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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:05:02 GMT
HORATIO
Nay, good my lord,--
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:05:13 GMT
HAMLET
It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of
gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:05:23 GMT
HORATIO
If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will
forestall their repair hither, and say you are not
fit.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:05:34 GMT
HAMLET
Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he
leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES, Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, & c
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:05:47 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.
KING CLAUDIUS puts LAERTES' hand into HAMLET's
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:06:00 GMT
HAMLET
Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong;
But pardon't, as you are a gentleman.
This presence knows,
And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd
With sore distraction. What I have done,
That might your nature, honour and exception
Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:
If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,
And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,
Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.
Who does it, then? His madness: if't be so,
Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;
His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
Sir, in this audience,
Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil
Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,
That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,
And hurt my brother.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:06:10 GMT
LAERTES
I am satisfied in nature,
Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most
To my revenge: but in my terms of honour
I stand aloof; and will no reconcilement,
Till by some elder masters, of known honour,
I have a voice and precedent of peace,
To keep my name ungored. But till that time,
I do receive your offer'd love like love,
And will not wrong it.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:06:23 GMT
HAMLET
I embrace it freely;
And will this brother's wager frankly play.
Give us the foils. Come on.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:06:34 GMT
LAERTES
Come, one for me.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:06:46 GMT
HAMLET
I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance
Your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night,
Stick fiery off indeed.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:06:58 GMT
LAERTES
You mock me, sir.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:07:09 GMT
LAERTES
You mock me, sir.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:07:29 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,
You know the wager?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:07:40 GMT
HAMLET
Very well, my lord
Your grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 4:07:50 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
I do not fear it; I have seen you both:
But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds.
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