Hamlet
Act III, Scene 2·Page 130 / 268
HAMLET. Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
OPHELIA. ’Tis brief, my lord.
HAMLET. As woman’s love.
Enter a King and a Queen.
PLAYER KING. Full thirty times hath Phoebus’ cart gone round Neptune’s salt wash and Tellus’ orbed ground, And thirty dozen moons with borrow’d sheen About the world have times twelve thirties been, Since love our hearts, and Hymen did our hands Unite commutual in most sacred bands.