Hamlet (Quarto 1, 1603)

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  Prince of Denmarke
 1696And his sandall shoone.
 27781697White his shrowde as mountaine snowe,
 27801698Larded with sweete flowers,
 27811699That bewept to the graue did not goe
 27821700With true louers showers:
 27731701He is dead and gone Lady, he is dead and gone,
 27741702At his head a grasse greene turffe,
 1703At his heeles a stone.
 27831704king How i'st with you sweete Ofelia?
 27841705Ofelia Well God yeeld you,
 28061706It grieues me to see how they laid him in the cold ground,
 1707I could not chuse but weepe:
 29411708And will he not come againe?
 29421709And will he not come againe?
 29431710No, no, hee's gone, and we cast away mone,
 29441711And he neuer will come againe.
 29451712His beard as white as snowe:
 29461713All flaxen was his pole,
 1714He is dead, he is gone,
 29471715And we cast away moane:
 29481716God a mercy on his soule.
 29491717And of all christen soules I pray God.
 28091718God be with you Ladies, God be with you. exit Ofelia.
 2809.11719king A pretty wretch! this is a change indeede:
 2809.21720O Time, how swiftly runnes our ioyes away?
 2809.31721Content on earth was neuer certaine bred,
 2809.41722To day we laugh and liue, to morrow dead.
 28351723How now, what noyse is that?
 28511724 A noyse within. enter Leartes.
 28571725Lear. Stay there vntill I come,
 28581726O thou vilde king, giue me my father:
 28731727Speake, say, where's my father?
 28741728king Dead.
 28771729Lear. Who hath murdred him? speake, i'le not
 1730Be juggled with, for he is murdred.
 28751731Queene True, but not by him.
 H  Leartes

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Hamlet (Quarto 1, 1603)