No Fear Shakespeare
Hamlet
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Act 1, Scene 2, Page 6
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That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly.—Heaven and earth,
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—
Let me not think on ’t. Frailty, thy name is
woman!—
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father’s body,
Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she—
O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer!—married with my uncle,
My father’s brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,
She married. O most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
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Oh God, do I have to remember that? She would hang on to him, and
the more she was with him the more she wanted to be with him; she
couldn’t get enough of him. Yet even so, within a month
of my father’s death (I don’t even want to
think about it. Oh women! You are so weak!), even before she had
broken in the shoes she wore to his funeral, crying like
crazy—even an animal would have mourned its mate longer
than she did!—there she was marrying my uncle, my
father’s brother, who’s about as much like my
father as I’m like Hercules. Less than a month after my
father’s death, even before the tears on her cheeks had
dried, she remarried. Oh, so quick to jump into a bed of incest!
That’s not good, and no good can come of it either. But
my heart must break in silence, since I can’t mention my
feelings aloud.
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Enter HORATIO,
MARCELLUS, and BARNARDO
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HORATIO, MARCELLUS,
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HORATIO
Hail to your lordship.
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HORATIO
Hello, sir.
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HAMLET
I am glad to see
you well.—
Horatio? Or I do forget myself?
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HAMLET
Nice to see you again, Horatio—that is your name,
right?
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HORATIO
The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.
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HORATIO
That’s me, sir. Still your respectful servant.
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HAMLET
Sir, my good friend, I’ll change that name with you.
And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio?—
Marcellus!
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HAMLET
Not my servant, but my friend. I’ll change that name
for you. But what are you doing so far from Wittenberg, Horatio?
—Oh, Marcellus?
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MARCELLUS
My good lord.
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MARCELLUS
Hello, sir.
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