Laer. What ceremony else? A very noble youth: Mark. 1 Priest. Her obsequies have been as far enlarged * Shards, flints, and pebbles, should be thrown on her, Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home Laer. Must there no more be done? 1 Priest. No more be done. We should profane the service of the dead, As to peace-parted souls. Laer. Lay her i' the earth; And from her fair and unpolluted flesh, May violets spring!-I tell thee, churlish priest, A minist'ring angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. Ham. What, the fair Ophelia ! Queen. Sweets to the sweet: Farewell! [Scattering flowers. I hoped, thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife; I thought, thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, Laer. O treble woe Fall ten times treble on that cursed head, [Leaps into the grave. Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead; Ham. [advancing]. What is he, whose grief Hamlet the Dane. Laer. The devil take thy soul ! [Leaps into the grave. [Grappling with him. I pr'ythee, take thy fingers from my throat; For, though I am not splenetive and rash, Which let thy wisdom fear: Hold off thy hand. Queen. Hamlet, Hamlet! All. Gentlemen, * Broken pots, or tiles. † Garlands. Hor. Good my lord, be quiet. [The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave. Ham. Why, I will fight with him upon this theme, Until my eye-lids will no longer wag. Queen. O my son! what theme? Ham. I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Make up my sum.-What wilt thou do for her? Queen. For love of God, forbear him. Ham. 'Zounds, show me what thou❜lt do: Woul't weep? woul't fight? woul't fast? woul't tear thyself? I'll do't.-Dost thou come here to whine ? Queen. This is mere madness: And thus awhile the fit will work on him; When that her golden couplets are disclosed,† Ham. Hear you, Sir; What is the reason that you use me thus? I loved you ever: But it is no matter; King. I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him. [Exit. [Exit HORATIO. Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech; We'll put the matter to the present push.→ SCENE II-A Hall in the Castle. Enter HAMLET and HORATIO. [TO LAERTES. [Exeunt. Ham. So much for this, Sir: now shall you see the other;You do remember all the circumstance? Hor. Remember it, my lord! Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting, That would not let me sleep; methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly, And praised be rashness for it,-Let us know, **The Weisel (Vistula) river. + Hatched. Mutineers. Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall:* and that should teach us, Rough-hew them how we will. Hor. That is most certain. My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark No, not to stay the grinding of the axe, My head should be struck off. Hor. Is't possible? Ham. Here's the commission; read it at more leisure. But wilt thou hear now how I did proceed? Hor. Ay, beseech you. Ham. Being thus benetted round with villanies, Ort I could make a prologue to my brains, Hor. Ay, good my lord. Ham. An earnest conjuration from the king,— As love between them like the palm might flourish; Hor. How was this seal'd? Ham. Why, even in that was heaven ordinant; I had my father's signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal: Folded the writ up in form of the other; Subscribed it; gave't the impression; placed it safely, The changeling never known: Now, the next day Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent *Fail. Hor. So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. Ham. Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow: "Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. Hor. Why, what a king is this! Ham. Does it not, think thee, stand me now upon ? And with such cozenage: is't not perfect conscience, In further evil? Hor. It must be shortly known to him from England, What is the issue of the business there. Ham. It will be short; the interim is mine; And a man's life no more than to say, one. That to Laertes I forgot myself; For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours: Hor. Peace; who comes here? Enter OSRIC. Osr. Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark. Ham. I humbly thank you, Sir.-Dost know this water-fly? Hor. No, my good lord. Hem. Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to know him: He hath much land, and fertile: let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess: "Tis a chough; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt. Osr. Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should impart a thing to you from his majesty. Ham. I will receive it, Sir, with all diligence of spirit: Your bonnet to its right use; 'tis for the head. Osr. I thank your lordship, 'tis very hot. Ham. No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is northerly. Osr. It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed. Ham. But yet, methinks, it is very sultry and hot; or my complexion Osr. Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, as t'were,-I cannot tell how-My lord, his majesty bade me signify to you, that he has laid a great wager on your head: Sir, this is the matter,Ham. I beseech you, remember [HAMLET moves him to put on his hat. Osr. Nay, good my lord; for my ease, in good faith. Sir, here is newly come to court, Laertes: believe me, an absolute gentle * Requite. man, full of most excellent differences, of very soft society, and great showing: Indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see. Ham. Sir, this definement suffers no perdition in you;though, I know, to divide him inventorially, would dizzy the arithmetic of memory; and yet but yaw § neither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article; and his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror; and, who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. Osr. Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him. Ham. The concernancy, Sir? why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath? Osr. Sir? Hor. Is't not possible to understand in another tongue? You will do't, Sir, really. Ham. What imports the nomination || of this gentleman ? Hor. His purse is empty already; all his golden words are spent. Ham. Of him, Sir. Osr. I know, you are not ignorant Ham. I would, you did, Sir; yet, in faith, if you did, it would not much approve T me;-Well, Sir. Osr. You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is Ham. I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to know himself. Osr. I mean, Sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation laid on him by them, in his meed** he's unfellowed. Ham. What's his weapon? Osr. Rapier and dagger. Ham. That's two of his weapons: but, well. Osr. The king, Sir, hath wager'd with him six Barbary horses: against the which he has impawned,tt as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: Three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit. Ham. What call you the carriages? Hor. I knew you must be edified by the margent,‡‡ ere you had done. Osr. The carriages, Sir, are the hangers. Ham. The phrase would be more germane to the matter, if we could carry a cannon by our sides; I would, it might be hangers till then. But, on: Six Barbary horses against six French swords, their assigns, and three liberal conceited carriages; that's the French bet against the Danish: Why is this impawn'd, as you call it ? *Distinguishing excellences. + Chart. To move unsteadily, as a ship in a great swell. ‡‡ Margin of explanatory notes. ↑ Containing. Mentioning. tt Staked. |