Enfolded Hamlet: Modern Enfolded Text

The Tragedy of
H A M L E T

Prince of Denmark.

Modern Enfolded Enfolded F1 F1 Only Q2 Q2 Only

                      

Introduction to the Modern Enfolded Hamlet	by Jesús Tronch
0	[The Persons of the Play]
1	1.1
2 T	Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels.
3-4	barnardo
	Who’s there?	1.1.1
5-6	francisco
	Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.	1.1.2
7	barnardo
	Long live the {King — } <King.>	1.1.3
8	francisco
	{Barnardo.} <Barnardo?>	1.1.4
9	barnardo
	He.	1.1.5
10	francisco
	You come most carefully upon your {hour — } <hour.>	1.1.6
11	barnardo
	’Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to bed, {Francisco — } <Francisco.>	1.1.7
12	francisco
	For this relief much thanks. ’Tis bitter cold,	1.1.8
13	And I am sick at heart.	1.1.9
14	barnardo
	Have you had quiet guard?	1.1.9
15	francisco
	Not a mouse stirring.	1.1.10
16	barnardo
	Well, good night.	1.1.11
16-7	If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,	1.1.12
17	The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.	1.1.13
18	Enter Horatio and Marcellus.	1.1.13
19	francisco
	I think I hear them. {Stand, ho! Who is} <Stand! Who’s> there?	1.1.14
20	horatio
	Friends to this ground.	1.1.15
21	marcellus
	And liegemen to the {Dane — } <Dane.>	1.1.15
22	francisco
	Give you good night.	1.1.16
23	marcellus
	Oh, farewell, honest {soldiers.} <soldier.> Who hath relieved you?	1.1.16
24	francisco
	Barnardo {hath} <has> my place. Give you good night.	1.1.17
25	Exit Francisco.	1.1.17
26	marcellus
	Holla, Barnardo!	1.1.18
27	barnardo
	Say, what, is Horatio there?	1.1.19
28	horatio
	A piece of him.	1.1.19
29	barnardo
	Welcome, Horatio; welcome, good {Marcellus — } <Marcellus.>	1.1.20
30	{horatio} <marcellus>
	What, has this thing appeared again tonight?	1.1.21
31	barnardo
	I have seen nothing.	1.1.22
32	marcellus
	Horatio says ’tis but our fantasy,	1.1.23
33	And will not let belief take hold of him,	1.1.24
34	Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us.	1.1.25
35	Therefore I have entreated him along{,}	1.1.26
36	With us<,> to watch the minutes of this night,	1.1.27
37	That, if again this apparition come,	1.1.28
38	He may approve our eyes and speak to it.	1.1.29
39	horatio
	Tush, tush, ’twill not appear.	1.1.30
40	barnardo
	Sit down awhile,	1.1.30
41	And let us once again assail your ears,	1.1.31
42	That are so fortified against our story,	1.1.32
43	What we {have two nights} <two nights have> seen.	1.1.33
44	horatio
	Well, sit we down,	1.1.33
45	And let us hear Barnardo speak of this.	1.1.34
46	barnardo
	Last night of all,	1.1.35
47	When yond same star that’s westward from the pole	1.1.36
48	Had made his course t’ illume that part of heaven	1.1.37
49	Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,	1.1.38
50	The bell then beating one —	1.1.39
51	{Enter Ghost.}	1.1.40
51	marcellus
	Peace, break thee off.	1.1.40
51-2	<(Enter the Ghost.)>	1.1.40
52	Look where it comes again.	1.1.40
53	barnardo
	In the same figure<,> like the King that’s dead.	1.1.41
54	marcellus
	Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.	1.1.42
55	barnardo
	Looks {’a} <it> not like the King? Mark it, Horatio.	1.1.43
56 T	horatio
	Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder.	1.1.44
57	barnardo
	It would be spoke to.	1.1.45
58	marcellus
	{Speak to} <Question> it, Horatio.	1.1.45
59	horatio
	What art thou that usurp’st this time of night	1.1.46
60	Together with that fair and warlike form	1.1.47
61	In which the majesty of buried Denmark	1.1.48
62	Did sometimes march? By heaven, I charge thee speak.	1.1.49
63	marcellus
	It is offended.	1.1.50
64	barnardo
	See, it stalks away.	1.1.50
65	horatio
	Stay, speak, speak, I charge thee<,> speak.	1.1.51
66	Exit <the> Ghost.	1.1.51
67	marcellus
	’Tis gone and will not answer.	1.1.52
68	barnardo
	How now, Horatio, you tremble and look pale.	1.1.53
69	Is not this something more than fantasy?	1.1.54
70	What think you on’t?	1.1.55
71	horatio
	Before my God, I might not this believe	1.1.56
72	Without the sensible and true avouch	1.1.57
73	Of mine own eyes.	1.1.58
74	marcellus
	Is it not like the King?	1.1.58
75	horatio
	As thou art to thyself.	1.1.59
76	Such was the very armor he had on	1.1.60
77	When {he the} <th’> ambitious Norway combated.	1.1.61
78	So frowned he once, when in an angry parle	1.1.62
79 T	He smote the sledded pole-axePolacks on the ice.	1.1.63
80	’Tis strange.	1.1.64
81	marcellus
	Thus twice before, and {jump} <just> at this dead hour,	1.1.65
82	With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.	1.1.66
83	horatio
	In what particular thought to work, I know not,	1.1.67
84	But in the gross and scope of {mine} <my> opinion	1.1.68
85	This bodes some strange eruption to our state.	1.1.69
86	marcellus
	Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,	1.1.70
87	Why this same strict and most observant watch	1.1.71
88	So nightly toils the subject of the land,	1.1.72
89	And {with} <why> such daily {cost} <cast> of brazen cannon	1.1.73
90	And foreign mart for implements of war;	1.1.74
91	Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task	1.1.75
92	Does not divide the Sunday from the week;	1.1.76
93	What might be toward that this sweaty haste	1.1.77
94	Doth make the night joint labourer with the day.	1.1.78
95	Who is’t that can inform me?	1.1.79
96	horatio
	That can I.	1.1.79
97	At least the whisper goes so. Our |ast King,	1.1.80
98	Whose image even but now appeared to us,	1.1.81
99	Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,	1.1.82
100	Thereto pricked on by a most emulate pride,	1.1.83
101	Dared to the combat, in which our valiant Hamlet	1.1.84
102	(For so this side of our known world esteemed him)	1.1.85
103	Did slay this Fortinbras, who by a sealed compact	1.1.86
104	Well ratified by law and {heraldy} <heraldry>	1.1.87
105	Did forfeit (with his life) all {these} <those> his lands	1.1.88
106	Which he stood seized {of} <on> to the conqueror;	1.1.89
107	Against the which a moiety competent	1.1.90
108	Was gaged by our King, which had {return} <returned>	1.1.91
109	To the inheritance of Fortinbras	1.1.92
110	Had he been vanquisher, as by the same {co-mart} <covenant>	1.1.93
111	And carriage of the article designdesigned	1.1.94
112	His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,	1.1.95
113	Of unimproved mettle, hot and full,	1.1.96
114	Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there	1.1.97
115	Sharked up a list of {lawless} <landless> resolutes	1.1.98
116	For food and diet to some enterprise	1.1.99
117	That hath a stomack in’t, which is no other,	1.1.100
118	{As} <And> it doth well appear unto our state,	1.1.101
119	But to recover of us by strong hand	1.1.102
120	And terms {compulsatory} <compulsative> those foresaid lands	1.1.103
121	So by his father lost. And this, I take it,	1.1.104
122	Is the main motive of our preparations,	1.1.105
123	The source of this our watch, and the chief head	1.1.106
124	Of this post-haste and rummage in the land.	1.1.107
124+1	barnardo
	I think it be no other but e’en so.	1.1.108
124+2	Well may it sort that this portentous figure	1.1.109
124+3	Comes armed through our watch so like the King	1.1.110
124+4	That was and is the question of these wars.	1.1.111
124+5	horatio
	A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye.	1.1.112
124+6	In the most high and palmy state of Rome,	1.1.113
124+7	A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,	1.1.114
124+8	The graves stood tennantless and the sheeted dead	1.1.115
124+9	Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets —	1.1.116
124+10	As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,	1.1.117
124+11	Disasters in the sun; and the moist star,	1.1.118
124+12	Upon whose influence Neptune’s empire stands,	1.1.119
124+13	Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.	1.1.120
124+14	And even the like precurse of fearfeared events,	1.1.121
124+15	As harbingers preceding still the fates	1.1.122
124+16	And prologue to the omen coming on,	1.1.123
124+17	Have heaven and earth together demonstrated	1.1.124
124+18	Unto our climatures and countrymen.	1.1.125
125	(Enter Ghost <again>.)
126	But soft — behold, lo, where it comes again!	1.1.126
127	I’ll cross it though it blast me. — Stay, illusion.	1.1.127
127	{(It spreads his arms.)}
128	If thou hast any sound or use of voice,	1.1.128
129	Speak to me; if there be any good thing to be done	1.1.130
130	That may to thee do ease and grace to me,	1.1.132
130	Speak to me.	1.1.132
131	If thou art privy to thy country’s fate	1.1.133
132	Which happily foreknowing may avoid,	1.1.135
132	Oh, speak;	1.1.135
133	Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life	1.1.136
134	Extorted treasure in the womb of earth	1.1.137
135	(For which they say {your} <you> spirits oft walk in death)	1.1.138
135 T	(The cock crows.)	1.1.138
136	Speak of it, stay and speak. — Stop it, Marcellus.	1.1.139
137	marcellus
	Shall I strike <at> it with my partisan?	1.1.140
138	horatio
	Do if it will not stand.	1.1.141
139	barnardo
	’Tis here.	1.1.141
140	horatio
	’Tis here.	1.1.141
140	Exit Ghost.	1.1.141
141	marcellus
	’Tis gone.	1.1.142
142	We do it wrong, being so majestical,	1.1.143
143	To offer it the show of violence,	1.1.144
144	For it is as the air, invulnerable,	1.1.145
145	And our vain blows malicious mockery.	1.1.146
146	barnardo
	It was about to speak when the cock crew.	1.1.147
147	horatio
	And then it started like a guilty thing	1.1.148
148	Upon a fearful summons. I have heard	1.1.149
149	The cock, that is the trumpet to the {morn,} <day,>	1.1.150
150	Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat	1.1.151
151	Awake the god of day, and at his warning,	1.1.152
152	Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,	1.1.153
153	Th’ extravagant and erring spirit hies	1.1.154
154	To his confine; and of the truth herein	1.1.155
155	This present object made probation.	1.1.156
156	marcellus
	It faded on the crowing of the cock.	1.1.157
157	Some {say} <says> that ever ’gainst that season comes	1.1.158
158	Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,	1.1.159
159	{This} <The> bird of dawning singeth all night long;	1.1.160
160	And then, they say, no spirit {dare stir} <can walk> abroad,	1.1.161
161	The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,	1.1.162
162	No fairy {takes,} <talks,> nor witch hath power to charm,	1.1.163
163	So hallowed and so gracious is {that} <the> time.	1.1.164
164	horatio
	So have I heard and do in part believe it.	1.1.165
165	But look, the morn in russet mantle clad	1.1.166
166	Walks o’er the dew of yon high {eastward} <eastern> hill.	1.1.167
167	Break we our watch up, and by my advice	1.1.168
168	Let us impart what we have seen tonight	1.1.169
169	Unto young Hamlet, for upon my life	1.1.170
170	This spirit dumb to us will speak to him.	1.1.171
171	Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it	1.1.172
172 T	As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?	1.1.173
173 T	marcellus
	Let’s do’t, I pray, and I this morning know	1.1.174
174	Where we shall find him most {convenient.} <conveniently.>	1.1.175
174	Exeunt.	1.1.175
175	1.2
176	{Flourish.}
176	Enter Claudius, King of Denmark, {Gertrard} <Gertrude> the Queen,
177	<Hamlet,> {Council: as} Polonius, {and his son} Laertes, <and his sister Ophelia,>
178	<Lords Attendant> {Hamlet, with others [including Cornelius and Voltemand]}.
179	king {claudius}
	Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death	1.2.1
180	The memory be green, and that it us befitted	1.2.2
181	To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom	1.2.3
182	To be contracted in one brow of woe,	1.2.4
183	Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature	1.2.5
184	That we with wisest sorrow think on him	1.2.6
185	Together with remembrance of ourselves.	1.2.7
186	Therefore our {sometime} <sometimes> sister, now our Queen,	1.2.8
187	Th’ imperial jointress {to} <of> this warlike state,	1.2.9
188	Have we, as ’twere with a defeated joy,	1.2.10
189	With {an} <one> auspicious and {a} <one> dropping eye,	1.2.11
190	With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,	1.2.12
191	In equal scale weighing delight and dole,	1.2.13
192	Taken to wife. Nor have we herein barred	1.2.14
193	Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone	1.2.15
194	With this affair along. For all, our thanks.	1.2.16
195	Now follows that you knowknow: young Fortinbras,	1.2.17
196	Holding a weak supposal of our worth	1.2.18
197	Or thinking by our late dear brother’s death	1.2.19
198	Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,	1.2.20
199	Co-leagued with {this} <the> dream of his advantage,	1.2.21
200	He hath not failed to pester us with message	1.2.22
201	Importing the surrender of those lands	1.2.23
202	Lost by his father, with all {bands} <bonds> of law	1.2.24
203	To our most valiant brother. So much for him.	1.2.25
204	<(Enter Voltemand and Cornelius.)>	1.2.
205	Now for ourself, and for this time of meeting,	1.2.26
206	Thus much the busines is: we have here writ	1.2.27
207	To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras	1.2.28
208	(Who, impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears	1.2.29
209	Of this his nephew’s purpose) to suppress	1.2.30
210	His further gait herein, in that the levies,	1.2.31
211	The lists and full proportions are all made	1.2.32
212	Out of his subject; and we here dispatch	1.2.33
213	You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand,	1.2.34
214	For {bearers} <bearing> of this greeting to old Norway,	1.2.35
215	Giving to you no further personal power	1.2.36
216	To business with the King, more than the scope	1.2.37
217	Of these {delated} <dilated> articles allow.	1.2.38
218	Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.	1.2.39
219	{cornelius,} voltemand
	In that and all things will we show our duty.	1.2.40
220	king
	We doubt it nothing. Heartily, farewell.	1.2.41
221	Exeunt Voltemand and Cornelius.
222	And now, Laertes, what’s the news with you?	1.2.42
223	You told us of some suit: what is’t, Laertes?	1.2.43
224	You cannot speak of reason to the Dane	1.2.44
225	And lose your voice. What wouldst thou beg, Laertes,	1.2.45
226	That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?	1.2.46
227	The head is not more native to the heart,	1.2.47
228	The hand more instrumental to the mouth,	1.2.48
229	Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.	1.2.49
230	What wouldst thou have, Laertes?	1.2.50
231	laertes
	{My dread} <Dread my> lord,	1.2.50
232	Your leave and favor to return to France,	1.2.51
233	From whence though willingly I came to Denmark	1.2.52
234	To show my duty in your coronation,	1.2.53
235	Yet now I must confess, that duty done,	1.2.54
236	My thoughts and wishes bend again {toward} <towards> France	1.2.55
237	And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.	1.2.56
238-9	king
	Have you your father’s {leave:}<leave?> {what says Polonius?}	1.2.57
239	<What says Polonius?>	1.2.57
240	polonius
	{H’ath,} <He hath,> my {lord,}<lord.> wrung from me my slow leave	1.2.58
240+1	By laborsome petition, and at last	1.2.59
240+2	Upon his will I sealed my hard consent.	1.2.60
241	I do beseech you give him leave to go.	1.2.61
242	king
	Take thy fair hour, Laertes, time be thine	1.2.62
243	And thy best graces spend it at thy will. —	1.2.63
244	But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my {son — }<son!>	1.2.64
245	hamlet
	A little more than kin, and less then kind.	1.2.65
246	king
	How is it that the clouds still hang on you?	1.2.66
247	hamlet
	Not so {much}, my lord, I am too much {in the son.} <i’th’ sun.>	1.2.67
248	queen
	Good Hamlet, cast thy {nighted} <nightly> color off	1.2.68
249	And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.	1.2.69
250	Do not for ever with thy {vailed} <veiled> lids	1.2.70
251	Seek for thy noble father in the dust.	1.2.71
252	Thou knowst ’tis common all that lives must die,	1.2.72
253	Passing through nature to eternity.	1.2.73
254	hamlet
	Ay, madam, it is common.	1.2.74
255	queen
	If it be,	1.2.74
256	Why seems it so particular with thee?	1.2.75
257	hamlet
	“Seems”, {madam — } <madam?> nay, it is, I know not “seems”.	1.2.76
258	’Tis not alone my inky cloak, {cold} <good> mother,	1.2.77
259	Nor customary suits of solemn black,	1.2.78
260	Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,	1.2.79
261	No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,	1.2.80
262	Nor the dejected havior of the visage,	1.2.81
263 T	Together with all forms, moods, {shapes} <shows> of grief	1.2.82
264 T	That can denote me truly. These indeed “seem”,	1.2.83
265	For they are actions that a man might play,	1.2.84
266	But I have that within which {passes} <passeth> show,	1.2.85
267	These but the trappings and the suits of woe.	1.2.86
268-9	king
	’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,	1.2.87
270	To give these mourning duties to your father,	1.2.88
271	But you must know your father lost a father,	1.2.89
272	That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound	1.2.90
273	In filial obligation for some term	1.2.91
274	To do obsequious sorrow; but to persever	1.2.92
275	In obstinate condolement is a course	1.2.93
276	Of impious stubbornness, ’tis unmanly grief,	1.2.94
277	It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,	1.2.95
278	A heart unfortified, {or} <a> mind impatient,	1.2.96
279	An understanding simple and unschooled.	1.2.97
280	For what we know must be, and is as common	1.2.98
281	As any the most vulgar thing to sense,	1.2.99
282	Why should we in our peevish opposition	1.2.100
283	Take it to heart? Fie, ’tis a fault to heaven,	1.2.101
284	A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,	1.2.102
285	To reason most absurd, whose common theme	1.2.103
286	Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried	1.2.104
287	From the first corpse till he that died today	1.2.105
288	“This must be so”. We pray you throw to earth	1.2.106
289	This unprevailing woe, and think of us	1.2.107
290	As of a father; for let the world take note	1.2.108
291	You are the most immediate to our throne,	1.2.109
292	And with no less nobility of love	1.2.110
293	Than that which dearest father bears his son	1.2.111
294	Do I impart {toward} <towards> you. For your intent	1.2.112
295	In going back to school in Wittenberg,	1.2.113
296	It is most retrograde to our desire,	1.2.114
297	And we beseech you bend you to remain	1.2.115
298	Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye,	1.2.116
299	Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.	1.2.117
300	queen
	Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet;	1.2.118
301	I {pray thee} <prithee> stay with us, go not to Wittenberg.	1.2.119
302-3	hamlet
	I shall in all my best obey you, madam.	1.2.120
304	king
	Why, ’tis a loving and a fair reply.	1.2.121
305	Be as ourself in Denmark. — Madam, come,	1.2.122
306	This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet	1.2.123
307	Sits smiling to my heart, in grace whereof	1.2.124
308	No jocund health that Denmark drinks today	1.2.125
309	But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell	1.2.126
310	And the King’s rouse the {heaven} <heavens> shall bruit again,	1.2.127
311	Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.	1.2.128
312	{Flourish.}
312 T	Exeunt all but Hamlet.
313	hamlet
	Oh, that this too too {salliedsullied} <solid> flesh would melt,	1.2.129
314	Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,	1.2.130
315	Or that the Everlasting had not fixed	1.2.131
316 T	His canon ’gainst self-slaughter. O God, O God,	1.2.132
317 T	How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable	1.2.133
318	{Seem} <Seems> to me all the uses of this world!	1.2.134
319	Fie on’t, {ah,} <oh,> fie, fie, ’tis an unweeded garden	1.2.135
320	That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature,	1.2.136
321	Possess it merely. That it should come {thus:} <to this!>	1.2.137
322	But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two —	1.2.138
323	So excellent a king, that was to this	1.2.139
324	Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother	1.2.140
325 T	That he might not beteem the winds of heaven	1.2.141
326	Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,	1.2.142
327	Must I remember? Why, she {should} <would> hang on him	1.2.143
328	As if increase of appetite had grown	1.2.144
329	By what it fed on — and yet within a month	1.2.145
330	(Let me not think on’t — Frailty, thy name is Woman),	1.2.146
331	A little month, or ere those shoes were old	1.2.147
332	With which she followed my poor father’s body	1.2.148
333	Like Niobe, all tears. Why, she, even she —	1.2.149
334	(O {God,} <Heaven!> a beast that wants discourse of reason	1.2.150
335	Would have mourned longer) married with {my} <mine> uncle,	1.2.151
336	My father’s brother, but no more like my father	1.2.152
337	Than I to Hercules. Within a {month,} <month?>	1.2.153
338	Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears	1.2.154
339	Had left the flushing {in} <of> her galled eyes,	1.2.155
340	She married. O most wicked speed! To post	1.2.156
341	With such dexterity to incestuous sheets,	1.2.157
342	It is not, nor it cannot come to good.	1.2.158
343	But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.	1.2.159
344	Enter Horatio, {Marcellus and Barnardo.} <Barnardo, and Marcellus.>
345	horatio
	Hail to your lordship.	1.2.160
346	hamlet
	I am glad to see you well —	1.2.160
347	Horatio, or I do forget myself.	1.2.161
348-9	horatio
	The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.	1.2.162
350-1	hamlet
	Sir, my good friend, I’ll change that name with you.	1.2.163
352	And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? —	1.2.164
353	Marcellus.	1.2.165
354	marcellus
	My good lord.	1.2.166
355	hamlet
	I am very glad to see you. — [To Barnardo.] Good even, sir. —	1.2.167
356	But what in faith make you from Wittenberg?	1.2.168
357	horatio
	A truant disposition, good my lord.	1.2.169
358	hamlet
	I would not {hear} <have> your enemy say so,	1.2.170
359	Nor shall you do {my} <mine> ear that violence	1.2.171
360	To make it truster of your own report	1.2.172
361	Against yourself. I know you are no truant.	1.2.173
362	But what is your affair in Elsinore?	1.2.174
363	We’ll teach you {for} to drink <deep> ere you depart.	1.2.175
364	horatio
	My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.	1.2.176
365	hamlet
	I {prithee} <pray thee> do not mock me, fellow student,	1.2.177
366 T	I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.	1.2.178
367	horatio
	Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon.	1.2.179
368	hamlet
	Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funeral baked meats	1.2.180
369	Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.	1.2.181
370	Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven	1.2.182
371	{Or ever I had} <Ere I had ever> seen that day, Horatio.	1.2.183
372	My father, methinks I see my father.	1.2.184
373	horatio
	{Where,} <Oh, where,> my lord?	1.2.185
374	hamlet
	In my mind’s eye, Horatio.	1.2.185
375	horatio
	I saw him once; {’a} <he> was a goodly king.	1.2.186
376	hamlet
	{’A} <He> was a man, take him for all in all,	1.2.187
377	I shall not look upon his like again.	1.2.188
378	horatio
	My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.	1.2.189
379	hamlet
	{Saw,}<Saw?> who?	1.2.190
380	horatio
	My lord, the King your father.	1.2.191
381	hamlet
	The King my father?	1.2.191
382	horatio
	Season your admiration for a while	1.2.192
383	With an attent ear till I may deliver	1.2.193
384	Upon the witness of these gentlemen	1.2.194
385	This marvel to you.	1.2.195
386	hamlet
	For {God’s} <Heaven’s> love, let me hear!	1.2.195
387	horatio
	Two nights together had these gentlemen,	1.2.196
388	Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch	1.2.197
389	In the dead waste and middle of the night	1.2.198
390	Been thus encountered: a figure like your father	1.2.199
391	Armed at {point,} <all points> exactly cap-à-pie,	1.2.200
392	Appears before them and with solemn march	1.2.201
393	Goes slow and stately<;> by them{;} thrice he walked	1.2.202
394	By their oppressed and fear-surprised eyes	1.2.203
395	Within his truncheon’s length whilst they, {distilled} <bestilled>	1.2.204
396	Almost to jelly{,} with the act of fear<,>	1.2.205
397	Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me	1.2.206
398	In dreadful secrecy impart they did,	1.2.207
399	And I with them the third night kept the watch,	1.2.208
400 T	Where (as they had delivered, both in time,	1.2.209
401	Form of the thing, each word made true and good)	1.2.210
402	The apparition comes. I knew your father;	1.2.211
403	These hands are not more like.	1.2.212
404	hamlet
	But where was this?	1.2.212
405	marcellus
	My lord, upon the platform where we {watch — } <watched.>	1.2.213
406	hamlet
	Did you not speak to it?	1.2.214
407	horatio
	My lord, I did,	1.2.214
408	But answer made it none. Yet once methought	1.2.215
409	It lifted up it head and did address	1.2.216
410	Itself to motion like as it would speak.	1.2.217
411	But even then the morning cock crew loud,	1.2.218
412	And at the sound it shrunk in haste away	1.2.219
413	And vanished from our sight.	1.2.220
414	hamlet
	’Tis very strange.	1.2.220
415	horatio
	As I do live, my honored lord, ’tis true,	1.2.221
416	And we did think it writ down in our duty	1.2.222
417	To let you know of it.	1.2.223
418	hamlet
	Indeed, indeed, sirs. But this troubles me.	1.2.224
419	Hold you the watch tonight?	1.2.225
420	{horatio} marcellus, barnardo
	We do, my lord.	1.2.225
421	hamlet
	Armed, say you?	1.2.226
422	{horatio} marcellus, barnardo
	Armed, my lord.	1.2.227
423	hamlet
	From top to toe?	1.2.228
424	{horatio} marcellus, barnardo
	My lord, from head to foot.	1.2.228
425	hamlet
	Then saw you not his {face.} <face?>	1.2.229
426	horatio
	Oh, yes, my lord, he wore his beaver up.	1.2.230
427	hamlet
	What<,> looked he{,} frowningly?	1.2.231
428	horatio
	A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.	1.2.232
429	hamlet
	Pale, or red?	1.2.232
430	horatio
	Nay, very pale.	1.2.233
431	hamlet
	And fixed his eyes upon you?	1.2.233
432	horatio
	Most constantly.	1.2.234
433	hamlet
	I would I had been there.	1.2.234
434	horatio
	It would have much amazed you.	1.2.235
435	hamlet
	Very like, very like. Stayed it long?	1.2.236
436	horatio
	While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.	1.2.237
437	marcellus, barnardo
	Longer, longer.	1.2.238
438	horatio
	Not when I saw’t.	1.2.239
439	hamlet
	His beard was {grizzled,} <grizzly?> no?	1.2.239
440	horatio
	It was<,> as I have seen it in his life:	1.2.240
441	A sable silvered.	1.2.241
442 T	hamlet
	{I will} <I’ll> watch tonight.	1.2.241
442	Perchance ’twill {walk} <wake> again.	1.2.242
443	horatio
	I warrant you it will.	1.2.242
444	hamlet
	If it assume my noble father’s person,	1.2.243
445	I’ll speak to it though hell itself should gape	1.2.244
446	And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,	1.2.245
447	If you have hitherto concealed this sight,	1.2.246
448	Let it be {tenable} <treble> in your silence still,	1.2.247
449	And {whatsomever} <whatsoever> else shall hap tonight	1.2.248
450	Give it an understanding but no tongue.	1.2.249
451	I will requite your loves. So fare {you} <ye> well.	1.2.250
452	Upon the platform ’twixt eleven and twelve	1.2.251
453	I’ll visit you.	1.2.252
454	horatio, marcellus, barnardo
	Our duty to your honor.	1.2.252
455	hamlet
	Your {loves,} <love,> as mine to you. Farewell.	1.2.253
455	(Exeunt [all but Hamlet].)	1.2.253
456	My father’s spirit — in arms! All is not well;	1.2.254
457	I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come.	1.2.255
458	Till then sit still my soul. {Fond} <Foul> deeds will rise	1.2.256
459	Though all the earth o’erwhelm them to men’s eyes.	1.2.257
459	Exit.	1.2.257
460	1.3
461	Enter Laertes and Ophelia{, his sister}.
462	laertes
	My necessaries are embarked. Farewell.	1.3.1
463	And sister, as the winds give benefit	1.3.2
464 T	And {convey} <convoy> is assistant, do not sleep	1.3.3
465	But let me hear from you.	1.3.4
466	ophelia
	Do you doubt that?	1.3.4
467	laertes
	For Hamlet, and the trifling of his {favor,} <favors,>	1.3.5
468	Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,	1.3.6
469	A violet in the youth of primy nature,	1.3.7
470	{Forward} <Froward>, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,	1.3.8
471	The {perfume and} suppliance of a minute, <no more.>	1.3.10
471	{No more.}	1.3.10
472	ophelia
	No more but so.so?	1.3.10
473	laertes
	Think it no more.	1.3.10
474	For nature crescent does not grow alone	1.3.11
475	In thews and {bulks,} <bulk,> but as {this} <his> temple waxes	1.3.12
476	The inward service of the mind and soul	1.3.13
477	Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,	1.3.14
478	And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch	1.3.15
479 T	The virtue of his will; but you must fear,	1.3.16
480	His greatness weighed, his will is not his {own:} <own,>	1.3.17
481	For he himself is subject to his birth:	1.3.18
482	He may not, as unvalued persons do,	1.3.19
483	Carve for himself, for on his choice depends	1.3.20
484 T	The {safety} <sanctitysanity> and health of {this} <the> whole state,	1.3.21
485	And therefore must his choice be circumscribed	1.3.22
486	Unto the voice and yielding of that body	1.3.23
487	Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,	1.3.24
488	It fits your wisdom so far to believe it	1.3.25
489	As he in his {particular act and place} <peculiar sect and force>	1.3.26
490	May give his saying deed, which is no further	1.3.27
491	Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.	1.3.28
492	Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain	1.3.29
493	If with too credent ear you list his songs,	1.3.30
494	Or lose{loose} your heart, or your chaste treasure open	1.3.31
495	To his unmastered importunity.	1.3.32
496	Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,	1.3.33
497	And keep {you in} <within> the rear of your affection	1.3.34
498	Out of the shot and danger of desire.	1.3.35
499	{“The} <The> chariest maid is prodigal enough	1.3.36
500	If she unmask her beauty to the moon.	1.3.37
501	Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.	1.3.38
502	The canker galls the infants of the spring	1.3.39
503	Too oft before {their} <the> buttons be disclosed,	1.3.40
504	And in the morn and liquid dew of youth	1.3.41
505	Contagious blastments are most {imminent”.}<imminent.>	1.3.42
506	Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.	1.3.43
507	Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.	1.3.44
508	ophelia
	I shall {the} <th’> effect of this good lesson keep	1.3.45
509	As {watchman} <watchmen> to my heart. But, good my brother,	1.3.46
510	Do not as some ungracious pastors do,	1.3.47
511	Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven	1.3.48
512	{Whiles,} <Whilst, like> a puffed and reckless libertine,	1.3.49
513	Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads	1.3.50
514	And recks not his own reed.	1.3.51
514	{Enter Polonius.}	1.3.51
515	laertes
	Oh, fear me not.	1.3.51
516	<(Enter Polonius.)>
517	I stay too long. But here my father comes.	1.3.52
518	A double blessing is a double grace;	1.3.53
519	Occasion smiles upon a second leave.	1.3.54
520	polonius
	Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame.	1.3.55
521	The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail	1.3.56
522	And you are stayed {for. There, my} <for there. My> blessing with {thee,} <you;>	1.3.57
523	And these few precepts in thy memory	1.3.58
524	{Look} <See> thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue	1.3.59
525	Nor any unproportioned thought his act.	1.3.60
526	Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.	1.3.61
527	{Those} <The> friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,	1.3.62
528	Grapple them {unto} <to> thy soul with hoops of steel,	1.3.63
529	But do not dull thy palm with entertainment	1.3.64
530	Of each {new-hatched,} <unhatched,> unfledged {courage.} <comrade.> Beware	1.3.65
531	Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,	1.3.66
532	Bear’t that th’ opposed may beware of thee.	1.3.67
533	Give every man {thy} <thine> ear but few thy voice;	1.3.68
534	Take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgement.	1.3.69
535	Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy	1.3.70
536	But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;	1.3.71
537	For the apparel oft proclaims the man,	1.3.72
538	And they in France of the best rank and station	1.3.73
539	{Or} <Are> of a most select and {generous,} <generous> chief in that.	1.3.74
540	Neither a borrower nor a {lender, boy,} <lender be;>	1.3.75
541 T	For loan oft loses both itself and friend,	1.3.76
542	And borrowing {dulleth} <dulls the> edge of husbandry.	1.3.77
543	This above all: to thine own self be true,	1.3.78
544	And it must follow as the night the day	1.3.79
545	Thou canst not then be false to any man.	1.3.80
546	Farewell, my blessing season this in thee.	1.3.81
547	laertes
	Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.	1.3.82
548 T	polonius
	The time {invests} <invites> you. Go, your servants tend.	1.3.83
549	laertes
	Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well	1.3.84
550	What I have said to you.	1.3.85
551	ophelia
	’Tis in my memory locked	1.3.85
552	And you yourself shall keep the key of it.	1.3.86
553	laertes
	Farewell.	1.3.87
553	Exit Laertes.
554	polonius
	What is’t, Ophelia, he hath said to you?	1.3.88
555	ophelia
	So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.	1.3.89
556	polonius
	Marry, well bethought:	1.3.90
557	’Tis told me he hath very oft of late	1.3.91
558	Given private time to you, and you yourself	1.3.92
559	Have of your audience been most free and bounteous.	1.3.93
560	If it be so (as so ’tis put on me,	1.3.94
561	And that in way of caution), I must tell you	1.3.95
562	You do not understand yourself so clearly	1.3.96
563	As it behoves my daughter and your honor.	1.3.97
564 T	What is between you? Give me up the truth.	1.3.98
565	ophelia
	He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders	1.3.99
566	Of his affection to me.	1.3.100
567	polonius
	Affection? Pooh, you speak like a green girl	1.3.101
568	Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.	1.3.102
569	Do you believe his “tenders” as you call them?	1.3.103
570	ophelia
	I do not know, my lord, what I should think.	1.3.104
571	polonius
	Marry, {I will} <I’ll> teach you: think yourself a baby	1.3.105
572	That you have ta’en {these} <his> tenders for true pay	1.3.106
573	Which are not sterling; tender yourself more dearly	1.3.107
574	Or (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,	1.3.108
575	{Wrong} <Roaming> Running it thus) you’ll tender me a fool.	1.3.109
576	ophelia
	My lord, he hath importuned me with love	1.3.110
577	In honorable fashion —	1.3.111
578	polonius
	Ay, “fashion” you may call it. Go to, go to.	1.3.112
579	ophelia
	And hath given countenance to his speech,	1.3.113
580	My lord, with {almost} all the {holy} vows of heaven.	1.3.114
581	polonius
	Ay, {springs} <springes> to catch woodcocks. I do know,	1.3.115
582	When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul	1.3.116
583	{Lends} <Gives> the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter,	1.3.117
584	Giving more light than heat, extinct in both	1.3.118
585	Even in their promise as it is a-making,	1.3.119
586	You must not take for fire. {From} <For> this time, <daughter,>	1.3.120
587	Be {something} <somewhat> scanter of your maiden presence,	1.3.121
588	Set your entreatments at a higher rate	1.3.122
589	Than a command to {parle.} <parley.> For Lord Hamlet,	1.3.123
590	Believe so much in him that he is young	1.3.124
591 T	And with a larger tether may he walk	1.3.125
592	Than may be given you. In few, Ophelia,	1.3.126
593	Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers	1.3.127
594	Not of {that dye} <the eye> which their investments show	1.3.128
595 T	But mere {imploratators} <implorators> of unholy suits	1.3.129
596	Breathing like sanctified and pious bondsbawds	1.3.130
597 T	The better to beguile. This is for all:	1.3.131
598	I would not in plain terms from this time forth	1.3.132
599	Have you so slander any moment leisure	1.3.133
600	As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.	1.3.134
601	Look to’t, I charge you. Come your ways.	1.3.135
602	ophelia
	I shall obey, my lord.	1.3.136
602	Exeunt.	1.3.136
	[1.4]
603	Enter Hamlet, Horatio, {and} Marcellus.	1.4
604 T	hamlet
	The air bites shrewdly; {it is} <is it> very {cold.} <cold?>	1.4.1
605	horatio
	It is <a> nipping{,} and an eager air.	1.4.2
606	hamlet
	What hour now?	1.4.3
607	horatio
	I think it lacks of twelve.	1.4.3
608	marcellus
	No, it is struck.	1.4.4
609	horatio
	Indeed, I heard it not. {It then} <Then it> draws near the season	1.4.5
610	Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.	1.4.6
610 T	A flourish of trumpets and two pieces goes off.	1.4.6
611	What does this mean, my lord?	1.4.7
612	hamlet
	The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse,	1.4.8
613	Keeps {wassail} <wassails> and the swaggering upspring reels,	1.4.9
614	And as he drains his draughts of Rennish down	1.4.10
615	The kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out	1.4.11
616	The triumph of his pledge.	1.4.12
617	horatio
	Is it a custom?	1.4.12
618	hamlet
	Ay, marry, is’t,	1.4.13
619	{But} <And> to my mind, though I am native here	1.4.14
620	And to the manner born, it is a custom	1.4.15
621	More honored in the breach than the observance.	1.4.16
621+1	This heavy-headed revel east and west	1.4.17
621+2	Makes us traduced and taxed of other nations:	1.4.18
621+3	They clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrase	1.4.19
621+4	Soil our addition, and indeed it takes	1.4.20
621+5	From our achievements, though performed at height,	1.4.21
621+6	The pith and marrow of our attribute.	1.4.22
621+7	So oft it chances in particular men	1.4.23
621+8	That, for some vicious mole of nature in them,	1.4.24
621+9	As in their birth wherein they are not guilty	1.4.25
621+10	(Since nature cannot choose his origin),	1.4.26
621+11	By their o’ergrowth of some complexion	1.4.27
621+12	Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,	1.4.28
621+13	Or by some habit that too much o’erleavens	1.4.29
621+14	The form of plausive manners — that these men	1.4.30
621+15	Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect	1.4.31
621+16	(Being Nature’s livery or Fortune’s star),	1.4.32
621+17	His virtues else, be they as pure as grace,	1.4.33
621+18	As infinite as man may undergo,	1.4.34
621+19	Shall in the general censure take corruption	1.4.35
621+20	From that particular fault: the dram of ealeev’l	1.4.36
621+21	Doth all the noble substance of a doubt	1.4.37
621+22	To his own scandal.	1.4.38
622	Enter Ghost.
623	horatio
	Look, my lord, it comes.	1.4.38
624	hamlet
	Angels and ministers of grace defend us! —	1.4.39
625	Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned,	1.4.40
626	Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,	1.4.41
627	Be thy {intents} <events> wicked or charitable,	1.4.42
628	Thou comest in such a questionable shape	1.4.43
629	That I will speak to thee: I’ll call thee Hamlet,	1.4.44
630	King, father, royal Dane. Oh, oh, answer me,	1.4.45
631	Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell	1.4.46
632	Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,	1.4.47
633	Have burst their cerements, why the sepulchre	1.4.48
634	Wherein we saw thee quietly {interred} <inurned>	1.4.49
635	Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws	1.4.50
636	To cast thee up again. What may this mean	1.4.51
637	That thou, dead corpse, again in complete steel	1.4.52
638	Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon,	1.4.53
639	Making night hideous, and we fools of nature	1.4.54
640	So horridly to shake our disposition	1.4.55
641 T	With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?	1.4.56
642	Say why is this? wherefore? what should we do?	1.4.57
643	Ghost beckons <Hamlet>.	1.4.57
644	horatio
	It beckons you to go away with it	1.4.58
645	As if it some impartment did desire	1.4.59
646	To you alone.	1.4.60
647	marcellus
	Look with what courteous action	1.4.60
648	It {waves} <wafts> you to a more removed ground,	1.4.61
649	But do not go with it.	1.4.62
650	horatio
	No, by no means.	1.4.62
651	hamlet
	It will not speak, then {I will} <will I> follow it.	1.4.63
652	horatio
	Do not, my lord.	1.4.64
653	hamlet
	Why, what should be the fear?	1.4.64
654	I do not set my life at a pin’s fee,	1.4.65
655	And for my soul, what can it do to that	1.4.66
656	Being a thing immortal as itself?	1.4.67
657	It waves me forth again. I’ll follow it.	1.4.68
658	horatio
	What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,	1.4.69
659 T	Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff	1.4.70
660 T	That beetles o’er his base into the sea,	1.4.71
661	And there {assume} <assumes> some other horrible form	1.4.72
662	Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason	1.4.73
663	And draw you into madness? Think of it.	1.4.74
663+1	The very place puts toys of desperation	1.4.75
663+2	Without more motive into every brain	1.4.76
663+3	That looks so many fathoms to the sea	1.4.77
663+4	And hears it roar beneath.	1.4.78
664	hamlet
	It {waves} <wafts> me still. <Go on, I’ll follow thee.>	1.4.79
664	{Go on, I’ll follow thee.}	1.4.79
665	marcellus
	You shall not go, my lord.	1.4.80
666	hamlet
	Hold off your {hands.} <hand.>	1.4.80
667	horatio
	Be ruled, you shall not go.	1.4.81
668	hamlet
	My fate cries out	1.4.81
669	And makes each petty artery in this body	1.4.82
670	As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.	1.4.83
671	Still am I {called.} <called?> Unhand me, gentlemen,	1.4.84
672	By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me!	1.4.85
673	I say away! — Go on, I’ll follow thee.	1.4.86
674 T	Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet.	1.4.86
675 T	horatio
	He waxes desperate with imagination.	1.4.87
676	marcellus
	Let’s follow. ’Tis not fit thus to obey him.	1.4.88
677	horatio
	Have after. To what issue will this come?	1.4.89
678	marcellus
	Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.	1.4.90
679	horatio
	Heaven will direct it.	1.4.91
680	marcellus
	Nay, let’s follow him.	1.4.91
680	Exeunt.
	[1.5]
681	Enter Ghost and Hamlet.	1.5
682	hamlet
	{Whither} <Where> wilt thou lead me? Speak, I’ll go no further.	1.5.1
683	ghost
	Mark me.	1.5.2
684	hamlet
	I will.	1.5.2
685	ghost
	My hour is almost come	1.5.2
686	When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames	1.5.3
687	Must render up myself.	1.5.4
688	hamlet
	Alas, poor ghost.	1.5.4
689	ghost
	Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing	1.5.5
690	To what I shall unfold.	1.5.6
691	hamlet
	Speak, I am bound to hear.	1.5.6
692	ghost
	So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear.	1.5.7
693	hamlet
	What?	1.5.8
694	ghost
	I am thy father’s spirit,	1.5.9
695	Doomed for a certain term to walk the night	1.5.10
696	And for the day confined to fast in fires	1.5.11
697	Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature	1.5.12
698	Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid	1.5.13
699	To tell the secrets of my prison-house,	1.5.14
700	I could a tale unfold whose lightest word	1.5.15
701	Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,	1.5.16
702	Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,	1.5.17
703	Thy {knotted} <knotty> and combined locks to part,	1.5.18
704	And each particular hair to stand on end	1.5.19
705	Like quills upon the {fearful} <fretful> porpentine.porcupine.	1.5.20
706	But this eternal blazon must not be	1.5.21
707	To ears of flesh and blood. List, {list,} <Hamlet,> oh, list:	1.5.22
708	If thou didst ever thy dear father love —	1.5.23
709	hamlet
	O {God!} <heaven!>	1.5.24
710	ghost
	— revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.	1.5.25
711	hamlet
	Murder{.} <?>	1.5.26
712	ghost
	Murder most foul, as in the best it is,	1.5.27
713	But this most foul, strange and unnatural.	1.5.28
714-5	hamlet
	{Haste} <Haste, haste> me to {know’t,} <know it,> that {I} with wings as swift	1.5.29
716	As meditation or the thoughts of love	1.5.30
717	May sweep to my revenge.	1.5.31
718	ghost
	I find thee apt.	1.5.31
719	And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed	1.5.32
720	That {roots} <rots> itself in ease on Lethe wharf,	1.5.33
721	Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear:	1.5.34
722	{’Tis} <It’s> given out that, sleeping in {my} <mine> orchard,	1.5.35
723	A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark	1.5.36
724	Is by a forged process of my death	1.5.37
725	Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth,	1.5.38
726	The serpent that did sting thy father’s life	1.5.39
727	Now wears his crown.	1.5.40
728	hamlet
	O my prophetic soul! {My} <Mine> uncle!	1.5.41
729	ghost
	Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,	1.5.42
730 T	With witchcraft of his wits,wit, with traitorous gifts —	1.5.43
731	O wicked wit and gifts that have the power	1.5.44
732 T	So to seduce! — won to {his} <this> shameful lust	1.5.45
733	The will of my most seeming-virtuous Queen.	1.5.46
734	O Hamlet, what <a> falling off was there,	1.5.47
735	From me whose love was of that dignity	1.5.48
736	That it went hand in hand even with the vow	1.5.49
737	I made to her in marriage, and to decline	1.5.50
738	Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor	1.5.51
739	To those of mine. But virtue, as it never will be moved,	1.5.53
740	Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,	1.5.54
741 T	So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,	1.5.55
742	Will {sort} <sate> itself in a celestial bed	1.5.57
742	And prey on garbage.	1.5.57
743	But soft, methinks I scent the {morning} <morning’s> air.	1.5.
744	Brief let me be. Sleeping within {my} <mine> orchard,	1.5.59
745	My custom always {of} <in> the afternoon,	1.5.60
746	Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole	1.5.61
747	With juice of cursed {hebona} <hebenon> in a vial,	1.5.62
748	And in the porches of {my} <mine> ears did pour	1.5.63
749	The leperous distilment, whose effect	1.5.64
750	Holds such an enmity with blood of man	1.5.65
751	That swift as quicksilver it courses through	1.5.66
752	The natural gates and alleys of the body	1.5.67
753	And with a sudden vigor it doth {possess} <posset>	1.5.68
754	And curd like eager droppings into milk	1.5.69
755	The thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine,	1.5.70
756	And a most instant tetter {barked} <baked> about	1.5.71
757	Most Lazar-like with vile and loathsome crust	1.5.72
758	All my smooth body.	1.5.73
759	Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand	1.5.74
760	Of life, of crown, {of} <and> queen at once dispatched,	1.5.75
761	Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,	1.5.76
762 T	Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled,	1.5.77
763	No reckoning made, but sent to my account	1.5.78
764	With all my imperfections on my head.	1.5.79
765	Oh, horrible! Oh, horrible, most horrible!	1.5.80
766	If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not,	1.5.81
767	Let not the royal bed of Denmark be	1.5.82
768	A couch for luxury and damned incest.	1.5.83
769	But {howsomever} <howsoever> thou {pursues} <pursuest> this act,	1.5.84
770	Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive	1.5.85
771	Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven	1.5.86
772	And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge	1.5.87
773	To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once:	1.5.88
774	The glow-worm shows the matin to be near	1.5.89
775	And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire.	1.5.90
776	Adieu, adieu, {adieu.} <Hamlet.> Remember me.	1.5.91
776	Exit.	1.5.91
777	hamlet
	O all you host of heaven, O earth, what else?	1.5.92
778	And shall I couple hell? Oh, fie! Hold, {hold,} my heart,	1.5.93
779	And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,	1.5.94
780	But bear me {swiftly} <stiffly> up. Remember {thee,} <thee?>	1.5.95
781	Ay, thou poor ghost, {whiles} <while> memory holds a seat	1.5.96
782	In this distracted globe. Remember {thee,} <thee?>	1.5.97
783	Yea, from the table of my memory	1.5.98
784	I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,	1.5.99
785	All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past	1.5.100
786	That youth and observation copied there,	1.5.101
787	And thy commandment all alone shall live	1.5.102
788	Within the book and volume of my brain	1.5.103
789	Unmixed with baser matter. Yes, <yes,> by heaven.	1.5.104
790	O most pernicious woman!	1.5.105
791	O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!	1.5.106
792	My tables, my tables, meet it is I set it down	1.5.107
793	That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;	1.5.108
794	At least {I am} <I’m> sure it may be so in Denmark.	1.5.109
795	So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word:	1.5.110
796	It is “Adieu, adieu. Remember me”.	1.5.112
796	I have sworn’t.	1.5.112
796	{Enter Horatio and Marcellus.}	1.5.112
797	horatio<, marcellus>< (Within.)> My lord, my lord!	1.5.113
798	<Enter Horatio and Marcellus.>
799	marcellus
	Lord Hamlet!	1.5.113
800	horatio
	{Heavens} <Heaven> secure him.	1.5.113
801	{hamlet} <marcellus>
	So be it.	1.5.114
802	{marcellus} <horatio>
	Illo, ho, ho, my lord!	1.5.115
803	hamlet
	Hillo, ho, ho, boy, come, {and} <bird,> come!	1.5.116
804	marcellus
	How is’t, my noble lord?	1.5.117
805	horatio
	What news, my lord?	1.5.117
806	hamlet
	Oh, wonderful.	1.5.118
807	horatio
	Good my lord, tell it.	1.5.119
808	hamlet
	No, {you will} <you’ll> reveal it.	1.5.119
809	horatio
	Not I, my lord, by heaven.	1.5.120
810	marcellus
	Nor I, my lord.	1.5.120
811	hamlet
	How say you then, would heart of man once think it<?> —	1.5.121
812	But you’ll be {secret.} <secret?>	1.5.122
813	both [horatio, Marcellus]
	Ay, by {heaven.} <heaven, my lord.>	1.5.122
814	hamlet
	There’s {never} <ne’er> a villain dwelling in all Denmark	1.5.123
815	But he’s an arrant knave.	1.5.124
816-7	horatio
	There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave	1.5.125
817	To tell us this.	1.5.126
818	hamlet
	Why, right, you are {in the} <i’th’> right,	1.5.126
819	And so without more circumstance at all	1.5.127
820	I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.	1.5.128
821	You, as your business and {desire} <desires> shall point you	1.5.129
822	(For every man {hath} <has> business and desire	1.5.130
823	Such as it is), and for {my} <mine> own poor part	1.5.131
824	Look you, {I will} <I’ll> go pray.	1.5.132
825	horatio
	These are but wild and {whirling} <hurling> words, my lord.	1.5.133
826	hamlet
	{I am} <I’m> sorry they offend you — heartily,	1.5.134
827	Yes, faith, heartily.	1.5.135
828	horatio
	There’s no offense, my lord.	1.5.135
829	hamlet
	Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, {Horatio,} <my lord,>	1.5.136
830	And much offense {too. Touching} <too, touching> this vision {here,}<here.>	1.5.137
831	It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you.	1.5.138
832	For your desire to know what is between us	1.5.139
833	O’ermaster’t as you may. And now, good friends,	1.5.140
834	As you are friends, scholars and soldiers,	1.5.141
835	Give me one poor request.	1.5.142
836	horatio
	What is’t, my {lord,}<lord?> we will.	1.5.143
837	hamlet
	Never make known what you have seen tonight.	1.5.144
838	both [horatio, marcellus]
	My lord, we will not.	1.5.145
839	hamlet
	Nay, but swear’t.	1.5.145
840	horatio
	In faith, my lord, not I.	1.5.146
841	marcellus
	Nor I, my lord, in faith.	1.5.146
842	hamlet
	Upon my sword.	1.5.147
843	marcellus
	We have sworn, my lord, already.	1.5.147
844	hamlet
	Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.	1.5.148
845	Ghost cries under the stage.	1.5.149
845	ghost
	Swear.	1.5.149
846-7	hamlet
	{Ha,} <Ah> ha, boy, sayst thou so? Art thou there truepenny?	1.5.150
847 T	Come on, you hear this fellow in the cellarage,cellarage?	1.5.151
848	Consent to swear.	1.5.152
849	horatio
	Propose the oath, my lord.	1.5.152
850	hamlet
	Never to speak of this that you have {seen,} <seen.>	1.5.153
851	Swear by my sword.	1.5.154
852	ghost [Under the stage.]
	Swear.	1.5.155
853	hamlet
	Hic et {ubique,} <ubique?> then we’ll shift {our} <for> ground.	1.5.156
854	Come hither, gentlemen,	1.5.157
855	And lay your hands again upon my sword.	1.5.158
857	{Swear by my sword}	1.5.159
856	Never to speak of this that you have {heard.} <heard,>	1.5.160
857	<Swear by my Sword.>	1.5.159
858	ghost [Under the stage.]
	Swear {by his sword}.	1.5.161
859	hamlet
	Well said, old mole. Canst work i’th’ {earth} <ground> so fast?	1.5.162
860	A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.	1.5.163
861	horatio
	Oh, day and night, but this is wondrous strange.	1.5.164
862	hamlet
	And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.	1.5.165
863	There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,	1.5.166
864	Than are dreamt of in {your} <our> philosophy. But come,	1.5.168
865	Here as before: never, so help you mercy	1.5.169
866	(How strange or odd {some’er} <soe’er> I bear myself,	1.5.170
867	As I perchance hereafter shall think meet	1.5.171
868	To put an antic disposition on),	1.5.172
869	That you at such {times} <time> seeing me, never shall	1.5.173
870	(With arms encumbered thus, or {this headshake} <thus, head shake,>	1.5.174
871	Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase	1.5.175
872	As “Well, {well,} we know”, or “We could an if we would”,	1.5.176
873 T	Or “If we list to speak“, or “There be an if they might”,	1.5.177
874	Or such ambiguous giving out) to note	1.5.178
875	That you know aught of me. This {do swear,} <not to do,>	1.5.179
876	So grace and mercy at your most need help {you.} <you,>	1.5.180
877	<Swear.>
878	ghost [Under the stage.]
	Swear.	1.5.181
879	hamlet
	Rest, rest, perturbed spirit. So, gentlemen,	1.5.182
880	With all my love I do commend me to you,	1.5.183
881	And what so poor a man as Hamlet is	1.5.184
882	May do tֺ express his love and friending to you,	1.5.185
883	God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together,	1.5.186
884	And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.	1.5.187
885	The time is out of joint; O cursed spite	1.5.188
886	That ever I was born to set it right!	1.5.189
887	Nay, come, let’s go together.	1.5.190
887	Exeunt.	1.5.190
888	2.1
889	Enter {old} Polonius {with his man [Reynaldo] or two.} <and Reynoldo.>
890	polonius
	Give him {this} <his> money, and these notes, {Reynaldo.}<Reynoldo.>	2.1.1
891	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	I will, my lord.	2.1.2
892	polonius
	You shall do marvellous {wisely,} <wisely:> good {Reynaldo,}<Reynoldo,>	2.1.3
893	Before you visit him, {to} <you> make {inquire} <inquiry>	2.1.4
894	Of his behavior.	2.1.5
895	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	My lord, I did intend it.	2.1.5
896-7	polonius
	Marry, well said, very well said. Look you, sir,	2.1.6
898	Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris,	2.1.7
899	And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,	2.1.8
900	What company, at what expense, and finding	2.1.9
901	By this encompassment and drift of question	2.1.10
902	That they do know my son, come you more nearer	2.1.11
903	Than your particular demands will touch it.	2.1.12
904	Take you, as ’twere, some distant knowledge of him,	2.1.13
905	{As} <And> thus: “I know his father, and his friends,	2.1.14
906	And in part him” — do you mark this, {Reynaldo?} <Reynoldo?>	2.1.15
907	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	Ay, very well, my lord.	2.1.16
908	polonius
	“And in part him, but“, you may say, “not well;	2.1.17
909	But if’t be he I mean, he’s very wild,	2.1.18
910	Addicted so and so”, and there put on him	2.1.19
911	What forgeries you please — marry, none so rank	2.1.20
912	As may dishonor him; take heed of that —	2.1.21
913	But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips	2.1.22
914	As are companions noted and most known	2.1.23
915	To youth and liberty.	2.1.24
916	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	As gaming, my lord?	2.1.24
917	polonius
	Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing,	2.1.25
918	Quarrelling, drabbing — you may go so far.	2.1.26
919	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	My lord, that would dishonor him.	2.1.27
920	polonius
	Faith, no, as you may season it in the charge.	2.1.28
921	You must not put another scandal on him,	2.1.29
922	That he is open to incontinency,	2.1.30
923	That’s not my meaning, but breathe his faults so quaintly	2.1.31
924	That they may seem the taints of liberty,	2.1.32
925	The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,	2.1.33
926	A savageness in unreclaimed blood	2.1.35
926	Of general assault.	2.1.35
927	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	But my good lord —	2.1.35
928	polonius
	Wherefore should you do this?	2.1.36
929	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	Ay, my lord, I would know that.	2.1.37
930	polonius
	Marry, sir, here’s my drift,	2.1.37
931	And I believe it is a fetch of {wit:} <warrant:>	2.1.38
932	You laying these slight {sallies} <sullies> on my son	2.1.39
933	As ’twere a thing a little soiled {wi’th’} <i’th’> working,	2.1.40
934	Mark you, your party in converse, him you would sound	2.1.42
935	Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes	2.1.43
936	The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured	2.1.44
937	He closes with you in this consequence:	2.1.45
938	“Good sir”, or so, or “friend”, or “gentleman”,	2.1.46
939	According to the phrase {or} <and> the addition	2.1.47
940	Of man and country.	2.1.48
941	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	Very good, my lord.	2.1.48
942-3	polonius
	And then, sir, does {’a} <he> this — {’a} <he> does — what	2.1.49
943-4	was I about to say? {By the mass,} I was about to say something.	2.1.49-50
944	Where did I leave?	2.1.51
945	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	At “closes in the consequence“ —	2.1.51
946	At “friend, or so”, and “gentleman”.	2.1.51
947	polonius
	At “closes in the consequence”, ay, marry,	2.1.52
948	He closes with you thus: “I know the gentleman,	2.1.53
949	I saw him yesterday, or {th’ other} <t’other> day,	2.1.54
950	Or then, or then, with such {or} <and> such, and as you say,	2.1.55
951	There was {’a gaming there, or took} <he gaming, there o’ertook> in’s rouse,	2.1.56
952	There falling out at tennis”, or perchance	2.1.57
953	“I saw him enter such a house of sale”,	2.1.58
954	Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. See you now<:>	2.1.59
955 T	Your bait of falsehood {take} <takes> this carp of truth;	2.1.60
956	And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,	2.1.61
957	With windlasses, and with assays of bias,	2.1.62
958	By indirections find directions out.	2.1.63
959	So by my former lecture and advice	2.1.64
960	Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?	2.1.65
961	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	My lord, I have.	2.1.66
962	polonius
	God buy {ye,} <you;> fare {ye} <you> well.	2.1.66
963	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	Good my lord.	2.1.67
964	polonius
	Observe his inclination in yourself.	2.1.68
965	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	I shall, my lord.	2.1.69
966	polonius
	And let him ply his music.	2.1.70
967	{reynaldo}<reynoldo>
	Well, my lord.	2.1.70
967	Exit {Reynaldo}.	2.1.70
968	Enter Ophelia.
969-70	polonius
	Farewell. — How now, Ophelia, what’s the matter?	2.1.71
971	ophelia
	{O my lord,} <Alas,> my lord, I have been so {affrighted — } <affrighted.>	2.1.72
972	polonius
	With what, {i’th’} <in the> name of {God?} <heaven?>	2.1.73
973	ophelia
	My lord, as I was sewing in my {closet,} <chamber,>	2.1.74
974	Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,	2.1.75
975	No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled,	2.1.76
976	Ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle,	2.1.77
977	Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,	2.1.78
978	And with a look so piteous in purport	2.1.79
979	As if he had been loosed out of hell	2.1.80
980	To speak of horrors, he comes before me.	2.1.81
981	polonius
	Mad for thy love?	2.1.82
982	ophelia
	My lord, I do not know,	2.1.83
982	But truly I do fear it.	2.1.83
983	polonius
	What said he?	2.1.83
984	ophelia
	He took me by the wrist and held me hard,	2.1.84
985	Then goes he to the length of all his arm,	2.1.85
986	And with his other hand thus o’er his brow	2.1.86
987	He falls to such perusal of my face	2.1.87
988	As {’a} <he> would draw it. Long stayed he so.	2.1.88
989	At last, a little shaking of mine arm,	2.1.89
990	And thrice his head thus waving up and down,	2.1.90
991	He raised a sigh so piteous and profound	2.1.91
992	{As} <That> it did seem to shatter all his bulk	2.1.92
993	And end his being. That done, he lets me go,	2.1.93
994	And with his head over his {shoulder} <shoulders> turned	2.1.94
995	He seemed to find his way without his eyes,	2.1.95
996	For out o’doors he went without their {helps,} <help,>	2.1.96
997	And to the last bended their light on me.	2.1.97
998	polonius
	{Come, go} <Go> with me, I will go seek the King.	2.1.98
999	This is the very ecstasy of love,	2.1.99
1000	Whose violent property fordoes itself	2.1.100
1001	And leads the will to desperate undertakings	2.1.101
1002	As oft as any {passions} <passion> under heaven	2.1.102
1003	That does afflict our natures. I am sorry.	2.1.103
1004	What, have you given him any hard words of late?	2.1.104
1005	ophelia
	No, my good lord, but as you did command	2.1.105
1006	I did repel his letters and denied	2.1.106
1007	His access to me.	2.1.107
1008	polonius
	That hath made him mad.	2.1.107
1009	I am sorry that with better {heed} <speed> and judgment	2.1.108
1010 T	I had not {coted} <quoted> him. I feared he did but trifle	2.1.109
1011	And meant to wrack thee. But beshrew my jealousy.	2.1.110
1012	{By heaven,} <It seems> it is as proper to our age	2.1.111
1013	To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions	2.1.112
1014	As it is common for the younger sort	2.1.113
1015	To lack discretion. Come, go we to the King.	2.1.114
1016	This must be known, which, being kept close, might move	2.1.115
1017	More grief to hide than hate to utter love. <Exeunt.>	2.1.116
1017+1	{Come.}	2.1.116
1017+1	{Exeunt.}	2.1.116
1018	2.2	2.2
1019	{Flourish.}
1019	Enter King {and} Queen, {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> and
1019-20	Guildenstern with others.
1021	king
	Welcome, dear {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> and Guildenstern.	2.2.1
1022	Moreover that we much did long to see you,	2.2.2
1023	The need we have to use you did provoke	2.2.3
1024	Our hasty sending. Something have you heard	2.2.4
1025	Of Hamlet’s transformation, so I call it,	2.2.5
1026	{Sith nor} <Since not> th’ exterior nor the inward man	2.2.6
1027	Resembles that it was. What it should be	2.2.7
1028	More than his father’s death, that thus hath put him	2.2.8
1029	So much from th’ understanding of himself	2.2.9
1030	I cannot {dream} <deem> of. I entreat you both	2.2.10
1031	That, being of so young days brought up with him	2.2.11
1032	And sith so neighbored to his youth and {havior,} <humor,>	2.2.12
1033	That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court	2.2.13
1034	Some little time, so by your companies	2.2.14
1035	To draw him on to pleasures and to gather	2.2.15
1036	So much as from {occasion} <occasions> you may glean,	2.2.16
1036+1	{Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus,}	2.2.17
1037	That opened lies within our remedy.	2.2.18
1038	queen
	Good gentlemen, he hath much talked of you,	2.2.19
1039	And sure I am two men there {is} <are> not living	2.2.20
1040	To whom he more adheres. If it will please you	2.2.21
1041	To show us so much gentry and good will	2.2.22
1042	As to expend your time with us a while	2.2.23
1043	For the supply and profit of our hope,	2.2.24
1044	Your visitation shall receive such thanks	2.2.25
1045	As fits a king’s remembrance.	2.2.26
1046	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Both your majesties	2.2.26
1047	Might by the sovereign power you have of us	2.2.27
1048	Put your dread pleasures more into command	2.2.28
1049	Than to entreaty.	2.2.29
1050	guildenstern
	{But we} <We> both obey	2.2.29
1051	And here give up ourselves in the full bent	2.2.30
1052	To lay our {service} <services> freely at your feet	2.2.31
1053	To be commanded.	2.2.32
1054	king
	Thanks, {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> and gentle Guildenstern.	2.2.33
1055	queen
	Thanks, Guildenstern, and gentle {Rosencraus.} <Rosencrantz.>	2.2.34
1056	And I beseech you instantly to visit	2.2.35
1057-8	My too much changed son. Go some of {you} <ye>	2.2.36
1059	And bring {these} <the> gentlemen where Hamlet is.	2.2.37
1060	guildenstern
	Heavens make our presence and our practices	2.2.38
1061	Pleasant and helpful to him.	2.2.39
1062	queen
	{Ay, amen.} <Amen.>	2.2.39
1062 T	Exeunt {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> and Guildenstern	2.2.39
1062	[and one or more Attendants].	2.2.39
1063	Enter Polonius.
1064	polonius
	Th’ ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,	2.2.40
1065	Are joyfully returned.	2.2.41
1066	king
	Thou still hast been the father of good news.	2.2.42
1067	polonius
	Have I, my lord? {I assure} <Assure you,> my good liege<,>	2.2.43
1068	I hold my duty<,> as I hold my soul,	2.2.44
1069	Both to my God, {and} <one> to my gracious King;	2.2.45
1070	And I do think, or else this brain of mine	2.2.46
1071	Hunts not the trail of policy so sure	2.2.47
1072	As {it hath} <I have> used to do, that I have found	2.2.48
1073	The very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy.	2.2.49
1074	king
	Oh, speak of that, that {do I} <I do> long to hear.	2.2.50
1075	polonius
	Give first admittance to th’ ambassadors.	2.2.51
1076	My news shall be the {fruit} <news> to that great feast.	2.2.52
1077	king
	Thyself do grace to them and bring them in.	2.2.53
1077	{[Polonius goes to the door.]} <[Exit Polonius.]>	2.2.53
1078	He tells me, my {dear Gertrard,} <sweet Queen, that> he hath found	2.2.54
1079	The head and source of all your son’s distemper.	2.2.55
1080	queen
	I doubt it is no other but the main:	2.2.56
1081	His father’s death and our {hasty} <o’er-hasty> marriage.	2.2.57
1082	Enter <Polonius,> {Ambassadors} Voltemand and Cornelius.
1083	king
	Well, we shall sift him. — Welcome, {my} good friends.	2.2.58
1084	Say, Voltemand, what from our brother Norway?	2.2.59
1085	voltemand
	Most fair return of greetings and desires.	2.2.60
1086	Upon our first, he sent out to suppress	2.2.61
1087	His nephew’s levies, which to him appeared	2.2.62
1088	To be a preparation ’gainst the Polack;	2.2.63
1089	But, better looked into, he truly found	2.2.64
1090	It was against your highness. Whereat, grieved	2.2.65
1091	That so his sickness, age and impotence	2.2.66
1092	Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests	2.2.67
1093	On Fortinbras, which he in brief obeys,	2.2.68
1094	Receives rebuke from Norway and, in fine,	2.2.69
1095	Makes vow before his uncle never more	2.2.70
1096	To give th’ assay of arms against your majesty.	2.2.71
1097	Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,	2.2.72
1098	Gives him {threescore} <three> thousand crowns in anual fee	2.2.73
1099	And his commission to employ those soldiers	2.2.74
1100	So levied (as before) against the Polack,	2.2.75
1101	With an entreaty, herein further shown,	2.2.76
1102	That it might please you to give quiet pass	2.2.77
1103	Through your dominions for {this} <his> enterprise	2.2.78
1104	On such regards of safety and allowance	2.2.79
1105	As therein are set down.	2.2.80
1106	king
	It likes us well,	2.2.80
1107	And at our more considered time we’ll read,	2.2.81
1108	Answer and think upon this business.	2.2.82
1109	Meantime, we thank you for your well-took labor.	2.2.83
1110	Go to your rest, at night we’ll feast together.	2.2.84
1111	Most welcome home.	2.2.85
1111 T	Exeunt Ambassadors Voltemand and Cornelius.	2.2.85
1112	polonius
	This business is very well ended.	2.2.85
1113	My liege and madam, to expostulate	2.2.86
1114	What majesty should be, what duty is,	2.2.87
1115	Why day is day, night night, and time is time,	2.2.88
1116	Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.	2.2.89
1117	Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit	2.2.90
1118	And tediousness the limbs and outward {flourishes.} <flourishes,>	2.2.91
1119	I will be brief: your noble son is mad.	2.2.92
1120	Mad call I it, for to define true madness,	2.2.93
1121	What is’t but to be nothing else but mad?	2.2.94
1122	But let that go.	2.2.95
1123	queen
	More matter with less art.	2.2.95
1124	polonius
	Madam, I swear I use no art at all.	2.2.96
1125	That {he’s} <he is> mad ’tis true, ’tis true ’tis pity,	2.2.97
1126	And pity {’tis ’tis} <it is> true — a foolish figure,	2.2.98
1127	But farewell it, for I will use no art.	2.2.99
1128	Mad let us grant him then, and now remains	2.2.
1129	That we find out the cause of this effect,	2.2.101
1130	Or rather say the cause of this defect,	2.2.102
1131	For this effect defective comes by cause.	2.2.103
1132	Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.	2.2.105
1132	Perpend.	2.2.105
1133	I have a daughter — have {while} <whilst> she is mine —	2.2.106
1134	Who in her duty and obedience, mark,	2.2.107
1135	Hath given me this. Now gather and surmise.	2.2.108
1136	[Reads]<the letter>.
1137	“To the celestial and my soul’s idol, the most beautified	2.2.109
1138	Ophelia — ”	2.2.110
1139	that’s an ill phrase, a vile phrase, “beautified” is a vile	2.2.111
1140	phrase, but you shall {hear:} <hear these:> “{thus} in her excellent white	2.2.112-3
1141	bosom, these — ” {etc.}	2.2.113
1142	queen
	Came this from Hamlet to her?	2.2.114
1143	polonius
	Good madam, stay awhile. I will be faithful.	2.2.115
1144	[Reads] {letter}.
1144	“Doubt thou the stars are fire,	2.2.116
1145	Doubt that the sun doth move,	2.2.117
1146	Doubt truth to be a liar,	2.2.118
1147	But never doubt I love.	2.2.119
1148	O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not art to	2.2.120-1
1149	reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, oh, most best believe	2.2.121-2
1150	it. Adieu.	2.2.121-2
1151	Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this	2.2.123-4
1152	machine is to him,  Hamlet.”	2.2.123-4
1153	This in obedience hath my daughter {shown} <showed> me;	2.2.125
1154 T	And more {about} <above> hath his solicitings,	2.2.126
1155	As they fell out, by time, by means and place,	2.2.127
1156	All given to mine ear.	2.2.128
1157	king
	But how hath she received his love?	2.2.129
1158	polonius
	What do you think of me?	2.2.129
1159	king
	As of a man faithful and honorable.	2.2.130
1160	polonius
	I would fain prove so. But what might you think	2.2.131
1161	When I had seen this hot love on the wing	2.2.132
1162	(As I perceived it, I must tell you that,	2.2.133
1163	Before my daughter told me), what might you,	2.2.134
1164	Or my dear majesty your Queen here, think	2.2.135
1165	If I had played the desk or table-book,	2.2.136
1166	Or given my heart a {working} <winking> mute and dumb,	2.2.137
1167	Or looked upon this love with idle sight,	2.2.138
1168	What might you think? No, I went round to work	2.2.139
1169	And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:	2.2.140
1170	“Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star.	2.2.141
1171	This must not be”. And then I {prescripts} <precepts> gave her	2.2.142
1172 T	That she should lock herself from his resort,	2.2.143
1173	Admit no messengers, receive no tokens;	2.2.144
1174	Which done, she took the fruits of my advice,	2.2.145
1175	And he, {repelled,} <repulsed,> a short tale to make,	2.2.146
1176	Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,	2.2.147
1177 T	Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,	2.2.148
1178 T	Thence to a lightness, and by this declension	2.2.149
1179	Into the madness {wherein} <whereon> now he raves	2.2.150
1180	And all we {mourn} <wail> for.	2.2.151
1181	king
	Do you think <’tis> this?	2.2.151
1182	queen
	It may {be,} <be> very {like.} <likely.>	2.2.152
1183	polonius
	Hath there been such a time — {I would} <I’d> fain know that —	2.2.153
1184	That I have positively said ’tis so	2.2.154
1185	When it proved otherwise?	2.2.155
1186	king
	Not that I know.	2.2.155
1187	polonius
	Take this from this if this be otherwise.	2.2.156
1188	If circumstances lead me, I will find	2.2.157
1189	Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed	2.2.158
1190	Within the center.	2.2.159
1191	king
	How may we try it further?	2.2.159
1192-3	polonius
	You know sometimes he walks four hours together	2.2.160
1194	Here in the lobby.	2.2.161
1195	queen
	So he {does,} <has,> indeed.	2.2.161
1196	polonius
	At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him.	2.2.162
1197	Be you and I behind an arras then,	2.2.163
1198	Mark the encounter: if he love her not	2.2.164
1199	And be not from his reason fallen thereon,	2.2.165
1200	Let me be no assistant for a state	2.2.166
1201	{But} <And> keep a farm and carters.	2.2.167
1202	king
	We will try it.	2.2.167
1203	Enter Hamlet <reading on a book>.
1204-5	queen
	But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.	2.2.168
1206	polonius
	Away, I do beseech you both, away.	2.2.169
1207-8	I’ll board him presently. Oh, give me leave.	2.2.170
1207	Exeunt King and Queen [and perhaps Attendants].	2.2.170
1208	How does my good lord Hamlet?	2.2.171
1209	hamlet
	Well, God-a-mercy.	2.2.172
1210	polonius
	Do you know me, my lord?	2.2.173
1211	hamlet
	Excellent<, excellent> well, {you are} <you’re> a fishmonger.	2.2.174
1212	polonius
	Not I, my lord.	2.2.175
1213	hamlet
	Then I would you were so honest a man.	2.2.176
1214	polonius
	Honest, my lord?	2.2.177
1215	hamlet
	Ay, sir, to be honest as this world goes, is to be	2.2.178-9
1215-6	one man picked out of {ten} <two> thousand.	2.2.179
1217	polonius
	That’s very true, my lord.	2.2.180
1218	hamlet
	For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog,	2.2.181
1219-20	being a good kissing carrion — Have you a daughter?	2.2.182
1221	polonius
	I have, my lord.	2.2.183
1222	hamlet
	Let her not walk i’th’ sun: conception is a	2.2.184
1223	blessing, but <not> as your daughter may conceive, friend,	2.2.185
1224	look to’t.	2.2.186
1225	polonius [Aside.]
	How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter;	2.2.187-8
1226	yet he knew me not at first, {’a} <he> said I was a fishmonger.	2.2.188-9
1227	{’A} <He> is far gone, far gone, and truly in my youth	2.2.189
1228	I suffered much extremity for love, very near this. I’ll	2.2.190
1229	speak to him again. — What do you read, my lord?	2.2.191
1230	hamlet
	Words, words, words.	2.2.192
1231	polonius
	What is the matter, my lord?	2.2.193
1232	hamlet
	Between who?	2.2.194
1233 T	polonius
	I mean the matter {that} you read, my lord.	2.2.195
1234	hamlet
	Slanders, sir; for the satirical {rogue} <slave> says here	2.2.196-7
1235	that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled,	2.2.197-8
1236	their eyes purging thick amber {and} <or> plumtree	2.2.198-9
1237 T	gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit,	2.2.199-200
1238	together with {most} weak hams; all which, sir, though I	2.2.201-2
1239	most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it	2.2.201-2
1240	not honesty to have it thus set down. For you yourself,	2.2.202-3
1241	sir, {shall grow} <should be> old as I am: if like a crab you could	2.2.203-4
1242	go backward.	2.2.203-4
1243-4	polonius [Aside.]
	Though this be madness yet there is method in’t. — Will you	2.2.205-6
1244-5	walk out of the air, my lord?	2.2.206
1246	hamlet
	Into my {grave.} <grave?>	2.2.207
1247-8	polonius
	Indeed, {that’s} <that is> out {of the} <o’th’> air. [Aside.] How pregnant sometimes	2.2.208-9
1248-51	his replies are! A happiness that often madness hits on, which reason	2.2.209-10
1251-3	and {sanctity} <sanity> could not so prosperously be delivered of.	2.2.210-1
1253-4	I will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of meeting	2.2.211-2
1255-6	between him, and my daughter. — My <honorable> lord, I will <most humbly>	2.2.213
1257	take my leave of you.	2.2.214
1258	hamlet
	You cannot<, sir,> take from me anything that I	2.2.215
1259	will {not} more willingly part withal, except my life, {except my life, except} my	2.2.216-7
1260	life.	2.2.217
1261	polonius
	Fare you well, my lord.	2.2.218
1262	hamlet
	These tedious old fools.	2.2.219
1265	Enter {Guildenstern and Rosencraus.} <Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.>	2.2.219
1263-4	polonius
	You go to seek {the} <my> Lord Hamlet? There he is.	2.2.220
1266	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	[To Polonius.] God save you, sir.	2.2.221
1266	[Exit Polonius.]	2.2.221
1267	guildenstern
	{My} <Mine> honored {lord.} <lord!>	2.2.222
1268	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	My most dear {lord.} <lord!>	2.2.223
1269 T	hamlet
	My excellent good {friends.}<friends!> How dost thou,	2.2.224-5
1270-1	Guildenstern? {Ah,} <Oh,> {Rosencraus!} <Rosencrantz!> Good lads, how do {you} <ye>	2.2.225-6
1271	both?	2.2.226
1272	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	As the indifferent children of the earth.	2.2.227
1273	guildenstern
	Happy, in that we are not {ever happy} <over-happy:> on Fortune’s	2.2.228-9
1274	{lap;} <cap,> we are not the very button.	2.2.229
1275	hamlet
	Nor the soles of her {shoe.} <shoe?>	2.2.230
1276	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Neither, my lord.	2.2.231
1277	hamlet
	Then you live about her waist, or in the	2.2.232
1278	middle of her {favours.} <favour?>	2.2.233
1279	guildenstern
	Faith, her privates we.	2.2.234
1280	hamlet
	In the secret parts of {Fortune —} <Fortune?> Oh, most true,	2.2.235
1281	she is a strumpet. {What} <What’s the> news?	2.2.236
1282-3	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	None, my lord, but <that> the world’s grown honest.	2.2.237
1284-5	hamlet
	Then is doomsday near. But your news is not true.	2.2.238-9
1285	Let me question more in particular: what have	2.2.240
1286	you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune	2.2.241
1287	that she sends you to prison hither?	2.2.241
1288	guildenstern
	Prison, my lord?	2.2.242
1289	hamlet
	Denmark’s a prison.	2.2.243
1290	rosencrantz
	Then is the world one.	2.2.244
1291	hamlet
	A goodly one, in which there are many confines	2.2.245
1292	wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o’th’	2.2.246
1293	worst.	2.2.247
1294	rosencrantz
	We think not so, my lord.	2.2.248
1295	hamlet
	Why, then ’tis none to you; for there is nothing	2.2.250
1296	either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is	2.2.251
1297	a prison.	2.2.251
1298	rosencrantz
	Why, then your ambition makes it one: ’tis	2.2.252
1299	too narrow for your mind.	2.2.253
1300	hamlet
	O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and	2.2.254
1301	count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that	2.2.255
1302	I have bad dreams.	2.2.256
1303	guildenstern
	Which dreams indeed are ambition: for the	2.2.257
1304	very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow	2.2.258
1305	of a dream.	2.2.259
1306	hamlet
	A dream itself is but a shadow.	2.2.260
1307	rosencrantz
	Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and	2.2.261
1308	light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow.	2.2.262
1309	hamlet
	Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs	2.2.263
1310	and outstretched heroes the beggars’ shadows.	2.2.264
1311-2	Shall we to th’ court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason.	2.2.265
1313	both [rosencrantz, guildenstern]
	We’ll wait upon you.	2.2.266
1314	hamlet
	No such matter. I will not sort you with the	2.2.267
1315	rest of my servants; for, to speak to you like an honest	2.2.268
1316	man, I am most dreadfully attended.	2.2.269
1316-7	But, in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?	2.2.269-70
1318	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	To visit you, my lord, no other occasion.	2.2.271
1319-20	hamlet
	Beggar that I am, I am {ever} <even> poor in thanks, but I thank	2.2.272-3
1320-1	you, and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpeny.	2.2.273-4
1321-2	Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation?	2.2.274-5
1322-3	Come, {come,} deal justly with me. Come, come, nay, speak.	2.2.275-6
1324	guildenstern
	What should we say, my lord?	2.2.277
1325	hamlet
	{Anything but} <Why, anything. But> to {th’} <the> purpose. You were	2.2.278
1326 T	sent for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks,	2.2.278-9
1327	which your modesties have not craft enough to color.	2.2.280
1328	I know the good King and Queen have sent for you.	2.2.281
1329	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	To what end, my lord?	2.2.282
1330	hamlet
	That you must teach me. But let me conjure	2.2.283
1331	you, by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of	2.2.284
1332	our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love,	2.2.285-6
1333	and by what more dear a better proposer {can} <could> charge	2.2.286-7
1334	you withal, be even and direct with me whether you	2.2.287-8
1335	were sent for or no.	2.2.288
1336	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	What say you?	2.2.289
1337-8	hamlet
	Nay then, I have an eye of {you!} <you.> If you love me, hold not off.	2.2.290-1
1339	guildenstern
	My lord, we were sent for.	2.2.292
1340	hamlet
	I will tell you why, so shall my anticipation	2.2.293
1341 T	prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the King and	2.2.294
1342 T	Queen moult no feather. I have of late, but wherefore	2.2.295-6
1343	I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of {exercises,} <exercise,>	2.2.296-7
1344 T	and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition	2.2.297-8
1345	that this goodly frame the earth seemes to me a sterile	2.2.298-9
1346	promontory; this most excellent canopy the air,	2.2.299-300
1347	look you, this brave o’erhanging {firmament}, this majestical roof	2.2.300-1
1348	fretted with golden fire, why, it {appeareth nothing} <appears no other thing>	2.2.301-2
1349	to me {but} <than> a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.	2.2.302-3
1350	What <a> piece of work is a {man,} <man!> how noble in	2.2.303-4
1351	{reason,} <reason!> how infinite in {faculties,}<faculty!> in form and moving{,}	2.2.304-5
1352	how express and admirable<!> in action, how like an angel<!>	2.2.305-6
1353	in apprehension, how like a {god;} <god!> the beauty of the	2.2.306-7
1354	world; the paragon of animals; and yet to me, what is	2.2.307-8
1355	this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, <no,>	2.2.308-9
1356	nor {women} <woman> neither, though by your smiling you seem	2.2.309-10
1357	to say so.	2.2.310
1358	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	My lord, there was no such stuff in my	2.2.311
1359	thoughts.	2.2.312
1360	hamlet
	Why did {ye} <you> laugh {then} when I said “man	2.2.313
1361	delights not me”?	2.2.314
1362	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	To think, my lord, if you delight not in man,	2.2.315
1363	what lenten entertainment the players shall receive	2.2.316
1364	from you. We coted them on the way, and hither are	2.2.317
1365	they coming to offer you service.	2.2.318
1366	hamlet
	He that plays the King shall be welcome	2.2.319
1367	(his majesty shall have tribute {on} <of> me), the Adventerous	2.2.320
1368	Knight shall use his foil and target, the Lover shall	2.2.321
1369	not sigh gratis, the Humorous Man shall end his part in	2.2.322
1370	peace, the Clown shall make those laugh whose lungs	2.2.323
1371	are tickledtickle o’th’ sear, and the Lady shall say her mind	2.2.324
1372 T	freely — or the blank verse shall halt for’t. What players	2.2.325-6
1373	are they?	2.2.326
1374-5	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Even those you were wont to take {such} delight in,	2.2.327
1375	the tragedians of the city.	2.2.328
1376	hamlet
	How chances it they travel? Their residence	2.2.329
1377	both in reputation and profit was better both	2.2.330
1378	ways.	2.2.331
1379	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	I think their inhibition comes by the means	2.2.332
1380	of the late innovation.	2.2.333
1381	hamlet
	Do they hold the same estimation they did	2.2.334
1382	when I was in the city? Are they so followed?	2.2.335
1383	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	No, indeed {are they} <they are> not.	2.2.336
1384	hamlet
	How comes it? Do they grow rusty?	2.2.337
1385	rosencrantz
	Nay, their endeavor keeps in the wonted	2.2.338
1386	pace. But there is, sir, an eyrie of children, little	2.2.339
1387	eyases, that cry out on the top of question and	2.2.340
1388	are most tyrannically clapped for’t. These are now the	2.2.341
1389 T	fashion, and so berattle the common stages (so they	2.2.
1390	call them) that many wearing rapiers are afraid of	2.2.343
1391	goose-quills and dare scarce come thither.	2.2.344
1392	hamlet
	What, are they children? Who maintains ’em?	2.2.346
1393	How are they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no	2.2.347
1394	longer than they can sing? Will they not say afterwards	2.2.348
1395	if they should grow themselves to common players (as	2.2.349
1396 T	it is most like if their means are no better) their writers	2.2.350
1397	do them wrong to make them exclaim against their	2.2.351
1398	own succession?	2.2.351
1399	rosencrantz
	Faith, there has been much to-do on both sides,	2.2.353
1400	and the nation holds it no sin to tar them to controversy.	2.2.354
1401	There was for a while no money bid for argument	2.2.355
1402	unless the poet and the player went to cuffs in	2.2.356
1403	the question.	2.2.356
1404	hamlet
	Is’t possible?	2.2.357
1405	guildenstern
	Oh, there has been much throwing about of	2.2.358
1406	brains.	2.2.359
1407	hamlet
	Do the boys carry it away?	2.2.360
1408	rosencrantz
	Ay, that they do, my lord, Hercules and his load too.	2.2.362
1409	hamlet
	It is not {very} strange, for {my} <mine> uncle is King of	2.2.363
1410	Denmark, and those that would make {mouths} <mows> at him	2.2.364
1411	while my father lived, give twenty, forty, {fifty, a} <an> hundred	2.2.365-6
1412	ducats apiece for his picture in little. {’Sblood, there} <There> is something	2.2.366-7
1413	in this more than natural, if philosophy could	2.2.367-8
1414	find it out.	2.2.368
1415	{A flourish.} <Flourish for the Players.>
1416	guildenstern
	There are the players.	2.2.369
1417	hamlet
	Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your	2.2.370
1418	hands, {come then:} <come:> {th’} <the> appurtenance of welcome is fashion	2.2.371-2
1419	and ceremony. Let me comply with you in {this} <the> garb	2.2.372-3
1420 T	lest my extent to the players, which I tell you must show	2.2.373-4
1421	fairly {outwards,} <outward,> should more appear like entertainment	2.2.374-5
1422	than yours. You are welcome. But my uncle-father	2.2.375-6
1423	and aunt-mother are deceived.	2.2.376
1424	guildenstern
	In what, my dear lord?	2.2.377
1425	hamlet
	I am but mad north-north-west. When the	2.2.378
1426	wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.	2.2.379
1427	Enter Polonius.
1428	polonius
	Well be with you, gentlemen.	2.2.380
1429	hamlet
	Hark you, Guildenstern, and you too, at each	2.2.381-2
1430	ear a hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet	2.2.382-3
1431	out of his {swaddling-clouts.} <swathing-clouts.>	2.2.383
1432-3	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Happily {he is} <he’s> the second time come to them, for	2.2.384
1433	they say an old man is twice a child.	2.2.384-5
1434	hamlet
	I will {prophesy} <prophesy:> he comes to tell me of the	2.2.386
1435	players. Mark it. — You say right, sir, <for> o’ Monday morning<,>	2.2.387-8
1436	’twas {then} <so> indeed.	2.2.388
1437	polonius
	My lord, I have news to tell you.	2.2.389
1438	hamlet
	My lord, I have news to tell you:	2.2.390
1439	when {Roscius} <Roscius,> {was} an actor in Rome —	2.2.391
1440	polonius
	The actors are come hither, my lord.	2.2.392
1441	hamlet
	Buzz, buzz.	2.2.393
1442	polonius
	Upon {my} <mine> honor.	2.2.394
1443	hamlet
	Then {came} <can> each actor on his {ass.} <ass — >	2.2.395
1444	polonius
	The best actors in the world, either for tragedy,	2.2.396
1445	comedy, history, pastoral, {pastoral-comical,} <pastorical-comical->	2.2.397
1446	historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-	2.2.398
1447 T	comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem	2.2.399
1448	unlimited; Seneca cannot be too heavy nor Plautus	2.2.400
1449 T	too light for the law of writ and the liberty: these are	2.2.401-2
1450	the only men.	2.2.402
1451-2	hamlet
	O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst {thou?}	2.2.403-4
1452	<thou?>	2.2.404
1453	polonius
	What a treasure had he, my lord?	2.2.405
1454	hamlet
	Why,	2.2.406
1454	“One fair daughter and no more,	2.2.407
1455	The which he loved passing well”.	2.2.408
1456	polonius [Aside.]
	Still on my daughter.	2.2.409
1457	hamlet
	Am I not i’th’ right, old Jephthah?	2.2.410
1458	polonius
	If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter	2.2.411-2
1459	that I love passing well.	2.2.412
1459-60	hamlet
	Nay, that follows not.	2.2.413
1461	polonius
	What follows then, my lord?	2.2.414
1462	hamlet
	Why,	2.2.415
1462	“As by lot, God wot,”	2.2.416
1462	and then, you know,	2.2.417
1462-3	“It came to pass, as most like it was”.	2.2.418
1463-4 T	The first row of the pious chanson will	2.2.419
1464-5	show you more, for look where my {abridgment comes.} <abridgements come.>	2.2.419-20
1466	Enter {the} <four or five> Players.
1467	{You are} <You’re> welcome, masters, welcome all. — I am glad to see	2.2.421
1468	thee well. — Welcome, good friends. — Oh, <my> old friend,	2.2.422
1469	{why,} thy face is {valanced} <valiant> since I saw thee last. Com’st thou to	2.2.423
1470	beard me in Denmark? What, my young lady and mistress!	2.2.424-5
1471	{By’} <By’r> Lady, your ladyship is nearer {to} heaven than when	2.2.425-6
1472	I saw you last by the altitude of a chopine. Pray God	2.2.426-7
1473	your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked	2.2.427-8
1474	within the ring. — Masters, you are all welcome. We’ll e’en	2.2.428-9
1475 T	to’t like {friendly} <French> falconers, fly at anything we see. We’ll	2.2.429-30
1476	have a speech straight. Come, give us a taste of your quality,	2.2.430-2
1477	come, a passionate speech.	2.2.432
1478	<1> player
	What speech, my {good} lord?	2.2.433
1479	hamlet
	I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was	2.2.434
1480	never acted, or, if it was, not above once, for the play, I	2.2.435-6
1481	remember, pleased not the million, ’twas caviarycaviare to the	2.2.436-7
1482	general. But it was (as I received it, and others whose	2.2.437-8
1483	{judgments} <judgment> in such matters cried in the top of mine) an	2.2.438-9
1484	excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down	2.2.439-40
1485	with as much modesty as cunning. I remember one said	2.2.440-1
1486	there {were} <was> no sallets in the lines to make the matter savory,	2.2.441-2
1487	nor no matter in the phrase that might indict the	2.2.442-3
1488	author of {affection,} <affectation,> but called it an honest {method,} <method.>	2.2.443-4
1488+1	as wholesome as sweet, and by very much, more handsome than fine.	2.2.444-5
1488-9	One <chief> speech in’t I chiefly loved: ’twas Aeneas’ {talk} <tale>	2.2.445-6
1490	to Dido, and there about of it especially {when} <where> he speaks	2.2.446-7
1491	of Priam’s slaughter. If it live in your memory, begin at	2.2.448
1492	this line — let me see, let me see:	2.2.449
1492-3	“The rugged Pyrrhus, like th’ Hyrcanian beast —”	2.2.450
1493	{’Tis} <It is> not so, it begins with Pyrrhus:	2.2.451
1494	“The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,	2.2.452
1495	Black as his purpose, did the night resemble	2.2.453
1496	When he lay couched in {th’} <the> ominous horse,	2.2.454
1497	Hath now this dread and black complexion smeared	2.2.455
1498	With {heraldy} <heraldry> more dismal<:> head to foot{:}	2.2.456
1499	Now is he {total} <to take> gules, horridly tricked	2.2.457
1500	With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,	2.2.458
1501	Baked and impasted with the parching streets	2.2.459
1502	That lend a tyrannous and {a} damned light	2.2.460
1503	To their {lord’s murder;} <vile murders;> roasted in wrath and fire,	2.2.461
1504	And thus o’ersized with coagulate gore,	2.2.462
1505	With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus	2.2.463
1506	Old grandsire Priam seeks”. { — So proceed you.}	2.2.464
1507	polonius
	’Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent	2.2.466
1508	and good discretion.	2.2.467
1509	<1> player
	“Anon he finds him,	2.2.468
1510	Striking too short at Greeks. His antique sword,	2.2.469
1511	Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,	2.2.470
1512	Repugnant to command. Unequal {matched,} <match,>	2.2.471
1513	Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide,	2.2.472
1514	But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword	2.2.473
1515 T	Th’ unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,	2.2.474
1516	Seeming to feel {this} <his> blow, with flaming top	2.2.475
1517	Stoops to his base and with a hideous crash	2.2.476
1518	Takes prisoner Pyrrhus’ ear. For, lo, his sword,	2.2.477
1519	Which was declining on the milky head	2.2.478
1520 T	Of reverend Priam, seemed i’th’ air to stick.	2.2.479
1521	So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood	2.2.480
1522	{Like} <And, like> a neutral to his will and matter,	2.2.481
1522	Did nothing.	2.2.482
1523	But as we often see against some storm	2.2.483
1524	A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,	2.2.484
1525	The bold winds speechless and the orb below	2.2.485
1526	As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder	2.2.486
1527	Doth rend the region, so after Pyrrhus’ pause	2.2.487
1528	A rousedAroused vengeance sets him new a-work,	2.2.488
1529	And never did the Cyclops’ hammers fall	2.2.489
1530	On {Mars’s armor,} <Mars his armors,> forged for proof eterne,	2.2.490
1531	With less remorse than Pyrrhus’ bleeding sword	2.2.491
1532	Now falls on Priam.	2.2.492
1533	Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods	2.2.493
1534	In general synod take away her power,	2.2.494
1535 T	Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel	2.2.495
1536	And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven	2.2.496
1537	As low as to the fiends”.	2.2.497
1538	polonius
	This is too long.	2.2.498
1539	hamlet
	It shall to {the} <th’> barber’s with your beard. Prithee,	2.2.499
1540	say on, he’s for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he	2.2.500
1541	sleeps. Say on, come to Hecuba.	2.2.501
1542	<1> player
	“But who — {ah, woe} <oh, who> — had seen the {mobled} <inobled> queen” —	2.2.502
1543	hamlet
	“The {mobled} <inobled> {queen”.} <queen”?>	2.2.503
1544	polonius
	That’s good, “inobled queen” is good.	2.2.504
1545-6	<1> player
	— “Run barefoot up and down, threatening the {flames} <flame>	2.2.505
1547	With bisson rheum, a clout {upon} <about> that head	2.2.506
1548	Where late the diadem stood and, for a robe,	2.2.507
1549	About her lank and all o’erteamed loins,	2.2.508
1550	A blanket in {the alarm} <th’ alarum> of fear caught up.	2.2.509
1551	Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steeped,	2.2.510
1552	’Gainst Fortune’s state would treason have {pronounced.} <pronounced!>	2.2.511
1553	But if the gods themselves did see her then,	2.2.512
1554	When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport	2.2.513
1555	In mincing with his sword her {husband} <husband’s> limbs,	2.2.514
1556	The instant burst of clamor that she made	2.2.515
1557	(Unless things mortal move them not at all)	2.2.516
1558	Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven	2.2.517
1559	And passion in the gods”.	2.2.518
1560-1	polonius
	Look where he has not turned his color and	2.2.519
1561	has tears in’s eyes. — {Prithee,} <Pray you,> no more.	2.2.520
1562	hamlet
	’Tis well. I’ll have thee speak out the rest	2.2.521
1563	{of this} soon. — Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed?	2.2.522-3
1564	Do {you} <ye> hear, let them be well used, for they are	2.2.523-4
1565	the {abstract} <abstracts> and brief chronicles of the time; after	2.2.524-5
1566	your death you were better have a bad epitaph than	2.2.525-6
1567	their ill report while you {live.} <lived.>	2.2.526
1568-9	polonius
	My lord, I will use them according to their desert.	2.2.527-8
1570	hamlet
	God’s {bodkin,} <bodikins,> man, {much} better. Use every man	2.2.529-30
1571	after his desert, and who {shall} <should> scape whipping? Use	2.2.530-1
1572	them after your own honor and dignity: the less they	2.2.531-2
1573	deserve the more merit is in your bounty. Take them	2.2.532-3
1574	in.	2.2.533
1575	polonius
	Come, sirs.	2.2.534
1575	<Exit Polonius.>	2.2.534
1576	hamlet
	Follow him, friends. We’ll hear a play tomorrow. —	2.2.535-6
1577-8	Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can you play	2.2.537
1578	The Murder of Gonzago?	2.2.537-8
1579	player
	Ay, my lord.	2.2.539
1580	hamlet
	We’ll ha’t tomorrow night. You could for <a>	2.2.540
1581	need study a speech of some dozen {lines,} or sixteen lines, which	2.2.541-2
1582	I would set down and insert in’t, could {you} <ye> not?	2.2.542-3
1583	player
	Ay, my lord.	2.2.544
1584	hamlet
	Very well. Follow that lord, and look you	2.2.545
1585 T	mock him not. — My good friends, I’ll leave you till night.	2.2.546-7
1586	You are welcome to Elsinore.	2.2.547
1586	{Exeunt Polonius and Players.}	2.2.547
1587	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Good my lord.	2.2.548
1588	Exeunt all but Hamlet.	2.2.548
1589	hamlet
	Ay, so, {God buy to you.} <God buy ye.> Now I am alone.	2.2.549
1590	Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!	2.2.550
1591	Is it not monstrous that this player here,	2.2.551
1592	But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,	2.2.552
1593	Could force his soul so to his {own} <whole> conceit	2.2.553
1594	That from her working, all {the} <his> visage {wanned,} <warmed,>	2.2.554
1595	Tears in his eyes, distraction {in his} <in’s> aspect,	2.2.555
1596	A broken voice, {an’} <and> his whole function suiting	2.2.556
1597	With forms to his conceit? And all for {nothing.} <nothing?>	2.2.557
1598	For {Hecuba.} <Hecuba?>	2.2.558
1599	What’s Hecuba to him, or he to {her,} <Hecuba,>	2.2.559
1600	That he should weep for her? What would he do	2.2.560
1601	Had he the motive and {that} <the cue> for passion	2.2.561
1602	That I have? He would drown the stage with tears	2.2.562
1603	And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,	2.2.563
1604	Make mad the guilty and appal the free,	2.2.564
1605	Confound the ignorant and amaze indeed	2.2.565
1606	The very {faculties} <faculty> of eyes and ears. Yet I,	2.2.566
1607	A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak	2.2.567
1608	Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,	2.2.568
1609	And can say nothing — no, not for a king,	2.2.569
1610	Upon whose property and most dear life	2.2.570
1611	A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward?	2.2.571
1612	Who calls me {villain, breaks} <villain? Breaks> my pate {across,} <across?>	2.2.572
1613	Plucks off my beard and blows it in my {face,} <face?>	2.2.573
1614	Tweaks me by {the nose, gives} <th’ nose? Gives> me the lie i’th’ throat	2.2.574
1615	As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?	2.2.575
1616	Ha! {’Swounds,} <Why,> I should take it; for it cannot be	2.2.576
1617	But I am pidgeon-livered and lack gall	2.2.577
1618	To make oppression bitter, or ere this	2.2.578
1619	I should {’a’} <have> fatted all the region kites	2.2.579
1620	With this slave’s {offal — bloody,} <offal, bloody — a> bawdy villain,	2.2.580
1621	Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain.	2.2.581
1622	Oh, vengeance!
1623	{Why,} <Whoa!> what an ass am I: ay, sure, this is most brave,	2.2.582
1624	That I, the son of {a} <the> dear murdered,	2.2.583
1625	Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,	2.2.584
1626	Must like a whore unpack my heart with words	2.2.585
1627	And fall a-cursing like a very drab,	2.2.586
1628	A {stallion.} <scullion!> Fie upon’t, foh!	2.2.587
1628-9	About, my {brains! Hum,} <brain!> I have heard,	2.2.588
1629	That guilty creatures sitting at a play	2.2.589
1630	Have by the very cunning of the scene	2.2.590
1631	Been struck so to the soul that presently	2.2.591
1632	They have proclaimed their malefactions.	2.2.592
1633	For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak	2.2.593
1634	With most miraculous organ. I’ll have these players	2.2.594
1635	Play something like the murder of my father	2.2.595
1636	Before mine uncle. I’ll observe his looks.	2.2.596
1637	I’ll tent him to the quick. If {’a do} <he but> blench,	2.2.597
1638	I know my course. The spirit that I have seen	2.2.598
1639	May be {a dev’l} <the devil>, and the {dev’l} <devil> hath power	2.2.599
1640	T’ assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps	2.2.600
1641	Out of my weakness and my melancholy,	2.2.601
1642	As he is very potent with such spirits,	2.2.602
1643	Abuses me to damn me. I’ll have grounds	2.2.603
1644	More relative than this. The play’s the thing	2.2.604
1645	Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.	2.2.605
1645	Exit.	2.2.605
	[3.1]
1646	Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz>,	3.1
1647	Guildenstern, <and> Lords.
1648 T	king
	And can you by no drift of {conference} <circumstance>	3.1.1
1649	Get from him why he puts on this confusion,	3.1.2
1650	Grating so harshly all his days of quiet	3.1.3
1651	With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?	3.1.
1652	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	He does confess he feels himself distracted,	3.1.5
1653	But from what cause {’a} <he> will by no means speak.	3.1.6
1654	guildenstern
	Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,	3.1.7
1655	But with a crafty madness keeps aloof	3.1.8
1656	When we would bring him on to some confession	3.1.9
1657	Of his true state.	3.1.10
1658	queen
	Did he receive you well?	3.1.10
1659	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Most like a gentleman.	3.1.11
1660	guildenstern
	But with much forcing of his disposition.	3.1.12
1661	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Niggard of question, but of our demands	3.1.13
1662	Most free in his reply.	3.1.14
1663	queen
	Did you assay him to any pastime?	3.1.15
1664	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Madam, it so fell out that certain players	3.1.16
1665	We o’erraught on the way. Of these we told him	3.1.17
1666	And there did seem in him a kind of joy	3.1.18
1667	To hear of it. They are {here} about the court	3.1.19
1668	And, as I think, they have already order	3.1.20
1669	This night to play before him.	3.1.21
1670	polonius
	’Tis most true,	3.1.21
1671	And he beseeched me to entreat your majesties	3.1.22
1672	To hear and see the matter.	3.1.23
1673	king
	With all my heart, <and it doth much content me>	3.1.24
1673-4	{And it doth much content me to hear him so inclined.}	3.1.24-5
1674	<To hear him so inclined. Good gentlemen,>	3.1.25-6
1674-5	{Good gentlemen, give} <Give> him a further edge, <and drive his purpose on>	3.1.26-7
1675-6	{And drive his purpose into} <To> these delights.	3.1.27
1677	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	We shall, my lord.	3.1.28
1677 T	Exeunt {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> and Guildenstern [and Lords.]	3.1.28
1678	king
	Sweet {Gertrard,} <Gertrude,> leave us {two,} <too,>	3.1.28
1679	For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,	3.1.29
1680	That he, as ’twere by accident, may {here} <there>	3.1.30
1681	Affront Ophelia. {Her father and myself}	3.1.31
1681	<Her father and myself (lawful espials)>	3.1.31
1682	{We’ll} <Will> so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen,	3.1.32
1683	We may of their encounter frankly judge	3.1.33
1684	And gather by him as he is behaved,	3.1.34
1685	If’t be th’ affliction of his love or no	3.1.35
1686	That thus he suffers for.	3.1.36
1687	queen
	I shall obey you.	3.1.36
1688	And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish	3.1.37
1689	That your good beauties be the happy cause	3.1.38
1690	Of Hamlet’s wildness. So shall I hope your virtues	3.1.39
1691	Will bring him to his wonted way again	3.1.40
1692	To both your honors.	3.1.41
1693	ophelia
	Madam, I wish it may.	3.1.41
1693	[Exit Queen.]	3.1.41
1694	polonius
	Ophelia, walk you here. — Gracious, so please {you,} <ye,>	3.1.42
1695	We will bestow ourselves. — Read on this book,	3.1.43
1696	That show of such an exercise may color	3.1.44
1697	Your {lowliness.} <loneliness.> We are oft to blame in this,	3.1.45
1698	(’Tis too much proved) that with devotion’s visage	3.1.46
1699 T	And pious action we do sugar o’er	3.1.47
1700	The devil himself.	3.1.48
1701	king
	Oh, ’tis {too} true.	3.1.48
1702	How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!	3.1.49
1703	The harlot’s cheek beautied with plastering art	3.1.50
1704	Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it	3.1.51
1705	Than is my deed to my most painted word.	3.1.52
1706	Oh, heavy burden!	3.1.53
1707	polonius
	I hear him coming: <let’s> withdraw, my lord.	3.1.54
1708	Exeunt King and Polonius.	3.1.54
1709	Enter Hamlet.
1710	hamlet
	To be, or not to be, that is the question:	3.1.55
1711	Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer	3.1.56
1712	The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,	3.1.57
1713	Or to take arms against a sea of troubles	3.1.58
1714	And by opposing, end {them.} <them:> {To die}<to die,> to sleep —	3.1.59
1715	No more, and by a sleep to say we end	3.1.60
1716	The heartache and the thousand natural shocks	3.1.61
1717	That flesh is heir {to.} <to?> ’Tis a consumation	3.1.62
1718	Devoutly to be {wished: to} <wished. To> die to sleep —	3.1.63
1719	To sleep, perchance to {dream —} <dream;> ay, there’s the rub,	3.1.64
1720	For in that sleep of death what dreams may come	3.1.65
1721	When we have shuffled off this mortal coil	3.1.66
1722	Must give us pause. There’s the respect	3.1.67
1723	That makes calamity of so long life:	3.1.68
1724	For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,	3.1.69
1725	{Th’} <The> oppressor’s wrong, the {proud} <poor> man’s contumely,	3.1.70
1726	The pangs of {despised} <disprized> love, the law’s delay,	3.1.71
1727	The insolence of office and the spurns	3.1.72
1728	That patient merit of {th’} <the> unworthy takes,	3.1.73
1729	When he himself might his quietus make	3.1.74
1730	With a bare bodkin? Who would <these> fardels bear	3.1.75
1731	To grunt and sweat under a weary life	3.1.76
1732	But that the dread of something after death	3.1.77
1733	(The undiscovered country from whose bourn	3.1.78
1734	No traveller returns) puzzles the will	3.1.79
1735	And makes us rather bear those ills we have	3.1.80
1736	Than fly to others that we know not of?	3.1.81
1737	Thus conscience does make cowards <of us all>,	3.1.82
1738	And thus the native hue of resolution	3.1.83
1739 T	Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,	3.1.84
1740	And enterprises of great {pitch} <pith> and moment	3.1.85
1741	With this regard their currents turn {awry} <away>	3.1.86
1742	And lose the name of action. Soft you now,	3.1.87
1743	The fair Ophelia. Nymph, in thy orisons	3.1.88
1744	Be all my sins remembered.	3.1.89
1745	ophelia
	Good my lord,	3.1.89
1746	How does your honour for this many a day?	3.1.90
1747	hamlet
	I humbly thank you, well, well, well.	3.1.91
1748	ophelia
	My lord, I have remembrances of yours	3.1.92
1749	That I have longed long to redeliver.	3.1.93
1750	I pray you {now} <now,> receive them.	3.1.94
1751	hamlet
	No, {not I,} <no,> I never gave you aught.	3.1.95
1752	ophelia
	My honored lord, {you} <I> know right well you did,	3.1.96
1753	And with them words of so sweet breath composed	3.1.97
1754	As made {these} <the> things more rich. {Their} <Then> perfume {lost,} <left.>	3.1.98
1755	Take these again, for to the noble mind	3.1.99
1756	Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.	3.1.100
1757	There, my lord.	3.1.101
1758	hamlet
	Ha, ha, are you honest?	3.1.102
1759	ophelia
	My {lord?} <lord.>	3.1.103
1760	hamlet
	Are you fair?	3.1.104
1761	ophelia
	What means your lordship?	3.1.105
1762	hamlet
	That if you be honest and fair, {you} <your honesty>	3.1.106-7
1763	should admit no discourse to your beauty.	3.1.107
1764	ophelia
	Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce	3.1.108
1765	than {with} <your> honesty?	3.1.109
1766	hamlet
	Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner	3.1.110
1767	transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the	3.1.111-2
1768	force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.	3.1.112-3
1769	This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it	3.1.113-4
1770	proof. I did love you once.	3.1.114
1771	ophelia
	Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.	3.1.115
1772	hamlet
	You should not have believed me. For virtue	3.1.116
1773 T	cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish	3.1.117
1774	of it. I loved you not.	3.1.118
1775	ophelia
	I was the more deceived.	3.1.119
1776 T	hamlet
	Get thee to a {nunn’ry.} <nunnery.> WhyWhy, wouldst thou	3.1.120
1777	be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest,	3.1.121
1778	but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better	3.1.122-3
1779	my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful,	3.1.123-4
1780	ambitious, with more offenses at my beck	3.1.124
1781 T	than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give	3.1.125-6
1782	them shape, or time to act them in. What should such	3.1.126-7
1783	fellows as I do crawling between {earth and heaven?} <heaven and earth?>	3.1.127-8
1784	We are arrant {knaves,} <knaves all,> believe none of us. Go thy	3.1.128-9
1785	ways to a {nunn’ry.} <nunnery.> Where’s your father?	3.1.129
1786	ophelia
	At home, my lord.	3.1.130
1787	hamlet
	Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may	3.1.131
1787-8	play the fool {no where} <no way> but in ’s own house. Farewell.	3.1.132
1789	ophelia
	Oh, help him, you sweet heavens!	3.1.133
1790	hamlet
	If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague	3.1.134
1791	for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,	3.1.135-6
1792	thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a {nunn’ry,} <nunnery.>	3.1.136-7
1793	<Go,> farewell. Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool,	3.1.137-8
1794	for wise men know well enough what monsters you	3.1.138-9
1795-6	make of them. To a {nunn’ry,} <nunnery,> go, and quickly too, farewell.	3.1.139-40
1797	ophelia
	{Heavenly powers} <O heavenly powers,> restore him.	3.1.141
1798	hamlet
	I have heard of your {paintings} <pratlings too> well enough.	3.1.142
1799	God {hath} <has> given you one {face} <pace> and you make {yourselves} <yourself> another.	3.1.143-4
1800	You {jig and} <jig, you> amble and you {list, you} <lisp, and> nickname	3.1.144-5
1801	God’s creatures, and make your wantoness <your> ignorance.	3.1.145-6
1802	Go to, I’ll no more on’t, it hath made me mad.	3.1.146-7
1803	I say we will have no {mo marriage.} <more marriages.> Those that are	3.1.147-8
1804	married already, all but one, shall live. The rest shall keep	3.1.148-9
1805	as they are. To a {nunn’ry,} <nunnery,> go.	3.1.149
1805	Exit <Hamlet>.	3.1.149
1806	ophelia
	Oh, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!	3.1.150
1807	The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword,	3.1.151
1808	Th’ {expectation} <expectancy> and rose of the fair state,	3.1.152
1809	The glass of fashion and the mould of form,	3.1.153
1810	Th’ observed of all observers, quite quite down.	3.1.154
1811 T	And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,	3.1.155
1812	That sucked the honey of his {musiced} <music> vows,	3.1.156
1813	Now see {what} <that> noble and most sovereign reason	3.1.157
1814	Like sweet bells jangled out of {time} <tune> and harsh;	3.1.158
1815	That unmatched form and {stature} <feature> of blown youth	3.1.159
1816	Blasted with ecstasy. Oh, woe is me	3.1.160
1817	T’ have seen what I have seen, see what I see.	3.1.161
1817	{Exit.}	3.1.161
1818	Enter King and Polonius.
1819	king
	{Love —} <Love?> His affections do not that way tend,	3.1.162
1820	Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little,	3.1.163
1821	Was not like madness. There’s something in his soul	3.1.164
1822	O’er which his melancholy sits on brood,	3.1.165
1823	And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose	3.1.166
1824	Will be some danger; which {for} to prevent,	3.1.167
1825	I have in quick determination	3.1.168
1826	Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England	3.1.169
1827	For the demand of our neglected tribute.	3.1.170
1828	Haply the seas and countries different,	3.1.171
1829	With variable objects, shall expel	3.1.172
1830	This something-settled matter in his heart	3.1.173
1831	Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus	3.1.174
1832	From fashion of himself. What think you on’t?	3.1.175
1833	polonius
	It shall do well. But yet do I believe	3.1.176
1833-4	The origin and commencement of {his} <this> grief	3.1.177
1835	Sprung from neglected love. —	3.1.178
1835	{[Enter Ophelia.]}	3.1.178
1835	How now, Ophelia?	3.1.178
1836	You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said,	3.1.179
1837	We heard it all. — My lord, do as you please,	3.1.180
1838	But if you hold it fit, after the play,	3.1.181
1839	Let his Queen-mother all alone entreat him	3.1.182
1840	To show his {grief,} <griefs,> let her be round with him,	3.1.183
1841	And I’ll be placed (so please you) in the ear	3.1.184
1842	Of all their conference. If she find him not,	3.1.185
1843	To England send him or confine him where	3.1.186
1844	Your wisdom best shall think.	3.1.187
1845	king
	It shall be so.	3.1.187
1846	Madness in great ones must not {unmatched} <unwatched> go.	3.1.188
1847	Exeunt.	3.1.188
	[3.2]
1848	Enter Hamlet and <two or> three of the Players.	3.2
1849	hamlet
	Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced	3.2.1
1850	it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it	3.2.2
1851	as many of {our} <your> players do, I had as lief the town-crier	3.2.3
1852	<had> spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much<—>	3.2.4-5
1853	{with} your hand thus, but use all gently; for, in the very torrent,	3.2.5-6
1854	tempest, and, as I may say, <the> whirlwind of	3.2.6
1855	{your} passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that	3.2.6-7
1856	may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul	3.2.8
1857	to {hear} <see> a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion	3.2.9
1858	to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the	3.2.10
1859	groundlings, who for the most part are capable of	3.2.11
1860	nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I {would} <could>	3.2.11-2
1861	have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant: it	3.2.13
1862	out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it.	3.2.14
1863	player
	I warrant your honor.	3.2.15
1864	hamlet
	Be not too tame neither, but let your own	3.2.16
1865	discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word,	3.2.17
1866	the word to the action, with this special observance:	3.2.18
1867 T	that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything	3.2.19
1868	so {o’erdone} <overdone> is from the purpose of playing, whose	3.2.20-1
1869	end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as ’twere,	3.2.21-2
1870	the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her <own>	3.2.22-3
1871	feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and	3.2.23
1872	body of the time his form and pressure. Now this	3.2.24-5
1873	overdone, or come tardy off, though it {makes} <make> the unskillful	3.2.25
1874	laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the	3.2.26
1875	censure of <the> which one must in your allowance o’erweigh	3.2.27
1876	a whole theater of others. Oh, there be players	3.2.28
1877	that I have seen play and heard others {praised,} <praise,> and that	3.2.29
1878	highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having	3.2.30-1
1879	{th’} <the> accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan,	3.2.31-2
1880	{nor man} <or Normannor no man> have so strutted and bellowed that I have	3.2.32-3
1881	thought some of Nature’s journeymen had made men,	3.2.33-4
1882-3	and not made them well, they imitated humanity so “abhominably”.	3.2.34-5
1884	player
	I hope we have reformed that indifferently with	3.2.36
1885	{us} <us, sir.>	3.2.37
1886	hamlet
	Oh, reform it altogether, and let those that	3.2.38
1887	play your clowns speak no more than is set down for	3.2.39
1888	them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh	3.2.40-1
1889	to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh	3.2.41-2
1890	too, though in the meantime some necessary question	3.2.42-3
1891	of the play be then to be considered. That’s villainous,	3.2.43-4
1892	and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses	3.2.44-5
1893	it. Go make you ready.	3.2.45
1893	Exeunt Players.	3.2.45
1894	<Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.>	3.2.45
1895-6	How now, my lord, will the King hear this piece of work?	3.2.46-7
1894	{Enter Polonius, Guildenstern and Rosencraus.}	3.2.45
1897	polonius
	And the Queen too, and that presently.	3.2.48
1898	hamlet
	Bid the players make haste.	3.2.49
1898	Exit Polonius.	3.2.49
1899	Will you two help to hasten them?	3.2.50
1900	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz, guildenstern>
	{Ay,} <We will,> my lord.	3.2.51
1900	Exeunt {they two}.	3.2.51
1901	<Enter Horatio.>
1902	hamlet
	What ho, Horatio!	3.2.52
1902	{Enter Horatio.}	3.2.52
1903	horatio
	Here, sweet lord, at your service.	3.2.53
1904	hamlet
	Horatio, thou art e’en as just a man	3.2.54
1905	As e’er my conversation coped withal.	3.2.55
1906	horatio
	O my dear lord —	3.2.56
1907	hamlet
	Nay, do not think I flatter,	3.2.56
1908	For what advancement may I hope from thee	3.2.57
1909	That no revenue hast but thy good spirits	3.2.58
1910	To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?	3.2.
1911 T	No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp	3.2.60
1912	And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee	3.2.61
1913	Where thrift may follow {fawning.} <feigning> Dost thou hear?	3.2.62
1914	Since my dear soul was mistress of {her} <my> choice	3.2.63
1915	And could of men {distinguish her election,} <distinguish, her election>	3.2.64
1916	{Sh’hath} <Hath> sealed thee for herself, for thou hast been	3.2.65
1917	As one in suffering all that suffers nothing,	3.2.66
1918	A man that Fortune’s buffets and rewards	3.2.67
1919	{Hast}<Hath> ta’en with equal thanks. And blest are those	3.2.68
1920	Whose blood and judgment are so well {co-meddled} <co-mingled>	3.2.69
1921	That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger	3.2.70
1922	To sound what stop she please. Give me that man	3.2.71
1923	That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him	3.2.72
1924	In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart,	3.2.73
1925	As I do thee. Something too much of this.	3.2.74
1926	There is a play tonight before the King;	3.2.75
1927	One scene of it comes near the circumstance	3.2.76
1928	Which I have told thee of my father’s death.	3.2.77
1929	I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,	3.2.78
1930	Even with the very comment of {thy} <my> soul,	3.2.79
1931	Observe {my} <mine> uncle. If his occulted guilt	3.2.80
1932	Do not itself unkennel in one speech,	3.2.81
1933	It is a damned ghost that we have seen,	3.2.82
1934	And my imaginations are as foul	3.2.83
1935	As Vulcan’s {stithy.} <stith.> Give him {heedful} <needful> note,	3.2.84
1936	For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,	3.2.85
1937	And after, we will both our judgments join	3.2.86
1938	{In} <To> censure of his seeming.	3.2.87
1939	horatio
	Well, my lord.	3.2.87
1940	If {’a} <he> steal aught the whilst this play is playing	3.2.88
1941	And scape {detected,} <detecting,> I will pay the theft.	3.2.89
1942	Enter {Trumpets and Kettledrums,} King, Queen,
1942	Polonius, Ophelia, {[Rosencraus,]} <Rosencrantz,>
1943	{[Guildenstern.]} <Guildenstern, and other Lords attendant, with>
1944	his Guard carrying torches. Danish
1945	march. Sound a Flourish.
1946	hamlet
	They are coming to the play. I must be idle.	3.2.90
1947	Get you a place.	3.2.91
1948	king
	How fares our cousin Hamlet?	3.2.92
1949	hamlet
	Excellent, i’faith, of the chameleon’s dish: I eat	3.2.93-4
1950	the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.	3.2.94-5
1951	king
	I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet, these	3.2.96-7
1952	words are not mine.	3.2.97
1953	hamlet
	No, nor {mine now, my lord.} <mine. [To Polonius.] Now, my lord, >	3.2.98
1953-4	{[To Polonius.] You} <you> played once i’th’ university, you say?	3.2.99
1955	polonius
	That {did I,} <I did,> my lord, and was accounted a good	3.2.100
1956	actor —	3.2.101
1957	hamlet
	{What} <And what> did you enact?	3.2.102
1958	polonius
	I did enact Julius Caesar. I was killed i’th’ Capitol.	3.2.103-4
1959	Brutus killed me.	3.2.104
1960	hamlet
	It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a	3.2.105
1961	calf there. — Be the players ready?	3.2.106
1962	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Ay, my lord, they stay upon your patience.	3.2.107
1963	queen {gertrard}
	Come hither, my {dear} <good> Hamlet, sit by me.	3.2.108
1964	hamlet
	No, good mother, here’s metal more attractive.	3.2.110
1965	polonius
	Oh ho, do you mark {that!} <that?>	3.2.111
1966	hamlet
	Lady, shall I lie in your lap?	3.2.112
1967	ophelia
	No, my lord.	3.2.113
1968	hamlet
	I mean, my head upon your lap?	3.2.114
1969	ophelia
	Ay, my lord.	3.2.115
1970	hamlet
	Do you think I meant country matters?	3.2.116
1971	ophelia
	I think nothing, my lord.	3.2.117
1972	hamlet
	That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs.	3.2.119
1973	ophelia
	What is, my lord?	3.2.120
1974	hamlet
	Nothing.	3.2.121
1975	ophelia
	You are merry, my {lord.} <lord!>	3.2.122
1976	hamlet
	Who I?	3.2.123
1977	ophelia
	Ay, my lord.	3.2.124
1978	hamlet
	O God, your only jig-maker. What should	3.2.125
1979	a man do but be merry, for look you how cheerfully	3.2.126
1980	my mother looks, and my father died within ’s two	3.2.127
1981	hours.	3.2.127
1982	ophelia
	Nay, ’tis twice two months, my lord.	3.2.128
1983	hamlet
	So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black,	3.2.129
1984	for I’ll have a suit of sables. O heavens, die two months	3.2.130-1
1985	ago and not forgotten yet! Then there’s hope a	3.2.131
1986	great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.	3.2.132
1987	But, by’r Lady, {’a} <he> must build churches then, or else shall	3.2.133
1988	{’a} <he> suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose	3.2.134
1989	epitaph is “For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot!”	3.2.135
1990	{The Trumpets sounds;} Hautboys play; <the> dumb-show {follows.} <enters.>
1991	Enter a king and {a} queen, <very lovingly,> the queen embracing
1992	him {and he her}. She kneels and makes show of protestation unto
1993	him. He takes her up and declines his head upon her neck; {he}
1994	{lies} <lays> him down upon a bank of flowers. She, seeing him
1995	asleep, leaves him. Anon {come} <comes> in {another man,} <a fellow,> takes off his
1996	crown, kisses it, <and> pours poison in the {sleeper’s} <king’s> ears, and
1997	{leaves him.} <exits.> The queen returns, finds the king dead, <and>
1998	makes passionate action. The poisoner with some {three} <two> or
1999	{four come} <three mutes comes> in again, {seem} <seeming> to {condole} <lament> with her.
2000	The dead body is carried away. The poisoner woos the
2001	queen with gifts. She seems {harsh} <loath and unwilling> awhile,
2002	but in the end accepts <his> love.
2002	Exeunt Players.
2003	ophelia
	What means this, my lord?	3.2.136
2004	hamlet
	Marry, this <is> {munching mallico!} <miching Malicho.> {It} <That> means
2005	mischief.	3.2.138
2006	ophelia
	Belike this show imports the argument of the	3.2.139
2007	{play.} <play?>	3.2.140
2008	{Enter Prologue.}	3.2.140
2008	hamlet
	We shall know by {this fellow.} <these fellows.> The players	3.2.141
2009	cannot keep {—} <counsel,> they’ll tell all.	3.2.142
2010	ophelia
	Will {’a} <they> tell us what this show meant?	3.2.143
2011	hamlet
	Ay, or any show that {you will} <you’ll> show him. Be not	3.2.144-5
2012	you ashamed to show, he’ll not shame to tell you what it	3.2.145-6
2013	means.	3.2.146
2014	ophelia
	You are naught, you are naught. I’ll mark the	3.2.147
2015	play.	3.2.148
2016	<Enter Prologue.>
2017 T	prologue
	For us and for our tragedy,	3.2.149
2018	Here stooping to your clemency	3.2.150
2019	We beg your hearing patiently.	3.2.151
2019	[Exit.]	3.2.151
2020 T	hamlet
	Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?	3.2.152
2021	ophelia
	’Tis brief, my lord.	3.2.153
2022	hamlet
	As woman’s love.	3.2.154
2023	Enter [two Players as] King and <his> Queen.
2024	[player] king
	Full thirty times hath Phoebus’ cart gone round	3.2.155
2025 T	Neptune’s salt wash and Tellus’ orbed ground,	3.2.156
2026	And thirty dozen moons with borrowed sheen	3.2.157
2027	About the world have times twelve thirties been	3.2.158
2028	Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands	3.2.159
2029	Unite commutual in most sacred bands.	3.2.160
2030	{[player] queen} <baptista>
	So many journeys may the sun and moon	3.2.161
2031	Make us again count o’er ere love be done.	3.2.162
2032	But woe is me, you are so sick of late,	3.2.163
2033 T	So far from cheer and from {our} <your> former state,	3.2.164
2034	That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,	3.2.165
2035	Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must.	3.2.166
2035+1	{For women fear too much, even as they love,}
2036	{And} <For> women’s fear and love {hold} <holds> quantity,	3.2.167
2037	{Either none, in} <In> neither ought, or in extremity.	3.2.1
2038 T	Now what my love is proof hath made you know,	3.2.169
2039	And, as my love is sized, my fear is so.	3.2.170
2039+1	Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;	3.2.171
2039+2	Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.	3.2.172
2040	[player] king
	Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too:	3.2.173
2041	My operant powers {their} <my> functions leave to do;	3.2.174
2042	And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,	3.2.175
2043	Honored, beloved, and haply one as kind	3.2.176
2044	For husband shalt thou —	3.2.177
2045	{[player] queen} <baptista>
	Oh, confound the rest!	3.2.177
2046	Such love must needs be treason in my breast.	3.2.178
2047	In second husband let me be accursed.	3.2.179
2048	None wed the second but who killed the first.	3.2.180
2049	hamlet
	{That’s} <Wormwood,> wormwood.	3.2.181
2050	{[player] queen} <baptista>
	The instances that second marriage move	3.2.182
2051	Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.	3.2.183
2052	A second time I kill my husband dead	3.2.184
2053	When second husband kisses me in bed.	3.2.185
2054 T	[player] king
	I do believe you think what now you speak.	3.2.186
2055	But what we do determine oft we break.	3.2.187
2056	Purpose is but the slave to memory,	3.2.188
2057	Of violent birth but poor validity,	3.2.189
2058	Which now, {the} <like> fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,	3.2.190
2059	But fall unshaken when they mellow be.	3.2.191
2060	Most necessary ’tis that we forget	3.2.192
2061	To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.	3.2.193
2062	What to ourselves in passion we propose,	3.2.194
2063	The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.	3.2.195
2064 T	The violence of either grief or joy	3.2.196
2065	Their own {enactures} <enactors> with themselves destroy.	3.2.197
2066	Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;	3.2.198
2067 T	{Griefs joy,} <Grief joys,> joy grieves, on slender accident.	3.2.199
2068	This world is not for aye, nor ’tis not strange	3.2.200
2069	That even our loves should with our fortunes change,	3.2.201
2070	For ’tis a question left us yet to prove	3.2.202
2071	Whether Love lead Fortune, or else Fortune Love.	3.2.203
2072	The great man down, you mark his {favourite} <favourites> flies;	3.2.204
2073	The poor advanced makes friends of enemies;	3.2.205
2074	And hitherto doth Love on Fortune tend:	3.2.206
2075	For who not needs shall never lack a friend,	3.2.207
2076	And who in want a hollow friend doth try	3.2.208
2077	Directly seasons him his enemy.	3.2.209
2078	But orderly to end where I begun,	3.2.210
2079	Our wills and fates do so contrary run	3.2.211
2080	That our devices still are overthrown:	3.2.212
2081	Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.	3.2.213
2082	So think thou wilt no second husband wed,	3.2.214
2083	But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.	3.2.215
2084	{[player] queen} <baptista>
	Nor earth to {me give} <give me> food nor heaven light,	3.2.216
2085	Sport and repose lock from me day and night,	3.2.217
2085+1	To desperation turn my trust and hope,	3.2.218
2085+2	AndAn anchor’s cheer in prison be my scope,	3.2.219
2086	Each opposite that blanks the face of joy	3.2.220
2087	Meet what I would have well and it destroy,	3.2.221
2088	Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,	3.2.222
2089	If once {I be} a widow ever I be {a} wife.	3.2.223
2090	hamlet
	If she should break it now.	3.2.224
2091-2	[player] king
	’Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile,	3.2.225
2093	My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile	3.2.226
2094	The tedious day with sleep.	3.2.227
2095 T	{[player] queen} <baptista>
	Sleep rock thy brain,	3.2.227
2095	He sleeps.
2096	And never come mischance between us twain.	3.2.228
2096 T	Exit.	3.2.228
2097	hamlet
	Madam, how like you this play?	3.2.229
2098	queen
	The lady {doth protest} <protests> too much, methinks.	3.2.230
2099	hamlet
	Oh, but she’ll keep her word.	3.2.231
2100	king
	Have you heard the argument? Is there no offense	3.2.232-3
2101	in’t?	3.2.233
2102	hamlet
	No, no, they do but jest — poison in jest, no offense	3.2.234
2103	i’th’ world.	3.2.235
2104	king
	What do you call the play?	3.2.236
2105	hamlet
	The Mousetrap. Marry, {how tropically!} <how? Tropically.>	3.2.237
2106	This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago	3.2.238-9
2107	is the duke’s name; his wife, Baptista. You shall see	3.2.239-40
2108	anon. ’Tis a knavish piece of work, but what {of} <o’> that?	3.2.240-1
2109	Your majesty and we that have free souls, it touches	3.2.241-2
2110 T	us not. Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.	3.2.242-3
2111 T	Enter Lucianus.
2112	This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king.	3.2.244
2113	ophelia
	You are {as good as a} <a good> chorus, my lord.	3.2.245
2114	hamlet
	I could interpret between you and your love	3.2.246
2115	if I could see the puppets dallying.	3.2.247
2116	ophelia
	You are keen, my lord, you are keen.	3.2.248
2117	hamlet
	It would cost you a groaning to take off {mine} <my>	3.2.249
2118	edge.	3.2.250
2119	ophelia
	Still better and worse.	3.2.251
2120-1	hamlet
	So you mis-take {your} husbands. — Begin, murderer. <Pox!> Leave	3.2.252-3
2121-2	thy damnable faces and begin. Come: “the croaking raven doth bellow	3.2.253-4
2122-3	for revenge”.	3.2.254
2124-5	lucianus
	Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing,	3.2.255
2126	{Considerate} <Confederate> season, else no creature seeing,	3.2.256
2127	Thou, mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,	3.2.257
2128	With Hecate’s ban thrice blasted, thrice {invected,} <infected,>	3.2.258
2129	Thy natural magic and dire property	3.2.259
2130	On wholesome life {usurps} <usurp> immediately.	3.2.260
2131	Pours the poison in his ears.
2132	hamlet
	{’A} <He> poisons him i’th’ garden {for his} <for ’s> estate. His	3.2.261
2133	name’s Gonzago. The story is extant and {written in very} <writ in> choice	3.2.262-3
2134	Italian. You shall see anon how the murderer gets the	3.2.263-4
2135	love of Gonzago’s wife.	3.2.264
2136	ophelia
	The King rises.	3.2.265
2137	hamlet
	What, frighted with false fire?	3.2.266
2138	queen
	How fares my lord?	3.2.267
2139	polonius
	Give o’er the play.	3.2.268
2140	king
	Give me some light. Away!	3.2.269
2141	{polonius.} <lords>
	Lights, lights, lights!	3.2.270
2142 T	Exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio.
2143	hamlet
	Why, let the stricken deer go weep,	3.2.271
2144	The hart ungalled play,	3.2.272
2145	For some must watch while some must sleep.	3.2.273
2146-7	{Thus} <So> runs the world away.	3.2.274
2147	Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers, if the rest of	3.2.275
2148	my fortunes turn Turk with me, with <two> Provincial	3.2.276
2149	roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry	3.2.277-8
2150	of {players?} <players, sir?>	3.2.278
2151	horatio
	Half a share.	3.2.279
2152	hamlet
	A whole one, I.ay.	3.2.280
2153	For thou dost know, O Damon dear,	3.2.281
2154	This realm dismantled was	3.2.282
2154-5	Of Jove himself, and now reigns here	3.2.283
2156	A very, very — pajock.	3.2.284
2157	horatio
	You might have rhymed.	3.2.285
2158-9	hamlet
	O good Horatio, I’ll take the Ghost’s word for	3.2.286
2159	a thousand pound. Didst perceive?	3.2.287
2160	horatio
	Very well, my lord.	3.2.288
2161	hamlet
	Upon the talk of the {poisoning.} <poisoning?>	3.2.289
2162	horatio
	I did very well note him.	3.2.290
2163	<Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.>
2164	hamlet
	{Ah} <Oh,> ha! Come, some music! Come, the recorders!	3.2.292
2165	For, if the King like not the comedy,	3.2.293
2166	Why then belike he likes it not, perdie.	3.2.294
2167	Come, some music!	3.2.295
2167+1	{Enter Rosencraus and Guildenstern.}
2168	guildenstern
	Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.	3.2.297
2169	hamlet
	Sir, a whole history.	3.2.
2170	guildenstern
	The King, sir —	3.2.299
2171	hamlet
	Ay, sir, what of him?	3.2.300
2172	guildenstern
	— is in his retirement marvellous distempered.	3.2.301
2173	hamlet
	With drink, sir?	3.2.302
2174	guildenstern
	No, my lord, <rather> with {choler —}<choler.>	3.2.303
2175	hamlet
	Your wisdom should show itself more richer	3.2.304
2176	to signify this to {the} <his> doctor, for, for me to put him	3.2.305
2177	to his purgation, would perhaps plunge him into <far>	3.2.306
2178	more choler.	3.2.306-7
2179	guildenstern
	Good my lord, put your discourse into some	3.2.308
2180	frame, and {stare} <start> not so wildly from my affair.	3.2.309
2181	hamlet
	I am tame, sir. Pronounce.	3.2.310
2182	guildenstern
	The Queen your mother in most great affliction	3.2.311
2183	of spirit hath sent me to you.	3.2.312
2184	hamlet
	You are welcome.	3.2.313
2185-6	guildenstern
	Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of	3.2.314
2186-7	the right breed. If it shall please you to make me a wholesome	3.2.315-6
2187-8	answer, I will do your mother’s commandement;	3.2.316
2187-8	if not, your {pardon} <pardon,> and my return shall be the end of	3.2.317-8
2188-9	<my> business.	3.2.318
2190	hamlet
	Sir, I cannot.	3.2.319
2191	{rosencraus} <guildenstern>
	What, my lord?	3.2.320
2192	hamlet
	Make you a wholesome answer: my wit’s diseased.	3.2.321-2
2193	But, sir, such {answer} <answers> as I can make, you shall command,	3.2.322-3
2194	or rather, {as} you say, my mother. Therefore no more,	3.2.323-4
2195	but to the matter. My mother, you say —	3.2.324-5
2196	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Then thus she says: your behavior hath struck	3.2.326
2197	her into amazement and admiration.	3.2.327
2198	hamlet
	Oh, wonderful son that can so {’stonish} <astonish> a	3.2.328
2199	mother! But is there no sequel at the heels of this mother’s	3.2.329-30
2200	admiration? {Impart.}	3.2.330
2201	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	She desires to speak with you in her closet	3.2.331
2202	ere you go to bed.	3.2.332
2203	hamlet
	We shall obey, were she ten times our mother.	3.2.333
2204	Have you any further trade with us?	3.2.334
2205	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	My lord, you once did love me.	3.2.335
2206	hamlet
	{And} <So I> do still, by these pickers and stealers.	3.2.336
2207	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper?	3.2.337
2208	You do {surely} <freely> bar the door {upon} <of> your own liberty	3.2.338-9
2209	if you deny your griefs to your friend.	3.2.339
2210	hamlet
	Sir, I lack advancement.	3.2.340
2211	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	How can that be, when you have the voice of	3.2.341
2212	the King himself for your succession in Denmark.	3.2.342
2212+1	{Enter the Players with recorders.}
2213	hamlet
	Ay, {sir,} but while the grass grows — the proverb is	3.2.343-4
2214	something musty. —	3.2.344
2215	<(Enter one with a recorder.)>
2216	Oh, the {recorders!} <recorder!> Let me {see one.} <see.> To withdraw with you, why	3.2.345-6
2217	do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you	3.2.346-7
2218	would drive me into a toil?	3.2.347
2219	guildenstern
	O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love	3.2.348
2220	is too unmannerly.	3.2.349
2221	hamlet
	I do not well understand that. Will you play	3.2.350
2222	upon this pipe?	3.2.351
2223	guildenstern
	My lord, I cannot.	3.2.352
2224	hamlet
	I pray you.	3.2.353
2225	guildenstern
	Believe me, I cannot.	3.2.354
2226	hamlet
	I do beseech you.	3.2.355
2227	guildenstern
	I know no touch of it, my lord.	3.2.356
2228	hamlet
	{It is} <’Tis> as easy as lying: govern these ventages	3.2.357
2229	with your {fingers} <finger> and {thumbs,} <thumb,> give it breath with your	3.2.358-9
2230	mouth, and it will discourse most {eloquent} <excellent> music.	3.2.359
2231	Look you, these are the stops.	3.2.360
2232	guildenstern
	But these cannot I command to any utterance	3.2.261
2233	of harmony. I have not the skill.	3.2.362
2234	hamlet
	Why, look you now how unworthy a thing	3.2.363
2235	you make of me: you would play upon me, you would	3.2.364
2236	seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart	3.2.365-6
2237	of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest	3.2.366-7
2238	note to <the top of> my compass, and there is much music,	3.2.367-8
2239	excellent voice in this little organ, yet cannot	3.2.368-9
2240	you make {it speak.} <it.> {’Sblood!} <Why,> do you think <that> I am easier to be	3.2.369-70
2241	played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will,	3.2.370-1
2242	though you <can> fret me {not} you cannot play upon me.	3.2.371-2
2244	Enter Polonius.
2242-3	God bless you, sir.	3.2.373
2245-6	polonius
	My lord, the Queen would speak with you, and presently.	3.2.374-5
2247	hamlet
	Do you see {yonder cloud that’s} <that cloud? That’s> almost in shape	3.2.376-7
2248	{of} <like> a {camel?} <camel.>	3.2.377
2249	polonius
	By th’ {mass,} <misse,> and {’tis,} <it’s> like a camel indeed.	3.2.378
2250	hamlet
	Methinks it is like a weasel.	3.2.379
2251	polonius
	It is backed like a weasel.	3.2.380
2252	hamlet
	Or like a {whale.} <whale?>	3.2.381
2253	polonius
	Very like a whale.	3.2.382
2254	hamlet
	Then {I will} <will I> come to my mother by and by. —	3.2.383
2255-6	They fool me to the top of my bent. — I will come by and by.	3.2.384-5
2258	{Leave me, friends.}	3.2.387
2257-8	<polonius> I will{,} say so.	3.2.386
2257-8	Exit.	3.2.386
2258	<hamlet> “By and by” is easily said. < — Leave me, friends.>	3.2.387
2258	[Exeunt all but Hamlet.]	3.2.387
2259	’Tis now the very witching time of night	3.2.388
2260	When churchyards yawn and hell itself {breaks} <breathes> out	3.2.389
2261	Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood	3.2.390
2262	And do such <bitter> business as the {bitter} day	3.2.391
2263	Would quake to look on. Soft{,} now<,> to my mother.	3.2.392
2264	O heart, lose not thy nature. Let not ever	3.2.393
2265	The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom;	3.2.394
2266	Let me be cruel, not unnatural.	3.2.395
2267	I will speak {dagger} <daggers> to her, but use none.	3.2.396
2268	My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites.	3.2.397
2269	How in my words somever she be shent	3.2.398
2270	To give them seals never my soul consent.	3.2.399
2270 T	Exit.	3.2.399
	[3.3]
2271	Enter King, {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz>, and Guildenstern.	3.3
2272	king
	I like him not, nor stands it safe with us	3.3.1
2273	To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you:	3.3.2
2274	I your commission will forthwith dispatch,	3.3.3
2275	And he to England shall along with you.	3.3.4
2276	The terms of our estate may not endure	3.3.5
2277	Hazard so {near ’s} <dangerous> as doth hourly grow	3.3.6
2278	Out of his {brows.} <lunacies.>	3.3.7
2279	guildenstern
	We will ourselves provide.	3.3.7
2280	Most holy and religious fear it is	3.3.8
2281	To keep those many many bodies safe	3.3.9
2282	That live and feed upon your majesty.	3.3.10
2283-4	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	The single and peculiar life is bound	3.3.11
2285	With all the strength and armor of the mind	3.3.12
2286	To keep itself from noyance, but much more	3.3.13
2287	That spirit upon whose {weal} <spirit> depends and rests	3.3.14
2288	The lives of many. The {cess} <cease> of majesty	3.3.15
2289	Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw	3.3.16
2290	What’s near it with it; {or} it is a massy wheel	3.3.17
2291	Fixed on the summit of the highest mount	3.3.18
2292 T	To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things	3.3.19
2293	Are mortised and adjoined, which, when it falls,	3.3.20
2294	Each small annexment, petty consequence,	3.3.21
2295 T	Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone	3.3.22
2296 T	Did the King sigh but with a general groan.	3.3.23
2297	king
	Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage,	3.3.24
2298	For we will fetters put {about} <upon> this fear	3.3.25
2299	Which now goes too free-footed.	3.3.
2300	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz, guildenstern>
	We will haste us.	3.3.26
2300	Exeunt Gentlemen [{Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> and Guildenstern].	3.3.26
2301	Enter Polonius.
2302	polonius
	My lord, he’s going to his mother’s closet.	3.3.27
2303	Behind the arras I’ll convey myself	3.3.28
2304	To hear the process. I’ll warrant she’ll tax him home,	3.3.29
2305	And, as you said (and wisely was it said),	3.3.30
2306	’Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,	3.3.31
2307	Since nature makes them partial, should o’erhear	3.3.32
2308	The speech of vantage. Fare you well, my liege,	3.3.33
2309	I’ll call upon you ere you go to bed	3.3.34
2310	And tell you what I know.	3.3.35
2311	king
	Thanks, dear my lord. —	3.3.35
2311 T	Exit Polonius.	3.3.35
2312	Oh, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven,	3.3.36
2313	It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t,	3.3.37
2314	A brother’s murder. Pray can I not,	3.3.38
2315	Though inclination be as sharp as {will,} <will.>	3.3.39
2316	My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,	3.3.40
2317	And, like a man to double business bound,	3.3.41
2318	I stand in pause where I shall first begin	3.3.42
2319	And both neglect. What if this cursed hand	3.3.43
2320	Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood?	3.3.44
2321	Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens	3.3.45
2322	To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy	3.3.46
2323	But to confront the visage of offense?	3.3.47
2324	And what’s in prayer but this twofold force,	3.3.48
2325	To be forestalled ere we come to fall	3.3.49
2326 T	Or pardoned being down? Then I’ll look up.	3.3.50
2327	My fault is past, but oh, what form of prayer	3.3.51
2328	Can serve my turn? “Forgive me my foul murder”?	3.3.52
2329	That cannot be since I am still possessed	3.3.53
2330	Of those effects for which I did the murder:	3.3.54
2331	My crown, mine own ambition and my Queen.	3.3.55
2332	May one be pardoned and retain th’ offense?	3.3.56
2333	In the corrupted currents of this world	3.3.57
2334	Offense’s guilded hand may {show} <shove> by justice,	3.3.58
2335	And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself	3.3.59
2336	Buys out the law; but ’tis not so above,	3.3.60
2337	There is no shufling, there the action lies	3.3.61
2338	In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled	3.3.62
2339	Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults	3.3.63
2340	To give in evidence. What then? What rests?	3.3.64
2341	Try what repentance can, what can it not,	3.3.65
2342	Yet what can it, when one cannot repent?	3.3.66
2343	O wretched state, O bosom black as death,	3.3.67
2344	O limed soul that, struggling to be free,	3.3.68
2345	Art more engaged! Help, angels, make assay.	3.3.69
2346	Bow, stubborn knees, [Kneels?] and heart with strings of steel	3.3.70
2347	Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.	3.3.71
2348	All may be well.	3.3.72
2349	Enter Hamlet.
2350	hamlet
	Now might I do {it. But} <it pat,> now {’a} <he> is {a-praying.} <praying.>	3.3.73
2351	And now I’ll do’t [Draws his sword.] — and so {’a} <he> goes to heaven,	3.3.74
2352 T	And so am I revenged. That would be scanned:	3.3.75
2353	A villain kills my father, and for that	3.3.76
2354	I, his {sole} <foul> son, do this same villain send	3.3.77
2355	To heaven.	3.3.79
2355	{Why,} <Oh,> this is {base and silly,} <hire and salary,> not revenge.	3.3.79
2356	{’A} <He> took my father grossly<,> full of bread,	3.3.80
2357	With all his crimes broad blown, as {flush} <fresh> as May,	3.3.81
2358	And how his audit stands who knows save heaven,	3.3.82
2359	But in our circumstance and course of thought	3.3.83
2360	’Tis heavy with him. And am I then revenged	3.3.84
2361	To take him in the purging of his soul	3.3.85
2362	When he is fit and seasoned for his passage?	3.3.86
2362	No.	3.3.87
2363	Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent:	3.3.88
2364	When he is drunk{,} asleep, or in his rage,	3.3.89
2365	Or in th’ incestuous pleasure of his bed,	3.3.90
2366	At {game a-swearing,} <gaming, swearing,> or about some act	3.3.91
2367	That has no relish of salvation in’t,	3.3.92
2368	Then trip him that his heels may kick at heaven	3.3.93
2369	And that his soul may be as damned and black	3.3.94
2370	As hell whereto it goes. My mother stays.	3.3.95
2371	This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.	3.3.96
2371	Exit.	3.3.96
2372	king
	My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.	3.3.97
2373	Words without thoughts never to heaven go.	3.3.98
2373	Exit.	3.3.98
	[3.4]
2374	Enter Queen {Gertrard} and Polonius.	3.4
2375-6	polonius
	{’A} <He> will come straight. Look you lay home to him,	3.4.1
2377	Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,	3.4.2
2378	And that your grace hath screened and stood between	3.4.3
2379	Much heat and him. I’ll silence me {even} <e’en> here.	3.4.4
2380	Pray you be round <with him>.	3.4.5
2381	hamlet (Within.)
	Mother, mother, mother.	3.4.5
2384	{Enter Hamlet.}
2382	queen {gertrard}
	I’ll {wait} <warrant> you, fear me not.	3.4.6
2383	Withdraw, I hear him coming.	3.4.7
2383	[Polonius hides behind the arras.]	3.4.7
2384	<Enter Hamlet.>
2385	hamlet
	Now, mother, what’s the matter?	3.4.8
2386	queen {gertrard}
	Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.	3.4.9
2387	hamlet
	Mother, you have my father much offended.	3.4.10
2388	queen {gertrard}
	Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.	3.4.11
2389	hamlet
	Go, go, you question with {a wicked} <an idle> tongue.	3.4.12
2390	queen {gertrard}
	Why, how now, Hamlet?	3.4.13
2391	hamlet
	What’s the matter now?	3.4.13
2392	queen {gertrard}
	Have you forgot me?	3.4.14
2393	hamlet
	No, by the rood, not so,	3.4.14
2394	You are the Queen, your husband’s brother’s wife,	3.4.15
2395	{And,} <But> would {it} <you> were not {so, you} <so. You> are my mother.	3.4.16
2396	queen {gertrard}
	Nay, then I’ll set those to you that can speak.	3.4.17
2397-8	hamlet
	Come, come, and sit you down, you shall not budge.	3.4.18
2399	You go not till I set you up a glass	3.4.19
2400 T	Where you may see the inmost part of you.	3.4.20
2401	queen {gertrard}
	What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder {me.} <me!>	3.4.21
2402	Help, help, ho!	3.4.22
2403	polonius [Behind the arras.]
	What ho! <Help, help,> help!	3.4.23
2404	hamlet
	How now, a rat! Dead for a ducat, dead!	3.4.24
2404	Kills Polonius.	3.4.24
2405	polonius [Behind.]
	Oh, I am slain.	3.4.25
2406	queen {gertrard}
	O me, what hast thou done?	3.4.25
2407	hamlet
	Nay, I know not. Is it the King?	3.4.26
2408	queen {gertrard}
	Oh, what a rash and bloody deed is this!	3.4.27
2409	hamlet
	A bloody deed — almost as bad, good mother,	3.4.28
2410	As kill a king and marry with his brother.	3.4.29
2411	queen {gertrard}
	As kill a king?	3.4.30
2412	hamlet
	Ay, lady, {it was} <’twas> my word. —	3.4.30
	[Discovers Polonius.]
2413	Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell.	3.4.31
2414	I took thee for thy {better} <betters>. Take thy fortune:	3.4.32
2415	Thou find’st to be too busy is some danger. —	3.4.33
2416	Leave wringing of your hands. Peace, sit you down	3.4.34
2417	And let me wring your heart, for so I shall,	3.4.35
2418	If it be made of penetrable stuff,	3.4.36
2419	If damned custom have not brazed it so	3.4.37
2420	That it {be} <is> proof and bulwark against sense.	3.4.38
2421	queen {gertrard}
	What have I done that thou dar’st wag thy tongue	3.4.39
2422	In noise so rude against me?	3.4.40
2423	hamlet
	Such an act	3.4.40
2424	That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,	3.4.41
2425	Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose	3.4.42
2426	From the fair forehead of an innocent love	3.4.43
2427	And {sets} <makes> a blister there, makes marriage vows	3.4.44
2428	As false as dicer’s oaths — oh, such a deed	3.4.45
2429	As from the body of contraction plucks	3.4.
2430	The very soul, and sweet religion makes	3.4.47
2431	A rhapsody of words. Heaven’s face does glow<,>	3.4.48
2432	{O’er} <Yea,> this solidity and compound mass<,>	3.4.49
2433	With {heated} <tristful> visage as against the doom,	3.4.50
2434	Is thought-sick{thought sick} at the act.	3.4.51
2435	queen {gertrard}
	Ay me, what {act?} <act>	3.4.51
2435-6	{hamlet} That roars so loud and thunders in the {index.} <index?>	3.4.52
2437	<hamlet> Look here upon this picture, and on this,	3.4.53
2438	The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.	3.4.54
2439	See what a grace was seated on {this} <his> brow,	3.4.55
2440	Hyperion’s curls, the front of Jove himself,	3.4.56
2441	An eye like Mars to threaten {and} <or> command,	3.4.57
2442	A station like the herald Mercury,	3.4.58
2443 T	New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill,	3.4.59
2444	A combination and a form indeed	3.4.60
2445	Where every god did seem to set his seal	3.4.61
2446	To give the world assurance of a man.	3.4.62
2447	This was your husband. Look you now what follows:	3.4.63
2448	Here is your husband like a mildewed ear	3.4.64
2449	Blasting his wholesome {brother.} <breath.> Have you eyes?	3.4.65
2450	Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed	3.4.66
2451	And batten on this moor? Ha, have you eyes?	3.4.67
2452	You cannot call it love, for at your age	3.4.68
2453	The heyday in the blood is tame, it’s humble	3.4.69
2454	And waits upon the judgment, and what judgment	3.4.70
2455	Would step from this to this? Sense sure you have,	3.4.71
2455+1	Else could you not have motion, but sure that sense	3.4.72
2455+2	Is apoplexed, for madness would not err	3.4.73
2455+3	Nor sense to ecstasy was ne’er so thralled	3.4.74
2455+4	But it reserved some quantity of choice	3.4.75
2455+5	To serve in such a difference. What devil was’t	3.4.76
2456	That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?	3.4.77
2456+1	Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,	3.4.78
2456+2	Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,	3.4.79
2456+3	Or but a sickly part of one true sense	3.4.80
2456+4	Could not so mope. O shame, where is thy blush?	3.4.81
2457	Rebellious hell,	3.4.82
2458	If thou canst mutine in a matron’s bones,	3.4.83
2459	To flaming youth let virtue be as wax	3.4.84
2460	And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame	3.4.85
2461	When the compulsive ardor gives the charge,	3.4.86
2462	Since frost itself as actively doth burn	3.4.87
2463	{And} <As> reason {pardons} <panders> will.	3.4.88
2464	queen {gertrard}
	O Hamlet, speak no more,	3.4.88
2465	Thou turn’st {my very} <mine> eyes into my <very> soul,	3.4.89
2466	And there I see such black and {grieved} <grained> spots	3.4.90
2467	As will <not> leave {there} their tinct.	3.4.91
2468	hamlet
	Nay, but to live	3.4.91
2469	In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed	3.4.92
2470	Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love	3.4.93
2471	Over the nasty sty —	3.4.94
2472	queen {gertrard}
	Oh, speak to me no more,	3.4.94
2473	These words like daggers enter in {my} <mine> ears.	3.4.95
2474	No more, sweet Hamlet.	3.4.96
2475	hamlet
	A murderer and a villain,	3.4.96
2476	A slave that is not twentieth part the {kith} <tithe>	3.4.97
2477	Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings,	3.4.98
2478	A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,	3.4.99
2479	That from a shelf the precious diadem stole	3.4.100
2480	And put it in his pocket —	3.4.101
2481	queen {gertrard}
	No more.	3.4.101
2482	Enter Ghost.
2483	hamlet
	A king of shreds and patches —	3.4.102
2484	Save me and hover o’er me with your wings,	3.4.103
2485	You heavenly guards! What would {your} <you,> gracious figure?	3.4.104
2486	queen {gertrard}
	Alas, he’s mad.	3.4.105
2487	hamlet
	Do you not come your tardy son to chide,	3.4.106
2488	That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by	3.4.107
2489	Th’ important acting of your dread command? Oh, say!	3.4.109
2490	ghost
	Do not forget. This visitation	3.4.110
2491	Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.	3.4.111
2492	But look, amazement on thy mother sits.	3.4.112
2493	Oh, step between her and her fighting soul.	3.4.113
2494	Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.	3.4.114
2495	Speak to her, Hamlet.	3.4.115
2496	hamlet
	How is it with you, lady?	3.4.115
2497	queen {gertrard}
	Alas, how is’t with you,	3.4.116
2498	That you {do} bend your eye on vacancy	3.4.117
2499 T	And with {th’} <the> incorporal air do hold discourse?	3.4.118
2500	Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep,	3.4.119
2501	And, as the sleeping soldiers in th’ alarm,	3.4.120
2502	Your bedded hair, like life in excrements,	3.4.121
2503	Start up and stand on end. O gentle son,	3.4.122
2504	Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper	3.4.123
2505	Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look?	3.4.124
2506	hamlet
	On him, on him. Look you how pale he glares.	3.4.125
2507	His form and cause conjoined preaching to stones	3.4.126
2508	Would make them capable. — Do not look upon me,	3.4.127
2509	Lest with this piteous action you convert	3.4.128
2510	My stern effects. Then what I have to do	3.4.129
2511	Will want true color, tears perchance for blood.	3.4.130
2512	queen {gertrard}
	To {whom} <who> do you speak this?	3.4.131
2513	hamlet
	Do you see nothing there?	3.4.131
2514	queen {gertrard}
	Nothing at all, yet all that is I see.	3.4.132
2515	hamlet
	Nor did you nothing hear?	3.4.133
2516	queen {gertrard}
	No, nothing but ourselves.	3.4.133
2517	hamlet
	Why, look you there, look how it steals away,	3.4.134
2518	My father in his habit as he lived,	3.4.135
2519	Look where he goes, even now out at the portal.	3.4.136
2519 T	Exit Ghost.	3.4.136
2520	queen {gertrard}
	This is the very coinage of your brain.	3.4.137
2521	This bodiless creation ecstasy	3.4.138
2521	Is very cunning in.	3.4.139
2522	<hamlet> Ecstasy?	3.4.139
2523	{hamlet} My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time	3.4.140
2524	And makes as healthful music. It is not madness	3.4.141
2525	That I have uttered. Bring me to the test,	3.4.142
2526 T	And I the matter will reword, which madness	3.4.143
2527	Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,	3.4.144
2528	Lay not {that} <a> flattering unction to your soul	3.4.145
2529	That not your trespass but my madness speaks.	3.4.146
2530	It will but skin and film the ulcerous place	3.4.147
2531	{Whiles} <Whilst> rank corruption mining all within	3.4.148
2532	Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven,	3.4.149
2533	Repent what’s past, avoid what is to come,	3.4.150
2534	And do not spread the compost {on} <o’er> the weeds	3.4.151
2535	To make them {ranker.} <rank.> Forgive me this my virtue,	3.4.152
2536 T	For in the fatness of these pursy times	3.4.153
2537	Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,	3.4.154
2538	Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.	3.4.155
2539-40	queen {gertrard}
	O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.	3.4.156
2541	hamlet
	O throw away the worser part of it,	3.4.157
2542	And {leave} <live> the purer with the other half.	3.4.158
2543	Good night, but go not to {my} <mine> uncle’s bed.	3.4.159
2544	Assume a virtue if you have it not. <Refrain tonight,>	3.4.160
2544+1	That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat	3.4.161
2544+2	Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,	3.4.162
2544+3	That to the use of actions fair and good	3.4.163
2544+4	He likewise gives a frock or livery	3.4.164
2544+5 T	That aptly is put on. {Refrain tonight,}	3.4.165
2545	And that shall lend a kind of easiness	3.4.166
2546	To the next abstinence. The next more easy;	3.4.167
2546+1	For use almost can change the stamp of nature,	3.4.168
2546+2	And either shamelodge the devil or throw him out	3.4.169
2546	With wondrous potency. Once more, good night.	3.4.167
2547	And when you are desirous to be blessed	3.4.171
2548	I’ll blessing beg of you. For this same lord	3.4.172
2549	I do repent, but heaven hath pleased it so	3.4.173
2550	To punish me with this, and this with me,	3.4.174
2551	That I must be their scourge and minister.	3.4.175
2552	I will bestow him and will answer well	3.4.176
2553	The death I gave him. So again, good night.	3.4.177
2554	I must be cruel only to be kind.	3.4.178
2555	{This} <Thus> bad begins and worse remains behind.	3.4.179
2555+1	One word more, good lady.	3.4.180
2556	queen {gertrard}
	What shall I do?	3.4.180
2557	hamlet
	Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:	3.4.181
2558	Let the {bloat} <blunt> King tempt you again to bed,	3.4.182
2559	Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse,	3.4.183
2560	And let him for a pair of reechy kisses,	3.4.184
2561	Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers,	3.4.185
2562	Make you to ravel all this matter out	3.4.186
2563	That I essentially am not in madness	3.4.187
2564	But mad in craft. ’Twere good you let him know,	3.4.188
2565	For who that’s but a queen, fair, sober, wise,	3.4.189
2566	Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,	3.4.190
2567	Such dear concernings hide? Who would do so?	3.4.191
2568	No, in despite of sense and secrecy	3.4.192
2569	Unpeg the basket on the house’s top,	3.4.193
2570	Let the birds fly and, like the famous ape,	3.4.194
2571	To try conclusions in the basket creep	3.4.195
2572	And break your own neck down.	3.4.196
2573	queen {gertrard}
	Be thou assured, if words be made of breath	3.4.197
2574	And breath of life, I have no life to breathe	3.4.198
2575	What thou hast said to me.	3.4.199
2576	hamlet
	I must to England, you know {that.}<that?>	3.4.200
2577	queen {gertrard}
	Alack, I had forgot. ’Tis so concluded on.	3.4.201
2578	hamlet
2577+1	There’s letters sealed, and my two schoolfellows,	3.4.202
2577+2	Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged,	3.4.203
2577+3	They bear the mandate, they must sweep my way	3.4.204
2577+4	And marshal me to knavery. Let it work.	3.4.205
2577+5	For ’tis the sport to have the enginer	3.4.206
2577+6	Hoist with his own petard, and’t shall go hard	3.4.207
2577+7	But I will delve one yard below their mines	3.4.208
2577+8	And blow them at the moon. Oh, ’tis most sweet	3.4.209
2577+9	When in one line two crafts directly meet.	3.4.210
2578	This man shall set me packing;	3.4.211
2579	I’ll lug the guts into the neighbor room.	3.4.212
2580	Mother, good {night indeed. This} <night. Indeed this> counsellor	3.4.213
2581	Is now most still, most secret and most grave,	3.4.214
2582	Who was in life a {most} foolish prating knave.	3.4.215
2583	Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.	3.4.216
2584	Good night, mother.	3.4.217
2585	Exit Hamlet tugging in Polonius.
	[4.1]
2586	Enter King{, and Queen, with Rosencraus}	4.1
2586+1	{and Guildenstern}.
2587-8	king
	There’s {matter} <matters> in these {sighs, these} <sighs. These> profound {heaves.} <heaves>	4.1.1
2589	You must translate; ’tis fit we understand them.	4.1.2
2590	Where is your son?	4.1.3
2590+1	[queen] gertrard
	Bestow this place on us a little while.	4.1.4
2590+2	{[Exeunt Rosencraus and Guildenstern.]}	4.1.4
2591	<queen> Ah, {mine own} <my good> lord, what have I seen tonight?	4.1.5
2592	king
	What, {Gertrard?} <Gertrude?> How does Hamlet?	4.1.6
2593	queen {gertrard}
	Mad as the {sea} <seas> and wind when both contend	4.1.7
2594	Which is the mightier. In his lawless fit,	4.1.8
2595	Behind the arras hearing something stir,	4.1.9
2596	{Whips out his rapier,} <He whips his rapier out, and> cries “A rat, a rat!”	4.1.10
2597	And in {this} <his> brainish apprehension kills	4.1.11
2598	The unseen good old man.	4.1.12
2599	king
	Oh, heavy deed!	4.1.12
2600	It had been so with us had we been there.	4.1.13
2601	His liberty is full of threats to all,	4.1.14
2602	To you yourself, to us, to every one.	4.1.15
2603	Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answered?	4.1.16
2604	It will be laid to us, whose providence	4.1.17
2605	Should have kept short, restrained and out of haunt	4.1.18
2606	This mad young man; but so much was our love,	4.1.19
2607	We would not understand what was most fit,	4.1.20
2608	But, like the owner of a foul disease,	4.1.21
2609	To keep it from divulging, {let} <lets> it feed	4.1.22
2610	Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone?	4.1.23
2611	queen {gertrard}
	To draw apart the body he hath killed,	4.1.24
2612	O’er whom { — } his very madness like some ore	4.1.25
2613	Among a mineral of metals base	4.1.26
2614	Shows itself {pure — ’a} <pure. He> weeps for what is done.	4.1.27
2615	king
	O {Gertrard,} <Gertrude,> come away.	4.1.28
2616	The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch	4.1.29
2617	But we will ship him hence, and this vile deed	4.1.30
2618	We must with all our majesty and skill	4.1.31
2619-20	Both countenance and excuse. — Ho, Guildenstern!	4.1.32
2619	(Enter {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> and Guildenstern.)	4.1.32
2621	Friends both, go join you with some further aid:	4.1.33
2622	Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain	4.1.34
2623 T	And from his mother’s closet hath he dragged him.	4.1.35
2624	Go seek him out, speak fair and bring the body	4.1.36
2625	Into the chapel. I pray you haste in this.	4.1.37
2625	Exeunt {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> and Guildenstern.	4.1.37
2626	Come, {Gertrard,} <Gertrude,> we’ll call up our wisest friends	4.1.38
2627	{And} <To> let them know both what we mean to do	4.1.39
2628	And what’s untimely done. So envious slander	4.1.40
2628+1	Whose whisper o’er the world’s diameter,	4.1.41
2628+2	As level as the cannon to his blank,	4.1.42
2628+3	Transports his poisoned shot, may miss our name	4.1.43
2628+4	And hit the woundless air. Oh, come away,	4.1.42
2629	My soul is full of discord and dismay.	4.1.45
2629	Exeunt.	4.1.45
2630	[4.2]
2630 T	Enter Hamlet.	4.2
2631	hamlet
	Safely stowed.	4.2.1
2631	{[Calling within.]}
2632	gentlemen (Within.)
	Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!	4.2.2
2633	hamlet {But soft.} What noise? Who calls on Hamlet?	4.2.3
2634	Oh, here they come.	4.2.4
2634 T	Enter {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> and Guildenstern and others.
2635	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?	4.2.5
2636	hamlet
	{Compound} <Compounded> it with dust whereto ’tis kin.	4.2.6
2637	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Tell us where ’tis that we may take it thence	4.2.7
2638	And bear it to the chapel.	4.2.8
2639	hamlet
	Do not believe it.	4.2.9
2640	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Believe what?	4.2.10
2641-2	hamlet
	That I can keep your counsel and not mine	4.2.11
2642-3	own. Besides, to be demanded of a sponge, what replication	4.2.12
2643	should be made by the son of a king?	4.2.13
2644	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Take you me for a sponge, my lord?	4.2.14
2645	hamlet
	Ay, sir, that soaks up the King’s countenance, his	4.2.15
2646	rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the King	4.2.16-7
2647 T	best service in the end: he keeps them like an {ape an apple} <ape> in	4.2.17-8
2648	the corner of his jaw, first mouthed to be last swallowed.	4.2.18-9
2649	When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing	4.2.19-20
2650	you and, sponge, you shall be dry again.	4.2.21
2651	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	I understand you not, my lord.	4.2.22
2652	hamlet
	I am glad of it, a knavish speech sleeps in a	4.2.23
2653	a foolish ear.	4.2.24
2654	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	My lord, you must tell us where the body is	4.2.25
2655	and go with us to the King.	4.2.26
2656	hamlet
	The body is with the King, but the King is not with the	4.2.28
2657	body. The King is a {thing.} <thing — >	4.2.28
2658	guildenstern
	A thing, my lord?	4.2.29
2659	hamlet
	Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox and all	4.2.30-1
2660	after.	4.2.31
2660	Exeunt.
	[4.3]
2661	Enter King{, and two or three}.	4.3
2662	king
	I have sent to seek him and to find the body.	4.3.1
2663	How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!	4.3.2
2664	Yet must not we put the strong law on him:	4.3.3
2665	He’s loved of the distracted multitude,	4.3.4
2666	Who like not in their judgment but their eyes,	4.3.5
2667	And where ’tis so, th’ offender’s scourge is weighed	4.3.6
2668	But {never} <nearer> the offense. To bear all smooth and even,	4.3.7
2669	This sudden sending him away must seem	4.3.8
2670	Deliberate pause. Diseases desperate grown	4.3.9
2671	By desperate appliance are relieved,	4.3.10
2672	Or not at all.	4.3.11
2672	Enter {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> {[, Guildenstern] and all the rest}.	4.3.11
2673	How now, what hath befallen?	4.3.11
2674	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Where the dead body is bestowed, my lord,	4.3.12
2675	We cannot get from him.	4.3.13
2676	king
	But where is he?	4.3.13
2677-8	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	Without, my lord, guarded, to know your pleasure.	4.3.14
2679	king
	Bring him before us.	4.3.15
2680	{rosencraus}<rosencrantz>
	{Ho!} <Ho, Guildenstern!> Bring in {the} <my> lord.	4.3.15
2681	Enter Hamlet, guarded by Soldiers <and Guildenstern>.
2682	king
	Now, Hamlet, where’s Polonius?	4.3.16
2683	hamlet
	At supper.	4.3.17
2684	king
	At supper, where?	4.3.18
2685	hamlet
	Not where he eats but where {’a} <he> is eaten. A certain	4.3.19-20
2686	convocation of {politic} worms are e’en at him. Your worm	4.3.20-1
2687	is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else	4.3.21-2
2688	to fat us, and we fat {ourselves} <ourself> for maggots. Your fat king	4.3.22-3
2689 T	and your lean beggar is but variable service: two dishes	4.3.23-4
2690	but to one table — that’s the end.	4.3.24-5
2690+1	{king}
	{Alas, alas.}	4.3.26
2690+2	{hamlet}
	{A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and}	4.3.28
2690+3	{eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.}	4.3.28
2691	king
	What dost thou mean by this?	4.3.29
2692	hamlet
	Nothing but to show you how a king may go	4.3.
2693	a progress through the guts of a beggar.	4.3.31
2694	king
	Where is Polonius?	4.3.32
2695	hamlet
	In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger	4.3.33-4
2696	find him not there, seek him i’th’ other place yourself.	4.3.34-5
2697	But {if} indeed <if> you find him not {within} this month, you	4.3.35-6
2698	shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.	4.3.36-7
2699	king
	Go seek him there.	4.3.38
2700	hamlet
	{’A} <He> will stay till {you} <ye> come.	4.3.39
2700	[Exeunt Soldiers.]	4.3.39
2701	king
	Hamlet, this deed <of thine> for thine especial safety	4.3.40
2702	(Which we do tender as we dearly grieve	4.3.41
2703	For that which thou hast done) must send thee hence{.}	4.3.42
2704	With fiery quickness. Therefore prepare thyself.	4.3.43
2705	The bark is ready and the wind at help,	4.3.44
2706	Th’ associates tend, and every thing {is} <at> bent	4.3.45
2707	For England.	4.3.46
2708	hamlet
	For {England.} <England?>	4.3.46
2709	king
	Ay, Hamlet.	4.3.46
2710	hamlet
	Good.	4.3.46
2711	king
	So is it if thou knewst our purposes.	4.3.47
2712	hamlet
	I see a cherub that sees {them.} <him.> But come, for	4.3.48
2713	England. Farewell, dear mother.	4.3.49
2714	king
	Thy loving father, Hamlet.	4.3.50
2715	hamlet
	My mother: father and mother is man and	4.3.51-2
2716	wife, man and wife is one flesh, <and> so my mother. Come,	4.3.52
2717	for England.	4.3.53
2717	Exit.	4.3.53
2718	king
	Follow him at foot,	4.3.54
2719	Tempt him with speed aboard,	4.3.54
2720	Delay it not, I’ll have him hence tonight.	4.3.55
2721	Away, for every thing is sealed and done	4.3.56
2722	That else leans on th’ affair. Pray you make haste.	4.3.57
2722	[Exeunt all but the King.]	4.3.57
2723	And England, if my love thou hold’st at aught	4.3.58
2724	As my great power thereof may give thee sense,	4.3.59
2725	Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red	4.3.60
2726	After the Danish sword, and thy free awe	4.3.61
2727	Pays homage to us, thou mayst not coldly set	4.3.62
2728	Our sovereign process, which imports at full	4.3.63
2729	By letters {congruing} <conjuring> to that effect	4.3.64
2730	The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England,	4.3.65
2731	For like the hectic in my blood he rages,	4.3.66
2732	And thou must cure me. Till I know ’tis done,	4.3.67
2733	Howe’er my haps, my joys {will ne’er begin.} <were ne’re begun.>	4.3.68
2733	Exit.	4.3.68
	[4.4]
2734	Enter Fortinbras with {his} <an> army [including a Captain] {over the stage}.	4.4
2735	fortinbras
	Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish King.	4.4.1
2736	Tell him that by his licence Fortinbras	4.4.2
2737	{Craves} <Claims> the conveyance of a promised march	4.4.3
2738	Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.	4.4.4
2739	If that his majesty would aught with us,	4.4.5
2740	We shall express our duty in his eye,	4.4.6
2741	And let him know so.	4.4.7
2742	captain
	I will do’t, my lord.	4.4.7
2743	fortinbras
	Go {softly} <safely> on.	4.4.8
2743	Exeunt [all but Captain].	4.4.8
2743+1	Enter Hamlet, Rosencraus, Guildenstern, etc.	4.4.9
2743+2	hamlet
	Good sir, whose powers are these?	4.4.10
2743+3	captain
	They are of Norway, sir.	4.4.11
2743+4	hamlet
	How purposed, sir, I pray you?	4.4.12
2743+5	captain
	Against some part of Poland.	4.4.13
2743+6	hamlet
	Who commands them, sir?	4.4.14
2743+7	captain
	The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras.	4.4.15
2743+8	hamlet
	Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,	4.4.16
2743+9	Or for some frontier?	4.4.17
2743+10	captain
	Truly to speak, and with no addition,	4.4.18
2743+11	We go to gain a little patch of ground	4.4.19
2743+12	That hath in it no profit but the name.	4.4.20
2743+13	To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;	4.4.21
2743+14	Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole	4.4.22
2743+15	A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.	4.4.23
2743+16	hamlet
	Why, then the Polack never will defend it.	4.4.24
2743+17	captain
	Yes, it is already garrisoned.	4.4.25
2743+18	hamlet
	Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats	4.4.26
2743+19	Will notnow debate the question of this straw.	4.4.27
2743+20	This is th’ impostume of much wealth and peace	4.4.28
2743+21	That inward breaks and shows no cause without	4.4.29
2743+22	Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.	4.4.30
2743+23	captain
	God buy you, sir.	4.4.30
2743+23	[Exit.]	4.4.30
2743+24	rosencraus
	Will’t please you go, my lord?	4.4.30
2743+25	hamlet
	I’ll be with you straight. Go a little before.	4.4.31
	[Exeunt all but Hamlet.]
2743+26	How all occasions do inform against me	4.4.32
2743+27	And spur my dull revenge. What is a man	4.4.33
2743+28	If his chief good and market of his time	4.4.34
2743+29	Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.	4.4.35
2743+30	Sure he that made us with such large discourse	4.4.36
2743+31	Looking before and after, gave us not	4.4.37
2743+32	That capability and god-like reason	4.4.38
2743+33	To fust in us unused. Now whether it be	4.4.39
2743+34	Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple	4.4.40
2743+35	Of thinking too precisely on th’ event	4.4.41
2743+36	(A thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom	4.4.42
2743+37	And ever three parts coward) I do not know	4.4.43
2743+38	Why yet I live to say this thing’s to do,	4.4.44
2743+39	Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means	4.4.45
2743+40	To do’t. Examples gross as earth exhort me:	4.4.46
2743+41	Witness this army of such mass and charge,	4.4.47
2743+42	Led by a delicate and tender prince	4.4.48
2743+43	Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed	4.4.49
2743+44	Makes mouths at the invisible event,	4.4.50
2743+45	Exposing what is mortal and unsure	4.4.51
2743+46	To all that fortune, death and danger dare,	4.4.52
2743+47	Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great	4.4.53
2743+48	Is not to stir without great argument	4.4.54
2743+49	But greatly to find quarrel in a straw	4.4.55
2743+50	When honour’s at the stake. How stand I then	4.4.56
2743+51	That have a father killed, a mother stained,	4.4.57
2743+52	Excitements of my reason and my blood,	4.4.58
2743+53	And let all sleep, while to my shame I see	4.4.59
2743+54	The imminent death of twenty thousand men	4.4.60
2743+55	That for a fantasy and trick of fame	4.4.61
2743+56	Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot	4.4.62
2743+57	Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,	4.4.63
2743+58	Which is not tomb enough and continent	4.4.64
2743+59	To hide the slain. Oh, from this time forth	4.4.65
2743+60	My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth.	4.4.66
2743+60	Exit.
	[4.5]
2744	Enter {Horatio, [Queen] Gertrard, and a Gentleman.} <Queen and Horatio.>	4.5
2745	queen
	I will not speak with her.	4.5.1
2746	{gentleman} <horatio>
	She is importunate,	4.5.2
2746-7	Indeed distract. Her mood will needs be pitied.	4.5.2-3
2748	queen
	What would she have?	4.5.3
2749	{gentleman} <horatio>
	She speaks much of her father, says she hears	4.5.4
2750	There’s tricks i’th’ world, and hems, and beats her heart,	4.5.5
2751	Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt	4.5.6
2752	That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing,	4.5.7
2753	Yet the unshaped use of it doth move	4.5.8
2754	The hearers to collection; they {yawn} <aim> at it	4.5.9
2755	And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts,	4.5.10
2756	Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield them,	4.5.11
2757	Indeed would make one think there {might} <would> be thought,	4.5.12
2758	Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.	4.5.13
2759-60	{horatio} <queen>
	’Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew
2760-1	Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
2761	Let her come in.	4.5.16
2761	{[Exit Gentleman.]} <[Horatio goes to the door.]>	4.5.16
2766	{Enter Ophelia.}	4.5.16
2762	{queen} {“To} <To> my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is,	4.5.17
2763	Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.	4.5.18
2764	So full of artless jealousy is guilt,	4.5.19
2765	It spills itself in fearing to be {spilt.”} <spilt.>	4.5.20
2766	<Enter Ophelia distracted.>
2767	ophelia
	Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?	4.5.21
2768	queen
	How now, Ophelia?	4.5.22
2769	ophelia
2769	(Sings.)
2769	How should I your true love know from another one,	4.5.23-4
2770	By his cockle hat and staff, and his sandal shoon.	4.5.25-6
2771	queen
	Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?	4.5.27
2772	ophelia
	Say {you,} <you?> nay, pray you, mark.	4.5.28
2773	[Sings.]
2773	He is dead and gone, lady, he is dead and gone.	4.5.29-30
2774	At his head a grass-green turf, at his heels a stone.	4.5.31-2
2774+1	{Oh, ho!}	4.5.33
2775	<Enter King.>
2776	queen
	Nay, but Ophelia —	4.5.34
2777	ophelia
	Pray you, mark.	4.5.35
2778	[Sings.]
2778	White his shroud as the mountain snow —	4.5.36
2775	{Enter King.}
2779	queen
	Alas, look here, my lord.	4.5.37
2780	ophelia
2780	(Sings.)
2780	Larded {all} with sweet flowers	4.5.38
2781	Which bewept to the {ground} <grave> did not go	4.5.39
2782	With true-love showers.	4.5.40
2783	king
	How do {you,} <ye,> pretty lady?	4.5.41
2784	ophelia
	Well, {good} <God> dild you. They say the owl was	4.5.42-3
2785	a baker’s daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but	4.5.43
2786	know not what we may be. God be at your table.	4.5.44
2787	king
	Conceit upon her father.	4.5.45
2788	ophelia
	Pray <you,> let’s have no words of this, but when	4.5.46
2789	they ask you what it means, say you this:	4.5.47
2790	(Sings.)
2790	Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day,	4.5.48
2790	All in the morning betime,	4.5.49
2791	And I a maid at your window	4.5.50
2791	To be your valentine.	4.5.51
2792	Then up he rose, and donned his {clo’es,} <clothes,>	4.5.52
2792	And dupped the chamber door,	4.5.53
2793	Let in the maid that out a maid	4.5.54
2793	Never departed more.	4.5.55
2794	king
	Pretty Ophelia.	4.5.56
2795	ophelia
	Indeed, <la!,> without an oath I’ll make an end on’t.	4.5.57
2796	[Sings.]
2796	By Gis and by Saint Charity,	4.5.58
2797	Alack and fie for shame,	4.5.59
2798	Young men will do’t if they come to’t,	4.5.60
2799	By Cock they are to blame.	4.5.61
2800	Quoth she, “Before you tumbled me	4.5.62
2801	You promised me to wed”.	4.5.63
2802	{He answers:}	4.5.64
2802	“So would I ha’ done by yonder sun	4.5.65
2803	An thou hadst not come to my bed”.	4.5.66
2804	king
	How long hath she been {thus?} <this?>	4.5.67
2805	ophelia
	I hope all will be well. We must be patient.	4.5.68
2806	But I cannot choose but weep to think they {would} <should>	4.5.69
2807	lay him i’th’ cold ground. My brother shall know of it.	4.5.69-71
2808	And so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my	4.5.71-2
2809	coach. Good night, ladies, good night. Sweet ladies,	4.5.72-3
2810	good night, good night.	4.5.74
2810	Exit.
2811-2	king
	Follow her close. Give her good watch, I pray you.	4.5.74
2811-2	[Exit Horatio.]
2813	Oh, this is the poison of deep grief, it springs	4.5.75
2814	All from her father’s death. And now behold — <O Gertrude, Gertrude,>	4.5.76
2814+1	{ O Gertrard, Gertrard,}	4.5.77
2815	When sorrows {come,} <comes,> they come not single spies	4.5.78
2816	But in {battalions:} <battalias:> first, her father slain;	4.5.79
2817	Next, your son gone, and he most violent author	4.5.80
2818	Of his own just remove; the people muddied,	4.5.81
2819	Thick and unwholesome in <their> thoughts and whispers	4.5.82
2820	For good Polonius’ death, and we have done but greenly	4.5.83
2821	In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia	4.5.84
2822	Divided from herself and her fair judgment,	4.5.85
2823	Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts;	4.5.
2824	Last, and as much containing as all these,	4.5.87
2825	Her brother is in secret come from France,	4.5.88
2826	{Feeds} <Keeps> on {this} <his> wonder, keeps himself in clouds	4.5.89
2827	And wants not buzzers to infect his ear	4.5.90
2828	With pestilent speeches of his father’s death,	4.5.91
2829 T	Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,	4.5.92
2830	Will nothing stick our {person} <persons> to arraign	4.5.93
2831	In ear and ear. O my dear {Gertrard,} <Gertrude,> this	4.5.94
2832	Like to a murdering piece in many places	4.5.95
2833	Gives me superfluous death.	4.5.96
2833	A noise within.	4.5.96
2834	Enter a Messenger.
2835	queen
	Alack, what noise is this?	4.5.96
2836-7	king
	{Attend!} Where {is} <are> my Switzers? Let them guard the door.	4.5.97-8
2837	What is the matter?	4.5.99
2838	messenger
	Save yourself, my lord.	4.5.99
2839	The ocean overpeering of his list	4.5.100
2840	Eats not the flats with more impiteousimpetuous haste	4.5.101
2841	Than young Laertes in a riotous head	4.5.102
2842	O’erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord,	4.5.103
2843	And, as the world were now but to begin,	4.5.104
2844	Antiquity forgot, custom not known,	4.5.105
2845	The ratifiers and props of every word,	4.5.106
2846	{The} <They> cry “Choose we! Laertes shall be king!”	4.5.107
2847	Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it to the clouds:	4.5.108
2848	“Laertes shall be king! Laertes king!”	4.5.109
2849	queen
	How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!	4.5.110
2849	{(A noise within.)} [Exit Messenger.]	4.1.110
2850	Oh, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!	4.5.111
2851	<Noise within.>
2851 T	Enter Laertes {with Followers}.
2852	king
	The doors are broke.	4.5.111
2853 T	laertes
	Where is {this} <the> King? — Sirs, stand you all without.	4.5.112
2854	all [followers] <[Within.]>
	No, let’s come in.	4.5.113
2855	laertes
	I pray you give me leave.	4.5.114
2856	all [followers] <[Within.]>
	We will, we will.	4.5.115
2857-8	laertes
	I thank you. Keep the door. —	4.5.116
2857-8	{[Exeunt Followers.]}
2857-8	O thou vile King,	4.5.116
2858	Give me my father.	4.5.117
2859	queen
	Calmly, good Laertes.	4.5.117
2860-1	laertes
	That drop of blood {that’s calm} <that calms> proclaims me bastard,	4.5.118
2862	Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot	4.5.119
2863	Even here between the chaste unsmirched brow	4.5.120
2864	Of my true mother.	4.5.121
2865	king
	What is the cause, Laertes,	4.5.121
2866	That thy rebellion looks so giant-like? —	4.5.122
2867	Let him go, {Gertrard,}<Gertrude,> do not fear our person:	4.5.123
2868	There’s such divinity doth hedge a king	4.5.124
2869	That treason can but peep to what it would,	4.5.125
2870	Acts little of his will. — Tell me, Laertes,	4.5.126
2871	Why thou art thus incensed. — Let him go, {Gertrard.}<Gertrude.> —	4.5.127
2872	Speak, man.	4.5.128
2873	laertes
	{Where is} <Where’s> my father?	4.5.129
2874	king
	Dead.	4.5.129
2875	queen
	But not by him.	4.5.129
2876	king
	Let him demand his fill.	4.5.130
2877	laertes
	How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.	4.5.131
2878	To hell allegiance, vows to the blackest devil,	4.5.132
2879	Conscience and grace to the profoundest pit!	4.5.133
2880	I dare damnation. To this point I stand,	4.5.134
2881	That both the worlds I give to negligence.	4.5.135
2882	Let come what comes, only I’ll be revenged	4.5.136
2883	Most throughly for my father.	4.5.137
2884	king
	Who shall stay you?	4.5.137
2885	laertes
	My will, not all the {world’s;} <world;>	4.5.138
2886	And for my means I’ll husband them so well	4.5.139
2887	They shall go far with little.	4.5.140
2888	king
	Good Laertes,	4.5.140
2889	If you desire to know the certainty	4.5.141
2890 T	Of your dear {father,} <father’s death,> is’t writ in your revenge	4.5.142
2891	That swoopstake you will draw both friend and foe,	4.5.143
2892	Winner and loser?	4.5.144
2893	laertes
	None but his {enemies — } <enemies.>	4.5.145
2894	king
	Will you know them then?	4.5.145
2895	laertes
	To his good friends thus wide I’ll ope my arms	4.5.146
2896	And, like the kind life-rendring {pelican,} <politician,>	4.5.147
2897	Repast them with my blood.	4.5.148
2898	king
	Why, now you speak	4.5.148
2899	Like a good child and a true gentleman.	4.5.149
2900	That I am guiltless of your father’s death,	4.5.150
2901	And am most {sensibly} <sensible> in grief for it,	4.5.151
2902	It shall as level to your judgment {’pear} <pierce>	4.5.152
2903	As day does to your eye.	4.5.153
2904	A noise {within.} <within: “Let her come in!”>
2905	Enter Ophelia {[freeing herself from within]}.
2904	{laertes}
	{Let her come in.}	4.5.153
2906	<laertes> How now, what noise is that?	4.5.154
2907	O heat{,} dry up my brains. Tears seven times salt	4.5.155
2908	Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye.	4.5.156
2909	By heaven, thy madness shall be paid {with} <by> weight	4.5.157
2910 T	Till our scale {turn} <turns> the beam. O rose of May,	4.5.158
2911	Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!	4.5.159
2912	O heavens, is’t possible a young maid’s wits	4.5.160
2913	Should be as mortal as {a poor} <an old> man’s life?	4.5.161
2914	Nature is fine in love, and where ’tis fine	4.5.162
2915	It sends some precious instance of itself	4.5.163
2916	After the thing it loves.	4.5.164
2917	ophelia	4.5.165
2917	[Sings.]
2917	They bore him bare-faced on the bier,	4.5.165
2918	Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny,	4.5.166
2919	And {in} <on> his grave {rained} <rains> many a tear.	4.5.167
2920	Fare you well, my dove.	4.5.168
2921	laertes
	Hadst thou thy wits and didst persuade revenge	4.5.169
2922	It could not move thus.	4.5.170
2923	ophelia
	You must sing {“a-down} <“down> a-down”, andan you call	4.5.171-2
2924	him “a-down-a”. Oh, how the wheel becomes it! It is	4.5.172
2925	the false steward that stole his master’s daughter.	4.5.173
2926	laertes
	This nothing’s more than matter.	4.5.174
2927	ophelia
	There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.	4.5.175
2928 T	{Pray you,} <Pray,> love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for	4.5.176-7
2929	thoughts.	4.5,177
2930	laertes
	A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance	4.5.178
2931	fitted.	4.5.179
2932	ophelia
	There’s fennel for you, and columbines. There’s	4.5.180-1
2933	rue for you, and here’s some for me. We may call it	4.5.181-2
2934	{herb of grace} <herb-grace> o’ Sundays. {You may} <Oh, you must> wear your rue	4.5.182-3
2935	with a difference. There’s a daisy. I would give you	4.5.183-4
2936	some violets, but they withered all when my father died.	4.5.184-5
2937	They say {’a} <he> made a good end.	4.5.185-6
2938	[Sings.]
2938	For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.	4.5.187
2939	laertes
	Thought and {afflictions} <affliction>, passion, hell itself	4.5.188
2940	She turns to favor and to prettiness.	4.5.189
2941	ophelia	4.5.190
2941	[Sings.]
2941	And will {’a} <he> not come again?	4.5.190
2942	And will {’a} <he> not come again?	4.5.191
2943	No, no, he is dead —	4.5.193
2943	Go to thy death-bed —	4.5.193
2944	He never will come again.	4.5.194
2945	His beard {was} as white as snow,	4.5.195
2946	{Flaxen} <All flaxen> was his poll.	4.5.196
2947	He is gone, he is gone,	4.5.197
2947	And we cast away moan.	4.5.198
2948	{God ’a’ mercy} <Gramercy> on his soul.	4.5.199
2949	And of all {Christians’ souls.} <Christian souls,> <I pray God.>	4.5.200
2950	God buy {you.} <ye.>	4.5.200-1
2950	Exit.
2951 T	laertes
	Do you see this, {O God?} <you Gods?>	4.5.202
2952	king
	Laertes, I must commune with your grief,	4.5.203
2953	Or you deny me right. Go but apart,	4.5.204
2954	Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will,	4.5.
2955	And they shall hear and judge ’twixt you and me.	4.5.206
2956	If by direct, or by collateral hand,	4.5.207
2957	They find us touched, we will our kingdom give,	4.5.208
2958	Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours,	4.5.209
2959	To you in satisfaction; but, if not,	4.5.210
2960	Be you content to lend your patience to us,	4.5.211
2961	And we shall jointly labor with your soul	4.5.212
2962	To give it due content.	4.5.213
2963	laertes
	Let this be so.	4.5.213
2964	His means of death, his obscure {funeral} <burial>	4.5.214
2965	(No trophy{,} sword, nor hatchment o’er his bones,	4.5.215
2966	No noble rite, nor formal ostentation)	4.5.216
2967	Cry to be heard as ’twere from heaven to earth	4.5.217
2968	That I must {call’t} <call> in question.	4.5.218
2969	king
	So you shall,	4.5.218
2970	And, where th’ offense is, let the great axe fall.	4.5.219
2971	I pray you go with me.	4.5.220
2971	Exeunt.	4.5.220
	[4.6]
2972	Enter Horatio {and others [including a Gentleman].} <with an Attendant.>	4.6
2973	horatio
	What are they that would speak with me?	4.6.1
2974	{gentleman} <attendant>
	{Sea-faring men,} <Sailors,> sir. They say they have letters for you.	4.6.2-3
2975	horatio
	Let them come in.	4.6.4
2975	[{Gentleman goes to the door.} <Exit Attendant.>]	4.6.4
2976	I do not know from what part of the world	4.6.5
2977	I should be greeted{— } if not from Lord Hamlet.	4.6.6
2978	Enter {Sailors.} <Sailor.>
2979	sailor
	God bless you, sir.	4.6.7
2980	horatio
	Let Him bless thee too.	4.6.8
2981	sailor
	{’A} <He> shall, sir, {an} <an’t> please Him. There’s a letter	4.6.9-10
2982	for you, sir; it {came} <comes> from th’ {ambassador} <ambassadors> that was	4.6.10-1
2983	bound for England — if your name be Horatio, as I am let	4.6.11-2
2984	to know it is.	4.6.12
2985 T	horatio
2985	Reads the letter.
2986	“Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked this, give these	4.6.13-4
2987	fellows some means to the King: they have letters	4.6.14-5
2988	for him. Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very	4.6.15-6
2989	warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too	4.6.16-7
2990	slow of sail, we put on a compelled {valor, and in} <valor. In> the grapple I	4.6.17-8
2991	boarded them. On the instant they got clear of our ship, so	4.6.18-9
2992	I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with me like	4.6.19-21
2993	thieves of mercy, but they knew what they did: I am to do	4.6.21-2
2994	a <good> turn for them. Let the King have the letters I have	4.6.22-3
2995	sent, and repair thou to me with as much {speed} <haste> as thou wouldest	4.6.23-4
2996	fly death. I have words to speak in {thine} <your> ear will make thee	4.6.24-5
2997 T	dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.	4.6.25-6
2998	These good fellows will bring thee where I am. {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz>	4.6.26-7
2999	and Guildenstern hold their course for England; of them	4.6.28-9
3000	I have much to tell thee. Farewell.	4.6.29
3001	{So} <He> that thou knowest thine,	4.6.30
3002	Hamlet.”	4.6.31
3003 T	Come, I will give you way for these your letters.	4.6.32
3004	And do’t the speedier that you may direct me	4.6.33
3005	To him from whom you brought them.	4.6.34
3005 T	Exeunt.	4.6.34
	[4.7]
3006	Enter King and Laertes.	4.7
3007	king
	Now must your conscience my acquittance seal,	4.7.1
3008	And you must put me in your heart for friend,	4.7.2
3009	Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,	4.7.3
3010	That he which hath your noble father slain	4.7.4
3011	Pursued my life.	4.7.5
3012	laertes
	It well appears. But tell me	4.7.5
3013	Why you {proceed} <proceeded> not against these feats	4.7.6
3014	So {criminal} <crimeful> and so capital in nature,	4.7.7
3015	As by your safety, {greatness,} wisdom, all things else,	4.7.8
3016	You mainly were stirred up.	4.7.9
3017	king
	Oh, for two special reasons	4.7.9
3018	Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed,	4.7.10
3019	{But} <And> yet to me {they’re} <they are> strong. The Queen his mother	4.7.11
3020	Lives almost by his looks, and for myself,	4.7.12
3021	My virtue or my plague, be it either which,	4.7.13
3022	{She is} <She’s> so {concliveconjunct} <conjunctive> to my life and soul	4.7.14
3023	That as the star moves not but in his sphere	4.7.15
3024	I could not but by her. The other motive	4.7.16
3025	Why to a public count I might not go	4.7.17
3026	Is the great love the general gender bear him,	4.7.18
3027	Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,	4.7.19
3028	{Work} <Would,> like the spring that turneth wood to stone,	4.7.20
3029	Convert his gyves to graces, so that my arrows,	4.7.21
3030 T	Too slightly timbered for so {loved, armed,} <loud a wind,>	4.7.22
3031	Would have reverted to my bow again,	4.7.23
3032	{But} <And> not where I {have aimed} <had armed> them.	4.7.24
3033	laertes
	And so have I a noble father lost,	4.7.25
3034	A sister driven into desperate terms,	4.7.26
3035 T	{Whose worth,} <Who was,has,> if praises may go back again,	4.7.27
3036	Stood challenger on mount of all the age	4.7.28
3037	For her perfections. But my revenge will come.	4.7.29
3038-9	king
	Break not your sleeps for that; you must not think	4.6.30
3040	That we are made of stuff so flat and dull	4.7.31
3041	That we can let our beard be shook with danger	4.7.32
3042	And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more.	4.7.33
3043	I loved your father, and we love ourself,	4.7.34
3044	And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine —	4.7.35
3045	Enter a Messenger {with letters}.
3046	How now? What news?	4.7.36
3047	messenger
	Letters, my lord, from Hamlet.	4.7.36
3047-8	{messenger} {These} <This> to your majesty, this to the Queen.	4.7.37
3049	king
	From {Hamlet — } <Hamlet?> Who brought them?	4.7.38
3050	messenger
	Sailors, my lord, they say. I saw them not.	4.7.39
3051	They were given me by Claudio. He received them<.>	4.7.40
3051+1	Of him that brought them.	4.7.41
3052	king
	Laertes, you shall hear them. —	4.7.41
3053	Leave us.	4.7.42
3053	Exit Messenger.	4.7.42
3054	[Reads.]
3054	“High and mighty, You shall know I am set naked on	4.7.43-4
3055	your kingdom. Tomorrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly	4.7.44-5
3056	eyes, when I shall, first asking {you pardon, thereunto} <your pardon thereunto,> recount	4.7.456
3057	{the occasion} <th’ occasions> of my sudden <and more strange> return.	4.7.46-7
3058	Hamlet.”	4.7.48
3059	What should this mean? Are all the rest come {back,} <back?>	4.7.49
3060	Or is it some {abuse,} <abuse?> {and} <Or> no such thing?	4.7.50
3061	laertes
	Know you the hand?	4.7.51
3062	king
	’Tis Hamlet’s character. “Naked”,	4.7.51
3062-3	And in a postscript here he says “alone”.	4.7.52
3063	Can you {devise} <advise> me?	4.7.53
3064	laertes
	{I am} <I’m> lost in it, my lord. But let him come:	4.7.54
3065	It warms the very sickness in my heart	4.7.55
3066	That I <shall> live and tell him to his teeth	4.7.56
3067	“Thus {didst} <didest> diest thou”.	4.7.57
3068	king
	If it be so, Laertes —	4.7.57
3068-9	As how should it be so, how otherwise? —	4.7.58
3069	Will you be ruled by me?	4.7.59
3070	laertes
	{Ay, my lord, so you will} <If so you’ll> not o’errule me to a peace.	4.7.60
3071	king
	To thine own peace. If he be now returned	4.7.61
3072 T	As checking at his voyage, and that he means	4.7.62
3073	No more to undertake it, I will work him	4.7.63
3074	To an exploit, now ripe in my device,	4.7.64
3075	Under the which he shall not choose but fall;	4.7.65
3076	And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,	4.7.66
3077	But even his mother shall uncharge the practice	4.7.67
3078	And call it accident.	4.7.68
3078+1	laertes
	My Lord, I will be ruled,	4.7.69
3078+2	The rather if you could devise it so	4.7.70
3078+3	That I might be the organ.	4.7.70
3078+4	king
	It falls right.	4.7.70
3078+5	You have been talked of since your travel much,	4.7.71
3078+6	And that in Hamlet’s hearing, for a quality	4.7.72
3078+7	Wherein they say you shine. Your sum of parts	4.7.73
3078+8	Did not together pluck such envy from him	4.7.74
3078+9	As did that one, and that in my regard	4.7.75
3078+10	Of the unworthiest siege.	4.7.76
3078+11	laertes
	What part is that, my lord?	4.7.76
3078+12	king
	A very ribbon in the cap of youth,	4.7.77
3078+13	Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes	4.7.78
3078+14	The light and careless livery that it wears	4.7.79
3078+15	Than settled age his sables and his weeds	4.7.80
3078+16	Importing health and graveness. Two months since	4.7.81
3078	<Some two months hence>	4.7.81
3079	Here was a gentleman of Normandy.	4.7.82
3080	{I have} <I’ve> seen myself and served against the French,	4.7.83
3081	And they {can} <ran> well on horseback, but this gallant	4.7.84
3082	Had witchcraft in’t: he grew {unto} <into> his seat	4.7.85
3083	And to such wondrous doing brought his horse	4.7.86
3084	As had he been incorpsed and demi-natured	4.7.87
3085 T	With the brave beast. So far he {topped} <past> my thought	4.7.88
3086	That I in forgery of shapes and tricks	4.7.89
3087	Come short of what he did.	4.7.90
3088	laertes
	A Norman was’t?	4.7.90
3089	king
	A Norman.	4.7.91
3090	laertes
	Upon my life, {Lamord.} <Lamound.>	4.7.92
3091	king
	The very same.	4.7.92
3092	laertes
	I know him well, he is the brooch indeed	4.7.93
3093	And gem of all {the} <our> nation.	4.7.94
3094	king
	He made confession of you	4.7.95
3095	And gave you such a masterly report	4.7.96
3096	For art and exercise in your defense,	4.7.97
3097	And for your rapier most {especial,} <especially,>	4.7.98
3098	That he cried out ’twould be a sight indeed	4.7.99
3099	If one could match {you.}<you, sir.> The ’scrimers of their nation	4.7.100
3099+1	He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye,	4.7.101
3099+2	If you opposed them. Sir, this <This> report of his	4.7.102
3100	Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy	4.7.103
3101	That he could nothing do but wish and beg	4.7.104
3102	Your sudden coming o’er to play with {you.} <him.>	4.7.105
3103	Now out of this —	4.7.106
3104	laertes
	{What} <Why> out of this, my lord?	4.7.106
3105	king
	Laertes, was your father dear to you?	4.7.107
3106	Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,	4.7.108
3107	A face without a heart?	4.7.109
3108	laertes
	Why ask you this?	4.7.109
3109	king
	Not that I think you did not love your father,	4.7.110
3110	But that I know love is begun by time,	4.7.111
3111	And that I see in passages of proof	4.7.112
3112	Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.	4.7.113
3112+1	There lives within the very flame of love	4.7.114
3112+2	A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it,	4.7.115
3112+3	And nothing is at a like goodness still,	4.7.116
3112+4	For goodness growing to a pleurisy	4.7.117
3112+5	Dies in his own too much. That we would do	4.7.118
3112+6	We should do when we would, for this “would” changes	4.7.119
3112+7	And hath abatements and delays as many	4.7.120
3112+8	As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,	4.7.121
3112+9	And then this “should” is like a spendthrift’s sigh	4.7.122
3112+10	That hurts by easing. But to the quick of th’ ulcer:	4.7.123
3113	Hamlet comes back; what would you undertake	4.7.124
3114	To show yourself {in deed} your father’s son <in deed>	4.7.125
3115	More than in words?	4.7.126
3116	laertes
	To cut his throat i’th’ church.	4.7.126
3117	king
	No place indeed should murder sanctuarize;	4.7.127
3118	Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,	4.7.128
3119	Will you do this, keep close within your chamber;	4.7.129
3120	Hamlet, returned, shall know you are come home;	4.7.130
3121	We’ll put on those shall praise your excellence	4.7.131
3122	And set a double varnish on the fame	4.7.132
3123	The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together	4.7.133
3124	And wager {o’er} <on> your heads. He, being remiss,	4.7.134
3125	Most generous and free from all contriving,	4.7.135
3126	Will not peruse the foils, so that with ease,	4.7.136
3127	Or with a little shuffling, you may choose	4.7.137
3128	A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice,	4.7.138
3129	Requite him for your father.	4.7.139
3130	laertes
	I will do’t.	4.7.139
3131 T	And for that purpose, I’ll anoint my sword.	4.7.140
3132	I bought an unction of a mountebank	4.7.141
3133	So mortal {that,} <I> but {dip} <dipped> a knife in it,	4.7.142
3134	Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,	4.7.143
3135	Collected from all simples that have virtue	4.7.144
3136	Under the moon, can save the thing from death	4.7.145
3137	That is but scratched withal. I’ll touch my point	4.7.146
3138	With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly	4.7.147
3139	It may be death.	4.7.148
3140	king
	Let’s further think of {this.} <this,>	4.7.148
3141	Weigh what convenience both of time and means	4.7.149
3142 T	May fit us to our shape. If this should fail	4.7.150
3143	And that our drift look through our bad performance,	4.7.151
3144	’Twere better not essayed; therefore this project	4.7.152
3145	Should have a back or second that might hold	4.7.153
3146	If this {did} <should> blast in proof. Soft, let me see —	4.7.154
3147	We’ll make a solemn wager on your {cunnings — } <comings — >	4.7.155
3148 T	I ha’t! When in your motion you are hot and dry	4.7.157
3149	(As make your bouts more violent to {that} <the> end)	4.7.158
3150	And that he calls for drink, I’ll have {preferred} <prepared> him	4.7.159
3151	A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping,	4.7.160
3152	If he by chance escape your venomed stuck,	4.7.161
3153	Our purpose may hold there. {But stay, what noise?}	4.7.162
3154	Enter Queen.
3153	How,How now, sweet Queen?	4.7.162
3155	queen
	One woe doth tread upon another’s heel,	4.7.163
3156	So fast {they} <they’ll> follow. Your sister’s drowned, Laertes.	4.7.164
3157	laertes
	Drowned! Oh, where?	4.7.165
3158	queen
	There is a willow grows {askant the} <aslant a> brook	4.7.166
3159	That shows his {hoary} <hoar> leaves in the glassy stream.	4.7.167
3160	{Therewith} <There with> fantastic garlands did she {make} <come>	4.7.168
3161	Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies and long purples	4.7.169
3162	That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,	4.7.170
3163	But our {cull-cold} <cold> maids do dead men’s fingers call them.	4.7.171
3164	There on the pendant boughs her {crownet} <coronet> weeds	4.7.172
3165	Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,	4.7.173
3166	When down {her} <the> weedy trophies and herself	4.7.174
3167	Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide	4.7.175
3168	And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up,	4.7.176
3169	Which time she chanted snatches of old {lauds} <tunes>	4.7.177
3170	As one incapable of her own distress,	4.7.178
3171	Or like a creature native and endued	4.7.179
3172	Unto that element. But long it could not be	4.7.180
3173 T	Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,	4.7.181
3174 T	Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay	4.7.182
3175	To muddy death.	4.7.183
3176	laertes
	Alas, then {she is} <is she> {drowned.} <drowned?>	4.7.183
3177	queen
	Drowned, drowned.	4.7.184
3178	laertes
	Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,	4.7.185
3179	And therefore I forbid my tears; but yet	4.7.186
3180	It is our trick, nature her custom holds.	4.7.187
3181	Let shame say what it will; when these are gone,	4.7.188
3182	The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord,	4.7.189
3183	I have a speech {o’} <of> fire that fain would blaze	4.7.190
3184	But that this folly {drowns} <doubts> it.	4.7.191
3184	Exit.	4.7.191
3185	king
	Let’s follow, {Gertrard.}<Gertrude.>	4.7.191
3186	How much I had to do to calm his rage.	4.7.192
3187	Now fear I this will give it start again,	4.7.193
3188	Therefore let’s follow.	4.7.194
3188	Exeunt.	4.7.194
	[5.1]
3189	Enter two Clowns.	5.1
3190	[1] clown
	Is she to be buried in Christian burial, {when she} <that>	5.1.1
3191	wilfully seeks her own salvation?	5.1.2
3192 T	2 clown
	I tell thee she is, <and> therefore make her grave	5.1.3
3193	straight. The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian	5.1.4-5
3194	burial.	5.1.5
3195	1 clown
	How can that be, unless she drowned herself	5.1.6
3196	in her own defense?	5.1.7
3197	2 clown
	Why, ’tis found so.	5.1.8
3198 T	1 clown
	It must be {so} <se> offendendo, it cannot be else. For	5.1.9-10
3199	here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues	5.1.10-1
3200 T	an act, and an act hath three branches — it is to	5.1.11-2
3201 T	act, to do, <and> to perform; argal, she drowned herself	5.1.12
3202	wittingly.	5.1.13
3203	2 clown
	Nay, but hear you, goodman delver —	5.1.14
3204	1 clown
	Give me leave. Here lies the water — good.	5.1.15
3205	Here stands the man — good. If the man go to this water	5.1.16
3206	and drown himself, it is (will he nill he) he goes.	5.1.17
3207	Mark you {that.} <that?> But if the water come to him and drown	5.1.17-8
3208	him, he drowns not himself. Argal, he that is not	5.1.18-9
3209	guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life.	5.1.19-20
3210	2 clown
	But is this law?	5.1.21
3211	1 clown
	Ay, marry is’t, crowner’s ’quest law.	5.1.22
3212	2 clown
	Will you ha’ the truth {an’t?} <on’t?> If this had not	5.1.23
3213	been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried	5.1.24
3214	out {o’} <of> Christian burial.	5.1.24-5
3215	1 clown
	Why, there thou sayst, and the more pity that	5.1.26-7
3216	great folk should have {count’nance} <countenance> in this world to	5.1.27
3217	drown or hang themselves more than their {even-Christen.} <even-Christian.>	5.1.28-9
3218	Come, my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen	5.1.29-30
3219	but {gard’ners,} <gardeners,> ditchers and grave-makers; they hold up	5.1.30-1
3220	Adam’s profession.	5.1.31
3221	2 clown
	Was he a gentleman?	5.1.32
3222	1 clown
	{’A} <He> was the first that ever bore arms.	5.1.33
3223	2 clown
	Why, he had none.	5.1.34
3224	1 clown
	What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand	5.1.35-6
3225	the Scripture? The Scripture says Adam digged.	5.1.36-7
3226	Could he dig without arms? I’ll put another question	5.1.37-8
3227	to thee. If thou answerest me not to the purpose, confess	5.1.38-9
3228	{thyself.} <thyself — >	5.1.39
3229	2 clown
	Go to.	5.1.40
3230	1 clown
	What is he that builds stronger than either the	5.1.41
3231	mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?	5.1.42
3232	2 clown
	The gallows-maker, for that <frame> outlives a	5.1.43
3233	thousand tenants.	5.1.44
3234	1 clown
	I like thy wit well, in good faith, the gallows	5.1.45
3235	does well. But how does it well? It does well to those	5.1.46-7
3236	that do ill. Now, thou dost ill to say the gallows is	5.1.47-8
3237	built stronger than the church; argal, the gallows	5.1.48
3238	may do well to thee. To’t again, come.	5.1.49
3239	2 clown
	Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright,	5.1.50
3240	or a carpenter?	5.1.51
3241	1 clown
	Ay, tell me that and unyoke.	5.1.52
3242	2 clown
	Marry, now I can tell.	5.1.53
3243	1 clown
	To’t.	5.1.54
3244	2 clown
	Mass, I cannot tell.	5.1.55
3245	<Enter Hamlet and Horatio afar off.>
3246	1 clown
	Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your	5.1.56-7
3247	dull ass will not mend his pace with beating, and when	5.1.57-8
3248	you are asked this question next, say “a grave-maker”: the	5.1.58-9
3249	houses <that> he makes lasts till doomsday. Go get thee	5.1.59-60
3250	{in, and} <to Yaughan,> fetch me a {sup} <stoup> of liquor.	5.1.60
3250	Exit 2 Clown.	5.1.
3251	(Sings.)
3252	In youth when I did love, did love,	5.1.61
3253	Methought it was very sweet	5.1.62
3254	To contract —oh— the time for —a— my behove,	5.1.63
3255	Oh, methought there {—a—} was nothing {—a—} meet.	5.1.64
3255+1	{Enter Hamlet and Horatio.}
3256	hamlet
	Has this fellow no feeling of his business{?} <that>	5.1.65
3257	{’A} <he> sings {in grave-making.} <at grave-making?>	5.1.66
3258-9	horatio
	Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.	5.1.67-8
3260	hamlet
	’Tis e’en so. The hand of little employment hath	5.1.69-70
3261 T	the daintier sense.	5.1.70
3262 T	1 clown         (Sings.)
3263	But age with his stealing steps	5.1.71
3264	Hath {clawed} <caught> me in his clutch	5.1.72
3265	And hath shipped me {into} <intil> the land,	5.1.73
3266	As if I had never been such.	5.1.74
3266	[Throws up a skull.]	5.1.74
3267	hamlet
	That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing	5.1.75
3268	once. How the knave jowls it to {the} <th’> ground, as if {’twere} <it were>	5.1.76-7
3269	Cain’s jawbone, that did the first murder. {This} <It>	5.1.77-8
3270	might be the pate of a politician, which this ass {now} {o’erreaches,} <o’er-offices,>	5.1.78-9
3271	one that {would} <could> circumvent God, might it not?	5.1.79-80
3272	horatio
	It might, my lord.	5.1.81
3273-4	hamlet
	Or of a courtier, which could say “Good morrow,	5.1.82-3
3274-5	sweet lord, how dost thou, {sweet} <good> lord?” This	5.1.83-4
3275-6	might be my Lord Such-a-one, that praised my Lord Such-	5.1.84-5
3275-6	a-One’s horse when {’a went} <he meant> to beg it, might it not?	5.1.85-6
3277	horatio
	Ay, my lord.	5.1.87
3278	hamlet
	Why, e’en so. And now my Lady Worm’s,	5.1.88
3279 T	{chopless} <chapless> and knocked about the mazard with a sexton’s	5.1.89-90
3280	spade. Here’s fine revolution, {an} <if> we had the trick to	5.1.90-1
3281	see’t. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but	5.1.91-2
3282	to play at loggets with {them?} <’em?> Mine ache to think	5.1.92-3
3283	on’t.	5.1.93
3284 T	1 clown         (Sings.)
3285	A pickaxe and a spade, a spade,	5.1.94
3286	For and a shrouding-sheet,	5.1.95
3287	Oh, a pit of clay for to be made	5.1.96
3288	For such a guest is meet.	5.1.97
3288	[Throws up another skull.]
3289	hamlet
	There’s another. WhyWhy, {may} <might> not that be the	5.1.98
3290 T	skull of a lawyer? Where be his {quiddities} <quiddits> now, his	5.1.99
3291	{quillities,} <quillets,> his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why	5.1.100-1
3292	does he suffer this {mad} <rude> knave now to knock him about	5.1.101-2
3293	the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of	5.1.102-3
3294	his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be in ’s	5.1.103-4
3295	time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances,	5.1.104-5
3296	his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries—	5.1.105-6
3297	Is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries,	5.1.106-7
3298	to have his fine pate full of fine {dirt.} <dirt?> Will <his>	5.1.107-8
3299	vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases and {doubles} <double>	5.1.108-9
3300	<ones too> than the length and breadth of a pair of	5.1.109-10
3301	indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will	5.1.110-1
3302	{scarcely} <hardly> lie in this box, and must {th’} <the> inheritor himself	5.1.111-2
3303	have no {more, ha?} <more? Ha?>	5.1.112
3304	horatio
	Not a jot more, my lord.	5.1.113
3305	hamlet
	Is not parchment made of sheepskins?	5.1.114
3306	horatio
	Ay, my lord, and of {calves’ skins} <calfskins> too.	5.1.115
3307	hamlet
	They are sheep and calves {which} <that> seek out assurance	5.1.116-7
3308	in that. I will speak to this fellow. — Whose grave’s	5.1.117-8
3309	this, {sirrah?} <sir?>	5.1.118
3310	1 clown
	Mine, sir.	5.1.119
3311	[Sings.]
3311	{Or} <Oh,> a pit of clay for to be {made —} <made>	5.1.120
3312	For such a guest is meet.	5.1.121
3313	hamlet
	I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in’t.	5.1.122
3314	1 clown
	You lie out on’t, sir, and therefore {’tis} <it is> not yours;	5.1.123
3315	for my part I do not lie in’t, <and> yet it is mine.	5.1.124
3316	hamlet
	Thou dost lie in’t to be in’t and say {it is} <’tis> thine.	5.1.125-6
3317	’Tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou	5.1.126-7
3318	liest.	5.1.127
3319	1 clown
	’Tis a quick lie, sir, ’twill away again from me	5.1.128-9
3320	to you.	5.1.129
3321	hamlet
	What man dost thou dig it for?	5.1.130
3322	1 clown
	For no man, sir.	5.1.131
3323	hamlet
	What woman then?	5.1.132
3324	1 clown
	For none neither.	5.1.133
3325	hamlet
	Who is to be buried in’t?	5.1.134
3326	1 clown
	One that was a woman, sir, but, rest her soul,	5.1.135-6
3327	she’s dead.	5.1.136
3328	hamlet
	How absolute the knave is! We must speak	5.1.137
3329	by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the	5.1.138
3330	Lord, Horatio, {this} <these> three years I have {took} <taken> note of it,	5.1.138-9
3331	the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant	5.1.139-40
3332	comes so near the {heel} <heels> of {the} <our> courtier he galls his	5.1.141
3333	kibe. — How long hast thou been <a> grave-maker?	5.1.141-2
3334	1 clown
	Of <all> the days i’th’ year, I came to’t that day	5.1.143-4
3335	that our last King Hamlet {overcame} <o’ercame> Fortinbras.	5.1.144
3336	hamlet
	How long is that since?	5.1.145
3337	1 clown
	Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that:	5.1.146-7
3338	it was {that} <the> very day that young Hamlet was born, he	5.1.147-8
3339	that {is} <was> mad and sent into England.	5.1.148
3340	hamlet
	Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?	5.1.149
3341	1 clown
	Why, because {’a} <he> was mad: {’a} <he> shall recover his	5.1.150-1
3342	wits there, or if {’a} <he> do not, {’tis} <it’s> no great matter there.	5.1.151-2
3343	hamlet
	Why?	5.1.153
3344	1 clown
	’Twill not be seen in him<,> {there,} there the men are as	5.1.154-5
3345	mad as he.	5.1.155
3346	hamlet
	How came he mad?	5.1.156
3347	1 clown
	Very strangely, they say.	5.1.157
3348	hamlet
	How strangely?	5.1.158
3349	1 clown
	Faith, e’en with losing his wits.	5.1.159
3350	hamlet
	Upon what ground?	5.1.160
3351 T	1 clown
	Why, here in Denmark. I have been sexton	5.1.161
3352	here, man and boy, thirty years.	5.1.162
3353	hamlet
	How long will a man lie i’th’ earth ere he rot?	5.1.163-4
3354	1 clown
	{Faith.} <I’faith,> if {’a} <he> be not rotten before {’a} <he> die (as we have	5.1.165-6
3355	many pocky corpses <nowadays> that will scarce hold	5.1.166
3356	the laying in), {’a} <he> will last you some eight year, or nine	5.1.166-7
3357	year. A tanner will last you nine year.	5.1.167-8
3358	hamlet
	Why he more than another?	5.1.169
3359	1 clown
	Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade that	5.1.170-1
3360	{’a} <he> will keep out water a great while; and your water	5.1.171-2
3361	is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. Here’s a skull	5.1.172-3
3362	now<:> {hath lien you} <this skull has lain> {i’th’} <in the> earth three and twenty years.	5.1.173-4
3363	hamlet
	Whose was it?	5.1.175
3364-5	1 clown
	A whoreson mad fellow’s it was. Whose do you think it was?	5.1.176-7
3366	hamlet
	Nay, I know not.	5.1.178
3367	1 clown
	A {pestilence} <pest’lence> on him for a mad rogue! ’A poured a	5.1.179-80
3368	flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull,	5.1.180-1
3369	sir — this same skull, sir, was{, sir,} Yorick’s skull, the King’s jester.	5.1.181
3370	hamlet
	This?	5.1.182
3371	1 clown
	E’en that.	5.1.183
3372	hamlet
	Let me see. Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio.	5.1.184
3373	A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He	5.1.185
3374	hath {bore} <borne> me on his back a thousand times, and {now} how	5.1.186-7
3375	abhorred {in} my imagination {it} is! My gorge rises at it. Here	5.1.187-8
3376	hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.	5.1.188-9
3377	Where be your jibes now? Your gambols, your	5.1.189-90
3378	songs, your flashes of merriment, that were wont to	5.1.190-1
3379	set the table on a roar? {Not} <No> one now to mock your own	5.1.191-2
3380	{grinning,} <jeering?> quite {chop-fallen.} <chop-fallen?> Now get you to my lady’s	5.1.192-3
3381	{table} <chamber> and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this	5.1.193-4
3382	favor she must come. Make her laugh at that. Prithee,	5.1.194-5
3383	Horatio, tell me one thing.	5.1.195
3384	horatio
	What’s that, my lord?	5.1.196
3385-6	hamlet
	Dost thou think Alexander looked o’ this fashion	5.1.197-8
3386	i’th’ earth?	5.1.198
3387	horatio
	E’en so.	5.1.199
3388	hamlet
	And smelt so? Pah!	5.1.200
3389	horatio
	E’en so, my lord.	5.1.201
3390-1	hamlet
	To what base uses we may return, Horatio?	5.1.202
3391	WhyWhy, may not imagination trace the noble dust of	5.1.203
3392	Alexander, till {’a} <he> find it stopping a bung-hole?	5.1.204
3393	horatio
	’Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.	5.1.206
3394	hamlet
	No, faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither	5.1.207
3395	with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it <as thus>:	5.1.208
3396	Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth	5.1.209
3397	{to} <into> dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make	5.1.210
3398	loam, and why of that loam whereto he was converted	5.1.210-1
3399	might they not stop a beer-barrel?	5.1.211-2
3400	{Imperious} <Imperial> Caesar, dead and turned to clay,	5.1.213
3401	Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.	5.1.214
3402	Oh, that that earth which kept the world in awe	5.1.215
3403	Should patch a wall t’expel the {water’s} <winter’s> flaw.	5.1.216
3404	But soft, but soft<,> {awhile,} <aside,> here comes the King.	5.1.217
3405	Enter King, Queen, Laertes, and	5.1.217
3405	[{a Doctor of Divinity,} <a Priest,> after] {the corpse,} <a coffin,>	5.1.217
3406	with Lords Attendant <[and Gentlemen]>.
3407	The Queen, the courtiers — who is {this} <that> they follow?	5.1.218
3408	And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken	5.1.219
3409	The corpse they follow did with desperate hand	5.1.220
3410	Fordo it own life. ’Twas {of} some estate.	5.1.221
3411	Couch we awhile and mark.	5.1.222
3411	[Hamlet and Horatio stand aside.]
3412	laertes
	What ceremony else?	5.1.223
3413	hamlet
	That is Laertes, a very noble youth. Mark.	5.1.224
3414	laertes
	What ceremony else?	5.1.225
3415	{doctor} <priest>
	Her obsequies have been as far enlarged	5.1.262
3416	As we have {warranty.} <warrantise.> Her death was doubtful,	5.1.227
3417	And but that great command o’ersways the order,	5.1.228
3418	She should in ground unsanctified {been} <have> lodged	5.1.229
3419	Till the last trumpet: for charitable {prayers,} <prayer,>	5.1.230
3420	{Flints} <Shards, flints> and pebbles should be thrown on her;	5.1.231
3421	Yet here she is allowed her virgin {crants,} <rites,>	5.1.232
3422	Her maiden strewments and the bringing home	5.1.233
3423	Of bell and burial.	5.1.234
3424	laertes
	Must there no more be done?	5.1.235
3425	{doctor} <priest>
	No more be done.	5.1.235
3426	We should profane the service of the dead	5.1.236
3427	To sing {a} <sage> requiem and such rest to her	5.1.237
3428	As to peace-parted souls.	5.1.238
3429	laertes
	Lay her i’th’ earth,	5.1.238
3430	And from her fair and unpolluted flesh	5.1.239
3431	May violets spring. — I tell thee, churlish priest,	5.1.240
3432	A ministering angel shall my sister be	5.1.241
3433	When thou liest howling.	5.1.242
3434	hamlet
	What, the fair Ophelia?	5.1.242
3435	queen
	Sweets to the sweet. Farewell.	5.1.243
3436	I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife.	5.1.244
3437	I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid,	5.1.245
3438	And not {have} <t’have> strewed thy grave.	5.1.246
3439 T	laertes
	Oh, {treble woe} <terrible woes>	5.1.246
3440	Fall ten times {double} <treble> on that cursed head	5.1.247
3441	Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense	5.1.248
3442	Deprived thee of! — Hold off the earth awhile,	5.1.249
3443	Till I have caught her once more in mine arms.	5.1.250
3444	Leaps in the grave.
3445	Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead	5.1.251
3446	Till of this flat a mountain you have made	5.1.252
3447	{T’ o’retop} <To o’retop> old Pelion or the skyish head	5.1.253
3448	Of blue Olympus.	5.1.254
3449	hamlet
	What is he whose {grief} <griefs>	5.1.254
3450	Bears such an emphasis, whose phrase of sorrow	5.1.255
3451 T	Conjures the wandering stars and makes them stand	5.1.256
3452	Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,	5.1.257
3453	Hamlet the Dane.	5.1.258
3454	laertes Leaps out and grapples with him.
	The devil take thy soul!	5.1.259
3455	hamlet
	Thou pray’st not well.	5.1.259
3456	I prithee take thy fingers from my throat,	5.1.260
3457	{For,} <Sir,> though I am not splenative <and> rash,	5.1.261
3458	Yet have I {in me} something <in me> dangerous	5.1.262
3459	Which let thy {wisdom} <wiseness> fear. {Hold off} <Away> thy hand —	5.1.263
3460	king
	Pluck them asunder.	5.1.264
3461	queen
	Hamlet! Hamlet!	5.1.264
3461+1	{all [lords]}
	{Gentlemen!}	5.1.264
3462	{horatio} <gentlemengentleman>
	Good my lord, be quiet.	5.1.265
3462	Attendants part them.	5.1.265
3463	hamlet
	Why, I will fight with him upon this theme	5.1.266
3464	Until my eyelids will no longer wag.	5.1.267
3465	queen
	O my son, what theme?	5.1.268
3466	hamlet
	I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers	5.1.269
3467	Could not with all their quantity of love	5.1.270
3468	Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?	5.1.271
3469	king
	Oh, he is mad, Laertes.	5.1.272
3470	queen
	For love of God, forbear him.	5.1.273
3471	hamlet
	{’Swounds,} <Come,> show me what {thou’t} <thou’lt> do:	5.1.274
3472	Woul’t weep, woul’t fight, {woul’t fast,} woul’t tear thyself,	5.1.275
3473	Woul’t drink up eisel, eat a crocodile?	5.1.276
3474	I’ll do’t. Dost <thou> come here to whine?	5.1.277
3475	To outface me with leaping in her grave?	5.1.278
3476	Be buried quick with her, and so will I.	5.1.279
3477	And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw	5.1.280
3478	Millions of acres on us, till our ground,	5.1.281
3479	Singeing his pate against the burning zone,	5.1.282
3480	Make Ossa like a wart. Nay, an thou’lt mouth,	5.1.283
3481	I’ll rant as well as thou.	5.1.284
3482	{queen} <king>
	This is mere madness,	5.1.284
3483 T	And thus awhile the fit will work on him.	5.1.285
3484	Anon, as patient as the female dove	5.1.286
3485	When that her golden {couplets} <couplet> are disclosed,	5.1.287
3486	His silence will sit drooping.	5.1.288
3487	hamlet
	Hear you, sir,	5.1.288
3488	What is the reason that you use me thus?	5.1.289
3489	I loved you ever — but it is no matter.	5.1.290
3490	Let Hercules himself do what he may,	5.1.291
3491	The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.	5.1.292
3491	Exit.	5.1.292
3492	king
	I pray {thee,} <you,> good Horatio, wait upon him.	5.1.293
3492 T	Exit Horatio.	5.1.293
3493 T	To Laertes. Strengthen your patience in our last night’s speech,	5.1.294
3494	We’ll put the matter to the present push. —	5.1.295
3495	Good {Gertrard,}<Gertrude,> set some watch over your son.	5.1.296
3496	This grave shall have a living monument.	5.1.297
3497	An hour of quiet {thereby} <shortly> shall we see;	5.1.298
3498	Till then in patience our proceeding be.	5.1.299
3498	Exeunt.	5.1.299
	[5.2]
3499	Enter Hamlet and Horatio.	5.2
3500	hamlet
	So much for this, sir. Now {shall you} <let me> see the other.	5.2.1
3501	You do remember all the circumstance?	5.2.2
3502	horatio
	Remember it, my lord?	5.2.3
3503	hamlet
	Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting	5.2.4
3504 T	That would not let me sleep. Methought I lay	5.2.5
3505 T	Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly —	5.2.6
3506	And {praised} <praise> be rashness for it — let us know	5.2.7
3507	Our indiscretion {sometime} <sometimes> serves us well	5.2.8
3508	When our {deep} <dear> plots do {fall,} <pall,> and that should {learn} <teach> us	5.2.9
3509	There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,	5.2.10
3510	Rough-hew them how we will —	5.2.11
3511	horatio
	That is most certain.	5.2.11
3512	hamlet
	Up from my cabin,	5.2.12
3513	My sea-gown scarfed about me, in the dark	5.2.13
3514	Groped I to find out them, had my desire,	5.2.14
3515	Fingered their packet, and in fine withdrew	5.2.15
3516	To mine own room again, making so bold,	5.2.16
3517	My fears forgetting manners, to {unfold} <unseal>	5.2.17
3518	Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,	5.2.18
3519	{AAh,} <Oh,> royal {knavery,}<knavery! —> an exact command	5.2.19
3520	Larded with many several sorts of {reasons} <reason>	5.2.20
3521	Importing Denmark’s health, and England’s too,	5.2.21
3522	With ho! such bugs and goblins in my life	5.2.22
3523	That on the supervise, no leisure bated	5.2.23
3524	(No, not to stay the grinding of the axe),	5.2.24
3525	My head should be struck off.	5.2.25
3526	horatio
	Is’t possible?	5.2.25
3527	hamlet
	Here’s the commission; read it at more leisure.	5.2.26
3528	But wilt thou hear {now} <me> how I did proceed?	5.2.27
3529	horatio
	I beseech you.	5.2.28
3530	hamlet
	Being thus benetted round with villains,villainies,	5.2.29
3531	{(Or} <(Ere> I could make a prologue to my brains,	5.2.30
3532	They had begun the play) I sat me down,	5.2.31
3533	Devised a new commission, wrote it fair —	5.2.32
3534	I once did hold it as our statists do,	5.2.33
3535	A baseness to write fair, and labored much	5.2.34
3536	How to forget that learning, but, sir, now	5.2.35
3537	It did me yeoman’s service. Wilt thou know	5.2.36
3538	{Th’ effect} <The effects> of what I wrote?	5.2.37
3539	horatio
	Ay, good my lord.	5.2.37
3540	hamlet
	An earnest conjuration from the King,	5.2.38
3541	As England was his faithful tributary,	5.2.39
3542	As love between them {like} <as> the palm {might} <should> flourish,	5.2.40
3543	As peace should still her wheaten garland wear	5.2.41
3544	And stand a comma ’tween their amities,	5.2.42
3545	And many such-like {‘as’, sir,} <‘as’es> of great charge,	5.2.43
3546	That on the view and {knowing} <know> of these contents	5.2.44
3547	Without debatement further more or less	5.2.45
3548	He should {those} <the> bearers put to sudden death,	5.2.46
3549	Not shriving time allowed.	5.2.47
3550	horatio
	How was this sealed?	5.2.47
3551	hamlet
	Why, even in that was heaven {ordinant:} <ordinate:>	5.2.48
3552	I had my father’s signet in my purse	5.2.49
3553	(Which was the model of that Danish seal),	5.2.50
3554	Folded the writ up in {the} form of {th’} <the> other,	5.2.51
3555 T	Subscribed it, gave’t th’ impression, placed it safely,	5.2.52
3556	The changeling never known. Now the next day	5.2.53
3557 T	Was our sea-fight, and what to this was {sequent} <cement>	5.2.54
3558	Thou knowst already.	5.2.55
3559	horatio
	So Guildenstern and {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> go to’t.	5.2.56
3560	hamlet
	Why man, they did make love to this employment.	5.2.57
3561 T	{hamlet} They are not near my conscience. Their defeat	5.2.58
3562	{Does} <Doth> by their own insinuation grow.	5.2.59
3563	’Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes	5.2.60
3564	Between the pass and fell incensed points	5.2.61
3565	Of mighty opposites.	5.2.62
3566	horatio
	Why, what a king is this!	5.2.62
3567	hamlet
	Does it not, {think} <thinkst> thee, stand me now upon?	5.2.63
3568	He that hath killed my King and whored my mother,	5.2.64
3569	Popped in between th’ election and my hopes,	5.2.65
3570	Thrown out his angle for my proper life,	5.2.66
3571	And with such cozenage — is’t not perfect {conscience?} <conscience>	5.2.67
3572	To quit him with this arm? And is’t not to be damned	5.2.68
3573	To let this canker of our nature come	5.2.69
3574	In further evil?	5.2.60
3575	horatio
	It must be shortly known to him from England	5.2.70
3576	What is the issue of the business there.	5.2.71
3577-8	hamlet
	It will be short. The interim’s mine,	5.2.72
3578-9	And a man’s life’s no more than to say one.	5.2.73
3579	But I am very sorry, good Horatio,	5.2.74
3580	That to Laertes I forgot myself,	5.2.75
3581	For by the image of my cause I see	5.2.76
3582	The portraiture of his. I’ll countcourt his favours;	5.2.77
3583	But sure the bravery of his grief did put me	5.2.78
3584	Into a towering passion.	5.2.79
3585	horatio
	Peace, who comes here?	5.2.80
3586	Enter <young> Osric {, a Courtier}.
3587	{courtier} osric
	Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.	5.2.81
3588	hamlet
	I{, humble,} <humbly> thank you, sir. —	5.2.82
3588	Dost know this water-fly?	5.2.82
3589	horatio
	No, my good lord.	5.2.83
3590	hamlet
	Thy state is the more gracious, for ’tis a vice to	5.2.84
3591	know him. He hath much land and fertile. Let a beast	5.2.85-6
3592	be lord of beasts and his crib shall stand at the king’s	5.2.86-7
3593 T	mess. ’Tis a choughchuff but, as I say, spacious in the possession	5.2.87-8
3594	of dirt.	5.2.88
3595	{courtier} osric
	Sweet lord, if your {lordship} <friendship> were at leisure,	5.2.89
3596	I should impart a thing to you from his majesty.	5.2.90
3597-8	hamlet
	I will receive it{, sir,} with all dilligence of spirit — <put>	5.2.91-2
3598	your bonnet to his right use: ’tis for the head.	5.2.92-3
3599	{courtier} osric
	I thank your lordship, {it is} <’tis> very hot.	5.2.94
3600	hamlet
	No, believe me, ’tis very cold, the wind is	5.2.95
3601	northerly.	5.2.96
3602	{courtier} osric
	It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.	5.2.97
3603 T	hamlet
	{But yet methinks} <Methinks> it is very sultry and {hot, or} <hot for> my	5.2.98-9
3604	{complexion — } <complexion.>	5.2.99
3605	{courtier} osric
	Exceedingly, my lord, it is very sultry, as ’twere —	5.2.100-1
3606	I cannot tell how. {My} <But my> lord, his majesty bade me signify	5.2.101-2
3607	to you that {’a} <he> has laid a great wager on your head.	5.2.102-3
3608	Sir, this is the matter —	5.2.103
3609	hamlet
	I beseech you remember.	5.2.104
3610	{courtier} osric
	Nay, {good my lord,} <in good faith,> for {my} <mine> ease, in good faith. Sir, here is newly	5.2.105-6
3610+1 T	come to court Laertes — believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most	5.2.106-7
3610+2	excellent differences, of very soft society, and great showing. Indeed,	5.2.107-8
3610+3	to speak sellinglyfeelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry;	5.2.109-10
3610+4	for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman	5.2.110-1
3610+5	would see.	5.2.111
3610+6	hamlet
	Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you, though I	5.2.112-3
3610+7	know to divide him inventorially would dozydizzy th’arithmetic of	5.2.113-4
3610+8	memory, and yet but yawraw neither, in respect of his quick sail. But,	5.2.114-5
3610+9	in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article	5.2.115-7
3610+10	and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction	5.2.117-8
3610+11	of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his	5.2.118-9
3610+12	umbrage, nothing more.	5.2.120
3610+13	courtier [osric]
	Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.	5.2.121
3610+14	hamlet
	The concernancy, sir — Why do we wrap the gentleman in	5.2.122-3
3610+15	our more rawer breath?	5.2.123
3610+16	courtier [osric]
	Sir?	5.2.124
3610+17	horatio
	Is’t not possible to understand in another tongue? You will	5.2.125-6
3610+18	do’t,to’t, sir, really.	5.2.126
3610+19	hamlet
	What imports the nomination of this gentleman?	5.2.127
3610+20	courtier [osric]
	Of Laertes?	5.2.129
3610+21	horatio
	His purse is empty already: all ’s golden words are spent.	5.2.130-1
3610+22	hamlet
	Of him, sir.	5.2.132
3610+23	courtier [osric]
	I know you are not ignorant —	5.2.133
3610+24	hamlet
	I would you did, sir. Yet, in faith, if you did, it would not	5.2.134-5
3610+25	much approve me. Well, sir.	5.2.135
3611	courtier [osric] {You} <Sir, you> are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes {is— } <is at>	5.2.136-7
3612	<his weapon.>	5.2.137
3612+1	hamlet
	I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with	5.2.138-9
3612+2	him in excellence. But to know a man well were to know himself.	5.2.139-40
3612+3 T	courtier [osric]
	I mean, sir, for his weapon. But in the imputation laid on	5.2.141-2
3612+4	him by them in his meed he’s unfellowed.	5.2.142
3613	hamlet
	What’s his weapon?	5.2.144
3614	{courtier} osric
	Rapier and dagger.	5.2.145
3615	hamlet
	That’s two of his weapons — but well.	5.2.146
3616 T	{courtier} osric
	The King, sir, {hath wagered} <has waged> with him six Barbary horses,	5.2.147-8
3617	against the which he {has impawned,} <imponed,> as I take it, six French	5.2.148-9
3618	rapiers and poinards, with their assigns, as girdle,	5.2.149-50
3619	{hanger and} <hangers or> so. Three of the carriages, in faith, are very	5.2.150-1
3620	dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most delicate	5.2.151-2
3621	carriages, and of very liberal conceit.	5.2.152-3
3622	hamlet
	What call you the carriages?	5.2.154
3622+1	horatio
	I knew you must be edified by the margin ere you had	5.2.155-6
3622+2	done.	5.2.156
3623 T	{courtier} osric
	The carriages, sir, are the hangers.	5.2.157
3624	hamlet
	The phrase would be more germane to the	5.2.158
3625	matter if we could carry {a} cannon by our sides. I would	5.2.159-60
3626 T	it might be “hangers” till then. But on. Six Barbary horses	5.2.160-1
3627	against six French swords, their assigns and three	5.2.161-2
3628	liberal-conceited carriages: that’s the French {bet} <but> against	5.2.162-3
3629	the Danish. Why is this { — all} <imponed as> you call it?	5.2.163-4
3630	{courtier} osric
	The King, sir, hath laid{, sir,} that in a dozen passes between	5.2.165-6
3631	{yourself} <you> and him he shall not exceed you three hits;	5.2.166-7
3632 T	he hath {laid on} <on’t> twelve for nine, and {it} <that> would come to	5.2.167-8
3633	immediate trial, if your lordship would vouchsafe the	5.2.168-9
3634	answer.	5.2.169
3635	hamlet
	How if I answer no?	5.2.170
3636	{courtier} osric
	I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person	5.2.171
3637	in trial.	5.2.172
3638	hamlet
	Sir, I will walk here in the hall. If it please	5.2.173
3639	his majesty, {it is} <’tis> the breathing time of day with me. Let	5.2.174-5
3640	the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the	5.2.175-6
3641	King hold his purpose — I will win for him {an} <if> I can; if not,	5.2.176-7
3642	not, {I will} <I’ll> gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.	5.2.177-8
3643	{courtier} osric
	Shall I {deliver} <redeliver> you <e’en> so?	5.2.179
3644	hamlet
	To this effect, sir, after what flourish your nature	5.2.180-1
3645	will.	5.2.181
3646	{courtier} osric
	I commend my duty to your lordship.	5.2.182
3646	[Exit.]
3647	hamlet
	{Yours. Does} <Yours, yours. He does> well to commend it	5.2.183-4
3648	himself, there are no tongues else for’s {turn.} <tongue.>	5.2.184
3649	horatio
	This lapwing runs away with the shell on his	5.2.185
3650	head.	5.2.186
3651	hamlet
	{’A} <He> did {so, sir,} <comply> with his dug before {’a} <he>	5.2.187
3652 T	sucked it. Thus {has} <had> he, and many more of the same {breed} <beavy>	5.2.188-9
3653	that I know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of	5.2.189-90
3654	the time {and, out of an} <and outward> habit of encounter, a kind of	5.2.190-1
3655	{histy} <yeasty> collection, which carries them through and through	5.2.191-2
3656	the most {profaneprofound} <fondfanned> and winnowed opinions; and do but blow	5.2.192-3
3657	them to their {trial,} <trials,> the bubbles are out.	5.2.193-4
3657+1	Enter a Lord.
3657+2	lord
	My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young	5.2.195-6
3657+3 T	Osric, who brings back to him that you attend him in the hall.	5.2.196-7
3657+4	He sends to know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that	5.2.197-8
3657+5	you will take longer time?	5.2.198-9
3657+6	hamlet
	I am constant to my purposes, they follow the King’s pleasure.	5.2.200-1
3657+7	If his fitness speaks, mine is ready: now or whensoever, provided	5.2.201-2
3657+8	I be so able as now.	5.2.202
3657+9	lord
	The King and Queen and all are coming down.	5.2.203-4
3657+10	hamlet
	In happy time.	5.2.205
3657+11	lord
	The Queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment	5.2.206-7
3657+12	to Laertes before you fall to play.	5.2.207
3657+13	hamlet
	She well instructs me.	5.2.208
3657+13	[Exit Lord.]
3658	horatio
	You will {lose,} <lose this wager,> my lord.	5.2.209
3659	hamlet
	I do not think so; since he went into France,	5.2.210
3660	I have been in continual practice. I shall win at the	5.2.211
3661	odds. {Thou wouldst} <But thou wouldest> not think how {ill all’s} <all> here about	5.2.212
3662	my heart — but it is no matter.	5.2.213
3663	horatio
	Nay, good my lord —	5.2.214
3664	hamlet
	It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of	5.2.215
3665 T	gaingiving as would perhaps trouble a woman.	5.2.216
3666	horatio
	If your mind dislike anything, obey {it}. I will forestall	5.2.217-8
3667	their repair hither and say you are not fit.	5.2.218
3668	hamlet
	Not a whit, we defy augury. {There is} <There’s a> special	5.2.219
3669	providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it {be,} <be now,> ’tis not	5.2.220-1
3670	to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it	5.2.221-2
3671 T	be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all, since no	5.2.222-3
3672	man {of} <has> aught <of what> he {leaves} <leaves.> {knows what} <What> is’t to leave	5.2.223-4
3672-3	{betimes. Let be} <betimes?>	5.2.224
3675 T	{A table prepared, Trumpets, Drums and Officers with cushions, foils and daggers.}
3674-5	Enter King, Queen, Laertes, Osric, {and all the state.} <and Lords,>
3675	<with other Attendants with foils and gauntlets, a table and>
3676	<flagons of wine on it.>
3677	king
	Come, Hamlet, come and take this hand from me.	5.2.225
3677	[Puts Laertes’ hands into Hamlet’s.]	5.2.225
3678	hamlet
	Give me your pardon, sir. {I have} <I’ve> done you wrong.	5.2.226
3679	But pardon’t as you are a gentleman.	5.2.228
3680-1	This presence knows, and you must needs have heard,	5.2.228-9
3681-2	How I am punished with {a} sore distraction.	5.2.229-30
3682	What I have done	5.2.230
3683	That might your nature, honor and exception	5.2.231
3684	Roughly awake, I hear proclaim was madness.	5.2.232
3685	Was’t Hamlet wronged Laertes? Never Hamlet.	5.2.233
3686	If Hamlet from himself be ta’en away	5.2.234
3687	And when he’s not himself does wrong Laertes,	5.2.235
3688	Then Hamlet does it not; Hamlet denies it.	5.2.236
3689	Who does it then? His {madness.} <madness?> If’t be so,	5.2.237
3690	Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged:	5.2.238
3691	His madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy.	5.2.239
3692	Sir, in this audience,	5.2.240
3693	Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil	5.2.241
3694	Free me so far in your most generous thoughts	5.2.242
3695	That I have shot {my} <mine> arrow o’er the house	5.2.243
3696	And hurt my {brother.} <mother.>	5.2.244
3697	laertes
	I am satisfied in nature,	5.2.244
3698	Whose motive in this case should stir me most	5.2.245
3699	To my revenge, but in my terms of honor	5.2.246
3700	I stand aloof and will no reconcilement	5.2.247
3701	Till by some elder masters of known honor	5.2.248
3702	I have a voice and precedentpresident of peace	5.2.249
3703 T	To keep my name {ungored.} <ungorged.> But {all} <till> that time	5.2.250
3704	I do receive your offered love like love	5.2.251
3705	And will not wrong it.	5.2.252
3706	hamlet
	I <do> embrace it freely	5.2.252
3707	And will this brother’s wager frankly play. —	5.2.253
3708	Give us the foils. <Come on.>	5.2.254
3709	laertes
	Come, one for me.	5.2.254
3710	hamlet
	I’ll be your foil, Laertes. In mine ignorance	5.2.255
3711	Your skill shall like a star i’th’ darkest night	5.2.256
3712	Stick fiery off indeed.	5.2.257
3713	laertes
	You mock me, sir.	5.2.257
3714	hamlet
	No, by this hand.	5.2.258
3715-6 T	king
	Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,	5.2.259
3716	You know the wager?	5.2.260
3717	hamlet
	Very well, my lord.	5.2.260
3718	Your grace {has} <hath> laid the odds o’th’ weaker side.	5.2.261
3719-20	king
	I do not fear it. I have seen you both,	5.2.262
3721	But since he is {better,} <bettered,> we have therefore odds.	5.2.263
3722-3	laertes
	This is too heavy. Let me see another.	5.2.264
3724-5	hamlet
	This likes me well. These foils have all a length?	5.2.265
3725	<Prepare to play.>
3726 T	osric
	Ay, my good lord.	5.2.266
3727	king
	Set me the stoups of wine upon that table.	5.2.267
3728	If Hamlet give the first or second hit,	5.2.268
3729	Or quit in answer of the third exchange,	5.2.269
3730	Let all the battlements their ordnance fire.	5.2.270
3731	The King shall drink to Hamlet’s better breath	5.2.271
3732	And in the cup an {onyx} <union> shall he throw	5.2.272
3733	Richer than that which four successive kings	5.2.273
3734-5	In Denmark’s crown have worn. Give me the cups,	5.2.274
3736	And let the kettle to the {trumpet} <trumpets> speak,	5.2.275
3737	The trumpet to the cannoneer without,	5.2.276
3738	The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth.	5.2.277
3738	{(Trumpets the while.)}	5.2.277
3739	Now the King drinks to Hamlet. Come, begin,	5.2.278
3740	And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.	5.2.279
3741	hamlet
	Come on, sir.	5.2.280
3742	laertes
	{Come, my lord.} <Come on, sir.>	5.2.280
3742	They play.	5.2.280
3743	hamlet
	One.	5.2.280
3744	laertes
	No.	5.2.280
3745	hamlet
	Judgment.	5.2.280
3746	osric
	A hit, a very palpable hit.{Drum, trumpets and shot.}	5.2.281
3747	laertes
	Well, again. {Flourish, a piece goes off.}	5.2.281
3748	king
	Stay, give me drink. — Hamlet this pearl is thine.	5.2.282
3750	Here’s to thy health. — Give him the cup.	5.2.283
3751	<Trumpets sound, and shot goes off.>
3752	hamlet
	I’ll play this bout first. Set {it} by awhile.	5.2.284
3753	Come.	5.2.285
3753	[They play again.]
3753	Another hit. — What say you?	5.2.285
3754	laertes
	<A touch, a touch,> I do {confess’t.} <confess.>	5.2.286
3755	king
	Our son shall win.	5.2.287
3756	queen
	He’s fat and scant of breath.	5.2.287
3757	{Here, Hamlet, take my} <Here’s a> napkin, rub thy brows.	5.2.288
3758	The Queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.	5.2.289
3759	hamlet
	Good madam.	5.2.290
3760	king
	{Gertrard,}<Gertrude,> do not drink.	5.2.290
3761-2	queen
	I will, my lord; I pray you pardon me.	5.2.291
3763	king [Aside.]
	It is the poisoned cup; it is too late.	5.2.292
3764-5	hamlet
	I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by.	5.2.293
3766	queen
	Come, let me wipe thy face.	5.2.294
3767	laertes
	My lord, I’ll hit him now.	5.2.295
3768	king
	I do not think’t.	5.2.295
3769	laertes
	And yet {it is} <’tis> almost {against} <’gainst> my conscience.	5.2.296
3770-1	hamlet
	Come for the third, Laertes, you {do} but dally.	5.2.297
3772	I pray you pass with your best violence.	5.2.298
3773	I am {sure} <afeard> you make a wanton of me.	5.2.299
3774	laertes
	Say you so? Come on.	5.2.300
3774	They play.	5.2.300
3775	osric
	Nothing neither way.	5.2.301
3776	laertes
	Have at you now.	5.2.302
3777	In scuffling they change rapiers.
3778	king
	Part them, they are incensed.	5.2.302
3779	hamlet
	Nay, come again.	5.2.303
3780	osric
	Look to the Queen there, ho!	5.2.303
3781	horatio
	They bleed on both sides. How {is it,} <is’t,> my lord?	5.2.304
3782	osric
	How is’t, Laertes?	5.2.305
3783-4 T	laertes
	Why, as a woodcock to mine {own} springe, Osric:	5.2.306
3785	I am justly killed with mine own treachery.	5.2.307
3786	hamlet
	How does the Queen?	5.2.308
3787	king
	She swoons to see them bleed.	5.2.308
3788-9	queen
	No, no, the drink, the drink, O my dear Hamlet,	5.2.309
3789-90	The drink, the drink. I am poisoned.	5.2.310
3789-90	[Dies.]
3791	hamlet
	Oh, villainy! Ho! Let the door be locked.	5.2.311
3792	Treachery! Seek it out!	5.2.312
3792	[Exeunt Osric and some Lords.]	5.2.312
3793-4	laertes
	It is here, <Hamlet.> Hamlet, thou art slain.	5.2.313
3795	No medicine in the world can do the good;	5.2.314
3796	In thee there is not half an {hour’s} <hour of> life.	5.2.315
3797 T	The treacherous instrument is in thy hand	5.2.316
3798	Unbated and envenomed. The foul practice	5.2.317
3799	Hath turned itself on me. Lo, here I lie	5.2.318
3800	Never to rise again. Thy mother’s poisoned.	5.2.319
3801	I can no more — the King, the King’s to blame.	5.2.320
3802-3	hamlet
	The point envenomed too — then, venom, to thy work!	5.2.321-2
3804	Hurts the King.
3805	all [lords]
	Treason, treason!	5.2.323
3806	king
	Oh, yet defend me, friends, I am but hurt.	5.2.324
3807-8	hamlet
	{Hear thou,} <Here, thou> incestuous, <murderous,> damned Dane,	5.2.325
3809	Drink {of} <off> this potion. Is {the onyx} <thy union> here?	5.2.326
3810	Follow my mother.	5.2.327
3810	King dies.
3811	laertes
	He is justly served,	5.2.327
3812	It is a poison tempered by himself.	5.2.328
3813	Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet,	5.2.329
3814	Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee,	5.2.330
3815	Nor thine on me.	5.2.331
3815	Dies.	5.2.331
3816	hamlet
	Heaven make thee free of it. I follow thee.	5.2.332
3817	I am dead, Horatio. Wretched Queen, adieu.	5.2.333
3818	You that look pale and tremble at this chance,	5.2.334
3819	That are but mutes or audience to this act,	5.2.335
3820	Had I but time (as this fell sergeant, Death,	5.2.336
3821	Is strict in his arrest), Oh, I could tell you —	5.2.337
3822	But let it be. — Horatio, I am dead.	5.2.338
3823	Thou livest. Report me and my {cause aright} <causes right>	5.2.339
3824	To the unsatisfied.	5.2.340
3825	horatio
	Never believe it.	5.2.340
3826	I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.	5.2.341
3827	Here’s yet some liquor left.	5.2.342
3828	hamlet
	As thou’rt a man	5.2.342
3828-9	Give me the cup. Let go! By heaven, I’ll {ha’t!} <have’t!>	5.2.343
3830	O {God,} <good> Horatio, what a wounded name,	5.2.344
3831	Things standing thus unknown, shall {I leave} <live> behind me?	5.2.345
3832	If thou did’st ever hold me in thy heart,	5.2.346
3833	Absent thee from felicity awhile,	5.2.347
3834	And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain	5.2.348
3835	To tell my story.	5.2.349
3836	({A march}<March> afar off and shoutshot within.)
3837	What warlike noise is this?	5.2.349
3838	Enter Osric.
3839	osric
	Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,	5.2.350
3840	To th’ ambassadors of England gives this warlike volley.	5.2.352
3841	hamlet
	Oh, I die, Horatio.	5.2.352
3842	The potent poison quite o’ercrows my spirit.	5.2.353
3843	I cannot live to hear the news from England,	5.2.354
3844	But I do prophesy th’ election lights	5.2.355
3845	On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.	5.2.356
3846	So tell him, with {th’} <the> occurrents more and less	5.2.357
3847	Which have solicited. The rest is silence. Oh, oh, oh, oh.	5.2.358
3847	Dies.	5.2.358
3848-9	horatio
	Now {cracks} <crack> a noble heart. Good night, sweet Prince,	5.2.359
3850	And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.	5.2.360
3851	Why does the drum come hither?	5.2.361
3852 T	Enter Fortinbras {with the Ambassadors} <and English Ambassador,>
3852-3	with Drum, Colors, and Attendants.
3854	fortinbras
	Where is this sight?	5.2.362
3855	horatio
	What is it {you} <ye> would see?	5.2.362
3856	If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.	5.2.363
3857	fortinbras
	{This} <His> quarry cries on havock. O proud Death,	5.2.364
3858	What feast is toward in thine eternal cell	5.2.365
3859	That thou so many princes at a {shot} <shoot>	5.2.366
3860	So bloodily hast struck?	5.2.367
3861	ambassador
	The sight is dismal,	5.2.367
3862	And our affairs from England come too late.	5.2.368
3863	The ears are senseless that should give us hearing	5.2.369
3864	To tell him his commandment is fulfilled:	5.2.370
3865	That {Rosencraus} <Rosencrantz> and Guildenstern are dead.	5.2.371
3866	Where should we have our thanks?	5.2.372
3867	horatio
	Not from his mouth,	5.2.372
3868	Had it th’ ability of life to thank you;	5.2.373
3869	He never gave commandment for their death.	5.2.374
3870	But since so jump upon this bloody question	5.2.375
3871	You from the Polack wars and you from England,	5.2.376
3872	Are here arrived, give order that these bodies	5.2.377
3873	High on a stage be placed to the view,	5.2.378
3874 T	And let me speak to th’ yet unknowing world	5.2.379
3875	How these things came about. So shall you hear	5.2.380
3876	Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts,	5.2.381
3877	Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,	5.2.382
3878	Of deaths put on by cunning, and {for no} <forced> cause,	5.2.383
3879	And, in this upshot, purposes mistook	5.2.384
3880	Fallen on {th’} <the> inventors’ heads. All this can I	5.2.385
3881	Truly deliver.	5.2.386
3882	fortinbras
	Let us haste to hear it	5.2.386
3883	And call the noblest to the audience.	5.2.387
3884	For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune.	5.2.388
3885	I have some rights of memory in this kingdom	5.2.389
3886-7	Which {now} <are> to {claim} <claim;> my vantage doth invite me.	5.2.390
3888	horatio
	Of that I shall have {also} <always> cause to speak,	5.2.391
3889	And from his mouth whose voice will draw {no} <on> more.	5.2.392
3891	But let this same be presently performed	5.2.393
3892-3	Even {while} <whiles> men’s minds are wild, lest more mischance	5.2.394
3894	On plots and errors happen.	5.2.395
3895	fortinbras
	Let four captains	5.2.395
3896	Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,	5.2.396
3897	For he was likely, had he been put on,	5.2.397
3898-9	To have proved most {royal.} <royally.> And for his passage,	5.2.398
3900 T	The soldiers’ music and the {rite} <rites> of war	5.2.399
3901	Speak loudly for him.	5.2.400
3902	Take up the {bodies.} <body.> Such a sight as this	5.2.401
3903	Becomes the field but here shows much amiss.	5.2.402
3904	Go bid the soldiers shoot.	5.2.403
3905	Exeunt marching, after the which a peal of
3906	ordnance are shot off.
3907	FINIS.

List of roles

HAMLET, Prince of Denmark, son of the late King Hamlet of Denmark
KING {Claudius} of Denmark, brother of the late King Hamlet
QUEEN {Gertrard} <Gertrude> of Denmark, mother of Hamlet
GHOST
POLONIUS, counsellor
LAERTES, son to Polonius
OPHELIA, daughter to Polonius
HORATIO, friend to Hamlet
FORTINBRAS, prince of Norway
{ROSENCRAUS} <ROSENCRANTZ>, former schoolfellow of Hamlet
GUILDENSTERN former schoolfellow of Hamlet
FRANCISCO, sentinel (in 1.1) BARNARDO, sentinel
MARCELLUS, sentinel
VOLTEMAND, ambassador to Norway
CORNELIUS ambassador to Norway
{REYNALDO} <REYNOLDO> servant to Polonius (in 2.1)
PLAYER
PROLOGUE, in 3.2
PLAYER KING in 3.2
PLAYER QUEEN in 3.2
LUCIANUS in 3.2
CAPTAIN of the Norwegian army (in 4.4)
GENTLEMAN {in 4.5 and} in 4.6
FOLLOWERS of Laertes (in 4.5)
MESSENGER in 4.5 and in 4.7
SAILOR in 4.6
1 CLOWN, a gravedigger (in 5.1)
2 CLOWN, in 5.1
{DOCTOR} <PRIEST> {of Divinity} (in 5.1)
OSRIC, a courtier (in 5.2)
{LORD} {in 5.2}
AMBASSADOR from England (in 5.2)

Lords,
Attendants,
Trumpets,
Kettledrums and Drums,
Guard,
Sailors,
Officers,
another English Ambassador,
Norwegian army