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'I must look
                                                                                                                                            for Claudius,'
                                                                                                                                            Gertrude thought.
                                                                                                                                            'He's in danger.'



























                                                                                           'Claudius, I must speak to you,' she said when she found her
                                                                                           husband. 'Please be careful. Hamlet wants to kill you.'
                                                                                           'How do you know?' he asked.
                                                                                           'Polonius was behind a tapestry in my room,' Gertrude said.
                                                                                           'Hamlet shouted "Claudius is hiding here!" Then he stabbed the
                                                                                           tapestry. So now Polonius is dead. Hamlet wanted to kill you, but I
                                                                                           don't know why. You're in danger!'
          'Oh, my poor father! Dead!'
          Ophelia cried. 'Hamlet, where are
          you? You killed my father. What        'Where's my brother Laertes?             'Your son's mad. You know that .. .'
          am I going to do now? I loved you,     Oh, I must tell him. He must             Claudius said. Tm going to send
          Hamlet, and now you do this!'          hear of this,' Ophelia said to           him to England. He can't stay here.'
                                                 Gertrude. 'Hamlet's mad, but           · 'I need to stop Hamlet,' Claudius
                                                 I'm becoming mad too,' she               thought, but he didn't say that.
                                                 thought, and she began to cry.
                                                 'Laertes, where are you?'              In danger  when something  stab  to push a knife or
         rush  to go very quickly                                                       liad can happen to you   sword into someone or
         poor  not lucky or rich                 Ophelia called, and she went           find (pasr found)  suddenly   something
                                                 away and looked for her brother.       see something      send  to tell someone
                                                                                                           to go somewhere
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