Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distill'd

operate Almost to jelly with the act of fear,

Stand dumb, and speak not to him.
In dreadful secrecy impart they did;

operatur This to me

And I with them the third night kept the watch :
Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,
Form of the thing, each word made true and good,
The apparition comes. I knew your father;

These hands are not more like.

Hamlet.

But where was this?

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Marcellus. My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.
Hamlet. Did you not speak to it?

Horatio.

My lord, I did;
But answer made it none: yet once methought
It lifted up it head and did address frfare,
asa Itself to motion, like as it would speak;

But even then the morning cock crew loud, mighty powers". a.ya
And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,

And vanish'd from our sight.

Hamlet.

'T is very strange.

Horatio. As I do live, my honour'd lord, 't is true;

And we did think it writ down in our duty

To let you know of it.

Hamlet. Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.
Hold you the watch to night?

Horatio. O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up.

Hamlet. Then saw you not his face?

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Hamlet. What, look'd he frowningly?

Horatio. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

Horatio. While one with moderate haste might tell a

hundred.

Marcellus. Longer, longer.

Bernardo.

Horatio. Not when I saw 't.
Hamlet.

His beard was grizzled? no? mixed with

Horatio. It was, as I have seen it in his life,

Hamlet. If it assume my noble father's person,
I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape
And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still;
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
Give it an understanding, but no tongue :
I will requite your loves. So, fare you well;
Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,
I'll visit you.

All.

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Our duty to your honour.
Hamlet. Your loves, as mine to you; farewell.—

[Exeunt all but Hamlet.

My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;

I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!

fear

Till then sit still, my soul; foul deeds will rise,

Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. [Exit.

SCENE III. A Room in Polonius's House.

Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA.

Laertes. My necessaries are embark'd; farewell:

And, sister, as the winds give benefit
And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,
But let me hear from you.

Ophelia.

Do you doubt that?

the wreds".

-way yany won hand Laertes. For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,
Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
No more.

c. In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes, muscalan ports.

The inward service of the mind and soul

the duties requered in Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now, the wild sou And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch craft.

The virtue of his will; but you must fear,

His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;
For he himself is subject to his birth.

He may not, as unvalued persons do,

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Carve for himself, for on his choice depends
The safety and health of this whole state;
And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'died, sugest
Unto the voice and yielding of that body the creasing
the fositive voie and
Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,
It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
As he in his particular act and place

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performance Sah)

May give his saying deed; which is no further
Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,
If with too credent ear you list his songs,

Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmaster'd importunity.

Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,
And keep you in the rear of your affection,
Out of the shot and danger of desire.
The chariest maid is prodigal enough,
If she unmask her beauty to the moon.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes ;

The canker galls the infants of the spring, "Wanker, Boling notes"
Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd; guy resis.
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear :
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

blasting, which prove porni clores, foisonous

""He spoke Greek To what

effect" Cassor.

Ophelia. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, meaning, unfort As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,ch.) Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. adres

Laertes.

O, fear me not. I stay too long; but here my father comes.

Enter POLONIUS.

A double blessing is a double grace;

elated.

Occasion smiles upon a second leave. accident.

Fortune is frofutions,
Polonius. Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!"
in Esterway
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,

And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory

grace.

write, inscribe

See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,

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Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. ut proportio, as of
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
"keeping, infit.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment

callous they have reeptine

Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware ressive.

Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,

Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment blame
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

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But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; in oddities
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,

fantastical ress (sch)

And they in France of the best rank and station
Are most select and generous, chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

select and liberat
Chiefly in dress

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. loarmy
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.'

Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!

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Laertes. Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.
Polonius. The time invites you; go, your servants tend.
Laertes. Farewell, Ophelia ; and remember well

What I have said to you.

Ophelia.

"T is in my memory lock'd,

[Exit.

And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

Laertes. Farewell.

Polonius. What is 't, Ophelia, he hath said to you?

Ophelia. So please you, something touching the Lord

Hamlet.

Polonius. Marry, well bethought:

'T is told me, he hath very oft of late

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