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____ I will speake daggers, those sharpe wordes being spent,

To doe her wrong my soule shall ne're consent. exit.

Enter the King. King O that this wet that falles vpon my face

Would wash the crime cleere from my conscience!

When I looke vp to heauen, I see my trespasse,

The earth doth still crie out vpon my fact,

Pay me the murder of a brother and a king,

And the adulterous fault I haue committed:

O these are sinnes that are vnpardonable:

Why say thy sinnes were blacker then is ieat,

Yet may contrition make them as white as snowe:

I but still to perseuer in a sinne,

It is an act gainst the vniuersall power,

Most wretched man, stoope, bend thee to thy prayer,

Aske grace of heauen to keepe thee from despaire.

hee kneeles. enters Hamlet Ham. I so, come forth and worke thy last,

And thus hee dies: and so am I reuenged:

No, not so: he tooke my father sleeping, his sins brim full,

And how his soule stoode to the state of heauen

Who knowes, saue the immortall powres,

And shall I kill him now,

When he is purging of his soule?

Making his way for heauen, this is a benefit,

And not reuenge: no, get thee vp agen,

When hee's at game swaring, taking his carowse, drinking (drunke,

Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed,

Or at some act that hath no relish

Of saluation in't, then trip him

That his heeles may kicke at heauen,

And fall as lowe as hel: my mother stayes,

This phisicke but prolongs thy weary dayes. exit Ham.

King My wordes fly vp, my sinnes remaine below.

No

Prince of Denmarke. No King on earth is safe, if Gods his foe. exit King.

Enter Queene and Corambis. Cor. Madame, I heare yong Hamlet comming,

I'le shrowde my selfe behinde the Arras. exit Cor.

Queene Do so my Lord.

Ham. Mother, mother, O are you here?

How i'st with you mother?

Queene How i'st with you?

Ham, I'le tell you, but first weele make all safe.

Queene Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.

Ham. Mother, you haue my father much offended.

Queene How now boy?

Ham. How now mother! come here, sit downe, for you shall heare me speake.

Queene What wilt thou doe? thou wilt not murder me:

_elpe hoe.

Cor. Helpe for the Queene.

Ham. I a Rat, dead for a Duckat.

Rash intruding foole, farewell,

I tooke thee for thy better.

Queene Hamlet, what hast thou done?

Ham. Not so much harme, good mother,

As to kill a king, and marry with his brother.

Queene How! kill a king!

Ham. I a King: nay sit you downe, and ere you part,

If you be made of penitrable stuffe,

I'le make your eyes looke downe into your heart,

And see how horride there and blacke it shews.

Queene Hamlet, what mean'st thou by these killing (words?

Ham. Why this I meane, see here, behold this picture,

It is the portraiture, of your deceased husband,

See here a face, to outface Mars himselfe,

An eye, at which his foes did tremble at,

A front wherin all vertues are set downe

For to adorne a king, and guild his crowne,

Whose heart went hand in hand euen with that vow,49

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