O that I were a mockery king o...

O that I were a mockery king of snow,
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke
To melt myself away in water drops!

Lawn as white as driven snow,<...

Lawn as white as driven snow,
Cyprus black as e'er was crow,
Gloves as sweet as damask roses,
Masks for faces and for noses,
Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,
Perfume for a lady's chamber,
Golden quoifs and stomachers
For my lads to give their dears,
Pins and poking-sticks of steel,
What maids lack from head to heel.

Some book there is that she de...

Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
But thou art deeper read and better skilled:
Come and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens
Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.

It fits us therefore ripely

It fits us therefore ripely
Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness.

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Come, my coach! Good night, l...

Come, my coach! Good night, ladies, good night. Sweet ladies,
good night, good night.

Nay, 'tis in a manner done alr...

Nay, 'tis in a manner done already;
For many carriages he hath dispatched
To the seaside, and put his cause and quarrel
To the disposing of the cardinal;
With whom yourself, myself, and other lords,
If you think meet, this afternoon will post
To consummate this business happily.

But come, I'll tell thee all m...

But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device
When I am in my coach, which stays for us
At the park gate; and therefore haste away,
For we must measure twenty miles to-day.

For the poor wren
(The ...

For the poor wren
(The most diminutive of birds) will fight,
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

Give me the cups,
And l...

Give me the cups,
And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,
'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.'

Hold, there is forty ducats. ...

Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.

Murder most foul, as in the be...

Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

For murder, though it have no ...

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.

'A took my father grossly, ful...

'A took my father grossly, full of bread,
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?

No place indeed should murder ...

No place indeed should murder sanctuarize;
Revenge should have no bounds.

O, pardon me, thou bleeding pi...

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!

Will all great Neptune's ocean...

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.

Blood hath been shed ere now, ...

Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time,
Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been performed
Too terrible for the ear. The time has been
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end. But now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools. This is more strange
Than such a murder is.

Erroneous vassals! the great ...

Erroneous vassals! the great King of Kings
Hath in the table of his law commanded
That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then
Spurn at his edict, and fulfil a man's?

O, how full of briers is this ...

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

What work's, my countrymen, in...

What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you
With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you.