No, no! the drink, the drink! – O my dear Hamlet! –
The drink, the drink! I am poison’d.
– William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2. Gertrude’s dying words, as she is overcome by the poison that her husband Claudius has put in a drink intended for her son Hamlet. Her appeal to Hamlet appears to galvanize him, shortly after he stabs King Claudius with the poisoned rapier in revenge for both his mother and father’s deaths.