Hamlet

to, I'll no more on't151: it hath made me mad. I say we will have

no more marriages: those that are married already, all but

one shall live: the rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery,

go.

Exit Hamlet

OPHELIA O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!

The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,

Th'expectancy157 and rose of the fair state,

The glass of fashion and the mould of form158,

Th'observed of all observers, quite, quite down!

And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,

That sucked the honey of his music vows,

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason

Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh,

That unmatched form and feature of blown164 youth

Blasted with ecstasy165. O, woe is me,

T'have seen what I have seen, see what I see!

From their hiding place

Enter King and Polonius

KING Love? His affections167 do not that way tend,

Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little,

Was not like madness. There's something in his soul

O'er which his melancholy sits on brood170,

And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose171

Will be some danger, which to prevent,

I have in quick determination

Thus set it down174: he shall with speed to England

For the demand of our neglected tribute175.

Haply176 the seas and countries different

With variable objects177 shall expel