Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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  • To ears of flesh and blood.­List, list, O, list!­
    If thou didst ever thy dear father love­
    Ham.
    O God!
    Ghost.
    Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
    Ham.
    Murder!
    Ghost.
    Murder most foul, as in the best it is;
    But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
    Ham.
    Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift
    As meditation or the thoughts of love,
    May sweep to my revenge.
    Ghost.
    I find thee apt;
    And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
    That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,
    Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear.
    'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
    A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
    Is by a forged process of my death
    Rankly abus'd; but know, thou noble youth,
    The serpent that did sting thy father's life
    Now wears his crown.
    Ham.
    O my prophetic soul!
    Mine uncle!
    Ghost.
    Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
    With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,­
    O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
    So to seduce!­won to his shameful lust
    The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:
    O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!
    ¿From me, whose love was of that dignity
    That it went hand in hand even with the vow