Hamlet & Gertrude argument

Hamlet Prince of Denmark
by William Shakespeare
Act III, Scene 4

Hamlet: Now, mother, what's the matter?

Queen Gertrude: Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.

Hamlet: Mother, you have my father much offended.

Queen Gertrude: Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.

Hamlet: Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.

Queen Gertrude: Why, how now, Hamlet!

Hamlet: What's the matter now?

Queen Gertrude: Have you forgot me?

Hamlet: No, by the rood, not so:
You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife;
And--would it were not so!--you are my mother.

Queen Gertrude: Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak.

Hamlet: Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;
You go not till I set you up a glass
Where you may see the inmost part of you.

Queen Gertrude: What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?

(Argument between Hamlet and Queen Gertrude)

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