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Hamlet to Rosencrantz 4.2 “Take you me……

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…….for a sponge?” - could reflect the contrast of Hamlet to the other sycophantic members of the court

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Act 4 Scene 3 quote that shows Hamlet’s contemplation of life and hierarchy and eqivocation (worm/fish)

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“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of kings and eat of the fish that hath fed on worm”-Hamlet

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Bloody thoughts Symbol Act 4 Scene 4

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“My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”-Hamet

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Mermaid simile Act 4 Scene 7

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“Her clothes spread wide and mermaid like”-Gertrude on Ophelia’s death

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Act 4 Scene 7 - Laertes description of fire speech

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“Speech of fire that fade with blaze” - Laertes

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Black Devil Symbol Act 4 Scene 5 - ideas of corrupt marriage could be interpreted

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“Vows to the black devil” -Laertes

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disease/corruption Symbol Act 4 Scene 1

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“Like the owner of a foul disease”-Claudius

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Poison Symbol Act 4 Scene 5

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“This is the poison of deep grief”-Laertes

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Blood Symbol Act 4 Scene 5 (Laertes)

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“Repast then with my blood”-Laertes

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Rosemary Symbol Act 4 Scene 5

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“That’s rosemary for remembrance”-Ophelia

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Wave Symbol Act 4 Scene 1 which shows Hamlet’s madness

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“Mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is mightier”-Gertrude

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What is Gertrude’s response to Hamlet when he accuses her of living “in the rank swear of an unseamed bed”?

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“These words, like daggers, enter into mine ears”

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What is the title of the mousetrap play?

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‘The murder of Gonzago’

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line in Hamlet’s soliloquy, links to religion + corruption

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‘O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven’

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Denmark is described as ‘C___ o____ l___ a___ d______ I______

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‘couch of luxury and damned incest’

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Who advised Laertes to ‘neither a borrower nor a lender be’?

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Polonius

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What mythical creature does Gertrude compare Ophelia to in a simile following her death?

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Mermaid

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What is Hamlet’s final line in the play?

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“The rest is silence”

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What type of poem lists each body part? (The Ghost)

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Blazon

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How do Hamlet and Horatio respond to Osric’s sycophantic/flourishing language?

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They mock him

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What quote said by the clown in Act 5 would have been comical to The Globe’s contemporary audience?

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“(madness) twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.

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Act 5 “The devil take thy soul” -said by?

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Laertes

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How can we interpret the quotation “Why, what a king is this?

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Horatio recognising the change in Hamlet since his return, Questioning how Claudius could treat his nephew this way.

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What type of humour is used in the gravedigger scene?

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Macabre

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2 quotes from act 1 scene 3 that portrays how Ophelia’s value is monetised by her father.

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“tenders”, “green girl”

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What does Hamlet exclaim in 3.1 (the nunnery scene) that can be interpreted as the Elizabethan slang for brothel?

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“get thee to a nunnery! why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?”

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What does the “rosemary for remembrance” that Ophelia presents in 4.5 represent?

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healing of inwardly felt pain

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3 key points for 2.1

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  • Polonius orders Reynaldo to spy on Laertes
  • Ophelia reports of Hamlet’s madness to Polonius
  • he decides to tell the king
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Key points for 2.2 (7)

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  • King and Queen order R + G to spy on Hamlet
  • Polonius tells C + G that he has found the cause of Hamlet’s madness, hatch plan to uncover him
  • Ambassador requests safe passage through Denmark
  • Polonius + Hamlet dialogue
  • R + G approach Hamlet
  • Players arrive
  • O what a rogue and peasant slave am I”
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2.1 “your bait of falsehood….

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…takes this carp of truth”

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2.1 “by indirections…

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find directions out”

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2.1 2 x quotes that show Hamlet’s madness

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“doublet all unbraced”

“loosed out of hell”

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2.1 “ecstasy of

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love”

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Initial stage directions that demonstrate the pomp and circumstance (2.2)

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‘flourish of trumpets’

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Claudius to R + G 2.2 “the need we did have to

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use you did provoke our hasty sending”

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2.2 “we did long to see you” C to R+G

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insincere, appearance vs reality

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2.2 “Might by the sovereign power you have of us

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put your dread pleasures into command more than to entreaty”

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2.2 “he tells me dear Gertrude, that he hath found

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the head and source of YOUR son’s distemper”

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2.2 Gertrude thinks Hamlet’s madness is due to “his fathers death and

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our o’erhasty marriage”

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following on from Polonius’ convoluted explanation in 2.2 Gertrude requests

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“more matter with less art”

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Hamlet’s Ironic letter in 2.2 reads

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“doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love”

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Hamlet - Polonius 2.2 “yourself should grow as old as I am if

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like a crab you could go backwards”

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2.2 “though this be madness, yet there is

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method in it”

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2.2 Denmark’s a

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prison

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2.2 “I could be bounded in a nutshell and think myself a king of infinite space

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were it not that I have bad dreams” (haunted by the ghost)

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2.2 “I am but mad north north west

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when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw”

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Summarise 3.1

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Hamlet ‘to be or not to be’
king to send hamlet to england
nunnery scene

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3.1 Guildenstern - “crafty

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madness”

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3.1 “why wouldst thou be

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a breeder of sinners”

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3.1 “wise men know well enough what monsters you

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make of them”

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3.1 “madness in great ones

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should not unwatched go”

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Summarise 3.2

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The mousetrap

soliloquy - ‘ Tis now the witching time of night’

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3.2 Hamlet instructs the players to “hold, as twere, the

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mirror up to nature”

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3.2 Hamlet exclaims how some actors have “imitated humanity

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so abominably”

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3.2 describes Ophelia as

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“metal”

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Summarise 3.3

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King plots with R+G to send Hamlet to England

‘O my offense is rank’ and ‘now he is praying’ soliloquies

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3.3 ‘live and feed upon your majesty’

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R+G are sycophants

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Summarise 3.4

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the closet scene

Hamlet kills Polonius

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3.4 you question

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with a wicked tongue

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3.4 “a rat, dead for a ducet

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slain!”

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3.4 “rank sweat

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of an enseamed bed”

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3.4 G -“these words like daggers

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enter mine ears”

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3.4 “see how it

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steals away”

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3.4 “rank

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corruption”

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3.4 “I must be cruel

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only to be kind”

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3.4 (Hamlet on R+G) “whom I will trust

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as I will adders fanged”

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What Act/ Scene is Hamlet’s 2nd Soliloquy?

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1.5 - ‘O all you host of heaven’

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1.5 ‘O villian, villian, smiling

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damned villian’

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Summarise 4.1

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  • Queen tells Claudius of Polonius’ death

- discuss Hamlets madness

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4.1 mad as the

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sea and wind, when both contend which is mightier

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Summarise 4.2

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R + G find Hamlet, who equivocates about Polonius’ death

compares Rosencrantz to a sponge

72
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4.2 “soaks up the king’s countenance, his rewards

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his authorities”

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Summarise 4.3

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King is searching for Hamlet, Hamlet will not tell the location of Polonius’ body, King decides to send Hamlet to England

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4.3 “at supper”….”a convocation

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of politic worms are e’en him”

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4.3 Claudius describes how the “d____ m_____” admire Hamlet

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distracted multitude

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Summarise 4.4

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Hamlet meets the captain of Fortinbras’ army, who is leading an attack on Poland, Hamlet’s how all occasions do inform against me soliloquy”

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4.4 “no profit in’t

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but the name”

78
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4.4 “my thoughts be bloody

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or be nothing worth!”

79
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Summarise 4.6

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letter to Horatio, Hamlet is coming back with Pirates

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Summarise 4.7

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Laertes and King plot revenge against Hamlet
King receives letter from Hamlet telling of his return
Ophelia has drowned

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Summarise 4.5

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They discuss Ophelia, who has grown mad
Ophelia enters and sings
Laertes returns - King tells him that his father has died
Ophelia enters and hands out the flowers

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4.5 “ill breeding

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minds”

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4.5 “O this is the poisen

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of deep grief”

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4.5 “Laertes shall

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be King!”

85
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4.5 “riotous

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head”

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4.5 “vile

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king”

87
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4.5 “I am

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guiltless in your father’s death”

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4.5 “And where the offence is

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let the great axe fall”

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