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Hamlet

[Aside to Horatio] Dost know this water-fly?

Horatio

                                                                          No, my good lord.

Hamlet 

Thy state is the more gracious, for 'tis a vice to
know him. He has much land, and fertile. Let a beast
be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess.
'Tis a chough, but, as I say, spacious in the possession of
dirt.

Hamlet

Does it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon – 
He that has killed my king and whored my mother,
Popped in between th' electioelection and my hopes,
Thrown out his angle for my proper life,
And with such cozenage — is't not perfect conscience    
To quit him with this arm? And is't not to be damned 
To let this canker of our nature come
In further evil?

Hamlet

Being thus benetted round 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 statists do, 
A baseness to write fair, and labored much
How to forget that learning. But, sir, now
It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know
Th' effects of what I wrote?

Horatio

                                                 Ay, good my lord.

Hamlet

An earnest conjuration from the king:
As England was his faithful tributary,
As love between them, like the palm, should flourish,
As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
(And stand a comma 'tween their amities 
And many such like “as’s” of great charge)    
That on the view and know of these contents,
Without debatement further more or less,
He should the bearers put to sudden death,
Not shriving time allowed.

Horatio

                                                How was this sealed?

Hamlet

Why, even in that was heaven ordinate. 
I had my father's signet in my purse,
Which was the model of that Danish seal.
Folded the writ up in the form of the other,
Subscribed it, gave't th' impression, placed it safely —
The changeling never known. Now the next day
Was our sea fight, and what to this was sequent
Thou knowest already.

Hamlet

An earnest conjuration from the king:
As England was his faithful tributary,
As love between them, like the palm, should flourish,
As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
(And stand a comma 'tween their amities 
And many such like “as’s” of great charge)    
That on the view and know of these contents,
Without debatement further more or less,
He should the bearers put to sudden death,
Not shriving time allowed.

Horatio

Hamlet

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[Enter young Osric, a courtier.]

Osric

Hamlet

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Hamlet 

Osric   

[With his hat in his hand]

Hamlet

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Hamlet   

[Motioning for Osric to put on his hat.] 

Osric

Hamlet   

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Horatio

Osric   

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[Exit Osric.] 

Horatio

Hamlet

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Hamlet

Being thus benetted round 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 statists do, 
A baseness to write fair, and labored much
How to forget that learning. But, sir, now
It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know
Th' effects of what I wrote?

Horatio

Hamlet

Horatio

Hamlet

Horatio

Hamlet

Horatio 

Hamlet

Horatio

Hamlet

Horatio

[Enter young Osric, a courtier.]

Osric

Hamlet

Horatio

Hamlet 

Osric   

[With his hat in his hand]

Hamlet

Osric   

Hamlet

Osric

Hamlet

Osric

Hamlet   

[Motioning for Osric to put on his hat.] 

Osric

Hamlet   

Osric   

Hamlet   

Osric

Hamlet   

Horatio

Osric   

Hamlet

Osric

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Osric

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Osric   

Hamlet   

[Exit Osric.] 

Horatio

Hamlet

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Hamlet   

Here's the commission; read it at more leisure.
But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed?

Horatio   

I beseech you.

Hamlet

Being thus benetted round 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 statists do, 
A baseness to write fair, and labored much
How to forget that learning. But, sir, now
It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know
Th' effects of what I wrote?

Horatio

                                                 Ay, good my lord.

Hamlet

Horatio

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Horatio

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Horatio 

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Horatio

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Horatio

[Enter young Osric, a courtier.]

Osric

Hamlet

Horatio

Hamlet 

Osric   

[With his hat in his hand]

Hamlet

Osric   

Hamlet

Osric

Hamlet

Osric

Hamlet   

[Motioning for Osric to put on his hat.] 

Osric

Hamlet   

Osric   

Hamlet   

Osric

Hamlet   

Horatio

Osric   

Hamlet

Osric

Hamlet   

Osric

Hamlet

Osric   

Hamlet

Osric   

Hamlet   

[Exit Osric.] 

Horatio

Hamlet

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Hamlet

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 incensed points
Of mighty opposites.

Horatio 

                                       Why, what a king is this!    

Hamlet

Horatio

Hamlet

Horatio

[Enter young Osric, a courtier.]

Osric

Hamlet

Horatio

Hamlet 

Osric   

[With his hat in his hand]

Hamlet

Osric   

Hamlet

Osric

Hamlet

Osric

Hamlet   

[Motioning for Osric to put on his hat.] 

Osric

Hamlet   

Osric   

Hamlet   

Osric

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Horatio

Osric   

Hamlet

Osric

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Osric

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Osric   

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Osric   

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[Exit Osric.] 

Horatio

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