{"id":935,"date":"2012-04-10T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T01:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=935"},"modified":"2023-05-25T18:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T22:27:28","slug":"hamlet-act-ii-scene-ii-first-folio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=935","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet Act II, Scene ii First Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hamlet<\/span>       Act II, Scene ii       Hamlet   <\/strong>
(First Folio edition)
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This text is featured in our interview with Markus Potter<\/a>.\u00a0 And with Colin David Reese<\/a>.\u00a0 and with Dakin Matthews<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. I so God buy\u2019 ye:  Now I am alone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Oh what a Rogue and Pesant slave am I?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Is it not monstrous that this Player heere,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. But in a fixtion, in a dreame of passion,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Could force his soule so to his whole conceit,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. That from her working, all his visage warm\u2019d;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Teares in his eyes, distraction in\u2019s Aspect,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. A broken voyce, and his whole Funcion suiting,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. With formes to his Conceit?  And all for nothing?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. For Hecuba?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. What\u2019s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. That he should weepe for her?  What would he doe,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Had he the Motive and the Cue for passion<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. That I have?  He would drowne the Stage in teares,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. And cleave the generall eare with horrid speech:<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Make mad the guilty and apale the free,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Confound the ignorant and amaze indeed<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. The very faculty of Eyes and Eares. Yet I,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. A dull and muddy-mettled Rascall, peake<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Like John-a-dreames unpregnant of my cause,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. And can say nothing: No, not for a King,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Upon whose property, and most deere life,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. A damn\u2019d defeate was made. Am I a Cow-ard?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Who calls me villaine? Breaks my pate acrosse?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. Pluckes off my Beard, and blowes it in my face?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. Tweakes me by\u2019th\u2019Nose? Gives me the Lye I\u2019the\u2019Throate,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. As deep as to the Lungs? Who does me this?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. Ha? Why I should take it: for it can not be,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. But I am Pigeon liver\u2019d and lacke Gall<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. To make Opression bitter, or ere this,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  31. I should have fatted all the Region Kites<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  32. With this Slave\u2019s Offal, bloudy: a Bawdy villain,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  33. Remorseless, Trecherous, Letcherous Kindless villaine!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  34. O, Vengeance!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  35. Who? What an Asse am I? I sure, this is most brave,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  36. That I, the Sonne of the Deere Murthered,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  37. Prompted to my Revenge by Heaven, and Hell,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  38. Must (like a Whore) unpacke my heart with words,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  39. And fall a-Cursing like a very Drab,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  40. A Scullion? Frye upon\u2019t Foh! About my Braine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  41. I have heard that guilty Creatures sitting at a Play<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  42. Have by the very cunning of the Scene,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  43. Been stroke so to the sould that presently<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  44. They have proclaim\u2019d their malefactions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  45. For murther, thought it have no tongue, will speake<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  46. With most miraculous organ. Ile have these Players,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  47. Play something like the murder of my Father,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  48. Before mine Unkle. Ile observe his lookes,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  49. Ile tent him to the Quicke: If he but blench<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  50. I know my course. The Spirit that I have seene<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  51. May be the Divell, and Divell hath power<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  52. To assume a pleasing shape; yea and perhaps<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  53. Out of my Weaknesse, and my melancholy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  54. As he is very potent with such spirits,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  55. Abuses me to damne me. I\u2019ll have grounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  56. More Relative then this: The Play\u2019s the thing,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  57. Wherein Ile catch the Conscience of the King.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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