No Fear Shakespeare
Hamlet
Act 1, Scene 2, Page 10
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HAMLET
What, looked he frowningly?
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HAMLET
Was he frowning?
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HORATIO
A
countenance more
In sorrow than in anger.
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HORATIO
He looked more sad than angry.
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HAMLET
Pale or
red?
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HAMLET
Was he pale or flushed and red-faced?
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HORATIO
Nay, very pale.
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HORATIO
Very pale, sir.
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HAMLET
And fixed his eyes upon you?
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HAMLET
Did he stare at you?
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HORATIO
Most constantly.
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HORATIO
The whole time.
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HAMLET
I would I had been there.
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HAMLET
I wish I’d been there.
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HORATIO
It would have much amazed you.
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HORATIO
You would have been very shocked.
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HAMLET
Very like. Stayed it long?
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HAMLET
I’m sure I would have. Did it stay a long time?
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HORATIO
While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
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HORATIO
About as long as it would take someone to count slowly to a
hundred.
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MARCELLUS, BARNARDO
Longer, longer.
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MARCELLUS, BARNARDO
No, longer than that.
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HORATIO
Not when I saw ’t.
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HORATIO
Not the time I saw it.
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HAMLET
His beard was grizzled, no?
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HAMLET
His beard was gray, right?
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HORATIO
It was, as I have seen it in his life,
A sable silvered.
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HORATIO
It was just like in real life, dark brown with silver whiskers in
it.
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HAMLET
I will watch tonight. Perchance
'Twill walk again.
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HAMLET
I’ll stand guard with you tonight. Maybe
it’ll come again.
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HORATIO
I warrant it will.
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HORATIO
I bet it will.
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