Hamlet

GERTRUDE What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me?

Help, help, ho!

Behind the arras

POLONIUS What, ho? Help, help, help!

HAMLET How now? A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead28!

Draws

[Hamlet] kills Polonius

POLONIUS O, I am slain!

GERTRUDE O me, what hast thou done?

HAMLET Nay, I know not: is it the king?

GERTRUDE O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!

HAMLET A bloody deed: almost as bad, good mother,

As kill a king and marry with his brother.

GERTRUDE As kill a king?

HAMLET Ay, lady, 'twas my word.--

Discovers Polonius

Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell.

I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune;

Thou find'st to be too busy39 is some danger.--

Leave wringing of your hands. Peace. Sit you down,

And let me wring your heart, for so I shall,

If it be made of penetrable stuff,

If damned custom have not brazed43 it so That it is proof and bulwark against sense44.

GERTRUDE What have I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tongue In noise so rude46 against me?

HAMLET Such an act

That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,

Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the

rose

From the fair forehead of an innocent love

And sets a blister there, makes marriage vows