Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
in "Hamlet"
Total: 113

1

I,1,1

(beginning of scene)

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

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I,1,16

Bernardo. Well, good night.
If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.

(stage directions). Enter Horatio and Marcellus.

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I,1,51

Bernardo. Last night of all,
When yond same star that's westward from the pole
Had made his course t' illume that part of heaven
Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
The bell then beating one-

(stage directions). Enter Ghost.

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I,1,66

Horatio. Stay! Speak, speak! I charge thee speak!

(stage directions). Exit Ghost.

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I,1,199

Horatio. So have I heard and do in part believe it.
But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
Break we our watch up; and by my advice
Let us impart what we have seen to-night
Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know
Where we shall find him most conveniently.

(stage directions). Exeunt.

6

I,2,200

(beginning of scene)

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

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I,2,332

Claudius. Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply.
Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come.
This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet
Sits smiling to my heart; in grace whereof,
No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day
But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,
And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
Respeaking earthly thunder. Come away.

(stage directions). Flourish. Exeunt all but Hamlet.

8

I,2,364

Hamlet. O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah, fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two.
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on; and yet, within a month-
Let me not think on't! Frailty, thy name is woman!-
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears- why she, even she
(O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourn'd longer) married with my uncle;
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue!

(stage directions). Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo.

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I,2,480

Hamlet. Your loves, as mine to you. Farewell.
[Exeunt [all but Hamlet].]
My father's spirit- in arms? All is not well.
I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!
Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

(stage directions). Exit.

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I,3,481

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Laertes and Ophelia.

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I,3,624

Ophelia. I shall obey, my lord.

(stage directions). Exeunt.

12

I,4,625

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus.

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I,4,666

Hamlet. Ay, marry, is't;
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
This heavy-headed revel east and west
Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations;
They clip us drunkards and with swinish phrase
Soil our addition; and indeed it takes
From our achievements, though perform'd at height,
The pith and marrow of our attribute.
So oft it chances in particular men
That, for some vicious mole of nature in them,
As in their birth,- wherein they are not guilty,
Since nature cannot choose his origin,-
By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,
Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,
Or by some habit that too much o'erleavens
The form of plausive manners, that these men
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,
Their virtues else- be they as pure as grace,
As infinite as man may undergo-
Shall in the general censure take corruption
From that particular fault. The dram of e'il
Doth all the noble substance often dout To his own scandal.

(stage directions). Enter Ghost.

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Hamlet. Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me?
Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell
Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death,
Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws
To cast thee up again. What may this mean
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,
Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous, and we fools of nature
So horridly to shake our disposition
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Say, why is this? wherefore? What should we do?

(stage directions). Ghost beckons Hamlet.

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I,4,724

Hamlet. My fate cries out
And makes each petty artire in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
[Ghost beckons.]
Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen.
By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!-
I say, away!- Go on. I'll follow thee.

(stage directions). Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet.

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Marcellus. Nay, let's follow him.

(stage directions). Exeunt.

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I,5,732

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Ghost and Hamlet.

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I,5,852

Horatio. [within] My lord, my lord!

(stage directions). Enter Horatio and Marcellus.

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I,5,900

Hamlet. Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.

(stage directions). Ghost cries under the stage.

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I,5,936

Father's Ghost. [beneath] Swear.

(stage directions). [They swear.]

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I,5,946

Hamlet. Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! So, gentlemen,
With all my love I do commend me to you;
And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
May do t' express his love and friending to you,
God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;
And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!
Nay, come, let's go together.

(stage directions). Exeunt.

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II,1,947

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Polonius and Reynaldo.

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II,1,1081

Polonius. That hath made him mad.
I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
I had not quoted him. I fear'd he did but trifle
And meant to wrack thee; but beshrew my jealousy!
By heaven, it is as proper to our age
To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions
As it is common for the younger sort
To lack discretion. Come, go we to the King.
This must be known; which, being kept close, might move
More grief to hide than hate to utter love.
Come.

(stage directions). Exeunt.

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II,2,1082

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Flourish. [Enter King and Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,

25

II,2,1083

(stage directions). Flourish. [Enter King and Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,

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II,2,1126

Gertrude. Ay, amen!

(stage directions). Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, [with some Attendants].

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II,2,1127

(stage directions). Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, [with some Attendants].

(stage directions). Enter Polonius.

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II,2,1271

Claudius. We will try it.

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet, reading on a book.

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II,2,1319

Hamlet. You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more
willingly part withal- except my life, except my life, except my
life,

(stage directions). Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

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II,2,1324

Rosencrantz. [to Polonius] God save you, sir!

(stage directions). Exit [Polonius].

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II,2,1451

Hamlet. It is not very strange; for my uncle is King of Denmark, and
those that would make mows at him while my father lived give
twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats apiece for his picture in
little. 'Sblood, there is something in this more than natural, if
philosophy could find it out.

(stage directions). Flourish for the Players.

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II,2,1462

Hamlet. I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I
know a hawk from a handsaw.

(stage directions). Enter Polonius.

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III,1,1681

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern,

34

III,1,1682

(stage directions). Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern,

(stage directions). and Lords.

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III,1,1714

Rosencrantz. We shall, my lord.

(stage directions). Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

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III,1,1732

Ophelia. Madam, I wish it may.

(stage directions). [Exit Queen.]

37

III,1,1747

Polonius. I hear him coming. Let's withdraw, my lord.

(stage directions). Exeunt King and Polonius].

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III,1,1748

(stage directions). Exeunt King and Polonius].

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet.

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III,1,1853

Ophelia. O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The courtier's, scholar's, soldier's, eye, tongue, sword,
Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Th' observ'd of all observers- quite, quite down!
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me
T' have seen what I have seen, see what I see!

(stage directions). Enter King and Polonius.

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III,2,1882

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet and three of the Players.

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III,2,1928

Rosencrantz. [with Guildenstern] We will, my lord.

(stage directions). Exeunt they two.

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III,2,1930

Hamlet. What, ho, Horatio!

(stage directions). Enter Horatio.

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III,2,1993

Hamlet. Lady, shall I lie in your lap?

(stage directions). [Sits down at Ophelia's feet.]

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III,2,2028

Hamlet. So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a
suit of sables. O heavens! die two months ago, and not forgotten
yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life
half a year. But, by'r Lady, he must build churches then; or else
shall he suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose
epitaph is 'For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot!'
[Hautboys play. The dumb show enters.]
Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen embracing
him and he her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation
unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her
neck. He lays him down upon a bank of flowers. She, seeing
him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his
crown, kisses it, pours poison in the sleeper's ears, and
leaves him. The Queen returns, finds the King dead, and makes
passionate action. The Poisoner with some three or four Mutes,
comes in again, seem to condole with her. The dead body is
carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with gifts; she
seems harsh and unwilling awhile, but in the end accepts
his love.

(stage directions). Exeunt.

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Ophelia. Belike this show imports the argument of the play.

(stage directions). Enter Prologue.

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III,2,2045

Hamlet. As woman's love.

(stage directions). Enter [two Players as] King and Queen.

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III,2,2121

Player Queen. Sleep rock thy brain,

(stage directions). He sleeps.]

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III,2,2123

Player Queen. And never come mischance between us twain!

(stage directions). Exit.

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III,2,2137

Hamlet. 'The Mousetrap.' Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the
image of a murther done in Vienna. Gonzago is the duke's name;
his wife, Baptista. You shall see anon. 'Tis a knavish piece of
work; but what o' that? Your Majesty, and we that have free
souls, it touches us not. Let the gall'd jade winch; our withers
are unwrung.

(stage directions). Enter Lucianus.This is one Lucianus, nephew to the King.

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Hamlet. So you must take your husbands.- Begin, murtherer. Pox, leave
thy damnable faces, and begin! Come, the croaking raven doth
bellow for revenge.
Luc. Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing; Confederate season, else no creature seeing; Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected, Thy natural magic and dire property On wholesome life usurp immediately.

(stage directions). Pours the poison in his ears.

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All. Lights, lights, lights!

(stage directions). Exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio.

52

III,3,2276

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.

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Rosencrantz. [with Guildenstern] We will haste us.

(stage directions). Exeunt Gentlemen.

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(stage directions). Exeunt Gentlemen.

(stage directions). Enter Polonius.

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Claudius. Thanks, dear my lord.
[Exit [Polonius].]
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,
A brother's murther! Pray can I not,
Though inclination be as sharp as will.
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
But to confront the visage of offence?
And what's in prayer but this twofold force,
To be forestalled ere we come to fall,
Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up;
My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer
Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murther'?
That cannot be; since I am still possess'd
Of those effects for which I did the murther-
My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.
May one be pardon'd and retain th' offence?
In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above.
There is no shuffling; there the action lies
In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd,
Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
To give in evidence. What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
O wretched state! O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,
Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay.
Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!
All may be well. He kneels.

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet.

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III,4,2382

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Queen and Polonius.

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III,4,2390

Gertrude. I'll warrant you; fear me not. Withdraw; I hear him coming.

(stage directions). [Polonius hides behind the arras.]

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III,4,2391

(stage directions). [Polonius hides behind the arras.]

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet.

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Hamlet. [draws] How now? a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!

(stage directions). [Makes a pass through the arras and] kills Polonius.

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Gertrude. No more!

(stage directions). Enter the Ghost in his nightgown.

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Hamlet. Why, look you there! Look how it steals away!
My father, in his habit as he liv'd!
Look where he goes even now out at the portal!

(stage directions). Exit Ghost.

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Hamlet. There's letters seal'd; and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar; and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon. O, 'tis most sweet
When in one line two crafts directly meet.
This man shall set me packing.
I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.-
Mother, good night.- Indeed, this counsellor
Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,
Who was in life a foolish peating knave.
Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.
Good night, mother.

(stage directions). [Exit the Queen. Then] Exit Hamlet, tugging in

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(stage directions). [Exit the Queen. Then] Exit Hamlet, tugging in

(stage directions). Polonius.

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter King and Queen, with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

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Claudius. O Gertrude, come away!
The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch
But we will ship him hence; and this vile deed
We must with all our majesty and skill
Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern!
[Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
Friends both, go join you with some further aid.
Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him.
Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body
Into the chapel. I pray you haste in this.
[Exeunt [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern].]
Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends
And let them know both what we mean to do
And what's untimely done. [So haply slander-]
Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter,
As level as the cannon to his blank,
Transports his poisoned shot- may miss our name
And hit the woundless air.- O, come away!
My soul is full of discord and dismay.

(stage directions). Exeunt.

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IV,2,2676

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet.

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Hamlet. But soft! What noise? Who calls on Hamlet? O, here they

(stage directions). come.

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(stage directions). come.

(stage directions). Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

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Hamlet. Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after.

(stage directions). Exeunt.

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IV,3,2707

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter King.

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Rosencrantz. Ho, Guildenstern! Bring in my lord.

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet and Guildenstern [with Attendants].

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Hamlet. He will stay till you come.

(stage directions). [Exeunt Attendants.]

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Hamlet. My mother! Father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is
one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England!

(stage directions). Exit.

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IV,4,2784

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Fortinbras with his Army over the stage.

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Fortinbras. Go softly on.

(stage directions). Exeunt [all but the Captain].

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(stage directions). Exeunt [all but the Captain].

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, [Guildenstern,] and others.

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IV,5,2856

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Horatio, Queen, and a Gentleman.

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Gertrude. Let her come in.
[Exit Gentleman.]
[Aside] To my sick soul (as sin's true nature is)
Each toy seems Prologue to some great amiss.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

(stage directions). Enter Ophelia distracted.

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Ophelia. Pray you mark.
(Sings) White his shroud as the mountain snow-

(stage directions). Enter King.

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Messenger. Save Yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than Young Laertes, in a riotous head,
O'erbears Your offices. The rabble call him lord;
And, as the world were now but to begin,
Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
The ratifiers and props of every word,
They cry 'Choose we! Laertes shall be king!'
Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it to the clouds,
'Laertes shall be king! Laertes king!'

(stage directions). A noise within.

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Claudius. The doors are broke.

(stage directions). Enter Laertes with others.

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Claudius. Why, now You speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am guiltless of your father's death,
And am most sensibly in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgment pierce
As day does to your eye.

(stage directions). A noise within: 'Let her come in.'

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Ophelia. [sings]
And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, no, he is dead;
Go to thy deathbed;
He never will come again.
His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll.
He is gone, he is gone,
And we cast away moan.
God 'a'mercy on his soul!
And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God b' wi' you.

(stage directions). Exit.

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Claudius. So you shall;
And where th' offence is let the great axe fall.
I pray you go with me.

(stage directions). Exeunt

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IV,6,3099

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Horatio with an Attendant.

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Horatio. Let them come in.
[Exit Attendant.]
I do not know from what part of the world
I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.

(stage directions). Enter Sailors.

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IV,7,3130

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter King and Laertes.

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Claudius. Let's follow, Gertrude.
How much I had to do to calm his rage I
Now fear I this will give it start again;
Therefore let's follow.

(stage directions). Exeunt.

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V,1,3347

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter two Clowns, [with spades and pickaxes].

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Second Clown. Mass, I cannot tell.

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet and Horatio afar off.

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First Clown. Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will
not mend his pace with beating; and when you are ask'd this
question next, say 'a grave-maker.' The houses he makes lasts
till doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan; fetch me a stoup of
liquor.

(stage directions). [Exit Second Clown.]

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(stage directions). [Exit Second Clown.]

(stage directions). [Clown digs and] sings.

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First Clown. [sings]
But age with his stealing steps
Hath clawed me in his clutch,
And hath shipped me intil the land,
As if I had never been such.

(stage directions). [Throws up a skull.]

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Hamlet. And smelt so? Pah!

(stage directions). [Puts down the skull.]

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V,1,3553

Hamlet. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty
enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died,
Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is
earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam (whereto he
was converted) might they not stop a beer barrel?
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
O, that that earth which kept the world in awe
Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!
But soft! but soft! aside! Here comes the King-
Enter [priests with] a coffin [in funeral procession], King,
[Queen, Laertes, with Lords attendant.]
The Queen, the courtiers. Who is this they follow?
And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken
The corse they follow did with desp'rate hand
Fordo it own life. 'Twas of some estate.
Couch we awhile, and mark.

(stage directions). [Retires with Horatio.]

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V,1,3599

Laertes. The devil take thy soul!

(stage directions). [Grapples with him.]

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V,1,3609

Horatio. Good my lord, be quiet.

(stage directions). [The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave.]

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Hamlet. Hear you, sir!
What is the reason that you use me thus?
I lov'd you ever. But it is no matter.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

(stage directions). Exit.

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V,1,3648

Claudius. I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him.
[Exit Horatio.]
[To Laertes] Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech.
We'll put the matter to the present push.-
Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-
This grave shall have a living monument.
An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;
Till then in patience our proceeding be.

(stage directions). Exeunt.

100

V,2,3649

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter Hamlet and Horatio.

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Horatio. Peace! Who comes here?

(stage directions). Enter young Osric, a courtier.

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Hamlet. I beseech you remember.

(stage directions). [Hamlet moves him to put on his hat.]

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Hamlet. He did comply with his dug before he suck'd it. Thus has he,
and many more of the same bevy that I know the drossy age dotes
on, only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter-
a kind of yesty collection, which carries them through and
through the most fann'd and winnowed opinions; and do but blow
them to their trial-the bubbles are out,

(stage directions). Enter a Lord.

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Hamlet. She well instructs me.

(stage directions). [Exit Lord.]

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Hamlet. Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in
the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be
not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come:
the readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves,
what is't to leave betimes? Let be.

(stage directions). Enter King, Queen, Laertes, Osric, and Lords, with other

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(stage directions). Enter King, Queen, Laertes, Osric, and Lords, with other

(stage directions). Attendants with foils and gauntlets.

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(stage directions). Attendants with foils and gauntlets.

(stage directions). A table and flagons of wine on it.

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Claudius. Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.

(stage directions). [The King puts Laertes' hand into Hamlet's.]

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Hamlet. This likes me well. These foils have all a length?

(stage directions). Prepare to play.

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Laertes. Have at you now!

(stage directions). [Laertes wounds Hamlet; then] in scuffling, they change rapiers, [and Hamlet wounds Laertes].

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Hamlet. O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd.
Treachery! Seek it out.

(stage directions). [Laertes falls.]

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Fortinbras. Let four captains
Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have prov'd most royally; and for his passage
The soldiers' music and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him.
Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this
Becomes the field but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

(stage directions). Exeunt marching; after the which a peal of ordnance are shot off.

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(stage directions). Exeunt marching; after the which a peal of ordnance are shot off.

(stage directions). THE END