| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| Gentlemen | GENTLEMEN | |
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| Hamlet, Lord Hamlet. | Hamlet! Lord Hamlet! | Ham IV.ii.2 |
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| She is importunate, indeed distract, | She is importunate, indeed distract. | Ham IV.v.2 |
| her moode will needs be pittied. | Her mood will needs be pitied. | Ham IV.v.3.1 |
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| She speakes much of her Father; saies she heares | She speaks much of her father; says she hears | Ham IV.v.4 |
| There's trickes i'th'world, and hems, and beats her heart, | There's tricks i'th' world, and hems, and beats her heart, | Ham IV.v.5 |
| Spurnes enuiously at Strawes, speakes things in doubt, | Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt | Ham IV.v.6 |
| That carry but halfe sense: Her speech is nothing, | That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing. | Ham IV.v.7 |
| Yet the vnshaped vse of it doth moue | Yet the unshaped use of it doth move | Ham IV.v.8 |
| The hearers to Collection; they ayme at it, | The hearers to collection. They aim at it, | Ham IV.v.9 |
| And botch the words vp fit to their owne thoughts, | And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts, | Ham IV.v.10 |
| Which as her winkes, and nods, and gestures yeeld them, | Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield them, | Ham IV.v.11 |
| Indeed would make one thinke there would be thought, | Indeed would make one think there might be thought, | Ham IV.v.12 |
| Though nothing sure, yet much vnhappily. | Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily. | Ham IV.v.13 |
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| Saylors sir, they say they haue | Seafaring men, sir. They say they have | Ham IV.vi.2 |
| Letters for you. | letters for you. | Ham IV.vi.3 |
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| All. | ALL | |
| Treason, Treason. | Treason! Treason! | Ham V.ii.317 |