LAER. Must there no more be done? 1 PRIEST. No more be done : We should profane the service of the dead, LAER. Lay her i'the earth;- May violets spring! (29)-I tell thee, churlish priest,(30) When thou liest howling. Нам. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN. Sweets to the sweet: Farewell! [Scattering Flowers. I hop❜d, thou should'st have been my Hamlet's wife; I thought, thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, * So 4tos. And not have strew'd thy grave. terrible woer and wooer. 1623, 32. 4tos. LAER. O, treble woe* Fall ten times treble on that cursed head, Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense + double. Depriv'd thee of!-Hold off the earth a while, Till I have caught her once more in mine arms: [Leaps into the grave. Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead; Till of this flat a mountain you have made, To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head Of blue Olympus. ‡ grief. 4tos. HAM. [Advancing.] What is he, whose griefs Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow $ conjure. Conjures & the wand'ring stars, and makes them 1623. stand church, and this sepulture in consecrated ground. And see a Fall ten times treble] See " treble in silence." I. 2. Haml. bingenious sense] i. e. life and sense, or more literally, according to our Author's use of the words lively sensations or feeling. "How stiff is my vile sense That I stand up and have ingenious feeling Like wonder-wounded hearers? this is I, LAER. [Leaps into the Grave. The devil take thy soul! HAM. Thou pray'st not well. [Grappling with him. * For. 4tos. I pr'ythee, take thy fingers from my throat; QUEEN. GENTLEMEN. + So 4tos. something in me. 1623, 32. I wisdom. 4tos. Hamlet, Hamlet! hold off. 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 lov❜d Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Make up my sum..... What wilt thou do for her? QUEEN. For love of God, forbear him. wou❜lt Wou'lt drink up Esil ?(31)** eat a crocodile ? a outface me with leaping in her grave] i. e. brave me. See As you &c. III. Rosal. b Be buried quick] i. e. alive. "Thou'rt quick; but yet I'll bury thee." Tim. IV. 3. Tim. 4tos. || So 4tos. come.1623, 32. ¶ wilt pray. 4to. 1603. ** vessels. Ib. Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. KING. (32) This is mere madness: And thus a while the fit will work on him; When that her golden couplets are disclos'd,(33) Нам. Hear you, sir; What is the reason that you use me thus ? a The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. [Exit. KING. I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him.— [Exit HORATIO. Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech;" TO LAERTES. We'll put the matter to the present push.Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.This grave shall have a living monument :(35) An hour of quiet shortly shall we see; Till then, in patience our proceeding be. [Exeunt. a The cat will mew, the dog &c.] "Things have their appointed course; nor have we power to divert it," may be the sense here conveyed; though the proverb is in general applied to those who for a time fill stations to which their merits give them no claim. b Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech] i. e. let the consideration of the topics, then urged, confirm your resolution taken of quietly waiting events a little longer. SCENE II. A Hall in the Castle. Enter HAMLET and HORATIO. HAM. So much for this, sir: now let me see the shall you. 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; (36) methought, I lay 4tos. 32. prais'd. 4tos. Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.(37) Rashly, + So 1623, When our dear plots do pall:(38) and that should deep.4tos. teach & us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. (39) HOR. HAM. Up from my cabin, That is most certain. My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark a And praise be rashness for it] i. e. praise be to rashness ! b Let us know] i. e. be it understood. c sea-gown] "Like sea pitch upon a mariner's gown." The Puritan. "Lent upon a sea-gown of Captain Swanes xvs." Henslowe's MSS. MALone. § learn. 4tos. || A royal. 4tos. ⚫ reasons. Larded with many several sorts of reason,a* 4tos. + now. 4tos. Importing Denmark's health, and England's too, My head should be struck off. HOR. Is't possible? HAM. Here's the commission; read it at more leisure. But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed? HAM. Being thus benetted round with villains, A baseness to write fair, (41) and labour'd much It did me yeoman's service. The effect of what I wrote ? HOR. Wilt thou know Ay, good my lord. HAM. An earnest conjuration' from the king,As England was his faithful tributary; • Larded with many several sorts of reason] i. e. garnished. IV. 5. Ophel. b such bugs and goblins in my life] i. e. such multiplied causes of alarm, such bugbears, if I were suffered to live. See Tam. of Shrew, I. 2. Petr. the supervise] i. e. at sight, on the mere inspection. d Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, They had begun the play] i. e. ere I could well conceive what they were about, what could be their object in this mission; before I had time to give my first thoughts to their process, they were carrying their projects into act. • It did me yeoman's service] i. e. as good service as a yeoman performed for his feudal lord; in the sense in which we yet use knight's service. conjuration] i. e. requisition. See " conjuring," IV. 3. King. |