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Question 1

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Answer 1

Now I am alone.
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,

Question 2

Is it not monstrous that this player here…

Answer 2

But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wanned,

Question 3

That from her working all his visage wanned…

Answer 3

Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting

Question 4

A broken voice, and his whole function suiting….

Answer 4

With forms to his conceit—and all for nothing!
For Hecuba!

Question 5

For Hecuba!….

Answer 5

What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?

Question 6

That he should weep for her?…

Answer 6

What would he do
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have?

Question 7

What would he do
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have?…

Answer 7

He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appall the free,

Question 8

Make mad the guilty and appall the free….

Answer 8

Confound the ignorant and amaze indeed
The very faculties of eyes and ears.

Question 9

The very faculties of eyes and ears….

Answer 9

Yet I,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing—

Question 10

unpregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing—….

Answer 10

no, not for a king
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward?

Question 11

am i a coward?

Answer 11

Who calls me “villain”? breaks my pate across?
Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?
Tweaks me by the nose?

Question 12

tweaks me by the nose?

Answer 12

gives me the lie i’ th’ throat
As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?
Ha!

Question 13

Ha!

Answer 13

’Swounds, I should take it! For it cannot be
But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall
To make oppression bitter,

Question 14

to make oppression bitter,

Answer 14

or ere this
I should have fatted all the region kites
With this slave’s offal.

Question 15

with this slave’s offal.

Answer 15

Bloody, bawdy villain!
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless
villain! (bb, rtlk)

Question 16

remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!

Answer 16

O vengeance! Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murdered,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words
And fall a-cursing like a very drab,

Question 17

And fall a-cursing like a very drab,

Answer 17

A stallion! Fie upon ’t! Foh!
About, my brains!—

Question 18

about, my brains!-

Answer 18

Hum, I have heard
That guilty creatures sitting at a play
Have, by the very cunning of the scene,
Been struck so to the soul that presently
They have proclaimed their malefactions;

Question 19

They have proclaimed their malefactions;

Answer 19

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.

Question 20

with most miraculous organ

Answer 20

I’ll have these players
Play something like the murder of my father
Before mine uncle.

Question 21

Play something like the murder of my father
Before mine uncle.

Answer 21

I’ll observe his looks;
I’ll tent him to the quick. If he do blench,
I know my course.

Question 22

if he do blench, i know my course.

Answer 22

The spirit that I have seen
May be a devil, and the devil hath power
T’ assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps,

Question 23

T’ assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps,

Answer 23

Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me.

Question 24

abuses me to damn me.

Answer 24

I’ll have grounds
More relative than this. The play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.