Act 1.11
(Dawn's light enters King Hamlet's bedroom. Gertrude lies on the bed crying. King Hamlets enters and sees her)
Gertrude:
I have obeyed; God help me. I do not know if I can stay; God help and set me free.
King:
You'll find your freedom in my love, it continues unabated. You have given out of love for me a gift I’ve long awaited.
(She turns to him and he goes to her and embraces her)
Love comes in so many forms, and we are now another. I know that you are faithful, and I am still your only lover. Another stood in proxy, true, but that has no significance. When love is great, there is no mistake, naught can dull its magnificence.
Gertrude:
It's true that I have longed for you and in my mind imagined, no, I truly saw that you held me last night in our passion; the rest I could ignore.
King:
I felt you there beside me still, and all distance faded. We are always close, and we make the most of our attention never jaded. Let us again make our best love, and so we'll bring all the fluids of the night into a single thing. Thus all will be united in a love of one kind or another. Whatever else may be true for you, I am your only lover.
Gertrude;
Lover, king, come here to me, and that way we'll find, the love in fact that I had to keep so clearly in my mind. I want the feel of you of inside me, and that we will then know, that come what may of what we did today, the child will be our son.
King:
I will drink this philter first to keep my word as such. It may well work in word alone, but that will be enough. All the world will know our son as the rightful king. I cannot say my delight this day, and I drink to the peace that brings.
(He drains the bottle and returns to Gertrude as the lights fade to black)