Court before the same.Enter Lear, Kent, and Fool. Lear. Go you before to Gloucester with these letters. Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you know than comes from her demand out of the letter. If your diligence be not speedy, I shall be there afore you.Kent. I will not sleep, my lord, till […]
A hall in the same.Enter Kent, disguised. Kent. If but as well I other accents borrow,That can my speech defuse, my good intentMay carry through itself to that full issueFor which I razed my likeness. Now, banish’d Kent,If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn’d,So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest,Shall find
The Duke of Albany’s palace.Enter Goneril, and Oswald, her steward. Goneril. Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?Oswald. Yes, madam.Goneril. By day and night he wrongs me: every hourHe flashes into one gross crime or other,That sets us all at odds: I ’ll not endure it:His knights grow riotous, and himself
The Earl of Gloucester’s castle.Enter Edmund, with a letter. Edmund. Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy lawMy services are bound. Wherefore should IStand in the plague of custom, and permitThe curiosity of nations to deprive me.For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshinesLag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?When my dimensions are
King Lear’s palace.Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmund. Kent. I thought the king had more affected the Duke ofAlbany than Cornwall.Gloucester. It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most; for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can
A hall in the castle.Enter Hamlet and Horatio. Hamlet. So much for this sir: now shall you see the other:You do remember all the circumstance?Horatio. Remember it, my lord!Hamlet. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,That would not let me sleep: methought I layWorse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,And praised
A churchyard.Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c. First Clown. Is she to be buried in Christian burial thatwilfully seeks her own salvation?Second Clown. I tell thee she is; and therefore make her grave straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.First Clown. How can that be, unless she drowned herself in
Another room in the castle.Enter King and Laertes. King. Now must your conscience my acquittance seal,And you must put me in your heart for friend,Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,That he which hath your noble father slainPursued my life.Laertes. It well appears: but tell meWhy you proceeded not against these feats,So crimeful
Another room in the castle.Enter Horatio and a Servant. Horatio. What are they that would speak with me?Servant. Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you.Horatio. Let them come in. [Exit Servant.I do not know from what part of the worldI should be greeted, if not from lord Hamlet.Enter Sailors.First Sailor. God bless you,
Elsinore. A room in the castle.Enter Queen, Horatio, and a Gentleman. Queen. I will not speak with her.Gentleman. She is importunate, indeed distract:Her mood will needs be pitied.Queen. What would she have?Gentleman. She speaks much of her father; says she hearsThere ’s tricks i’ the world; and hems, and beats her heart;Spurns enviously at straws;
A plain in Denmark.Enter Fortinbras, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching. Fortinbras. Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king;Tell him that, by his license, FortinbrasCraves the conveyance of a promised marchOver his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.If that his majesty would aught with us,We shall express our duty in his eye;And let him know so.Captain.
Another room in the castle.Enter King attended. King. I have sent to seek him, and to find the body.How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!Yet must not we put the strong law on him:He ’s loved of the distracted multitude,Who like not in their judgement, but their eyes:And where ’tis so, the offender’s
Another room in the castle.Enter Hamlet. Hamlet. Safely stowed.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. [Within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!Hamlet. But soft, what noise? who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come.Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.Rosencrantz. What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?Hamlet. Compounded it with dust, whereto ’tis kin.Rosencrantz. Tell us where ’tis, that we may take
A room in the castle.Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, andGuildenstern. King. There ’s matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:You must translate: ’tis fit we understand them.Where is your son?Queen. Bestow this place on us a little while.[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.Ah, mine own lord, what have I seen to-nightKing. What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?Queen. Mad as
The Queen’s closet.Enter Queen and Polonius. Polonius. He will come straight. Look you lay home to him:Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,And that your grace hath screen’d and stood betweenMuch heat and him. I ’ll sconce me even here.Pray you, be round with him.Hamlet. [Within] Mother, mother, mother!Queen. I ’ll