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[Enter Hamlet.] HAMLET Now, mother, what’s the matter? Hamlet QUEEN Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. HAMLET Mother, you have my father much offended. QUEEN Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. HAMLET Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. QUEEN Why, how now, Hamlet! HAMLET What’s the matter now? QUEEN Have you forgot me? HAMLET No, by the rood, not so: You are the Queen, your husband’s brother’s wife, And,--would it were not so!--you are my mother. QUEEN Nay, then, I’ll set those to you that can speak. HAMLET Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge; You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you. QUEEN What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?-- Help, help, ho! POLONIUS [Behind.] What, ho! help, help, help! HAMLET How now? a rat? [Draws.] Dead for a ducat, dead! 84 [Makes a pass through the arras.] POLONIUS [Behind.] O, I am slain! [Falls and dies.] QUEEN O me, what hast thou done? HAMLET Nay, I know not: is it the king? [Draws forth Polonius.] Hamlet QUEEN O, what a rash and bloody deed is this! HAMLET A bloody deed!--almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king and marry with his brother. QUEEN As kill a king! HAMLET Ay, lady, ‘twas my word.-- Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! [To Polonius.] I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune; Thou find’st to be too busy is some danger.-- Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down, And let me wring your heart: for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff; If damned custom have not braz’d it so That it is proof and bulwark against sense. QUEEN What have I done, that thou dar’st wag thy tongue In noise so rude against me? HAMLET Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage-vows As false as dicers’ oaths: O, such a deed 85
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[Enter <strong>Hamlet</strong>.]<br />
HAMLET<br />
Now, mother, what’s the matter?<br />
<strong>Hamlet</strong><br />
QUEEN<br />
<strong>Hamlet</strong>, thou hast thy father much offended.<br />
HAMLET<br />
Mother, you have my father much offended.<br />
QUEEN<br />
Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.<br />
HAMLET<br />
Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.<br />
QUEEN<br />
Why, how now, <strong>Hamlet</strong>!<br />
HAMLET<br />
What’s the matter now?<br />
QUEEN<br />
Have you forgot me?<br />
HAMLET<br />
No, <strong>by</strong> the rood, not so:<br />
You are the Queen, your husband’s brother’s wife,<br />
And,--would it were not so!--you are my mother.<br />
QUEEN<br />
Nay, then, I’ll set those to you that can speak.<br />
HAMLET<br />
Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;<br />
You go not till I set you up a glass<br />
Where you may see the inmost part of you.<br />
QUEEN<br />
What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?--<br />
Help, help, ho!<br />
POLONIUS<br />
[Behind.] What, ho! help, help, help!<br />
HAMLET<br />
How now? a rat? [Draws.]<br />
Dead for a ducat, dead!<br />
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[Makes a pass through the arras.]<br />
POLONIUS<br />
[Behind.] O, I am slain!<br />
[Falls and dies.]<br />
QUEEN<br />
O me, what hast thou done?<br />
HAMLET<br />
Nay, I know not: is it the king?<br />
[Draws forth Polonius.]<br />
<strong>Hamlet</strong><br />
QUEEN<br />
O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!<br />
HAMLET<br />
A bloody deed!--almost as bad, good mother,<br />
As kill a king and marry with his brother.<br />
QUEEN<br />
As kill a king!<br />
HAMLET<br />
Ay, lady, ‘twas my word.--<br />
Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!<br />
[To Polonius.]<br />
I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune;<br />
Thou find’st to be too busy is some danger.--<br />
Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down,<br />
And let me wring your heart: for so I shall,<br />
If it be made of penetrable stuff;<br />
If damned custom have not braz’d it so<br />
That it is proof and bulwark against sense.<br />
QUEEN<br />
What have I done, that thou dar’st wag thy tongue<br />
In noise so rude against me?<br />
HAMLET<br />
Such an act<br />
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;<br />
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose<br />
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,<br />
And sets a blister there; makes marriage-vows<br />
As false as dicers’ oaths: O, such a deed<br />
85
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