 1015</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.85" title="2.1.85">O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1016"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1016">FTLN 1016</span><span id="line-2.1.86" title="2.1.86">With what, i’ th’ name of God?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1017"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1017">FTLN 1017</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.87" title="2.1.87">My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1018"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1018">FTLN 1018</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.88" title="2.1.88">Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1019"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1019">FTLN 1019</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.89" title="2.1.89">No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1020"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1020">FTLN 1020</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.90" title="2.1.90">Ungartered, and down-gyvèd to his ankle,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1021"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1021">FTLN 1021</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.91" title="2.1.91">Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1022"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1022">FTLN 1022</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.92" title="2.1.92">And with a look so piteous in purport</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1023"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1023">FTLN 1023</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.93" title="2.1.93">As if he had been loosèd out of hell</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1024"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1024">FTLN 1024</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.94" title="2.1.94">To speak of horrors—he comes before me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1025"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1025">FTLN 1025</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.95" title="2.1.95">Mad for thy love?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1026"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1026">FTLN 1026</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 76px;"> </span><span id="line-2.1.96" title="2.1.96">My lord, I do not know,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1027"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1027">FTLN 1027</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.97" title="2.1.97">But truly I do fear it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1028"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1028">FTLN 1028</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 87px;"> </span><span id="line-2.1.98" title="2.1.98">What said he?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1029"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1029">FTLN 1029</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.99" title="2.1.99">He took me by the wrist and held me hard.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1030"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1030">FTLN 1030</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.100" title="2.1.100">Then goes he to the length of all his arm,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1031"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1031">FTLN 1031</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.101" title="2.1.101">And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1032"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1032">FTLN 1032</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.102" title="2.1.102">He falls to such perusal of my face</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1033"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1033">FTLN 1033</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.103" title="2.1.103">As he would draw it. Long stayed he so.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1034"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1034">FTLN 1034</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.104" title="2.1.104">At last, a little shaking of mine arm,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1035"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1035">FTLN 1035</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.105" title="2.1.105">And thrice his head thus waving up and down,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1036"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1036">FTLN 1036</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.106" title="2.1.106">He raised a sigh so piteous and profound</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1037"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1037">FTLN 1037</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.107" title="2.1.107">As it did seem to shatter all his bulk</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1038"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1038">FTLN 1038</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.108" title="2.1.108">And end his being. That done, he lets me go,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1039"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1039">FTLN 1039</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.109" title="2.1.109">And, with his head over his shoulder turned,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1040"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1040">FTLN 1040</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.110" title="2.1.110">He seemed to find his way without his eyes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1041"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1041">FTLN 1041</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.111" title="2.1.111">For out o’ doors he went without their helps</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1042"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1042">FTLN 1042</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.112" title="2.1.112">And to the last bended their light on me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1043"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1043">FTLN 1043</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.113" title="2.1.113">Come, go with me. I will go seek the King.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1044"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1044">FTLN 1044</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.114" title="2.1.114">This is the very ecstasy of love,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1045"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1045">FTLN 1045</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.115">115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.115" title="2.1.115">Whose violent property fordoes itself</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-1046"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1046">FTLN 1046</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.116" title="2.1.116">And leads the will to desperate undertakings</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1047"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1047">FTLN 1047</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.117" title="2.1.117">As oft as any passions under heaven</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1048"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1048">FTLN 1048</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.118" title="2.1.118">That does afflict our natures. I am sorry.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1049"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1049">FTLN 1049</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.119" title="2.1.119">What, have you given him any hard words of late?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1050"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1050">FTLN 1050</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.120" title="2.1.120">No, my good lord, but as you did command</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1051"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1051">FTLN 1051</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.121" title="2.1.121">I did repel his letters and denied</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1052"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1052">FTLN 1052</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.122" title="2.1.122">His access to me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1053"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1053">FTLN 1053</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 68px;"> </span><span id="line-2.1.123" title="2.1.123">That hath made him mad.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1054"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1054">FTLN 1054</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.124" title="2.1.124">I am sorry that with better heed and judgment</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1055"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1055">FTLN 1055</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.125">125</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.125" title="2.1.125">I had not coted him. I feared he did but trifle</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1056"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1056">FTLN 1056</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.126" title="2.1.126">And meant to wrack thee. But beshrew my jealousy!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1057"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1057">FTLN 1057</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.127" title="2.1.127">By heaven, it is as proper to our age</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1058"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1058">FTLN 1058</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.128" title="2.1.128">To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1059"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1059">FTLN 1059</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.129" title="2.1.129">As it is common for the younger sort</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1060"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1060">FTLN 1060</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.1.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.130" title="2.1.130">To lack discretion. Come, go we to the King.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1061"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1061">FTLN 1061</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.131" title="2.1.131">This must be known, which, being kept close, might</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1062"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1062">FTLN 1062</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-2.1.132" title="2.1.132">move</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1063"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1063">FTLN 1063</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.133" title="2.1.133">More grief to hide than hate to utter love.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1064"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1064">FTLN 1064</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.1.134" title="2.1.134">Come.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD2.1.133.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 2.1.133.1" title="SD 2.1.133.1">They exit.</span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD2.2.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.0" title="SD 2.2.0">Flourish.</span></span><span id="line-SD 2.2.0" title="SD 2.2.0"> </span><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.0" title="SD 2.2.0">Enter King and Queen, Rosencrantz and</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 2.2.0" title="SD 2.2.0">Guildenstern <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">and</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.0" title="SD 2.2.0"> Attendants.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1065"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1065">FTLN 1065</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.1" title="2.2.1">Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1066"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1066">FTLN 1066</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.2" title="2.2.2">Moreover that we much did long to see you,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1067"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1067">FTLN 1067</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.3" title="2.2.3">The need we have to use you did provoke</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1068"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1068">FTLN 1068</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.4" title="2.2.4">Our hasty sending. Something have you heard</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1069"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1069">FTLN 1069</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.5" title="2.2.5">Of Hamlet’s transformation, so call it,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1070"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1070">FTLN 1070</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.6" title="2.2.6">Sith nor th’ exterior nor the inward man</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1071"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1071">FTLN 1071</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.7" title="2.2.7">Resembles that it was. What it should be,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1072"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1072">FTLN 1072</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.8" title="2.2.8">More than his father’s death, that thus hath put him</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-1073"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1073">FTLN 1073</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.9" title="2.2.9">So much from th’ understanding of himself</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1074"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1074">FTLN 1074</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.10" title="2.2.10">I cannot dream of. I entreat you both</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1075"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1075">FTLN 1075</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.11" title="2.2.11">That, being of so young days brought up with him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1076"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1076">FTLN 1076</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.12" title="2.2.12">And sith so neighbored to his youth and havior,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1077"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1077">FTLN 1077</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.13" title="2.2.13">That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1078"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1078">FTLN 1078</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.14" title="2.2.14">Some little time, so by your companies</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1079"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1079">FTLN 1079</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.15" title="2.2.15">To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1080"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1080">FTLN 1080</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.16" title="2.2.16">So much as from occasion you may glean,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1081"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1081">FTLN 1081</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.17" title="2.2.17"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">Whether</span><span id="line-2.2.17" title="2.2.17"> aught to us unknown afflicts him thus<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1082"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1082">FTLN 1082</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.18" title="2.2.18">That, opened, lies within our remedy.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1083"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1083">FTLN 1083</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.19" title="2.2.19">Good gentlemen, he hath much talked of you,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1084"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1084">FTLN 1084</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.20" title="2.2.20">And sure I am two men there is not living</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1085"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1085">FTLN 1085</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.21" title="2.2.21">To whom he more adheres. If it will please you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1086"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1086">FTLN 1086</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.22" title="2.2.22">To show us so much gentry and goodwill</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1087"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1087">FTLN 1087</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.23" title="2.2.23">As to expend your time with us awhile</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1088"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1088">FTLN 1088</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.24" title="2.2.24">For the supply and profit of our hope,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1089"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1089">FTLN 1089</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.25" title="2.2.25">Your visitation shall receive such thanks</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1090"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1090">FTLN 1090</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.26" title="2.2.26">As fits a king’s remembrance.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1091"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1091">FTLN 1091</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 120px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.27" title="2.2.27">Both your Majesties</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1092"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1092">FTLN 1092</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.28" title="2.2.28">Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1093"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1093">FTLN 1093</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.29" title="2.2.29">Put your dread pleasures more into command</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1094"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1094">FTLN 1094</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.30" title="2.2.30">Than to entreaty.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1095"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1095">FTLN 1095</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 30px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.31" title="2.2.31">But we both obey,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1096"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1096">FTLN 1096</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.32" title="2.2.32">And here give up ourselves in the full bent</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1097"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1097">FTLN 1097</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.33" title="2.2.33">To lay our service freely at your feet,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1098"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1098">FTLN 1098</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.34" title="2.2.34">To be commanded.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1099"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1099">FTLN 1099</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.35" title="2.2.35">Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1100"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1100">FTLN 1100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.36" title="2.2.36">Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1101"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1101">FTLN 1101</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.37" title="2.2.37">And I beseech you instantly to visit</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1102"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1102">FTLN 1102</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.38" title="2.2.38">My too much changèd son.—Go, some of you,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1103"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1103">FTLN 1103</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.39" title="2.2.39">And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1104"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1104">FTLN 1104</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.40" title="2.2.40">Heavens make our presence and our practices</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1105"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1105">FTLN 1105</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.41" title="2.2.41">Pleasant and helpful to him!</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1106"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1106">FTLN 1106</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 157px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.42" title="2.2.42">Ay, amen!</span><br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.42.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 2.2.42.1" title="SD 2.2.42.1">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern exit</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD2.2.42.2"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 2.2.42.2" title="SD 2.2.42.2">Enter Polonius.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1107"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1107">FTLN 1107</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.43" title="2.2.43">Th’ ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1108"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1108">FTLN 1108</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.44" title="2.2.44">Are joyfully returned.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1109"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1109">FTLN 1109</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.45" title="2.2.45">Thou still hast been the father of good news.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1110"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1110">FTLN 1110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.46" title="2.2.46">Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1111"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1111">FTLN 1111</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.47" title="2.2.47">I hold my duty as I hold my soul,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1112"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1112">FTLN 1112</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.48" title="2.2.48">Both to my God and to my gracious king,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1113"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1113">FTLN 1113</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.49" title="2.2.49">And I do think, or else this brain of mine</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1114"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1114">FTLN 1114</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.50" title="2.2.50">Hunts not the trail of policy so sure</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1115"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1115">FTLN 1115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.51" title="2.2.51">As it hath used to do, that I have found</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1116"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1116">FTLN 1116</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.52" title="2.2.52">The very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1117"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1117">FTLN 1117</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.53" title="2.2.53">O, speak of that! That do I long to hear.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1118"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1118">FTLN 1118</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.54" title="2.2.54">Give first admittance to th’ ambassadors.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1119"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1119">FTLN 1119</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.55" title="2.2.55">My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1120"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1120">FTLN 1120</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.56" title="2.2.56">Thyself do grace to them and bring them in.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.56.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 2.2.56.1" title="SD 2.2.56.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Polonius</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.56.1" title="SD 2.2.56.1"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1121"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1121">FTLN 1121</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.57" title="2.2.57">He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1122"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1122">FTLN 1122</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.58" title="2.2.58">The head and source of all your son’s distemper.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1123"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1123">FTLN 1123</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.59" title="2.2.59">I doubt it is no other but the main—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1124"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1124">FTLN 1124</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.60" title="2.2.60">His father’s death and our <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">o’erhasty<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.60" title="2.2.60"> marriage.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1125"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1125">FTLN 1125</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.61" title="2.2.61">Well, we shall sift him.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD2.2.61.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 2.2.61.1" title="SD 2.2.61.1">Enter Ambassadors <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Voltemand</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.61.1" title="SD 2.2.61.1"> and Cornelius <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">with<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><br>
<span id="line-SD 2.2.61.1" title="SD 2.2.61.1">Polonius.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-1126"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1126">FTLN 1126</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 181px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.62" title="2.2.62">Welcome, my good friends.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1127"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1127">FTLN 1127</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.63" title="2.2.63">Say, Voltemand, what from our brother Norway?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">VOLTEMAND</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1128"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1128">FTLN 1128</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.64" title="2.2.64">Most fair return of greetings and desires.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1129"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1129">FTLN 1129</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.65" title="2.2.65">Upon our first, he sent out to suppress</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1130"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1130">FTLN 1130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.66" title="2.2.66">His nephew’s levies, which to him appeared</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1131"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1131">FTLN 1131</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.67" title="2.2.67">To be a preparation ’gainst the Polack,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1132"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1132">FTLN 1132</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.68" title="2.2.68">But, better looked into, he truly found</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1133"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1133">FTLN 1133</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.69" title="2.2.69">It was against your Highness. Whereat, grieved</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1134"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1134">FTLN 1134</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.70" title="2.2.70">That so his sickness, age, and impotence</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1135"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1135">FTLN 1135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.71" title="2.2.71">Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1136"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1136">FTLN 1136</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.72" title="2.2.72">On Fortinbras, which he, in brief, obeys,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1137"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1137">FTLN 1137</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.73" title="2.2.73">Receives rebuke from Norway, and, in fine,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1138"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1138">FTLN 1138</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.74" title="2.2.74">Makes vow before his uncle never more</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1139"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1139">FTLN 1139</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.75" title="2.2.75">To give th’ assay of arms against your Majesty.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1140"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1140">FTLN 1140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.76" title="2.2.76">Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1141"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1141">FTLN 1141</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.77" title="2.2.77">Gives him three-score thousand crowns in annual</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1142"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1142">FTLN 1142</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-2.2.78" title="2.2.78">fee</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1143"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1143">FTLN 1143</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.79" title="2.2.79">And his commission to employ those soldiers,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1144"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1144">FTLN 1144</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.80" title="2.2.80">So levied as before, against the Polack,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1145"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1145">FTLN 1145</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.81" title="2.2.81">With an entreaty, herein further shown,</span><br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.81.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 2.2.81.1" title="SD 2.2.81.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.81.1" title="SD 2.2.81.1"> gives a paper.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1146"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1146">FTLN 1146</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.82" title="2.2.82">That it might please you to give quiet pass</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1147"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1147">FTLN 1147</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.83" title="2.2.83">Through your dominions for this enterprise,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1148"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1148">FTLN 1148</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.84" title="2.2.84">On such regards of safety and allowance</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1149"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1149">FTLN 1149</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.85" title="2.2.85">As therein are set down.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1150"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1150">FTLN 1150</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 142px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.86" title="2.2.86">It likes us well,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1151"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1151">FTLN 1151</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.87" title="2.2.87">And, at our more considered time, we’ll read,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1152"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1152">FTLN 1152</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.88" title="2.2.88">Answer, and think upon this business.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1153"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1153">FTLN 1153</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.89" title="2.2.89">Meantime, we thank you for your well-took labor.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1154"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1154">FTLN 1154</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.90" title="2.2.90">Go to your rest. At night we’ll feast together.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1155"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1155">FTLN 1155</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.91" title="2.2.91">Most welcome home!</span><br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.91.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 2.2.91.1" title="SD 2.2.91.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Voltemand</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.91.1" title="SD 2.2.91.1"> and Cornelius<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 2.2.91.1" title="SD 2.2.91.1"> exit.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1156"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1156">FTLN 1156</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 97px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.92" title="2.2.92">This business is well ended.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1157"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1157">FTLN 1157</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.93" title="2.2.93">My liege, and madam, to expostulate</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1158"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1158">FTLN 1158</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.94" title="2.2.94">What majesty should be, what duty is,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-1159"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1159">FTLN 1159</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.95" title="2.2.95">Why day is day, night night, and time is time</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1160"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1160">FTLN 1160</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.96" title="2.2.96">Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1161"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1161">FTLN 1161</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.97" title="2.2.97">Therefore, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">since<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.97" title="2.2.97"> brevity is the soul of wit,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1162"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1162">FTLN 1162</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.98" title="2.2.98">And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1163"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1163">FTLN 1163</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.99" title="2.2.99">I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1164"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1164">FTLN 1164</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.100" title="2.2.100">“Mad” call I it, for, to define true madness,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1165"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1165">FTLN 1165</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.101" title="2.2.101">What is ’t but to be nothing else but mad?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1166"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1166">FTLN 1166</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.102" title="2.2.102">But let that go.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1167"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1167">FTLN 1167</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 68px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.103" title="2.2.103">More matter with less art.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1168"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1168">FTLN 1168</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.104" title="2.2.104">Madam, I swear I use no art at all.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1169"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1169">FTLN 1169</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.105" title="2.2.105">That he’s mad, ’tis true; ’tis true ’tis pity,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1170"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1170">FTLN 1170</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.106" title="2.2.106">And pity ’tis ’tis true—a foolish figure,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1171"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1171">FTLN 1171</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.107" title="2.2.107">But farewell it, for I will use no art.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1172"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1172">FTLN 1172</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.108" title="2.2.108">Mad let us grant him then, and now remains</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1173"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1173">FTLN 1173</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.109" title="2.2.109">That we find out the cause of this effect,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1174"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1174">FTLN 1174</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.110" title="2.2.110">Or, rather say, the cause of this defect,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1175"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1175">FTLN 1175</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.111" title="2.2.111">For this effect defective comes by cause.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1176"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1176">FTLN 1176</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.112" title="2.2.112">Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1177"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1177">FTLN 1177</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.113" title="2.2.113">Perpend.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1178"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1178">FTLN 1178</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.114" title="2.2.114">I have a daughter (have while she is mine)</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1179"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1179">FTLN 1179</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.115">115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.115" title="2.2.115">Who, in her duty and obedience, mark,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1180"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1180">FTLN 1180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.116" title="2.2.116">Hath given me this. Now gather and surmise.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1181"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1181">FTLN 1181</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><a name="line-SD2.2.117"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.117" title="SD 2.2.117"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.117" title="SD 2.2.117"> reads.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 2.2.117" title="SD 2.2.117"> </span></span><span class="italic"><span id="line-2.2.117" title="2.2.117">To the celestial, and my soul’s idol, the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1182"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1182">FTLN 1182</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.118" title="2.2.118">most beautified Ophelia—</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1183"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1183">FTLN 1183</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.119" title="2.2.119">That’s an ill phrase, a vile phrase; “beautified” is a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1184"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1184">FTLN 1184</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.120" title="2.2.120">vile phrase. But you shall hear. Thus:</span><a name="line-SD2.2.120"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.120" title="SD 2.2.120"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.120" title="SD 2.2.120"> reads.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-1185"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1185">FTLN 1185</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.121" title="2.2.121">In her excellent white bosom, these, etc.—</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1186"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1186">FTLN 1186</span><span id="line-2.2.122" title="2.2.122">Came this from Hamlet to her?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1187"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1187">FTLN 1187</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.123" title="2.2.123">Good madam, stay awhile. I will be faithful.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD"> </a><span class="stage indentProse"><span id="line-2.2.123.1" title="2.2.123.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-2.2.123.1" title="2.2.123.1"> reads the<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-2.2.123.1" title="2.2.123.1"> letter.</span></span><br>
<span class="italic"><span><a name="ftln-1188"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1188">FTLN 1188</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 86px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.124" title="2.2.124">Doubt thou the stars are fire,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1189"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1189">FTLN 1189</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.125">125</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 86px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.125" title="2.2.125">Doubt that the sun doth move,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1190"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1190">FTLN 1190</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 86px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.126" title="2.2.126">Doubt truth to be a liar,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1191"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1191">FTLN 1191</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 86px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.127" title="2.2.127">But never doubt I love.</span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-1192"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1192">FTLN 1192</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.128" title="2.2.128">O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1193"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1193">FTLN 1193</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.129" title="2.2.129">art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, O</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1194"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1194">FTLN 1194</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.130" title="2.2.130">most best, believe it. Adieu.</span><br>
<span class="right"><a name="ftln-1195"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1195">FTLN 1195</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.131" title="2.2.131">Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1196"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1196">FTLN 1196</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.132" title="2.2.132">this machine is to him, Hamlet.</span></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1197"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1197">FTLN 1197</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.133" title="2.2.133">This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1198"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1198">FTLN 1198</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.134" title="2.2.134">And more <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">above</span><span id="line-2.2.134" title="2.2.134">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.134" title="2.2.134"> hath his solicitings,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1199"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1199">FTLN 1199</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.135">135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.135" title="2.2.135">As they fell out by time, by means, and place,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1200"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1200">FTLN 1200</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.136" title="2.2.136">All given to mine ear.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1201"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1201">FTLN 1201</span><span id="line-2.2.137" title="2.2.137">But how hath she received his love?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1202"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1202">FTLN 1202</span><span id="line-2.2.138" title="2.2.138">What do you think of me?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1203"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1203">FTLN 1203</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.139" title="2.2.139">As of a man faithful and honorable.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1204"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1204">FTLN 1204</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.140">140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.140" title="2.2.140">I would fain prove so. But what might you think,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1205"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1205">FTLN 1205</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.141" title="2.2.141">When I had seen this hot love on the wing</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1206"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1206">FTLN 1206</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.142" title="2.2.142">(As I perceived it, I must tell you that,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1207"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1207">FTLN 1207</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.143" title="2.2.143">Before my daughter told me), what might you,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1208"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1208">FTLN 1208</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.144" title="2.2.144">Or my dear Majesty your queen here, think,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1209"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1209">FTLN 1209</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.145">145</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.145" title="2.2.145">If I had played the desk or table-book</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1210"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1210">FTLN 1210</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.146" title="2.2.146">Or given my heart a <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">winking</span><span id="line-2.2.146" title="2.2.146">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.146" title="2.2.146"> mute and dumb,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1211"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1211">FTLN 1211</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.147" title="2.2.147">Or looked upon this love with idle sight?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1212"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1212">FTLN 1212</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.148" title="2.2.148">What might you think? No, I went round to work,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1213"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1213">FTLN 1213</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.149" title="2.2.149">And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1214"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1214">FTLN 1214</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.150">150</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.150" title="2.2.150">“Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1215"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1215">FTLN 1215</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.151" title="2.2.151">This must not be.” And then I prescripts gave her,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1216"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1216">FTLN 1216</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.152" title="2.2.152">That she should lock herself from <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">his<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.152" title="2.2.152"> resort,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1217"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1217">FTLN 1217</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.153" title="2.2.153">Admit no messengers, receive no tokens;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1218"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1218">FTLN 1218</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.154" title="2.2.154">Which done, she took the fruits of my advice,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1219"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1219">FTLN 1219</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.155">155</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.155" title="2.2.155">And he, repelled (a short tale to make),</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1220"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1220">FTLN 1220</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.156" title="2.2.156">Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1221"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1221">FTLN 1221</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.157" title="2.2.157">Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1222"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1222">FTLN 1222</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.158" title="2.2.158">Thence to <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">a<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.158" title="2.2.158"> lightness, and, by this declension,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1223"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1223">FTLN 1223</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.159" title="2.2.159">Into the madness wherein now he raves</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1224"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1224">FTLN 1224</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.160">160</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.160" title="2.2.160">And all we mourn for.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><a name="line-SD2.2.161"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.161" title="SD 2.2.161">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.161" title="SD 2.2.161"> Queen<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1225"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1225">FTLN 1225</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 39px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.161" title="2.2.161">Do you think <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">’tis<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.161" title="2.2.161"> this?</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1226"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1226">FTLN 1226</span><span id="line-2.2.162" title="2.2.162">It may be, very like.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1227"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1227">FTLN 1227</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.163" title="2.2.163">Hath there been such a time (I would fain know</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1228"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1228">FTLN 1228</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-2.2.164" title="2.2.164">that)</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1229"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1229">FTLN 1229</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.165">165</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.165" title="2.2.165">That I have positively said “’Tis so,”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1230"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1230">FTLN 1230</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.166" title="2.2.166">When it proved otherwise?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1231"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1231">FTLN 1231</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 161px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.167" title="2.2.167">Not that I know.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1232"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1232">FTLN 1232</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.168" title="2.2.168">Take this from this, if this be otherwise.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1233"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1233">FTLN 1233</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.169" title="2.2.169">If circumstances lead me, I will find</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1234"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1234">FTLN 1234</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.170">170</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.170" title="2.2.170">Where truth is hid, though it were hid, indeed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1235"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1235">FTLN 1235</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.171" title="2.2.171">Within the center.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1236"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1236">FTLN 1236</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 102px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.172" title="2.2.172">How may we try it further?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1237"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1237">FTLN 1237</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.173" title="2.2.173">You know sometimes he walks four hours together</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1238"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1238">FTLN 1238</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.174" title="2.2.174">Here in the lobby.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1239"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1239">FTLN 1239</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.175">175</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 90px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.175" title="2.2.175">So he does indeed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1240"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1240">FTLN 1240</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.176" title="2.2.176">At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1241"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1241">FTLN 1241</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><a name="line-SD2.2.177"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.177" title="SD 2.2.177"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">To</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.177" title="SD 2.2.177"> the King.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 2.2.177" title="SD 2.2.177"> </span></span><span id="line-2.2.177" title="2.2.177">Be you and I behind an arras then.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1242"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1242">FTLN 1242</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.178" title="2.2.178">Mark the encounter. If he love her not,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1243"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1243">FTLN 1243</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.179" title="2.2.179">And be not from his reason fall’n thereon,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1244"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1244">FTLN 1244</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.180">180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.180" title="2.2.180">Let me be no assistant for a state,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1245"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1245">FTLN 1245</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.181" title="2.2.181">But keep a farm and carters.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1246"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1246">FTLN 1246</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 168px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.182" title="2.2.182">We will try it.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD2.2.182.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-#SD 2.2.182.1" title="#SD 2.2.182.1">Enter Hamlet <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">reading</span><span id="line-#SD 2.2.182.1" title="#SD 2.2.182.1"> on a book.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1247"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1247">FTLN 1247</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.183" title="2.2.183">But look where sadly the poor wretch comes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1248"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1248">FTLN 1248</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-2.2.184" title="2.2.184">reading.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1249"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1249">FTLN 1249</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.185" title="2.2.185">Away, I do beseech you both, away.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1250"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1250">FTLN 1250</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.186" title="2.2.186">I’ll board him presently. O, give me leave.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.186.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 2.2.186.1" title="SD 2.2.186.1">King and Queen exit <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">with</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.186.1" title="SD 2.2.186.1"> Attendants.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1251"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1251">FTLN 1251</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.187" title="2.2.187">How does my good Lord Hamlet?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1252"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1252">FTLN 1252</span><span id="line-2.2.188" title="2.2.188">Well, God-a-mercy.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1253"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1253">FTLN 1253</span><span id="line-2.2.189" title="2.2.189">Do you know me, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1254"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1254">FTLN 1254</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.190">190</span><span id="line-2.2.190" title="2.2.190">Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1255"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1255">FTLN 1255</span><span id="line-2.2.191" title="2.2.191">Not I, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1256"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1256">FTLN 1256</span><span id="line-2.2.192" title="2.2.192">Then I would you were so honest a man.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1257"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1257">FTLN 1257</span><span id="line-2.2.193" title="2.2.193">Honest, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1258"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1258">FTLN 1258</span><span id="line-2.2.194" title="2.2.194">Ay, sir. To be honest, as this world goes, is to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1259"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1259">FTLN 1259</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.195">195</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.195" title="2.2.195">be one man picked out of ten thousand.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1260"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1260">FTLN 1260</span><span id="line-2.2.196" title="2.2.196">That’s very true, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1261"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1261">FTLN 1261</span><span id="line-2.2.197" title="2.2.197">For if the sun breed maggots in a dead</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1262"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1262">FTLN 1262</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.198" title="2.2.198">dog, being a good kissing carrion—Have you a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1263"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1263">FTLN 1263</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.199" title="2.2.199">daughter?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1264"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1264">FTLN 1264</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.200">200</span><span id="line-2.2.200" title="2.2.200">I have, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1265"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1265">FTLN 1265</span><span id="line-2.2.201" title="2.2.201">Let her not walk i’ th’ sun. Conception is a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1266"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1266">FTLN 1266</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.202" title="2.2.202">blessing, but, as your daughter may conceive,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1267"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1267">FTLN 1267</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.203" title="2.2.203">friend, look to ’t.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><a name="line-SD2.2.204"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.204" title="SD 2.2.204">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1268"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1268">FTLN 1268</span><span id="line-2.2.204" title="2.2.204">How say you by that? Still harping on</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1269"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1269">FTLN 1269</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.205">205</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.205" title="2.2.205">my daughter. Yet he knew me not at first; he said I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1270"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1270">FTLN 1270</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.206" title="2.2.206">was a fishmonger. He is far gone. And truly, in my</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1271"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1271">FTLN 1271</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.207" title="2.2.207">youth, I suffered much extremity for love, very near</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1272"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1272">FTLN 1272</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.208" title="2.2.208">this. I’ll speak to him again.—What do you read, my</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1273"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1273">FTLN 1273</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.209" title="2.2.209">lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1274"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1274">FTLN 1274</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.210">210</span><span id="line-2.2.210" title="2.2.210">Words, words, words.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1275"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1275">FTLN 1275</span><span id="line-2.2.211" title="2.2.211">What is the matter, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1276"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1276">FTLN 1276</span><span id="line-2.2.212" title="2.2.212">Between who?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1277"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1277">FTLN 1277</span><span id="line-2.2.213" title="2.2.213">I mean the matter that you read, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1278"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1278">FTLN 1278</span><span id="line-2.2.214" title="2.2.214">Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1279"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1279">FTLN 1279</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.215">215</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.215" title="2.2.215">that old men have gray beards, that their faces are</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1280"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1280">FTLN 1280</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.216" title="2.2.216">wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1281"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1281">FTLN 1281</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.217" title="2.2.217">plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1282"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1282">FTLN 1282</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.218" title="2.2.218">wit, together with most weak hams; all which, sir,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1283"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1283">FTLN 1283</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.219" title="2.2.219">though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1284"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1284">FTLN 1284</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.220">220</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.220" title="2.2.220">hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1285"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1285">FTLN 1285</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.221" title="2.2.221">yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if, like a crab,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1286"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1286">FTLN 1286</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.222" title="2.2.222">you could go backward.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><a name="line-SD2.2.223"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.223" title="SD 2.2.223">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1287"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1287">FTLN 1287</span><span id="line-2.2.223" title="2.2.223">Though this be madness, yet there is</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1288"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1288">FTLN 1288</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.224" title="2.2.224">method in ’t.—Will you walk out of the air, my lord?</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1289"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1289">FTLN 1289</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.225">225</span><span id="line-2.2.225" title="2.2.225">Into my grave?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1290"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1290">FTLN 1290</span><span id="line-2.2.226" title="2.2.226">Indeed, that’s out of the air.</span><a name="line-SD2.2.226"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.226" title="SD 2.2.226"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Aside</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.226" title="SD 2.2.226">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span id="line-2.2.226" title="2.2.226"> How</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1291"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1291">FTLN 1291</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.227" title="2.2.227">pregnant sometimes his replies are! A happiness</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1292"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1292">FTLN 1292</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.228" title="2.2.228">that often madness hits on, which reason and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1293"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1293">FTLN 1293</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.229" title="2.2.229"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">sanity<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.229" title="2.2.229"> could not so prosperously be delivered of. I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1294"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1294">FTLN 1294</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.230">230</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.230" title="2.2.230">will leave him <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">and</span><span id="line-2.2.230" title="2.2.230"> suddenly contrive the means of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1295"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1295">FTLN 1295</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.231" title="2.2.231">meeting between him<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.231" title="2.2.231"> and my daughter.—My lord,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1296"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1296">FTLN 1296</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.232" title="2.2.232">I will take my leave of you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1297"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1297">FTLN 1297</span><span id="line-2.2.233" title="2.2.233">You cannot, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">sir</span><span id="line-2.2.233" title="2.2.233">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.233" title="2.2.233"> take from me anything that I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1298"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1298">FTLN 1298</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.234" title="2.2.234">will more willingly part withal—except my life,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1299"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1299">FTLN 1299</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.235">235</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.235" title="2.2.235">except my life, except my life.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1300"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1300">FTLN 1300</span><span id="line-2.2.236" title="2.2.236">Fare you well, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><a name="line-SD2.2.237"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.237" title="SD 2.2.237">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1301"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1301">FTLN 1301</span><span id="line-2.2.237" title="2.2.237">These tedious old fools.</span><br>
<br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.237.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 2.2.237.1" title="SD 2.2.237.1">Enter Guildenstern and Rosencrantz.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1302"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1302">FTLN 1302</span><span id="line-2.2.238" title="2.2.238">You go to seek the Lord Hamlet. There he is.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><a name="line-SD2.2.239"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.239" title="SD 2.2.239">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.239" title="SD 2.2.239"> Polonius<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1303"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1303">FTLN 1303</span><span id="line-2.2.239" title="2.2.239">God save you, sir.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.239.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 2.2.239.1" title="SD 2.2.239.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Polonius</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.239.1" title="SD 2.2.239.1"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1304"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1304">FTLN 1304</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.240">240</span><span id="line-2.2.240" title="2.2.240">My honored lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1305"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1305">FTLN 1305</span><span id="line-2.2.241" title="2.2.241">My most dear lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1306"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1306">FTLN 1306</span><span id="line-2.2.242" title="2.2.242">My <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">excellent<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.242" title="2.2.242"> good friends! How dost thou,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1307"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1307">FTLN 1307</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.243" title="2.2.243">Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1308"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1308">FTLN 1308</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.244" title="2.2.244">you both?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1309"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1309">FTLN 1309</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.245">245</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.245" title="2.2.245">As the indifferent children of the earth.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1310"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1310">FTLN 1310</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.246" title="2.2.246">Happy in that we are not <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">overhappy</span><span id="line-2.2.246" title="2.2.246">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1311"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1311">FTLN 1311</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.247" title="2.2.247">On Fortune’s <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">cap</span><span id="line-2.2.247" title="2.2.247">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.247" title="2.2.247"> we are not the very button.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1312"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1312">FTLN 1312</span><span id="line-2.2.248" title="2.2.248">Nor the soles of her shoe?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1313"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1313">FTLN 1313</span><span id="line-2.2.249" title="2.2.249">Neither, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1314"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1314">FTLN 1314</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.250">250</span><span id="line-2.2.250" title="2.2.250">Then you live about her waist, or in the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1315"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1315">FTLN 1315</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.251" title="2.2.251">middle of her favors?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1316"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1316">FTLN 1316</span><span id="line-2.2.252" title="2.2.252">Faith, her privates we.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1317"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1317">FTLN 1317</span><span id="line-2.2.253" title="2.2.253">In the secret parts of Fortune? O, most true!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1318"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1318">FTLN 1318</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.254" title="2.2.254">She is a strumpet. What news?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1319"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1319">FTLN 1319</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.255">255</span><span id="line-2.2.255" title="2.2.255">None, my lord, but <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">that<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.255" title="2.2.255"> the world’s</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1320"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1320">FTLN 1320</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.256" title="2.2.256">grown honest.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1321"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1321">FTLN 1321</span><span id="line-2.2.257" title="2.2.257">Then is doomsday near. But your news is not</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1322"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1322">FTLN 1322</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.258" title="2.2.258">true. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Let</span><span id="line-2.2.258" title="2.2.258"> me question more in particular. What</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1323"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1323">FTLN 1323</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.259" title="2.2.259">have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1324"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1324">FTLN 1324</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.260">260</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.260" title="2.2.260">Fortune that she sends you to prison hither?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1325"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1325">FTLN 1325</span><span id="line-2.2.261" title="2.2.261">Prison, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1326"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1326">FTLN 1326</span><span id="line-2.2.262" title="2.2.262">Denmark’s a prison.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1327"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1327">FTLN 1327</span><span id="line-2.2.263" title="2.2.263">Then is the world one.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1328"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1328">FTLN 1328</span><span id="line-2.2.264" title="2.2.264">A goodly one, in which there are many confines,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1329"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1329">FTLN 1329</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.265">265</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.265" title="2.2.265">wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o’</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1330"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1330">FTLN 1330</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.266" title="2.2.266">th’ worst.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1331"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1331">FTLN 1331</span><span id="line-2.2.267" title="2.2.267">We think not so, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1332"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1332">FTLN 1332</span><span id="line-2.2.268" title="2.2.268">Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1333"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1333">FTLN 1333</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.269" title="2.2.269">nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1334"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1334">FTLN 1334</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.270">270</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.270" title="2.2.270">so. To me, it is a prison.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1335"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1335">FTLN 1335</span><span id="line-2.2.271" title="2.2.271">Why, then, your ambition makes it one.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1336"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1336">FTLN 1336</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.272" title="2.2.272">’Tis too narrow for your mind.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1337"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1337">FTLN 1337</span><span id="line-2.2.273" title="2.2.273">O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1338"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1338">FTLN 1338</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.274" title="2.2.274">count myself a king of infinite space, were it not</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1339"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1339">FTLN 1339</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.275">275</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.275" title="2.2.275">that I have bad dreams.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1340"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1340">FTLN 1340</span><span id="line-2.2.276" title="2.2.276">Which dreams, indeed, are ambition,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1341"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1341">FTLN 1341</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.277" title="2.2.277">for the very substance of the ambitious is merely</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1342"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1342">FTLN 1342</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.278" title="2.2.278">the shadow of a dream.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1343"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1343">FTLN 1343</span><span id="line-2.2.279" title="2.2.279">A dream itself is but a shadow.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1344"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1344">FTLN 1344</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.280">280</span><span id="line-2.2.280" title="2.2.280">Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1345"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1345">FTLN 1345</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.281" title="2.2.281">and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1346"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1346">FTLN 1346</span><span id="line-2.2.282" title="2.2.282">Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1347"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1347">FTLN 1347</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.283" title="2.2.283">and outstretched heroes the beggars’ shadows.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1348"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1348">FTLN 1348</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.284" title="2.2.284">Shall we to th’ court? For, by my fay, I cannot</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1349"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1349">FTLN 1349</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.285">285</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.285" title="2.2.285">reason.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ/GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1350"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1350">FTLN 1350</span><span id="line-2.2.286" title="2.2.286">We’ll wait upon you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1351"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1351">FTLN 1351</span><span id="line-2.2.287" title="2.2.287">No such matter. I will not sort you with the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1352"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1352">FTLN 1352</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.288" title="2.2.288">rest of my servants, for, to speak to you like an</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1353"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1353">FTLN 1353</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.289" title="2.2.289">honest man, I am most dreadfully attended.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.289" title="2.2.289"> But,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1354"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1354">FTLN 1354</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.290">290</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.290" title="2.2.290">in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1355"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1355">FTLN 1355</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.291" title="2.2.291">Elsinore?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1356"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1356">FTLN 1356</span><span id="line-2.2.292" title="2.2.292">To visit you, my lord, no other occasion.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1357"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1357">FTLN 1357</span><span id="line-2.2.293" title="2.2.293">Beggar that I am, I am <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">even<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.293" title="2.2.293"> poor in thanks;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1358"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1358">FTLN 1358</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.294" title="2.2.294">but I thank you, and sure, dear friends, my thanks</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1359"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1359">FTLN 1359</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.295">295</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.295" title="2.2.295">are too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1360"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1360">FTLN 1360</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.296" title="2.2.296">Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1361"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1361">FTLN 1361</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.297" title="2.2.297">Come, come, deal justly with me. Come, come; nay,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1362"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1362">FTLN 1362</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.298" title="2.2.298">speak.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1363"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1363">FTLN 1363</span><span id="line-2.2.299" title="2.2.299">What should we say, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1364"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1364">FTLN 1364</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.300">300</span><span id="line-2.2.300" title="2.2.300">Anything but to th’ purpose. You were sent</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1365"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1365">FTLN 1365</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.301" title="2.2.301">for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1366"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1366">FTLN 1366</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.302" title="2.2.302">which your modesties have not craft enough to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1367"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1367">FTLN 1367</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.303" title="2.2.303">color. I know the good king and queen have sent for</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1368"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1368">FTLN 1368</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.304" title="2.2.304">you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1369"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1369">FTLN 1369</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.305">305</span><span id="line-2.2.305" title="2.2.305">To what end, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1370"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1370">FTLN 1370</span><span id="line-2.2.306" title="2.2.306">That you must teach me. But let me conjure</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1371"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1371">FTLN 1371</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.307" title="2.2.307">you by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1372"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1372">FTLN 1372</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.308" title="2.2.308">of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1373"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1373">FTLN 1373</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.309" title="2.2.309">love, and by what more dear a better</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1374"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1374">FTLN 1374</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.310">310</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.310" title="2.2.310">proposer can charge you withal: be even and direct</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1375"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1375">FTLN 1375</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.311" title="2.2.311">with me whether you were sent for or no.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><a name="line-SD2.2.312"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.312" title="SD 2.2.312">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.312" title="SD 2.2.312"> Guildenstern<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1376"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1376">FTLN 1376</span><span id="line-2.2.312" title="2.2.312">What say you?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><a name="line-SD2.2.313"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.313" title="SD 2.2.313">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1377"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1377">FTLN 1377</span><span id="line-2.2.313" title="2.2.313">Nay, then, I have an eye of you.—If</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1378"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1378">FTLN 1378</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.314" title="2.2.314">you love me, hold not off.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1379"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1379">FTLN 1379</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.315">315</span><span id="line-2.2.315" title="2.2.315">My lord, we were sent for.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1380"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1380">FTLN 1380</span><span id="line-2.2.316" title="2.2.316">I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1381"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1381">FTLN 1381</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.317" title="2.2.317">prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1382"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1382">FTLN 1382</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.318" title="2.2.318">King and Queen molt no feather. I have of late, but</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1383"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1383">FTLN 1383</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.319" title="2.2.319">wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1384"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1384">FTLN 1384</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.320">320</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.320" title="2.2.320">custom of exercises, and, indeed, it goes so heavily</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1385"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1385">FTLN 1385</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.321" title="2.2.321">with my disposition that this goodly frame, the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1386"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1386">FTLN 1386</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.322" title="2.2.322">Earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1387"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1387">FTLN 1387</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.323" title="2.2.323">excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1388"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1388">FTLN 1388</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.324" title="2.2.324">firmament, this majestical roof, fretted</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1389"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1389">FTLN 1389</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.325">325</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.325" title="2.2.325">with golden fire—why, it appeareth nothing to me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1390"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1390">FTLN 1390</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.326" title="2.2.326">but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1391"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1391">FTLN 1391</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.327" title="2.2.327">What <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">a<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.327" title="2.2.327"> piece of work is a man, how noble in</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1392"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1392">FTLN 1392</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.328" title="2.2.328">reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-1393"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1393">FTLN 1393</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.329" title="2.2.329">how express and admirable; in action how like</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1394"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1394">FTLN 1394</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.330">330</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.330" title="2.2.330">an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1395"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1395">FTLN 1395</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.331" title="2.2.331">beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1396"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1396">FTLN 1396</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.332" title="2.2.332">yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1397"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1397">FTLN 1397</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.333" title="2.2.333">delights not me, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">no</span><span id="line-2.2.333" title="2.2.333">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.333" title="2.2.333"> nor women neither, though by</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1398"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1398">FTLN 1398</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.334" title="2.2.334">your smiling you seem to say so.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1399"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1399">FTLN 1399</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.335">335</span><span id="line-2.2.335" title="2.2.335">My lord, there was no such stuff in my</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1400"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1400">FTLN 1400</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.336" title="2.2.336">thoughts.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1401"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1401">FTLN 1401</span><span id="line-2.2.337" title="2.2.337">Why did you laugh, then, when I said “man</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1402"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1402">FTLN 1402</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.338" title="2.2.338">delights not me”?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1403"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1403">FTLN 1403</span><span id="line-2.2.339" title="2.2.339">To think, my lord, if you delight not in</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1404"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1404">FTLN 1404</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.340">340</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.340" title="2.2.340">man, what Lenten entertainment the players shall</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1405"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1405">FTLN 1405</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.341" title="2.2.341">receive from you. We coted them on the way, and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1406"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1406">FTLN 1406</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.342" title="2.2.342">hither are they coming to offer you service.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1407"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1407">FTLN 1407</span><span id="line-2.2.343" title="2.2.343">He that plays the king shall be welcome—his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1408"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1408">FTLN 1408</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.344" title="2.2.344">Majesty shall have tribute on me. The adventurous</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1409"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1409">FTLN 1409</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.345">345</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.345" title="2.2.345">knight shall use his foil and target, the lover shall</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1410"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1410">FTLN 1410</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.346" title="2.2.346">not sigh gratis, the humorous man shall end his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1411"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1411">FTLN 1411</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.347" title="2.2.347">part in peace, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">the</span><span id="line-2.2.347" title="2.2.347"> clown shall make those laugh</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1412"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1412">FTLN 1412</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.348" title="2.2.348">whose lungs are <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">tickle<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-2.2.348" title="2.2.348"> o’ th’ sear,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.348" title="2.2.348"> and the lady</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1413"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1413">FTLN 1413</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.349" title="2.2.349">shall say her mind freely, or the <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">blank<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.349" title="2.2.349"> verse shall</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1414"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1414">FTLN 1414</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.350">350</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.350" title="2.2.350">halt for ’t. What players are they?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1415"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1415">FTLN 1415</span><span id="line-2.2.351" title="2.2.351">Even those you were wont to take such</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1416"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1416">FTLN 1416</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.352" title="2.2.352">delight in, the tragedians of the city.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1417"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1417">FTLN 1417</span><span id="line-2.2.353" title="2.2.353">How chances it they travel? Their residence,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1418"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1418">FTLN 1418</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.354" title="2.2.354">both in reputation and profit, was better both ways.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1419"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1419">FTLN 1419</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.355">355</span><span id="line-2.2.355" title="2.2.355">I think their inhibition comes by the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1420"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1420">FTLN 1420</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.356" title="2.2.356">means of the late innovation.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1421"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1421">FTLN 1421</span><span id="line-2.2.357" title="2.2.357">Do they hold the same estimation they did</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1422"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1422">FTLN 1422</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.358" title="2.2.358">when I was in the city? Are they so followed?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1423"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1423">FTLN 1423</span><span id="line-2.2.359" title="2.2.359">No, indeed are they not.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">HAMLET</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1424"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1424">FTLN 1424</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.360">360</span><span id="line-2.2.360" title="2.2.360">How comes it? Do they grow rusty?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1425"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1425">FTLN 1425</span><span id="line-2.2.361" title="2.2.361">Nay, their endeavor keeps in the wonted</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1426"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1426">FTLN 1426</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.362" title="2.2.362">pace. But there is, sir, an aerie of children, little</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1427"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1427">FTLN 1427</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.363" title="2.2.363">eyases, that cry out on the top of question and are</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1428"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1428">FTLN 1428</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.364" title="2.2.364">most tyrannically clapped for ’t. These are now the</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-1429"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1429">FTLN 1429</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.365">365</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.365" title="2.2.365">fashion and so <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">berattle<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-2.2.365" title="2.2.365"> the common stages (so</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1430"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1430">FTLN 1430</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.366" title="2.2.366">they call them) that many wearing rapiers are afraid</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1431"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1431">FTLN 1431</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.367" title="2.2.367">of goose quills and dare scarce come thither.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1432"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1432">FTLN 1432</span><span id="line-2.2.368" title="2.2.368">What, are they children? Who maintains ’em?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1433"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1433">FTLN 1433</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.369" title="2.2.369">How are they escoted? Will they pursue the quality</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1434"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1434">FTLN 1434</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.370">370</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.370" title="2.2.370">no longer than they can sing? Will they not say</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1435"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1435">FTLN 1435</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.371" title="2.2.371">afterwards, if they should grow themselves to common</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1436"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1436">FTLN 1436</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.372" title="2.2.372">players (as it is <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">most</span><span id="line-2.2.372" title="2.2.372"> like,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-2.2.372" title="2.2.372"> if their means are</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1437"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1437">FTLN 1437</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.373" title="2.2.373">no better), their writers do them wrong to make</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1438"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1438">FTLN 1438</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.374" title="2.2.374">them exclaim against their own succession?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1439"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1439">FTLN 1439</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.375">375</span><span id="line-2.2.375" title="2.2.375">Faith, there has been much <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to-do<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-2.2.375" title="2.2.375"> on</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1440"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1440">FTLN 1440</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.376" title="2.2.376">both sides, and the nation holds it no sin to tar</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1441"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1441">FTLN 1441</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.377" title="2.2.377">them to controversy. There was for a while no</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1442"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1442">FTLN 1442</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.378" title="2.2.378">money bid for argument unless the poet and the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1443"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1443">FTLN 1443</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.379" title="2.2.379">player went to cuffs in the question.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1444"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1444">FTLN 1444</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.380">380</span><span id="line-2.2.380" title="2.2.380">Is ’t possible?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1445"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1445">FTLN 1445</span><span id="line-2.2.381" title="2.2.381">O, there has been much throwing</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1446"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1446">FTLN 1446</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.382" title="2.2.382">about of brains.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1447"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1447">FTLN 1447</span><span id="line-2.2.383" title="2.2.383">Do the boys carry it away?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1448"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1448">FTLN 1448</span><span id="line-2.2.384" title="2.2.384">Ay, that they do, my lord—Hercules</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1449"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1449">FTLN 1449</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.385">385</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.385" title="2.2.385">and his load too.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1450"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1450">FTLN 1450</span><span id="line-2.2.386" title="2.2.386">It is not very strange; for my uncle is King of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1451"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1451">FTLN 1451</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.387" title="2.2.387">Denmark, and those that would make mouths at</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1452"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1452">FTLN 1452</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.388" title="2.2.388">him while my father lived give twenty, forty, fifty,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1453"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1453">FTLN 1453</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.389" title="2.2.389">a hundred ducats apiece for his picture in little.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1454"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1454">FTLN 1454</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.390">390</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.390" title="2.2.390">’Sblood, there is something in this more than natural,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1455"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1455">FTLN 1455</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.391" title="2.2.391">if philosophy could find it out.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.391.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 2.2.391.1" title="SD 2.2.391.1">A flourish <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">for</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.391.1" title="SD 2.2.391.1"> the Players.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1456"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1456">FTLN 1456</span><span id="line-2.2.392" title="2.2.392">There are the players.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1457"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1457">FTLN 1457</span><span id="line-2.2.393" title="2.2.393">Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1458"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1458">FTLN 1458</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.394" title="2.2.394">Your hands, come then. Th’ appurtenance of welcome</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1459"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1459">FTLN 1459</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.395">395</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.395" title="2.2.395">is fashion and ceremony. Let me comply</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1460"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1460">FTLN 1460</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.396" title="2.2.396">with you in this garb, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">lest</span><span id="line-2.2.396" title="2.2.396"> my<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.396" title="2.2.396"> extent to the players,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1461"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1461">FTLN 1461</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.397" title="2.2.397">which, I tell you, must show fairly outwards, should</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1462"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1462">FTLN 1462</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.398" title="2.2.398">more appear like entertainment than yours. You are</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1463"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1463">FTLN 1463</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.399" title="2.2.399">welcome. But my uncle-father and aunt-mother are</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1464"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1464">FTLN 1464</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.400">400</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.400" title="2.2.400">deceived.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1465"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1465">FTLN 1465</span><span id="line-2.2.401" title="2.2.401">In what, my dear lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1466"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1466">FTLN 1466</span><span id="line-2.2.402" title="2.2.402">I am but mad north-north-west. When the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1467"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1467">FTLN 1467</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.403" title="2.2.403">wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.</span><br>
<br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.403.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 2.2.403.1" title="SD 2.2.403.1">Enter Polonius.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1468"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1468">FTLN 1468</span><span id="line-2.2.404" title="2.2.404">Well be with you, gentlemen.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1469"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1469">FTLN 1469</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.405">405</span><span id="line-2.2.405" title="2.2.405">Hark you, Guildenstern, and you too—at</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1470"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1470">FTLN 1470</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.406" title="2.2.406">each ear a hearer! That great baby you see there is</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1471"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1471">FTLN 1471</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.407" title="2.2.407">not yet out of his swaddling clouts.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1472"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1472">FTLN 1472</span><span id="line-2.2.408" title="2.2.408">Haply he is the second time come to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1473"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1473">FTLN 1473</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.409" title="2.2.409">them, for they say an old man is twice a child.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1474"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1474">FTLN 1474</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.410">410</span><span id="line-2.2.410" title="2.2.410">I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1475"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1475">FTLN 1475</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.411" title="2.2.411">players; mark it.—You say right, sir, a Monday</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1476"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1476">FTLN 1476</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.412" title="2.2.412">morning, ’twas then indeed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1477"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1477">FTLN 1477</span><span id="line-2.2.413" title="2.2.413">My lord, I have news to tell you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1478"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1478">FTLN 1478</span><span id="line-2.2.414" title="2.2.414">My lord, I have news to tell you: when Roscius</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1479"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1479">FTLN 1479</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.415">415</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.415" title="2.2.415">was an actor in Rome—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1480"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1480">FTLN 1480</span><span id="line-2.2.416" title="2.2.416">The actors are come hither, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1481"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1481">FTLN 1481</span><span id="line-2.2.417" title="2.2.417">Buzz, buzz.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1482"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1482">FTLN 1482</span><span id="line-2.2.418" title="2.2.418">Upon my honor—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1483"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1483">FTLN 1483</span><span id="line-2.2.419" title="2.2.419">Then came each actor on his ass.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1484"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1484">FTLN 1484</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.420">420</span><span id="line-2.2.420" title="2.2.420">The best actors in the world, either for</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1485"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1485">FTLN 1485</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.421" title="2.2.421">tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1486"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1486">FTLN 1486</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.422" title="2.2.422">historical-pastoral, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">tragical-historical</span><span id="line-2.2.422" title="2.2.422">,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1487"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1487">FTLN 1487</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.423" title="2.2.423">tragical-comical-historical-pastoral,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.423" title="2.2.423"> scene individable, or</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1488"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1488">FTLN 1488</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.424" title="2.2.424">poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1489"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1489">FTLN 1489</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.425">425</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.425" title="2.2.425">Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1490"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1490">FTLN 1490</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.426" title="2.2.426">these are the only men.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1491"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1491">FTLN 1491</span><span id="line-2.2.427" title="2.2.427">O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1492"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1492">FTLN 1492</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.428" title="2.2.428">hadst thou!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1493"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1493">FTLN 1493</span><span id="line-2.2.429" title="2.2.429">What a treasure had he, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1494"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1494">FTLN 1494</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.430">430</span><span id="line-2.2.430" title="2.2.430">Why,</span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-1495"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1495">FTLN 1495</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 83.5px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.431" title="2.2.431">One fair daughter, and no more,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1496"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1496">FTLN 1496</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 83px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.432" title="2.2.432">The which he lovèd passing well.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><a name="line-SD2.2.433"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.433" title="SD 2.2.433">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1497"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1497">FTLN 1497</span><span id="line-2.2.433" title="2.2.433">Still on my daughter.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1498"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1498">FTLN 1498</span><span id="line-2.2.434" title="2.2.434">Am I not i’ th’ right, old Jephthah?</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1499"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1499">FTLN 1499</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.435">435</span><span id="line-2.2.435" title="2.2.435">If you call me “Jephthah,” my lord: I have a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1500"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1500">FTLN 1500</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.436" title="2.2.436">daughter that I love passing well.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1501"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1501">FTLN 1501</span><span id="line-2.2.437" title="2.2.437">Nay, that follows not.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1502"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1502">FTLN 1502</span><span id="line-2.2.438" title="2.2.438">What follows then, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1503"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1503">FTLN 1503</span><span id="line-2.2.439" title="2.2.439">Why,</span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-1504"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1504">FTLN 1504</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.440">440</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 135px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.440" title="2.2.440">As by lot, God wot</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1505"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1505">FTLN 1505</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.441" title="2.2.441">and then, you know,</span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-1506"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1506">FTLN 1506</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 71.5px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.442" title="2.2.442">It came to pass, as most like it was—</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1507"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1507">FTLN 1507</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.443" title="2.2.443">the first row of the pious chanson will show you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1508"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1508">FTLN 1508</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.444" title="2.2.444">more, for look where my abridgment comes.</span><br>
<br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.444.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 2.2.444.1" title="SD 2.2.444.1">Enter the Players.</span></span><br>
<br>
<a name="ftln-1509"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1509">FTLN 1509</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.445">445</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.445" title="2.2.445">You are welcome, masters; welcome all.—I am glad</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1510"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1510">FTLN 1510</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.446" title="2.2.446">to see thee well.—Welcome, good friends.—O <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">my<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1511"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1511">FTLN 1511</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.447" title="2.2.447">old friend! Why, thy face is valanced since I saw thee</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1512"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1512">FTLN 1512</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.448" title="2.2.448">last. Com’st thou to beard me in Denmark?—What,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1513"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1513">FTLN 1513</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.449" title="2.2.449">my young lady and mistress! <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">By</span><span id="line-2.2.449" title="2.2.449"> ’r<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.449" title="2.2.449"> Lady, your ladyship</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1514"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1514">FTLN 1514</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.450">450</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.450" title="2.2.450">is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1515"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1515">FTLN 1515</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.451" title="2.2.451">the altitude of a chopine. Pray God your voice, like a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1516"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1516">FTLN 1516</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.452" title="2.2.452">piece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1517"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1517">FTLN 1517</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.453" title="2.2.453">ring. Masters, you are all welcome. We’ll e’en to ’t</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1518"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1518">FTLN 1518</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.454" title="2.2.454">like <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">French<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.454" title="2.2.454"> falconers, fly at anything we see. We’ll</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1519"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1519">FTLN 1519</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.455">455</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.455" title="2.2.455">have a speech straight. Come, give us a taste of your</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1520"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1520">FTLN 1520</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.456" title="2.2.456">quality. Come, a passionate speech.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">FIRST<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span> PLAYER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1521"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1521">FTLN 1521</span><span id="line-2.2.457" title="2.2.457">What speech, my good lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1522"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1522">FTLN 1522</span><span id="line-2.2.458" title="2.2.458">I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1523"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1523">FTLN 1523</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.459" title="2.2.459">was never acted, or, if it was, not above once; for</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1524"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1524">FTLN 1524</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.460">460</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.460" title="2.2.460">the play, I remember, pleased not the million:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1525"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1525">FTLN 1525</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.461" title="2.2.461">’twas caviary to the general. But it was (as I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1526"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1526">FTLN 1526</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.462" title="2.2.462">received it, and others whose judgments in such</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1527"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1527">FTLN 1527</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.463" title="2.2.463">matters cried in the top of mine) an excellent play,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1528"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1528">FTLN 1528</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.464" title="2.2.464">well digested in the scenes, set down with as much</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1529"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1529">FTLN 1529</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.465">465</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.465" title="2.2.465">modesty as cunning. I remember one said there</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1530"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1530">FTLN 1530</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.466" title="2.2.466">were no sallets in the lines to make the matter</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1531"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1531">FTLN 1531</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.467" title="2.2.467">savory, nor no matter in the phrase that might indict</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1532"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1532">FTLN 1532</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.468" title="2.2.468">the author of affection, but called it an honest</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-1533"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1533">FTLN 1533</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.469" title="2.2.469">method, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">as</span><span id="line-2.2.469" title="2.2.469"> wholesome as sweet and, by very much,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1534"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1534">FTLN 1534</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.470">470</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.470" title="2.2.470">more handsome than fine.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><span id="line-2.2.470" title="2.2.470"> One speech in ’t I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1535"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1535">FTLN 1535</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.471" title="2.2.471">chiefly loved. ’Twas Aeneas’ <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">tale<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.471" title="2.2.471"> to Dido, and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1536"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1536">FTLN 1536</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.472" title="2.2.472">thereabout of it especially when he speaks of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1537"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1537">FTLN 1537</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.473" title="2.2.473">Priam’s slaughter. If it live in your memory, begin at</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1538"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1538">FTLN 1538</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.474" title="2.2.474">this line—let me see, let me see:</span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-1539"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1539">FTLN 1539</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.475">475</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.475" title="2.2.475">The rugged Pyrrhus, like th’ Hyrcanian beast—</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1540"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1540">FTLN 1540</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.476" title="2.2.476">’tis not so; it begins with Pyrrhus:</span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-1541"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1541">FTLN 1541</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.477" title="2.2.477">The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1542"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1542">FTLN 1542</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.478" title="2.2.478">Black as his purpose, did the night resemble</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1543"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1543">FTLN 1543</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.479" title="2.2.479">When he lay couchèd in th’ ominous horse,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1544"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1544">FTLN 1544</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.480">480</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.480" title="2.2.480">Hath now this dread and black complexion smeared</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1545"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1545">FTLN 1545</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.481" title="2.2.481">With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1546"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1546">FTLN 1546</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.482" title="2.2.482">Now is he total gules, horridly tricked</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1547"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1547">FTLN 1547</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.483" title="2.2.483">With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1548"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1548">FTLN 1548</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.484" title="2.2.484">Baked and impasted with the parching streets,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1549"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1549">FTLN 1549</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.485">485</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.485" title="2.2.485">That lend a tyrannous and a damnèd light</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1550"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1550">FTLN 1550</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.486" title="2.2.486">To their lord’s murder. Roasted in wrath and fire,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1551"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1551">FTLN 1551</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.487" title="2.2.487">And thus o’ersizèd with coagulate gore,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1552"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1552">FTLN 1552</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.488" title="2.2.488">With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1553"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1553">FTLN 1553</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.489" title="2.2.489">Old grandsire Priam seeks.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1554"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1554">FTLN 1554</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.490">490</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.490" title="2.2.490">So, proceed you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1555"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1555">FTLN 1555</span><span id="line-2.2.491" title="2.2.491">’Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1556"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1556">FTLN 1556</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.492" title="2.2.492">accent and good discretion.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">FIRST<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span> PLAYER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><a name="ftln-1557"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1557">FTLN 1557</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 106px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.493" title="2.2.493">Anon he finds him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1558"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1558">FTLN 1558</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.494" title="2.2.494">Striking too short at Greeks. His antique sword,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1559"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1559">FTLN 1559</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.495">495</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.495" title="2.2.495">Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1560"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1560">FTLN 1560</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.496" title="2.2.496">Repugnant to command. Unequal matched,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1561"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1561">FTLN 1561</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.497" title="2.2.497">Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1562"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1562">FTLN 1562</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.498" title="2.2.498">But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1563"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1563">FTLN 1563</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.499" title="2.2.499">Th’ unnervèd father falls. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Then</span><span id="line-2.2.499" title="2.2.499"> senseless Ilium,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1564"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1564">FTLN 1564</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.500">500</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.500" title="2.2.500">Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1565"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1565">FTLN 1565</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.501" title="2.2.501">Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1566"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1566">FTLN 1566</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.502" title="2.2.502">Takes prisoner Pyrrhus’ ear. For lo, his sword,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1567"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1567">FTLN 1567</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.503" title="2.2.503">Which was declining on the milky head</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1568"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1568">FTLN 1568</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.504" title="2.2.504">Of reverend Priam, seemed i’ th’ air to stick.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 2. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-1569"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1569">FTLN 1569</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.505">505</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.505" title="2.2.505">So as a painted tyrant Pyrrhus stood</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1570"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1570">FTLN 1570</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.506" title="2.2.506"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">And</span><span id="line-2.2.506" title="2.2.506">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.506" title="2.2.506"> like a neutral to his will and matter,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1571"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1571">FTLN 1571</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.507" title="2.2.507">Did nothing.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1572"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1572">FTLN 1572</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.508" title="2.2.508">But as we often see against some storm</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1573"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1573">FTLN 1573</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.509" title="2.2.509">A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1574"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1574">FTLN 1574</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.510">510</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.510" title="2.2.510">The bold winds speechless, and the orb below</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1575"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1575">FTLN 1575</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.511" title="2.2.511">As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1576"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1576">FTLN 1576</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.512" title="2.2.512">Doth rend the region; so, after Pyrrhus’ pause,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1577"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1577">FTLN 1577</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.513" title="2.2.513">Arousèd vengeance sets him new a-work,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1578"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1578">FTLN 1578</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.514" title="2.2.514">And never did the Cyclops’ hammers fall</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1579"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1579">FTLN 1579</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.515">515</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.515" title="2.2.515">On Mars’s armor, forged for proof eterne,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1580"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1580">FTLN 1580</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.516" title="2.2.516">With less remorse than Pyrrhus’ bleeding sword</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1581"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1581">FTLN 1581</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.517" title="2.2.517">Now falls on Priam.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1582"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1582">FTLN 1582</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.518" title="2.2.518">Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1583"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1583">FTLN 1583</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.519" title="2.2.519">In general synod take away her power,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1584"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1584">FTLN 1584</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.520">520</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.520" title="2.2.520">Break all the spokes and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">fellies<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-2.2.520" title="2.2.520"> from her wheel,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1585"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1585">FTLN 1585</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.521" title="2.2.521">And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1586"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1586">FTLN 1586</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.522" title="2.2.522">As low as to the fiends!</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1587"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1587">FTLN 1587</span><span id="line-2.2.523" title="2.2.523">This is too long.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1588"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1588">FTLN 1588</span><span id="line-2.2.524" title="2.2.524">It shall to the barber’s with your beard.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1589"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1589">FTLN 1589</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.525">525</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.525" title="2.2.525">Prithee say on. He’s for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1590"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1590">FTLN 1590</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.526" title="2.2.526">he sleeps. Say on; come to Hecuba.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">FIRST<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span> PLAYER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-1591"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1591">FTLN 1591</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.527" title="2.2.527">But who, ah woe, had seen the moblèd queen—</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1592"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1592">FTLN 1592</span><span id="line-2.2.528" title="2.2.528">“The moblèd queen”?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1593"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1593">FTLN 1593</span><span id="line-2.2.529" title="2.2.529">That’s good. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">“Moblèd<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-2.2.529" title="2.2.529"> queen” is good.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">FIRST<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span> PLAYER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-1594"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1594">FTLN 1594</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.530">530</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.530" title="2.2.530">Run barefoot up and down, threat’ning the flames</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1595"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1595">FTLN 1595</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.531" title="2.2.531">With <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">bisson</span><span id="line-2.2.531" title="2.2.531"> rheum,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.531" title="2.2.531"> a clout upon that head</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1596"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1596">FTLN 1596</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.532" title="2.2.532">Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1597"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1597">FTLN 1597</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.533" title="2.2.533">About her lank and all o’erteemèd loins</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1598"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1598">FTLN 1598</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.534" title="2.2.534">A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1599"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1599">FTLN 1599</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.535">535</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.535" title="2.2.535">Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steeped,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1600"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1600">FTLN 1600</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.536" title="2.2.536">’Gainst Fortune’s state would treason have</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1601"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1601">FTLN 1601</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-2.2.537" title="2.2.537">pronounced.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1602"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1602">FTLN 1602</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.538" title="2.2.538">But if the gods themselves did see her then</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-1603"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1603">FTLN 1603</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.539" title="2.2.539">When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1604"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1604">FTLN 1604</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.540">540</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.540" title="2.2.540">In mincing with his sword her <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">husband’s<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.540" title="2.2.540"> limbs,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1605"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1605">FTLN 1605</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.541" title="2.2.541">The instant burst of clamor that she made</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1606"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1606">FTLN 1606</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.542" title="2.2.542">(Unless things mortal move them not at all)</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1607"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1607">FTLN 1607</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.543" title="2.2.543">Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1608"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1608">FTLN 1608</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.544" title="2.2.544">And passion in the gods.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1609"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1609">FTLN 1609</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.545">545</span><span id="line-2.2.545" title="2.2.545">Look whe’er he has not turned his color and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1610"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1610">FTLN 1610</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.546" title="2.2.546">has tears in ’s eyes. Prithee, no more.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1611"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1611">FTLN 1611</span><span id="line-2.2.547" title="2.2.547">’Tis well. I’ll have thee speak out the rest of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1612"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1612">FTLN 1612</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.548" title="2.2.548">this soon.—Good my lord, will you see the players</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1613"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1613">FTLN 1613</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.549" title="2.2.549">well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1614"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1614">FTLN 1614</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.550">550</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.550" title="2.2.550">for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1615"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1615">FTLN 1615</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.551" title="2.2.551">time. After your death you were better have a bad</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1616"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1616">FTLN 1616</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.552" title="2.2.552">epitaph than their ill report while you live.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1617"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1617">FTLN 1617</span><span id="line-2.2.553" title="2.2.553">My lord, I will use them according to their</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1618"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1618">FTLN 1618</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.554" title="2.2.554">desert.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1619"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1619">FTLN 1619</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.555">555</span><span id="line-2.2.555" title="2.2.555">God’s <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">bodykins</span><span id="line-2.2.555" title="2.2.555">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.555" title="2.2.555"> man, much better! Use every</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1620"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1620">FTLN 1620</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.556" title="2.2.556">man after his desert and who shall ’scape</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1621"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1621">FTLN 1621</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.557" title="2.2.557">whipping? Use them after your own honor and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1622"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1622">FTLN 1622</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.558" title="2.2.558">dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1623"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1623">FTLN 1623</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.559" title="2.2.559">your bounty. Take them in.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1624"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1624">FTLN 1624</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.560">560</span><span id="line-2.2.560" title="2.2.560">Come, sirs.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1625"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1625">FTLN 1625</span><span id="line-2.2.561" title="2.2.561">Follow him, friends. We’ll hear a play</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1626"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1626">FTLN 1626</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.562" title="2.2.562">tomorrow.</span><a name="line-SD2.2.562"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 2.2.562" title="SD 2.2.562"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">As</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.562" title="SD 2.2.562"> </span><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.562" title="SD 2.2.562">Polonius and Players exit</span></span><span id="line-SD 2.2.562" title="SD 2.2.562">, </span><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 2.2.562" title="SD 2.2.562">Hamlet speaks to</span><br>
<span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-SD 2.2.562" title="SD 2.2.562">the First Player.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span id="line-SD 2.2.562" title="SD 2.2.562"> </span></span><a name="ftln-1627"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1627">FTLN 1627</span><span id="line-2.2.563" title="2.2.563">Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1628"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1628">FTLN 1628</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.564" title="2.2.564">you play </span>“<span id="line-2.2.564" title="2.2.564">The Murder of Gonzago</span>”<span id="line-2.2.564" title="2.2.564">?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">FIRST<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span> PLAYER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1629"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1629">FTLN 1629</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.565">565</span><span id="line-2.2.565" title="2.2.565">Ay, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1630"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1630">FTLN 1630</span><span id="line-2.2.566" title="2.2.566">We’ll ha ’t tomorrow night. You could, for <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">a<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1631"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1631">FTLN 1631</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.567" title="2.2.567">need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1632"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1632">FTLN 1632</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.568" title="2.2.568">lines, which I would set down and insert in ’t,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1633"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1633">FTLN 1633</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.569" title="2.2.569">could you not?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">FIRST<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span> PLAYER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1634"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1634">FTLN 1634</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.570">570</span><span id="line-2.2.570" title="2.2.570">Ay, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1635"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1635">FTLN 1635</span><span id="line-2.2.571" title="2.2.571">Very well. Follow that lord—and look you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1636"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1636">FTLN 1636</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.572" title="2.2.572">mock him not.</span><a name="line-SD2.2.572"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 2.2.572" title="SD 2.2.572"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">First</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.572" title="SD 2.2.572"> Player exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span id="line-2.2.572" title="2.2.572"> My good friends,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1637"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1637">FTLN 1637</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.573" title="2.2.573">I’ll leave you till night. You are welcome to Elsinore.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1638"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1638">FTLN 1638</span><span id="line-2.2.574" title="2.2.574">Good my lord.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1639"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1639">FTLN 1639</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.575">575</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.575" title="2.2.575">Ay, so, good-bye to you.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD2.2.575.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 2.2.575.1" title="SD 2.2.575.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Rosencrantz</span><span id="line-SD 2.2.575.1" title="SD 2.2.575.1"> and Guildenstern<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 2.2.575.1" title="SD 2.2.575.1"> exit.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1640"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1640">FTLN 1640</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 189px;"> </span><span id="line-2.2.576" title="2.2.576">Now I am alone.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1641"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1641">FTLN 1641</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.577" title="2.2.577">O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1642"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1642">FTLN 1642</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.578" title="2.2.578">Is it not monstrous that this player here,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1643"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1643">FTLN 1643</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.579" title="2.2.579">But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1644"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1644">FTLN 1644</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.580">580</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.580" title="2.2.580">Could force his soul so to his own conceit</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1645"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1645">FTLN 1645</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.581" title="2.2.581">That from her working all <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">his<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.581" title="2.2.581"> visage wanned,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1646"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1646">FTLN 1646</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.582" title="2.2.582">Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1647"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1647">FTLN 1647</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.583" title="2.2.583">A broken voice, and his whole function suiting</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1648"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1648">FTLN 1648</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.584" title="2.2.584">With forms to his conceit—and all for nothing!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1649"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1649">FTLN 1649</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.585">585</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.585" title="2.2.585">For Hecuba!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1650"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1650">FTLN 1650</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.586" title="2.2.586">What’s Hecuba to him, or he to <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Hecuba</span><span id="line-2.2.586" title="2.2.586">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1651"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1651">FTLN 1651</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.587" title="2.2.587">That he should weep for her? What would he do</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1652"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1652">FTLN 1652</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.588" title="2.2.588">Had he the motive and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">the</span><span id="line-2.2.588" title="2.2.588"> cue<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.588" title="2.2.588"> for passion</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1653"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1653">FTLN 1653</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.589" title="2.2.589">That I have? He would drown the stage with tears</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1654"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1654">FTLN 1654</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.590">590</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.590" title="2.2.590">And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1655"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1655">FTLN 1655</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.591" title="2.2.591">Make mad the guilty and appall the free,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1656"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1656">FTLN 1656</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.592" title="2.2.592">Confound the ignorant and amaze indeed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1657"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1657">FTLN 1657</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.593" title="2.2.593">The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1658"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1658">FTLN 1658</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.594" title="2.2.594">A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1659"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1659">FTLN 1659</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.595">595</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.595" title="2.2.595">Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1660"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1660">FTLN 1660</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.596" title="2.2.596">And can say nothing—no, not for a king</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1661"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1661">FTLN 1661</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.597" title="2.2.597">Upon whose property and most dear life</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1662"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1662">FTLN 1662</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.598" title="2.2.598">A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1663"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1663">FTLN 1663</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.599" title="2.2.599">Who calls me “villain”? breaks my pate across?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1664"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1664">FTLN 1664</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.600">600</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.600" title="2.2.600">Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1665"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1665">FTLN 1665</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.601" title="2.2.601">Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i’ th’ throat</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1666"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1666">FTLN 1666</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.602" title="2.2.602">As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1667"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1667">FTLN 1667</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.603" title="2.2.603">Ha! ’Swounds, I should take it! For it cannot be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1668"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1668">FTLN 1668</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.604" title="2.2.604">But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1669"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1669">FTLN 1669</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.605">605</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.605" title="2.2.605">To make oppression bitter, or ere this</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1670"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1670">FTLN 1670</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.606" title="2.2.606">I should <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">have<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.606" title="2.2.606"> fatted all the region kites</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1671"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1671">FTLN 1671</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.607" title="2.2.607">With this slave’s offal. Bloody, bawdy villain!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1672"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1672">FTLN 1672</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.608" title="2.2.608">Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1673"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1673">FTLN 1673</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-2.2.609" title="2.2.609">villain!</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-1674"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1674">FTLN 1674</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.610">610</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.610" title="2.2.610"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">O</span><span id="line-2.2.610" title="2.2.610"> vengeance!<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1675"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1675">FTLN 1675</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.611" title="2.2.611">Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1676"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1676">FTLN 1676</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.612" title="2.2.612">That I, the son of a dear <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">father<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-2.2.612" title="2.2.612"> murdered,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1677"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1677">FTLN 1677</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.613" title="2.2.613">Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1678"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1678">FTLN 1678</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.614" title="2.2.614">Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1679"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1679">FTLN 1679</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.615">615</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.615" title="2.2.615">And fall a-cursing like a very drab,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1680"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1680">FTLN 1680</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.616" title="2.2.616">A stallion! Fie upon ’t! Foh!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1681"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1681">FTLN 1681</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.617" title="2.2.617">About, my brains!—Hum, I have heard</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1682"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1682">FTLN 1682</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.618" title="2.2.618">That guilty creatures sitting at a play</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1683"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1683">FTLN 1683</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.619" title="2.2.619">Have, by the very cunning of the scene,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1684"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1684">FTLN 1684</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.620">620</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.620" title="2.2.620">Been struck so to the soul that presently</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1685"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1685">FTLN 1685</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.621" title="2.2.621">They have proclaimed their malefactions;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1686"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1686">FTLN 1686</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.622" title="2.2.622">For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1687"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1687">FTLN 1687</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.623" title="2.2.623">With most miraculous organ. I’ll have these players</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1688"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1688">FTLN 1688</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.624" title="2.2.624">Play something like the murder of my father</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1689"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1689">FTLN 1689</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.625">625</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.625" title="2.2.625">Before mine uncle. I’ll observe his looks;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1690"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1690">FTLN 1690</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.626" title="2.2.626">I’ll tent him to the quick. If he do blench,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1691"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1691">FTLN 1691</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.627" title="2.2.627">I know my course. The spirit that I have seen</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1692"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1692">FTLN 1692</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.628" title="2.2.628">May be a <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">devil</span><span id="line-2.2.628" title="2.2.628">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.628" title="2.2.628"> and the <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">devil<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-2.2.628" title="2.2.628"> hath power</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1693"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1693">FTLN 1693</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.629" title="2.2.629">T’ assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1694"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1694">FTLN 1694</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_2.2.630">630</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.630" title="2.2.630">Out of my weakness and my melancholy,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1695"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1695">FTLN 1695</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.631" title="2.2.631">As he is very potent with such spirits,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1696"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1696">FTLN 1696</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.632" title="2.2.632">Abuses me to damn me. I’ll have grounds</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1697"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1697">FTLN 1697</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.633" title="2.2.633">More relative than this. The play’s the thing</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1698"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1698">FTLN 1698</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-2.2.634" title="2.2.634">Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.1.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.1.0" title="SD 3.1.0">Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz,</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 3.1.0" title="SD 3.1.0">Guildenstern, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">and<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 3.1.0" title="SD 3.1.0"> Lords.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1699"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1699">FTLN 1699</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.1" title="3.1.1">And can you by no drift of conference</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1700"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1700">FTLN 1700</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.2" title="3.1.2">Get from him why he puts on this confusion,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1701"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1701">FTLN 1701</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.3" title="3.1.3">Grating so harshly all his days of quiet</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1702"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1702">FTLN 1702</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.4" title="3.1.4">With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1703"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1703">FTLN 1703</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.5" title="3.1.5">He does confess he feels himself distracted,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1704"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1704">FTLN 1704</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.6" title="3.1.6">But from what cause he will by no means speak.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1705"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1705">FTLN 1705</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.7" title="3.1.7">Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1706"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1706">FTLN 1706</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.8" title="3.1.8">But with a crafty madness keeps aloof</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1707"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1707">FTLN 1707</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.9" title="3.1.9">When we would bring him on to some confession</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1708"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1708">FTLN 1708</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.10" title="3.1.10">Of his true state.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1709"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1709">FTLN 1709</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 81px;"> </span><span id="line-3.1.11" title="3.1.11">Did he receive you well?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1710"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1710">FTLN 1710</span><span id="line-3.1.12" title="3.1.12">Most like a gentleman.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1711"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1711">FTLN 1711</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.13" title="3.1.13">But with much forcing of his disposition.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1712"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1712">FTLN 1712</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.14" title="3.1.14">Niggard of question, but of our demands</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1713"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1713">FTLN 1713</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.15" title="3.1.15">Most free in his reply.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1714"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1714">FTLN 1714</span><span id="line-3.1.16" title="3.1.16">Did you assay him to any pastime?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1715"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1715">FTLN 1715</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.17" title="3.1.17">Madam, it so fell out that certain players</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-1716"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1716">FTLN 1716</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.18" title="3.1.18">We o’erraught on the way. Of these we told him,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1717"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1717">FTLN 1717</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.19" title="3.1.19">And there did seem in him a kind of joy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1718"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1718">FTLN 1718</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.20" title="3.1.20">To hear of it. They are here about the court,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1719"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1719">FTLN 1719</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.21" title="3.1.21">And, as I think, they have already order</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1720"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1720">FTLN 1720</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.22" title="3.1.22">This night to play before him.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1721"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1721">FTLN 1721</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 148px;"> </span><span id="line-3.1.23" title="3.1.23">’Tis most true,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1722"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1722">FTLN 1722</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.24" title="3.1.24">And he beseeched me to entreat your Majesties</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1723"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1723">FTLN 1723</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.25" title="3.1.25">To hear and see the matter.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1724"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1724">FTLN 1724</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.26" title="3.1.26">With all my heart, and it doth much content me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1725"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1725">FTLN 1725</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.27" title="3.1.27">To hear him so inclined.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1726"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1726">FTLN 1726</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.28" title="3.1.28">Good gentlemen, give him a further edge</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1727"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1727">FTLN 1727</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.29" title="3.1.29">And drive his purpose into these delights.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1728"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1728">FTLN 1728</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.30" title="3.1.30">We shall, my lord.</span><a name="line-SD3.1.30"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.1.30" title="SD 3.1.30">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 3.1.30" title="SD 3.1.30"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">and</span><span id="line-SD 3.1.30" title="SD 3.1.30"> Lords<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 3.1.30" title="SD 3.1.30"> exit.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1729"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1729">FTLN 1729</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 104px;"> </span><span id="line-3.1.31" title="3.1.31">Sweet Gertrude, leave us <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">too</span><span id="line-3.1.31" title="3.1.31">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1730"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1730">FTLN 1730</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.32" title="3.1.32">For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1731"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1731">FTLN 1731</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.33" title="3.1.33">That he, as ’twere by accident, may here</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1732"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1732">FTLN 1732</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.34" title="3.1.34">Affront Ophelia.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1733"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1733">FTLN 1733</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.35" title="3.1.35">Her father and myself, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.35" title="3.1.35">lawful espials,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1734"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1734">FTLN 1734</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.36" title="3.1.36"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Will<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.36" title="3.1.36"> so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1735"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1735">FTLN 1735</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.37" title="3.1.37">We may of their encounter frankly judge</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1736"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1736">FTLN 1736</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.38" title="3.1.38">And gather by him, as he is behaved,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1737"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1737">FTLN 1737</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.39" title="3.1.39">If ’t be th’ affliction of his love or no</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1738"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1738">FTLN 1738</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.40" title="3.1.40">That thus he suffers for.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1739"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1739">FTLN 1739</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 130px;"> </span><span id="line-3.1.41" title="3.1.41">I shall obey you.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1740"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1740">FTLN 1740</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.42" title="3.1.42">And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1741"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1741">FTLN 1741</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.43" title="3.1.43">That your good beauties be the happy cause</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1742"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1742">FTLN 1742</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.44" title="3.1.44">Of Hamlet’s wildness. So shall I hope your virtues</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1743"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1743">FTLN 1743</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.45" title="3.1.45">Will bring him to his wonted way again,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1744"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1744">FTLN 1744</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.46" title="3.1.46">To both your honors.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1745"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1745">FTLN 1745</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 98px;"> </span><span id="line-3.1.47" title="3.1.47">Madam, I wish it may.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.1.47.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.1.47.1" title="SD 3.1.47.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Queen</span><span id="line-SD 3.1.47.1" title="SD 3.1.47.1"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1746"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1746">FTLN 1746</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.48" title="3.1.48">Ophelia, walk you here.—Gracious, so please you,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 1</div>
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<a name="ftln-1747"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1747">FTLN 1747</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.49" title="3.1.49">We will bestow ourselves.</span><a name="line-SD3.1.49"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 3.1.49" title="SD 3.1.49"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">To</span><span id="line-SD 3.1.49" title="SD 3.1.49"> Ophelia.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span id="line-3.1.49" title="3.1.49"> Read on this</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1748"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1748">FTLN 1748</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.1.50" title="3.1.50">book,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1749"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1749">FTLN 1749</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.51" title="3.1.51">That show of such an exercise may color</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1750"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1750">FTLN 1750</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.52" title="3.1.52">Your <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">loneliness</span><span id="line-3.1.52" title="3.1.52">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.52" title="3.1.52">—We are oft to blame in this</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1751"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1751">FTLN 1751</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.53" title="3.1.53">(’Tis too much proved), that with devotion’s visage</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1752"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1752">FTLN 1752</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.54" title="3.1.54">And pious action we do sugar o’er</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1753"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1753">FTLN 1753</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.55" title="3.1.55">The devil himself.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><a name="line-SD3.1.56"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 3.1.56" title="SD 3.1.56">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1754"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1754">FTLN 1754</span><span id="line-3.1.56" title="3.1.56">O, ’tis too true!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1755"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1755">FTLN 1755</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.57" title="3.1.57">How smart a lash that speech doth give my</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1756"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1756">FTLN 1756</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.1.58" title="3.1.58">conscience.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1757"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1757">FTLN 1757</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.59" title="3.1.59">The harlot’s cheek beautied with plast’ring art</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1758"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1758">FTLN 1758</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.60" title="3.1.60">Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1759"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1759">FTLN 1759</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.61" title="3.1.61">Than is my deed to my most painted word.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1760"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1760">FTLN 1760</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.62" title="3.1.62">O heavy burden!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1761"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1761">FTLN 1761</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.63" title="3.1.63">I hear him coming. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Let’s<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.63" title="3.1.63"> withdraw, my lord.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.1.63.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.1.63.1" title="SD 3.1.63.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">They</span><span id="line-SD 3.1.63.1" title="SD 3.1.63.1"> withdraw.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.1.63.2"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.1.63.2" title="SD 3.1.63.2">Enter Hamlet.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1762"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1762">FTLN 1762</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.64" title="3.1.64">To be or not to be—that is the question:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1763"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1763">FTLN 1763</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.65" title="3.1.65">Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1764"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1764">FTLN 1764</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.66" title="3.1.66">The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1765"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1765">FTLN 1765</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.67" title="3.1.67">Or to take arms against a sea of troubles</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1766"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1766">FTLN 1766</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.68" title="3.1.68">And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1767"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1767">FTLN 1767</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.69" title="3.1.69">No more—and by a sleep to say we end</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1768"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1768">FTLN 1768</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.70" title="3.1.70">The heartache and the thousand natural shocks</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1769"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1769">FTLN 1769</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.71" title="3.1.71">That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1770"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1770">FTLN 1770</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.72" title="3.1.72">Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1771"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1771">FTLN 1771</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.73" title="3.1.73">To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1772"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1772">FTLN 1772</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.74" title="3.1.74">For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1773"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1773">FTLN 1773</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.75" title="3.1.75">When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1774"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1774">FTLN 1774</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.76" title="3.1.76">Must give us pause. There’s the respect</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1775"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1775">FTLN 1775</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.77" title="3.1.77">That makes calamity of so long life.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1776"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1776">FTLN 1776</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.78" title="3.1.78">For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1777"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1777">FTLN 1777</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.79" title="3.1.79">Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 1</div>
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<a name="ftln-1778"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1778">FTLN 1778</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.80" title="3.1.80">The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1779"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1779">FTLN 1779</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.81" title="3.1.81">The insolence of office, and the spurns</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1780"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1780">FTLN 1780</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.82" title="3.1.82">That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1781"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1781">FTLN 1781</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.83" title="3.1.83">When he himself might his quietus make</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1782"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1782">FTLN 1782</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.84" title="3.1.84">With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1783"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1783">FTLN 1783</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.85" title="3.1.85">To grunt and sweat under a weary life,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1784"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1784">FTLN 1784</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.86" title="3.1.86">But that the dread of something after death,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1785"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1785">FTLN 1785</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.87" title="3.1.87">The undiscovered country from whose bourn</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1786"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1786">FTLN 1786</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.88" title="3.1.88">No traveler returns, puzzles the will</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1787"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1787">FTLN 1787</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.89" title="3.1.89">And makes us rather bear those ills we have</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1788"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1788">FTLN 1788</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.90" title="3.1.90">Than fly to others that we know not of?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1789"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1789">FTLN 1789</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.91" title="3.1.91">Thus conscience does make cowards <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">of</span><span id="line-3.1.91" title="3.1.91"> us all,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1790"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1790">FTLN 1790</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.92" title="3.1.92">And thus the native hue of resolution</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1791"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1791">FTLN 1791</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.93" title="3.1.93">Is <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">sicklied<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.93" title="3.1.93"> o’er with the pale cast of thought,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1792"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1792">FTLN 1792</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.94" title="3.1.94">And enterprises of great pitch and moment</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1793"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1793">FTLN 1793</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.95" title="3.1.95">With this regard their currents turn awry</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1794"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1794">FTLN 1794</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.96" title="3.1.96">And lose the name of action.—Soft you now,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1795"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1795">FTLN 1795</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.97" title="3.1.97">The fair Ophelia.—Nymph, in thy orisons</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1796"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1796">FTLN 1796</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.98" title="3.1.98">Be all my sins remembered.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1797"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1797">FTLN 1797</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 146px;"> </span><span id="line-3.1.99" title="3.1.99">Good my lord,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1798"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1798">FTLN 1798</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.100" title="3.1.100">How does your Honor for this many a day?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1799"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1799">FTLN 1799</span><span id="line-3.1.101" title="3.1.101">I humbly thank you, well.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1800"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1800">FTLN 1800</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.102" title="3.1.102">My lord, I have remembrances of yours</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1801"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1801">FTLN 1801</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.103" title="3.1.103">That I have longèd long to redeliver.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1802"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1802">FTLN 1802</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.104" title="3.1.104">I pray you now receive them.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1803"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1803">FTLN 1803</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.105" title="3.1.105">No, not I. I never gave you aught.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1804"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1804">FTLN 1804</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.106" title="3.1.106">My honored lord, you know right well you did,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1805"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1805">FTLN 1805</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.107" title="3.1.107">And with them words of so sweet breath composed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1806"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1806">FTLN 1806</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.108" title="3.1.108">As made <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">the<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.108" title="3.1.108"> things more rich. Their perfume</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1807"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1807">FTLN 1807</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.1.109" title="3.1.109">lost,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1808"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1808">FTLN 1808</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.110" title="3.1.110">Take these again, for to the noble mind</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1809"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1809">FTLN 1809</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.111" title="3.1.111">Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1810"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1810">FTLN 1810</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.112" title="3.1.112">There, my lord.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1811"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1811">FTLN 1811</span><span id="line-3.1.113" title="3.1.113">Ha, ha, are you honest?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1812"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1812">FTLN 1812</span><span id="line-3.1.114" title="3.1.114">My lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1813"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1813">FTLN 1813</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.115">115</span><span id="line-3.1.115" title="3.1.115">Are you fair?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1814"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1814">FTLN 1814</span><span id="line-3.1.116" title="3.1.116">What means your Lordship?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1815"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1815">FTLN 1815</span><span id="line-3.1.117" title="3.1.117">That if you be honest and fair, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">your</span><span id="line-3.1.117" title="3.1.117"> honesty<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1816"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1816">FTLN 1816</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.118" title="3.1.118">should admit no discourse to your beauty.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1817"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1817">FTLN 1817</span><span id="line-3.1.119" title="3.1.119">Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1818"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1818">FTLN 1818</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.120" title="3.1.120">than with honesty?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1819"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1819">FTLN 1819</span><span id="line-3.1.121" title="3.1.121">Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1820"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1820">FTLN 1820</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.122" title="3.1.122">transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1821"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1821">FTLN 1821</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.123" title="3.1.123">the force of honesty can translate beauty into his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1822"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1822">FTLN 1822</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.124" title="3.1.124">likeness. This was sometime a paradox, but now</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1823"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1823">FTLN 1823</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.125">125</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.125" title="3.1.125">the time gives it proof. I did love you once.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1824"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1824">FTLN 1824</span><span id="line-3.1.126" title="3.1.126">Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1825"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1825">FTLN 1825</span><span id="line-3.1.127" title="3.1.127">You should not have believed me, for virtue</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1826"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1826">FTLN 1826</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.128" title="3.1.128">cannot so <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">inoculate<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.128" title="3.1.128"> our old stock but we shall</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1827"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1827">FTLN 1827</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.129" title="3.1.129">relish of it. I loved you not.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1828"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1828">FTLN 1828</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.130">130</span><span id="line-3.1.130" title="3.1.130">I was the more deceived.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1829"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1829">FTLN 1829</span><span id="line-3.1.131" title="3.1.131">Get thee <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">to<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.131" title="3.1.131"> a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1830"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1830">FTLN 1830</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.132" title="3.1.132">a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1831"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1831">FTLN 1831</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.133" title="3.1.133">but yet I could accuse me of such things that it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1832"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1832">FTLN 1832</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.134" title="3.1.134">were better my mother had not borne me: I am</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1833"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1833">FTLN 1833</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.135">135</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.135" title="3.1.135">very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1834"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1834">FTLN 1834</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.136" title="3.1.136">at my beck than I have thoughts to put them</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1835"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1835">FTLN 1835</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.137" title="3.1.137">in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1836"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1836">FTLN 1836</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.138" title="3.1.138">them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1837"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1837">FTLN 1837</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.139" title="3.1.139">between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1838"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1838">FTLN 1838</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.140">140</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.140" title="3.1.140"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">all</span><span id="line-3.1.140" title="3.1.140">;<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.140" title="3.1.140"> believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1839"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1839">FTLN 1839</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.141" title="3.1.141">Where’s your father?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1840"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1840">FTLN 1840</span><span id="line-3.1.142" title="3.1.142">At home, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1841"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1841">FTLN 1841</span><span id="line-3.1.143" title="3.1.143">Let the doors be shut upon him that he may</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1842"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1842">FTLN 1842</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.144" title="3.1.144">play the fool nowhere but in ’s own house. Farewell.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1843"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1843">FTLN 1843</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.145">145</span><span id="line-3.1.145" title="3.1.145">O, help him, you sweet heavens!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1844"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1844">FTLN 1844</span><span id="line-3.1.146" title="3.1.146">If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1845"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1845">FTLN 1845</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.147" title="3.1.147">for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1846"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1846">FTLN 1846</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.148" title="3.1.148">snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 1</div>
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<a name="ftln-1847"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1847">FTLN 1847</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.149" title="3.1.149">nunnery, farewell. Or if thou wilt needs marry,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1848"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1848">FTLN 1848</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.150">150</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.150" title="3.1.150">marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1849"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1849">FTLN 1849</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.151" title="3.1.151">monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1850"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1850">FTLN 1850</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.152" title="3.1.152">quickly too. Farewell.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1851"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1851">FTLN 1851</span><span id="line-3.1.153" title="3.1.153">Heavenly powers, restore him!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1852"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1852">FTLN 1852</span><span id="line-3.1.154" title="3.1.154">I have heard of your paintings <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">too</span><span id="line-3.1.154" title="3.1.154">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.154" title="3.1.154"> well</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1853"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1853">FTLN 1853</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.155">155</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.155" title="3.1.155">enough. God hath given you one face, and you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1854"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1854">FTLN 1854</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.156" title="3.1.156">make yourselves another. You jig and amble, and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1855"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1855">FTLN 1855</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.157" title="3.1.157">you <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">lisp</span><span id="line-3.1.157" title="3.1.157">;<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.157" title="3.1.157"> you nickname God’s creatures and make</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1856"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1856">FTLN 1856</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.158" title="3.1.158">your wantonness <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">your<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.158" title="3.1.158"> ignorance. Go to, I’ll no</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1857"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1857">FTLN 1857</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.159" title="3.1.159">more on ’t. It hath made me mad. I say we will have</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1858"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1858">FTLN 1858</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.160">160</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.160" title="3.1.160">no more marriage. Those that are married already,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1859"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1859">FTLN 1859</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.161" title="3.1.161">all but one, shall live. The rest shall keep as they are.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1860"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1860">FTLN 1860</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.162" title="3.1.162">To a nunnery, go.</span><a name="line-SD3.1.162"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.1.162" title="SD 3.1.162">He exits.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1861"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1861">FTLN 1861</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.163" title="3.1.163">O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1862"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1862">FTLN 1862</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.164" title="3.1.164">The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1863"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1863">FTLN 1863</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.165">165</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.1.165" title="3.1.165">sword,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1864"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1864">FTLN 1864</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.166" title="3.1.166"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Th’</span><span id="line-3.1.166" title="3.1.166"> expectancy<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.166" title="3.1.166"> and rose of the fair state,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1865"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1865">FTLN 1865</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.167" title="3.1.167">The glass of fashion and the mold of form,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1866"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1866">FTLN 1866</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.168" title="3.1.168">Th’ observed of all observers, quite, quite down!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1867"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1867">FTLN 1867</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.169" title="3.1.169">And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1868"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1868">FTLN 1868</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.170">170</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.170" title="3.1.170">That sucked the honey of his musicked vows,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1869"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1869">FTLN 1869</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.171" title="3.1.171">Now see <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">that<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.171" title="3.1.171"> noble and most sovereign reason,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1870"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1870">FTLN 1870</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.172" title="3.1.172">Like sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1871"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1871">FTLN 1871</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.173" title="3.1.173">That unmatched form and stature of blown youth</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1872"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1872">FTLN 1872</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.174" title="3.1.174">Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1873"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1873">FTLN 1873</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.175">175</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.175" title="3.1.175">T’ have seen what I have seen, see what I see!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><a name="line-SD3.1.176.0"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 3.1.176.0" title="SD 3.1.176.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">advancing</span><span id="line-SD 3.1.176.0" title="SD 3.1.176.0"> with<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 3.1.176.0" title="SD 3.1.176.0"> Polonius</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1874"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1874">FTLN 1874</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.176" title="3.1.176">Love? His affections do not that way tend;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1875"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1875">FTLN 1875</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.177" title="3.1.177">Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1876"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1876">FTLN 1876</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.178" title="3.1.178">Was not like madness. There’s something in his soul</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1877"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1877">FTLN 1877</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.179" title="3.1.179">O’er which his melancholy sits on brood,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1878"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1878">FTLN 1878</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.180">180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.180" title="3.1.180">And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1879"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1879">FTLN 1879</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.181" title="3.1.181">Will be some danger; which for to prevent,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1880"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1880">FTLN 1880</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.182" title="3.1.182">I have in quick determination</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-1881"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1881">FTLN 1881</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.183" title="3.1.183">Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1882"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1882">FTLN 1882</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.184" title="3.1.184">For the demand of our neglected tribute.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1883"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1883">FTLN 1883</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.185" title="3.1.185">Haply the seas, and countries different,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1884"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1884">FTLN 1884</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.186" title="3.1.186">With variable objects, shall expel</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1885"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1885">FTLN 1885</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.187" title="3.1.187">This something-settled matter in his heart,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1886"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1886">FTLN 1886</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.188" title="3.1.188">Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1887"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1887">FTLN 1887</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.189" title="3.1.189">From fashion of himself. What think you on ’t?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1888"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1888">FTLN 1888</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.190">190</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.190" title="3.1.190">It shall do well. But yet do I believe</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1889"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1889">FTLN 1889</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.191" title="3.1.191">The origin and commencement of his grief</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1890"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1890">FTLN 1890</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.192" title="3.1.192">Sprung from neglected love.—How now, Ophelia?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1891"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1891">FTLN 1891</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.193" title="3.1.193">You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1892"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1892">FTLN 1892</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.194" title="3.1.194">We heard it all.—My lord, do as you please,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1893"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1893">FTLN 1893</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.195">195</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.195" title="3.1.195">But, if you hold it fit, after the play</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1894"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1894">FTLN 1894</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.196" title="3.1.196">Let his queen-mother all alone entreat him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1895"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1895">FTLN 1895</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.197" title="3.1.197">To show his grief. Let her be round with him;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1896"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1896">FTLN 1896</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.198" title="3.1.198">And I’ll be placed, so please you, in the ear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1897"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1897">FTLN 1897</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.199" title="3.1.199">Of all their conference. If she find him not,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1898"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1898">FTLN 1898</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.1.200">200</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.200" title="3.1.200">To England send him, or confine him where</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1899"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1899">FTLN 1899</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.201" title="3.1.201">Your wisdom best shall think.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1900"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1900">FTLN 1900</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 180px;"> </span><span id="line-3.1.202" title="3.1.202">It shall be so.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1901"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1901">FTLN 1901</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.1.203" title="3.1.203">Madness in great ones must not <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">unwatched<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.1.203" title="3.1.203"> go.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.1.203.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.1.203.1" title="SD 3.1.203.1">They exit.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1902"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1902">FTLN 1902</span><span id="line-3.2.1" title="3.2.1">Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1903"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1903">FTLN 1903</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.2" title="3.2.2">it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1904"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1904">FTLN 1904</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.3" title="3.2.3">it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1905"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1905">FTLN 1905</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.4" title="3.2.4">town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1906"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1906">FTLN 1906</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.5" title="3.2.5">too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1907"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1907">FTLN 1907</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.6" title="3.2.6">for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1908"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1908">FTLN 1908</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.7" title="3.2.7">whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1909"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1909">FTLN 1909</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.8" title="3.2.8">beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O,</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-1910"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1910">FTLN 1910</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.9" title="3.2.9">it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1911"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1911">FTLN 1911</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.10" title="3.2.10">periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1912"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1912">FTLN 1912</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.11" title="3.2.11">rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1913"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1913">FTLN 1913</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.12" title="3.2.12">most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1914"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1914">FTLN 1914</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.13" title="3.2.13">dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1915"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1915">FTLN 1915</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.14" title="3.2.14">whipped for o’erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1916"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1916">FTLN 1916</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.15" title="3.2.15">Herod. Pray you, avoid it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">PLAYER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1917"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1917">FTLN 1917</span><span id="line-3.2.16" title="3.2.16">I warrant your Honor.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1918"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1918">FTLN 1918</span><span id="line-3.2.17" title="3.2.17">Be not too tame neither, but let your own</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1919"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1919">FTLN 1919</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.18" title="3.2.18">discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1920"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1920">FTLN 1920</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.19" title="3.2.19">word, the word to the action, with this special</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1921"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1921">FTLN 1921</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.20" title="3.2.20">observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1922"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1922">FTLN 1922</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.21" title="3.2.21">nature. For anything so o’erdone is from the purpose</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1923"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1923">FTLN 1923</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.22" title="3.2.22">of playing, whose end, both at the first and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1924"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1924">FTLN 1924</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.23" title="3.2.23">now, was and is to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1925"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1925">FTLN 1925</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.24" title="3.2.24">nature, to show virtue her <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">own<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.24" title="3.2.24"> feature, scorn her</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1926"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1926">FTLN 1926</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.25" title="3.2.25">own image, and the very age and body of the time</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1927"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1927">FTLN 1927</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.26" title="3.2.26">his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1928"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1928">FTLN 1928</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.27" title="3.2.27">tardy off, though it makes the unskillful laugh,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1929"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1929">FTLN 1929</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.28" title="3.2.28">cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1930"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1930">FTLN 1930</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.29" title="3.2.29">of <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">the<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.29" title="3.2.29"> which one must in your allowance o’erweigh</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1931"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1931">FTLN 1931</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.30" title="3.2.30">a whole theater of others. O, there be players that I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1932"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1932">FTLN 1932</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.31" title="3.2.31">have seen play and heard others <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">praise<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.31" title="3.2.31"> (and that</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1933"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1933">FTLN 1933</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.32" title="3.2.32">highly), not to speak it profanely, that, neither</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1934"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1934">FTLN 1934</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.33" title="3.2.33">having th’ accent of Christians nor the gait of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1935"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1935">FTLN 1935</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.34" title="3.2.34">Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1936"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1936">FTLN 1936</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.35" title="3.2.35">bellowed that I have thought some of nature’s</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1937"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1937">FTLN 1937</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.36" title="3.2.36">journeymen had made men, and not made them</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1938"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1938">FTLN 1938</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.37" title="3.2.37">well, they imitated humanity so abominably.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">PLAYER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1939"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1939">FTLN 1939</span><span id="line-3.2.38" title="3.2.38">I hope we have reformed that indifferently</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1940"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1940">FTLN 1940</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.39" title="3.2.39">with us, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">sir</span><span id="line-3.2.39" title="3.2.39">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1941"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1941">FTLN 1941</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.40">40</span><span id="line-3.2.40" title="3.2.40">O, reform it altogether. And let those that play</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1942"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1942">FTLN 1942</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.41" title="3.2.41">your clowns speak no more than is set down for</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1943"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1943">FTLN 1943</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.42" title="3.2.42">them, for there be of them that will themselves</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1944"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1944">FTLN 1944</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.43" title="3.2.43">laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1945"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1945">FTLN 1945</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.44" title="3.2.44">to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-1946"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1946">FTLN 1946</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.45" title="3.2.45">question of the play be then to be considered.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1947"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1947">FTLN 1947</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.46" title="3.2.46">That’s villainous and shows a most pitiful ambition</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1948"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1948">FTLN 1948</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.47" title="3.2.47">in the fool that uses it. Go make you ready.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.2.47.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.47.1" title="SD 3.2.47.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Players</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.47.1" title="SD 3.2.47.1"> exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.2.47.2"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.2.47.2" title="SD 3.2.47.2">Enter Polonius, Guildenstern, and Rosencrantz.</span></span><br>
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<a name="ftln-1949"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1949">FTLN 1949</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.48" title="3.2.48">How now, my lord, will the King hear this piece of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1950"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1950">FTLN 1950</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.49" title="3.2.49">work?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1951"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1951">FTLN 1951</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.50">50</span><span id="line-3.2.50" title="3.2.50">And the Queen too, and that presently.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1952"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1952">FTLN 1952</span><span id="line-3.2.51" title="3.2.51">Bid the players make haste.</span><a name="line-SD3.2.51"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.51" title="SD 3.2.51"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Polonius</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.51" title="SD 3.2.51"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-1953"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1953">FTLN 1953</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.52" title="3.2.52">Will you two help to hasten them?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1954"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1954">FTLN 1954</span><span id="line-3.2.53" title="3.2.53">Ay, my lord.</span><a name="line-SD3.2.53"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.53" title="SD 3.2.53">They exit.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1955"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1955">FTLN 1955</span><span id="line-3.2.54" title="3.2.54">What ho, Horatio!</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.2.54.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.2.54.1" title="SD 3.2.54.1">Enter Horatio.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1956"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1956">FTLN 1956</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.55">55</span><span id="line-3.2.55" title="3.2.55">Here, sweet lord, at your service.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1957"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1957">FTLN 1957</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.56" title="3.2.56">Horatio, thou art e’en as just a man</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1958"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1958">FTLN 1958</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.57" title="3.2.57">As e’er my conversation coped withal.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-1959"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1959">FTLN 1959</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.58" title="3.2.58">O, my dear lord—</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">HAMLET<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1960"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1960">FTLN 1960</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 67px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.59" title="3.2.59">Nay, do not think I flatter,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1961"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1961">FTLN 1961</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.60" title="3.2.60">For what advancement may I hope from thee</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1962"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1962">FTLN 1962</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.61" title="3.2.61">That no revenue hast but thy good spirits</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1963"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1963">FTLN 1963</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.62" title="3.2.62">To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1964"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1964">FTLN 1964</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.2.63" title="3.2.63">flattered?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1965"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1965">FTLN 1965</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.64" title="3.2.64">No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1966"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1966">FTLN 1966</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.65" title="3.2.65">And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1967"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1967">FTLN 1967</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.66" title="3.2.66">Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1968"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1968">FTLN 1968</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.67" title="3.2.67">Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1969"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1969">FTLN 1969</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.68" title="3.2.68">And could of men distinguish, her election</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1970"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1970">FTLN 1970</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.69" title="3.2.69">Hath sealed thee for herself. For thou hast been</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1971"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1971">FTLN 1971</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.70" title="3.2.70">As one in suffering all that suffers nothing,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1972"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1972">FTLN 1972</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.71" title="3.2.71">A man that Fortune’s buffets and rewards</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1973"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1973">FTLN 1973</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.72" title="3.2.72">Hast ta’en with equal thanks; and blessed are those</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1974"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1974">FTLN 1974</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.73" title="3.2.73">Whose blood and judgment are so well</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1975"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1975">FTLN 1975</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.2.74" title="3.2.74">commeddled</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-1976"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1976">FTLN 1976</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.75" title="3.2.75">That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1977"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1977">FTLN 1977</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.76" title="3.2.76">To sound what stop she please. Give me that man</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1978"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1978">FTLN 1978</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.77" title="3.2.77">That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1979"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1979">FTLN 1979</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.78" title="3.2.78">In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1980"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1980">FTLN 1980</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.79" title="3.2.79">As I do thee.—Something too much of this.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1981"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1981">FTLN 1981</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.80" title="3.2.80">There is a play tonight before the King.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1982"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1982">FTLN 1982</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.81" title="3.2.81">One scene of it comes near the circumstance</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1983"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1983">FTLN 1983</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.82" title="3.2.82">Which I have told thee of my father’s death.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1984"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1984">FTLN 1984</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.83" title="3.2.83">I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1985"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1985">FTLN 1985</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.84" title="3.2.84">Even with the very comment of thy soul</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1986"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1986">FTLN 1986</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.85" title="3.2.85">Observe my uncle. If his occulted guilt</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1987"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1987">FTLN 1987</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.86" title="3.2.86">Do not itself unkennel in one speech,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1988"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1988">FTLN 1988</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.87" title="3.2.87">It is a damnèd ghost that we have seen,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1989"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1989">FTLN 1989</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.88" title="3.2.88">And my imaginations are as foul</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1990"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1990">FTLN 1990</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.89" title="3.2.89">As Vulcan’s stithy. Give him heedful note,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1991"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1991">FTLN 1991</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.90" title="3.2.90">For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1992"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1992">FTLN 1992</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.91" title="3.2.91">And, after, we will both our judgments join</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1993"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1993">FTLN 1993</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.92" title="3.2.92">In censure of his seeming.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1994"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1994">FTLN 1994</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 130px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.93" title="3.2.93">Well, my lord.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1995"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1995">FTLN 1995</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.94" title="3.2.94">If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1996"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1996">FTLN 1996</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.95" title="3.2.95">And ’scape <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">detecting<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.95" title="3.2.95">, I will pay the theft.</span><a name="line-SD3.2.95.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.95.1" title="SD 3.2.95.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Sound</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.95.1" title="SD 3.2.95.1"> a flourish.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1997"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1997">FTLN 1997</span><span id="line-3.2.96" title="3.2.96">They are coming to the play. I must be idle.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-1998"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1998">FTLN 1998</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.97" title="3.2.97">Get you a place.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.2.97.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.2.97.1" title="SD 3.2.97.1">Enter Trumpets and Kettle Drums. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Enter<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 3.2.97.1" title="SD 3.2.97.1"> King, Queen,</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 3.2.97.1" title="SD 3.2.97.1">Polonius, Ophelia, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Rosencrantz</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.97.1" title="SD 3.2.97.1">, Guildenstern, and other</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 3.2.97.1" title="SD 3.2.97.1">Lords attendant with <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">the</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.97.1" title="SD 3.2.97.1"> King’s<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 3.2.97.1" title="SD 3.2.97.1"> guard carrying</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 3.2.97.1" title="SD 3.2.97.1">torches.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-1999"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_1999">FTLN 1999</span><span id="line-3.2.98" title="3.2.98">How fares our cousin Hamlet?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2000"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2000">FTLN 2000</span><span id="line-3.2.99" title="3.2.99">Excellent, i’ faith, of the chameleon’s dish. I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2001"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2001">FTLN 2001</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.100" title="3.2.100">eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2002"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2002">FTLN 2002</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.101" title="3.2.101">capons so.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2003"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2003">FTLN 2003</span><span id="line-3.2.102" title="3.2.102">I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet. These</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2004"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2004">FTLN 2004</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.103" title="3.2.103">words are not mine.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2005"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2005">FTLN 2005</span><span id="line-3.2.104" title="3.2.104">No, nor mine now.</span><a name="line-SD3.2.104"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 3.2.104" title="SD 3.2.104"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">To</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.104" title="SD 3.2.104"> Polonius.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span id="line-3.2.104" title="3.2.104"> My lord, you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2006"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2006">FTLN 2006</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.105" title="3.2.105">played once i’ th’ university, you say?</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2007"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2007">FTLN 2007</span><span id="line-3.2.106" title="3.2.106">That did I, my lord, and was accounted a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2008"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2008">FTLN 2008</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.107" title="3.2.107">good actor.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2009"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2009">FTLN 2009</span><span id="line-3.2.108" title="3.2.108">What did you enact?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2010"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2010">FTLN 2010</span><span id="line-3.2.109" title="3.2.109">I did enact Julius Caesar. I was killed i’ th’</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2011"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2011">FTLN 2011</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.110" title="3.2.110">Capitol. Brutus killed me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2012"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2012">FTLN 2012</span><span id="line-3.2.111" title="3.2.111">It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2013"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2013">FTLN 2013</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.112" title="3.2.112">calf there.—Be the players ready?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2014"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2014">FTLN 2014</span><span id="line-3.2.113" title="3.2.113">Ay, my lord. They stay upon your</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2015"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2015">FTLN 2015</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.114" title="3.2.114">patience.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2016"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2016">FTLN 2016</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.115">115</span><span id="line-3.2.115" title="3.2.115">Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2017"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2017">FTLN 2017</span><span id="line-3.2.116" title="3.2.116">No, good mother. Here’s metal more</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2018"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2018">FTLN 2018</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.117" title="3.2.117">attractive.</span><a name="line-SD3.2.117"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.117" title="SD 3.2.117"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Hamlet</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.117" title="SD 3.2.117"> takes a place near Ophelia.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><a name="line-SD3.2.118"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 3.2.118" title="SD 3.2.118">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.118" title="SD 3.2.118"> the King<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2019"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2019">FTLN 2019</span><span id="line-3.2.118" title="3.2.118">Oh, ho! Do you mark that?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2020"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2020">FTLN 2020</span><span id="line-3.2.119" title="3.2.119">Lady, shall I lie in your lap?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2021"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2021">FTLN 2021</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.120">120</span><span id="line-3.2.120" title="3.2.120">No, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">HAMLET</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2022"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2022">FTLN 2022</span><span id="line-3.2.121" title="3.2.121">I mean, my head upon your lap?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2023"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2023">FTLN 2023</span><span id="line-3.2.122" title="3.2.122">Ay, my lord.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2024"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2024">FTLN 2024</span><span id="line-3.2.123" title="3.2.123">Do you think I meant country matters?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2025"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2025">FTLN 2025</span><span id="line-3.2.124" title="3.2.124">I think nothing, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2026"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2026">FTLN 2026</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.125">125</span><span id="line-3.2.125" title="3.2.125">That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2027"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2027">FTLN 2027</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.126" title="3.2.126">legs.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2028"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2028">FTLN 2028</span><span id="line-3.2.127" title="3.2.127">What is, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2029"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2029">FTLN 2029</span><span id="line-3.2.128" title="3.2.128">Nothing.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2030"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2030">FTLN 2030</span><span id="line-3.2.129" title="3.2.129">You are merry, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2031"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2031">FTLN 2031</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.130">130</span><span id="line-3.2.130" title="3.2.130">Who, I?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2032"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2032">FTLN 2032</span><span id="line-3.2.131" title="3.2.131">Ay, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2033"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2033">FTLN 2033</span><span id="line-3.2.132" title="3.2.132">O God, your only jig-maker. What should a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2034"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2034">FTLN 2034</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.133" title="3.2.133">man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2035"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2035">FTLN 2035</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.134" title="3.2.134">my mother looks, and my father died within ’s two</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2036"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2036">FTLN 2036</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.135">135</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.135" title="3.2.135">hours.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2037"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2037">FTLN 2037</span><span id="line-3.2.136" title="3.2.136">Nay, ’tis twice two months, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2038"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2038">FTLN 2038</span><span id="line-3.2.137" title="3.2.137">So long? Nay, then, let the devil wear black,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2039"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2039">FTLN 2039</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.138" title="3.2.138">for I’ll have a suit of sables. O heavens, die two</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2040"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2040">FTLN 2040</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.139" title="3.2.139">months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there’s</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2041"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2041">FTLN 2041</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.140">140</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.140" title="3.2.140">hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2042"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2042">FTLN 2042</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.141" title="3.2.141">a year. But, by ’r Lady, he must build churches, then,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-2043"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2043">FTLN 2043</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.142" title="3.2.142">or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2044"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2044">FTLN 2044</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.143" title="3.2.143">hobby-horse, whose epitaph is “For oh, for oh, the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2045"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2045">FTLN 2045</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.144" title="3.2.144">hobby-horse is forgot.”</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.2.144.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.144.1" title="SD 3.2.144.1">The trumpets sounds. Dumb show follows.</span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD"> </a><span class="stage"><a name="ftln-2046"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2046">FTLN 2046</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.145">145</span><span id="line-3.2.145" title="3.2.145">Enter a King and a Queen, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">very</span><span id="line-3.2.145" title="3.2.145"> lovingly,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.145" title="3.2.145"> the Queen</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2047"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2047">FTLN 2047</span><span id="line-3.2.146" title="3.2.146">embracing him and he her. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">She</span><span id="line-3.2.146" title="3.2.146"> kneels and makes show of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2048"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2048">FTLN 2048</span><span id="line-3.2.147" title="3.2.147">protestation unto him.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.147" title="3.2.147"> He takes her up and declines his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2049"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2049">FTLN 2049</span><span id="line-3.2.148" title="3.2.148">head upon her neck. He lies him down upon a bank of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2050"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2050">FTLN 2050</span><span id="line-3.2.149" title="3.2.149">flowers. She, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2051"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2051">FTLN 2051</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.150">150</span><span id="line-3.2.150" title="3.2.150"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">comes<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.150" title="3.2.150"> in another man, takes off his crown, kisses it, pours</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2052"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2052">FTLN 2052</span><span id="line-3.2.151" title="3.2.151">poison in the sleeper’s ears, and leaves him. The Queen</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2053"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2053">FTLN 2053</span><span id="line-3.2.152" title="3.2.152">returns, finds the King dead, makes passionate action. The</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2054"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2054">FTLN 2054</span><span id="line-3.2.153" title="3.2.153">poisoner with some three or four come in again, seem to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2055"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2055">FTLN 2055</span><span id="line-3.2.154" title="3.2.154">condole with her. The dead body is carried away. The</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2056"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2056">FTLN 2056</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.155">155</span><span id="line-3.2.155" title="3.2.155">poisoner woos the Queen with gifts. She seems harsh</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2057"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2057">FTLN 2057</span><span id="line-3.2.156" title="3.2.156">awhile but in the end accepts <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">his<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.156" title="3.2.156"> love.</span></span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.2.156.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.156.1" title="SD 3.2.156.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Players</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.156.1" title="SD 3.2.156.1"> exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2058"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2058">FTLN 2058</span><span id="line-3.2.157" title="3.2.157">What means this, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2059"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2059">FTLN 2059</span><span id="line-3.2.158" title="3.2.158">Marry, this <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">is</span><span id="line-3.2.158" title="3.2.158"> miching<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.158" title="3.2.158"> mallecho. It means</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2060"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2060">FTLN 2060</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.159" title="3.2.159">mischief.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2061"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2061">FTLN 2061</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.160">160</span><span id="line-3.2.160" title="3.2.160">Belike this show imports the argument of the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2062"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2062">FTLN 2062</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.161" title="3.2.161">play.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.2.161.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.2.161.1" title="SD 3.2.161.1">Enter Prologue.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2063"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2063">FTLN 2063</span><span id="line-3.2.162" title="3.2.162">We shall know by this fellow. The players</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2064"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2064">FTLN 2064</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.163" title="3.2.163">cannot keep <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">counsel</span><span id="line-3.2.163" title="3.2.163">;<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.163" title="3.2.163"> they’ll tell all.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2065"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2065">FTLN 2065</span><span id="line-3.2.164" title="3.2.164">Will he tell us what this show meant?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2066"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2066">FTLN 2066</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.165">165</span><span id="line-3.2.165" title="3.2.165">Ay, or any show that you will show him. Be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2067"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2067">FTLN 2067</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.166" title="3.2.166">not you ashamed to show, he’ll not shame to tell you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2068"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2068">FTLN 2068</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.167" title="3.2.167">what it means.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2069"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2069">FTLN 2069</span><span id="line-3.2.168" title="3.2.168">You are naught, you are naught. I’ll mark the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2070"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2070">FTLN 2070</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.169" title="3.2.169">play.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">PROLOGUE</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-2071"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2071">FTLN 2071</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.170">170</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.170" title="3.2.170">For us and for our tragedy,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2072"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2072">FTLN 2072</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.171" title="3.2.171">Here stooping to your clemency,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2073"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2073">FTLN 2073</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.172" title="3.2.172">We beg your hearing patiently.</span></span><a name="line-SD3.2.172"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.172" title="SD 3.2.172"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.172" title="SD 3.2.172"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2074"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2074">FTLN 2074</span><span id="line-3.2.173" title="3.2.173">Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2075"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2075">FTLN 2075</span><span id="line-3.2.174" title="3.2.174">’Tis brief, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2076"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2076">FTLN 2076</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.175">175</span><span id="line-3.2.175" title="3.2.175">As woman’s love.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.2.175.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.2.175.1" title="SD 3.2.175.1">Enter <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">the</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.175.1" title="SD 3.2.175.1"> Player<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 3.2.175.1" title="SD 3.2.175.1"> King and Queen.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">PLAYER KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2077"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2077">FTLN 2077</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.176" title="3.2.176">Full thirty times hath Phoebus’ cart gone round</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2078"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2078">FTLN 2078</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.177" title="3.2.177">Neptune’s salt wash and Tellus’ <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">orbèd<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.177" title="3.2.177"> ground,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2079"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2079">FTLN 2079</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.178" title="3.2.178">And thirty dozen moons with borrowed sheen</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2080"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2080">FTLN 2080</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.179" title="3.2.179">About the world have times twelve thirties been</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2081"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2081">FTLN 2081</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.180">180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.180" title="3.2.180">Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2082"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2082">FTLN 2082</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.181" title="3.2.181">Unite commutual in most sacred bands.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">PLAYER QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2083"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2083">FTLN 2083</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.182" title="3.2.182">So many journeys may the sun and moon</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2084"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2084">FTLN 2084</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.183" title="3.2.183">Make us again count o’er ere love be done!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2085"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2085">FTLN 2085</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.184" title="3.2.184">But woe is me! You are so sick of late,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2086"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2086">FTLN 2086</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.185" title="3.2.185">So far from cheer and from <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">your<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.185" title="3.2.185"> former state,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2087"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2087">FTLN 2087</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.186" title="3.2.186">That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2088"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2088">FTLN 2088</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.187" title="3.2.187">Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2089"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2089">FTLN 2089</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.188" title="3.2.188"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">For</span><span id="line-3.2.188" title="3.2.188"> women fear too much, even as they love,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2090"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2090">FTLN 2090</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.189" title="3.2.189">And women’s fear and love hold quantity,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2091"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2091">FTLN 2091</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.190">190</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.190" title="3.2.190">In neither aught, or in extremity.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2092"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2092">FTLN 2092</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.191" title="3.2.191">Now what my <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">love<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.191" title="3.2.191"> is, proof hath made you know,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2093"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2093">FTLN 2093</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.192" title="3.2.192">And, as my love is sized, my fear is so:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2094"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2094">FTLN 2094</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.193" title="3.2.193"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">Where</span><span id="line-3.2.193" title="3.2.193"> love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2095"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2095">FTLN 2095</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.194" title="3.2.194">Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">PLAYER KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2096"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2096">FTLN 2096</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.195">195</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.195" title="3.2.195">Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2097"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2097">FTLN 2097</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.196" title="3.2.196">My operant powers their functions leave to do.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2098"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2098">FTLN 2098</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.197" title="3.2.197">And thou shall live in this fair world behind,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2099"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2099">FTLN 2099</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.198" title="3.2.198">Honored, beloved; and haply one as kind</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2100"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2100">FTLN 2100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.199" title="3.2.199">For husband shalt thou—</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">PLAYER QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2101"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2101">FTLN 2101</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.200">200</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 99px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.200" title="3.2.200">O, confound the rest!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2102"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2102">FTLN 2102</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.201" title="3.2.201">Such love must needs be treason in my breast.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2103"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2103">FTLN 2103</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.202" title="3.2.202">In second husband let me be accurst.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2104"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2104">FTLN 2104</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.203" title="3.2.203">None wed the second but who killed the first.</span></span><br>
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<div class="pageNbr">149</div>
<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2105"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2105">FTLN 2105</span><span id="line-3.2.204" title="3.2.204">That’s wormwood!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">PLAYER QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2106"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2106">FTLN 2106</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.205">205</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.205" title="3.2.205">The instances that second marriage move</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2107"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2107">FTLN 2107</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.206" title="3.2.206">Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2108"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2108">FTLN 2108</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.207" title="3.2.207">A second time I kill my husband dead</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2109"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2109">FTLN 2109</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.208" title="3.2.208">When second husband kisses me in bed.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">PLAYER KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2110"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2110">FTLN 2110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.209" title="3.2.209">I do believe you think what now you speak,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2111"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2111">FTLN 2111</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.210">210</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.210" title="3.2.210">But what we do determine oft we break.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2112"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2112">FTLN 2112</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.211" title="3.2.211">Purpose is but the slave to memory,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2113"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2113">FTLN 2113</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.212" title="3.2.212">Of violent birth, but poor validity,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2114"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2114">FTLN 2114</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.213" title="3.2.213">Which now, the fruit unripe, sticks on the tree</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2115"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2115">FTLN 2115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.214" title="3.2.214">But fall unshaken when they mellow be.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2116"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2116">FTLN 2116</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.215">215</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.215" title="3.2.215">Most necessary ’tis that we forget</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2117"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2117">FTLN 2117</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.216" title="3.2.216">To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2118"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2118">FTLN 2118</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.217" title="3.2.217">What to ourselves in passion we propose,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2119"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2119">FTLN 2119</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.218" title="3.2.218">The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2120"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2120">FTLN 2120</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.219" title="3.2.219">The violence of either grief or joy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2121"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2121">FTLN 2121</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.220">220</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.220" title="3.2.220">Their own enactures with themselves destroy.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2122"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2122">FTLN 2122</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.221" title="3.2.221">Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2123"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2123">FTLN 2123</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.222" title="3.2.222">Grief <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">joys</span><span id="line-3.2.222" title="3.2.222">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.222" title="3.2.222"> joy grieves, on slender accident.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2124"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2124">FTLN 2124</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.223" title="3.2.223">This world is not for aye, nor ’tis not strange</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2125"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2125">FTLN 2125</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.224" title="3.2.224">That even our loves should with our fortunes change;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2126"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2126">FTLN 2126</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.225">225</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.225" title="3.2.225">For ’tis a question left us yet to prove</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2127"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2127">FTLN 2127</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.226" title="3.2.226">Whether love lead fortune or else fortune love.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2128"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2128">FTLN 2128</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.227" title="3.2.227">The great man down, you mark his favorite flies;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2129"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2129">FTLN 2129</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.228" title="3.2.228">The poor, advanced, makes friends of enemies.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2130"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2130">FTLN 2130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.229" title="3.2.229">And hitherto doth love on fortune tend,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2131"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2131">FTLN 2131</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.230">230</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.230" title="3.2.230">For who not needs shall never lack a friend,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2132"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2132">FTLN 2132</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.231" title="3.2.231">And who in want a hollow friend doth try</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2133"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2133">FTLN 2133</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.232" title="3.2.232">Directly seasons him his enemy.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2134"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2134">FTLN 2134</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.233" title="3.2.233">But, orderly to end where I begun:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2135"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2135">FTLN 2135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.234" title="3.2.234">Our wills and fates do so contrary run</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2136"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2136">FTLN 2136</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.235">235</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.235" title="3.2.235">That our devices still are overthrown;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2137"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2137">FTLN 2137</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.236" title="3.2.236">Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2138"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2138">FTLN 2138</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.237" title="3.2.237">So think thou wilt no second husband wed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2139"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2139">FTLN 2139</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.238" title="3.2.238">But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.</span></span><br>
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<div class="pageNbr">151</div>
<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">PLAYER QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2140"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2140">FTLN 2140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.239" title="3.2.239">Nor Earth to me give food, nor heaven light,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2141"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2141">FTLN 2141</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.240">240</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.240" title="3.2.240">Sport and repose lock from me day and night,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2142"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2142">FTLN 2142</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.241" title="3.2.241"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">To</span><span id="line-3.2.241" title="3.2.241"> desperation turn my trust and hope,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2143"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2143">FTLN 2143</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.242" title="3.2.242"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">An<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-3.2.242" title="3.2.242"> anchor’s cheer in prison be my scope.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2144"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2144">FTLN 2144</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.243" title="3.2.243">Each opposite that blanks the face of joy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2145"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2145">FTLN 2145</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.244" title="3.2.244">Meet what I would have well and it destroy.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2146"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2146">FTLN 2146</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.245">245</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.245" title="3.2.245">Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2147"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2147">FTLN 2147</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.246" title="3.2.246">If, once a widow, ever I be wife.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2148"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2148">FTLN 2148</span><span id="line-3.2.247" title="3.2.247">If she should break it now!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">PLAYER KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2149"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2149">FTLN 2149</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.248" title="3.2.248">’Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2150"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2150">FTLN 2150</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.249" title="3.2.249">My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2151"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2151">FTLN 2151</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.250">250</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.250" title="3.2.250">The tedious day with sleep.</span></span><a name="line-SD3.2.250.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.250.1" title="SD 3.2.250.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Sleeps</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.250.1" title="SD 3.2.250.1">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">PLAYER QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2152"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2152">FTLN 2152</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 109px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.251" title="3.2.251">Sleep rock thy brain,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2153"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2153">FTLN 2153</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.252" title="3.2.252">And never come mischance between us twain.</span></span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.2.252.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.252.1" title="SD 3.2.252.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Player</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.252.1" title="SD 3.2.252.1"> Queen exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2154"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2154">FTLN 2154</span><span id="line-3.2.253" title="3.2.253">Madam, how like you this play?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2155"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2155">FTLN 2155</span><span id="line-3.2.254" title="3.2.254">The lady doth protest too much, methinks.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2156"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2156">FTLN 2156</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.255">255</span><span id="line-3.2.255" title="3.2.255">O, but she’ll keep her word.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2157"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2157">FTLN 2157</span><span id="line-3.2.256" title="3.2.256">Have you heard the argument? Is there no</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2158"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2158">FTLN 2158</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.257" title="3.2.257">offense in ’t?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2159"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2159">FTLN 2159</span><span id="line-3.2.258" title="3.2.258">No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest. No</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2160"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2160">FTLN 2160</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.259" title="3.2.259">offense i’ th’ world.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2161"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2161">FTLN 2161</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.260">260</span><span id="line-3.2.260" title="3.2.260">What do you call the play?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2162"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2162">FTLN 2162</span>“<span id="line-3.2.261" title="3.2.261">The Mousetrap.</span>”<span id="line-3.2.261" title="3.2.261"> Marry, how? Tropically.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2163"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2163">FTLN 2163</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.262" title="3.2.262">This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2164"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2164">FTLN 2164</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.263" title="3.2.263">Gonzago is the duke’s name, his wife Baptista. You</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2165"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2165">FTLN 2165</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.264" title="3.2.264">shall see anon. ’Tis a knavish piece of work, but</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2166"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2166">FTLN 2166</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.265">265</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.265" title="3.2.265">what of that? Your Majesty and we that have free</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2167"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2167">FTLN 2167</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.266" title="3.2.266">souls, it touches us not. Let the galled jade wince;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2168"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2168">FTLN 2168</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.267" title="3.2.267">our withers are unwrung.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.2.267.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.2.267.1" title="SD 3.2.267.1">Enter Lucianus.</span></span><br>
<br>
<a name="ftln-2169"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2169">FTLN 2169</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.268" title="3.2.268">This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2170"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2170">FTLN 2170</span><span id="line-3.2.269" title="3.2.269">You are as good as a chorus, my lord.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2171"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2171">FTLN 2171</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.270">270</span><span id="line-3.2.270" title="3.2.270">I could interpret between you and your love,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2172"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2172">FTLN 2172</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.271" title="3.2.271">if I could see the puppets dallying.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2173"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2173">FTLN 2173</span><span id="line-3.2.272" title="3.2.272">You are keen, my lord, you are keen.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2174"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2174">FTLN 2174</span><span id="line-3.2.273" title="3.2.273">It would cost you a groaning to take off mine</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2175"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2175">FTLN 2175</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.274" title="3.2.274">edge.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2176"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2176">FTLN 2176</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.275">275</span><span id="line-3.2.275" title="3.2.275">Still better and worse.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2177"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2177">FTLN 2177</span><span id="line-3.2.276" title="3.2.276">So you mis-take your husbands.—Begin,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2178"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2178">FTLN 2178</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.277" title="3.2.277">murderer. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Pox</span><span id="line-3.2.277" title="3.2.277">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.277" title="3.2.277"> leave thy damnable faces and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2179"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2179">FTLN 2179</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.278" title="3.2.278">begin. Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2180"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2180">FTLN 2180</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.279" title="3.2.279">revenge.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LUCIANUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-2181"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2181">FTLN 2181</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.280">280</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.280" title="3.2.280">Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2182"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2182">FTLN 2182</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.2.281" title="3.2.281">agreeing,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2183"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2183">FTLN 2183</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.282" title="3.2.282"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Confederate<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.282" title="3.2.282"> season, else no creature seeing,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2184"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2184">FTLN 2184</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.283" title="3.2.283">Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2185"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2185">FTLN 2185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.284" title="3.2.284">With Hecate’s ban thrice blasted, thrice <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">infected</span><span id="line-3.2.284" title="3.2.284">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2186"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2186">FTLN 2186</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.285">285</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.285" title="3.2.285">Thy natural magic and dire property</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2187"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2187">FTLN 2187</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.286" title="3.2.286">On wholesome life <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">usurp<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.286" title="3.2.286"> immediately.</span></span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.2.286.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.286.1" title="SD 3.2.286.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Pours</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.286.1" title="SD 3.2.286.1"> the poison in his ears.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2188"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2188">FTLN 2188</span><span id="line-3.2.287" title="3.2.287">He poisons him i’ th’ garden for his estate. His</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2189"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2189">FTLN 2189</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.288" title="3.2.288">name’s Gonzago. The story is extant and written in</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2190"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2190">FTLN 2190</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.289" title="3.2.289">very choice Italian. You shall see anon how the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2191"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2191">FTLN 2191</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.290">290</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.290" title="3.2.290">murderer gets the love of Gonzago’s wife.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.2.290.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.290.1" title="SD 3.2.290.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Claudius</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.290.1" title="SD 3.2.290.1"> rises.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2192"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2192">FTLN 2192</span><span id="line-3.2.291" title="3.2.291">The King rises.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">HAMLET</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2193"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2193">FTLN 2193</span><span id="line-3.2.292" title="3.2.292">What, frighted with false fire?<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2194"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2194">FTLN 2194</span><span id="line-3.2.293" title="3.2.293">How fares my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2195"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2195">FTLN 2195</span><span id="line-3.2.294" title="3.2.294">Give o’er the play.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2196"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2196">FTLN 2196</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.295">295</span><span id="line-3.2.295" title="3.2.295">Give me some light. Away!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2197"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2197">FTLN 2197</span><span id="line-3.2.296" title="3.2.296">Lights, lights, lights!</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.2.296.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.296.1" title="SD 3.2.296.1">All but Hamlet and Horatio exit.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-2198"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2198">FTLN 2198</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 40px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.297" title="3.2.297">Why, let the strucken deer go weep,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2199"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2199">FTLN 2199</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 40px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.298" title="3.2.298">The hart ungallèd play.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2200"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2200">FTLN 2200</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 40px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.299" title="3.2.299">For some must watch, while some must sleep:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2201"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2201">FTLN 2201</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.300">300</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 40px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.300" title="3.2.300">Thus runs the world away.</span></span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2202"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2202">FTLN 2202</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.301" title="3.2.301">Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers (if the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2203"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2203">FTLN 2203</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.302" title="3.2.302">rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me) with <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">two<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2204"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2204">FTLN 2204</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.303" title="3.2.303">Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2205"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2205">FTLN 2205</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.304" title="3.2.304">fellowship in a cry of players?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2206"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2206">FTLN 2206</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.305">305</span><span id="line-3.2.305" title="3.2.305">Half a share.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2207"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2207">FTLN 2207</span><span id="line-3.2.306" title="3.2.306">A whole one, I.</span><br>
<span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2208"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2208">FTLN 2208</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 68px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.307" title="3.2.307">For thou dost know, O Damon dear,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2209"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2209">FTLN 2209</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 68px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.308" title="3.2.308">This realm dismantled was</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2210"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2210">FTLN 2210</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 68px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.309" title="3.2.309">Of Jove himself, and now reigns here</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2211"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2211">FTLN 2211</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.310">310</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 68px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.310" title="3.2.310">A very very—pajock.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2212"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2212">FTLN 2212</span><span id="line-3.2.311" title="3.2.311">You might have rhymed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2213"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2213">FTLN 2213</span><span id="line-3.2.312" title="3.2.312">O good Horatio, I’ll take the ghost’s word for</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2214"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2214">FTLN 2214</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.313" title="3.2.313">a thousand pound. Didst perceive?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2215"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2215">FTLN 2215</span><span id="line-3.2.314" title="3.2.314">Very well, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2216"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2216">FTLN 2216</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.315">315</span><span id="line-3.2.315" title="3.2.315">Upon the talk of the poisoning?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2217"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2217">FTLN 2217</span><span id="line-3.2.316" title="3.2.316">I did very well note him.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2218"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2218">FTLN 2218</span><span id="line-3.2.317" title="3.2.317">Ah ha! Come, some music! Come, the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2219"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2219">FTLN 2219</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.318" title="3.2.318">recorders!</span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-2220"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2220">FTLN 2220</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 62.5px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.319" title="3.2.319">For if the King like not the comedy,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2221"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2221">FTLN 2221</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.320">320</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 62px;"> </span><span id="line-3.2.320" title="3.2.320">Why, then, belike he likes it not, perdy.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2222"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2222">FTLN 2222</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.321" title="3.2.321">Come, some music!</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.2.321.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.2.321.1" title="SD 3.2.321.1">Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2223"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2223">FTLN 2223</span><span id="line-3.2.322" title="3.2.322">Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2224"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2224">FTLN 2224</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.323" title="3.2.323">with you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2225"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2225">FTLN 2225</span><span id="line-3.2.324" title="3.2.324">Sir, a whole history.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2226"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2226">FTLN 2226</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.325">325</span><span id="line-3.2.325" title="3.2.325">The King, sir—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2227"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2227">FTLN 2227</span><span id="line-3.2.326" title="3.2.326">Ay, sir, what of him?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2228"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2228">FTLN 2228</span><span id="line-3.2.327" title="3.2.327">Is in his retirement marvelous</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2229"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2229">FTLN 2229</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.328" title="3.2.328">distempered.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2230"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2230">FTLN 2230</span><span id="line-3.2.329" title="3.2.329">With drink, sir?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2231"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2231">FTLN 2231</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.330">330</span><span id="line-3.2.330" title="3.2.330">No, my lord, with choler.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2232"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2232">FTLN 2232</span><span id="line-3.2.331" title="3.2.331">Your wisdom should show itself more richer</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2233"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2233">FTLN 2233</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.332" title="3.2.332">to signify this to the doctor, for for me to put him to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2234"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2234">FTLN 2234</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.333" title="3.2.333">his purgation would perhaps plunge him into more</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2235"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2235">FTLN 2235</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.334" title="3.2.334">choler.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2236"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2236">FTLN 2236</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.335">335</span><span id="line-3.2.335" title="3.2.335">Good my lord, put your discourse into</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2237"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2237">FTLN 2237</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.336" title="3.2.336">some frame and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">start<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.336" title="3.2.336"> not so wildly from my</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2238"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2238">FTLN 2238</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.337" title="3.2.337">affair.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2239"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2239">FTLN 2239</span><span id="line-3.2.338" title="3.2.338">I am tame, sir. Pronounce.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2240"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2240">FTLN 2240</span><span id="line-3.2.339" title="3.2.339">The Queen your mother, in most great</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2241"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2241">FTLN 2241</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.340">340</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.340" title="3.2.340">affliction of spirit, hath sent me to you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2242"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2242">FTLN 2242</span><span id="line-3.2.341" title="3.2.341">You are welcome.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2243"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2243">FTLN 2243</span><span id="line-3.2.342" title="3.2.342">Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2244"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2244">FTLN 2244</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.343" title="3.2.343">of the right breed. If it shall please you to make me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2245"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2245">FTLN 2245</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.344" title="3.2.344">a wholesome answer, I will do your mother’s</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2246"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2246">FTLN 2246</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.345">345</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.345" title="3.2.345">commandment. If not, your pardon and my return</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2247"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2247">FTLN 2247</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.346" title="3.2.346">shall be the end of <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">my<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.346" title="3.2.346"> business.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2248"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2248">FTLN 2248</span><span id="line-3.2.347" title="3.2.347">Sir, I cannot.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2249"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2249">FTLN 2249</span><span id="line-3.2.348" title="3.2.348">What, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2250"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2250">FTLN 2250</span><span id="line-3.2.349" title="3.2.349">Make you a wholesome answer. My wit’s</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2251"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2251">FTLN 2251</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.350">350</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.350" title="3.2.350">diseased. But, sir, such answer as I can make, you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2252"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2252">FTLN 2252</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.351" title="3.2.351">shall command—or, rather, as you say, my mother.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2253"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2253">FTLN 2253</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.352" title="3.2.352">Therefore no more but to the matter. My mother,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2254"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2254">FTLN 2254</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.353" title="3.2.353">you say—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2255"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2255">FTLN 2255</span><span id="line-3.2.354" title="3.2.354">Then thus she says: your behavior hath</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2256"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2256">FTLN 2256</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.355">355</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.355" title="3.2.355">struck her into amazement and admiration.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2257"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2257">FTLN 2257</span><span id="line-3.2.356" title="3.2.356">O wonderful son that can so ’stonish a mother!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2258"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2258">FTLN 2258</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.357" title="3.2.357">But is there no sequel at the heels of this</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2259"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2259">FTLN 2259</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.358" title="3.2.358">mother’s admiration? Impart.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2260"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2260">FTLN 2260</span><span id="line-3.2.359" title="3.2.359">She desires to speak with you in her</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2261"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2261">FTLN 2261</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.360">360</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.360" title="3.2.360">closet ere you go to bed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2262"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2262">FTLN 2262</span><span id="line-3.2.361" title="3.2.361">We shall obey, were she ten times our mother.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2263"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2263">FTLN 2263</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.362" title="3.2.362">Have you any further trade with us?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2264"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2264">FTLN 2264</span><span id="line-3.2.363" title="3.2.363">My lord, you once did love me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2265"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2265">FTLN 2265</span><span id="line-3.2.364" title="3.2.364">And do still, by these pickers and stealers.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2266"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2266">FTLN 2266</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.365">365</span><span id="line-3.2.365" title="3.2.365">Good my lord, what is your cause of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2267"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2267">FTLN 2267</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.366" title="3.2.366">distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2268"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2268">FTLN 2268</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.367" title="3.2.367">own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2269"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2269">FTLN 2269</span><span id="line-3.2.368" title="3.2.368">Sir, I lack advancement.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2270"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2270">FTLN 2270</span><span id="line-3.2.369" title="3.2.369">How can that be, when you have the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2271"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2271">FTLN 2271</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.370">370</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.370" title="3.2.370">voice of the King himself for your succession in</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2272"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2272">FTLN 2272</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.371" title="3.2.371">Denmark?</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2273"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2273">FTLN 2273</span><span id="line-3.2.372" title="3.2.372">Ay, sir, but “While the grass grows”—the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2274"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2274">FTLN 2274</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.373" title="3.2.373">proverb is something musty.</span><br>
<br>
<a name="line-SD3.2.373.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.2.373.1" title="SD 3.2.373.1">Enter the Players with recorders.</span></span><br>
<br>
<a name="ftln-2275"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2275">FTLN 2275</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.374" title="3.2.374">O, the recorders! Let me see one.</span><a name="line-SD"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-3.2.374" title="3.2.374"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-3.2.374" title="3.2.374"> takes a</span><br>
<span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.374" title="3.2.374">recorder and turns to Guildenstern.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-3.2.374" title="3.2.374"> </span></span><a name="ftln-2276"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2276">FTLN 2276</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.375">375</span><span id="line-3.2.375" title="3.2.375">To withdraw</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2277"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2277">FTLN 2277</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.376" title="3.2.376">with you: why do you go about to recover the wind</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2278"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2278">FTLN 2278</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.377" title="3.2.377">of me, as if you would drive me into a toil?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2279"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2279">FTLN 2279</span><span id="line-3.2.378" title="3.2.378">O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2280"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2280">FTLN 2280</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.379" title="3.2.379">love is too unmannerly.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2281"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2281">FTLN 2281</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.380">380</span><span id="line-3.2.380" title="3.2.380">I do not well understand that. Will you play</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2282"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2282">FTLN 2282</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.381" title="3.2.381">upon this pipe?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2283"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2283">FTLN 2283</span><span id="line-3.2.382" title="3.2.382">My lord, I cannot.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2284"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2284">FTLN 2284</span><span id="line-3.2.383" title="3.2.383">I pray you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2285"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2285">FTLN 2285</span><span id="line-3.2.384" title="3.2.384">Believe me, I cannot.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2286"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2286">FTLN 2286</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.385">385</span><span id="line-3.2.385" title="3.2.385">I do beseech you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2287"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2287">FTLN 2287</span><span id="line-3.2.386" title="3.2.386">I know no touch of it, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2288"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2288">FTLN 2288</span><span id="line-3.2.387" title="3.2.387">It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2289"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2289">FTLN 2289</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.388" title="3.2.388">with your fingers and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">thumb</span><span id="line-3.2.388" title="3.2.388">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.388" title="3.2.388"> give it breath with</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2290"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2290">FTLN 2290</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.389" title="3.2.389">your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2291"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2291">FTLN 2291</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.390">390</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.390" title="3.2.390">music. Look you, these are the stops.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2292"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2292">FTLN 2292</span><span id="line-3.2.391" title="3.2.391">But these cannot I command to any</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2293"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2293">FTLN 2293</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.392" title="3.2.392">utt’rance of harmony. I have not the skill.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2294"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2294">FTLN 2294</span><span id="line-3.2.393" title="3.2.393">Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2295"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2295">FTLN 2295</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.394" title="3.2.394">you make of me! You would play upon me, you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2296"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2296">FTLN 2296</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.395">395</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.395" title="3.2.395">would seem to know my stops, you would pluck</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2297"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2297">FTLN 2297</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.396" title="3.2.396">out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2298"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2298">FTLN 2298</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.397" title="3.2.397">from my lowest note to <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">the</span><span id="line-3.2.397" title="3.2.397"> top of<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.397" title="3.2.397"> my compass;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2299"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2299">FTLN 2299</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.398" title="3.2.398">and there is much music, excellent voice, in this</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2300"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2300">FTLN 2300</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.399" title="3.2.399">little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. ’Sblood,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2301"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2301">FTLN 2301</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.400">400</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.400" title="3.2.400">do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2302"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2302">FTLN 2302</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.401" title="3.2.401">Call me what instrument you will, though you <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">can<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2303"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2303">FTLN 2303</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.402" title="3.2.402">fret me, you cannot play upon me.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.2.402.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.2.402.1" title="SD 3.2.402.1">Enter Polonius.</span></span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2304"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2304">FTLN 2304</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.403" title="3.2.403">God bless you, sir.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2305"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2305">FTLN 2305</span><span id="line-3.2.404" title="3.2.404">My lord, the Queen would speak with you,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2306"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2306">FTLN 2306</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.405">405</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.405" title="3.2.405">and presently.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2307"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2307">FTLN 2307</span><span id="line-3.2.406" title="3.2.406">Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2308"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2308">FTLN 2308</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.407" title="3.2.407">shape of a camel?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2309"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2309">FTLN 2309</span><span id="line-3.2.408" title="3.2.408">By th’ Mass, and ’tis like a camel indeed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2310"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2310">FTLN 2310</span><span id="line-3.2.409" title="3.2.409">Methinks it is like a weasel.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2311"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2311">FTLN 2311</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.410">410</span><span id="line-3.2.410" title="3.2.410">It is backed like a weasel.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2312"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2312">FTLN 2312</span><span id="line-3.2.411" title="3.2.411">Or like a whale.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2313"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2313">FTLN 2313</span><span id="line-3.2.412" title="3.2.412">Very like a whale.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">HAMLET<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2314"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2314">FTLN 2314</span><span id="line-3.2.413" title="3.2.413">Then I will come to my mother by and by.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2315"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2315">FTLN 2315</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><a name="line-SD3.2.414"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 3.2.414" title="SD 3.2.414"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Aside</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.414" title="SD 3.2.414">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 3.2.414" title="SD 3.2.414"> </span></span><span id="line-3.2.414" title="3.2.414">They fool me to the top of my bent.—I will</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2316"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2316">FTLN 2316</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.415">415</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.415" title="3.2.415">come by and by.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">POLONIUS<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2317"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2317">FTLN 2317</span><span id="line-3.2.416" title="3.2.416">I will say so.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">HAMLET<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2318"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2318">FTLN 2318</span><span id="line-3.2.417" title="3.2.417">“By and by” is easily said. Leave me,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2319"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2319">FTLN 2319</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.418" title="3.2.418">friends.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.2.418.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.418.1" title="SD 3.2.418.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">All</span><span id="line-SD 3.2.418.1" title="SD 3.2.418.1"> but Hamlet exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2320"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2320">FTLN 2320</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.419" title="3.2.419">’Tis now the very witching time of night,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2321"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2321">FTLN 2321</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.420">420</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.420" title="3.2.420">When churchyards yawn and hell itself <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">breathes<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2322"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2322">FTLN 2322</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.2.421" title="3.2.421">out</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2323"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2323">FTLN 2323</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.422" title="3.2.422">Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2324"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2324">FTLN 2324</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.2.423" title="3.2.423">blood</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2325"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2325">FTLN 2325</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.424" title="3.2.424">And do such <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">bitter<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.424" title="3.2.424"> business as the day</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2326"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2326">FTLN 2326</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.425">425</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.425" title="3.2.425">Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2327"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2327">FTLN 2327</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.426" title="3.2.426">O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2328"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2328">FTLN 2328</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.427" title="3.2.427">The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2329"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2329">FTLN 2329</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.428" title="3.2.428">Let me be cruel, not unnatural.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2330"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2330">FTLN 2330</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.429" title="3.2.429">I will speak <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">daggers<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.2.429" title="3.2.429"> to her, but use none.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2331"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2331">FTLN 2331</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.2.430">430</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.430" title="3.2.430">My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2332"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2332">FTLN 2332</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.431" title="3.2.431">How in my words somever she be shent,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2333"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2333">FTLN 2333</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.2.432" title="3.2.432">To give them seals never, my soul, consent.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.2.432.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.2.432.1" title="SD 3.2.432.1">He exits.</span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 3</div>
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<a name="line-SD3.3.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.3.0" title="SD 3.3.0">Enter King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2334"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2334">FTLN 2334</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.1" title="3.3.1">I like him not, nor stands it safe with us</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2335"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2335">FTLN 2335</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.2" title="3.3.2">To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2336"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2336">FTLN 2336</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.3" title="3.3.3">I your commission will forthwith dispatch,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2337"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2337">FTLN 2337</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.4" title="3.3.4">And he to England shall along with you.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2338"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2338">FTLN 2338</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.5" title="3.3.5">The terms of our estate may not endure</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2339"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2339">FTLN 2339</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.6" title="3.3.6">Hazard so near ’s as doth hourly grow</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2340"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2340">FTLN 2340</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.7" title="3.3.7">Out of his brows.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2341"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2341">FTLN 2341</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 34px;"> </span><span id="line-3.3.8" title="3.3.8">We will ourselves provide.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2342"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2342">FTLN 2342</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.9" title="3.3.9">Most holy and religious fear it is</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2343"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2343">FTLN 2343</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.10" title="3.3.10">To keep those many many bodies safe</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2344"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2344">FTLN 2344</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.11" title="3.3.11">That live and feed upon your Majesty.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2345"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2345">FTLN 2345</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.12" title="3.3.12">The single and peculiar life is bound</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2346"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2346">FTLN 2346</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.13" title="3.3.13">With all the strength and armor of the mind</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2347"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2347">FTLN 2347</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.14" title="3.3.14">To keep itself from noyance, but much more</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2348"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2348">FTLN 2348</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.15" title="3.3.15">That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2349"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2349">FTLN 2349</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.16" title="3.3.16">The lives of many. The cess of majesty</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2350"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2350">FTLN 2350</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.17" title="3.3.17">Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2351"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2351">FTLN 2351</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.18" title="3.3.18">What’s near it with it; or it is a massy wheel</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2352"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2352">FTLN 2352</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.19" title="3.3.19">Fixed on the summit of the highest mount,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2353"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2353">FTLN 2353</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.20" title="3.3.20">To whose <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">huge<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.3.20" title="3.3.20"> spokes ten thousand lesser things</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2354"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2354">FTLN 2354</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.21" title="3.3.21">Are mortised and adjoined, which, when it falls,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2355"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2355">FTLN 2355</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.22" title="3.3.22">Each small annexment, petty consequence,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2356"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2356">FTLN 2356</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.23" title="3.3.23">Attends the boist’rous <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">ruin</span><span id="line-3.3.23" title="3.3.23">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.3.23" title="3.3.23"> Never alone</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2357"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2357">FTLN 2357</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.24" title="3.3.24">Did the king sigh, but <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">with<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.3.24" title="3.3.24"> a general groan.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2358"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2358">FTLN 2358</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.25" title="3.3.25">Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2359"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2359">FTLN 2359</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.26" title="3.3.26">For we will fetters put about this fear,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2360"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2360">FTLN 2360</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.27" title="3.3.27">Which now goes too free-footed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2361"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2361">FTLN 2361</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 145px;"> </span><span id="line-3.3.28" title="3.3.28">We will haste us.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.3.28.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.3.28.1" title="SD 3.3.28.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Rosencrantz</span><span id="line-SD 3.3.28.1" title="SD 3.3.28.1"> and Guildenstern<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 3.3.28.1" title="SD 3.3.28.1"> exit.</span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.3.28.2"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.3.28.2" title="SD 3.3.28.2">Enter Polonius.</span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2362"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2362">FTLN 2362</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.29" title="3.3.29">My lord, he’s going to his mother’s closet.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2363"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2363">FTLN 2363</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.30" title="3.3.30">Behind the arras I’ll convey myself</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2364"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2364">FTLN 2364</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.31" title="3.3.31">To hear the process. I’ll warrant she’ll tax him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2365"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2365">FTLN 2365</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.3.32" title="3.3.32">home;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2366"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2366">FTLN 2366</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.33" title="3.3.33">And, as you said (and wisely was it said),</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2367"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2367">FTLN 2367</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.34" title="3.3.34">’Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2368"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2368">FTLN 2368</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.35" title="3.3.35">Since nature makes them partial, should o’erhear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2369"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2369">FTLN 2369</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.36" title="3.3.36">The speech of vantage. Fare you well, my liege.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2370"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2370">FTLN 2370</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.37" title="3.3.37">I’ll call upon you ere you go to bed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2371"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2371">FTLN 2371</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.38" title="3.3.38">And tell you what I know.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2372"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2372">FTLN 2372</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 150px;"> </span><span id="line-3.3.39" title="3.3.39">Thanks, dear my lord.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.3.39.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.3.39.1" title="SD 3.3.39.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Polonius<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 3.3.39.1" title="SD 3.3.39.1"> exits.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2373"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2373">FTLN 2373</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.40" title="3.3.40">O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2374"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2374">FTLN 2374</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.41" title="3.3.41">It hath the primal eldest curse upon ’t,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2375"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2375">FTLN 2375</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.42" title="3.3.42">A brother’s murder. Pray can I not,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2376"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2376">FTLN 2376</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.43" title="3.3.43">Though inclination be as sharp as will.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2377"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2377">FTLN 2377</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.44" title="3.3.44">My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2378"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2378">FTLN 2378</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.45" title="3.3.45">And, like a man to double business bound,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2379"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2379">FTLN 2379</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.46" title="3.3.46">I stand in pause where I shall first begin</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2380"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2380">FTLN 2380</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.47" title="3.3.47">And both neglect. What if this cursèd hand</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2381"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2381">FTLN 2381</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.48" title="3.3.48">Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2382"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2382">FTLN 2382</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.49" title="3.3.49">Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2383"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2383">FTLN 2383</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.50" title="3.3.50">To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2384"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2384">FTLN 2384</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.51" title="3.3.51">But to confront the visage of offense?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2385"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2385">FTLN 2385</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.52" title="3.3.52">And what’s in prayer but this twofold force,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2386"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2386">FTLN 2386</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.53" title="3.3.53">To be forestallèd ere we come to fall,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2387"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2387">FTLN 2387</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.54" title="3.3.54">Or <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">pardoned<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.3.54" title="3.3.54"> being down? Then I’ll look up.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2388"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2388">FTLN 2388</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.55" title="3.3.55">My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2389"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2389">FTLN 2389</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.56" title="3.3.56">Can serve my turn? “Forgive me my foul murder”?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2390"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2390">FTLN 2390</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.57" title="3.3.57">That cannot be, since I am still possessed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2391"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2391">FTLN 2391</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.58" title="3.3.58">Of those effects for which I did the murder:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2392"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2392">FTLN 2392</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.59" title="3.3.59">My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2393"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2393">FTLN 2393</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.60" title="3.3.60">May one be pardoned and retain th’ offense?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2394"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2394">FTLN 2394</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.61" title="3.3.61">In the corrupted currents of this world,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2395"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2395">FTLN 2395</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.62" title="3.3.62">Offense’s gilded hand may <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">shove<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.3.62" title="3.3.62"> by justice,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 3</div>
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<a name="ftln-2396"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2396">FTLN 2396</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.63" title="3.3.63">And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2397"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2397">FTLN 2397</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.64" title="3.3.64">Buys out the law. But ’tis not so above:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2398"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2398">FTLN 2398</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.65" title="3.3.65">There is no shuffling; there the action lies</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2399"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2399">FTLN 2399</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.66" title="3.3.66">In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2400"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2400">FTLN 2400</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.67" title="3.3.67">Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2401"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2401">FTLN 2401</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.68" title="3.3.68">To give in evidence. What then? What rests?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2402"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2402">FTLN 2402</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.69" title="3.3.69">Try what repentance can. What can it not?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2403"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2403">FTLN 2403</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.70" title="3.3.70">Yet what can it, when one cannot repent?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2404"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2404">FTLN 2404</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.71" title="3.3.71">O wretched state! O bosom black as death!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2405"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2405">FTLN 2405</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.72" title="3.3.72">O limèd soul, that, struggling to be free,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2406"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2406">FTLN 2406</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.73" title="3.3.73">Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2407"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2407">FTLN 2407</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.74" title="3.3.74">Bow, stubborn knees, and heart with strings of steel</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2408"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2408">FTLN 2408</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.75" title="3.3.75">Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2409"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2409">FTLN 2409</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.76" title="3.3.76">All may be well.</span><a name="line-SD3.3.76"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.3.76" title="SD 3.3.76"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 3.3.76" title="SD 3.3.76"> kneels.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.3.76.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.3.76.1" title="SD 3.3.76.1">Enter Hamlet.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2410"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2410">FTLN 2410</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.77" title="3.3.77">Now might I do it <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">pat</span><span id="line-3.3.77" title="3.3.77">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.3.77" title="3.3.77"> now he is a-praying,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2411"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2411">FTLN 2411</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.78" title="3.3.78">And now I’ll do ’t.</span><a name="line-SD3.3.78"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.3.78" title="SD 3.3.78"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 3.3.78" title="SD 3.3.78"> draws his sword.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2412"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2412">FTLN 2412</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 145px;"> </span><span id="line-3.3.79" title="3.3.79">And so he goes to heaven,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2413"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2413">FTLN 2413</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.80" title="3.3.80">And so am I <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">revenged</span><span id="line-3.3.80" title="3.3.80">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.3.80" title="3.3.80"> That would be scanned:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2414"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2414">FTLN 2414</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.81" title="3.3.81">A villain kills my father, and for that,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2415"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2415">FTLN 2415</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.82" title="3.3.82">I, his sole son, do this same villain send</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2416"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2416">FTLN 2416</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.83" title="3.3.83">To heaven.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2417"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2417">FTLN 2417</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.84" title="3.3.84">Why, this is <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">hire<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.3.84" title="3.3.84"> and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">salary</span><span id="line-3.3.84" title="3.3.84">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.3.84" title="3.3.84"> not revenge.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2418"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2418">FTLN 2418</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.85" title="3.3.85">He took my father grossly, full of bread,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2419"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2419">FTLN 2419</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.86" title="3.3.86">With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2420"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2420">FTLN 2420</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.87" title="3.3.87">And how his audit stands who knows save heaven.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2421"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2421">FTLN 2421</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.88" title="3.3.88">But in our circumstance and course of thought</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2422"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2422">FTLN 2422</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.89" title="3.3.89">’Tis heavy with him. And am I then revenged</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2423"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2423">FTLN 2423</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.90" title="3.3.90">To take him in the purging of his soul,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2424"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2424">FTLN 2424</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.91" title="3.3.91">When he is fit and seasoned for his passage?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2425"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2425">FTLN 2425</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.92" title="3.3.92">No.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2426"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2426">FTLN 2426</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.93" title="3.3.93">Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.3.93.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.3.93.1" title="SD 3.3.93.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 3.3.93.1" title="SD 3.3.93.1"> sheathes his sword.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2427"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2427">FTLN 2427</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.94" title="3.3.94">When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2428"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2428">FTLN 2428</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.95" title="3.3.95">Or in th’ incestuous pleasure of his bed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2429"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2429">FTLN 2429</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.96" title="3.3.96">At game, a-swearing, or about some act</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2430"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2430">FTLN 2430</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.97" title="3.3.97">That has no relish of salvation in ’t—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2431"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2431">FTLN 2431</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.98" title="3.3.98">Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2432"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2432">FTLN 2432</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.99" title="3.3.99">And that his soul may be as damned and black</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2433"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2433">FTLN 2433</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.3.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.100" title="3.3.100">As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2434"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2434">FTLN 2434</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.101" title="3.3.101">This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.3.101.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.3.101.1" title="SD 3.3.101.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Hamlet<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 3.3.101.1" title="SD 3.3.101.1"> exits.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><a name="line-SD3.3.102.0"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 3.3.102.0" title="SD 3.3.102.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">rising<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2435"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2435">FTLN 2435</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.102" title="3.3.102">My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2436"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2436">FTLN 2436</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.3.103" title="3.3.103">Words without thoughts never to heaven go.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.3.103.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.3.103.1" title="SD 3.3.103.1">He exits.</span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.4.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.4.0" title="SD 3.4.0">Enter <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Queen<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 3.4.0" title="SD 3.4.0"> and Polonius.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2437"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2437">FTLN 2437</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.1" title="3.4.1">He will come straight. Look you lay home to him.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2438"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2438">FTLN 2438</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.2" title="3.4.2">Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2439"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2439">FTLN 2439</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.4.3" title="3.4.3">with</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2440"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2440">FTLN 2440</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.4" title="3.4.4">And that your Grace hath screened and stood</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2441"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2441">FTLN 2441</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.4.5" title="3.4.5">between</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2442"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2442">FTLN 2442</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.6" title="3.4.6">Much heat and him. I’ll silence me even here.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2443"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2443">FTLN 2443</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.7" title="3.4.7">Pray you, be round <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">with</span><span id="line-3.4.7" title="3.4.7"> him.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><a name="line-SD3.4.8"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 3.4.8" title="SD 3.4.8">, within</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span id="line-3.4.8" title="3.4.8">Mother, mother, mother!<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><a name="ftln-2444"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2444">FTLN 2444</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2445"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2445">FTLN 2445</span><span id="line-3.4.9" title="3.4.9">I’ll <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">warrant<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.4.9" title="3.4.9"> you. Fear me not. Withdraw,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2446"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2446">FTLN 2446</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.10" title="3.4.10">I hear him coming.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.4.10.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.4.10.1" title="SD 3.4.10.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Polonius</span><span id="line-SD 3.4.10.1" title="SD 3.4.10.1"> hides behind the arras.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD3.4.10.2"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.4.10.2" title="SD 3.4.10.2">Enter Hamlet.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2447"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2447">FTLN 2447</span><span id="line-3.4.11" title="3.4.11">Now, mother, what’s the matter?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2448"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2448">FTLN 2448</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.12" title="3.4.12">Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2449"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2449">FTLN 2449</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.13" title="3.4.13">Mother, you have my father much offended.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2450"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2450">FTLN 2450</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.14" title="3.4.14">Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2451"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2451">FTLN 2451</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.15" title="3.4.15">Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2452"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2452">FTLN 2452</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.16" title="3.4.16">Why, how now, Hamlet?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2453"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2453">FTLN 2453</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 121px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.17" title="3.4.17">What’s the matter now?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2454"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2454">FTLN 2454</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.18" title="3.4.18">Have you forgot me?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2455"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2455">FTLN 2455</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 98px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.19" title="3.4.19">No, by the rood, not so.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2456"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2456">FTLN 2456</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.20" title="3.4.20">You are the Queen, your husband’s brother’s wife,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2457"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2457">FTLN 2457</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.21" title="3.4.21">And (would it were not so) you are my mother.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2458"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2458">FTLN 2458</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.22" title="3.4.22">Nay, then I’ll set those to you that can speak.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2459"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2459">FTLN 2459</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.23" title="3.4.23">Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2460"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2460">FTLN 2460</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.24" title="3.4.24">You go not till I set you up a glass</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2461"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2461">FTLN 2461</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.25" title="3.4.25">Where you may see the <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">inmost<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.4.25" title="3.4.25"> part of you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2462"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2462">FTLN 2462</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.26" title="3.4.26">What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2463"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2463">FTLN 2463</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.27" title="3.4.27">Help, ho!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><a name="line-SD3.4.28"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 3.4.28" title="SD 3.4.28">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">behind</span><span id="line-SD 3.4.28" title="SD 3.4.28"> the arras<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2464"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2464">FTLN 2464</span><span id="line-3.4.28" title="3.4.28">What ho! Help!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2465"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2465">FTLN 2465</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.29" title="3.4.29">How now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.4.29.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.4.29.1" title="SD 3.4.29.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 3.4.29.1" title="SD 3.4.29.1"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">kills</span><span id="line-SD 3.4.29.1" title="SD 3.4.29.1"> Polonius<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 3.4.29.1" title="SD 3.4.29.1"> by thrusting a rapier</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 3.4.29.1" title="SD 3.4.29.1">through the arras.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">POLONIUS</span><a name="line-SD3.4.30.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 3.4.30.0" title="SD 3.4.30.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">behind</span><span id="line-SD 3.4.30.0" title="SD 3.4.30.0"> the arras<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2466"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2466">FTLN 2466</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.30" title="3.4.30">O, I am slain!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2467"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2467">FTLN 2467</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 58px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.31" title="3.4.31">O me, what hast thou done?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2468"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2468">FTLN 2468</span><span id="line-3.4.32" title="3.4.32">Nay, I know not. Is it the King?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2469"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2469">FTLN 2469</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.33" title="3.4.33">O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2470"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2470">FTLN 2470</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.34" title="3.4.34">A bloody deed—almost as bad, good mother,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2471"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2471">FTLN 2471</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.35" title="3.4.35">As kill a king and marry with his brother.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2472"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2472">FTLN 2472</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.36" title="3.4.36">As kill a king?</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2473"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2473">FTLN 2473</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 52px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.37" title="3.4.37">Ay, lady, it was my word.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.4.37.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.4.37.1" title="SD 3.4.37.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 3.4.37.1" title="SD 3.4.37.1"> pulls Polonius’ body from behind the arras.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2474"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2474">FTLN 2474</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.38" title="3.4.38">Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2475"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2475">FTLN 2475</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.39" title="3.4.39">I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2476"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2476">FTLN 2476</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.40" title="3.4.40">Thou find’st to be too busy is some danger.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2477"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2477">FTLN 2477</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><a name="line-SD3.4.41"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 3.4.41" title="SD 3.4.41"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">To</span><span id="line-SD 3.4.41" title="SD 3.4.41"> Queen.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 3.4.41" title="SD 3.4.41"> </span></span><span id="line-3.4.41" title="3.4.41">Leave wringing of your hands. Peace, sit</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2478"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2478">FTLN 2478</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.4.42" title="3.4.42">you down,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2479"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2479">FTLN 2479</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.43" title="3.4.43">And let me wring your heart; for so I shall</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2480"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2480">FTLN 2480</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.44" title="3.4.44">If it be made of penetrable stuff,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2481"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2481">FTLN 2481</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.45" title="3.4.45">If damnèd custom have not brazed it so</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2482"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2482">FTLN 2482</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.46" title="3.4.46">That it be proof and bulwark against sense.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2483"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2483">FTLN 2483</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.47" title="3.4.47">What have I done, that thou dar’st wag thy tongue</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2484"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2484">FTLN 2484</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.48" title="3.4.48">In noise so rude against me?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2485"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2485">FTLN 2485</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 147px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.49" title="3.4.49">Such an act</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2486"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2486">FTLN 2486</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.50" title="3.4.50">That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2487"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2487">FTLN 2487</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.51" title="3.4.51">Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2488"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2488">FTLN 2488</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.52" title="3.4.52">From the fair forehead of an innocent love</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2489"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2489">FTLN 2489</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.53" title="3.4.53">And sets a blister there, makes marriage vows</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2490"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2490">FTLN 2490</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.54" title="3.4.54">As false as dicers’ oaths—O, such a deed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2491"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2491">FTLN 2491</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.55" title="3.4.55">As from the body of contraction plucks</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2492"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2492">FTLN 2492</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.56" title="3.4.56">The very soul, and sweet religion makes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2493"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2493">FTLN 2493</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.57" title="3.4.57">A rhapsody of words! Heaven’s face does glow</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2494"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2494">FTLN 2494</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.58" title="3.4.58">O’er this solidity and compound mass</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2495"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2495">FTLN 2495</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.59" title="3.4.59">With heated visage, as against the doom,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2496"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2496">FTLN 2496</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.60" title="3.4.60">Is thought-sick at the act.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2497"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2497">FTLN 2497</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 138px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.61" title="3.4.61">Ay me, what act</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2498"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2498">FTLN 2498</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.62" title="3.4.62">That roars so loud and thunders in the index?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2499"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2499">FTLN 2499</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.63" title="3.4.63">Look here upon this picture and on this,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2500"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2500">FTLN 2500</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.64" title="3.4.64">The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2501"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2501">FTLN 2501</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.65" title="3.4.65">See what a grace was seated on this brow,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2502"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2502">FTLN 2502</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.66" title="3.4.66">Hyperion’s curls, the front of Jove himself,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2503"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2503">FTLN 2503</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.67" title="3.4.67">An eye like Mars’ to threaten and command,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2504"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2504">FTLN 2504</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.68" title="3.4.68">A station like the herald Mercury</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2505"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2505">FTLN 2505</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.69" title="3.4.69">New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill,</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2506"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2506">FTLN 2506</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.70" title="3.4.70">A combination and a form indeed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2507"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2507">FTLN 2507</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.71" title="3.4.71">Where every god did seem to set his seal</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2508"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2508">FTLN 2508</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.72" title="3.4.72">To give the world assurance of a man.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2509"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2509">FTLN 2509</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.73" title="3.4.73">This was your husband. Look you now what follows.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2510"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2510">FTLN 2510</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.74" title="3.4.74">Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2511"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2511">FTLN 2511</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.75" title="3.4.75">Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2512"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2512">FTLN 2512</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.76" title="3.4.76">Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2513"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2513">FTLN 2513</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.77" title="3.4.77">And batten on this moor? Ha! Have you eyes?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2514"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2514">FTLN 2514</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.78" title="3.4.78">You cannot call it love, for at your age</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2515"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2515">FTLN 2515</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.79" title="3.4.79">The heyday in the blood is tame, it’s humble</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2516"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2516">FTLN 2516</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.80" title="3.4.80">And waits upon the judgment; and what judgment</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2517"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2517">FTLN 2517</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.81" title="3.4.81">Would step from this to this? <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">Sense</span><span id="line-3.4.81" title="3.4.81"> sure you have,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2518"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2518">FTLN 2518</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.82" title="3.4.82">Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2519"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2519">FTLN 2519</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.83" title="3.4.83">Is apoplexed; for madness would not err,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2520"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2520">FTLN 2520</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.84" title="3.4.84">Nor sense to ecstasy was ne’er so thralled,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2521"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2521">FTLN 2521</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.85" title="3.4.85">But it reserved some quantity of choice</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2522"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2522">FTLN 2522</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.86" title="3.4.86">To serve in such a difference.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><span id="line-3.4.86" title="3.4.86"> What devil was ’t</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2523"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2523">FTLN 2523</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.87" title="3.4.87">That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2524"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2524">FTLN 2524</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.88" title="3.4.88"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">Eyes</span><span id="line-3.4.88" title="3.4.88"> without feeling, feeling without sight,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2525"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2525">FTLN 2525</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.89" title="3.4.89">Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2526"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2526">FTLN 2526</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.90" title="3.4.90">Or but a sickly part of one true sense</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2527"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2527">FTLN 2527</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.91" title="3.4.91">Could not so mope.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><span id="line-3.4.91" title="3.4.91"> O shame, where is thy blush?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2528"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2528">FTLN 2528</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.92" title="3.4.92">Rebellious hell,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2529"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2529">FTLN 2529</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.93" title="3.4.93">If thou canst mutine in a matron’s bones,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2530"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2530">FTLN 2530</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.94" title="3.4.94">To flaming youth let virtue be as wax</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2531"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2531">FTLN 2531</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.95" title="3.4.95">And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2532"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2532">FTLN 2532</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.96" title="3.4.96">When the compulsive ardor gives the charge,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2533"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2533">FTLN 2533</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.97" title="3.4.97">Since frost itself as actively doth burn,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2534"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2534">FTLN 2534</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.98" title="3.4.98">And reason <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">panders<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.4.98" title="3.4.98"> will.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2535"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2535">FTLN 2535</span><span id="line-3.4.99" title="3.4.99">O Hamlet, speak no more!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2536"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2536">FTLN 2536</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.100" title="3.4.100">Thou turn’st my eyes into my <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">very<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.4.100" title="3.4.100"> soul,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2537"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2537">FTLN 2537</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.101" title="3.4.101">And there I see such black and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">grainèd<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.4.101" title="3.4.101"> spots</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2538"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2538">FTLN 2538</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.102" title="3.4.102">As will <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">not<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.4.102" title="3.4.102"> leave their tinct.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2539"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2539">FTLN 2539</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 156px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.103" title="3.4.103">Nay, but to live</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2540"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2540">FTLN 2540</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.104" title="3.4.104">In the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2541"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2541">FTLN 2541</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.105" title="3.4.105">Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2542"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2542">FTLN 2542</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.106" title="3.4.106">Over the nasty sty!</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2543"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2543">FTLN 2543</span><span id="line-3.4.107" title="3.4.107">O, speak to me no more!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2544"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2544">FTLN 2544</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.108" title="3.4.108">These words like daggers enter in my ears.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2545"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2545">FTLN 2545</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.109" title="3.4.109">No more, sweet Hamlet!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2546"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2546">FTLN 2546</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 123px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.110" title="3.4.110">A murderer and a villain,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2547"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2547">FTLN 2547</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.111" title="3.4.111">A slave that is not twentieth part the <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">tithe<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2548"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2548">FTLN 2548</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.112" title="3.4.112">Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2549"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2549">FTLN 2549</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.113" title="3.4.113">A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2550"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2550">FTLN 2550</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.114" title="3.4.114">That from a shelf the precious diadem stole</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2551"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2551">FTLN 2551</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.115">115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.115" title="3.4.115">And put it in his pocket—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2552"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2552">FTLN 2552</span><span id="line-3.4.116" title="3.4.116">No more!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2553"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2553">FTLN 2553</span><span id="line-3.4.117" title="3.4.117">A king of shreds and patches—</span><br>
<br>
<a name="line-SD3.4.117.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 3.4.117.1" title="SD 3.4.117.1">Enter Ghost.</span></span><br>
<br>
<a name="ftln-2554"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2554">FTLN 2554</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.118" title="3.4.118">Save me and hover o’er me with your wings,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2555"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2555">FTLN 2555</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.119" title="3.4.119">You heavenly guards!—What would your gracious</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2556"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2556">FTLN 2556</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.4.120" title="3.4.120">figure?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2557"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2557">FTLN 2557</span><span id="line-3.4.121" title="3.4.121">Alas, he’s mad.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2558"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2558">FTLN 2558</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.122" title="3.4.122">Do you not come your tardy son to chide,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2559"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2559">FTLN 2559</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.123" title="3.4.123">That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2560"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2560">FTLN 2560</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.124" title="3.4.124">Th’ important acting of your dread command?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2561"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2561">FTLN 2561</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.125">125</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.125" title="3.4.125">O, say!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GHOST</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2562"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2562">FTLN 2562</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 15px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.126" title="3.4.126">Do not forget. This visitation</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2563"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2563">FTLN 2563</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.127" title="3.4.127">Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2564"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2564">FTLN 2564</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.128" title="3.4.128">But look, amazement on thy mother sits.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2565"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2565">FTLN 2565</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.129" title="3.4.129">O, step between her and her fighting soul.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2566"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2566">FTLN 2566</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.130" title="3.4.130">Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2567"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2567">FTLN 2567</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.131" title="3.4.131">Speak to her, Hamlet.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2568"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2568">FTLN 2568</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 102px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.132" title="3.4.132">How is it with you, lady?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2569"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2569">FTLN 2569</span><span id="line-3.4.133" title="3.4.133">Alas, how is ’t with you,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2570"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2570">FTLN 2570</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.134" title="3.4.134">That you do bend your eye on vacancy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2571"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2571">FTLN 2571</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.135">135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.135" title="3.4.135">And with th’ incorporal air do hold discourse?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2572"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2572">FTLN 2572</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.136" title="3.4.136">Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2573"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2573">FTLN 2573</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.137" title="3.4.137">And, as the sleeping soldiers in th’ alarm,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2574"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2574">FTLN 2574</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.138" title="3.4.138">Your bedded hair, like life in excrements,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2575"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2575">FTLN 2575</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.139" title="3.4.139">Start up and stand an end. O gentle son,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-2576"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2576">FTLN 2576</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.140">140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.140" title="3.4.140">Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2577"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2577">FTLN 2577</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.141" title="3.4.141">Sprinkle cool patience! Whereon do you look?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2578"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2578">FTLN 2578</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.142" title="3.4.142">On him, on him! Look you how pale he glares.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2579"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2579">FTLN 2579</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.143" title="3.4.143">His form and cause conjoined, preaching to stones,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2580"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2580">FTLN 2580</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.144" title="3.4.144">Would make them capable.</span><a name="line-SD3.4.144"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 3.4.144" title="SD 3.4.144"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">To</span><span id="line-SD 3.4.144" title="SD 3.4.144"> the Ghost.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span id="line-3.4.144" title="3.4.144"> Do not</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2581"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2581">FTLN 2581</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.145">145</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-3.4.145" title="3.4.145">look upon me,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2582"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2582">FTLN 2582</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.146" title="3.4.146">Lest with this piteous action you convert</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2583"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2583">FTLN 2583</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.147" title="3.4.147">My stern effects. Then what I have to do</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2584"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2584">FTLN 2584</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.148" title="3.4.148">Will want true color—tears perchance for blood.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2585"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2585">FTLN 2585</span><span id="line-3.4.149" title="3.4.149">To whom do you speak this?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2586"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2586">FTLN 2586</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.150">150</span><span id="line-3.4.150" title="3.4.150">Do you see nothing there?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2587"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2587">FTLN 2587</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.151" title="3.4.151">Nothing at all; yet all that is I see.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2588"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2588">FTLN 2588</span><span id="line-3.4.152" title="3.4.152">Nor did you nothing hear?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2589"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2589">FTLN 2589</span><span id="line-3.4.153" title="3.4.153">No, nothing but ourselves.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2590"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2590">FTLN 2590</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.154" title="3.4.154">Why, look you there, look how it steals away!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2591"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2591">FTLN 2591</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.155">155</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.155" title="3.4.155">My father, in his habit as he lived!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2592"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2592">FTLN 2592</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.156" title="3.4.156">Look where he goes even now out at the portal!</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.4.156.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.4.156.1" title="SD 3.4.156.1">Ghost exits.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2593"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2593">FTLN 2593</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.157" title="3.4.157">This is the very coinage of your brain.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2594"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2594">FTLN 2594</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.158" title="3.4.158">This bodiless creation ecstasy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2595"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2595">FTLN 2595</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.159" title="3.4.159">Is very cunning in.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2596"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2596">FTLN 2596</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.160">160</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 79px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.160" title="3.4.160"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Ecstasy</span><span id="line-3.4.160" title="3.4.160">?<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2597"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2597">FTLN 2597</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.161" title="3.4.161">My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2598"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2598">FTLN 2598</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.162" title="3.4.162">And makes as healthful music. It is not madness</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2599"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2599">FTLN 2599</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.163" title="3.4.163">That I have uttered. Bring me to the test,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2600"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2600">FTLN 2600</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.164" title="3.4.164">And <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">I<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.4.164" title="3.4.164"> the matter will reword, which madness</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2601"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2601">FTLN 2601</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.165">165</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.165" title="3.4.165">Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2602"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2602">FTLN 2602</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.166" title="3.4.166">Lay not that flattering unction to your soul</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2603"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2603">FTLN 2603</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.167" title="3.4.167">That not your trespass but my madness speaks.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2604"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2604">FTLN 2604</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.168" title="3.4.168">It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2605"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2605">FTLN 2605</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.169" title="3.4.169">Whiles rank corruption, mining all within,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2606"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2606">FTLN 2606</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.170">170</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.170" title="3.4.170">Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven,</span><br>
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<div class="pageDesc">ACT 3. SC. 4</div>
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<a name="ftln-2607"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2607">FTLN 2607</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.171" title="3.4.171">Repent what’s past, avoid what is to come,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2608"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2608">FTLN 2608</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.172" title="3.4.172">And do not spread the compost on the weeds</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2609"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2609">FTLN 2609</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.173" title="3.4.173">To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2610"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2610">FTLN 2610</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.174" title="3.4.174">For, in the fatness of these pursy times,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2611"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2611">FTLN 2611</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.175">175</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.175" title="3.4.175">Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2612"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2612">FTLN 2612</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.176" title="3.4.176">Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2613"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2613">FTLN 2613</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.177" title="3.4.177">O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2614"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2614">FTLN 2614</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.178" title="3.4.178">O, throw away the worser part of it,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2615"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2615">FTLN 2615</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.179" title="3.4.179">And <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">live<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-3.4.179" title="3.4.179"> the purer with the other half!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2616"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2616">FTLN 2616</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.180">180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.180" title="3.4.180">Good night. But go not to my uncle’s bed.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2617"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2617">FTLN 2617</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.181" title="3.4.181">Assume a virtue if you have it not.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2618"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2618">FTLN 2618</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.182" title="3.4.182"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">That</span><span id="line-3.4.182" title="3.4.182"> monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2619"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2619">FTLN 2619</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.183" title="3.4.183">Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2620"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2620">FTLN 2620</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.184" title="3.4.184">That to the use of actions fair and good</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2621"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2621">FTLN 2621</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.185" title="3.4.185">He likewise gives a frock or livery</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2622"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2622">FTLN 2622</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.186" title="3.4.186">That aptly is put on.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><span id="line-3.4.186" title="3.4.186"> Refrain <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">tonight</span><span id="line-3.4.186" title="3.4.186">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2623"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2623">FTLN 2623</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.187" title="3.4.187">And that shall lend a kind of easiness</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2624"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2624">FTLN 2624</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.188" title="3.4.188">To the next abstinence, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">the</span><span id="line-3.4.188" title="3.4.188"> next more easy;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2625"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2625">FTLN 2625</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.189" title="3.4.189">For use almost can change the stamp of nature</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2626"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2626">FTLN 2626</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.190">190</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.190" title="3.4.190">And either <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">…<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-3.4.190" title="3.4.190"> the devil or throw him out</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2627"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2627">FTLN 2627</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.191" title="3.4.191">With wondrous potency.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><span id="line-3.4.191" title="3.4.191"> Once more, good night,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2628"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2628">FTLN 2628</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.192" title="3.4.192">And, when you are desirous to be blest,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2629"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2629">FTLN 2629</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.193" title="3.4.193">I’ll blessing beg of you. For this same lord</span><br>
<a name="line-SD3.4.193.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 3.4.193.1" title="SD 3.4.193.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Pointing</span><span id="line-SD 3.4.193.1" title="SD 3.4.193.1"> to Polonius.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2630"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2630">FTLN 2630</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.194" title="3.4.194">I do repent; but heaven hath pleased it so</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2631"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2631">FTLN 2631</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.195">195</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.195" title="3.4.195">To punish me with this and this with me,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2632"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2632">FTLN 2632</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.196" title="3.4.196">That I must be their scourge and minister.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2633"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2633">FTLN 2633</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.197" title="3.4.197">I will bestow him and will answer well</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2634"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2634">FTLN 2634</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.198" title="3.4.198">The death I gave him. So, again, good night.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2635"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2635">FTLN 2635</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.199" title="3.4.199">I must be cruel only to be kind.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2636"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2636">FTLN 2636</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.200">200</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.200" title="3.4.200">This bad begins, and worse remains behind.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2637"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2637">FTLN 2637</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.201" title="3.4.201"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">One</span><span id="line-3.4.201" title="3.4.201"> word more, good lady.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2638"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2638">FTLN 2638</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 164px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.202" title="3.4.202">What shall I do?</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2639"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2639">FTLN 2639</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.203" title="3.4.203">Not this by no means that I bid you do:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2640"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2640">FTLN 2640</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.204" title="3.4.204">Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2641"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2641">FTLN 2641</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.205">205</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.205" title="3.4.205">Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2642"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2642">FTLN 2642</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.206" title="3.4.206">And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2643"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2643">FTLN 2643</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.207" title="3.4.207">Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2644"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2644">FTLN 2644</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.208" title="3.4.208">Make you to ravel all this matter out</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2645"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2645">FTLN 2645</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.209" title="3.4.209">That I essentially am not in madness,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2646"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2646">FTLN 2646</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.210">210</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.210" title="3.4.210">But mad in craft. ’Twere good you let him know,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2647"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2647">FTLN 2647</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.211" title="3.4.211">For who that’s but a queen, fair, sober, wise,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2648"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2648">FTLN 2648</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.212" title="3.4.212">Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2649"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2649">FTLN 2649</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.213" title="3.4.213">Such dear concernings hide? Who would do so?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2650"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2650">FTLN 2650</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.214" title="3.4.214">No, in despite of sense and secrecy,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2651"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2651">FTLN 2651</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.215">215</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.215" title="3.4.215">Unpeg the basket on the house’s top,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2652"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2652">FTLN 2652</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.216" title="3.4.216">Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2653"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2653">FTLN 2653</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.217" title="3.4.217">To try conclusions, in the basket creep</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2654"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2654">FTLN 2654</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.218" title="3.4.218">And break your own neck down.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2655"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2655">FTLN 2655</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.219" title="3.4.219">Be thou assured, if words be made of breath</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2656"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2656">FTLN 2656</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.220">220</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.220" title="3.4.220">And breath of life, I have no life to breathe</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2657"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2657">FTLN 2657</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.221" title="3.4.221">What thou hast said to me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2658"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2658">FTLN 2658</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.222" title="3.4.222">I must to England, you know that.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2659"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2659">FTLN 2659</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 192px;"> </span><span id="line-3.4.223" title="3.4.223">Alack,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2660"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2660">FTLN 2660</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.224" title="3.4.224">I had forgot! ’Tis so concluded on.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2661"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2661">FTLN 2661</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.225">225</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.225" title="3.4.225"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">There’s</span><span id="line-3.4.225" title="3.4.225"> letters sealed; and my two schoolfellows,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2662"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2662">FTLN 2662</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.226" title="3.4.226">Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2663"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2663">FTLN 2663</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.227" title="3.4.227">They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2664"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2664">FTLN 2664</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.228" title="3.4.228">And marshal me to knavery. Let it work,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2665"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2665">FTLN 2665</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.229" title="3.4.229">For ’tis the sport to have the enginer</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2666"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2666">FTLN 2666</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.230">230</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.230" title="3.4.230">Hoist with his own petard; and ’t shall go hard</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2667"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2667">FTLN 2667</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.231" title="3.4.231">But I will delve one yard below their mines</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2668"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2668">FTLN 2668</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.232" title="3.4.232">And blow them at the moon. O, ’tis most sweet</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2669"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2669">FTLN 2669</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.233" title="3.4.233">When in one line two crafts directly meet.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2670"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2670">FTLN 2670</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.234" title="3.4.234">This man shall set me packing.</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2671"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2671">FTLN 2671</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.235">235</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.235" title="3.4.235">I’ll lug the guts into the neighbor room.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2672"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2672">FTLN 2672</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.236" title="3.4.236">Mother, good night indeed. This counselor</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2673"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2673">FTLN 2673</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.237" title="3.4.237">Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2674"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2674">FTLN 2674</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.238" title="3.4.238">Who was in life a foolish prating knave.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2675"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2675">FTLN 2675</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.239" title="3.4.239">Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2676"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2676">FTLN 2676</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_3.4.240">240</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-3.4.240" title="3.4.240">Good night, mother.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.1.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.1.0" title="SD 4.1.0">Enter King and Queen, with Rosencrantz and</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 4.1.0" title="SD 4.1.0">Guildenstern.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2677"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2677">FTLN 2677</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.1" title="4.1.1">There’s matter in these sighs; these profound heaves</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2678"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2678">FTLN 2678</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.2" title="4.1.2">You must translate; ’tis fit we understand them.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2679"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2679">FTLN 2679</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.3" title="4.1.3">Where is your son?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2680"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2680">FTLN 2680</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.4" title="4.1.4"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">Bestow</span><span id="line-4.1.4" title="4.1.4"> this place on us a little while.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.1.4.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.1.4.1" title="SD 4.1.4.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Rosencrantz</span><span id="line-SD 4.1.4.1" title="SD 4.1.4.1"> and Guildenstern exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2681"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2681">FTLN 2681</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.1.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.5" title="4.1.5">Ah, mine own lord, what have I seen tonight!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2682"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2682">FTLN 2682</span><span id="line-4.1.6" title="4.1.6">What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2683"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2683">FTLN 2683</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.7" title="4.1.7">Mad as the sea and wind when both contend</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2684"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2684">FTLN 2684</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.8" title="4.1.8">Which is the mightier. In his lawless fit,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2685"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2685">FTLN 2685</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.9" title="4.1.9">Behind the arras hearing something stir,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2686"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2686">FTLN 2686</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.1.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.10" title="4.1.10">Whips out his rapier, cries “A rat, a rat,”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2687"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2687">FTLN 2687</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.11" title="4.1.11">And in this brainish apprehension kills</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2688"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2688">FTLN 2688</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.12" title="4.1.12">The unseen good old man.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2689"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2689">FTLN 2689</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 155px;"> </span><span id="line-4.1.13" title="4.1.13">O heavy deed!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2690"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2690">FTLN 2690</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.14" title="4.1.14">It had been so with us, had we been there.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2691"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2691">FTLN 2691</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.1.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.15" title="4.1.15">His liberty is full of threats to all—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2692"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2692">FTLN 2692</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.16" title="4.1.16">To you yourself, to us, to everyone.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2693"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2693">FTLN 2693</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.17" title="4.1.17">Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answered?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2694"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2694">FTLN 2694</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.18" title="4.1.18">It will be laid to us, whose providence</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2695"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2695">FTLN 2695</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.19" title="4.1.19">Should have kept short, restrained, and out of haunt</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2696"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2696">FTLN 2696</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.1.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.20" title="4.1.20">This mad young man. But so much was our love,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2697"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2697">FTLN 2697</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.21" title="4.1.21">We would not understand what was most fit,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2698"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2698">FTLN 2698</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.22" title="4.1.22">But, like the owner of a foul disease,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2699"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2699">FTLN 2699</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.23" title="4.1.23">To keep it from divulging, let it feed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2700"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2700">FTLN 2700</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.24" title="4.1.24">Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2701"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2701">FTLN 2701</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.1.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.25" title="4.1.25">To draw apart the body he hath killed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2702"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2702">FTLN 2702</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.26" title="4.1.26">O’er whom his very madness, like some ore</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2703"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2703">FTLN 2703</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.27" title="4.1.27">Among a mineral of metals base,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2704"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2704">FTLN 2704</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.28" title="4.1.28">Shows itself pure: he weeps for what is done.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2705"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2705">FTLN 2705</span><span id="line-4.1.29" title="4.1.29">O Gertrude, come away!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2706"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2706">FTLN 2706</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.1.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.30" title="4.1.30">The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2707"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2707">FTLN 2707</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.31" title="4.1.31">But we will ship him hence; and this vile deed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2708"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2708">FTLN 2708</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.32" title="4.1.32">We must with all our majesty and skill</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2709"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2709">FTLN 2709</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.33" title="4.1.33">Both countenance and excuse.—Ho, Guildenstern!</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.1.33.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.1.33.1" title="SD 4.1.33.1">Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.</span></span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2710"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2710">FTLN 2710</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.34" title="4.1.34">Friends both, go join you with some further aid.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2711"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2711">FTLN 2711</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.1.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.35" title="4.1.35">Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2712"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2712">FTLN 2712</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.36" title="4.1.36">And from his mother’s closet hath he dragged him.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2713"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2713">FTLN 2713</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.37" title="4.1.37">Go seek him out, speak fair, and bring the body</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2714"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2714">FTLN 2714</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.38" title="4.1.38">Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.1.38.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.1.38.1" title="SD 4.1.38.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Rosencrantz</span><span id="line-SD 4.1.38.1" title="SD 4.1.38.1"> and Guildenstern exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2715"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2715">FTLN 2715</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.39" title="4.1.39">Come, Gertrude, we’ll call up our wisest friends</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2716"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2716">FTLN 2716</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.1.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.40" title="4.1.40">And let them know both what we mean to do</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2717"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2717">FTLN 2717</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.41" title="4.1.41">And what’s untimely done. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">…<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2718"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2718">FTLN 2718</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.42" title="4.1.42"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">Whose</span><span id="line-4.1.42" title="4.1.42"> whisper o’er the world’s diameter,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2719"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2719">FTLN 2719</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.43" title="4.1.43">As level as the cannon to his blank</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2720"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2720">FTLN 2720</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.44" title="4.1.44">Transports his poisoned shot, may miss our name</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2721"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2721">FTLN 2721</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.1.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.45" title="4.1.45">And hit the woundless air.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><span id="line-4.1.45" title="4.1.45"> O, come away!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2722"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2722">FTLN 2722</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.1.46" title="4.1.46">My soul is full of discord and dismay.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.2.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.2.0" title="SD 4.2.0"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Enter</span><span id="line-SD 4.2.0" title="SD 4.2.0"> Hamlet.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2723"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2723">FTLN 2723</span><span id="line-4.2.1" title="4.2.1">Safely stowed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">GENTLEMEN</span></span><a name="line-SD4.2.2"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 4.2.2" title="SD 4.2.2">, within</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span id="line-4.2.2" title="4.2.2">Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><a name="ftln-2724"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2724">FTLN 2724</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2725"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2725">FTLN 2725</span><span id="line-4.2.3" title="4.2.3">But soft, what noise? Who calls on Hamlet?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2726"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2726">FTLN 2726</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.4" title="4.2.4">O, here they come.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.2.4.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.2.4.1" title="SD 4.2.4.1">Enter Rosencrantz, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Guildenstern</span><span id="line-SD 4.2.4.1" title="SD 4.2.4.1">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 4.2.4.1" title="SD 4.2.4.1"> and others.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2727"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2727">FTLN 2727</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.2.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.5" title="4.2.5">What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2728"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2728">FTLN 2728</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.6" title="4.2.6"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Compounded<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.2.6" title="4.2.6"> it with dust, whereto ’tis kin.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2729"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2729">FTLN 2729</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.7" title="4.2.7">Tell us where ’tis, that we may take it thence</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2730"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2730">FTLN 2730</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.8" title="4.2.8">And bear it to the chapel.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2731"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2731">FTLN 2731</span><span id="line-4.2.9" title="4.2.9">Do not believe it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2732"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2732">FTLN 2732</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.2.10">10</span><span id="line-4.2.10" title="4.2.10">Believe what?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2733"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2733">FTLN 2733</span><span id="line-4.2.11" title="4.2.11">That I can keep your counsel and not mine</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2734"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2734">FTLN 2734</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.12" title="4.2.12">own. Besides, to be demanded of a sponge, what</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2735"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2735">FTLN 2735</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.13" title="4.2.13">replication should be made by the son of a king?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2736"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2736">FTLN 2736</span><span id="line-4.2.14" title="4.2.14">Take you me for a sponge, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2737"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2737">FTLN 2737</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.2.15">15</span><span id="line-4.2.15" title="4.2.15">Ay, sir, that soaks up the King’s countenance,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2738"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2738">FTLN 2738</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.16" title="4.2.16">his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2739"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2739">FTLN 2739</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.17" title="4.2.17">King best service in the end. He keeps them like <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">an</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2740"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2740">FTLN 2740</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.18" title="4.2.18">ape<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.2.18" title="4.2.18"> an apple in the corner of his jaw, first mouthed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2741"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2741">FTLN 2741</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.19" title="4.2.19">to be last swallowed. When he needs what you have</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2742"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2742">FTLN 2742</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.2.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.20" title="4.2.20">gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2743"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2743">FTLN 2743</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.21" title="4.2.21">shall be dry again.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2744"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2744">FTLN 2744</span><span id="line-4.2.22" title="4.2.22">I understand you not, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2745"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2745">FTLN 2745</span><span id="line-4.2.23" title="4.2.23">I am glad of it. A knavish speech sleeps in a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2746"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2746">FTLN 2746</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.24" title="4.2.24">foolish ear.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2747"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2747">FTLN 2747</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.2.25">25</span><span id="line-4.2.25" title="4.2.25">My lord, you must tell us where the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2748"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2748">FTLN 2748</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.26" title="4.2.26">body is and go with us to the King.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2749"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2749">FTLN 2749</span><span id="line-4.2.27" title="4.2.27">The body is with the King, but the King is not</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2750"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2750">FTLN 2750</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.28" title="4.2.28">with the body. The King is a thing—</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">GUILDENSTERN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2751"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2751">FTLN 2751</span><span id="line-4.2.29" title="4.2.29">A “thing,” my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2752"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2752">FTLN 2752</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.2.30">30</span><span id="line-4.2.30" title="4.2.30">Of nothing. Bring me to him. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Hide</span><span id="line-4.2.30" title="4.2.30"> fox, and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2753"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2753">FTLN 2753</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.2.31" title="4.2.31">all after!<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.2.31.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.2.31.1" title="SD 4.2.31.1">They exit.</span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.3.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.3.0" title="SD 4.3.0">Enter King and two or three.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2754"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2754">FTLN 2754</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.1" title="4.3.1">I have sent to seek him and to find the body.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2755"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2755">FTLN 2755</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.2" title="4.3.2">How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2756"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2756">FTLN 2756</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.3" title="4.3.3">Yet must not we put the strong law on him.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2757"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2757">FTLN 2757</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.4" title="4.3.4">He’s loved of the distracted multitude,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2758"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2758">FTLN 2758</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.5" title="4.3.5">Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2759"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2759">FTLN 2759</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.6" title="4.3.6">And, where ’tis so, th’ offender’s scourge is weighed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2760"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2760">FTLN 2760</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.7" title="4.3.7">But never the offense. To bear all smooth and even,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2761"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2761">FTLN 2761</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.8" title="4.3.8">This sudden sending him away must seem</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2762"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2762">FTLN 2762</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.9" title="4.3.9">Deliberate pause. Diseases desperate grown</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2763"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2763">FTLN 2763</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.10" title="4.3.10">By desperate appliance are relieved</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2764"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2764">FTLN 2764</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.11" title="4.3.11">Or not at all.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.3.11.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.3.11.1" title="SD 4.3.11.1">Enter Rosencrantz.</span></span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2765"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2765">FTLN 2765</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 108px;"> </span><span id="line-4.3.12" title="4.3.12">How now, what hath befallen?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2766"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2766">FTLN 2766</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.13" title="4.3.13">Where the dead body is bestowed, my lord,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2767"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2767">FTLN 2767</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.14" title="4.3.14">We cannot get from him.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2768"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2768">FTLN 2768</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 149px;"> </span><span id="line-4.3.15" title="4.3.15">But where is he?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2769"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2769">FTLN 2769</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.16" title="4.3.16">Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2770"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2770">FTLN 2770</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.17" title="4.3.17">Bring him before us.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2771"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2771">FTLN 2771</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 58px;"> </span><span id="line-4.3.18" title="4.3.18">Ho! Bring in the lord.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.3.18.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.3.18.1" title="SD 4.3.18.1">They enter <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">with</span><span id="line-SD 4.3.18.1" title="SD 4.3.18.1"> Hamlet.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2772"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2772">FTLN 2772</span><span id="line-4.3.19" title="4.3.19">Now, Hamlet, where’s Polonius?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2773"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2773">FTLN 2773</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.20">20</span><span id="line-4.3.20" title="4.3.20">At supper.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2774"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2774">FTLN 2774</span><span id="line-4.3.21" title="4.3.21">At supper where?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2775"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2775">FTLN 2775</span><span id="line-4.3.22" title="4.3.22">Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2776"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2776">FTLN 2776</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.23" title="4.3.23">certain convocation of politic worms are e’en at</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2777"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2777">FTLN 2777</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.24" title="4.3.24">him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2778"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2778">FTLN 2778</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.25" title="4.3.25">fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2779"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2779">FTLN 2779</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.26" title="4.3.26">for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2780"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2780">FTLN 2780</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.27" title="4.3.27">but variable service—two dishes but to one table.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2781"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2781">FTLN 2781</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.28" title="4.3.28">That’s the end.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">KING</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2782"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2782">FTLN 2782</span><span id="line-4.3.29" title="4.3.29">Alas, alas!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2783"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2783">FTLN 2783</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.30">30</span><span id="line-4.3.30" title="4.3.30">A man may fish with the worm that hath eat</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2784"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2784">FTLN 2784</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.31" title="4.3.31">of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2785"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2785">FTLN 2785</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.32" title="4.3.32">worm.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2786"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2786">FTLN 2786</span><span id="line-4.3.33" title="4.3.33">What dost thou mean by this?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2787"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2787">FTLN 2787</span><span id="line-4.3.34" title="4.3.34">Nothing but to show you how a king may go a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2788"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2788">FTLN 2788</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.35" title="4.3.35">progress through the guts of a beggar.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2789"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2789">FTLN 2789</span><span id="line-4.3.36" title="4.3.36">Where is Polonius?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2790"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2790">FTLN 2790</span><span id="line-4.3.37" title="4.3.37">In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2791"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2791">FTLN 2791</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.38" title="4.3.38">find him not there, seek him i’ th’ other</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2792"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2792">FTLN 2792</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.39" title="4.3.39">place yourself. But if, indeed, you find him not</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2793"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2793">FTLN 2793</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.40" title="4.3.40">within this month, you shall nose him as you go up</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2794"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2794">FTLN 2794</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.41" title="4.3.41">the stairs into the lobby.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><a name="line-SD4.3.42"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 4.3.42" title="SD 4.3.42">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to</span><span id="line-SD 4.3.42" title="SD 4.3.42"> Attendants.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2795"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2795">FTLN 2795</span><span id="line-4.3.42" title="4.3.42">Go, seek him there.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2796"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2796">FTLN 2796</span><span id="line-4.3.43" title="4.3.43">He will stay till you come.</span><a name="line-SD4.3.43"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.3.43" title="SD 4.3.43"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Attendants</span><span id="line-SD 4.3.43" title="SD 4.3.43"> exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2797"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2797">FTLN 2797</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.44" title="4.3.44">Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2798"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2798">FTLN 2798</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.45" title="4.3.45">(Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2799"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2799">FTLN 2799</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.46" title="4.3.46">For that which thou hast done) must send thee</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2800"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2800">FTLN 2800</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.3.47" title="4.3.47">hence</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2801"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2801">FTLN 2801</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.48" title="4.3.48"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">With</span><span id="line-4.3.48" title="4.3.48"> fiery quickness.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.3.48" title="4.3.48"> Therefore prepare thyself.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2802"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2802">FTLN 2802</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.49" title="4.3.49">The bark is ready, and the wind at help,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2803"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2803">FTLN 2803</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.50" title="4.3.50">Th’ associates tend, and everything is bent</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2804"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2804">FTLN 2804</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.51" title="4.3.51">For England.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2805"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2805">FTLN 2805</span><span id="line-4.3.52" title="4.3.52">For England?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2806"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2806">FTLN 2806</span><span id="line-4.3.53" title="4.3.53">Ay, Hamlet.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2807"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2807">FTLN 2807</span><span id="line-4.3.54" title="4.3.54">Good.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2808"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2808">FTLN 2808</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.55" title="4.3.55">So is it, if thou knew’st our purposes.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2809"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2809">FTLN 2809</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.56" title="4.3.56">I see a cherub that sees them. But come, for</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2810"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2810">FTLN 2810</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.3.57" title="4.3.57">England.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2811"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2811">FTLN 2811</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.58" title="4.3.58">Farewell, dear mother.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2812"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2812">FTLN 2812</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 132px;"> </span><span id="line-4.3.59" title="4.3.59">Thy loving father, Hamlet.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2813"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2813">FTLN 2813</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.60" title="4.3.60">My mother. Father and mother is man and wife,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2814"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2814">FTLN 2814</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.61" title="4.3.61">Man and wife is one flesh, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">and<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.3.61" title="4.3.61"> so, my mother.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2815"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2815">FTLN 2815</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.62" title="4.3.62">Come, for England.</span><a name="line-SD4.3.62"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.3.62" title="SD 4.3.62">He exits.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2816"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2816">FTLN 2816</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.63" title="4.3.63">Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2817"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2817">FTLN 2817</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.64" title="4.3.64">Delay it not. I’ll have him hence tonight.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2818"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2818">FTLN 2818</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.65" title="4.3.65">Away, for everything is sealed and done</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2819"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2819">FTLN 2819</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.66" title="4.3.66">That else leans on th’ affair. Pray you, make haste.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.3.66.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.3.66.1" title="SD 4.3.66.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">All</span><span id="line-SD 4.3.66.1" title="SD 4.3.66.1"> but the King exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2820"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2820">FTLN 2820</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.67" title="4.3.67">And England, if my love thou hold’st at aught</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2821"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2821">FTLN 2821</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.68" title="4.3.68">(As my great power thereof may give thee sense,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2822"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2822">FTLN 2822</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.69" title="4.3.69">Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2823"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2823">FTLN 2823</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.70" title="4.3.70">After the Danish sword, and thy free awe</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2824"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2824">FTLN 2824</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.71" title="4.3.71">Pays homage to us), thou mayst not coldly set</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2825"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2825">FTLN 2825</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.72" title="4.3.72">Our sovereign process, which imports at full,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2826"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2826">FTLN 2826</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.73" title="4.3.73">By letters congruing to that effect,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2827"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2827">FTLN 2827</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.74" title="4.3.74">The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2828"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2828">FTLN 2828</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.3.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.75" title="4.3.75">For like the hectic in my blood he rages,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2829"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2829">FTLN 2829</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.76" title="4.3.76">And thou must cure me. Till I know ’tis done,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2830"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2830">FTLN 2830</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.3.77" title="4.3.77">Howe’er my haps, my joys will ne’er begin.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.3.77.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.3.77.1" title="SD 4.3.77.1">He exits.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">FORTINBRAS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2831"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2831">FTLN 2831</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.1" title="4.4.1">Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish king.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2832"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2832">FTLN 2832</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.2" title="4.4.2">Tell him that by his license Fortinbras</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2833"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2833">FTLN 2833</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.3" title="4.4.3">Craves the conveyance of a promised march</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2834"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2834">FTLN 2834</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.4" title="4.4.4">Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2835"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2835">FTLN 2835</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.5" title="4.4.5">If that his Majesty would aught with us,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2836"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2836">FTLN 2836</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.6" title="4.4.6">We shall express our duty in his eye;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2837"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2837">FTLN 2837</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.7" title="4.4.7">And let him know so.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">CAPTAIN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2838"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2838">FTLN 2838</span><span id="line-4.4.8" title="4.4.8">I will do ’t, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FORTINBRAS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2839"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2839">FTLN 2839</span><span id="line-4.4.9" title="4.4.9">Go softly on.</span><a name="line-SD4.4.9"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.4.9" title="SD 4.4.9"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">All</span><span id="line-SD 4.4.9" title="SD 4.4.9"> but the Captain exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.4.9.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.4.9.1" title="SD 4.4.9.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">Enter</span><span id="line-SD 4.4.9.1" title="SD 4.4.9.1"> Hamlet, Rosencrantz, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Guildenstern</span><span id="line-SD 4.4.9.1" title="SD 4.4.9.1">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 4.4.9.1" title="SD 4.4.9.1"> and others.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2840"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2840">FTLN 2840</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.10">10</span><span id="line-4.4.10" title="4.4.10">Good sir, whose powers are these?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">CAPTAIN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2841"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2841">FTLN 2841</span><span id="line-4.4.11" title="4.4.11">They are of Norway, sir.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2842"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2842">FTLN 2842</span><span id="line-4.4.12" title="4.4.12">How purposed, sir, I pray you?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">CAPTAIN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2843"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2843">FTLN 2843</span><span id="line-4.4.13" title="4.4.13">Against some part of Poland.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2844"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2844">FTLN 2844</span><span id="line-4.4.14" title="4.4.14">Who commands them, sir?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">CAPTAIN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2845"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2845">FTLN 2845</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.15" title="4.4.15">The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2846"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2846">FTLN 2846</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.16" title="4.4.16">Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2847"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2847">FTLN 2847</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.17" title="4.4.17">Or for some frontier?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">CAPTAIN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2848"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2848">FTLN 2848</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.18" title="4.4.18">Truly to speak, and with no addition,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2849"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2849">FTLN 2849</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.19" title="4.4.19">We go to gain a little patch of ground</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2850"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2850">FTLN 2850</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.20" title="4.4.20">That hath in it no profit but the name.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2851"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2851">FTLN 2851</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.21" title="4.4.21">To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2852"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2852">FTLN 2852</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.22" title="4.4.22">Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2853"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2853">FTLN 2853</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.23" title="4.4.23">A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2854"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2854">FTLN 2854</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.24" title="4.4.24">Why, then, the Polack never will defend it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">CAPTAIN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2855"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2855">FTLN 2855</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.25" title="4.4.25">Yes, it is already garrisoned.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2856"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2856">FTLN 2856</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.26" title="4.4.26">Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2857"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2857">FTLN 2857</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.27" title="4.4.27">Will not debate the question of this straw.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2858"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2858">FTLN 2858</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.28" title="4.4.28">This is th’ impostume of much wealth and peace,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2859"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2859">FTLN 2859</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.29" title="4.4.29">That inward breaks and shows no cause without</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2860"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2860">FTLN 2860</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.30" title="4.4.30">Why the man dies.—I humbly thank you, sir.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">CAPTAIN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2861"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2861">FTLN 2861</span><span id="line-4.4.31" title="4.4.31">God be wi’ you, sir.</span><a name="line-SD4.4.31"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.4.31" title="SD 4.4.31"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 4.4.31" title="SD 4.4.31"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">ROSENCRANTZ</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2862"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2862">FTLN 2862</span><span id="line-4.4.32" title="4.4.32">Will ’t please you go, my lord?</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2863"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2863">FTLN 2863</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.33" title="4.4.33">I’ll be with you straight. Go a little before.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.4.33.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.4.33.1" title="SD 4.4.33.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">All</span><span id="line-SD 4.4.33.1" title="SD 4.4.33.1"> but Hamlet exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2864"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2864">FTLN 2864</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.34" title="4.4.34">How all occasions do inform against me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2865"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2865">FTLN 2865</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.35" title="4.4.35">And spur my dull revenge. What is a man</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2866"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2866">FTLN 2866</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.36" title="4.4.36">If his chief good and market of his time</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2867"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2867">FTLN 2867</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.37" title="4.4.37">Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2868"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2868">FTLN 2868</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.38" title="4.4.38">Sure He that made us with such large discourse,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2869"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2869">FTLN 2869</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.39" title="4.4.39">Looking before and after, gave us not</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2870"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2870">FTLN 2870</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.40" title="4.4.40">That capability and godlike reason</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2871"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2871">FTLN 2871</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.41" title="4.4.41">To fust in us unused. Now whether it be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2872"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2872">FTLN 2872</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.42" title="4.4.42">Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2873"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2873">FTLN 2873</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.43" title="4.4.43">Of thinking too precisely on th’ event</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2874"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2874">FTLN 2874</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.44" title="4.4.44">(A thought which, quartered, hath but one part</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2875"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2875">FTLN 2875</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.4.45" title="4.4.45">wisdom</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2876"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2876">FTLN 2876</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.46" title="4.4.46">And ever three parts coward), I do not know</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2877"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2877">FTLN 2877</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.47" title="4.4.47">Why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do,”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2878"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2878">FTLN 2878</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.48" title="4.4.48">Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2879"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2879">FTLN 2879</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.49" title="4.4.49">To do ’t. Examples gross as Earth exhort me:</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2880"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2880">FTLN 2880</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.50" title="4.4.50">Witness this army of such mass and charge,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2881"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2881">FTLN 2881</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.51" title="4.4.51">Led by a delicate and tender prince,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2882"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2882">FTLN 2882</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.52" title="4.4.52">Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2883"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2883">FTLN 2883</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.53" title="4.4.53">Makes mouths at the invisible event,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2884"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2884">FTLN 2884</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.54" title="4.4.54">Exposing what is mortal and unsure</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2885"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2885">FTLN 2885</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.55" title="4.4.55">To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2886"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2886">FTLN 2886</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.56" title="4.4.56">Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2887"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2887">FTLN 2887</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.57" title="4.4.57">Is not to stir without great argument,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2888"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2888">FTLN 2888</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.58" title="4.4.58">But greatly to find quarrel in a straw</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2889"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2889">FTLN 2889</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.59" title="4.4.59">When honor’s at the stake. How stand I, then,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2890"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2890">FTLN 2890</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.60" title="4.4.60">That have a father killed, a mother stained,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2891"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2891">FTLN 2891</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.61" title="4.4.61">Excitements of my reason and my blood,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2892"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2892">FTLN 2892</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.62" title="4.4.62">And let all sleep, while to my shame I see</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2893"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2893">FTLN 2893</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.63" title="4.4.63">The imminent death of twenty thousand men</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2894"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2894">FTLN 2894</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.64" title="4.4.64">That for a fantasy and trick of fame</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2895"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2895">FTLN 2895</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.4.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.65" title="4.4.65">Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2896"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2896">FTLN 2896</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.66" title="4.4.66">Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2897"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2897">FTLN 2897</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.67" title="4.4.67">Which is not tomb enough and continent</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2898"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2898">FTLN 2898</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.68" title="4.4.68">To hide the slain? O, from this time forth</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2899"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2899">FTLN 2899</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.4.69" title="4.4.69">My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.5.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.5.0" title="SD 4.5.0">Enter Horatio, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Queen</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.0" title="SD 4.5.0">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 4.5.0" title="SD 4.5.0"> and a Gentleman.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2900"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2900">FTLN 2900</span><span id="line-4.5.1" title="4.5.1">I will not speak with her.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GENTLEMAN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2901"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2901">FTLN 2901</span><span id="line-4.5.2" title="4.5.2">She is importunate,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2902"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2902">FTLN 2902</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.3" title="4.5.3">Indeed distract; her mood will needs be pitied.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2903"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2903">FTLN 2903</span><span id="line-4.5.4" title="4.5.4">What would she have?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GENTLEMAN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2904"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2904">FTLN 2904</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.5" title="4.5.5">She speaks much of her father, says she hears</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2905"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2905">FTLN 2905</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.6" title="4.5.6">There’s tricks i’ th’ world, and hems, and beats her</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2906"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2906">FTLN 2906</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.5.7" title="4.5.7">heart,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2907"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2907">FTLN 2907</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.8" title="4.5.8">Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2908"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2908">FTLN 2908</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.9" title="4.5.9">That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2909"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2909">FTLN 2909</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.10" title="4.5.10">Yet the unshapèd use of it doth move</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2910"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2910">FTLN 2910</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.11" title="4.5.11">The hearers to collection. They <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">aim<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.5.11" title="4.5.11"> at it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2911"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2911">FTLN 2911</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.12" title="4.5.12">And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2912"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2912">FTLN 2912</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.13" title="4.5.13">Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2913"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2913">FTLN 2913</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.5.14" title="4.5.14">them,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2914"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2914">FTLN 2914</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.15" title="4.5.15">Indeed would make one think there might be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2915"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2915">FTLN 2915</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.5.16" title="4.5.16">thought,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2916"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2916">FTLN 2916</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.17" title="4.5.17">Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2917"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2917">FTLN 2917</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.18" title="4.5.18">’Twere good she were spoken with, for she may</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2918"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2918">FTLN 2918</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.5.19" title="4.5.19">strew</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2919"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2919">FTLN 2919</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.20" title="4.5.20">Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">QUEEN<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2920"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2920">FTLN 2920</span><span id="line-4.5.21" title="4.5.21">Let her come in.</span><a name="line-SD4.5.21"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.5.21" title="SD 4.5.21"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Gentleman</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.21" title="SD 4.5.21"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2921"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2921">FTLN 2921</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><a name="line-SD4.5.22"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 4.5.22" title="SD 4.5.22"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Aside</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.22" title="SD 4.5.22">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 4.5.22" title="SD 4.5.22"> </span></span><span id="line-4.5.22" title="4.5.22">To my sick soul (as sin’s true nature is),</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2922"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2922">FTLN 2922</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.23" title="4.5.23">Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2923"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2923">FTLN 2923</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.24" title="4.5.24">So full of artless jealousy is guilt,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2924"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2924">FTLN 2924</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.25" title="4.5.25">It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.5.25.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.5.25.1" title="SD 4.5.25.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Enter</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.25.1" title="SD 4.5.25.1"> Ophelia distracted.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2925"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2925">FTLN 2925</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.26" title="4.5.26">Where is the beauteous Majesty of Denmark?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2926"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2926">FTLN 2926</span><span id="line-4.5.27" title="4.5.27">How now, Ophelia?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><a name="line-SD4.5.28.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 4.5.28.0" title="SD 4.5.28.0"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">sings<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-2927"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2927">FTLN 2927</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 80px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.28" title="4.5.28">How should I your true love know</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2928"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2928">FTLN 2928</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 80px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.29" title="4.5.29">From another one?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2929"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2929">FTLN 2929</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.30">30</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 80px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.30" title="4.5.30">By his cockle hat and staff</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2930"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2930">FTLN 2930</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 80px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.31" title="4.5.31">And his sandal shoon.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2931"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2931">FTLN 2931</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.32" title="4.5.32">Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2932"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2932">FTLN 2932</span><span id="line-4.5.33" title="4.5.33">Say you? Nay, pray you, mark.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.5.34"> </a><span class="stage indentVerse"><span id="line-SD 4.5.34" title="SD 4.5.34"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Sings</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.34" title="SD 4.5.34">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2933"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2933">FTLN 2933</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.34" title="4.5.34">He is dead and gone, lady,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2934"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2934">FTLN 2934</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.35">35</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.35" title="4.5.35">He is dead and gone;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2935"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2935">FTLN 2935</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.36" title="4.5.36">At his head a grass-green turf,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2936"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2936">FTLN 2936</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.37" title="4.5.37">At his heels a stone.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2937"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2937">FTLN 2937</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.38" title="4.5.38">Oh, ho!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2938"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2938">FTLN 2938</span><span id="line-4.5.39" title="4.5.39">Nay, but Ophelia—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2939"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2939">FTLN 2939</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.40">40</span><span id="line-4.5.40" title="4.5.40">Pray you, mark.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2941"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2941">FTLN 2941</span><span id="line-4.5.42" title="4.5.42">Alas, look here, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><a name="line-SD4.5.43.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 4.5.43.0" title="SD 4.5.43.0"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">sings<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-2942"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2942">FTLN 2942</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 62px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.43" title="4.5.43">Larded all with sweet flowers;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2943"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2943">FTLN 2943</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 62px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.44" title="4.5.44">Which bewept to the ground did not go</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2944"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2944">FTLN 2944</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.45">45</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 62px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.45" title="4.5.45">With true-love showers.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2945"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2945">FTLN 2945</span><span id="line-4.5.46" title="4.5.46">How do you, pretty lady?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2946"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2946">FTLN 2946</span><span id="line-4.5.47" title="4.5.47">Well, God dild you. They say the owl was a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2947"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2947">FTLN 2947</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.48" title="4.5.48">baker’s daughter. Lord, we know what we are but</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2948"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2948">FTLN 2948</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.49" title="4.5.49">know not what we may be. God be at your table.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2949"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2949">FTLN 2949</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.50">50</span><span id="line-4.5.50" title="4.5.50">Conceit upon her father.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2950"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2950">FTLN 2950</span><span id="line-4.5.51" title="4.5.51">Pray let’s have no words of this, but when</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2951"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2951">FTLN 2951</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.52" title="4.5.52">they ask you what it means, say you this:</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.5.53"> </a><span class="stage indentVerse"><span id="line-SD 4.5.53" title="SD 4.5.53"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Sings</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.53" title="SD 4.5.53">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2952"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2952">FTLN 2952</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.53" title="4.5.53">Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s day,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2953"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2953">FTLN 2953</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.54" title="4.5.54">All in the morning betime,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2954"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2954">FTLN 2954</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.55">55</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.55" title="4.5.55">And I a maid at your window,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2955"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2955">FTLN 2955</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.56" title="4.5.56">To be your Valentine.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2956"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2956">FTLN 2956</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.57" title="4.5.57">Then up he rose and donned his clothes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2957"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2957">FTLN 2957</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.58" title="4.5.58">And dupped the chamber door,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2958"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2958">FTLN 2958</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.59" title="4.5.59">Let in the maid, that out a maid</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2959"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2959">FTLN 2959</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.60">60</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.60" title="4.5.60">Never departed more.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2960"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2960">FTLN 2960</span><span id="line-4.5.61" title="4.5.61">Pretty Ophelia—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2961"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2961">FTLN 2961</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.62" title="4.5.62">Indeed, without an oath, I’ll make an end on ’t:</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.5.63"> </a><span class="stage indentVerse"><span id="line-SD 4.5.63" title="SD 4.5.63"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Sings</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.63" title="SD 4.5.63">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="italic"><a name="ftln-2962"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2962">FTLN 2962</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.63" title="4.5.63">By Gis and by Saint Charity,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2963"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2963">FTLN 2963</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.64" title="4.5.64">Alack and fie for shame,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2964"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2964">FTLN 2964</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.65">65</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.65" title="4.5.65">Young men will do ’t, if they come to ’t;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2965"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2965">FTLN 2965</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.66" title="4.5.66">By Cock, they are to blame.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2966"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2966">FTLN 2966</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.67" title="4.5.67">Quoth she “Before you tumbled me,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2967"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2967">FTLN 2967</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.68" title="4.5.68">You promised me to wed.”</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2968"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2968">FTLN 2968</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.69" title="4.5.69">He answers:</span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-2969"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2969">FTLN 2969</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.70">70</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.70" title="4.5.70">“So would I ’a done, by yonder sun,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2970"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2970">FTLN 2970</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 84px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.71" title="4.5.71">An thou hadst not come to my bed.”</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2971"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2971">FTLN 2971</span><span id="line-4.5.72" title="4.5.72">How long hath she been thus?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-2972"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2972">FTLN 2972</span><span id="line-4.5.73" title="4.5.73">I hope all will be well. We must be patient,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2973"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2973">FTLN 2973</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.74" title="4.5.74">but I cannot choose but weep to think they would</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2974"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2974">FTLN 2974</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.75" title="4.5.75">lay him i’ th’ cold ground. My brother shall know of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2975"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2975">FTLN 2975</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.76" title="4.5.76">it. And so I thank you for your good counsel. Come,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2976"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2976">FTLN 2976</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.77" title="4.5.77">my coach! Good night, ladies, good night, sweet</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2977"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2977">FTLN 2977</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.78" title="4.5.78">ladies, good night, good night.</span><a name="line-SD4.5.78"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.5.78" title="SD 4.5.78"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">She</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.78" title="SD 4.5.78"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-2978"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2978">FTLN 2978</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.79" title="4.5.79">Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.5.79.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.5.79.1" title="SD 4.5.79.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Horatio</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.79.1" title="SD 4.5.79.1"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-2979"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2979">FTLN 2979</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.80" title="4.5.80">O, this is the poison of deep grief. It springs</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2980"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2980">FTLN 2980</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.81" title="4.5.81">All from her father’s death, and now behold!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2981"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2981">FTLN 2981</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.82" title="4.5.82">O Gertrude, Gertrude,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2982"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2982">FTLN 2982</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.83" title="4.5.83">When sorrows come, they come not single spies,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2983"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2983">FTLN 2983</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.84" title="4.5.84">But in battalions: first, her father slain;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2984"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2984">FTLN 2984</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.85" title="4.5.85">Next, your son gone, and he most violent author</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2985"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2985">FTLN 2985</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.86" title="4.5.86">Of his own just remove; the people muddied,</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-2986"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2986">FTLN 2986</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.87" title="4.5.87">Thick, and unwholesome in <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">their<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.5.87" title="4.5.87"> thoughts and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2987"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2987">FTLN 2987</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.5.88" title="4.5.88">whispers</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2988"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2988">FTLN 2988</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.89" title="4.5.89">For good Polonius’ death, and we have done but</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2989"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2989">FTLN 2989</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.5.90" title="4.5.90">greenly</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2990"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2990">FTLN 2990</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.91" title="4.5.91">In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2991"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2991">FTLN 2991</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.92" title="4.5.92">Divided from herself and her fair judgment,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2992"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2992">FTLN 2992</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.93" title="4.5.93">Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2993"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2993">FTLN 2993</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.94" title="4.5.94">Last, and as much containing as all these,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2994"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2994">FTLN 2994</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.95" title="4.5.95">Her brother is in secret come from France,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2995"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2995">FTLN 2995</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.96" title="4.5.96">Feeds on <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">his<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.5.96" title="4.5.96"> wonder, keeps himself in clouds,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2996"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2996">FTLN 2996</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.97" title="4.5.97">And wants not buzzers to infect his ear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2997"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2997">FTLN 2997</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.98" title="4.5.98">With pestilent speeches of his father’s death,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2998"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2998">FTLN 2998</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.99" title="4.5.99">Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-2999"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_2999">FTLN 2999</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.100" title="4.5.100">Will nothing stick our person to arraign</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3000"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3000">FTLN 3000</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.101" title="4.5.101">In ear and ear. O, my dear Gertrude, this,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3001"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3001">FTLN 3001</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.102" title="4.5.102">Like to a murd’ring piece, in many places</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3002"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3002">FTLN 3002</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.103" title="4.5.103">Gives me superfluous death.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.5.103.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.5.103.1" title="SD 4.5.103.1">A noise within.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">QUEEN</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3003"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3003">FTLN 3003</span><span id="line-4.5.104" title="4.5.104">Alack, what noise is this?<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3004"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3004">FTLN 3004</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.105">105</span><span id="line-4.5.105" title="4.5.105">Attend!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3005"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3005">FTLN 3005</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.106" title="4.5.106">Where is my Switzers? Let them guard the door.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.5.106.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.5.106.1" title="SD 4.5.106.1">Enter a Messenger.</span></span><br>
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<a name="ftln-3006"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3006">FTLN 3006</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.107" title="4.5.107">What is the matter?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MESSENGER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3007"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3007">FTLN 3007</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 69px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.108" title="4.5.108">Save yourself, my lord.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3008"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3008">FTLN 3008</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.109" title="4.5.109">The ocean, overpeering of his list,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3009"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3009">FTLN 3009</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.110" title="4.5.110">Eats not the flats with more impiteous haste</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3010"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3010">FTLN 3010</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.111" title="4.5.111">Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3011"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3011">FTLN 3011</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.112" title="4.5.112">O’erbears your officers. The rabble call him “lord,”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3012"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3012">FTLN 3012</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.113" title="4.5.113">And, as the world were now but to begin,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3013"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3013">FTLN 3013</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.114" title="4.5.114">Antiquity forgot, custom not known,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3014"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3014">FTLN 3014</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.115">115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.115" title="4.5.115">The ratifiers and props of every word,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3015"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3015">FTLN 3015</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.116" title="4.5.116"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">They<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.5.116" title="4.5.116"> cry “Choose we, Laertes shall be king!”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3016"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3016">FTLN 3016</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.117" title="4.5.117">Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it to the clouds,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3017"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3017">FTLN 3017</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.118" title="4.5.118">“Laertes shall be king! Laertes king!”</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.5.118.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.5.118.1" title="SD 4.5.118.1">A noise within.</span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3018"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3018">FTLN 3018</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.119" title="4.5.119">How cheerfully on the false trail they cry.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3019"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3019">FTLN 3019</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.120" title="4.5.120">O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3020"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3020">FTLN 3020</span><span id="line-4.5.121" title="4.5.121">The doors are broke.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.5.121.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.5.121.1" title="SD 4.5.121.1">Enter Laertes with others.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3021"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3021">FTLN 3021</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.122" title="4.5.122">Where is this king?—Sirs, stand you all without.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ALL</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3022"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3022">FTLN 3022</span><span id="line-4.5.123" title="4.5.123">No, let’s come in!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3023"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3023">FTLN 3023</span><span id="line-4.5.124" title="4.5.124">I pray you, give me leave.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ALL</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3024"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3024">FTLN 3024</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.125">125</span><span id="line-4.5.125" title="4.5.125">We will, we will.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3025"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3025">FTLN 3025</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.126" title="4.5.126">I thank you. Keep the door.</span><a name="line-SD4.5.126"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 4.5.126" title="SD 4.5.126"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Followers</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.126" title="SD 4.5.126"> exit.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span id="line-4.5.126" title="4.5.126"> O, thou</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3026"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3026">FTLN 3026</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.5.127" title="4.5.127">vile king,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3027"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3027">FTLN 3027</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.128" title="4.5.128">Give me my father!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3028"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3028">FTLN 3028</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 99px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.129" title="4.5.129">Calmly, good Laertes.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3029"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3029">FTLN 3029</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.130" title="4.5.130">That drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3030"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3030">FTLN 3030</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.5.131" title="4.5.131">bastard,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3031"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3031">FTLN 3031</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.132" title="4.5.132">Cries “cuckold” to my father, brands the harlot</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3032"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3032">FTLN 3032</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.133" title="4.5.133">Even here between the chaste unsmirchèd brow</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3033"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3033">FTLN 3033</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.134" title="4.5.134">Of my true mother.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3034"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3034">FTLN 3034</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.135">135</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 110px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.135" title="4.5.135">What is the cause, Laertes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3035"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3035">FTLN 3035</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.136" title="4.5.136">That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3036"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3036">FTLN 3036</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.137" title="4.5.137">Let him go, Gertrude. Do not fear our person.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3037"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3037">FTLN 3037</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.138" title="4.5.138">There’s such divinity doth hedge a king</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3038"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3038">FTLN 3038</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.139" title="4.5.139">That treason can but peep to what it would,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3039"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3039">FTLN 3039</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.140">140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.140" title="4.5.140">Acts little of his will.—Tell me, Laertes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3040"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3040">FTLN 3040</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.141" title="4.5.141">Why thou art thus incensed.—Let him go,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3041"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3041">FTLN 3041</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.5.142" title="4.5.142">Gertrude.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3042"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3042">FTLN 3042</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.143" title="4.5.143">Speak, man.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3043"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3043">FTLN 3043</span><span id="line-4.5.144" title="4.5.144">Where is my father?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3044"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3044">FTLN 3044</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.145">145</span><span id="line-4.5.145" title="4.5.145">Dead.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3045"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3045">FTLN 3045</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.146" title="4.5.146">But not by him.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3046"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3046">FTLN 3046</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 83px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.147" title="4.5.147">Let him demand his fill.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3047"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3047">FTLN 3047</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.148" title="4.5.148">How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3048"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3048">FTLN 3048</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.149" title="4.5.149">To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3049"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3049">FTLN 3049</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.150">150</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.150" title="4.5.150">Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3050"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3050">FTLN 3050</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.151" title="4.5.151">I dare damnation. To this point I stand,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3051"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3051">FTLN 3051</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.152" title="4.5.152">That both the worlds I give to negligence,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3052"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3052">FTLN 3052</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.153" title="4.5.153">Let come what comes, only I’ll be revenged</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3053"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3053">FTLN 3053</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.154" title="4.5.154">Most throughly for my father.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3054"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3054">FTLN 3054</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.155">155</span><span id="line-4.5.155" title="4.5.155">Who shall stay you?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3055"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3055">FTLN 3055</span><span id="line-4.5.156" title="4.5.156">My will, not all the <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">world</span><span id="line-4.5.156" title="4.5.156">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3056"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3056">FTLN 3056</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.157" title="4.5.157">And for my means, I’ll husband them so well</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3057"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3057">FTLN 3057</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.158" title="4.5.158">They shall go far with little.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3058"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3058">FTLN 3058</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 166px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.159" title="4.5.159">Good Laertes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3059"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3059">FTLN 3059</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.160">160</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.160" title="4.5.160">If you desire to know the certainty</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3060"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3060">FTLN 3060</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.161" title="4.5.161">Of your dear father, is ’t writ in your revenge</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3061"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3061">FTLN 3061</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.162" title="4.5.162">That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3062"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3062">FTLN 3062</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.5.163" title="4.5.163">foe,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3063"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3063">FTLN 3063</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.164" title="4.5.164">Winner and loser?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3064"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3064">FTLN 3064</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.165">165</span><span id="line-4.5.165" title="4.5.165">None but his enemies.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3065"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3065">FTLN 3065</span><span id="line-4.5.166" title="4.5.166">Will you know them, then?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3066"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3066">FTLN 3066</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.167" title="4.5.167">To his good friends thus wide I’ll ope my arms</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3067"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3067">FTLN 3067</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.168" title="4.5.168">And, like the kind life-rend’ring pelican,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3068"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3068">FTLN 3068</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.169" title="4.5.169">Repast them with my blood.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3069"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3069">FTLN 3069</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.170">170</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 168px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.170" title="4.5.170">Why, now you speak</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3070"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3070">FTLN 3070</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.171" title="4.5.171">Like a good child and a true gentleman.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3071"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3071">FTLN 3071</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.172" title="4.5.172">That I am guiltless of your father’s death</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3072"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3072">FTLN 3072</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.173" title="4.5.173">And am most sensibly in grief for it,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3073"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3073">FTLN 3073</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.174" title="4.5.174">It shall as level to your judgment ’pear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3074"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3074">FTLN 3074</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.175">175</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.175" title="4.5.175">As day does to your eye.</span><br>
<span class="right"><a name="ftln-3075"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3075">FTLN 3075</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><a name="line-SD4.5.176"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 4.5.176" title="SD 4.5.176">A noise within: </span></span><span id="line-4.5.176" title="4.5.176"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Let</span><span id="line-4.5.176" title="4.5.176"> her come in.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span>LAERTES<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3076"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3076">FTLN 3076</span><span id="line-4.5.177" title="4.5.177">How now, what noise is that?</span><br>
<br>
<a name="line-SD4.5.177.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.5.177.1" title="SD 4.5.177.1">Enter Ophelia.</span></span><br>
<br>
<a name="ftln-3077"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3077">FTLN 3077</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.178" title="4.5.178">O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3078"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3078">FTLN 3078</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.179" title="4.5.179">Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 4. SC. 5</div>
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<a name="ftln-3079"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3079">FTLN 3079</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.180">180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.180" title="4.5.180">By heaven, thy madness shall be paid with weight</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3080"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3080">FTLN 3080</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.181" title="4.5.181">Till our scale turn the beam! O rose of May,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3081"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3081">FTLN 3081</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.182" title="4.5.182">Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3082"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3082">FTLN 3082</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.183" title="4.5.183">O heavens, is ’t possible a young maid’s wits</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3083"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3083">FTLN 3083</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.184" title="4.5.184">Should be as mortal as <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">an</span><span id="line-4.5.184" title="4.5.184"> old<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.5.184" title="4.5.184"> man’s life?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3084"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3084">FTLN 3084</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.185" title="4.5.185"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Nature</span><span id="line-4.5.185" title="4.5.185"> is fine in love, and, where ’tis fine,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3085"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3085">FTLN 3085</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.186" title="4.5.186">It sends some precious instance of itself</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3086"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3086">FTLN 3086</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.187" title="4.5.187">After the thing it loves.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><a name="line-SD4.5.188.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 4.5.188.0" title="SD 4.5.188.0"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">sings<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-3087"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3087">FTLN 3087</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 68.5px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.188" title="4.5.188">They bore him barefaced on the bier,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3088"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3088">FTLN 3088</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 68px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.189" title="4.5.189"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Hey</span><span id="line-4.5.189" title="4.5.189"> non nonny, nonny, hey nonny,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3089"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3089">FTLN 3089</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.190">190</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 68px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.190" title="4.5.190">And in his grave rained many a tear.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3090"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3090">FTLN 3090</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.191" title="4.5.191">Fare you well, my dove.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3091"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3091">FTLN 3091</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.192" title="4.5.192">Hadst thou thy wits and didst persuade revenge,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3092"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3092">FTLN 3092</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.193" title="4.5.193">It could not move thus.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3093"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3093">FTLN 3093</span><span id="line-4.5.194" title="4.5.194">You must sing “A-down a-down”—and you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3094"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3094">FTLN 3094</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.195">195</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.195" title="4.5.195">“Call him a-down-a.”—O, how the wheel becomes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3095"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3095">FTLN 3095</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.196" title="4.5.196">it! It is the false steward that stole his master’s</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3096"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3096">FTLN 3096</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.197" title="4.5.197">daughter.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3097"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3097">FTLN 3097</span><span id="line-4.5.198" title="4.5.198">This nothing’s more than matter.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3098"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3098">FTLN 3098</span><span id="line-4.5.199" title="4.5.199">There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3099"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3099">FTLN 3099</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.200">200</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.200" title="4.5.200">Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3100"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3100">FTLN 3100</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.201" title="4.5.201">that’s for thoughts.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3101"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3101">FTLN 3101</span><span id="line-4.5.202" title="4.5.202">A document in madness: thoughts and remembrance</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3102"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3102">FTLN 3102</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.203" title="4.5.203">fitted.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3103"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3103">FTLN 3103</span><span id="line-4.5.204" title="4.5.204">There’s fennel for you, and columbines.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3104"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3104">FTLN 3104</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.205">205</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.205" title="4.5.205">There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me; we</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3105"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3105">FTLN 3105</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.206" title="4.5.206">may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. You <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">must<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.5.206" title="4.5.206"> wear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3106"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3106">FTLN 3106</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.207" title="4.5.207">your rue with a difference. There’s a daisy. I would</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3107"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3107">FTLN 3107</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.208" title="4.5.208">give you some violets, but they withered all when</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3108"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3108">FTLN 3108</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.209" title="4.5.209">my father died. They say he made a good end.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3109"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3109">FTLN 3109</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.210">210</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><a name="line-SD4.5.210"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 4.5.210" title="SD 4.5.210"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Sings</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.210" title="SD 4.5.210">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 4.5.210" title="SD 4.5.210"> </span></span><span class="italic"><span id="line-4.5.210" title="4.5.210">For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3110"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3110">FTLN 3110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.211" title="4.5.211">Thought and afflictions, passion, hell itself</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3111"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3111">FTLN 3111</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.212" title="4.5.212">She turns to favor and to prettiness.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<span class="speaker">OPHELIA</span><a name="line-SD4.5.213.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 4.5.213.0" title="SD 4.5.213.0"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">sings<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-3112"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3112">FTLN 3112</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85.5px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.213" title="4.5.213">And will he not come again?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3113"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3113">FTLN 3113</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.214" title="4.5.214">And will he not come again?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3114"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3114">FTLN 3114</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.215">215</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.215" title="4.5.215">No, no, he is dead.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3115"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3115">FTLN 3115</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.216" title="4.5.216">Go to thy deathbed.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3116"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3116">FTLN 3116</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.217" title="4.5.217">He never will come again.</span><br>
<br>
<a name="ftln-3117"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3117">FTLN 3117</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.218" title="4.5.218">His beard was as white as snow,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3118"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3118">FTLN 3118</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.219" title="4.5.219"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">All<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.5.219" title="4.5.219"> flaxen was his poll.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3119"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3119">FTLN 3119</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.220">220</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.220" title="4.5.220">He is gone, he is gone,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3120"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3120">FTLN 3120</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.221" title="4.5.221">And we cast away moan.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3121"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3121">FTLN 3121</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.222" title="4.5.222">God ’a mercy on his soul.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3122"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3122">FTLN 3122</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.223" title="4.5.223">And of all Christians’ souls, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">I</span><span id="line-4.5.223" title="4.5.223"> pray God.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.5.223" title="4.5.223"> God be wi’</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3123"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3123">FTLN 3123</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.224" title="4.5.224">you.</span><a name="line-SD4.5.224"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.5.224" title="SD 4.5.224"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">She</span><span id="line-SD 4.5.224" title="SD 4.5.224"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3124"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3124">FTLN 3124</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.225">225</span><span id="line-4.5.225" title="4.5.225">Do you <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">see<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.5.225" title="4.5.225"> this, O God?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3125"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3125">FTLN 3125</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.226" title="4.5.226">Laertes, I must commune with your grief,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3126"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3126">FTLN 3126</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.227" title="4.5.227">Or you deny me right. Go but apart,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3127"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3127">FTLN 3127</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.228" title="4.5.228">Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3128"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3128">FTLN 3128</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.229" title="4.5.229">And they shall hear and judge ’twixt you and me.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3129"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3129">FTLN 3129</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.230">230</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.230" title="4.5.230">If by direct or by collateral hand</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3130"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3130">FTLN 3130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.231" title="4.5.231">They find us touched, we will our kingdom give,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3131"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3131">FTLN 3131</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.232" title="4.5.232">Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3132"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3132">FTLN 3132</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.233" title="4.5.233">To you in satisfaction; but if not,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3133"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3133">FTLN 3133</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.234" title="4.5.234">Be you content to lend your patience to us,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3134"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3134">FTLN 3134</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.235">235</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.235" title="4.5.235">And we shall jointly labor with your soul</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3135"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3135">FTLN 3135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.236" title="4.5.236">To give it due content.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3136"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3136">FTLN 3136</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 106px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.237" title="4.5.237">Let this be so.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3137"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3137">FTLN 3137</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.238" title="4.5.238">His means of death, his obscure funeral</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3138"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3138">FTLN 3138</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.239" title="4.5.239">(No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o’er his bones,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3139"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3139">FTLN 3139</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.240">240</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.240" title="4.5.240">No noble rite nor formal ostentation)</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3140"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3140">FTLN 3140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.241" title="4.5.241">Cry to be heard, as ’twere from heaven to earth,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3141"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3141">FTLN 3141</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.242" title="4.5.242">That I must call ’t in question.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3142"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3142">FTLN 3142</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 180px;"> </span><span id="line-4.5.243" title="4.5.243">So you shall,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3143"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3143">FTLN 3143</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.244" title="4.5.244">And where th’ offense is, let the great ax fall.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3144"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3144">FTLN 3144</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.5.245">245</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.5.245" title="4.5.245">I pray you, go with me.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.5.245.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.5.245.1" title="SD 4.5.245.1">They exit.</span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 4. SC. 6</div>
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<a name="line-SD4.6.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.6.0" title="SD 4.6.0">Enter Horatio and others.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3145"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3145">FTLN 3145</span><span id="line-4.6.1" title="4.6.1">What are they that would speak with me?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">GENTLEMAN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3146"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3146">FTLN 3146</span><span id="line-4.6.2" title="4.6.2">Seafaring men, sir. They say they have</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3147"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3147">FTLN 3147</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.3" title="4.6.3">letters for you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3148"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3148">FTLN 3148</span><span id="line-4.6.4" title="4.6.4">Let them come in.</span><a name="line-SD4.6.4"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 4.6.4" title="SD 4.6.4"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Gentleman</span><span id="line-SD 4.6.4" title="SD 4.6.4"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span id="line-4.6.4" title="4.6.4"> I do not</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3149"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3149">FTLN 3149</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.6.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.5" title="4.6.5">know from what part of the world I should be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3150"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3150">FTLN 3150</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.6" title="4.6.6">greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.6.6.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.6.6.1" title="SD 4.6.6.1">Enter Sailors.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">SAILOR</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3151"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3151">FTLN 3151</span><span id="line-4.6.7" title="4.6.7">God bless you, sir.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3152"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3152">FTLN 3152</span><span id="line-4.6.8" title="4.6.8">Let Him bless thee too.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">SAILOR</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3153"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3153">FTLN 3153</span><span id="line-4.6.9" title="4.6.9">He shall, sir, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">an</span><span id="line-4.6.9" title="4.6.9"> ’t<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.6.9" title="4.6.9"> please Him. There’s a letter</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3154"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3154">FTLN 3154</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.6.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.10" title="4.6.10">for you, sir. It came from th’ ambassador that was</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3155"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3155">FTLN 3155</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.11" title="4.6.11">bound for England—if your name be Horatio, as I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3156"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3156">FTLN 3156</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.12" title="4.6.12">am let to know it is.</span><a name="line-SD4.6.12"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.6.12" title="SD 4.6.12"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 4.6.12" title="SD 4.6.12"> hands Horatio a letter.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><a name="line-SD4.6.13"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 4.6.13" title="SD 4.6.13"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">reads</span><span id="line-SD 4.6.13" title="SD 4.6.13"> the letter<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><a name="ftln-3157"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3157">FTLN 3157</span><span id="line-4.6.13" title="4.6.13">Horatio, when thou shalt have</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3158"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3158">FTLN 3158</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.14" title="4.6.14">overlooked this, give these fellows some means to the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3159"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3159">FTLN 3159</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.6.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.15" title="4.6.15">King. They have letters for him. Ere we were two days</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3160"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3160">FTLN 3160</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.16" title="4.6.16">old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3161"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3161">FTLN 3161</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.17" title="4.6.17">us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3162"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3162">FTLN 3162</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.18" title="4.6.18">a compelled valor, and in the grapple I boarded them.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3163"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3163">FTLN 3163</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.19" title="4.6.19">On the instant, they got clear of our ship; so I alone</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3164"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3164">FTLN 3164</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.6.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.20" title="4.6.20">became their prisoner. They have dealt with me like</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3165"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3165">FTLN 3165</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.21" title="4.6.21">thieves of mercy, but they knew what they did: I am to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3166"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3166">FTLN 3166</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.22" title="4.6.22">do a <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">good<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.6.22" title="4.6.22"> turn for them. Let the King have the letters</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3167"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3167">FTLN 3167</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.23" title="4.6.23">I have sent, and repair thou to me with as much speed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3168"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3168">FTLN 3168</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.24" title="4.6.24">as thou wouldst fly death. I have words to speak in</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3169"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3169">FTLN 3169</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.6.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.25" title="4.6.25">thine ear will make thee dumb; yet are they much too</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3170"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3170">FTLN 3170</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.26" title="4.6.26">light for the <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">bore<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.6.26" title="4.6.26"> of the matter. These good fellows</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3171"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3171">FTLN 3171</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.27" title="4.6.27">will bring thee where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3172"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3172">FTLN 3172</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.28" title="4.6.28">hold their course for England; of them I have</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3173"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3173">FTLN 3173</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.29" title="4.6.29">much to tell thee. Farewell.</span><span class="right"><a name="ftln-3174"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3174">FTLN 3174</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.6.30">30</span><span id="line-4.6.30" title="4.6.30"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">He<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.6.30" title="4.6.30"> that thou knowest thine,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3175"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3175">FTLN 3175</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.31" title="4.6.31">Hamlet.</span></span></span><br>
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<a name="ftln-3176"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3176">FTLN 3176</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.32" title="4.6.32">Come, I will <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">give<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.6.32" title="4.6.32"> you way for these your letters</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3177"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3177">FTLN 3177</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.33" title="4.6.33">And do ’t the speedier that you may direct me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3178"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3178">FTLN 3178</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.6.34" title="4.6.34">To him from whom you brought them.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.7.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.7.0" title="SD 4.7.0">Enter King and Laertes.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3179"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3179">FTLN 3179</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.1" title="4.7.1">Now must your conscience my acquittance seal,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3180"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3180">FTLN 3180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.2" title="4.7.2">And you must put me in your heart for friend,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3181"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3181">FTLN 3181</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.3" title="4.7.3">Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3182"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3182">FTLN 3182</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.4" title="4.7.4">That he which hath your noble father slain</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3183"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3183">FTLN 3183</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.5" title="4.7.5">Pursued my life.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3184"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3184">FTLN 3184</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 67px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.6" title="4.7.6">It well appears. But tell me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3185"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3185">FTLN 3185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.7" title="4.7.7">Why you <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">proceeded<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.7" title="4.7.7"> not against these feats,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3186"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3186">FTLN 3186</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.8" title="4.7.8">So criminal and so capital in nature,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3187"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3187">FTLN 3187</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.9" title="4.7.9">As by your safety, greatness, wisdom, all things else,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3188"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3188">FTLN 3188</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.10" title="4.7.10">You mainly were stirred up.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3189"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3189">FTLN 3189</span><span id="line-4.7.11" title="4.7.11">O, for two special reasons,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3190"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3190">FTLN 3190</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.12" title="4.7.12">Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3191"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3191">FTLN 3191</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.13" title="4.7.13">But yet to me they’re strong. The Queen his mother</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3192"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3192">FTLN 3192</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.14" title="4.7.14">Lives almost by his looks, and for myself</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3193"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3193">FTLN 3193</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.15">15</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.15" title="4.7.15">(My virtue or my plague, be it either which),</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3194"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3194">FTLN 3194</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.16" title="4.7.16">She is so <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">conjunctive<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.16" title="4.7.16"> to my life and soul</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3195"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3195">FTLN 3195</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.17" title="4.7.17">That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3196"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3196">FTLN 3196</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.18" title="4.7.18">I could not but by her. The other motive</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3197"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3197">FTLN 3197</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.19" title="4.7.19">Why to a public count I might not go</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3198"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3198">FTLN 3198</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.20" title="4.7.20">Is the great love the general gender bear him,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3199"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3199">FTLN 3199</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.21" title="4.7.21">Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3200"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3200">FTLN 3200</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.22" title="4.7.22">Work like the spring that turneth wood to stone,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3201"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3201">FTLN 3201</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.23" title="4.7.23">Convert his gyves to graces, so that my arrows,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3202"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3202">FTLN 3202</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.24" title="4.7.24">Too slightly timbered for so <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">loud</span><span id="line-4.7.24" title="4.7.24"> a wind,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3203"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3203">FTLN 3203</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.25" title="4.7.25">Would have reverted to my bow again,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3204"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3204">FTLN 3204</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.26" title="4.7.26">But not where I have aimed them.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3205"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3205">FTLN 3205</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.27" title="4.7.27">And so have I a noble father lost,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-3206"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3206">FTLN 3206</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.28" title="4.7.28">A sister driven into desp’rate terms,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3207"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3207">FTLN 3207</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.29" title="4.7.29">Whose worth, if praises may go back again,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3208"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3208">FTLN 3208</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.30" title="4.7.30">Stood challenger on mount of all the age</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3209"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3209">FTLN 3209</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.31" title="4.7.31">For her perfections. But my revenge will come.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3210"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3210">FTLN 3210</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.32" title="4.7.32">Break not your sleeps for that. You must not think</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3211"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3211">FTLN 3211</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.33" title="4.7.33">That we are made of stuff so flat and dull</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3212"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3212">FTLN 3212</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.34" title="4.7.34">That we can let our beard be shook with danger</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3213"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3213">FTLN 3213</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.35" title="4.7.35">And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3214"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3214">FTLN 3214</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.36" title="4.7.36">I loved your father, and we love ourself,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3215"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3215">FTLN 3215</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.37" title="4.7.37">And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine—</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD4.7.37.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.7.37.1" title="SD 4.7.37.1">Enter a Messenger with letters.</span></span><br>
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<a name="ftln-3216"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3216">FTLN 3216</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.38" title="4.7.38"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">How</span><span id="line-4.7.38" title="4.7.38"> now? What news?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MESSENGER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3217"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3217">FTLN 3217</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 99px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.39" title="4.7.39">Letters, my lord, from</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3218"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3218">FTLN 3218</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.7.40" title="4.7.40">Hamlet.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3219"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3219">FTLN 3219</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.41" title="4.7.41">These to your Majesty, this to the Queen.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3220"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3220">FTLN 3220</span><span id="line-4.7.42" title="4.7.42">From Hamlet? Who brought them?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">MESSENGER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3221"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3221">FTLN 3221</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.43" title="4.7.43">Sailors, my lord, they say. I saw them not.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3222"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3222">FTLN 3222</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.44" title="4.7.44">They were given me by Claudio. He received them</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3223"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3223">FTLN 3223</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.45" title="4.7.45"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">Of</span><span id="line-4.7.45" title="4.7.45"> him that brought them.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3224"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3224">FTLN 3224</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 166px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.46" title="4.7.46">Laertes, you shall hear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3225"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3225">FTLN 3225</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.7.47" title="4.7.47">them.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3226"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3226">FTLN 3226</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.48" title="4.7.48">Leave us.</span><a name="line-SD4.7.48"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.7.48" title="SD 4.7.48"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Messenger</span><span id="line-SD 4.7.48" title="SD 4.7.48"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3227"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3227">FTLN 3227</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><a name="line-SD4.7.49"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 4.7.49" title="SD 4.7.49"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Reads</span><span id="line-SD 4.7.49" title="SD 4.7.49">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 4.7.49" title="SD 4.7.49"> </span></span><span class="italic"><span id="line-4.7.49" title="4.7.49">High and mighty, you shall know I am set</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3228"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3228">FTLN 3228</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.50" title="4.7.50">naked on your kingdom. Tomorrow shall I beg leave to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3229"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3229">FTLN 3229</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.51" title="4.7.51">see your kingly eyes, when I shall (first asking <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">your<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3230"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3230">FTLN 3230</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.52" title="4.7.52">pardon) thereunto recount the occasion of my sudden</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3231"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3231">FTLN 3231</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.53" title="4.7.53"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">and</span><span id="line-4.7.53" title="4.7.53"> more strange<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.53" title="4.7.53"> return. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Hamlet</span><span id="line-4.7.53" title="4.7.53">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3232"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3232">FTLN 3232</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.54" title="4.7.54">What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3233"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3233">FTLN 3233</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.55" title="4.7.55">Or is it some abuse and no such thing?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3234"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3234">FTLN 3234</span><span id="line-4.7.56" title="4.7.56">Know you the hand?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3235"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3235">FTLN 3235</span><span id="line-4.7.57" title="4.7.57">’Tis Hamlet’s character. “Naked”—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3236"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3236">FTLN 3236</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.58" title="4.7.58">And in a postscript here, he says “alone.”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3237"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3237">FTLN 3237</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.59" title="4.7.59">Can you <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">advise<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.59" title="4.7.59"> me?</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3238"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3238">FTLN 3238</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.60" title="4.7.60">I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3239"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3239">FTLN 3239</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.61" title="4.7.61">It warms the very sickness in my heart</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3240"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3240">FTLN 3240</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.62" title="4.7.62">That I <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">shall<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.62" title="4.7.62"> live and tell him to his teeth</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3241"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3241">FTLN 3241</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.63" title="4.7.63">“Thus didst thou.”</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3242"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3242">FTLN 3242</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 99px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.64" title="4.7.64">If it be so, Laertes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3243"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3243">FTLN 3243</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.65" title="4.7.65">(As how should it be so? how otherwise?),</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3244"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3244">FTLN 3244</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.66" title="4.7.66">Will you be ruled by me?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3245"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3245">FTLN 3245</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 126px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.67" title="4.7.67">Ay, my lord,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3246"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3246">FTLN 3246</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.68" title="4.7.68">So you will not o’errule me to a peace.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3247"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3247">FTLN 3247</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.69" title="4.7.69">To thine own peace. If he be now returned,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3248"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3248">FTLN 3248</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.70" title="4.7.70">As <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">checking<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.70" title="4.7.70"> at his voyage, and that he means</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3249"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3249">FTLN 3249</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.71" title="4.7.71">No more to undertake it, I will work him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3250"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3250">FTLN 3250</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.72" title="4.7.72">To an exploit, now ripe in my device,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3251"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3251">FTLN 3251</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.73" title="4.7.73">Under the which he shall not choose but fall;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3252"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3252">FTLN 3252</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.74" title="4.7.74">And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3253"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3253">FTLN 3253</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.75" title="4.7.75">But even his mother shall uncharge the practice</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3254"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3254">FTLN 3254</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.76" title="4.7.76">And call it accident.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">LAERTES</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3255"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3255">FTLN 3255</span><span id="line-4.7.77" title="4.7.77">My lord, I will be ruled,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3256"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3256">FTLN 3256</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.78" title="4.7.78">The rather if you could devise it so</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3257"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3257">FTLN 3257</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.79" title="4.7.79">That I might be the organ.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3258"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3258">FTLN 3258</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 151px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.80" title="4.7.80">It falls right.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3259"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3259">FTLN 3259</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.81" title="4.7.81">You have been talked of since your travel much,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3260"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3260">FTLN 3260</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.82" title="4.7.82">And that in Hamlet’s hearing, for a quality</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3261"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3261">FTLN 3261</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.83" title="4.7.83">Wherein they say you shine. Your sum of parts</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3262"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3262">FTLN 3262</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.84" title="4.7.84">Did not together pluck such envy from him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3263"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3263">FTLN 3263</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.85" title="4.7.85">As did that one, and that, in my regard,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3264"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3264">FTLN 3264</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.86" title="4.7.86">Of the unworthiest siege.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3265"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3265">FTLN 3265</span><span id="line-4.7.87" title="4.7.87">What part is that, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3266"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3266">FTLN 3266</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.88" title="4.7.88">A very ribbon in the cap of youth—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3267"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3267">FTLN 3267</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.89" title="4.7.89">Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3268"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3268">FTLN 3268</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.90" title="4.7.90">The light and careless livery that it wears</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3269"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3269">FTLN 3269</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.91" title="4.7.91">Than settled age his sables and his weeds,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3270"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3270">FTLN 3270</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.92" title="4.7.92">Importing health and graveness.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><span id="line-4.7.92" title="4.7.92"> Two months since</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-3271"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3271">FTLN 3271</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.93" title="4.7.93">Here was a gentleman of Normandy.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3272"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3272">FTLN 3272</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.94" title="4.7.94">I have seen myself, and served against, the French,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3273"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3273">FTLN 3273</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.95" title="4.7.95">And they can well on horseback, but this gallant</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3274"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3274">FTLN 3274</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.96" title="4.7.96">Had witchcraft in ’t. He grew unto his seat,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3275"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3275">FTLN 3275</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.97" title="4.7.97">And to such wondrous doing brought his horse</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3276"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3276">FTLN 3276</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.98" title="4.7.98">As had he been encorpsed and demi-natured</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3277"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3277">FTLN 3277</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.99" title="4.7.99">With the brave beast. So far he topped <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">my<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.99" title="4.7.99"> thought</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3278"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3278">FTLN 3278</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.100" title="4.7.100">That I in forgery of shapes and tricks</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3279"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3279">FTLN 3279</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.101" title="4.7.101">Come short of what he did.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3280"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3280">FTLN 3280</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 138px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.102" title="4.7.102">A Norman was ’t?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3281"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3281">FTLN 3281</span><span id="line-4.7.103" title="4.7.103">A Norman.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3282"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3282">FTLN 3282</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.104" title="4.7.104">Upon my life, Lamord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3283"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3283">FTLN 3283</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 134px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.105" title="4.7.105">The very same.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3284"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3284">FTLN 3284</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.106" title="4.7.106">I know him well. He is the brooch indeed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3285"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3285">FTLN 3285</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.107" title="4.7.107">And gem of all the nation.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3286"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3286">FTLN 3286</span><span id="line-4.7.108" title="4.7.108">He made confession of you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3287"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3287">FTLN 3287</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.109" title="4.7.109">And gave you such a masterly report</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3288"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3288">FTLN 3288</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.110" title="4.7.110">For art and exercise in your defense,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3289"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3289">FTLN 3289</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.111" title="4.7.111">And for your rapier most especial,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3290"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3290">FTLN 3290</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.112" title="4.7.112">That he cried out ’twould be a sight indeed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3291"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3291">FTLN 3291</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.113" title="4.7.113">If one could match you. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">The</span><span id="line-4.7.113" title="4.7.113"> ’scrimers of their</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3292"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3292">FTLN 3292</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.7.114" title="4.7.114">nation</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3293"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3293">FTLN 3293</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.115">115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.115" title="4.7.115">He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3294"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3294">FTLN 3294</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.116" title="4.7.116">If you opposed them.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><span id="line-4.7.116" title="4.7.116"> Sir, this report of his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3295"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3295">FTLN 3295</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.117" title="4.7.117">Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3296"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3296">FTLN 3296</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.118" title="4.7.118">That he could nothing do but wish and beg</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3297"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3297">FTLN 3297</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.119" title="4.7.119">Your sudden coming-o’er, to play with you.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3298"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3298">FTLN 3298</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.120" title="4.7.120">Now out of this—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3299"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3299">FTLN 3299</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 78px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.121" title="4.7.121">What out of this, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3300"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3300">FTLN 3300</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.122" title="4.7.122">Laertes, was your father dear to you?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3301"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3301">FTLN 3301</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.123" title="4.7.123">Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3302"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3302">FTLN 3302</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.124" title="4.7.124">A face without a heart?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3303"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3303">FTLN 3303</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.125">125</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 110px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.125" title="4.7.125">Why ask you this?</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3304"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3304">FTLN 3304</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.126" title="4.7.126">Not that I think you did not love your father,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3305"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3305">FTLN 3305</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.127" title="4.7.127">But that I know love is begun by time</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3306"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3306">FTLN 3306</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.128" title="4.7.128">And that I see, in passages of proof,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3307"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3307">FTLN 3307</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.129" title="4.7.129">Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3308"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3308">FTLN 3308</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.130" title="4.7.130"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">There</span><span id="line-4.7.130" title="4.7.130"> lives within the very flame of love</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3309"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3309">FTLN 3309</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.131" title="4.7.131">A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3310"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3310">FTLN 3310</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.132" title="4.7.132">And nothing is at a like goodness still;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3311"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3311">FTLN 3311</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.133" title="4.7.133">For goodness, growing to a pleurisy,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3312"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3312">FTLN 3312</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.134" title="4.7.134">Dies in his own too-much. That we would do</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3313"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3313">FTLN 3313</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.135">135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.135" title="4.7.135">We should do when we would; for this “would”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3314"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3314">FTLN 3314</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.7.136" title="4.7.136">changes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3315"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3315">FTLN 3315</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.137" title="4.7.137">And hath abatements and delays as many</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3316"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3316">FTLN 3316</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.138" title="4.7.138">As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3317"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3317">FTLN 3317</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.139" title="4.7.139">And then this “should” is like a <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">spendthrift<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-4.7.139" title="4.7.139"> sigh,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3318"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3318">FTLN 3318</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.140">140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.140" title="4.7.140">That hurts by easing. But to the quick of th’ ulcer:<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3319"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3319">FTLN 3319</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.141" title="4.7.141">Hamlet comes back; what would you undertake</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3320"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3320">FTLN 3320</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.142" title="4.7.142">To show yourself indeed your father’s son</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3321"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3321">FTLN 3321</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.143" title="4.7.143">More than in words?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3322"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3322">FTLN 3322</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 94px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.144" title="4.7.144">To cut his throat i’ th’ church.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3323"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3323">FTLN 3323</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.145">145</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.145" title="4.7.145">No place indeed should murder sanctuarize;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3324"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3324">FTLN 3324</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.146" title="4.7.146">Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3325"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3325">FTLN 3325</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.147" title="4.7.147">Will you do this? Keep close within your chamber.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3326"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3326">FTLN 3326</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.148" title="4.7.148">Hamlet, returned, shall know you are come home.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3327"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3327">FTLN 3327</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.149" title="4.7.149">We’ll put on those shall praise your excellence</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3328"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3328">FTLN 3328</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.150">150</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.150" title="4.7.150">And set a double varnish on the fame</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3329"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3329">FTLN 3329</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.151" title="4.7.151">The Frenchman gave you; bring you, in fine,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3330"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3330">FTLN 3330</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.7.152" title="4.7.152">together</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3331"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3331">FTLN 3331</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.153" title="4.7.153">And wager <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">on<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.153" title="4.7.153"> your heads. He, being remiss,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3332"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3332">FTLN 3332</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.154" title="4.7.154">Most generous, and free from all contriving,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3333"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3333">FTLN 3333</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.155">155</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.155" title="4.7.155">Will not peruse the foils, so that with ease,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3334"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3334">FTLN 3334</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.156" title="4.7.156">Or with a little shuffling, you may choose</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3335"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3335">FTLN 3335</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.157" title="4.7.157">A sword unbated, and in a <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">pass<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.157" title="4.7.157"> of practice</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3336"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3336">FTLN 3336</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.158" title="4.7.158">Requite him for your father.</span><br>
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<div class="pageDesc">ACT 4. SC. 7</div>
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<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3337"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3337">FTLN 3337</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 146px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.159" title="4.7.159">I will do ’t,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3338"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3338">FTLN 3338</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.160">160</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.160" title="4.7.160">And for <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">that<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.160" title="4.7.160"> purpose I’ll anoint my sword.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3339"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3339">FTLN 3339</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.161" title="4.7.161">I bought an unction of a mountebank</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3340"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3340">FTLN 3340</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.162" title="4.7.162">So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3341"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3341">FTLN 3341</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.163" title="4.7.163">Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3342"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3342">FTLN 3342</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.164" title="4.7.164">Collected from all simples that have virtue</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3343"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3343">FTLN 3343</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.165">165</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.165" title="4.7.165">Under the moon, can save the thing from death</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3344"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3344">FTLN 3344</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.166" title="4.7.166">That is but scratched withal. I’ll touch my point</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3345"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3345">FTLN 3345</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.167" title="4.7.167">With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3346"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3346">FTLN 3346</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.168" title="4.7.168">It may be death.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3347"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3347">FTLN 3347</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.169" title="4.7.169">Let’s further think of this,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3348"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3348">FTLN 3348</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.170">170</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.170" title="4.7.170">Weigh what convenience both of time and means</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3349"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3349">FTLN 3349</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.171" title="4.7.171">May fit us to our shape. If this should fail,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3350"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3350">FTLN 3350</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.172" title="4.7.172">And that our drift look through our bad</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3351"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3351">FTLN 3351</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.7.173" title="4.7.173">performance,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3352"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3352">FTLN 3352</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.174" title="4.7.174">’Twere better not assayed. Therefore this project</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3353"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3353">FTLN 3353</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.175">175</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.175" title="4.7.175">Should have a back or second that might hold</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3354"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3354">FTLN 3354</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.176" title="4.7.176">If this did blast in proof. Soft, let me see.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3355"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3355">FTLN 3355</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.177" title="4.7.177">We’ll make a solemn wager on your cunnings—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3356"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3356">FTLN 3356</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.178" title="4.7.178">I ha ’t!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3357"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3357">FTLN 3357</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.179" title="4.7.179">When in your motion you are hot and dry</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3358"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3358">FTLN 3358</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.180">180</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.180" title="4.7.180">(As make your bouts more violent to that end)</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3359"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3359">FTLN 3359</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.181" title="4.7.181">And that he calls for drink, I’ll have prepared</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3360"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3360">FTLN 3360</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.7.182" title="4.7.182">him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3361"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3361">FTLN 3361</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.183" title="4.7.183">A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3362"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3362">FTLN 3362</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.184" title="4.7.184">If he by chance escape your venomed stuck,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3363"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3363">FTLN 3363</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.185" title="4.7.185">Our purpose may hold there.—But stay, what</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3364"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3364">FTLN 3364</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.7.186" title="4.7.186">noise?</span><br>
<br>
<a name="line-SD4.7.186.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 4.7.186.1" title="SD 4.7.186.1">Enter Queen.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3365"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3365">FTLN 3365</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.187" title="4.7.187">One woe doth tread upon another’s heel,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3366"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3366">FTLN 3366</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.188" title="4.7.188">So fast they follow. Your sister’s drowned, Laertes.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3367"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3367">FTLN 3367</span><span id="line-4.7.189" title="4.7.189">Drowned? O, where?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3368"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3368">FTLN 3368</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.190">190</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.190" title="4.7.190">There is a willow grows askant the brook</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-3369"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3369">FTLN 3369</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.191" title="4.7.191">That shows his <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">hoar<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-4.7.191" title="4.7.191"> leaves in the glassy stream.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3370"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3370">FTLN 3370</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.192" title="4.7.192">Therewith fantastic garlands did she make</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3371"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3371">FTLN 3371</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.193" title="4.7.193">Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3372"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3372">FTLN 3372</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.194" title="4.7.194">That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3373"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3373">FTLN 3373</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.195">195</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.195" title="4.7.195">But our cold maids do “dead men’s fingers” call</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3374"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3374">FTLN 3374</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-4.7.196" title="4.7.196">them.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3375"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3375">FTLN 3375</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.197" title="4.7.197">There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3376"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3376">FTLN 3376</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.198" title="4.7.198">Clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3377"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3377">FTLN 3377</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.199" title="4.7.199">When down her weedy trophies and herself</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3378"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3378">FTLN 3378</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.200">200</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.200" title="4.7.200">Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3379"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3379">FTLN 3379</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.201" title="4.7.201">And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3380"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3380">FTLN 3380</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.202" title="4.7.202">Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3381"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3381">FTLN 3381</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.203" title="4.7.203">As one incapable of her own distress</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3382"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3382">FTLN 3382</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.204" title="4.7.204">Or like a creature native and endued</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3383"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3383">FTLN 3383</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.205">205</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.205" title="4.7.205">Unto that element. But long it could not be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3384"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3384">FTLN 3384</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.206" title="4.7.206">Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3385"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3385">FTLN 3385</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.207" title="4.7.207">Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3386"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3386">FTLN 3386</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.208" title="4.7.208">To muddy death.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3387"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3387">FTLN 3387</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 66px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.209" title="4.7.209">Alas, then she is drowned.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3388"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3388">FTLN 3388</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.210">210</span><span id="line-4.7.210" title="4.7.210">Drowned, drowned.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3389"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3389">FTLN 3389</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.211" title="4.7.211">Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3390"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3390">FTLN 3390</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.212" title="4.7.212">And therefore I forbid my tears. But yet</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3391"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3391">FTLN 3391</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.213" title="4.7.213">It is our trick; nature her custom holds,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3392"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3392">FTLN 3392</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.214" title="4.7.214">Let shame say what it will. When these are gone,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3393"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3393">FTLN 3393</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.215">215</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.215" title="4.7.215">The woman will be out.—Adieu, my lord.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3394"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3394">FTLN 3394</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.216" title="4.7.216">I have a speech o’ fire that fain would blaze,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3395"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3395">FTLN 3395</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.217" title="4.7.217">But that this folly drowns it.</span><a name="line-SD4.7.217"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.7.217" title="SD 4.7.217">He exits.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3396"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3396">FTLN 3396</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 169px;"> </span><span id="line-4.7.218" title="4.7.218">Let’s follow, Gertrude.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3397"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3397">FTLN 3397</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.219" title="4.7.219">How much I had to do to calm his rage!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3398"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3398">FTLN 3398</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_4.7.220">220</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.220" title="4.7.220">Now fear I this will give it start again.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3399"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3399">FTLN 3399</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-4.7.221" title="4.7.221">Therefore, let’s follow.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD4.7.221.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 4.7.221.1" title="SD 4.7.221.1">They exit.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3400"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3400">FTLN 3400</span><span id="line-5.1.1" title="5.1.1">Is she to be buried in Christian burial,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3401"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3401">FTLN 3401</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.2" title="5.1.2">when she willfully seeks her own salvation?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3402"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3402">FTLN 3402</span><span id="line-5.1.3" title="5.1.3">I tell thee she is. Therefore make her grave</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3403"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3403">FTLN 3403</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.4" title="5.1.4">straight. The crowner hath sat on her and finds it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3404"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3404">FTLN 3404</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.5" title="5.1.5">Christian burial.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3405"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3405">FTLN 3405</span><span id="line-5.1.6" title="5.1.6">How can that be, unless she drowned</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3406"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3406">FTLN 3406</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.7" title="5.1.7">herself in her own defense?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3407"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3407">FTLN 3407</span><span id="line-5.1.8" title="5.1.8">Why, ’tis found so.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3408"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3408">FTLN 3408</span><span id="line-5.1.9" title="5.1.9">It must be </span><span class="italic"><span id="line-5.1.9" title="5.1.9"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">se</span><span id="line-5.1.9" title="5.1.9"> offendendo</span></span><span id="line-5.1.9" title="5.1.9">;<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.9" title="5.1.9"> it cannot be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3409"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3409">FTLN 3409</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.10" title="5.1.10">else. For here lies the point: if I drown myself</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3410"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3410">FTLN 3410</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.11" title="5.1.11">wittingly, it argues an act, and an act hath three</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3411"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3411">FTLN 3411</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.12" title="5.1.12">branches—it is to act, to do, to perform. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Argal</span><span id="line-5.1.12" title="5.1.12">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.12" title="5.1.12"> she</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3412"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3412">FTLN 3412</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.13" title="5.1.13">drowned herself wittingly.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3413"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3413">FTLN 3413</span><span id="line-5.1.14" title="5.1.14">Nay, but hear you, goodman delver—</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3414"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3414">FTLN 3414</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.15">15</span><span id="line-5.1.15" title="5.1.15">Give me leave. Here lies the water;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3415"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3415">FTLN 3415</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.16" title="5.1.16">good. Here stands the man; good. If the man go to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3416"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3416">FTLN 3416</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.17" title="5.1.17">this water and drown himself, it is (will he, nill he)</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3417"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3417">FTLN 3417</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.18" title="5.1.18">he goes; mark you that. But if the water come to him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3418"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3418">FTLN 3418</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.19" title="5.1.19">and drown him, he drowns not himself. Argal, he</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3419"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3419">FTLN 3419</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.20" title="5.1.20">that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3420"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3420">FTLN 3420</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.21" title="5.1.21">own life.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3421"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3421">FTLN 3421</span><span id="line-5.1.22" title="5.1.22">But is this law?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3422"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3422">FTLN 3422</span><span id="line-5.1.23" title="5.1.23">Ay, marry, is ’t—crowner’s ’quest law.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3423"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3423">FTLN 3423</span><span id="line-5.1.24" title="5.1.24">Will you ha’ the truth on ’t? If this had not been</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3424"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3424">FTLN 3424</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.25" title="5.1.25">a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o’</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3425"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3425">FTLN 3425</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.26" title="5.1.26">Christian burial.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3426"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3426">FTLN 3426</span><span id="line-5.1.27" title="5.1.27">Why, there thou sayst. And the more</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3427"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3427">FTLN 3427</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.28" title="5.1.28">pity that great folk should have count’nance in this</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3428"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3428">FTLN 3428</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.29" title="5.1.29">world to drown or hang themselves more than</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3429"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3429">FTLN 3429</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.30" title="5.1.30">their even-Christian. Come, my spade. There is no</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3430"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3430">FTLN 3430</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.31" title="5.1.31">ancient gentlemen but gard’ners, ditchers, and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3431"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3431">FTLN 3431</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.32" title="5.1.32">grave-makers. They hold up Adam’s profession.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3432"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3432">FTLN 3432</span><span id="line-5.1.33" title="5.1.33">Was he a gentleman?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3433"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3433">FTLN 3433</span><span id="line-5.1.34" title="5.1.34">He was the first that ever bore arms.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">OTHER</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3434"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3434">FTLN 3434</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.35">35</span><span id="line-5.1.35" title="5.1.35">Why, he had none.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3435"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3435">FTLN 3435</span><span id="line-5.1.36" title="5.1.36">What, art a heathen? How dost thou</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3436"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3436">FTLN 3436</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.37" title="5.1.37">understand the scripture? The scripture says Adam</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3437"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3437">FTLN 3437</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.38" title="5.1.38">digged. Could he dig without arms?<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.38" title="5.1.38"> I’ll put another</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3438"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3438">FTLN 3438</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.39" title="5.1.39">question to thee. If thou answerest me not to the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3439"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3439">FTLN 3439</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.40" title="5.1.40">purpose, confess thyself—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3440"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3440">FTLN 3440</span><span id="line-5.1.41" title="5.1.41">Go to!</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3441"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3441">FTLN 3441</span><span id="line-5.1.42" title="5.1.42">What is he that builds stronger than</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3442"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3442">FTLN 3442</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.43" title="5.1.43">either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3443"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3443">FTLN 3443</span><span id="line-5.1.44" title="5.1.44">The gallows-maker; for that <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">frame<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.44" title="5.1.44"> outlives a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3444"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3444">FTLN 3444</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.45" title="5.1.45">thousand tenants.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3445"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3445">FTLN 3445</span><span id="line-5.1.46" title="5.1.46">I like thy wit well, in good faith. The</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3446"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3446">FTLN 3446</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.47" title="5.1.47">gallows does well. But how does it well? It does</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3447"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3447">FTLN 3447</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.48" title="5.1.48">well to those that do ill. Now, thou dost ill to say the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3448"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3448">FTLN 3448</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.49" title="5.1.49">gallows is built stronger than the church. Argal, the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3449"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3449">FTLN 3449</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.50" title="5.1.50">gallows may do well to thee. To ’t again, come.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3450"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3450">FTLN 3450</span><span id="line-5.1.51" title="5.1.51">“Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3451"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3451">FTLN 3451</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.52" title="5.1.52">or a carpenter?”</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3452"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3452">FTLN 3452</span><span id="line-5.1.53" title="5.1.53">Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3453"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3453">FTLN 3453</span><span id="line-5.1.54" title="5.1.54">Marry, now I can tell.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3454"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3454">FTLN 3454</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.55">55</span><span id="line-5.1.55" title="5.1.55">To ’t.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OTHER</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3455"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3455">FTLN 3455</span><span id="line-5.1.56" title="5.1.56">Mass, I cannot tell.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD5.1.56.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 5.1.56.1" title="SD 5.1.56.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Enter</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.56.1" title="SD 5.1.56.1"> Hamlet and Horatio afar off.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3456"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3456">FTLN 3456</span><span id="line-5.1.57" title="5.1.57">Cudgel thy brains no more about it,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 1</div>
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<a name="ftln-3457"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3457">FTLN 3457</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.58" title="5.1.58">for your dull ass will not mend his pace with</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3458"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3458">FTLN 3458</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.59" title="5.1.59">beating. And, when you are asked this question</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3459"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3459">FTLN 3459</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.60" title="5.1.60">next, say “a grave-maker.” The houses he makes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3460"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3460">FTLN 3460</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.61" title="5.1.61">lasts till doomsday. Go, get thee in, and fetch me a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3461"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3461">FTLN 3461</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.62" title="5.1.62">stoup of liquor.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.1.62.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.1.62.1" title="SD 5.1.62.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">The</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.62.1" title="SD 5.1.62.1"> Other Man exits</span></span><br>
<span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.1.62.1" title="SD 5.1.62.1">and the Gravedigger digs and sings.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span></span><br>
<span class="italic"><a name="ftln-3462"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3462">FTLN 3462</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 23.5px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.63" title="5.1.63">In youth when I did love, did love,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3463"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3463">FTLN 3463</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 23px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.64" title="5.1.64">Methought it was very sweet</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3464"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3464">FTLN 3464</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.65">65</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 23px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.65" title="5.1.65">To contract—O—the time for—a—my behove,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3465"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3465">FTLN 3465</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 23px;"> </span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.66" title="5.1.66">O, methought there—a—was nothing—a—meet.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3466"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3466">FTLN 3466</span><span id="line-5.1.67" title="5.1.67">Has this fellow no feeling of his business? He</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3467"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3467">FTLN 3467</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.68" title="5.1.68">sings in grave-making.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3468"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3468">FTLN 3468</span><span id="line-5.1.69" title="5.1.69">Custom hath made it in him a property of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3469"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3469">FTLN 3469</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.70">70</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.70" title="5.1.70">easiness.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3470"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3470">FTLN 3470</span><span id="line-5.1.71" title="5.1.71">’Tis e’en so. The hand of little employment</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3471"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3471">FTLN 3471</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.72" title="5.1.72">hath the daintier sense.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><a name="line-SD5.1.73.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.1.73.0" title="SD 5.1.73.0"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">sings<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-3472"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3472">FTLN 3472</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 76px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.73" title="5.1.73">But age with his stealing steps</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3473"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3473">FTLN 3473</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 76px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.74" title="5.1.74">Hath clawed me in his clutch,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3474"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3474">FTLN 3474</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.75">75</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 76px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.75" title="5.1.75">And hath shipped me into the land,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3475"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3475">FTLN 3475</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 76px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.76" title="5.1.76">As if I had never been such.</span></span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.1.76.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.76.1" title="SD 5.1.76.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.76.1" title="SD 5.1.76.1"> digs up a skull.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3476"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3476">FTLN 3476</span><span id="line-5.1.77" title="5.1.77">That skull had a tongue in it and could sing</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3477"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3477">FTLN 3477</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.78" title="5.1.78">once. How the knave jowls it to the ground as if</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3478"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3478">FTLN 3478</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.79" title="5.1.79">’twere Cain’s jawbone, that did the first murder!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3479"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3479">FTLN 3479</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.80" title="5.1.80">This might be the pate of a politician which this ass</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3480"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3480">FTLN 3480</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.81" title="5.1.81">now o’erreaches, one that would circumvent God,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3481"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3481">FTLN 3481</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.82" title="5.1.82">might it not?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3482"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3482">FTLN 3482</span><span id="line-5.1.83" title="5.1.83">It might, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3483"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3483">FTLN 3483</span><span id="line-5.1.84" title="5.1.84">Or of a courtier, which could say “Good</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3484"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3484">FTLN 3484</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.85" title="5.1.85">morrow, sweet lord! How dost thou, sweet lord?”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3485"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3485">FTLN 3485</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.86" title="5.1.86">This might be my Lord Such-a-one that praised my</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3486"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3486">FTLN 3486</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.87" title="5.1.87">Lord Such-a-one’s horse when he went to beg it,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3487"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3487">FTLN 3487</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.88" title="5.1.88">might it not?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3488"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3488">FTLN 3488</span><span id="line-5.1.89" title="5.1.89">Ay, my lord.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 1</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3489"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3489">FTLN 3489</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.90">90</span><span id="line-5.1.90" title="5.1.90">Why, e’en so. And now my Lady Worm’s,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3490"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3490">FTLN 3490</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.91" title="5.1.91">chapless and knocked about the <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">mazard<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.91" title="5.1.91"> with a</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3491"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3491">FTLN 3491</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.92" title="5.1.92">sexton’s spade. Here’s fine revolution, an we had</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3492"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3492">FTLN 3492</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.93" title="5.1.93">the trick to see ’t. Did these bones cost no more the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3493"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3493">FTLN 3493</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.94" title="5.1.94">breeding but to play at loggets with them? Mine</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3494"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3494">FTLN 3494</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.95" title="5.1.95">ache to think on ’t.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><a name="line-SD5.1.96.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.1.96.0" title="SD 5.1.96.0"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">sings<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><span class="italic"><br>
<a name="ftln-3495"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3495">FTLN 3495</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 90.5px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.96" title="5.1.96">A pickax and a spade, a spade,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3496"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3496">FTLN 3496</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 90px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.97" title="5.1.97">For and a shrouding sheet,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3497"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3497">FTLN 3497</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 90px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.98" title="5.1.98">O, a pit of clay for to be made</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3498"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3498">FTLN 3498</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 90px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.99" title="5.1.99">For such a guest is meet.</span></span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.1.99.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.99.1" title="SD 5.1.99.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.99.1" title="SD 5.1.99.1"> digs up more skulls.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3499"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3499">FTLN 3499</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.100">100</span><span id="line-5.1.100" title="5.1.100">There’s another. Why may not that be the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3500"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3500">FTLN 3500</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.101" title="5.1.101">skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3501"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3501">FTLN 3501</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.102" title="5.1.102">quillities, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3502"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3502">FTLN 3502</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.103" title="5.1.103">does he suffer this mad knave now to knock him</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3503"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3503">FTLN 3503</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.104" title="5.1.104">about the sconce with a dirty shovel and will not tell</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3504"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3504">FTLN 3504</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.105" title="5.1.105">him of his action of battery? Hum, this fellow might</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3505"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3505">FTLN 3505</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.106" title="5.1.106">be in ’s time a great buyer of land, with his statutes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3506"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3506">FTLN 3506</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.107" title="5.1.107">his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3507"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3507">FTLN 3507</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.108" title="5.1.108">his recoveries. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Is</span><span id="line-5.1.108" title="5.1.108"> this the fine of his fines and the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3508"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3508">FTLN 3508</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.109" title="5.1.109">recovery of his recoveries,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.109" title="5.1.109"> to have his fine pate full</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3509"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3509">FTLN 3509</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.110">110</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.110" title="5.1.110">of fine dirt? Will <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">his<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.110" title="5.1.110"> vouchers vouch him no more</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3510"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3510">FTLN 3510</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.111" title="5.1.111">of his purchases, and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">double</span><span id="line-5.1.111" title="5.1.111"> ones too,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.111" title="5.1.111"> than the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3511"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3511">FTLN 3511</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.112" title="5.1.112">length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The very</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3512"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3512">FTLN 3512</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.113" title="5.1.113">conveyances of his lands will scarcely lie in this box,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3513"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3513">FTLN 3513</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.114" title="5.1.114">and must th’ inheritor himself have no more, ha?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3514"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3514">FTLN 3514</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.115">115</span><span id="line-5.1.115" title="5.1.115">Not a jot more, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3515"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3515">FTLN 3515</span><span id="line-5.1.116" title="5.1.116">Is not parchment made of sheepskins?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3516"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3516">FTLN 3516</span><span id="line-5.1.117" title="5.1.117">Ay, my lord, and of calves’ skins too.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3517"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3517">FTLN 3517</span><span id="line-5.1.118" title="5.1.118">They are sheep and calves which seek out</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3518"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3518">FTLN 3518</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.119" title="5.1.119">assurance in that. I will speak to this fellow.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3519"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3519">FTLN 3519</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.120" title="5.1.120">Whose grave’s this, sirrah?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3520"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3520">FTLN 3520</span><span id="line-5.1.121" title="5.1.121">Mine, sir.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.1.122"> </a><span class="stage indentVerse"><span id="line-SD 5.1.122" title="SD 5.1.122"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Sings</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.122" title="SD 5.1.122">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="italic centered"><a name="ftln-3521"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3521">FTLN 3521</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left: 10px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.122" title="5.1.122"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">O</span><span id="line-5.1.122" title="5.1.122">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.122" title="5.1.122"> a pit of clay for to be made</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3522"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3522">FTLN 3522</span><span class="alignment" style="padding-left:10px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.123" title="5.1.123"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">For</span><span id="line-5.1.123" title="5.1.123"> such a guest is meet.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 1</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3523"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3523">FTLN 3523</span><span id="line-5.1.124" title="5.1.124">I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in ’t.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3524"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3524">FTLN 3524</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.125">125</span><span id="line-5.1.125" title="5.1.125">You lie out on ’t, sir, and therefore ’tis</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3525"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3525">FTLN 3525</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.126" title="5.1.126">not yours. For my part, I do not lie in ’t, yet it is</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3526"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3526">FTLN 3526</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.127" title="5.1.127">mine.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3527"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3527">FTLN 3527</span><span id="line-5.1.128" title="5.1.128">Thou dost lie in ’t, to be in ’t and say it is thine.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3528"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3528">FTLN 3528</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.129" title="5.1.129">’Tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3529"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3529">FTLN 3529</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.130" title="5.1.130">liest.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3530"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3530">FTLN 3530</span><span id="line-5.1.131" title="5.1.131">’Tis a quick lie, sir; ’twill away again</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3531"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3531">FTLN 3531</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.132" title="5.1.132">from me to you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3532"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3532">FTLN 3532</span><span id="line-5.1.133" title="5.1.133">What man dost thou dig it for?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3533"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3533">FTLN 3533</span><span id="line-5.1.134" title="5.1.134">For no man, sir.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3534"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3534">FTLN 3534</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.135">135</span><span id="line-5.1.135" title="5.1.135">What woman then?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3535"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3535">FTLN 3535</span><span id="line-5.1.136" title="5.1.136">For none, neither.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3536"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3536">FTLN 3536</span><span id="line-5.1.137" title="5.1.137">Who is to be buried in ’t?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3537"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3537">FTLN 3537</span><span id="line-5.1.138" title="5.1.138">One that was a woman, sir, but, rest</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3538"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3538">FTLN 3538</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.139" title="5.1.139">her soul, she’s dead.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3539"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3539">FTLN 3539</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.140">140</span><span id="line-5.1.140" title="5.1.140">How absolute the knave is! We must speak by</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3540"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3540">FTLN 3540</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.141" title="5.1.141">the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3541"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3541">FTLN 3541</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.142" title="5.1.142">Lord, Horatio, this three years I have took note of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3542"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3542">FTLN 3542</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.143" title="5.1.143">it: the age is grown so picked that the toe of the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3543"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3543">FTLN 3543</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.144" title="5.1.144">peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3544"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3544">FTLN 3544</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.145">145</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.145" title="5.1.145">galls his kibe.—How long hast thou been</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3545"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3545">FTLN 3545</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.146" title="5.1.146">grave-maker?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3546"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3546">FTLN 3546</span><span id="line-5.1.147" title="5.1.147">Of <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">all<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.147" title="5.1.147"> the days i’ th’ year, I came to ’t</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3547"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3547">FTLN 3547</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.148" title="5.1.148">that day that our last King Hamlet overcame</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3548"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3548">FTLN 3548</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.149" title="5.1.149">Fortinbras.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3549"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3549">FTLN 3549</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.150">150</span><span id="line-5.1.150" title="5.1.150">How long is that since?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3550"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3550">FTLN 3550</span><span id="line-5.1.151" title="5.1.151">Cannot you tell that? Every fool can</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3551"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3551">FTLN 3551</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.152" title="5.1.152">tell that. It was that very day that young Hamlet</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3552"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3552">FTLN 3552</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.153" title="5.1.153">was born—he that is mad, and sent into England.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3553"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3553">FTLN 3553</span><span id="line-5.1.154" title="5.1.154">Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3554"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3554">FTLN 3554</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.155">155</span><span id="line-5.1.155" title="5.1.155">Why, because he was mad. He shall</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3555"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3555">FTLN 3555</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.156" title="5.1.156">recover his wits there. Or if he do not, ’tis no great</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3556"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3556">FTLN 3556</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.157" title="5.1.157">matter there.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3557"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3557">FTLN 3557</span><span id="line-5.1.158" title="5.1.158">Why?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3558"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3558">FTLN 3558</span><span id="line-5.1.159" title="5.1.159">’Twill not be seen in him there. There</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3559"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3559">FTLN 3559</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.160">160</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.160" title="5.1.160">the men are as mad as he.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 1</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3560"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3560">FTLN 3560</span><span id="line-5.1.161" title="5.1.161">How came he mad?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3561"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3561">FTLN 3561</span><span id="line-5.1.162" title="5.1.162">Very strangely, they say.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3562"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3562">FTLN 3562</span><span id="line-5.1.163" title="5.1.163">How “strangely”?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3563"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3563">FTLN 3563</span><span id="line-5.1.164" title="5.1.164">Faith, e’en with losing his wits.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3564"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3564">FTLN 3564</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.165">165</span><span id="line-5.1.165" title="5.1.165">Upon what ground?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3565"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3565">FTLN 3565</span><span id="line-5.1.166" title="5.1.166">Why, here in Denmark. I have been</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3566"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3566">FTLN 3566</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.167" title="5.1.167">sexton here, man and boy, thirty years.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3567"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3567">FTLN 3567</span><span id="line-5.1.168" title="5.1.168">How long will a man lie i’ th’ earth ere he rot?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3568"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3568">FTLN 3568</span><span id="line-5.1.169" title="5.1.169">Faith, if he be not rotten before he die</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3569"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3569">FTLN 3569</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.170">170</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.170" title="5.1.170">(as we have many pocky corses <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">nowadays<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.170" title="5.1.170"> that will</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3570"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3570">FTLN 3570</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.171" title="5.1.171">scarce hold the laying in), he will last you some</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3571"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3571">FTLN 3571</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.172" title="5.1.172">eight year or nine year. A tanner will last you nine</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3572"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3572">FTLN 3572</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.173" title="5.1.173">year.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3573"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3573">FTLN 3573</span><span id="line-5.1.174" title="5.1.174">Why he more than another?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3574"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3574">FTLN 3574</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.175">175</span><span id="line-5.1.175" title="5.1.175">Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3575"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3575">FTLN 3575</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.176" title="5.1.176">trade that he will keep out water a great while; and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3576"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3576">FTLN 3576</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.177" title="5.1.177">your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3577"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3577">FTLN 3577</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.178" title="5.1.178">body. Here’s a skull now hath lien you i’ th’ earth</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3578"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3578">FTLN 3578</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.179" title="5.1.179">three-and-twenty years.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3579"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3579">FTLN 3579</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.180">180</span><span id="line-5.1.180" title="5.1.180">Whose was it?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3580"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3580">FTLN 3580</span><span id="line-5.1.181" title="5.1.181">A whoreson mad fellow’s it was.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3581"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3581">FTLN 3581</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.182" title="5.1.182">Whose do you think it was?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3582"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3582">FTLN 3582</span><span id="line-5.1.183" title="5.1.183">Nay, I know not.</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3583"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3583">FTLN 3583</span><span id="line-5.1.184" title="5.1.184">A pestilence on him for a mad rogue!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3584"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3584">FTLN 3584</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.185" title="5.1.185">He poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3585"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3585">FTLN 3585</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.186" title="5.1.186">This same skull, sir, was, sir, Yorick’s skull, the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3586"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3586">FTLN 3586</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.187" title="5.1.187">King’s jester.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3587"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3587">FTLN 3587</span><span id="line-5.1.188" title="5.1.188">This?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">GRAVEDIGGER<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3588"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3588">FTLN 3588</span><span id="line-5.1.189" title="5.1.189">E’en that.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><a name="line-SD5.1.190"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 5.1.190" title="SD 5.1.190">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">taking</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.190" title="SD 5.1.190"> the skull<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3589"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3589">FTLN 3589</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.190">190</span><span id="line-5.1.190" title="5.1.190"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Let</span><span id="line-5.1.190" title="5.1.190"> me see.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.190" title="5.1.190"> Alas, poor</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3590"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3590">FTLN 3590</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.191" title="5.1.191">Yorick! I knew him, Horatio—a fellow of infinite</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3591"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3591">FTLN 3591</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.192" title="5.1.192">jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3592"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3592">FTLN 3592</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.193" title="5.1.193">back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3593"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3593">FTLN 3593</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.194" title="5.1.194">my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3594"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3594">FTLN 3594</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.195">195</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.195" title="5.1.195">those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3595"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3595">FTLN 3595</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.196" title="5.1.196">Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 1</div>
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<a name="ftln-3596"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3596">FTLN 3596</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.197" title="5.1.197">songs? your flashes of merriment that were wont to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3597"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3597">FTLN 3597</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.198" title="5.1.198">set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3598"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3598">FTLN 3598</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.199" title="5.1.199">own grinning? Quite chapfallen? Now get you to my</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3599"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3599">FTLN 3599</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.200">200</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.200" title="5.1.200">lady’s <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">chamber</span><span id="line-5.1.200" title="5.1.200">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.200" title="5.1.200"> and tell her, let her paint an inch</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3600"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3600">FTLN 3600</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.201" title="5.1.201">thick, to this favor she must come. Make her laugh</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3601"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3601">FTLN 3601</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.202" title="5.1.202">at that.—Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3602"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3602">FTLN 3602</span><span id="line-5.1.203" title="5.1.203">What’s that, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3603"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3603">FTLN 3603</span><span id="line-5.1.204" title="5.1.204">Dost thou think Alexander looked o’ this</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3604"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3604">FTLN 3604</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.205">205</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.205" title="5.1.205">fashion i’ th’ earth?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3605"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3605">FTLN 3605</span><span id="line-5.1.206" title="5.1.206">E’en so.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3606"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3606">FTLN 3606</span><span id="line-5.1.207" title="5.1.207">And smelt so? Pah!</span><a name="line-SD5.1.207"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.207" title="SD 5.1.207"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.207" title="SD 5.1.207"> puts the skull down.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3607"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3607">FTLN 3607</span><span id="line-5.1.208" title="5.1.208">E’en so, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3608"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3608">FTLN 3608</span><span id="line-5.1.209" title="5.1.209">To what base uses we may return, Horatio!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3609"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3609">FTLN 3609</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.210">210</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.210" title="5.1.210">Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3610"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3610">FTLN 3610</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.211" title="5.1.211">Alexander till he find it stopping a bunghole?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3611"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3611">FTLN 3611</span><span id="line-5.1.212" title="5.1.212">’Twere to consider too curiously to consider</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3612"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3612">FTLN 3612</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.213" title="5.1.213">so.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3613"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3613">FTLN 3613</span><span id="line-5.1.214" title="5.1.214">No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3614"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3614">FTLN 3614</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.215">215</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.215" title="5.1.215">with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">as</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3615"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3615">FTLN 3615</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.216" title="5.1.216">thus:<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.216" title="5.1.216"> Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3616"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3616">FTLN 3616</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.217" title="5.1.217">returneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earth</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3617"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3617">FTLN 3617</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.218" title="5.1.218">we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3618"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3618">FTLN 3618</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.219" title="5.1.219">was converted might they not stop a beer barrel?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3619"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3619">FTLN 3619</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.220">220</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.220" title="5.1.220">Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3620"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3620">FTLN 3620</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.221" title="5.1.221">Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3621"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3621">FTLN 3621</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.222" title="5.1.222">O, that that earth which kept the world in awe</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3622"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3622">FTLN 3622</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.223" title="5.1.223">Should patch a wall t’ expel the <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">winter’s<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.223" title="5.1.223"> flaw!</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD5.1.223.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 5.1.223.1" title="SD 5.1.223.1">Enter King, Queen, Laertes, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Lords</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.223.1" title="SD 5.1.223.1"> attendant,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 5.1.223.1" title="SD 5.1.223.1"> and the</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 5.1.223.1" title="SD 5.1.223.1">corpse <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">of</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.223.1" title="SD 5.1.223.1"> Ophelia, with a Doctor of Divinity.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
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<a name="ftln-3623"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3623">FTLN 3623</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.224" title="5.1.224">But soft, but soft awhile! Here comes the King,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3624"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3624">FTLN 3624</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.225">225</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.225" title="5.1.225">The Queen, the courtiers. Who is this they follow?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3625"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3625">FTLN 3625</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.226" title="5.1.226">And with such maimèd rites? This doth betoken</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3626"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3626">FTLN 3626</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.227" title="5.1.227">The corse they follow did with desp’rate hand</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3627"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3627">FTLN 3627</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.228" title="5.1.228">Fordo its own life. ’Twas of some estate.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3628"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3628">FTLN 3628</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.229" title="5.1.229">Couch we awhile and mark.</span><a name="line-SD5.1.229"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.229" title="SD 5.1.229"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">They</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.229" title="SD 5.1.229"> step aside.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 1</div>
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<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3629"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3629">FTLN 3629</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.230">230</span><span id="line-5.1.230" title="5.1.230">What ceremony else?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3630"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3630">FTLN 3630</span><span id="line-5.1.231" title="5.1.231">That is Laertes, a very noble youth. Mark.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3631"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3631">FTLN 3631</span><span id="line-5.1.232" title="5.1.232">What ceremony else?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">DOCTOR</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3632"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3632">FTLN 3632</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.233" title="5.1.233">Her obsequies have been as far enlarged</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3633"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3633">FTLN 3633</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.234" title="5.1.234">As we have warranty. Her death was doubtful,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3634"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3634">FTLN 3634</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.235">235</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.235" title="5.1.235">And, but that great command o’ersways the order,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3635"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3635">FTLN 3635</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.236" title="5.1.236">She should in ground unsanctified been lodged</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3636"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3636">FTLN 3636</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.237" title="5.1.237">Till the last trumpet. For charitable prayers</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3637"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3637">FTLN 3637</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.238" title="5.1.238"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Shards</span><span id="line-5.1.238" title="5.1.238">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.238" title="5.1.238"> flints, and pebbles should be thrown on</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3638"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3638">FTLN 3638</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.1.239" title="5.1.239">her.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3639"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3639">FTLN 3639</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.240">240</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.240" title="5.1.240">Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3640"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3640">FTLN 3640</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.241" title="5.1.241">Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3641"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3641">FTLN 3641</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.242" title="5.1.242">Of bell and burial.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3642"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3642">FTLN 3642</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.243" title="5.1.243">Must there no more be done?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">DOCTOR</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3643"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3643">FTLN 3643</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 157px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.244" title="5.1.244">No more be done.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3644"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3644">FTLN 3644</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.245">245</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.245" title="5.1.245">We should profane the service of the dead</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3645"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3645">FTLN 3645</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.246" title="5.1.246">To sing a requiem and such rest to her</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3646"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3646">FTLN 3646</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.247" title="5.1.247">As to peace-parted souls.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3647"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3647">FTLN 3647</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 126px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.248" title="5.1.248">Lay her i’ th’ earth,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3648"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3648">FTLN 3648</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.249" title="5.1.249">And from her fair and unpolluted flesh</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3649"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3649">FTLN 3649</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.250">250</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.250" title="5.1.250">May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3650"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3650">FTLN 3650</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.251" title="5.1.251">A minist’ring angel shall my sister be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3651"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3651">FTLN 3651</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.252" title="5.1.252">When thou liest howling.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><a name="line-SD5.1.253"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.1.253" title="SD 5.1.253">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.253" title="SD 5.1.253"> Horatio<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3652"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3652">FTLN 3652</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 28px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.253" title="5.1.253">What, the fair Ophelia?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3653"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3653">FTLN 3653</span><span id="line-5.1.254" title="5.1.254">Sweets to the sweet, farewell!</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.1.254.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.254.1" title="SD 5.1.254.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">She</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.254.1" title="SD 5.1.254.1"> scatters flowers.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3654"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3654">FTLN 3654</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.255">255</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.255" title="5.1.255">I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3655"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3655">FTLN 3655</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.256" title="5.1.256">I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3656"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3656">FTLN 3656</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.257" title="5.1.257">And not have strewed thy grave.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3657"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3657">FTLN 3657</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 168px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.258" title="5.1.258">O, treble woe</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3658"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3658">FTLN 3658</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.259" title="5.1.259">Fall ten times <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">treble<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.259" title="5.1.259"> on that cursèd head</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3659"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3659">FTLN 3659</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.260">260</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.260" title="5.1.260">Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3660"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3660">FTLN 3660</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.261" title="5.1.261">Deprived thee of!—Hold off the earth awhile,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3661"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3661">FTLN 3661</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.262" title="5.1.262">Till I have caught her once more in mine arms.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.1.262.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.262.1" title="SD 5.1.262.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Leaps</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.262.1" title="SD 5.1.262.1"> in the grave.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 1</div>
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<a name="ftln-3662"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3662">FTLN 3662</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.263" title="5.1.263">Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3663"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3663">FTLN 3663</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.264" title="5.1.264">Till of this flat a mountain you have made</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3664"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3664">FTLN 3664</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.265">265</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.265" title="5.1.265">T’ o’ertop old Pelion or the skyish head</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3665"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3665">FTLN 3665</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.266" title="5.1.266">Of blue Olympus.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><a name="line-SD5.1.267.0"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 5.1.267.0" title="SD 5.1.267.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">advancing<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3666"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3666">FTLN 3666</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 143px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.267" title="5.1.267">What is he whose grief</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3667"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3667">FTLN 3667</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.268" title="5.1.268">Bears such an emphasis, whose phrase of sorrow</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3668"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3668">FTLN 3668</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.269" title="5.1.269">Conjures the wand’ring stars and makes them stand</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3669"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3669">FTLN 3669</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.270">270</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.270" title="5.1.270">Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3670"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3670">FTLN 3670</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.271" title="5.1.271">Hamlet the Dane.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><a name="line-SD5.1.272.0"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 5.1.272.0" title="SD 5.1.272.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">coming</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.272.0" title="SD 5.1.272.0"> out of the grave<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3671"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3671">FTLN 3671</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 141px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.272" title="5.1.272">The devil take thy soul!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3672"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3672">FTLN 3672</span><span id="line-5.1.273" title="5.1.273">Thou pray’st not well.</span><a name="line-SD5.1.273"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.273" title="SD 5.1.273"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">They</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.273" title="SD 5.1.273"> grapple.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3673"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3673">FTLN 3673</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.274" title="5.1.274">I prithee take thy fingers from my throat,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3674"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3674">FTLN 3674</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.275">275</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.275" title="5.1.275">For though I am not splenitive <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">and<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.275" title="5.1.275"> rash,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3675"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3675">FTLN 3675</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.276" title="5.1.276">Yet have I in me something dangerous,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3676"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3676">FTLN 3676</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.277" title="5.1.277">Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3677"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3677">FTLN 3677</span><span id="line-5.1.278" title="5.1.278">Pluck them asunder.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3678"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3678">FTLN 3678</span><span id="line-5.1.279" title="5.1.279">Hamlet! Hamlet!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">ALL</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3679"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3679">FTLN 3679</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.280">280</span><span id="line-5.1.280" title="5.1.280">Gentlemen!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3680"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3680">FTLN 3680</span><span id="line-5.1.281" title="5.1.281">Good my lord, be quiet.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.1.281.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.281.1" title="SD 5.1.281.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Hamlet</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.281.1" title="SD 5.1.281.1"> and Laertes are separated.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3681"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3681">FTLN 3681</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.282" title="5.1.282">Why, I will fight with him upon this theme</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3682"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3682">FTLN 3682</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.283" title="5.1.283">Until my eyelids will no longer wag!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3683"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3683">FTLN 3683</span><span id="line-5.1.284" title="5.1.284">O my son, what theme?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3684"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3684">FTLN 3684</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.285">285</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.285" title="5.1.285">I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3685"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3685">FTLN 3685</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.286" title="5.1.286">Could not with all their quantity of love</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3686"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3686">FTLN 3686</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.287" title="5.1.287">Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3687"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3687">FTLN 3687</span><span id="line-5.1.288" title="5.1.288">O, he is mad, Laertes!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3688"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3688">FTLN 3688</span><span id="line-5.1.289" title="5.1.289">For love of God, forbear him.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3689"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3689">FTLN 3689</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.290">290</span><span id="line-5.1.290" title="5.1.290">’Swounds, show me what thou ’t do.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3690"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3690">FTLN 3690</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.291" title="5.1.291">Woo’t weep, woo’t fight, woo’t fast, woo’t tear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3691"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3691">FTLN 3691</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.1.292" title="5.1.292">thyself,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3692"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3692">FTLN 3692</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.293" title="5.1.293">Woo’t drink up eisel, eat a crocodile?</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 1</div>
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<a name="ftln-3693"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3693">FTLN 3693</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.294" title="5.1.294">I’ll do ’t. Dost <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">thou<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.294" title="5.1.294"> come here to whine?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3694"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3694">FTLN 3694</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.295">295</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.295" title="5.1.295">To outface me with leaping in her grave?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3695"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3695">FTLN 3695</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.296" title="5.1.296">Be buried quick with her, and so will I.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3696"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3696">FTLN 3696</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.297" title="5.1.297">And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3697"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3697">FTLN 3697</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.298" title="5.1.298">Millions of acres on us, till our ground,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3698"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3698">FTLN 3698</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.299" title="5.1.299">Singeing his pate against the burning zone,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3699"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3699">FTLN 3699</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.300">300</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.300" title="5.1.300">Make Ossa like a wart. Nay, an thou ’lt mouth,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3700"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3700">FTLN 3700</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.301" title="5.1.301">I’ll rant as well as thou.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3701"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3701">FTLN 3701</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 125px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.302" title="5.1.302">This is mere madness;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3702"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3702">FTLN 3702</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.303" title="5.1.303">And <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">thus<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.1.303" title="5.1.303"> awhile the fit will work on him.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3703"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3703">FTLN 3703</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.304" title="5.1.304">Anon, as patient as the female dove</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3704"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3704">FTLN 3704</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.305">305</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.305" title="5.1.305">When that her golden couplets are disclosed,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3705"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3705">FTLN 3705</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.306" title="5.1.306">His silence will sit drooping.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3706"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3706">FTLN 3706</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 153px;"> </span><span id="line-5.1.307" title="5.1.307">Hear you, sir,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3707"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3707">FTLN 3707</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.308" title="5.1.308">What is the reason that you use me thus?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3708"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3708">FTLN 3708</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.309" title="5.1.309">I loved you ever. But it is no matter.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3709"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3709">FTLN 3709</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.310">310</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.310" title="5.1.310">Let Hercules himself do what he may,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3710"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3710">FTLN 3710</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.311" title="5.1.311">The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.1.331.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.331.1" title="SD 5.1.331.1">Hamlet exits.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3711"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3711">FTLN 3711</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.312" title="5.1.312">I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.1.312.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.312.1" title="SD 5.1.312.1">Horatio exits.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3712"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3712">FTLN 3712</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><a name="line-SD5.1.313"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.1.313" title="SD 5.1.313"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">To</span><span id="line-SD 5.1.313" title="SD 5.1.313"> Laertes.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 5.1.313" title="SD 5.1.313"> </span></span><span id="line-5.1.313" title="5.1.313">Strengthen your patience in our last</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3713"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3713">FTLN 3713</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.1.314" title="5.1.314">night’s speech.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3714"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3714">FTLN 3714</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.1.315">315</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.315" title="5.1.315">We’ll put the matter to the present push.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3715"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3715">FTLN 3715</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.316" title="5.1.316">Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3716"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3716">FTLN 3716</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.317" title="5.1.317">This grave shall have a living monument.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3717"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3717">FTLN 3717</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.318" title="5.1.318">An hour of quiet thereby shall we see;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3718"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3718">FTLN 3718</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.1.319" title="5.1.319">Till then in patience our proceeding be.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.1.319.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.1.319.1" title="SD 5.1.319.1">They exit.</span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="line-SD5.2.0"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 5.2.0" title="SD 5.2.0">Enter Hamlet and Horatio.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3719"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3719">FTLN 3719</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.1" title="5.2.1">So much for this, sir. Now shall you see the other.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3720"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3720">FTLN 3720</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.2" title="5.2.2">You do remember all the circumstance?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3721"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3721">FTLN 3721</span><span id="line-5.2.3" title="5.2.3">Remember it, my lord!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3722"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3722">FTLN 3722</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.4" title="5.2.4">Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3723"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3723">FTLN 3723</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.5">5</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.5" title="5.2.5">That would not let me sleep. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Methought<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.5" title="5.2.5"> I lay</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3724"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3724">FTLN 3724</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.6" title="5.2.6">Worse than the mutines in the <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">bilboes</span><span id="line-5.2.6" title="5.2.6">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.6" title="5.2.6"> Rashly—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3725"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3725">FTLN 3725</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.7" title="5.2.7">And praised be rashness for it: let us know,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3726"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3726">FTLN 3726</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.8" title="5.2.8">Our indiscretion sometime serves us well</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3727"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3727">FTLN 3727</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.9" title="5.2.9">When our deep plots do pall; and that should learn</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3728"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3728">FTLN 3728</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.10">10</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.10" title="5.2.10">us</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3729"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3729">FTLN 3729</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.11" title="5.2.11">There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3730"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3730">FTLN 3730</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.12" title="5.2.12">Rough-hew them how we will—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3731"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3731">FTLN 3731</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 169px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.13" title="5.2.13">That is most</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3732"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3732">FTLN 3732</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.14" title="5.2.14">certain.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3733"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3733">FTLN 3733</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.15">15</span><span id="line-5.2.15" title="5.2.15">Up from my cabin,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3734"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3734">FTLN 3734</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.16" title="5.2.16">My sea-gown scarfed about me, in the dark</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3735"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3735">FTLN 3735</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.17" title="5.2.17">Groped I to find out them; had my desire,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3736"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3736">FTLN 3736</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.18" title="5.2.18">Fingered their packet, and in fine withdrew</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3737"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3737">FTLN 3737</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.19" title="5.2.19">To mine own room again, making so bold</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3738"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3738">FTLN 3738</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.20">20</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.20" title="5.2.20">(My fears forgetting manners) to unfold</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3739"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3739">FTLN 3739</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.21" title="5.2.21">Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3740"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3740">FTLN 3740</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.22" title="5.2.22">A royal knavery—an exact command,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3741"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3741">FTLN 3741</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.23" title="5.2.23">Larded with many several sorts of reasons</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3742"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3742">FTLN 3742</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.24" title="5.2.24">Importing Denmark’s health and England’s too,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3743"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3743">FTLN 3743</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.25">25</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.25" title="5.2.25">With—ho!—such bugs and goblins in my life,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3744"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3744">FTLN 3744</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.26" title="5.2.26">That on the supervise, no leisure bated,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3745"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3745">FTLN 3745</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.27" title="5.2.27">No, not to stay the grinding of the ax,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3746"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3746">FTLN 3746</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.28" title="5.2.28">My head should be struck off.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3747"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3747">FTLN 3747</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 154px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.29" title="5.2.29">Is ’t possible?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3748"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3748">FTLN 3748</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.30">30</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.30" title="5.2.30">Here’s the commission. Read it at more leisure.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.30.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.30.1" title="SD 5.2.30.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Handing</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.30.1" title="SD 5.2.30.1"> him a paper.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-3749"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3749">FTLN 3749</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.31" title="5.2.31">But wilt thou hear now how I did proceed?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3750"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3750">FTLN 3750</span><span id="line-5.2.32" title="5.2.32">I beseech you.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3751"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3751">FTLN 3751</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.33" title="5.2.33">Being thus benetted round with <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">villainies</span><span id="line-5.2.33" title="5.2.33">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3752"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3752">FTLN 3752</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.34" title="5.2.34">Or I could make a prologue to my brains,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3753"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3753">FTLN 3753</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.35">35</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.35" title="5.2.35">They had begun the play. I sat me down,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3754"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3754">FTLN 3754</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.36" title="5.2.36">Devised a new commission, wrote it fair—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3755"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3755">FTLN 3755</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.37" title="5.2.37">I once did hold it, as our statists do,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3756"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3756">FTLN 3756</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.38" title="5.2.38">A baseness to write fair, and labored much</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3757"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3757">FTLN 3757</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.39" title="5.2.39">How to forget that learning; but, sir, now</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3758"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3758">FTLN 3758</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.40">40</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.40" title="5.2.40">It did me yeoman’s service. Wilt thou know</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3759"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3759">FTLN 3759</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.41" title="5.2.41">Th’ effect of what I wrote?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3760"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3760">FTLN 3760</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 132px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.42" title="5.2.42">Ay, good my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3761"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3761">FTLN 3761</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.43" title="5.2.43">An earnest conjuration from the King,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3762"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3762">FTLN 3762</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.44" title="5.2.44">As England was his faithful tributary,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3763"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3763">FTLN 3763</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.45">45</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.45" title="5.2.45">As love between them like the palm might flourish,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3764"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3764">FTLN 3764</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.46" title="5.2.46">As peace should still her wheaten garland wear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3765"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3765">FTLN 3765</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.47" title="5.2.47">And stand a comma ’tween their amities,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3766"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3766">FTLN 3766</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.48" title="5.2.48">And many suchlike <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"><span class="italic">as</span>es<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-5.2.48" title="5.2.48"> of great charge,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3767"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3767">FTLN 3767</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.49" title="5.2.49">That, on the view and knowing of these contents,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3768"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3768">FTLN 3768</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.50">50</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.50" title="5.2.50">Without debatement further, more or less,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3769"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3769">FTLN 3769</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.51" title="5.2.51">He should those bearers put to sudden death,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3770"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3770">FTLN 3770</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.52" title="5.2.52">Not shriving time allowed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3771"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3771">FTLN 3771</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 132px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.53" title="5.2.53">How was this sealed?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3772"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3772">FTLN 3772</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.54" title="5.2.54">Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3773"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3773">FTLN 3773</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.55">55</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.55" title="5.2.55">I had my father’s signet in my purse,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3774"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3774">FTLN 3774</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.56" title="5.2.56">Which was the model of that Danish seal;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3775"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3775">FTLN 3775</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.57" title="5.2.57">Folded the writ up in the form of th’ other,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3776"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3776">FTLN 3776</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.58" title="5.2.58"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Subscribed<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.58" title="5.2.58"> it, gave ’t th’ impression, placed it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3777"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3777">FTLN 3777</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.59" title="5.2.59">safely,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3778"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3778">FTLN 3778</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.60">60</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.60" title="5.2.60">The changeling never known. Now, the next day</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3779"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3779">FTLN 3779</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.61" title="5.2.61">Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3780"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3780">FTLN 3780</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.62" title="5.2.62">Thou knowest already.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3781"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3781">FTLN 3781</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.63" title="5.2.63">So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to ’t.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3782"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3782">FTLN 3782</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.64" title="5.2.64"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Why</span><span id="line-5.2.64" title="5.2.64">, man, they did make love to this employment.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3783"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3783">FTLN 3783</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.65">65</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.65" title="5.2.65">They are not near my conscience. Their defeat</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3784"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3784">FTLN 3784</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.66" title="5.2.66">Does by their own insinuation grow.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3785"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3785">FTLN 3785</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.67" title="5.2.67">’Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3786"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3786">FTLN 3786</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.68" title="5.2.68">Between the pass and fell incensèd points</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3787"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3787">FTLN 3787</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.69" title="5.2.69">Of mighty opposites.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3788"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3788">FTLN 3788</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.70">70</span><span id="line-5.2.70" title="5.2.70">Why, what a king is this!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3789"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3789">FTLN 3789</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.71" title="5.2.71">Does it not, think thee, stand me now upon—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3790"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3790">FTLN 3790</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.72" title="5.2.72">He that hath killed my king and whored my mother,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3791"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3791">FTLN 3791</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.73" title="5.2.73">Popped in between th’ election and my hopes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3792"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3792">FTLN 3792</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.74" title="5.2.74">Thrown out his angle for my proper life,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3793"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3793">FTLN 3793</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.75">75</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.75" title="5.2.75">And with such cozenage—is ’t not perfect</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3794"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3794">FTLN 3794</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.76" title="5.2.76">conscience</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3795"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3795">FTLN 3795</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.77" title="5.2.77"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">To</span><span id="line-5.2.77" title="5.2.77"> quit him with this arm? And is ’t not to be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3796"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3796">FTLN 3796</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.78" title="5.2.78">damned</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3797"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3797">FTLN 3797</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.79" title="5.2.79">To let this canker of our nature come</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3798"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3798">FTLN 3798</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.80">80</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.80" title="5.2.80">In further evil?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3799"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3799">FTLN 3799</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.81" title="5.2.81">It must be shortly known to him from England</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3800"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3800">FTLN 3800</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.82" title="5.2.82">What is the issue of the business there.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3801"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3801">FTLN 3801</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.83" title="5.2.83">It will be short. The interim’s mine,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3802"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3802">FTLN 3802</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.84" title="5.2.84">And a man’s life’s no more than to say “one.”</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3803"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3803">FTLN 3803</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.85">85</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.85" title="5.2.85">But I am very sorry, good Horatio,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3804"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3804">FTLN 3804</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.86" title="5.2.86">That to Laertes I forgot myself,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3805"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3805">FTLN 3805</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.87" title="5.2.87">For by the image of my cause I see</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3806"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3806">FTLN 3806</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.88" title="5.2.88">The portraiture of his. I’ll <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">court<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-5.2.88" title="5.2.88"> his favors.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3807"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3807">FTLN 3807</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.89" title="5.2.89">But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3808"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3808">FTLN 3808</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.90">90</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.90" title="5.2.90">Into a tow’ring passion.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3809"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3809">FTLN 3809</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 110px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.91" title="5.2.91">Peace, who comes here?<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
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<a name="line-SD5.2.91.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 5.2.91.1" title="SD 5.2.91.1">Enter <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Osric</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.91.1" title="SD 5.2.91.1">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 5.2.91.1" title="SD 5.2.91.1"> a courtier.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3810"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3810">FTLN 3810</span><span id="line-5.2.92" title="5.2.92">Your lordship is right welcome back to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3811"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3811">FTLN 3811</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.93" title="5.2.93">Denmark.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3812"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3812">FTLN 3812</span><span id="line-5.2.94" title="5.2.94">I <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">humbly<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.94" title="5.2.94"> thank you, sir.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.94"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.2.94" title="SD 5.2.94"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Aside</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.94" title="SD 5.2.94"> to Horatio.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3813"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3813">FTLN 3813</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.95">95</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.95" title="5.2.95">Dost know this waterfly?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><a name="line-SD5.2.96"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.2.96" title="SD 5.2.96">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.96" title="SD 5.2.96"> to Hamlet<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3814"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3814">FTLN 3814</span><span id="line-5.2.96" title="5.2.96">No, my good lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><a name="line-SD5.2.97"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.2.97" title="SD 5.2.97">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.97" title="SD 5.2.97"> to Horatio<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3815"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3815">FTLN 3815</span><span id="line-5.2.97" title="5.2.97">Thy state is the more gracious,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3816"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3816">FTLN 3816</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.98" title="5.2.98">for ’tis a vice to know him. He hath much</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3817"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3817">FTLN 3817</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.99" title="5.2.99">land, and fertile. Let a beast be lord of beasts and his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3818"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3818">FTLN 3818</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.100">100</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.100" title="5.2.100">crib shall stand at the king’s mess. ’Tis a chough,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3819"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3819">FTLN 3819</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.101" title="5.2.101">but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3820"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3820">FTLN 3820</span><span id="line-5.2.102" title="5.2.102">Sweet lord, if your Lordship were at leisure, I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3821"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3821">FTLN 3821</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.103" title="5.2.103">should impart a thing to you from his Majesty.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3822"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3822">FTLN 3822</span><span id="line-5.2.104" title="5.2.104">I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3823"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3823">FTLN 3823</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.105">105</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.105" title="5.2.105">spirit. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Put<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.105" title="5.2.105"> your bonnet to his right use: ’tis for the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3824"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3824">FTLN 3824</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.106" title="5.2.106">head.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3825"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3825">FTLN 3825</span><span id="line-5.2.107" title="5.2.107">I thank your Lordship; it is very hot.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3826"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3826">FTLN 3826</span><span id="line-5.2.108" title="5.2.108">No, believe me, ’tis very cold; the wind is</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3827"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3827">FTLN 3827</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.109" title="5.2.109">northerly.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3828"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3828">FTLN 3828</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.110">110</span><span id="line-5.2.110" title="5.2.110">It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3829"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3829">FTLN 3829</span><span id="line-5.2.111" title="5.2.111">But yet methinks it is very <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">sultry<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.111" title="5.2.111"> and hot <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">for<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3830"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3830">FTLN 3830</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.112" title="5.2.112">my complexion.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3831"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3831">FTLN 3831</span><span id="line-5.2.113" title="5.2.113">Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, as</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3832"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3832">FTLN 3832</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.114" title="5.2.114">’twere—I cannot tell how. My lord, his Majesty</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3833"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3833">FTLN 3833</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.115">115</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.115" title="5.2.115">bade me signify to you that he has laid a great wager</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3834"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3834">FTLN 3834</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.116" title="5.2.116">on your head. Sir, this is the matter—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3835"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3835">FTLN 3835</span><span id="line-5.2.117" title="5.2.117">I beseech you, remember.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.117"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 5.2.117" title="SD 5.2.117"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.117" title="SD 5.2.117"> motions to</span><br>
<span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-SD 5.2.117" title="SD 5.2.117">Osric to put on his hat.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3836"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3836">FTLN 3836</span><span id="line-5.2.118" title="5.2.118">Nay, good my lord, for my ease, in good faith.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3837"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3837">FTLN 3837</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.119" title="5.2.119"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">Sir</span><span id="line-5.2.119" title="5.2.119">, here is newly come to court Laertes—believe</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3838"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3838">FTLN 3838</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.120">120</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.120" title="5.2.120">me, an absolute <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">gentleman</span><span id="line-5.2.120" title="5.2.120">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-5.2.120" title="5.2.120"> full of most excellent</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3839"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3839">FTLN 3839</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.121" title="5.2.121">differences, of very soft society and great showing.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3840"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3840">FTLN 3840</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.122" title="5.2.122">Indeed, to speak <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">feelingly<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-5.2.122" title="5.2.122"> of him, he is the card or</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3841"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3841">FTLN 3841</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.123" title="5.2.123">calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3842"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3842">FTLN 3842</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.124" title="5.2.124">continent of what part a gentleman would see.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3843"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3843">FTLN 3843</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.125">125</span><span id="line-5.2.125" title="5.2.125">Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3844"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3844">FTLN 3844</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.126" title="5.2.126">you, though I know to divide him inventorially</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3845"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3845">FTLN 3845</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.127" title="5.2.127">would dozy th’ arithmetic of memory, and yet but</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3846"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3846">FTLN 3846</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.128" title="5.2.128">yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-3847"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3847">FTLN 3847</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.129" title="5.2.129">verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3848"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3848">FTLN 3848</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.130">130</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.130" title="5.2.130">article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3849"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3849">FTLN 3849</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.131" title="5.2.131">as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3850"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3850">FTLN 3850</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.132" title="5.2.132">mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3851"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3851">FTLN 3851</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.133" title="5.2.133">nothing more.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3852"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3852">FTLN 3852</span><span id="line-5.2.134" title="5.2.134">Your Lordship speaks most infallibly of him.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3853"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3853">FTLN 3853</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.135">135</span><span id="line-5.2.135" title="5.2.135">The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3854"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3854">FTLN 3854</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.136" title="5.2.136">gentleman in our more rawer breath?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3855"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3855">FTLN 3855</span><span id="line-5.2.137" title="5.2.137">Sir?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><a name="line-SD5.2.138"> </a><span class="stage"></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3856"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3856">FTLN 3856</span><span id="line-5.2.138" title="5.2.138">Is ’t not possible to understand in another</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3857"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3857">FTLN 3857</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.139" title="5.2.139">tongue? You will to ’t, sir, really.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><a name="line-SD5.2.140"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.2.140" title="SD 5.2.140">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.140" title="SD 5.2.140"> Osric<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3858"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3858">FTLN 3858</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.140">140</span><span id="line-5.2.140" title="5.2.140">What imports the nomination of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3859"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3859">FTLN 3859</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.141" title="5.2.141">this gentleman?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3860"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3860">FTLN 3860</span><span id="line-5.2.142" title="5.2.142">Of Laertes?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><a name="line-SD5.2.143"> </a><span class="stage"></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3861"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3861">FTLN 3861</span><span id="line-5.2.143" title="5.2.143">His purse is empty already; all ’s golden words</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3862"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3862">FTLN 3862</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.144" title="5.2.144">are spent.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3863"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3863">FTLN 3863</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.145">145</span><span id="line-5.2.145" title="5.2.145">Of him, sir.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3864"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3864">FTLN 3864</span><span id="line-5.2.146" title="5.2.146">I know you are not ignorant—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3865"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3865">FTLN 3865</span><span id="line-5.2.147" title="5.2.147">I would you did, sir. Yet, in faith, if you did, it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3866"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3866">FTLN 3866</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.148" title="5.2.148">would not much approve me. Well, sir?<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3867"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3867">FTLN 3867</span><span id="line-5.2.149" title="5.2.149">You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3868"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3868">FTLN 3868</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.150">150</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.150" title="5.2.150">is—</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">HAMLET</span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3869"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3869">FTLN 3869</span><span id="line-5.2.151" title="5.2.151">I dare not confess that, lest I should compare</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3870"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3870">FTLN 3870</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.152" title="5.2.152">with him in excellence. But to know a man well</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3871"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3871">FTLN 3871</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.153" title="5.2.153">were to know himself.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3872"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3872">FTLN 3872</span><span id="line-5.2.154" title="5.2.154">I mean, sir, for <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">his<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-5.2.154" title="5.2.154"> weapon. But in the imputation</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3873"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3873">FTLN 3873</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.155">155</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.155" title="5.2.155">laid on him by them, in his meed he’s</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3874"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3874">FTLN 3874</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.156" title="5.2.156">unfellowed.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3875"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3875">FTLN 3875</span><span id="line-5.2.157" title="5.2.157">What’s his weapon?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3876"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3876">FTLN 3876</span><span id="line-5.2.158" title="5.2.158">Rapier and dagger.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3877"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3877">FTLN 3877</span><span id="line-5.2.159" title="5.2.159">That’s two of his weapons. But, well—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3878"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3878">FTLN 3878</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.160">160</span><span id="line-5.2.160" title="5.2.160">The King, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3879"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3879">FTLN 3879</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.161" title="5.2.161">horses, against the which he has impawned, as I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3880"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3880">FTLN 3880</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.162" title="5.2.162">take it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3881"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3881">FTLN 3881</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.163" title="5.2.163">assigns, as girdle, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">hangers</span><span id="line-5.2.163" title="5.2.163">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.163" title="5.2.163"> and so. Three of the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3882"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3882">FTLN 3882</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.164" title="5.2.164">carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 2</div>
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<a name="ftln-3883"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3883">FTLN 3883</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.165">165</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.165" title="5.2.165">responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3884"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3884">FTLN 3884</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.166" title="5.2.166">of very liberal conceit.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3885"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3885">FTLN 3885</span><span id="line-5.2.167" title="5.2.167">What call you the “carriages”?</span><br>
<span class="speaker"><span><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">HORATIO</span></span><a name="line-SD5.2.168"> </a><span class="stage"></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3886"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3886">FTLN 3886</span><span id="line-5.2.168" title="5.2.168">I knew you must be edified by the margent</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3887"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3887">FTLN 3887</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.169" title="5.2.169">ere you had done.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3888"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3888">FTLN 3888</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.170">170</span><span id="line-5.2.170" title="5.2.170">The <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">carriages</span><span id="line-5.2.170" title="5.2.170">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.170" title="5.2.170"> sir, are the hangers.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3889"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3889">FTLN 3889</span><span id="line-5.2.171" title="5.2.171">The phrase would be more germane to the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3890"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3890">FTLN 3890</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.172" title="5.2.172">matter if we could carry a cannon by our sides. I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3891"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3891">FTLN 3891</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.173" title="5.2.173">would it <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">might<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.173" title="5.2.173"> be “hangers” till then. But on. Six</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3892"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3892">FTLN 3892</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.174" title="5.2.174">Barbary horses against six French swords, their</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3893"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3893">FTLN 3893</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.175">175</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.175" title="5.2.175">assigns, and three liberal-conceited carriages—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3894"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3894">FTLN 3894</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.176" title="5.2.176">that’s the French bet against the Danish. Why is this</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3895"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3895">FTLN 3895</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.177" title="5.2.177">all <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">“impawned</span><span id="line-5.2.177" title="5.2.177">,”<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-5.2.177" title="5.2.177"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">as<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.177" title="5.2.177"> you call it?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3896"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3896">FTLN 3896</span><span id="line-5.2.178" title="5.2.178">The King, sir, hath laid, sir, that in a dozen</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3897"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3897">FTLN 3897</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.179" title="5.2.179">passes between yourself and him, he shall not</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3898"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3898">FTLN 3898</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.180">180</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.180" title="5.2.180">exceed you three hits. He hath laid on twelve for</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3899"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3899">FTLN 3899</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.181" title="5.2.181">nine, and it would come to immediate trial if your</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3900"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3900">FTLN 3900</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.182" title="5.2.182">Lordship would vouchsafe the answer.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3901"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3901">FTLN 3901</span><span id="line-5.2.183" title="5.2.183">How if I answer no?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3902"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3902">FTLN 3902</span><span id="line-5.2.184" title="5.2.184">I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3903"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3903">FTLN 3903</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.185">185</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.185" title="5.2.185">in trial.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3904"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3904">FTLN 3904</span><span id="line-5.2.186" title="5.2.186">Sir, I will walk here in the hall. If it please his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3905"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3905">FTLN 3905</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.187" title="5.2.187">Majesty, it is the breathing time of day with me. Let</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3906"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3906">FTLN 3906</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.188" title="5.2.188">the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3907"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3907">FTLN 3907</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.189" title="5.2.189">King hold his purpose, I will win for him, an I can.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3908"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3908">FTLN 3908</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.190">190</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.190" title="5.2.190">If not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3909"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3909">FTLN 3909</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.191" title="5.2.191">hits.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3910"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3910">FTLN 3910</span><span id="line-5.2.192" title="5.2.192">Shall I deliver you <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">e’en<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.192" title="5.2.192"> so?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3911"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3911">FTLN 3911</span><span id="line-5.2.193" title="5.2.193">To this effect, sir, after what flourish your</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3912"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3912">FTLN 3912</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.194" title="5.2.194">nature will.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3913"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3913">FTLN 3913</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.195">195</span><span id="line-5.2.195" title="5.2.195">I commend my duty to your Lordship.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3914"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3914">FTLN 3914</span><span id="line-5.2.196" title="5.2.196">Yours.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.196"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 5.2.196" title="SD 5.2.196"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Osric</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.196" title="SD 5.2.196"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span id="line-5.2.196" title="5.2.196"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">He<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.196" title="5.2.196"> does well to commend</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3915"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3915">FTLN 3915</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.197" title="5.2.197">it himself. There are no tongues else for ’s</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3916"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3916">FTLN 3916</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.198" title="5.2.198">turn.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3917"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3917">FTLN 3917</span><span id="line-5.2.199" title="5.2.199">This lapwing runs away with the shell on his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3918"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3918">FTLN 3918</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.200">200</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.200" title="5.2.200">head.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3919"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3919">FTLN 3919</span><span id="line-5.2.201" title="5.2.201">He did <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">comply</span><span id="line-5.2.201" title="5.2.201">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.201" title="5.2.201"> sir, with his dug before he</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3920"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3920">FTLN 3920</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.202" title="5.2.202">sucked it. Thus has he (and many more of the same</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3921"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3921">FTLN 3921</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.203" title="5.2.203">breed that I know the drossy age dotes on) only got</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3922"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3922">FTLN 3922</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.204" title="5.2.204">the tune of the time, and, out of an habit of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3923"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3923">FTLN 3923</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.205">205</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.205" title="5.2.205">encounter, a kind of <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">yeasty<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.205" title="5.2.205"> collection, which carries</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3924"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3924">FTLN 3924</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.206" title="5.2.206">them through and through the most <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">fanned<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3925"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3925">FTLN 3925</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.207" title="5.2.207">and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">winnowed<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.207" title="5.2.207"> opinions; and do but blow them to</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3926"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3926">FTLN 3926</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.208" title="5.2.208">their trial, the bubbles are out.</span><br>
<br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.208.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 5.2.208.1" title="SD 5.2.208.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio">Enter</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.208.1" title="SD 5.2.208.1"> a Lord.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="speaker">LORD</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3927"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3927">FTLN 3927</span><span id="line-5.2.209" title="5.2.209">My lord, his Majesty commended him to you by</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3928"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3928">FTLN 3928</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.210">210</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.210" title="5.2.210">young Osric, who brings back to him that you</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3929"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3929">FTLN 3929</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.211" title="5.2.211">attend him in the hall. He sends to know if your</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3930"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3930">FTLN 3930</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.212" title="5.2.212">pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that you will</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3931"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3931">FTLN 3931</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.213" title="5.2.213">take longer time.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3932"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3932">FTLN 3932</span><span id="line-5.2.214" title="5.2.214">I am constant to my purposes. They follow</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3933"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3933">FTLN 3933</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.215">215</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.215" title="5.2.215">the King’s pleasure. If his fitness speaks, mine is</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3934"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3934">FTLN 3934</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.216" title="5.2.216">ready now or whensoever, provided I be so able as</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3935"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3935">FTLN 3935</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.217" title="5.2.217">now.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LORD</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3936"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3936">FTLN 3936</span><span id="line-5.2.218" title="5.2.218">The King and Queen and all are coming down.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3937"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3937">FTLN 3937</span><span id="line-5.2.219" title="5.2.219">In happy time.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LORD</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3938"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3938">FTLN 3938</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.220">220</span><span id="line-5.2.220" title="5.2.220">The Queen desires you to use some gentle</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3939"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3939">FTLN 3939</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.221" title="5.2.221">entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3940"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3940">FTLN 3940</span><span id="line-5.2.222" title="5.2.222">She well instructs me.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.222"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.222" title="SD 5.2.222"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Lord</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.222" title="SD 5.2.222"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-textb-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio" title="lines from the Second Quarto not found in the Folio"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3941"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3941">FTLN 3941</span><span id="line-5.2.223" title="5.2.223">You will lose, my lord.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3942"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3942">FTLN 3942</span><span id="line-5.2.224" title="5.2.224">I do not think so. Since he went into France, I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3943"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3943">FTLN 3943</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.225">225</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.225" title="5.2.225">have been in continual practice. I shall win at the</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3944"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3944">FTLN 3944</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.226" title="5.2.226">odds; <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">but<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.226" title="5.2.226"> thou wouldst not think how ill all’s here</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3945"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3945">FTLN 3945</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.227" title="5.2.227">about my heart. But it is no matter.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3946"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3946">FTLN 3946</span><span id="line-5.2.228" title="5.2.228">Nay, good my lord—</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3947"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3947">FTLN 3947</span><span id="line-5.2.229" title="5.2.229">It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3948"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3948">FTLN 3948</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.230">230</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.230" title="5.2.230"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">gaingiving<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.230" title="5.2.230"> as would perhaps trouble a woman.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3949"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3949">FTLN 3949</span><span id="line-5.2.231" title="5.2.231">If your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3950"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3950">FTLN 3950</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.232" title="5.2.232">forestall their repair hither and say you are not fit.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3951"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3951">FTLN 3951</span><span id="line-5.2.233" title="5.2.233">Not a whit. We defy augury. There is <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">a<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3952"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3952">FTLN 3952</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.234" title="5.2.234">special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3953"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3953">FTLN 3953</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.235">235</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.235" title="5.2.235"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">now</span><span id="line-5.2.235" title="5.2.235">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.235" title="5.2.235"> ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-3954"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3954">FTLN 3954</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.236" title="5.2.236">now; if it be not now, yet it <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">will<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.236" title="5.2.236"> come. The</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3955"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3955">FTLN 3955</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.237" title="5.2.237">readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3956"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3956">FTLN 3956</span><span class="alignment indentProse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.238" title="5.2.238">knows, what is ’t to leave betimes? Let be.</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD5.2.238.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.2.238.1" title="SD 5.2.238.1">A table prepared.</span></span><span id="line-SD 5.2.238.1" title="SD 5.2.238.1"> </span><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.2.238.1" title="SD 5.2.238.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Enter<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 5.2.238.1" title="SD 5.2.238.1"> Trumpets, Drums, and Officers</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 5.2.238.1" title="SD 5.2.238.1">with cushions, King, Queen, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Osric</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.238.1" title="SD 5.2.238.1">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 5.2.238.1" title="SD 5.2.238.1"> and all the state,</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 5.2.238.1" title="SD 5.2.238.1">foils, daggers, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">flagons</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.238.1" title="SD 5.2.238.1"> of wine,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 5.2.238.1" title="SD 5.2.238.1"> and Laertes.</span></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3957"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3957">FTLN 3957</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.239" title="5.2.239">Come, Hamlet, come and take this hand from me.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.239.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.239.1" title="SD 5.2.239.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.239.1" title="SD 5.2.239.1"> puts Laertes’ hand into Hamlet’s.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><a name="line-SD5.2.240.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.2.240.0" title="SD 5.2.240.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.240.0" title="SD 5.2.240.0"> Laertes<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3958"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3958">FTLN 3958</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.240">240</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.240" title="5.2.240">Give me your pardon, sir. I have done you wrong;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3959"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3959">FTLN 3959</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.241" title="5.2.241">But pardon ’t as you are a gentleman. This presence</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3960"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3960">FTLN 3960</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.242" title="5.2.242">knows,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3961"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3961">FTLN 3961</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.243" title="5.2.243">And you must needs have heard, how I am punished</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3962"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3962">FTLN 3962</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.244" title="5.2.244">With a sore distraction. What I have done</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3963"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3963">FTLN 3963</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.245">245</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.245" title="5.2.245">That might your nature, honor, and exception</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3964"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3964">FTLN 3964</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.246" title="5.2.246">Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3965"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3965">FTLN 3965</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.247" title="5.2.247">Was ’t Hamlet wronged Laertes? Never Hamlet.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3966"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3966">FTLN 3966</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.248" title="5.2.248">If Hamlet from himself be ta’en away,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3967"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3967">FTLN 3967</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.249" title="5.2.249">And when he’s not himself does wrong Laertes,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3968"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3968">FTLN 3968</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.250">250</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.250" title="5.2.250">Then Hamlet does it not; Hamlet denies it.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3969"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3969">FTLN 3969</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.251" title="5.2.251">Who does it, then? His madness. If ’t be so,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3970"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3970">FTLN 3970</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.252" title="5.2.252">Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged;</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3971"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3971">FTLN 3971</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.253" title="5.2.253">His madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3972"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3972">FTLN 3972</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.254" title="5.2.254"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Sir</span><span id="line-5.2.254" title="5.2.254">, in this audience<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-3973"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3973">FTLN 3973</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.255">255</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.255" title="5.2.255">Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3974"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3974">FTLN 3974</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.256" title="5.2.256">Free me so far in your most generous thoughts</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3975"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3975">FTLN 3975</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.257" title="5.2.257">That I have shot my arrow o’er the house</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3976"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3976">FTLN 3976</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.258" title="5.2.258">And hurt my brother.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3977"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3977">FTLN 3977</span><span id="line-5.2.259" title="5.2.259">I am satisfied in nature,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3978"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3978">FTLN 3978</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.260">260</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.260" title="5.2.260">Whose motive in this case should stir me most</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3979"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3979">FTLN 3979</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.261" title="5.2.261">To my revenge; but in my terms of honor</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3980"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3980">FTLN 3980</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.262" title="5.2.262">I stand aloof and will no reconcilement</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3981"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3981">FTLN 3981</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.263" title="5.2.263">Till by some elder masters of known honor</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3982"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3982">FTLN 3982</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.264" title="5.2.264">I have a voice and precedent of peace</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3983"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3983">FTLN 3983</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.265">265</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.265" title="5.2.265">To <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">keep<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.265" title="5.2.265"> my name ungored. But <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">till<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.265" title="5.2.265"> that time</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-3984"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3984">FTLN 3984</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.266" title="5.2.266">I do receive your offered love like love</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3985"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3985">FTLN 3985</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.267" title="5.2.267">And will not wrong it.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3986"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3986">FTLN 3986</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 103px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.268" title="5.2.268">I embrace it freely</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3987"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3987">FTLN 3987</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.269" title="5.2.269">And will this brothers’ wager frankly play.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3988"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3988">FTLN 3988</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.270">270</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.270" title="5.2.270">Give us the foils. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Come</span><span id="line-5.2.270" title="5.2.270"> on.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3989"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3989">FTLN 3989</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 153px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.271" title="5.2.271">Come, one for me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3990"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3990">FTLN 3990</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.272" title="5.2.272">I’ll be your foil, Laertes; in mine ignorance</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3991"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3991">FTLN 3991</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.273" title="5.2.273">Your skill shall, like a star i’ th’ darkest night,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3992"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3992">FTLN 3992</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.274" title="5.2.274">Stick fiery off indeed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3993"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3993">FTLN 3993</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.275">275</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 105px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.275" title="5.2.275">You mock me, sir.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3994"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3994">FTLN 3994</span><span id="line-5.2.276" title="5.2.276">No, by this hand.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3995"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3995">FTLN 3995</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.277" title="5.2.277">Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3996"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3996">FTLN 3996</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.278" title="5.2.278">You know the wager?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-3997"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3997">FTLN 3997</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 100px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.279" title="5.2.279">Very well, my lord.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-3998"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3998">FTLN 3998</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.280">280</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.280" title="5.2.280">Your Grace has laid the odds o’ th’ weaker side.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-3999"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_3999">FTLN 3999</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.281" title="5.2.281">I do not fear it; I have seen you both.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4000"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4000">FTLN 4000</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.282" title="5.2.282">But, since he is better, we have therefore odds.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4001"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4001">FTLN 4001</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.283" title="5.2.283">This is too heavy. Let me see another.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4002"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4002">FTLN 4002</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.284" title="5.2.284">This likes me well. These foils have all a length?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4003"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4003">FTLN 4003</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.285">285</span><span id="line-5.2.285" title="5.2.285">Ay, my good lord.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.285.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.285.1" title="SD 5.2.285.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Prepare</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.285.1" title="SD 5.2.285.1"> to play.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4004"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4004">FTLN 4004</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.286" title="5.2.286">Set me the stoups of wine upon that table.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4005"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4005">FTLN 4005</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.287" title="5.2.287">If Hamlet give the first or second hit</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4006"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4006">FTLN 4006</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.288" title="5.2.288">Or quit in answer of the third exchange,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4007"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4007">FTLN 4007</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.289" title="5.2.289">Let all the battlements their ordnance fire.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4008"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4008">FTLN 4008</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.290">290</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.290" title="5.2.290">The King shall drink to Hamlet’s better breath,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4009"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4009">FTLN 4009</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.291" title="5.2.291">And in the cup an <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">union<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.291" title="5.2.291"> shall he throw,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4010"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4010">FTLN 4010</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.292" title="5.2.292">Richer than that which four successive kings</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4011"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4011">FTLN 4011</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.293" title="5.2.293">In Denmark’s crown have worn. Give me the cups,</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
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<a name="ftln-4012"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4012">FTLN 4012</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.294" title="5.2.294">And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4013"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4013">FTLN 4013</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.295">295</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.295" title="5.2.295">The trumpet to the cannoneer without,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4014"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4014">FTLN 4014</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.296" title="5.2.296">The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4015"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4015">FTLN 4015</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.297" title="5.2.297">“Now the King drinks to Hamlet.” Come, begin.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4016"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4016">FTLN 4016</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.298" title="5.2.298">And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.298.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.298.1" title="SD 5.2.298.1">Trumpets the while.</span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4017"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4017">FTLN 4017</span><span id="line-5.2.299" title="5.2.299">Come on, sir.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4018"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4018">FTLN 4018</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.300">300</span><span id="line-5.2.300" title="5.2.300">Come, my lord.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.300"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.300" title="SD 5.2.300"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">They</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.300" title="SD 5.2.300"> play.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4019"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4019">FTLN 4019</span><span id="line-5.2.301" title="5.2.301">One.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4020"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4020">FTLN 4020</span><span id="line-5.2.302" title="5.2.302">No.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4021"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4021">FTLN 4021</span><span id="line-5.2.303" title="5.2.303">Judgment!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4022"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4022">FTLN 4022</span><span id="line-5.2.304" title="5.2.304">A hit, a very palpable hit.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4023"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4023">FTLN 4023</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.305">305</span><span id="line-5.2.305" title="5.2.305">Well, again.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4024"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4024">FTLN 4024</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.306" title="5.2.306">Stay, give me drink.—Hamlet, this pearl is thine.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4025"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4025">FTLN 4025</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.307" title="5.2.307">Here’s to thy health.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.301.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.301.1" title="SD 5.2.301.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.301.1" title="SD 5.2.301.1"> drinks and then drops the pearl in the cup.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.301.2"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.301.2" title="SD 5.2.301.2">Drum, trumpets, and shot.</span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-4026"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4026">FTLN 4026</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 161px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.308" title="5.2.308">Give him the cup.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4027"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4027">FTLN 4027</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.309" title="5.2.309">I’ll play this bout first. Set it by awhile.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4028"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4028">FTLN 4028</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.310">310</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.310" title="5.2.310">Come.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.310"> </a><span class="stage inline"><span id="line-SD 5.2.310" title="SD 5.2.310"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">They</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.310" title="SD 5.2.310"> play.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span> <span id="line-5.2.310" title="5.2.310">Another hit. What say you?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4029"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4029">FTLN 4029</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.311" title="5.2.311"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">A</span><span id="line-5.2.311" title="5.2.311"> touch, a touch.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.311" title="5.2.311"> I do confess ’t.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4030"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4030">FTLN 4030</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.312" title="5.2.312">Our son shall win.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4031"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4031">FTLN 4031</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 90px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.313" title="5.2.313">He’s fat and scant of breath.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4032"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4032">FTLN 4032</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.314" title="5.2.314">Here, Hamlet, take my napkin; rub thy brows.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4033"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4033">FTLN 4033</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.315">315</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.315" title="5.2.315">The Queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.315.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.315.1" title="SD 5.2.315.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">She</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.315.1" title="SD 5.2.315.1"> lifts the cup.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4034"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4034">FTLN 4034</span><span id="line-5.2.316" title="5.2.316">Good madam.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4035"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4035">FTLN 4035</span><span id="line-5.2.317" title="5.2.317">Gertrude, do not drink.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4036"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4036">FTLN 4036</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.318" title="5.2.318">I will, my lord; I pray you pardon me.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.318"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.318" title="SD 5.2.318"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">She</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.318" title="SD 5.2.318"> drinks.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><a name="line-SD5.2.319.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.2.319.0" title="SD 5.2.319.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4037"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4037">FTLN 4037</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.319" title="5.2.319">It is the poisoned cup. It is too late.</span><br>
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<div class="pageTitle">Hamlet</div>
<div class="pageDesc">ACT 5. SC. 2</div>
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<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4038"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4038">FTLN 4038</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.320">320</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.320" title="5.2.320">I dare not drink yet, madam—by and by.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4039"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4039">FTLN 4039</span><span id="line-5.2.321" title="5.2.321">Come, let me wipe thy face.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><a name="line-SD5.2.332.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.2.332.0" title="SD 5.2.332.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">to</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.332.0" title="SD 5.2.332.0"> Claudius<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4040"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4040">FTLN 4040</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.322" title="5.2.322">My lord, I’ll hit him now.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4041"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4041">FTLN 4041</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 150px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.323" title="5.2.323">I do not think ’t.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><a name="line-SD5.2.324.0"> </a><span class="stage"><span id="line-SD 5.2.324.0" title="SD 5.2.324.0">, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">aside<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4042"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4042">FTLN 4042</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.324" title="5.2.324">And yet it is almost against my conscience.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4043"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4043">FTLN 4043</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.325">325</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.325" title="5.2.325">Come, for the third, Laertes. You do but dally.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4044"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4044">FTLN 4044</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.326" title="5.2.326">I pray you pass with your best violence.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4045"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4045">FTLN 4045</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.327" title="5.2.327">I am <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">afeard<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.327" title="5.2.327"> you make a wanton of me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4046"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4046">FTLN 4046</span><span id="line-5.2.328" title="5.2.328">Say you so? Come on.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.328"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.328" title="SD 5.2.328"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Play</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.328" title="SD 5.2.328">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4047"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4047">FTLN 4047</span><span id="line-5.2.329" title="5.2.329">Nothing neither way.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4048"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4048">FTLN 4048</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.330">330</span><span id="line-5.2.330" title="5.2.330">Have at you now!</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.330.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.330.1" title="SD 5.2.330.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Laertes</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.330.1" title="SD 5.2.330.1"> wounds Hamlet. Then <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">in</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.330.1" title="SD 5.2.330.1"> scuffling they change</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 5.2.330.1" title="SD 5.2.330.1">rapiers,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-SD 5.2.330.1" title="SD 5.2.330.1"> and Hamlet wounds Laertes.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4049"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4049">FTLN 4049</span><span id="line-5.2.331" title="5.2.331">Part them. They are incensed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4050"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4050">FTLN 4050</span><span id="line-5.2.332" title="5.2.332">Nay, come again.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.332.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.332.1" title="SD 5.2.332.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">The</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.332.1" title="SD 5.2.332.1"> Queen falls.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4051"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4051">FTLN 4051</span><span id="line-5.2.333" title="5.2.333">Look to the Queen there, ho!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4052"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4052">FTLN 4052</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.334" title="5.2.334">They bleed on both sides.—How is it, my lord?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4053"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4053">FTLN 4053</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.335">335</span><span id="line-5.2.335" title="5.2.335">How is ’t, Laertes?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4054"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4054">FTLN 4054</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.336" title="5.2.336">Why as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.336.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.336.1" title="SD 5.2.336.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.336.1" title="SD 5.2.336.1"> falls.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-4055"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4055">FTLN 4055</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.337" title="5.2.337">I am justly killed with mine own treachery.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4056"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4056">FTLN 4056</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.338" title="5.2.338">How does the Queen?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4057"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4057">FTLN 4057</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 127px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.339" title="5.2.339">She swoons to see them bleed.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">QUEEN</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4058"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4058">FTLN 4058</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.340">340</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.340" title="5.2.340">No, no, the drink, the drink! O, my dear Hamlet!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4059"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4059">FTLN 4059</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.341" title="5.2.341">The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.341"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.341" title="SD 5.2.341"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">She</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.341" title="SD 5.2.341"> dies.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4060"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4060">FTLN 4060</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.342" title="5.2.342">O villainy! Ho! Let the door be locked.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.342"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.342" title="SD 5.2.342"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Osric</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.342" title="SD 5.2.342"> exits.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-4061"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4061">FTLN 4061</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.343" title="5.2.343">Treachery! Seek it out.</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4062"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4062">FTLN 4062</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.344" title="5.2.344">It is here, Hamlet. <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Hamlet</span><span id="line-5.2.344" title="5.2.344">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.344" title="5.2.344"> thou art slain.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4063"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4063">FTLN 4063</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.345">345</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.345" title="5.2.345">No med’cine in the world can do thee good.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4064"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4064">FTLN 4064</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.346" title="5.2.346">In thee there is not half an hour’s life.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4065"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4065">FTLN 4065</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.347" title="5.2.347">The treacherous instrument is in <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">thy<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.347" title="5.2.347"> hand,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4066"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4066">FTLN 4066</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.348" title="5.2.348">Unbated and envenomed. The foul practice</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4067"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4067">FTLN 4067</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.349" title="5.2.349">Hath turned itself on me. Lo, here I lie,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4068"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4068">FTLN 4068</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.350">350</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.350" title="5.2.350">Never to rise again. Thy mother’s poisoned.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4069"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4069">FTLN 4069</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.351" title="5.2.351">I can no more. The King, the King’s to blame.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4070"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4070">FTLN 4070</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.352" title="5.2.352">The point envenomed too! Then, venom, to thy</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4071"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4071">FTLN 4071</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.353" title="5.2.353">work.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.353"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.353" title="SD 5.2.353"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Hurts</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.353" title="SD 5.2.353"> the King.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">ALL</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4072"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4072">FTLN 4072</span><span id="line-5.2.354" title="5.2.354">Treason, treason!</span><br>
<span class="speaker">KING</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4073"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4073">FTLN 4073</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.355">355</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.355" title="5.2.355">O, yet defend me, friends! I am but hurt.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4074"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4074">FTLN 4074</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.356" title="5.2.356">Here, thou incestuous, <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">murd’rous</span><span id="line-5.2.356" title="5.2.356">,<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.356" title="5.2.356"> damnèd Dane,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4075"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4075">FTLN 4075</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.357" title="5.2.357">Drink off this potion. Is <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">thy</span><span id="line-5.2.357" title="5.2.357"> union<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.357" title="5.2.357"> here?</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.357.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.357.1" title="SD 5.2.357.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">Forcing</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.357.1" title="SD 5.2.357.1"> him to drink the poison.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-4076"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4076">FTLN 4076</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.358" title="5.2.358">Follow my mother.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.358"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.358" title="SD 5.2.358"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">King</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.358" title="SD 5.2.358"> dies.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">LAERTES</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4077"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4077">FTLN 4077</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 85px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.359" title="5.2.359">He is justly served.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4078"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4078">FTLN 4078</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.360">360</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.360" title="5.2.360">It is a poison tempered by himself.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4079"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4079">FTLN 4079</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.361" title="5.2.361">Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4080"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4080">FTLN 4080</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.362" title="5.2.362">Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4081"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4081">FTLN 4081</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.363" title="5.2.363">Nor thine on me.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.363"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.363" title="SD 5.2.363"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Dies</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.363" title="SD 5.2.363">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4082"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4082">FTLN 4082</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.364" title="5.2.364">Heaven make thee free of it. I follow thee.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4083"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4083">FTLN 4083</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.365">365</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.365" title="5.2.365">I am dead, Horatio.—Wretched queen, adieu.—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4084"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4084">FTLN 4084</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.366" title="5.2.366">You that look pale and tremble at this chance,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4085"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4085">FTLN 4085</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.367" title="5.2.367">That are but mutes or audience to this act,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4086"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4086">FTLN 4086</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.368" title="5.2.368">Had I but time (as this fell sergeant, Death,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4087"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4087">FTLN 4087</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.369" title="5.2.369">Is strict in his arrest), O, I could tell you—</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4088"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4088">FTLN 4088</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.370">370</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.370" title="5.2.370">But let it be.—Horatio, I am dead.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4089"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4089">FTLN 4089</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.371" title="5.2.371">Thou livest; report me and my cause aright</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4090"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4090">FTLN 4090</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.372" title="5.2.372">To the unsatisfied.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4091"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4091">FTLN 4091</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 77px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.373" title="5.2.373">Never believe it.</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-4092"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4092">FTLN 4092</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.374" title="5.2.374">I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4093"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4093">FTLN 4093</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.375">375</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.375" title="5.2.375">Here’s yet some liquor left.</span><a name="line-SD5.2.375"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.375" title="SD 5.2.375"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">He</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.375" title="SD 5.2.375"> picks up the cup.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4094"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4094">FTLN 4094</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 145px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.376" title="5.2.376">As thou ’rt a man,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4095"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4095">FTLN 4095</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.377" title="5.2.377">Give me the cup. Let go! By heaven, I’ll ha ’t.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4096"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4096">FTLN 4096</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.378" title="5.2.378">O God, Horatio, what a wounded name,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4097"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4097">FTLN 4097</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.379" title="5.2.379">Things standing thus unknown, shall I leave behind</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4098"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4098">FTLN 4098</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.380">380</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.380" title="5.2.380">me!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4099"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4099">FTLN 4099</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.381" title="5.2.381">If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4100"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4100">FTLN 4100</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.382" title="5.2.382">Absent thee from felicity awhile</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4101"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4101">FTLN 4101</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.383" title="5.2.383">And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4102"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4102">FTLN 4102</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.384" title="5.2.384">To tell my story.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.384.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.384.1" title="SD 5.2.384.1">A march afar off <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">and</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.384.1" title="SD 5.2.384.1"> <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">shot<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 5.2.384.1" title="SD 5.2.384.1"> within.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-4103"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4103">FTLN 4103</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.385">385</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 136px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.385" title="5.2.385">What warlike noise is this?</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD5.2.385.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 5.2.385.1" title="SD 5.2.385.1">Enter Osric.</span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">OSRIC</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4104"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4104">FTLN 4104</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.386" title="5.2.386">Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4105"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4105">FTLN 4105</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.387" title="5.2.387">To th’ ambassadors of England gives</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4106"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4106">FTLN 4106</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.388" title="5.2.388">This warlike volley.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HAMLET</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4107"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4107">FTLN 4107</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 89px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.389" title="5.2.389">O, I die, Horatio!</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4108"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4108">FTLN 4108</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.390">390</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.390" title="5.2.390">The potent poison quite o’ercrows my spirit.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4109"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4109">FTLN 4109</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.391" title="5.2.391">I cannot live to hear the news from England.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4110"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4110">FTLN 4110</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.392" title="5.2.392">But I do prophesy th’ election lights</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4111"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4111">FTLN 4111</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.393" title="5.2.393">On Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4112"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4112">FTLN 4112</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.394" title="5.2.394">So tell him, with th’ occurrents, more and less,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4113"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4113">FTLN 4113</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.395">395</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.395" title="5.2.395">Which have solicited—the rest is silence.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4114"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4114">FTLN 4114</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.396" title="5.2.396"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">O</span><span id="line-5.2.396" title="5.2.396">, O, O, O!<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><a name="line-SD5.2.396"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.396" title="SD 5.2.396"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">Dies</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.396" title="SD 5.2.396">.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4115"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4115">FTLN 4115</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.397" title="5.2.397">Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4116"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4116">FTLN 4116</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.398" title="5.2.398">And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.</span><br>
<a name="line-SD5.2.398.1"> </a><span class="stage right"><span id="line-SD 5.2.398.1" title="SD 5.2.398.1"><img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">March</span><span id="line-SD 5.2.398.1" title="SD 5.2.398.1"> within.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span></span><br>
<a name="ftln-4117"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4117">FTLN 4117</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.399" title="5.2.399">Why does the drum come hither?</span><br>
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<a name="line-SD5.2.399.1"> </a><span class="stage centered"><span id="line-SD 5.2.399.1" title="SD 5.2.399.1">Enter Fortinbras with the <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-l.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation">English<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-emend-r.png" class="imgEmend" alt="editorial emendation" title="editorial emendation"></span><span id="line-SD 5.2.399.1" title="SD 5.2.399.1"> Ambassadors <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">with</span><br>
<span id="line-SD 5.2.399.1" title="SD 5.2.399.1">Drum, Colors, and Attendants.<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span></span><br>
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<span class="speaker">FORTINBRAS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4118"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4118">FTLN 4118</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.400">400</span><span id="line-5.2.400" title="5.2.400">Where is this sight?</span><br>
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<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4119"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4119">FTLN 4119</span><span id="line-5.2.401" title="5.2.401">What is it you would see?</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4120"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4120">FTLN 4120</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.402" title="5.2.402">If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FORTINBRAS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4121"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4121">FTLN 4121</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.403" title="5.2.403">This quarry cries on havoc. O proud Death,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4122"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4122">FTLN 4122</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.404" title="5.2.404">What feast is toward in thine eternal cell</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4123"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4123">FTLN 4123</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.405">405</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.405" title="5.2.405">That thou so many princes at a shot</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4124"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4124">FTLN 4124</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.406" title="5.2.406">So bloodily hast struck?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">AMBASSADOR</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4125"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4125">FTLN 4125</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 82px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.407" title="5.2.407">The sight is dismal,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4126"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4126">FTLN 4126</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.408" title="5.2.408">And our affairs from England come too late.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4127"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4127">FTLN 4127</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.409" title="5.2.409">The ears are senseless that should give us hearing</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4128"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4128">FTLN 4128</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.410">410</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.410" title="5.2.410">To tell him his commandment is fulfilled,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4129"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4129">FTLN 4129</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.411" title="5.2.411">That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4130"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4130">FTLN 4130</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.412" title="5.2.412">Where should we have our thanks?</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4131"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4131">FTLN 4131</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 185px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.413" title="5.2.413">Not from his</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4132"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4132">FTLN 4132</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.414" title="5.2.414">mouth,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4133"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4133">FTLN 4133</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.415">415</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.415" title="5.2.415">Had it th’ ability of life to thank you.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4134"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4134">FTLN 4134</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.416" title="5.2.416">He never gave commandment for their death.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4135"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4135">FTLN 4135</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.417" title="5.2.417">But since, so jump upon this bloody question,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4136"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4136">FTLN 4136</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.418" title="5.2.418">You from the Polack wars, and you from England,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4137"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4137">FTLN 4137</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.419" title="5.2.419">Are here arrived, give order that these bodies</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4138"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4138">FTLN 4138</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.420">420</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.420" title="5.2.420">High on a stage be placed to the view,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4139"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4139">FTLN 4139</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.421" title="5.2.421">And let me speak to <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">th’<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.421" title="5.2.421"> yet unknowing world</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4140"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4140">FTLN 4140</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.422" title="5.2.422">How these things came about. So shall you hear</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4141"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4141">FTLN 4141</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.423" title="5.2.423">Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4142"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4142">FTLN 4142</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.424" title="5.2.424">Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4143"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4143">FTLN 4143</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.425">425</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.425" title="5.2.425">Of deaths put on by cunning and <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">forced<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><span id="line-5.2.425" title="5.2.425"> cause,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4144"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4144">FTLN 4144</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.426" title="5.2.426">And, in this upshot, purposes mistook</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4145"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4145">FTLN 4145</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.427" title="5.2.427">Fall’n on th’ inventors’ heads. All this can I</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4146"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4146">FTLN 4146</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.428" title="5.2.428">Truly deliver.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FORTINBRAS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4147"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4147">FTLN 4147</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 22px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.429" title="5.2.429">Let us haste to hear it</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4148"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4148">FTLN 4148</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.430">430</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.430" title="5.2.430">And call the noblest to the audience.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4149"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4149">FTLN 4149</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.431" title="5.2.431">For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4150"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4150">FTLN 4150</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.432" title="5.2.432">I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4151"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4151">FTLN 4151</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.433" title="5.2.433">Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">HORATIO</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><br>
<a name="ftln-4152"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4152">FTLN 4152</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.434" title="5.2.434">Of that I shall have also cause to speak,</span><br>
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<a name="ftln-4153"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4153">FTLN 4153</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.435">435</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.435" title="5.2.435">And from his mouth whose voice will draw <img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-l.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto">on<img src="http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/fdt-texta-r.png" class="imgTextX" alt="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto" title="text from the Folio not found in the Second Quarto"></span><br>
<a name="ftln-4154"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4154">FTLN 4154</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.436" title="5.2.436">more.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4155"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4155">FTLN 4155</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.437" title="5.2.437">But let this same be presently performed</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4156"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4156">FTLN 4156</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.438" title="5.2.438">Even while men’s minds are wild, lest more</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4157"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4157">FTLN 4157</span><span class="alignment indentRunOn"> </span><span id="line-5.2.439" title="5.2.439">mischance</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4158"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4158">FTLN 4158</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.440">440</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.440" title="5.2.440">On plots and errors happen.</span><br>
<span class="speaker">FORTINBRAS</span><span class="indentInline"> </span><a name="ftln-4159"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4159">FTLN 4159</span><span class="alignment indentSplit" style="padding-left: 117px;"> </span><span id="line-5.2.441" title="5.2.441">Let four captains</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4160"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4160">FTLN 4160</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.442" title="5.2.442">Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4161"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4161">FTLN 4161</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.443" title="5.2.443">For he was likely, had he been put on,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4162"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4162">FTLN 4162</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.444" title="5.2.444">To have proved most royal; and for his passage,</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4163"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4163">FTLN 4163</span><span class="lineNbr" name="line_5.2.445">445</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.445" title="5.2.445">The soldier’s music and the rite of war</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4164"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4164">FTLN 4164</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.446" title="5.2.446">Speak loudly for him.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4165"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4165">FTLN 4165</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.447" title="5.2.447">Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4166"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4166">FTLN 4166</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.448" title="5.2.448">Becomes the field but here shows much amiss.</span><br>
<a name="ftln-4167"> </a><span class="ftln" name="ftln_4167">FTLN 4167</span><span class="alignment indentVerse"> </span><span id="line-5.2.449" title="5.2.449">Go, bid the soldiers shoot.</span><br>
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.charHeader { position:relative; width:480px; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:16pt; margin-bottom:50px; margin-top:10px;}
.castDiv { position:relative; float:left; }
.castHeadDiv { float:left;display:table; }
.castHead { font-style:italic; display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; }
.bracketDiv { position:relative; float:left; padding:0px 5px; width:5px;}
.castName { font-size:12pt; font-variant:small-caps; }
.actHeader { position:relative; width:430px; text-align:center; font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:16pt; border-bottom:5px solid black; padding-bottom:5px; margin-bottom:50px; margin-top:100px;}
.sceneHeader { position:relative; width:430px; text-align:center; }
.page { page-break-before:always; }
.credits { position:relative;padding-top:200px;width:480px;text-align:center; }
.emendation { font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; }
.lineNbr { position:absolute; left:-45px; top:auto; font-weight: 100; text-transform: uppercase; opacity: .7; font-size:9pt; line-height:20px; }
.ftln { color:gray; position:absolute; left:-68px; top:auto; width:auto; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:8pt; line-height:20px; }
.alignment {}
.centered { display:inline-block; text-align:center; width:430px; }
.centred { display:inline-block; text-align:center; width:430px; }
.right { display:inline-block; float:right; text-align:right; width:auto; padding-right:60px; }
.indentProse { padding-left:30px; }
.indentVerse { padding-left:15px; }
.indentRunOn { padding-left:30px; }
.indentSplit { padding-left:00px; }
.indentInline { padding-left:10px; }
.indentClosing { padding-left:50px; }
.indent { padding-left:8px; }
.inline { padding-left:0px; }
.indentTest { padding-left:50px; }
.closing { display:inline-block; padding-left:30px; }
.closingSig { display:inline-block; float:right; text-align:right; width:auto;}
.closingSig { display:inline-block; padding-left:20px; float:right; text-align:left; width:auto; }
.signature { display:inline-block; float:right; text-align:left; width:auto; padding-right:60px; }
.speaker { clear:both; float:left; font-weight: 800; text-transform: uppercase; opacity: .9; font-size:9pt; line-height:20px; }
.speakerName { font-style:normal; font-variant:small-caps; font-size:10pt; line-height:20px;}
.stage { font-style:italic; }
.imgEmend { position:relative; height:16px; }
.imgTextX { position:relative; top:3px; height:16px; width:6px; }
.w { border: 1px solid blue; }
.pc { border: 1px solid green; }
.c { background-color: red; }
.docTitle {text-align:center; font-style:italic; font-size:40px;}
.titlePage { text-align: center; width: 100% }
.head { text-align: center; width: 100% }
.runningHeader { float:left;text-align:center;width:100%; padding: 15px 0px;}
.trailer { text-align: center; width: 100%; }
.bold { font-weight: bold; }
.italic { font-style: italic; }
.roman { font-style: normal; }
.underlined { text-decoration: underline; }
.underlining { text-decoration: underline; }
.superscript { vertical-align: super; }
.indented { padding-left: 60px; }
.gap { color:red; }
.add { color:blue; }
.del { color:black; }
.note { color:gray; }
.red { color:red; }
.blue { color:blue; }
.black { color:black; }
.gray { color:gray; }
.bckblue { background-color:blue; }
.speech { clear:both; float:left; padding:0 0px; background-color: white; font-family:times new roman; }
.line { float:left; background-color:transparent; padding: 0 15px; width:auto; }
.indented { padding-left: 60px; }
.turnunder { padding-left: 30px; }
.right-justified { text-align: justify; }
.prose { border: 0px solid blue; }
.proseIndent { padding-left: 30px; }
.song { font-style:italic; padding-left:60px; }
.poem { padding-left:60px; }
.lgIndent { padding-left:80px; }
.indent { padding-left:15px; }
.lg { width: 300px; padding-left: 60px; }
Hamlet - Script Codes JS Codes
var smartCopyYN = true; function smartCopy() { if (smartCopyYN == false) return true; if (navigator.appVersion.match(/MSIE [6|7|8]/)) { document.getElementById('copyPaste').style.visibility = "hidden"; } var html = ""; var top = window.pageYOffset || document.documentElement.scrollTop; if (typeof window.getSelection != "undefined") { var sel = window.getSelection(); if (sel.rangeCount) { var container = document.createElement("div"); for (var i = 0, len = sel.rangeCount; i < len; ++i) { container.appendChild(sel.getRangeAt(i).cloneContents()); } html = container.innerHTML; } } else if (typeof document.selection != "undefined") { if (document.selection.type == "Text") { html = document.selection.createRange().htmlText; } } document.getElementById('copyPaste').innerHTML = html; cpObj = document.getElementById('copyPaste'); var objs = cpObj.getElementsByTagName('a'); for (var i = objs.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { objs[i].parentNode.removeChild(objs[i]); } var objs = cpObj.getElementsByTagName('hr'); for (var i = objs.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { objs[i].parentNode.removeChild(objs[i]); } var objs = cpObj.getElementsByTagName('*'); for (var i = objs.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { if (objs[i].className) { var className = objs[i].className; var matchNodes = "ftln,lineNbr,pageHeading,actFooter"; if (matchNodes.indexOf(className) != -1) { objs[i].parentNode.removeChild(objs[i]); } else if (className.indexOf('alignment') != -1) { objs[i].parentNode.removeChild(objs[i]); } } } if (window.getSelection) { window.getSelection().removeAllRanges(); var range = document.createRange(); range.selectNode(document.getElementById('copyPaste')); window.getSelection().addRange(range); } else if (document.selection) { document.selection.empty(); var range = document.body.createTextRange(); range.moveToElementText(document.getElementById('copyPaste')); range.select(); } window.scrollTo(0,top); }
| Developer | Bilal Ayub |
| Username | hackthevoid |
| Uploaded | July 30, 2022 |
| Rating | 3 |
| Size | 189,171 Kb |
| Views | 30,360 |
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