Woe has befallen us

Oh, how we have been tragedied! The noble King Hamlet has perished. They say he fell to demise at the hands of a scorpion bite, that the poison has relinquished him from the throne. What shall be the fate of our noble court? With this death of the king, our  new heir shall be my close friend Hamlet - the young Hamlet - but will he be able to bear it? He doesn't seem fit to rise to the thrown when he is weighed down with the sheer intensity of the agonized grievance that I know afflicts him during this dark time.