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I am dead, Horatio.-Wretched queen, adieu !—
You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
That are but mutes or audience to this act,
as to which Had I but time as this fell sergeant, death,
Is strict in his arrest, I could tell you-
But let it be.-Horatio, I am dead;
Thou livest; report me and my cause aright
To the unsatisfied.

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I am more an antique Roman than a Dane:
Here's yet some liquor left.

Hamlet.

As thou 'rt a man,

Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have 't.—
O God!-Horatio, what a wounded name,

Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,

Absent thee from felicity awhile,

And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,

To tell my story.—

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[March afar off, and shot within.

What warlike noise is this?

Osric. Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Po

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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;

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So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, occurren
Which have solicited-the rest is silence.

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Horatio. Now cracks a noble heart.-Good night, sweet

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And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Why does the drum come hither?

[March within.

Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors, and others.
Fortinbras. Where is this sight?

Horatio.

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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.

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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 ;

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Not from his mouth,

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He never gave commandment for their death.

But since, so jump upon this bloody question, o immediatly, sequent
You from the Polack wars, and you from England, Aus

Are here arriv'd, give order that these bodies

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High on a stage be placed to the view;
And let me speak to the yet unknowing world
How these things came about: so shall you hear
usual. Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, The
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fallen on the inventors heads. All this can I
Truly deliver.

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Fortinbras. Let us haste to hear it,
And call the noblest to the audience.
For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune;

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I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,
Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.

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Horatio. Of that I shall have also cause to speak,
And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more;
But let this same be presently perform'd,

Even while men's minds are wild, lest more mischance,
On plots and errors, happen. in addition to.
Let four captains
Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;

Fortinbras.

For he was likely, had he been put on,

To have prov'd most royally: and, for his passage,
The soldiers' music and the rites of war

Speak loudly for him.

Take up the bodies.-Such a sight as this

Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.—
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

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[A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off.

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NOTES.

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. and F., Beaumont and Fletcher.

B. J., Ben Jonson.

Caldecott, T. Caldecott's edition of Hamlet (London, 1819).

Camb. ed., "Cambridge edition" of Shakespeare, edited by Clark and Wright.
Cf. (confer), compare.

Coll., Collier (second edition).

Coll. MS., Manuscript Corrections of Second Folio, edited by Collier.
D., Dyce (second edition).

F., Furness's "New Variorum" edition of Hamlet (Philadelphia, 1877).
H., Hudson (first edition).

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.
Id. (idem), the same.

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.

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