Page 286 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

OPHELIA

What means this, my lord?

HAMLET
Marry, this is miching malicho. It means [135] mischief.

OPHELIA
Belike this show imports the argument of the play.

Enter Prologue.

HAMLET
We shall know by this fellow. The players cannot keep counsel: they’ll tell all.

OPHELIA
Will a tell us what this show meant?

HAMLET
Ay, or any show that you will show him. Be [140] not you ashamed to show,

he’ll not shame to tell you what it means.

OPHELIA
You are naught, your are naught. I’ll mark the play.

PROLOGUE
For us and for our tragedy,
Here stooping to your clemency, [145]

We beg your bearing patiently.
[Exit.]

HAMLET
Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?

OPHELIA
’Tis brief, my lord.

HAMLET