Hamlet ⟨Act V Scene II⟩: Q1 v Q2 v F1

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

  3499 =======Enter Hamlet and Horatio

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  3579 ^^Ham.  beleeue mee, it greeues mee much Horatio,

  3580 That to Leartes I forgot my selfe:

  3581-2 For by my selfe me thinkes I feele his griefe,

  0…- Though there's a difference in each others wrong.

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  3586 =======Enter a Bragart Gentleman.

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  3588 Horatio, but you marke yon water-flie,

  0…- The Court knowes him, but hee knowes not the Court.

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  3595 ^^Gent.  Now God saue thee, sweete prince Hamlet.[I2^v

  0…- ^^Ham.  And you sir: foh, how the muske-cod smels!

  3596 ^^Gen.  I come with an embassage from his maiesty to you

  3597 ^^Ham.  I shall sir giue you attention:

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  3600 By my troth me thinkes t'is very colde.

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  3602 ^^Gent.  It is indeede very rawish colde.

  3603 ^^Ham.  T'is hot me thinkes.

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  3605 ^^Gent.  Very swoltery hote:

  3606-7 The King, sweete Prince, hath layd a wager on your side,

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  3616-8 Six Barbary horse, against six french rapiers,

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  3618-9 With all their acoutrements too, a the carriages:

  3620-1 In good faith they are very curiously wrought.

  3622 ^^Ham.  The cariages sir, I do not know what you meane.

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  3623 ^^Gent.  The girdles, and hangers sir, and such like.

  3624 ^^Ham.  The worde had beene more cosin german to the

  3625 phrase, if he could haue carried the canon by his side,

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  3629 And howe's the wager? I vnderstand you now.

  3630 ^^Gent.  Mary sir, that yong Leartes in twelue venies

  3631 At Rapier and Dagger do not get three oddes of you,

  3630' And on your side the King hath laide,

  0…- And desires you to be in readinesse.

  0…- ^^Ham.  Very well, if the King dare venture his wager,

  0…- I dare venture my skull: when must this be?

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  0…- ^^Gent.  My Lord, presently, the king, and her maiesty,

  0…- With the rest of the best iudgement in the Court,

  0…- Are comming downe into the outward pallace.

  0…- ^^Ham.  Goe tell his maiestie, I wil attend him.

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  3643 ^^Gent.  I shall deliuer your most sweet answer. ===exit.

  0…- ^^Ham.  You may sir, none better, for y'are spiced,

  0…- Else he had a bad nose could not smell a foole.

  0…- ^^Hor.  He will disclose himselfe without inquirie.

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  3661-2 ^^Ham.  Beleeue me Horatio, my hart is on the sodaine

  3661-2 Very sore, all here about.

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  3666 ^^Hor.  My lord, forbeare the challenge then.

  3668 ^^Ham.  No Horatio, not I, if danger be now,

  3669-70Why then it is not to come, theres a predestiuate prouidence

  3669 in the fall of a sparrow: heere comes the King.[I3^r

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  3674 =======Enter King, Queene, Leartes, Lordes.

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  3677 ^^King  Now sonne Hamlet, we hane laid vpon your head,

  0…- And make no question but to haue the best.

  3718 ^^Ham.  Your maiestie hath laide a the weaker side.

  3715-9 ^^King  We doubt it not, deliuer them the foiles.

  3678 ^^Ham.  First Leartes, heere's my hand and loue,

  0…- Protesting that I neuer wrongd Leartes.

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  3686-7 If Hamlet in his madnesse did amisse,

  3687-9 That was not Hamlet, but his madnes did it,

  3687 And all the wrong I e're did to Leartes,

  3684 I here proclaime was madnes, therefore lets be at peace,

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  3695 And thinke I haue shot mine arrow o're the house,

  3696 And hurt my brother.

  3697 ^^Lear.  Sir I am satisfied in nature,

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  3699-700But in termes of honor I'le stand aloofe,

  3700 And will no reconcilement,

  3701 Till by some elder maisters of our time

  0…- I may be satisfied.

  3715 ^^King  Giue them the foyles.

  3710 ^^Ham.  I'le be your foyle Leartes, these foyles,

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  3725 Haue all a laught, come on sir: =====a hit.

  3742-4 ^^Lear.  No none. =========Heere they play:

  3745 ^^Ham.  Iudgement.

  3746 ^^Gent.  A hit, a most palpable hit.

  3747 ^^Lear.  Well, come againe. =====They play againe.

  3753 ^^Ham.  Another. Iudgement.

  3754 ^^Lear.  I, I grant, a tuch, a tuch.

  3748-50^^King  Here Hamlet, the king doth drinke a health to thee

  3757 ^^Queene  Here Hamlet, take my napkin, wipe thy face.

  3750 ^^King  Giue him the wine.

  3752 ^^Ham.  Set it by, I'le haue another bowt first,

  0…- I'le drinke anone.

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  3758 ^^Queene  Here Hamlet, thy mother drinkes to thee.

  0…- =============Shee drinkes.

  3760 ^^King  Do not drinke Gertred: O t'is the poysned cup!

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  3770-1 ^^Ham.  Leartes come, you dally with me,[I3^v

  3772 I pray you passe with your most cunningst play.

  3774 ^^Lear.  I! say you so? haue at you,

  3767 Ile hit you now my Lord:

  3769 And yet it goes almost against my conscience.

  3741' ^^Ham.  Come on sir.

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  3777 =====They catch one anothers Rapiers, and both are wounded,

  0…- =====Leartes falles downe, the Queene falles downe and dies.

  3780 ^^King  Looke to the Queene.

  3788-9 ^^Queene  O the drinke, the drinke, Hamlet, the drinke.

  3791-2 ^^Ham.  Treason, ho, keepe the gates.

  3782 ^^Lords  How ist my Lord Leartes?

  0…- ^^Lear.  Euen as a coxcombe should,

  3785 Foolishly slaine with my owne weapon:

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  3794-6 Hamlet, thou hast not in thee halfe an houre of life,

  3797 The fatall Instrument is in thy hand.

  3798-800Vnbated and invenomed: thy mother's poysned

  0…- That drinke was made for thee.

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  3802 ^^Ham.  The poysned Instrument within my hand?

  3803 Then venome to thy venome, die damn'd villaine:

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  3809-10Come drinke, here lies thy vnion here. ===The king dies.

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  3811 ^^Lear.  O he is iustly serued:

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  3813 Hamlet, before I die, here take my hand,

  3813-5 And withall, my loue: I doe forgiue thee. ==Leartes dies.

  3816-22^^Ham.  And I thee, O I am dead Horatio, fare thee well.

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  3826 ^^Hor.  No, I am more an antike Roman,

  3826-7 Then a Dane, here is some poison left.

  3829 ^^Ham.  Vpon my loue I charge thee let it goe,

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  3830 O fie Horatio, and if thou shouldst die,

  3831 What a scandale wouldst thou leaue behinde?

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  3835 What tongue should tell the story of our deaths,

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  3841 If not from thee? O my heart sinckes Horatio,

  0…- Mine eyes haue lost their sight, my tongue his vse:

  3847 Farewel Horatio, heauen receiue my soule. ==Ham. dies.

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  3852 ===Enter Voltemar and the Ambassadors from England.[I4^r

  3852-3 =========enter Fortenbrasse with his traine.

  3854 ^^Fort.  Where is this bloudy sight?

  3856 ^^Hor.  If aught of woe or wonder you'ld behold,

  0…- Then looke vpon this tragicke spectacle.

  3857-9 ^^Fort.  O imperious death! how many Princes

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  3859-60Hast thou at one draft bloudily shot to death? =====(land,

  3862 ^^Ambass.  Our ambassie that we haue brought from Eng– ↑

  3863 Where be these Princes that should heare vs speake?

  0…- O most most vnlooked for time! vnhappy country.

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  3874 ^^Hor.  Content your selues, Ile shew to all, the ground,

  3875 The first beginning of this Tragedy:

  3872-3 Let there a scaffold be rearde vp in the market place,

  0…- And let the State of the world be there:

  3875 Where you shall heare such a sad story tolde,

  0…- That neuer mortall man could more vnfolde.

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  3885 ^^Fort.  I haue some rights of memory to this kingdome,

  3886-7 Which now to claime my leisure doth inuite mee:

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  3895 Let foure of our chiefest Captaines

  3896 Beare Hamlet like a souldier to his graue:

  3897 For he was likely, had he liued,

  3898 To a prou'd most royall.

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  3902 Take vp the bodie, such a sight as this

  3903 Becomes the fieldes, but here doth much amisse.

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  3907 ============Finis

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

  3499 =============Enter Hamlet and Horatio.

  3500 ^^Ham.  So much for this sir, now shall you see the other,

  3501 You doe remember all the circumstance.

  3502 ^^Hora.  Remember it my Lord.

  3503 ^^Ham.  Sir in my hart there was a kind of fighting

  3504 That would not let me sleepe, my thought I lay

  3505 Worse then the mutines in the bilbo, rashly,

  3506 And praysd be rashnes for it: let vs knowe,

  3507 Our indiscretion sometime serues vs well

  3508 When our deepe plots doe fall, & that should learne vs

  3509 Ther's a diuinity that shapes our ends,

  3510 Rough hew them how we will.

  3511 ^^Hora.  That is most certaine.

  3512 ^^Ham.  Vp from my Cabin,

  3513 My sea-gowne scarft about me in the darke

  3514 Gropt I to find out them, had my desire,

  3515 Fingard their packet, and in fine with-drew

  3516 To mine owne roome againe, making so bold

  3517 My feares forgetting manners to vnfold [N1^v

  3518 Their graund commission; where I found Horatio

  3519 A royall knauery, an exact command

  3520 Larded with many seuerall sorts of reasons,

  3521 Importing Denmarkes health, and Englands to,

  3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life,

  3523 That on the superuise no leasure bated,

  3524 No not to stay the grinding of the Axe,

  3525 My head should be strooke off.

  3526 ^^Hora.  I'st possible?

  3527 ^^Ham.  Heeres the commission, read it at more leasure,

  3528 But wilt thou heare now how I did proceed.

  3529 ^^Hora.  I beseech you.

  3530 ^^Ham.  Being thus benetted round with villaines,

  3531 Or I could make a prologue to my braines,

  3532 They had begunne the play, I sat me downe,

  3533 Deuisd a new commission, wrote it faire,

  3534 I once did hold it as our statists doe,

  3535 A basenesse to write faire, and labourd much

  3536 How to forget that learning, but sir now

  3537 It did me yemans seruice, wilt thou know

  3538 Th'effect of what I wrote?

  3539 ^^Hora.  I good my Lord.

  3540 ^^Ham.  An earnest coniuration from the King,

  3541 As England was his faithfull tributary,

  3542 As loue betweene them like the palme might florish,

  3543 As peace should still her wheaten garland weare

  3544 And stand a Comma tweene their amities,

  3545 And many such like, as sir of great charge,

  3546 That on the view, and knowing of these contents,

  3547 Without debatement further more or lesse,

  3548 He should those bearers put to suddaine death,

  3549 Not shriuing time alow'd.

  3550 ^^Hora.  How was this seald?

  3551 ^^Ham.  Why euen in that was heauen ordinant,

  3552 I had my fathers signet in my purse

  3553 Which was the modill of that Danish seale,

  3554 Folded the writ vp in the forme of th'other,

  3555 Subcribe it, gau't th'impression, plac'd it safely,

  3556 The changling neuer knowne: now the next day[N2^r

  3557 Was our Sea fight, and what to this was sequent

  3558 Thou knowest already.

  3559 ^^Hora.  So Guyldensterne and Rosencraus goe too't.

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  3561 ^^Ham.  They are not neere my conscience, their defeat

  3562 Dooes by their owne insinnuation growe,

  3563 Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes

  3564 Betweene the passe and fell incenced points

  3565 Of mighty opposits.

  3566 ^^Hora.  Why what a King is this!

  3567 ^^Ham.  Dooes it not thinke thee stand me now vppon?

  3568 He that hath kild my King, and whor'd my mother,

  3569 Pop't in betweene th'election and my hopes,

  3570 Throwne out his Angle for my proper life,

  3571 And with such cusnage, i'st not perfect conscience?

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  3586 =========Enter a Courtier.

  3587 ^^Cour.  Your Lordship is right welcome backe to Denmarke.

  3588 ^^Ham.  I humble thanke you sir.

  3588' Doost know this water fly?

  3589 ^^Hora.  No my good Lord.

  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.

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  3595-6 ^^Cour.  Sweete Lord, if your Lordshippe were at leasure, I should

  3596 impart a thing to you from his Maiestie.

  3597-8 ^^Ham.  I will receaue it sir withall dilligence of spirit, your bonnet

  3598 to his right vse, tis for the head.

  3599 ^^Cour.  I thanke your Lordship, it is very hot.

  3600-1 ^^Ham.  No belieue me, tis very cold, the wind is Northerly.

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  3602 ^^Cour.  It is indefferent cold my Lord indeed.

  3603-4 ^^Ham.  But yet me thinkes it is very sully and hot, or my complec-

  3604 tion.

  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.

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  3609 ^^Ham.  I beseech you remember.

  3610 ^^Cour.  Nay good my Lord for my ease in good faith, sir here is newly

  3610+1 com to Court Laertes, belieue me an absolute gentlemen, ful of most

  3610+2 excellent differences, of very soft society, and great showing: in-[N2^v

  3610+3 deede to speake fellingly of him, hee is the card or kalender of gen-

  3610+4 try: for you shall find in him the continent of what part a Gentle-

  3610+5 man would see.

  3610+6 ^^Ham.  Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you, though I

  3610+7 know to deuide him inuentorially, would dazzie th'arithmaticke of

  3610+8 memory, and yet but raw neither, in respect of his quick saile, but

  3610+9 in the veritie of extolment, I take him to be a soule of great article,

  3610+10& his infusion of such dearth and rarenesse, as to make true dixion

  3610+11of him, his semblable is his mirrour, & who els would trace him, his

  3610+12vmbrage, nothing more.

  3610+13^^Cour.  Your Lordship speakes most infallibly of him.

  3610+14^^Ham.  The concernancy sir, why doe we wrap the gentleman in

  3610+15our more rawer breath?

  3610+16^^Cour.  Sir.

  3610+17^^Hora.  Ist not possible to vnderstand in another tongue, you will

  3610+18doo't sir really.

  3610+19^^Ham.  What imports the nomination of this gentleman.

  3610+20^^Cour.  Of Laertes.

  3610+21^^Hora.  His purse is empty already, all's golden words are spent.

  3610+22^^Ham.  Of him sir.

  3610+23^^Cour.  I know you are not ignorant.

  3610+24^^Ham.  I would you did sir, yet in faith if you did, it would not

  3610+25much approoue me, well sir.

  3611 ^^Cour.  You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is.

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  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?

  3614 ^^Cour.  Rapier and Dagger.

  3615 ^^Ham.  That's two of his weapons, but well.

  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

  3619-20of the carriages in faith, are very deare to fancy, very reponsiue to

  3620-1 the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberall conceit.

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  3622 ^^Ham.  What call you the carriages?

  3622+1 ^^Hora.  I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had

  3622+2 done.[N3^r

  3623 ^^Cour.  The carriage sir are the hangers.

  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?

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  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.

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  3635 ^^Ham.  How if I answere no?

  3636-7 ^^Cour.  I meane my Lord the opposition of your person in triall.

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  3638-9 ^^Ham.  Sir I will walke heere in the hall, if it please his Maiestie, it

  3639-40is 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.

  3643 ^^Cour.  Shall I deliuer you so?

  3644-5 ^^Ham.  To this effect sir, after what florish your nature will.

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  3646 ^^Cour.  I commend my duty to your Lordshippe.

  3647-8 ^^Ham.  Yours doo's well to commend it himselfe, there are no

  3648 tongues els for's turne.

  3649-50^^Hora.  This Lapwing runnes away with the shell on his head.

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  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

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  3656 the most prophane and trennowed opinions, and doe but blowe

  3657 them to their triall, the bubbles are out.

  3657+1 ===============Enter a Lord.

  3657+2 ^^Lord.  My Lord, his Maiestie commended him to you by young

  3657+3 Ostricke, who brings backe to him that you attend him in the hall,

  3657+4 he sends to know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that

  3657+5 you will take longer time?

  3657+6 ^^Ham.  I am constant to my purposes, they followe the Kings plea-

  3657+7 sure, if his fitnes speakes, mine is ready: now or whensoeuer, pro-

  3657+8 uided I be so able as now.

  3657+9 ^^Lord.  The King, and Queene, and all are comming downe.[N3^v

  3657+10^^Ham.  In happy time.

  3657+11^^Lord.  The Queene desires you to vse some gentle entertainment

  3657+12to Laertes, before you fall to play.

  3657+13^^Ham.  Shee well instructs me.

  3658 ^^Hora.  You will loose my Lord.

  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.

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  3663 ^^Hora.  Nay good my Lord.

  3664-5 ^^Ham.  It is but foolery, but it is such a kinde of gamgiuing, as

  3665 would perhapes trouble a woman.

  3666-7 ^^Hora.  If your minde dislike any thing, obay it. I will forstal their

  3667 repaire hether, and say you are not fit.

  3668-9 ^^Ham.  Not a whit, we defie augury, there is speciall prouidence,in

  3669-70the 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,

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  3671-3 since no man of ought he leaues, knowes what ist to leaue betimes,

  000¦

  3673+1 let be.

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  3675 ===A table prepard, Trumpets, Drums and officers with Cushions,

  3674 =======`King, Queene, and all the state, Foiles, daggers,

  3674' ===================and Laertes.

   

  3677 ^^King.  Come Hamlet, come and take this hand from me.

  3678 ^^Ham.  Giue me your pardon sir, I haue done you wrong,

  3679-80But pardon't as you are a gentleman, this presence knowes,

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  3681 And you must needs haue heard, how I am punnisht

  3682 With a sore distraction, what I haue done

  3683 That might your nature, honor, and exception

  3684 Roughly awake, I heare proclame was madnesse,

  3685 Wast Hamlet wronged Laertes? neuer Hamlet.

  3686 If Hamlet from himselfe be tane away,

  3687 And when hee's not himselfe, dooes wrong Laertes,

  3688 Then Hamlet dooes it not, Hamlet denies it,

  3689 Who dooes it then? his madnesse. Ift be so,

  3690 Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged,

  3691 His madnesse is poore Hamlets enimie,

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  3693 Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd euill,

  3694 Free me so farre in your most generous thoughts

  3695 That I haue shot my arrowe ore the house

  3696 And hurt my brother. [N4^r

  3697 ^^Laer.  I am satisfied in nature,

  3698 Whose motiue in this case should stirre me most

  3699 To my reuendge, but in my tearmes of honor

  3700 I stand a loofe, and will no reconcilement,

  3701 Till by some elder Maisters of knowne honor

  3702 I haue a voyce and president of peace

  3703 To my name vngord: but all that time

  3704 I doe receaue your offerd loue, like loue,

  3705 And will not wrong it.

  3706-7 ^^Ham.  I embrace it freely, and will this brothers wager

  3707 franckly play.

  3708 Giue vs the foiles.

  3709 ^^Laer.  Come, one for me.

  3710 ^^Ham.  Ile be your foile Laertes, in mine ignorance

  3711 Your skill shall like a starre i'th darkest night

  3712 Stick fiery of indeed.

  3713 ^^Laer.  You mocke me sir.

  3714 ^^Ham.  No by this hand.

  3715-6 ^^King.  Giue them the foiles young Ostricke, cosin Hamlet,

  3716 You knowe the wager.

  3717 ^^Ham.  Very well my Lord.

  3718 Your grace has layed the ods a'th weeker side.

  3719-20^^King.  I doe not feare it, I haue seene you both,

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  3721 But since he is better, we haue therefore ods.

  3722-3 ^^Laer.  This is to heauy: let me see another.

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  3724-5 ^^Ham.  This likes me well, these foiles haue all a length.

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  3726 ^^Ostr.  I my good Lord.

  3727 ^^King.  Set me the stoopes of wine vpon that table,

  3728 If Hamlet giue the first or second hit,

  3729 Or quit in answere of the third exchange,

  3730 Let all the battlements their ordnance fire.

  3731 The King shall drinke to Hamlets better breath,

  3732 And in the cup an Onixe shall he throwe,

  3733 Richer then that which foure successiue Kings

  3734-5 In Denmarkes Crowne haue worne: giue me the cups,

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  3736 And let the kettle to the trumpet speake,

  3737 The trumpet to the Cannoneere without,

  3738 The Cannons to the heauens, the heauen to earth,

  3739 Now the King drinkes to Hamlet, come beginne. ===Trumpets[N4^v

  3740 And you the Iudges beare a wary eye. ===========the while.

  3741 ^^Ham.  Come on sir.

  3742 ^^Laer.  Come my Lord.

  3743 ^^Ham.  One.

  3744 ^^Laer.  No.

  3745 ^^Ham.  Iudgement.

  3746-71^^Ostrick.  A hit, a very palpable hit. ===Drum, trumpets and shot.

  3747-71^^Laer.  Well, againe. ==============Florish, a peece goes off.

  3748-9 ^^King.  Stay, giue me drinke, Hamlet this pearle is thine.

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  3750 Heeres to thy health: giue him the cup.

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  3752 ^^Ham.  Ile play this bout first, set it by a while

  3753 Come, another hit. What say you?

  3754 ^^Laer.  I doe confest.

  3755 ^^King.  Our sonne shall winne.

  3756 ^^Quee.  Hee's fat and scant of breath.

  3757 Heere Hamlet take my napkin rub thy browes,

  3758 The Queene carowses to thy fortune Hamlet.

  3759 ^^Ham.  Good Madam.

  3760 ^^King.  Gertrard doe not drinke.

  3761-2 ^^Quee.  I will my Lord, I pray you pardon me.

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  3763 ^^King.  It is the poysned cup, it is too late.

  3764-5 ^^Ham.  I dare not drinke yet Madam, by and by.

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  3766 ^^Quee.  Come, let me wipe thy face.

  3767 ^^Laer.  My Lord, Ile hit him now.

  3768 ^^King.  I doe not think't.

  3769 ^^Laer.  And yet it is almost against my conscience.

  3770-1 ^^Ham.  Come for the third Laertes, you doe but dally.

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  3772 I pray you passe with your best violence

  3773 I am sure you make a wanton of me.

  3774 ^^Laer.  Say you so, come on.

  3775 ^^Ostr.  Nothing neither way.

  3776 ^^Laer.  Haue at you now.

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  3778 ^^King.  Part them, they are incenst.

  3779 ^^Ham.  Nay come againe.

  3780 ^^Ostr.  Looke to the Queene there howe.

  3781 ^^Hora.  They bleed on both sides, how is it my Lord?

  3782 ^^Ostr.  How ist Laertes?

  3783-4 ^^Laer.  Why as a woodcock to mine owne sprindge Ostrick,

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  3785 I am iustly kild with mine owne treachery.[O1^r

  3786 ^^Ham.  How dooes the Queene?

  3787 ^^King.  Shee sounds to see them bleed.

  3788-9 ^^Quee.  No, no, the drinke, the drinke, ô my deare Hamlet,

  3789-90The drinke the drinke, I am poysned.

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  3791 ^^Ham.  O villanie, how let the doore be lock't,

  3792 Treachery, seeke it out.

  3793-4 ^^Laer.  It is heere Hamlet, thou art slaine,

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  3795 No medcin in the world can doe thee good,

  3796 In thee there is not halfe an houres life,

  3797 The treacherous instrument is in my hand

  3798 Vnbated and enuenom'd, the foule practise

  3799 Hath turn'd it selfe on me, loe heere I lie

  3800 Neuer to rise againe, thy mother's poysned,

  3801 I can no more, the King, the Kings too blame.

  3802-3 ^^Ham.  The point inuenom'd to, then venome to thy worke.

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  3805 ^^All.  Treason, treason.

  3806 ^^King.  O yet defend me friends, I am but hurt.

  3807-8 ^^Ham.  Heare thou incestious damned Dane,

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  3809 Drinke of this potion, is the Onixe heere?

  3810 Follow my mother.

  3811-2 ^^Laer.  He is iustly serued, it is a poyson temperd by himselfe,

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  3813 Exchange forgiuenesse with me noble Hamlet,

  3814 Mine and my fathers death come not vppon thee,

  3815 Nor thine on me.

  3816 ^^Ham.  Heauen make thee free of it, I follow thee;

  3817 I am dead Horatio, wretched Queene adiew.

  3818 You that looke pale, and tremble at this chance,

  3819 That are but mutes, or audience to this act,

  3820 Had I but time, as this fell sergeant Death

  3821 Is strict in his arrest, ô I could tell you,

  3822 But let it be; Horatio I am dead,

  3823 Thou liuest, report me and my cause a right

  3824 To the vnsatisfied.

  3825 ^^Hora.  Neuer belieue it;

  3826 I am more an anticke Romaine then a Dane,

  3827 Heere's yet some liquer left.

  3828 ^^Ham.  As th'art a man

  3828-9 Giue me the cup, let goe, by heauen Ile hate,

  3830 O god Horatio, what a wounded name[O1^v

  3831 Things standing thus vnknowne, shall I leaue behind me?

  3832 If thou did'st euer hold me in thy hart,

  3833 Absent thee from felicity a while,

  3834-6 And in this harsh world drawe thy breath in paine ===A march a

  3835-7 To tell my story: what warlike noise is this? ========farre off.

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  3838 ============Enter Osrick.

  3839 ^^Osr.  Young Fortenbrasse with conquest come from Poland,

  3840 To th'embassadors of England giues this warlike volly.

  3841 ^^Ham.  O I die Horatio,

  3842 The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit,

  3843 I cannot liue to heare the newes from England,

  3844 But I doe prophecie th'ellection lights

  3845 On Fortinbrasse, he has my dying voyce,

  3846 So tell him, with th'occurrants more and lesse

  3847 Which haue solicited, the rest is silence.

  3848-9 ^^Hora.  Now cracks a noble hart, good night sweete Prince,

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  3850 And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest.

  3851 Why dooes the drum come hether?

   

  3852 =============Enter Fortenbrasse, with the Embassadors.

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  3854 ^^For.  Where is this sight?

  3855 ^^Hora.  What is it you would see?

  3856 If ought of woe, or wonder, cease your search.

  3857 ^^For.  This quarry cries on hauock, ô prou'd death

  3858 What feast is toward in thine eternall cell,

  3859 That thou so many Princes at a shot

  3860 So bloudily hast strook?

  3861 ^^Embas.  The sight is dismall

  3862 And our affaires from England come too late,

  3863 The eares are sencelesse that should giue vs hearing,

  3864 To tell him his commandment is fulfild,

  3865 That Rosencraus and Guyldensterne are dead,

  3866 Where should we haue our thankes?

  3867 ^^Hora.  Not from his mouth

  3868 Had it th'ability of life to thanke you;

  3869 He neuer gaue commandement for their death;

  3870 But since so iump vpon this bloody question

  3871 You from the Pollack warres, and you from England

  3872 Are heere arriued, giue order that these bodies

  3873 High on a stage be placed to the view,

  3874 And let me speake, to yet vnknowing world

  3875 How these things came about; so shall you heare

  3876 Of carnall, bloody and vnnaturall acts,

  3877 Of accidentall iudgements, casuall slaughters,

  3878 Of deaths put on by cunning, and for no cause

  3879 And in this vpshot, purposes mistooke,

  3880 Falne on th'inuenters heads: all this can I

  3881 Truly deliuer.

  3882 ^^For.  Let vs hast to heare it,

  3883 And call the noblest to the audience,

  3884 For me, with sorrowe I embrace my fortune,

  3885 I haue some rights, of memory in this kingdome,

  3886-7 Which now to clame my vantage doth inuite me.

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  3888 ^^Hora.  Of that I shall haue also cause to speake,

  3889-90And from his mouth, whose voyce will drawe no more,

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  3891 But let this same be presently perform'd

  3892-3 Euen while mens mindes are wilde, least more mischance

  000¦

  3894 On plots and errores happen.

  3895 ^^For.  Let foure Captaines

  3896 Beare Hamlet like a souldier to the stage,

  3897 For he was likely, had he beene put on,

  3898-9 To haue prooued most royall; and for his passage,

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  3900 The souldiers musicke and the right of warre

  3901 Speake loudly for him:

  3902 Take vp the bodies, such a sight as this,

  3903 Becomes the field, but heere showes much amisse.

  3904-5 Goe bid the souldiers shoote. ====Exeunt.

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  3907 FINIS.

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

  3499 =======Enter Hamlet and Horatio.

  3500 ^^Ham.  So much for this Sir; now let me see the other,

  3501 You doe remember all the Circumstance.

  3502 ^^Hor.  Remember it my Lord?

  3503 ^^Ham.  Sir, in my heart there was a kinde of fighting,

  3504 That would not let me sleepe; me thought I lay

  3505 Worse then the mutines in the Bilboes, rashly,

  3506 (And praise be rashnesse for it) let vs know,

  3507 Our indiscretion sometimes serues vs well,

  3508 When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs,

  3509 There's a Diuinity that shapes our ends,

  3510 Rough-hew them how we will.

  3511 ^^Hor.  That is most certaine.

  3512 ^^Ham.  Vp from my Cabin

  3513 My sea-gowne scarft about me in the darke,

  3514 Grop'd I to finde out them; had my desire,

  3515 Finger'd their Packet, and in fine, withdrew

  3516 To mine owne roome againe, making so bold,

  3517 (My feares forgetting manners) to vnseale

  3518 Their grand Commission, where I found Horatio,

  3519 Oh royall knauery: An exact command,

  3520 Larded with many seuerall sorts of reason;

  3521 Importing Denmarks health, and Englands too,

  3522 With hoo, such Bugges and Goblins in my life,

  3523 That on the superuize no leasure bated,

  3524 No not to stay the grinding of the Axe,

  3525 My head should be struck off.

  3526 ^^Hor.  Ist possible?

  3527 ^^Ham.  Here's the Commission, read it at more leysure:

  3528 But wilt thou heare me how I did proceed?

  3529 ^^Hor.  I beseech you.

  3530 ^^Ham.  Being thus benetted round with Villaines,

  3531 Ere I could make a Prologue to my braines,

  3532 They had begun the Play. I sate me downe,

  3533 Deuis'd a new Commission, wrote it faire,

  3534 I once did hold it as our Statists doe,

  3535 A basenesse to write faire; and laboured much

  3536 How to forget that learning: but Sir now,

  3537 It did me Yeomans seruice: wilt thou know

  3538 The effects of what I wrote?

  3539 ^^Hor.  I, good my Lord.

  3540 ^^Ham.  An earnest Coniuration from the King,

  3541 As England was his faithfull Tributary,

  3542 As loue betweene them, as the Palme should flourish,

  3543 As Peace should still her wheaten Garland weare,

  3544 And stand a Comma 'tweene their amities,

  3545 And many such like Assis of great charge,

  3546 That on the view and know of these Contents,

  3547 Without debatement further, more or lesse,

  3548 He should the bearers put to sodaine death,

  3549 Not shriuing time allowed.

  3550 ^^Hor.  How was this seal'd?

  3551 ^^Ham.  Why, euen in that was Heauen ordinate;

  3552 I had my fathers Signet in my Purse,

  3553 Which was the Modell of that Danish Seale:

  3554 Folded the Writ vp in forme of the other,

  3555 Subscrib'd it, gau't th' impression, plac't it safely,

  3556 The changeling neuer knowne: Now, the next day

  3557 Was our Sea Fight, and what to this was sement,

  3558 Thou know'st already.

  3559 ^^Hor.  So Guildensterne and Rosincrance, go too't.

  3560 ^^Ham.  Why man, they did make loue to this imployment

  3561 They are not neere my Conscience; their debate

  3562 Doth by their owne insinuation grow:

  3563 'Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes

  3564 Betweene the passe, and fell incensed points

  3565 Of mighty opposites.

  3566 ^^Hor.  Why, what a King is this?

  3567 ^^Ham.  Does it not, thinkst thee, stand me now vpon

  3568 He that hath kil'd my King, and whor'd my Mother,

  3569 Popt in betweene th'election and my hopes,

  3570 Throwne out his Angle for my proper life,

  3571 And with such coozenage; is't not perfect conscience,

  3572 To quit him with this arme? And is't not to be damn'd

  3573 To let this Canker of our nature come

  3574 In further euill.

  3575 ^^Hor.  It must be shortly knowne to him from England

  3576 What is the issue of the businesse there.

  3577 ^^Ham.  It will be short,

  3578 The interim's mine, and a mans life's no more

  3579 Then to say one: but I am very sorry good Horatio,

  3580 That to Laertes I forgot my selfe;

  3581 For by the image of my Cause, I see

  3582 The Portraiture of his; Ile count his fauours:

  3583 But sure the brauery of his griefe did put me

  3584 Into a Towring passion.

  3585 ^^Hor.  Peace, who comes heere?

  3586 ===========Enter young Osricke. ===========(marke.

  3587 ^^Osr.  Your Lordship is right welcome back to Den- ↑

  3588 ^^Ham.  I humbly thank you Sir, dost know this waterflie?

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  3589 ^^Hor.  No my good Lord.

  3590 ^^Ham.  Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to

  3591 know him: he hath much Land, and fertile; let a Beast

  3592 be Lord of Beasts, and his Crib shall stand at the Kings

  3593 Messe; 'tis a Chowgh; but as I saw spacious in the pos-

  3594 session of dirt.

  3595 ^^Osr.  Sweet Lord, if your friendship were at leysure,

  3596 I should impart a thing to you from his Maiesty.

  3597 ^^Ham.  I will receiue it with all diligence of spirit; put

  3598 your Bonet to his right vse, 'tis for the head.

  3599 ^^Osr.  I thanke your Lordship, 'tis very hot.

  3600 ^^Ham.  No, beleeue mee 'tis very cold, the winde is

  3601 Northerly.

  3602 ^^Osr.  It is indifferent cold my Lord indeed.

  3603 ^^Ham.  Mee thinkes it is very soultry, and hot for my

  3604 Complexion.

  3605 ^^Osr.  Exceedingly, my Lord, it is very soultry, as 'twere[pp6^v

  3606 I cannot tell how: but my Lord, his Maiesty bad me sig-

  3607 nifie to you, that he ha's laid a great wager on your head:

  3608 Sir, this is the matter.

  3609 ^^Ham.  I beseech you remember.

  3610 ^^Osr.  Nay, in good faith, for mine ease in good faith:

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  3611 Sir, you are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is at

  3612 his weapon.

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  3613 ^^Ham.  What's his weapon?

  3614 ^^Osr.  Rapier and dagger.

  3615 ^^Ham.  That's two of his weapons; but well.

  3616 ^^Osr.  The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary Hor-

  3617 ses, against the which he impon'd as I take it, sixe French

  3618 Rapiers and Poniards, with their assignes, as Girdle,

  3619 Hangers or so: three of the Carriages infaith are very

  3620 deare to fancy, very responsiue to the hilts, most delicate

  3621 carriages, and of very liberall conceit.

  3622 ^^Ham.  What call you the Carriages?

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  3623 ^^Osr.  The Carriages Sir, are the hangers.

  3624 ^^Ham.  The phrase would bee more Germaine to the

  3625 matter: If we could carry Cannon by our sides; I would

  3626 it might be Hangers till then; but on sixe Barbary Hor-

  3627 ses against sixe French Swords: their Assignes, and three

  3628 liberall conceited Carriages, that's the French but a-

  3629 gainst the Danish; why is this impon'd as you call it?

  3630 ^^Osr.  The King Sir, hath laid that in a dozen passes be-

  3631 tweene you and him, hee shall not exceed you three hits;

  3632 He hath one twelue for mine, and that would come to

  3633 imediate tryall, if your Lordship would vouchsafe the

  3634 Answere.

  3635 ^^Ham.  How if I answere no?

  3636 ^^Osr.  I meane my Lord, the opposition of your person

  3637 in tryall.

  3638 ^^Ham.  Sir, I will walke heere in the Hall; if it please

  3639 his Maiestie, 'tis the breathing time of day with me; let

  3640 the Foyles bee brought, the Gentleman willing, and the

  3641 King hold his purpose; I will win for him if I can: if

  3642 not, Ile gaine nothing but my shame, and the odde hits.

  3643 ^^Osr.  Shall I redeliuer you ee'n so?

  3644 ^^Ham.  To this effect Sir, after what flourish your na-

  3645 ture will.

  3646 ^^Osr.  I commend my duty to your Lordship.

  3647 ^^Ham.  Yours, yours; hee does well to commend it

  3648 himselfe, there are no tongues else for's tongue.

  3649 ^^Hor.  This Lapwing runs away with the shell on his

  3650 head.

  3651 ^^Ham.  He did Complie with his Dugge before hee

  3652 suck't it: thus had he and mine more of the same Beauy

  3653 that I know the drossie age dotes on; only got the tune of

  3654 the time, and outward habite of encounter, a kinde of

  3655 yesty collection, which carries them through & through

  3656 the most fond and winnowed opinions; and doe but blow

  3657 them to their tryalls: the Bubbles are out.

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  3658 ^^Hor.  You will lose this wager, my Lord.

  3659 ^^Ham.  I doe not thinke so, since he went into France,

  3660 I haue beene in continuall practice; I shall winne at the

  3661 oddes: but thou wouldest not thinke how all heere a-

  3662 bout my heart: but it is no matter.

  3663 ^^Hor.  Nay, good my Lord.

  3664 ^^Ham.  It is but foolery; but it is such a kinde of

  3665 gain-giuing as would perhaps trouble a woman.

  3666 ^^Hor.  If your minde dislike any thing, obey. I will fore-

  3667 stall their repaire hither, and say you are not fit.

  3668 ^^Ham.  Not a whit, we defie Augury; there's a speciall

  3669 Prouidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not

  3670 to come: if it bee not to come, it will bee now: if it

  3671 be not now; yet it will come; the readinesse is all, since no

  3672 man ha's ought of what he leaues. What is't to leaue be-

  3673 times?

  000¦

   

  3674 ===Enter King, Queene, Laertes and Lords, with other Atten-

  3675 ======dants with Foyles, and Gauntlets, a Table and

  3676 =========Flagons of Wine on it.

   

  3677 ^^Kin.  Come Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.

  3678 ^^Ham.  Giue me your pardon Sir, I'ue done you wrong,

  3679 But pardon't as you are a Gentleman.

  3680 This presence knowes,

  3681 And you must needs haue heard how I am punisht

  3682 With sore distraction? What I haue done

  3683 That might your nature honour, and exception

  3684 Roughly awake, I heere proclaime was madnesse:

  3685 Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Neuer Hamlet.

  3686 If Hamlet from himselfe be tane away:

  3687 And when he's not himselfe, do's wrong Laertes,

  3688 Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it:

  3689 Who does it then? His Madnesse? If't be so,

  3690 Hamlet is of the Faction that is wrong'd,

  3691 His madnesse is poore Hamlets Enemy.

  3692 Sir, in this Audience,

  3693 Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd euill,

  3694 Free me so farre in your most generous thoughts,

  3695 That I haue shot mine Arrow o're the house,

  3696 And hurt my Mother.

  3697 ^^Laer.  I am satisfied in Nature,

  3698 Whose motiue in this case should stirre me most

  3699 To my Reuenge. But in my termes of Honor

  3700 I stand aloofe, and will no reconcilement,

  3701 Till by some elder Masters of knowne Honor,

  3702 I haue a voyce, and president of peace

  3703 To keepe my name vngorg'd. But till that time,

  3704 I do receiue your offer'd loue like loue,

  3705 And wil not wrong it.

  3706 ^^Ham.  I do embrace it freely,

  3707 And will this Brothers wager frankely play.

  3708 Giue vs the Foyles: Come on.

  3709 ^^Laer.  Come one for me.

  3710 ^^Ham.  Ile be your foile Laertes, in mine ignorance,

  3711 Your Skill shall like a Starre i'th'darkest night,

  3712 Sticke fiery off indeede.

  3713 ^^Laer.  You mocke me Sir.

  3714 ^^Ham.  No by this hand.

  3715 ^^King.  Giue them the Foyles yong Osricke,

  3716 Cousen Hamlet, you know the wager.

  3717 ^^Ham.  Verie well my Lord,

  3718 Your Grace hath laide the oddes a'th'weaker side.

  3719 ^^King.  I do not feare it,

  3720 I haue seene you both:

  3721 But since he is better'd, we haue therefore oddes.

  3722 ^^Laer.  This is too heauy,

  3723 Let me see another.

  3724 ^^Ham.  This likes me well,

  3725 These Foyles haue all a length. =====Prepare to play.

  3726 ^^Osricke.  I my good Lord.

  3727 ^^King.  Set me the Stopes of wine vpon that Table:

  3728 If Hamlet giue the first, or second hit,

  3729 Or quit in answer of the third exchange,

  3730 Let all the Battlements their Ordinance fire,

  3731 The King shal drinke to Hamlets better breath,

  3732 And in the Cup an vnion shal he throw

  3733 Richer then that, which foure successiue Kings

  3734 In Denmarkes Crowne haue worne.

  3735 Giue me the Cups, [qq1^r

  3736 And let the Kettle to the Trumpets speake,

  3737 The Trumpet to the Cannoneer without,

  3738 The Cannons to the Heauens, the Heauen to Earth,

  3739 Now the King drinkes to Hamlet. Come, begin,

  3740 And you the Iudges beare a wary eye.

  3741 ^^Ham.  Come on sir.

  3742 ^^Laer.  Come on sir. =======They play.

  3743 ^^Ham.  One.

  3744 ^^Laer.  No.

  3745 ^^Ham.  Iudgement.

  3746 ^^Osr.  A hit, a very palpable hit.

  3747 ^^Laer.  Well: againe.

  3748 ^^King.  Stay, giue me drinke.

  3749 Hamlet, this Pearle is thine,

  3750 Here's to thy health. Giue him the cup,

  3751 =======Trumpets sound, and shot goes off.  

  3752 ^^Ham.  Ile play this bout first, set by a-while.

  3753 Come: Another hit; what say you?

  3754 ^^Laer.  A touch, a touch, I do confesse.

  3755 ^^King.  Our Sonne shall win.

  3756 ^^Qu.  He's fat, and scant of breath.

  3757 Heere's a Napkin, rub thy browes,

  3758 The Queene Carowses to thy fortune, Hamlet.

  3759 ^^Ham.  Good Madam.

  3760 ^^King.  Gertrude, do not drinke.

  3761 ^^Qu.  I will my Lord;

  3762 I pray you pardon me.

  3763 ^^King.  It is the poyson'd Cup, it is too late.

  3764 ^^Ham.  I dare not drinke yet Madam,

  3765 By and by.

  3766 ^^Qu.  Come, let me wipe thy face.

  3767 ^^Laer.  My Lord, Ile hit him now.

  3768 ^^King.  I do not thinke't.

  3769 ^^Laer.  And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience.

  3770 ^^Ham.  Come for the third.

  3771 Laertes, you but dally,

  3772 I pray you passe with your best violence,

  3773 I am affear'd you make a wanton of me.

  3774 ^^Laer.  Say you so? Come on. =====Play.

  3775 ^^Osr.  Nothing neither way.

  3776 ^^Laer.  Haue at you now.

  3777 =========In scuffling they change Rapiers.

  3778 ^^King.  Part them, they are incens'd.

  3779 ^^Ham.  Nay come, againe.

  3780 ^^Osr.  Looke to the Queene there hoa.

  3781 ^^Hor.  They bleed on both sides. How is't my Lord?

  3782 ^^Osr.  How is't Laertes?

  3783 ^^Laer.  Why as a Woodcocke

  3784 To mine Sprindge, Osricke,

  3785 I am iustly kill'd with mine owne Treacherie.

  3786 ^^Ham.  How does the Queene?

  3787 ^^King.  She sounds to see them bleede.

  3788 ^^Qu.  No, no, the drinke, the drinke.

  3789 Oh my deere Hamlet, the drinke, the drinke,

  3790 I am poyson'd.

  3791 ^^Ham.  Oh Villany! How? Let the doore be lock'd.

  3792 Treacherie, seeke it out.

  3793 ^^Laer.  It is heere Hamlet.

  3794 Hamlet, thou art slaine,

  3795 No Medicine in the world can do thee good.

  3796 In thee, there is not halfe an houre of life;

  3797 The Treacherous Instrument is in thy hand,

  3798 Vnbated and envenom'd: the foule practise

  3799 Hath turn'd it selfe on me. Loe, heere I lye,

  3800 Neuer to rise againe: Thy Mothers poyson'd:

  3801 I can no more, the King, the King's too blame.

  3802 ^^Ham.  The point envenom'd too,

  3803 Then venome to thy worke.

  3804 =====Hurts the King.

  3805 ^^All.  Treason, Treason.

  3806 ^^King.  O yet defend me Friends, I am but hurt.

  3807 ^^Ham.  Heere thou incestuous, murdrous,

  3808 Damned Dane,

  3809 Drinke off this Potion: Is thy Vnion heere?

  3810 Follow my Mother. =====King Dyes.

  3811 ^^Laer.  He is iustly seru'd.

  3812 It is a poyson temp'red by himselfe:

  3813 Exchange forgiuenesse with me, Noble Hamlet;

  3814 Mine and my Fathers death come not vpon thee,

  3815 Nor thine on me. =====Dyes.

  3816 ^^Ham.  Heauen make thee free of it, I follow thee.

  3817 I am dead Horatio, wretched Queene adiew,

  3818 You that looke pale, and tremble at this chance,

  3819 That are but Mutes or audience to this acte:

  3820 Had I but time (as this fell Sergeant death

  3821 Is strick'd in his Arrest) oh I could tell you.

  3822 But let it be: Horatio, I am dead,

  3823 Thou liu'st, report me and my causes right

  3824 To the vnsatisfied.

  3825 ^^Hor.  Neuer beleeue it.

  3826 I am more an Antike Roman then a Dane:

  3827 Heere's yet some Liquor left.

  3828 ^^Ham.  As th'art a man, giue me the Cup.

  3829 Let go, by Heauen Ile haue't.

  3830 Oh good Horatio, what a wounded name,

  3831 (Things standing thus vnknowne) shall liue behind me.

  3832 If thou did'st euer hold me in thy heart,

  3833 Absent thee from felicitie awhile,

  3834 And in this harsh world draw thy breath in paine,

  3835 To tell my Storie.

  3836 ============March afarre off, and shout within.

  3837 What warlike noyse is this?

   

  3838 ==========Enter Osricke.

  3839 ^^Osr.  Yong Fortinbras, with conquest come frPoland

  3840 To th'Ambassadors of England giues this warlike volly.

  3841 ^^Ham.  O I dye Horatio:

  3842 The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit,

  3843 I cannot liue to heare the Newes from England,

  3844 But I do prophesie th'election lights

  3845 On Fortinbras, he ha's my dying voyce,

  3846 So tell him with the occurrents more and lesse,

  3847 Which haue solicited. The rest is silence. O, o, o, o. =Dyes

  3848 ^^Hora.  Now cracke a Noble heart:

  3849 Goodnight sweet Prince,

  3850 And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest,

  3851 Why do's the Drumme come hither?

   

  3852 ===Enter Fortinbras and English Ambassador, with Drumme,

  3853 =========Colours, and Attendants.

  3854 ^^Fortin.  Where is this sight?

  3855 ^^Hor.  What is it ye would see;

  3856 If ought of woe, or wonder, cease your search.

  3857 ^^For.  His quarry cries on hauocke. Oh proud death,

  3858 What feast is toward in thine eternall Cell.

  3859 That thou so many Princes, at a shoote,

  3860 So bloodily hast strooke.

  3861 ^^Amb.  The sight is dismall,

  3862 And our affaires from England come too late,

  3863 The eares are senselesse that should giue vs hearing,

  3864 To tell him his command'ment is fulfill'd,

  3865 That Rosincrance and Guildensterne are dead: [qq1^v

  3866 Where should we haue our thankes?

  3867 ^^Hor.  Not from his mouth,

  3868 Had it th'abilitie of life to thanke you:

  3869 He neuer gaue command'ment for their death.

  3870 But since so iumpe vpon this bloodie question,

  3871 You from the Polake warres, and you from England

  3872 Are heere arriued. Giue order that these bodies

  3873 High on a stage be placed to the view,

  3874 And let me speake to th'yet vnknowing world,

  3875 How these things came about. So shall you heare

  3876 Of carnall, bloudie, and vnnaturall acts,

  3877 Of accidentall iudgements, casuall slaughters

  3878 Of death's put on by cunning, and forc'd cause,

  3879 And in this vpshot, purposes mistooke,

  3880 Falne on the Inuentors heads. All this can I

  3881 Truly deliuer.

  3882 ^^For.  Let vs hast to heare it,

  3883 And call the Noblest to the Audience.

  3884 For me, with sorrow, I embrace my Fortune,

  3885 I haue some Rites of memory in this Kingdome,

  3886 Which are to claime, my vantage doth

  3887 Inuite me,

  3888 ^^Hor.  Of that I shall haue alwayes cause to speake,

  3889 And from his mouth

  3890 Whose voyce will draw on more:

  3891 But let this same be presently perform'd,

  3892 Euen whiles mens mindes are wilde,

  3893 Lest more mischance

  3894 On plots, and errors happen.

  3895 ^^For.  Let foure Captaines

  3896 Beare Hamlet like a Soldier to the Stage,

  3897 For he was likely, had he beene put on

  3898 To haue prou'd most royally:

  3899 And for his passage,

  3900 The Souldiours Musicke, and the rites of Warre

  3901 Speake lowdly for him.

  3902 Take vp the body; Such a sight as this

  3903 Becomes the Field, but heere shewes much amis.

  3904 Go, bid the Souldiers shoote.

  3905 =========Exeunt Marching: after the which, a Peale of  

  3906 =============Ordenance are shot off.

   

  3907 FINIS.