Hamlet Give us the foils. Come on. Laertes Come, one for me. Hamlet I'll be your foil, Laertes. In mine ignorance Your skill shall, like a star i'th' darkest night, Stick fiery off indeed. Read more about popup_note_index_item 554
Laertes I can no more. The king, the king's to blame. Hamlet The point envenomed too? Then, venom, to thy work. [He stabs Claudius.] All Treason, treason! Claudius Oh, yet defend me friends, I am but hurt. Hamlet Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion. Is thy union here? Read more about popup_note_index_item 555
Laertes Nor thine on me! [Laertes Dies.] Hamlet Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee. I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu. 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 livest; report me and my causes right Read more about popup_note_index_item 556
Fortinbras Where is this sight? Horatio What is it you would see? If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search. Fortinbras This quarry cries on havoc. Oh proud Death, What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, That thou so many princes, at a shoot, So bloodily hast struck? Ambassador 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. Read more about popup_note_index_item 557
Fortinbras And call the noblest to the audience. For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune. I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, Read more about popup_note_index_item 558
First Gravedigger Give me leave. Here lies the water, good. Here stands the man, good. If the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he nill he, he goes. Mark you that? But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself. Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: "will he, nill he"
[Enter two Gravediggers with spades and picks.] First Gravedigger Is she to be buried in Christian burial, that willfully seeks her own salvation? Second Gravedigger I tell thee she is; therefore make her grave straight. The crowner has sat on her, and finds it Christian burial. Read more about popup_note_index_item 523
First Gravedigger How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defense? Second Gravedigger Why, 'tis found so. First Gravedigger It must be so offendendo, it cannot be else. For here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act, and an act has three branches: it is an act, to do, and to perform. Argal, she drowned herself wittingly. Read more about popup_note_index_item 524
Second Gravedigger Was he a gentleman? First Gravedigger He was the first that ever bore arms. Second Gravedigger Why, he had none. First Gravedigger Why, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the Scripture? The Scripture says Adam digged. Could he dig without arms? I'll put another question to thee. If thou answerest me not to the purpose, confess thyself. Read more about popup_note_index_item 526
First Gravedigger Why, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the Scripture? The Scripture says Adam digged. Could he dig without arms? I'll put another question to thee. If thou answerest me not to the purpose, confess thyself. Second Gravedigger Go to. First Gravedigger What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? Second Gravedigger The gallows-maker, for that frame outlives a thousand tenants. Read more about popup_note_index_item 527
