HAMLET Where are you leading me? Speak, or I'll stop.
GHOST Listen then.
HAMLET I am.
GHOST You'll be bound to revenge.
HAMLET What?
GHOST I'm sentenced to walk the night, and fast in fires to burn and purge the sins of a life. There are things forbidden to tell, but I have something else .
HAMLET Yes, oh spirit, speak.
GHOST You must revenge my murder.
HAMLET Murder!
GHOST Murder most foul.
HAMLET Give me wings to sweep onto the backs of revenge!
GHOST A snake bit me while I slept in my garden, but the serpent that struck, now wears my crown.
HAMLET Oh my prophetic soul! I knew it!
GHOST Yes, with a silver tongue a beast seduced the Queen. From the virtue and dignity which went hand in hand since the day we exchanged our vows, to the lust--
