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Hamlet

Chapter VIII · Act 3, Scene 1: A room in the Castle

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Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1: A room in the Castle, reading 1: Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
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Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
KING.
And can you by no drift of circumstance Get from him why he puts on this confusion, Grating so harshly all his days of quiet With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
ROSENCRANTZ.
He does confess he feels himself distracted, But from what cause he will by no means speak.
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Hamlet

Chapter VIII · Act 3, Scene 1: A room in the Castle

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Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
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KING.
Line 3
And can you by no drift of circumstance Get from him why he puts on this confusion, Grating so harshly all his days of quiet With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
Line 4
ROSENCRANTZ.
Line 5
He does confess he feels himself distracted, But from what cause he will by no means speak.
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Guildenstern

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harshly

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on

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Ophelia

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Polonius

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Queen

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quiet

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Rosencrantz

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why

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will

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With

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