In which I read Hamlet's famous "To Be or Not To Be" Soliloquy in a reconstruction of Early Modern English pronunciation. Actual speech starts at 0:33
Note that the "ache" of "heartache" is pronounced like the name of the letter H. Despite the folio spelling with <k> here, many speakers at the time seem to have preserved a contrast between the noun "ache" with /tʃ/ and the verb "ache" with /k/.
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