Hamlet (Quarto 2, 1604)
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Prince of Denmarke.
¶I thinke it was to my mothers wedding.
¶Hora. Indeede my Lord it followed hard vppon.
¶Ham. Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funerall bak't meates
¶Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables,
370Would I had met my dearest foe in heauen
¶Or euer I had seene that day Horatio,
¶My father, me thinkes I see my father.
¶Hora. Where my Lord?
¶Ham. In my mindes eye Horatio.
¶Ham. A was a man take him for all in all
¶I shall not looke vppon his like againe.
380Hora. My Lord the King your father.
¶Ham. The King my father?
¶With an attent eare till I may deliuer
¶Vppon the witnes of these gentlemen
385This maruile to you.
¶Ham. For Gods loue let me heare?
¶Marcellus, and Barnardo, on their watch
¶In the dead wast and middle of the night
390Beene thus incountred, a figure like your father
¶Armed at poynt, exactly Capapea
¶Appeares before them, and with solemne march,
¶Almost to gelly, with the act of feare
¶Stand dumbe and speake not to him; this to me
¶And I with them the third night kept the watch,
400Whereas they had deliuered both in time
¶Forme of the thing, each word made true and good,
¶The Apparision comes: I knewe your father,
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