No Fear Shakespeare
Hamlet
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 2
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Enter HAMLET
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HAMLET enters. |
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HAMLET
Safely stowed.
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HAMLET
The body is safely hidden.
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GENTLEMEN
(from within) Hamlet! Lord
Hamlet!
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GENTLEMEN
(from offstage) Hamlet, Lord
Hamlet!
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HAMLET
But soft, what noise? Who calls on Hamlet?
Oh, here they come.
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HAMLET
What’s that noise? Who’s calling for Hamlet?
Oh, here they come.
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Enter ROSENCRANTZ,
GUILDENSTERN, and others |
ROSENCRANTZ and
GUILDENSTERN enter with others. |
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ROSENCRANTZ
What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?
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ROSENCRANTZ
What have you done with the corpse, my lord?
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HAMLET
Compounded it with dust, whereto ’tis kin.
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HAMLET
I’ve gotten it dirty—ashes to ashes, and
dust to dust.
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ROSENCRANTZ
Tell us where ’tis, that we may take it thence
And bear it to the chapel.
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ROSENCRANTZ
But tell us where it is, so we can take it to the chapel.
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HAMLET
Do not believe it.
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HAMLET
Don’t believe it.
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ROSENCRANTZ
Believe what?
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ROSENCRANTZ
Believe what?
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HAMLET
That I can keep your counsel and not mine own. Besides, to
be demanded of a sponge! What replication should be made
by the son of a king?
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HAMLET
That I’d take your advice rather than keep my own
secret. Besides, you’re a sponge! What is the son of a
king supposed to say to a sponge?
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ROSENCRANTZ
Take you me for a sponge, my lord?
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ROSENCRANTZ
You think I’m a sponge, my lord?
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