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class="leftcolnarrowtitle">Characters and relationships</h1></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mediumtext" valign="top"><a href="hamlet.htm" class="leftcolumnlinks" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mediumtext" valign="top"><a href="claudiusandpolitics.htm" class="leftcolumnlinks" title="Claudius and politics">Claudius</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mediumtext" valign="top"><a href="gertrude.htm" class="leftcolumnlinks" title="Gertrude - guilty or innocent?"><strong>Gertrude</strong></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mediumtext" valign="top"><a href="opheliaherchoice.htm" class="leftcolumnlinks" title="Ophelia - her choice?">Ophelia</a></td> </tr> </table></td> <td width="334" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="334" > <tr> <td height="20" colspan="2"></td> </tr> <!-- code has been amended here to allow for a 2 line h2 --> <tr> <td width="10"></td> <td width="324" height="47" valign="top"><a name="content"></a> <h2 class="centercoltitle">The text of the Quarto scene</h2></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="334" colspan="2"></td> </tr> <!-- end amended code for 2 line h2 --> <tr> <td width="10"></td> <td class="mediumtext" valign="top"><p> ACT IV, SCENE 6<br /> <i>Enter HORATIO and the QUEEN</i></p> <p>HORATIO: Madam, your son is safe arrived in Denmark.<br /> This letter I even now received of him,<br /> Where in he writes how he escaped the danger<br /> And subtle treason that the king had plotted.<br /> He found the packet sent to the king of England,<br /> Wherein he saw himself betrayed to death,<br /> As at his next conversing with your grace<br /> He will relate the circumstance at full.</p> <p>QUEEN: Then I perceive there's treason in his looks<br /> Which seemed to sugar o'er his villainy.<br /> But know not you, Horatio, where Hamlet is?</p> <p>HORATIO: Yes, madam, and he has appointed me<br /> To meet him. </p> <p>QUEEN: O fail not, good Horatio,<br /> And withal, commend me a mother's care to him.<br /> Bid him a while be wary of his presence,<br /> Lest that he fail in that he goes about.</p> <p>HORATIO: Madam, never make doubt of that, I think by this<br /> The news be come to court he is arrived.<br /> Observe the king and you shall quickly find<br /> Hamlet being here, things fall not to his mind.</p> <p>GERTRUDE: But what became of Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?</p> <p>HORATIO: They went for England.<br /> And in the packet he writ down that doom<br /> 'Pointed for him to be performed on them.<br /> And by great chance he had his father's seal,<br /> So all was down without discovery.</p> <p>GERTRUDE: Thanks be to heaven for blessing of the prince.<br /> Horatio, once again I take my leave<br /> With thousand mother's blessing to my son.</p> <p>HORATIO: Madam, adieu.</p> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> <p>ACT IV, SCENE 7.</p> <p><i>Enter KING CLAUDIUS and LAERTES </i></p> <p>KING: Hamlet from England! Is it possible?<br /> What chance is this? They are gone and he come home.</p> <p>(THE SCENE THEN CONTINUES AS USUAL& )</p> <p>LAERTES: I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come.<br /> It warms the very sickness in my heart<br /> That I shall live and tell him to his teeth<br /> 'Thus diest thou.'</p> <p>KING: If it be so, Laertes -<br /> As how should it be so? How otherwise? -<br /> Will you be ruled by me?</p> <p>LAERTES: Ay, my lord,<br /> So you will not o'errule me to a peace. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10" height="50"></td> <td></td> </tr> </table></td> <td width="236" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" > <tr> <td width="30" height="20"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="20"></td> <td><h2 class="rightcoltitle">Gertrude</h2></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="10"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="20"></td> <td class="mediumtext"><a href="extraexplanation.htm" title="An explanation of the extra scene" class="rightcollinks">An explanation of the extra scene</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="10"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="20"></td> <td class="mediumtext">The text of the Quarto scene</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="10"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="20"></td> <td class="mediumtext"><a href="confusedemotions.htm" title="Confused emotions" class="rightcollinks">The women in Hamlet's life:<br />confused emotions</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="10"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="20"></td> <td class="mediumtext"><a href="endforgertrude.htm" title="The final scene: the end for Gertrude" class="rightcollinks">The final scene: the end for Gertrude</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="10"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="20"></td> <td class="mediumtext"><a href="gertrudeschoice.htm" title="Gertrude's choice" class="rightcollinks">Gertrude's choice</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="10"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30" height="20"></td> <td class="mediumtext"><a href="../hinrehearsals/closetscene.htm" title="The final scene: the end for Gertrude" class="rightcollinks">The closet scene in rehearsal</a></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> <!-- end content --> <!-- begin copyright --> <table> <tr> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="20" height="20"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="20"></td> <td class="mediumtext" >&copy;2004 RSC All Rights Reserved</td> </tr> </table> <!-- end copyright --> </body> </html>