Hamlet Act V, Scene ii – First Folio
Hamlet Act V, Scene ii Hamlet
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Horatio.
- You will lose this wager, my Lord.
Hamlet.
- I doe not thinke so, since he went into France,
- I haue beene in continuall practice; I shall winne at the
- oddes: but thou wouldest not thinke how all heere a-
- bout my heart: but it is no matter.
Horatio.
- Nay, good my Lord.
Hamlet.
- It is but foolery; but it is such a kinde of
- gain-giuing as would perhaps trouble a woman.
Horatio.
- If your minde dislike any thing, obey. I will fore-
- stall their repaire hither, and say you are not fit.
Hamlet.
- Not a whit, we defie Augury; there’s a speciall
- Prouidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not
- to come: if it bee not to come, it will bee now: if it
- be not now; yet it will come; the readinesse is all, since no
- man ha’s ought of what he leaues. What is’t to leaue be-
- times?