{"id":1360,"date":"2012-06-30T14:42:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=1360"},"modified":"2012-08-16T22:02:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:02:59","slug":"hamlet-act-ii-scene-ii-the-shakespeare-forum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=1360","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet: Act II, Scene ii &#8211; The Shakespeare Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hamlet<\/span>\u00a0 Act II, Scene ii &#8211; Hamlet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This text is featured in our <a title=\"Tyler Moss\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=1412\">interview with Tyler Moss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hamlet Act II, Scene ii \u2013 Folio\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=1444\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to open up the First Folio version in a new window to compare texts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosin.<\/strong> What say you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ham.<\/strong> Nay then I haue an eye of you: if you loue me<br \/>\nhold not off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guil.<\/strong> My Lord, we were sent for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ham.<\/strong> I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation<br \/>\npreuent your discouery of your secricie to the King and<br \/>\nQueene: moult no feather, I haue of late, but wherefore<br \/>\nI know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custome of ex-<br \/>\nercise; and indeed, it goes so heauenly with my dispositi-<br \/>\non; that this goodly frame the Earth, seemes to me a ster-<br \/>\nrill Promontory; this most excellent Canopy the Ayre,<br \/>\nlook you, this braue ore-hanging (firmament), this Maiesticall Roofe,<br \/>\nfretted with golden fire: why, it appeares no other thing (nothing)<br \/>\nto mee, then a foule and pestilent congregation of va-<br \/>\npours. What a piece of worke is a man! how Noble in<br \/>\nReason (!), how infinite in faculty(!), in forme and mouing<br \/>\nhow expresse and admirable(!), in Action, how like an An-<br \/>\ngel(!), in apprehension, how like a God(!), the beauty of the<br \/>\nworld, the Parragon of Animals; and yet to me, what is<br \/>\nthis Quintessence of Dust? Man delights not me; no,<br \/>\nnor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seeme<br \/>\nto say so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamlet\u00a0 Act II, Scene ii &#8211; Hamlet This text is featured in our interview with Tyler Moss. Click here to open up the First Folio version in a new window to compare texts. Rosin. What say you? Ham. Nay then I haue an eye of you: if you loue me hold not off. Guil. My<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=1360' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1360","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-lW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1360\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}