Hamlet
Act 3, Sc. 2, lines 211-224: Summarize the Player Queen's response. What can the audience infer about each speaker's attitude toward human nature?
Player Queen. An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope,
Each opposite, that blanks the face of joy,
Meet what I would have well and it destroy,
both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,
If, once a widow, ever I be a wife.
Hamlet. If she should break it now.
Player King. 'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile,
My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
The tedious day with sleep.
Player Queen. Sleep rock thy brain,
And never come mischance between us twain.
{Exit. He sleeps]
Hamlet. Madam, how like you this play?
Queen. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Hamlet. Oh, but she'll keep her word.