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The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son, Hamlet, to avenge his death.

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Act V

Horatio
They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?
Osric
How is’t, Laertes?
Laertes
Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;
I am justly kill’d with mine own treachery.
Hamlet
How does the queen?
King
She swounds to see them bleed.
Queen
No, no, the drink, the drink⁠—O my dear Hamlet⁠—
The drink, the drink! I am poison’d.
Dies.
Hamlet
O villany! Ho! let the door be lock’d:
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 envenom’d: the foul practice
Hath turn’d itself on me; lo, here I lie,
Never to rise again: thy mother’s poison’d:
I can no more: the king, the king’s to blame.
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