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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:16:29 GMT
LORD POLONIUS My lord, I have news to tell you.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:16:40 GMT
HAMLET My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome,--
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:16:51 GMT
LORD POLONIUS The actors are come hither, my lord.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:17:01 GMT
HAMLET Buz, buz!
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:17:12 GMT
LORD POLONIUS Upon mine honour,--
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:17:23 GMT
HAMLET Then came each actor on his ass,--
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:17:35 GMT
LORD POLONIUS The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical- comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:18:28 GMT
HAMLET O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:18:38 GMT
LORD POLONIUS What a treasure had he, my lord?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:18:48 GMT
HAMLET Why, 'One fair daughter and no more, The which he loved passing well.'
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:19:00 GMT
LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Still on my daughter.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:19:27 GMT
HAMLET Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:19:37 GMT
LORD POLONIUS If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing well.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:19:47 GMT
HAMLET Nay, that follows not.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 18:19:57 GMT
LORD POLONIUS What follows, then, my lord?
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