Prince of Denmarke.
19531278I father: My lord, you playd in the Vniuer
sitie.
19551279Cor. That I did my L: and I was counted a good a
ctor.
19581281Cor. My lord, I did a
ct Iulius Caesar, I was killed
1282in the Capitoll,
Brutus killed me.
19601283Ham. It was a brute parte of him,
1284To kill
so capitall a calfe.
19631286Queene Hamlet come
sit downe by me.
19641287Ham. No by my faith mother, heere's a mettle more at
- (tractiue: 19661288Lady will you giue me leaue, and
so forth:
1289To lay my head in your lappe?
19681291Ham. Vpon your lap, what do you thinke I meant con
- (trary matters? 19901292 Enter in a Dumbe Shew, the King and the Queene, he sits 19931293 downe in an Arbor, she leaues him: Then enters Luci- 19961294anus with poyson in a Viall, and powres it in his eares, and 1295goes away: Then the Queene commeth and findes him 19971296dead: and goes away with the other. 20031297Ofel. What meanes this my Lord?
Enter the Prologue. 20041298Ham. This is myching Mallico, that meanes my chiefe.
1299Ofel. What doth this meane my lord?
20081300Ham. you
shall heare anone, this fellow will tell you all.
20101301Ofel. Will he tell vs what this
shew meanes?
20111302Ham. I, or any
shew you'le
shew him,
1303Be not afeard to
shew, hee'le not be afeard to tell:
1304O the
se Players cannot keepe coun
sell, thei'le tell all.
20161305Prol. For vs, and for our Tragedie,
20181306Heere
stowpiug to your clemencie,
20191307We begge your hearing patiently.
20201308Ham. I'
st a prologue, or a poe
sie for a ring?
20241312Duke Full fortie yeares are pa
st, their date is gone,
F3 Since