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Osr. How is't, Laertes?

Laer. Why, as a woodcock to my own springe,

Osrick;

I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.

Ham. How does the queen?

King. She swoons to see them bleed.

Queen. No, no, the drink, the drink,-O my dear

Hamlet!

The drink, the drink ;-I am poison'd-

[The Queen dies

Ham. O villainy!-Ho! let the door be lock'd:

Treachery! seek it out.

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Laer. It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain ; No medicine in the world can do thee good, In thee there is not half an hour's life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated, and envenom'd: the foul practice Hath turn'd itself on me; lo, here I lie, Never to rise again: Thy mother's poison'd; I can no more;-the king, the king's to blame. Ham. The point envenom'd too!—

Then, venom, to thy work.

All. Treason! treason!

[Stabs the King.

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King. O, yet defend me, friends, I am but hurt. Ham. Here, thou incestuous, murd'rous, damned

Dane,

Drink off this potion :-Is the union here?

Follow my mother.

Laer. He is justly serv'd;

It is a poison temper'd by himself.

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[King dies.

Exchange

Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet :
Mine and my father's death come not upon thee;
Nor thine on me!
[Dies

Ham. Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.
I am dead, Horatio :-Wretched queen, adieu !—
You that look pale and tremble at this chance, 672
That are but mutes or audience to this act,
Had I but time (as this fell serjeant, death,
Is strict in his arrest), O, I could tell you,-
But let it be:-Horatio, I am dead;
Thou liv'st; report me and my cause aright
To the unsatisfied.

Hor. Never believe it ;

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane,
Here's yet some liquor left,

Ham. As thou'rt a man,

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Give me the cup; let go; by heaven, I'll have it.O God! Horatio, what a wounded name,

Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me ? If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,

Absent thee from felicity a while,

And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.- [March afar off, and shot within.
What warlike noise is this?

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Osr. Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,

To the embassadors of England gives

This warlike volley.

Ham. O, I die, Horatio;

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The potent poison quite o'ergrows my spirit;
I cannot live to hear the news from England:
But I do prophesy, the election lights:

On Fortinbras; he has my dying voice:

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So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, Which chave solicited,-The rest is silence. [Dies Hor. Now cracks a noble heart :-Good night,

sweet prince;

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

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Why does the drum come hither?

Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Embassadors, and others.

Fort. Where is this sight?

Hor. What is it, you would see?

If aught of woe, or wonder, cease your search.
Fort. This quarry cries, on havock!-O proud

death!

What feast is toward in thine infernal cell,

That thou so many princes, at a shot,

So bloodily hast struck?

Emb. The sight is dismal;]

And our affairs from England come too late :

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The ears are senseless, that should give us hearing, To tell him, his commandment is fulfill'd,

That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:

Where should we have our thanks?

Hor. Not from his mouth,

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Had it the ability of life to thank you ;

He never gave commandment for their death.
But since, so jump upon this bloody question,

You from the Polack wars, and you from England
Are here arriv'd; give order, that these bodies'
High on a stage be placed to the view;

And let me speak, to the yet unknowing world,
How these things came about: So shall you hear
Of cruel, bloody, and unnatural acts;

Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;
Of deaths put on by cunning, and forc'd cause;
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook

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Fort. Let us haste to hear it,

And call the noblest to the audience,

For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune;
I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,
Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.

Hor. Of that I shall have also cause to speak,
And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more:
But let this same be presently perform'd,

Even while men's minds are wild; lest more mis

chance

On plots, and errors, happen.

Fort. Let four captains

Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;

For he was likely, had he been put on,

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To have prov'd most royally; and, for his passage,

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The soldiers' music, and the rites of war,

Speak loudly for him..

Take up the bodies-Such a sight as this

Becomes the field, but here shews much amiss.

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

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