Hamlet ⟨Act IV Scene IV⟩: Q1 v Q2 v F1

• First Quarto (1603)
  The Tragicall Historie of
  HAMLET
  Prince of Denmarke.

   

  2734 ===Enter Fortenbrasse, Drumme and Souldiers.

   

  2735 ^^Fort.  Captaine, from vs goe greete

  2735' The king of Denmarke:

  2736 Tell him that Fortenbrasse nephew to old Norway,

  2737-8 Craues a free passe and conduct ouer his land,

  2736' According to the Articles agreed on:

  2738-43You know our Randevous, goe march away. ===exeunt all.

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  0…- =======enter King and Queene.

   

  0…- ^^King  Hamlet is ship't for England, fare him well,

  0…- I hope to heare good newes from thence ere long,

  0…- If euery thing fall out to our content,

  0…- As I doe make no doubt but so it shall.

  0…- ^^Queene  God grant it may, heau'ns keep my Hamlet safe:

  2820 But this mischance of olde Corambis death,

  2821 Hath piersed so the yong Ofeliaes heart,

  2822 That she, poore maide, is quite bereft her wittes.

  2824 ^^King  Alas deere heart! And on the other side,

  2825 We vnderstand her brother's come from France,

  0…- And he hath halfe the heart of all our Land,

  2828 And hardly hee'le forget his fathers death,

  0…- Vnlesse by some meanes he be pacified.

• Second Quarto (1605)
  The Tragedie of
  H A M L E T
  Prince of Denmarke.

   

  2734 =====Enter Fortinbrasse with his Army ouer the stage.

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  2735 ^^Fortin.  Goe Captaine, from me greet the Danish King,

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  2736 Tell him, that by his lycence Fortinbrasse

  2737 Craues the conueyance of a promisd march

  2738 Ouer his kingdome, you know the randeuous,

  2739 If that his Maiestie would ought with vs,

  2740 We shall expresse our dutie in his eye,

  2741 And let him know so.

  2742 ^^Cap.  I will doo't my Lord.

  2743 ^^For.  Goe softly on.

  2743+1 =============Enter Hamlet, Rosencraus, &c.

  2743+2 ^^Ham.  Good sir whose powers are these?

  2743+3 ^^Cap.  They are of Norway sir.

  2743+4 ^^Ham.  How purposd sir I pray you?

  2743+5 ^^Cap.  Against some part of Poland.

  2743+6 ^^Ham.  Who commaunds them sir?

  2743+7 ^^Cap.  The Nephew to old Norway, Fortenbrasse.

  2743+8 ^^Ham.  Goes it against the maine of Poland sir,

  2743+9 Or for some frontire?

  2743+10^^Cap.  Truly to speake, and with no addition,

  2743+11We goe to gaine a little patch of ground

  2743+12That hath in it no profit but the name

  2743+13To pay fiue duckets, fiue I would not farme it;

  2743+14Nor will it yeeld to Norway or the Pole

  2743+15A rancker rate, should it be sold in fee.

  2743+16^^Ham.  Why then the Pollacke neuer will defend it.

  2743+17^^Cap.  Yes, it is already garisond.

  2743+18^^Ham.  Two thousand soules, & twenty thousand duckets

  2743+19Will not debate the question of this straw,

  2743+20This is th'Imposthume of much wealth and peace,

  2743+21That inward breakes, and showes no cause without

  2743+22Why the man dies. I humbly thanke you sir.

  2743+23^^Cap.  God buy you sir.

  2743+24^^Ros.  Wil't please you goe my Lord?

  2743+25^^Ham.  Ile be with you straight, goe a little before.

  2743+26How all occasions doe informe against me,

  2743+27And spur my dull reuenge. What is a man[K3^v

  2743+28If his chiefe good and market of his time

  2743+29Be but to sleepe and feede, a beast, no more:

  2743+30Sure he that made vs with such large discourse

  2743+31Looking before and after, gaue vs not

  2743+32That capabilitie and god-like reason

  2743+33To fust in vs vnvsd, now whether it be

  2743+34Bestiall obliuion, or some crauen scruple

  2743+35Of thinking too precisely on th'euent,

  2743+36A thought which quarterd hath but one part wisedom,

  2743+37And euer three parts coward, I doe not know

  2743+38Why yet I liue to say this thing's to doe,

  2743+39Sith I haue cause, and will, and strength, and meanes

  2743+40To doo't; examples grosse as earth exhort me,

  2743+41Witnes this Army of such masse and charge,

  2743+42Led by a delicate and tender Prince,

  2743+43Whose spirit with diuine ambition puft,

  2743+44Makes mouthes at the invisible euent,

  2743+45Exposing what is mortall, and vnsure,

  2743+46To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,

  2743+47Euen for an Egge-shell. Rightly to be great,

  2743+48Is not to stirre without great argument,

  2743+49But greatly to find quarrell in a straw

  2743+50When honour's at the stake, how stand I then

  2743+51That haue a father kild, a mother staind,

  2743+52Excytements of my reason, and my blood,

  2743+53And let all sleepe, while to my shame I see

  2743+54The iminent death of twenty thousand men,

  2743+55That for a fantasie and tricke of fame

  2743+56Goe to their graues like beds, fight for a plot

  2743+57Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,

  2743+58Which is not tombe enough and continent

  2743+59To hide the slaine, ô from this time forth,

  2743+60My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth. ===Exit.

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• First Folio (1623)
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  THE TRAGEDIE OF
  H A M L E T, Prince of Denmarke.

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  2734 =====Enter Fortinbras with an Armie.

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  2735 ^^For.  Go Captaine, from me greet the Danish King,

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  2736 Tell him that by his license, Fortinbras

  2737 Claimes the conueyance of a promis'd March

  2738 Ouer his Kingdome. You know the Rendeuous:

  2739 If that his Maiesty would ought with vs,

  2740 We shall expresse our dutie in his eye,

  2741 And let him know so.

  2742 ^^Cap.  I will doo't, my Lord.

  2743 ^^For.  Go safely on. =======Exit.

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