Page 37 - Hamlet

Later that
morning, Hamlet
was near Elsinore
with Horatio.
'What are you
doing?' Hamlet
askecl sorne ruen.
'We're digging
a grave,' one of
them said.
Early the next morning, Gertrucle rushecl into the
castle gardcns. 'Laertesl Claudius!' she cried, 'l bring
more bad news. I found Ophelia. She's dead.'
'Dead?' said Laertes, 'My sister is dead?'

'You're digging the soil .. .'
Harulet said. 'Look here '
Horatlo- a skull. This man
lived once, and laughcd too.
Now he is soil and a skull -
death waits far us ali.'

'Yes, she drowned,' said Gertrude. 'Poor Ophelia drowned 'Here come Claudius, Gertrude, and Laertes,' said
in a stream, with flowers cverywhere. She felt very upset Hamlet. 'Is that a body behind them. Horatio?'
because Hamlet didn't lave her, and then he killed her father. Laertes answerecl him: 'We're taking Ophelia to her
'.
So she became mad, I think, and went into the stream. � rave. Angrily, he put his hands around Hamlet's neck.
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I found her body in the water,' Gertrude cried. 'She was , Hora o, stop thcm,' said Claudius. 'They can't fight here.'
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beautiful in her white dress. Oh, Laertes, I'm sorry .. .' Ophelia to her grave? Ophelia dead?' said Haml t .
'What terrible news!' Laertes said, and he fell and cried. 'E verything's mad. I loved Ophelia.'

news something that you did not drown to die in water stream a small river dig (post dug) to take away earth soil earth - trees and plants live
know earlier neck this is between your head and
grave where you put someone under in this yourbody
the ground when they are dead
skull the big bone inside the head
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