A cutpurse of the empire and the rule; Queen. No more. Enter Ghost. A king Ham. Of shreds and patches : Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings, You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure? Queen. Alas, he 's mad. Ham. Do you not come your tardy son to chide, Ghost. Do not forget: This visitation Ham. How is it with you, lady? That you do bend your eye on vacancy, His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones, me; Lest with this piteous action, you convert My stern effects: then what I have to do Will want true colour; tears, perchance, for blood. Queen. To whom do you speak this? Ham. Do you see nothing there? Queen. Nothing at all; yet all, that is, I see. Ham. Nor did you nothing hear? Queen. No, nothing, but ourselves. Ham. Why, look you there! look, how it steals away! My father, in his habit as he liv'd! Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal! [Exit Ghost. Queen. This is the very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstasy? Is very cunning in.. Ham. Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful musick: It is not mad ness, That I have utter'd: bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word; which madness tue: 8 For in the fatness of these pursy times, Yea, curb and woo, for leave to do him good. Queen. O Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain. 6 Actions. 7 Frenzy. VOL. X. 8 Manure. 9 Bend. S Ham. O, throw away the worser part of it, That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat To the next abstinence: the next more easy: I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord, Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. Queen. What shall I do? Ham. Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: But mad in craft. "Twere good, you let him know: For who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise, Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib', Such dear concernings hide? who would do so? No, in despite of sense, and secrecy, And break your own neck down. Queen. Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath, And breath of life, I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me. Ham. I must to England; you know that? I had forgot; 'tis so concluded on. Alack, Ham. There's letters seal'd; and my two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd+,- Hoist with his own petar: and it shall go hard, - I'll lug the body to the neighbour room :- [Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging in • Experiments. 4 Having their teeth. 5 Blown up with his own bomb. ACT THE FOURTH. SCENE I. A Room in the Castle. Enter King, Queen, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUIL DENSTERN. King. There's matter in these sighs; these profound heaves; You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them: Where is your son? Queen. Bestow this place on us a little while.[To ROSENCRANTZ and GUILdenstern, who go out. Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night! Which is the mightier: In his lawless fit, King. O heavy deed! It had been so with us, had we been there : His liberty is full of threats to all; To you yourself, to us, to every one. Alas! how shall this bloody deed be answer'd? Should have kept short, restrain'd, and out of haunt", This mad young man: but, so much was our love, We would not understand what was most fit; But, like the owner of a foul disease, To keep it from divulging, let it feed 6 Company. |