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Prince of Denmarke.

As any the moft vulgar thing to fence, Why should we in our peuifh oppofition Take it to hart, fie, tis a fault to heauen, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reafon moft abfurd, whofe common theame Is death of fathers, and who ftill hath cryed From the firft courfe, till he that died to day This must be fo: we pray you throw to earth This vnpreuailing woe, and thinke of vs As of a father, for let the world take note You are the moft imediate to our throne, And with no leffe nobilitie of loue Then that which deareft father beares his fonne, Doe I impart toward you for your intent In going back to fchoole in Wittenberg, It is moft retrogard to our defire, yon sulgirmala อาการรบได้ง dugme 1h M BizA And we beseech you bend you to remaine Heere in the cheare and comfort of our eye, Our chiefeft courtier, cofin, and our fonne. Quee. Let not thy mother loofe her prayers Hamlet, I pray thee flay with vs, goe not to Wittenberg. Ham. I fhall in all my beft obay you Madam. King. Why tis a louing and a faire reply, Be as our felfe in Denmarke, Madam come, This gentle and vnforc'd accord of Hamlet Sits fmiling to my hart, in grace whereof, No iocond health that Denmarke drinkes to day, But the great Cannon to the cloudes fhall tell. And the Kings rowfe the heauen fhall brute againe, Refpeaking earthly thunder; come away. Florib. Imons bind A thained? iE bn A Exeunt all, Ham. O that this too too fallied flesh would melt, Thaw and refolue it felfe into a dewe, but Hamlet Orthat the euerlafting had not fixt His cannon gainft feale flaughter, ô God, God, How wary, ftale, flat, and vnprofitable Seeme to me all the vfes of this world? Fie on't, ah fie, tis an vnweeded garden That growes to feede, things rancke and grofe in nature, Poffeffe it meerely that it fhould come thus

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