Hamlet Act I scene II lines 129-159

"O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,

Or that the Everlasting had not fixed

His canon 'gaints self-slaughter, O God, God,

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

Seem to me all uses of this world!

Fie on't fie, 'tis an unweeded garden

That grows to seed. Things rand and gross in nature

Posses it merely. That it should come to this:

But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,

So excellent a king, taht was to this

Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother

That he might not beteem the winds of heaven

Visit her face to roughly, Heaven and earth,

Must I remember? Why, she would hand on him

As if increase of appetie had grown

By what it fed on; and yet within a month-

Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is women-

A little month, or ere those shoes were old

With wich she followed my poor father's body

Like Niobe, all tears, why she even she-

O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason

Would have mourned longer-

Married with my uncle,

My father's brother, but no more like my father

Than I Hercules. Within a month,

Ere yet that salt of most unrightous tears

Had left the flushing in her galled eyes

She married. O most wicked speed to post

With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

It is no, nor it cannot come to good.

But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue."

This is Hamlet's first speech alone. It is my favorite speech so far! I think I like ti because it is how we are first introduced to Hamlet's character, and the depression he feels, his sorrow, and anguish.


Yes I am finally watching Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet!! I am so happy! I am half way through and I love it!!

Blessings

~Elizabeth