Page 303 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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HAMLET
Come, come, and sit you down, you shall not budge.
You go not till I set you up a glass
Where you may see the inmost part of you.
QUEEN
What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? [20]
Help, ho!
POLONIUS
[behind the arras] What ho! Help!
HAMLET
How now? A rat! Dead for a ducat, dead.
[Thrusts his rapier through the arras.]
POLONIUS
[behind] O, I am slain.
QUEEN
O me, what hast thou done?
HAMLET
Nay, I know not. [25]
Is it the King?
[Lifts up the arras and discovers Polonius, dead.]
QUEEN
O what a rash and bloody deed is this!
HAMLET
A bloody deed. Almost as bad, good mother,
As kill a king and marry with his brother.
QUEEN
As kill a king?
