Ham. Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me. Hold you the watch to-night? Hor. O, yes, my lord! he wore his beaver up. Ham. What, look'd he frowningly? Ham. I would, I had been there. Hor. It would have much amaz'd you Ham. Very like Stay'd it long? Very like, Hor. While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. Mar. Ber. Longer, longer. Hor. Not when I saw it. Ham. His beard was grizzl'd? no? Hor. It was, as I have seen it in his life, . A sable silver'd. Ham. I will watch to-night; Perchance, 't will walk ágain. Hor. I warrant, it will: Ham. 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; That part of the helmet which protects the lower part of the face, and may be lifted up. And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, All. Our duty to your honour. Ham. Your loves, as mine to you: Farewell. [Exeunt HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and Bernardo. My father's spirit in arms! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! 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' House. Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA. Laer. 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. Oph. Do you doubt that? Laer. 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, No more. Oph. No more but so? Laer. Think it no more : For nature, crescent1, does not grow alone In thews, and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, Grows wide withal. Perhaps, he loves you now; you, It fits May give his saying deed; which is no further, Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister; your affection, Oph. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart: But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; 9 Subtlety, deceit. I Discolour. 2 Believing. 4 Licentious. 3 Listen to. Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, A double blessing is a double grace; Pol. Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame; The wind sits in the shoulder of you; [Laying his Hand on LAERTES' Head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character". Give thy thoughts no tongue, Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee. ment. Costly thy habit, as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy : And they in France of the best rank and station, For loan oft loses both itself and friend; Regards not his own lessons. • Noble. • Write. 7 Opinion. , Chiefly. And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Laer. Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord. Pol. The time invites you; go, your servants tend.' Laer. Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well What I have said to you. 'Tis in my memory lock'd, [Exit LAERTES. Oph. Pol. What is 't, Ophelia, he hath said to you? Pol. Marry, well bethought: 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late Given private time on you: and you yourself Have of your audience been most free and boun teous: If it be so, (as so 'tis put on me, And that in way of caution,) I must tell you, Of his affection to me. Pol. Affection? Puh! you speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? Oph. I do not know, my lord, what I should think. Pol. Marry, I'll teach you think yourself a baby; Infix. a Wait. 3 Untempted. |