Hamlet Soliloquy Act 3 Scene 3 Hamlet has just watched Claudius praying for forgiveness in the church and has been hiding

... Hamlet Soliloquy Act 3 Scene 3 Hamlet has just watched Claudius praying for forgiveness in the church and has been hiding and waiting for his chance to kill him. "Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:" Hamlet is saying that if he kills his uncle while he is praying, will his father be avenged because as he is confessing his sins to god if hamlet killed him then he would go straight to heaven and his father would not be avenged "A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven." He says now how he being his father's only son and that only he because he was chosen by his father to avenge his death, but if he does do it while his uncle is praying then

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