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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:51:27 GMT
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Came this from Hamlet to her?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:51:41 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
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 thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.
'Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst
this machine is to him, HAMLET.'
This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me,
And more above, hath his solicitings,
As they fell out by time, by means and place,
All given to mine ear.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:51:52 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
But how hath she
Received his love?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:52:07 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
What do you think of me?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:52:19 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
As of a man faithful and honourable.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:53:39 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
I would fain prove so. But what might you 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, think,
If I had play'd the desk or table-book,
Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,
Or look'd 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 gave her,
That she should lock herself from his resort,
Admit no messengers, receive 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,
Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,
Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,
Into the madness wherein now he raves,
And all we mourn for.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:53:53 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
Do you think 'tis this?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:54:04 GMT
QUEEN GERTRUDE
It may be, very likely.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:54:16 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
Hath there been such a time--I'd fain know that--
That I have positively said 'Tis so,'
When it proved otherwise?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:54:35 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
Not that I know.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:54:48 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
[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 hid indeed
Within the centre.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:55:00 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
How may we try it further?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:55:20 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
You know, sometimes he walks four hours together
Here in the lobby.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:55:30 GMT
QUEEN GERTRUDE
So he does indeed.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:55:41 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
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'n thereon,
Let me be no assistant for a state,
But keep a farm and carters.
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