Identifier: hamletshak (find matches)
Title: Hamlet
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
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Publisher: New York : Baker & Godwin
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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come tothem; for, they say, an old man is twice a child. Ham. I will prophesy, he comes to tell me ofthe players; mark it. You say right, sir; oMonday morning ; twas then, indeed— Enter Polonius. Pol. My lord, I have news to tell you. Ham. My lord, I have news to tell you.When Roscius was an actor in Rome— Pol. The actors are come hither, my lord. Ham. Buz, buz ! Pol. Upon my honour— flam. Then come each actor on his ass— Pol. The best actors in the world, either fortragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral- * Sparing, like the entertainments given in Lent—Stee- VENS. t To overtake. *0n account of her bad memory. § This was a common proverbial speech. The Oxford ed-itor alters it to I know a hawk from a Jiertishaic) as ifthe other had been a corruption of the players; whereas thepoet found the proverb thus corrupted in the mouths of thepeople: bo that this critics alteration only serves to show usthe original of the expression.—Warbuiiton. HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK. 15
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comical, historical-pastoral, scene individable,or poem unlimited; Seneca cannot be too heavy,nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ, andthe liberty, these are the only men. Ham. Oh, Jephthah, Judge of Israel! —whata treasure hadst thou ! Pol. What a treasure had he, my lord ? Ham. Why— One fair daughter, and nomore. The which he loved passing well. Pol. Still on my daughter. (Aside. Ham. Am I not i the right, old Jephthah ? Pol. If you call me Jephthah, my lord, Ihave a daughter that I love passing well. Ham. Nay, that follows not. Pol. What follows, then, my lord ? Ham. Why, As by lot, God wot—andthen, you know, It came to pass, as most likeit was —The first row of the pious chanson willshow you more; for look, my abridgmentcomes. Polonius, Guildenstern and liosencrantz stand, n. Enter Actors and an Actress, l.* You are welcome, masters ; welcome, all. Oh,old friend ! Why, thy face is valanced since Isaw thee last; Comst thou to beard me in Den-mark ? What, my young lady

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