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1

Hamlet
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

1

Enter two Sentinels-[first,] Francisco, [who paces up and down at his post; then] Bernardo, [who approaches him].

2

Hamlet
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

16

Enter Horatio and Marcellus.

3

Hamlet
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

51

Enter Ghost.

4

Hamlet
[I, 1]

Horatio

129

A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;
As stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood,
Disasters in the sun; and the moist star
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.
And even the like precurse of fierce events,
As harbingers preceding still the fates
And prologue to the omen coming on,
Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
Unto our climature and countrymen.
[Enter Ghost again.]
But soft! behold! Lo, where it comes again!
I'll cross it, though it blast me.- Stay illusion!
[Spreads his arms.]
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me.
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease, and, grace to me,
Speak to me.
If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which happily foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth
(For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death),
[The cock crows.]
Speak of it! Stay, and speak!- Stop it, Marcellus!

5

Hamlet
[I, 2]

(stage directions)

200

Flourish. [Enter Claudius, King of Denmark, Gertrude the Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes and his sister Ophelia, [Voltemand, Cornelius,] Lords Attendant.

6

Hamlet
[I, 2]

(stage directions)

364

Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo.

7

Hamlet
[I, 3]

(stage directions)

481

Enter Laertes and Ophelia.

8

Hamlet
[I, 3]

Laertes

536

O, fear me not!
[Enter Polonius. ]
I stay too long. But here my father comes.
A double blessing is a double grace;
Occasion smiles upon a second leave.

9

Hamlet
[I, 4]

(stage directions)

625

Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus.

10

Hamlet
[I, 4]

(stage directions)

666

Enter Ghost.

11

Hamlet
[I, 5]

(stage directions)

732

Enter Ghost and Hamlet.

12

Hamlet
[I, 5]

(stage directions)

852

Enter Horatio and Marcellus.

13

Hamlet
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

947

Enter Polonius and Reynaldo.

14

Hamlet
[II, 1]

Polonius

1006

At 'closes in the consequence'- Ay, marry!
He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman.
I saw him yesterday, or t'other day,
Or then, or then, with such or such; and, as you say,
There was 'a gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse;
There falling out at tennis'; or perchance,
'I saw him enter such a house of sale,'
Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth.
See you now-
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out.
So, by my former lecture and advice,
Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?

15

Hamlet
[II, 1]

Polonius

1028

Farewell!
[Exit Reynaldo.]
[Enter Ophelia.]
How now, Ophelia? What's the matter?

16

Hamlet
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

1082

Flourish. [Enter King and Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,

17

Hamlet
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

1127

Enter Polonius.

18

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Claudius

1147

Well, we shall sift him.
[Enter Polonius, Voltemand, and Cornelius.]
Welcome, my good friends.
Say, Voltemand, what from our brother Norway?

19

Hamlet
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

1271

Enter Hamlet, reading on a book.

20

Hamlet
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

1319

Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.