Alternate Ghost Exit

Act 1 Scene 5
Ghost: ...adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.
Ghost addresses audience
Am I as Saul who casts forward the weak?
To slay and mark a great upheaval true.
Or am I lost as the lord Cardigan?

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Who marched six hundred to horrid death.

Hamlet be thought as a cowardly base,
lost in thought, if not in mourn.
But my visions have been most mirrored,
brother of treason, a bride of slander.
May he thus partake in this fantasy,
grow strength, gain courage, redeem his manhood.
Yet be he the man i appear before?
Or perhaps another would suit better.
Should I have chanced upon the two men

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who held the watchtower through the nights dark?

Yet it is young Hamlets revenge to claim,
For he sees the weeds whom dwell in garden pure
And needs only the news of deeds most foul
to drive him to reach for spade and rake sharp.
Perhaps my sins way less upon my shoulders,
should mine own blood make murderers run red.
I pray that Hamlet will not sink too deep,
into the abyss of hate for country and all.
For else, I fear what may come to my queen,
whom despite, I love eternally still.

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Prince Hamlet, I do beseech you!

Drive! Drive your spade into Denmarks black dirt!
Cleave away evil roots from country great,
and pull the thorny stem from her fair soil.
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Hamlet: O all you host of Heaven!...

Exit