Hamlet
Act III, Scene 4·Page 158 / 268
QUEEN. What have I done, that thou dar’st wag thy tongue In noise so rude against me?
HAMLET. Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there. Makes marriage vows As false as dicers’ oaths. O such a deed As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul, and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words. Heaven’s face doth glow, Yea this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.
QUEEN. Ay me, what act, That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?