The Enfolded Hamlet

Enfolded Hamlet: Second Quarto Text
Enfolded Hamlet: Second Quarto Text

The Tragedie of
H A M L E T

Prince of Denmarke.



0           [The Persons Represented]

1

2           B1r              Enter Barnardo, and Francisco, two Centinels.

3-4       Bar. Whose there? 1.1.1

5-6       Fran. Nay answere me. Stand and vnfolde your selfe. 1.1.2

7           Bar. Long liue the King, 1.1.3

8           Fran. Barnardo. 1.1.4

9           Bar. Hee. 1.1.5

10         Fran. You come most carefully vpon your houre, 1.1.6

11         Bar. Tis now strooke twelfe, get thee to bed Francisco, 1.1.7

12         Fran. For this reliefe much thanks, tis bitter cold, 1.1.8

13          And I am sick at hart. 1.1.9

14         Bar. Haue you had quiet guard? 1.1.9

15         Fran. Not a mouse stirring. 1.1.10

16         Bar. Well, good night: 1.1.12

16-7      If you doe meete Horatio and Marcellus,

17          The riualls of my watch, bid them make hast. 1.1.13

18                   Enter Horatio, and Marcellus. 1.1.13

19         Fran. I thinke I heare them, stand ho, who is there? 1.1.14

20         Hora. Friends to this ground. 1.1.15

21         Mar. And Leedgemen to the Dane, 1.1.15

22         Fran. Giue you good night. 1.1.16

23         Mar. O, farwell honest souldiers , who hath relieu'd you? 1.1.16

24-5     Fran. Barnardo hath my place; giue you good night. Exit Fran. 1.1.17

26         Blv Mar. Holla, Barnardo. 1.1.18

27         Bar. Say, what is Horatio there? 1.1.19

28         Hora. A peece of him. 1.1.19

29         Bar. Welcome Horatio, welcome good Marcellus, 1.1.20

30         Hora. What, ha's this thing appeard againe to night? 1.1.21

31         Bar. I haue seene nothing. 1.1.22

32         Mar. Horatio saies tis but our fantasie, 1.1.23

33         And will not let beliefe take holde of him, 1.1.24

34         Touching this dreaded sight twice seene of vs, 1.1.25

35         Therefore I haue intreated him along, 1.1.26

36         With vs to watch the minuts of this night, 1.1.27

37         That if againe this apparision come, 1.1.28

38         He may approoue our eyes and speake to it. 1.1.29

39          Hora. Tush, tush, twill not appeare. 1.1.30

40          Bar. Sit downe a while, 1.1.30

41         And let vs once againe assaile your eares, 1.1.31

42         That are so fortified against our story, 1.1.32

43         What we haue two nights seene. 1.1.33

44          Hora. Well, sit we downe, 1.1.33

45         And let vs heare Barnardo speake of this. 1.1.34

46          Bar. Last night of all, 1.1.35

47         When yond same starre thats weastward from the pole, 1.1.36

48         Had made his course t'illume that part of heauen 1.1.37

49         Where now it burnes, Marcellus and my selfe 1.1.38

50         The bell then beating one. 1.1.39

51                      Enter Ghost. 1.1.40

51-2      Mar. Peace, breake thee of, looke where it comes againe.

53          Bar. In the same figure like the King thats dead. 1.1.41

54          Mar. Thou art a scholler, speake to it Horatio. 1.1.42

55          Bar. Lookes a not like the King? marke it Horatio. 1.1.43

56          Hora. Most like, it horrowes me with feare and wonder. 1.1.44

57          Bar. It would be spoke to . 1.1.45

58          Mar. Speake to it Horatio. 1.1.45

59          Hora. What art thou that vsurpst this time of night, 1.1.46

60         Together with that faire and warlike forme, 1.1.47

61         In which the Maiestie of buried Denmarke 1.1.48

62         Did sometimes march, by heauen I charge thee speake. 1.1.49

63          Mar. It is offended. 1.1.50

64          Bar. See it staukes away. 1.1.50

65-66   B2 Hora. Stay, speake, speake, I charge thee speake. Exit Ghost. 1.1.51

67          Mar. Tis gone and will not answere. 1.1.52

68          Bar. How now Horatio, you tremble and looke pale, 1.1.53

69         Is not this somthing more then phantasie? 1.1.54

70         What thinke you-ont? 1.1.55

71          Hora. Before my God I might not this belieue, 1.1.56

72         Without the sencible and true auouch 1.1.57

73         Of mine owne eies. 1.1.58

74          Mar. Is it not like the King? 1.1.58

75          Hora. As thou art to thy selfe. 1.1.59

76         Such was the very Armor he had on, 1.1.60

77         When he the ambitious Norway combated, 1.1.61

78         So frownd he once, when in an angry parle 1.1.62

79         He smot the sleaded pollax on the ice. 1.1.63

80         Tis strange. 1.1.64

81          Mar. Thus twice before, and iump at this dead houre, 1.1.65

82         With martiall stauke hath he gone by our watch. 1.1.66

83          Hora. In what perticular thought, to worke I know not, 1.1.67

84         But in the grosse and scope of mine opinion, 1.1.68

85         This bodes some strange eruption to our state. 1.1.69

86          Mar. Good now sit downe, and tell me he that knowes, 1.1.70

87         Why this same strikt and most obseruant watch 1.1.71

88         So nightly toiles the subiect of the land, 1.1.72

89         And with such dayly cost of brazon Cannon 1.1.73

90         And forraine marte, for implements of warre, 1.1.74

91         Why such impresse of ship-writes, whose sore taske 1.1.75

92         Does not deuide the Sunday from the weeke, 1.1.76

93         What might be toward that this sweaty hast 1.1.77

94         Doth make the night ioynt labourer with the day, 1.1.78

95         Who ist that can informe mee? 1.1.79

96          Hora. That can I. 1.1.79

97          At least the whisper goes so; our last King, 1.1.80

98         Whose image euen but now appear'd to vs, 1.1.81

99         Was as you knowe by Fortinbrasse of Norway, 1.1.82

100       Thereto prickt on by a most emulate pride 1.1.83

101       Dar'd to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet, 1.1.84

102       (For so this side of our knowne world esteemd him) 1.1.85

103       Did slay this Fortinbrasse, who by a seald compact 1.1.86

104       Well ratified by lawe and heraldy 1.1.87

105       B2v Did forfait (with his life) all these his lands 1.1.88

106       Which he stood seaz'd of , to the conquerour. 1.1.89

107       Against the which a moitie competent 1.1.90

108       Was gaged by our King, which had returne 1.1.91

109       To the inheritance of Fortinbrasse, 1.1.92

110       Had he bin vanquisher; as by the same comart, 1.1.93

111       And carriage of the article desseigne, 1.1.94

112       His fell to Hamlet; now Sir, young Fortinbrasse 1.1.95

113       Of vnimprooued mettle, hot and full, 1.1.96

114       Hath in the skirts of Norway heere and there 1.1.97

115       Sharkt vp a list of lawelesse resolutes 1.1.98

116       For foode and diet to some enterprise 1.1.99

117       That hath a stomacke in't, which is no other 1.1.100

118       As it doth well appeare vnto our state 1.1.101

119       But to recouer of vs by strong hand 1.1.102

120       And tearmes compulsatory , those foresaid lands 1.1.103

121       So by his father lost; and this I take it, 1.1.104

122       Is the maine motiue of our preparations 1.1.105

123       The source of this our watch, and the chiefe head 1.1.106

124       Of this post hast and Romadge in the land. 1.1.107

124+1    Bar. I thinke it be no other, but enso; 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 warres. 1.1.111

124+5    Hora. A moth it is to trouble the mindes 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 Iulius fell 1.1.114

124+8   The graues stood tennatlesse, and the sheeted dead 1.1.115

124+9   Did squeake and gibber in the Roman streets 1.1.116

124+10 As starres with traines of fier, and dewes of blood 1.1.117

124+11 Disasters in the sunne; and the moist starre, 1.1.118

124+12 Vpon whose influence Neptunes Empier stands, 1.1.119

124+13 Was sicke almost to doomesday with eclipse. 1.1.120

124+14 And euen the like precurse of feare euents 1.1.121

124+15 As harbindgers preceading still the fates 1.1.122

124+16 And prologue to the Omen comming on 1.1.123

124+17 Haue heauen and earth together demonstrated 1.1.124

124+18 Vnto our Climatures and countrymen. 1.1.125

125                    Enter Ghost . ..

126       B3 But soft, behold, loe where it comes againe 1.1.126

127       Ile crosse it though it blast mee: stay illusion,                   It spreads 1.1.127

128       If thou hast any sound or vse of voyce,                   his armes. 1.1.128

129       Speake to me, if there be any good thing to be done 1.1.130

130       That may to thee doe ease, and grace to mee, 1.1.132

130       Speake to me. 1.1.132

131       If thou art priuie to thy countries fate 1.1.133

132       Which happily foreknowing may auoyd 1.1.135

132       O speake: 1.1.135

133       Or if thou hast vphoorded in thy life 1.1.136

134       Extorted treasure in the wombe of earth 1.1.137

135       For which they say your spirits oft walke in death. The cocke 1.1.138

136       Speake of it, stay and speake, stop it Marcellus. crowes. 1.1.139

137        Mar. Shall I strike it with my partizan? 1.1.140

138        Hor. Doe if it will not stand. 1.1.141

139        Bar. Tis heere. 1.1.141

140        Hor. Tis heere. 1.1.141

141        Mar. Tis gone. 1.1.142

142       We doe it wrong being so Maiesticall 1.1.143

143       To offer it the showe of violence, 1.1.144

144       For it is as the ayre, invulnerable, 1.1.145

145       And our vaine blowes malicious mockery. 1.1.146

146        Bar. It was about to speake when the cock crewe. 1.1.147

147        Hor. And then it started like a guilty thing, 1.1.148

148       Vpon a fearefull summons; I haue heard, 1.1.149

149       The Cock that is the trumpet to the morne , 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 ayre 1.1.153

153       Th'extrauagant and erring spirit hies 1.1.154

154       To his confine, and of the truth heerein 1.1.155

155       This present obiect made probation. 1.1.156

156        Mar. It faded on the crowing of the Cock. 1.1.157

157       Some say that euer gainst that season comes 1.1.158

158       Wherein our Sauiours birth is celebrated 1.1.159

159       This bird of dawning singeth all night long, 1.1.160

160       And then they say no spirit dare sturre abraode 1.1.161

161       The nights are wholsome, then no plannets strike, 1.1.162

162       No fairy takes , nor witch hath power to charme 1.1.163

163       B3v So hallowed , and so gratious is that time. 1.1.164

164        Hora. So haue I heard and doe in part belieue it, 1.1.165

165       But looke the morne in russet mantle clad 1.1.166

166       Walkes ore the dewe of yon high Eastward hill 1.1.167

167       Breake we our watch vp and by my aduise 1.1.168

168       Let vs impart what we haue seene to night 1.1.169

169       Vnto young Hamlet, for vppon my life 1.1.170

170       This spirit dumb to vs, will speake to him: 1.1.171

171       Doe you consent we shall acquaint him with it 1.1.172

172       As needfull in our loues, fitting our duty. 1.1.173

173        Mar. Lets doo't I pray, and I this morning knowe 1.1.174

174       Where we shall find him most conuenient . Exeunt. 1.1.175

175                     ..

176       Florish. Enter Claudius, King of Denmarke, Gertradt he Queene, ..

177        Counsaile: as Polonius, and his Sonne Laertes, ..

178        Hamlet, Cum Alijs. ..

179        Claud. Though yet of Hamlet our deare brothers death 1.2.1

180       The memorie be greene, and that it vs befitted 1.2.2

181       To beare our harts in griefe, and our whole Kingdome, 1.2.3

182       To be contracted in one browe of woe 1.2.4

183       Yet so farre hath discretion fought with nature, 1.2.5

184       That we with wisest sorrowe thinke on him 1.2.6

185       Together with remembrance of our selues: 1.2.7

186       Therefore our sometime Sister, now our Queene 1.2.8

187       Th'imperiall ioyntresse to this warlike state 1.2.9

188       Haue we as twere with a defeated ioy 1.2.10

189       With an auspitious, and a dropping eye, 1.2.11

190       With mirth in funerall, and with dirdge in marriage, 1.2.12

191       In equall scale waighing delight and dole 1.2.13

192       Taken to wife: nor haue we heerein bard 1.2.14

193       Your better wisdomes, which haue freely gone 1.2.15

194       With this affaire along (for all our thankes) 1.2.16

195       Now followes that you knowe young Fortinbrasse, 1.2.17

196       Holding a weake supposall of our worth 1.2.18

197       Or thinking by our late deare brothers death 1.2.19

198       Our state to be disioynt, and out of frame 1.2.20

199       Coleagued with this dreame of his aduantage 1.2.21

200       He hath not faild to pestur vs with message 1.2.22

201       B4 Importing the surrender of those lands 1.2.23

202       Lost by his father, with all bands of lawe 1.2.24

203       To our most valiant brother, so much for him: 1.2.25

204        1.2.

205       Now for our selfe, and for this time of meeting, 1.2.26

206       Thus much the busines is, we haue heere writ 1.2.27

207       To Norway Vncle of young Fortenbrasse 1.2.28

208       Who impotent and bedred scarcely heares 1.2.29

209       Of this his Nephewes purpose; to suppresse 1.2.30

210       His further gate heerein, in that the leuies, 1.2.31

211       The lists, and full proportions are all made 1.2.32

212       Out of his subiect, and we heere dispatch 1.2.33

213       You good Cornelius, and you Valtemand, 1.2.34

214       For bearers of this greeting to old Norway, 1.2.35

215       Giuing to you no further personall power 1.2.36

216       To busines with the King, more then the scope 1.2.37

217       Of these delated articles allowe: 1.2.38

218       Farwell, and let your hast commend your dutie. 1.2.39

219        Cor. Vo. In that, and all things will we showe our dutie. 1.2.40

220        King. We doubt it nothing, hartely farwell. 1.2.41

221        ..

222       And now Laertes whats the newes with you? 1.2.42

223        You told vs of some sute, what ist Laertes? 1.2.43

224       You cannot speake of reason to the Dane 1.2.44

225       And lose your voyce; what wold'st thou begge Laertes,? 1.2.45

226       That shall not be my offer, not thy asking, 1.2.46

227       The head is not more natiue to the hart 1.2.47

228       The hand more instrumentall to the mouth 1.2.48

229       Then is the throne of Denmarke to thy father, 1.2.49

230       What would'st thou haue Laertes? 1.2.50

231        Laer. My dread Lord, 1.2.50

232       Your leaue and fauour to returne to Fraunce, 1.2.51

233       From whence, though willingly I came to Denmarke, 1.2.52

234       To showe my dutie in your Coronation; 1.2.53

235       Yet now I must confesse, that duty done 1.2.54

236       My thoughts and wishes bend againe toward Fraunce 1.2.55

237       And bowe them to your gracious leaue and pardon. 1.2.56

238-9    King. Haue you your fathers leaue, what saies Polonius?

240        Polo. Hath my Lord wroung from me my slowe leaue 1.2.58

240+1   By laboursome petition, and at last 1.2.59

240+2   Vpon his will I seald my hard consent, 1.2.60

241       B4v I doe beseech you giue him leaue to goe. 1.2.61

242        King. Take thy faire houre Laertes, time be thine 1.2.62

243       And thy best graces spend it at thy will: 1.2.63

244       But now my Cosin Hamlet, and my sonne. 1.2.64

245        Ham. A little more then kin, and lesse then kind. 1.2.65

246        King. How is it that the clowdes still hang on you. 1.2.66

247        Ham. Not so much my Lord, I am too much in the sonne . 1.2.67

248        Queene. Good Hamlet cast thy nighted colour off 1.2.68

249       And let thine eye looke like a friend on Denmarke, 1.2.69

250       Doe not for euer with thy vailed lids 1.2.70

251       Seeke for thy noble Father in the dust, 1.2.71

252       Thou know'st tis common all that liues must die, 1.2.72

253       Passing through nature to eternitie. 1.2.73

254        Ham. I Maddam, it is common. 1.2.74

255        Quee. If it be 1.2.74

256       VVhy seemes it so perticuler with thee. 1.2.75

257        Ham. Seemes Maddam, nay it is, I know not seemes, 1.2.76

258       Tis not alone my incky cloake coold mother 1.2.77

259       Nor customary suites of solembe blacke 1.2.78

260       Nor windie suspiration of forst breath 1.2.79

261       No, nor the fruitfull riuer in the eye, 1.2.80

262       Nor the deiected hauior of the visage 1.2.81

263       Together with all formes, moodes, chapes of griefe 1.2.82

264       That can deuote me truely, these indeede seeme, 1.2.83

265       For they are actions that a man might play 1.2.84

266       But I haue that within which passes showe 1.2.85

267       These but the trappings and the suites of woe. 1.2.86

268-9    King. Tis sweete and commendable in your nature Hamlet, 1.2.87

270       To giue these mourning duties to your father 1.2.88

271       But you must knowe your father lost a father, 1.2.89

272       That father lost, lost his, and the suruiuer bound 1.2.90

273       In filliall obligation for some tearme 1.2.91

274       To doe obsequious sorrowe, but to perseuer 1.2.92

275       In obstinate condolement, is a course 1.2.93

276       Of impious stubbornes, tis vnmanly griefe, 1.2.94

277       It showes a will most incorrect to heauen 1.2.95

278       A hart vnfortified, or minde impatient 1.2.96

279       An vnderstanding simple and vnschoold 1.2.97

280       For what we knowe must be, and is as common 1.2.98

281       C1 As any the most vulgar thing to sence, 1.2.99

282       Why should we in our peuish opposition 1.2.100

283       Take it to hart, fie, tis a fault to heauen, 1.2.101

284       A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, 1.2.102

285       To reason most absurd, whose common theame 1.2.103

286       Is death of fathers, and who still hath cryed 1.2.104

287       From the first course , till he that died to day 1.2.105

288       This must be so: we pray you throw to earth 1.2.106

289       This vnpreuailing woe, and thinke of vs 1.2.107

290       As of a father, for let the world take note 1.2.108

291       You are the most imediate to our throne, 1.2.109

292       And with no lesse nobilitie of loue 1.2.110

293       Then that which dearest father beares his sonne, 1.2.111

294       Doe I impart toward you for your intent 1.2.112

295       In going back to schoole in Wittenberg, 1.2.113

296       It is most retrogard to our desire, 1.2.114

297       And we beseech you bend you to remaine 1.2.115

298       Heere in the cheare and comfort of our eye, 1.2.116

299       Our chiefest courtier, cosin, and our sonne. 1.2.117

300        Quee. Let not thy mother loose her prayers Hamlet, 1.2.118

301       I pray thee stay with vs, goe not to Wittenberg. 1.2.119

302-3    Ham. I shall in all my best obay you Madam.

304        King. Why tis a louing and a faire reply, 1.2.121

305       Be as our selfe in Denmarke, Madam come, 1.2.122

306       This gentle and vnforc'd accord of Hamlet 1.2.123

307       Sits smiling to my hart, in grace whereof, 1.2.124

308       No iocond health that Denmarke drinkes to day, 1.2.125

309       But the great Cannon to the cloudes shall tell. 1.2.126

310       And the Kings rowse the heauen shall brute againe, 1.2.127

311       Respeaking earthly thunder; come away.        Florish. Exeunt all, 1.2.128

312                                               ..

313        Ham. O that this too too sallied flesh would melt, but Hamlet 1.2.129

314       Thaw and resolue it selfe into a dewe, 1.2.130

315       Or that the euerlasting had not fixt 1.2.131

316       His cannon gainst seale slaughter, ô God, God, 1.2.132

317       How wary , stale, flat, and vnprofitable 1.2.133

318       Seeme to me all the vses of this world? 1.2.134

319       Fie on't, ah fie, tis an vnweeded garden 1.2.135

320       That growes to seede, things rancke and grose in nature, 1.2.136

321       Possesse it meerely that it should come thus 1.2.137

322       C1v 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       Hiperion to a satire, so louing to my mother, 1.2.140

325       That he might not beteeme the winds of heauen 1.2.141

326       Visite her face too roughly, heauen and earth 1.2.142

327       Must I remember, why she should hang on him 1.2.143

328       As if increase of appetite had growne 1.2.144

329       By what it fed on, and yet within a month, 1.2.145

330       Let me not thinke on't; frailty thy name is woman 1.2.146

331       A little month or ere those shooes were old 1.2.147

332       With which she followed my poore fathers bodie 1.2.148

333       Like Niobe all teares, why she 1.2.149

334       O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason 1.2.150

335       Would haue mourn'd longer, married with my Vncle, 1.2.151

336       My fathers brother, but no more like my father 1.2.152

337       Then I to Hercules, within a month, 1.2.153

338       Ere yet the salt of most vnrighteous teares, 1.2.154

339       Had left the flushing in her gauled eyes 1.2.155

340       She married, ô most wicked speede; to post 1.2.156

341       With such dexteritie to incestious sheets, 1.2.157

342       It is not, nor it cannot come to good, 1.2.158

343       But breake my hart, for I must hold my tongue. 1.2.159

344       Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo . ..

345        Hora. Haile to your Lordship. 1.2.160

346-7    Ham. I am glad to see you well; Horatio, or I do forget my selfe.

348-9    Hora. The same my Lord, and your poore seruant euer.

350-1    Ham. Sir my good friend, Ile change that name with you,

352       And what make you from Wittenberg Horatio? 1.2.164

353        Marcellus. 1.2.

354        Mar. My good Lord. 1.2.166

355        Ham. I am very glad to see you, (good euen sir) 1.2.167

356       But what in faith make you from Wittenberg? 1.2.168

357        Hora. A truant disposition good my Lord. 1.2.169

358        Ham. I would not heare your enimie say so, 1.2.170

359       Nor shall you doe my eare that violence 1.2.171

360       To make it truster of your owne report 1.2.172

361       Against your selfe, I knowe you are no truant, 1.2.173

362       But what is your affaire in Elsonoure? 1.2.174

363       Weele teach you for to drinke ere you depart. 1.2.175

364       C2 Hora. My Lord, I came to see your fathers funerall. 1.2.176

365        Ham. I prethee doe not mocke me fellowe studient, 1.2.177

366       I thinke it was to my mothers wedding. 1.2.178

367        Hora. Indeede my Lord it followed hard vppon. 1.2.179

368        Ham. Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funerall bak't meates 1.2.180

369       Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables, 1.2.181

370       Would I had met my dearest foe in heauen 1.2.182

371       Or euer I had seene that day Horatio, 1.2.183

372       My father, me thinkes I see my father. 1.2.184

373        Hora. Where my Lord? 1.2.185

374        Ham. In my mindes eye Horatio. 1.2.185

375        Hora. I saw him once, a was a goodly King. 1.2.186

376        Ham. A was a man take him for all in all 1.2.187

377       I shall not looke vppon his like againe. 1.2.188

378        Hora. My Lord I thinke I saw him yesternight. 1.2.189

379        Ham. saw, who? 1.2.190

380        Hora. My Lord the King your father. 1.2.191

381        Ham. The King my father? 1.2.191

382        Hora. Season your admiration for a while 1.2.192

383       With an attent eare till I may deliuer 1.2.193

384       Vppon the witnes of these gentlemen 1.2.194

385       This maruile to you. 1.2.195

386        Ham. For Gods loue let me heare? 1.2.195

387        Hora. Two nights together had these gentlemen 1.2.196

388       Marcellus, and Barnardo, on their watch 1.2.197

389       In the dead wast and middle of the night 1.2.198

390       Beene thus incountred, a figure like your father 1.2.199

391       Armed at poynt, exactly Capapea 1.2.200

392       Appeares before them, and with solemne march, 1.2.201

393       Goes slowe and stately by them; thrice he walkt 1.2.202

394       By their opprest and feare surprised eyes 1.2.203

395       Within his tronchions length, whil'st they distil'd 1.2.204

396       Almost to gelly, with the act of feare 1.2.205

397       Stand dumbe and speake not to him; this to me 1.2.206

398       In dreadfull secresie impart they did, 1.2.207

399       And I with them the third night kept the watch, 1.2.208

400       Whereas they had deliuered both in time 1.2.209

401       Forme of the thing, each word made true and good, 1.2.210

402       The Apparision comes: I knewe your father, 1.2.211

403       C2v These hands are not more like. 1.2.212

404        Ham. But where was this? 1.2.212

405        Mar. My Lord vppon the platforme where we watch , 1.2.213

406        Ham. Did you not speake to it? 1.2.214

407        Hora. My Lord I did, 1.2.214

408       But answere made it none, yet once me thought 1.2.215

409       It lifted vp it head, and did addresse 1.2.216

410       It selfe to motion like as it would speake: 1.2.217

411       But euen then the morning Cock crewe loude, 1.2.218

412       And at the sound it shrunk in hast away 1.2.219

413       And vanisht from our sight. 1.2.220

414        Ham. Tis very strange. 1.2.220

415        Hora. As I doe liue my honor'd Lord tis true 1.2.221

416       And we did thinke it writ downe in our dutie 1.2.222

417       To let you knowe of it. 1.2.223

418        Ham. Indeede Sirs but this troubles me, 1.2.224

419       Hold you the watch to night? 1.2.225

420        All . We doe my Lord. 1.2.225

421        Ham. Arm'd say you? 1.2.226

422        All . Arm'd my Lord. 1.2.227

423        Ham. From top to toe? 1.2.228

424        All . My Lord from head to foote. 1.2.228

425        Ham. Then sawe you not his face. 1.2.229

426        Hora. O yes my Lord, he wore his beauer vp. 1.2.230

427        Ham. What look't he frowningly? 1.2.231

428        Hora. A countenance more in sorrow then in anger. 1.2.232

429        Ham. Pale, or red? 1.2.232

430        Hora. Nay very pale. 1.2.233

431        Ham. And fixt his eyes vpon you? 1.2.233

432        Hora. Most constantly. 1.2.234

433        Ham. I would I had beene there. 1.2.234

434        Hora. It would haue much a maz'd you. 1.2.235

435        Ham. Very like, stayd it long? 1.2.236

436        Hora. While one with moderate hast might tell a hundreth . 1.2.237

437        Both . Longer, longer. 1.2.238

438        Hora. Not when I saw't. 1.2.239

439        Ham. His beard was grissl'd, no. 1.2.239

440        Hora. It was as I haue seene it in his life 1.2.240

441       A sable siluer'd. 1.2.241

441+1   C3 Ham. I will watch to nigh

442       Perchaunce twill walke againe. 1.2.241

443        Hora. I warn't it will. 1.2.242

444        Ham. If it assume my noble fathers person, 1.2.243

445       Ile speake to it though hell it selfe should gape 1.2.244

446       And bid me hold my peace; I pray you all 1.2.245

447       If you haue hetherto conceald this sight 1.2.246

448       Let it be tenable in your silence still, 1.2.247

449       And what someuer els shall hap to night, 1.2.248

450       Giue it an vnderstanding but no tongue, 1.2.249

451       I will requite your loues, so farre you well: 1.2.250

452       Vppon the platforme twixt a leauen and twelfe 1.2.251

453       Ile visite you. 1.2.252

454        All. Our dutie to your honor. Exeunt. 1.2.252

455        Ham. Your loues , as mine to you, farwell. 1.2.253

456       My fathers spirit (in armes) all is not well, 1.2.254

457       I doubt some foule play, would the night were come, 1.2.255

458       Till then sit still my soule, fonde deedes will rise 1.2.256

459       Though all the earth ore-whelme them to mens eyes. Exit. 1.2.257

460

461                    Enter Laertes, and Opheliahis Sister .

462        Laer. My necessaries are inbarckt, farwell, 1.3.1

463       And sister, as the winds giue benefit 1.3.2

464       And conuay, in assistant doe not sleepe 1.3.3

465       But let me heere from you. 1.3.4

466        Ophe. Doe you doubt that? 1.3.4

467        Laer. For Hamlet, and the trifling of his fauour , 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 , not permanent, sweete, not lasting, 1.3.8

471       The perfume and suppliance of a minute 1.3.10

471       No more. 1.3.10

472        Ophe. No more but so. 1.3.10

473        Laer. Thinke it no more. 1.3.10

474       For nature cressant does not growe alone 1.3.11

475       In thewes and bulkes, but as this temple waxes 1.3.12

476       The inward seruice of the minde and soule 1.3.13

477       Growes wide withall, perhapes he loues you now, 1.3.14

478       And now no soyle nor cautell doth besmirch 1.3.15

479       The vertue of his will, but you must feare, 1.3.16

480       C3v His greatnes wayd, his will is not his owne, 1.3.

481        1.3.18

482       He may not as vnualewed persons doe, 1.3.19

483       Carue for himselfe, for on his choise depends 1.3.20

484       The safty and health of this whole state, 1.3.21

485       And therefore must his choise be circumscribd 1.3.22

486       Vnto the voyce and yeelding of that body 1.3.23

487       Whereof he is the head, then if he saies he loues you, 1.3.24

488       It fits your wisdome so farre to belieue it 1.3.25

489       As he in his particuler act and place 1.3.26

490       May giue his saying deede, which is no further 1.3.27

491       Then the maine voyce of Denmarke goes withall. 1.3.28

492       Then way what losse your honor may sustaine 1.3.29

493       If with too credent eare you list his songs 1.3.30

494       Or loose your hart, or your chast treasure open 1.3.31

495       To his vnmastred importunity. 1.3.32

496       Feare it Ophelia, feare it my deare sister, 1.3.33

497       And keepe you in the reare of your affection 1.3.34

498       Out of the shot and danger of desire, 1.3.35

499       "The chariest maide is prodigall inough 1.3.36

500       If she vnmaske her butie to the Moone 1.3.37

501       "Vertue it selfe scapes not calumnious strokes 1.3.38

502       "The canker gaules the infants of the spring 1.3.39

503       Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd, 1.3.40

504       And in the morne and liquid dewe of youth 1.3.41

505       Contagious blastments are most iminent, 1.3.42

506       Be wary then, best safety lies in feare, 1.3.43

507       Youth to it selfe rebels, though non els neare. 1.3.44

508        Ophe. I shall the effect of this good lesson keepe 1.3.45

509       As watchman to my hart, but good my brother 1.3.46

510       Doe not as some vngracious pastors doe, 1.3.47

511       Showe me the steepe and thorny way to heauen 1.3.48

512       Whiles a puft, and reckles libertine 1.3.49

513       Himselfe the primrose path of dalience treads. 1.3.50

514       And reakes not his owne reed. Enter Polonius. 1.3.51

515        Laer. O feare me not, 1.3.51

516        ..

517       I stay too long, but heere my father comes 1.3.52

518       A double blessing, is a double grace, 1.3.53

519       Occasion smiles vpon a second leaue. 1.3.54

520        Pol. Yet heere Laertes? a bord, a bord for shame, 1.3.55

521       C4 The wind sits in the shoulder of your saile, 1.3.56

522       And you are stayed for, there my blessing with thee, 1.3.57

523       And these fewe precepts in thy memory 1.3.58

524       Looke thou character, giue thy thoughts no tongue, 1.3.59

525       Nor any vnproportion'd thought his act, 1.3.60

526       Be thou familier, but by no meanes vulgar, 1.3.61

527       Those friends thou hast, and their a doption tried, 1.3.62

528       Grapple them vnto thy soule with hoopes of steele, 1.3.63

529       But doe not dull thy palme with entertainment 1.3.64

530       Of each new hatcht vnfledgd courage, beware 1.3.65

531       Of entrance to a quarrell, but being in, 1.3.66

532       Bear't that th'opposed may beware of thee, 1.3.67

533       Giue euery man thy eare, but fewe thy voyce, 1.3.68

534       Take each mans censure, but reserue thy iudgement, 1.3.69

535       Costly thy habite as thy purse can buy, 1.3.70

536       But not exprest in fancy; rich not gaudy, 1.3.71

537       For the apparrell oft proclaimes the man 1.3.72

538       And they in Fraunce of the best ranck and station, 1.3.73

539       Or of a most select and generous, chiefe in that: 1.3.74

540       Neither a borrower nor a lender boy, 1.3.75

541       For loue oft looses both it selfe, and friend, 1.3.76

542       And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry; 1.3.77

543       This aboue all, to thine owne selfe be true 1.3.78

544       And it must followe as the night the day 1.3.79

545       Thou canst not then be false to any man: 1.3.80

546       Farwell, my blessing season this in thee. 1.3.81

547        Laer. Most humbly doe I take my leaue my Lord. 1.3.82

548        Pol. The time inuests you goe, your seruants tend. 1.3.83

549        Laer. Farwell Ophelia, and remember well 1.3.84

550       What I haue sayd to you. 1.3.85

551        Ophe. Tis in my memory lockt 1.3.85

552       And you your selfe shall keepe the key of it. 1.3.86

553        Laer. Farwell.                         Exit Laertes. 1.3.87

554        Pol. What ist Ophelia he hath sayd to you? 1.3.88

555        Ophe. So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet. 1.3.89

556        Pol. Marry well bethought 1.3.90

557       Tis tolde me he hath very oft of late 1.3.91

558       Giuen priuate time to you, and you your selfe 1.3.92

559       Haue of your audience beene most free and bountious, 1.3.93

560       C4v 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 doe not vnderstand your selfe so cleerely 1.3.96

563       As it behooues my daughter, and your honor, 1.3.97

564       What is betweene you giue me vp the truth, 1.3.98

565        Ophe. He hath my Lord of late made many tenders 1.3.99

566       Of his affection to me. 1.3.100

567        Pol. Affection, puh, you speake like a greene girle 1.3.101

568       Vnsifted in such perrilous circumstance, 1.3.102

569       Doe you belieue his tenders as you call them? 1.3.103

570        Ophe. I doe not knowe my Lord what I should thinke. 1.3.104

571        Pol. Marry I will teach you, thinke your selfe a babie 1.3.105

572       That you haue tane these tenders for true pay 1.3.106

573       Which are not sterling, tender your selfe more dearely 1.3.107

574       Or (not to crack the winde of the poore phrase 1.3.108

575       Wrong it thus) you'l tender me a foole. 1.3.109

576        Ophe. My Lord he hath importun'd me with loue 1.3.110

577       In honorable fashion. 1.3.111

578        Pol. I, fashion you may call it, go to, go to. 1.3.112

579        Ophe. And hath giuen countenance to his speech 1.3.113

580       My Lord, with almost all the holy vowes of heauen. 1.3.114

581        Pol. I, springs to catch wood-cockes, I doe knowe 1.3.115

582       When the blood burnes, how prodigall the soule 1.3.116

583       Lends the tongue vowes, these blazes daughter 1.3.117

584       Giuing more light then heate, extinct in both 1.3.118

585       Euen in their promise, as it is a making 1.3.119

586       You must not take for fire, from this time 1.3.120

587       Be something scanter of your maiden presence 1.3.121

588       Set your intreatments at a higher rate 1.3.122

589       Then a commaund to parle; for Lord Hamlet, 1.3.123

590       Belieue so much in him that he is young, 1.3.124

591       And with a larger tider may he walke 1.3.125

592       Then may be giuen you: in fewe Ophelia, 1.3.126

593       Doe not belieue his vowes, for they are brokers 1.3.127

594       Not of that die which their inuestments showe 1.3.128

595       But meere imploratotors of vnholy suites 1.3.129

596       Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds 1.3.130

597       The better to beguide: this is for all, 1.3.131

598       I would not in plaine tearmes from this time foorth 1.3.132

599       D1 Haue you so slaunder any moment leasure 1.3.133

600       As to giue words or talke with the Lord Hamlet, 1.3.134

601       Looke too't I charge you, come your wayes. 1.3.135

602        Ophe. I shall obey my Lord. Exeunt. 1.3.136

603       Enter Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus. ..

604        Ham. The ayre bites shroudly, it is very colde. 1.4.1

605        Hora. It is nipping, and an eager ayre. 1.4.2

606        Ham. What houre now? 1.4.3

607        Hora. I thinke it lackes of twelfe. 1.4.3

608        Mar. No, it is strooke. 1.4.4

609        Hora. Indeede; I heard it not, it then drawes neere the season, 1.4.5

610       Wherein the spirit held his wont to walke A florish of trumpets 1.4.6

611        What does this meane my Lord? and 2. peeces goes of. 1.4.

612        Ham. The King doth wake to night and takes his rowse. 1.4.8

613       Keepes wassell and the swaggring vp-spring reeles: 1.4.9

614       And as he draines his drafts of Rennish downe, 1.4.10

615       The kettle drumme, and trumpet, thus bray out 1.4.11

616       The triumph of his pledge. 1.4.12

617        Hora. Is it a custome? 1.4.12

618        Ham. I marry ist, 1.4.13

619       But to my minde, though I am natiue heere 1.4.14

620       And to the manner borne, it is a custome 1.4.15

621       More honourd in the breach, then the obseruance. 1.4.16

621+1   This heauy headed reueale east and west 1.4.17

621+2   Makes vs tradust, and taxed of other nations, 1.4.18

621+3   They clip vs drunkards, and with Swinish phrase 1.4.19

621+4   Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes 1.4.20

621+5   From our atchieuements, though perform'd at height 1.4.21

621+6   The pith and marrow of our attribute, 1.4.22

621+7   So oft it chaunces in particuler 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 ore-grow'th of some complextion 1.4.27

621+12 Oft breaking downe the pales and forts of reason, 1.4.28

621+13 Or by some habit, that too much ore-leauens 1.4.29

621+14 The forme of plausiue manners, that these men 1.4.30

621+15 Carrying I say the stamp of one defect 1.4.31

621+16 D1v Being Natures liuery, or Fortunes starre, 1.4.32

621+17 His vertues els be they as pure as grace, 1.4.33

621+18 As infinite as man may vndergoe, 1.4.34

621+19 Shall in the generall censure take corruption 1.4.35

621+20 From that particuler fault: the dram of eale 1.4.36

621+21 Doth all the noble substance of a doubt 1.4.37

621+22 To his owne scandle. 1.4.38

622       Enter Ghost. ..

623        Hora. Looke my Lord it comes. 1.4.38

624        Ham. Angels and Ministers of grace defend vs: 1.4.39

625       Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, 1.4.40

626       Bring with thee ayres from heauen, or blasts from hell, 1.4.41

627       Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, 1.4.42

628       Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, 1.4.43

629       That I will speake to thee, Ile call thee Hamlet, 1.4.44

630       King, father, royall Dane, ô answere mee, 1.4.45

631       Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell 1.4.46

632       Why thy canoniz'd bones hearsed in death 1.4.47

633       Haue burst their cerements? why the Sepulcher, 1.4.48

634       Wherein we saw thee quietly interr'd 1.4.49

635       Hath op't his ponderous and marble iawes, 1.4.50

636       To cast thee vp againe? what may this meane 1.4.51

637       That thou dead corse, againe in compleat steele 1.4.52

638       Reuisites thus the glimses of the Moone, 1.4.53

639       Making night hideous, and we fooles of nature 1.4.54

640       So horridly to shake our disposition 1.4.55

641       With thoughts beyond the reaches of our soules, 1.4.56

642-3   Say why is this, wherefore, what should we doe? Beckins. 1.4.57

644        Hora. It beckins you to goe 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        Mar. Looke with what curteous action 1.4.60

648       It waues you to a more remooued ground, 1.4.61

649       But doe not goe with it. 1.4.62

650        Hora. No, by no meanes. 1.4.62

651        Ham. It will not speake, then I will followe it. 1.4.63

652        Hora. Doe not my Lord. 1.4.64

653        Ham. Why what should be the feare, 1.4.64

654       I doe not set my life at a pinnes fee, 1.4.65

655       D2 And for my soule, what can it doe to that 1.4.66

656       Being a thing immortall as it selfe; 1.4.67

657       It waues me forth againe, Ile followe it. 1.4.68

658        Hora. What if it tempt you toward the flood my Lord, 1.4.69

659       Or to the dreadfull somnet of the cleefe 1.4.70

660       That bettles ore his base into the sea, 1.4.71

661       And there assume some other horrable forme 1.4.72

662       Which might depriue your soueraigntie of reason, 1.4.73

663       And draw you into madnes, thinke of it, 1.4.74

663+1   The very place puts toyes of desperation 1.4.75

663+2   Without more motiue, into euery braine 1.4.76

663+3   That lookes so many fadoms to the sea 1.4.77

663+4   And heares it rore beneath. 1.4.78

664        Ham. It waues me still, Goe on, Ile followe thee. 1.4.79

665        Mar. You shall not goe my Lord. 1.4.80

666        Ham. Hold of your hands . 1.4.80

667        Hora. Be rul'd, you shall not goe. 1.4.81

668        Ham. My fate cries out 1.4.81

669       And makes each petty arture in this body 1.4.82

670       As hardy as the Nemeon Lyons nerue; 1.4.83

671       Still am I cald, vnhand me Gentlemen 1.4.84

672       By heauen Ile make a ghost of him that lets me, 1.4.85

673-4   I say away, goe on, Ile followe thee. Exit Ghost and Hamlet.

675        Hora. He waxes desperate with imagion . 1.4.87

676        Mar. Lets followe, tis not fit thus to obey him. 1.4.88

677        Hora. Haue after, to what issue will this come? 1.4.89

678        Mar. Something is rotten in the state of Denmarke. 1.4.90

679        Hora. Heauen will direct it. 1.4.91

680        Mar. Nay lets follow him. Exeunt. 1.4.91

681       Enter Ghost, and Hamlet. ..

682        Ham. Whether wilt thou leade me, speake, Ile goe no further. 1.5.1

683        Ghost. Marke me. 1.5.2

684        Ham. I will. 1.5.2

685        Ghost. My houre is almost come 1.5.2

686       When I to sulphrus and tormenting flames 1.5.3

687       Must render vp my selfe. 1.5.4

688        Ham. Alas poore Ghost. 1.5.4

689       D2v Ghost. Pitty me not, but lend thy serious hearing 1.5.5

690       To what I shall vnfold. 1.5.6

691        Ham. Speake, I am bound to heare. 1.5.6

692        Ghost. So art thou to reuenge, when thou shalt heare. 1.5.7

693        Ham. What? 1.5.8

694        Ghost. I am thy fathers spirit, 1.5.9

695       Doomd for a certaine tearme to walke the night, 1.5.10

696       And for the day confind to fast in fires, 1.5.11

697       Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of nature 1.5.12

698       Are burnt and purg'd 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 vnfolde whose lightest word 1.5.15

701       Would harrow vp thy soule, freeze thy young blood, 1.5.16

702       Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, 1.5.17

703       Thy knotted and combined locks to part, 1.5.18

704       And each particuler haire to stand an end, 1.5.19

705       Like quils vpon the fearefull Porpentine, 1.5.20

706       But this eternall blazon must not be 1.5.21

707       To eares of flesh and blood, list, list , ô list: 1.5.22

708       If thou did'st euer thy deare father loue. 1.5.23

709        Ham. O God. 1.5.24

710        Ghost. Reuenge his foule, and most vnnaturall murther. 1.5.25

711        Ham. Murther. 1.5.26

712        Ghost. Murther most foule, as in the best it is, 1.5.27

713       But this most foule, strange and vnnaturall. 1.5.28

714-5    Ham. Hast me to know't , that I with wings as swift

716       As meditation, or the thoughts of loue 1.5.30

717       May sweepe to my reuenge. 1.5.31

718        Ghost. I find thee apt, 1.5.31

719       And duller shouldst thou be then the fat weede 1.5.32

720       That rootes it selfe in ease on Lethe wharffe, 1.5.33

721       Would'st thou not sturre in this; now Hamlet heare, 1.5.34

722       Tis giuen out, that sleeping in my Orchard, 1.5.35

723       A Serpent stung me, so the whole eare of Denmarke 1.5.36

724       Is by a forged processe of my death 1.5.37

725       Ranckely abusde: but knowe thou noble Youth, 1.5.38

726       The Serpent that did sting thy fathers life 1.5.39

727       Now weares his Crowne. 1.5.40

728        Ham. O my propheticke soule! my Vncle? 1.5.41

729       D3 Ghost. I that incestuous, that adulterate beast, 1.5.42

730       With witchcraft of his wits, with trayterous gifts, 1.5.43

731       O wicked wit, and giftes that haue the power 1.5.44

732       So to seduce; wonne to his shamefull lust 1.5.45

733       The will of my most seeming vertuous Queene; 1.5.46

734       O Hamlet, what falling off was there 1.5.47

735       From me whose loue was of that dignitie 1.5.48

736       That it went hand in hand, euen with the vowe 1.5.49

737       I made to her in marriage, and to decline 1.5.50

738       Vppon a wretch whose naturall gifts were poore, 1.5.51

739       To those of mine; but vertue as it neuer will be mooued, 1.5.53

740       Though lewdnesse court it in a shape of heauen 1.5.54

741       So but though to a radiant Angle linckt, 1.5.55

742       Will sort it selfe in a celestiall bed 1.5.57

742       And pray on garbage. 1.5.57

743        But soft, me thinkes I sent the morning ayre, 1.5.

744       Briefe let me be; sleeping within my Orchard, 1.5.59

745       My custome alwayes of the afternoone, 1.5.60

746       Vpon my secure houre, thy Vncle stole 1.5.61

747       With iuyce of cursed Hebona in a viall, 1.5.62

748       And in the porches of my eares did poure 1.5.63

749       The leaprous distilment, whose effect 1.5.64

750       Holds such an enmitie with blood of man, 1.5.65

751       That swift as quicksiluer it courses through 1.5.66

752       The naturall gates and allies of the body, 1.5.67

753       And with a sodaine vigour it doth possesse 1.5.68

754       And curde like eager droppings into milke, 1.5.69

755       The thin and wholsome blood; so did it mine, 1.5.70

756       And a most instant tetter barckt about 1.5.71

757       Most Lazerlike with vile and lothsome crust 1.5.72

758       All my smooth body. 1.5.73

759       Thus was I sleeping by a brothers hand, 1.5.74

760       Of life, of Crowne, of Queene at once dispatcht,

761       Cut off euen in the blossomes of my sinne, 1.5.76

762       Vnhuzled, disappointed, vnanueld , 1.5.77

763       No reckning made, but sent to my account 1.5.78

764       Withall my imperfections on my head, 1.5.79

765       O horrible, ô horrible, most horrible. 1.5.80

766       If thou hast nature in thee beare it not, 1.5.81

767       D3v Let not the royall bed of Denmarke be 1.5.82

768       A couch for luxury and damned incest. 1.5.83

769       But howsomeuer thou pursues this act, 1.5.84

770       Tain't not thy minde, nor let thy soule contriue 1.5.85

771       Against thy mother ought, leaue her to heauen, 1.5.86

772       And to those thornes that in her bosome lodge 1.5.87

773       To prick and sting her, fare thee well at once, 1.5.88

774       The Gloworme shewes the matine to be neere 1.5.89

775       And gins to pale his vneffectuall fire, 1.5.90

776       Adiew, adiew, adiew, remember me. 1.5.91

777        Ham. O all you host of heauen, ô earth, what els, 1.5.92

778       And shall I coupple hell, ô fie, hold, hold my hart, 1.5.93

779       And you my sinnowes, growe not instant old, 1.5.94

780       But beare me swiftly vp; remember thee, 1.5.105

781       I thou poore Ghost whiles memory holds a seate 1.5.96

782       In this distracted globe, remember thee, 1.5.97

783       Yea, from the table of my memory 1.5.98

784       Ile wipe away all triuiall fond records, 1.5.99

785       All sawes of bookes, all formes, all pressures past 1.5.100

786       That youth and obseruation coppied there, 1.5.101

787       And thy commandement all alone shall liue, 1.5.102

788       Within the booke and volume of my braine 1.5.103

789       Vnmixt with baser matter, yes by heauen, 1.5.104

790       O most pernicious woman.

791       O villaine, villaine, smiling damned villaine, 1.5.106

792       My tables, meet it is I set it downe 1.5.107

793       That one may smile, and smile, and be a villaine, 1.5.108

794       At least I am sure it may be so in Denmarke. 1.5.109

795       So Vncle, there you are, now to my word, 1.5.110

796       It is adew, adew, remember me. 1.5.112

796       I haue sworn't. 1.5.112

797        1.5.113

798                    Enter Horatio, and Marcellus. ..

798+1   Hora. My Lord, my Lord.

799        Mar. Lord Hamlet. ..

800        Hora. Heauens secure him. 1.5.113

801        Ham. So be it. 1.5.114

802        Mar. Illo, ho, ho, my Lord. 1.5.115

803        Ham. Hillo, ho, ho, boy come, and come. 1.5.116

804       D4 Mar. How i'st my noble Lord? 1.5.117

805        Hora. What newes my Lord? 1.5.117

806        Ham. O, wonderfull. 1.5.118

807        Hora. Good my Lord tell it. 1.5.119

808        Ham. No, you will reueale it. 1.5.119

809        Hora. Not I my Lord by heauen. 1.5.120

810        Mar. Nor I my Lord. 1.5.120

811        Ham. How say you then, would hart of man once thinke it, 1.5.121

812       But you'le be secret. 1.5.122

813        Booth. I by heauen. 1.5.122

814        Ham. There's neuer a villaine, 1.5.123

814       Dwelling in all Denmarke 1.5.123

815       But hee's an arrant knaue. 1.5.124

816-7    Hora. There needes no Ghost my Lord, come from the graue

817       To tell vs this. 1.5.126

818        Ham. Why right, you are in the 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 busines and desire shall poynt you, 1.5.129

822       For euery man hath busines and desire 1.5.130

823       Such as it is, and for my owne poore part 1.5.131

824       I will goe pray. 1.5.132

825        Hora. These are but wilde and whurling words my Lord. 1.5.133

826        Ham. I am sorry they offend you hartily, 1.5.134

827       Yes faith hartily. 1.5.135

828        Hora. There's no offence my Lord. 1.5.135

829        Ham. Yes by Saint Patrick but there is Horatio , 1.5.136

830       And much offence to, touching this vision heere, 1.5.137

831       It is an honest Ghost that let me tell you, 1.5.138

832       For your desire to knowe what is betweene vs 1.5.139

833       Oremastret as you may, and now good friends, 1.5.140

834       As you are friends, schollers, and souldiers, 1.5.141

835       Giue me one poore request. 1.5.142

836        Hora. What i'st my Lord, we will. 1.5.143

837        Ham. Neuer make knowne what you haue seene to night. 1.5.144

838        Booth. My Lord we will not. 1.5.145

839        Ham. Nay but swear't. 1.5.145

840        Hora. In faith my Lord not I. 1.5.146

841        Mar. Nor I my Lord in faith. 1.5.146

842       D4v Ham. Vppon my sword. 1.5.147

843        Mar. We haue sworne my Lord already. 1.5.147

844        Ham. Indeede vppon my sword, indeed. 1.5.148

845       Ghost cries vnder the Stage. 1.5.149

845        Ghost. Sweare. 1.5.149

846-7    Ham. Ha, ha, boy, say'st thou so, art thou there trupenny ?

847       Come on, you heare this fellowe in the Sellerige, 1.5.151

848       Consent to sweare. 1.5.152

849        Hora. Propose the oath my Lord. 1.5.152

850        Ham. Neuer to speake of this that you haue seene 1.5.153

851       Sweare by my sword. 1.5.154

852        Ghost. Sweare. 1.5.155

853        Ham. Hic, & vbique, then weele shift our ground: 1.5.156

854       Come hether Gentlemen 1.5.157

855       And lay your hands againe vpon my sword, 1.5.158

857       Sweare by my sword 1.5.159

856       Neuer to speake of this that you haue heard. 1.5.160

857        1.5.159

858        Ghost. Sweare by his sword. 1.5.161

859        Ham. Well sayd olde Mole, can'st worke it'h earth so fast, 1.5.162

860       A worthy Pioner, once more remooue good friends. 1.5.163

861        Hora. O day and night, but this is wondrous strange. 1.5.164

862        Ham. And therefore as a stranger giue it welcome, 1.5.165

863       There are more things in heauen and earth Horatio 1.5.166

864       Then are dream't of in your philosophie, but come 1.5.168

865       Heere as before, neuer so helpe you mercy, 1.5.169

866       (How strange or odde so mere I beare my selfe, 1.5.170

867       As I perchance heereafter shall thinke meet, 1.5.171

868       To put an Anticke disposition on 1.5.172

869       That you at such times seeing me, neuer shall 1.5.173

870       With armes incombred thus, or this head shake, 1.5.174

871       Or by pronouncing of some doubtfull phrase, 1.5.175

872       As well, well, we knowe, or we could and if we would, 1.5.176

873       Or if we list to speake, or there be and if they might, 1.5.177

874       Or such ambiguous giuing out, to note) 1.5.178

875        That you knowe ought of me, this doe sweare, 1.5.

876       So grace and mercy at your most neede helpe you. 1.5.180

877        ..

878        Ghost. Sweare. 1.5.181

879        Ham. Rest, rest, perturbed spirit: so Gentlemen, 1.5.182

880       Withall my loue I doe commend me to you, 1.5.183

881       El And what so poore a man as Hamlet is, 1.5.184

882       May doe t'expresse his loue and frending to you 1.5.185

883       God willing shall not lack, let vs goe in together, 1.5.186

884       And still your fingers on your lips I pray, 1.5.187

885       The time is out of ioynt, ô cursed spight 1.5.188

886       That euer I was borne to set it right. 1.5.189

887       Nay come, lets goe together. Exeunt. 1.5.190

888                     ..

889                    Enter old Polonius, with his man or two . ..

890        Pol. Giue him this money, and these notes Reynaldo. 2.1.1

891        Rey. I will my Lord. 2.1.2

892        Pol. You shall doe meruiles wisely good Reynaldo, 2.1.3

893       Before you visite him, to make inquire 2.1.4

894       Of his behauiour. 2.1.5

895        Rey. My Lord, I did intend it. 2.1.5

896-7    Pol. Mary well said, very well said; looke you sir,

898       Enquire me first what Danskers are in Parris, 2.1.7

899       And how, and who, what meanes, and where they keepe, 2.1.8

900       What companie, at what expence, and finding 2.1.9

901       By this encompasment, and drift of question 2.1.10

902       That they doe know my sonne, come you more neerer 2.1.11

903       Then your perticuler demaunds will tuch it, 2.1.12

904       Take you as t'were some distant knowledge of him, 2.1.13

905       As thus, I know his father, and his friends, 2.1.14

906       And in part him, doe you marke this Reynaldo? 2.1.15

907        Rey. I, very well my Lord. 2.1.16

908        Pol. And in part him, but you may say, not well, 2.1.17

909       But y'ft be he I meane, hee's very wilde, 2.1.18

910       Adicted so and so, and there put on him 2.1.19

911       What forgeries you please, marry none so ranck 2.1.20

912       As may dishonour him, take heede of that, 2.1.21

913       But sir, such wanton, wild, and vsuall slips, 2.1.22

914       As are companions noted and most knowne 2.1.23

915       To youth and libertie. 2.1.24

916        Rey. As gaming my Lord. 2.1.24

917        Pol. I, or drinking, fencing, swearing, 2.1.25

918       Quarrelling, drabbing, you may goe so far. 2.1.26

919        Rey. My Lord, that would dishonour him. 2.1.27

920        Pol. Fayth as you may season it in the charge. 2.1.28

921       E1v You must not put another scandell on him, 2.1.29

922       That he is open to incontinencie, 2.1.30

923       That's not my meaning, but breath his faults so quently 2.1.31

924       That they may seeme the taints of libertie, 2.1.32

925       The flash and out-breake of a fierie mind, 2.1.33

926       A sauagenes in vnreclamed blood, 2.1.35

926       Of generall assault. 2.1.35

927        Rey. But my good Lord. 2.1.35

928        Pol. Wherefore should you doe this? 2.1.36

929        Rey. I my Lord, I would know that. 2.1.37

930        Pol. Marry sir, heer's my drift, 2.1.37

931       And I belieue it is a fetch of wit, 2.1.38

932       You laying these slight sallies on my sonne 2.1.39

933       As t'were a thing a little soyld with working, 2.1.40

934       Marke you, your partie in conuerse, him you would sound 2.1.42

935       Hauing euer seene in the prenominat crimes 2.1.43

936       The youth you breath of guiltie, be assur'd 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 the addistion 2.1.47

940       Of man and country. 2.1.48

941        Rey. Very good my Lord. 2.1.48

942-3    Pol. And then sir doos a this, a doos, what was I about to say?

944       By the masse I was about to say something, 2.1.51

944       Where did I leaue? 2.1.51

945        Rey. At closes in the consequence. 2.1.51

946        ..

947        Pol. At closes in the consequence, I marry, 2.1.52

948       He closes thus, I know the gentleman, 2.1.53

949       I saw him yesterday, or th'other day, 2.1.54

950       Or then, or then, with such or such, and as you say, 2.1.55

951       There was a gaming there, or tooke in's rowse, 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       Videlizet, a brothell, or so foorth, see you now, 2.1.59

955       Your bait of falshood take this carpe of truth, 2.1.60

956       And thus doe we of wisedome, and of reach, 2.1.61

957       With windlesses, and with assaies of bias, 2.1.62

958       By indirections find directions out, 2.1.63

959       So by my former lecture and aduise 2.1.64

960       E2 Shall you my sonne; you haue me, haue you not? 2.1.65

961        Rey. My Lord, I haue. 2.1.66

962        Pol. God buy ye, far ye well. 2.1.66

963        Rey. Good my Lord. 2.1.67

964        Pol. Obserue his inclination in your selfe. 2.1.68

965        Rey. I shall my Lord. 2.1.69

966        Pol. And let him ply his musique. 2.1.70

967        Rey. Well my Lord. Exit Rey. 2.1.70

968       Enter Ophelia. ..

969-70 Pol. Farewell. How now Ophelia, whats the matter?

971        Oph. O my Lord, my Lord , I haue beene so affrighted, 2.1.72

972        Pol. With what i'th name of God ? 2.1.73

973        Ophe. My Lord, as I was sowing in my closset , 2.1.74

974       Lord Hamlet with his doublet all vnbrac'd, 2.1.75

975       No hat vpon his head, his stockins fouled, 2.1.76

976       Vngartred, and downe gyued to his ancle, 2.1.77

977       Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, 2.1.78

978       And with a looke so pittious in purport 2.1.79

979       As if he had been loosed out of hell 2.1.80

980       To speake of horrors, he comes before me. 2.1.81

981        Pol. Mad for thy loue? 2.1.82

982        Oph. My lord I doe not know, 2.1.83

982       But truly I doe feare it. 2.1.83

983        Pol. What said he? 2.1.83

984        Oph. He tooke me by the wrist, and held me hard, 2.1.84

985       Then goes he to the length of all his arme, 2.1.85

986       And with his other hand thus ore his brow, 2.1.86

987       He falls to such perusall of my face 2.1.87

988       As a would draw it, long stayd he so, 2.1.88

989       At last, a little shaking of mine arme, 2.1.89

990       And thrice his head thus wauing vp and downe, 2.1.90

991       He raisd a sigh so pittious and profound 2.1.91

992       As it did seeme to shatter all his bulke, 2.1.92

993       And end his beeing; that done, he lets me goe, 2.1.93

994       And with his head ouer his shoulder turn'd 2.1.94

995       Hee seem'd to find his way without his eyes, 2.1.95

996       For out adoores he went without theyr helps, 2.1.96

997       And to the last bended their light on me. 2.1.97

998       E2v Pol. Come, goe with mee, I will goe seeke the King, 2.1.98

999       This is the very extacie of loue, 2.1.99

1000     Whose violent propertie fordoos it selfe, 2.1.100

1001      And leades the will to desperat vndertakings 2.1.

1002     As oft as any passions vnder heauen 2.1.102

1003     That dooes afflict our natures: I am sorry, 2.1.103

1004     What, haue you giuen him any hard words of late? 2.1.104

1005      Oph. No my good Lord, but as you did commaund 2.1.105

1006     I did repell his letters, and denied 2.1.106

1007     His accesse to me. 2.1.107

1008      Pol. That hath made him mad. 2.1.107

1009     I am sorry, that with better heede and iudgement 2.1.108

1010     I had not coted him, I fear'd he did but trifle 2.1.109

1011     And meant to wrack thee, but beshrow my Ielousie: 2.1.110

1012     By heauen it is as proper to our age 2.1.111

1013     To cast beyond our selues in our opinions, 2.1.112

1014     As it is common for the younger sort 2.1.113

1015     To lack discretion; come, goe we to the King, 2.1.114

1016     This must be knowne, which beeing kept close, might moue 2.1.115

1017     More griefe to hide, then hate to vtter loue,                    2.1.116

1017     Come.    Exeunt. 2.1.116

1018                   ..

1019     Florish. Enter King and Queene, Rosencraus and ..

1019-20              Guyldensterne .

1021      King. Welcome deere Rosencraus, and Guyldensterne, 2.2.1

1022     Moreouer, that we much did long to see you, 2.2.2

1023     The need we haue to vse you did prouoke 2.2.3

1024     Our hastie sending, something haue you heard 2.2.4

1025     Of Hamlets transformation, so call it, 2.2.5

1026     Sith nor th'exterior, nor the inward man 2.2.6

1027     Resembles that it was, what it should be, 2.2.7

1028     More then his fathers death, that thus hath put him 2.2.8

1029     So much from th'vnderstanding of himselfe 2.2.9

1030     I cannot dreame of: I entreate you both 2.2.10

1031     That beeing of so young dayes brought vp with him, 2.2.11

1032     And sith so nabored to his youth and hauior , 2.2.12

1033     That you voutsafe your rest heere 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     E3 So much as from occasion you may gleane, 2.2.16

1036+1 Whether ought to vs vnknowne afflicts him thus, 2.2.17

1037     That opend lyes within our remedie. 2.2.18

1038      Quee. Good gentlemen, he hath much talkt of you, 2.2.19

1039     And sure I am, two men there is not liuing 2.2.20

1040     To whom he more adheres, if it will please you 2.2.21

1041     To shew vs so much gentry and good will, 2.2.22

1042     As to expend your time with vs a while, 2.2.23

1043     For the supply and profit of our hope, 2.2.24

1044     Your visitation shall receiue such thanks 2.2.25

1045     As fits a Kings remembrance. 2.2.26

1046      Ros. Both your Maiesties 2.2.26

1047     Might by the soueraigne power you haue of vs, 2.2.27

1048     Put your dread pleasures more into commaund 2.2.28

1049     Then to entreatie. 2.2.29

1050      Guyl. But we both obey. 2.2.29

1051     And heere giue vp our selues in the full bent, 2.2.30

1052     To lay our seruice freely at your feete 2.2.31

1053     To be commaunded. 2.2.32

1054      King. Thanks Rosencraus, and gentle Guyldensterne. 2.2.33

1055      Quee. Thanks Guyldensterne, and gentle Rosencraus. 2.2.34

1056     And I beseech you instantly to visite 2.2.35

1057-8 My too much changed sonne, goe some of you

1059     And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is. 2.2.37

1060      Guyl. Heauens make our presence and our practices 2.2.38

1061     Pleasant and helpfull to him. 2.2.39

1062      Quee. I Amen. Exeunt Ros. and Guyld. 2.2.39

1063     Enter Polonius. ..

1064      Pol. Th'embassadors from Norway my good Lord, 2.2.40

1065     Are ioyfully returnd. 2.2.41

1066      King. Thou still hast been the father of good newes. 2.2.42

1067      Pol. Haue I my Lord? I assure my good Liege 2.2.43

1068     I hold my dutie as I hold my soule, 2.2.44

1069     Both to my God, and to my gracious King; 2.2.45

1070     And I doe thinke, or els this braine of mine 2.2.46

1071     Hunts not the trayle of policie so sure 2.2.47

1072     As it hath vsd to doe, that I haue found 2.2.48

1073     The very cause of Hamlets lunacie. 2.2.49

1074      King. O speake of that, that doe I long to heare. 2.2.50

1075     E3v Pol. Giue first admittance to th'embassadors, 2.2.51

1076     My newes shall be the fruite to that great feast. 2.2.52

1077      King. Thy selfe doe grace to them, and bring them in. 2.2.53

1078     He tells me my deere Gertrard he hath found 2.2.54

1079     The head and source of all your sonnes distemper. 2.2.55

1080      Quee. I doubt it is no other but the maine 2.2.56

1081     His fathers death, and our hastie marriage. 2.2.57

1082     Enter Embassadors. ..

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      Vol. Most faire returne of greetings and desires; 2.2.60

1086     Vpon our first, he sent out to suppresse 2.2.61

1087     His Nephews leuies, which to him appeard 2.2.62

1088     To be a preparation gainst the Pollacke, 2.2.63

1089     But better lookt into, he truly found 2.2.64

1090     It was against your highnes, whereat greeu'd 2.2.65

1091     That so his sicknes, age, and impotence 2.2.66

1092     Was falsly borne in hand, sends out arrests 2.2.67

1093     On Fortenbrasse, which he in breefe obeyes, 2.2.68

1094     Receiues rebuke from Norway, and in fine, 2.2.69

1095     Makes vow before his Vncle neuer more 2.2.70

1096     To giue th'assay of Armes against your Maiestie: 2.2.71

1097     Whereon old Norway ouercome with ioy, 2.2.72

1098     Giues him threescore thousand crownes in anuall fee, 2.2.73

1099     And his commission to imploy those souldiers 2.2.74

1100     So leuied (as before) against the Pollacke, 2.2.75

1101     With an entreatie heerein further shone, 2.2.76

1102     That it might please you to giue quiet passe 2.2.77

1103     Through your dominions for this enterprise 2.2.78

1104     On such regards of safety and allowance 2.2.79

1105     As therein are set downe. 2.2.80

1106      King. It likes vs well, 2.2.80

1107     And at our more considered time, wee'le read, 2.2.81

1108     Answer, and thinke vpon this busines: 2.2.82

1109     Meane time, we thanke you for your well tooke labour, 2.2.83

1110     Goe to your rest, at night weele feast together, 2.2.84

1111     Most welcome home. Exeunt Embassadors. 2.2.85

1112      Pol. This busines is well ended. 2.2.85

1113     E4 My Liege and Maddam, to expostulate 2.2.86

1114     What maiestie should be, what dutie is, 2.2.87

1115     Why day is day, night, night, and time is time, 2.2.88

1116     Were nothing but to wast night, day, and time, 2.2.89

1117     Therefore breuitie is the soule of wit, 2.2.90

1118     And tediousnes the lymmes and outward florishes, 2.2.91

1119     I will be briefe, your noble sonne is mad: 2.2.92

1120     Mad call I it, for to define true madnes, 2.2.93

1121     What ist but to be nothing els but mad, 2.2.94

1122     But let that goe. 2.2.95

1123      Quee. More matter with lesse art. 2.2.95

1124      Pol. Maddam, I sweare I vse no art at all, 2.2.96

1125     That hee's mad tis true, tis true, tis pitty, 2.2.97

1126     And pitty tis tis true, a foolish figure, 2.2.98

1127     But farewell it, for I will vse no art. 2.2.99

1128      Mad let vs graunt him then, and now remaines 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 defectiue comes by cause: 2.2.103

1132     Thus it remaines, and the remainder thus 2.2.105

1132     Perpend, 2.2.105

1133     I haue a daughter, haue while she is mine, 2.2.106

1134     Who in her dutie and obedience, marke, 2.2.107

1135     Hath giuen me this, now gather and surmise, 2.2.108

1136      ..

1137     To the Celestiall and my soules Idoll, the most beau- 2.2.110

1137-9 tified Ophelia, that's an ill phrase, a vile phrase,

1139-40 beautified is a vile phrase, but you shall heare: thus in

1140-1 her excellent white bosome, these &c.

1142      Quee. Came this from Hamlet to her? 2.2.114

1143      Pol. Good Maddam stay awhile, I will be faithfull, 2.2.115

1144     Doubt thou the starres are fire,                   Letter. 2.2.116

1145     Doubt that the Sunne doth moue, 2.2.117

1146     Doubt truth to be a lyer, 2.2.118

1147     But neuer doubt I loue. 2.2.119

1148-9 O deere Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers, I haue not art to recken

1149-50 my grones, but that I loue thee best, ô most best belieue it, adew.

1151-2 Thine euermore most deere Lady, whilst this machine is to him. Hamlet.

1152-3 Pol. This in obedience hath my daughter showne me,

1154      And more about hath his solicitings 2.2.126

1155     E4v As they fell out by time, by meanes, and place, 2.2.127

1156     All giuen to mine eare. 2.2.128

1157      King. But how hath she receiu'd his loue? 2.2.129

1158      Pol. What doe you thinke of me? 2.2.129

1159      King. As of a man faithfull and honorable. 2.2.130

1160      Pol. I would faine proue so, but what might you thinke 2.2.131

1161     When I had seene this hote loue on the wing, 2.2.132

1162     As I perceiu'd it (I must tell you that) 2.2.133

1163     Before my daughter told me, what might you, 2.2.134

1164     Or my deere Maiestie your Queene heere thinke, 2.2.135

1165     If I had playd the Deske, or Table booke, 2.2.136

1166     Or giuen my hart a working mute and dumbe, 2.2.137

1167     Or lookt vppon this loue with idle sight, 2.2.138

1168     What might you thinke? no, I went round to worke, 2.2.139

1169     And my young Mistris thus I did bespeake, 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 gaue her 2.2.142

1172     That she should locke her selfe from her resort, 2.2.143

1173     Admit no messengers, receiue no tokens, 2.2.144

1174     Which done, she tooke the fruites of my aduise: 2.2.145

1175     And he repell'd, a short tale to make, 2.2.146

1176     Fell into a sadnes, then into a fast, 2.2.147

1177     Thence to a wath , thence into a weakenes, 2.2.148

1178     Thence to lightnes, and by this declension, 2.2.149

1179     Into the madnes wherein now he raues, 2.2.150

1180     And all we mourne for. 2.2.151

1181      King. Doe you thinke this? 2.2.151

1182      Quee. It may be very like . 2.2.152

1183      Pol. Hath there been such a time, I would faine know that, 2.2.153

1184     That I haue positiuely said, tis so, 2.2.154

1185     When it proou'd otherwise? 2.2.155

1186      King. Not that I know. 2.2.155

1187      Pol. Take this, from this, if this be otherwise; 2.2.156

1188     If circumstances leade me, I will finde 2.2.157

1189     Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeede 2.2.158

1190     Within the Center. 2.2.159

1191      King. How may we try it further? 2.2.159

1192-3 Pol. You know sometimes he walkes foure houres together

1193-4 Heere in the Lobby.

1195     Fl Quee. So he dooes indeede. 2.2.161

1196      Pol. At such a time, Ile loose my daughter to him, 2.2.162

1197     Be you and I behind an Arras then, 2.2.163

1198     Marke the encounter, if he loue her not, 2.2.164

1199     And be not from his reason falne thereon 2.2.165

1200     Let me be no assistant for a state 2.2.166

1201     But keepe a farme and carters. 2.2.167

1202      King. We will try it. 2.2.167

1203     Enter Hamlet . ..

1204-5 Quee. But looke where sadly the poore wretch comes reading.

1206      Pol. Away, I doe beseech you both away,                   Exit King and Queene. 2.2.169

1207-8 Ile bord him presently,                    oh giue me leaue,

1208     How dooes my good Lord Hamlet? 2.2.171

1209      Ham. Well, God a mercy. 2.2.172

1210      Pol. Doe you knowe me my Lord? 2.2.173

1211      Ham. Excellent well, you are a Fishmonger. 2.2.174

1212      Pol. Not I my Lord. 2.2.175

1213      Ham. Then I would you were so honest a man. 2.2.176

1214      Pol. Honest my Lord. 2.2.177

1215      Ham. I sir to be honest as this world goes, 2.2.179

1215-6 Is to be one man pickt out of tenne thousand.

1217      Pol. That's very true my Lord. 2.2.180

1218-9 Ham. For if the sunne breede maggots in a dead dogge, being a

1219-20 good kissing carrion. Haue you a daughter?

1221      Pol. I haue my Lord. 2.2.183

1222-3 Ham. Let her not walke i'th Sunne, conception is a blessing,

1223-4 But as your daughter may conceaue, friend looke to't.

1225-6 Pol. How say you by that, still harping on my daughter, yet hee

1226-7 knewe me not at first, a sayd I was a Fishmonger, a is farre gone,

1227-8 and truly in my youth, I suffred much extremity for loue, very

1228-9 neere this. Ile speake to him againe. What doe you reade my

1229      Lord. 2.2.191

1230      Ham. Words, words, words. 2.2.192

1231      Pol. What is the matter my Lord. 2.2.193

1232      Ham. Betweene who. 2.2.194

1233      Pol. I meane the matter that you reade my Lord. 2.2.195

1234-5 Ham. Slaunders sir; for the satericall rogue sayes heere, that old

1235-6 men haue gray beards, that their faces are wrinckled, their eyes

1236-7 purging thick Amber, & plumtree gum, & that they haue a plen-

1237-8 Flv tifull lacke of wit, together with most weake hams, all which sir

1238-40 though I most powerfully and potentlie belieue, yet I hold it not

1240-1 honesty to haue it thus set downe, for your selfe sir shall growe old

1241-2 as I am: if like a Crab you could goe backward.

1243-4 Pol. Though this be madnesse, yet there is method in't, will you

1244-5 walke out of the ayre my Lord?

1246      Ham. Into my graue. 2.2.207

1247-8 Pol. Indeede that's out of the ayre; how pregnant sometimes

1248-51 his replies are, a happines that often madnesse hits on, which reason

1251-3 and sanctity could not so prosperously be deliuered of. I will leaue

1253-7 him and my daughter. My Lord, I will take my leaue of you.

1253      2.2.212

1254      2.2.212

1255      2.2.213

1256      2.2.213

1257      2.2.214

1258       Ham. You cannot take from mee any thing that I will not more 2.2.

1259     willingly part withall: except my life, except my life, except my 2.2.216

1260     life.                     Enter Guyldersterne, and Rosencraus. 2.2.217

1261      Pol. Fare you well my Lord. 2.2.218

1262      Ham. These tedious old fooles. 2.2.219

1263-4 Pol. You goe to seeke the Lord Hamlet, there he is.

1265      ..

1266      Ros. God saue you sir. 2.2.221

1267      Guyl. My honor'd Lord. 2.2.222

1268      Ros. My most deere Lord. 2.2.223

1269-70 Ham. My extent good friends, how doost thou Guyldersterne?

1270-1 A Rosencraus, good lads how doe you both?

1272      Ros. As the indifferent children of the earth. 2.2.227

1273      Guyl. Happy, in that we are not euer happy on Fortunes lap, 2.2.229

1274     We are not the very button. 2.2.229

1275      Ham. Nor the soles of her shooe. 2.2.230

1276      Ros. Neither my Lord. 2.2.231

1277-8 Ham. Then you liue about her wast, or in the middle of her fauours.

1278      2.2.233

1279      Guyl. Faith her priuates we. 2.2.234

1280-1 Ham. In the secret parts of Fortune, oh most true, she is a strumpet,

1281     What newes? 2.2.236

1282-3 Ros. None my Lord, but the worlds growne honest.

1284-5 Ham. Then is Doomes day neere, but your newes is not true;

1285      2.2.240

1286      2.2.241

1287      2.2.241

1288      2.2.242

1289      2.2.243

1290      2.2.244

1291      2.2.245

1292      2.2.246

1293      2.2.247

1294      2.2.248

1295      2.2.250

1296      2.2.251

1297      2.2.251

1298      2.2.252

1299      2.2.253

1300      2.2.254

1301      2.2.255

1302      2.2.256

1303      2.2.257

1304      2.2.258

1305      2.2.259

1306      2.2.260

1307      2.2.261

1308      2.2.262

1309      2.2.263

1310      2.2.264

1311      2.2.265

1312      2.2.265

1313      2.2.266

1314   2.2.267

1315      2.2.268

1316      2.2.269

1316-7 But in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsonoure?

1318      Ros. To visit you my Lord, no other occasion. 2.2.271

1319-20 Ham. Begger that I am, I am euer poore in thankes, but I thanke

1320-1 you, and sure deare friends, my thankes are too deare a halfpeny:

1321-2 were you not sent for? is it your owne inclining? is it a free visitati-

1322-3 on? come, come, deale iustly with me, come, come, nay speake.

1324      Guy. What should we say my Lord? 2.2.277

1325     F2 Ham. Any thing but to'th purpose: you were sent for, and there is 2.2.278

1326-7 a kind of confession in your lookes, which your modesties haue not

1327-8 craft enough to cullour , I know the good King and Queene haue

1328     sent for you. 2.2.281

1329      Ros. To what end my Lord? 2.2.282

1330-1 Ham. That you must teach me: but let me coniure you, by the

1331-2 rights of our fellowship, by the consonancie of our youth, by the

1332-3 obligation of our euer preserued loue; and by what more deare a

1333-4 better proposer can charge you withall, bee euen and direct with

1334-5 me whether you were sent for or no.

1336      Ros. What say you. 2.2.288

1337-8 Ham. Nay then I haue an eye of you? if you loue me hold not of.

1339      Guyl. My Lord we were sent for. 2.2.292

1340-1 Ham. I will tell you why, so shall my anticipation preuent your

1341-2 discouery, and your secrecie to the King & Queene moult no fea-

1342-3 ther, I haue of late, but wherefore I knowe not, lost all my mirth,

1343-4 forgon all custome of exercises: and indeede it goes so heauily with

1344-5 my disposition, that this goodly frame the earth, seemes to mee a

1345-7 sterill promontorie, this most excellent Canopie the ayre, looke

1347-8 you, this braue orehanging firmament, this maiesticall roofe fret-

1348-9 ted with golden fire, why it appeareth nothing to me but a foule

1349-50 and pestilent congregation of vapoures . What peece of worke is a

1350-1 man, how noble in reason, how infinit in faculties, in forme and

1351-2 moouing, how expresse and admirable in action, how like an An-

1353-4 gell in apprehension, how like a God: the beautie of the world; the

1354-5 paragon of Annimales; and yet to me, what is this Quintessence of

1355-6 dust: man delights not me, nor women neither, though by your

1356-7 smilling, you seeme to say so.

1358-9 Ros. My Lord, there was no such stuffe in my thoughts.

1360-1 Ham. Why did yee laugh then, when I sayd man delights not me.

1362-3 Ros. To thinke my Lord if you delight not in man, what Lenton

1363-4 entertainment the players shall receaue from you, we coted them

1364-5 on the way, and hether are they comming to offer you seruice.

1366-7 Ham. He that playes the King shal be welcome, his Maiestie shal

1367-8 haue tribute on me, the aduenterous Knight shall vse his foyle and

1368-9 target, the Louer shall not sigh gratis, the humorus Man shall end

1369-70 his part in peace,

1371-2 and the Lady shall say her minde freely: or the

1372-3 black verse shall hault for't. What players are they?

1374-5 Ros. Euen those you were wont to take such delight in, the Trage-

1375     dians of the Citty. 2.2.328

1376     F2v Ham. How chances it they trauaile? their residence both in repu- 2.2.329

1377-8 tation, and profit was better both wayes.

1379-80 Ros. I thinke their inhibition, comes by the meanes of the late

1380     innouasion.

1381-2 Ham. Doe they hold the same estimation they did when I was in

1382     the Citty; are they so followed. 2.2.335

1383      Ros. No indeede are they not. 2.2.336

1384      2.2.337

1385      2.2.338

1386      2.2.339

1387      2.2.340

1388      2.2.341

1389       2.2.

1390      2.2.343

1391      2.2.344

1392      2.2.346

1393      2.2.347

1394      2.2.348

1395      2.2.349

1396      2.2.350

1397      2.2.351

1398      2.2.351

1399      2.2.353

1400      2.2.354

1401      2.2.355

1402      2.2.356

1403       2.2.356

1404      2.2.357

1405      2.2.358

1406      2.2.359

1407      2.2.360

1408      2.2.362

1409-10 Ham. It is not very strange, for my Vncle is King of Denmarke, and

1410-1 those that would make mouths at him while my father liued, giue

1411-2 twenty, fortie, fifty, a hundred duckets a peece, for his Picture

1412-3 in little, s'bloud there is somthing in this more then naturall, if

1413-4 Philosophie could find it out. A Florish.

1415      ..

1416     Guyl. There are the players. 2.2.369

1417-8 Ham. Gentlemen you are welcome to Elsonoure, your hands come

1418-9 then, th'appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremonie; let

1419-20 mee comply with you in this garb: let me extent to the players,

1420-1 which I tell you must showe fairely outwards , should more ap-

1421-2 peare like entertainment then yours? you are welcome: but my

1422-3 Vncle-father, and Aunt-mother, are deceaued.

1424      Guyl. In what my deare Lord. 2.2.377

1425-6 Ham. I am but mad North North west; when the wind is Sou-

1426     therly, I knowe a Hauke, from a hand saw. 2.2.379

1427     Enter Polonius. ..

1428      Pol. Well be with you Gentlemen. 2.2.380

1429-30 Ham. Harke you Guyldensterne, and you to, at each eare a hearer,

1430-1 that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swadling clouts.

1432-3 Ros. Happily he is the second time come to them, for they say an

1433     old man is twice a child. 2.2.385

1434-5 Ham. I will prophecy, he comes to tell me of the players, mark it,

1435-6 You say right sir, a Monday morning, t'was then indeede.

1437      Pol. My Lord I haue newes to tell you. 2.2.389

1438-9 Ham. My Lord I haue newes to tel you: when Rossius was an Actor

1439     in Rome. 2.2.391

1440      Pol. The Actors are come hether my Lord. 2.2.392

1441      Ham. Buz, buz. 2.2.393

1442      Pol. Vppon my honor. 2.2.394

1443      Ham. Then came each Actor on his Asse. 2.2.395

1444-5 Pol. The best actors in the world, either for Tragedie , Comedy,

1445-6 History, Pastorall, Pastorall Comicall, Historicall Pastorall, scene

1446-7

1447-8 indeuidible , or Poem vnlimited, Sceneca cannot be too heauy, nor

1448-50 Plautus too light for the lawe of writ, and the liberty: these are the

1450     only men. 2.2.402

1451-2 Ham. O Ieptha Iudge of Israell, what a treasure had'st thou?

1453      Pol. What a treasure had he my Lord? 2.2.405

1454-5 Ham. Why one faire daughter and no more, the which he loued

1455     passing well. 2.2.408

1456      Pol. Still on my daughter. 2.2.409

1457      Ham. Am I not i'th right old Ieptha? 2.2.410

1458-9 Pol. If you call me Ieptha my Lord, I haue a daughter that I loue

1459-60 Ham. Nay that followes not. (passing well.

1461      Pol. What followes then my Lord? 2.2.414

1462-3 Ham. Why as by lot God wot, and then you knowe it came to

1463-4 passe, as most like it was; the first rowe of the pious chanson will

1464-5 showe you more, for looke where my abridgment comes .

1466     Enter the Players. ..

1467-8 Ham. You are welcome maisters, welcome all, I am glad to see thee

1468-9 well, welcome good friends, oh old friend, why thy face is va-

1469-70 lanct since I saw thee last, com'st thou to beard me in Denmark?

1470-1 what my young Lady and mistris, by lady your Ladishippe is

1471-2 nerer to heauen, then when I saw you last by the altitude of a

1472-3 chopine, pray God your voyce like a peece of vncurrant gold,

1473-4 bee not crackt within the ring: maisters you are all welcome,

1474-5 weele ento't like friendly Fankners , fly at any thing we see,

1475-7 weele haue a speech straite, come giue vs a tast of your quality,

1477      come a passionate speech. 2.2.432

1478     Player. What speech my good Lord? 2.2.433

1479-80 Ham. I heard thee speake me a speech once, but it was neuer acted,

1480-1 or if it was, not aboue once, for the play I remember pleasd not

1481-2 the million, t'was cauiary to the generall, but it was as I receaued

1482-3 it & others, whose iudgements in such matters cried in the top

1483-4 of mine, an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set downe

1485-6 with as much modestie as cunning. I remember one sayd there

1486-7 were no sallets in the lines, to make the matter sauory, nor no

1487-8 matter in the phrase that might indite the author of affection ,

1488      but cald it an honest method, as wholesome as sweete, & by very 2.2.445

1488-9 much, more handsome then fine: one speech in't I chiefely loued,

1489-90 t'was Aeneas talke to Dido, & there about of it especially when he

1490-1 speakes of Priams slaughter, if it liue in your memory begin at

1492-3 this line, let me see, let me see, the rugged Pirhus like Th'ircanian

1493-4 F3v beast, tis not so, it beginnes with Pirrhus, the rugged Pirrhus, he whose

1494     sable Armes, 2.2.452

1495     Black as his purpose did the night resemble, 2.2.453

1496     When he lay couched in th'omynous horse, 2.2.454

1497     Hath now this dread and black complection smeard, 2.2.455

1498     With heraldy more dismall head to foote, 2.2.456

1499     Now is he totall Gules horridly trickt 2.2.457

1500     With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sonnes, 2.2.458

1501     Bak'd and empasted with the parching streetes 2.2.459

1502     That lend a tirranus and a damned light 2.2.460

1503     To their Lords murther , rosted in wrath and fire, 2.2.461

1504     And thus ore-cised with coagulate gore, 2.2.462

1505     With eyes like Carbunkles, the hellish Phirrhus 2.2.463

1506     Old grandsire Priam seekes; so proceede you. 2.2.464

1507-8 Pol. Foregod my Lord well spoken, with good accent and good

1508-9 Play. Anon he finds him,                   (discretion.

1510     Striking too short at Greekes, his anticke sword 2.2.469

1511     Rebellious to his arme, lies where it fals, 2.2.470

1512     Repugnant to commaund; vnequall matcht , 2.2.471

1513     Pirrhus at Priam driues, in rage strikes wide, 2.2.472

1514     But with the whiffe and winde of his fell sword, 2.2.473

1515     Th'vnnerued father fals: 2.2.474

1516     Seeming to feele this blowe, with flaming top 2.2.475

1517     Stoopes to his base; and with a hiddious crash 2.2.476

1518     Takes prisoner Pirrhus eare, for loe his sword 2.2.477

1519     Which was declining on the milkie head 2.2.478

1520     Of reuerent Priam, seem'd i'th ayre to stick, 2.2.479

1521      So as a painted tirant Pirrhus stood 2.2.

1522      Like a newtrall to his will and matter, 2.2.482

1522     Did nothing: 2.2.482

1523     But as we often see against some storme, 2.2.483

1524     A silence in the heauens, the racke stand still, 2.2.484

1525     The bold winds speechlesse, and the orbe belowe 2.2.485

1526     As hush as death, anon the dreadfull thunder 2.2.486

1527     Doth rend the region, so after Pirrhus pause, 2.2.487

1528     A rowsed vengeance sets him new a worke, 2.2.488

1529     And neuer did the Cyclops hammers fall, 2.2.489

1530     On Marses Armor forg'd for proofe eterne, 2.2.490

1531     With lesse remorse then Pirrhus bleeding sword 2.2.491

1532     Now falls on Priam. 2.2.492

1533     F4 Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune, all you gods, 2.2.493

1534     In generall sinod take away her power, 2.2.494

1535     Breake all the spokes, and follies from her wheele, 2.2.495

1536     And boule the round naue downe the hill of heauen 2.2.496

1537     As lowe as to the fiends. 2.2.497

1538      Pol. This is too long. 2.2.498

1539-40 Ham. It shall to the barbers with your beard; prethee say on, he's

1540-1 for a Iigge, or a tale of bawdry, or he sleepes, say on, come to Hecuba.

1542      Play. But who, a woe , had seene the mobled Queene, 2.2.502

1543      Ham. The mobled Queene. 2.2.503

1544      Pol. That's good. 2.2.504

1545-6 Play. Runne barefoote vp and downe, threatning the flames

1547     With Bison rehume, a clout vppon that head 2.2.506

1548     Where late the Diadem stood, and for a robe, 2.2.507

1549     About her lanck and all ore-teamed loynes, 2.2.508

1550     A blancket in the alarme of feare caught vp, 2.2.509

1551     Who this had seene, with tongue in venom steept, 2.2.510

1552     Gainst fortunes state would treason haue pronounst; 2.2.511

1553     But if the gods themselues did see her then, 2.2.512

1554     When she saw Pirrhus make malicious sport 2.2.513

1555     In mincing with his sword her husband limmes, 2.2.514

1556     The instant burst of clamor that she made, 2.2.515

1557     Vnlesse things mortall mooue them not at all, 2.2.516

1558     Would haue made milch the burning eyes of heauen 2.2.517

1559     And passion in the gods. 2.2.518

1560-1 Pol. Looke where he has not turnd his cullour, and has teares in's

1561     eyes, prethee no more. 2.2.520

1562-3 Ham. Tis well, Ile haue thee speake out the rest of this soone,

1563-4 Good my Lord will you see the players well bestowed; doe you

1564-5 heare, let them be well vsed, for they are the abstract and breefe

1565-6 Chronicles of the time; after your death you were better haue a

1566-7 bad Epitaph then their ill report while you liue .

1568-9 Pol. My Lord, I will vse them according to their desert .

1570-1 Ham. Gods bodkin man, much better, vse euery man after his de-

1571-2 sert, & who shall scape whipping, vse them after your owne honor

1572-3 and dignity, the lesse they deserue the more merrit is in your boun-

1573-4 ty. Take them in.

1575      Pol. Come sirs. 2.2.534

1576-7 Ham. Follow him friends, weele heare a play to morrowe; dost thou

1578     F4v heare me old friend, can you play the murther of Gonzago? 2.2.538

1579      Play. I my Lord. 2.2.539

1580-1 Ham. Weele hate to morrowe night, you could for neede study

1581-2 a speech of some dosen lines, or sixteene lines, which I would set

1582     downe and insert in't, could you not? 2.2.543

1583      Play. I my Lord. 2.2.544

1584-5 Ham. Very well, followe that Lord, & looke you mock him not.

1585-6 My good friends, Ile leaue you tell night, you are welcome to Elson-

1586     oure. Exeunt Pol. and Players. 2.2.547

1587      Ros. Good my Lord. Exeunt. 2.2.548

1588      ..

1589      Ham. I so God buy to you, now I am alone, 2.2.549

1590     O what a rogue and pesant slaue am I. 2.2.550

1591     Is it not monstrous that this player heere 2.2.551

1592     But in a fixion, in a dreame of passion 2.2.552

1593     Could force his soule so to his owne conceit 2.2.553

1594     That from her working all the visage wand, 2.2.554

1595     Teares in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, 2.2.555

1596     A broken voyce, an his whole function suting 2.2.556

1597     With formes to his conceit; and all for nothing, 2.2.557

1598     For Hecuba. 2.2.558

1599     What's Hecuba to him, or he to her , 2.2.559

1600     That he should weepe for her? what would he doe 2.2.560

1601     Had he the motiue, and that for passion 2.2.561

1602     That I haue? he would drowne the stage with teares, 2.2.562

1603     And cleaue the generall eare with horrid speech, 2.2.563

1604     Make mad the guilty, and appale the free, 2.2.564

1605     Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeede 2.2.565

1606     The very faculties of eyes and eares; yet I, 2.2.566

1607     A dull and muddy metteld raskall peake, 2.2.567

1608     Like Iohn-a-dreames, vnpregnant of my cause, 2.2.568

1609     And can say nothing; no not for a King, 2.2.569

1610     Vpon whose property and most deare life, 2.2.570

1611     A damn'd defeate was made: am I a coward, 2.2.571

1612     Who cals me villaine, breakes my pate a crosse, 2.2.572

1613     Pluckes off my beard, and blowes it in my face, 2.2.573

1614     Twekes me by the nose, giues me the lie i'th thraote 2.2.574

1615     As deepe as to the lunges, who does me this, 2.2.575

1616     Hah, s'wounds I should take it: for it cannot be 2.2.576

1617     But I am pidgion liuerd, and lack gall 2.2.577

1618     G1 To make oppression bitter, or ere this 2.2.578

1619     I should a fatted all the region kytes 2.2.579

1620     With this slaues offall, bloody, baudy villaine, 2.2.580

1621     Remorslesse, trecherous, lecherous, kindlesse villaine. 2.2.581

1622                    ..

1623     Why what an Asse am I, this is most braue, 2.2.582

1624     That I the sonne of a deere murthered, 2.2.583

1625     Prompted to my reuenge by heauen and hell, 2.2.584

1626     Must like a whore vnpacke my hart with words, 2.2.585

1627-8 And fall a cursing like a very drabbe; a stallyon, fie vppont, foh.

1628-9 About my braines; hum, I haue heard,

1629     That guilty creatures sitting at a play, 2.2.589

1630     Haue by the very cunning of the scene, 2.2.590

1631     Beene strooke so to the soule, that presently 2.2.591

1632     They haue proclaim'd their malefactions: 2.2.592

1633     For murther, though it haue no tongue will speake 2.2.593

1634     With most miraculous organ: Ile haue these Players 2.2.594

1635     Play something like the murther of my father 2.2.595

1636     Before mine Vncle, Ile obserue his lookes, 2.2.596

1637     Ile tent him to the quicke, if a doe blench 2.2.597

1638     I know my course. The spirit that I haue seene 2.2.598

1639     May be a deale , and the deale hath power 2.2.599

1640     T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, 2.2.600

1641     Out of my weakenes, and my melancholy, 2.2.601

1642     As he is very potent with such spirits, 2.2.602

1643     Abuses me to damne me; Ile haue grounds 2.2.603

1644     More relatiue then this, the play's the thing 2.2.604

1645     Wherein Ile catch the conscience of the King. Exit. 2.2.605

1646-7 Enter King, Queene, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencraus, Guyl-

1647     densterne, Lords. ..

1648      King. An can you by no drift of conference 3.1.1

1649     Get from him why he puts on this confusion, 3.1.2

1650     Grating so harshly all his dayes of quiet 3.1.3

1651      With turbulent and dangerous lunacie? 3.1.

1652      Ros. He dooes confesse he feeles himselfe distracted, 3.1.5

1653     But from what cause, a will by no meanes speake. 3.1.6

1654      Guyl. Nor doe we find him forward to be sounded, 3.1.7

1655     But with a craftie madnes keepes aloofe 3.1.8

1656     When we would bring him on to some confession 3.1.9

1657     G1v Of his true state. 3.1.10

1658      Quee. Did he receiue you well? 3.1.10

1659      Ros. Most like a gentleman. 3.1.11

1660      Guyl. But with much forcing of his disposition. 3.1.12

1661      Ros. Niggard of question, but of our demaunds 3.1.13

1662      Most free in his reply. 3.1.14

1663      Quee. Did you assay him to any pastime? 3.1.15

1664      Ros. Maddam, it so fell out that certaine Players 3.1.16

1665     We ore-raught on the way, of these we told him, 3.1.17

1666     And there did seeme in him a kind of ioy 3.1.18

1667     To heare of it: they are heere about the Court, 3.1.19

1668     And as I thinke, they haue already order 3.1.20

1669     This night to play before him. 3.1.21

1670      Pol. Tis most true, 3.1.21

1671     And he beseecht me to intreat your Maiesties 3.1.22

1672     To heare and see the matter. 3.1.23

1673      King. With all my hart, 3.1.24

1673     And it doth much content me 3.1.24

1674     To heare him so inclin'd. 3.1.26

1674-5 Good gentlemen giue him a further edge,

1675-6 And driue his purpose into these delights.

1677      Ros. We shall my Lord. Exeunt. Ros. & Guyl. 3.1.28

1678      King. Sweet Gertrard, leaue vs two , 3.1.28

1679     For we haue closely sent for Hamlet hether, 3.1.29

1680     That he as t'were by accedent, may heere 3.1.30

1681     Affront Ophelia; her father and my selfe, 3.1.31

1682     Wee'le so bestow our selues, that seeing vnseene, 3.1.32

1683     We may of their encounter franckly iudge, 3.1.33

1684     And gather by him as he is behau'd, 3.1.34

1685     Ift be th'affliction of his loue or no 3.1.35

1686     That thus he suffers for. 3.1.36

1687      Quee. I shall obey you. 3.1.36

1688     And for your part Ophelia, I doe wish 3.1.37

1689     That your good beauties be the happy cause 3.1.38

1690     Of Hamlets wildnes, so shall I hope your vertues, 3.1.39

1691     Will bring him to his wonted way againe, 3.1.40

1692     To both your honours. 3.1.41

1693      Oph. Maddam, I wish it may. 3.1.41

1694      Pol. Ophelia walke you heere, gracious so please you, 3.1.42

1695     G2 We will bestow our selues; reade on this booke, 3.1.43

1696     That show of such an exercise may cullour 3.1.44

1697     Your lowlines; we are oft too blame in this, 3.1.45

1698     Tis too much proou'd, that with deuotions visage 3.1.46

1699     And pious action, we doe sugar ore 3.1.47

1700     The deuill himselfe. 3.1.48

1701      King. O tis too true, 3.1.48

1702     How smart a lash that speech doth giue my conscience. 3.1.49

1703     The harlots cheeke beautied with plastring art, 3.1.50

1704     Is not more ougly to the thing that helps it, 3.1.51

1705     Then is my deede to my most painted word: 3.1.52

1706     O heauy burthen. 3.1.53

1707      Pol. I heare him comming, with-draw my Lord. 3.1.54

1708                   ..

1709                  Enter Hamlet. ..

1710      Ham. To be, or not to be, that is the question, 3.1.55

1711     Whether tis nobler in the minde to suffer 3.1.56

1712     The slings and arrowes of outragious fortune, 3.1.57

1713     Or to take Armes against a sea of troubles, 3.1.58

1714     And by opposing, end them, to die to sleepe 3.1.59

1715     No more, and by a sleepe, to say we end 3.1.60

1716     The hart-ake, and the thousand naturall shocks 3.1.61

1717     That flesh is heire to; tis a consumation 3.1.62

1718     Deuoutly to be wisht to die to sleepe, 3.1.63

1719     To sleepe, perchance to dreame, I there's the rub, 3.1.64

1720     For in that sleepe of death what dreames may come 3.1.65

1721     When we haue shuffled off this mortall coyle 3.1.66

1722     Must giue vs pause, there's the respect 3.1.67

1723     That makes calamitie of so long life: 3.1.68

1724     For who would beare the whips and scornes of time, 3.1.69

1725     Th'oppressors wrong, the proude mans contumely, 3.1.70

1726     The pangs of despiz'd loue, the lawes delay, 3.1.71

1727     The insolence of office, and the spurnes 3.1.72

1728     That patient merrit of th'vnworthy takes, 3.1.73

1729     When he himselfe might his quietas make 3.1.74

1730     With a bare bodkin; who would fardels beare, 3.1.75

1731     To grunt and sweat vnder a wearie life, 3.1.76

1732     But that the dread of something after death, 3.1.77

1733     The vndiscouer'd country, from whose borne 3.1.78

1734     G2v No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, 3.1.79

1735     And makes vs rather beare those ills we haue, 3.1.80

1736     Then flie to others that we know not of. 3.1.81

1737     Thus conscience dooes make cowards , 3.1.82

1738     And thus the natiue hiew of resolution 3.1.83

1739     Is sickled ore with the pale cast of thought, 3.1.84

1740     And enterprises of great pitch and moment, 3.1.85

1741     With this regard theyr currents turne awry , 3.1.86

1742     And loose the name of action. Soft you now, 3.1.87

1743     The faire Ophelia, Nimph in thy orizons 3.1.88

1744     Be all my sinnes remembred. 3.1.89

1745      Oph. Good my Lord, 3.1.89

1746     How dooes your honour for this many a day? 3.1.90

1747      Ham. I humbly thanke you well. 3.1.91

1748      Oph. My Lord, I haue remembrances of yours 3.1.92

1749     That I haue longed long to redeliuer, 3.1.93

1750     I pray you now receiue them. 3.1.94

1751      Ham. No, not I , I neuer gaue you ought. 3.1.95

1752      Oph. My honor'd Lord, you know right well you did, 3.1.96

1753     And with them words of so sweet breath composd 3.1.97

1754     As made these things more rich, their perfume lost, 3.1.98

1755     Take these againe, for to the noble mind 3.1.99

1756     Rich gifts wax poore when giuers prooue vnkind, 3.1.100

1757     There my Lord. 3.1.101

1758      Ham. Ha, ha, are you honest. 3.1.102

1759      Oph. My Lord. 3.1.103

1760      Ham. Are you faire? 3.1.104

1761      Oph. What meanes your Lordship? 3.1.105

1762-3 Ham. That if you be honest & faire, you should admit

1763     no discourse to your beautie. 3.1.107

1764      Oph. Could beauty my Lord haue better comerse 3.1.109

1765     Then with honestie? 3.1.109

1766-7 Ham. I truly, for the power of beautie will sooner transforme ho-

1767-8 nestie from what it is to a bawde, then the force of honestie can trans-

1768-9 late beautie into his likenes, this was sometime a paradox, but now the

1769-70 time giues it proofe, I did loue you once.

1771      Oph. Indeed my Lord you made me belieue so. 3.1.115

1772-3 Ham. You should not haue beleeu'd me, for vertue cannot so

1773-4 euocutat our old stock, but we shall relish of it, I loued you not.

1775     G3 Oph. I was the more deceiued. 3.1.119

1776-7 Ham. Get thee a Nunry , why would'st thou be a breeder of sin-

1777-8 ners, I am my selfe indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse mee of

1778-9 such things, that it were better my Mother had not borne mee: I am

1779-80 very proude, reuengefull , ambitious, with more offences at my beck,

1781-2 then I haue thoughts to put them in, imagination to giue them shape,

1782-3  or time to act them in: what should such fellowes as I do crauling be-

1783-4 tweene earth and heauen, wee are arrant knaues , beleeue none of vs,

1784-5 goe thy waies to a Nunry . Where's your father?

1786      Oph. At home my Lord. 3.1.130

1787      Ham. Let the doores be shut vpon him, 3.1.131

1787-8 That he may play the foole no where but in's owne house,

1788     Farewell. 3.1.132

1789      Oph. O helpe him you sweet heauens. 3.1.133

1790-1 Ham. If thou doost marry, Ile giue thee this plague for thy dow-

1791-2 rie, be thou as chast as yce, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape ca-

1792-3 lumny; get thee to a Nunry , farewell. Or if thou wilt needes marry,

1793-4 marry a foole, for wise men knowe well enough what monsters you

1795-6 make of them: to a Nunry goe, and quickly to, farewell .

1797      Oph. Heauenly powers restore him. 3.1.141

1798-9 Ham. I haue heard of your paintings well enough, God hath gi-

1799-1800 uen you one face , and you make your selfes another, you gig & am-

1800-1 ble, and you list you nickname Gods creatures, and make your wan-

1801-2 tonnes ignorance; goe to, Ile no more on't, it hath made me madde,

1803-4 I say we will haue no mo marriage, those that are married alreadie, all

1804-5 but one shall liue, the rest shall keep as they are: to a Nunry go. Exit .

1806      Oph. O what a noble mind is heere orethrowne! 3.1.150

1807     The Courtiers, souldiers, schollers, eye, tongue, sword, 3.1.151

1808     Th'expectation, and Rose of the faire state, 3.1.152

1809     The glasse of fashion, and the mould of forme, 3.1.153

1810     Th'obseru'd of all obseruers, quite quite downe, 3.1.154

1811     And I of Ladies most deiect and wretched, 3.1.155

1812     That suckt the honny of his musickt vowes; 3.1.156

1813     Now see what noble and most soueraigne reason 3.1.157

1814     Like sweet bells iangled out of time , and harsh, 3.1.158

1815     That vnmatcht forme, and stature of blowne youth 3.1.159

1816     Blasted with extacie, ô woe is mee 3.1.160

1817     T'haue seene what I haue seene, see what I see.   Exit. 3.1.161

1818     G3v Enter King and Polonius. ..

1819      King. Loue, his affections doe not that way tend, 3.1.162

1820     Nor what he spake, though it lackt forme a little, 3.1.163

1821     Was not like madnes, there's something in his soule 3.1.164

1822     Ore which his melancholy sits on brood, 3.1.165

1823     And I doe doubt, the hatch and the disclose 3.1.166

1824     VVill be some danger; which for to preuent, 3.1.167

1825     I haue in quick determination 3.1.168

1826     Thus set it downe: he shall with speede to England, 3.1.169

1827     For the demaund of our neglected tribute, 3.1.170

1828     Haply the seas, and countries different, 3.1.171

1829     With variable obiects, shall expell 3.1.172

1830     This something setled matter in his hart, 3.1.173

1831     Whereon his braines still beating 3.1.174

1831-2 Puts him thus from fashion of himselfe.

1832     What thinke you on't? 3.1.175

1833      Pol. It shall doe well. 3.1.176

1833-4 But yet doe I belieue the origin and comencement of his greefe,

1835     Sprung from neglected loue: How now Ophelia? 3.1.178

1836     You neede not tell vs what Lord Hamlet said, 3.1.179

1837     We heard it all: my Lord, doe as you please, 3.1.180

1838     But if you hold it fit, after the play, 3.1.181

1839     Let his Queene-mother all alone intreate him 3.1.182

1840     To show his griefe, let her be round with him, 3.1.183

1841     And Ile be plac'd (so please you) in the eare 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 wisedome best shall thinke. 3.1.187

1845      King. It shall be so, 3.1.187

1846-7 Madnes in great ones must not vnmatcht goe.         Exeunt.

1848     Enter Hamlet, and three of the Players. ..

1849-50 Ham. Speake the speech I pray you as I pronoun'd it to you, trip-

1850-1 pingly on the tongue, but if you mouth it as many of our Players do,

1851-2 I had as liue the towne cryer spoke my lines, nor doe not saw the ayre

1852-3 too much with your hand thus, but vse all gently, for in the very tor-

1854-5 rent tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must

1855-6 acquire and beget a temperance, that may giue it smoothnesse, ô it

1856-7 offends mee to the soule, to heare a robustious perwig-pated fellowe

1858     G4 tere a passion to totters, to very rags, to spleet the eares of the ground- 3.2.10

1859-60 lings, vvho for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplica-

1860-1 ble dumbe showes, and noyse: I would haue such a fellow whipt for

1861-2 ore-dooing Termagant, it out Herods Herod, pray you auoyde it.

1863      Player. I warrant your honour. 3.2.15

1864-5 Hamlet. Be not too tame neither, but let your owne discretion be

1865-6 your tutor, sute the action to the word, the word to the action, with

1866-7 this speciall obseruance, that you ore-steppe not the modestie of na-

1867-8 ture: For any thing so ore-doone , is from the purpose of playing,

1868-9 whose end both at the first, and novve, was and is, to holde as twere

1870-1 the Mirrour vp to nature, to shew vertue her feature; scorne her own

1871-2 Image, and the very age and body of the time his forme and pressure:

1872-3 Now this ouer-done, or come tardie off, though it makes the vnskil-

1874-5 full laugh, cannot but make the iudicious greeue, the censure of

1875-6 which one, must in your allowance ore- weigh a whole Theater of o-

1876-7 thers. O there be Players that I haue seene play, and heard others

1877-8 praysd , and that highly, not to speake it prophanely, that neither ha-

1878-80 uing th'accent of Christians, nor the gate of Christian, Pagan, nor

1880-1 man , haue so strutted & bellowed, that I haue thought some of Na-

1881-2 tures Iornimen had made men, and not made them well, they imita-

1882-3 ted humanitie so abhominably .

1884-5 Player. I hope we haue reform'd that indifferently with vs .

1886-7 Ham. O reforme it altogether, and let those that play your clownes

1887-8 speake no more then is set downe for them, for there be of them that

1888-9 wil themselues laugh, to set on some quantitie of barraine spectators

1889-91 to laugh to, though in the meane time, some necessary question of

1891-2 the play be then to be considered, that's villanous, and shewes a most

1892-3 pittifull ambition in the foole that vses it: goe make you readie. How

1894     . ..

1895-6 now my Lord, will the King heare this peece of worke?

1896-7 Enter Polonius, Guyldensterne, & Rosencraus.

          Pol. And the Queene to, and that presently.

1898-9 Ham. Bid the Players make hast. Will you two help to hasten tho(-,e) .

1900      Ros. I my Lord . Exeunt they two. 3.2.51

1901      ..

1902      Ham. What howe , Horatio.   Enter Horatio. 3.2.52

1903      Hora. Heere sweet Lord, at your seruice. 3.2.53

1904      Ham. Horatio, thou art een as iust a man 3.2.54

1905     As ere my conuersation copt withall. 3.2.55

1906      Hor. O my deere Lord. 3.2.56

1907     G4v Nay, doe not thinke I flatter, 3.2.56

1908     For what aduancement may I hope from thee 3.2.57

1909     That no reuenew hast but thy good spirits 3.2.58

1910     To feede and clothe thee, why should the poore be flatterd? 3.2.

1911     No, let the candied tongue licke absurd pompe, 3.2.60

1912     And crooke the pregnant hindges of the knee 3.2.61

1913     Where thrift may follow fauning; doost thou heare, 3.2.62

1914     Since my deare soule was mistris of her choice, 3.2.63

1915     And could of men distinguish her election, 3.2.64

1916     S'hath seald thee for herselfe, for thou hast been 3.2.65

1917     As one in suffring all that suffers nothing, 3.2.66

1918     A man that Fortunes buffets and rewards 3.2.67

1919     Hast tane with equall thanks; and blest are those 3.2.68

1920     Whose blood and iudgement are so well comedled , 3.2.69

1921     That they are not a pype for Fortunes finger 3.2.70

1922     To sound what stop she please: giue me that man 3.2.71

1923     That is not passions slaue, and I will weare him 3.2.72

1924     In my harts core, I in my hart of hart 3.2.73

1925     As I doe thee. Something too much of this, 3.2.74

1926     There is a play to night before the King, 3.2.75

1927     One scene of it comes neere the circumstance 3.2.76

1928     Which I haue told thee of my fathers death, 3.2.77

1929     I prethee when thou seest that act a foote, 3.2.78

1930     Euen with the very comment of thy soule 3.2.79

1931     Obserue my Vncle, if his occulted guilt 3.2.80

1932     Doe not it selfe vnkennill in one speech, 3.2.81

1933     It is a damned ghost that we haue seene, 3.2.82

1934     And my imaginations are as foule 3.2.83

1935     As Vulcans stithy; giue him heedfull note, 3.2.84

1936     For I mine eyes will riuet to his face, 3.2.85

1937     And after we will both our iudgements ioyne 3.2.86

1938     In censure of his seeming. 3.2.87

1939      Hor. Well my lord, 3.2.87

1940     If a steale ought the whilst this play is playing 3.2.88

1941     And scape detected , I will pay the theft. 3.2.89

1942     Enter Trumpets and Kettle Drummes, King, Queene, ..

1942               Polonius, Ophelia ..

1943      ..

1944 ..

1945  . ..

1946   Ham. They are comming to the play. I must be idle, 3.2.90

1947     H1 Get you a place. 3.2.91

1948      King. How fares our cosin Hamlet? 3.2.92

1949      Ham. Excellent yfaith, 3.2.94

1949-50 Of the Camelions dish, I eate the ayre,

1950     Promiscram'd, you cannot feede Capons so. 3.2.95

1951      King. I haue nothing with this aunswer Hamlet, 3.2.97

1951-2 These words are not mine.

1953      Ham. No, nor mine now my Lord. 3.2.99

1953-4 You playd once i'th Vniuersitie you say,

1955-6 Pol. That did I my Lord, and was accounted a good Actor,

1957      Ham. What did you enact? 3.2.102

1958      Pol. I did enact Iulius Cæsar, I was kild i'th Capitall, 3.2.104

1959     Brutus kild mee. 3.2.104

1960-1 Ham. It was a brute part of him to kill so capitall a calfe there,

1961     Be the Players readie? 3.2.106

1962      Ros. I my Lord, they stay vpon your patience. 3.2.107

1963      Ger . Come hether my deere Hamlet, sit by me. 3.2.108

1964      Ham. No good mother, heere's mettle more attractiue. 3.2.110

1965      Pol. O ho, doe you marke that. 3.2.111

1966      Ham. Lady shall I lie in your lap? 3.2.112

1967      Ophe. No my Lord. 3.2.113

1968      3.2.114

1969      3.2.115

1970      Ham. Doe you thinke I meant country matters? 3.2.116

1971      Oph. I thinke nothing my Lord. 3.2.117

1972      Ham. That's a fayre thought to lye betweene maydes legs. 3.2.119

1973      Oph. What is my Lord? 3.2.120

1974      Ham. Nothing. 3.2.121

1975      Oph. You are merry my Lord. 3.2.122

1976      Ham. Who I? 3.2.123

1977      Oph. I my Lord. 3.2.124

1978-9 Ham. O God your onely Iigge-maker, what should a man do but

1979-80 be merry, for looke you how cheerefully my mother lookes, and my

1980-1 father died within's two howres.

1982      Oph. Nay, tis twice two months my Lord. 3.2.128

1983-4 Ham. So long, nay then let the deule weare blacke, for Ile haue a

1984-5 sute of sables; ô heauens, die two months agoe, and not forgotten yet,

1985-6 then there's hope a great mans memorie may out-liue his life halfe a

1986-8 yeere, but ber Lady a must build Churches then, or els shall a suffer

1988-9 not thinking on, with the Hobby-horse, whose Epitaph is, for ô, for

1989     ô, the hobby-horse is forgot. 3.2.135

1990     H1v The Trumpets sounds. Dumbe show followes. ..

1991-2 Enter a King and a Queene, the Queene embracing him, and he her, he

1992-3

1993-4 takes her vp, and declines his head vpon her necke, he lyes him downe vp-

1994-5 pon a bancke of flowers, she seeing him asleepe, leaues him: anon come in an

1995-6 other man , takes off his crowne, kisses it, pours poyson in the sleepers eares,

1996-8 and leaues him: the Queene returnes, finds the King dead, makes passionate

1998-9 action, the poysner with some three or foure come in againe, seeme to con-

1999-2001 dole with her, the dead body is carried away, the poysner wooes the Queene

2001-2 with gifts, shee seemes harsh awhile, but in the end accepts loue.

2003      Oph. VVhat meanes this my Lord? 3.2.136

2004-5 Ham. Marry this munching Mallico, it meanes mischiefe.

2006-7 Oph. Belike this show imports the argument of the play.

2008      Ham. We shall know by this fellow, Enter Prologue. 3.2.141

2008-9 The Players cannot keepe , they'le tell all.

2010      Oph. Will a tell vs what this show meant? 3.2.143

2011-2 Ham. I, or any show that you will show him, be not you asham'd

2012-3 to show, heele not shame to tell you what it meanes.

2014-5 Oph. You are naught, you are naught, Ile mark the play.

2016      ..

2017      Prologue. For vs and for our Tragedie, 3.2.149

2018     Heere stooping to your clemencie, 3.2.150

2019     We begge your hearing patiently. 3.2.151

2020      Ham. Is this a Prologue, or the posie of a ring? 3.2.152

2021      Oph. Tis breefe my Lord. 3.2.153

2022      Ham. As womans loue. 3.2.154

2023     Enter King and Queene. ..

2024   King. Full thirtie times hath Phebus cart gone round 3.2.155

2025     Neptunes salt wash, and Tellus orb'd the ground, 3.2.156

2026     And thirtie dosen Moones with borrowed sheene 3.2.157

2027     About the world haue times twelue thirties beene 3.2.158

2028     Since loue our harts, and Hymen did our hands 3.2.159

2029     Vnite comutuall in most sacred bands. 3.2.160

2030      Quee . So many iourneyes may the Sunne and Moone 3.2.161

2031     Make vs againe count ore ere loue be doone, 3.2.162

2032     But woe is me, you are so sicke of late, 3.2.163

2033     So farre from cheere, and from our 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 H2 For women feare too much, euen as they loue,

2036     And womens feare and loue hold quantitie, 3.2.167

2037      Eyther none, in neither ought, or in extremitie, 3.2.1

2038     Now what my Lord is proofe hath made you know, 3.2.169

2039     And as my loue is ciz'd , my feare is so, 3.2.170

2039+1 Where loue is great, the litlest doubts are feare, 3.2.171

2039+2 Where little feares grow great, great loue growes there. 3.2.172

2040      King. Faith I must leaue thee loue, and shortly to, 3.2.173

2041     My operant powers their functions leaue to do, 3.2.174

2042     And thou shalt liue in this faire world behind, 3.2.175

2043     Honord, belou'd, and haply one as kind, 3.2.176

2044     For husband shalt thou. 3.2.177

2045      Quee .. O confound the rest, 3.2.177

2046     Such loue must needes be treason in my brest, 3.2.178

2047     In second husband let me be accurst, 3.2.179

2048     None wed the second, but who kild the first. Ham. That's 3.2.180

2049      3.2.181

2050      The instances that second marriage moue wormwood 3.2.182

2051     Are base respects of thrift, but none of loue, 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      King. I doe belieue you thinke what now you speake, 3.2.186

2055     But what we doe determine, oft we breake, 3.2.187

2056     Purpose is but the slaue to memorie, 3.2.188

2057     Of violent birth, but poore validitie, 3.2.189

2058     Which now the fruite vnripe sticks on the tree, 3.2.190

2059     But fall vnshaken when they mellow bee. 3.2.191

2060     Most necessary tis that we forget 3.2.192

2061     To pay our selues what to our selues is debt, 3.2.193

2062     What to our selues in passion we propose, 3.2.194

2063     The passion ending, doth the purpose lose, 3.2.195

2064     The violence of eyther, griefe, or ioy, 3.2.196

2065     Their owne ennactures with themselues destroy, 3.2.197

2066     Where ioy most reuels, griefe doth most lament, 3.2.198

2067     Greefe ioy , ioy griefes, on slender accedent, 3.2.199

2068     This world is not for aye, nor tis not strange, 3.2.200

2069     That euen our loues should with our fortunes change: 3.2.201

2070     For tis a question left vs yet to proue, 3.2.202

2071     Whether loue lead fortune, or els fortune loue. 3.2.203

2072     The great man downe, you marke his fauourite flyes, 3.2.204

2073     H2v The poore aduaunc'd, makes friends of enemies, 3.2.205

2074     And hetherto doth loue on fortune tend, 3.2.206

2075     For who not needes, shall neuer lacke 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 begunne, 3.2.210

2079     Our wills and fates doe so contrary runne, 3.2.211

2080     That our deuises still are ouerthrowne, 3.2.212

2081     Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our owne, 3.2.213

2082     So thinke thou wilt no second husband wed, 3.2.214

2083     But die thy thoughts when thy first Lord is dead. 3.2.215

2084      Quee .. Nor earth to me giue foode, nor heauen light, 3.2.216

2085     Sport and repose lock from me day and night, 3.2.217

2085+1 To desperation turne my trust and hope, 3.2.218

2085+2 And Anchors cheere in prison be my scope, 3.2.219

2086     Each opposite that blancks the face of ioy, 3.2.220

2087     Meete what I would haue well, and it destroy, 3.2.221

2088     Both heere and hence pursue me lasting strife,                   Ham. If she should 3.2.222

2089     If once I be a widdow, euer I be a wife. breake it now. 3.2.223

2090      3.2.224

2091-2 King. Tis deeply sworne, sweet leaue me heere a while,

2093     My spirits grow dull, and faine I would beguile 3.2.226

2094     The tedious day with sleepe. 3.2.227

2095      Quee. Sleepe rock thy braine,                    3.2.227

2096     And neuer come mischance betweene vs twaine. Exeunt. 3.2.228

2097      Ham. Madam, how like you this play? 3.2.229

2098      Quee. The Lady doth protest too much mee thinks. 3.2.230

2099      Ham. O but shee'le keepe her word. 3.2.231

2100-1 King. Haue you heard the argument? is there no offence in't?

2102-3 Ham. No, no, they do but iest, poyson in iest, no offence i'th world.

2104      King. What doe you call the play? 3.2.236

2105-6 Ham. The Mousetrap, mary how tropically, this play is the Image

2106-7 of a murther doone in Vienna, Gonszago is the Dukes name, his wife

2107-8 Baptista, you shall see anon, tis a knauish peece of worke, but what of

2108-10 that ? your Maiestie, and wee that haue free soules, it touches vs not,

2110-2 let the gauled Iade winch, our withers are vnwrong. This is one Lu-

2112  cianus, Nephew to the King. 3.2.244

2111             Enter Lucianus. ..

2113   Oph. You are as good as a Chorus my Lord. 3.2.245

2114      Ham. I could interpret betweene you and your loue 3.2.246

2115     H3 If I could see the puppets dallying. 3.2.247

2116      Oph. You are keene my lord, you are keene. 3.2.248

2117-8 Ham. It would cost you a groning to take off mine edge.

2119      Oph. Still better and worse. 3.2.251

2120-1 Ham. So you mistake your husbands. Beginne murtherer, leaue

2121-2 thy damnable faces and begin, come, the croking Rauen doth bellow

2122-3 for reuenge .

2124-5 Luc. Thoughts black, hands apt, drugges fit, and time agreeing,

2126     Considerat season els no creature seeing, 3.2.256

2127     Thou mixture ranck, of midnight weedes collected, 3.2.257

2128     VVith Hecats ban thrice blasted, thrice inuected , 3.2.258

2129     Thy naturall magicke, and dire property, 3.2.259

2130     On wholsome life vsurps immediatly. 3.2.260

2131      ..

2132-3 Ham. A poysons him i'th Garden for his estate, his names Gonza-

2133-4 go, the story is extant, and written in very choice Italian, you shall see

2134-5 anon how the murtherer gets the loue of Gonzagoes wife.

2136      Oph. The King rises. 3.2.265

2137      3.2.266

2138      Quee. How fares my Lord? 3.2.267

2139      Pol. Giue ore the play. 3.2.268

2140      King. Giue me some light, away. 3.2.269

2141      Pol. Lights, lights, lights.            Exeunt all but Ham. & Horatio. 3.2.270

2142      ..

2143      Ham. Why let the strooken Deere goe weepe, 3.2.271

2144     The Hart vngauled play, 3.2.272

2145     For some must watch while some must sleepe, 3.2.273

2146-7 Thus runnes the world away. Would not this sir & a forrest of fea-

2147-8 thers, if the rest of my fortunes turne Turk with me, with prouinciall

2149-50 Roses on my raz'd shooes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players?

2151      Hora. Halfe a share. 3.2.279

2152      Ham. A whole one I. 3.2.280

2153     For thou doost know oh Damon deere 3.2.281

2154     This Realme dismantled was 3.2.283

2154-5 Of Ioue himselfe, and now raignes heere

2156     A very very paiock. 3.2.284

2157      Hora. You might haue rym'd. 3.2.285

2158-9 Ham. O good Horatio, Ile take the Ghosts word for a thousand

2159     pound. Did'st perceiue? 3.2.287

2160      Hora. Very well my Lord. 3.2.288

2161      Ham. Vpon the talke of the poysning. 3.2.289

2162      Hor. I did very well note him. 3.2.290

2163      ..

2164     H3v Ham. Ah ha, come some musique, come the Recorders, 3.2.292

2165     For if the King like not the Comedie, 3.2.293

2166     Why then belike he likes it not perdy. 3.2.294

2167     Come, some musique. 3.2.295

2167+1 Enter Rosencraus and Guyldensterne.

2168   Guyl. Good my Lord, voutsafe me a word with you. 3.2.297

2169       Ham. Sir a whole historie. 3.2.

2170      Guyl. The King sir. 3.2.299

2171      Ham. I sir, what of him? 3.2.300

2172      Guyl. Is in his retirement meruilous distempred. 3.2.301

2173      Ham. With drinke sir? 3.2.302

2174      Guyl. No my Lord, with choller, 3.2.303

2175-6 Ham. Your wisedome should shewe it selfe more richer to signifie

2176-7 this to the Doctor, for, for mee to put him to his purgation, would

2177-8 perhaps plunge him into more choller.

2179-80 Guyl. Good my Lord put your discourse into some frame,

2180     And stare not so wildly from my affaire. 3.2.309

2181      Ham. I am tame sir, pronounce. 3.2.310

2182-3 Guyl. The Queene your mother in most great affliction of spirit,

2183     hath sent me to you. 3.2.312

2184      Ham. You are welcome. 3.2.313

2185-6 Guyl. Nay good my Lord, this curtesie is not of the right breede, if

2186-7 it shall please you to make me a wholsome aunswere, I will doe your

2187-8 mothers commaundement, if not, your pardon and my returne, shall

2188-9 be the end of busines.

2190      Ham. Sir I cannot. 3.2.319

2191      Ros. What my Lord. 3.2.320

2192-3 Ham. Make you a wholsome answer, my wits diseasd, but sir, such

2193-4 answere as I can make, you shall commaund, or rather as you say, my

2194-5 mother, therefore no more, but to the matter, my mother you say.

2196-7 Ros. Then thus she sayes, your behauiour hath strooke her into a-

2197     mazement and admiration. 3.2.327

2198-9 Ham. O wonderful sonne that can so stonish a mother, but is there

2199-2200 no sequell at the heeles of this mothers admiration, impart.

2201-2 Ros. She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed.

2203-4 Ham. We shall obey, were she ten times our mother, haue you any

2204     further trade with vs? 3.2.334

2205      Ros. My Lord, you once did loue me. 3.2.335

2206      Ham. And doe still by these pickers and stealers. 3.2.336

2207     H4 Ros. Good my Lord, what is your cause of distemper, you do sure- 3.2.338

2208-9 ly barre the doore vpon your owne liberty if you deny your griefes to

2209     your friend. 3.2.339

2210      Ham. Sir I lacke aduauncement. 3.2.340

2211-2 Ros. How can that be, when you haue the voyce of the King him-

2212     selfe for your succession in Denmarke. 3.2.342

2212+1 Enter the Players with Recorders.

2213-4 Ham. I sir, but while the grasse growes, the prouerbe is something

2214-6 musty, ô the Recorders, let mee see one, to withdraw with you, why

2217-8 doe you goe about to recouer the wind of mee, as if you would driue

2218     me into a toyle? 3.2.347

2219-20 Guyl. O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my loue is too vnmanerly.

2221-2 Ham. I do not wel vnderstand that, wil you play vpon this pipe?

2223      Guyl. My lord I cannot. 3.2.352

2224      Ham. I pray you. 3.2.353

2225      Guyl. Beleeue me I cannot. 3.2.354

2226      Ham. I doe beseech you. 3.2.355

2227      Guyl. I know no touch of it my Lord. 3.2.356

2228-9 Ham. It is as easie as lying; gouerne these ventages with your fin-

2229-30 gers, & the vmber , giue it breath with your mouth, & it wil discourse

2230-1 most eloquent musique, looke you, these are the stops.

2232-3 Guil. But these cannot I commaund to any vttrance of harmonie, I

2233     haue not the skill. 3.2.362

2234-5 Ham. Why looke you now how vnwoorthy a thing you make of

2235-6 me, you would play vpon mee, you would seeme to know my stops,

2236-7 you would plucke out the hart of my mistery, you would sound mee

2237-9 from my lowest note to my compasse, and there is much musique ex-

2239-40 cellent voyce in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak, s'bloud

2240-1 do you think I am easier to be plaid on then a pipe, call mee what in-

2241-2 strument you wil, though you fret me not, you cannot play vpon me.

2242-3 God blesse you sir.

2244     Enter Polonius. ..

2245-6 Pol. My Lord, the Queene would speake with you, & presently.

2247-8 Ham. Do you see yonder clowd that's almost in shape of a Camel?

2249      Pol. By'th masse and tis, like a Camell indeed. 3.2.378

2250      Ham. Mee thinks it is like a Wezell. 3.2.379

2251      Pol. It is backt like a Wezell. 3.2.380

2252      Ham. Or like a Whale. 3.2.381

2253      Pol. Very like a Whale. 3.2.382

2254     H4v Then I will come to my mother by and by, 3.2.383

2255-6 They foole me to the top of my bent, I will come by & by,

2258     Leaue me friends. 3.2.387

2257-8 I will, say so. By and by is easily said,

2259     Tis now the very witching time of night, 3.2.388

2260     When Churchyards yawne, and hell it selfe breakes out 3.2.389

2261     Contagion to this world: now could I drinke hote blood, 3.2.390

2262     And doe such busines as the bitter day 3.2.391

2263     Would quake to looke on: soft, now to my mother, 3.2.392

2264     O hart loose not thy nature, let not euer 3.2.393

2265     The soule of Nero enter this firme bosome, 3.2.394

2266     Let me be cruell, not vnnaturall, 3.2.395

2267     I will speake dagger to her, but vse none, 3.2.396

2268     My tongue and soule in this be hypocrites, 3.2.397

2269     How in my words someuer she be shent, 3.2.398

2270     To giue them seales neuer my soule consent. Exit. 3.2.399

2271              Enter King, Rosencraus, and Guyldensterne. ..

2272      King. I like him not, nor stands it safe with vs 3.3.1

2273     To let his madnes range, therefore prepare you, 3.3.2

2274     I your commission will forth-with dispatch, 3.3.3

2275     And he to England shall along with you, 3.3.4

2276     The termes of our estate may not endure 3.3.5

2277     Hazerd so neer's as doth hourely grow 3.3.6

2278     Out of his browes . 3.3.7

2279      Guyl. We will our selues prouide, 3.3.7

2280     Most holy and religious feare it is 3.3.8

2281     To keepe those many many bodies safe 3.3.9

2282     That liue and feede vpon your Maiestie. 3.3.10

2283-4 Ros. The single and peculier life is bound

2285     With all the strength and armour of the mind 3.3.12

2286     To keepe it selfe from noyance, but much more 3.3.13

2287     That spirit, vpon whose weale depends and rests 3.3.14

2288     The liues of many, the cesse of Maiestie 3.3.15

2289     Dies not alone; but like a gulfe doth draw 3.3.16

2290     What's neere it, with it, or it is a massie wheele 3.3.17

2291     Fixt on the somnet of the highest mount, 3.3.18

2292     To whose hough spokes, tenne thousand lesser things 3.3.19

2293     Are morteist and adioynd, which when it falls, 3.3.20

2294     I1 Each small annexment petty consequence 3.3.21

2295     Attends the boystrous raine, neuer alone 3.3.22

2296     Did the King sigh, but a generall grone. 3.3.23

2297      King. Arme you I pray you to this speedy viage, 3.3.24

2298     For we will fetters put about this feare 3.3.25

2299      Which now goes too free-footed. 3.3.

2300      Ros. We will hast vs. Exeunt Gent. 3.3.26

2301                  Enter Polonius. ..

2302      Pol. My Lord, hee's going to his mothers closet, 3.3.27

2303     Behind the Arras I'le conuay my selfe 3.3.28

2304     To heare the processe, I'le warrant shee'letax him home, 3.3.29

2305     And as you sayd, and wisely was it sayd, 3.3.30

2306     Tis meete that some more audience then a mother, 3.3.31

2307     Since nature makes them parciall, should ore-heare 3.3.32

2308     The speech of vantage; farre you well my Leige, 3.3.33

2309     I'le call vpon you ere you goe to bed. 3.3.34

2310     And tell you what I knowe. Exit. 3.3.35

2311      King. Thankes deere my Lord. 3.3.35

2312     O my offence is ranck, it smels to heauen, 3.3.36

2313     It hath the primall eldest curse vppont, 3.3.37

2314     A brothers murther, pray can I not, 3.3.38

2315     Though inclination be as sharp as will, 3.3.39

2316     My stronger guilt defeats my strong entent, 3.3.40

2317     And like a man to double bussines bound, 3.3.41

2318     I stand in pause where I shall first beginne, 3.3.42

2319     And both neglect, what if this cursed hand 3.3.43

2320     Were thicker then it selfe with brothers blood, 3.3.44

2321     Is there not raine enough in the sweete Heauens 3.3.45

2322     To wash it white as snowe, whereto serues mercy 3.3.46

2323     But to confront the visage of offence? 3.3.47

2324     And what's in prayer but this two fold force, 3.3.48

2325     To be forestalled ere we come to fall, 3.3.49

2326     Or pardon being downe, then I'le looke vp. 3.3.50

2327     My fault is past, but oh what forme of prayer 3.3.51

2328     Can serue my turne, forgiue me my foule murther, 3.3.52

2329     That cannot be since I am still possest 3.3.53

2330     Of those effects for which I did the murther; 3.3.54

2331     My Crowne, mine owne ambition, and my Queene; 3.3.55

             I1v May one be pardond and retaine th'offence?

2333     In the corrupted currents of this world, 3.3.57

2334     Offences guilded hand may showe by iustice, 3.3.58

2335     And oft tis seene the wicked prize it selfe 3.3.59

2336     Buyes out the lawe, but tis not so aboue, 3.3.60

2337     There is no shufling, there the action lies 3.3.61

2338     In his true nature, and we our selues compeld 3.3.62

2339     Euen to the teeth and forhead of our faults 3.3.63

2340     To giue in euidence, 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, ô bosome blacke as death, 3.3.67

2344     O limed soule, that struggling to be free, 3.3.68

2345     Art more ingaged; helpe Angels make assay, 3.3.69

2346     Bowe stubborne knees, and hart with strings of steale, 3.3.70

2347     Be soft as sinnewes of the new borne babe, 3.3.71

2348     All may be well. 3.3.72

2349              Enter Hamlet. ..

2350      Ham. Now might I doe it , but now a is a praying, 3.3.73

2351     And now Ile doo't, and so a goes to heauen, 3.3.74

2352     And so am I reuendge , that would be scand 3.3.75

2353     A villaine kills my father, and for that, 3.3.76

2354     I his sole sonne, doe this same villaine send 3.3.77

2355     To heauen. 3.3.79

2355     Why, this is base and silly , not reuendge, 3.3.79

2356     A tooke my father grosly full of bread, 3.3.80

2357     Withall his crimes braod blowne, as flush as May, 3.3.81

2358     And how his audit stands who knowes saue heauen, 3.3.82

2359     But in our circumstance and course of thought, 3.3.83

2360     Tis heauy with him: and am I then reuendged 3.3.84

2361     To take him in the purging of his soule, 3.3.85

2362     When he is fit and seasond for his passage? 3.3.87

2362     No. 3.3.87

2363     Vp sword, and knowe thou a more horrid hent, 3.3.88

2364     When he is drunke, a sleepe, or in his rage, 3.3.89

2365     Or in th'incestious pleasure of his bed, 3.3.90

2366     At game a swearing, or about some act 3.3.91

2367     That has no relish of saluation in't, 3.3.92

2368     I2 Then trip him that his heels may kick at heauen, 3.3.93

2369     And that his soule may be as damnd and black 3.3.94

2370     As hell whereto it goes; my mother staies, 3.3.95

2371     This phisick but prolongs thy sickly daies. Exit. 3.3.96

2372      King. My words fly vp, my thoughts remaine belowe 3.3.97

2373     Words without thoughts neuer to heauen goe. Exit. 3.3.98

2374              Enter Gertrard and Polonius. ..

2375-6 Pol. A will come strait, looke you lay home to him,

2377     Tell him his prancks haue beene too braod to beare with, 3.4.2

2378     And that your grace hath screend and stood betweene 3.4.3

2379     Much heate and him, Ile silence me euen heere, 3.4.4

2380     Pray you be round . 3.4.5

2381      ..

2384                  Enter Hamlet. ..

2382      Ger. Ile wait you, feare me not, 3.4.6

2383     With-drawe, I heare him comming. 3.4.7

2384      ..

2385      Ham. Now mother, what's the matter? 3.4.8

2386      Ger. Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. 3.4.9

2387      Ham. Mother, you haue my father much offended. 3.4.10

2388      Ger. Come, come, you answere with an idle tongue. 3.4.11

2389      Ham. Goe, goe, you question with a wicked tongue. 3.4.12

2390      Ger. Why how now Hamlet? 3.4.13

2391      Ham. What's the matter now? 3.4.13

2392      Ger. Haue you forgot me? 3.4.14

2393      Ham. No by the rood not so, 3.4.14

2394     You are the Queene, your husbands brothers wife, 3.4.15

2395     And would it were not so, you are my mother. 3.4.16

2396      Ger. Nay, then Ile set those to you that can speake. 3.4.17

2397-8 Ham. Come, come, and sit you downe, you shall not boudge,

2399     You goe not till I set you vp a glasse 3.4.19

2400     Where you may see the most part of you. 3.4.20

2401      Ger. What wilt thou doe, thou wilt not murther me, 3.4.21

2402     Helpe how . 3.4.22

2403      Pol. What how helpe . 3.4.23

2404      Ham. How now, a Rat, dead for a Duckat, dead. 3.4.24

2405      Pol. O I am slaine. 3.4.25

2406      Ger. O me, what hast thou done? 3.4.25

2407      Ham, Nay I knowe not, is it the King? 3.4.26

2408     I2v Ger. O what a rash and bloody deede is this. 3.4.27

2409      Ham. A bloody deede, almost as bad, good mother 3.4.28

2410     As kill a King, and marry with his brother. 3.4.29

2411      Ger. As kill a King. 3.4.30

2412      Ham. I Lady, it was my word. 3.4.30

2413     Thou wretched, rash, intruding foole farwell, 3.4.31

2414     I tooke thee for thy better , take thy fortune, 3.4.32

2415     Thou find'st to be too busie is some danger, 3.4.33

2416     Leaue wringing of your hands, peace sit you downe, 3.4.34

2417     And let me wring your hart, for so I shall 3.4.35

2418     If it be made of penitrable stuffe, 3.4.36

2419     If damned custome haue not brasd it so, 3.4.37

2420     That it be proofe and bulwark against sence. 3.4.38

2421      Ger. What haue I done, that thou dar'st wagge thy tongue 3.4.39

2422     In noise so rude against me? 3.4.40

2423      Ham. Such an act 3.4.40

2424     That blurres the grace and blush of modesty, 3.4.41

2425     Cals vertue hippocrit, takes of the Rose 3.4.42

2426     From the faire forhead of an innocent loue, 3.4.43

2427     And sets a blister there, makes marriage vowes 3.4.44

2428     As false as dicers oathes, ô such a deede, 3.4.45

2429      As from the body of contraction plucks 3.4.

2430     The very soule, and sweet religion makes 3.4.47

2431     A rapsedy of words; heauens face dooes glowe 3.4.48

2432     Ore this solidity and compound masse 3.4.49

2433     With heated visage, as against the doome 3.4.50

2434     Is thought sick at the act 3.4.51

2435      Quee. Ay me, what act? 3.4.52

2435-6 Ham. That roares so low'd, and thunders in the Index,

2437      Looke heere vpon 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 browe, 3.4.55

2440     Hiperions curles, the front of Ioue himselfe, 3.4.56

2441     An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, 3.4.57

2442     A station like the herald Mercury, 3.4.58

2443     New lighted on a heaue, a kissing hill, 3.4.59

2444     A combination, and a forme indeede, 3.4.60

2445     Where euery God did seeme to set his seale 3.4.61

2446     To giue the world assurance of a man, 3.4.62

2447     I3 This was your husband, looke you now what followes, 3.4.63

2448     Heere is your husband like a mildewed eare, 3.4.64

2449     Blasting his wholsome brother, haue you eyes, 3.4.65

2450     Could you on this faire mountaine leaue to feede, 3.4.66

2451     And batten on this Moore; ha, haue you eyes? 3.4.67

2452     You cannot call it loue, for at your age 3.4.68

2453     The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, 3.4.69

2454     And waits vppon the iudgement, and what iudgement 3.4.70

2455     Would step from this to this, sence sure youe haue 3.4.71

2455+1 Els could you not haue motion, but sure that sence 3.4.72

2455+2 Is appoplext, for madnesse would not erre 3.4.73

2455+3 Nor sence to extacie was nere so thral'd 3.4.74

2455+4 But it reseru'd some quantity of choise 3.4.75

2455+5 To serue in such a difference, what deuill wast

2456     That thus hath cosund you at hodman blind; 3.4.77

2456+1 Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, 3.4.78

2456+2 Eares without hands, or eyes, smelling sance all, 3.4.79

2456+3 Or but a sickly part of one true sence 3.4.80

2456+4 Could not so mope: ô shame where is thy blush? 3.4.81

2457     Rebellious hell, 3.4.82

2458     If thou canst mutine in a Matrons bones, 3.4.83

2459     To flaming youth let vertue be as wax 3.4.84

2460     And melt in her owne fire, proclaime no shame 3.4.85

2461     When the compulsiue ardure giues the charge, 3.4.86

2462     Since frost it selfe as actiuely doth burne, 3.4.87

2463     And reason pardons will. 3.4.88

2464      Ger. O Hamlet speake no more, 3.4.88

2465     Thou turnst my very eyes into my soule, 3.4.89

2466     And there I see such blacke and greeued spots 3.4.90

2467     As will leaue there their tin'ct. 3.4.91

2468      Ham. Nay but to liue 3.4.91

2469     In the ranck sweat of an inseemed bed 3.4.92

2470     Stewed in corruption, honying, and making loue 3.4.93

2471     Ouer the nasty stie. 3.4.94

2472      Ger. O speake to me no more, 3.4.94

2473     These words like daggers enter in my eares, 3.4.95

2474     No more sweete Hamlet. 3.4.96

2475      Ham. A murtherer and a villaine, 3.4.96

2476     A slaue that is not twentith part the kyth 3.4.97

2477     I3v Of your precedent Lord, a vice of Kings, 3.4.98

2478     A cut-purse of the Empire and the rule, 3.4.99

2479     That from a shelfe the precious Diadem stole 3.4.100

2480     And put it in his pocket. 3.4.101

2481      Ger. No more. 3.4.101

2482     Enter Ghost. ..

2483      Ham. A King of shreds and patches, 3.4.102

2484     Saue me and houer ore me with your wings 3.4.103

2485     You heauenly gards: what would your gracious figure? 3.4.104

2486      Ger. Alas hee's mad. 3.4.105

2487      Ham. Doe you not come your tardy sonne to chide, 3.4.106

2488     That lap'st in time and passion lets goe by 3.4.107

2489     Th'important acting of your dread command, ô say. 3.4.109

2490      Ghost. Doe not forget, this visitation 3.4.110

2491     Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose, 3.4.111

2492     But looke, amazement on thy mother sits, 3.4.112

2493     O step betweene her, and her fighting soule, 3.4.113

2494     Conceit in weakest bodies strongest workes, 3.4.114

2495     Speake to her Hamlet. 3.4.115

2496      Ham. How is it with you Lady? 3.4.115

2497      Ger. Alas how i'st with you? 3.4.116

2498     That you doe bend your eye on vacancie, 3.4.117

2499     And with th'incorporall ayre doe hold discourse, 3.4.118

2500     Foorth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep, 3.4.119

2501     And as the sleeping souldiers in th'alarme, 3.4.120

2502     Your bedded haire like life in excrements 3.4.121

2503     Start vp and stand an end, ô gentle sonne 3.4.122

2504     Vpon the heat and flame of thy distemper 3.4.123

2505     Sprinckle coole patience, whereon doe you looke? 3.4.124

2506      Ham. On him, on him, looke you how pale he glares, 3.4.125

2507     His forme and cause conioynd, preaching to stones 3.4.126

2508     Would make them capable, doe not looke vpon me, 3.4.127

2509     Least with this pittious action you conuert 3.4.128

2510     My stearne effects, then what I haue to doe 3.4.129

2511     Will want true cullour, teares perchance for blood. 3.4.130

2512      Ger. To whom doe you speake this? 3.4.131

2513      Ham. Doe you see nothing there? 3.4.131

2514      Ger. Nothing at all, yet all that is I see. 3.4.132

2515      Ham. Nor did you nothing heare? 3.4.133

2516      Ger. No nothing but our selues. 3.4.133

2517     I4 Ham. Why looke you there, looke how it steales away, 3.4.134

2518     My father in his habit as he liued, 3.4.135

2519     Looke where he goes, euen now out at the portall. Exit Ghost. 3.4.136

2520      Ger. This is the very coynage of your braine, 3.4.137

2521     This bodilesse creation extacie is very cunning in. 3.4.139

2522      3.4.139

2523      Ham. My pulse as yours doth temperatly keepe time, 3.4.140

2524     And makes as healthfull musicke, it is not madnesse 3.4.141

2525     That I haue vttred, bring me to the test, 3.4.142

2526     And the matter will reword, which madnesse 3.4.143

2527     Would gambole from, mother for loue of grace, 3.4.144

2528     Lay not that flattering vnction to your soule 3.4.145

2529     That not your trespasse but my madnesse speakes, 3.4.146

2530     It will but skin and filme the vlcerous place 3.4.147

2531     Whiles ranck corruption mining all within 3.4.148

2532     Infects vnseene, confesse your selfe to heauen, 3.4.149

2533     Repent what's past, auoyd what is to come, 3.4.150

2534     And doe not spread the compost on the weedes 3.4.151

2535     To make them rancker, forgiue me this my vertue, 3.4.152

2536     For in the fatnesse of these pursie times 3.4.153

2537     Vertue it selfe of vice must pardon beg, 3.4.154

2538     Yea curbe and wooe for leaue to doe him good. 3.4.155

2539-40 Ger. O Hamlet thou hast cleft my hart in twaine.

2541      Ham. O throwe away the worser part of it, 3.4.157

2542     And leaue the purer with the other halfe, 3.4.158

2543     Good night, but goe not to my Vncles bed, 3.4.159

2544     Assune a vertue if you haue it not, 3.4.160

2544+1 That monster custome, who all sence doth eate 3.4.161

2544+2 Of habits deuill, is angell yet in this 3.4.162

2544+3 That to the vse of actions faire and good, 3.4.163

2544+4 He likewise giues a frock or Liuery 3.4.164

2544+5 That aptly is put on to refraine night,

2545     And that shall lend a kind of easines 3.4.166

2546     To the next abstinence, the next more easie: 3.4.167

2546+1 For vse almost can change the stamp of nature, 3.4.168

2546+2 And either the deuill, or throwe him out 3.4.169

2546     With wonderous potency: once more good night, 3.4.167

2547     And when you are desirous to be blest, 3.4.171

2548     Ile blessing beg of you, for this same Lord 3.4.172

2549     I doe repent; but heauen hath pleasd it so 3.4.173

2550     I4v 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 bestowe him and will answere well 3.4.176

2553     The death I gaue him; so againe good night 3.4.177

2554     I must be cruell only to be kinde, 3.4.178

2555     This bad beginnes, and worse remaines behind. 3.4.179

2555+1 One word more good Lady. 3.4.180

2556      Ger. What shall I doe? 3.4.180

2557      Ham. Not this by no meanes that I bid you doe, 3.4.181

2558     Let the blowt King temp't you againe to bed, 3.4.182

2559     Pinch wanton on your cheeke, call you his Mouse, 3.4.183

2560     And let him for a paire of reechie kisses, 3.4.184

2561      Or padling in your necke with his damn'd fingers. 3.4.

2562     Make you to rouell all this matter out 3.4.186

2563     That I essentially am not in madnesse, 3.4.187

2564     But mad in craft, t'were good you let him knowe, 3.4.188

2565     For who that's but a Queene, faire, sober, wise, 3.4.189

2566     Would from a paddack, from a bat, a gib, 3.4.190

2567     Such deare concernings hide, who would doe so, 3.4.191

2568     No, in dispight of sence and secrecy, 3.4.192

2569     Vnpeg the basket on the houses top, 3.4.193

2570     Let the birds fly, and like the famous Ape, 3.4.194

2571     To try conclusions in the basket creepe, 3.4.195

2572     And breake your owne necke downe. 3.4.196

2573      Ger. Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath 3.4.197

2574     And breath of life, I haue no life to breath 3.4.198

2575     What thou hast sayd to me. 3.4.199

2576      Ham. I must to England, you knowe that. 3.4.200

2577      Ger. Alack I had forgot. 3.4.201

2577     Tis so concluded on. 3.4.201

2577+1 Ham. Ther's letters seald, and my two Schoolefellowes, 3.4.203

2577+2 Whom I will trust as I will Adders fang'd, 3.4.204

2577+3 They beare the mandat, they must sweep my way 3.4.205

2577+4 And marshall me to knauery: let it worke, 3.4.206

2577+5 For tis the sport to haue the enginer 3.4.207

2577+6 Hoist with his owne petar, an't shall goe hard 3.4.208

2577+7 But I will delue one yard belowe their mines, 3.4.209

2577+8 And blowe them at the Moone: ô tis most sweete 3.4.210

2577+9 When in one line two crafts directly meete,

             K1 This man shall set me packing,

2579     Ile lugge the guts into the neighbour roome; 3.4.212

2580     Mother good night indeed, this Counsayler 3.4.213

2581     Is now most still, most secret, and most graue, 3.4.214

2582     Who was in life a most foolish prating knaue. 3.4.215

2583     Come sir, to draw toward an end with you. 3.4.216

2584     Good night mother. Exit. 3.4.217

2585      ..

2586               Eenter King , and Queene, with Rosencraus ..

2586+1                                and Guyldensterne.

2587-8     King. There's matter in these sighes, these profound heaues,

2589     You must translate, tis fit we vnderstand them, 4.1.2

2590     Where is your sonne? 4.1.3

2590+1 Ger. Bestow this place on vs a little while. 4.1.4

2591      Ah mine owne Lord, what haue I seene to night? 4.1.5

2592      King. What Gertrard, how dooes Hamlet? 4.1.6

2593      Ger. Mad as the sea and wind when both contend 4.1.7

2594     Which is the mightier, in his lawlesse fit, 4.1.8

2595     Behind the Arras hearing some thing stirre, 4.1.9

2596     Whyps out his Rapier, cryes a Rat, a Rat, 4.1.10

2597     And in this brainish apprehension kills 4.1.11

2598     The vnseene good old man. 4.1.12

2599      King. O heauy deede! 4.1.12

2600     It had beene so with vs had wee been there, 4.1.13

2601     His libertie is full of threates to all, 4.1.14

2602     To you your selfe, to vs, to euery one, 4.1.15

2603     Alas, how shall this bloody deede be answer'd? 4.1.16

2604     It will be layd to vs, whose prouidence 4.1.17

2605     Should haue kept short, restraind, and out of haunt 4.1.18

2606     This mad young man; but so much was our loue, 4.1.19

2607     We would not vnderstand what was most fit, 4.1.20

2608     But like the owner of a foule disease 4.1.21

2609     To keepe it from divulging, let it feede 4.1.22

2610     Euen on the pith of life: where is he gone? 4.1.23

2611      Ger. To draw apart the body he hath kild, 4.1.24

2612     Ore whom, his very madnes like some ore 4.1.25

2613     Among a minerall of mettals base, 4.1.26

2614     Showes it selfe pure, a weepes for what is done. 4.1.27

2615      King. O Gertrard, come away, 4.1.28

2616     K1v The sunne no sooner shall the mountaines touch, 4.1.29

2617     But we will ship him hence, and this vile deede 4.1.30

2618     We must with all our Maiestie and skill Enter Ros. & Guild. 4.1.31

2619-20      Both countenaunce and excuse. Ho Guyldensterne,

2621     Friends both, goe ioyne you with some further ayde, 4.1.33

2622     Hamlet in madnes hath Polonius slaine, 4.1.34

2623     And from his mothers closet hath he dreg'd him, 4.1.35

2624     Goe seeke him out, speake fayre, and bring the body 4.1.36

2625     Into the Chappell; I pray you hast in this,                    4.1.37

2626     Come Gertrard, wee'le call vp our wisest friends, 4.1.38

2627     And let them know both what we meane to doe 4.1.39

2628     And whats vntimely doone, 4.1.41

2628+1 Whose whisper ore the worlds dyameter, 4.1.42

2628+2 As leuell as the Cannon to his blanck, 4.1.43

2628+3 Transports his poysned shot, may misse our Name, 4.1.44

2628+4 And hit the woundlesse ayre, ô come away,

2629     My soule is full of discord and dismay. Exeunt. 4.1.45

2630                  Enter Hamlet , Rosencraus, and others. ..

2631      4.2.1

2632      4.2.2

2633      Ham. Safely stowd, but soft, what noyse, who calls on Hamlet? 4.2.4

2634     O heere they come. 4.2.4

2635      Ros. What haue you doone my Lord with the dead body? 4.2.5

2636      Ham. Compound it with dust whereto tis kin. 4.2.6

2637      Ros. Tell vs where tis that we may take it thence, 4.2.7

2638      And beare it to the Chappell. 4.2.8

2639      Ham. Doe not beleeue it. 4.2.9

2640      Ros. Beleeue what. 4.2.10

2641-2 Ham. That I can keepe your counsaile & not mine owne, besides

2642-3 to be demaunded of a spunge, what replycation should be made by

2643     the sonne of a King. 4.2.13

2644      Ros. Take you me for a spunge my Lord? 4.2.14

2645-6 Ham. I sir, that sokes vp the Kings countenaunce, his rewards, his

2646-7 authorities, but such Officers doe the King best seruice in the end, he

2647-8 keepes them like an apple in the corner of his iaw, first mouth'd to be

2648-9 last swallowed, when hee needs what you haue gleand, it is but squee-

2650     sing you, and spunge you shall be dry againe. 4.2.21

2651      Ros. I vnderstand you not my Lord. 4.2.22

2652-3 Ham. I am glad of it, a knauish speech sleepes in a foolish eare.

2654-5 Ros. My Lord, you must tell vs where the body is, and goe with vs

2655     to the King. 4.2.26

2656     K2 Ham. The body is with the King, but the King is not with the 4.2.28

2657     body. The King is a thing. 4.2.28

2658      Guyl. A thing my Lord. 4.2.29

2659-60 Ham. Of nothing, bring me to him. Exeunt.

2661               Enter King, and two or three. ..

2662       King. I haue sent to seeke him, and to find the body,

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     Hee's lou'd of the distracted multitude, 4.3.4

2666     VVho like not in their iudgement, but theyr eyes, 4.3.5

2667     And where tis so, th'offenders scourge is wayed 4.3.6

2668     But neuer the offence: to beare all smooth and euen, 4.3.7

2669     This suddaine sending him away must seeme 4.3.8

2670     Deliberate pause, diseases desperat growne, 4.3.9

2671     By desperat applyance are relieu'd 4.3.10

2672     Or not at all. 4.3.11

2672              Enter Rosencraus and all the rest. 4.3.11

2673   King. How now, what hath befalne? 4.3.11

2674      Ros. Where the dead body is bestowd my Lord 4.3.12

2675                  VVe cannot get from him. 4.3.13

2676      King. But where is hee? 4.3.13

2677-8 Ros. Without my lord, guarded to know your pleasure.

2679      King. Bring him before vs. 4.3.15

2680      Ros. How, bring in the Lord. They enter. 4.3.15

2681      ..

2682      King. Now Hamlet, where's Polonius? 4.3.16

2683      Ham. At supper. 4.3.17

2684      King. At supper, where. 4.3.18

2685-6 Ham. Not where he eates, but where a is eaten, a certaine conua-

2686-7 cation of politique wormes are een at him: your worme is your onely

2687-8 Emperour for dyet, we fat all creatures els to fat vs, and wee fat our

2688-9 selues for maggots, your fat King and your leane begger is but varia-

2689-90 ble seruice, two dishes but to one table, that's the end.

2690+1 King. Alas, alas. 4.3.26

2690+2 Ham. A man may fish with the worme that hath eate of a King, & 4.3.28

2690+3 eate of the fish that hath fedde of that worme. 4.3.28

2691      King. King. VVhat doost thou meane by this? 4.3.29

2692       Ham. Nothing but to shew you how a King may goe a progresse 4.3.

2693     K2v through the guts of a begger. 4.3.31

2694      King. Where is Polonius? 4.3.32

2695-6 Ham. In heauen, send thether to see, if your messenger finde him

2696-7 not thrre, seeke him i'th other place your selfe, but if indeed you find

2697-8 him not within this month , you shall nose him as you goe vp the

2698     stayres into the Lobby. 4.3.37

2699      King. Goe seeke him there. 4.3.38

2700      Ham. A will stay till you come. 4.3.39

2701      King. Hamlet this deede for thine especiall safety 4.3.40

2702     Which we do tender, as we deerely grieue 4.3.41

2703     For that which thou hast done, must send thee hence. 4.3.42

2704      Therefore prepare thy selfe, 4.3.43

2705     The Barck is ready, and the wind at helpe, 4.3.44

2706     Th'associats tend, and euery thing is bent 4.3.45

2707     For England. 4.3.46

2708      Ham. For England. 4.3.46

2709      King. I Hamlet. 4.3.46

2710      Ham. Good. 4.3.46

2711      King. So is it if thou knew'st our purposes. 4.3.47

2712-3 Ham. I see a Cherub that sees thē but come for England,

2713     Farewell deere Mother. 4.3.49

2714      King. Thy louing Father Hamlet. 4.3.50

2715-6 Ham. My mother, Father and Mother is man and wife,

2716     Man and wife is one flesh, so my mother: 4.3.53

2716-7 Come for England. Exit.

2718      King. Follow him at foote, 4.3.54

2719     Tempt him with speede abord, 4.3.54

2720     Delay it not, Ile haue him hence to night. 4.3.55

2721     Away, for euery thing is seald and done 4.3.56

2722     That els leanes on th'affayre, pray you make hast, 4.3.57

2723     And England, if my loue thou hold'st at ought, 4.3.58

2724     As my great power thereof may giue thee sence, 4.3.59

2725     Since yet thy Cicatrice lookes raw and red, 4.3.60

2726     After the Danish sword, and thy free awe 4.3.61

2727     Payes homage to vs, thou mayst not coldly set 4.3.62

2728     Our soueraigne processe, which imports at full 4.3.63

2729     By Letters congruing to that effect 4.3.64

2730     The present death of Hamlet, doe it England, 4.3.65

2731     For like the Hectique in my blood he rages, 4.3.66

2732     K3 And thou must cure me; till I know tis done, 4.3.67

2733     How ere my haps, my ioyes will nere begin . Exit. 4.3.68

2734              Enter Fortinbrasse with his Army ouer the stage. ..

2735      Fortin. Goe Captaine, from me greet the Danish King, 4.4.1

2736     Tell him, that by his lycence Fortinbrasse 4.4.2

2737     Craues the conueyance of a promisd march 4.4.3

2738     Ouer his kingdome, you know the randeuous, 4.4.4

2739     If that his Maiestie would ought with vs, 4.4.5

2740     We shall expresse our dutie in his eye, 4.4.6

2741     And let him know so. 4.4.7

2742      Cap. I will doo't my Lord. 4.4.7

2743      For. Goe softly on. 4.4.8

2743+1            Enter Hamlet, Rosencraus, &c. 4.4.9

2743+2 Ham. Good sir whose powers are these? 4.4.10

2743+3 Cap. They are of Norway sir. 4.4.11

2743+4 Ham. How purposd sir I pray you? 4.4.12

2743+5 Cap. Against some part of Poland. 4.4.13

2743+6 Ham. Who commaunds them sir? 4.4.14

2743+7 Cap. The Nephew to old Norway, Fortenbrasse. 4.4.15

2743+8 Ham. Goes it against the maine of Poland sir, 4.4.16

2743+9 Or for some frontire? 4.4.17

2743+10 Cap. Truly to speake, and with no addition, 4.4.18

2743+11 We goe to gaine 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 fiue duckets, fiue I would not farme it; 4.4.21

2743+14 Nor will it yeeld to Norway or the Pole 4.4.22

2743+15 A rancker rate, should it be sold in fee. 4.4.23

2743+16 Ham. Why then the Pollacke neuer will defend it. 4.4.24

2743+17 Cap. Yes, it is already garisond. 4.4.25

2743+18 Ham. Two thousand soules, & twenty thousand duckets 4.4.26

2743+19 VVill not debate the question of this straw, 4.4.27

2743+20 This is th'Imposthume of much wealth and peace, 4.4.28

2743+21 That inward breakes, and showes no cause without 4.4.29

2743+22 Why the man dies. I humbly thanke you sir. 4.4.30

2743+23 Cap. God buy you sir. 4.4.30

2743+24 Ros. Wil't please you goe my Lord? 4.4.31

2743+25 Ham. Ile be with you straight, goe a little before. 4.4.32

2743+26 How all occasions doe informe against me, 4.4.33

2743+27 K3v And spur my dull reuenge. What is a man 4.4.34

2743+28 If his chiefe good and market of his time 4.4.35

2743+29 Be but to sleepe and feede, a beast, no more: 4.4.36

2743+30 Sure he that made vs with such large discourse 4.4.37

2743+31 Looking before and after, gaue vs not 4.4.38

2743+32 That capabilitie and god-like reason 4.4.39

2743+33 To fust in vs vnvsd, now whether it be 4.4.40

2743+34 Bestiall obliuion, or some crauen scruple 4.4.41

2743+35 Of thinking too precisely on th'euent, 4.4.42

2743+36 A thought which quarterd hath but one part wisedom, 4.4.43

2743+37 And euer three parts coward, I doe not know 4.4.44

2743+38 Why yet I liue to say this thing's to doe, 4.4.45

2743+39 Sith I haue cause, and will, and strength, and meanes 4.4.46

2743+40 To doo't; examples grosse as earth exhort me, 4.4.47

2743+41 Witnes this Army of such masse and charge, 4.4.48

2743+42 Led by a delicate and tender Prince, 4.4.49

2743+43 Whose spirit with diuine ambition puft, 4.4.50

2743+44 Makes mouthes at the invisible euent, 4.4.51

2743+45 Exposing what is mortall, and vnsure, 4.4.52

2743+46 To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, 4.4.53

2743+47 Euen for an Egge-shell. Rightly to be great, 4.4.54

2743+48 Is not to stirre without great argument, 4.4.55

2743+49 But greatly to find quarrell in a straw 4.4.56

2743+50 When honour's at the stake, how stand I then 4.4.57

2743+51 That haue a father kild, a mother staind, 4.4.58

2743+52 Excytements of my reason, and my blood, 4.4.59

2743+53 And let all sleepe, while to my shame I see 4.4.60

2743+54 The iminent death of twenty thousand men, 4.4.61

2743+55              That for a fantasie and tricke of fame 4.4.62

2743+56 Goe to their graues like beds, fight for a plot 4.4.63

2743+57 Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, 4.4.64

2743+58 Which is not tombe enough and continent 4.4.65

2743+59 To hide the slaine, ô from this time forth, 4.4.66

2743+60 My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth. Exit.

2744      Enter Horatio, Gertrard, and a Gentleman . ..

2745      Quee. I will not speake with her. 4.5.1

2746      Gent. Shee is importunat, 4.5.3

2746-7 Indeede distract, her moode will needes be pittied.

2748     K4 Quee. What would she haue? 4.5.3

2749      Gent. She speakes much of her father, sayes she heares 4.5.4

2750     There's tricks i'th world, and hems, and beates her hart, 4.5.5

2751     Spurnes enuiously at strawes, speakes things in doubt 4.5.6

2752     That carry but halfe sence, her speech is nothing, 4.5.7

2753     Yet the vnshaped vse of it doth moue 4.5.8

2754     The hearers to collection, they yawne at it, 4.5.9

2755     And botch the words vp fit to theyr owne thoughts, 4.5.10

2756     Which as her wincks, and nods, and gestures yeeld them, 4.5.11

2757     Indeede would make one thinke there might be thought 4.5.12

2758     Though nothing sure, yet much vnhappily. 4.5.13

2759-60 Hora. Twere good she were spoken with, for shee may strew

2760-1 Dangerous coniectures in ill breeding mindes,

2761     Let her come in. 4.5.16

2766                  Enter Ophelia. ..

2762      Quee. `To my sicke soule, as sinnes true nature is, 4.5.17

2763     `Each toy seemes prologue to some great amisse, 4.5.18

2764     `So full of artlesse iealousie is guilt, 4.5.19

2765     `It spills it selfe, in fearing to be spylt. 4.5.20

2766      ..

2767      Oph. Where is the beautious Maiestie of Denmarke? 4.5.21

2768      Quee. How now Ophelia? shee sings. 4.5.22

2769      Oph. How should I your true loue know from another one, 4.5.24

2770     By his cockle hat and staffe, and his Sendall shoone. 4.5.26

2771      Quee. Alas sweet Lady, what imports this song? 4.5.27

2772      Oph. Say you, nay pray you marke, 4.5.28

2773     He is dead & gone Lady, he is dead and gone,                   Song. 4.5.30

2774     At his head a grasgreene turph, at his heeles a stone. 4.5.32

2774+1 O ho. 4.5.33

2775                   ..

2776      Quee. Nay but Ophelia. 4.5.34

2777-8 Oph. Pray you marke. White his shrowd as the mountaine snow.

2775              Enter King. ..

2779   Quee. Alas looke heere my Lord. 4.5.37

2780      Oph. Larded all with sweet flowers, 4.5.38

2781     Which beweept to the ground did not go Song. 4.5.39

2782     With true loue showers. 4.5.40

2783      King. How doe you pretty Lady? 4.5.41

2784-5 Oph. Well good dild you, they say the Owle was a Bakers daugh-

2785-6 ter, Lord we know what we are, but know not what we may be.

2786     God be at your table. 4.5.44

2787     K4v King. Conceit vpon her Father. 4.5.45

2788-9 Oph. Pray lets haue no words of this, but when they aske you

2789     what it meanes, say you this. 4.5.47

2790     To morrow is S. Valentines day,                   Song. 4.5.49

2790     All in the morning betime, 4.5.49

2791     And I a mayde at your window 4.5.51

2791     To be your Valentine. 4.5.51

2792     Then vp he rose, and dond his close, and dupt the chamber doore, 4.5.53

2793     Let in the maide, that out a maide, neuer departed more. 4.5.55

2794      King. Pretty Ophelia. 4.5.56

2795      Oph. Indeede without an oath Ile make an end on't, 4.5.57

2796     By gis and by Saint Charitie, 4.5.58

2797      alack and fie for shame, 4.5.59

2798     Young men will doo't if they come too't, 4.5.60

2799      by Cock they are too blame. 4.5.61

2800-1 Quoth she, Before you tumbled me, you promisd me to wed,

2802     (He answers.)              So would I a done by yonder sunne 4.5.65

2803                  And thou hadst not come to my bed. 4.5.66

2804      King. How long hath she beene thus ? 4.5.67

2805-6 Oph. I hope all will be well, we must be patient, but I cannot chuse

2806-7 but weepe to thinke they would lay him i'th cold ground, my brother

2807-8 shall know of it, and so I thanke you for your good counsaile. Come

2808-9 my Coach, God night Ladies, god night.

2809-10 Sweet Ladyes god night, god night.

2811-2 King. Follow her close, giue her good watch I pray you.

2813-4 O this is the poyson of deepe griefe, it springs all from her Fathers

2814     death, and now behold, ô Gertrard, Gertrard, 4.5.77

2815     When sorrowes come , they come not single spyes, 4.5.78

2816     But in battalians: first her Father slaine, 4.5.79

2817     Next, your sonne gone, and he most violent Author 4.5.80

2818     Of his owne iust remoue, the people muddied 4.5.81

2819     Thick and vnwholsome in thoughts, and whispers 4.5.82

2820     For good Polonius death: and we haue done but greenly 4.5.83

2821     In hugger mugger to inter him: poore Ophelia 4.5.84

2822     Deuided from herselfe, and her faire iudgement, 4.5.85

2823     VVithout the which we are pictures, or meere beasts, 4.5.

2824     Last, and as much contayning as all these, 4.5.87

2825     Her brother is in secret come from Fraunce, 4.5.88

2826     Feeds on this wonder, keepes himselfe in clowdes, 4.5.89

2827     L1 And wants not buzzers to infect his eare 4.5.90

2828     With pestilent speeches of his fathers death, 4.5.91

2829     Wherein necessity of matter beggerd, 4.5.92

2830     Will nothing stick our person to arraigne 4.5.93

2831     In eare and eare: ô my deare Gertrard, this 4.5.94

2832     Like to a murdring peece in many places 4.5.95

2833     Giues me superfluous death. A noise within. 4.5.96

2834               Enter a Messenger. ..

2835      4.5.96

2836-7     King. Attend, where is my Swissers, let them guard the doore,

2837     What is the matter? 4.5.99

2838      Messen. Saue your selfe my Lord. 4.5.99

2839     The Ocean ouer-peering of his list 4.5.100

2840     Eates not the flats with more impitious hast 4.5.101

2841     Then young Laertes in a riotous head 4.5.102

2842     Ore-beares your Officers: the rabble call him Lord, 4.5.103

2843     And as the world were now but to beginne, 4.5.104

2844     Antiquity forgot, custome not knowne, 4.5.105

2845     The ratifiers and props of euery word, 4.5.106

2846     The cry choose we, Laertes shall be King, 4.5.107

2847     Caps, hands, and tongues applau'd it to the clouds, 4.5.108

2848     Laertes shall be King, Laertes King. 4.5.109

2849       Quee. How cheerefully on the false traile they cry. A noise within.

2850         O this is counter you false Danish dogges.

2851               Enter Laertes with others. ..

2852       King. The doores are broke.

2853      Laer. Where is this King? sirs stand you all without. 4.5.113

2854      All. No lets come in. 4.5.114

2855      Laer. I pray you giue me leaue. 4.5.114

2856      All. VVe will, we will. 4.5.115

2857-8 Laer. I thanke you, keepe the doore, ô thou vile King,

2858     Giue me my father. 4.5.117

2859      Quee. Calmely good Laertes. 4.5.117

2860-1 Laer. That drop of blood thats calme proclames me Bastard,

2862     Cries cuckold to my father, brands the Harlot 4.5.119

2863     Euen heere betweene the chast vnsmirched browe 4.5.120

2864     Of my true mother. 4.5.121

2865      King. VVhat is the cause Laertes 4.5.121

2866     That thy rebellion lookes so gyant like? 4.5.122

2867     L1v Let him goe Gertrard, doe not feare our person, 4.5.123

2868     There's such diuinitie doth hedge a King, 4.5.124

2869     That treason can but peepe to what it would, 4.5.125

2870     Act's little of his will, tell me Laertes 4.5.126

2871     Why thou art thus incenst, let him goe Gertrard. 4.5.127

2872     Speake man. 4.5.128

2873      Laer. Where is my father? 4.5.129

2874      King. Dead. 4.5.129

2875      Quee. But not by him. 4.5.129

2876      King. Let him demaund his fill. 4.5.130

2877      Laer. How came he dead, I'le not be iugled with, 4.5.131

2878     To hell allegiance, vowes to the blackest deuill, 4.5.132

2879     Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit 4.5.133

2880     I dare damnation, to this poynt I stand, 4.5.134

2881     That both the worlds I giue to negligence, 4.5.135

2882     Let come what comes, onely I'le be reueng'd 4.5.136

2883     Most throughly for my father. 4.5.137

2884      King. Who shall stay you? 4.5.137

2885      Laer. My will, not all the worlds: 4.5.138

2886     And for my meanes I'le husband them so well, 4.5.139

2887     They shall goe farre with little. 4.5.140

2888-9 King. Good Laertes, if you desire to know the certainty

2890     Of your deere Father, i'st writ in your reuenge, 4.5.142

2891     That soopstake, you will draw both friend and foe 4.5.143

2892     Winner and looser. 4.5.144

2893      Laer. None but his enemies, 4.5.145

2894      King. Will you know them then? 4.5.145

2895      Laer. To his good friends thus wide I'le ope my armes, 4.5.146

2896     And like the kind life-rendring Pelican , 4.5.147

2897     Repast them with my blood. 4.5.148

2898      King. Why now you speake 4.5.148

2899     Like a good child, and a true Gentleman. 4.5.149

2900     That I am guiltlesse of your fathers death, 4.5.150

2901     And am most sencibly in griefe for it, 4.5.151

2902     It shall as leuell to your iudgement peare 4.5.152

2903-4 As day dooes to your eye.A noyse within.

2905                  Enter Ophelia ..

2904      Laer. Let her come in. 4.5.153

2906      How now, what noyse is that? 4.5.154

2907     12 O heate, dry vp my braines, teares seauen times salt 4.5.155

2908     Burne out the sence and vertue of mine eye, 4.5.156

2909     By heauen thy madnes shall be payd with weight 4.5.157

2910     Tell our scale turne the beame. O Rose of May, 4.5.158

2911     Deere mayd, kind sister, sweet Ophelia, 4.5.159

2912     O heauens, ist possible a young maids wits 4.5.160

2913     Should be as mortall as a poore mans life. 4.5.161

2914      4.5.162

2915      4.5.163

2916      4.5.164

2917      Oph. They bore him bare-faste on the Beere, Song. 4.5.165

2918

2919     And in his graue rain'd many a teare, 4.5.167

2920     Fare you well my Doue. 4.5.168

2921-2 Laer. Hadst thou thy wits, and did'st perswade reuenge

2922     It could not mooue thus. 4.5.170

2923      Oph. You must sing a downe a downe, 4.5.172

2923-4 And you call him a downe a. O how the wheele becomes it,

2924-5 It is the false Steward that stole his Maisters daughter.

2926      Laer. This nothing's more then matter. 4.5.174

2927-8 Oph. There's Rosemary, thats for remembrance, pray you loue re-

2928-9 member, and there is Pancies , thats for thoughts.

2930-1 Laer. A document in madnes, thoughts and remembrance fitted.

2932-3 Ophe. There's Fennill for you, and Colembines, there's Rewe for

2933-4 you, & heere's some for me, we may call it herbe of Grace a Sondaies,

2934-5 you may weare your Rewe with a difference, there's a Dasie, I would

2935-7 giue you some Violets, but they witherd all when my Father dyed,

2937     they say a made a good end. 4.5.186

2938     For bonny sweet Robin is all my ioy. 4.5.187

2939      Laer. Thought and afflictions , passion, hell it selfe 4.5.188

2940     She turnes to fauour and to prettines. 4.5.189

2941      Oph. And wil a not come againe, Song. 4.5.190

2942     And wil a not come againe, 4.5.191

2943     No, no, he is dead, goe to thy death bed, 4.5.193

2944     He neuer will come againe. 4.5.194

2945     His beard was as white as snow, 4.5.195

2946      Flaxen was his pole, 4.5.196

2947     He is gone, he is gone, and we cast away mone, 4.5.198

2948-9 God a mercy on his soule, and of all Christians soules,

2950     God buy you . 4.5.201

2951      Laer. Doe you this ô God. 4.5.202

2952      King. Laertes, I must commune with your griefe, 4.5.203

2953     Or you deny me right, goe but apart, 4.5.204

2954     12v Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will, 4.5.

2955     And they shall heare and iudge twixt you and me, 4.5.206

2956     If by direct, or by colaturall hand 4.5.207

2957     They find vs toucht, we will our kingdome giue, 4.5.208

2958     Our crowne, 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 vs, 4.5.211

2961     And we shall ioyntly labour with your soule 4.5.212

2962     To giue it due content. 4.5.213

2963      Laer. Let this be so. 4.5.213

2964     His meanes of death, his obscure funerall, 4.5.214

2965     No trophe sword , nor hatchment ore his bones, 4.5.215

2966     No noble right , nor formall ostentation, 4.5.216

2967     Cry to be heard as twere from heauen to earth, 4.5.217

2968     That I must call't in question. 4.5.218

2969      King. So you shall, 4.5.218

2970     And where th'offence is, let the great axe fall. 4.5.219

2971     I pray you goe with me. Exeunt. 4.5.220

2972              Enter Horatio and others . ..

2973      Hora. VVhat are they that would speake with me?

2974      Gent. Sea-faring men sir, they say they haue Letters for you. 4.6.3

2975      Hor. Let them come in. 4.6.4

2976     I doe not know from what part of the world 4.6.5

2977     I should be greeted. If not from Lord Hamlet. Enter Saylers. 4.6.6

2978                   ..

2979      Say. God blesse you sir. 4.6.7

2980      Hora. Let him blesse thee to. 4.6.8

2981-2 Say. A shall sir and please him, there's a Letter for you sir, it came

2982-3 frō th'Embassador that was bound for England, if your name be Ho-

2983-4 ratio, as I am let to know it is.

2985                   ..

2986-7 Hor. Horatio, when thou shalt haue ouer-lookt this, giue these fel-

2987-8 lowes some meanes to the King, they haue Letters for him: Ere wee

2988-9 were two daies old at Sea, a Pyrat of very warlike appointment gaue

2989-90 vs chase, finding our selues too slow of saile, wee put on a compelled

2990-1 valour, and in the grapple I boorded them, on the instant they got

2991-2 cleere of our shyp, so I alone became theyr prisoner, they haue dealt

2992-3 with me like thieues of mercie, but they knew what they did, I am to

2993-5 doe a turne for them, let the King haue the Letters I haue sent, and

2995-6 repayre thou to me with as much speede as thou wouldest flie death,

2996-7 I haue wordes to speake in thine eare will make thee dumbe, yet are

2996-8 L3 they much too light for the bord of the matter, these good fellowes

2998-9 will bring thee where I am, Rosencraus and Guyldensterne hold theyr

2999-3000 course for England, of them I haue much to tell thee, farewell.

3001-2                           So that thou knowest thine Hamlet.

3003      Hor. Come I will you way for these your letters, 4.6.32

3004     And doo't the speedier that you may direct me 4.6.33

3005     To him from whom you brought them. Exeunt . 4.6.34

3006              Enter King and Laertes. ..

3007      King. Now must your conscience my acquittance seale, 4.7.1

3008     And you must put me in your hart for friend, 4.7.2

3009     Sith you haue heard and with a knowing eare, 4.7.3

3010     That he which hath your noble father slaine 4.7.4

3011     Pursued my life. 4.7.5

3012      Laer. It well appeares: but tell mee 4.7.5

3013     Why you proceede not against these feates 4.7.6

3014     So criminall and so capitall in nature, 4.7.7

3015     As by your safetie, greatnes, wisdome, all things els 4.7.8

3016     You mainely were stirr'd vp. 4.7.9

3017      King. O for two speciall reasons 4.7.9

3018     Which may to you perhaps seeme much vnsinnow'd, 4.7.10

3019     But yet to mee tha'r strong, the Queene his mother 4.7.11

3020     Liues almost by his lookes, and for my selfe, 4.7.12

3021     My vertue or my plague, be it eyther which, 4.7.13

3022     She is so concliue to my life and soule, 4.7.14

3023     That as the starre mooues not but in his sphere 4.7.15

3024     I could not but by her, the other motiue, 4.7.16

3025     Why to a publique count I might not goe, 4.7.17

3026     Is the great loue the generall gender beare him, 4.7.18

3027     Who dipping all his faults in theyr affection, 4.7.19

3028     Worke like the spring that turneth wood to stone, 4.7.20

3029     Conuert his Giues to graces, so that my arrowes 4.7.21

3030     Too slightly tymberd for so loued Arm'd , 4.7.22

3031     Would haue reuerted to my bowe againe, 4.7.23

3032     But not where I haue aym'd them. 4.7.24

3033      Laer. And so haue I a noble father lost, 4.7.25

3034     A sister driuen into desprat termes, 4.7.26

3035     Whose worth, if prayses may goe backe againe 4.7.27

3036     L3v Stood challenger on mount of all the age 4.7.28

3037     For her perfections, but my reuenge will come. 4.7.29

3038-9 King. Breake not your sleepes for that, you must not thinke

3040     That we are made of stuffe so flat and dull, 4.7.31

3041     That we can let our beard be shooke with danger, 4.7.32

3042     And thinke it pastime, you shortly shall heare more, 4.7.33

3043     I loued your father, and we loue our selfe, 4.7.34

3044     And that I hope will teach you to imagine. 4.7.35

3045              Enter a Messenger with Letters. ..

3046      4.7.36

3047-8 Messen. These to your Maiestie, this to the Queene.

3049      King. From Hamlet, who brought them? 4.7.38

3050      Mess. Saylers my Lord they say, I saw them not, 4.7.39

3051     They were giuen me by Claudio, he receiued them 4.7.40

3051+1 Of him that brought them.

3052-3 King. Laertes you shall heare them: leaue vs.

3054-5 High and mighty, you shall know I am set naked on your kingdom,

3055-6 to morrow shall I begge leaue to see your kingly eyes, when I shal first

3056-7 asking you pardon, there-vnto recount the occasion of my suddaine

3057      returne. 4.7.47

3058                   4.7.48

3059      King. What should this meane, are all the rest come backe, 4.7.49

3060     Or is it some abuse, and no such thing? 4.7.50

3061      Laer. Know you the hand? 4.7.51

3062      King. Tis Hamlets caracter. Naked, 4.7.52

3062-3 And in a postscript heere he sayes alone,

3063     Can you deuise me? 4.7.53

3064      Laer. I am lost in it my Lord, but let him come, 4.7.54

3065     It warmes the very sicknes in my hart 4.7.55

3066     That I liue and tell him to his teeth 4.7.56

3067     Thus didst thou. 4.7.57

3068      King. If it be so Laertes, 4.7.58

3068-9 As how should it be so, how otherwise,

3069     Will you be rul'd by me? 4.7.59

3070      Laer. I my Lord, so you will not ore-rule me to a peace. 4.7.60

3071      King. To thine owne peace, if he be now returned 4.7.61

3072     As the King at his voyage, and that he meanes 4.7.62

3073     No more to vndertake it, I will worke him 4.7.63

3074     To an exployt, now ripe in my deuise, 4.7.64

3075     Vnder the which he shall not choose but fall: 4.7.65

3076     L4 And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe, 4.7.66

3077     But euen his Mother shall vncharge the practise, 4.7.67

3078     And call it accedent. 4.7.68

3078+1 Laer. My Lord I will be rul'd, 4.7.69

3078+2 The rather if you could deuise it so 4.7.70

3078+3 That I might be the organ. 4.7.70

3078+4 King. It falls right, 4.7.71

3078+5 You haue beene talkt of since your trauaile much, 4.7.72

3078+6 And that in Hamlets hearing, for a qualitie 4.7.73

3078+7 Wherein they say you shine, your summe of parts 4.7.74

3078+8 Did not together plucke such enuie from him 4.7.75

3078+9 As did that one, and that in my regard 4.7.76

3078+10 Of the vnworthiest siedge. 4.7.76

3078+11 Laer. What part is that my Lord? 4.7.77

3078+12 King. A very ribaud in the cap of youth, 4.7.78

3078+13 Yet needfull to, for youth no lesse becomes 4.7.79

3078+14 The light and carelesse liuery that it weares 4.7.80

3078+15 Then setled age, his sables, and his weedes

3078+16 Importing health and grauenes; two months since

3078      4.7.68

3079     Heere was a gentleman of Normandy, 4.7.82

3080     I haue seene my selfe, and seru'd against the French, 3080 4.7.83

3081     And they can well on horsebacke, but this gallant 4.7.84

3082     Had witch-craft in't, he grew vnto his seate, 4.7.

3083     And to such wondrous dooing brought his horse, 4.7.86

3084     As had he beene incorp'st, and demy natur'd 4.7.87

3085     With the braue beast, so farre he topt me thought, 4.7.88

3086     That I in forgerie of shapes and tricks 4.7.89

3087     Come short of what he did. 4.7.90

3088      Laer. A Norman wast? 4.7.90

3089      King. A Norman. 4.7.91

3090      Laer. Vppon my life Lamord . 4.7.92

3091      King. The very same. 4.7.92

3092      Laer. I know him well, he is the brooch indeed 4.7.93

3093     And Iem of all the Nation. 4.7.94

3094      King. He made confession of you, 4.7.95

3095     And gaue you such a masterly report 4.7.96

3096     For art and exercise in your defence, 4.7.97

3097     And for your Rapier most especiall ) , 4.7.98

3098     That he cride out t'would be a sight indeed 4.7.99

3099     L4v If one could match you; the Scrimures of their nation 4.7.100

3099+1 He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye, 4.7.101

3099+2 If you opposd them; sir this report of his

3100     Did Hamlet so enuenom with his enuy, 4.7.103

3101     That he could nothing doe but wish and beg 4.7.104

3102     Your sodaine comming ore to play with you. 4.7.105

3103     Now out of this. 4.7.106

3104      Laer. What out of this my Lord? 4.7.106

3105      King. Laertes was your father deare to you? 4.7.107

3106     Or are you like the painting of a sorrowe, 4.7.108

3107     A face without a hart? 4.7.109

3108      Laer. Why aske you this? 4.7.109

3109      King. Not that I thinke you did not loue your father, 4.7.110

3110     But that I knowe, loue is begunne by time, 4.7.111

3111     And that I see in passages of proofe, 4.7.112

3112     Time qualifies the sparke and fire of it, 4.7.113

3112+1 There liues within the very flame of loue 4.7.114

3112+2 A kind of weeke or snufe that will abate it, 4.7.115

3112+3 And nothing is at a like goodnes still, 4.7.116

3112+4 For goodnes growing to a plurisie, 4.7.117

3112+5 Dies in his owne too much, that we would doe 4.7.118

3112+6 We should doe when we would: for this would changes, 4.7.119

3112+7 And hath abatements and delayes as many, 4.7.120

3112+8 As there are tongues, are hands, are accedents, 4.7.121

3112+9 And then this should is like a spend thirfts sigh, 4.7.122

3112+10 That hurts by easing; but to the quick of th'vlcer, 4.7.123

3113     Hamlet comes back, what would you vndertake 4.7.124

3114     To showe your selfe indeede your fathers sonne 4.7.125

3115     More then in words? 4.7.126

3116      Laer. To cut his thraot i'th Church. 4.7.126

3117      King. No place indeede should murther sanctuarise, 4.7.127

3118     Reuendge should haue no bounds: but good Laertes 4.7.128

3119     Will you doe this, keepe close within your chamber, 4.7.129

3120     Hamlet return'd, shall knowe you are come home, 4.7.130

3121     Weele put on those shall praise your excellence, 4.7.131

3122     And set a double varnish on the fame 4.7.132

3123     The french man gaue you, bring you in fine together 4.7.133

3124     And wager ore your heads; he being remisse, 4.7.134

3125     Most generous, and free from all contriuing, 4.7.135

3126     M1 Will not peruse the foyles, so that with ease, 4.7.136

3127     Or with a little shuffling, you may choose 4.7.137

3128     A sword vnbated , and in a pace of practise 4.7.138

3129     Requite him for your Father. 4.7.139

3130      Laer. I will doo't, 4.7.139

3131     And for purpose, Ile annoynt my sword. 4.7.140

3132     I bought an vnction of a Mountibanck 4.7.141

3133     So mortall, that but dippe a knife in it, 4.7.142

3134     Where it drawes blood, no Cataplasme so rare, 4.7.143

3135     Collected from all simples that haue vertue 4.7.144

3136     Vnder the Moone, can saue the thing from death 4.7.145

3137     That is but scratcht withall, Ile tutch my point 4.7.146

3138-9 With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly, it may be death.

3140      King. Lets further thinke of this. 4.7.148

3141     Wey what conuenience both of time and meanes 4.7.149

3142     May fit vs to our shape if this should fayle, 4.7.150

3143     And that our drift looke through our bad performance, 4.7.151

3144     Twere better not assayd, therefore this proiect, 4.7.152

3145     Should haue a back or second that might hold 4.7.153

3146     If this did blast in proofe; soft let me see, 4.7.154

3147     Wee'le make a solemne wager on your cunnings , 4.7.155

3148     I hate, when in your motion you are hote and dry, 4.7.157

3149     As make your bouts more violent to that end, 4.7.158

3150     And that he calls for drinke, Ile haue prefard him 4.7.159

3151     A Challice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, 4.7.160

3152     If he by chaunce escape your venom'd stuck, 4.7.161

3153     Our purpose may hold there; but stay, what noyse? 4.7.162

3154              Enter Queene. ..

3155      Quee. One woe doth tread vpon anothers heele, 4.7.63

3156     So fast they follow; your Sisters drownd Laertes. 4.7.64

3157      Laer. Drown'd, ô where? 4.7.65

3158      Quee. There is a Willow growes ascaunt the Brooke 4.7.66

3159     That showes his horry leaues in the glassy streame, 4.7.67

3160     Therewith fantastique garlands did she make 4.7.68

3161     Of Crowflowers, Nettles, Daises, and long Purples 4.7.69

3162     That liberall Shepheards giue a grosser name, 4.7.70

3163     But our cull-cold maydes doe dead mens fingers call them. 4.7.71

3164     There on the pendant boughes her cronet weedes 4.7.72

3165     M1v Clambring to hang, an enuious sliuer broke, 4.7.73

3166     When downe her weedy trophies and her selfe 4.7.74

3167     Fell in the weeping Brooke, her clothes spred wide, 4.7.75

3168     And Marmaide like awhile they bore her vp, 4.7.76

3169     Which time she chaunted snatches of old laudes , 4.7.77

3170     As one incapable of her owne distresse, 4.7.78

3171     Or like a creature natiue and indewed 4.7.79

3172     Vnto that elament, but long it could not be 4.7.80

3173     Till that her garments heauy with theyr drinke, 4.7.81

3174     Puld the poore wretch from her melodious lay 4.7.82

3175     To muddy death. 4.7.83

3176      Laer. Alas, then she is drownd. 4.7.83

3177      Quee. Drownd, drownd. 4.7.84

3178      Laer. Too much of water hast thou poore Ophelia, 4.7.85

3179     And therefore I forbid my teares; but yet 4.7.86

3180     It is our tricke, nature her custome holds, 4.7.87

3181     Let shame say what it will, when these are gone, 4.7.88

3182     The woman will be out. Adiew my Lord, 4.7.89

3183     I haue a speech a fire that faine would blase, 4.7.90

3184     But that this folly drownes it. Exit. 4.7.91

3185      King. Let's follow Gertrard, 4.7.91

3186     How much I had to doe to calme his rage, 4.7.92

3187     Now feare I this will giue it start againe, 4.7.93

3188     Therefore lets follow. Exeunt. 4.7.94

3189                 Enter two Clownes. ..

3190-1 Clowne. Is shee to be buried in Christian buriall, when she wilfully

3191     seekes her owne saluation? 5.1.2

3192-3 Other. I tell thee she is, therfore make her graue straight, the crow-

3193-4 ner hath sate on her, and finds it Christian buriall.

3195-6 Clowne. How can that be, vnlesse she drown'd herselfe in her owne

3196     defence. 5.1.7

3197      Other. Why tis found so. 5.1.8

3198-9 Clowne. It must be so offended , it cannot be els, for heere lyes the

3199-3200 poynt, if I drowne my selfe wittingly, it argues an act, & an act hath

3200-1 three branches, it is to act, to doe, to performe, or all; she drownd her

3201-2 selfe wittingly.

3203      Other. Nay, but heare you good man deluer. 5.1.14

3204-5 Clowne. Giue mee leaue, here lyes the water, good, here stands the

3204-6 man, good, if the man goe to this water & drowne himselfe, it is will M2

3206-7 he, nill he, he goes, marke you that, but if the water come to him, &

3207-9 drowne him, he drownes not himselfe, argall, he that is not guilty of

3209     his owne death, shortens not his owne life. 5.1.20

3210      Other. But is this law? 5.1.21

3211      Clowne. I marry i'st, Crowners quest law. 5.1.22

3212-3 Other. Will you ha the truth an't, if this had not beene a gentlewo-

3213-4 man, she should haue been buried out a christian buriall.

3215-6 Clowne. Why there thou sayst, and the more pitty that great folke

3216-7 should haue countnaunce in this world to drowne or hang tho(-,e) selues,

3217-8 more then theyr euen Christen: Come my spade, there is no aunci-

3218-9 ent gentlemen but Gardners , Ditchers, and Grauemakers, they hold

3219-20 vp Adams profession.

3221      Other. Was he a gentleman? 5.1.32

3222      Clowne. A was the first that euer bore Armes. 5.1.33

3223      5.1.34

3224      5.1.36

3225      5.1.37

3226      5.1.38

3226-7 Ile put another question to thee, if thou answerest me not to the pur-

3227-8 pose, confesse thy selfe.

3229      Other. Goe to. 5.1.40

3230-1 Clow. What is he that builds stronger then eyther the Mason, the

3231     Shypwright, or the Carpenter. 5.1.42

3232-3 Other. The gallowes maker, for that out-liues a thousand tenants.

3234-5 Clowne. I like thy wit well in good fayth, the gallowes dooes well,

3235-6 but howe dooes it well? It dooes well to those that do ill, nowe thou

3236-7 doost ill to say the gallowes is built stronger then the Church, argall,

3237-8 the gallowes may doo well to thee. Too't againe, come.

3239-40 Other. VVho buildes stronger then a Mason, a Shipwright , or a

3240     Carpenter. 5.1.51

3241      Clowne. I, tell me that and vnyoke. 5.1.52

3242      Other. Marry now I can tell. 5.1.53

3243      Clowne. Too't. 5.1.54

3244      Other. Masse I cannot tell. 5.1.55

3245                   ..

3246-7 Clow. Cudgell thy braines no more about it, for your dull asse wil

3247-8 not mend his pace with beating, and when you are askt this question

3248-9 next, say a graue-maker, the houses hee makes lasts till Doomesday.

3249-50 Goe get thee in, and fetch mee a soope of liquer.

3251                   ..

3252     In youth when I did loue did loue,                   Song. 5.1.61

3253      Me thought it was very sweet 5.1.62

3254     To contract ô the time for a my behoue, 5.1.63

3255      O me thought there a was nothing a meet. 5.1.64

3256     M2v              Enter Hamlet and Horatio. 5.1.65

3256-7 Ham. Has this fellowe no feeling of his busines? a sings in graue-

3257     making. 5.1.66

3258-9 Hora. Custome hath made it in him a propertie of easines .

3260-1 Ham. Tis een so, the hand of little imploiment hath the dintier sence

3262                   ..

3263      Clow. But age with his stealing steppes Song. 5.1.71

3264                 hath clawed me in his clutch, 5.1.72

3265      And hath shipped me into the land, 5.1.73

3266                 as if I had neuer been such. 5.1.74

3267-8 Ham. That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once, how the

3268-9 knaue iowles it to the ground, as if twere Caines iawbone, that did the

3269-70 first murder, this might be the pate of a pollitician, which this asse now

3270-1 ore-reaches; one that would circumuent God, might it not?

3272      Hora. It might my Lord. 5.1.81

3273-4 Ham. Or of a Courtier, which could say good morrow sweet lord,

3274-5 how doost thou sweet lord? This might be my Lord such a one, that

3275-6 praised my lord such a ones horse when a went to beg it, might it not?

3277      Hor. I my Lord. 5.1.87

3278-9 Ham. Why een so, & now my Lady wormes Choples , & knockt

3279-80 about the massene with a Sextens spade; heere's fine reuolution and

3280-1 we had the tricke to see't, did these bones cost no more the breeding,

3281-3 but to play at loggits with them : mine ake to thinke on't.

3284                   ..

3284      Clow. A pickax and a spade a spade,                   Song. ..

3286                 for and a shrowding sheet, 5.1.95

3287                  O a pit of Clay for to be made 5.1.96

3288                 for such a guest is meet. 5.1.97

3289-90 Ham. There's another, why may not that be the skull of a Lawyer,

3290-1 where be his quiddities now, his quillites, his cases, his tenurs, and his

3291-2 tricks? why dooes he suffer this madde knaue now to knocke him a-

3292-4 bout the sconce with a durtie shouell, and will not tell him of his acti-

3294-5 on of battery, hum, this fellowe might be in's time a great buyer of

3295-6 Land, with his Statuts, his recognisances , his fines, his double vou-

3296-7 chers, his recoueries,

3298-9 to haue his fine pate full of fine durt, will vou-

3299-3300 chers vouch him no more of his purchases & doubles then the length

3300-1 and breadth of a payre of Indentures? The very conueyances of his

3301-3 Lands will scarcely lye in this box, & must th'inheritor himselfe haue

3303     no more, ha. 5.1.112

3304      Hora. Not a iot more my Lord. 5.1.113

3305      Ham. Is not Parchment made of sheepe-skinnes? 5.1.114

3306     M3 Hora. I my Lord, and of Calues-skinnes to. 5.1.115

3307-8 Ham. They are Sheepe and Calues which seeke out assurance in

3308-9 that, I wil speak to this fellow. Whose graue's this sirra ?

3310-1 Clow. Mine sir, or a pit of clay for to be made.

3312

3313      Ham. I thinke it be thine indeede, for thou lyest in't. 5.1.122

3314-5 Clow. You lie out ont sir, and therefore tis not yours; for my part I

3315     doe not lie in't, yet it is mine. 5.1.124

3316-7 Ham. Thou doost lie in't to be in't & say it is thine, tis for the dead,

3317-8 not for the quicke, therefore thou lyest.

3319-20 Clow. Tis a quicke lye sir, twill away againe from me to you.

3321      Ham. What man doost thou digge it for? 5.1.130

3322      Clow. For no man sir. 5.1.131

3323      Ham. What woman then? 5.1.132

3324      Clow. For none neither. 5.1.133

3325      Ham. Who is to be buried in't? 5.1.134

3326-7 Clow. One that was a woman sir, but rest her soule shee's dead.

3328-9 Ham. How absolute the knaue is, we must speake by the card, or

3329-30 equiuocation will vndoo vs. By the Lord Horatio, this three yeeres I

3330-1 haue tooke note of it, the age is growne so picked, that the toe of the

3331-3 pesant coms so neere the heele of the Courtier he galls his kybe. How

3333     long hast thou been Graue-maker? 5.1.142

3334-5 Clow. Of the dayes i'th yere I came too't that day that our last king

3335     Hamlet ouercame Fortenbrasse. 5.1.144

3336      Ham. How long is that since? 5.1.145

3337-8 Clow. Cannot you tell that? euery foole can tell that, it was that

3338-9 very day that young Hamlet was borne: hee that is mad and sent into

3339     England. 5.1.148

3340      Ham. I marry, why was he sent into England? 5.1.149

3341-2 Clow. Why because a was mad: a shall recouer his wits there, or if

3342     a doo not, tis no great matter there. 5.1.152

3343      Ham. Why? 5.1.

3344-5 Clow. Twill not be seene in him there, there the men are as mad

3346      Ham. How came he mad? (as hee. 5.1.156

3347      Clow. Very strangely they say. 5.1.157

3348      Ham. How strangely? 5.1.158

3349      Clow. Fayth eene with loosing his wits. 5.1.159

3350      Ham. Vpon what ground? 5.1.160

3351-2 Clow. Why heere in Denmarke: I haue been Sexten heere man

3352     and boy thirty yeeres. 5.1.162

3353     M3v Ham. How long will a man lie i'th earth ere he rot? 5.1.164

3354-5 Clow. Fayth if a be not rotten before a die, as we haue many poc-

3355-6 kie corses , that will scarce hold the laying in, a will last you som eyght

3356-7 yeere, or nine yeere. A Tanner will last you nine yeere.

3358      Ham. Why he more then another? 5.1.169

3359-60 Clow. Why sir, his hide is so tand with his trade, that a will keepe

3360-1 out water a great while; & your water is a sore decayer of your whor-

3361-2 son dead body, heer's a scull now hath lyen you i'th earth 23. yeeres.

3363      Ham. Whose was it? 5.1.175

3364-5 Clow. A whorson mad fellowes it was, whose do you think it was?

3366      Ham. Nay I know not. 5.1.178

3367-8 Clow. A pestilence on him for a madde rogue, a pourd a flagon of

3368-9 Renish on my head once; this same skull sir, was sir Yoricks skull, the

3369     Kings Iester. 5.1.181

3370      Ham. This? 5.1.182

3371   Clow. Een that. 5.1.183

3372-3 Ham. Alas poore Yoricke, I knew him Horatio , a fellow of infinite 5.1.184

3373-4 iest, of most excellent fancie, hee hath bore me on his backe a thou- 5.1.185

3374-5 sand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is: my gorge

3375-6 rises at it. Heere hung those lyppes that I haue kist I know not howe

3376-7 oft, where be your gibes now? your gamboles, your songs, your fla-

3378-9 shes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roare, not one

3379-80 now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne. Now get you

3380-2 to my Ladies table , & tell her, let her paint an inch thicke, to this fa-

3382     uour she must come, make her laugh at that. 5.1.195

3382-3 Prethee Horatio tell me one thing.

3384      Hora. What's that my Lord? 5.1.196

3385-6 Ham. Doost thou thinke Alexander lookt a this fashion i'th earth?

3387      Hora. Een so. 5.1.199

3388      Ham. And smelt so pah. 5.1.200

3389      Hora. Een so my Lord. 5.1.201

3390-1 Ham. To what base vses wee may returne Horatio? Why may not

3391-2 imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander , till a find it stopping

3392     a bunghole? 5.1.204

3393      Hor. Twere to consider too curiously to consider so. 5.1.206

3394-5 Ham. No faith, not a iot, but to follow him thether with modesty

3395-6 enough, and likelyhood to leade it . Alexander dyed, Alexander was

3396-7 buried, Alexander returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth vvee

3397-9 make Lome, & why of that Lome whereto he was conuerted, might

3399     M4 they not stoppe a Beare-barrell? 5.1.212

3400     Imperious Cæsar dead, and turn'd to Clay, 5.1.213

3401     Might stoppe a hole, to keepe the wind away. 5.1.214

3402     O that that earth which kept the world in awe, 5.1.215

3403     Should patch a wall t'expell the waters flaw. 5.1.216

3404     But soft, but soft awhile, here comes the King, Enter K. Q. 5.1.217

3405      5..

3406

3407     The Queene, the Courtiers, who is this they follow? Laertes and 5.1.218

3408     And with such maimed rites? this doth betoken,                   the corse. 5.1.219

3409     The corse they follow, did with desprat hand 5.1.220

3410     Foredoo it owne life, twas of some estate, 5.1.221

3411     Couch we a while and marke. 5.1.222

3412      Laer. What Ceremonie els? 5.1.223

3413      Ham. That is Laertes a very noble youth, marke. 5.1.224

3414      Laer. What Ceremonie els? 5.1.225

3415      Doct. Her obsequies haue been as farre inlarg'd 5.1.262

3416     As we haue warrantie , her death was doubtfull, 5.1.227

3417     And but that great commaund ore-swayes the order, 5.1.228

3418     She should in ground vnsanctified been lodg'd 5.1.229

3419     Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers , 5.1.230

3420      Flints and peebles should be throwne on her: 5.1.231

3421     Yet heere she is allow'd her virgin Crants , 5.1.232

3422     Her mayden strewments, and the bringing home 5.1.233

3423     Of bell and buriall. 5.1.234

3424      Laer. Must there no more be doone? 5.1.235

3425      Doct. No more be doone. 5.1.235

3426     We should prophane the seruice of the dead, 5.1.236

3427     To sing a Requiem and such rest to her 5.1.237

3428     As to peace-parted soules. 5.1.238

3429      Laer. Lay her i'th earth, 5.1.238

3430     And from her faire and vnpolluted flesh 5.1.239

3431     May Violets spring: I tell thee churlish Priest, 5.1.240

3432     A ministring Angell shall my sister be 5.1.241

3433     When thou lyest howling. 5.1.242

3434      Ham. What, the faire Ophelia. 5.1.242

3435      Quee. Sweets to the sweet, farewell, 5.1.243

3436     I hop't thou should'st haue been my Hamlets wife, 5.1.244

3437     I thought thy bride-bed to haue deckt sweet maide, 5.1.245

3438     And not haue strew'd thy graue. 5.1.246

3439      Laer. O treble woe 5.1.246

3440     M4v Fall tenne times double on that cursed head, 5.1.247

3441     Whose wicked deede thy most ingenious sence 5.1.248

3442     Depriued thee of, hold off the earth a while, 5.1.249

3443     Till I haue caught her once more in mine armes; 5.1.250

3444      ..

3445     Now pile your dust vpon the quicke and dead, 5.1.251

3446     Till of this flat a mountaine you haue made 5.1.252

3447     To'retop old Pelion, or the skyesh head 5.1.253

3448  Of blew Olympus. 5.1.254

3449   Ham. What is he whose griefe 5.1.254

3450     Beares such an emphesis, whose phrase of sorrow 5.1.255

3451     Coniures the wandring starres, 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      Laer. The deuill take thy soule. 5.1.259

3455-6 Ham. Thou pray'st not well, I prethee take thy fingers

3457     For though I am not spleenatiue rash, (from my throat, 5.1.261

3458     Yet haue I in me something dangerous, 5.1.262

3459     Which let thy wisedome feare; hold off thy hand, 5.1.263

3460      King. Pluck them a sunder. 5.1.264

3461      Quee. Hamlet, Hamlet. 5.1.264

3461+1 All. Gentlemen.

3462      Hora. Good my Lord be quiet. 5.1.265

3463      Ham. Why, I will fight with him vpon this theame 5.1.266

3464     Vntill my eye-lids will no longer wagge. 5.1.267

3465      Quee. O my sonne, what theame? 5.1.268

3466      Ham. I loued Ophelia, forty thousand brothers 5.1.269

3467     Could not with all theyr quantitie of loue 5.1.270

3468     Make vp my summe. What wilt thou doo for her. 5.1.271

3469      King. O he is mad Laertes. 5.1.272

3470      Quee. For loue of God forbeare him. 5.1.273

3471      Ham. S'wounds shew me what th'owt doe: 5.1.274

3472     Woo't weepe, woo't fight, woo't fast, woo't teare thy selfe, 5.1.275

3473     Woo't drinke vp Esill, eate a Crocadile? 5.1.276

3474     Ile doo't, doost come heere to whine? 5.1.2

3475     To out-face me with leaping in her graue, 5.1.278

3476     Be buried quicke with her, and so will I. 5.1.279

3477     And if thou prate of mountaines, let them throw 5.1.280

3478     Millions of Acres on vs, till our ground 5.1.281

3479     Sindging his pate against the burning Zone 5.1.282

3480     N1 Make Ossa like a wart, nay and thou'lt mouthe, 5.1.283

3481     Ile rant as well as thou. 5.1.284

3482      Quee. This is meere madnesse, 5.1.284

3483     And this a while the fit will worke on him, 5.1.285

3484     Anon as patient as the female Doue 5.1.286

3485     When that her golden cuplets are disclosed 5.1.287

3486     His silence will sit drooping. 5.1.288

3487      Ham. Heare you sir, 5.1.288

3488     What is the reason that you vse me thus? 5.1.289

3489     I lou'd you euer, but it is no matter, 5.1.290

3490     Let Hercules himselfe doe what he may 5.1.291

3491     The Cat will mew, and Dogge will haue his day. Exit Hamlet 5.1.292

3492      King. I pray thee good Horatio waite vpon him. and Horatio. 5.1.293

3493     Strengthen your patience in our last nights speech, 5.1.294

3494     Weele put the matter to the present push: 5.1.295

3495     Good Gertrard set some watch ouer your sonne, 5.1.296

3496     This graue shall haue a liuing monument, 5.1.297

3497     An houre of quiet thereby shall we see 5.1.298

3498     Tell then in patience our proceeding be. Exeunt. 5.1.299

3499              Enter Hamlet and Horatio. ..

3500      Ham. So much for this sir, now shall you see the other, 5.2.1

3501     You doe remember all the circumstance. 5.2.2

3502      Hora. Remember it my Lord. 5.2.3

3503      Ham. Sir in my hart there was a kind of fighting 5.2.4

3504     That would not let me sleepe, my thought I lay 5.2.5

3505     Worse then the mutines in the bilbo , rashly, 5.2.6

3506     And praysd be rashnes for it: let vs knowe, 5.2.7

3507     Our indiscretion sometime serues vs well 5.2.8

3508     When our deepe plots doe fall , & that should learne vs 5.2.9

3509     Ther's a diuinity that shapes our ends, 5.2.10

3510     Rough hew them how we will. 5.2.11

3511      Hora. That is most certaine. 5.2.11

3512      Ham. Vp from my Cabin, 5.2.12

3513     My sea-gowne scarft about me in the darke 5.2.13

3514     Gropt I to find out them, had my desire, 5.2.14

3515     Fingard their packet, and in fine with-drew 5.2.15

3516     To mine owne roome againe, making so bold 5.2.16

3517     N1v My feares forgetting manners to vnfold 5.2.17

3518     Their graund commission; where I found Horatio 5.2.18

3519     A royall knauery, an exact command 5.2.19

3520     Larded with many seuerall sorts of reasons, 5.2.20

3521     Importing Denmarkes health, and Englands to, 5.2.21

3522     With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life, 5.2.22

3523     That on the superuise no leasure bated, 5.2.23

3524     No not to stay the grinding of the Axe, 5.2.24

3525     My head should be strooke off. 5.2.25

3526      Hora. I'st possible? 5.2.25

3527      Ham. Heeres the commission, read it at more leasure, 5.2.26

3528     But wilt thou heare now how I did proceed. 5.2.27

3529      Hora. I beseech you. 5.2.28

3530      Ham. Being thus benetted round with villaines, 5.2.29

3531     Or I could make a prologue to my braines, 5.2.30

3532     They had begunne the play, I sat me downe, 5.2.31

3533     Deuisd a new commission, wrote it faire, 5.2.32

3534     I once did hold it as our statists doe, 5.2.33

3535     A basenesse to write faire, and labourd much 5.2.34

3536     How to forget that learning, but sir now 5.2.35

3537     It did me yemans seruice, wilt thou know 5.2.36

3538     Th'effect of what I wrote? 5.2.37

3539      Hora. I good my Lord. 5.2.37

3540      Ham. An earnest coniuration from the King, 5.2.38

3541     As England was his faithfull tributary, 5.2.39

3542     As loue betweene them like the palme might florish, 5.2.40

3543     As peace should still her wheaten garland weare 5.2.41

3544     And stand a Comma tweene their amities, 5.2.42

3545     And many such like, as sir of great charge, 5.2.43

3546     That on the view, and knowing of these contents, 5.2.44

3547     Without debatement further more or lesse, 5.2.45

3548     He should those bearers put to suddaine death, 5.2.46

3549     Not shriuing time alow'd. 5.2.47

3550      Hora. How was this seald? 5.2.47

3551      Ham. Why euen in that was heauen ordinant, 5.2.48

3552     I had my fathers signet in my purse 5.2.49

3553     Which was the modill of that Danish seale, 5.2.50

3554     Folded the writ vp in the forme of th'other, 5.2.51

3555     Subcribe it, gau't th'impression, plac'd it safely, 5.2.52

3556     N2 The changling neuer knowne: now the next day 5.2.53

3557     Was our Sea fight, and what to this was sequent 5.2.54

3558     Thou knowest already. 5.2.55

3559      Hora. So Guyldensterne and Rosencraus goe too't. 5.2.56

3560      5.2.57

3561      Ham. They are not neere my conscience, their defeat 5.2.58

3562     Dooes by their owne insinnuation growe, 5.2.59

3563     Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes 5.2.60

3564     Betweene the passe and fell incenced points 5.2.61

3565     Of mighty opposits. 5.2.62

3566      Hora. Why what a King is this! 5.2.62

3567      Ham. Dooes it not thinke thee stand me now vppon? 5.2.63

3568     He that hath kild my King, and whor'd my mother, 5.2.64

3569     Pop't in betweene th'election and my hopes, 5.2.65

3570     Throwne out his Angle for my proper life, 5.2.66

3571     And with such cusnage, i'st not perfect conscience? 5.2.67

3572      5.2.68

3573      5.2.69

3574      5.2.60

3575      5.2.70

3576      5.2.71

3577      5.2.72

3578      5.2.73

3579      5.2.74

3580      5.2.75

3581      5.2.76

3582      5.2.77

3583      5.2.78

3584      5.2.79

3585      5.2.80

3586                 Enter a Courtier . ..

3587      Cour. Your Lordship is right welcome backe to Denmarke. 5.2.81

3588      Ham. I humble thanke you sir. 5.2.82

3588     Doost know this water fly? 5.2.82

3589      Hora. No my good Lord. 5.2.83

3590-1 Ham. Thy state is the more gracious, for tis a vice to know him,

3591-2 He hath much land and fertill: let a beast be Lord of beasts, and his

3592-3 crib shall stand at the Kings messe, tis a chough, but as I say, spaci-

3593-4 ous in the possession of durt.

3595-6 Cour. Sweete Lord, if your Lordshippe were at leasure, I should

3596     impart a thing to you from his Maiestie. 5.2.90

3597-8 Ham. I will receaue it sir withall dilligence of spirit, your bonnet

3598     to his right vse, tis for the head. 5.2.93

3599      Cour. I thanke your Lordship, it is very hot. 5.2.94

3600-1 Ham. No belieue me, tis very cold, the wind is Northerly.

3602      Cour. It is indefferent cold my Lord indeed. 5.2.97

3603-4 Ham. But yet me thinkes it is very sully and hot, or my complec-

3604     tion. 5.2.99

3605-6 Cour. Exceedingly my Lord, it is very soultery, as t'were I can-

3606-7 not tell how: my Lord his Maiestie bad me signifie to you, that a

3607-8 has layed a great wager on your head, sir this is the matter.

3609      Ham. I beseech you remember. 5.2.104

3610      Cour. Nay good my Lord for my ease in good faith, sir here is newly 5.2.105

3610+1 com to Court Laertes, belieue me an absolute gentlemen, ful of most 5.2.107

3610+2 N2v excellent differences, of very soft society, and great showing: in- 5.2.108

3610+3 deede to speake fellingly of him, hee is the card or kalender of gen- 5.2.110

3610+4 try: for you shall find in him the continent of what part a Gentle- 5.2.111

3610+5 man would see. 5.2.111

3610+6 Ham. Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you, though I 5.2.113

3610+7 know to deuide him inuentorially, would dazzie th'arithmaticke of 5.2.114

3610+8 memory, and yet but raw neither, in respect of his quick saile, but 5.2.115

3610+9 in the veritie of extolment, I take him to be a soule of great article, 5.2.117

3610+10 & his infusion of such dearth and rarenesse, as to make true dixion 5.2.118

3610+11 of him, his semblable is his mirrour, & who els would trace him, his 5.2.119

3610+12 vmbrage, nothing more. 5.2.120

3610+13 Cour. Your Lordship speakes most infallibly of him. 5.2.121

3610+14 Ham. The concernancy sir, why doe we wrap the gentleman in 5.2.123

3610+15 our more rawer breath? 5.2.123

3610+16 Cour. Sir. 5.2.124

3610+17 Hora. Ist not possible to vnderstand in another tongue, you will 5.2.126

3610+18 doo't sir really. 5.2.126

3610+19 Ham. What imports the nomination of this gentleman. 5.2.128

3610+20 Cour. Of Laertes. 5.2.129

3610+21 Hora. His purse is empty already, all's golden words are spent. 5.2.131

3610+22 Ham. Of him sir. 5.2.132

3610+23 Cour. I know you are not ignorant. 5.2.133

3610+24 Ham. I would you did sir, yet in faith if you did, it would not 5.2.135

3610+25 much approoue me, well sir. 5.2.135

3611      Cour. You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is 5.2.137

3612     . ..

3612+1 Ham. I dare not confesse that, least I should compare with

3612+2 him in excellence, but to know a man wel, were to knowe himselfe.

3612+3 Cour. I meane sir for this weapon, but in the imputation laide on

3612+4 him, by them in his meed, hee's vnfellowed.

3613      Ham. What's his weapon? 5.2.144

3614      Cour. Rapier and Dagger. 5.2.145

3615      Ham. That's two of his weapons, but well. 5.2.146

3616-7 Cour. The King sir hath wagerd with him six Barbary horses ,

3617-8 againgst the which hee has impaund as I take it six French Rapiers

3618-9 and Poynards, with their assignes, as girdle, hanger and so. Three

3619-20 of the carriages in faith, are very deare to fancy, very responsiue to

3620-1 the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberall conceit.

3622      Ham. What call you the carriages? 5.2.154

3622+1 Hora. I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had 5.2.156

3622+2 N3 done. 5.2.156

3623      Cour. The carriage sir are the hangers. 5.2.157

3624-5 Ham. The phrase would bee more Ierman to the matter if wee

3625-6 could carry a cannon by our sides, I would it be might hangers till

3626-7 then, but on, six Barbry horses against six French swords their as-

3627-8 signes, and three liberall conceited carriages, that's the French

3628-9 bet against the Danish, why is this all you call it?

3630-1 Cour. The King sir, hath layd sir, that in a dozen passes betweene

3631-2 your selfe and him, hee shall not exceede you three hits, hee hath

3632-3 layd on twelue for nine , and it would come to immediate triall, if

3633-4 your Lordshippe would vouchsafe the answere.

3635      Ham. How if I answere no? 5.2.170

3636-7 Cour. I meane my Lord the opposition of your person in triall.

3638-9 Ham. Sir I will walke heere in the hall, if it please his Maiestie, it

3639-40 is the breathing time of day with me, let the foiles be brought, the

3640-1 Gentleman willing, and the King hold his purpose; I will winne

3641-2 for him and I can, if not, I will gaine nothing but my shame, and

3642     the odde hits. 5.2.178

3643      Cour. Shall I deliuer you so? 5.2.179

3644-5 Ham. To this effect sir, after what florish your nature will.

3646      Cour. I commend my duty to your Lordshippe. 5.2.182

3647-8 Ham. Yours doo's well to commend it himselfe, there are no

3648     tongues els for's turne . 5.2.184

3649-50 Hora. This Lapwing runnes away with the shell on his head.

3651-2 Ham. A did so sir with his dugge before a suckt it, thus has he and

3652-3 many more of the same breede that I know the drossy age dotes on,

3653-4 only got the tune of the time, and out of an habit of incounter, a

3654-5 kind of histy colection, which carries them through and through

3656     the most prophane and trennowed opinions, and doe but blowe 5.2.193

3657     them to their triall, the bubbles are out. 5.2.194

3657+1            Enter a Lord.

3657+2 Lord. My Lord, his Maiestie commended him to you by young 5.2.196

3657+3 Ostricke, who brings backe to him that you attend him in the hall, 5.2.197

3657+4 he sends to know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that 5.2.198

3657+5 you will take longer time? 5.2.199

3657+6 Ham. I am constant to my purposes, they followe the Kings plea- 5.2.201

3657+7 sure, if his fitnes speakes, mine is ready: now or whensoeuer, pro- 5.2.202

3657+8 uided I be so able as now. 5.2.202

3657+9 N3v Lord. The King, and Queene, and all are comming downe. 5.2.204

3657+10 Ham. In happy time. 5.2.205

3657+11 Lord. The Queene desires you to vse some gentle entertainment 5.2.207

3657+12 to Laertes, before you fall to play. 5.2.207

3657+13 Ham. Shee well instructs me. 5.2.208

3658      Hora. You will loose my Lord. 5.2.209

3659-60 Ham. I doe not thinke so, since he went into France, I haue bene

3660-1 in continuall practise, I shall winne at the ods; thou would'st not

3661-2 thinke how ill all's heere about my hart, but it is no matter.

3663      Hora. Nay good my Lord. 5.2.214

3664-5 Ham. It is but foolery, but it is such a kinde of gamgiuing, as

3665     would perhapes trouble a woman. 5.2.216

3666-7 Hora. If your minde dislike any thing, obay it. I will forstal their

3667     repaire hether, and say you are not fit. 5.2.218

3668-9 Ham. Not a whit, we defie augury, there is speciall prouidence,in

3669-70 the fall of a Sparrowe, if it be , tis not to come, if it be not to come,

3670-1 it will be now, if it be not now, yet it well come, the readines is all,

3671-3 since no man of ought he leaues, knowes what ist to leaue betimes,

3673+1 let be.

3675     A table prepard, Trumpets, Drums and officers with Cushions, ..

3674-5       `King, Queene, and all the state, Foiles, daggers,

3674         and Laertes.

3674                   ..

3675

3676

3677      King. Come Hamlet, come and take this hand from me. 5.2.225

3678      Ham. Giue me your pardon sir, I haue done you wrong, 5.2.226

3679-80 But pardon't as you are a gentleman, this presence knowes,

3681     And you must needs haue heard, how I am punnisht 5.2.229

3682     With a sore distraction, what I haue done 5.2.230

3683     That might your nature, honor, and exception 5.2.231

3684     Roughly awake, I heare proclame was madnesse, 5.2.232

3685     Wast Hamlet wronged Laertes? neuer Hamlet. 5.2.233

3686     If Hamlet from himselfe be tane away, 5.2.234

3687     And when hee's not himselfe, dooes wrong Laertes, 5.2.235

3688     Then Hamlet dooes it not, Hamlet denies it, 5.2.236

3689     Who dooes it then? his madnesse. Ift be so, 5.2.237

3690     Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged, 5.2.238

3691     His madnesse is poore Hamlets enimie, 5.2.239

3692      5.2.240

3693     Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd euill, 5.2.241

3694     Free me so farre in your most generous thoughts 5.2.242

3695     That I haue shot my arrowe ore the house 5.2.243

3696     N4 And hurt my brother . 5.2.244

3697      Laer. I am satisfied in nature, 5.2.244

3698     Whose motiue in this case should stirre me most 5.2.245

3699     To my reuendge, but in my tearmes of honor 5.2.246

3700     I stand a loofe, and will no reconcilement, 5.2.247

3701     Till by some elder Maisters of knowne honor 5.2.248

3702     I haue a voyce and president of peace 5.2.249

3703     To my name vngord: but all that time 5.2.250

3704     I doe receaue your offerd loue, like loue, 5.2.251

3705     And will not wrong it. 5.2.252

3706-7 Ham. I embrace it freely, and will this brothers wager

3707     franckly play. 5.2.253

3708     Giue vs the foiles. 5.2.254

3709      Laer. Come, one for me. 5.2.254

3710      Ham. Ile be your foile Laertes, in mine ignorance 5.2.255

3711     Your skill shall like a starre i'th darkest night 5.2.256

3712     Stick fiery of indeed. 5.2.257

3713      Laer. You mocke me sir. 5.2.257

3714      Ham. No by this hand. 5.2.258

3715-6 King. Giue them the foiles young Ostricke, cosin Hamlet,

3716     You knowe the wager. 5.2.260

3717      Ham. Very well my Lord. 5.2.260

3718     Your grace has layed the ods a'th weeker side. 5.2.261

3719-20 King. I doe not feare it, I haue seene you both,

3721     But since he is better , we haue therefore ods. 5.2.263

3722-3 Laer. This is to heauy: let me see another.

3724-5 Ham. This likes me well, these foiles haue all a length.

3726      Ostr. I my good Lord. 5.2.266

3727      King. Set me the stoopes of wine vpon that table, 5.2.267

3728     If Hamlet giue the first or second hit, 5.2.268

3729     Or quit in answere of the third exchange, 5.2.269

3730     Let all the battlements their ordnance fire. 5.2.270

3731     The King shall drinke to Hamlets better breath, 5.2.271

3732     And in the cup an Onixe shall he throwe, 5.2.272

3733     Richer then that which foure successiue Kings 5.2.273

3734-5 In Denmarkes Crowne haue worne: giue me the cups,

3736     And let the kettle to the trumpet speake, 5.2.275

3737     The trumpet to the Cannoneere without, 5.2.276

3738     The Cannons to the heauens, the heauen to earth, 5.2.277

3739     N4v Now the King drinkes to Hamlet, come beginne. Trumpets 5.2.278

3740     And you the Iudges beare a wary eye. the while. 5.2.279

3741      Ham. Come on sir. 5.2.280

3742      Laer. Come my Lord . 5.2.280

3743      Ham. One. 5.2.280

3744      Laer. No. 5.2.280

3745      Ham. Iudgement. 5.2.280

3746      Ostrick. A hit, a very palpable hit. Drum, trumpets and shot. 5.2.281

3747      Laer. Well, againe.          Florish, a peece goes off. 5.2.281

3748      King. Stay, giue me drinke, Hamlet this pearle is thine. 5.2.282

3750     Heeres to thy health: giue him the cup. 5.2.283

3751                   ..

3752      Ham. Ile play this bout first, set it by a while 5.2.284

3753     Come, another hit.      What say you? 5.2.285

3754      Laer. I doe confest . 5.2.286

3755      King. Our sonne shall winne. 5.2.287

3756      Quee. Hee's fat and scant of breath. 5.2.287

3757     Heere Hamlet take my napkin rub thy browes, 5.2.288

3758     The Queene carowses to thy fortune Hamlet. 5.2.289

3759      Ham. Good Madam. 5.2.290

3760      King. Gertrard doe not drinke. 5.2.290

3761-2 Quee. I will my Lord, I pray you pardon me.

3763      King. It is the poysned cup, it is too late. 5.2.292

3764-5 Ham. I dare not drinke yet Madam, by and by.

3766      Quee. Come, let me wipe thy face. 5.2.294

3767      Laer. My Lord, Ile hit him now. 5.2.295

3768      King. I doe not think't. 5.2.295

3769      Laer. And yet it is almost against my conscience. 5.2.296

3770-1 Ham. Come for the third Laertes, you doe but dally.

3772     I pray you passe with your best violence 5.2.298

3773     I am sure you make a wanton of me. 5.2.299

3774      Laer. Say you so, come on.           5.2.300

3775      Ostr. Nothing neither way. 5.2.301

3776      Laer. Haue at you now. 5.2.302

3777                   ..

3778      King. Part them, they are incenst. 5.2.302

3779      Ham. Nay come againe. 5.2.303

3780      Ostr. Looke to the Queene there howe. 5.2.303

3781      Hora. They bleed on both sides, how is it my Lord? 5.2.304

3782      Ostr. How ist Laertes? 5.2.305

3783-4 Laer. Why as a woodcock to mine owne sprindge Ostrick,

3785     O1 I am iustly kild with mine owne treachery. 5.2.307

3786      Ham. How dooes the Queene? 5.2.308

3787      King. Shee sounds to see them bleed. 5.2.308

3788-9 Quee. No, no, the drinke, the drinke, ô my deare Hamlet,

3789-90 The drinke the drinke, I am poysned.

3791      Ham. O villanie, how let the doore be lock't, 5.2.311

3792     Treachery, seeke it out. 5.2.312

3793-4 Laer. It is heere Hamlet, thou art slaine,

3795     No medcin in the world can doe thee good, 5.2.314

3796     In thee there is not halfe an houres life, 5.2.315

3797     The treacherous instrument is in my hand 5.2.316

3798     Vnbated and enuenom'd, the foule practise 5.2.317

3799     Hath turn'd it selfe on me, loe heere I lie 5.2.318

3800     Neuer to rise againe, thy mother's poysned, 5.2.319

3801     I can no more, the King, the Kings too blame. 5.2.320

3802-3 Ham. The point inuenom'd to, then venome to thy worke.

3804                   ..

3805      All. Treason, treason. 5.2.323

3806      King. O yet defend me friends, I am but hurt. 5.2.324

3807-8 Ham. Heare thou incestious damned Dane,

3809     Drinke of this potion, is the Onixe heere? 5.2.326

3810     Follow my mother. 5.2.327

3811-2 Laer. He is iustly serued, it is a poyson temperd by himselfe,

3813     Exchange forgiuenesse with me noble Hamlet, 5.2.329

3814     Mine and my fathers death come not vppon thee, 5.2.330

3815     Nor thine on me. 5.2.331

3816      Ham. Heauen make thee free of it, I follow thee; 5.2.332

3817     I am dead Horatio, wretched Queene adiew. 5.2.333

3818     You that looke 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, ô I could tell you, 5.2.337

3822     But let it be; Horatio I am dead, 5.2.338

3823     Thou liuest, report me and my cause a right 5.2.339

3824     To the vnsatisfied. 5.2.340

3825      Hora. Neuer belieue it; 5.2.340

3826     I am more an anticke Romaine then a Dane, 5.2.341

3827     Heere's yet some liquer left. 5.2.342

3828      Ham. As th'art a man 5.2.343

3828-9 Giue me the cup, let goe, by heauen Ile hate,

3830     O1v O god Horatio, what a wounded name 5.2.344

3831     Things standing thus vnknowne, shall I leaue behind me? 5.2.345

3832     If thou did'st euer hold me in thy hart, 5.2.346

3833     Absent thee from felicity a while, 5.2.347

3834     And in this harsh world drawe thy breath in paine A march a 5.2.348

3835-7 To tell my story: what warlike noise is this? farre off.

3838                 Enter Osrick. ..

3839      Osr. Young Fortenbrasse with conquest come from Poland, 5.2.350

3840     To th'embassadors of England giues this warlike volly. 5.2.352

3841      Ham. O I die Horatio, 5.2.352

3842     The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit, 5.2.353

3843     I cannot liue to heare the newes from England, 5.2.354

3844     But I doe prophecie th'ellection lights 5.2.355

3845     On Fortinbrasse, he has my dying voyce, 5.2.356

3846     So tell him, with th'occurrants more and lesse 5.2.357

3847     Which haue solicited, the rest is silence. 5.2.358

3848-9 Hora. Now cracks a noble hart, good night sweete Prince,

3850     And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest. 5.2.360

3851     Why dooes the drum come hether? 5.2.361

3852     Enter Fortenbrasse, with the Embassadors ..

3853     . ..

3854      For. Where is this sight? 5.2.362

3855      Hora. What is it you would see? 5.2.362

3856     If ought of woe, or wonder, cease your search. 5.2.363

3857      For. This quarry cries on hauock, ô prou'd death 5.2.364

3858     What feast is toward in thine eternall cell, 5.2.365

3859     That thou so many Princes at a shot 5.2.366

3860     So bloudily hast strook? 5.2.367

3861      Embas. The sight is dismall 5.2.367

3862     And our affaires from England come too late, 5.2.368

3863     The eares are sencelesse that should giue vs hearing, 5.2.369

3864     To tell him his commandment is fulfild, 5.2.370

3865     That Rosencraus and Guyldensterne are dead, 5.2.

3866     Where should we haue our thankes? 5.2.372

3867      Hora. Not from his mouth 5.2.372

3868     Had it th'ability of life to thanke you; 5.2.373

3869     He neuer gaue commandement for their death; 5.2.374

3870     But since so iump vpon this bloody question 5.2.375

3871     O2 You from the Pollack warres, and you from England 5.2.376

3872     Are heere arriued, giue order that these bodies 5.2.377

3873     High on a stage be placed to the view, 5.2.378

3874     And let me speake, to yet vnknowing world 5.2.379

3875     How these things came about; so shall you heare 5.2.380

3876     Of carnall, bloody and vnnaturall acts, 5.2.381

3877     Of accidentall iudgements, casuall slaughters, 5.2.382

3878     Of deaths put on by cunning, and for no cause 5.2.383

3879     And in this vpshot, purposes mistooke, 5.2.384

3880     Falne on th'inuenters heads: all this can I 5.2.385

3881     Truly deliuer. 5.2.386

3882      For. Let vs hast to heare it, 5.2.386

3883     And call the noblest to the audience, 5.2.387

3884     For me, with sorrowe I embrace my fortune, 5.2.388

3885     I haue some rights, of memory in this kingdome, 5.2.389

3886-7 Which now to clame my vantage doth inuite me.

3888      Hora. Of that I shall haue also cause to speake, 5.2.391

3889     And from his mouth, whose voyce will drawe no more, 5.2.392

3891     But let this same be presently perform'd 5.2.393

3892-3 Euen while mens mindes are wilde, least more mischance

3894     On plots and errores happen. 5.2.394

3895      For. Let foure Captaines 5.2.395

3896     Beare Hamlet like a souldier to the stage, 5.2.396

3897     For he was likely, had he beene put on, 5.2.397

3898-9 To haue prooued most royall; and for his passage, 5.2.398

3900     The souldiers musicke and the right of warre 5.2.399

3901     Speake loudly for him: 5.2.400

3902     Take vp the bodies, such a sight as this, 5.2.401

3903     Becomes the field, but heere showes much amisse. 5.2.402

3904     Goe bid the souldiers shoote. Exeunt. 5.2.403

3905      ..

3906      ..

3907     FINIS. ..

Enfolded Hamlet: Second Quarto Text

The Tragedie of H A M L E T

Prince of Denmarke.

The Tragedie of
H A M L E T