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

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Ham.

Not this by no meanes that I bid you do:

Let the blunt King tempt you againe to bed,

Pinch Wanton on your cheeke, call you his Mouse,

And let him for a paire of reechie kisses,

Or padling in your necke with his damn'd Fingers,

Make you to rauell all this matter out,

That I essentially am not in madnesse,

But made in craft. 'Twere good you let him know,

For who that's but a Queene, faire, sober, wise,

Would from a Paddocke, from a Bat, a Gibbe,

Such deere concernings hide, Who would do so,

No in despight of Sense and Secrecie,

Vnpegge the Basket on the houses top:

Let the Birds flye, and like the famous Ape

To try Conclusions in the Basket, creepe

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