Hamlet

And with such maimed204 rites? This doth betoken The corpse they follow did with desperate205 hand Fordo it own life: 'twas of some estate206.

They hide

Couch207 we awhile and mark.

LAERTES What ceremony else?

Aside to Horatio

HAMLET That is Laertes, a very noble youth. Mark.

LAERTES What ceremony else?

PRIEST Her obsequies211 have been as far enlarged As we have warrantise: her death was doubtful212, And but that great command o'ersways213 the order She should in ground unsanctified214 have lodged Till the last trumpet. For215 charitable prayer, Shards216, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her.

Yet here she is allowed her virgin rites,

Her maiden strewments and the bringing home218

Of bell and burial.

LAERTES Must there no more be done?

PRIEST No more be done:

We should profane the service of the dead

To sing sage requiem and such rest223 to her As to peace-parted224 souls.

LAERTES Lay her i'th'earth:

And from her fair and unpolluted flesh

May violets227 spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A minist'ring angel shall my sister be

When thou liest howling229.

Aside to Horatio

HAMLET What, the fair Ophelia!

Scatters flowers

GERTRUDE Sweets to the sweet. Farewell!

I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife:

I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid,

And not t'have strewed thy grave.

LAERTES O, treble woe

Fall ten times treble on that cursed head

Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense237

Deprived thee of!-- Hold off the earth awhile,