{"id":4267,"date":"2015-01-14T10:11:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4267"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:07:50","slug":"hamlet-act-iv-scene-iv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4267","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet: Act IV, Scene iv"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamlet \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Act 4, Scene 4. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hamlet<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our\u00a0interviews with\u00a0Eric Tucker<\/a>\u00a0and David Carl<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Click here for a Second Quarto\u00a0version<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for a Scanned Version<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0 How all occasions do inform against me<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0 And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0 If his chief good and market of his time<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0 Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0 Sure he that made us with such large discourse,<\/li>\n
  6. \u00a0 Looking before and after, gave us not<\/li>\n
  7. \u00a0 That capability and godlike reason<\/li>\n
  8. \u00a0 To fust in us unus’d. Now, whether it be<\/li>\n
  9. \u00a0 Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple<\/li>\n
  10. \u00a0 Of thinking too precisely on th’ event,<\/li>\n
  11. \u00a0 A thought which, quarter’d, hath but one part wisdom<\/li>\n
  12. \u00a0 And ever three parts coward,- I do not know<\/li>\n
  13. \u00a0 Why yet I live to say ‘This thing’s to do,’<\/li>\n
  14. \u00a0 Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means<\/li>\n
  15. \u00a0 To do’t. Examples gross as earth exhort me.<\/li>\n
  16. \u00a0 Witness this army of such mass and charge,<\/li>\n
  17. \u00a0 Led by a delicate and tender prince,<\/li>\n
  18. \u00a0 Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff’d,<\/li>\n
  19. \u00a0 Makes mouths at the invisible event,<\/li>\n
  20. \u00a0 Exposing what is mortal and unsure<\/li>\n
  21. \u00a0 To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,<\/li>\n
  22. \u00a0 Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great<\/li>\n
  23. \u00a0 Is not to stir without great argument,<\/li>\n
  24. \u00a0 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw<\/li>\n
  25. \u00a0 When honour’s at the stake. How stand I then,<\/li>\n
  26. \u00a0 That have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d,<\/li>\n
  27. \u00a0 Excitements of my reason and my blood,<\/li>\n
  28. \u00a0 And let all sleep, while to my shame I see<\/li>\n
  29. \u00a0 The imminent death of twenty thousand men<\/li>\n
  30. \u00a0 That for a fantasy and trick of fame<\/li>\n
  31. \u00a0 Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot<\/li>\n
  32. \u00a0 Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,<\/li>\n
  33. \u00a0 Which is not tomb enough and continent<\/li>\n
  34. \u00a0 To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,<\/li>\n
  35. \u00a0 My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hamlet \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Act 4, Scene 4. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hamlet (This text is featured in our\u00a0interviews with\u00a0Eric Tucker\u00a0and David Carl) Click here for a Second Quarto\u00a0version Click here for a Scanned Version \u00a0 How all occasions do inform against me \u00a0 And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, \u00a0 If his<\/p>\n [...]<\/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-4267","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-16P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4267","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=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5104,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4267\/revisions\/5104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}