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In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,

As I do thee. Something too much of this.

There is a play to-night before the king;

One scene of it comes near the circumstance

Which I have told thee of my father's death:

I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,

Even with the very comment of thy soul

Observe mine uncle; if his occulted guilt

Do not itself unkennel in one speech,

It is a damned ghost that we have seen,

And my imaginations are as foul

As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note;

For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,

And after we will both our judgments join

In censure of his seeming.

Hor. Well, my lord:

If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,

And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft.

Ham. They are coming to the play; I must be idle:

Get you a place.

''Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and other Lords attendant, with his Guard carrying torches. Danish March. Sound a Flourish''.

King. How fares our cousin Hamlet?

Ham. Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's

dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed; you can-

not feed capons so.

King. I have nothing with this answer, Ham-

let; these words are not mine.

 84 very comment: most intense observation

85 occulted: hidden

86 unkennel: reveal

89 Vulcan; cf. n.

stithy: smithy, or, anvil

92 censure: giving an opinion

seeming: appearance

95 be idle: act mad; cf. n.

98 chameleon's dish; cf. n.

101 have nothing with: can make nothing of

