Hamlet

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Bestow this place on us a little while

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Queen - tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to get lost - Scene 1

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Which is the mightier. In his lawless fit, Behind the arras hearing something stir, Whips out his rapier, cries, "A rat, a rat!" and in this brainish apprehension kills

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Queen - Says Hamlet killed Polonius because he's mad - Scene 1

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It had been so with us had we been there.

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Claudius - Said it could've been him - Scene 1

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This mad young man. But so much was our love, We would not understand what was most fit

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Claudius - Said he did not lock Hamlet away because he loves the queen (which is a lie) - Scene 1

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Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends, and let them know, both what we mean to do

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Claudius - Trying to make up a plan that will tell his friends that Hamlet did it all trying to put the blame all on Hamlet - Scene 1

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That I can keep your counsel and not mine own. Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! What replication should be made by the son of a king?

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Hamlet - Says he is a prince, don't talk to me towards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - Scene 2

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Ay, sir, that soaks up the King's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the King best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw - first mouthed, to be last swallowed. When he needs what you gleaned, it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry again.

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Hamlet - Talking to R and G saying they are suck ups - Scene 2

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This sudden sending him away must seem Deliberate pause. Diseases desperate grown

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Claudius - Says sending him to England should be a good thing towards the Lords - Scene 3

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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, a eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

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Hamlet - Says the king is shit - Scene 3

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Seek him in the other place yourself. but if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

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Hamlet - If you don't find Polonius, your nose will smell him - Scene 3

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The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England, For like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me. Till I know 'tis done, however my haps, my joys were never begun.

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Claudius - Tells England to kill Hamlet - Scene 3

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This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace, That inward breaks, and shows no cause without Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.

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Hamlet - You got to much time on your hands to go off and kill - Scene 4

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How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge

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Hamlet - In his Soliloquy about how he isn't a man because he cannot do his revenge - Scene 4

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Be but to sleep and feed?

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Hamlet - This is all what a man does - Scene 4

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A thought which quartered, hath but one part wisdom and ever three part coward

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Hamlet - Always thinking of something to back away from your problems - Scene 4

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Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare

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Hamlet - A lot of those mens are march to their death for nothing while he is sitting here doing nothing - Scene 4

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When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father killed, a mother stained

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Hamlet - Stand up for their honours because his dad was killed and his mother became a whore - Scene 4

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Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth

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Hamlet - Got to be more than what he is, got to kill now and only kill or risk being a nobody - Scene 4

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There's tricks in the world, and hems, and beats her heart, Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt

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Gentleman - Speaking about how Ophelia is a lunatic because of her fathers death - Scene 5

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To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be split

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Queen - Hint's that she participated in the killing of the king - Scene 5

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How should I your true love know from another one? By his cockle hat and staff, and his sandal shoon.

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Ophelia - Singing about a pilgrim - Scene 5

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By Gis and by Saint Charity, Alack, and fie for shame! Young men will do it, if they come to it - By cock they are to blame. Quoth she, before you tumbled, You promised me to wed

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Ophelia - Singing about how men will not think when given the chance of sex and just do it. - Scene 5

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So would I a done, by yonder sun, an thou hadst not come to my bed.

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Ophelia - Singing about how Hamlet used her for sex - Scene 5

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How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!

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Queen - Talking about how stupid the people who are rallying behind Laertes are and that they are dogs - Scene 5

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That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard, Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow of my true mother

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Laertes - If hes calm, he is insulting his parents - Scene 5

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Do not fear our person. There's such divinity doth hedge a king that treason can but peep to what it would

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Claudius - This is dramatic irony because Claudius says that god will protect the king when he isn't the rightful king - Scene 5

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Why, not you speak Like a good child and a true gentleman. That I am guiltless of your father's death and am most sensibly in grief for it, It shall as level to your judgment 'pear as day does to your eye.

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Claudius - Says go ask around, I did not do it. I am innocent - Scene 5

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O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt Burns out the sense and virtue of mine eye. By heaven, the madness shall be paid by weight Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!

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Laertes - Surprised that his sister is mad - Scene 5

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There's rosemary, that's for remembrance - pray you love, remember. And there is pansies. That's for thoughts

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Ophelia - Giving flowers to her brother to remember her father - Scene 5

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There's fennel for you, and columbunes

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Ophelia - Giving flowers to the king for when he used her, Fennel=Flattery and columbines=Cucaltry or cheating - Scene 5

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I must commune with your grief, Or you deny my right. Go but apart, Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will

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Claudius - Tells Laertes to go to people he trust and ask around - Scene 5

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They find us touched, we will our kingdom give, Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours to you in satisfaction; but if not, be you content to lend your patience to us, and we shall jointly labour with your soul to give it due content

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Claudius - Telling Laertes to go ask around to find if he is guilty or not but if he is not. They should be friends - Scene 5

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No trophy, sword, nor hatchment over his bones, No noble rite, nor formal ostentation - Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth, That I must call it in question.

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Laertes - Wants to know how his father died and why there was such a quick burial - Scene 5

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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall

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Claudius - Hopes this is what happens to Hamlet in England - Scene 5

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I do not know from what part of the world I should be greeted

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Horatio - Says that only 1 person will send him a letter from another part of the world which is Hamlet - Scene 6

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Now must your conscience my acquaintance seal, and you must put me in your heart for friend, sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear, That he which hath your noble father slain Pursued my life.

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Claudius - Says to Laertes that I am now innocent as you found out and that the person who killed your father was about to kill me - Scene 7

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It well appears. But tell me why you proceeded not against these feats, So crimeful and so capital in nature

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Laertes - Ask the king why he didn't have Hamlet punished - Scene 7

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The Queen his mother lives almost by his looks, and for myself - My virtue or my plague, be it either which

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Claudius - The queen is Hamlets mother and she loves him and he loves the queen, he doesn't want the queen hating him was his 1st reason - Scene 7

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The other motive why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him

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Claudius - The 2nd reason is that the people/mob love Hamlet and if Hamlet was killed, he will be killed - Scene 7

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And so have I a noble father lost, A sister driven into desperate terms, Whose worth, if praises may go back again

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Laertes - Says that because the king didn't control Hamlet, his dad is dead, his sister is crazy - Scene 7

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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....

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Claudius - Saying that Hamlet will not get away because Hamlet is about to get killed in England but was stopped midway - Scene 7

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I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come. It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth

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Laertes - Happy to see Hamlet coming back so he can kill him - Scene 7

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As how should it be so, how otherwise? - Will you be ruled by me?

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Claudius - Asking Laertes if he wants to kill his way - Scene 7

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And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe, But even his mother shall uncharge the practice and call it accident

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Claudius - Says that they will make Hamlets death look like an accident - Scene 7

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My lord, I will be ruled, The rather, if you could devise it so that I might be the organ

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Laertes - Says that he is happy if it is an accident as long as Hamlet is killed - Scene 7

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You have been talked of since your travel much, And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality wherein, they say, you shine. Your sum of parts did not together pluck such envy from him as did that one, and that, in my regard, of the unworthiest siege

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Claudius - Trying to get Laertes to hate Hamlet but saying that Hamlet is jealous of you - Scene 7

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He made confessions of you, and gave you such a masterly report for art and exercise in your defense and for your rapier most especial

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Claudius - Says to Laertes, he is a good sword fighter - Scene 7

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Was your father dear to you? or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

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Claudius - Trying to get Laertes to revenge his father but saying do you love him? - Scene 7

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And hath abatements and delays as many as there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, and then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh

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Claudius - Begins to go offtopic because he is thinking of his own love life and how Gertrude is starting to fade away from him because of what Hamlet said. This is dramatic irony. - Scene 7

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Hamlet return shall know you are come home. We'll put on those shall praise your excellence

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Claudius - Says when Hamlet gets back, says that Laertes is so awesome to provoke Hamlet - Scene 7

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Or with a little shuffling, you may choose a sword unbated, and in a pass of practice requite him for your father

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Claudius - Says that with a little mix up, Laertes will get a real sword to kill Hamlet - Scene 7

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This is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point with this contagion, that if I gall him slightly, It may be death

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Laertes - Saying he will put poison on his sword to kill Hamlet - Scene 7

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And that he calls for a drink, I'll have prepare him a chalice for the nonce, Whereon but sipping, If he by chance escape your venomed struck, Our purpose may hold there.

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Claudius - Saying they will poison Hamlets drink if the others fail as a final resort to kill Hamlet - Scene 7

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One woe doth tread upon another's feel, So fast they follow. Your sister's drowned

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Queen - Saying that Ophelia drowned - Scene 7

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There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself

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Queen - Saying how Ophelia got all these pretty flowers and climbed on a tree to suicide but then the branch broke and she fell into the water - Scene 7

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Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awile they bore her up

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Queen - saying how she floated for a while as people looked on - Scene 7

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Unto that element. but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drinks, pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death

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Queen - Saying how Ophelia drowned and died because her clothes became heavy - Scene 7

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Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw

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Hamlet - Saying how to be truly great, one must act not solely in response to powerful incentives but also on the basis of slight provocations when one's good name is at stake - Scene 4

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Should have kept short, restrained and out of haunt

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Claudius - Says that he should have kept Hamlet on a short leash, away from society - Scene 1

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Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent

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Hamlet - Talking about how these mens will die in a battleground not large enough to bury them all - Scene 4

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Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds, and wants not buzzers to infect his ear with pestilent speeches of his father's death, Wherein necessity, of matter beggared, Will nothing stick our person to arraign In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this

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Claudius - Saying how Laertes rather uses fancies then facts and that the people around him keep telling him, he killed your father, go kill him now - Scene 5

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Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge, It could not move thus

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Laertes - Saying how if you were normal and want me to revenge, you cannot do it. - Scene 5

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Whose worth, if praises may go back again, Stood challenger on mount of all the age for her perfections. But my revenge will come

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Laertes - Saying how Ophelia was worth so much and was perfect back then - Scene 7

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The light and careless livery that it wears that settled age his sables and his weeds importing health and graveness

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Claudius - Saying how youth will wear all these fancy stuff while the old will wear fur and clothings that will protect their health - Scene 7

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With the brave beast. So far he topped my thought that I, in forgery of shapes and tricks, come short of what he did

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Claudius - Talking about the horsemen and how he had so much skill, he can't even compete - Scene 7

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Weigh what convenience both of time and means may fit us to our shape. If this should fail, And that our drift look through our bad performance

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Claudius - Telling Laertes that we should plan this to perfection or not do it at all - Scene 7

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Let shame say what it will. When these are gone, The woman will be out

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Laertes - Saying that after he cries to his sister's death, he will have no more weaknesses - Scene 7

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How much I had to do to calm his rage. Now fear I this will give it start again.

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Claudius - Yelling at Gertrude for making Laertes mad again and how he will begin to act without control - Scene 7