Internet Shakespeare Editions  Author: William Shakespeare Peer
Reviewed  Hamlet (Folio 1, 1623)  Enter Queene and Horatio.
2745Qu. I will not speake with her. Hor. She is importunate,
indeed distract, her moode will needs be pittied. Qu. What would
she haue? Hor. She speakes much of her Father; saies she heares
2750There's trickes i'th'world, and hems, and beats her heart,
Spurnes enuiously at Strawes, speakes things in doubt, That
carry but halfe sense: Her speech is nothing, Yet the vnshaped
vse of it doth moue The hearers to Collection; they ayme at it,
2755And botch the words vp fit to their owne thoughts, Which as
her winkes, and nods, and gestures yeeld them, Indeed would make
one thinke there would be thought, Though nothing sure, yet much
vnhappily. Qu. 'Twere good she were spoken with, 2760For she may
strew dangerous coniectures In ill breeding minds. Let her come
in. To my sicke soule (as sinnes true Nature is) Each toy seemes
Prologue, to some great amisse, So full of Artlesse iealousie is
guilt,