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Speeches (Lines) for Laertes
in "Hamlet"

Total: 62

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1

I,2,252

My dread lord,
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark
To show my duty in your coronation,
Yet now I must confess, that duty done,
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.

2

I,3,482

My necessaries are embark'd. Farewell.
And, sister, as the winds give benefit
And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,
But let me hear from you.

3

I,3,487

For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,
Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood;
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent- sweet, not lasting;
The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
No more.

4

I,3,494

Think it no more.
For nature crescent does not grow alone
In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes,
The inward service of the mind and soul
Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,
And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
The virtue of his will; but you must fear,
His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;
For he himself is subject to his birth.
He may not, as unvalued persons do,
Carve for himself, for on his choice depends
The safety and health of this whole state,
And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd
Unto the voice and yielding of that body
Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,
It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
As he in his particular act and place
May give his saying deed; which is no further
Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain
If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmast'red importunity.
Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,
And keep you in the rear of your affection,
Out of the shot and danger of desire.
The chariest maid is prodigal enough
If she unmask her beauty to the moon.
Virtue itself scopes not calumnious strokes.
The canker galls the infants of the spring
Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd,
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

5

I,3,536

O, fear me not!
[Enter Polonius. ]
I stay too long. But here my father comes.
A double blessing is a double grace;
Occasion smiles upon a second leave.

6

I,3,568

Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.

7

I,3,570

Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well
What I have said to you.

8

I,3,574

Farewell. Exit.

9

IV,5,2978

Where is this king?- Sirs, staid you all without.

10

IV,5,2980

I pray you give me leave.

11

IV,5,2982

I thank you. Keep the door. [Exeunt his Followers.]
O thou vile king,
Give me my father!

12

IV,5,2986

That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard;
Cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlot
Even here between the chaste unsmirched brows
Of my true mother.

13

IV,5,2998

Where is my father?

14

IV,5,3002

How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:
To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil
Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation. To this point I stand,
That both the world, I give to negligence,
Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd
Most throughly for my father.

15

IV,5,3010

My will, not all the world!
And for my means, I'll husband them so well
They shall go far with little.

16

IV,5,3018

None but his enemies.

17

IV,5,3020

To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms
And, like the kind life-rend'ring pelican,
Repast them with my blood.

18

IV,5,3030

How now? What noise is that?
[Enter Ophelia. ]
O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt
Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!
By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight
Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!
Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!
O heavens! is't possible a young maid's wits
Should be as mortal as an old man's life?
Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine,
It sends some precious instance of itself
After the thing it loves.

19

IV,5,3047

Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,
It could not move thus.

20

IV,5,3052

This nothing's more than matter.

21

IV,5,3055

A document in madness! Thoughts and remembrance fitted.

22

IV,5,3062

Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,
She turns to favour and to prettiness.

23

IV,5,3077

Do you see this, O God?

24

IV,5,3089

Let this be so.
His means of death, his obscure funeral-
No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,
No noble rite nor formal ostentation,-
Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,
That I must call't in question.

25

IV,7,3136

It well appears. But tell me
Why you proceeded not against these feats
So crimeful and so capital in nature,
As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,
You mainly were stirr'd up.

26

IV,7,3157

And so have I a noble father lost;
A sister driven into desp'rate terms,
Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
Stood challenger on mount of all the age
For her perfections. But my revenge will come.

27

IV,7,3185

Know you the hand?

28

IV,7,3189

I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come!
It warms the very sickness in my heart
That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
'Thus didest thou.'

29

IV,7,3196

Ay my lord,
So you will not o'errule me to a peace.

30

IV,7,3206

My lord, I will be rul'd;
The rather, if you could devise it so
That I might be the organ.

31

IV,7,3216

What part is that, my lord?

32

IV,7,3231

A Norman was't?

33

IV,7,3233

Upon my life, Lamound.

34

IV,7,3235

I know him well. He is the broach indeed
And gem of all the nation.

35

IV,7,3249

What out of this, my lord?

36

IV,7,3253

Why ask you this?

37

IV,7,3271

To cut his throat i' th' church!

38

IV,7,3285

I will do't!
And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword.
I bought an unction of a mountebank,
So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,
Collected from all simples that have virtue
Under the moon, can save the thing from death
This is but scratch'd withal. I'll touch my point
With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.

39

IV,7,3314

Drown'd! O, where?

40

IV,7,3333

Alas, then she is drown'd?

41

IV,7,3335

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears; but yet
It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
Let shame say what it will. When these are gone,
The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord.
I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze
But that this folly douts it. Exit.

42

V,1,3554

What ceremony else?

43

V,1,3557

What ceremony else?

44

V,1,3567

Must there no more be done?

45

V,1,3572

Lay her i' th' earth;
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,
A minist'ring angel shall my sister be
When thou liest howling.

46

V,1,3583

O, treble woe
Fall ten times treble on that cursed head
Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense
Depriv'd thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,
Till I have caught her once more in mine arms.
[Leaps in the grave.]
Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead
Till of this flat a mountain you have made
T' o'ertop old Pelion or the skyish head
Of blue Olympus.

47

V,1,3598

The devil take thy soul!

48

V,2,3882

I am satisfied in nature,
Whose motive in this case should stir me most
To my revenge. But in my terms of honour
I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement
Till by some elder masters of known honour
I have a voice and precedent of peace
To keep my name ungor'd. But till that time
I do receive your offer'd love like love,
And will not wrong it.

49

V,2,3894

Come, one for me.

50

V,2,3898

You mock me, sir.

51

V,2,3906

This is too heavy; let me see another.

52

V,2,3924

Come, my lord. They play.

53

V,2,3926

No.

54

V,2,3929

Well, again!

55

V,2,3936

A touch, a touch; I do confess't.

56

V,2,3947

My lord, I'll hit him now.

57

V,2,3949

[aside] And yet it is almost against my conscience.

58

V,2,3953

Say you so? Come on. Play.

59

V,2,3955

Have at you now!

60

V,2,3962

Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric.I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.

61

V,2,3970

It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain;
No medicine in the world can do thee good.
In thee there is not half an hour of life.
The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
Unbated and envenom'd. The foul practice
Hath turn'd itself on me. Lo, here I lie,
Never to rise again. Thy mother's poison'd.
I can no more. The King, the King's to blame.

62

V,2,3985

He is justly serv'd.
It is a poison temper'd by himself.
Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.
Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,
Nor thine on me! Dies.

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