Claudius: "O heavy deed!"It had been so with us, had we been there.His liberty is full threats to all-/To you yourself, to us, to everyone.Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answered?It will be laid to us, whose providence /Should have kept short, restrained , and out of haunt/This mad young man" (IV: I 13-20).
Queen: "Mad as the sea and wind when both contend/Which is the mightier.In his lawless fit,/Behind arms hearing something stir,/Whips out his rapier, cries "A rat, rat,"/And in this brainish apprehension kills/The unseen good old man"(IV: I 7-12).
I could have been killed
Hamlet: "That I can keep your counsel and not mine own. Besides to be demanded of a sponge, what/replication should be made by the son of a king? " (IV: 11-13).
Rosencrantz: "Tell us where tis', that we may take it thence/And bear it to the chapel" (IV: II 7-8).
Queen: "Alas look here, my lord" (IV: V 43).
Ophelia [sings] "Larded all with sweet flowers;/Which bewept to the ground did not go/With true-love flowers" (IV: V 43-45).
Claudius: "Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you" (IV:V 79).... "O, this is the posion of deep grief. It spring/All from her father's death, and now behold" (IV V 80-81).