Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.Hamlet: I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.Horatio: Indeed, my lord, it follow’d hard upon.Hamlet: Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak’d meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will. But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Marcellus: Is it not like the king?Horatio: As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on When he the ambitious Norway combated; So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. ’Tis strange.Marcellus: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.Horatio: In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
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