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Credit: Hamlet, a dramatic prelude, in five acts / by James Rush. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![Queen. So sha11 our Son, page, consort, king, be one in name, as By high qualities confounded. Yes, Hamlets All. . , . _ Xing. [Putting his miniature around Hamlet s neck.] Wear thou this; as though 1 would be close Beside thy heart, to teach thee, to thy mother, Ceaseless love. Ham. This is my nature ; what else Should I learn? King. Our honored brother too, has His full trust of duty to our queen; no Less in closest tie of blood to us, than by Respect's own making. Whatsoever else Thou owest, of this regard alone, be ever Gracious with thy uncle. Ham. He's the prudent Seamster of his words, who only bastes a Promise on futurity: watching well the Fitness, ere he sews it fast. Thy wishes Are my written contract, which my mother's Satisfaction shall make good. King. All will be Good in thee, that's kind to her. Come Gertrude, Time is short: tomorrow I must leave thee. Let us forget tomorrow's wrong;—the day Shall come when we will think,—we meet tomorrow. \_Exeunt the King and Queen. Ham. To which of these, is my debating heart the most a son! There is no choice, where each still lives the greater blessing to the other. In love's outdoing com- pliment, striving each for mastery; whilst the last is still the foremost in the other's praise. Two by the arithmetic, and but one in the counting of affection; since each comes first. The guardian each, and each the ward of the other. The more their lives lengthen in love's perspective, joining more to one.—Now, if happiness come not by the blood, it may be catching; and I have been in the contagious way of these. The king has given the palace to my rule : and Taste](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21152081_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
