{"id":2994,"date":"2013-09-09T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2994"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:33:00","slug":"hamlet-act-i-scene-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2994","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet Act I, Scene ii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamlet<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Act I, Scene ii\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hamlet \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Lisa Wolpe<\/a>. \u00a0And Xavier Pacheco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here\u00a0to open up a First Folio version<\/a> in a new window to compare texts.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0 O, that this too too solid flesh would melt<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0 Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0 Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0 His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0 How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,<\/li>\n
  6. \u00a0 Seem to me all the uses of this world!<\/li>\n
  7. \u00a0 Fie on’t! ah fie! ’tis an unweeded garden,<\/li>\n
  8. \u00a0 That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature<\/li>\n
  9. \u00a0 Possess it merely. That it should come to this!<\/li>\n
  10. \u00a0 But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:<\/li>\n
  11. \u00a0 So excellent a king; that was, to this,<\/li>\n
  12. \u00a0 Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother<\/li>\n
  13. \u00a0 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven<\/li>\n
  14. \u00a0 Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!<\/li>\n
  15. \u00a0 Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,<\/li>\n
  16. \u00a0 As if increase of appetite had grown<\/li>\n
  17. \u00a0 By what it fed on: and yet, within a month —<\/li>\n
  18. \u00a0 Let me not think on’t — Frailty, thy name is woman! —<\/li>\n
  19. \u00a0 A little month, or ere those shoes were old<\/li>\n
  20. \u00a0 With which she follow’d my poor father’s body,<\/li>\n
  21. \u00a0 Like Niobe, all tears: — why she, even she —<\/li>\n
  22. \u00a0 O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,<\/li>\n
  23. \u00a0 Would have mourn’d longer–married with my uncle,<\/li>\n
  24. \u00a0 My father’s brother, but no more like my father<\/li>\n
  25. \u00a0 Than I to Hercules: within a month:<\/li>\n
  26. \u00a0 Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears<\/li>\n
  27. \u00a0 Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,<\/li>\n
  28. \u00a0 She married. O, most wicked speed, to post<\/li>\n
  29. \u00a0 With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!<\/li>\n
  30. \u00a0 It is not nor it cannot come to good:<\/li>\n
  31. \u00a0 But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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