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                                   HAMLET
            Then it shall go to the barber's.  (To 1st Player)  If it's
            not a farce or bawdy tale, he falls asleep.  But please, go
            on.  Speak of Hecuba.

                                   1ST PLAYER
            But who--ah, woe--had seen the mobled queen--

                                   HAMLET
            The mobled queen?

                                   POLONIUS
            That's good!

                                   1ST PLAYER
            "Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames/ With
            bisson rheum; a clout upon that head/ Where late the diadem
            stood, and for a robe,/ About her lank and all o'er-teemed
            loins,/ A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;/ Who this
            had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd,/ 'Gainst Fortune's
            state would treason have pronounced./ But if the gods
            themselves did see her then/ When she saw Pyrrhus make
            malicious sport/ In mincing with his sword her husband's
            limbs,/ The instant burst of clamor that she made, Unless
            things mortal move them not at all,/ Would have made milch
            the burning eyes of heaven,/ And passion in the gods."

                                   POLONIUS
                          (noticing Hamlet is moved, his
                           eyes welling up)
            Please, no more.

                                   HAMLET
            'Tis fine.  We'll have you recite more later.  (To Polonius)
            Good lord, will you see that the players are taken care of?
            Make sure they're treated royally, they are our recorders of
            time.  We'd be better off with a bad epitaph chasing our
            death, than their ill reports while we live.

                                   POLONIUS
            I'll treat them accordingly, as they deserve.

                                   HAMLET
            Treat everyone as they deserve--and who doesn't deserve a
            whipping?!  Treat them after your own honor and dignity: the
            less they deserve, the more merit in generosity.  Take them.

                                   POLONIUS
            Come, sirs.

                                   HAMLET
            Follow him, friends.  We'll hear a play tomorrow.  (To 1st
            Player, holding him back)  And friend, a brief word: Can you
            perform The Murder of Gonzago?

                                   1ST PLAYER
            Yes, my lord.

                                   HAMLET
            We'll have it tomorrow night.  I may write a speech of a
            dozen lines or so for you to insert.

                                   1ST PLAYER
            Yes, my lord.

                                   HAMLET
            Excellent then.  Follow that lord--and don't make fun of him!

                                   (Polonius and Players exit.)

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