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GERTRUDE No, no, the drink, the drink -- O my dear Hamlet --
The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.
Dies
HAMLET O, villainy! Ho! Let the door be locked:
Treachery! Seek it out.
LAERTES It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain:
No medicine in the world can do thee good,
In thee there is not half an hour of life;
The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
Unbated and envenomed. The foul practice278
Hath turned itself on me: lo, here I lie,
Never to rise again. Thy mother's poisoned.
I can no more. The king, the king's to blame.
HAMLET The point envenomed too!
Hurts the King
Then, venom, to thy work.
ALL Treason! Treason!
KING O, yet defend me, friends, I am but hurt.
HAMLET Here, thou incestuous, murd'rous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion. Is thy union287 here?
Follow my mother.
King dies
LAERTES He is justly served:
It is a poison tempered290 by himself.
Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:
Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,
Nor thine on me.
Dies
HAMLET Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.--
I am dead, Horatio.-- Wretched queen, adieu!--
You that look pale and tremble at this chance296, That are but mutes or audience to this act297, Had I but time -- as this fell298 sergeant, death, Is strict in his arrest299 -- O, I could tell you.
