The Tragedy of Erik:
Prince of Schooley's Mountain
Act 2 - Scene 2 (Abridged)
Photos from Erik's Personal Collection
Words by William Shakespeare
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POLONIUS
My liege, and madam, to expostulate.
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time
Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.
Therefore, (since) brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief. Your noble son is mad
“Mad” call I it, for, to define true madness,
What is ‘t but to be nothing else but mad?
Prince of Schooley's Mountain
Act 2 - Scene 2 (Abridged)
Photos from Erik's Personal Collection
Words by William Shakespeare
***
POLONIUS
My liege, and madam, to expostulate.
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time
Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.
Therefore, (since) brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief. Your noble son is mad
“Mad” call I it, for, to define true madness,
What is ‘t but to be nothing else but mad?
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But let that go.
***
POLONIUS
What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET
Words, words, words.
POLONIUS
What is the matter, my lord?
HAMLET
Between who?
POLONIUS
I mean the matter that you read, my lord.
HAMLET
Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here
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That old men have grey beards, that their faces are
Wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and
Plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of
Wit, together with most weak hams; all which, sir,
though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I
hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for
Yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if, like a crab
You could go backward.
POLONIUS, [aside] Though this be madness, yet there is
method in’t – Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
HAMLET
And into my grave?
POLONIUS
Indeed, that’s out of the air. [aside]
How pregnant sometimes his replies are!
HAMLET [aside] These tedious old fools
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ROSENCRANTZ
To think, my lord, if you delight not in
Man, what Lenten entertainment the players shall
eceive from you. We coted them on the way, and
Hither are they coming to offer you service
HAMLET
He that plays the king shall be welcome – his
Majesty shall have tribute on me. The adventurous
Knight shall use his foil and target, the lover shall
not sigh gratis, the humorous man shall end his
part in peace, (the clown shall make those laugh
whose lungs are [tickle] o’ the sear,) and the lady
halt for ‘t? What players are they?
HAMLET
I am but mad north-northwest
HAMLET
When the
wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
POLONIUS
The best actors in the world, either for
tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comi-
cal, historical-pastoral, (tragical-historical, tragical-
comical-historical-pastoral) scene individable,or
poem unlimited.
Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor
Plautus too light. For the law of writ and liberty,
These are the only men.
HAMLET
O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure Hadst thou!
September 2008
HAMLET
Now I am alone.
what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
To be continued...
But let that go.
***
POLONIUS
What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET
Words, words, words.
POLONIUS
What is the matter, my lord?
HAMLET
Between who?
POLONIUS
I mean the matter that you read, my lord.
HAMLET
Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here
Click on image to read more.
That old men have grey beards, that their faces are
Wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and
Plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of
Wit, together with most weak hams; all which, sir,
though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I
hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for
Yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if, like a crab
You could go backward.
POLONIUS, [aside] Though this be madness, yet there is
method in’t – Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
HAMLET
And into my grave?
POLONIUS
Indeed, that’s out of the air. [aside]
How pregnant sometimes his replies are!
HAMLET [aside] These tedious old fools
***
ROSENCRANTZ
To think, my lord, if you delight not in
Man, what Lenten entertainment the players shall
eceive from you. We coted them on the way, and
Hither are they coming to offer you service
HAMLET
He that plays the king shall be welcome – his
Majesty shall have tribute on me. The adventurous
Knight shall use his foil and target, the lover shall
not sigh gratis, the humorous man shall end his
part in peace, (the clown shall make those laugh
whose lungs are [tickle] o’ the sear,) and the lady
halt for ‘t? What players are they?
HAMLET
I am but mad north-northwest
HAMLET
When the
wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
POLONIUS
The best actors in the world, either for
tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comi-
cal, historical-pastoral, (tragical-historical, tragical-
comical-historical-pastoral) scene individable,or
poem unlimited.
Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor
Plautus too light. For the law of writ and liberty,
These are the only men.
HAMLET
O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure Hadst thou!
September 2008
HAMLET
Now I am alone.
what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
To be continued...
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