The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke - The First ('Bad') Quarto by William Shakespeare
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_Cor._ Tenders, I, I, tenders you may call them. _Ofel._ And withall, such earnest vowes. _Cor._ Springes to catch woodcocks, What, do not I know when the blood doth burne, How prodigall the tongue lends the heart vowes, In briefe, be more scanter of your maiden presence, Or tendring thus you'l tender mee a foole. _Ofel._ I shall obay my lord in all I may. _Cor._ _Ofelia_, receiue none of his letters, "For louers lines are snares to intrap the heart; "Refuse his tokens, both of them are keyes To vnlocke Chastitie vnto Desire; Come in _Ofelia_, such men often proue, "Great in their wordes, but little in their loue. _Ofel._ I will my lord. _exeunt._ _Enter_ Hamlet, Horatio, _and_ Marcellus. _Ham._ The ayre bites shrewd; it is an eager and An nipping winde, what houre i'st? _Hor._ I think it lacks of twelue, _Sound Trumpets._ _Mar._ No, t'is strucke. _Hor._ Indeed I heard it not, what doth this mean my lord? [C3] _Ham._ O the king doth wake to night, & takes his rowse, Keepe wassel, and the swaggering vp-spring reeles, And as he dreames, big draughts of renish downe, The kettle, drumme, and trumpet, thus bray out, The triumphes of his pledge. _Hor._ Is it a custome here? _Ham._ I mary i'st and though I am Natiue here, and to the maner borne, |
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