Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...be it either which--She's so conjunctive to my life and soul, That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, 15 I could not but by her. The other motive, Why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him; Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone, 20 Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows, Too slightly timbered for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, And not where I had aimed them. Laer. And so have I a noble father lost; 25 A sister driven into desperate terms, Whose worth, if praises may go back again, Stood challenger on mount of all the age For her perfections: but my revenge will come. King. Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think 30 That we are made of stuff so flat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more: I loved your father, and we love ourself; And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine--35 Enter a Messenger. How now what news? Mess. Letters, my lord, from Hamlet: This to your majesty; this to the queen. King. From Hamlet who brought them? Mess. Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not: They were given me by Claudio; he received them 40 Of him that brought them. King. Laertes, you shall hear them. Leave us. Exit Messenger. Reads 'High and mighty, You shall know I am set naked on your kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden and more strange return. 'Hamlet.' What should this mean? Are all the rest come back? 50 Or is it some abuse, and no such thing? Laer. Know you the hand? King. 'T is Hamlet's character. 'Naked ' And in a postscript here, ..