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set volume 7

say "[[emph -]]Act 3. Scene 1, A room in the castle.
Enter King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Polonius,
Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern." using
"Victoria"

say "[[emph -]] King Claudius " using "Victoria"

say "[[emph -]]And can you, by no drift of
circumstance, Get from him why he puts on this
confusion, Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?" using "Ralph"

say "[[emph -]]Rosencrantz" using "Victoria"

say "[[emph -]]He does confess he feels himself
distracted; But from what cause he will by no means
speak." using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]Guildenstern " using "Victoria"

say "[[emph -]]Nor do we find him forward to be
sounded, But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof, When
we would bring him on to some confession Of his true
state." using "Albert"

say "[[emph -]]Queen Gertrude" using "Victoria"

say "[[emph -]]Did he receive you well?" using
"Agnes"

say "[[emph -]]Most like a gentleman." using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]But with much forcing of his
disposition." using "Albert"

say "[[emph -]]Niggard of question; but, of our
demands, Most free in his reply." using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]Did you assay him? To any pastime?"
using "Agnes"

say "[[emph -]]Madam, it so fell out, that certain
players We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told
him; And there did seem in him a kind of joy To hear
of it: they are about the court, And, as I think, they
have already order This night to play before him."
using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]this most true: And he beseech'd me to
entreat your majesties To hear and see the matter."
using "Bruce"

say "[[emph -]]With all my heart; and it doth much
content me To hear him so inclined. Good gentlemen,
give him a further edge, And drive his purpose on to
these delights." using "Ralph"

say "[[emph -]]We shall, my lord." using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern"
using "Victoria"

say "[[emph -]]Sweet Gertrude, leave us too; For we
have closely sent for Hamlet hither, That he, as
'twere by accident, may here Affront Ophelia: Her
father and myself, lawful espials, Will so bestow
ourselves that, seeing, unseen, We may of their
encounter frankly judge, And gather by him, as he is
behaved, If 't be the affliction of his love or no
That thus he suffers for." using "Ralph"

say "[[emph -]]I shall obey you. And for your part,
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 honours." using "Agnes"

say "[[emph -]]Madam, I wish it may." using
"Princess"

say "[[emph -]]Exit Queen Gertrude" using "Victoria"

say "[[emph -]]Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so
please you, We will bestow ourselves." using "Bruce"

say "[[emph -]]To Ophelia" using "Victoria"

say "[[emph -]]Read on this book; That show of such
an exercise may colour Your loneliness. We are oft to
blame in this,-- this too much proved--that with
devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar over
The devil himself." using "Bruce"

say "[[emph -]]King Claudius, Aside" using "Victoria"

say "[[emph -]]O, this too true! How smart a lash
that speech doth give my conscience! The harlot's
cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly
to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most
painted word: O heavy burthen!" using "Ralph"

say "[[emph -]]I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my
lord." using "Bruce"

say "[[emph -]]Exeunt King Claudius and Polonius.
Enter Hamlet" using "Victoria"


say "[[emph -]]To be, or not to be: that is the
question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to
take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing
end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to
say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural
shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep:
perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that
sleep of death what dreams may come When we have
shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause:
there's the respect That makes calamity of so long
life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The
pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence
of office and the spurns That patient merit of the
unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt
and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of
something after death, The undiscover'd country from
whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And
makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to
others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make
cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of
resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of
thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With
this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the
name of action.--Soft you now! The fair Ophelia!
Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd."
using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]Good my lord,How does your honour for
this many a day?" using "Princess"

say "[[emph -]]I humbly thank you; well, well, well."
using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]My lord, I have remembrances of yours,
That I have longed long to re-deliver; I pray you, now
receive them." using "Princess"

say "[[emph -]]No, not I; I never gave you aught."
using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]My honour'd lord, you know right well
you did; And, with them, words of so sweet breath
composed As made the things more rich: their perfume
lost, Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich
gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my
lord." using "Princess"

say "[[emph -]]Ha, ha! are you honest?" using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]My lord?" using "Princess"

say "[[emph -]]Are you fair?" using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]What means your lordship?" using
"Princess"

say "[[emph -]]That if you be honest and fair, your
honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty."
using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]Could beauty, my lord, have better
commerce than with honesty?" using "Princess"

say "[[emph -]]Ay, truly; for the power of beauty
will sooner transform 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."
using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]Indeed, my lord, you made me believe
so." using "Princess"

say "[[emph -]]You should not have believed me; for
virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall
relish of it: I loved you not." using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]I was the more deceived." using
"Princess"

say "[[emph -]]Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst
thou be a breeder of 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 more offences at my
beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination
to give them shape, or time to act them in. What
should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and
heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father?" using
"Fred"

say "[[emph -]]At home, my lord." using "Princess"

say "[[emph -]]Let the doors be shut upon him, that
he may play the fool no where but in's own house.
Farewell." using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]O, help him, you sweet heavens!" using
"Princess"

say "[[emph -]]If thou dost marry, I'll give thee
this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice,
as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get
thee to a nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt
needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well
enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery,
go,and quickly too. Farewell." using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]O heavenly powers, restore him!" using
"Princess"

say "[[emph -]]I have heard of your paintings too,
well enough; God has given you one face, and you make
yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp,
and nick-name God's creatures, and make your
wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't;
it hath made me mad. I say, we will have no more
marriages: those that are married already, all but
one, shall live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a
nunnery, go." using "Fred"

say "[[emph -]]Exit" using "Victoria"

say "[[emph -]]O, what a noble mind is here
o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye,
tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair
state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The
observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I,
of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the
honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most
sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of
tune and harsh; That unmatch'd form and feature of
blown youth Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me, To
have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" using
"Princess"

say "[[emph -]]Re-enter King Claudius and Polonius"
using "Victoria"

say "[[emph -]]Love! his affections do not that way
tend; Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a
little, Was not like madness. There's something in his
soul, O'er which his melancholy sits on brood; And I
do doubt the hatch and the disclose Will be some
danger: which for to prevent, I have in quick
determination Thus set it down: he shall with speed to
England, For the demand of our neglected tribute Haply
the seas and countries different With variable objects
shall expel This something-settled matter in his
heart, Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
From fashion of himself. What think you on't?" using
"Ralph"

say "[[emph -]]It shall do well: but yet do I believe
The origin and commencement of his grief Sprung from
neglected love. How now, Ophelia! You need not tell us
what Lord Hamlet said; We heard it all. My lord, do as
you please; But, if you hold it fit, after the play
Let his queen mother all alone entreat him To show his
grief: let her be round with him; And I'll be placed,
so please you, in the ear Of all their conference. If
she find him not, To England send him, or confine him
where Your wisdom best shall think." using "Bruce"

say "[[emph -]]It shall be so: Madness in great ones
must not unwatch'd go." using "Ralph"

say "[[emph -]]Exeunt" using "Victoria"

end run