Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Mar. Enter Claudius King of Denmarke, Gertrude the Queene,
Mar. Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, and his Sister O
Mar. phelia, Lords Attendant.There is an ink mark at the end of this stage direction.
King. King.
King. Though yet of Hamlet our deere Brothers death
King. The memory be greene: and that it vs befitted
King. To beare our hearts in greefe, and our whole Kingdome
King. To becontracted in one brow of woe:
King. Yet so farre hath Discretion fought with Nature,
King. That we with wisest sorrow thinke on him,
King. Together with remembrance of our selues.
King. Therefore our sometimes Sister, now our Queen,
King. Th'Imperiall Ioyntresse of this warlike State,
King. Haue we, as 'twere, with a defeated ioy,
King. With one Auspicious, and one Dropping eye,
King. With mirth in Fanerall, and with Dirge in Marriage,
King. In equall Scale weighing Delight and Dole
King. Taken to Wife; nor haue we heerein barr'd
King. Your better Wisedomes, which haue freely gone
King. With this affaire along, for all our Thankes.