Hamlet: Now, mother, what's the matter?
Queen Gertrude: Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.
Hamlet: Mother, you have my father much offended.
Queen Gertrude: Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
Hamlet: Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
Queen Gertrude: Why, how now, Hamlet!
Hamlet: What's the matter now?
Queen Gertrude: Have you forgot me?
Hamlet: No, by the rood, not so:
Hamlet: You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife;
Hamlet: And--would it were not so!--you are my mother.
Queen Gertrude: Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak.
Hamlet: Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;
Hamlet: You go not till I set you up a glass
Hamlet: Where you may see the inmost part of you.
Queen Gertrude: What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?
Queen Gertrude: Help, help, ho!
Lord Polonius: [Behind]  What, ho! help, help, help!
Hamlet: [Drawing]  How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
[Stage direction] Makes a pass through the arras
Lord Polonius: [Behind]  O, I am slain!
[Stage direction] Falls and dies
Queen Gertrude: O me, what hast thou done?
Hamlet: Nay, I know not:
Hamlet: Is it the king?
Queen Gertrude: O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!
Hamlet: A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,
Hamlet: As kill a king, and marry with his brother.
Queen Gertrude: As kill a king!
Hamlet: Ay, lady, 'twas my word.
[Stage direction] Lifts up the array and discovers POLONIUS
Hamlet: Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
Hamlet: I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune;
Hamlet: Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.
Hamlet: Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down,
Hamlet: And let me wring your heart; for so I shall,
Hamlet: If it be made of penetrable stuff,
Hamlet: If damned custom have not brass'd it so
Hamlet: That it is proof and bulwark against sense.
Queen Gertrude: What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue
Queen Gertrude: In noise so rude against me?
Hamlet: Such an act
Hamlet: That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
Hamlet: Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
Hamlet: From the fair forehead of an innocent love
Hamlet: And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows
Hamlet: As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed
Hamlet: As from the body of contraction plucks
Hamlet: The very soul, and sweet religion makes
Hamlet: A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow:
Hamlet: Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
Hamlet: With tristful visage, as against the doom,
Hamlet: Is thought-sick at the act.
Queen Gertrude: Ay me, what act,
Queen Gertrude: That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?
Hamlet: Look here, upon this picture, and on this,
Hamlet: The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
Hamlet: See, what a grace was seated on this brow;
Hamlet: Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
Hamlet: An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
Hamlet: A station like the herald Mercury
Hamlet: New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;
Hamlet: A combination and a form indeed,
Hamlet: Where every god did seem to set his seal,
Hamlet: To give the world assurance of a man:
Hamlet: This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:
Hamlet: Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear,
Hamlet: Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
Hamlet: Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
Hamlet: And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?
Hamlet: You cannot call it love; for at your age
Hamlet: The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,
Hamlet: And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment
Hamlet: Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,
Hamlet: Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense
Hamlet: Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,
Hamlet: Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd
Hamlet: But it reserved some quantity of choice,
Hamlet: To serve in such a difference. What devil was't
Hamlet: That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
Hamlet: Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Hamlet: Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Hamlet: Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Hamlet: Could not so mope.
Hamlet: O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
Hamlet: If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
Hamlet: To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,
Hamlet: And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame
Hamlet: When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
Hamlet: Since frost itself as actively doth burn
Hamlet: And reason panders will.
Queen Gertrude: O Hamlet, speak no more:
Queen Gertrude: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;
Queen Gertrude: And there I see such black and grained spots
Queen Gertrude: As will not leave their tinct.
Hamlet: Nay, but to live
Hamlet: In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
Hamlet: Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love
Hamlet: Over the nasty sty,--
Queen Gertrude: O, speak to me no more;
Queen Gertrude: These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears;
Queen Gertrude: No more, sweet Hamlet!
Hamlet: A murderer and a villain;
Hamlet: A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
Hamlet: Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings;
Hamlet: A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
Hamlet: That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,
Hamlet: And put it in his pocket!
Queen Gertrude: No more!
Hamlet: A king of shreds and patches,--
[Stage direction] Enter GHOST
Hamlet: Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings,
Hamlet: You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure?
Queen Gertrude: Alas, he's mad!
Hamlet: Do you not come your tardy son to chide,
Hamlet: That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by
Hamlet: The important acting of your dread command? O, say!
Ghost: Do not forget: this visitation
Ghost: Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
Ghost: But, look, amazement on thy mother sits:
Ghost: O, step between her and her fighting soul:
Ghost: Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works:
Ghost: Speak to her, Hamlet.
Hamlet: How is it with you, lady?
Queen Gertrude: Alas, how is't with you,
Queen Gertrude: That you do bend your eye on vacancy
Queen Gertrude: And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?
Queen Gertrude: Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep;
Queen Gertrude: And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm,
Queen Gertrude: Your bedded hair, like life in excrements,
Queen Gertrude: Starts up, and stands on end. O gentle son,
Queen Gertrude: Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
Queen Gertrude: Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look?
Hamlet: On him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares!
Hamlet: His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones,
Hamlet: Would make them capable. Do not look upon me;
Hamlet: Lest with this piteous action you convert
Hamlet: My stern effects: then what I have to do
Hamlet: Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood.
Queen Gertrude: To whom do you speak this?
Hamlet: Do you see nothing there?
Queen Gertrude: Nothing at all; yet all that is I see.
Hamlet: Nor did you nothing hear?
Queen Gertrude: No, nothing but ourselves.
Hamlet: Why, look you there! look, how it steals away!
Hamlet: My father, in his habit as he lived!
Hamlet: Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal!
[Stage direction] Exit GHOST
Queen Gertrude: This the very coinage of your brain:
Queen Gertrude: This bodiless creation ecstasy
Queen Gertrude: Is very cunning in.
Hamlet: Ecstasy!
Hamlet: My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
Hamlet: And makes as healthful music: it is not madness
Hamlet: That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,
Hamlet: And I the matter will re-word; which madness
Hamlet: Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
Hamlet: Lay not that mattering unction to your soul,
Hamlet: That not your trespass, but my madness speaks:
Hamlet: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
Hamlet: Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
Hamlet: Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;
Hamlet: Repent what's past; avoid what is to come;
Hamlet: And do not spread the compost on the weeds,
Hamlet: To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue;
Hamlet: For in the fatness of these pursy times
Hamlet: Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,
Hamlet: Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
Queen Gertrude: O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
Hamlet: O, throw away the worser part of it,
Hamlet: And live the purer with the other half.
Hamlet: Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed;
Hamlet: Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
Hamlet: That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Hamlet: Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
Hamlet: That to the use of actions fair and good
Hamlet: He likewise gives a frock or livery,
Hamlet: That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night,
Hamlet: And that shall lend a kind of easiness
Hamlet: To the next abstinence: the next more easy;
Hamlet: For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
Hamlet: And either [         ] the devil, or throw him out
Hamlet: With wondrous potency. Once more, good night:
Hamlet: And when you are desirous to be bless'd,
Hamlet: I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord,
[Stage direction] Pointing to POLONIUS
Hamlet: I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so,
Hamlet: To punish me with this and this with me,
Hamlet: That I must be their scourge and minister.
Hamlet: I will bestow him, and will answer well
Hamlet: The death I gave him. So, again, good night.
Hamlet: I must be cruel, only to be kind: