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    Hamlet
    Hamlet
    Hamlet
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    Hamlet

    By William Shakespeare

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    King.
    Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
    The memory be green, and that it us befitted
    To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom
    To be contracted in one brow of woe;
    Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
    That we with wisest sorrow think on him,
    Together with remembrance of ourselves.
    Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
    Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state,
    Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,-
    With an auspicious and one dropping eye,
    With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
    In equal scale weighing delight and dole,-
    Taken to wife; nor have we herein barr'd
    Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
    With this affair along:-or all, our thanks.
    Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,
    Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
    Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
    Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
    Colleagued with this dream of his advantage,
    He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,
    Importing the surrender of those lands
    Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
    To our most valiant brother. So much for him,-
    Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:
    Thus much the business is:-we have here writ
    To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,-
    Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears
    Of this his nephew's purpose,-to suppress
    His further gait herein; in that the levies,
    The lists, and full proportions are all made
    Out of his subject:-and we here dispatch
    You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,
    For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;
    Giving to you no further personal power
    To business with the king, more than the scope
    Of these dilated articles allow.
    Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateFeb 20, 2019
    ISBN9783749409358
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest playwright the world has seen. He produced an astonishing amount of work; 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 poems. He died on 23rd April 1616, aged 52, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.

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