Hamlet (Quarto 1, 1603)
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Prince of Denmarke.
¶King What do you call the name of the play?
¶The image of a murder done in guyana, Albertus
¶Was the Dukes name, his wife Baptista,
¶Father, it is a knauish peece a worke: but what
A that, it toucheth not vs, you and I that haue free
2110Soules, let the galld iade wince, this is one
¶Lucianus nephew to the King.
¶Ofel. Ya're as good as a Chorus my lord.
2115poopies dallying.
¶a man do but be merry? for looke how cheerefully my mo-
1980ther lookes, my father died within these two houres.
¶Ofel. Nay, t'is twice two months, my Lord.
¶Ham. Two months, nay then let the diuell weare blacke,
1985And not forgotten yet? nay then there's some
¶Likelyhood, a gentlemans death may outliue memorie,
¶But by my faith hee must build churches then,
Or els hee must follow the olde Epitithe,
¶With hoh, with ho, the hobi-horse is forgot.
¶Begin, a poxe, leaue thy damnable faces and begin,
¶Come, the croking rauen doth bellow for reuenge.
¶Thou mixture rancke, of midnight weedes collected,
¶Thy naturall magicke, and dire propertie,
exit.
Ham.