{"id":4270,"date":"2015-01-14T10:13:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4270"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:08:58","slug":"hamlet-act-iv-scene-iv-second-quarto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4270","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet: Act IV, Scene iv: Second Quarto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Interestingly, this monologue is not contained in the First Folio or the First Quarto. \u00a0It appears in the Second Quarto and is usually included in modern productions and texts.<\/p>\n

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

Click here for a modern\u00a0version<\/a><\/p>\n

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

26. \u00a0How all occas<\/span>ions doe informe agains<\/span>t me,<\/div>\n
<\/a>27. \u00a0And s<\/span>pur my dull reuenge. What is a man<\/div>\n
<\/a>28. \u00a0If his chiefe good and market of his time<\/div>\n
<\/a>29. \u00a0Be but to s<\/span>leepe and feede, a beas<\/span>t, no more:<\/div>\n
30. \u00a0Sure he that made vs with s<\/span>uch large dis<\/span>cours<\/span>e<\/div>\n
<\/a>31. \u00a0Looking before and after, gaue vs not<\/div>\n
<\/a>32. \u00a0That capabilitie and god-like reas<\/span>on<\/div>\n
<\/a>33. \u00a0To fus<\/span>t in vs vnvs<\/span>d, now whether it be<\/div>\n
<\/a>34. \u00a0Bes<\/span>tiall obliuion, or s<\/span>ome crauen s<\/span>cruple<\/div>\n
35. \u00a0Of thinking too precis<\/span>ely on th’euent,<\/div>\n
<\/a>36. \u00a0A thought which quarterd hath but one part wis<\/span>edom,<\/div>\n
<\/a>37. \u00a0And euer three parts coward, I doe not know<\/div>\n
<\/a>38. \u00a0Why yet I liue to s<\/span>ay this thing’s to doe,<\/div>\n
<\/a>39. \u00a0Sith I haue caus<\/span>e, and will, and s<\/span>trength, and meanes<\/div>\n
40. \u00a0To doo’t; examples gros<\/span>s<\/span>e as earth exhort me,<\/div>\n
<\/a>41. \u00a0Witnes this Army of s<\/span>uch mas<\/span>s<\/span>e and charge,<\/div>\n
<\/a>42. \u00a0Led by a delicate and tender Prince,<\/div>\n
<\/a>43. \u00a0Whos<\/span>e s<\/span>pirit with diuine ambition puft,<\/div>\n
<\/a>44. \u00a0Makes mouthes at the invis<\/span>ible euent,<\/div>\n
45. \u00a0Expos<\/span>ing what is mortall, and vns<\/span>ure,<\/div>\n
<\/a>46. \u00a0To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,<\/div>\n
<\/a>47. \u00a0Euen for an Egge-s<\/span>hell. Rightly to be great,<\/div>\n
<\/a>48. \u00a0Is not to s<\/span>tirre without great argument,<\/div>\n
<\/a>49. \u00a0But greatly to find quarrell in a s<\/span>traw<\/div>\n
50. \u00a0When honour’s at the s<\/span>take, how s<\/span>tand I then<\/div>\n
<\/a>51. \u00a0That haue a father kild, a mother s<\/span>taind,<\/div>\n
<\/a>52. \u00a0Excytements of my reas<\/span>on, and my blood,<\/div>\n
<\/a>53. \u00a0And let all s<\/span>leepe, while to my s<\/span>hame I s<\/span>ee<\/div>\n
<\/a>54. \u00a0The iminent death of twenty thous<\/span>and men,<\/div>\n
55. \u00a0That for a fantas<\/span>ie and tricke of fame<\/div>\n
<\/a>56. \u00a0Goe to their graues like beds, fight for a plot<\/div>\n
<\/a>57. \u00a0Whereon the numbers cannot try the caus<\/span>e,<\/div>\n
<\/a>58. \u00a0Which is not tombe enough and continent<\/div>\n
59. \u00a0To hide the s<\/span>laine, \u00f4 from this time forth,<\/a><\/div>\n
60. \u00a0My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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