Hamlet ⟨Act I Scene V⟩: Q1 v Q2 v F1

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

  0681 =======Enter Ghost and Hamlet.

  0682 **Ham.  Ile go no farther, whither wilt thou leade me?

  0683 **Ghost Marke me.

  0684 **Ham.  I will.

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  0694-5 **Ghost I am thy fathers spirit, doomd for a time

  0695-6 To walke the night, and all the day

  0696 Confinde in flaming fire,

  0697 Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature

  0698 Are purged and burnt away.

  0688 **Ham.  Alas poore Ghost.

  0689-90  **Ghost Nay pitty me not, but to my vnfoldin

  0689-98  Lend thy listning eare, but that I am forbid[C4^r

  0699 To tell the secrets of my prison house

  0700 I would a tale vnfold, whose lightest word

  0701 Would harrow vp thy soule, freeze thy yong blood,

  0702 Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,

  0703 Thy knotted and combined locks to part,

  0704 And each particular haire to stand on end

  0705 Like quils vpon the fretfull Porpentine,

  0706-7 But this same blazon must not be, to eares of flesh and blood

  0707-8 Hamlet, if euer thou didst thy deere father loue.

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  0709 **Ham.  O God.

  0710 **Gho.  Reuenge his foule, and most vnnaturall murder:

  0711 **Ham.  Murder.

  0712 **Ghost Yea, murder in the highest degree,

  0712' As in the least tis bad,

  0713 But mine most foule, beastly, and vnnaturall.

  0714-6 **Ham.  Haste me to knowe it, that with wings as swift as

  0716-7 meditation, or the thought of it, may sweepe to my reuenge.

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  0718-9 **Ghost O I finde thee apt, and duller shouldst thou be

  0719-20  Then the fat weede which rootes it selfe in ease

  0720-44  On Lethe wharffe: briefe let me be.

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  0722 Tis giuen out, that sleeping in my orchard,

  0723 A Serpent stung me; so the whole eare of Denmarke

  0724-5 Is with a forged Prosses of my death rankely abusde:

  0725-6 But know thou noble Youth: he that did sting

  0726-7 Thy fathers heart, now weares his Crowne.

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  0728 **Ham.  O my prophetike soule, my vncle! my vncle!

  0729-32  **Ghost Yea he, that incestuous wretch, wonne to his will ↓

  0731 O wicked will, and gifts! that haue the power =====(with gifts,

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  0732-3 So to seduce my most seeming vertuous Queene,

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  0739 But vertne, as it neuer will be moued,

  0740 Though Lewdnesse court it in a shape of heauen,

  0741 So Lust, thought to a radiant angle linckt,

  0742 Would fate it selfe from a celestiall bedde,

  0742-3 And prey on garbage: but soft, me thinkes

  0743-4 I sent the mornings ayre, briefe let me be,

  0744-5 Sleeping within my Orchard, my custome alwayes[C4^v

  0745-6 In the after noone, vpon my secure houre

  0746-7 Thy vncle came, with iuyce of Hebona

  0747-8 In a viall, and through the porches of my eares

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  0748-9 Did powre the leaprous distilment, whose effect

  0750 Hold such an enmitie with blood of man,

  0751 That swift as quickesilner, it posteth through

  0752 The naturall gates and allies of the body,

  0753-5 And turnes the thinne and wholesome blood

  0754 Like eager dropings into milke.

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  0756-8 And all my smoothe body, barked, and tetterd ouer.

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  0759 Thus was I sleeping by a brothers hand

  0760 Of Crowne, of Queene, of life, of dignitie

  0760-3 At once depriued, no reckoning made of,

  0763 But sent vnto my graue,

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  0764 With all my accompts and sinnes vpon my head,

  0765 O horrible, most horrible!

  0765' **Ham.  O God!

  0766 **ghost If thou hast nature in thee, beare it not,

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  0769-70  But howsoeuer, let not thy heart

  0770-1 Conspire against thy mother aught,

  0771 Leaue her to heauen,

  0772 And to the burthen that her conscience beares.

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  0774 I must be gone, the Glo-worme shewes the Martin

  0774-5 To be neere, and gin's to pale his vneffectuall fire:

  0776 Hamlet adue, adue, adue: remember me. ===Exit

  0777 **Ham.  O all you hoste of heauen! O earth, what else?

  0778-80  And shall I couple hell; remember thee?

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  0781-3 Yes thou poore Ghost; from the tables

  0783-5 Of my memorie, ile wipe away all sawes of Bookes,

  0784 All triuiall fond conceites

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  0786 That euer youth, or else obseruance noted,

  0787 And thy remembrance, all alone shall sit.

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  0789-91  Yes, yes, by heauen, a damnd pernitious villaine,

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  0791 Murderons, bawdy, smiling damned villaine,

  0792 (My tables) meet it is I set it downe,

  0793 That one may smile, and smile, and be a villayne;[D1^r

  0794 At least I am sure, it may be so in Denmarke.

  0795 So vncle, there you are, there you are.

  0795-6 Now to the words; it is adue adue: remember me,

  0796 Soe t'is enough I haue sworne.

  0797-8 **Hor.  My lord, my lord. =========Enter. Horatio,

  0798-9 **Mar.  Lord Hamlet. =============and Marcellus.

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  0802 **Hor.  Ill, lo, lo, ho, ho.

  0803 **Mar.  Ill, lo, lo, so, ho, so, come boy, come.

  0800 **Hor.  Heauens secure him.

  0804 **Mar.  How i'st my noble lord?

  0805 **Hor.  What news my lord?

  0806 **Ham.  O wonderfull, wonderful.

  0807 **Hor.  Good my lord tel it.

  0808-9 **Ham.  No not I, you'l reueale it.

  0809 **Hor.  Not I my Lord by heauen.

  0810 **Mar.  Nor I my Lord.

  0811 **Ham.  How say you then? would hart of man

  0811-2 Once thinke it? but you'l be secret.

  0813 **Both.  I by heauen, my lord.

  0814 **Ham.  There's neuer a villaine dwelling in all Denmarke,

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  0815 But hee's an arrant knaue.

  0816-7 **Hor.  There need no Ghost come from the graue to tell

  0817 you this.

  0818-9 **Ham.  Right, you are in the right, and therefore

  0819-20  I holde it meet without more circumstance at all,

  0820-1 Wee shake hands and part; you as your busines

  0821-4 And desiers shall leade you: for looke you,

  0822-3 Euery man hath busines, and desires, such

  0823-4 As it is, and for my owne poore parte, ile go pray.

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  0825 **Hor.  These are but wild and wherling words, my Lord.

  0826-7 **Ham.  I am sory they offend you; hartely, yes faith hartily.

  0828 **Hor.  Ther's no offence my Lord.

  0829 **Ham.  Yes by Saint Patrike but there is Horatio,

  0830 And much offence too, touching this vision,

  0831 It is an honest ghost, that let mee tell you,

  0832 For your desires to know what is betweene vs,[D1^v

  0833 Or'emaister it as you may:

  0833-4 And now kind frends, as yon are frends,

  0834 Schollers and gentlmen,

  0835 Grant mee one poore request.

  0836 **Both.  What i'st my Lord?

  0837 **Ham.  Neuer make known what you haue seene to night

  0838 **Both.  My lord, we will not.

  0839 **Ham.  Nay but sweare.

  0840 **Hor.  In faith my Lord not I.

  0841 **Mar.  Nor I my Lord in faith.

  0842-4 **Ham.  Nay vpon my sword, indeed vpon my sword.

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  0845 **Gho.  Sweare.

  0845' ===========The Gost vnder the stage.

  0846-7 **Ham.  Ha, ha, come you here, this fellow in the sellerige,

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  0848 Here consent to sweare.

  0849 **Hor.  Propose the oth my Lord.

  0850 **Ham.  Neuer to speake what you haue seene to night,

  0851 Sweare by my sword.

  0852 **Gost. Sweare.

  0853 **Ham.  Hic & vbique; nay then weele shift our ground:

  0854-5 Come hither Gentlemen, and lay your handes

  0855-6 Againe vpon this sword, neuer to speake

  0856-7 Of that which you haue seene, sweare by my sword.

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  0858 **Ghost Sweare.

  0859 **Ham.  Well said old Mole, can'st worke in the earth?

  0859-60  so fast, a worthy Pioner, once more remoue.

  0861 **Hor.  Day and night but this is wondrous strange.

  0862 **Ham.  And therefore as a stranger giue it welcome,

  0863 There are more things in heauen and earth Horatio,

  0864 Then are Dream't of, in your philosophie,

  0864-9 But come here, as before you neuer shall

  0866 How strange or odde soere I beare my selfe,

  0867 As I perchance hereafter shall thinke meet,

  0868 To put an Anticke disposition on,

  0869 That you at such times seeing me, neuer shall

  0870 With Armes, incombred thus, or this head shake,[D2^r

  0871 Or by pronouncing some vndoubtfull phrase,

  0872 As well well, wee know, or wee could and if we would,

  0873-4 Or there be, and if they might, or such ambiguous:

  0874-5 Giuing out to note, that you know aught of mee,

  0875-6 This not to doe, so grace, and mercie

  0876-7 At your most need helpe you, sweare

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  0878 **Ghost. sweare.

  0879 **Ham.  Rest, rest, perturbed spirit: so gentlemen,

  0880 In all my loue I do commend mee to you,

  0881 And what so poore a man as Hamlet may,

  0882 To pleasure you, God willing shall not want,

  0883 Nay come lett's go together,

  0884 But stil your fingers on your lippes I pray,

  0885 The time is out of ioynt, O cursed spite,

  0886 That euer I was borne to set it right,

  0887 Nay come lett's go together. =======Exeunt.

   

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

  0681 ======Enter Ghost, and Hamlet.

  0682 @#Ham.  Whether wilt thou leade me, speake, Ile goe no further.

  0683 @#Ghost.  Marke me.

  0684 @#Ham.  I will.

  0685 @#Ghost.  My houre is almost come

  0686 When I to sulphrus and tormenting flames

  0687 Must render vp my selfe.

  0688 @#Ham.  Alas poore Ghost.

  0689 @#Ghost.  Pitty me not, but lend thy serious hearing [D2^v

  0690 To what I shall vnfold.

  0691 @#Ham.  Speake, I am bound to heare.

  0692 @#Ghost.  So art thou to reuenge, when thou shalt heare.

  0693 @#Ham.  What?

  0694 @#Ghost.  I am thy fathers spirit,

  0695 Doomd for a certaine tearme to walke the night,

  0696 And for the day confind to fast in fires,

  0697 Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of nature

  0698 Are burnt and purg'd away: but that I am forbid

  0699 To tell the secrets of my prison house,

  0700 I could a tale vnfolde whose lightest word

  0701 Would harrow vp thy soule, freeze thy young blood,

  0702 Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,

  0703 Thy knotted and combined locks to part,

  0704 And each particuler haire to stand an end,

  0705 Like quils vpon the fearefull Porpentine,

  0706 But this eternall blazon must not be

  0707 To eares of flesh and blood, list, list, ô list:

  0708 If thou did'st euer thy deare father loue.

  0709 @#Ham.  O God.

  0710 @#Ghost.  Reuenge his foule, and most vnnaturall murther.

  0711 @#Ham.  Murther.

  0712 @#Ghost.  Murther most foule, as in the best it is,

  0713 But this most foule, strange and vnnaturall.

  0714 @#Ham.  Hast me to know't, that I with wings as swift

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  0716 As meditation, or the thoughts of loue

  0717 May sweepe to my reuenge.

  0718 @#Ghost.  I find thee apt,

  0719 And duller shouldst thou be then the fat weede

  0720 That rootes it selfe in ease on Lethe wharffe,

  0721 Would'st thou not sturre in this; now Hamlet heare,

  0722 Tis giuen out, that sleeping in my Orchard,

  0723 A Serpent stung me, so the whole eare of Denmarke

  0724 Is by a forged processe of my death

  0725 Ranckely abusde: but knowe thou noble Youth,

  0726 The Serpent that did sting thy fathers life

  0727 Now weares his Crowne.

  0728 @#Ham.  O my propheticke soule! my Vncle?

  0729 @#Ghost.  I that incestuous, that adulterate beast,[D3^r

  0730 With witchcraft of his wits, with trayterous gifts,

  0731 O wicked wit, and giftes that haue the power

  0732 So to seduce; wonne to his shamefull lust

  0733 The will of my most seeming vertuous Queene;

  0734 O Hamlet, what falling off was there

  0735 From me whose loue was of that dignitie

  0736 That it went hand in hand, euen with the vowe

  0737 I made to her in marriage, and to decline

  0738 Vppon a wretch whose naturall gifts were poore,

  0739 To those of mine; but vertue as it neuer will be mooued,

  0740 Though lewdnesse court it in a shape of heauen

  0741 So but though to a radiant Angle linckt,

  0742 Will sort it selfe in a celestiall bed

  0742' And pray on garbage.

  0743 But soft, me thinkes I sent the morning ayre,

  0744 Briefe let me be; sleeping within my Orchard,

  0745 My custome alwayes of the afternoone,

  0746 Vpon my secure houre, thy Vncle stole

  0747 With iuyce of cursed Hebona in a viall,

  0748 And in the porches of my eares did poure

  0749 The leaprous distilment, whose effect

  0750 Holds such an enmitie with blood of man,

  0751 That swift as quicksiluer it courses through

  0752 The naturall gates and allies of the body,

  0753 And with a sodaine vigour it doth possesse

  0754 And curde like eager droppings into milke,

  0755 The thin and wholsome blood; so did it mine,

  0756 And a most instant tetter barckt about

  0757 Most Lazerlike with vile and lothsome crust

  0758 All my smooth body.

  0759 Thus was I sleeping by a brothers hand,

  0760 Of life, of Crowne, of Queene at once dispatcht,

  0761 Cut off euen in the blossomes of my sinne,

  0762 Vnhuzled, disappointed, vnanueld,

  0763 No reckning made, but sent to my account

  0764 Withall my imperfections on my head,

  0765 O horrible, ô horrible, most horrible.

  0766 If thou hast nature in thee beare it not,

  0767 Let not the royall bed of Denmarke be [D3^v

  0768 A couch for luxury and damned incest.

  0769 But howsomeuer thou pursues this act,

  0770 Tain't not thy minde, nor let thy soule contriue

  0771 Against thy mother ought, leaue her to heauen,

  0772 And to those thornes that in her bosome lodge

  0773 To prick and sting her, fare thee well at once,

  0774 The Gloworme shewes the matine to be neere

  0775 And gins to pale his vneffectuall fire,

  0776 Adiew, adiew, adiew, remember me.

  0777 @#Ham.  O all you host of heauen, ô earth, what els,

  0778 And shall I coupple hell, ô fie, hold, hold my hart,

  0779 And you my sinnowes, growe not instant old,

  0780 But beare me swiftly vp; remember thee,

  0781 I thou poore Ghost whiles memory holds a seate

  0782 In this distracted globe, remember thee,

  0783 Yea, from the table of my memory

  0784 Ile wipe away all triuiall fond records,

  0785 All sawes of bookes, all formes, all pressures past

  0786 That youth and obseruation coppied there,

  0787 And thy commandement all alone shall liue,

  0788 Within the booke and volume of my braine

  0789 Vnmixt with baser matter, yes by heauen,

  0790 O most pernicious woman.

  0791 O villaine, villaine, smiling damned villaine,

  0792 My tables, meet it is I set it downe

  0793 That one may smile, and smile, and be a villaine,

  0794 At least I am sure it may be so in Denmarke.

  0795 So Vncle, there you are, now to my word,

  0796 It is adew, adew, remember me.

  0796' I haue sworn't.

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  0798 ==========Enter Horatio, and Marcellus.

  0797 @#Hora.  My Lord, my Lord.

  0799 @#Mar.  Lord Hamlet.

  0800 @#Hora.  Heauens secure him.

  0801 @#Ham.  So be it.

  0802 @#Mar.  Illo, ho, ho, my Lord.

  0803 @#Ham.  Hillo, ho, ho, boy come, and come.

  0804 @#Mar.  How i'st my noble Lord? [D4^r

  0805 @#Hora.  What newes my Lord?

  0806 @#Ham.  O, wonderfull.

  0807 @#Hora.  Good my Lord tell it.

  0808 @#Ham.  No, you will reueale it.

  0809 @#Hora.  Not I my Lord by heauen.

  0810 @#Mar.  Nor I my Lord.

  0811 @#Ham.  How say you then, would hart of man once thinke it,

  0812 But you'le be secret.

  0813 **Booth.  I by heauen.

  0814 @#Ham.  There's neuer a villaine,

  0814' Dwelling in all Denmarke

  0815 But hee's an arrant knaue.

  0816 @#Hora.  There needes no Ghost my Lord, come from the graue

  0817 To tell vs this.

  0818 @#Ham.  Why right, you are in the right,

  0819 And so without more circumstance at all

  0820 I hold it fit that we shake hands and part,

  0821 You, as your busines and desire shall poynt you,

  0822 For euery man hath busines and desire

  0823 Such as it is, and for my owne poore part

  0824 I will goe pray.

  0825 @#Hora.  These are but wilde and whurling words my Lord.

  0826 @#Ham.  I am sorry they offend you hartily,

  0827 Yes faith hartily.

  0828 @#Hora.  There's no offence my Lord.

  0829 @#Ham.  Yes by Saint Patrick but there is Horatio,

  0830 And much offence to, touching this vision heere,

  0831 It is an honest Ghost that let me tell you,

  0832 For your desire to knowe what is betweene vs

  0833 Oremastret as you may, and now good friends,

  0834 As you are friends, schollers, and souldiers,

  0835 Giue me one poore request.

  0836 @#Hora.  What i'st my Lord, we will.

  0837 @#Ham.  Neuer make knowne what you haue seene to night.

  0838 **Booth.  My Lord we will not.

  0839 @#Ham.  Nay but swear't.

  0840 @#Hora.  In faith my Lord not I.

  0841 @#Mar.  Nor I my Lord in faith.

  0842 @#Ham.  Vppon my sword.[D4^v

  0843 @#Mar.  We haue sworne my Lord already.

  0844 @#Ham.  Indeede vppon my sword, indeed.

  0845 =========Ghost cries vnder the Stage.

  0845' @#Ghost.  Sweare.

  0846 @#Ham.  Ha, ha, boy, say'st thou so, art thou there trupenny?

  0847 Come on, you heare this fellowe in the Sellerige,

  0848 Consent to sweare.

  0849 @#Hora.  Propose the oath my Lord.

  0850 @#Ham.  Neuer to speake of this that you haue seene

  0851 Sweare by my sword.

  0852 @#Ghost.  Sweare.

  0853 @#Ham.  Hic, & vbique, then weele shift our ground:

  0854 Come hether Gentlemen

  0855 And lay your hands againe vpon my sword,

  0857 Sweare by my sword

  0856 Neuer to speake of this that you haue heard.

  0858 @#Ghost.  Sweare by his sword.

  0859 @#Ham.  Well sayd olde Mole, can'st worke it'h earth so fast,

  0860 A worthy Pioner, once more remooue good friends.

  0861 @#Hora.  O day and night, but this is wondrous strange.

  0862 @#Ham.  And therefore as a stranger giue it welcome,

  0863 There are more things in heauen and earth Horatio

  0864 Then are dream't of in your philosophie, but come

  0865 Heere as before, neuer so helpe you mercy,

  0866 (How strange or odde so mere I beare my selfe,

  0867 As I perchance heereafter shall thinke meet,

  0868 To put an Anticke disposition on

  0869 That you at such times seeing me, neuer shall

  0870 With armes incombred thus, or this head shake,

  0871 Or by pronouncing of some doubtfull phrase,

  0872 As well, well, we knowe, or we could and if we would,

  0873 Or if we list to speake, or there be and if they might,

  0874 Or such ambiguous giuing out, to note)

  0875 That you knowe ought of me, this doe sweare,

  0876 So grace and mercy at your most neede helpe you.

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  0878 @#Ghost.  Sweare.

  0879 @#Ham.  Rest, rest, perturbed spirit: so Gentlemen,

  0880 Withall my loue I doe commend me to you,

  0881 And what so poore a man as Hamlet is,[El^r

  0882 May doe t'expresse his loue and frending to you

  0883 God willing shall not lack, let vs goe in together,

  0884 And still your fingers on your lips I pray,

  0885 The time is out of ioynt, ô cursed spight

  0886 That euer I was borne to set it right.

  0887 Nay come, lets goe together. =======Exeunt.

   

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

  0681 =====Enter Ghost and Hamlet. speak; Ile go no fur-(ther.

  0682 @#Ham.  Where wilt thou lead me? speak; Ile go no fur- ↑

  0683 @#Gho.  Marke me.

  0684 @#Ham.  I will.

  0685 @#Gho.  My hower is almost come,

  0686 When I to sulphurous and tormenting Flames

  0687 Must render vp my selfe.

  0688 @#Ham.  Alas poore Ghost.

  0689 @#Gho.  Pitty me not, but lend thy serious hearing

  0690 To what I shall vnfold.

  0691 @#Ham.  Speake, I am bound to heare.

  0692 @#Gho.  So art thou to reuenge, when thou shalt heare.

  0693 @#Ham.  What?

  0694 @#Gho.  I am thy Fathers Spirit,

  0695 Doom'd for a certaine terme to walke the night;

  0696 And for the day confin'd to fast in Fiers,

  0697 Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature

  0698 Are burnt and purg'd away? But that I am forbid

  0699 To tell the secrets of my Prison-House;

  0700 I could a Tale vnfold, whose lightest word

  0701 Would harrow vp thy soule, freeze thy young blood,

  0702 Make thy two eyes like Starres, start from their Spheres,

  0703 Thy knotty and combined locks to part,

  0704 And each particular haire to stand an end,

  0705 Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine:

  0706 But this eternall blason must not be

  0707 To eares of flesh and bloud; list Hamlet, oh list,

  0708 If thou didst euer thy deare Father loue.

  0709 @#Ham.  Oh Heauen!

  0710 @#Gho.  Reuenge his foule and most vnnaturall Murther.

  0711 @#Ham.  Murther?

  0712 @#Ghost.  Murther most foule, as in the best it is;

  0713 But this most foule, strange, and vnnaturall.

  0714 @#Ham.  Hast, hast me to know it,

  0715 That with wings as swift

  0716 As meditation, or the thoughts of Loue,

  0717 May sweepe to my Reuenge.

  0718 @#Ghost.  I finde thee apt,

  0719 And duller should'st thou be then the fat weede

  0720 That rots it selfe in ease, on Lethe Wharfe,

  0721 Would'st thou not stirre in this. Now Hamlet heare:

  0722 It's giuen out, that sleeping in mine Orchard,

  0723 A Serpent stung me: so the whole eare of Denmarke,

  0724 Is by a forged processe of my death

  0725 Rankly abus'd: But know thou Noble youth,

  0726 The Serpent that did sting thy Fathers life,

  0727 Now weares his Crowne.

  0728 @#Ham.  O my Propheticke soule: mine Vncle?

  0729 @#Ghost.  I that incestuous, that adulterate Beast

  0730 With witchcraft of his wits, hath Traitorous guifts.

  0731 Oh wicked Wit, and Gifts, that haue the power

  0732 So to seduce? Won to to this shamefull Lust

  0733 The will of my most seeming vertuous Queene:

  0734 Oh Hamlet, what a falling off was there,

  0735 From me, whose loue was of that dignity,

  0736 That it went hand in hand, euen with the Vow

  0737 I made to her in Marriage; and to decline

  0738 Vpon a wretch, whose Naturall gifts were poore

  0739 To those of mine. But Vertue, as it neuer wil be moued,

  0740 Though Lewdnesse court it in a shape of Heauen:

  0741 So Lust, though to a radiant Angell link'd,

  0742 Will sate it selfe in a Celestiallbed, & prey on Garbage.

  000¦

  0743 But soft, me thinkes I sent the Mornings Ayre;[oo1^v

  0744 Briefe let me be: Sleeping within mine Orchard,

  0745 My custome alwayes in the afternoone;

  0746 Vpon my secure hower thy Vncle stole

  0747 With iuyce of cursed Hebenon in a Violl,

  0748 And in the Porches of mine eares did poure

  0749 The leaperous Distilment; whose effect

  0750 Holds such an enmity with bloud of Man,

  0751 That swift as Quick-siluer, it courses through

  0752 The naturall Gates and Allies of the Body;

  0753 And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset

  0754 And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke,

  0755 The thin and wholsome blood: so did it mine;

  0756 And a most instant Tetter bak'd about,

  0757 Most Lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,

  0758 All my smooth Body.

  0759 Thus was I, sleeping, by a Brothers hand,

  0760 Of Life, of Crowne, and Queene at once dispatcht;

  0761 Cut off euen in the Blossomes of my Sinne,

  0762 Vnhouzzled, disappointed, vnnaneld,

  0763 No reckoning made, but sent to my account

  0764 With all my imperfections on my head;

  0765 Oh horrible, Oh horrible, most horrible:

  0766 If thou hast nature in thee beare it not;

  0767 Let not the Royall Bed of Denmarke be

  0768 A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.

  0769 But howsoeuer thou pursuest this Act,

  0770 Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contriue

  0771 Against thy Mother ought; leaue her to heauen,

  0772 And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge,

  0773 To pricke and sting her. Fare thee well at once;

  0774 The Glow-worme showes the Matine to be neere,

  0775 And gins to pale his vneffectuall Fire:

  0776 Adue, adue, Hamlet: remember me. =====Exit.

  0777 @#Ham.  Oh all you host of Heauen! Oh Earth; what els?

  0778 And shall I couple Hell? Oh fie: hold my heart;

  0779 And you my sinnewes, grow not instant Old;

  0780 But beare me stiffely vp: Remember thee?

  0781 I, thou poore Ghost, while memory holds a seate

  0782 In this distracted Globe: Remember thee?

  0783 Yea, from the Table of my Memory,

  0784 Ile wipe away all triuiall fond Records,

  0785 All sawes of Bookes, all formes, all presures past,

  0786 That youth and obseruation coppied there;

  0787 And thy Commandment all alone shall liue

  0788 Within the Booke and Volume of my Braine,

  0789 Vnmixt with baser matter; yes, yes, by Heauen:

  0790 Oh most pernicious woman!

  0791 Oh Villaine, Villaine, smiling damned Villaine!

  0792 My Tables, my Tables; meet it is I set it downe,

  0793 That one may smile, and smile and be a Villaine;

  0794 At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmarke;

  0795 So Vnckle there you are: now to my word;

  0796 It is; Adue, Adue, Remember me: I haue sworn't.

  000¦

  0797 **Hor. & Mar. within. My Lord, my Lord.

  0798 ==========Enter Horatio and Marcellus.

  000¦

  0799 @#Mar.  Lord Hamlet. 

  0800 @#Hor.  Heauen secure him.

  0801 @#Mar.  So be it.

  0802 @#Hor.  Illo, ho, ho, my Lord.

  0803 @#Ham.  Hillo, ho, ho, boy; come bird, come.

  0804 @#Mar.  How ist't my Noble Lord?

  0805 @#Hor.  What newes, my Lord?

  0806 @#Ham.  Oh wonderfull!

  0807 @#Hor.  Good my Lord tell it.

  0808 @#Ham.  No you'l reueale it.

  0809 @#Hor.  Not I, my Lord, by Heauen.

  0810 @#Mar.  Nor I, my Lord. =================(think it?

  0811 @#Ham.  How say you then, would heart of man once ↑

  0812 But you'l be secret?

  0813 **Both.  I, by Heau'n, my Lord.

  0814 @#Ham.  There's nere a villaine dwelling in all Denmarke

  000¦

  0815 But hee's an arrant knaue.

  0816 @#Hor.  There needs no Ghost my Lord, come from the

  0817 Graue, to tell vs this.

  0818 @#Ham.  Why right, you are i'th' right;

  0819 And so, without more circumstance at all,

  0820 I hold it fit that we shake hands, and part:

  0821 You, as your busines and desires shall point you:

  0822 For euery man ha's businesse and desire,

  0823 Such as it is: and for mine owne poore part,

  0824 Looke you, Ile goe pray.

  0825 @#Hor.  These are but wild and hurling words, my Lord.

  0826 @#Ham.  I'm sorry they offend you heartily:

  0827 Yes faith, heartily.

  0828 @#Hor.  There's no offence my Lord.

  0829 @#Ham.  Yes, by Saint Patricke, but there is my Lord,

  0830 And much offence too, touching this Vision heere:

  0831 It is an honest Ghost, that let me tell you:

  0832 For your desire to know what is betweene vs,

  0833 O'remaster't as you may. And now good friends,

  0834 As you are Friends, Schollers and Soldiers,

  0835 Giue me one poore request.

  0836 @#Hor.  What is't my Lord? we will.

  0837 @#Ham.  Neuer make known what you haue seen to night.

  0838 **Both.  My Lord, we will not.

  0839 @#Ham.  Nay, but swear't.

  0840 @#Hor.  Infaith my Lord, not I.

  0841 @#Mar.  Nor I my Lord: in faith.

  0842 @#Ham.  Vpon my sword.

  0843 **Marcell.  We haue sworne my Lord already.

  0844 @#Ham.  Indeed, vpon my sword, Indeed.

  0845 @#Gho.  Sweare. ============Ghost cries vnder the Stage.

  000¦

  0846 @#Ham.  Ah ha boy, sayest thou so. Art thou there true-

  0847 penny? Come one you here this fellow in the selleredge

  0848 Consent to sweare.

  0849 @#Hor.  Propose the Oath my Lord.

  0850 @#Ham.  Neuer to speake of this that you haue seene.

  0851 Sweare by my sword.

  0852 @#Gho.  Sweare.

  0853 @#Ham.  Hic & vbique? Then wee'l shift for grownd,

  0854 Come hither Gentlemen,

  0855 And lay your hands againe vpon my sword,

  0856 Neuer to speake of this that you haue heard:

  0857 Sweare by my Sword.

  0858 @#Gho.  Sweare. ==Mole, can'st worke i'th' ground so(fast?

  0859 @#Ham.  Well said old Mole, can'st worke i'th' ground so ↑

  0860 A worthy Pioner, once more remoue good friends.

  0861 @#Hor.  Oh day and night: but this is wondrous strange.

  0862 @#Ham.  And therefore as a stranger giue it welcome.

  0863 There are more things in Heauen and Earth, Horatio,

  0864 Then are dream't of in our Philosophy. But come,

  0865 Here as before, neuer so helpe you mercy,

  0866 How strange or odde so ere I beare my selfe;

  0867 (As I perchance heereafter shall thinke meet

  0868 To put an Anticke disposition on:)

  0869 That you at such time seeing me, neuer shall

  0870 With Armes encombred thus, or thus, head shake;

  0871 Or by pronouncing of some doubtfull Phrase;

  0872 As well, we know, or we could and if we would,

  0873 Or if we list to speake; or there be and if there might,

  0874 Or such ambiguous giuing out to note,

  0875 That you know ought of me; this not to doe: [oo2^r

  0876 So grace and mercy at your most neede helpe you:

  0877 Sweare.

  0878 @#Ghost.  Sweare.

  0879 @#Ham.  Rest, rest perturbed Spirit: so Gentlemen,

  0880 With all my loue I doe commend me to you;

  0881 And what so poore a man as Hamlet is,

  0882 May doe t'expresse his loue and friending to you,

  0883 God willing shall not lacke: let vs goe in together,

  0884 And still your fingers on your lippes I pray,

  0885 The time is out of ioynt: Oh cursed spight,

  0886 That euer I was borne to set it right.

  0887 Nay, come let's goe together. =======Exeunt.