Hamlet - Page 82

When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out

Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood

And do such bitter business as the day

Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother.

O heart, lose not thy nature373; let not ever

The soul of Nero374 enter this firm bosom:

Let me be cruel, not unnatural.

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:

How in my words somever378 she be shent,

To give them seals379 never my soul consent!

[Exit]

[Act 3 Scene 3]

running scene 9

Enter King, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

KING I like him1 not, nor stands it safe with us

To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you:

I your commission will forthwith dispatch3,

And he to England shall along with you.

The terms of our estate5 may not endure

Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow

Out of his lunacies.

GUILDENSTERN We will ourselves provide8:

Most holy and religious fear9 it is

To keep those many many bodies safe

That live and feed upon your majesty.

ROSENCRANTZ The single and peculiar12 life

is bound

With all the strength and armour of the mind

To keep itself from noyance14, but much more

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