The play, "The Mousetrap", reflects the rage Hamlet feels toward Gertrude for marrying Cladius. He feels betrayed by her actions.
The Player King tells his Queen that she might find another husband after his death. The Queen responds, "Oh, confound the rest! Such love must needs be treason in my breast. In second husband let me be accursed! None wed the second but who killed the first." The Queen is saying that, remarrying would be treason to her heart. She says that when a woman takes a second husband, it's because she's killed the first.
The Queen continues: " A second time I kill my husband dead when second husband kisses me in bed." The Queen says anytime she kissed her second husband in bed, she'd kill the first one all over again.
Later, the Queen continues: "Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light. Sport and repose lock from me day and night. To desperation turn my trust and hope. An anchor's cheer in prison by my scope. Each opposite that blanks the face of joy meet what I would have well and it destroy. Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife if, once a widow, ever I be a wife!"
The Queen is saying may the earth refuse me food, and the heavens go dark, may I have no rest day and night, may my trust and hope turn to despair, may the gloom of prison overtake me, and may my every joy be turned to sorrow. May I know no peace either in this life or the next one, if I become a wife again, after I am a widow.
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