{"id":9139,"date":"2025-05-29T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9139"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:30:59","slug":"hamlet-act-i-scene-ii-first-folio-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9139","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet Act V, Scene ii – First Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Gideon Rappaport<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Horatio<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. You will lose this wager, my Lord.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Hamlet<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. I doe not thinke\u00a0so,\u00a0since he went into France,<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. I haue beene in continuall practice; I\u00a0shall winne at the<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. oddes: but thou wouldest\u00a0not thinke how all heere a-<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. bout my heart: but it is no matter.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Horatio<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Nay, good my Lord.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Hamlet<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. It is but foolery; but it is\u00a0such a kinde of<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. gain-giuing as would perhaps trouble a woman.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Horatio<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          1. If your minde dislike any thing, obey. I will fore-<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
          2. stall their repaire hither, and\u00a0say you are not\u00a0fit.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

            Hamlet<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            1. Not a whit, we defie Augury; there’s a\u00a0speciall<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            2. Prouidence in the fall of a\u00a0sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            3. to come: if it bee not to come, it will bee now: if it<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            4. be not now; yet it will come; the readinesse is all,\u00a0since no<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            5. man ha’s ought of what he leaues. What is’t to leaue be-<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            6. times?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Hamlet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Act V, Scene ii\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hamlet \u00a0 This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Gideon Rappaport. Click here\u00a0to open up a modern version in a new window to compare texts. 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