Give me your pardon, sir: i have done you wrong: but pardon't, as you are a gentleman. this presence knows, and you must needs have heard, how i am punish'd with sore distraction. what i have done that might your nature, honour, and exception roughly awake, i here proclaim was madness. was't hamlet wrong'd laertes? never hamlet: if hamlet from himself be ta'en away, and when he's not himself does wrong laertes, then hamlet does it not, hamlet denies it. who does it, then? his madness: if't be so, hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd; his madness is poor hamlet's enemy. sir, in this audience, let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil free me so far in your most generous thoughts that i have shot my arrow o'er the house and hurt my brother.