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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:57:08 GMT
SCENE I. A room in the castle.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:57:20 GMT
Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:57:33 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
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?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:57:45 GMT
ROSENCRANTZ
He does confess he feels himself distracted;
But from what cause he will by no means speak.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:57:57 GMT
GUILDENSTERN
Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,
When we would bring him on to some confession
Of his true state.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:58:08 GMT
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Did he receive you well?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:58:19 GMT
ROSENCRANTZ
Most like a gentleman.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:58:31 GMT
GUILDENSTERN
But with much forcing of his disposition.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:58:41 GMT
ROSENCRANTZ
Niggard of question; but, of our demands,
Most free in his reply.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:59:02 GMT
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Did you assay him?
To any pastime?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:59:12 GMT
ROSENCRANTZ
Madam, it so fell out, that certain players
We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him;
And there did seem in him a kind of joy
To hear of it: they are about the court,
And, as I think, they have already order
This night to play before him.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:59:26 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
'Tis most true:
And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties
To hear and see the matter.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:59:36 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
With all my heart; and it doth much content me
To hear him so inclined.
Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,
And drive his purpose on to these delights.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:59:46 GMT
ROSENCRANTZ
We shall, my lord.
Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 19:59:59 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;
For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
That he, as 'twere by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia:
Her father and myself, lawful espials,
Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,
We may of their encounter frankly judge,
And gather by him, as he is behaved,
If 't be the affliction of his love or no
That thus he suffers for.
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