act 1 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org Hamlet by William Shakespeare cast of characters Bernardo read by MC Patti nama Francisco Cornelius gentleman another gentleman and Danes austriac read by Martin Gleason Horatio read by Robert Hoffman Marcellus read by Christine G Claudius second clown read by elizabeth klett Volta Hmong read by david lawrence ladies read by Nathaniel WC Higgins Polonius fourteen brass servant Dane read by algy pug Hamlet read by arielle lip Shaw Queen Gertrude read by Amy gray more o philia but by miss avarice ghost first player player King read by Bob gongs allah's ronaldo read by April Gonzalez Rosencrantz read by grace carat Guildenstern read by Chuck Williamson player Queen read by Capricia page prologue and Luciano's read by Emily Fuuka captain Danes first priest read by the people first sailor read by Rick F messenger read by honest human first plane first ambassador read by Alan monster Lord read by Aden brac stage directions by Cynthia Moyer act 1 scene 1 Elsinore a platform before the castle Francisco at his post enter to him Bernardo who's there and I answer May stand and unfold yourself long live the king Naruto he you come most carefully upon your hour this now struck 12:00 get thee to bed Francisco but this relief much thanks Mart is bitter cold and I am sick at heart have yet quiet got not a mouse stirring well good night if you do meet Horatio and Marcellus are the rivals of my watched Witham make haste I think I hear them stand Oh who's there enter Horatio and Marcellus friends to this ground and Leachman to the Dame give you a good night well honest soldier who hath relieved you Bernardo has my place give you good night exit hello Bernardo say what is her Asia there a piece of him welcome Horatio welcome good to Marcellus what that's this thing appeared again tonight I have seen nothing Horatio says tis but our fantasy and win lot less relief take hold of him touching this dreaded site twice seen of us therefore I have entreated him along with us to watch the minutes of this night that if again this operation come he may approve our eyes and speak to it tush tush twill not appear sit down a while and let us once again assail your ears that are so fortified against our story what we have tonight's scene well sit we down and let us hear Bernardo speak of this last night of all when you aren't same star that's westward from the pole had made his cause to a human dat part of heaven where now it burns Marcellus and myself the Bell then beating one enter ghost please break the off look where it comes again in the same figure like the king that's did thou art a scholar speak to it Horatio looks it not like the king market or a show most like it harrows me with fear and wonder it would be spoke to question is Horatio what art thou that you surpassed this time of night together with that fair and warlike form in which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometimes march by heaven I charge thee speak it is offended see it Stokes away stay speak speak I charge they speak exit ghost tis gone and will not answer oh no Horatio you tremble in look pale it's not this something more than fantasy what think you want before my god I might not disbelieve without the sensible and true of out of mine own eyes is it not connect the king as thou art to thyself such was the very armour he had on when he the ambitious Norway combated so frowned he once when in an angry parle he smote the sledded pollaxe on the ice tis strange thus twice before and jump at this dead hour with martial stock hath a gun by our watch in what particular thought to work I know not but in the gross and scope of my opinion this bodes some strange eruption to our state good now sit down and tell me he that knows why this same strict and most observant watch so nightly toils the subject of the land and why such daily cast of brace and cannon and foreign mass for implements of war why such impress of shipwrights who's sought ask does not divide a Sunday from the week what might be toward that this sweetie haste doth make the night joint laborer with a day Gustaf can inform me that can I at least the whisper goes our last king whose image even but now appeared to us was as you know by Fortinbras of Norway there too pricked on by a most amulet pride dared to the combat in which our valiant Hamlet four so this side of our known world esteemed him did slay this Fortinbras who by a sealed compact well ratified by law and heraldry did forfeit with his life all those his lands which he stood seized of to the Conqueror against the witch a mighty competent was gaged by our King which had returned to the inheritance of Fortinbras had he been vanquished sure as by the same covenant and carriage of the article designed his fell to hamlet now sir young Fortinbras of unimproved mental hot and full hath in the skirts of norway here and there shucked up a list of lawless Resolute's for food and diet to some enterprise that hath a stomach in it which is no other as it does well appear unto our state but to recover of us by strong hands and terms compulsory those for said lands so by his father lost and this I take it is the main motive of our preparations the source of this our watch in the chief head of this posthaste and Roman in the land I think it be no other but in silver well me it sought the dis pretentious figure comes armed through our watch so leg the king that was and is the question of these wars 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 eclipses and even the like pre curse of fierce events as harbingers proceeding still the fates and prologue of the omen coming on have heaven and earth together demonstrated unto our climate chores and countrymen but soft behold lo where it comes again reenter ghost I'll cross it though it blast me stay illusion if thou hast any sound or use a voice speak to me if there be any good thing to be done that made to thee do ease and grace to me speak to me crows if thou art privy to thy country's fate which happily foreknowing may avoid Oh speak or if thou has deported in thy life extorted treasure in the womb of earth for which they say you spirits oft walk in death speak of it stay and speak stop it Marcellus shall I strike it with my partisan do if it will not stand just here tis here she's gone exit ghost we do it wrong being so majestical to offer it the show of violence for it is as the air invulnerable and our vein blows malicious mockery it was about to speak when it got true and then it started like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons I have heard the that is the trumpet to the mourn death with his lofty and shrill sounding throat awake the god of day and at his warning whether in sea or fire in earth or air the extravagant and erring spirit highs to his confine and of the truth here in this present object made probation it faded on the crowing of the some say that ever against a season comes wherein our saviours birth is celebrated the bird of dawning singeth all night long and then they say no spirit dares stare abroad the nights are wholesome there no planets strike no fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm so hallowed and so gracious as to time so have I heard and do in part believe it but look the morn in russet mantle clad walks or the dew of yon high eastward Hill break we are watch up and by my advice let us impart what we have seen tonight 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 love's fitting our duty let's do I pray and I this morning know where we shall find him most conveniently exeunt scene 2 a room of state in the castle enter King Claudius Queen Gertrude Hamlet Polonius Laertes volta monde Cornelius lords and attendants though yet of Hamlet our dear brothers death the memory be green and that it us befitted to bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow of woe yet so far hath discretion fought with nature that we with wisest sorrow think on him together with remembrance of ourselves therefore our sometime sister now our queen the imperial join tryst to this warlike state have we as twere with a defeated joy with an auspicious and a dropping eye with mirth and funeral and with dirge in marriage an equal scale weighing delight and dole taken to wife nor have we here in bard your better wisdoms which are freely gone with this affair along for all our thanks now follows that you know young Fortinbras holding a week suppose I love our worth or thinking by our late dear brothers death our states to be disjoint and out of frame colleague with the dream of his advantage he had not failed to pester us with message importing the surrender of those lands lost by his father with all bonds of law to our most valiant brother so much for him now for our self and for this time of meeting thus much the businesses we have here rich to Norway uncle of young Fortinbras who impotent and bed-rid scarcely hears of this his nephews purpose to suppress his further gate herein in that the levees the lists and full proportions are all made out of his subject and we hear dispatch you good Cornelius and you volt amount for bearers of this greeting to old Norway giving to you no further personal power to business with the King more than the scope of these deleted articles allow farewell and let your haste commend your duty in that we will show our duty we doubted nothing heartily farewell exeunt Volta Monde and Cornelius and now Laertes what's the news with you you told us of some suit what is clarity's you cannot speak of reason to the Dane and loose your voice what wouldst thou beg Laertes that shall not be my offer not by asking the head is not more native to the heart the hand more instrumental to the mouth than is the throne of Denmark to thy father what wouldst thou have Laertes my dread Lord you'll leave in favour to return to France from whence though willingly I came to Denmark to show my duty in your coronation it's now I must confess that Duty done my thoughts and wishes Bend again toward France and bow them to your gracious leave and pardon have you your father's leave what says Polonius yes my lord wrung from me my slow leave by labour some petition and at last upon his world I seared my heart concerned I do beseech you give him leave to go take thy fair hour Laertes time be thine and thy best Grace's spend it at I will but now my cousin Hamlet and my son aside a little more than kin and less than kind how is it that the clouds still hang on you not so my lord I am too much of the Sun good Hamlet cast thy nighted color off and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark do not forever with thy vailed lids seek for thy noble father and the dust thou knowest tis common all that lives must die passing through nature to eternity I'm Adam it is common if it be why seems it so particular with thee seems madam nay it is I know not seems tis not alone my inky cloak good mother nor customary suits of solemn black nor windy suspiration of forced breath no nor the fruitful river in the eye nor the dejected havior of the visage together with all forms moods shapes of grief that can denote me truly these indeed seem for they are actions that a man might play but I have that within which passeth show these but the trappings and the suits of woe tis sweet and commendable in your nature Hamlet to give these mourning duties to your father but you must know your father lost a father that father lost lost his and the survivor bound in filial obligation for some term to do obsequious sorrow but to persever in obstinate condole meant as a course of impious stubbornness tis unmanly grief it shows a will most incorrect to heaven a heart unfortified a mind impatient an understanding simple and unschooled for what we know must be and is as common as any the most vulgar thing to sense why should we in our peevish opposition take it to heart fie tis a fault to heaven a fault against the dead a fault to nature to reason most absurd whose common theme is death of fathers and who still hath cried from the first course till he that died today this must be so we pray you throw to earth this unproven woe and think of us as of a father for let the world take note you are the most to our throne and with no less nobility of love than that which dearest father bears his son do I in part toward you before your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg it is most retrograde to our desire and we beseech you then do to remain here in the cheer and comfort of our eye our chiefest courtier cousin and our son not thy mother lose her prayers Hamlet I pray they stay with us go not to Wittenberg I shall in all my best obey you madam why to the loving and a fair reply be as ourself in Denmark madam come this gentle and unforced Accord of Hamlet sits smiling to my heart in grace whereof no jocund health that Denmark drinks today but the great cannon to the clouds shall tell and the Kings rouse the heavens all breat again respeaking earthly thunder come away exeunt all but Hamlet oh that this too too solid flesh would melt thaw and resolve itself and she would do or that the everlasting had not fixed his Canon gainst self-slaughter Oh God God how weary stale flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world fie ant 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 to 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 frailty thy name is woman a little month or ere those shoes were old with which she followed my poor fathers body like Niobe all tears why she even she Oh God a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned 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 almost 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 enter Horatio Marcellus and Bernardo hail to your lordship I'm glad to see you well Horatio all right you forget myself the same my lord and your poor servant ever sir my good friend I'll change that name with you and what make you from Wittenberg Horatio Marcellus my good lord I am very glad to see you good even sir but what in faith make you from Wittenberg a truant disposition good my lord I would not hear your enemy say so nor shall you do my near that violence to make it truster of your own report against yourself I know you are no truant but what is your affair in Elsinore will teach you to drink deep ere you depart my lord I came to see your father's funeral I pray thee do not mock me fellow-student I think it was to see my mother's wedding indeed my lord it followed hard upon thrift thrift Horatio the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables what I had met my dearest foe in heaven or ever I had seen that day Horatio my father methinks I see my father where my lord in my mind's eye Horatio I saw him once he was a goodly king he was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again my lord I think I saw him yesternight saw who my lord the king your father the king my father season your admiration for a while with an attent ear till I may deliver upon the witness of these gentlemen this Marvel to you for God's love let me hear two nights together had these gentlemen Marcellus and Bernardo on their watch in the dead vast and middle of the night been thus encountered a figure like your father armed at Pointe exactly Kappa P appears before them and with solemn March goes slow and stately by them thrice he walked by their oppressed and fear surprised eyes within his truncheon 'he's length whilst they distilled almost to jelly with the act of fear stand dumb and speak not to him this to me and dreadful secrecy impart they did and I with them the third night kept the watch where as they had delivered both in time form of the thing each word made true and good the apparition comes I knew your father these hands are not more like but where was this my lord upon the platform where we watched did you not speak to it my lord I did but answer made it none yet once methought it lifted up its head and did address itself to motion like as it would speak but even then the morning crew loud and at the sound a trunk and haste away and vanished from our sight tis very strange as I do live my honored Lord tis true and we did think it writ down in our duty to let you know of it indeed indeed sirs but this troubles me hold you the watch tonight we do we do my lord arms say you armed from top to toe then saw you not his face oh yes my lord he wore his beaver up what looked he frowningly countenance more in sorrow than in anger pale or red nay very pale and fixed his eyes upon you most constantly I would I have been there it would have much amazed you very like very like stayed it long while one with moderate haste might tell a hundred longer longer not when I saw it his beard was grizzled no it was as I have seen it in life a sable silvered I will watch tonight perchance twill walk again I warrant it will if it assumed my noble father's person I'll speak to it though Hell itself should gate and bid me hold my peace I pray you all if you have hitherto concealed this sight let's be tenable in your silence still and whatsoever else shall have tonight give it an understanding but no tongue I will requite your loves so fare you well upon the platform twixt eleven and twelve I'll visit you to your honour 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 what 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 exit scene three a room in Polonius's house enter Laertes and Ophelia my necessaries are embarked farewell and sister as the winds give benefit and convoy is assistant do not sleep but let me hear from you do you doubt that for Hamlet and the trifling of his favor hold it a fashion and a toy in blood a violet in the youth of prime minister for word not permanent sweet not lasting the perfume and suppliants of a minute no more no more but so think it no more for nature Crescent does not grow alone infuse and bulk but as this temple waxes the inward service of the mind and soul grows wide withal perhaps he loves you now and now no soil nor cottle doth besmirch the virtue of his will but you must fear his greatness weighed his will is not his own for he himself is subject to his birth he may not as unvalued persons do carve for himself fur on his choice depends the safety and the health of his whole state and therefore must his choice be circumscribed on the boys and yielding of that body we're up he is the head then if he says he loves you it fits your wisdom so far to believe it as he and his particular act and place may give his saying deed which is no further than the main voice of Denmark goes withal then weigh what loss your honor may sustain if with to ear you list his songs or lose your heart or your chase treasure open to his unmastered importunity fear to Philly afeard my dear sister and keep you in the rear of your affection out of the shot in danger of design the Charest maid is prodigal enough if she unmasked her beauty to the moon virtue itself escapes not calumnious strokes the canker galls the infants of the spring to oft before their buttons be disclosed and in the morn and liquid dew of you contagious plasmons our most eminent be weary then best safety lies in fear youth through itself rebels though none else near I shall The effect of this good lesson keep as watchman to my heart but good my brother do not as some ungracious pastors do show me the steep and thorny way to heaven wiles like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and recks not his own reed Oh fear me not I stay too long but here my father comes enter Polonius a double blessing is a double grace occasion smiles upon a second leave for shame the window sits in the shoulder of your sail and you are stayed for there my blessing with thee and these few precepts in thy memory see their character give no thoughts no tongue nor any unproportioned thought his act be thou familiar but by no means vulgar those friends thou hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of Steel but do not dull they palm with entertainment of each new hatched unfledged comrade beware of entrance to a quarrel but being in Beart that the opposed may beware of thee give every man thy air but few thy voice take each man said but I reserve thy judgment costly thy habit as thy purse can buy but not expressed in fancy a rich not gaudy air for the apparel oft proclaims the man and then France of the best a rank and station our most select and generous chief in that 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 farewell my blessing season this in thee most humbly do I take my leave my lord the time advise you go your servants tend farewell Ophelia and remember well what I have said to you tis in my memory locked and you yourself shall keep the key of it farewell exit what is athelia he hath said to you so please you something touching the Lord Hamlet marry well bethought tis told me he hath very oft of late given private time to you and you yourself of your audience been most free and bounteous it would be so as though it is put on me and that in way of caution I must tell you you do not understand yourself so clearly as it burrows my daughter and your honor what is between you give me up the truth he hath my lord of late made many tenders of his affection to me affection you speak like a green girl unsifted in such perilous circumstance do you believe his tenders as you call them I do not know my lord what I should think Marie I'll teach you think yourself a baby that you obtained his tendons for true pain which are not sterling tend to yourself my DNA oh not to crack the wind of the poor phrase running at us you'll tend to me a fool My Lord he hath importuned me with love in honorable fashion fashion you me College go to go to and hath given countenance to his speech My Lord with almost all the holy vows of heaven uh Springs to catch Woodcock's I do know when the blood burns how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows these blazes daughter giving more alive than heed extinct in both even in their promise as it is a making you must not take for fire from this time be somewhat scatter of your maiden presence set your entreat Minaya rate than a command to parlay for Lord Hamlet believed so much in him that he is young and with a larger tether may he walk than may be given you in fear of failure do not believe his vows for they are brokers not of that dye which their investments show but mere employers of unholy suits breathing like sanctified and pious boards the better to beguile this is for all I would not in plain terms from this time forth have you so slander any moment leisure as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet look to it I charge you come your ways I shall obey my lord exeunt scene for the plot enter Hamlet Horatio and Marcellus the air bites shrewdly it is very cold it is a nipping and eager air what hour now I think it lacks 12 no it is struck indeed I heard it not then it draws near the season wherein the spirit held his wont to walk a flourish of trumpets and ordnance shut off within what does this mean my lord the King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse keeps wassail and the swaggering upspring reels and as he drains his drafts of Rhenish down the cattle drum and trumpet thus Bray out the triumph of his pledge is it a custom I merriest but to my mind though I am native here into the manor born it is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance this heavy-headed revel east and west makes us traduced and taxed of other nations they keep us drunkards and with swine ash phrase soil our addition and indeed it takes from our achievements though performed at height the pith and marrow of our attribute so often 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 or growth of some complexion oft breaking down the pails and forts of reason or by some habit that too much or leavens the form of plaus of manners that these men carrying I say the stamp of one defect being nature's livery or fortune 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 eel doth all the noble substance of a doubt to his own scandal look my lord it comes enter ghosts angels and ministers of grace defend us be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd bring with the heirs from heaven or blasts from he'll be thy intents wicked or charitable thou comest two questionable shape that I will speak to thee I'll call thee Hamlet King father royal Dane Oh answer me let me not burst in ignorance but tell why thy canonized bones hearsed it in death have burst their cerements why the sepulchre wherein we saw the quietly an earned hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws to cast the up again what may this mean that thou dead course again in complete steel were visits 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 a ghost beckons Hamlet it beckons you to go away with it as if it's some impartment did desire to you alone look with that courteous action it wastes you to a more removed ground but do not go with it no by no means it will not speak then I will follow it do not my lord why what should be the fear I do not set my life in a pins fee and for my soul what can it do to that being a thing immortal as itself it waves me forth again I'll follow it what if it tempt you toward the flood my lord or to the dreadful summit of the cliff that beetles or his base into the sea and there assumes some other horrible form which might deprive your sovereignty of reason and draw you into madness think of it the very place puts toys of desperation without more motive into every brain that looks so many fathoms to the sea and hears it roar beneath it waves me still come on I'll follow thee you shalt go my lord hold off your hands be ruled you shall not go my fate cries out and makes each petty artery in this body as Hardy as than a me and lion's nerve still am I called unhand me gentleman by heaven I'll make a ghost of him that lets me I say away go on I'll follow thee exeunt ghost Hamlet he waxes desperate with imagination let's follow does not fit thus to obey him have after - what issue will this come something is rotten in the state of Denmark heaven will direct it nay let's follow him exeunt scene v another part of the platform enter ghost and Hamlet where wilt thou lead me speak I'll go no further mark me I will my hour is almost come when i to sulphurous and tormenting flames must render up myself alas poor ghost they do me not but lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold speak I am bound to hear so art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear what I am thy father's spirit doomed 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 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 I knotted and combined it locks to part and each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine but this eternal blazon must not be two ears a flesh and blood list list o list if the how didst ever thy dear father love O God revenge his foul and most unnatural murder murder murder most foul as the best it is but this most foul strange and unnatural haste me to know it that I with wings as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge I find the apt and duller should stir though be than the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe Wharf wouldst thou not stir in this now Hamlet here it is given out that sleeping in my orchard a serpent stung me so the whole ear of Denmark is by a forged process of my death rankly abused but know thou noble youth the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown o my prophetic soul my uncle I rat incestuous that adulterate beast with witchcraft of his wit with traitorous gifts who wicked wit and gifts that have the power so to seduce one to his shameful lust the will of my most seeming-virtuous queen Oh Hamlet what a falling off was there from me whose love was of that dignity that it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage and to decline upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor to those of mine but virtue as it never will be moved though lewdness courted in a shape of heaven so lust though to a radiant angel linked will sate itself in a celestial bed and prey on garbage but soft methinks I scent the morning air brief let me be sleeping within my orchard my custom always of the afternoon upon my secure hour my uncle stole with juice of cursed at heaven on in a vial and in the porches of my ears did pour the leprous distilment whose effect holds such an enmity with blood of man that swift as quicksilver it courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body and with a sudden vigour daf posset and curd like eager droppings into milk the thin and wholesome blood so did it mine and a most instant tetter barked about most laser-like with vile and loathsome crust all my smooth body thus was i sleeping by a brother's hand of life of crown of queen at once dispatched cut off even in the blossoms of my sin unhoused old disappointed uh nanine oh rekt made but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head Oh horrible Oh horrible most horrible if thou hast nature in thee bear it not let not the Royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and Damned not incest but howsoever thou pursuest this act taint not thy mind nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom Lodge to prick and sting her fare thee well at once the glow-worm shows the matin to be near and gins to pale his uneffectual fire adieu adieu Hamlet remember me exit oh you hosts of heaven Oh earth what else and show I couple hell Oh fie hold hold my heart and you my sinews grow not instant old but bear me stiffly up remember thee i thou or ghost while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe remember thee yet from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records all saws of books all forms all pressures past that youth and observation copied there and to thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain unmixed with baser matter yes by heaven o most pernicious woman Oh villain villain smiling damned villain my tables meet it is I set it down that one may smile and smile and be a villain at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark writing so uncle there you are now to my word it is a Jew a Jew remember me I have sworn it my lord my lord my lord Lord Hamlet heaven secure him so be it hello ho ho my lord hello ho ho boy come bird come enter Horatio and Marcellus how is my noble Lord what news my lord Oh wonderful good my lord tell it no you'll reveal it not I My Lord by heaven nor I my lord how say you then would heart of man once think it but you'll be secret ah by heaven my lord there's NER a villain dwelling in all Denmark but he's an arrant knave there needs no ghost my lord come from the grave to tell us this wife right you heard the right and so without more circumstance at all I hold it fit that we shake hands in part you as your business and desire shall points you for every man hath business and desire such as it is and for mine own poor part look you I'll go pray these are but wild and whirling words my lord I'm sorry they offend you heartily yes faith heartily there's no offense my lord yes by thinked Patrick but there is Horatio and much offence to touching this vision here it is an honest ghost that let me tell you for your desire to know what is between us or master it as you may and now good friends as you are friends scholars and soldiers give me one poor request what is it my lord we will never make known what you have seen tonight my lord nay but swear it in faith my lord not I nor I my lord in faith upon my sword we have sworn my lord already indeed upon my sword indeed swear ah ha boy say stuff so art thou there true penny come on you hear this fellow in the cellar äj-- consent to swear propose the oath my lord never to speak of this that you have seen swear by my sword swear HICC @ub Kwai then we'll shift our ground come hither gentlemen and lay your hands again upon my sword never to speak of this that you have heard swear by my sword well said old mole canst work of the earth so fast a worthy pioneer once more remove good friends Oh day and night but this is wondrous strange and therefore as a stranger give it welcome there are more things in heaven and earth Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy but come here as before never so help you mercy how strange or odd so ere I bear myself as I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on that's you at such time seeing me never shall with arms encumbered thus or this head shake or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase as well well we know or we could and if we would or if we list to speak or there be and if there might or such ambiguous giving out to note that you know out of me this not to do so grace and mercy as your most need help you swear rest rest perturbed spirit they swear so gentleman with all my love I do commend me to you and what so poor a man as Hamlet is may do to 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 Oh curse its spite that ever I was born to set it right nay come let's go together exeunt end of act 1 act 2 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org act 2 scene 1 a room in Polonius's house enter Polonius and ring although I will my lord you shall do publish wisely good Reynaldo before your visit him to make inquire of his behavior milord I didn't send it marry well said very well said look yousa inquiry first what dance kazar in paris and how who what means and where they keep what company at what expense and finally by this encompassment and thrift to question that they do know my son come you more nearer than your particular demands will touch it take you as twere some distant knowledge of him as thus I know his father in his friends added pard him do you Marcus Renaldo I very well the Lord and empowered him but you must say not well but if to be he I mean he's very wild addicted so it sir and there are put on him what forgeries you please marry a nun who drank as me disorder him you take heed of that but as such wanton wild usual slips as our companions noted and most known to youth a Liberty as a I mean milord Oh drinking fencing swearing quarreling grabbing you may go so far the Lord is that what is honor him faith no as you may see zijn it in the charge you must not put another scandal on him that he is open to incontinence a that's not my meaning but breathe his faults sua quickly that they may seem the Tate's of Liberty the flash and outbreak of a fiery mind a savageness in unreclaimed blood of general assault that's my code Lord wherefore should you do this I'm the Lord I would know that marry sir here's my drift and I believe it is a fetch of wit you'll a nice night sellers on my son as twere a thing little soiled is the working mark you your party in converse him you would sound have you ever seen in the predominant crimes the youth you breed of guilty he assured he closes with you in his consequence good sir also or friend or gentleman according to the phrase or the addition of man and country very good my lord and then does he this he does what was I about to say by the masses I was about to say something where did I leave a closes in the consequence at friendís oh and gentlemen the consequence I marry he closes thus I know the gentleman I saw him yesterday or the other day or then or there with such or such and as you say there was a gaming there were two installs there are 40 outed tennis or perchance I saw him enter such a house of sail village it a brothel or so forth see you now your beta falsehood takes this carp of truth and thus do we wisdom and of reach with wind letters and essays of buyers buy in directions find directions out so by by formal lecture and advice shall you my son you have me have you not milord I have God be with you fare you well good milord observe his inclination in yourselves I shall milord and let him play his music well milord farewell exit Reynaldo enter o philia oh no I feel ya what's the matter o my lord my lord I have been so afraid o is what he the name of God my lord as I was sewing in my closet Lord Hamlet with his doublet all unbraced no hat upon his head his stockings fouled on gartered and down dived to his ankle pale as his shirt his knees knocking each other and with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors he comes before me mad but I love my lord I do not know but truly I do fear it what said he he took me by the wrist and held me hard then goes he to the length of all his arm and with his other hand thus o'er his brow he falls to such perusal of my face as he would draw it long stayed he so at last a little shaking of mine arm and thrice his head thus waving up and down he raised a sigh so piteous and profound as it did seem to shatter all his bulk and in his being that done he lets me go and with his head over his shoulder turned he seemed to find his way without his eyes for outer doors he went without their helps and to the last bended their light on me come go with me I will go seek the king this is the very ecstasy of love whose violent property for does itself and leaves the will to desperate undertakings as oft as any passion under heaven that does afflict our natures I am sorry what have you given him any hard words of late no my good lord but as you did command I did repel his fetters and denied his access to me that has made him mad I am sorry that with better heed and judgment I had not quoted him I feared he did betrayal and meant direct thee but before 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 sword 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 exeunt scene 2 a room in the castle enter King Claudius Queen Gertrude Rosencrantz Guildenstern and attendants welcome dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern moreover that we much did long to see you the need we have to use you did provoke our hasty sending something have you heard of Hamlet's transformation so call it sit nor the exterior nor the inward man resembles that it was what it should be more than his father's death that thus hath put him so much from the understanding of himself I cannot dream of I entreat you both that being of so young days brought up with him and Sethe sown a bird to his youth and havior that you vouchsafe your rest here in our court some little time so by your companies to draw him onto pleasures and to gather so much as from occasion you may glean whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus that opens lies within our remedy good gentlemen he hath much talked of you and sure I am to men there are not living to whom he more adheres if it will please you to show us so much gentry and goodwill as to expend your time with us awhile for the supply and profit of our hope your visitation shall receives such thanks as fits a king's remembrance both your Majesties might by the sovereign power you have of us put your dread pleasures more into command than to entreaty but we both obey and here give up ourselves in the full bent to lay our service freely at your feet to be commanded thanks Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern thanks Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz and I beseech you instantly to visit my to much changed son go some of you and bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is heavens make our presence and our practices pleasant and helpful to him I are men exeunt Rosencrantz Guildenstern and some attendants enter Polonius yes it is from Norway my good lord joyfully returned thou still hast been the father of good news my lord sure my good nature by duty as I held by CERN both to my god under my gracious King and I do think else this breed of man hunts not the trail of policies as sure as it hath used to do that I have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy err Oh speak of that that do I long to hear you first admittance to the ambassadors mine you shall be the fruit to that a great feast thyself do grace to them and bring them in exit Polonius he tells me my dear Gertrude he hath found the head and source of all your son's distemper I doubt it is no other but the main his father's death and our or hasty marriage well we shall sit him reenter Polonius with volta Monde and Cornelius welcome my good friends say volta monde watch from our brother Norway most fair return of greetings and desires upon our first he sent out to suppress his nephews levies which to him appeared to be a preparation against the but better walked into he truly found it was against your highness where is grieved that so a sickness age and impotence was falsely born in hand sends out arrests on Fortinbras which he in brief obeys receives rebuke from Norway and in fine makes vow before his uncle Nevermore to give the SA of arms against your majesty whereon old Norway overcome with joy gives him three thousand crowns an annual fee and his commission to employ those soldiers so levied as before against the with an entreaty herein further showing giving a paper that it might please you to give quiet pass through your dominions for this enterprise on such regard of safety and allowance as therein are set down it likes us well and as one more considered time will read and and think upon this business meantime we thank you for your well took labour go to arrest that night will feast together most welcome home excellent Volta menthe and Cornelius this business is well ended my liege and Madam to expostulate what Majesty should be or Duty is why day and night night and time is time well nothing but to waste night day and time therefore since brevity is the soul of wit and he is knows the limbs and outward flourishes I will be brief your noble son is mad mad call I it for to define true madness what is about to be nothing else but mad would let that go more matter with less art madam I swear I use no art at all that he is mad tis true tis true tis pity and pity 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 calls thus it remains and the remainder thus prepend I have a daughter have why she is mine who in her duty and obedience mark hath given me this now gather and surmise greets to the celestial and my soul's Idol the most beautified Ophelia that's an ill phrase a vile phrase beautified is a vile phrase but you should hear thus reads in her excellent wide bosom these etcetera came this from how much to her good madam stay awhile I will be faithful reads doubt thou the stars are fire doubt that the Sun doth move doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt I love o dear Ophelia I am ill at these numbers I have not art to reckon my groans but that I love the best o most best believe it oh do they never more most dear lady whilst this machine is to him Hamlet this in obedience hath my daughter showed me and more above hath his soliciting 'he's as they fell out by time by means and place all given to mine here but how had she received his love what do you think of me as of a man faithful and honourable I would fain prove sir but what am I to think when I had seen this hot love on the wing as I perceived it I must tell you that before my daughter told me what might you or my dear Majesty your queen here I think if I had played the desk or table-book or given my heart a winking mute and dumb or looked upon this love with idle sight what might you think no I went round to work and my young mistress thus I did bespeak Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star this must not be and then I precepts give her that she should lock herself from his resort and with no messengers received no tokens which done she took the fruits of my advice and he repulsed a short tale to make fell into a sadness then into a fast then store watch thence into a weakness learns to a lightness and by this declension into the madness wherein now he raves at all we mourn for do you think tis this it may be very likely that there be such a time I'd fade know that that I have positively said tis sir when he proved otherwise not that I know pointing to his head and shoulder take this from this if this be otherwise if circumstances lead me I will find where truth is hid though it were hidden deed within the centre how may we try it further you know sometimes he walked for hours together here in the lobby so he does indeed at such a time I'll loose my daughter to him be you and I behind an Arras then mark the encounter if he love her not and be not from his reason fall thereon let me be no assistant for estate but keep a farm and Carters we will try it but look we're sadly the poor wretch comes reading away I do beseech you both the way I'll board him presently exeunt King Claudius Queen Gertrude and attendants enter Hamlet reading well God of mercy do you know me my lord excellent well you are a fishmonger Lord then I would you were so honest a man honest my lord I sir to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand that's very true my lord for if the Sun breed maggots in a dead dog being a good kissing carrion have you aughter I have my dog let her not walk you the son conception is a blessing but not as your daughter may conceive friend look to it aside how see you by that still harpy on my daughter yet he knew me not at first he said I was a fishmonger he is far gone far gone and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love very near theirs I'll speak to him again what do you read my lord words words words what is the matter my lord between who I mean the matter that you read my lord slanders sir for the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards that their faces are wrinkled their eyes purging thick amber and Plumtree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of wit together with most weak hands all which sir though I most powerfully and potently believe yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down for yourself sir should be as old as I am if like a crab you could go backward aside though this be madness yet there is Method int will you walk out of the air my lord into my grave indeed that is out of the air aside how pregnant sometimes his replies are happiness that often madness hits on which reason and sanity could not shed prosperously be delivered of I will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter my honourable Lord almost humbly take my leave of you you cannot sir take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal except my life except my life except my life fare you well my lord these tedious old fools enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern you go to seek the Lord Hamlet there he is god save you sir exit Polonius my honored Lord my most dear Lord my excellent good friends how does the Guildenstern up Rosencrantz good lads how do you both as the indifferent children of the earth happy and that we are not over happy unfortunate the very button nor the soles of her shoes neither my lord then you live about her waste store in the middle of her favours faith her privates we in the secret parts of fortune o most true she is a strumpet what's the news none my lord but that the world's grown honest men is doomsday near but your news is not true let me question more in particular what have you my good friends deserved at the hands of Fortune that she sends you to prison hither prison my lord Denmark's a prison then is the world one a goodly one in which there are many confines wards and dungeons Denmark being one of the worst we think not so my lord why then tis none to you for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so to me it is a prison why then your ambition makes it one tis too narrow for your mind 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 which dreams indeed or ambition for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream a dream itself is but a shadow truly and I hold ambition of so airy and light equality that it is but a shadow shadow then our our beggar's bodies and our monarchs and outstretched heroes the beggar shadows shall we to the court for by my Fay I cannot reason will wait upon you my lord no such matter I will not sort you with the rest of my servants for to speak to you like an honest man I am most dreadfully attended but in the beaten way of friendship what make you at Elsinore to visit you my lord no other occasion beggar than I am I am even poor in thanks but I thank you and sure dear friends my banks are too dear a halfpenny were you not sent for is it your own inclining is it a free visitation come deal justly with me come come nay speak what should we say my lord why anything but to the purpose you were sent for and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesty's have not craft enough to color I know the good king and queen have sent for you to what end my lord that you must teach me but let me conjure you by the rights of our fellowship by the consonance ii of our youth by the obligation of our ever preserved love and by what more dear a better proposer could charge you with all be even and direct with me whether you were sent for or no aside to Guildenstern let's say you Nathan I have an eye of you if you love me hold not off my lord we were sent for I will tell you why so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery and your secrecy to the king and queen molt no feather I have of late but wherefore I know not lost all my mirth forgone all custom of exercises and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory this most excellent canopy the air look you this brave or hanging firmament this majestical roof fretted with golden fire why it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors what a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how Express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god the beauty of the world the paragon of animals and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust men delights not me no nor woman neither though by your smiling you seem to say so my lord there was no such stuff in my thoughts why did you laugh then when I said man delights not me you think my lord if you delight not in man what Lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you we Cottard them on the way and hither their coming to offer you service he that plays the King shall be welcome His Majesty shall have tribute of me the adventurous Knight shall use his foil and target the lover shall not sigh gratis the humorous man shall end his part in peace the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle to the seer and the lady shall say her mind freely or the blank verse shall halt for it what players are they even those who are want to take delight in the tragedians of the city how chance is it they travel their residents both in reputation and profit was better both ways I think their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation do they hold the same estimation they did when I was in the city are they so followed no indeed they are not how comes it do you think rule rusty nay their endeavor keeps in the wanted place but there is Sir and area of children little IOC's that cry out on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapped for it these are now the fashion and sober idol the common stages so they call them that many wearing rape years are afraid of goose quills and dare scarce come thither what are they children who maintains them how are they escorted will they pursue the quality no longer than they can sing will they not say afterwards if they should grow themselves to common players as it is most like if their means are no better their writers do them wrong to make them exclaim against their own succession faith there has been much to do on both sides and the nation holds it no sin to tar them to controversy if there was for a while no money bid for argument unless the poet and the player went to cuffs in the question it's possible oh there has been much throwing about of brains do the boys carry it away I thought they do my lord Hercules and his load too he's not very strange for mine uncle is king of Denmark and those that would make Mo's at him while my father lived to give twenty forty fifty a hundred ducats a piece for his picture and little splud there is something in this more than natural if philosophy could find it out flourish of trumpets within they are the players gentlemen you are welcome to Elsinore your hands come then the appurtenance of welcome is fashioned in ceremony let me comply with you in this scar blessed my extent to the players which I tell you must show Fairly outward should more appear like entertainment than yours you are welcome but my uncle father and aunt mother are deceived in what my dear Lord I am but mad north-northwest when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw enter Polonius well be with you gentlemen hark you Guildenstern and you too at each ear a hearer that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling clouts happily he's the second time come to them for they say an old man is twice a child I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players market you say right sir on Monday morning twas so indeed my lord I have news to tell you my lord I have news to tell you when Russia was an actor in Rome the actors are come hither my lord Buzzz Buzzz upon my honor then came each actor on his ass for the best actors in the world either for tragedy comedy history pastoral pastoral comical historical-pastoral tragic historical tragical comical historical-pastoral seen in dividable or perm unlimited Seneca cannot be too heavy nor plotters too light for the law of writ and Liberty these are the only men Oh Jeff the judge of Israel what a treasure hadst thou what a treasure had he my lord why one fair daughter and no more the which he loved passing well still on my daughter am I not at the right old jet sir if you go new jets my lord I have a daughter that I love passing words nay that follows not what follows then my lord why as by lot God wot and then you know it came to pass as most like it was the first row of the Piyush and son will show you more for look where my abridgement comes enter four or five players you are welcome masters welcome all I am glad to see thee well welcome good friends Poe my old friend thy face is valence since I saw the last comes down to beard me in Denmark what my young lady and Mistress by your lady your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last by the altitude of a chopping pray God your voice like a piece of unger and gold be not cracked within the ring masters you are all welcome will into it like French falconers fly at anything we see will have a speech straight come give us a taste of your quality come a passionate speech what speech my lord I heard thee speak me a speech once but it was never acted or if it was not above once for the play I remember pleased not the million twas caviar to the general but it was as I received it and others whose judgments in such matters cried in the top of mine an excellent play well digested in the scenes set down with as much modesty as cunning I remember one said there were no salads in the lines to make the matter savoury nor no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affectation but called it an honest method as wholesome as sweet and by very much more handsome than fine one speech in it I chiefly loved twas Aeneas tale to Dido and thereabout of it especially where he speaks of Priam's slaughter if it live in your memory begin at this line let me see let me see the rugged Pyrrhus like the hurricane ii and beast it is not so it begins with Pyrrhus the rugged Pyrrhus he whose sable arms black as his purpose did the night resemble when he lay couch it in the ominous horse hath now this dread and black complexion smeared with heraldry more dismal head to foot now is he total ghouls horridly tricked with blood of fathers mothers daughters sons baked and impacted with the parching streets that lend a tyrannous and damn need light to their Lords murder roasted in wrath and fire and thus or size it with coagulate gore with eyes like carbuncles the hellish pyrrhus old grandsire priam seeks so proceed you O God my lord well spoken with good accent and good discretion anon he finds him striking to short at Greeks his antique sword rebellious to his arm lies where it falls repugnant to command unequal matched Pyrrhus at Priam drives in rage strikes wide but with the whiff and wind of his fell sword the unnerved father Falls then senseless ilium seeming to feel this blow with flaming top Stoops to his base and with a hideous crash takes prisoner Pyrrhus ear for lo his sword which was declining on the milky head of Reverend Priam seemed the air to stick so as a painted tyrant Pyrrhus stood and like a neutral to his will and matter did nothing but as we often see against some storm a silence in the even's the rack stand still the bold wins speechless and the orb below as hush as death anon the dreadful thunder doth rend the region so after paris pause aroused vengeance sets him new a-work and never did the Cyclops hammers fall on Mars his armor forged for proof returned with less remorse than Pyrrhus bleeding sword now falls on Priam out out now strumpet fortune all you gods in General Synod take away her power break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel and ball the round knave down the hill of heaven as low as to the fiends this is too long it shall to the barbers with your beard pretty say on he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry or he sleeps say on come to Hecuba but who oh who had seen the mob let queen mo bleed queen that's good mobled queen is good run barefoot up and down threatening the flames with bisson rheum a clout upon that head we're late the diadem stood and for a robe about her lank and all or team at loins a blanket in the alarm of fear caught up who this had seen with tongue in venom steeped gainst fortunes state would treason have pronounced but if the gods themselves did see her then when she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport in mincing with his sword her husband's limbs the instant burst of clamour that she made unless things mortal move them not at all would have made Milch the burning eyes of heaven and passion in the gods look whether he has not turned his color and has tears inside pray no more tis well I'll have these speak out the rest soon good My Lord will you see the players well bestowed do you hear let them be well used for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their I'll report while you live according to their desert God's body kinsmen much better use every man after his desert and who should scape whipping use them after your own honor and dignity the less they deserve the more merit is in your bounty take them in come follow him friends will hear a play tomorrow exit Polonius with all the players but the first dust thou hear me old friend can you play the murder of Gonzago I'm a noob will hat tomorrow night you could for a need study a speech of some dozen or 16 lines which I would set down and in certain Scott high my lord very well follow that Lord and look you mock him not exit first player my good friends I'll leave you till night you are welcome to Elsinore good my lord I so God be wiki exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern now I am alone what a rogue and peasant slave am I is it not monstrous that this player here but in a fiction in a dream of passion could force his soul so to his own conceit that from her working all his visit wand tears in his eyes distraction in his aspect a broken voice and his whole function suiting with forms to his conceit and all for nothing for Hecuba what's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba that he should weep for her what would he do had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have he would drown the stage with tears and cleave the general ear with horrid speech make mad at the guilty and appall the free found the ignorant and amaze indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears yet I a dull and muddy metal drascalo I canna dreams unpregnant of my cause and can say nothing no not for a king upon whose property and most dear life a damned defeat was made am i a coward who calls me villain breaks my pate across plucks off my beard and blows it in my face tweaks me by the nose gives me the lie of the throat as deepest to the lungs who does me this ha swoons I should take it for it cannot be but I am pigeon livered and lack gall to make oppression bitter or ere this i should have fatted all the region kites with this slave's awful bloody bawdy villain remorseless treacherous lecherous kind less villain Oh vengeance why what an ass am i this is most brave that I the son of a dear father murdered prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell must like a unpack my heart with words and fall a-cursing like a very drab a Scullion fie upon it about my brain I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play have by the very cunning of the scene been struck so to the soul that presently they have proclaimed their malefactions for murder that would have no tongue will speak with most miraculous organ I'll have these players play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle I'll observe his looks I'll tent him to the quick if he but blench I know my course the spirit that I have seen may be the devil and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape yay and perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy as he is very potent with such spirits abuses me to damn me I'll have grounds more relative than this the plays the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king exit end of act 2 act 3 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org act 3 scene 1 a room in the castle enter King Claudius Queen Gertrude Polonius o philia Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and can you by no drift of circumstance get from him why he puts on this confusion grating so harshly all his days of quiet with turbulent and dangerous lunacy he does confess himself distracted but from what cause he will by no means speak nor do we find him forward to be sounded but with the crafty madness keeps aloof when we would bring him on to some confession of his true state did he receive you well boast like a gentleman but with much forcing of his disposition did you assay him to any pastime madam it so fell out that certain players we are out on the way of this we told him and there did seem in him a kind of joy to hear it they are about the court and as I think they have already ordered this night to play before him these days true that he beseech me to entreat your majesties to hear and see the matter with all my heart and it doth much content me to hear him so inclined good gentleman give him a further edge and drive his purpose on to these delights we shall my lord exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sweet Gertrude leave us two for we have closely sent for Hamlet hither that he as to air by accident may here affront Ophelia her father and myself lawful espías will so bestow ourselves that seeing unseen we may have their encounter frankly judge and gather by him as he is behaved if to be the affliction of his love or know that thus he suffers for I shall obey you and for your part o failure I do wish that your good beauties be the happy cause of Hamlet's wildness so shall I hope your virtues will bring him to his wonted way again to both your honors madam I wish it may exit Queen Gertrude o philia walk you here gracious sir please you we will bestow ourselves to o failure read on this book that sure of such an exercise may color your loneliness we are off to blaming this tis too much proved that with devotions visited by section we do sugar or the devil himself aside no tis too true how smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience the harlots cheek Beauty dwith plastering art is not more ugly to the thing that helps it than is my deed to my most painted word o heavy burden hear him coming let's withdraw my lord exeunt King Claudius and Polonius enter Hamlet to be or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them to die to Sleep No More and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to two the consummation devoutly to be wish'd to die to sleep to sleep perchance to dream aye there's the rub for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause there's the respect that makes calamity of so long life for who would bear the whips and scorns of time the oppressors wrong the proud man's contumely the pangs of despised love the laws 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 who would fardels bear to grunt and sweat under a weary life but that the dread of something after death the undiscovered country from whose Bourn no traveler returns puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of thus conscience does make cowards of us all and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought and enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of action soft you now the fair Ophelia nymph in thy orisons be all my sins remember'd good my lord how does your honor for this many a day I humbly thank you well well well my lord I have remembrances of yours that I have longed long to redeliver I pray you now receive them no not I I never gave you what my honored Lord you know right well you did and with them words of so sweet breath composed as made the things more rich their perfume lost take these again for to the noble mind rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind there my lord haha are you honest my lord are you fair what means your lordship that if you be honest and fair your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty could Beauty my lord have better commerce than with honesty I truly for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate Beauty into his likeness this was sometime a paradox but now the time gives it proof I did love you once indeed my lord you made me believe so you should not have believed me for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it I loved you not I was the more deceived get thee to a nunnery why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners I am myself indifferent honest but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me I am very proud revengeful ambitious with more offenses at my Beck than I have thoughts to put them in imagination to give them shape or time to act them in what should such fellows as I do crawling between Earth and heaven we are arrant knaves all believe none of us go thy ways to a nunnery where's your father at home my lord let the doors be shut upon him that he may play the fool nowhere but in zone house farewell Oh help him you sweet heavens if thou dost marry I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny get thee to a nunnery go farewell or if thou wilt needs marry marry a fool for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them to a nunnery go and quickly to farewell o heavenly powers restore him I have heard of your paintings too well enough God has given you one face and you make yourselves another you jig you amble and you Lisp and nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance go to I'll know morant it hath made me mad I say we will have no more marriages those that are married already all but one shall live the rest shall keep as they are to a nunnery go exit oh what a noble mind is here o'erthrown the courtiers soldiers scholars eye tongue sword the expectancy and Rose of the fair state the glass of fashion and the mould of form the observed 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 in harsh that unmatched form and feature of blown youth blasted with ecstasy oh woe is me to have seen what I have seen see what I see reenter King Claudius and Polonius love his affections do not that way tend nor what he spake though it lacked form a little was not like madness there's something in his soul or which his melancholy sits on brood and I do doubt the hatch and the disclose will be some danger which for to prevent I have in quick determination thus set it down he shall with speed to England for the demand of our neglected tribute happily the seas and countries different with variable objects shall expel this something settled matter in his heart or on his brains still beating puts him thus from fashion of himself what think you want it shall do well yet do I believe the origin and commencement of his grief sprung from neglected love how now Ophelia you need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said we heard it all my lord do as you please but if you heard it feared after the play let his Queen mother all alone entreat him to show his grief let her be round with him and I'll be pleased so please you in the air of all their conference if she find him nod to England send him or confine him where your wisdom best shouting it shall be so madness and great ones must not unwatched go exeunt scene 2 a hole in the castle enter Hamlet and players speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you trippingly on the tongue but if you mouth it as many of your players do I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines nor do not saw the air too much with your hand thus but use all gently for in the very torrent Tempest and as I may say the whirlwind of passion you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness oh it offends me to the soul to hear a robust gist Perry wig pated fellow tear a passion to tatters to very rags to split the ears of the groundlings who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise I would have such a fellow whipped for or doing termagant it out Herod's Herod pray you avoid it I warrant your honor be not too tame neither but let your own discretion be your tutor suit the action to the word the word to the action with this special observance that you or step not the modesty of nature for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing whose end both at the first and now was and is to hold as twere the mirror up to nature to show virtue her own feature scorn her own image and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure now this overdone or come tardy off though it makes the unskillful laugh cannot but make the judicious grieve the censure of the which one must in your allowance or way a whole theater of others oh there be players that I have seen play and heard others praise and that highly not to speak it profanely that neither having the accent of Christians nor the Gate of Christian pagan nor man have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well they imitated humanity so abominably I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us sir Oh reformed it all together and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them for there be of them that will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered that's villainous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it go make you ready exeunt players enter Polonius Rosencrantz and Guildenstern how now my lord will the King hear this piece of work I'm the queen - and that presently did the players make haste exit Polonius will you to help to hasten them we will my lord exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern what ho Horatio enter Horatio here sweet lord at your service Horatio thou art eanes just a man as heir my conversation coped withal oh my dear Lord nay do not think I flat her for what advancement may I hope from thee that no revenge' hast but thy good spirits to feed and clothe thee why should the poor be flattered no let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning dust thou here since my dear soul was mistress of her choice and could have men distinguished her election hath sealed thee for herself for thou hast been as one in suffering all that suffers nothing a man that fortunes buffets and rewards has to tain with equal thanks and blessed are those whose blood and judgment are so welcoming gold that they are not a pipe for fortunes finger to sound what stop she please give me that man that is not passions slave and I will wear him in my heart score I in my heart apart I do thee something too much of this there is a play tonight before the king one scene of it comes near the circumstance which I have told thee of my father's death I prithee when now seus to that act afoot even with the very comment of thy soul observe mine uncle if his occulted guilt do not itself unkennel in one speech it is a damned nerd ghost that we have seen and my imaginations are as foul as Vulcans steady give him a heedful note for I mine eyes will rivet to his face and after we will both our judgments join in censure of his seeming well my lord if he still aught the whilst this play is playing and scape detecting I will pay the theft they are coming to the play I must be idle get you a place Danish March a flourish enter King Claudius Queen Gertrude Polonius o philia Rosencrantz Guildenstern and others how fares our cousin Hamlet excellent to fade of the chameleons dish I each the heir promised crams you cannot feed capons so I have nothing with this answer Hamlet these words are not mine no nor mine now - Polonius my lord you played once at the University you say that did I my lord I was accounted a good actor what did you enact I didn't actor Julius Caesar I was killed in the capital Brutus killed me it was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there be the players ready I my lord they stood upon your patience come hither my dear Hamlet sit by me no good mother here's metal more attractive to King Claudius oh that lady shall I lie in your lap no my lord I mean my head upon your lap I my lord do you think I meant country matters I think nothing my lord that's a fair thought to lie between me legs what is my lord nothing you are Mary my lord who I I my lord oh god you're only jig maker what should a man do but be merry for look you how cheerfully my mother looks and my father died within these two hours nay tis twice two months my lord so long nay then let the devil wear black for I'll have a suit of stables oh heavens died 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 a lady he must build churches then or else shall he suffer not thinking on with the hobbyhorse who's epitaph is 404 oh the hobbyhorse is forgot how to eyes 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 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 and pours poison in the Kings ears and exit the Queen returns finds the King dead and makes passionate action the poisoner with some two or three mutes comes in again seeming to lament with her the dead body is carried away the poisoner Woo's the Queen with gifts she seems loath and unwilling a while but in the end accepts his love excellent what means this my lord Mary this is me ching malik oh it means mischief be like this show imports the argument of the play enter prologue we shall know by this fellow the players cannot keep counsel they'll tell all will he tell us what the show meant I or any show that you'll show him be not you ashamed to show he'll not shame to tell you what it means you are not you are not all mark the play for us and for our tragedy here stooping to your clemency we beg your hearing patiently exit is this a prologue or the posy of a ring tis brief my lord as woman's love enter two players king and queen full thirty times have Phoebus cart gone round Neptune salt wash and tellus orbit ground and 30 dozen moons with borrowed Sheen about the world half times twelve thirties beam since love our hearts and hymen did our hands unite commute Yule in most sacred bands so many journeys may the Sun and Moon make us again count or our love be done but what was me you are so sick of late so far from cheer and from your former state that I just trust you yet though I distrust discomfort you my lord it's nothing must for woman's fear and love holds quantity in neither art nor in extremity now what my love is proof hath made you know and as my love is sighs my fear is so where love is great the littlest doubts are fear where little fears grow great great love grows their faith I must leave the love and shortly to my operant powers their functions leave to do and thou shalt live in this fair world behind honored beloved and happily one as kind for husband shalt thou who can't found the rest such love must needs be treason in my breast in second husband let me be accurst none where'd the second but who killed the first wormwood wormwood the instances that second marriage move our base specs of thrift but none of love a second time I kill my husband dead when second husband kisses me in bed I do believe you think what now you speak but what we do determine oft we break purpose is but the slave to memory a violent birth but poor validity which now like fruit unripe sticks on the tree but fall on shaken when they mellow be most necessary tis that we forget to pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt what to ourselves in passion we propose the passion ending Duff the purpose lose the violence of either grief or joy their own enactors with themselves destroy where joy most revels grief doth most lament grief Joy's joy grieves on slender accident this world is not for aye nor tis not strange that even our love's should with our fortunes change for tis a question left us yet to prove whether love lead fortune or else fortune love the great man down you mark his favorite flies the poor advanced makes friends of enemies and hither to death love on Fortune tend for who not needs shall never lack a friend and who in want a hollow friend doth try directly seasons him his enemy but orderly to end where I begun our wills and fates do so contrary run that our devices still are overthrown our thoughts are ours their ends none of our own so think thou wilt know second husband Wed but died thy thoughts when thy first Lord is dead no earth to me give food no heaven light sport and repose lock from me day and night to desperation turn my trust and hope and anchors cheer in prison be my scope each opposite that blanks the face of joy meet what I would have well and it destroy both here and hence pursue me lasting strife if once a widow ever I be wife if she should break it now it is deeply sworn sweet leave me here a while my spirits grow dull and fain I would beguile the tedious day with sleep sleep Rock thy brain and never come miss chance between us Twain exit madam how like you this play the lady protests too much methinks oh but she'll keep her word have you heard the argument is there no offense and no no they do but jest poison ingest no offence of the world what do you call the play the mousetrap Mary how tropically this play is the image of a murder done in Vienna Gonzaga is the Dukes name his wife Baptista you shall see anon tis a knavish piece of work but what are that your majesty and we that have free Souls it touches us not let the gold jade wince our withers are on rung enter Lucy honest this is one Lucy honest nephew to the king you are as good as a chorus my lord I could interpret between you and your love if I could see the puppets dallying you are king my lord you are keen it would cost you a groaning to take off my edge still better and worse so you must take your husband's begin murderer pox leave thy damnable faces and begin come the croaking Raven doth bellow for revenge thoughts black hands apt drugs fit and time agreeing Confederate season else no creature seeing the mixture rank of midnight weeds collected with Hecate ban thrice blasted thrice infected thy natural magic and dire property on wholesome life usurp immediately pours the poison into the sleepers ears he poisons him in the garden for his estate his name's Gonzago the story is extant and written choice Italian you shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzaga's wife the King Rises what frighted with false fire how fares my lord you go all the play give me some light away exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio why let the stricken deer go weep the heart on garland play for some must watch while some must sleep so runs the world away with not this sir and a forest of feathers if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me with two provincial roses on my raised shoes give me a fellowship in a cry of players sir half a share a whole one eye for that a snow Oh Damon dear this realm dismantled was of jove himself and now reigns here a very dairy page jacques you might have rhymed o good Horatio I'll take the ghosts word for a thousand pound didst perceive very well my lord upon the talk of the poisoning I did very well note him aha come some music come the recorders first the King liked not the comedy why then belike he likes it not Purdy come some music reenter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern good my lord vouchsafe me a word with you sir a whole history the King sir I sir what of him is in his retirement marvelous distempered with drink sir no my lord rather with color your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to his doctor for for me to put him to his predation would perhaps plunge him into far more collar good my lord put your discourse into some frame and start not so wildly from my affair I am tame sir pronounced the queen your mother in most great Affleck enough spirit hath sent me to you you are welcome nay good my lord this courtesy is not of the right breed if it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer I will do your mother's commandment if not your pardon and my return shall be the end of my business sir I cannot what my lord make you a wholesome answer my wits diseased but Sir such answers I can make you shall command or rather as you say my mother therefore no more but to the matter my mother you say then thus she says your behavior has struck her into amazement and admiration Oh wonderful son that can so astonish a mother but is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's admiration in part she desires to speak with you in our closet there you go to bed we shall obey where she 10 times our mother have you any further trade with us my lord you once did love me so I do still buy these pickers and stealers good my lord what is your cause of distemper you do surely bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend sir I lack advancement how can that be when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark I but sir while the grass grows the proverb is something musty re-enter players with recorders oh the recorders let me see one to withdraw with you why do you go about to recover the wind of me as if you would drive me into a toil oh my lord if my duty be to bold my love its to one man early I do not well understand that will you play upon this pipe my lord I cannot I pray you believe me I cannot I do beseech you I know no touch of it my lord tis as easy as lying govern these vintages with your fingers and thumb give it breath with your mouth and it will discourse most eloquent music look you these are the stops but these I cannot command to any utter of harmony I have not the skill 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 splud do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe call me what instruments you will though you can fret me yet you cannot play upon me enter Polonius god bless you sir my lord the Queen would speak with you and present layers do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel by the mass ant is like a camel indeed methinks it is like a weasel it is like a weasel or like a whale very like a whale then I will come to my mother by and by they fool me to the top of my bent I will come by and by I will say sir by and by is easily said exit Polonius leave me friends exeunt all but Hamlet tis now the very witching time of night when churchyards yawn and Hell itself breathes out contagion to this world now could I drink hot blood and do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on soft now to my mother Oh heart lose not by Nature let not ever the soul of Nero enter this firm bosom let me be cruel not unnatural I will speak daggers to her but use none my tongue and soul in this be hypocrites how in my words so ever she be shent to give them seals never my soul consent exit scene 3 a room in the castle enter King Claudius Rosencrantz and Guildenstern I like him not nor stand it's safe with us to let his madness range therefore prepare you I your Commission will forthwith dispatch and he to England shall along with you the terms of our state may not endure hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow out of his lunacies we will ourselves provide most holy and religious fear it is to keep those many many bodies safe that live and feed upon your majesty the single and peculiar life is bound with all the strength and armour of the mind to keep itself from noise but much more that spirit upon whose weal depend and rest the lives of many the cease of majesty dies not alone but like a gulf does it draw what's near it with it it is a massy wheel fixed on the summit of the highest mount to use huge spokes ten thousand lesser things are more de stand joined which when it falls each small annex mitt petty consequence attends the boisterous ruin never alone did the King say but with general groan arm you I pray you to this speedy voyage for we will fetters put upon this fear which now goes to free footed we will leave us exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern enter Polonius my lord he's going to his mother's closet behind the Arras I'll convey myself to here are the process and warrant sure tax him home and as you said and wisely was it said tis meat that some more audience than a mother since nature makes impartial should overhear the speech advantage fare you well my liege I'll call upon you ere you go to bed and tell you what I know thanks dear my lord exit Polonius oh my offense is rank it smells to heaven it hath the primal eldest curse upon't a brother's murder 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 found I stand in pause where I first begin and both neglect what if this curse at hand was thicker than itself with brother's blood his there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow where to serves mercy but to confront the village of offense and what's in prayer but this twofold force to be forced all dare we come to fall or pardoned being down then I look up my fault is past but oh what form of Prayer can serve my turn forgive me my foul murder that cannot be since I am still possessed of those effects for which I did the murder my crown mine own ambition and my queen may one be pardoned and retained the offense in the corrupted currents of this world offenses gilded hand may shove by justice and oft his scene the wicked prize itself buys out the law but is not so above there is no shuffling there the action lies in his true nature and we ourselves compelled 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 hole I midsole that struggling to be free art more engaged help angels make us a bow stubborn knees and heart with strings of steel be soft as sinews of the newborn babe all may be well retires and Neil's enter Hamlet now might I do it Pat now he is praying and now I'll do it and so he goes to heaven and so am i revenged that would be scanned a villain kills my father and for that I his sole son do this same villain send to heaven well this is higher in salary not revenge he took my father grossly full of bread with all his crimes broad blown as flesh as May and how his audit stands who knows save heaven but in our circumstance and course of thought his heavy with him and am I then revenged to take him in the purging of his soul when he is fit and seasoned for his passage no up sword and no thou a more horrid hent when he is drunk asleep or in his rage or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed at gaming swearing or about some apps that has no relish of salvation int then trip him that his heels make kick at heaven and that his soul may be as damned and black as hell whereto it goes my mother stays this physic but prolongs nice sickly days exit rising my words fly up my thoughts remain below words without thoughts never to heaven go exit scene for the Queen's closet enter Queen Gertrude and Polonius he will come straight look you lay home to him tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with and that your grace had screened and stood between much heat in him I'm sconce me even here pray you be round with him within mother mother mother I warrant you fear me not withdraw I hear him coming Polonius hides behind the Arras enter Hamlet now mother what's the matter Hamlet thou hast thy father much offended mother you have my father much offended come come you answer with an idle tongue Go Go you question with a wicked tongue why how now Hamlet what's the matter now have you forgot me no by the Rood not so you are the Queen your husband's brother's wife and would it were not so you are my mother nay then I'll set those to you that can speak come come and sit you down you shall not budge you go not till I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you what wilt thou do that would not murder me help help ho behind what drawing how now a rat dead for a Duquette dead makes a pass through the Arras falls and dies Oh nay I know not is it the king oh what a ration but it did is this a bloody deed almost as bad good mother as kill a king and marry with his brother Eskew a king i lady twas my word lift up the heiress and discovers Polonius thou wretched rash intruding fool farewell I took thee for thy better take my fortune though fights to be to busy is some danger leave wringing of your hands peace sit you down and let me wring your heart for so I shall if it be made of penetrable stuff if damned need custom have not brassed it so that it is proof and bulwark against sense what have I done that thou darest wag thy tongue in noise so rude against me such an act that blurs the Grace and blush of modesty call virtue hypocrite takes off the roads from the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets a blister there makes marriage vows as false as Dicers oaths Oh such a deed as from the body of contraction plucks the very soul and sweet religion makes a Rhapsody of words heavens face doth glow yay this solidity and compound mass with tryst foliage as against the doom is thought sick at the act I me what act that roars so loud and thunders in the index look here upon this picture and on this the counterfeit presentment of two brothers see what a grace was seated on this brow Hyperion's curls the front of jove himself an eye like mars to threaten and command a station like the herald mercury new lighted on a heaven kissing hill a combination and a form indeed where every God did seemed to set his seal to give the world Assurance of a man this was your husband look you now what follows here is your husband like a mildewed ear blasting his wholesome brother have you eyes could you on this fair Mountain leave to feed and batten on this Moor have you eyes you cannot call it love first your age the heyday in the blood is tame its humble and waits upon the judgment and what judgment would step from this to this sense sure you have else could you not have motion but sure that sense is a perplexed from madness would not air nor sense to ecstasy was near so thrilled but it reserved some quantity of choice to serve in such a difference what devil wast that thus have cousin dyou at Hoodman blind eyes without feeling feeling without sight ears without hands or eyes smelling sands all or but a sickly part of one true sense could not so mope Oh shame where is thy blush rebellious hell if thou canst mutant in a matrons bones too leeming youth let virtue be as wax and melt in her own fire proclaim no shame when the compulsive ardor gives the charge since frost itself is actively doth burn and reason panders will Oh Hamlet speak no more though turnest mine eyes into my very soul and there I see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct nay but to live in the ranks sweat of an inseam in bed stood in corruption honeying and making love over the nasty sty Oh speak to me no more these words like daggers enter in mine ears no more sweet Hamlet a murderer and a villain a slave that is not twentieth part the tithe of your precedent Lord a vice of Kings a cut purse of the Empire and the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole and put it in his pocket no more a king of shreds and patches enter ghosts save me and hover o'er me with your wings You Heavenly guards what would your gracious figure alas he's mad do not you come your tardy son to chide that lapsed in time and passion let's go by the important acting of your dread command o say do not forget this visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose but look amazement on thy mother sits o step between her and her fighting soul conceit in weakest bodies strongest works speak to her Hamlet how is it with you lady alas how is it with you that you do bend your eye on vacancy and with the in corporal air to hold discourse forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep and as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm your bedded hair like life in excrements starts up and stands on end oh gentle Sun upon the heat and flame of the ideas temper sprinkle cool patience we're on do you look on him on him look you how pale he glares his form and cause conjoined preaching to stones would make them capable do not look upon me lest with this piteous action you convert my Stern effects then what I have to do will want true colour tears perchance for blood to whom do you speak this do you see nothing there nothing at all yet all that is I see nor did you nothing here no nothing but ourselves why look you there look how it steals away my father in his habit as he lived look where he goes even now out of the portal exit ghost this the very coinage of your brain this bodyless creation ecstasy is very cunning in ecstasy my pulse as yours doth temperately keep time and makes as healthful music it is not madness that I have uttered bring me to the test and I the matter will reword which madness would gambol from mother for love of grace lay not that mattering unction to your soul that not your trespass but my madness speaks it will but skin and film the ulcerous place whilst rank corruption mining all within infects unseen confess yourself to heaven repent what's past avoid what is to come and do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker forgive me this my virtue for in the fatness of these Pursy times virtue itself of Vice must pardon beg yeh curb and woo for leave to do him good Oh Hamlet thou hast cleft my heart in Twain Oh throw away the worser part of it and live the purer with the other half goodnight but go not to mine uncle bed assume a virtue if you have it not that monster custom who all sensed off eat of habits devil Angell yet in this that to the use of actions fair and good he likewise gives a frock or livery that aptly is put on refrain tonight and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence the next more easy for use almost can change the stamp of nature and either shame the devil or throw him out with wondrous potency once more good night and when you are desirous to be blessed I'll blessing beg of you for this same Lord pointing to Polonius I do repent but heaven hath pleased it so to punish me with this and this with me that I must be their scourge and minister I will bestow him and will answer well the death I gave him so again good night I must be cruel only to be kind thus bad begins and worse remains behind one word more good lady what shall I do not this by no means that I bid you do let the bloat King tempt you again to bed pinch wanton on your cheek call you his mouse and let him for a pair of ricci kisses or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers make you to Ravel all this matter out that I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft twere good you let him know for who that's but a queen fair sober wise wood from a paddock from a bat to give with such dear concernings hide who would do so no in despite of sense and secrecy unpack the basket on the houses top let the birds fly and like the famous ape to try conclusions in the basket creep and break your own neck down be thou assured if words be made of breath and breath of life I have no life to breathe what thou has said to me I must to England you know that alack I had forgot tis so concluded on there's letters sealed and my two schoolfellows whom I will trust as I will adders fanged they bear the mandate they must sweep my way and marshal me to knavery but at work fort is the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard and shall go hard but I will delve one yard below their minds and blow them at the moon Oh tis most sweet when in one line two crafts directly meet this man shall set me packing I'll lug the guts into the neighbor room mother good night indeed this counselor is now most still most secret and most grave who was in life a foolish prating knave come sir to draw toward an end with you good night mother exeunt severally Hamlet dragging in Polonius end of act 3 Act four of Hamlet by William Shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org act 4 scene 1 a room in the castle enter King Claudius Queen Gertrude Rosencrantz and Guildenstern there's matter in these sighs these profound heaves you must translate tis fit we understand them where is your son bestow this place on us a little while exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern oh my good lord what have I seen tonight what Gertrude how does Hamlet mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is the mightier in his lawless fit behind that Harris hearing something stirrer whips out his rapier cries a rat a rat and in this brainish apprehension kills the unseen good old man o heavy deed it had been so with us had we been there his liberty is full of threats to all to you yourself to us to everyone alas how shall this bloody deed be answered it will be laid to us whose Providence should have kept short restrained and out of haunt this mad young man but so much was our love we would not understand what was most fit but like the owner of a fowl disease to keep it from divulging let it feed even on the pith of life where is he gone to draw apart the body he hath killed or whom his very madness like some or among a mineral of metals bass shows itself pure he weeps for what is done no 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 re-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 dragged him go seek him out speak fair and bring the body into the chapel I pray you haste in this excellent 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 how come away my soul is full of discord and dismay exeunt scene to another room in the castle enter Hamlet safely stowed Hamlet Lord hammered Hamlet what noise who calls on Hamlet oh here they come enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern what have you done my lord with a dead body compounded it with dust where choose his kin tell us where it is that we may take events and bear it to the chapel do not believe it believe what that I can keep your council and not mine own besides to be demanded of his sponge what replication should be made by the son of a king take you me for a sponge my lord aye sir that soaks up the Kings countenance his rewards his authorities but such officers do the King best service in the end he keeps them like an ape in the corner of his jaw first mouthed to be last swallowed when he needs what you have gleaned it is but squeezing you and sponge you shall be dry again I understand you not my lord I am glad of it an Avis speech sleeps in a foolish ear my lord you must tell us where the body is and go with us to the king the body is with the king but the king is not with the body the king is a thing a thing my lord of nothing bring me to him hide Fox and all after exeunt scene 3 another room in the castle enter King Claudius attended I have sent to seek him at defined the body how dangerous is it that this man goes loose yet must not we put the strong law on him he's loved of the distracted multitude who liked not in their judgment but their eyes and where'd his so the offender's scourge is Wade but never the offence to bear all smooth and even this sudden sending him away must seem deliberate pause diseases desperate groan by desperate appliance are relieved or not at all enter Rosencrantz how now what hath befallen where the dead body has bestowed my lord we cannot get from him but where is he without my lord guarded to know your pleasure bring him before us ho Guildenstern bring in my lord enter Hamlet and Guildenstern now Hamlet where's Polonius at supper at supper we're not where he eats but where he is eaten a certain convocation of politic worms are in at him your worm is your only Emperor for diet we fat all creatures else to fat us and we fed ourselves for maggots your fat King and your lean beggar is but variable service two dishes but to one table that's the end laughs alas a man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm what dust you mean by this nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar where is Polonius in heaven send hither to see if your messenger find him not there seek him in the other place yourself but indeed if you find him not within this month you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby go seek him there he will stay till you come exeunt attendants Hamlet this deed for thine especial safety which we do tender as we dearly grieve for that which thou hast done must send thee hence with fiery quickness therefore prepare thyself the bark is ready and the wind at help the associates tend and everything is bent for England / England I Hamlet good so is it if thou knewest our purposes I see a cherub that sees them but come for England farewell dear mother thy loving father Hamlet my mother father and mother is man and wife man and wife is one flesh and so my mother come for England exit follow him at foot tempt him with speed abort delay it not I'll have him hence tonight away for everything is sealed and done that else leans on the affair pray you make haste exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and England if my love thou hallstatt aught as my great power thereof may give thee sense since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red after the Danish sword and thy free or pays homage to us thou mayst not coldly set our sovereign process which imports that full by letters congruent to that effect the present death of Hamlet do it England for like the hectic in my blood he rages and thou must cure me till I know tis done how ere my HAP's my Joy's were near begun exit scene for a plain in Denmark enter Fortinbras a captain and soldiers marching Jerry captain for me greet the Danish King tell him that by his license Fortinbras craves the conveyance of a promised March of his kingdom you know the rendezvous if that his Majesty would or with us we shall express our duty in his eye and let him know I will do it my lord go softly on exeunt Fortinbras and soldiers enter Hamlet Rosencrantz Guildenstern and others good sir whose powers of these they are of no way sir how purposed sir I pray you against some part of Poland who commands them sir the nephews told Norway Fortinbras goes it against the main of Poland sir or for some frontier truly to speak and with no addition we go to gain a little patch of ground that havenít no profit but the name to pay five ducats five I would not farm it nor will it yield to Norway or the pole a rancor raid should it be sold in fee why then the never will defend it yes it is already garrisoned two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats will not debate the question of this straw this is the imposture of much wealth and peace that in word breaks and shows no cars without why the man dies I humbly thank you sir god be with you sir exit will't please you go my lord I'll be with you straight go a little before exeunt all except hamlet how all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge what is a man if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed a beast no more sure he that made us with such large discourse looking before and after gave us not that capability and godlike reason to fust in us unused now whether it be bestial oblivion or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on the event a thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward I do not know why yet I live to say this things to do Sith I have caused and will and strength and means to do it examples gross as Earth George me witness this army of such mass and charge led by a delicate and tender prince whose spirit with divine ambition puffed makes mouths at the invisible event exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune death and danger dare even for an eggshell rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument but greatly to find quarrel in a straw when honors at the steak house stand I then that have a father killed a mother stained excitements of my reason and my blood and let all sleep while to my shame I see the imminent death of twenty thousand men that for a fantasy and trick of Fame go to their graves like beds fight for a plot where on the numbers cannot try the cause which is not to Mahna and continent to hide the slain Oh from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth exit scene five Elsinore a room in the castle enter Queen Gertrude Horatio and a gentleman I will not speak with her she is important 'it indeed distract her mood will need to be pity at what would she have she speaks much of her father says she has those tricks in the world and hems and beats her heart spans enviously at straws speaks things in doubt that carry but half sense a speech is nothing yet the unshaded use of it doesn't move the hearers to collection they aim at it and botch the words up fixed their own thoughts which has her winks and nods and gestures yields and indeed would make on sink there might be sort though nothing sure yet Moksh unhappily for goods you were spoken with for she may strew dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding mines let her come in exit Horatio to my sick soul as sins 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 reenter Horatio with Ophelia where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark how now Ophelia how should I your true love know from another one by his cockle hat and staff and his sandal shoon alas sweet lady what imports this song say you nay pray you mark he is dead and gone lady he is dead and gone at his hat a grass green turf at his heels as stone name but Ophelia pray you mark white his shroud as the mountain snow enter King Claudius alas look here my lord lauded with sweet flowers which be wept to the grave did go with to love shower how do you pretty lady well God illed you they say the owl was a Baker's daughter Lord we know what we are but know not what we may be God be at your table conceit upon her father pray you let's have no words of this but when they ask you what it means say you this tomorrow is st. Valentine's Day all in the morn B time and I am made at your window to be your Valentine then up heroes and donned his clothes and up the chamber door let in the mate that outer maid never depart more prettier philia indeed LA without an oath I'll make an end on it by kiss and by Saint charity alack and fie for shame young men will do it if they come to it my they are to blame quod she before you tumbled me you promised me to it so would I done by under Sun and thou hadst not come to my bed how long had she been das I hope all will be well we must be patient but I cannot choose but weep to think they should lay him in the cold ground my brother shall know of it and so I thank you for your good counsel come my coach good night ladies good night sweet ladies good night good night exit follow her clothes give her good watch I pray you exit Horatio well this is the poison of deep grief it Springs all from her father's death Oh Gertrude Gertrude when sorrows come they come not single spies but in battalions first her father slain next your son gone and he most violent author of his own just remove the people muddied thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers for good Polonius's death and we have done but Greenlee in hugger-mugger to inter him poor Ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgement without the which we are pictures or mere beasts last and as much containing as all these her brother is in secret come from France feeds on his wonder keeps himself in clouds and wants not buzzers to infect his ear with pestilence speeches of his father's death we're in necessity of matter beggared will nothing stick our person to arraign an ear and ear how my dear Gertrude this like to a murdering piece in many places gives me superfluous death a noise within alack what noise is this where are my Switzer's let them guard the door enter another gentleman what is the matter save yourself my lord the ocean / pairing of his list it's not the flaps with more impetuous haste than young lay our teas in a riotous head or there's your officers the rabble call him Lord and as the world when now but to begin antiquity for God custom not known the ratifiers and props of every word they cry choose we lay our tears shall be king caps hands and tongues applauded to the clouds lay our teas shall be king Laertes King how cheerfully on the false trail they cry oh this is counter you false Danish dogs the doors are broke noise within enter Laertes armed Danes following where is this King sir stand you all without know I pray you give me leave we will they retire without the door I thank you keep the door without vile King give me my father calmly good Laertes that drop of blood that's compro claims me bastard Christ cuckold to my father brands a harlot even here between the chaste unsmirched brow of my true mother what is the cause Laertes that their abelian looks so giant like let him go Gertrude do not fear our person there's such divinity death hedger King that treason can but peep to what it would acts little of his will tell me Laertes why thou art thus incensed let him go Gertrude speak man where is my father dead but not by him let him demand his fill o came he dead I'll not be troubled with two hell allegiance vows to the blackest devil conscience and grace to the profoundest pit I dare damnation to this point I stand that both the worlds I give to negligence that come what comes only I'll be revenged most orally for my father who shall stay you my will not all the world and for my means I'll husband them so well they shall go far with little good Laertes if you desire to know the certainty of your dear father's death is too rich in your revenge that swoops take you will draw both friend and foe winner and loser none but his enemies will you know them then to his good friends as well my arms and like the kind life rendering Pelican repast them with my blood why now you speak like a good child and a true gentleman that I am guiltless of your father's death and a most sensible and grief for it it shall as level to your judgment pierce as day does to your eye oh no what noise is that reenter athelia he's drying up my brains tears seven times salt burn out of the sense and virtue of my night by heaven die Manish ah paid by weight still our scale turn the beam arose of may maid kind sister sweet o philia oh heavens it's possible a young maids wits should be as moral as an old man's life nature is fine love and wear tis fine it sends some precious instance of itself after the thing it loves they bore him bare faced on the bier a non nonny nonny hey nonny and in his grave rain'd mini-art here fare you well my dove at Stough thy wits and its persuade revenge it could not move thus you must sing a down a down and you call him a downer oh how the wheel becomes it it is the false steward that stole his master's daughter there's nothing's more than matter there's rosemary that's for remembrance pray love remember and then there's pansies that's for thoughts document in madness thoughts and remembrance fitted there's fennel for you and columbines there's roof for you and here's some for me we may call it herb grace of Sundays oh you must weigh a roux with the difference there's a daisy I would give you some violets but they withered all when my father died they say he made a good end for Barney sweet Robin here's all my joy thought an affliction passion Hell itself she turns to favor and to prettiness and will he not come again and will he not come again no no he is dead go to the deathbed he never will come again his beard was as white as snow Oh flaxen was his fool he is gone he is gone and we cast away mercy on his soul and of all Christian souls I pray God exit do you see this Oh God Laertes I must commune with your grief or you deny me right go but apart make choice of whom your wisest friends you will and they shall hear and judge twixt you and me if by direct or by collateral hand they find us touched we will our kingdom give our crown our life and all that we can ours to you in satisfaction but if not be you content to lend your patience to us and we shall jointly labor with your soul to give it do content let this be so his means of death his obscure funeral no trophies war no hatch meant or his bones no noble right nor formal ostentation cry to be heard as twere from heaven to earth that I must called in question so you shall and where the offences let the great axe fall I pray you go with me exeunt scene 6 another room in the castle enter Horatio and a servant what are they that would speak with me Cedar's sir you see they have it is for you let them come in exit servant I do not know from what part of the world I should be greeted if not from Lord Hamlet enter sailors god bless you sir let him bless thee too he shall sir and please him there's a letter for you sir it comes from the Ambassador that was bound for England if your name be Horatio as I am let to know it is reads Horatio when thou shalt have overlooked this give these fellows some means to the king they have letters for him there we were two days old at sea a pirate a very warlike appointment gave us chase finding ourselves too slow of sail we put on a compelled valour and in the grapple I boarded them on the instant they got clear of our ship so I alone became their prisoner they have dealt with me like thieves of mercy but they knew what they did I am to do a good turn for them let the King have the letters I have sent and repair thou to me with as much speed as that wood has flied death I have words to speak in thine ear will make the dumb yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter these good fellows will bring me where I am Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course for England of them I have much to tell thee farewell he that knowest thine Hamlet come I will make you way for these your letters and do it the speedier that you may direct me to him from whom you brought them exeunt scene 7 another room in the castle enter King Claudius and Laertes now must your conscience my acquaintance seal and you must put me in your heart for friend SIF you have heard and with a knowing ear that he which hath your noble father slain pursued my life it well appears but tell me why you proceeded not against these feats so crime fall and so capital in nature as by your safety wisdom all things else you mainly were stirred up well for two special reasons which major you perhaps seemed unseen you'd but yet to me they are strong the Queen his mother lives almost by his looks and for myself my virtue or my plague be it either which she's so conjunctive to my life and soul that as the star moves not but in his sphere I could not but by her the other motive why to a public count I might not go is the great love the general gender bear him who dipping all his faults in their affection would like the spring that turneth wood to stone convert his jives to graces so that my arrow is to slightly timbered for so loud a wind would have reverted to my bow again and not where I had aimed them and so have I a noble father lost a sister driven into desperate terms whose worth if praises may go back again so Challenger and mount of all the age for her perfections but my revenge will come break not your sleeps for that you must don't think that we are made of stuff so flat and dull that we can let our beard be shook with danger and think it's past time you shortly shall hear more I loved your father and we love ourself and that I hope will teach you to imagine enter a messenger how now what news leathers my lord from Hamlet this to your majesty this to the Queen from Hamlet who brought them sailors my lord they say I saw them not they were given me by Claudio he received them of him that brought them Laertes you shall hear them leave us exit messenger reads high and mighty you shall know I am set naked on your kingdom tomorrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes when I shall first asking your pardon thereunto recount the occasion of my sudden and more strange return Hamlet what should this mean or all the rest come back or is it some abuse and no such thing no you the hand his Hamlet's character naked and in a postscript here he says alone can you advise me I'm lost in it my lord but let him come it warns a very sickness in my heart that I shall live and tell him to his teeth thus dearest thou if it be so Laertes as how should it be so how otherwise will you be ruled by me I my lord so you will not or rule me to a peace to thine own peace if he be now returned as checking at his voyage and that he means no more to undertake it I will work him to an exploit now ripe in my device under the which he shall not choose but fall and for his death no wind of blame shall breathe but even his mother shall uncharged the practice and call it accident my lord I will be ruled the rather if you could devise it so that I might be the organ it falls right you have been talked of since your travel much and that in Hamlet's hearing for equality wherein they say you shine your sum of parts did not together pluck such Envy from him as did that one and that in my regard of the unworthy ist's each what parts is that my lord a very ribbond in the cap of youth yet needful to for youth no less becomes the light and careless livery that it wears then settled age has Sables and his weeds importing health and graveness two months since here was a gentleman of Normandy I've seen myself I'm served against the French and vacant well on horseback but this Calland had witchcraft int he grew unto his seat and to such wondrous doing brought his horse as he had been in corpse tanned deme natured with the brave beast so far he topped my thought that i in forgery of shapes and tricks come short of what he did a norman was a norman upon my life Lomond the very same I know him well he is the brute indeed and gem of all the nation he made confession of you and gave you such a masterly report for art and exercise in your defense and for your rapier most especially that he cried out would be a sight indeed if one could match you the Screamers of their nation he swore had had neither motion guard nor I if you opposed to them so this report of his did Hamlet so envenom with his Envy that he could nothing do but wish and beg your son coming or to play with him now out of this what out of this my lord Laertes was your father dear to you or are you like the painting of a sorrow a face without a heart I ask you this not that I think you did not love your father but that I know love is begun by time and that I see in passages of proof time qualifies the spark and fire of it there lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick course snuff that will abate it that nothing is at alike goodness still for goodness growing to a pleurisy dies in his own to much that we would do we should do when we would for this would changes and hath abatements and delays as many as there are tongues our hands are accidents and then this should is like a spendthrift sigh that hurts by easing but to the quick of the ulcer Hamlet comes back what would you undertake to show yourself your father's son indeed more than in words to cut his throat of the church no place indeed should murder sanctuaries revenge should have no bounds but good Laertes will you do this keep close within your chamber Hamlet return shall know you are come home will put on those shall praise your excellence and set a double varnish on the fame the Frenchman gave you bring in fine together and wager on your head he being remiss most generous and free from all contriving will not peruse the foils so that with ease or a little shuffling you may choose a sword unbated and in a passive practice requite him for your father I will do it and for that purpose I'll anoint my sword I bought an unction of a mountebank so mortal that but dip a knife in it where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare collected from all simples that have virtue under the moon can save the thing from death that is but scratched withal I'll touch my point with this contagion that if I call him slightly it may be death let's further think of this way what convenience both of time and means may fit us to our shape if this should fail and that our drift look through our bad performance twirl to Sade therefore this project should have a back or a second that might hold if this should blast in proof soft let me see will make a solemn wager on your Cunnings I had when in your motion you are at hot and dry as make your bouts more violent to that end and that he calls for drink I'll have prepared him a chalice for the nonce whereon but sipping if he by chance escape your venom stock our purpose may hold there enter Queen Gertrude how now sweet Queen one woe doth tread upon another's heel so fast they follow your sisters drowned their tus drowned o where there is a willow grows aslant a brook that shows his hoar leaves and the glassy stream there with fantastic Garland's did she come 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 Cornett weeds clambering to hang an envious sliver broke when down her weedy trophies and herself fell in the weeping Brook her clothes spread wide and mermaid-like awhile they bore her up which time she chanted snatches of old tunes as one incapable of her own distress or like a creature native and indued unto that element but long it could not be till that her garments heavy with their drink pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death less than she is drowned drowned drowned too much of water has the poor Ophelia and therefore I forbid my tears but yet it is our trick nature her custom holds that shame say what it will when these are gone the woman will be out adieu my lord I have a speech of fire that fain would blaze but that this valley doubts it exit let's follow Gertrude how much I had to do to calm his rage now fear I this will give it start again therefore let's follow exeunt end of act 4 act 5 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org act 5 scene 1 a churchyard enter two clowns with spades etc is she to be buried in Christian burial that willfully seeks her own salvation I'll tell thee she is and therefore make her grave straight the crown our ass sattanna f Isaac Christian burial how can there be unless she drowned herself in her own defense white tis found so it must be say offand end o it cannot be else for realize the point if I drown myself wittingly it argues an axe and axe have three branches it is to act to do to perform our gal she drowned herself wittingly nay but hear you Goodman delvar you believe here lies the water good here stands the man good if the man go to this water and drown himself it is willy-nilly he goes mock you that but if the water come to him and drown him he drowns not himself our gal either is not guilty of his own death shortens know he's a knife but is this law only marry this Kramer is quest law will you add the truth aunt if this had not been a gentlewoman she should have been buried out a Christian burial why there thou sayst and the more pity that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even Christian come my Spade there is no ancient gentleman but gardeners ditchers in grave makers they hold up adam's profession was he a gentleman he was the first that ever bore arms why he had none he owed us now understand the scripture the scripture says Adam think could he dig with our arms I'll put another question to thee if there are answer is me not to the purpose confess thyself go to what is he that builds stronger than either the Mason the shipwright or the carpenter the gallows maker for that frame out lives a thousand tenants I like they wit wearing good faith the gallows does well but how does it well it does well to those that do in now though does still to say the gallows is built stronger than the church our gal the gallows may do well to thee do it again come who builds stronger than a Mason a shipwright or a carpenter tell me that a nun you marry now I can tell do it math I cannot tell enter Hamlet and Horatio at a distance cudgelled my brains no more about it for your dull ass will not mend its pace with beating and when you are asked this question next say a grave maker the houses that he makes lasts till doomsday go get thee to yon fetch me a stupid liquor exit second clown he digs and sings [Music] very sweet contract Oh me thought there was nothing meat has this fellow no feeling of his business that he sings at grave making custom hath made it in him a property of easiness to zien so the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense but age with his stealing Stan have clawed me in his clutch and half-shift me into the land as if I had never been such throws up a skull that skull had a tongue in it and could sing once how the Navy owls it to the ground as if it were Kings jawbone that did the first murder it might be the pate of a politician which this ass now or reaches one that would circumvent God might it not it might my lord or of a court sure which could say good morning sweet lord how does they would Lord this might be my lord such a one that praised my lord such a one's horse when he meant to beg it might it not I my lord why in so and now my lady worms chap lists and knocked about the mazzard with a Sexton spade here's fine revolution and we had the trick to see it did these bones cost to know more the breeding but to play it in log its with them mine eight to think aunt pickaxe and a spade a spade for and a shrouding sheet a piece of clay for to be made for such a guest is meat throws up another skull there's another why may not that to be the skull of a lawyer where be his quid ''tis now his quill it's his cases his tenures and his tricks why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel and will not tell him of his action of battery this fellow might beans time a great buyer of land with his statutes his recognizance --is his fines his double vouchers his recoveries is this the fine of his fines and the recovery of his recoveries to have his fine pate full of fine dirt will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases and double ones too than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures the very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in this box and must the inheritor himself have no more huh not a jot more my lord is not parchment made of sheep skins i my lord and of calf skins too they are sheep and calves which seek out assurance in that I will speak to this fellow whose graves this Sara mine sir Oh a piece of clay for to be made for such is meat I think it be thine indeed for thou liest n't you lie out on sir and therefore tis not yours for my part I do not know in it is mine thou dost lie int to be int and say it is thine tis for the dead not for the quick therefore thou liest tis a quick no sir - the way again from me to you what man dost thou dig it for for no man sir what woman then for none neither who is to be buried int one that was a woman sir but rest her soul she's dead how absolute the knave is we must speak by the card or equivocation will undo us by the Lord Horatio these three years I have taken a note of it the age has grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he gasps his kibe how long hast thou been a grave maker of all the days in the year I came to it that day that our last King Hamlet overcame 14 brass how long is that since can you tell that every fool can tell that it was the very day that young Hamlet was born neither is madam sent into England I marry why was he sent into England why because he was mad he shall recover his wits there or if he do not touch there's no great matter there why do not be seen in him there there the men are as mad as he how came he mad very strangely they say how strangely faith even with losing his wits upon what ground my hearing Denmark I have been Sexton here man and boy 30 years how long will a man lie in the earth ere he rot hey faith if he be not rotten before he die as we have many poxy courses nowadays that will scarce hold the layin in he will last you some a year or nine year a tenner will last you nine year why he more than another boy sir he's some of you so tanned with his trade that you will keep out water a great while and your water is a sore D care of your horse and dead body here's a skull now this skull has lain in the earth three and twenty years whose was it uh Orson mad fellow it was whose do you think it was may I know not pestilence on him for a mad road I poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once this same skull sir was Sir Yorick's skull the Kings jester this een that let me see takes the skull alas poor Yorick I knew him Horatio a fellow of Infinite Jest of most excellent fancy he hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now how abhorred in my imagination it is my Gorge Rises at it here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft where be your gibes now your gambols your songs your flashes of merriment that were won't to set the table on a roar not one now to mock your own grinning quite chapfallen now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her let her paint an inch thick to this favor she must come make her laugh at that pretty Horatio tell me one thing what's that my lord I think Alexander looked to this fashion of the earth he and so and smelt soap puts down the skull een so my lord to what base uses we may return Horatio why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bunghole toward to consider too curiously to consider so 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 turns to clay might stop a hole to keep the wind away oh that that earth which kept the world in our should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw but soft but soft aside here comes the king enter priest etc in procession the corpse of Ophelia Laertes and mourners following King Claudius Queen Gertrude their trains etc the Queen the quarters who is this they follow and with such Mehmed writes this doth betoken the course they follow did with desperate hand for do its own life twas of some estate couch we awhile and Mark retiring with Horatio what ceremony else that is Laertes a very noble youth mark what ceremony else her obsequies have been as far enlarged as we have warrant eyes her death was doubtful and but that great command oz waste the order she should in ground and sanctified have launched till the last trumpet for charitable prayers shards flints and pebbles should be thrown on her yet here she is allowed her virgin grants her maidens truman's and the bringing home of bell and burial they're no more be done no more be done we should profane the service of the Dead to sing a requiem and such rest to her as to peace parted Souls lay her in the earth and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring I tell the trellis priest a ministering angel shall my sister be when thou liest howling but the fair Ophelia sweets to the sweet farewell scattering flowers I hoped thou should just have been my Hamlet's wife I thought thy bride-bed to have decked sweet maid and not have strewed thy grave Oh treble woe fall 10 times of treble on that cursed head whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense deprived thee of hold off the earth a while till I have caught her once more in mine arms leaps into the grave now pile you dust upon the quick and dead till up this flat a mountain you have made to or topple pelion or the sky ahead of blue Olympus what is he whose grief bears such an emphasis whose phrase of sorrow conjures the wandering stars and makes them stand like wonder wounded heroes this is I Hamlet the Dane leaps into the grave the devil take thy soul grappling with him now pray snot well I pretty take thy fingers from my throat for though I am NOT splendid and rash yet have I something in me dangerous which let thy wiseness fear hold off thy hand pluck them asunder Hamlet Hamlet gentleman good my lord be quiet the attendants part them and they come out of the grave why I will fight with him upon this theme until my eyelids will no longer wag or my son what theme I loved Ophelia forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum what wilt thou do for her oh he's mad Laertes for love of God forbear him swoons show me what they'll do would weep would fight would fast would tear thyself would drink up eyes they'll eat a crocodile I'll do it does thou come here to Reyn to outface me with leaping in her grave be buried quick with her and so will I and if thou prate of mountains let them throw millions of acres on us till our ground singeing his pate against the burning zone make AUSA like a wart nay and out mouth I'll rant as well as thou this is mere madness and thus awhile the fit will work on him a known as patient as the female dove when that her golden couplets are disclosed his silence will sit drooping here you sir what is the reason that you used me this I loved you ever but it is no matter let Hercules himself do what he may the cat will Mew and dog will have his day exit I pray you 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 are proceeding be excellent seen to a halt in the castle enter Hamlet and Horatio so much for this sir now shall you see the other you do remember all the circumstance remember it my lord sir in my heart there was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep methought I lay worse than the mutants in the Bilbo's rashly and praised be rashness for it let us know our indiscretion sometimes serves us well when our deep plots do Paul and that should teach us there's a divinity that shapes our ends rough you them how we will that is most certain up from my cabin my sea gown scarfed about me in the dark grope die to find out them had my desire fingered their packet and in fine withdrew to mine own room again making so bold my fears forgetting manners to unseal their grand Commission where I found Horatio Oh royal knavery an exact command larded with many several sorts of reasons importing Denmark's health and England's too with ho such bugs and goblins in my life that on the supervise no leisure bated no not to stay the grinding of the axe my head should be struck off is it possible here's the Commission read it at more leisure but wilt thou hear me how I did proceed I beseech you being thus Boneta drowned with villains ere I could make a prologue to my brains they had begun the play i sat me down devised a new commission wrote it fair I once did hold it as our status do a baseness to write fair and laboured much how to forget that learning but sir now it did me yeoman service wilt thou know the effect of what I wrote aye good my lord an earnest conjuration from the King as England was his faithful tributary as love between them like the palm might flourish as piece should stiff her Wheaton garland wear and stand a comma tween there a Matiz and many such like asses of great charge that on the view and knowing of these contents without debate Minh further more or less he should the bearers put to sudden death not Shrive intime aloud how was this sealed why even and that was heaven ordinance I had my father's signet in my purse which was the model of that Danish seal folded the writ up in form of the other subscribed it gave it the impression placed it safely the changeling never known now the next day was our sea fight and what - this was sequent though no stall ready so Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to it why man they did make love to this employment they are not near my conscience their defeat does by their own insinuation grow tis dangerous when the baser nature comes between the pass and fell in censured points of my the opposites why what a king is this does it not think'st thee stands me now upon he that hath killed my king and horde my mother popped in between the election and my hopes thrown out his angle for my proper life and with such cousin egde it's not perfect conscience to quit him with this arm and it's not to be damned to let this canker of our nature come in further evil it must be shortly known to him from England what is the issue of the business there it will be short the interim is mine and a man's life's no more than to say one but I am very sorry good Horatio that to Laertes I forgot myself for by the image of my cars I see the portraiture of his I'll court his favours sure the bravery of his grief did put me into a towering passion peace who comes here enter Osric Your Lordship is Right welcome back to Denmark I humbly thank you sir just know this water fly no my good lord thy state is the more gracious for tis a vice to know him he hath much land and fertile let a beast to be Lord of beasts and his cribs shall stand at the Kings mess to the chuff but as I say spacious in the possession of dirt sweet lord if your lordship well is you are I should impart a thing to you from his majesty I will receive it sir with all diligence of spirit put your bonnet to his right use tis for the head are you thank you a lot ship it is very hard no believe me tis very cold the wind is northerly hmm it is indifferent cold my lord indeed but yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion exceedingly my lord it is very sultry as to her I cannot tell how but my lord His Majesty bad me signify to you that he has laid a great wager on your head sad this is the matter I beseech you remember Hamlet loves him to put on his hat Hey good my lord for my knees in good faith sir here is newly come to court Laertes believe me an absolute gentleman full of most excellent differences of very soft society and great showing indeed to speak feelingly of him he is the card or calendar of Gentry for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see sir his define Minh suffers no perdition in you though I know to divide him inventory Leawood dizzy the arithmetic of memory and yet but yar neither in respect of his quick sale but in the Verity of extol meant I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such turth and rareness as to make true diction of him his semblable is his mirror and who else would trace him his umbrage nothing more Your Lordship speaks most invaluable of him the concernin see sir why do we wrap the gentleman in our more Rohrer breath yes sir is it not possible to understand in another tongue you will do it sir really what imports the nomination of this gentleman Oh his purse is empty already all his golden words are spent of him sir I knew you are not ignorant I would you did sir yes in faith if you did it would not much approve me well sir you are not ignorant of what excellence lay arteezy's I dare not confess that lest I should compare with him in excellence but to know a man well were to know himself I mean sir for his weapon but in the imputation laid on him by them in his mead he is unfair what's his weapon rapier and dagger that's two of his weapons but well the King sir hath wagered with him six barbary horses against the which he has impound as I take it six French rapiers and poniards with their assigns as girdle hangers and su3 of the carriages in face are very dear to fancy very responsive to the hilts most delicate carrier cheese and are very liberal conceived what's call you the carriages I knew you must be edified by the margent air you had done after carriages of the hangars the phrase would be more German to the matter if we could carry Canon by our sides I would it might be hangers till then but on six barbary horses against six French swords there assigns and three liberal conceited carriages that's the French bet against the Danish why is this impound as you call it the King sir has laid that in a dozen passes between yourself and him he shall not exceed you three hits he has laid on twelve for nine and it would come to immediate trial if your lunch it would vouchsafe the answer how if I answer no I mean my lord the opposition of your person in trial sir I will walk here in the hall if it please his majesty it is the breathing time of day with me let the foils be brought the gentleman willing and the King hold his purpose I will win for him and I can if not I will gain nothing but my shame and the art hits shall I read a liver you in so true this effect sir after what flourish your nature will I commend my duty do your lot ship yours yours exit Osric he does well to commend it himself there are no tongues else force turn this Lapwing runs away with the shell on his head he did comply with his Doug before he sucked it thus has he and many more of the same bevy that I know the dressy age dotes on only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter a kind of yes tea collection which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions and do but blow them to their trial the bubbles are out enter a 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 the air tease all that you will take longer time I am constant to my purpose they follow the Kings pleasure if his fitness speaks mine is ready now or whensoever provided I be so able as now the king and queen and all are coming down in happy time the Queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment Laertes before you fall to play she well instructs me exit Lord you will lose this wager my lord I do not think so since he went into France I have been in continual practice I shall win at the odds but thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart but it is no matter nay good my lord it is but foolery but it is such a kind of game giving as would perhaps trouble a woman if your mind dislike anything obey it I will forestall their repair hither and say you are not fit not a whit we defy augury there's a special Providence in the fall of a sparrow if it be now tis 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 has aught of what he leaves what is to leave the times enter King Claudius Queen Gertrude Laertes Lords Osric and attendants with foils etc come Hamlet come and take this hand from me King Claudius puts Laertes hand into Hamlet's give me your pardon sir I've done you wrong but pardoned as you are a gentleman this presents knows and you must needs have heard how I am punished with sore distraction what I have done that might your nature honour and exception roughly awake I hear proclaim was madness wast Hamlet wronged Laertes never Hamlet if Hamlet from himself betaine 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 to be so Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged his madness is poor Hamlet's enemy sir in this audience let my disclaiming from a purposed evil free me so far in your most generous thoughts that I have shot my narrow or the house and hurt my brother I am satisfied in nature whose motive in this case should stir me most to my revenge but in my terms of Honor I stand aloof and will no reconcilement to by some elder masters unknown honor I have a voice and precedent of peace to keep my name on gored but till that's time I do receive your offered love like love and will not wrong it I embrace it freely and will this brothers wager frankly play give us the foils come on come one for me I'll be your foil layer sees in mine ignorance your skill shell like a star the darkest night stick fiery off indeed you mock me sir no by this hand give them the foils young Osric cousin Hamlet you know the wager very well my lord your grace hath laid the odds of the weaker side I do not fear it I have seen you both but since he is bettered we have therefore odds this is too heavy let me see another this likes me well these foils have all a length high my good Lord set me the Stoops 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 the King shall drink to Hamlet's better breath and in the cup an Union shall he throw richer than that which for successive Kings in Denmark's crown of Warren 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 come on sir come my lord they play one no judgment a hit a very palpable hit well again 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 I'll play this bout first set it by a while come they play another hit what say you a touch a touch I do confess our son shall win he's fat and scant of breath here Hamlet take my napkin Rupp's eyebrows the Queen carouses to thy fortune Hamlet good madam Gertrude do not drink I will my lord I pray you pardon me it is the poisoned cup it is too late I dare not drink yet madam by-and-by come let me wipe thy face my lord I'll hit him now I do not think tis almost against my conscience come for the third layer too easy but dally I pray you pass with your best violence I am afeard you make a wanton of me say you so come on they play nothing neither we have at you now Laertes wounds Hamlet then in scuffling they change your appears and Hamlet wounds lair teeth part them they are incensed nay come again Queen Gertrude Falls oh look to the Queen there who they bleed on both sides how is it my lord how instantly happy is my ass a woodcut to mine own springe Osric i am justly killed with mine own treachery how does the Queen she swoons to see them bleed no no the drinks a drink oh my dear Hamlet the drink the drink I am poisoned dies o villainy ho let the door be locked treachery seek it out it is here Hamlet Hamlet thou art slain no better sin in the world can do the good indeed there is not half an hour of life the treacherous instrument is in thy hand unbated and envenomed the foul practice had turned itself on me lo here I lie never to rise again like mother's poisoned I can no more the King the kings to blame the point in Venom's too then venom to thy work Stubbs King Claudius Oh yet defend me friends I am but hurt here thou incestuous murderous damned Dane drink off this potion is thy Union here follow my mother King Claudius dies she is justly served it is a poison tempered by himself exchange forgiveness with me noble Hamlet mine and my father's death come not upon thee nor thine on me dies heaven make thee free of it I follow thee I am dead Horatio wretched Queen a Jew you that look pale and tremble at this chance that are but mutes or audience to this Act had i but time as this fell sergeant death is strict in his arrest oh I could tell you but let it be Horatio I am dead thou lovest report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied never believe it I am more a Roman than a Dane here's yet some liquor left as sours a man give me the cup let go by heaven I'll have oh good Horatio what a wounded name things standing thus unknown shall live behind me if thou didst ever hold me in thy heart absent thee from Felicity awhile and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story March afar off and shut within what were like noises this young Fortinbras with conquest come from Poland to the ambassador's of England gives this warlike body oh I die Horatio the potent poison quite or crows my spirit I cannot live to hear the news from England but I do prophesy the election lights on Fortinbras he has my dying voice so tell him with the occurrence more or less which have solicited the rest is silence dies now cracks a noble heart goodnight sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest why does the drum come hither March within enter Fortinbras the English ambassadors and others where is this sight what is it you would see if art of woe or wonder cease your search this quarry cries on havoc o proud death what feast is toward in thine eternal cell that thou so many princes at a shot so bloody hast struck the sight is dismal and our affairs from England come too late the ears are senseless that should give us hearing to tell him his commandment is fulfilled that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead where should we have our things not from his mouth had it the ability of life - thank you he never gave commandment for their death but since so jump upon this bloody question you from the Wars and you from England are here arrived give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about so shall you hear of carnal bloody and unnatural acts of accidental judgments casual slaughters of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause and in this upshot purposes mistook fallen on the inventors heads all this can I truly deliver let us haste to hear it and call the noblest to the audience for me with sorrow I embrace my fortune I have some brides of memory in his kingdom which now decay in my Vantage death invite me of that I shall have also caused to speak and from his mouth whose voice will draw on more but let this same be presently performed even while men's minds are wild lest more mischance on plots and errors happen let four Captains bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage for he was likely had he been put on to approve most royally and for his passage the soldiers music in 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 good bid the soldiers shoot a dead March exeunt bearing off the dead bodies after which appeal of Orden is shot off end of act 5 end of Hamlet by William Shakespeare you you