Hamlet

And thirty dozen moons with borrowed sheen146

About the world have times twelve thirties been,

Since love our hearts and Hymen148 did our hands

Unite commutual in most sacred bands149.

BAPTISTA 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 distrust154 you: yet, though I distrust,

Discomfort155 you, my lord, it nothing must,

For women's fear and love holds quantity156,

In neither aught, or in extremity157.

Now, what my love is, proof158 hath made you know,

And as my love is sized, my fear is so159.

PLAYER KING Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too:

My operant powers my functions leave to do161.

And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,

Honoured, beloved: and haply one as kind

For husband shalt thou--

BAPTISTA O, confound165 the rest!

Such love must needs be treason in my breast:

In second husband let me be accurst!

None168 wed the second but who killed the first.

HAMLET Wormwood169, wormwood.

Aside?

BAPTISTA The instances that second marriage move170

Are base respects of thrift171, but none of love:

A second time I kill my husband dead,

When second husband kisses me in bed.

PLAYER KING I do believe you think what now you speak,