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

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Queen.

There is a Willow growes aslant a Brooke,

That shewes his hore leaues in the glassie streame:

There with fantasticke Garlands did she come,

Of Crow‑flowers, Nettles, Daysies, and long Purples,

That liberall Shepheards giue a grosser name;

But our cold Maids doe Dead Mens Fingers call them:

There on the pendant boughes, her Coronet weeds

Clambring to hang; an enuious sliuer broke,

When downe the weedy Trophies, and her selfe,

Fell in the weeping Brooke, her cloathes spred wide,

And Mermaid‑like, a while they bore her vp,

Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes,

As one incapable of her owne distresse,

Or like a creature Natiue, and indued

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