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Enter Laertes
His followers remain at the door
KING The doors are broke.
LAERTES Where is the king?-- Sirs, stand you all without112.
ALL FOLLOWERS No, let's come in.
At the door
LAERTES I pray you give me leave.
ALL We will, we will.
LAERTES I thank you: keep116 the door.-- O thou vile king, Give me my father!
Restrains him or blocks his way
GERTRUDE Calmly, good Laertes.
LAERTES That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard, Cries cuckold120 to my father, brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched121 brow Of my true122 mother.
KING What is the cause, Laertes,
That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?--
Let him go, Gertrude: do not fear125 our person: There's such divinity doth hedge126 a king That treason can but peep to what it would127, Acts little of his will.-- Tell me, Laertes,
Why thou art thus incensed.-- Let him go, Gertrude.--
Speak, man.
LAERTES Where's my father?
KING Dead.
GERTRUDE But not by him.
KING Let him demand his fill.
LAERTES How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with135: To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation. To this point I stand138, That both the worlds I give to negligence139, Let come what comes, only I'll be revenged
Most throughly141 for my father.
KING Who shall stay142 you?
LAERTES My will, not all the world143: And for my means, I'll husband144 them so well, They shall go far with little.
KING Good Laertes,
If you desire to know the certainty
