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[P.] Queen. So many journeys may the sun and moon

Make us again count o'er ere love be done!

''But, woe is me! you are so sick of late,''

So far from cheer and from your former state,

''That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,''

Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must;

For women's fear and love holds quantity,

In neither aught, or in extremity.

Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know;

And as my love is siz'd, my fear is so.

[Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;

Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.]

[P.] King. Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too;

My operant powers their functions leave to do:

And thou shall live in this fair world behind,

Honour'd, belov'd; and haply one as kind

For husband shall thou—

[P.] Queen. O! confound the rest;

Such love must needs be treason in my breast:

In second husband let me be accurst;

None wed the second but who killed the first.

Ham. [Aside.] Wormwood, wormwood.

[P.] Queen. The instances that second marriage move,

Are base respects of thrift, but none of love;

A second time I kill my husband dead,

When second husband kisses me in bed.

 177 I distrust you: I have misgivings on your account

179 quantity: proportion

180 In extremity: in either no feeling or the very deepest

186 operant: active

194 instances: motives, inducements

move: suggest

