Po. Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby; That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly; Or (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, Oph. My lord, he hath importuned me with love In honorable fashion. Po. Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to. Oph. And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, With almost all the holy vows of heaven. Po. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul 1 But mere implorators 1 of unholy suits, I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, [Exeunt. SCENE IV. The platform. Enter HAMLET, horatio, and Marcellus. 2 Ham. The air bites shrewdly; it is very coid. Ho. Mar. No, it is struck. I think, it lacks of twelve. Ho. Indeed? I heard it not: it then draws near the season, Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. [a florish of trumpets and ordnance shot off within. What does this mean, my lord? Ham. The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,3 4 Keeps wassel, and the swaggering up-spring 5 reels ; 2 Keen. 3 Jovial draught. • A dance. 1 Implorers. And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The triumph of his pledge. H2. Ham. Ay, marry, is 't: Is it a custom? But to my mind,-though I am native here, More honor'd in the breach than the observance. This heavy-headed-revel, east and west, Makes us traduced, and tax'd of other nations: From our achievements, though perform'd at height, That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, Shall in the general censure take corruption Doth all the noble substance of a doubt, To his own scandal.1 Ho. Enter GHOST. Look, my lord, it comes! Ham. Angels and ministers of grace defend us !--Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn ́d, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable2 shape, That I will speak to thee; I'll call thee, Hamlet, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? As if it some impartment did desire Commentators have hitherto failed to discover any sasofory elucidation of this corrupt passage. rsable. For frame. To you alone. Mar. Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground. But do not go with it. Ho. No, by no means. Ham. It will not speak; then I will follow it. Ham. Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; 1 And, for my soul, what can it do to that, It waves me forth again: I'll follow it. Ho. What, if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, That beetles 2 o'er his base into the sea; And there assume some other horrible form, |