OpEdNews - Page 4 of Article: Hamlet 3:2

                                   HAMLET
            It's always a pleasant thought, to lie between a maiden's
            legs.

                                   OPHELIA
            You certainly are playful, my lord.

                                   HAMLET
            What else should a man be but playful? I say, have you
            noticed how cheerful my mother is? Yet my father has been
            dead for only a few hours?

                                   OPHELIA
            It's been four months, my lord.

                                   HAMLET
            So long? In that case let the devil wear black, and I'll
            have a suit of sables. Months now, and not yet forgotten!
            Then there's hope a great man will still be remembered half a
            year after he dies?!

                                   (TRUMPETS sound.)

                                   HAMLET (CONT'D)
            Ah--the play!

                                   (Enter a King and a Queen very
                                   lovingly; the Queen embracing him, and
                                   he her. She kneels, and makes show of
                                   protestation unto him. He takes her
                                   up, declines his head upon her neck,
                                   and then lays down upon a bank of
                                   flowers.
                                   She, seeing him asleep, leaves. A
                                   fellow enters, takes off crown, kisses
                                   it, pours poison in King's ears, and
                                   exits. The Queen returns; finds the
                                   King dead, and makes passionate action.
                                   The Poisoner, with some two or three
                                   Mutes, comes in again, seeming to
                                   lament with her. The dead body is
                                   carried away. The Poisoner woos the
                                   Queen with gifts: she seems loath and
                                   unwilling, but in the end accepts his
                                   love.)

                                   (The players exit.)

                                   OPHELIA
            What does this mean, my lord?

                                   HAMLET
            It means mischief.

                                   OPHELIA
            Perhaps it depicts the plot.

                                   (Enter PROLOGUE.)

                                   HAMLET
            This fellow will tell us. The players can't keep a secret;
            they'll reveal all.

                                   OPHELIA
            He'll tell us what the mime meant?

                                   HAMLET
            Or anything else--if you don't mind showing him, he'll show
            you what it's for.

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