Hamlet (1948)

Terence Morgan: Laertes, His Son

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• [last lines] 

  The Royal Court Of Denmark - Laertes,his Son : Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, nor thine on me.

  [dies] 

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : Heaven make thee free of it. I follow thee. I am dead, Horatio.

  [to poisoned Gertrude] 

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : Wretched Queen... adieu.

  [to all present, keeling and bowing] 

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : You that look pale and tremble at this chance, that are but mutes or audience to this act, had I but time - as this fell sergeant Death is strict in his arrest - O, I could tell you... But let it be.

  [helped by Horatio to his seat, the throne he's been denied of] 

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : I die, Horatio. The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. If thou didst ever hold me in they heart, absent thee from felicity awhile, and in this harsh world... draw thy breath in pain to tell my story. The rest... is silence.

  [dies] 

  Horatio : Let four captains bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage, for he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royal. And for his passage, the soldiers' music and the rites of war speak loudly for him. Go. Bid the soldiers shoot.

  [to dead Hamlet] 

  Horatio : Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

  [kisses Hamlet's forehead] 

• Gertrude - The Queen : [narrates]  There's a willow, grows aslant a brook that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic garlands did she come, of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies and long purples. There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, when down her weedy trophies and herself fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, and mermaids-like a while they bore her up.

  Ophelia - and Daughter : [sings]  O shall I your true love know / From another one? / When his sandal shoon / A-hand his... / A-hand...

  Gertrude - The Queen : [continues to narrate]  But long it could not be till that her garments, heavy with their drink, pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death.

  The Royal Court Of Denmark - Laertes,his Son : [narrates]  Alas. Then she is drowned.

  Gertrude - The Queen : [ends to narrate]  Drowned. Drowned.

• The Royal Court Of Denmark - Laertes,his Son : Be wary, then. Best safety lies in fear.

• Claudius - The King : Where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

  The Royal Court Of Denmark - Laertes,his Son : It shall be so.

• Osric : How is it, Laertes?

  The Royal Court Of Denmark - Laertes,his Son : I'm justly killed, with mine own treachery.