Hamlet (Quarto 1, 1603)
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Prince of Denmarke.
1805To a Nunnery goe.
exit.
1805.1Ofe. Great God of heauen, what a quicke change is this?
¶The Courtier, Scholler, Souldier, all in him,
exit.
1818.1Some deeper thing it is that troubles him.
I will my selfe goe feele him: let me worke,
Ile try him euery way: see where he comes,
1204.1Send you those Gentlemen, let me alone
To finde the depth of this, away, be gone.
exit King.
Now my good Lord, do you know me?
Enter Hamlet.
¶Cor. Not I my Lord.
1215For to be honest, as this age goes,
Is one man to be pickt out of tenne thousand.
¶Cor. What doe you reade my Lord?
1230Ham. Wordes, wordes.
¶Cor. What's the matter my Lord?
¶Ham. Betweene who?
¶Cor. I meane the matter you reade my Lord.
¶For here the Satyricall Satyre writes,
1235That olde men haue hollow eyes, weake backes,
Grey beardes, pittifull weake hammes, gowty legges,
¶If like a Crabbe, you could goe backeward.
¶Cor. How pregnant his replies are, and full of wit:
1226.1All this comes by loue, the vemencie of loue,
¶And when I was yong, I was very idle,
¶Will you walke out of the aire my Lord?
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Ham.