{"id":2998,"date":"2013-09-09T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2998"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:32:19","slug":"hamlet-act-i-scene-ii-first-folio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2998","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet Act I, Scene ii &#8211; First Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hamlet<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Act I, Scene ii\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hamlet \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This text is featured in our\u00a0<a title=\"Lisa Wolpe\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=2964\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Lisa Wolpe<\/a>. \u00a0And <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=4902\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Pacheco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click here\u00a0to <a title=\"Hamlet Act I, Scene ii\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2994\" target=\"_blank\">open up a modern version<\/a> in a new window to compare texts.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3002\">scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>313: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Oh that this too too solid Flesh, would melt,<br \/>\n<i>314: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Thaw, and resolue it selfe into a Dew:<br \/>\n<i>315: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Or that the Euerlasting had not fixt<br \/>\n<i>316: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>His Cannon &#8216;gainst Selfe-slaughter. O God, O God!<br \/>\n<i>317: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>How weary, stale, flat, and vnprofitable<br \/>\n<i>318: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Seemes to me all the vses of this world?<br \/>\n<i>319: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Fie on&#8217;t? Oh fie, fie, &#8217;tis an vnweeded Garden<br \/>\n<i>320: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>That growes to Seed: Things rank, and grosse in Nature<br \/>\n<i>321: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Possesse it meerely. That it should come to this:<br \/>\n<i>322: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>But two months dead: Nay, not so much; not two,<br \/>\n<i>323: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>So excellent a King, that was to this<br \/>\n<i>324: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i><i>Hiperion<\/i>\u00a0to a Satyre: so louing to my Mother,<br \/>\n<i>325: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>That he might not beteene the windes of heauen<br \/>\n<i>326: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Visit her face too roughly. Heauen and Earth<br \/>\n<i>327: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Must I remember: why she would hang on him,<br \/>\n<i>328: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>As if encrease of Appetite had growne<br \/>\n<i>329: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>By what is fed on; and yet within a month?<br \/>\n<i>330: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Let me not thinke on&#8217;t: Frailty, thy name is woman.<br \/>\n<i>331: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>A little Month, or ere those shooes were old,<br \/>\n<i>332: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>With which she followed my poore Fathers body<br \/>\n<i>333: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Like\u00a0<i>Niobe<\/i>, all teares. Why she, euen she.<br \/>\n<i>334: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>(O Heauen! A beast that wants discourse of Reason<br \/>\n<i>335: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Would haue mourn&#8217;d longer) married with mine Vnkle,<br \/>\n<i>336: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>My Fathers Brother: but no more like my Father,<br \/>\n<i>337: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Then I to\u00a0<i>Hercules<\/i>. Within a Moneth?<br \/>\n<i>338: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Ere yet the salt of most vnrighteous Teares<br \/>\n<i>339: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Had left the flushing of her gauled eyes,<br \/>\n<i>340: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>She married. O most wicked speed, to post<br \/>\n<i>341: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>With such dexterity to Incestuous sheets:<br \/>\n<i>342: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>It is not, nor it cannot come to good.<br \/>\n<i>343: \u00a0\u00a0<\/i>But breake my heart, for I must hold my tongue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamlet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Act I, Scene ii\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hamlet \u00a0 This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Lisa Wolpe. \u00a0And Xavier Pacheco. Click here\u00a0to open up a modern version in a new window to compare texts. 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