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Hamlet Quotes and Notes Act I
Act I, scene 1
Marcellus (to Bernardo):
1. 31-34: “Therefore I have entreated him along / With us to watch the minutes
of this night, / That, if again this apparition come, / He may approve our eyes
and speak to it.”
Horatio (to Marcellus and Bernardo):
1. 107-116: “Now, sir, young Fortinbras, / Of unimprovčd mettle hot and full, /
Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there / Sharked up a list of lawless
resolutes / […] / But to recover of us, by strong hand / And terms compulsatory,
those foresaid lands / So by his father lost.”
Barnardo (to Marcellus and Horatio):
l. 162: “It was about to speak when the cock crew.”
Horatio
(to soldiers):
l. 184-186: “Let us impart what we have seen tonight / Unto young Hamlet; for,
upon my life, / This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.”
Act I, scene ii
King Claudius (to the court):
l. 8-14: “Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, / […] / Have we (as
‘twere with a defeated joy, / With an auspicious and a dropping eye, / With
mirth in funeral and dirge in marriage, / In equal scale weighing delight and
dole) / Taken to wife.”
King Claudius (to the court):
l. 27-31: “[…] we have here writ / To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras, / Who,
impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears / Of his nephew’s purpose, to suppress / His
further gait herein[…]”
Laertes (to Claudius):
l. 53: “Your leave and favor to return to France,”
Claudius (to Hamlet):
l. 68: “How is it that the clouds still hang on you?”
Hamlet (to Claudius):
l. 69: “Not so, my lord; I am too much in the sun.”
Claudius (to Hamlet):
l. 93-96: “But you must know that your father lost a father, / That father lost,
lost his, and the survivor bound / In filial obligation for some term / To do
obsequious sorrow.”
Claudius (to Hamlet):
l. 116-119: “For your intent / In going back to school in Wittenberg, / It is
most retrograde to our desire, / And we beseech you, bend you to remain”
Hamlet (soliloquy):
l. 133-136: “O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, / […] / Or that the
Everlasting had not fixed / his cannon ’gainst self-slaughter!”
l. 147-158: “Why she would hang on him /
[..]. And yet, within a month / (Let me not think on’t; frailty, thy name is
woman!), / […] married with my uncle, / My father’s brother, but no more like my
father / Than I to Hercules.”
l. 277-278: “My
father’s spirit-in-arms! All is not well. / I doubt some foul play. Would the
night were come!”
Act I, scene iii
Laertes (to Ophelia):
l. 17-21: “Perhaps he loves you now, / And now no soil or cautel doth besmirch /
The virtue of his will; but you must fear, / His greatness weighed, his will is
not his own, / For he himself is subject to his birth.”
Polonius (to Laertes):
l. 64: “And these few precepts in thy memory[…]”
Polonius (to Ophelia):
l. 112: “Do you believe his ‘tenders,’ as you call them?”
Polonius (to Ophelia):
l. 141-143: “I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth / Have you so
slander any moment leisure / As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.”
Act I, scene iv
Marcellus (to Hamlet):
l. 88: “You shall not go, my lord.”
Horatio (to Hamlet):
l. 90: “Be ruled. You shall not go.”
Hamlet (to the soldiers and Horatio):
l. 95: “By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me!”
Act I, scene v The Ghost (to
Hamlet):
l. 81-86: “Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand / Of life, of crown, of
queen at once dispatched, / Cut off, even in the blossoms of my sin, /
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled, / No reck’ning made, but sent to my account
/ With all my imperfections on my head.”
The Ghost (to Hamlet):
l. 89-90: “Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A couch for luxury and damnčd
incest.”
l. 93-95: “[…] Leave her to heaven / And
those thorns that in her bosom lodge / To prick and sting her.”
Hamlet (to Horatio and Marcellus):
l. 160: “Never make known what you have seen tonight.”
l. 191-202: “(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic
disposition on) / That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, / […] / […]
note / That you know aught of me—this do swear,”
Hamlet:
l. 210-211: “O cursčd spite / That ever I was born to set it right!”
Hamlet Quotes and Notes Act II
Act II, scene I
Polonius (to Reynaldo):
l. 21-23: “And there put on him / What forgeries you please –marry none so rank
/ As may dishonor him,”
l. 69-70: “See you now / Your bait of
falsehood take this carp of truth”
Ophelia (to Polonius):
l. 88-94: “Hamlet […] / […] with a look […] / As if he had been loosčd out of
hell / […] comes before me.”
Polonius
(to Ophelia):
l. 113-114: “I will go seek the King. / This is the very ecstasy of love,”
Act II, scene ii
Claudius (to Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern):
l. 10-18: “I entreat you both / […] to gather / So much as from occasion you may
glean, / […] / That, opened, lies within our remedy.”
Gertrude (to Claudius):
l. 59-60 “I doubt it is no other but the main— / His father’s death and our
o’erhasty marriage.”
Voltemand (to Gertrude and Claudius):
l. 74-75: “[Young Fortinbras] Makes vow before his uncle never more / To give
th’ assay of arms against your Majesty.”
l. 82-83: “That it might please you to give quiet pass / Through your dominion
for this enterprise,”
Gertrude (to Polonius):
l. 103: “More matter with less art.”
Polonius (to Claudius):
l. 176-177: “At such time I’ll loose my daughter to him. / Be you and I behind
an arras then.”
Polonius (as an aside):
l. 223-224: “Though this be madness, yet there is / method in’t.”
Hamlet (to R & G):
l. 262: “Denmark’s a prison.”
Hamlet (to R & G):
l. 303-304: “I know the good king and queen have sent for you.”
l. 313-314 ( as an aside): “If you love me, hold not off.”
l. 327-332: “What a piece of work is man, how
noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, […] in action how like an angel, in
apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and
yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
Hamlet, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern
(paraphrase):
l. 360-379: There is a clash between the satirical parts being written for young
actors and the traditional roles of the adult actors. It is getting to the
point where there needs to be a controversy to sell a play.
Hamlet (to R & G):
l. 399-403: “But my uncle-father and my aunt-mother are deceived. […]. I am
but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southernly, I know a hawk from a
handsaw.”
Hamlet (soliloquy):
l. 577-584: “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! / Is it not monstrous that
this player here, / But in a fiction, […] / Could force […] / Tears in his eyes,
[…] / […] –and all for nothing!”
l. 611-616: “Why, what an ass am I! This is
most brave, / That I, the son of a dear father murdered, / Prompted to my
revenge by heaven and hell, / Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words /
And fall a-cursing like a very drab, / A scullion!”
l. 623-627: “I’ll have these players / Play
something like the murder of my father / Before mine uncle. I’ll observe his
looks; / […] If he do blench, / I know my course.”
l. 627-632: “The spirit that I have seen /
May be a devil, and the devil hath power / T’assume a pleasing shape; yea, and
perhaps, / Out of my weakness and melancholy, / As he is very potent with such
spirits [emotional states], / Abuses [deceives] me to damn me.”
l. 633-634: “The play’s the thing / Wherein
I’ll catch the conscience of the King.”
Hamlet
Quotes and Notes Act III
Act III, scene i
Rosencrantz (to Claudius):
l. 5-6: “He does confess he feels himself distracted, / But from what cause he
will by no means speak.”
Claudius (to R & G):
l. 28-29: “Good gentlemen, give him a further edge / And drive his purpose into
these delights.”
Queen Gertrude (to Ophelia):
l. 42-46: “[…] Ophelia, I do wish / That your good beauties be the happy cause /
Of Hamlet’s wildness. So shall I hope your virtues / Will bring him to his
wonted way again, / To both your honors.”
King (aside):
l. 57-58: “How smart a lash that speech doth give my / conscience.”
**Hamlet (soliloquy)
l. 64-96: “To be or not to be[…]”
Paraphrase:
To be, or not to be—that is what really matters: 64
Is it nobler to accept passively
The trials and tribulations that unjust fate sends,
Or to resist an ocean of troubles,
And, by our own effort, defeat them? To die, to fall asleep—
Perhaps that’s all there is to it—and by that sleep suppose we put an end to 69
The heartache and the thousand worries
That are part of being human—that’s an end
We could all look forward to. To die, to sleep—
To sleep, maybe to dream. Yes, that’s the catch,
For in that sleep of death what nightmares may come
When we have freed ourselves from the turmoil of this mortal life 75
Makes us hesitate. There’s the cause
That makes a disaster out of living to a ripe old age.
After all, who wants to put up with the lashes and insults of this world,
The tyrant’s injustice, the contempt of arrogant men,
The pains of rejected love, the law’s frustrating slowness, 80
Insults from superiors, and the snubs
That deserving and hopeful people have to take from powerful inferiors,
When he could end the whole process by killing himself
With a drawn dagger? Who would want to carry the load,
To grunt and sweat under the burden of an exhausting life, 85
Except that the fear of what may happen to us after death,
That undiscovered country from whose territory
No explorer has ever returned, makes us confused and hesitant
And forces us to go on with the troubles we have
Rather than rush into new and unknown ones? 90
So, too much thinking turns us all into cowards,
And so the bright and healthy color of our intentions
Turns pale and weak as we brood about them,
And important and ambitious projects
Thus get sidetracked 95
And remain nothing but big plans.
-an interpretation of Hamlet 3.1
Ophelia (to Hamlet):
l. 102-103: “My lord, I have remembrances of yours / That I have longčd long to
redeliver.”
l. 108-111: “Their perfume lost, / Take these
again, for to the noble mind / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
Hamlet (to Ophelia):
l. 113, 115: “Ha, ha, are you honest?”
“Are you fair?”
l. 129: “I loved you not.”
l. 131-132: “Get thee to a nunnery. Why
wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?”
l. 139-140: “We are arrant knaves all;
believe none of us.”
l. 154-158: “I have heard of your paintings
too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves
another. You jig and amble, and you lisp; you nickname God’s creatures and make
your wantonness your ignorance.”
l. 159-161: “I say we shall have no more
marriage. Those that are married already, all but one, shall live.”
Ophelia (soliloquy):
l. 174-175: “O, woe is me / T’have seen what I have seen, see what I see!”
Claudius (to Polonius):
l. 177-183: “[…] what he spake, […] / Was not like madness. / [I fear it means
there] Will be some danger; to prevent / […]: he shall with speed to England”
Polonius (to Claudius):
l. 195-197: “[…] after the play / Let his queen-mother all alone entreat him /
To show his grief.”
l. 199-201: “If she find him not, / To
England send him, or confine him where / Your wisdom best shall think.”
Claudius (to Polonius):
l. 202-203: “It shall be so. / Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
Act III, scene ii
Hamlet (to Horatio):
l. 89-92: “Give him heedful note, / For I mine eyes will rivet to his face, /
And, after, we will both our judgements join / In censure of his seeming.”
Hamlet (to Ophelia):
l. 119: “Lady, shall I lie in your lap?”
l. 133-135: “For look you how cheerfully / my
mother looks, and my father died within’s two / hours.”
l. 173: Hamlet: “Is this the prologue
or the posy of a ring?
l. 174: Ophelia: “’Tis brief, my lord.”
l. 175: Hamlet: “As woman’s love.”
Gertrude (to Hamlet):
l. 254: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
Hamlet (to Claudius):
l. 261: “[I call the play] ‘The Mousetrap.’”
l. 265-266: “Your Majesty and we that have
free / souls, it touches us not.”
l. 292: “What, frightened with false fire?”
Hamlet (to R & G)
l. 399-402: “’Sblood, / do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? /
Call me what instrument you will, though you can / fret me, you cannot play upon
me.”
Hamlet (soliloquy):
l. 422-425: “Now I could drink hot / blood / And do such bitter business as the
day / Would quake to look on.”
l. 429: “I will speak daggers to her, but use
none.”
Act III, scene iii
Claudius (to R & G):
l. 3-4: “I your commission will forthwith dispatch, / And he to England shall
along with you.”
Rosencrantz (to Claudius):
l. 23-24: “[…] Never alone / Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.”
Polonius (to Claudius):
l. 30-31: “Behind the arras I’ll convey myself / To hear the process.”
Claudius (praying alone):
l. 56-60: “‘Forgive me my foul murder’? / That cannot be, since I am still
possessed / Of those effects for which I did the murder: / My crown, mine own
ambition, and my queen. / May one be pardoned and retain th’ offense?”
Hamlet
(to himself):
l. 78-93: “And now I’ll do’t. / And so he goes to heaven, / And so I am revenged
[…] / A villain kills my father, and for that, / I, his sole son, do this same
villain send / To heaven […]. / Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent [wait
for a more horrible occasion].”
Act III, scene iv
l. 18-21:
Gertrude: “Have you forgot me?”
Hamlet: “No, by the rood, not so. / You are the Queen, your
husband’s brother’s wife, / And (would it were not so) you are my mother.”
Hamlet (to Gertrude):
l. 24-25: “You go not till I set you up a glass [mirror] / Where you may see the
inmost part of you.”
Polonius (behind the arras):
l. 30: “O, I am slain!”
Hamlet (to Gertrude):
l. 34-35: “A bloody deed—almost as bad, good mother, / As kill a king and marry
with his brother.”
Hamlet (to Gertrude):
l. 76-81: “Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed / And batten on this
moor? Ha! Have you eyes? / You cannot call it love, for at your age / The
heyday in the blood is tame, it’s humble / And waits upon the judgement; and
what judgement / Would step from this to this?”
Gertrude (to Hamlet):
l. 100-102: “Thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul, / And there I see such
black and grainčd spots / As will not leave their tinct.”
The Ghost (to Hamlet):
l. 126-127: “Do not forget. This visitation / Is but to whet thy almost blunted
purpose.”
Hamlet (to Gertrude):
l. 170-173: “Confess yourself to heaven, / Repent what’s past, avoid what is to
come, / And do not spread compost on the weeds / To make them ranker.”
l. 203-210:
“Not this by no means that I bid you do: / Let the bloat king tempt you again to
bed, / […or] / Make you to ravel all this matter out / That I essentially am not
in madness, / But mad in craft.”
Hamlet
Quotes & Notes Act IV
Act IV, scene i
Claudius (to R & G):
l. 35-38: “Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, / And from his mother’s closet
hath he dragged him. / Go seek him out, speak fair, and bring the body / Into
the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.”
Act IV, scene ii
Hamlet (to Rosencrantz):
l. 12-13: “Besides, […being questioned by] a sponge, what / […reply] should be
made by the son of a king?”
l. 15-16: “[…A sponge] that soaks up the
King’s countenance [favorable looks], / his rewards, his authorities.”
Act IV, scene iii
l. 19-22: King: “ “Now, Hamlet, where’s
Polonius?”
Hamlet: “At supper.”
King: “At supper where?”
Hamlet: “Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.”
1. 36-41: King: “Where is
Polonius?”
Hamlet: “In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger find
him not there, seek him i’ th’ other place yourself. But if, indeed, you find
him not within a month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the
lobby.”
Claudius (to Hamlet):
l. 49-52: “The bark is ready, and the wind at help, / Th’ associates tend [wait
for you], and everything is bent [ready] / For England.”
Claudius (to himself):
l. 67-76: “And England, […] / […] thou mayst not [lightly / regard my royal
command], / which imports at full, / By letters congruing to that effect, / The
present death of Hamlet. Do it, England, / For like the hectic [continual
fever] in my blood he rages, / And thou must cure me.”
Act IV, scene iv
Fortinbras (to Captain):
l. 1-4: “Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish king. / Tell him that by his
license Fortinbras / Craves the conveyance of a promised march / Over his
kingdom.”
Fortinbras’ Captain (to Hamlet):
l. 19-20: “We go to gain a little patch of ground / That hath in it no profit
but the name.”
Hamlet (soliloquy):
l. 49-50: “Examples gross as earth exhort me: / Witness this army of such mass
and charge […]”
l. 59-65: “How
stand I, then, / That have a father killed, a mother stained, / Excitements of
my reason and my blood, / And let all sleep, while to my shame I see / The
imminent death of twenty thousand men / That for a fantasy and trick of fame /
Go to their graves like beds […].”
Act IV, scene v
Gentlemen (to Gertrude):
l. 9: “her speech is nothing, […]”
Horatio (to Gertrude):
l. 19: “’Twere good she were spoken with […]”
Ophelia (sings):
l. 34-37: “He is dead and gone, lady, / He is dead and gone; / At his head a
grass-green turf, / At his heels a stone.”
l. 53-71: “Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose and donned his clothes
And dupped [opened] the chamber door,
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.
By [Jesus…], and by Saint Charity,
Alack and fie for shame,
Young men will do’t, if they come to’t;
By [God…] they are to blame.
Quoth she ‘Before you tumbled me,
You promised me to wed.’
He answers:
‘So would I’a done, by yonder sun,
An [If] thou hadst not come to my bed.’”
Claudius (to Gertrude):
l. 83-84: When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions”
Laertes (to Claudius):
l. 148-155: “How came he dead? […] / To hell, allegiance! […] / To this point I
stand, / That both worlds I give to negligence, / Let come what comes, only I’ll
be revenged / Most thoroughly for my father.”
Claudius (to Laertes):
l. 172-175: “That I am guiltless of your father’s death / And am most sensible
in grief for it, / It shall as level to your judgement [ap]’pear / As the day
does to your eye.”
Laertes (about Ophelia):
l. 211-212: “Thought [Melancholy] and afflictions, passion [suffering], hell
itself / She turns to favor and to prettiness.”
Claudius (to Laertes):
l. 235-236: “And we shall jointly labor with your soul / To give it due
content.”
l. 244: “And where th’ offense is, let the
great ax fall.”
Act IV, scene vi
Horatio (reading a letter from Hamlet):
l. 15-18: “Ere we were two days / old at sea, a pirate of very warlike
appointment gave / us chase / […] and in the grapple I boarded them.”
Horatio
(reading a letter from Hamlet):
l. 23-29: “[…Come] thou to me with as must speed as thou wouldst fly death.
[…]. These good fellows will bring thee where I am. Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern hold their course for England; of them I have much to tell thee.”
Act IV, scene vii
Claudius (in response to Laertes’
question as to why Claudius has not punished Hamlet for the death of Polonius):
l. 13-14: “The Queen his mother / Lives almost by his looks […]”
l. 18-20: “The other motive / Why to a public
count I might not go / Is the great love the general gender [the common people]
bear him, / Who, […] / Convert his gyves [transform his shackles] to graces
[…].”
Claudius (reading a letter from
Hamlet):
l. 49-53: “High and mighty, you shall know I am set naked [defenseless] on your
kingdom. Tomorrow I shall beg leave to see your kingly eyes, when I shall […]
thereunto recount the occasion of my sudden and more strange return.”
Claudius (to Laertes):
l. 116-119: “Sir, this report of his / Did Hamlet so envenom with envy / That he
could nothing do but wish and beg / Your sudden coming-o’er, to play with you.”
Laertes (to Claudius):
l. 161-168: “I bought an unction [poison] of a mounteback [doctor] / So mortal
[deadly…] / […] I’ll touch my point / With this contagion, that, if I gall
[scratch] him slightly, / It may be death.”
Claudius (to Laertes):
l. 179-185: “When in your motion you are hot and dry / (As make your bouts more
violent to that end) / And he calls for drink, I’ll have prepared him / A
chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, / If he by chance escape your
venomed stuck [thrust of your sword], / Our purpose may hold there.”
Gertrude (to Laertes):
l. 197-200: “There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds / Clamb’ring to hang,
an envious sliver broke, / When down her weedy trophies and herself / Fell in
the weeping brook.”
l. 200-203: “Her clothes spread wide, / And
mermaid-like awhile they bore her up, / Which time she chanted snatches of old
lauds, / As one incapable of [understanding] her own distress”
l. 205-208:
“But long it could not be / Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, /
Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay / To muddy death.”
Hamlet
Quotes & Notes Act V – The Final Act
Act V, scene i
Gravedigger (to other):
l. 1-2: “Is she to be buried in Christian burial, / when she willingly seeks her
own salvation?”
Other (to Gravedigger):
l. 24-26: “If this had not been / a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out
o’ / Christian burial.”
Hamlet (to Horatio):
l. 77-79: “That skull had a tongue in it and could sing / once. How the knave
jowls [dashes] it to the ground as if / ’twere Cain’s jawbone, that did the
first murder!”
Hamlet (to Horatio):
l. 190-192: “Alas, poor / Yorick! I knew him, Horatio—a fellow of infinite /
jest, of most excellent fancy.”
Hamlet (to Horatio):
l. 224-228: “Here comes the King, / The Queen, and courtiers. Who is this they
follow? / And with such maimčd [diminished] rites? This doth betoken / The
corse they follow did with desp’rate hand / Fordo its own life.”
Doctor (to mourners):
l. 234-237: “Her death was doubtful [suspicious], / And, but that great command
o’ersways the order, / She should in ground unsanctified been lodged / Till the
last trumpet.”
Laertes (to Doctor):
l. 251-252: “A minist’ring angel shall my sister be / When thou liest howling.”
Gertrude (to Ophelia):
l. 254-257: “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
have strewed thy grave.”
Hamlet (to all):
l. 285-287: “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all
their quantity of love / Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?”
Hamlet
(to all, but truly to Claudius):
l. 310-311: “Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The cat will mew and dog
will have his day.”
Act V, scene ii (The Final Scene of the Final
Act)
Hamlet (to Horatio):
l. 11-12: “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we
will—”
Hamlet (to Horatio):
l. 35-36: “I sat me down, / Devised a new commission, wrote it fair—”
l. 49-52: “That, on the view and knowing of these contents, / Without debatement
further, more or less, / He should those bearers put to sudden death, / Not
shriving time allowed.”
Osric (to Hamlet):
l. 178-180: “The King, sir, hath laid, sir, that in a dozen / passes between
yourself and him, he shall not / exceed you three hits.”
Horatio (to Hamlet):
l. 223: “You will lose my lord.”
l. 231-232: “If your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will / forestall their
repair hither and say you are not fit.”
Hamlet (to Horatio):
l. 233-237: “There is a / special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be
/ now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be / now; if it be not
now, yet it will come. The / readiness is all.”
Hamlet (to Laertes):
l. 240: “Give me your pardon, sir. I have done you wrong;”
l. 257-258: “That I have shot my arrow o’er the house / And hurt my brother.”
Laertes (to Hamlet):
l. 259-262: “I am satisfied in nature, / […] / […] but in my terms of honor / I
stand aloof and will no reconcilement”
Hamlet (to Laertes):
l. 272-274: “I’ll be your foil, Laertes; in mine ignorance / Your skill shall,
like a star i’ th’ darkest night, / Stick fiery off indeed.”
Claudius (to all):
l. 291-293: “And in the cup an union [a large pearl] shall he throw, / Richer
than that which four successive kings / In Denmark’s crown have worn.”
Gertrude (to Hamlet):
l. 315: “The Queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.”
Laertes (to Hamlet):
l. 330: “Have at you now!”
Horatio (in exclamation):
l. 334: “They bleed on both sides.”
Laertes (to Hamlet):
l. 337: “I am justly killed with mine own treachery.”
Queen Gertrude (to Hamlet):
l. 341: “The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.”
Laertes (to Hamlet):
l. 351: “The King, the King’s to blame.”
Hamlet (to Claudius):
l. 352-353: “The point envenomed too! Then, venom, to thy / work.”
l. 357: “Drink off this potion. Is thy union
here?”
Laertes (to Hamlet):
l. 361-363: “Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. / Mine and my father’s
death come not upon thee, / Nor thine on me.”
Hamlet (to Horatio):
l. 370-372: “Horatio, I am dead. / Thou livest; report me and my cause aright /
To the unsatisfied.”
Horatio (to Hamlet):
l. 375: “Here’s yet some liquor left.”
Horatio (to Fortinbras):
l. 422-428: “So shall you hear / Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, / Of
accidental judgements, casual slaughters, / Of deaths put on by cunning and
forced cause, / And, in this upshot, purposes mistook / Fall’n on th’ inventors’
heads. All this can I / Truly deliver.”
Fortinbras (to Horatio):
l. 431-433: “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.”
Fortinbras (to all):
l. 422-448:
“Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royal […].
Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this
Becomes the field but here shows much amiss.”
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