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QUEEN . One woe doth tread upon another’s heel , So fast they follow . Your sister’s drown’d , Laertes . LAERTES . Drown’d ! O , where ? QUEEN . There is a willow grows aslant a brook , That shows his hoary leaves in the glassy stream . There with fantastic garlands did she make Of crow - flowers , nettles , daisies , and long purples , That liberal shepherds give a grosser name , But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them . There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds Clamb’ring to hang , an envious sliver broke , When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook . Her clothes spread wide , And mermaid - like , awhile they bore her up , Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes , As one incapable of her own distress , Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element . But long it could not be Till that her garments , heavy with their drink , Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death . LAERTES . Alas , then she is drown’d ? QUEEN . Drown’d , drown’d . LAERTES . Too much of water hast thou , poor Ophelia , And therefore I forbid my tears . But yet It is our trick ; nature her custom holds , Let shame say what it will . When these are gone , The woman will be out . Adieu , my lord , I have a speech of fire , that fain would blaze , But that this folly douts it . [ Exit . ] KING . Let’s follow , Gertrude ; How much I had to do to calm his rage ! Now fear I this will give it start again ; Therefore let’s follow . [ Exeunt . ] ACT V SCENE I . A churchyard . Enter two Clowns with spades , & c . FIRST CLOWN . Is she to be buried in Christian burial , when she wilfully seeks her own salvation ? SECOND CLOWN . I tell thee she is , and therefore make her grave straight . The crowner hath sat on her , and finds it Christian burial . FIRST CLOWN . How can that be , unless she drowned herself in her own defence ? SECOND CLOWN . Why , ’ tis found so . FIRST CLOWN . It must be se offendendo , it cannot be else . For here lies the point : if I drown myself wittingly , it argues an act : and an act hath three branches . It is to act , to do , and to perform : argal , she drowned herself wittingly . SECOND CLOWN . Nay , but hear you , goodman delver , — FIRST CLOWN . Give me leave . Here lies the water ; good . Here stands the man ; good . If the man go to this water and drown himself , it is , will he nill he , he goes , — mark you that . But if the water come to him and drown him , he drowns not himself . Argal , he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life .
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