No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet: Act 3, scene i

	Take these again, for to the noble mind
	Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
105	There, my lord.

their value when the givers turn out not to be so nice. There, my lord.

	HAMLET
	Ha, ha, are you honest?

HAMLET

Ha ha, are you good?

	OPHELIA
	My lord?

OPHELIA

Excuse me?

	HAMLET
	Are you fair?

HAMLET

Are you beautiful?

	OPHELIA
	What means your lordship?

OPHELIA

My lord, what are you talking about?

	HAMLET
110	That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit
	no discourse to your beauty.

HAMLET

I'm just saying that if you're good and beautiful, your goodness should have nothing to do with your beauty.

	OPHELIA
	Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with
	honesty?

OPHELIA

But could beauty be related to anything better than goodness?

	HAMLET
	Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform
115	honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty
	can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a
	paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you
	once.

HAMLET

Sure, since beauty's power can more easily change a good girl into a whore than the power of goodness can change a beautiful girl into a virgin. This used to be a great puzzle, but now I've solved it. I used to love you.

	OPHELIA
	Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.

OPHELIA

You certainly made me believe you did, my lord.

	HAMLET
120	You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so
	inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you
	not.

HAMLET

You shouldn't have believed me, since we're all rotten at the core, no matter how hard we try to be virtuous. I didn't love you.

	OPHELIA
	I was the more deceived.

OPHELIA

Then I guess I was misled.

	HAMLET
	Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of
125	sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could
	accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had
	not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with

HAMLET

Get yourself to a convent at once. Why would you want to give birth to more sinners? I'm fairly good myself, but even so I could accuse myself of such horrible crimes that it would've been better if my mother had never given birth to me. I am arrogant, vengeful, and