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Actus Primus. Scena Tertia.

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

   

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  0461 =====Enter Leartes and Ofelia.

  0462 **Leart.  My necessaries are inbarkt, I must aboord,

  0462'1___But ere I part, marke what I say to thee:

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  0467 I see Prince Hamlet makes a shew of loue

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  0592-3 Beware Ofelia, do not trust his vowes,

  0477-8 Perhaps he loues you now, and now his tongue,

  0496 Speakes from his heart, but yet take heed my sister,[C2^r

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  0499 The Chariest maide is prodigall enough,

  0500 If she vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.

  0501 Vertue it selfe scapes not calumnious thoughts,

  0496-7 Belieu't Ofelia, therefore keepe a loofe

  0492 Lest that he trip thy honor and thy fame.

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  0508 **Ofel.  Brother, to this I haue lent attentiue eare,

  0508' And doubt not but to keepe my honour firme,

  0509 But my deere brother, do not you

  0510 Like to a cunning Sophister,

  0511 Teach me the path and ready way to heauen,

  0511'1___While you forgetting what is said to me,

  0512 Your selfe, like to a carelesse libertine

  0512'1___Doth giue his heart, his appetite at ful,

  0514 And little recks how that his honour dies.

  0515 **Lear.  No, feare it not my deere Ofelia,

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  0517 Here comes my father, occasion smiles vpon a second leaue.

  0516 ============Enter Corambis.

  0520 **Cor.  Yet here Leartes? aboord, aboord, for shame,

  0521 The winde sits in the shoulder of your saile,

  0522 And you are staid for, there my blessing with thee

  0523 And these few precepts in thy memory.

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  0526 “Be thou familiar, but by no meanes vulgare;

  0527 “Those friends thou hast, and their adoptions tried,

  0528 “Graple them to thee with a hoope of steele,

  0529 “But do not dull the palme with entertaine,

  0530 “Of euery new vnfleg'd courage,

  0530-1 “Beware of entrance into a quarrell; but being in,

  0532 “Beare it that the opposed may beware of thee,

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  0535 “Costly thy apparrell, as thy purse can buy.

  0536 “But not exprest in fashion,

  0537 “For the apparrell oft proclaimes the man.

  0538 And they of France of the chiefe rancke and station

  0539 Are of a most select and generall chiefe in that:

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  0543 “This aboue all, to thy owne selfe be true,

  0544 And it must follow as the night the day,

  0545 Thou canst not then be false to any one,[C2^v

  0546 Farewel, my blessing with thee.

  0547-9 **Lear.  I humbly take my leaue, farewell Ofelia,

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  0549-50  And remember well what I haue said to you. ===exit.

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  0551 **Ofel.  It is already lock't within my hart,

  0552 And you your selfe shall keepe the key of it.

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  0554 **Cor.  What i'st Ofelia he hath saide to you?

  0555 **Ofel.  Somthing touching the prince Hamlet.

  0556-7 **Cor.  Mary wel thought on, t'is giuen me to vnderstand,

  0558-87  That you haue bin too prodigall of your maiden presence

  0560 Vnto Prince Hamlet, if it be so,

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  0560-1 As so tis giuen to mee, and that in waie of caution

  0561-2 I must tell you; you do not vnderstand your selfe

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  0562-3 So well as befits my honor, and your credite.

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  0565-6 **Ofel.  My lord, he hath made many tenders of his loue

  0566 to me.

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  0569 **Cor.  Tenders, I, I, tenders you may call them.

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  0580 **Ofel.  And withall, such earnest vowes.

  0581 **Cor.  Springes to catch woodcocks,

  0581-2 What, do not I know when the blood doth burne,

  0582-3 How prodigall the tongue lends the heart vowes,

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  0587 In briefe, be more scanter of your maiden presence,

  0575 Or tendring thus you'l tender mee a foole.

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  0602 **Ofel.  I shall obay my lord in all I may.

  0600 **Cor.  Ofelia, receiue none of his letters,

  0581' “For louers lines are snares to intrap the heart;

  0581'1___“Refuse his tokens, both of them are keyes

  0581'2___To vnlocke Chastitie vnto Desire;

  0601 Come in Ofelia, such men often proue,

  0593 “Great in their wordes, but little in their loue.

  0602 **Ofel.  I will my lord. ==========exeunt.

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

   

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  0461 ============Enter Laertes, and Opheliahis Sister.

  0462 @#Laer.  My necessaries are inbarckt, farwell,

  0463 And sister, as the winds giue benefit

  0464 And conuay, in assistant doe not sleepe

  0465 But let me heere from you.

  0466 @#Ophe.  Doe you doubt that?

  0467 @#Laer.  For Hamlet, and the trifling of his fauour,

  0468 Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood

  0469 A Violet in the youth of primy nature,

  0470 Forward, not permanent, sweete, not lasting,

  0471 The perfume and suppliance of a minute

  0471' No more.

  0472 @#Ophe.  No more but so.

  0473 @#Laer.  Thinke it no more.

  0474 For nature cressant does not growe alone

  0475 In thewes and bulkes, but as this temple waxes

  0476 The inward seruice of the minde and soule

  0477 Growes wide withall, perhapes he loues you now,

  0478 And now no soyle nor cautell doth besmirch

  0479 The vertue of his will, but you must feare,

  0480 His greatnes wayd, his will is not his owne,[C3^v

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  0482 He may not as vnualewed persons doe,

  0483 Carue for himselfe, for on his choise depends

  0484 The safty and health of this whole state,

  0485 And therefore must his choise be circumscribd

  0486 Vnto the voyce and yeelding of that body

  0487 Whereof he is the head, then if he saies he loues you,

  0488 It fits your wisdome so farre to belieue it

  0489 As he in his particuler act and place

  0490 May giue his saying deede, which is no further

  0491 Then the maine voyce of Denmarke goes withall.

  0492 Then way what losse your honor may sustaine

  0493 If with too credent eare you list his songs

  0494 Or loose your hart, or your chast treasure open

  0495 To his vnmastred importunity.

  0496 Feare it Ophelia, feare it my deare sister,

  0497 And keepe you in the reare of your affection

  0498 Out of the shot and danger of desire,

  0499 “The chariest maide is prodigall inough

  0500 If she vnmaske her butie to the Moone

  0501 “Vertue it selfe scapes not calumnious strokes

  0502 “The canker gaules the infants of the spring

  0503 Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd,

  0504 And in the morne and liquid dewe of youth

  0505 Contagious blastments are most iminent,

  0506 Be wary then, best safety lies in feare,

  0507 Youth to it selfe rebels, though non els neare.

  0508 @#Ophe.  I shall the effect of this good lesson keepe

  0509 As watchman to my hart, but good my brother

  0510 Doe not as some vngracious pastors doe,

  0511 Showe me the steepe and thorny way to heauen

  0512 Whiles a puft, and reckles libertine

  0513 Himselfe the primrose path of dalience treads.

  0514 And reakes not his owne reed. ===Enter Polonius.

  0515 @#Laer.  O feare me not,

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  0517 I stay too long, but heere my father comes

  0518 A double blessing, is a double grace,

  0519 Occasion smiles vpon a second leaue.

  0520 @#Pol.  Yet heere Laertes? a bord, a bord for shame,

  0521 The wind sits in the shoulder of your saile,[C4^r

  0522 And you are stayed for, there my blessing with thee,

  0523 And these fewe precepts in thy memory

  0524 Looke thou character, giue thy thoughts no tongue,

  0525 Nor any vnproportion'd thought his act,

  0526 Be thou familier, but by no meanes vulgar,

  0527 Those friends thou hast, and their a doption tried,

  0528 Grapple them vnto thy soule with hoopes of steele,

  0529 But doe not dull thy palme with entertainment

  0530 Of each new hatcht vnfledgd courage, beware

  0531 Of entrance to a quarrell, but being in,

  0532 Bear't that th'opposed may beware of thee,

  0533 Giue euery man thy eare, but fewe thy voyce,

  0534 Take each mans censure, but reserue thy iudgement,

  0535 Costly thy habite as thy purse can buy,

  0536 But not exprest in fancy; rich not gaudy,

  0537 For the apparrell oft proclaimes the man

  0538 And they in Fraunce of the best ranck and station,

  0539 Or of a most select and generous, chiefe in that:

  0540 Neither a borrower nor a lender boy,

  0541 For loue oft looses both it selfe, and friend,

  0542 And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry;

  0543 This aboue all, to thine owne selfe be true

  0544 And it must followe as the night the day

  0545 Thou canst not then be false to any man:

  0546 Farwell, my blessing season this in thee.

  0547 @#Laer.  Most humbly doe I take my leaue my Lord.

  0548 @#Pol.  The time inuests you goe, your seruants tend.

  0549 @#Laer.  Farwell Ophelia, and remember well

  0550 What I haue sayd to you.

  0551 @#Ophe.  Tis in my memory lockt

  0552 And you your selfe shall keepe the key of it.

  0553 @#Laer.  Farwell. =======Exit Laertes.

  0554 @#Pol.  What ist Ophelia he hath sayd to you?

  0555 @#Ophe.  So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.

  0556 @#Pol.  Marry well bethought

  0557 Tis tolde me he hath very oft of late

  0558 Giuen priuate time to you, and you your selfe

  0559 Haue of your audience beene most free and bountious,

  0560 If it be so, as so tis put on me,[C4^v

  0561 And that in way of caution, I must tell you,

  0562 You doe not vnderstand your selfe so cleerely

  0563 As it behooues my daughter, and your honor,

  0564 What is betweene you giue me vp the truth,

  0565 @#Ophe.  He hath my Lord of late made many tenders

  0566 Of his affection to me.

  0567 @#Pol.  Affection, puh, you speake like a greene girle

  0568 Vnsifted in such perrilous circumstance,

  0569 Doe you belieue his tenders as you call them?

  0570 @#Ophe.  I doe not knowe my Lord what I should thinke.

  0571 @#Pol.  Marry I will teach you, thinke your selfe a babie

  0572 That you haue tane these tenders for true pay

  0573 Which are not sterling, tender your selfe more dearely

  0574 Or (not to crack the winde of the poore phrase

  0575 Wrong it thus) you'l tender me a foole.

  0576 @#Ophe.  My Lord he hath importun'd me with loue

  0577 In honorable fashion.

  0578 @#Pol.  I, fashion you may call it, go to, go to.

  0579 @#Ophe.  And hath giuen countenance to his speech

  0580 My Lord, with almost all the holy vowes of heauen.

  0581 @#Pol.  I, springs to catch wood-cockes, I doe knowe

  0582 When the blood burnes, how prodigall the soule

  0583 Lends the tongue vowes, these blazes daughter

  0584 Giuing more light then heate, extinct in both

  0585 Euen in their promise, as it is a making

  0586 You must not take for fire, from this time

  0587 Be something scanter of your maiden presence

  0588 Set your intreatments at a higher rate

  0589 Then a commaund to parle; for Lord Hamlet,

  0590 Belieue so much in him that he is young,

  0591 And with a larger tider may he walke

  0592 Then may be giuen you: in fewe Ophelia,

  0593 Doe not belieue his vowes, for they are brokers

  0594 Not of that die which their inuestments showe

  0595 But meere imploratotors of vnholy suites

  0596 Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds

  0597 The better to beguide: this is for all,

  0598 I would not in plaine tearmes from this time foorth

  0599 Haue you so slaunder any moment leasure[D1^r

  0600 As to giue words or talke with the Lord Hamlet,

  0601 Looke too't I charge you, come your wayes.

  0602 @#Ophe.  I shall obey my Lord. ===============Exeunt.

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

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  0460 =====Scena Tertia.

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  0461 =====Enter Laertes and Ophelia.

  0462 @#Laer.  My necessaries are imbark't; Farewell:

  0463 And Sister, as the Winds giue Benefit,

  0464 And Conuoy is assistant; doe not sleepe,

  0465 But let me heare from you.

  0466 **Ophel.  Doe you doubt that?

  0467 @#Laer.  For Hamlet, and the trifling of his fauours,

  0468 Hold it a fashion and a toy in Bloud;

  0469 A Violet in the youth of Primy Nature;

  0470 Froward, not permanent; sweet not lasting

  0471 The suppliance of a minute? No more.

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  0472 **Ophel.  No more but so.

  0473 @#Laer.  Thinke it no more:

  0474 For nature cressant does not grow alone,

  0475 In thewes and Bulke: but as his Temple waxes,

  0476 The inward seruice of the Minde and Soule

  0477 Growes wide withall. Perhaps he loues you now,

  0478 And now no soyle nor cautell doth besmerch

  0479 The vertue of his feare: but you must feare

  0480 His greatnesse weigh'd, his will is not his owne;[nn6^v

  0481 For hee himselfe is subiect to his Birth:

  0482 Hee may not, as vnuallued persons doe,

  0483 Carue for himselfe; for, on his choyce depends

  0484 The sanctity and health of the weole State.

  0485 And therefore must his choyce be circumscrib'd

  0486 Vnto the voyce and yeelding of that Body,

  0487 Whereof he is the Head. Then if he sayes he loues you,

  0488 It fits your wisedome so farre to beleeue it;

  0489 As he in his peculiar Sect and force

  0490 May giue his saying deed: which is no further,

  0491 Then the maine voyce of Denmarke goes withall.

  0492 Then weigh what losse your Honour may sustaine,

  0493 If with too credent eare you list his Songs;

  0494 Or lose your Heart; or your chast Treasure open

  0495 To his vnmastred importunity.

  0496 Feare it Ophelia, feare it my deare Sister,

  0497 And keepe within the reare of your Affection;

  0498 Out of the shot and danger of Desire.

  0499 The chariest Maid is Prodigall enough,

  0500 If she vnmaske her beauty to the Moone:

  0501 Vertue it selfe scapes not calumnious stroakes,

  0502 The Canker Galls, the Infants of the Spring

  0503 Too oft before the buttons be disclos'd,

  0504 And in the Morne and liquid dew of Youth,

  0505 Contagious blastments are most imminent.

  0506 Be wary then, best safety lies in feare;

  0507 Youth to it selfe rebels, though none else neere.

  0508 @#Ophe.  I shall th'effect of this good Lesson keepe,

  0509 As watchmen to my heart: but good my Brother

  0510 Doe not as some vngracious Pastors doe,

  0511 Shew me the steepe and thorny way to Heauen;

  0512 Whilst like a puft and recklesse Libertine

  0513 Himselfe, the Primrose path of dalliance treads,

  0514 And reaks not his owne reade.

  0515 @#Laer.  Oh, feare me not.

  0516 =============Enter Polonius.

  0517 I stay too long; but here my Father comes:

  0518 A double blessing is a double grace;

  0519 Occasion smiles vpon a second leaue.

  0520 @#Polon.  Yet heere Laertes? Aboord, aboord for shame,

  0521 The winde sits in the shoulder of your saile,

  0522 And you are staid for there: my blessing with you;

  0523 And these few Precepts in thy memory,

  0524 See thou Character. Giue thy thoughts no tongue,

  0525 Nor any vnproportion'd thought his Act:

  0526 Be thou familiar; but by no meanes vulgar:

  0527 The friends thou hast, and their adoption tride,

  0528 Grapple them to thy Soule, with hoopes of Steele:

  0529 But doe not dull thy palme, with entertainment

  0530 Of each vnhatch't, vnfledg'd Comrade. Beware

  0531 Of entrance to a quarrell: but being in

  0532 Bear't that th'opposed may beware of thee.

  0533 Giue euery man thine eare; but few thy voyce:

  0534 Take each mans censure; but reserue thy iudgement:

  0535 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy;

  0536 But not exprest in fancie; rich, not gawdie:

  0537 For the Apparell oft proclaimes the man.

  0538 And they in France of the best ranck and station,

  0539 Are of a most select and generous cheff in that.

  0540 Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;

  0541 For lone oft loses both it selfe and friend:

  0542 And borrowing duls the edge of Husbandry.

  0543 This aboue all; to thine owne selfe be true:

  0544 And it must follow, as the Night the Day,

  0545 Thou canst not then be false to any man.

  0546 Farewell: my Blessing season this in thee.

  0547 @#Laer.  Most humbly doe I take my leaue, my Lord.

  0548 @#Polon.  The time inuites you, goe, your seruants tend.

  0549 @#Laer.  Farewell Ophelia, and remember well

  0550 What I haue said to you.

  0551 @#Ophe.  Tis in my memory lockt,

  0552 And you your selfe shall keepe the key of it.

  0553 @#Laer.  Farewell. ========================Exit Laer.

  0554 @#Polon.  What ist Ophelia he hath said to you?

  0555 @#Ophe.  So please you, somthing touching the L. Hamlet.

  0556 @#Polon.  Marry, well bethought:

  0557 Tis told me he hath very oft of late

  0558 Giuen priuate time to you; and you your selfe

  0559 Haue of your audience beene most free and bounteous.

  0560 If it be so, as so tis put on me;

  0561 And that in way of caution: I must tell you,

  0562 You doe not vnderstand your selfe so cleerely,

  0563 As it behoues my Daughter, and your Honour.

  0564 What is betweene you, giue me vp the truth?

  0565 @#Ophe.  He hath my Lord of late, made many tenders

  0566 Of his affection to me.

  0567 @#Polon.  Affection, puh. You speake like a greene Girle,

  0568 Vnsifted in such perillous Circumstance.

  0569 Doe you beleeue his tenders, as you call them?

  0570 @#Ophe.  I do not know, my Lord, what I should thinke.

  0571 @#Polon.  Marry Ile teach you; thinke your selfe a Baby,

  0572 That you haue tane his tenders for true pay,

  0573 Which are not starling. Tender your selfe more dearly;

  0574 Or not to crack the winde of the poore Phrase,

  0575 Roaming it thus, you'l tender me a foole.

  0576 @#Ophe.  My Lord, he hath importun'd me with loue,

  0577 In honourable fashion.

  0578 @#Polon.  I, fashion you may call it, go too, go too.

  0579 @#Ophe.  And hath giuen countenance to his speech,

  0580 My Lord, with all the vowes of Heauen.

  0581 @#Polon.  I, Springes to catch Woodcocks. I doe know

  0582 When the Bloud burnes, how Prodigall the Soule

  0583 Giues the tongue vowes: these blazes, Daughter,

  0584 Giuing more light then heate; extinct in both,

  0585 Euen in their promise, as it is a making;

  0586 You must not take for fire. For this time Daughter,

  0587 Be somewhat scanter of your Maiden presence;

  0588 Set your entreatments at a higher rate,

  0589 Then a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,

  0590 Beleeue so much in him, that he is young,

  0591 And with a larger tether may he walke,

  0592 Then may be giuen you. In few, Ophelia,

  0593 Doe not beleeue his vowes; for they are Broakers,

  0594 Not of the eye, which their Inuestments show:

  0595 But meere implorators of vnholy Sutes,

  0596 Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds,

  0597 The better to beguile. This is for all:

  0598 I would not, in plaine tearmes, from this time forth,

  0599 Haue you so slander any moment leisure,

  0600 As to giue words or talke with the Lord Hamlet:

  0601 Looke too't, I charge you; come your wayes.

  0602 @#Ophe.  I shall obey my Lord. ===============Exeunt.