Hamlet. Yours, yours.-[Exit Osric.] He does well to commend it himself; there are no tongues else for 's turn. Horatio. This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head. The lafering when hatched, is in such Hamlet. He did comply with his dug, before he sucked 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 fond and win-brocky nowed opinions; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out.

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Enter a Lord.

Lord. My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young Osric, who brings back to him, that you attend him in the hall; he sends to know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that you will take longer time.

Hamlet. I am constant to my purposes; they follow the king's pleasure: if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now or whensoever, provided I be so able as now.

Lord. The king and queen and all are coming down.
Hamlet. In happy time.

just in time

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Lord. The queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play.

Hamlet. She well instructs me.

Horatio. You will lose this wager, my lord.

conciliating behavior. [Exit Lord.

Hamlet. I do not think so: since he went into France, I

have been in continual practice; I shall win at the odds., Thing h But thou wouldst not think how ill all 's here about my heart; but it is no matter.

Horatio. Nay, good my lord,

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Hamlet. It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.

misgiving Horatio. If your mind dislike any thing, obey it. I wil forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit.

If it be now, 't is not to

Hamlet. Not a whit; we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. come; if it be not to come, it will be yet it will come: the readiness is all. aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be.

now; if it be not now,
Since no man knows

Enter KING, QUEEN, LAERTES, Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, etc.

King. Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me. [The King puts Laertes's hand into Hamlet's.

Hamlet. Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong; But pardon 't, as you are a gentleman.

This presence knows,

And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd
With sore distraction. What I have done,

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disapprobation, objectes "khodest in object in

That might your nature, honour, and exception
Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
Was 't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:
If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,

And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,
Then Hamlet does it not; Hamlet denies it.

Who does it, then? His madness: if 't be so,
Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;

His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.

Sir, in this audience,

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Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil disallowing f.
Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,

That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,

And hurt my brother.

Laertes.

I am satisfied in nature,

Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most

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To my revenge; but in my terms of honour in what concerns

I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement

Till by some elder masters of known honour

I have a voice and precedent of peace,

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unwounded To keep my name ungor'd. But till that time, I do receive your offer'd love like love,

And will not wrong it.

Hamlet.

I embrace it freely,

And will this brother's wager frankly play. —
Give us the foils.-Come on.

Laertes.

Come, one for me.

Hamlet. I'll be your foil, Laertes; in mine ignorance
star i' the darkest night,

Your skill shall, like a
Stick fiery off indeed.

Laertes.

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stand out brill caulty in rebig. You mock me, sir.

Hamlet. No, by this hand.

King. Give them the foils, young Osric.-Cousin Hamlet,
You know the wager?

Hamlet.

Very well, my lord;

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Your grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side.
King. I do not fear it; I have seen you both:
But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds.
Laertes. This is too heavy, let me see another.
Hamlet. This likes me well. These foils have all a

King. Set me the stoups of wine upon that table.—

If Hamlet give the first or second hit,

Or quit in answer of the third exchange,
Let all the battlements their ordnance fire:

pay him in meeting

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The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath;
And in the cup an union shall he throw,
Richer than that which four successive kings
In Denmark's crown have worn.

Give me the cups;

And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,

The trumpet to the cannoneer without,

The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,
'Now the king drinks to Hamlet !'-Come, begin ;—
And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.

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at the the god

Hamlet. Come on, sir.

drinks

King. Stay; give me drink.—Hamlet, this pearl is thine;
Here's to thy health.-

[Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within.
Give him the cup.

Hamlet. I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile.—
Come. [They play.] Another hit; what say you?
Laertes. A touch, a touch, I do confess.
King. Our son shall win.

Queen.

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He's fat and scant of breath.—

Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows;
The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.
Hamlet. Good madam,-

I

Gertrude, do not drink.

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King.
Queen. I will, my lord; I pray you, pardon me.
King. [Aside] It is the poison'd cup; it is too late.
Hamlet. I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by.
Queen. Come, let me wipe thy face.
Laertes. My lord, I 'll hit him now.
King.
I do not think 't.
Laertes. [Aside] And yet 't is almost 'gainst my conscience.
Hamlet. Come, for the third, Laertes. You but dally;
pray you, pass with your best violence;

Que trong I am afeard you make a wanton of me. treat me

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Seh.

Laertes. Say you so? come on.
Osric. Nothing, neither way.
Laertes. Have at you now!

like a child L'hey play.

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[Laertes wounds Hamlet; then, in scuffling, they
change rapiers, and Hamlet wounds Laertes.

King.

Hamlet. Nay, come, again.

Osric.

Part them; they are incens'd.
[The Queen falls.

Look to the queen there, ho!

Horatio. They bleed on both sides.-How is it, my lord?

Osric. How is 't, Laertes?

Laertes. Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric; the woodI am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.

Hamlet. How does the queen?

King.

She swoons to see them bleed.

Queen. No, no, the drink, the drink,-O my dear Ham

let,

The drink, the drink!-I am poison'd.

Hamlet. O villany!-Ho! let the door be lock'd!

Treachery! Seek it out!

Laertes. It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain ;

No medicine in the world can do thee good,

In thee there is not half an hour of life:

The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,

[Dies.

Unbated and envenom'd. The foul practice treachery
Hath turn'd itself on me; lo, here I lie,

Never to rise again. Thy mother 's poison'd;

I can no more,—the king—the king 's to blame.
Hamlet. The point envenom'd too!—

Then, venom, to thy work!

All. Treason! treason!

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[Stabs the King.

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King. O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt.

Hamlet. Here, thou incestuous, murtherous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion! Is thy union here?

Follow my mother!
Laertes.

He is justly serv'd;

It is a poison temper'd by himself.

refers to the file (pearl) [King dies, that the Whiting had

mixed,

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Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet;

Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,
Nor thine on me!

[Dies.

Hamlet. Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.