1 I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile.
2 Nay, then I'll set those to you that can speak.
3 O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right.
4 And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.
5 You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you.
6 All which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down.
7 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.
8 For there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered.
9 Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home: We'll put on those shall praise your excellence, And set a double varnish on the fame The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together And wager on your heads.
10 See what a grace was seated on this brow, Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill: A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.