The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke - The First ('Bad') Quarto by William Shakespeare
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Why she would hang on him, as if increase
Of appetite had growne by what it looked on. O wicked wicked speede, to make such Dexteritie to incestuous sheetes, Ere yet the shooes were olde, The which she followed my dead fathers corse Like _Nyobe_, all teares: married, well it is not, Nor it cannot come to good: But breake my heart, for I must holde my tongue. _Enter_ Horatio _and_ Marcellus. _Hor._ Health to your Lordship. _Ham._ I am very glad to see you, (Horatio) or I much forget my selfe. _Hor._ The same my Lord, and your poore seruant euer. _Ham._ O my good friend, I change that name with you: but what make you from _Wittenberg_ H_oratio_? _Marcellus_. _Marc._ My good Lord. _Ham._ I am very glad to see you, good euen sirs; But what is your affaire in _Elsenoure_? Weele teach you to drinke deepe ere you depart. _Hor._ A trowant disposition, my good Lord. [B4v] _Ham._ Nor shall you make mee truster Of your owne report against your selfe: Sir, I know you are no trowant: But what is your affaire in _Elsenoure_? _Hor._ My good Lord, I came to see your fathers funerall. _Ham._ O I pre thee do not mocke mee fellow studient, I thinke it was to see my mothers wedding. _Hor._ Indeede my Lord, it followed hard vpon. |
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