get thee to a nunnery! why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? i am myself indifferent honest but yet i could accuse myself of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. i am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than i have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. what should such fellows as i do crawling between earth and heaven? we are arrant knaves all - believe none of us. go thy ways to a nunnery. where's your father?
ophelia :
at home, my lord.
hamlet :
let the doors be shut upon him that he may play the fool nowhere but in's own house. farewell.
ophelia :
(aside) o help him, you sweet heavens!
hamlet :
if thou dost marry, i’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. get thee to a nunnery. farewell. or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. to a nunnery go, and quickly too. farewell.
ophelia :
(aside) heavenly powers restore him.
hamlet :
i have heard too of your paintings well enough. god hath given you one face and you make yourselves another. you jig and amble and you lisp, you nickname god’s creatures and make your wantonness ignorance. go to, i’ll no more on’t. it hath made me mad. i say we will have no more marriage. those that are married already - all but one - shall live. the rest shall keep as they are. to a nunnery, go!
exit hamlet.
ophelia :
o, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
the courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s eye, tongue, sword,