Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Ham. Ham.
Ham. O throw away the worser past of it,
Ham. And liue the purer with the other halfe.
Ham. Good night, but go not to mine Vnkles bed,
Ham. Assume a Vertue, if you haue it not, refraine to night,
Ham. And that shall lend a kinde of easinesse
Ham. To the next abstinence. Once more goodnight,
Ham. And when you are desirous o be blest,An ink mark follows the end of this line.
Ham. Ile blessing begge of you. For this fame Lord,
Ham. I do repent: but heauen hath pleased it so,
Ham. To punish me with this, and this with me,
Ham. That I must be their Scourge and Minister.
Ham. I will bestow him, and will answer well
Ham. The death I gaue him: so againe, good night,
Ham. I must be cruell, onely to be kinde;
Ham. Thus bad begins, and worse remaines behinde.
Qu. Qu.
Qu. What shall I do?
Ham. Not this by no meanes that I bid you do: