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... Exeunt . SCENE II . — A room of state in the castle . Enter the KING , QUEEN , HAMLET , POLONIUS , LAERTES , VOLTIMAND , CORNELIUS , Lords , and Attendants . KING . Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green , and ...
... Exeunt . SCENE II . — A room of state in the castle . Enter the KING , QUEEN , HAMLET , POLONIUS , LAERTES , VOLTIMAND , CORNELIUS , Lords , and Attendants . KING . Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green , and ...
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... Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS . And now , Laertes , what's the news with you ? You told us of some suit ; what is't , Laertes ? You cannot speak of reason to the Dane , And lose your voice : what wouldst thou beg , Laertes , That shall ...
... Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS . And now , Laertes , what's the news with you ? You told us of some suit ; what is't , Laertes ? You cannot speak of reason to the Dane , And lose your voice : what wouldst thou beg , Laertes , That shall ...
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... Exeunt all but HAMLET . 104 Who still hath cried . The personifying relative . ( Abbott , § 264. ) 112 Do I impart . __Do I dispense to you . 113 Wittenberg . Hamlet wishes , as Gervinus remarks , at the age of thirty years , to go ...
... Exeunt all but HAMLET . 104 Who still hath cried . The personifying relative . ( Abbott , § 264. ) 112 Do I impart . __Do I dispense to you . 113 Wittenberg . Hamlet wishes , as Gervinus remarks , at the age of thirty years , to go ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... Exeunt . Enter HAMLET , HORATIO , and MARCELLUS . HAM . The air bites shrewdly ; it is very cold . HOR . It is a nipping and an eager air . HAM . What hour now ? HOR . HAM . No , it is struck . I think it lacks of twelve . [ season HOR ...
... Exeunt . Enter HAMLET , HORATIO , and MARCELLUS . HAM . The air bites shrewdly ; it is very cold . HOR . It is a nipping and an eager air . HAM . What hour now ? HOR . HAM . No , it is struck . I think it lacks of twelve . [ season HOR ...
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Page 98 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 78 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. Why ! do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 30 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 49 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
Page 44 - tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause : Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Page 29 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night; And, for the day, confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purged away.
Page 22 - Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 131 - 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.
Page 113 - Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 64 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...