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HAMLET AND OPHELIA.

Photogravure from a painting by H. Merle.

Hamlet:-"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery; go, farewell."

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Falstaff-No, that's certain: I am not a double man; but if I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy [throwing down the body]: if your father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can assure you.

Prince Henry-Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee dead. Falstaff - Didst thou?-Lord, lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath, and so was he; but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valor bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the thigh: if the man were alive, and would deny it-'zounds! I would make him eat a piece of my sword.

Prince John

This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard.
Prince Henry-

This is the strangest fellow, brother John.-
Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

[A retreat is sounded.]

The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.
Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field,
To see what friends are living, who are dead.

[Exeunt Prince Henry and Prince John. Falstaff-I'll follow as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him: if I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

[Exit, dragging out Percy's body.

HENRY'S WOOING OF KATHARINE

From King Henry V.

Scene: An Apartment in the French King's Palace.

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ING HENRY-Fair Katharine, and most fair!
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms,
Such as will enter at a lady's ear,

And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

Katharine - Your Majesty shall mock at me: I cannot speak

your England.

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