Reading The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark — William Shakespeare

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Ham.

O throw away the worser past of it,

And liue the purer with the other halfe.

Good night, but go not to mine Vnkles bed,

Assume a Vertue, if you haue it not, refraine to night,

And that shall lend a kinde of easinesse

To the next abstinence. Once more goodnight,

And when you are desirous o be blest,

Ile blessing begge of you. For this fame Lord,

I do repent: but heauen hath pleased it so,

To punish me with this, and this with me,

That I must be their Scourge and Minister.

I will bestow him, and will answer well

The death I gaue him: so againe, good night,

I must be cruell, onely to be kinde;

Thus bad begins, and worse remaines behinde.

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