- HAMLET,

She had drunk of the poisoned bowl the King had prepared for
Hamlet, and the King saw the Queen, whom, wicked as he was, he really
loved, fall dead by his means.

Then Ophelia being dead, and Polonius, and the Queen, and Laertes,
besides the two courtiers who had been sent to England, Hamlet at last
got him courage to do the ghost’s bidding and avenge his father’s murder
—which, if he had found the heart to do long before, all these lives had
heen spared, and none suffered but the wicked King, who well deserved
to die.

Hamlet, his heart at last being great enough to do the deed he
ought, turned the poisoned sword on the false King.

“'Then—venom—do thy work!” he cried, and the King died.

So Hamlet in the end kept the promise he had made his father.
And ‘all being now accomplished, he himself died. And those who stood
by saw him die, with prayers and tears for his friends, and his people
who loved him with their whole hearts. Thus ends the tragic tale of
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

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