Act 2: Scene 6

Question 1

we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase.

Answer 1

Horatio to Himself? or Sailor

Question 2

in the grapple I boarded them. On the instant, they got clear of our ship, so I alone became their prisoner

Answer 2

Horatio to Himself? Sailor

Question 3

Let the king have the letters I have sent

Answer 3

Horatio to Himself? Sailor

Question 4

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course for England.

Answer 4

Horatio to Himself? Sailor

Question 5

tell me

Why you proceeded not against these feats

Answer 5

Laertes to Claudius

Question 6

The queen his mother

Lives almost by his looks

Answer 6

Claudius to Laertes

Question 7

Why to a public count I might not go,

Is the great love the general gender bear him

Answer 7

Claudius to Laertes

Question 8

And so have I a noble father lost,

A sister driven into desperate terms

Answer 8

Laertes to Claudius

Question 9

You shortly shall hear more

Answer 9

Claudius to Laertes

Question 10

“High and mighty,

You shall know I am set naked on your kingdom. Tomorrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes,

Answer 10

Claudius (Hamlet) to Laertes (Claudius)

Question 11

when I shall, first asking your pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden and more strange return

Answer 11

Claudius (Hamlet) to Laertes (Claudius)

Question 12

What should this mean? Are all the rest come back? Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?

Answer 12

Claudius to Laertes

Question 13

Will you be ruled by me

Answer 13

Claudius to Laertes

Question 14

But even his mother shall uncharge the practice

And call it accident.

Answer 14

Claudius to Laertes

Question 15

He made confession of you,
And gave you such a masterly report
For art and exercise in your defense,
And for your rapier most especially

Answer 15

Claudius to Laertes

Question 16

was your father dear to you?

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow

Answer 16

Claudius to Laertes

Question 17

We should do when we would, for this “would” changes

Answer 17

Claudius to Laertes

Question 18

What would you undertake
To show yourself in deed your father’s son
More than in words?

Answer 18

Claudius to Laertes

Question 19

Revenge should have no bounds. But, good

Will you do this, keep close within your chamber

Answer 19

Claudius to Laertes

Question 20

We’ll put on those shall praise your excellence

Answer 20

Claudius to Laertes

Question 21

And wager on your heads. He, being remiss,
Most generous and free from all contriving,
Will not peruse the foils

Answer 21

Claudius to Laertes

Question 22

And for that purpose I’ll anoint my sword.

I bought an unction of a mountebank

Answer 22

Laertes to Claudies

Question 23

I’ll have prepared him

A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping

Answer 23

Claudius to Laertes

Question 24

There is a willow grows aslant a brook
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There with fantastic garlands did she come

Answer 24

Gertrude to Laertes

Question 25

But our cold maids do “dead men’s fingers” call them.
There, on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,
170When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.

Answer 25

Gertrude to Laertes

Question 26

Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay

To muddy death.

Answer 26

Gertrude to Laertes