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Credit: Hamlet, a dramatic prelude, in five acts / by James Rush. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Mar. [Meeting Hamlet.] Knave ? Ham. King ? {Hamlet and Marcellus uncover to each other.'] Indeed, Marcellus, of my three christenings to-night, I have not been so kindly called as now. Mar. God help thy sponsors to some better title. [They cover.] Ham. [Meeting Claudius.] King? Claud. [Aside] What, twice called—King ? Then I have friends at court: Say it again, and I shall think there are some unknown powers abroad upon my cause. Arno. [Meeting Claudius.] Arno ? Claud. Claudius ? [Claudius and Arno uncover to each other.] Arno. I fear, my lord, I am discovered in the Palace. Claud. There are keen eyes in the company. Twice to-night I have been rightly called. [They cover.] Ham. [Meeting Claudius.] King? Claud. [Aside.] What, again ? Thou has now so much of the ominous three of Fate, that I had almost questioned thee, with hope's dear adverb—When. Ham. [Meeting Marcellus.] King? Mar. Knave ? [Hamlet and Marcellus uncover to each other.] Ham. These titles meet in sport: Beware, Marcellus, when they ever whisper gravely to each other. [They cover.] Enter Snudor disguised: with a contrivance beneath his vest, by which, from several punctures with a poignard, as many different colored liquors may be drawn. Claud. [To Snudor.] When Hamlet is discovered, I will, herewith, [showing his fingers chalked] set a mark upon him. The rest is yours. Snu. And yours, my lord, beyond that rest. Claud. [Going towards a group of masks.] Ye Danish Knights, why stand ye covered here in sport? Some boldness has snatched off the fair Ophelia.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21152081_0100.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
