Hamlet

OPHELIA You are a good chorus231, my lord.

HAMLET I could interpret232 between you and your love, if I

could see the puppets dallying233.

OPHELIA You are keen234, my lord, you are keen.

HAMLET It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge235.

OPHELIA Still better, and worse236.

HAMLET So you mis-take your husbands237.-- Begin,

murderer: pox238, leave thy damnable faces, and begin.

Come, the croaking raven239 doth bellow for revenge.

LUCIANUS Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit and time

agreeing,

Confederate season, else no creature seeing242,

Thou mixture rank243, of midnight weeds collected,

With Hecate's ban244 thrice blasted, thrice infected,

Thy natural magic and dire property245,

On wholesome246 life usurp immediately.

Pours the poison in his ears

HAMLET He poisons him i'th'garden for's estate. His247 name's

Gonzago: the story is extant and writ in choice Italian. You

shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago's

wife.

King stands

OPHELIA The king rises.

HAMLET What, frighted with false fire252?

GERTRUDE How fares my lord?

POLONIUS Give o'er the play.

KING Give me some light. Away!

ALL Lights, lights, lights!

Exeunt. Hamlet and Horatio remain

HAMLET Why, let the strucken257 deer go weep,