Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Ham. What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
Ham. That he should weepe for her? What would he doe,
Ham. Had he the Motiue and the Cue for passion
Ham. That I haue? He would drowne the Stage with teares,
Ham. And cleaue the generall eare with horrid speech:
Ham. Make mad the guilty, and apale the free,
Ham. Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed,
Ham. The very faculty, of Eyes and Eares, Yet I,A mark has been drawn in pencil following the end of this line.
Ham. A dull and muddy‑metled Rascall, peake
Ham. Like Iohn a‑dreames, vnpregnant of my cause,
Ham. And can say nothing: No, not for a King,
Ham. Vpon whose property, and most deere life,
Ham. A damn'd defeate was made. Am I a Coward?
Ham. Who calles me Villaine? breakes my pate a‑croffe?
Ham. Pluckes off my Beard, and blowes it in my face?
Ham. Tweakes me by'th'Nose? giues me the Lye i'th'Throate,
Ham. As deepe as to the Lungs? Who does me this?
Ham. Ha? Why I should take it: for it cannot be,
Ham. But I am Pigeon‑Liuer'd, and lacke Gall
Ham. To make Oppression bitter, or ere this,