♫ Saltillo - "A Hair on the Head of John the Baptist"

Saltillo - A Hair on the Head of John the Baptist

Narrative:

The inspiration of the sonnets, was always somewhat of a mystery. All we know for certain is that it was written to a dark lady. A sonnet about jealous love. 

OPHELIA

Their perfume lost, 

Take these again; 

for to the noble mind 

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 

There, my lord.

HAMLET

 Ha, ha! Are you honest?

OPHELIA

 My lord?

HAMLET

 Are you fair?

OPHELIA

What means your lordship?

HAMLET

 I did love you once.

OPHELIA

 Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.

HAMLET

You should not have believed me; I loved you not.

OPHELIA

 I was the more deceived.

HAMLET

 Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? 

We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us. 

Go thy ways to a nunnery.

OPHELIA

O, help him, you sweet heavens!

HAMLET

 If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.

HAMLET

I loved you not.

QUEEN GERTRUDE

 

...

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,

Passing through nature to eternity.

HAMLET

 Ay, madam, it is common.

QUEEN GERTRUDE

 If it be,

Why seems it so particular with thee?

HAMLET

Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.'

...seem,

For they are actions that a man might play:

But I have that within...

KING HENRY IV

So, when this loose behavior I throw off

And pay the debt I never promised,

By how much better than my word I am,

By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;

...

I’ll so offend, to make offence a skill;

Redeeming time when men think least I will.

PRINCE HENRY

For worms ... fare thee well, great heart!

Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven!

Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,

But not remember'd in thy epitaph!

QUEEN GERTRUDE

 ...

This bodiless creation ecstasy

Is very cunning in.

HAMLET

Ecstasy!

HAMLET

I must be cruel, only to be kind

Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

HAMLET

 I loved you not.

KING HENRY IV

 ...

Presume not that I am the thing I was;

For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,

That I have turn'd away my former self;

So will I those that kept me company.