wh 321 I am dead, Horatio.-Wretched queen, adieu !— I am more an antique Roman than a Dane: Hamlet. As thou 'rt a man, Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have 't.— Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.— 330 [March afar off, and shot within. What warlike noise is this? Osric. Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Po The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England; But I do prophesy the election lights On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; 34C So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, occurren [Dies. Horatio. Now cracks a noble heart.-Good night, sweet And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! Why does the drum come hither? [March within. Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors, and others. Horatio. 351 What is it ye would see? a heat of day draught of woe or wonder, cease your search. Samme (L.) Fortinbras. This quarry cries on havoc.-O proud death, ment. What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, That thou so many princes at a shot So bloodily hast struck? I Ambassador. The sight is dismal; And our affairs from England come too late : The ears are senseless that should give us hearing, To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd, That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Where should we have our thanks? Horatio. Had it the ability of life to thank you ; staine cries incites tongue a Staughto that have has been worsted Not from his mouth, 361 He never gave commandment for their death. But since, so jump upon this bloody question, o immediatly, sequent Are here arriv'd, give order that these bodies adulting High on a stage be placed to the view; the Fortinbras. Let us haste to hear it, affair & bloodded & the murder. conclusion I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, a@མས་. the heart Horatio. Of that I shall have also cause to speak, Even while men's minds are wild, lest more mischance, Fortinbras. For he was likely, had he been put on, To have prov'd most royally: and, for his passage, Speak loudly for him. Take up the bodies.-Such a sight as this Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.— 386 39 [A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES. Abbott (or Gr.), Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar (third edition). A. S., Anglo-Saxon. A. V., Authorized Version of the Bible (1611). A. Y. L. (followed by reference to page), Rolfe's edition of As You Like It. B. J., Ben Jonson. Caldecott, T. Caldecott's edition of Hamlet (London, 1819). Camb. ed., "Cambridge edition" of Shakespeare, edited by Clark and Wright. Coll., Collier (second edition). Coll. MS., Manuscript Corrections of Second Folio, edited by Collier. F., Furness's "New Variorum" edition of Hamlet (Philadelphia, 1877). Hen. V. (followed by reference to page), Rolfe's edition of Henry V. Hen. VIII. (followed by reference to page), Rolfe's edition of Henry VIII. J. C. (followed by reference to page), Rolfe's edition of Julius Cæsar. J. H., John Hunter's edition of Hamlet (London, 1865). K., Knight (second edition). M., Rev. C. E. Moberly's "Rugby" edition of Hamlet (London, 1873). Macb. (followed by reference to page), Rolfe's edition of Macbeth. Mer., Rolfe's edition of The Merchant of Venice. M. N. D. (followed by reference to page), Rolfe's edition of A Midsummer-Night's Dream. Nares, Glossary, edited by Halliwell and Wright (London, 1859). Prol., Prologue. Rich. II. (followed by reference to page), Rolfe's edition of Richard II. S., Shakespeare. Schmidt, A. Schmidt's Shakespeare-Lexicon (Berlin, 1874). Sr., Singer. St., Staunton. Temp. (followed by reference to page), Rolfe's edition of The Tempest. Theo., Theobald, V., Verplanck. W., White. Walker, Wm. Sidney Walker's Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare (London, 1860). Warb., Warburton. Wb., Webster's Dictionary (revised quarto edition of 1864). Worc., Worcester's Dictionary (quarto edition). Wr., Clark and Wright's "Clarendon Press" edition of Hamlet (Oxford, 1872). The abbreviations of the names of Shakespeare's Plays will be readily understood; as T. N. for Twelfth Night, Cor. for Coriolanus, 3 Hen. VI. for The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth, etc. P. P. refers to The Passionate Pilgrim; V. and A. to Venus and Adonis; L. C. to Lover's Complaint; and Sonn. to the Sonnets. The numbers of the lines (except for Hamlet) are those of the "Globe" edition. |