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[beam] branch revert-4805-go-sdk updated (bea6536 -> 56515fa)
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omit bea6536 Revert "Merge master into go-sdk"
add 303efb1 Bump sdks/go/container.pom.xml to 2.5.0-SNAPSHOT
add d562f65 Merge pull request #4809: Bump sdks/go/container/pom.xml to 2.5.0-SNAPSHOT
add a9a1fa9 [BEAM-3791] Update version number in build_rules.gradle
add 5c1e49c Merge pull request #4810 from alanmyrvold/alan-version
add 788c83c [BEAM-3753] Fix failing integration tests
add f28d198 [BEAM-3753] Rename *ITCase.java tests files to *Test.java
add 8ec9c81 Merge pull request #4767: [BEAM-3753] Fix Flink Runner integration tests
add c6467d8 [BEAM-3043] Set user-specified PTransform names on Flink operators
add d497bfa Merge pull request #4759: [BEAM-3043] Set user-specified PTransform names on Flink operators
add 24ff5b6 Make StateInternals short state method defaulting to the implementation all runners use to simplify the contract the user has to implement
add 3ca6e8c Merge pull request #4813: [BEAM-3794] Make StateInternals short state method defaulting to the implementation all runners use to simplify the contract the user has to implement
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.../apex/translation/utils/ApexStateInternals.java | 6 ---
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.../direct/CopyOnAccessInMemoryStateInternals.java | 5 ---
runners/flink/build.gradle | 1 +
runners/flink/pom.xml | 6 +++
.../flink/FlinkBatchTransformTranslators.java | 40 +++++++++++---------
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.../state/FlinkBroadcastStateInternals.java | 9 -----
.../state/FlinkKeyGroupStateInternals.java | 9 -----
.../streaming/state/FlinkSplitStateInternals.java | 9 -----
.../streaming/state/FlinkStateInternals.java | 9 -----
...ingITCase.java => ReadSourceStreamingTest.java} | 14 +++++--
.../{ReadSourceITCase.java => ReadSourceTest.java} | 4 +-
...nsITCase.java => TopWikipediaSessionsTest.java} | 15 ++++++--
.../spark/stateful/SparkStateInternals.java | 6 ---
17 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
rename runners/flink/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/{ReadSourceStreamingITCase.java => ReadSourceStreamingTest.java} (81%)
rename runners/flink/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/{ReadSourceITCase.java => ReadSourceTest.java} (96%)
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[beam] 01/01: Revert "Merge master into go-sdk"
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commit 56515fadc6a9ee433b2f243a75fb4ed036124fc6
Author: Kenn Knowles <ke...@kennknowles.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 6 14:27:07 2018 -0800
Revert "Merge master into go-sdk"
---
pom.xml | 5 +-
sdks/go/README.md | 98 -
sdks/go/cmd/specialize/main.go | 240 -
sdks/go/cmd/symtab/main.go | 101 -
sdks/go/container/Dockerfile | 30 -
sdks/go/container/boot.go | 127 -
sdks/go/container/pom.xml | 154 -
sdks/go/data/haiku/old_pond.txt | 3 -
sdks/go/data/shakespeare/hamlet.txt | 6045 ------
sdks/go/data/shakespeare/kinglear-hashtag.txt | 5525 -----
sdks/go/data/shakespeare/kinglear.txt | 5525 -----
sdks/go/data/shakespeare/romeoandjuliet.txt | 4766 -----
.../examples/complete/autocomplete/autocomplete.go | 71 -
sdks/go/examples/contains/contains.go | 99 -
sdks/go/examples/cookbook/combine/combine.go | 106 -
sdks/go/examples/cookbook/filter/filter.go | 106 -
sdks/go/examples/cookbook/join/join.go | 111 -
sdks/go/examples/cookbook/max/max.go | 88 -
sdks/go/examples/cookbook/tornadoes/tornadoes.go | 119 -
.../debugging_wordcount/debugging_wordcount.go | 163 -
sdks/go/examples/forest/forest.go | 81 -
sdks/go/examples/grades/grades.go | 105 -
.../minimal_wordcount/minimal_wordcount.go | 101 -
sdks/go/examples/pingpong/pingpong.go | 131 -
sdks/go/examples/wordcap/wordcap.go | 75 -
sdks/go/examples/wordcount/wordcount.go | 168 -
sdks/go/examples/yatzy/yatzy.go | 139 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/coder.go | 180 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/coder_test.go | 43 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/combine.go | 78 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/funcx/doc.go | 22 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/funcx/fn.go | 427 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/funcx/fn_test.go | 224 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/funcx/output.go | 76 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/funcx/output_test.go | 48 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/funcx/sideinput.go | 100 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/funcx/sideinput_test.go | 70 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/funcx/signature.go | 212 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/funcx/signature_test.go | 212 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/bind.go | 325 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/bind_test.go | 207 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/coder/coder.go | 298 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/coder/int.go | 71 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/coder/int_test.go | 88 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/coder/time.go | 44 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/coder/varint.go | 98 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/coder/varint_test.go | 94 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/doc.go | 22 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/edge.go | 397 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/fn.go | 304 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/graph.go | 126 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/graph_test.go | 68 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/node.go | 70 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/scope.go | 39 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/graph/window/window.go | 71 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/coderx/int.go | 98 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/coderx/varint.go | 139 -
.../go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/coderx/varint_test.go | 84 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/coder.go | 319 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/cogbk.go | 171 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/combine.go | 257 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/combine_test.go | 67 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/datasink.go | 90 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/datasource.go | 203 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/decode.go | 102 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/discard.go | 53 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/emit.go | 126 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/encode.go | 102 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/flatten.go | 75 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/flatten_test.go | 49 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/fn.go | 201 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/fn_test.go | 256 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/fullvalue.go | 145 -
.../pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/fullvalue_test.go | 72 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/input.go | 188 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/multiplex.go | 62 -
.../pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/multiplex_test.go | 55 -
.../beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/callers.go | 632 -
.../beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/callers.tmpl | 69 -
.../beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/decoders.go | 2407 ---
.../beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/decoders.tmpl | 146 -
.../beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/emitters.go | 14215 -------------
.../beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/emitters.tmpl | 112 -
.../beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/encoders.go | 2299 --
.../beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/encoders.tmpl | 146 -
.../go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/gen.go | 27 -
.../pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/inputs.go | 21272 -------------------
.../beam/core/runtime/exec/optimized/inputs.tmpl | 181 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/pardo.go | 193 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/pardo_test.go | 97 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/plan.go | 153 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/status.go | 27 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/translate.go | 433 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/unit.go | 75 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/unit_test.go | 111 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/util.go | 72 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/coder.go | 415 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/coder_test.go | 107 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/cogbk.go | 108 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/doc.go | 29 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/serialize.go | 962 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/translate.go | 402 -
.../pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/translate_test.go | 90 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/tree.go | 121 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/user.go | 110 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/v1/gen.go | 18 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/v1/v1.pb.go | 821 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/graphx/v1/v1.proto | 232 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/harness/datamgr.go | 308 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/harness/gen.go | 18 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/harness/harness.go | 291 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/harness/init/init.go | 116 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/harness/logging.go | 151 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/harness/session.go | 215 -
.../go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/harness/session.proto | 69 -
.../core/runtime/harness/session/session.pb.go | 444 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/init.go | 44 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/options.go | 91 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/options_test.go | 49 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/symbols.go | 93 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/types.go | 62 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/types_test.go | 74 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/typex/class.go | 174 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/typex/class_test.go | 104 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/typex/fulltype.go | 400 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/typex/fulltype_test.go | 125 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/typex/special.go | 74 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/dot/dot.go | 130 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/ioutilx/read.go | 42 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/protox/any.go | 101 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/protox/any_test.go | 83 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/protox/base64.go | 50 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/protox/protox.go | 28 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/protox/query.go | 45 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx/call.go | 120 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx/calls.go | 1341 --
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx/calls.tmpl | 72 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx/functions.go | 45 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx/json.go | 32 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx/tags.go | 74 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx/types.go | 111 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/symtab/symtab.go | 127 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/create.go | 108 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/create_test.go | 47 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/doc.go | 67 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/encoding.go | 148 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/external.go | 64 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/flatten.go | 72 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/forward.go | 94 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/gbk.go | 104 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/impulse.go | 46 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/io/bigqueryio/bigquery.go | 241 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/io/bigqueryio/bigquery_test.go | 38 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/io/textio/filesystem.go | 49 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/io/textio/gcs/gcs.go | 130 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/io/textio/local/local.go | 55 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/io/textio/textio.go | 207 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/log/log.go | 183 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/log/standard.go | 37 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/option.go | 72 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/options/gcpopts/options.go | 38 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/pardo.go | 314 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/partition.go | 124 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/partition_test.go | 155 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/pcollection.go | 90 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/pipeline.go | 87 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/runner.go | 51 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/runners/dataflow/dataflow.go | 367 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/runners/dataflow/messages.go | 174 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/runners/dataflow/translate.go | 448 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/runners/direct/buffer.go | 165 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/runners/direct/direct.go | 274 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/runners/direct/gbk.go | 135 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/runners/direct/impulse.go | 61 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/runners/dot/dot.go | 55 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/runners/session/session.go | 337 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/testing/passert/passert.go | 214 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/testing/ptest/ptest.go | 59 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/filter/distinct.go | 44 -
.../go/pkg/beam/transforms/filter/distinct_test.go | 70 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/filter/filter.go | 95 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/filter/filter_test.go | 90 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/count.go | 34 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/count_test.go | 69 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/max.go | 44 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/max_switch.go | 138 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/max_switch.tmpl | 40 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/max_test.go | 134 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/mean.go | 91 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/mean_test.go | 121 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/min.go | 44 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/min_switch.go | 138 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/min_switch.tmpl | 40 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/min_test.go | 121 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/sum.go | 44 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/sum_switch.go | 102 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/sum_switch.tmpl | 37 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/sum_test.go | 117 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/util.go | 48 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/top/top.go | 180 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/top/top_test.go | 126 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/util.go | 117 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/util/gcsx/gcs.go | 40 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/util/grpcx/dial.go | 12 +-
sdks/go/pkg/beam/util/syscallx/syscall.go | 6 +-
sdks/go/pkg/beam/util/syscallx/syscall_default.go | 4 +-
sdks/go/pkg/beam/validate.go | 79 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/x/beamx/run.go | 41 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/x/debug/head.go | 68 -
sdks/go/pkg/beam/x/debug/print.go | 97 -
sdks/go/pom.xml | 8 -
211 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 89934 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 42ac08a..a2d034f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1725,10 +1725,7 @@
<!-- proto/grpc generated wrappers -->
<exclude>**/apache_beam/portability/api/*_pb2*.py</exclude>
- <exclude>**/go/pkg/beam/**/*.pb.go</exclude>
-
- <!-- Ignore Go test data files-->
- <exclude>**/go/data/**</exclude>
+ <exclude>**/go/pkg/beam/model/**/*.pb.go</exclude>
<!-- VCF test files -->
<exclude>**/apache_beam/testing/data/vcf/*</exclude>
diff --git a/sdks/go/README.md b/sdks/go/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ed0a669..0000000
--- a/sdks/go/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-<!--
- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
- distributed with this work for additional information
- regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
- to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
- specific language governing permissions and limitations
- under the License.
--->
-
-# Go SDK (experimental)
-
-The Go SDK is currently an experimental feature of Apache Beam and
-not suitable for production use. It is based on the following initial
-[design](https://s.apache.org/beam-go-sdk-design-rfc).
-
-## How to run the examples
-
-**Prerequisites**: to use Google Cloud sources and sinks (default for
-most examples), follow the setup
-[here](https://beam.apache.org/documentation/runners/dataflow/). You can
-verify that it works by running the corresponding Java example.
-
-The examples are normal Go programs and are most easily run directly. They
-are parameterized by Go flags. For example, to run wordcount do:
-
-```
-$ pwd
-[...]/sdks/go
-$ go run examples/wordcount/wordcount.go --output=/tmp/result.txt
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 Pipeline:
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 Nodes: {1: W<[]uint8>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}
-{2: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}
-{3: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}
-{4: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}
-{5: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}
-{6: W<KV<string,int>>/GW/W<KV<bytes,int[json]>>!GW}
-{7: W<GBK<string,int>>/GW/W<GBK<bytes,int[json]>>!GW}
-{8: W<KV<string,int>>/GW/W<KV<bytes,int[json]>>!GW}
-{9: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}
-Edges: 1: Impulse [] -> [Out: W<[]uint8> -> {1: W<[]uint8>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}]
-2: ParDo [In(Main): W<[]uint8> <- {1: W<[]uint8>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}] -> [Out: W<T> -> {2: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}]
-3: ParDo [In(Main): W<string> <- {2: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}] -> [Out: W<string> -> {3: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}]
-4: ParDo [In(Main): W<string> <- {3: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}] -> [Out: W<string> -> {4: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}]
-5: ParDo [In(Main): W<string> <- {4: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}] -> [Out: W<string> -> {5: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}]
-6: ParDo [In(Main): W<T> <- {5: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}] -> [Out: W<KV<T,int>> -> {6: W<KV<string,int>>/GW/W<KV<bytes,int[json]>>!GW}]
-7: GBK [In(Main): KV<T,U> <- {6: W<KV<string,int>>/GW/W<KV<bytes,int[json]>>!GW}] -> [Out: GBK<T,U> -> {7: W<GBK<string,int>>/GW/W<GBK<bytes,int[json]>>!GW}]
-8: Combine [In(Main): W<int> <- {7: W<GBK<string,int>>/GW/W<GBK<bytes,int[json]>>!GW}] -> [Out: W<KV<string,int>> -> {8: W<KV<string,int>>/GW/W<KV<bytes,int[json]>>!GW}]
-9: ParDo [In(Main): W<KV<string,int>> <- {8: W<KV<string,int>>/GW/W<KV<bytes,int[json]>>!GW}] -> [Out: W<string> -> {9: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}]
-10: ParDo [In(Main): W<string> <- {9: W<string>/GW/W<bytes>!GW}] -> []
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 Execution units:
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 1: Impulse[0]
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 2: ParDo[beam.createFn] Out:[3]
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 3: ParDo[textio.expandFn] Out:[4]
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 4: ParDo[textio.readFn] Out:[5]
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 5: ParDo[main.extractFn] Out:[6]
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 6: ParDo[stats.mapFn] Out:[7]
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 7: GBK. Out:8
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 8: Combine[stats.sumIntFn] Keyed:true (Use:false) Out:[9]
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 9: ParDo[main.formatFn] Out:[10]
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 10: ParDo[textio.writeFileFn] Out:[]
-2017/12/05 10:46:37 Reading from gs://apache-beam-samples/shakespeare/kinglear.txt
-2017/12/05 10:46:38 Writing to /tmp/result.txt
-```
-
-The debugging output is currently quite verbose and likely to change. The output is a local
-file in this case:
-
-```
-$ head /tmp/result.txt
-while: 2
-darkling: 1
-rail'd: 1
-ford: 1
-bleed's: 1
-hath: 52
-Remain: 1
-disclaim: 1
-sentence: 1
-purse: 6
-```
-
-See [BUILD.md](./BUILD.md) for how to build Go code in general. See
-[CONTAINERS.md](../CONTAINERS.md) for how to build and push the Go
-SDK harness container image.
-
-## Issues
-
-Please use the `sdk-go` component for any bugs or feature requests.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/sdks/go/cmd/specialize/main.go b/sdks/go/cmd/specialize/main.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ee82b5..0000000
--- a/sdks/go/cmd/specialize/main.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,240 +0,0 @@
-// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-// contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
-// this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-// The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-// (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-// the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-// specialize is a low-level tool to generate type-specialized code. It is a
-// convenience wrapper over text/template suitable for go generate. Unlike
-// many other template tools, it does not parse Go code and allows use of
-// text/template control within the template itself.
-package main
-
-import (
- "bytes"
- "flag"
- "fmt"
- "io/ioutil"
- "log"
- "os"
- "path/filepath"
- "strings"
- "text/template"
-)
-
-var (
- noheader = flag.Bool("noheader", false, "Omit auto-generated header")
- pack = flag.String("package", "", "Package name (optional)")
- imports = flag.String("imports", "", "Comma-separated list of extra imports (optional)")
-
- x = flag.String("x", "", "Comma-separated list of X types (optional)")
- y = flag.String("y", "", "Comma-separated list of Y types (optional)")
- z = flag.String("z", "", "Comma-separated list of Z types (optional)")
-
- input = flag.String("input", "", "Template file.")
- output = flag.String("output", "", "Filename for generated code. If not provided, a file next to the input is generated.")
-)
-
-// Top is the top-level struct to be passed to the template.
-type Top struct {
- // Name is the base form of the filename: "foo/bar.tmpl" -> "bar".
- Name string
- // Package is the package name.
- Package string
- // Imports is a list of custom imports, if provided.
- Imports []string
- // X is the list of X type values.
- X []*X
-}
-
-// X is the concrete type to be iterated over in the user template.
-type X struct {
- // Name is the name of X for use as identifier: "int" -> "Int", "[]byte" -> "ByteSlice".
- Name string
- // Type is the textual type of X: "int", "float32", "foo.Baz".
- Type string
- // Y is the list of Y type values for this X.
- Y []*Y
-}
-
-// Y is the concrete type to be iterated over in the user template for each X.
-// Each combination of X and Y will be present.
-type Y struct {
- // Name is the name of Y for use as identifier: "int" -> "Int", "[]byte" -> "ByteSlice".
- Name string
- // Type is the textual type of Y: "int", "float32", "foo.Baz".
- Type string
- // Z is the list of Z type values for this Y.
- Z []*Z
-}
-
-// Z is the concrete type to be iterated over in the user template for each Y.
-// Each combination of X, Y and Z will be present.
-type Z struct {
- // Name is the name of Z for use as identifier: "int" -> "Int", "[]byte" -> "ByteSlice".
- Name string
- // Type is the textual type of Z: "int", "float32", "foo.Baz".
- Type string
-}
-
-var (
- integers = []string{"int", "int8", "int16", "int32", "int64", "uint", "uint8", "uint16", "uint32", "uint64"}
- floats = []string{"float32", "float64"}
- primitives = append(append([]string{"bool", "string"}, integers...), floats...)
-
- macros = map[string][]string{
- "integers": integers,
- "floats": floats,
- "primitives": primitives,
- "data": append([]string{"[]byte"}, primitives...),
- "universals": {"typex.T", "typex.U", "typex.V", "typex.W", "typex.X", "typex.Y", "typex.Z"},
- }
-
- packageMacros = map[string][]string{
- "typex": {"github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/typex"},
- }
-)
-
-func usage() {
- fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Usage: %v [options] --input=<filename.tmpl --x=<types>\n", filepath.Base(os.Args[0]))
- flag.PrintDefaults()
-}
-
-func main() {
- flag.Usage = usage
- flag.Parse()
-
- log.SetFlags(0)
- log.SetPrefix("specialize: ")
-
- if *input == "" {
- flag.Usage()
- log.Fatalf("no template file")
- }
-
- name := filepath.Base(*input)
- if index := strings.Index(name, "."); index > 0 {
- name = name[:index]
- }
- if *output == "" {
- *output = filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(*input), name+".go")
- }
-
- top := Top{Name: name, Package: *pack, Imports: expand(packageMacros, *imports)}
- var ys []*Y
- if *y != "" {
- var zs []*Z
- if *z != "" {
- for _, zt := range expand(macros, *z) {
- zs = append(zs, &Z{Name: makeName(zt), Type: zt})
- }
- }
- for _, yt := range expand(macros, *y) {
- ys = append(ys, &Y{Name: makeName(yt), Type: yt, Z: zs})
- }
- }
- for _, xt := range expand(macros, *x) {
- top.X = append(top.X, &X{Name: makeName(xt), Type: xt, Y: ys})
- }
-
- tmpl, err := template.New(*input).Funcs(funcMap).ParseFiles(*input)
- if err != nil {
- log.Fatalf("template parse failed: %v", err)
- }
- var buf bytes.Buffer
- if !*noheader {
- buf.WriteString("// File generated by specialize. Do not edit.\n\n")
- }
- if err := tmpl.Funcs(funcMap).Execute(&buf, top); err != nil {
- log.Fatalf("specialization failed: %v", err)
- }
- if err := ioutil.WriteFile(*output, buf.Bytes(), 0644); err != nil {
- log.Fatalf("write failed: %v", err)
- }
-}
-
-// expand parses, cleans up and expands macros for a comma-separated list.
-func expand(subst map[string][]string, list string) []string {
- var ret []string
- for _, xt := range strings.Split(list, ",") {
- xt = strings.TrimSpace(xt)
- if xt == "" {
- continue
- }
- if exp, ok := subst[strings.ToLower(xt)]; ok {
- for _, t := range exp {
- ret = append(ret, t)
- }
- continue
- }
- ret = append(ret, xt)
- }
- return ret
-}
-
-// makeName creates a capitalized identifier from a type.
-func makeName(t string) string {
- if strings.HasPrefix(t, "[]") {
- return makeName(t[2:] + "Slice")
- }
-
- t = strings.Replace(t, ".", "_", -1)
- t = strings.Replace(t, "[", "_", -1)
- t = strings.Replace(t, "]", "_", -1)
- return strings.Title(t)
-}
-
-// Useful template functions
-
-var funcMap template.FuncMap = map[string]interface{}{
- "join": strings.Join,
- "upto": upto,
- "mkargs": mkargs,
- "mktuple": mktuple,
- "mktuplef": mktuplef,
-}
-
-// mkargs(n, type) returns "<fmt.Sprintf(format, 0)>, .., <fmt.Sprintf(format, n-1)> type".
-// If n is 0, it returns the empty string.
-func mkargs(n int, format, typ string) string {
- if n == 0 {
- return ""
- }
- return fmt.Sprintf("%v %v", mktuplef(n, format), typ)
-}
-
-// mktuple(n, v) returns "v, v, ..., v".
-func mktuple(n int, v string) string {
- var ret []string
- for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
- ret = append(ret, v)
- }
- return strings.Join(ret, ", ")
-}
-
-// mktuplef(n, format) returns "<fmt.Sprintf(format, 0)>, .., <fmt.Sprintf(format, n-1)>"
-func mktuplef(n int, format string) string {
- var ret []string
- for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
- ret = append(ret, fmt.Sprintf(format, i))
- }
- return strings.Join(ret, ", ")
-}
-
-// upto(n) returns []int{0, 1, .., n-1}.
-func upto(i int) []int {
- var ret []int
- for k := 0; k < i; k++ {
- ret = append(ret, k)
- }
- return ret
-}
diff --git a/sdks/go/cmd/symtab/main.go b/sdks/go/cmd/symtab/main.go
deleted file mode 100644
index f4454b2..0000000
--- a/sdks/go/cmd/symtab/main.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-// contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
-// this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-// The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-// (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-// the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-// Package verifies that functions sym2addr and addr2sym work correctly.
-package main
-
-import (
- "log"
- "os"
- "reflect"
-
- "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/funcx"
- "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx"
- "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/symtab"
-)
-
-const (
- name = "main.Increment"
- arg = "calling increment function"
-)
-
-var symbolTable *symtab.SymbolTable
-var counter int64
-var t reflect.Type
-
-// Increment is the function that will be executed by its address.
-// It increments a global var so we can check that it was indeed called.
-func Increment(str string) {
- log.Printf(str)
- counter++
-}
-
-func init() {
- // Registers function in symbol table.
- Increment("adding increment function to symbol table")
- t = reflect.FuncOf([]reflect.Type{reflect.TypeOf(arg)}, []reflect.Type{}, false)
-
- var err error
- // First try the Linux location, since it's the most reliable.
- symbolTable, err = symtab.New("/proc/self/exe")
- if err == nil {
- return
- }
- // For other OS's this works in most cases we need. If it doesn't, log
- // an error and keep going.
- symbolTable, err = symtab.New(os.Args[0])
- if err == nil {
- return
- }
- panic("Can't initialize symbol resolver.")
-}
-
-func main() {
- // Translates function symbol to address.
- addr, err := symbolTable.Sym2Addr(name)
- if err != nil {
- log.Fatalf("error translating function name to address: %v", err)
- return
- }
-
- // Restarts counter and calls increment function by its address.
- counter = 0
- ret, err := funcx.New(reflectx.MakeFunc(reflectx.LoadFunction(addr, t)))
- if err != nil {
- log.Fatalf("error creating function out of address")
- return
- }
- ret.Fn.Call([]interface{}{arg})
-
- // Checks that function was executed.
- if counter != 1 {
- log.Fatalf("error running function 'increment' through its address")
- return
- }
-
- // Translates address back to function symbol.
- symbol, err := symbolTable.Addr2Sym(addr)
- if err != nil {
- log.Fatalf("error translating address to function name")
- return
- }
-
- // Checks that function name is correct.
- if symbol != name {
- log.Fatalf("error verifying translation from address to name")
- return
- }
- log.Printf("success!")
-}
diff --git a/sdks/go/container/Dockerfile b/sdks/go/container/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fb9764..0000000
--- a/sdks/go/container/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-###############################################################################
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-###############################################################################
-
-FROM debian:stretch
-MAINTAINER "Apache Beam <de...@beam.apache.org>"
-
-RUN apt-get update && \
- DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y \
- ca-certificates \
- && \
- rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-ADD target/linux_amd64/boot /opt/apache/beam/
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/apache/beam/boot"]
diff --git a/sdks/go/container/boot.go b/sdks/go/container/boot.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 5259246..0000000
--- a/sdks/go/container/boot.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,127 +0,0 @@
-// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-// contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
-// this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-// The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-// (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-// the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package main
-
-import (
- "context"
- "flag"
- "io"
- "log"
- "os"
- "path/filepath"
- "strings"
-
- "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/artifact"
- "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/provision"
- "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/util/execx"
- "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/util/grpcx"
-)
-
-var (
- // Contract: https://s.apache.org/beam-fn-api-container-contract.
-
- id = flag.String("id", "", "Local identifier (required).")
- loggingEndpoint = flag.String("logging_endpoint", "", "Local logging endpoint for FnHarness (required).")
- artifactEndpoint = flag.String("artifact_endpoint", "", "Local artifact endpoint for FnHarness (required).")
- provisionEndpoint = flag.String("provision_endpoint", "", "Local provision endpoint for FnHarness (required).")
- controlEndpoint = flag.String("control_endpoint", "", "Local control endpoint for FnHarness (required).")
- semiPersistDir = flag.String("semi_persist_dir", "/tmp", "Local semi-persistent directory (optional).")
-)
-
-func main() {
- flag.Parse()
- if *id == "" {
- log.Fatal("No id provided.")
- }
- if *loggingEndpoint == "" {
- log.Fatal("No logging endpoint provided.")
- }
- if *artifactEndpoint == "" {
- log.Fatal("No artifact endpoint provided.")
- }
- if *provisionEndpoint == "" {
- log.Fatal("No provision endpoint provided.")
- }
- if *controlEndpoint == "" {
- log.Fatal("No control endpoint provided.")
- }
-
- log.Printf("Initializing Go harness: %v", strings.Join(os.Args, " "))
-
- ctx := grpcx.WriteWorkerID(context.Background(), *id)
-
- // (1) Obtain the pipeline options
-
- info, err := provision.Info(ctx, *provisionEndpoint)
- if err != nil {
- log.Fatalf("Failed to obtain provisioning information: %v", err)
- }
- options, err := provision.ProtoToJSON(info.GetPipelineOptions())
- if err != nil {
- log.Fatalf("Failed to convert pipeline options: %v", err)
- }
-
- // (2) Retrieve the staged files.
- //
- // The Go SDK harness downloads the worker binary and invokes
- // it. For now, we assume that the first (and only) package
- // is the binary.
-
- dir := filepath.Join(*semiPersistDir, "staged")
- artifacts, err := artifact.Materialize(ctx, *artifactEndpoint, dir)
- if err != nil {
- log.Fatalf("Failed to retrieve staged files: %v", err)
- }
- if len(artifacts) == 0 {
- log.Fatal("No binaries staged")
- }
-
- // (3) The persist dir may be on a noexec volume, so we must
- // copy the binary to a different location to execute.
-
- prog := filepath.Join("/bin", artifacts[0].Name)
- if err := copyExe(filepath.Join(dir, artifacts[0].Name), prog); err != nil {
- log.Fatalf("Failed to copy binary: %v", err)
- }
-
- args := []string{
- "--worker=true",
- "--id=" + *id,
- "--logging_endpoint=" + *loggingEndpoint,
- "--control_endpoint=" + *controlEndpoint,
- "--semi_persist_dir=" + *semiPersistDir,
- "--options=" + options,
- }
- log.Fatalf("User program exited: %v", execx.Execute(prog, args...))
-}
-
-func copyExe(from, to string) error {
- src, err := os.Open(from)
- if err != nil {
- return err
- }
- defer src.Close()
-
- dst, err := os.OpenFile(to, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE, 0755)
- if err != nil {
- return err
- }
-
- if _, err := io.Copy(dst, src); err != nil {
- return err
- }
- return dst.Close()
-}
diff --git a/sdks/go/container/pom.xml b/sdks/go/container/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index c70aa63..0000000
--- a/sdks/go/container/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,154 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
--->
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
- <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
- <parent>
- <groupId>org.apache.beam</groupId>
- <artifactId>beam-sdks-go</artifactId>
- <version>2.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
- <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
- </parent>
-
- <artifactId>beam-sdks-go-container</artifactId>
-
- <packaging>pom</packaging>
-
- <name>Apache Beam :: SDKs :: Go :: Container</name>
-
- <properties>
- <!-- Add full path directory structure for 'go get' compatibility -->
- <go.source.base>${project.basedir}/target/src</go.source.base>
- <go.source.dir>${go.source.base}/github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go</go.source.dir>
- </properties>
-
- <build>
- <sourceDirectory>${go.source.base}</sourceDirectory>
- <plugins>
- <plugin>
- <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
- <executions>
- <execution>
- <id>copy-go-cmd-source</id>
- <phase>generate-sources</phase>
- <goals>
- <goal>copy-resources</goal>
- </goals>
- <configuration>
- <outputDirectory>${go.source.base}/github.com/apache/beam/cmd/boot</outputDirectory>
- <resources>
- <resource>
- <directory>.</directory>
- <includes>
- <include>*.go</include>
- </includes>
- <filtering>false</filtering>
- </resource>
- </resources>
- </configuration>
- </execution>
- </executions>
- </plugin>
-
- <!-- CAVEAT: for latest shared files, run mvn install in sdks/go -->
- <plugin>
- <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
- <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
- <executions>
- <execution>
- <id>copy-dependency</id>
- <phase>generate-sources</phase>
- <goals>
- <goal>unpack</goal>
- </goals>
- <configuration>
- <artifactItems>
- <artifactItem>
- <groupId>org.apache.beam</groupId>
- <artifactId>beam-sdks-go</artifactId>
- <version>${project.version}</version>
- <type>zip</type>
- <classifier>pkg-sources</classifier>
- <overWrite>true</overWrite>
- <outputDirectory>${go.source.dir}</outputDirectory>
- </artifactItem>
- </artifactItems>
- </configuration>
- </execution>
- </executions>
- </plugin>
-
- <plugin>
- <groupId>com.igormaznitsa</groupId>
- <artifactId>mvn-golang-wrapper</artifactId>
- <executions>
- <execution>
- <id>go-get-imports</id>
- <goals>
- <goal>get</goal>
- </goals>
- <phase>compile</phase>
- <configuration>
- <packages>
- <package>google.golang.org/grpc</package>
- <package>golang.org/x/oauth2/google</package>
- <package>google.golang.org/api/storage/v1</package>
- </packages>
- </configuration>
- </execution>
- <execution>
- <id>go-build</id>
- <goals>
- <goal>build</goal>
- </goals>
- <phase>compile</phase>
- <configuration>
- <packages>
- <package>github.com/apache/beam/cmd/boot</package>
- </packages>
- <resultName>boot</resultName>
- </configuration>
- </execution>
- <execution>
- <id>go-build-linux-amd64</id>
- <goals>
- <goal>build</goal>
- </goals>
- <phase>compile</phase>
- <configuration>
- <packages>
- <package>github.com/apache/beam/cmd/boot</package>
- </packages>
- <resultName>linux_amd64/boot</resultName>
- <targetArch>amd64</targetArch>
- <targetOs>linux</targetOs>
- </configuration>
- </execution>
- </executions>
- </plugin>
-
- <plugin>
- <groupId>com.spotify</groupId>
- <artifactId>dockerfile-maven-plugin</artifactId>
- <configuration>
- <repository>${docker-repository-root}/go</repository>
- </configuration>
- </plugin>
- </plugins>
- </build>
-</project>
diff --git a/sdks/go/data/haiku/old_pond.txt b/sdks/go/data/haiku/old_pond.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index edf2e71..0000000
--- a/sdks/go/data/haiku/old_pond.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-old pond
-a frog leaps in
-water's sound
diff --git a/sdks/go/data/shakespeare/hamlet.txt b/sdks/go/data/shakespeare/hamlet.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index b97cab0..0000000
--- a/sdks/go/data/shakespeare/hamlet.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6045 +0,0 @@
- HAMLET
-
-
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
-
-
-CLAUDIUS king of Denmark. (KING CLAUDIUS:)
-
-HAMLET son to the late, and nephew to the present king.
-
-POLONIUS lord chamberlain. (LORD POLONIUS:)
-
-HORATIO friend to Hamlet.
-
-LAERTES son to Polonius.
-
-LUCIANUS nephew to the king.
-
-
-VOLTIMAND |
- |
-CORNELIUS |
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-ROSENCRANTZ | courtiers.
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-GUILDENSTERN |
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-OSRIC |
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- A Gentleman, (Gentlemen:)
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- A Priest. (First Priest:)
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-MARCELLUS |
- | officers.
-BERNARDO |
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-FRANCISCO a soldier.
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-REYNALDO servant to Polonius.
- Players.
- (First Player:)
- (Player King:)
- (Player Queen:)
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- Two Clowns, grave-diggers.
- (First Clown:)
- (Second Clown:)
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-FORTINBRAS prince of Norway. (PRINCE FORTINBRAS:)
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- A Captain.
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- English Ambassadors. (First Ambassador:)
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-GERTRUDE queen of Denmark, and mother to Hamlet.
- (QUEEN GERTRUDE:)
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-OPHELIA daughter to Polonius.
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- Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers,
- and other Attendants. (Lord:)
- (First Sailor:)
- (Messenger:)
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- Ghost of Hamlet's Father. (Ghost:)
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-SCENE Denmark.
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- HAMLET
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-ACT I
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-SCENE I Elsinore. A platform before the castle.
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- [FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO]
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-BERNARDO Who's there?
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-FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.
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-BERNARDO Long live the king!
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-FRANCISCO Bernardo?
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-BERNARDO He.
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-FRANCISCO You come most carefully upon your hour.
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-BERNARDO 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.
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-FRANCISCO For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
- And I am sick at heart.
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-BERNARDO Have you had quiet guard?
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-FRANCISCO Not a mouse stirring.
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-BERNARDO Well, good night.
- If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
- The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
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-FRANCISCO I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there?
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- [Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS]
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-HORATIO Friends to this ground.
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-MARCELLUS And liegemen to the Dane.
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-FRANCISCO Give you good night.
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-MARCELLUS O, farewell, honest soldier:
- Who hath relieved you?
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-FRANCISCO Bernardo has my place.
- Give you good night.
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- [Exit]
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-MARCELLUS Holla! Bernardo!
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-BERNARDO Say,
- What, is Horatio there?
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-HORATIO A piece of him.
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-BERNARDO Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus.
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-MARCELLUS What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?
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-BERNARDO I have seen nothing.
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-MARCELLUS Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
- And will not let belief take hold of him
- Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:
- Therefore I have entreated him along
- With us to watch the minutes of this night;
- That if again this apparition come,
- He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
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-HORATIO Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.
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-BERNARDO Sit down awhile;
- And let us once again assail your ears,
- That are so fortified against our story
- What we have two nights seen.
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-HORATIO Well, sit we down,
- And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.
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-BERNARDO Last night of all,
- When yond same star that's westward from the pole
- Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
- Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
- The bell then beating one,--
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- [Enter Ghost]
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-MARCELLUS Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!
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-BERNARDO In the same figure, like the king that's dead.
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-MARCELLUS Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
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-BERNARDO Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.
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-HORATIO Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.
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-BERNARDO It would be spoke to.
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-MARCELLUS Question it, Horatio.
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-HORATIO What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,
- Together with that fair and warlike form
- In which the majesty of buried Denmark
- Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!
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-MARCELLUS It is offended.
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-BERNARDO See, it stalks away!
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-HORATIO Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!
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- [Exit Ghost]
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-MARCELLUS 'Tis gone, and will not answer.
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-BERNARDO How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:
- Is not this something more than fantasy?
- What think you on't?
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-HORATIO Before my God, I might not this believe
- Without the sensible and true avouch
- Of mine own eyes.
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-MARCELLUS Is it not like the king?
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-HORATIO As thou art to thyself:
- Such was the very armour he had on
- When he the ambitious Norway combated;
- So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle,
- He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.
- 'Tis strange.
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-MARCELLUS Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
- With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
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-HORATIO In what particular thought to work I know not;
- But in the gross and scope of my opinion,
- This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
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-MARCELLUS Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,
- Why this same strict and most observant watch
- So nightly toils the subject of the land,
- And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,
- And foreign mart for implements of war;
- Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
- Does not divide the Sunday from the week;
- What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
- Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:
- Who is't that can inform me?
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-HORATIO That can I;
- At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,
- Whose image even but now appear'd to us,
- Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
- Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,
- Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet--
- For so this side of our known world esteem'd him--
- Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact,
- Well ratified by law and heraldry,
- Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands
- Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:
- Against the which, a moiety competent
- Was gaged by our king; which had return'd
- To the inheritance of Fortinbras,
- Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant,
- And carriage of the article design'd,
- His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,
- Of unimproved mettle hot and full,
- Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
- Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,
- For food and diet, to some enterprise
- That hath a stomach in't; which is no other--
- As it doth well appear unto our state--
- But to recover of us, by strong hand
- And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands
- So by his father lost: and this, I take it,
- Is the main motive of our preparations,
- The source of this our watch and the chief head
- Of this post-haste and romage in the land.
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-BERNARDO I think it be no other but e'en so:
- Well may it sort that this portentous figure
- Comes armed through our watch; so like the king
- That was and is the question of these wars.
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-HORATIO A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
- In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
- A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
- The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
- Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:
- As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
- Disasters in the sun; and the moist star
- Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands
- Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:
- And even the like precurse of fierce events,
- As harbingers preceding still the fates
- And prologue to the omen coming on,
- Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
- Unto our climatures and countrymen.--
- But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!
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- [Re-enter Ghost]
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- I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!
- If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
- Speak to me:
- If there be any good thing to be done,
- That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
- Speak to me:
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- [Cock crows]
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- If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
- Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!
- Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
- Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
- For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
- Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus.
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-MARCELLUS Shall I strike at it with my partisan?
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-HORATIO Do, if it will not stand.
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-BERNARDO 'Tis here!
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-HORATIO 'Tis here!
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-MARCELLUS 'Tis gone!
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- [Exit Ghost]
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- We do it wrong, being so majestical,
- To offer it the show of violence;
- For it is, as the air, invulnerable,
- And our vain blows malicious mockery.
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-BERNARDO It was about to speak, when the cock crew.
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-HORATIO And then it started like a guilty thing
- Upon a fearful summons. I have heard,
- The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
- Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
- Awake the god of day; and, at his warning,
- Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
- The extravagant and erring spirit hies
- To his confine: and of the truth herein
- This present object made probation.
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-MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock.
- Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
- Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
- The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
- And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;
- The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
- No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
- So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
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-HORATIO So have I heard and do in part believe it.
- But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
- Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill:
- Break we our watch up; and by my advice,
- Let us impart what we have seen to-night
- Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,
- This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
- Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
- As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
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-MARCELLUS Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know
- Where we shall find him most conveniently.
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- [Exeunt]
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- HAMLET
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-ACT I
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-SCENE II A room of state in the castle.
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- [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET,
- POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords,
- and Attendants]
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-KING CLAUDIUS Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
- The memory be green, and that it us befitted
- To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
- To be contracted in one brow of woe,
- Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
- That we with wisest sorrow think on him,
- Together with remembrance of ourselves.
- Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
- The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
- Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--
- With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
- With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
- In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--
- Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd
- Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
- With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
- Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,
- Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
- Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
- Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
- Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,
- He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,
- Importing the surrender of those lands
- Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
- To our most valiant brother. So much for him.
- Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:
- Thus much the business is: we have here writ
- To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--
- Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears
- Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress
- His further gait herein; in that the levies,
- The lists and full proportions, are all made
- Out of his subject: and we here dispatch
- You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,
- For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;
- Giving to you no further personal power
- To business with the king, more than the scope
- Of these delated articles allow.
- Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.
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-CORNELIUS |
- | In that and all things will we show our duty.
-VOLTIMAND |
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-KING CLAUDIUS We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.
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- [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS]
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- And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?
- You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes?
- You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,
- And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
- That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
- The head is not more native to the heart,
- The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
- Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
- What wouldst thou have, Laertes?
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-LAERTES My dread lord,
- Your leave and favour to return to France;
- From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
- To show my duty in your coronation,
- Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,
- My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
- And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
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-KING CLAUDIUS Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?
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-LORD POLONIUS He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave
- By laboursome petition, and at last
- Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:
- I do beseech you, give him leave to go.
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-KING CLAUDIUS Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,
- And thy best graces spend it at thy will!
- But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--
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-HAMLET [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind.
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-KING CLAUDIUS How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
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-HAMLET Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.
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-QUEEN GERTRUDE Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,
- And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
- Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
- Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
- Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,
- Passing through nature to eternity.
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-HAMLET Ay, madam, it is common.
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-QUEEN GERTRUDE If it be,
- Why seems it so particular with thee?
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-HAMLET Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.'
- 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
- Nor customary suits of solemn black,
- Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
- No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
- Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,
- Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
- That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
- For they are actions that a man might play:
- But I have that within which passeth show;
- These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
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-KING CLAUDIUS 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,
- To give these mourning duties to your father:
- But, you must know, your father lost a father;
- That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound
- In filial obligation for some term
- To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever
- In obstinate condolement is a course
- Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;
- It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
- A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
- An understanding simple and unschool'd:
- For what we know must be and is as common
- As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
- Why should we in our peevish opposition
- Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,
- A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
- To reason most absurd: whose common theme
- Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
- From the first corse till he that died to-day,
- 'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth
- This unprevailing woe, and think of us
- As of a father: for let the world take note,
- You are the most immediate to our throne;
- And with no less nobility of love
- Than that which dearest father bears his son,
- Do I impart toward you. For your intent
- In going back to school in Wittenberg,
- It is most retrograde to our desire:
- And we beseech you, bend you to remain
- Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
- Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.
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-QUEEN GERTRUDE Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:
- I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.
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-HAMLET I shall in all my best obey you, madam.
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-KING CLAUDIUS Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:
- Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come;
- This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet
- Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,
- No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day,
- But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,
- And the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.
-
- [Exeunt all but HAMLET]
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-HAMLET O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
- Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
- Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
- His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
- How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
- Seem to me all the uses of this world!
- Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
- That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
- Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
- But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
- So excellent a king; that was, to this,
- Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
- That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
- Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
- Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
- As if increase of appetite had grown
- By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
- Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
- A little month, or ere those shoes were old
- With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
- Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
- O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
- Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
- My father's brother, but no more like my father
- Than I to Hercules: within a month:
- Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
- Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
- She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
- With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
- It is not nor it cannot come to good:
- But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
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- [Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO]
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-HORATIO Hail to your lordship!
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-HAMLET I am glad to see you well:
- Horatio,--or I do forget myself.
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-HORATIO The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.
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-HAMLET Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:
- And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?
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-MARCELLUS My good lord--
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-HAMLET I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir.
- But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?
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-HORATIO A truant disposition, good my lord.
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-HAMLET I would not hear your enemy say so,
- Nor shall you do mine ear that violence,
- To make it truster of your own report
- Against yourself: I know you are no truant.
- But what is your affair in Elsinore?
- We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
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-HORATIO My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.
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-HAMLET I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student;
- I think it was to see my mother's wedding.
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-HORATIO Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon.
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-HAMLET Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
- Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
- Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
- Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
- My father!--methinks I see my father.
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-HORATIO Where, my lord?
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-HAMLET In my mind's eye, Horatio.
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-HORATIO I saw him once; he was a goodly king.
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-HAMLET He was a man, take him for all in all,
- I shall not look upon his like again.
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-HORATIO My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
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-HAMLET Saw? who?
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-HORATIO My lord, the king your father.
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-HAMLET The king my father!
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-HORATIO Season your admiration for awhile
- With an attent ear, till I may deliver,
- Upon the witness of these gentlemen,
- This marvel to you.
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-HAMLET For God's love, let me hear.
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-HORATIO Two nights together had these gentlemen,
- Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,
- In the dead vast and middle of the night,
- Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,
- Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,
- Appears before them, and with solemn march
- Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd
- By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,
- Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distilled
- Almost to jelly with the act of fear,
- Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me
- In dreadful secrecy impart they did;
- 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.
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-HAMLET But where was this?
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-MARCELLUS My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.
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-HAMLET Did you not speak to it?
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-HORATIO My lord, I did;
- But answer made it none: yet once methought
- It lifted up its head and did address
- Itself to motion, like as it would speak;
- But even then the morning cock crew loud,
- And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,
- And vanish'd from our sight.
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-HAMLET 'Tis very strange.
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-HORATIO As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true;
- And we did think it writ down in our duty
- To let you know of it.
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-HAMLET Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.
- Hold you the watch to-night?
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-MARCELLUS |
- | We do, my lord.
-BERNARDO |
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-HAMLET Arm'd, say you?
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-MARCELLUS |
- | Arm'd, my lord.
-BERNARDO |
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-HAMLET From top to toe?
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-MARCELLUS |
- | My lord, from head to foot.
-BERNARDO |
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-HAMLET Then saw you not his face?
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-HORATIO O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up.
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-HAMLET What, look'd he frowningly?
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-HORATIO A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
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-HAMLET Pale or red?
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-HORATIO Nay, very pale.
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-HAMLET And fix'd his eyes upon you?
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-HORATIO Most constantly.
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-HAMLET I would I had been there.
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-HORATIO It would have much amazed you.
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-HAMLET Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?
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-HORATIO While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
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-MARCELLUS |
- | Longer, longer.
-BERNARDO |
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-HORATIO Not when I saw't.
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-HAMLET His beard was grizzled--no?
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-HORATIO It was, as I have seen it in his life,
- A sable silver'd.
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-HAMLET I will watch to-night;
- Perchance 'twill walk again.
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-HORATIO I warrant it will.
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-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.
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-All Our duty to your honour.
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-HAMLET Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.
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- [Exeunt all but HAMLET]
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- 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.
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- [Exit]
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- HAMLET
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-ACT I
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-SCENE III A room in Polonius' house.
-
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- [Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA]
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-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.
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-OPHELIA Do you doubt that?
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-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.
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-OPHELIA No more but so?
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-LAERTES Think it no more;
- For nature, crescent, does not grow alone
- In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,
- The inward service of the mind and soul
- Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,
- And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
- 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,
- Carve for himself; for on his choice depends
- The safety and health of this whole state;
- And therefore must his choice be circumscribed
- Unto the voice and yielding of that body
- 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
- 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,
- Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
- 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.
-
-OPHELIA 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;
- Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
- Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
- And recks not his own rede.
-
-LAERTES O, fear me not.
- I stay too long: but here my father comes.
-
- [Enter POLONIUS]
-
- A double blessing is a double grace,
- Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
- 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
- See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
- Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
- Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
- 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
- Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
- 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.
- Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
- But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
- For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
- And they in France of the best rank and station
- Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
- For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
- And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- This above all: to thine ownself 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!
-
-LAERTES Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.
-
-LORD POLONIUS The time invites you; go; your servants tend.
-
-LAERTES Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well
- What I have said to you.
-
-OPHELIA 'Tis in my memory lock'd,
- And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
-
-LAERTES Farewell.
-
- [Exit]
-
-LORD POLONIUS What is't, Ophelia, be hath said to you?
-
-OPHELIA So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Marry, well bethought:
- 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late
- Given private time to you; and you yourself
- Have of your audience been most free and bounteous:
- If it be so, as so 'tis put on me,
- And that in way of caution, I must tell you,
- You do not understand yourself so clearly
- As it behoves my daughter and your honour.
- What is between you? give me up the truth.
-
-OPHELIA He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
- Of his affection to me.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,
- Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
- Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?
-
-OPHELIA I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby;
- That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
- Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;
- Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
- Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool.
-
-OPHELIA My lord, he hath importuned me with love
- In honourable fashion.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
-
-OPHELIA And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,
- With almost all the holy vows of heaven.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,
- When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
- Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,
- Giving more light than heat, extinct in both,
- Even in their promise, as it is a-making,
- You must not take for fire. From this time
- Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence;
- Set your entreatments at a higher rate
- Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
- Believe so much in him, that he is young
- And with a larger tether may he walk
- Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,
- Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,
- Not of that dye which their investments show,
- But mere implorators of unholy suits,
- Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
- The better to beguile. This is for all:
- I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,
- Have you so slander any moment leisure,
- As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
- Look to't, I charge you: come your ways.
-
-OPHELIA I shall obey, my lord.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
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- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT I
-
-
-
-SCENE IV The platform.
-
-
- [Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS]
-
-HAMLET The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.
-
-HORATIO It is a nipping and an eager air.
-
-HAMLET What hour now?
-
-HORATIO I think it lacks of twelve.
-
-HAMLET No, it is struck.
-
-HORATIO Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the season
- Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.
-
- [A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within]
-
- What does this mean, my lord?
-
-HAMLET The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,
- Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels;
- And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,
- The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out
- The triumph of his pledge.
-
-HORATIO Is it a custom?
-
-HAMLET Ay, marry, is't:
- But to my mind, though I am native here
- And to the manner born, it is a custom
- More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
- This heavy-headed revel east and west
- Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
- They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase
- Soil our addition; and indeed it takes
- From our achievements, though perform'd at height,
- The pith and marrow of our attribute.
- So, oft it chances in particular men,
- That for some vicious mole of nature in them,
- As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty,
- Since nature cannot choose his origin--
- By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,
- Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,
- Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens
- The form of plausive manners, that these men,
- Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
- Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--
- Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,
- As infinite as man may undergo--
- Shall in the general censure take corruption
- From that particular fault: the dram of eale
- Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
- To his own scandal.
-
-HORATIO Look, my lord, it comes!
-
- [Enter Ghost]
-
-HAMLET Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
- Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
- Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
- Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
- Thou comest in such a questionable shape
- That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
- King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
- Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell
- Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
- Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,
- Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
- Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,
- To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
- That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
- Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
- Making night hideous; and we fools of nature
- So horridly to shake our disposition
- With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
- Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?
-
- [Ghost beckons HAMLET]
-
-HORATIO It beckons you to go away with it,
- As if it some impartment did desire
- To you alone.
-
-MARCELLUS Look, with what courteous action
- It waves you to a more removed ground:
- But do not go with it.
-
-HORATIO No, by no means.
-
-HAMLET It will not speak; then I will follow it.
-
-HORATIO Do not, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Why, what should be the fear?
- I do not set my life in a pin's fee;
- And for my soul, what can it do to that,
- Being a thing immortal as itself?
- It waves me forth again: I'll follow it.
-
-HORATIO What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
- Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
- That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
- And there assume some other horrible form,
- Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
- And draw you into madness? think of it:
- The very place puts toys of desperation,
- Without more motive, into every brain
- That looks so many fathoms to the sea
- And hears it roar beneath.
-
-HAMLET It waves me still.
- Go on; I'll follow thee.
-
-MARCELLUS You shall not go, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Hold off your hands.
-
-HORATIO Be ruled; you shall not go.
-
-HAMLET My fate cries out,
- And makes each petty artery in this body
- As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
- Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen.
- By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!
- I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee.
-
- [Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET]
-
-HORATIO He waxes desperate with imagination.
-
-MARCELLUS Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.
-
-HORATIO Have after. To what issue will this come?
-
-MARCELLUS Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
-
-HORATIO Heaven will direct it.
-
-MARCELLUS Nay, let's follow him.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
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- HAMLET
-
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-ACT I
-
-
-
-SCENE V Another part of the platform.
-
-
- [Enter GHOST and HAMLET]
-
-HAMLET Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further.
-
-Ghost Mark me.
-
-HAMLET I will.
-
-Ghost My hour is almost come,
- When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames
- Must render up myself.
-
-HAMLET Alas, poor ghost!
-
-Ghost Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing
- To what I shall unfold.
-
-HAMLET Speak; I am bound to hear.
-
-Ghost So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.
-
-HAMLET What?
-
-Ghost I am thy father's spirit,
- Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
- And for the day confined to fast in fires,
- Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
- Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
- To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
- I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
- Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
- Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
- Thy knotted and combined locks to part
- And each particular hair to stand on end,
- Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
- But this eternal blazon must not be
- To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
- If thou didst ever thy dear father love--
-
-HAMLET O God!
-
-Ghost Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
-
-HAMLET Murder!
-
-Ghost Murder most foul, as in the best it is;
- But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
-
-HAMLET Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift
- As meditation or the thoughts of love,
- May sweep to my revenge.
-
-Ghost I find thee apt;
- And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
- That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,
- Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear:
- 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
- A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
- Is by a forged process of my death
- Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
- The serpent that did sting thy father's life
- Now wears his crown.
-
-HAMLET O my prophetic soul! My uncle!
-
-Ghost Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
- With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--
- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
- So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust
- The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:
- O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!
- From me, whose love was of that dignity
- That it went hand in hand even with the vow
- I made to her in marriage, and to decline
- Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
- To those of mine!
- But virtue, as it never will be moved,
- Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
- So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,
- Will sate itself in a celestial bed,
- And prey on garbage.
- But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air;
- Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,
- My custom always of the afternoon,
- Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,
- With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,
- And in the porches of my ears did pour
- The leperous distilment; whose effect
- Holds such an enmity with blood of man
- That swift as quicksilver it courses through
- The natural gates and alleys of the body,
- And with a sudden vigour doth posset
- And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
- The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine;
- And a most instant tetter bark'd about,
- Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,
- All my smooth body.
- Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand
- Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:
- Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
- Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,
- No reckoning made, but sent to my account
- With all my imperfections on my head:
- O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!
- If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;
- Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
- A couch for luxury and damned incest.
- But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,
- Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
- Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven
- And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
- To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!
- The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
- And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire:
- Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.
-
- [Exit]
-
-HAMLET O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else?
- And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart;
- And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
- But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee!
- Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
- In this distracted globe. Remember thee!
- Yea, from the table of my memory
- I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
- All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
- That youth and observation copied there;
- And thy commandment all alone shall live
- Within the book and volume of my brain,
- Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
- O most pernicious woman!
- O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
- My tables,--meet it is I set it down,
- That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;
- At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark:
-
- [Writing]
-
- So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;
- It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.'
- I have sworn 't.
-
-
-MARCELLUS |
- | [Within] My lord, my lord,--
-HORATIO |
-
-
-MARCELLUS [Within] Lord Hamlet,--
-
-HORATIO [Within] Heaven secure him!
-
-HAMLET So be it!
-
-HORATIO [Within] Hillo, ho, ho, my lord!
-
-HAMLET Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come.
-
- [Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS]
-
-MARCELLUS How is't, my noble lord?
-
-HORATIO What news, my lord?
-
-HAMLET O, wonderful!
-
-HORATIO Good my lord, tell it.
-
-HAMLET No; you'll reveal it.
-
-HORATIO Not I, my lord, by heaven.
-
-MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord.
-
-HAMLET How say you, then; would heart of man once think it?
- But you'll be secret?
-
-
-HORATIO |
- | Ay, by heaven, my lord.
-MARCELLUS |
-
-
-HAMLET There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
- But he's an arrant knave.
-
-HORATIO There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
- To tell us this.
-
-HAMLET Why, right; you are i' the right;
- And so, without more circumstance at all,
- I hold it fit that we shake hands and part:
- You, as your business and desire shall point you;
- For every man has business and desire,
- Such as it is; and for mine own poor part,
- Look you, I'll go pray.
-
-HORATIO These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.
-
-HAMLET I'm sorry they offend you, heartily;
- Yes, 'faith heartily.
-
-HORATIO There's no offence, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,
- And much offence too. Touching this vision here,
- It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you:
- For your desire to know what is between us,
- O'ermaster 't as you may. And now, good friends,
- As you are friends, scholars and soldiers,
- Give me one poor request.
-
-HORATIO What is't, my lord? we will.
-
-HAMLET Never make known what you have seen to-night.
-
-
-HORATIO |
- | My lord, we will not.
-MARCELLUS |
-
-
-HAMLET Nay, but swear't.
-
-HORATIO In faith,
- My lord, not I.
-
-MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord, in faith.
-
-HAMLET Upon my sword.
-
-MARCELLUS We have sworn, my lord, already.
-
-HAMLET Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.
-
-Ghost [Beneath] Swear.
-
-HAMLET Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there,
- truepenny?
- Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage--
- Consent to swear.
-
-HORATIO Propose the oath, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Never to speak of this that you have seen,
- Swear by my sword.
-
-Ghost [Beneath] Swear.
-
-HAMLET Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground.
- Come hither, gentlemen,
- And lay your hands again upon my sword:
- Never to speak of this that you have heard,
- Swear by my sword.
-
-Ghost [Beneath] Swear.
-
-HAMLET Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast?
- A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.
-
-HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
-
-HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
- Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come;
- Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
- How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,
- As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
- To put an antic disposition on,
- That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,
- With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake,
- Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,
- As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,'
- Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,'
- Or such ambiguous giving out, to note
- That you know aught of me: this not to do,
- So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear.
-
-Ghost [Beneath] Swear.
-
-HAMLET Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!
-
- [They swear]
-
- So, gentlemen,
- With all my love I do commend me to you:
- And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
- May do, to express his love and friending to you,
- God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;
- And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
- The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
- That ever I was born to set it right!
- Nay, come, let's go together.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
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- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT II
-
-
-
-SCENE I A room in POLONIUS' house.
-
-
- [Enter POLONIUS and REYNALDO]
-
-LORD POLONIUS Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.
-
-REYNALDO I will, my lord.
-
-LORD POLONIUS You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo,
- Before you visit him, to make inquire
- Of his behavior.
-
-REYNALDO My lord, I did intend it.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir,
- Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris;
- And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,
- What company, at what expense; and finding
- By this encompassment and drift of question
- That they do know my son, come you more nearer
- Than your particular demands will touch it:
- Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him;
- As thus, 'I know his father and his friends,
- And in part him: ' do you mark this, Reynaldo?
-
-REYNALDO Ay, very well, my lord.
-
-LORD POLONIUS 'And in part him; but' you may say 'not well:
- But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild;
- Addicted so and so:' and there put on him
- What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank
- As may dishonour him; take heed of that;
- But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips
- As are companions noted and most known
- To youth and liberty.
-
-REYNALDO As gaming, my lord.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,
- Drabbing: you may go so far.
-
-REYNALDO My lord, that would dishonour him.
-
-LORD POLONIUS 'Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge
- You must not put another scandal on him,
- That he is open to incontinency;
- That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly
- That they may seem the taints of liberty,
- The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
- A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
- Of general assault.
-
-REYNALDO But, my good lord,--
-
-LORD POLONIUS Wherefore should you do this?
-
-REYNALDO Ay, my lord,
- I would know that.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Marry, sir, here's my drift;
- And I believe, it is a fetch of wit:
- You laying these slight sullies on my son,
- As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you,
- Your party in converse, him you would sound,
- Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes
- The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured
- He closes with you in this consequence;
- 'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,'
- According to the phrase or the addition
- Of man and country.
-
-REYNALDO Very good, my lord.
-
-LORD POLONIUS And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I
- about to say? By the mass, I was about to say
- something: where did I leave?
-
-REYNALDO At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,'
- and 'gentleman.'
-
-LORD POLONIUS At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry;
- He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman;
- I saw him yesterday, or t' other day,
- Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you say,
- There was a' gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse;
- There falling out at tennis:' or perchance,
- 'I saw him enter such a house of sale,'
- Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth.
- See you now;
- Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:
- And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
- With windlasses and with assays of bias,
- By indirections find directions out:
- So by my former lecture and advice,
- Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?
-
-REYNALDO My lord, I have.
-
-LORD POLONIUS God be wi' you; fare you well.
-
-REYNALDO Good my lord!
-
-LORD POLONIUS Observe his inclination in yourself.
-
-REYNALDO I shall, my lord.
-
-LORD POLONIUS And let him ply his music.
-
-REYNALDO Well, my lord.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Farewell!
-
- [Exit REYNALDO]
-
- [Enter OPHELIA]
-
- How now, Ophelia! what's the matter?
-
-OPHELIA O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!
-
-LORD POLONIUS With what, i' the name of God?
-
-OPHELIA My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,
- Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced;
- No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd,
- Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle;
- Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;
- And with a look so piteous in purport
- As if he had been loosed out of hell
- To speak of horrors,--he comes before me.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Mad for thy love?
-
-OPHELIA My lord, I do not know;
- But truly, I do fear it.
-
-LORD POLONIUS What said he?
-
-OPHELIA He took me by the wrist and held me hard;
- Then goes he to the length of all his arm;
- And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow,
- He falls to such perusal of my face
- As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so;
- At last, a little shaking of mine arm
- And thrice his head thus waving up and down,
- He raised a sigh so piteous and profound
- As it did seem to shatter all his bulk
- And end his being: that done, he lets me go:
- And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd,
- He seem'd to find his way without his eyes;
- For out o' doors he went without their helps,
- And, to the last, bended their light on me.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Come, go with me: I will go seek the king.
- This is the very ecstasy of love,
- Whose violent property fordoes itself
- And leads the will to desperate undertakings
- As oft as any passion under heaven
- That does afflict our natures. I am sorry.
- What, have you given him any hard words of late?
-
-OPHELIA No, my good lord, but, as you did command,
- I did repel his fetters and denied
- His access to me.
-
-LORD POLONIUS That hath made him mad.
- I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
- I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle,
- And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy!
- By heaven, it is as proper to our age
- To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions
- As it is common for the younger sort
- To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:
- This must be known; which, being kept close, might
- move
- More grief to hide than hate to utter love.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT II
-
-
-
-SCENE II A room in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ,
- GUILDENSTERN, and Attendants]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!
- Moreover that we much did long to see you,
- The need we have to use you did provoke
- Our hasty sending. Something have you heard
- Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it,
- Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man
- Resembles that it was. What it should be,
- More than his father's death, that thus hath put him
- So much from the understanding of himself,
- I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,
- That, being of so young days brought up with him,
- And sith so neighbour'd to his youth and havior,
- That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
- Some little time: so by your companies
- To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather,
- So much as from occasion you may glean,
- Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus,
- That, open'd, lies within our remedy.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you;
- And sure I am two men there are not living
- To whom he more adheres. If it will please you
- To show us so much gentry and good will
- As to expend your time with us awhile,
- For the supply and profit of our hope,
- Your visitation shall receive such thanks
- As fits a king's remembrance.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Both your majesties
- Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,
- Put your dread pleasures more into command
- Than to entreaty.
-
-GUILDENSTERN But we both obey,
- And here give up ourselves, in the full bent
- To lay our service freely at your feet,
- To be commanded.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:
- And I beseech you instantly to visit
- My too much changed son. Go, some of you,
- And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.
-
-GUILDENSTERN Heavens make our presence and our practises
- Pleasant and helpful to him!
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Ay, amen!
-
- [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and some
- Attendants]
-
- [Enter POLONIUS]
-
-LORD POLONIUS The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,
- Are joyfully return'd.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Thou still hast been the father of good news.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege,
- I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,
- Both to my God and to my gracious king:
- And I do think, or else this brain of mine
- Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
- As it hath used to do, that I have found
- The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS O, speak of that; that do I long to hear.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Give first admittance to the ambassadors;
- My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
-
- [Exit POLONIUS]
-
- He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found
- The head and source of all your son's distemper.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE I doubt it is no other but the main;
- His father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Well, we shall sift him.
-
- [Re-enter POLONIUS, with VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS]
-
- Welcome, my good friends!
- Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?
-
-VOLTIMAND Most fair return of greetings and desires.
- Upon our first, he sent out to suppress
- His nephew's levies; which to him appear'd
- To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack;
- But, better look'd into, he truly found
- It was against your highness: whereat grieved,
- That so his sickness, age and impotence
- Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests
- On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys;
- Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine
- Makes vow before his uncle never more
- To give the assay of arms against your majesty.
- Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,
- Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee,
- And his commission to employ those soldiers,
- So levied as before, against the Polack:
- With an entreaty, herein further shown,
-
- [Giving a paper]
-
- That it might please you to give quiet pass
- Through your dominions for this enterprise,
- On such regards of safety and allowance
- As therein are set down.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS It likes us well;
- And at our more consider'd time well read,
- Answer, and think upon this business.
- Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour:
- Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together:
- Most welcome home!
-
- [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS]
-
-LORD POLONIUS This business is well ended.
- My liege, and madam, to expostulate
- What majesty should be, what duty is,
- Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
- Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
- Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
- And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
- I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
- Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
- What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
- But let that go.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE More matter, with less art.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
- That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity;
- And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure;
- But farewell it, for I will use no art.
- Mad let us grant him, then: and now remains
- That we find out the cause of this effect,
- Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
- For this effect defective comes by cause:
- Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend.
- I have a daughter--have while she is mine--
- Who, in her duty and obedience, mark,
- Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise.
-
- [Reads]
-
- 'To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most
- beautified Ophelia,'--
- That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is
- a vile phrase: but you shall hear. Thus:
-
- [Reads]
-
- 'In her excellent white bosom, these, &c.'
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Came this from Hamlet to her?
-
-LORD POLONIUS Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful.
-
- [Reads]
-
- 'Doubt thou the stars are fire;
- Doubt that the sun doth move;
- Doubt truth to be a liar;
- But never doubt I love.
- 'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers;
- I have not art to reckon my groans: but that
- I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.
- 'Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst
- this machine is to him, HAMLET.'
- This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me,
- And more above, hath his solicitings,
- As they fell out by time, by means and place,
- All given to mine ear.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS But how hath she
- Received his love?
-
-LORD POLONIUS What do you think of me?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS As of a man faithful and honourable.
-
-LORD POLONIUS I would fain prove so. But what might you think,
- When I had seen this hot love on the wing--
- As I perceived it, I must tell you that,
- Before my daughter told me--what might you,
- Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,
- If I had play'd the desk or table-book,
- Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,
- Or look'd upon this love with idle sight;
- What might you think? No, I went round to work,
- And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:
- 'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star;
- This must not be:' and then I precepts gave her,
- That she should lock herself from his resort,
- Admit no messengers, receive no tokens.
- Which done, she took the fruits of my advice;
- And he, repulsed--a short tale to make--
- Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
- Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,
- Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,
- Into the madness wherein now he raves,
- And all we mourn for.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Do you think 'tis this?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE It may be, very likely.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Hath there been such a time--I'd fain know that--
- That I have positively said 'Tis so,'
- When it proved otherwise?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Not that I know.
-
-LORD POLONIUS [Pointing to his head and shoulder]
-
- Take this from this, if this be otherwise:
- If circumstances lead me, I will find
- Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
- Within the centre.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS How may we try it further?
-
-LORD POLONIUS You know, sometimes he walks four hours together
- Here in the lobby.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE So he does indeed.
-
-LORD POLONIUS At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him:
- Be you and I behind an arras then;
- Mark the encounter: if he love her not
- And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,
- Let me be no assistant for a state,
- But keep a farm and carters.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS We will try it.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE But, look, where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Away, I do beseech you, both away:
- I'll board him presently.
-
- [Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, and
- Attendants]
-
- [Enter HAMLET, reading]
-
- O, give me leave:
- How does my good Lord Hamlet?
-
-HAMLET Well, God-a-mercy.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Do you know me, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Not I, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Then I would you were so honest a man.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Honest, my lord!
-
-HAMLET Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be
- one man picked out of ten thousand.
-
-LORD POLONIUS That's very true, my lord.
-
-HAMLET For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a
- god kissing carrion,--Have you a daughter?
-
-LORD POLONIUS I have, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a
- blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive.
- Friend, look to 't.
-
-LORD POLONIUS [Aside] How say you by that? Still harping on my
- daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I
- was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and
- truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for
- love; very near this. I'll speak to him again.
- What do you read, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Words, words, words.
-
-LORD POLONIUS What is the matter, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Between who?
-
-LORD POLONIUS I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here
- that old men have grey beards, that their faces are
- wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and
- plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of
- wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir,
- though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet
- I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, for
- yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab
- you could go backward.
-
-LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method
- in 't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Into my grave.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Indeed, that is out o' the air.
-
- [Aside]
-
- How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness
- that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity
- could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will
- leave him, and suddenly contrive the means of
- meeting between him and my daughter.--My honourable
- lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
-
-HAMLET You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will
- more willingly part withal: except my life, except
- my life, except my life.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Fare you well, my lord.
-
-HAMLET These tedious old fools!
-
- [Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
-LORD POLONIUS You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ [To POLONIUS] God save you, sir!
-
- [Exit POLONIUS]
-
-GUILDENSTERN My honoured lord!
-
-ROSENCRANTZ My most dear lord!
-
-HAMLET My excellent good friends! How dost thou,
- Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ As the indifferent children of the earth.
-
-GUILDENSTERN Happy, in that we are not over-happy;
- On fortune's cap we are not the very button.
-
-HAMLET Nor the soles of her shoe?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Neither, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of
- her favours?
-
-GUILDENSTERN 'Faith, her privates we.
-
-HAMLET In the secret parts of fortune? O, most true; she
- is a strumpet. What's the news?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest.
-
-HAMLET Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true.
- Let me question more in particular: what have you,
- my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune,
- that she sends you to prison hither?
-
-GUILDENSTERN Prison, my lord!
-
-HAMLET Denmark's a prison.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Then is the world one.
-
-HAMLET A goodly one; in which there are many confines,
- wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ We think not so, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
- either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
- it is a prison.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Why then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too
- narrow for your mind.
-
-HAMLET O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count
- myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I
- have bad dreams.
-
-GUILDENSTERN Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very
- substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
-
-HAMLET A dream itself is but a shadow.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a
- quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.
-
-HAMLET Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and
- outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we
- to the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason.
-
-
-ROSENCRANTZ |
- | We'll wait upon you.
-GUILDENSTERN |
-
-
-HAMLET No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest
- of my servants, for, to speak to you like an honest
- man, I am most dreadfully attended. But, in the
- beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ To visit you, my lord; no other occasion.
-
-HAMLET Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I
- thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are
- too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it
- your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come,
- deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak.
-
-GUILDENSTERN What should we say, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were sent
- for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks
- which your modesties have not craft enough to colour:
- I know the good king and queen have sent for you.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ To what end, my lord?
-
-HAMLET That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by
- the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of
- our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved
- love, and by what more dear a better proposer could
- charge you withal, be even and direct with me,
- whether you were sent for, or no?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ [Aside to GUILDENSTERN] What say you?
-
-HAMLET [Aside] Nay, then, I have an eye of you.--If you
- love me, hold not off.
-
-GUILDENSTERN My lord, we were sent for.
-
-HAMLET I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation
- prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king
- and queen moult no feather. I have of late--but
- wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all
- custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily
- with my disposition that this goodly frame, the
- earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most
- excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave
- o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted
- with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to
- me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
- What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
- how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
- express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
- in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
- world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
- what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
- me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
- you seem to say so.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
-
-HAMLET Why did you laugh then, when I said 'man delights not me'?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what
- lenten entertainment the players shall receive from
- you: we coted them on the way; and hither are they
- coming, to offer you service.
-
-HAMLET He that plays the king shall be welcome; his majesty
- shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight
- shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not
- sigh gratis; the humourous man shall end his part
- in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
- lungs are tickled o' the sere; and the lady shall
- say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt
- for't. What players are they?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Even those you were wont to take delight in, the
- tragedians of the city.
-
-HAMLET How chances it they travel? their residence, both
- in reputation and profit, was better both ways.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ I think their inhibition comes by the means of the
- late innovation.
-
-HAMLET Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was
- in the city? are they so followed?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ No, indeed, are they not.
-
-HAMLET How comes it? do they grow rusty?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace: but
- there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases,
- that cry out on the top of question, and are most
- tyrannically clapped for't: these are now the
- fashion, and so berattle the common stages--so they
- call them--that many wearing rapiers are afraid of
- goose-quills and dare scarce come thither.
-
-HAMLET What, are they children? who maintains 'em? how are
- they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no
- longer than they can sing? will they not say
- afterwards, if they should grow themselves to common
- players--as it is most like, if their means are no
- better--their writers do them wrong, to make them
- exclaim against their own succession?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ 'Faith, there has been much to do on both sides; and
- the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to
- controversy: there was, for a while, no money bid
- for argument, unless the poet and the player went to
- cuffs in the question.
-
-HAMLET Is't possible?
-
-GUILDENSTERN O, there has been much throwing about of brains.
-
-HAMLET Do the boys carry it away?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too.
-
-HAMLET It is not very strange; for mine uncle is king of
- Denmark, and those that would make mows at him while
- my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, an
- hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in little.
- 'Sblood, there is something in this more than
- natural, if philosophy could find it out.
-
- [Flourish of trumpets within]
-
-GUILDENSTERN There are the players.
-
-HAMLET Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands,
- come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion
- and ceremony: let me comply with you in this garb,
- lest my extent to the players, which, I tell you,
- must show fairly outward, should more appear like
- entertainment than yours. You are welcome: but my
- uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived.
-
-GUILDENSTERN In what, my dear lord?
-
-HAMLET I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is
- southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
-
- [Enter POLONIUS]
-
-LORD POLONIUS Well be with you, gentlemen!
-
-HAMLET Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too: at each ear a
- hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet
- out of his swaddling-clouts.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Happily he's the second time come to them; for they
- say an old man is twice a child.
-
-HAMLET I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players;
- mark it. You say right, sir: o' Monday morning;
- 'twas so indeed.
-
-LORD POLONIUS My lord, I have news to tell you.
-
-HAMLET My lord, I have news to tell you.
- When Roscius was an actor in Rome,--
-
-LORD POLONIUS The actors are come hither, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Buz, buz!
-
-LORD POLONIUS Upon mine honour,--
-
-HAMLET Then came each actor on his ass,--
-
-LORD POLONIUS The best actors in the world, either for tragedy,
- comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical,
- historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-
- comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or
- poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor
- Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the
- liberty, these are the only men.
-
-HAMLET O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!
-
-LORD POLONIUS What a treasure had he, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Why,
- 'One fair daughter and no more,
- The which he loved passing well.'
-
-LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Still on my daughter.
-
-HAMLET Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah?
-
-LORD POLONIUS If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter
- that I love passing well.
-
-HAMLET Nay, that follows not.
-
-LORD POLONIUS What follows, then, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Why,
- 'As by lot, God wot,'
- and then, you know,
- 'It came to pass, as most like it was,'--
- the first row of the pious chanson will show you
- more; for look, where my abridgement comes.
-
- [Enter four or five Players]
-
- You are welcome, masters; welcome, all. I am glad
- to see thee well. Welcome, good friends. O, my old
- friend! thy face is valenced since I saw thee last:
- comest thou to beard me in Denmark? What, my young
- lady and mistress! By'r lady, your ladyship is
- nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the
- altitude of a chopine. Pray God, your voice, like
- apiece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the
- ring. Masters, you are all welcome. We'll e'en
- to't like French falconers, fly at any thing we see:
- we'll have a speech straight: come, give us a taste
- of your quality; come, a passionate speech.
-
-First Player What speech, my lord?
-
-HAMLET I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was
- never acted; or, if it was, not above once; for the
- play, I remember, pleased not the million; 'twas
- caviare to the general: but it was--as I received
- it, and others, whose judgments in such matters
- cried in the top of mine--an excellent play, well
- digested in the scenes, set down with as much
- modesty as cunning. I remember, one said there
- were no sallets in the lines to make the matter
- savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might
- indict the author of affectation; but called it an
- honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very
- much more handsome than fine. One speech in it I
- chiefly loved: 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido; and
- thereabout of it especially, where he speaks of
- Priam's slaughter: if it live in your memory, begin
- at this line: let me see, let me see--
- 'The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast,'--
- it is not so:--it begins with Pyrrhus:--
- 'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,
- Black as his purpose, did the night resemble
- When he lay couched in the ominous horse,
- Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd
- With heraldry more dismal; head to foot
- Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd
- With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
- Baked and impasted with the parching streets,
- That lend a tyrannous and damned light
- To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire,
- And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,
- With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus
- Old grandsire Priam seeks.'
- So, proceed you.
-
-LORD POLONIUS 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and
- good discretion.
-
-First Player 'Anon he finds him
- Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword,
- Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,
- Repugnant to command: unequal match'd,
- Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide;
- But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword
- The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,
- Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top
- Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash
- Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword,
- Which was declining on the milky head
- Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:
- So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood,
- And like a neutral to his will and matter,
- Did nothing.
- But, as we often see, against some storm,
- A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,
- The bold winds speechless and the orb below
- As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder
- Doth rend the region, so, after Pyrrhus' pause,
- Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work;
- And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall
- On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne
- With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword
- Now falls on Priam.
- Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods,
- In general synod 'take away her power;
- Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
- And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,
- As low as to the fiends!'
-
-LORD POLONIUS This is too long.
-
-HAMLET It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee,
- say on: he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he
- sleeps: say on: come to Hecuba.
-
-First Player 'But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen--'
-
-HAMLET 'The mobled queen?'
-
-LORD POLONIUS That's good; 'mobled queen' is good.
-
-First Player 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames
- With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head
- Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,
- About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins,
- A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;
- Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd,
- 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have
- pronounced:
- But if the gods themselves did see her then
- When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport
- In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,
- The instant burst of clamour that she made,
- Unless things mortal move them not at all,
- Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven,
- And passion in the gods.'
-
-LORD POLONIUS Look, whether he has not turned his colour and has
- tears in's eyes. Pray you, no more.
-
-HAMLET 'Tis well: I'll have thee speak out the rest soon.
- Good my lord, will you see the players well
- bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for
- they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the
- time: after your death you were better have a bad
- epitaph than their ill report while you live.
-
-LORD POLONIUS My lord, I will use them according to their desert.
-
-HAMLET God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man
- after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
- Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less
- they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.
- Take them in.
-
-LORD POLONIUS Come, sirs.
-
-HAMLET Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow.
-
- [Exit POLONIUS with all the Players but the First]
-
- Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the
- Murder of Gonzago?
-
-First Player Ay, my lord.
-
-HAMLET We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need,
- study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which
- I would set down and insert in't, could you not?
-
-First Player Ay, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Very well. Follow that lord; and look you mock him
- not.
-
- [Exit First Player]
-
- My good friends, I'll leave you till night: you are
- welcome to Elsinore.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Good my lord!
-
-HAMLET Ay, so, God be wi' ye;
-
- [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
- Now I am alone.
- O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
- Is it not monstrous that this player here,
- But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
- Could force his soul so to his own conceit
- That from her working all his visage wann'd,
- Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,
- A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
- With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!
- For Hecuba!
- What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
- That he should weep for her? What would he do,
- Had he the motive and the cue for passion
- That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
- And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
- Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
- Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
- The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,
- A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,
- Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
- And can say nothing; no, not for a king,
- Upon whose property and most dear life
- A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?
- Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?
- Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?
- Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,
- As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?
- Ha!
- 'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be
- But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall
- To make oppression bitter, or ere this
- I should have fatted all the region kites
- With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!
- Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
- O, vengeance!
- Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
- That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,
- Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
- Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
- And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,
- A scullion!
- Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard
- That guilty creatures sitting at a play
- Have by the very cunning of the scene
- Been struck so to the soul that presently
- They have proclaim'd their malefactions;
- For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
- With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players
- Play something like the murder of my father
- Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks;
- I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,
- I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
- May be the devil: and the devil hath power
- To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps
- Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
- As he is very potent with such spirits,
- Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds
- More relative than this: the play 's the thing
- Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
-
- [Exit]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT III
-
-
-
-SCENE I A room in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS,
- OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
- Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
- Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
- With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ He does confess he feels himself distracted;
- But from what cause he will by no means speak.
-
-GUILDENSTERN Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
- But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,
- When we would bring him on to some confession
- Of his true state.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Did he receive you well?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Most like a gentleman.
-
-GUILDENSTERN But with much forcing of his disposition.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Niggard of question; but, of our demands,
- Most free in his reply.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Did you assay him?
- To any pastime?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Madam, it so fell out, that certain players
- We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him;
- And there did seem in him a kind of joy
- To hear of it: they are about the court,
- And, as I think, they have already order
- This night to play before him.
-
-LORD POLONIUS 'Tis most true:
- And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties
- To hear and see the matter.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS With all my heart; and it doth much content me
- To hear him so inclined.
- Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,
- And drive his purpose on to these delights.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ We shall, my lord.
-
- [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;
- For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
- That he, as 'twere by accident, may here
- Affront Ophelia:
- Her father and myself, lawful espials,
- Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,
- We may of their encounter frankly judge,
- And gather by him, as he is behaved,
- If 't be the affliction of his love or no
- That thus he suffers for.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE I shall obey you.
- And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish
- That your good beauties be the happy cause
- Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues
- Will bring him to his wonted way again,
- To both your honours.
-
-OPHELIA Madam, I wish it may.
-
- [Exit QUEEN GERTRUDE]
-
-LORD POLONIUS Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you,
- We will bestow ourselves.
-
- [To OPHELIA]
-
- Read on this book;
- That show of such an exercise may colour
- Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,--
- 'Tis too much proved--that with devotion's visage
- And pious action we do sugar o'er
- The devil himself.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS [Aside] O, 'tis too true!
- How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
- The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art,
- Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
- Than is my deed to my most painted word:
- O heavy burthen!
-
-LORD POLONIUS I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord.
-
- [Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS]
-
- [Enter HAMLET]
-
-HAMLET To be, or not to be: that is the question:
- Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
- Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
- And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
- No more; and by a sleep to say we end
- The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
- That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
- Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
- To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
- For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
- When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
- Must give us pause: there's the respect
- That makes calamity of so long life;
- For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
- The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
- The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
- The insolence of office and the spurns
- That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
- When he himself might his quietus make
- With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
- To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
- But that the dread of something after death,
- The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
- No traveller returns, puzzles the will
- And makes us rather bear those ills we have
- Than fly to others that we know not of?
- Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
- And thus the native hue of resolution
- Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
- And enterprises of great pith and moment
- With this regard their currents turn awry,
- And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
- The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
- Be all my sins remember'd.
-
-OPHELIA Good my lord,
- How does your honour for this many a day?
-
-HAMLET I humbly thank you; well, well, well.
-
-OPHELIA My lord, I have remembrances of yours,
- That I have longed long to re-deliver;
- I pray you, now receive them.
-
-HAMLET No, not I;
- I never gave you aught.
-
-OPHELIA My honour'd lord, you know right well you did;
- And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed
- As made the things more rich: their perfume lost,
- Take these again; for to the noble mind
- Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
- There, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Ha, ha! are you honest?
-
-OPHELIA My lord?
-
-HAMLET Are you fair?
-
-OPHELIA What means your lordship?
-
-HAMLET That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should
- admit no discourse to your beauty.
-
-OPHELIA Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than
- with honesty?
-
-HAMLET Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner
- transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the
- force of honesty can translate beauty into his
- likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the
- time gives it proof. I did love you once.
-
-OPHELIA Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.
-
-HAMLET You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot
- so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of
- it: I loved you not.
-
-OPHELIA I was the more deceived.
-
-HAMLET Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a
- breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest;
- but yet I could accuse me of such things that it
- were better my mother had not borne me: I am very
- proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at
- my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,
- imagination to give them shape, or time to act them
- in. What should such fellows as I do crawling
- between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves,
- all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.
- Where's your father?
-
-OPHELIA At home, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
- fool no where but in's own house. Farewell.
-
-OPHELIA O, help him, you sweet heavens!
-
-HAMLET If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for
- thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as
- snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a
- nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs
- marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough
- what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go,
- and quickly too. Farewell.
-
-OPHELIA O heavenly powers, restore him!
-
-HAMLET I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God
- has given you one face, and you make yourselves
- another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and
- nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness
- your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath
- made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages:
- those that are married already, all but one, shall
- live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a
- nunnery, go.
-
- [Exit]
-
-OPHELIA O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
- The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword;
- The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
- The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
- The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
- And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
- That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
- Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
- Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;
- That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
- Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,
- To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
-
- [Re-enter KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Love! his affections do not that way tend;
- Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little,
- Was not like madness. There's something in his soul,
- O'er which his melancholy sits on brood;
- And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose
- Will be some danger: which for to prevent,
- I have in quick determination
- Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England,
- For the demand of our neglected tribute
- Haply the seas and countries different
- With variable objects shall expel
- This something-settled matter in his heart,
- Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
- From fashion of himself. What think you on't?
-
-LORD POLONIUS It shall do well: but yet do I believe
- The origin and commencement of his grief
- Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia!
- You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said;
- We heard it all. My lord, do as you please;
- But, if you hold it fit, after the play
- Let his queen mother all alone entreat him
- To show his grief: let her be round with him;
- And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear
- Of all their conference. If she find him not,
- To England send him, or confine him where
- Your wisdom best shall think.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS It shall be so:
- Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT III
-
-
-
-SCENE II A hall in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter HAMLET and Players]
-
-HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to
- you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it,
- as many of your players do, I had as lief the
- town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air
- too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently;
- for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,
- the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget
- a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it
- offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
- periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
- very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who
- for the most part are capable of nothing but
- inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such
- a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it
- out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.
-
-First Player I warrant your honour.
-
-HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion
- be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the
- word to the action; with this special o'erstep not
- the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is
- from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the
- first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the
- mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature,
- scorn her own image, and the very age and body of
- the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone,
- or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful
- laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the
- censure of the which one must in your allowance
- o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be
- players that I have seen play, and heard others
- praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely,
- that, neither having the accent of Christians nor
- the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so
- strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of
- nature's journeymen had made men and not made them
- well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
-
-First Player I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us,
- sir.
-
-HAMLET O, reform it altogether. And let those that play
- your clowns speak no more than is set down for them;
- for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to
- set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh
- too; though, in the mean time, some necessary
- question of the play be then to be considered:
- that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition
- in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready.
-
- [Exeunt Players]
-
- [Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN]
-
- How now, my lord! I will the king hear this piece of work?
-
-LORD POLONIUS And the queen too, and that presently.
-
-HAMLET Bid the players make haste.
-
- [Exit POLONIUS]
-
- Will you two help to hasten them?
-
-
-ROSENCRANTZ |
- | We will, my lord.
-GUILDENSTERN |
-
-
- [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
-HAMLET What ho! Horatio!
-
- [Enter HORATIO]
-
-HORATIO Here, sweet lord, at your service.
-
-HAMLET Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
- As e'er my conversation coped withal.
-
-HORATIO O, my dear lord,--
-
-HAMLET Nay, do not think I flatter;
- For what advancement may I hope from thee
- That no revenue hast but thy good spirits,
- To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?
- No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
- And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
- Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?
- Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
- And could of men distinguish, her election
- Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been
- As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing,
- A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
- Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those
- Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
- That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
- To sound what stop she please. Give me that man
- That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
- In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
- As I do thee.--Something too much of this.--
- There is a play to-night before the king;
- One scene of it comes near the circumstance
- Which I have told thee of my father's death:
- I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,
- Even with the very comment of thy soul
- Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt
- Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
- It is a damned ghost that we have seen,
- And my imaginations are as foul
- As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note;
- For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,
- And after we will both our judgments join
- In censure of his seeming.
-
-HORATIO Well, my lord:
- If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,
- And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft.
-
-HAMLET They are coming to the play; I must be idle:
- Get you a place.
-
- [Danish march. A flourish. Enter KING CLAUDIUS,
- QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ,
- GUILDENSTERN, and others]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS How fares our cousin Hamlet?
-
-HAMLET Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat
- the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words
- are not mine.
-
-HAMLET No, nor mine now.
-
- [To POLONIUS]
-
- My lord, you played once i' the university, you say?
-
-LORD POLONIUS That did I, my lord; and was accounted a good actor.
-
-HAMLET What did you enact?
-
-LORD POLONIUS I did enact Julius Caesar: I was killed i' the
- Capitol; Brutus killed me.
-
-HAMLET It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf
- there. Be the players ready?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.
-
-HAMLET No, good mother, here's metal more attractive.
-
-LORD POLONIUS [To KING CLAUDIUS] O, ho! do you mark that?
-
-HAMLET Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
-
- [Lying down at OPHELIA's feet]
-
-OPHELIA No, my lord.
-
-HAMLET I mean, my head upon your lap?
-
-OPHELIA Ay, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Do you think I meant country matters?
-
-OPHELIA I think nothing, my lord.
-
-HAMLET That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
-
-OPHELIA What is, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Nothing.
-
-OPHELIA You are merry, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Who, I?
-
-OPHELIA Ay, my lord.
-
-HAMLET O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do
- but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my
- mother looks, and my father died within these two hours.
-
-OPHELIA Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.
-
-HAMLET So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for
- I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two
- months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's
- hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half
- a year: but, by'r lady, he must build churches,
- then; or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with
- the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is 'For, O, for, O,
- the hobby-horse is forgot.'
-
- [Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters]
-
- [Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen
- embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes
- show of protestation unto him. He takes her up,
- and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down
- upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep,
- leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his
- crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's
- ears, and exit. The Queen returns; finds the King
- dead, and makes passionate action. The Poisoner,
- with some two or three Mutes, comes in again,
- seeming to lament with her. The dead body is
- carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with
- gifts: she seems loath and unwilling awhile, but
- in the end accepts his love]
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-OPHELIA What means this, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.
-
-OPHELIA Belike this show imports the argument of the play.
-
- [Enter Prologue]
-
-HAMLET We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot
- keep counsel; they'll tell all.
-
-OPHELIA Will he tell us what this show meant?
-
-HAMLET Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you
- ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means.
-
-OPHELIA You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play.
-
-Prologue For us, and for our tragedy,
- Here stooping to your clemency,
- We beg your hearing patiently.
-
- [Exit]
-
-HAMLET Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
-
-OPHELIA 'Tis brief, my lord.
-
-HAMLET As woman's love.
-
- [Enter two Players, King and Queen]
-
-Player King Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round
- Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground,
- And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen
- About the world have times twelve thirties been,
- Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands
- Unite commutual in most sacred bands.
-
-Player Queen So many journeys may the sun and moon
- Make us again count o'er ere love be done!
- But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,
- So far from cheer and from your former state,
- That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
- Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:
- For women's fear and love holds quantity;
- In neither aught, or in extremity.
- Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know;
- And as my love is sized, my fear is so:
- Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
- Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
-
-Player King 'Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too;
- My operant powers their functions leave to do:
- And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,
- Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind
- For husband shalt thou--
-
-Player Queen O, confound the rest!
- Such love must needs be treason in my breast:
- In second husband let me be accurst!
- None wed the second but who kill'd the first.
-
-HAMLET [Aside] Wormwood, wormwood.
-
-Player Queen The instances that second marriage move
- Are base respects of thrift, but none of love:
- A second time I kill my husband dead,
- When second husband kisses me in bed.
-
-Player King I do believe you think what now you speak;
- But what we do determine oft we break.
- Purpose is but the slave to memory,
- Of violent birth, but poor validity;
- Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree;
- But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.
- Most necessary 'tis that we forget
- To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt:
- What to ourselves in passion we propose,
- The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
- The violence of either grief or joy
- Their own enactures with themselves destroy:
- Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
- Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
- This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
- That even our loves should with our fortunes change;
- For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
- Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
- The great man down, you mark his favourite flies;
- The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.
- And hitherto doth love on fortune tend;
- For who not needs shall never lack a friend,
- And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
- Directly seasons him his enemy.
- But, orderly to end where I begun,
- Our wills and fates do so contrary run
- That our devices still are overthrown;
- Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own:
- So think thou wilt no second husband wed;
- But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
-
-Player Queen Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light!
- Sport and repose lock from me day and night!
- To desperation turn my trust and hope!
- An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope!
- Each opposite that blanks the face of joy
- Meet what I would have well and it destroy!
- Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,
- If, once a widow, ever I be wife!
-
-HAMLET If she should break it now!
-
-Player King 'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile;
- My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
- The tedious day with sleep.
-
- [Sleeps]
-
-Player Queen Sleep rock thy brain,
- And never come mischance between us twain!
-
- [Exit]
-
-HAMLET Madam, how like you this play?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE The lady protests too much, methinks.
-
-HAMLET O, but she'll keep her word.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in 't?
-
-HAMLET No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence
- i' the world.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS What do you call the play?
-
-HAMLET The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play
- is the image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is
- the duke's name; his wife, Baptista: you shall see
- anon; 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o'
- that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it
- touches us not: let the galled jade wince, our
- withers are unwrung.
-
- [Enter LUCIANUS]
-
- This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king.
-
-OPHELIA You are as good as a chorus, my lord.
-
-HAMLET I could interpret between you and your love, if I
- could see the puppets dallying.
-
-OPHELIA You are keen, my lord, you are keen.
-
-HAMLET It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.
-
-OPHELIA Still better, and worse.
-
-HAMLET So you must take your husbands. Begin, murderer;
- pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come:
- 'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.'
-
-LUCIANUS Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing;
- Confederate season, else no creature seeing;
- Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,
- With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,
- Thy natural magic and dire property,
- On wholesome life usurp immediately.
-
- [Pours the poison into the sleeper's ears]
-
-HAMLET He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His
- name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in
- choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murderer
- gets the love of Gonzago's wife.
-
-OPHELIA The king rises.
-
-HAMLET What, frighted with false fire!
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE How fares my lord?
-
-LORD POLONIUS Give o'er the play.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Give me some light: away!
-
-All Lights, lights, lights!
-
- [Exeunt all but HAMLET and HORATIO]
-
-HAMLET Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
- The hart ungalled play;
- For some must watch, while some must sleep:
- So runs the world away.
- Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers-- if
- the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me--with two
- Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a
- fellowship in a cry of players, sir?
-
-HORATIO Half a share.
-
-HAMLET A whole one, I.
- For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
- This realm dismantled was
- Of Jove himself; and now reigns here
- A very, very--pajock.
-
-HORATIO You might have rhymed.
-
-HAMLET O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a
- thousand pound. Didst perceive?
-
-HORATIO Very well, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Upon the talk of the poisoning?
-
-HORATIO I did very well note him.
-
-HAMLET Ah, ha! Come, some music! come, the recorders!
- For if the king like not the comedy,
- Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy.
- Come, some music!
-
- [Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
-GUILDENSTERN Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.
-
-HAMLET Sir, a whole history.
-
-GUILDENSTERN The king, sir,--
-
-HAMLET Ay, sir, what of him?
-
-GUILDENSTERN Is in his retirement marvellous distempered.
-
-HAMLET With drink, sir?
-
-GUILDENSTERN No, my lord, rather with choler.
-
-HAMLET Your wisdom should show itself more richer to
- signify this to his doctor; for, for me to put him
- to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far
- more choler.
-
-GUILDENSTERN Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame and
- start not so wildly from my affair.
-
-HAMLET I am tame, sir: pronounce.
-
-GUILDENSTERN The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of
- spirit, hath sent me to you.
-
-HAMLET You are welcome.
-
-GUILDENSTERN Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right
- breed. If it shall please you to make me a
- wholesome answer, I will do your mother's
- commandment: if not, your pardon and my return
- shall be the end of my business.
-
-HAMLET Sir, I cannot.
-
-GUILDENSTERN What, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased: but,
- sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command;
- or, rather, as you say, my mother: therefore no
- more, but to the matter: my mother, you say,--
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Then thus she says; your behavior hath struck her
- into amazement and admiration.
-
-HAMLET O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother! But
- is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's
- admiration? Impart.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ She desires to speak with you in her closet, ere you
- go to bed.
-
-HAMLET We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have
- you any further trade with us?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you once did love me.
-
-HAMLET So I do still, by these pickers and stealers.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you
- do, surely, bar the door upon your own liberty, if
- you deny your griefs to your friend.
-
-HAMLET Sir, I lack advancement.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ How can that be, when you have the voice of the king
- himself for your succession in Denmark?
-
-HAMLET Ay, but sir, 'While the grass grows,'--the proverb
- is something musty.
-
- [Re-enter Players with recorders]
-
- O, the recorders! let me see one. To withdraw with
- you:--why do you go about to recover the wind of me,
- as if you would drive me into a toil?
-
-GUILDENSTERN O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too
- unmannerly.
-
-HAMLET I do not well understand that. Will you play upon
- this pipe?
-
-GUILDENSTERN My lord, I cannot.
-
-HAMLET I pray you.
-
-GUILDENSTERN Believe me, I cannot.
-
-HAMLET I do beseech you.
-
-GUILDENSTERN I know no touch of it, my lord.
-
-HAMLET 'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with
- your lingers and thumb, give it breath with your
- mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.
- Look you, these are the stops.
-
-GUILDENSTERN But these cannot I command to any utterance of
- harmony; I have not the skill.
-
-HAMLET Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of
- me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know
- my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my
- mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to
- the top of my compass: and there is much music,
- excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot
- you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am
- easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what
- instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you
- cannot play upon me.
-
- [Enter POLONIUS]
-
- God bless you, sir!
-
-LORD POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and
- presently.
-
-HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
-
-LORD POLONIUS By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
-
-HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel.
-
-LORD POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel.
-
-HAMLET Or like a whale?
-
-LORD POLONIUS Very like a whale.
-
-HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. They fool
- me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by.
-
-LORD POLONIUS I will say so.
-
-HAMLET By and by is easily said.
-
- [Exit POLONIUS]
-
- Leave me, friends.
-
- [Exeunt all but HAMLET]
-
- Tis now the very witching time of night,
- When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
- Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
- And do such bitter business as the day
- Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother.
- O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever
- The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom:
- Let me be cruel, not unnatural:
- I will speak daggers to her, but use none;
- My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites;
- How in my words soever she be shent,
- To give them seals never, my soul, consent!
-
- [Exit]
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT III
-
-
-
-SCENE III A room in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS I like him not, nor stands it safe with us
- To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;
- I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
- And he to England shall along with you:
- The terms of our estate may not endure
- Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
- Out of his lunacies.
-
-GUILDENSTERN We will ourselves provide:
- Most holy and religious fear it is
- To keep those many many bodies safe
- That live and feed upon your majesty.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ The single and peculiar life is bound,
- With all the strength and armour of the mind,
- To keep itself from noyance; but much more
- That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest
- The lives of many. The cease of majesty
- Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw
- What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,
- Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,
- To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things
- Are mortised and adjoin'd; which, when it falls,
- Each small annexment, petty consequence,
- Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone
- Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage;
- For we will fetters put upon this fear,
- Which now goes too free-footed.
-
-
-ROSENCRANTZ |
- | We will haste us.
-GUILDENSTERN |
-
-
- [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
- [Enter POLONIUS]
-
-LORD POLONIUS My lord, he's going to his mother's closet:
- Behind the arras I'll convey myself,
- To hear the process; and warrant she'll tax him home:
- And, as you said, and wisely was it said,
- 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,
- Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear
- The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege:
- I'll call upon you ere you go to bed,
- And tell you what I know.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Thanks, dear my lord.
-
- [Exit POLONIUS]
-
- O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;
- It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,
- A brother's murder. Pray can I not,
- Though inclination be as sharp as will:
- My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;
- And, like a man to double business bound,
- I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
- And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
- Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,
- Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
- To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
- But to confront the visage of offence?
- And what's in prayer but this two-fold force,
- To be forestalled ere we come to fall,
- Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up;
- My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer
- Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?
- That cannot be; since I am still possess'd
- Of those effects for which I did the murder,
- My crown, mine own ambition and my queen.
- May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?
- In the corrupted currents of this world
- Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
- And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
- Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above;
- There is no shuffling, there the action lies
- In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd,
- Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
- To give in evidence. What then? what rests?
- Try what repentance can: what can it not?
- Yet what can it when one can not repent?
- O wretched state! O bosom black as death!
- O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,
- Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay!
- Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,
- Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!
- All may be well.
-
- [Retires and kneels]
-
- [Enter HAMLET]
-
-HAMLET Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;
- And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven;
- And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:
- A villain kills my father; and for that,
- I, his sole son, do this same villain send
- To heaven.
- O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
- He took my father grossly, full of bread;
- With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
- And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?
- But in our circumstance and course of thought,
- 'Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged,
- To take him in the purging of his soul,
- When he is fit and season'd for his passage?
- No!
- Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent:
- When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
- Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;
- At gaming, swearing, or about some act
- That has no relish of salvation in't;
- Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,
- And that his soul may be as damn'd and black
- As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:
- This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
-
- [Exit]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS [Rising] My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
- Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
-
- [Exit]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT III
-
-
-
-SCENE IV The Queen's closet.
-
-
- [Enter QUEEN MARGARET and POLONIUS]
-
-LORD POLONIUS He will come straight. Look you lay home to him:
- Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,
- And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between
- Much heat and him. I'll sconce me even here.
- Pray you, be round with him.
-
-HAMLET [Within] Mother, mother, mother!
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE I'll warrant you,
- Fear me not: withdraw, I hear him coming.
-
- [POLONIUS hides behind the arras]
-
- [Enter HAMLET]
-
-HAMLET Now, mother, what's the matter?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.
-
-HAMLET Mother, you have my father much offended.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
-
-HAMLET Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Why, how now, Hamlet!
-
-HAMLET What's the matter now?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Have you forgot me?
-
-HAMLET No, by the rood, not so:
- You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife;
- And--would it were not so!--you are my mother.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak.
-
-HAMLET Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;
- You go not till I set you up a glass
- Where you may see the inmost part of you.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?
- Help, help, ho!
-
-LORD POLONIUS [Behind] What, ho! help, help, help!
-
-HAMLET [Drawing] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
-
- [Makes a pass through the arras]
-
-LORD POLONIUS [Behind] O, I am slain!
-
- [Falls and dies]
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE O me, what hast thou done?
-
-HAMLET Nay, I know not:
- Is it the king?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!
-
-HAMLET A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,
- As kill a king, and marry with his brother.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE As kill a king!
-
-HAMLET Ay, lady, 'twas my word.
-
- [Lifts up the array and discovers POLONIUS]
-
- Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
- I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune;
- Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.
- Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down,
- And let me wring your heart; for so I shall,
- If it be made of penetrable stuff,
- If damned custom have not brass'd it so
- That it is proof and bulwark against sense.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue
- In noise so rude against me?
-
-HAMLET Such an act
- That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
- Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
- From the fair forehead of an innocent love
- And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows
- As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed
- As from the body of contraction plucks
- The very soul, and sweet religion makes
- A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow:
- Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
- With tristful visage, as against the doom,
- Is thought-sick at the act.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Ay me, what act,
- That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?
-
-HAMLET Look here, upon this picture, and on this,
- The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
- See, what a grace was seated on this brow;
- Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
- An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
- A station like the herald Mercury
- New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;
- A combination and a form indeed,
- Where every god did seem to set his seal,
- To give the world assurance of a man:
- This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:
- Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear,
- Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
- Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
- And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?
- You cannot call it love; for at your age
- The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,
- And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment
- Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,
- Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense
- Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,
- Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd
- But it reserved some quantity of choice,
- To serve in such a difference. What devil was't
- That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
- Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
- Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
- Or but a sickly part of one true sense
- Could not so mope.
- O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
- If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
- To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,
- And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame
- When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
- Since frost itself as actively doth burn
- And reason panders will.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE O Hamlet, speak no more:
- Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;
- And there I see such black and grained spots
- As will not leave their tinct.
-
-HAMLET Nay, but to live
- In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
- Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love
- Over the nasty sty,--
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE O, speak to me no more;
- These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears;
- No more, sweet Hamlet!
-
-HAMLET A murderer and a villain;
- A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
- Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings;
- A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
- That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,
- And put it in his pocket!
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE No more!
-
-HAMLET A king of shreds and patches,--
-
- [Enter Ghost]
-
- Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings,
- You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, he's mad!
-
-HAMLET Do you not come your tardy son to chide,
- That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by
- The important acting of your dread command? O, say!
-
-Ghost Do not forget: this visitation
- Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
- But, look, amazement on thy mother sits:
- O, step between her and her fighting soul:
- Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works:
- Speak to her, Hamlet.
-
-HAMLET How is it with you, lady?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, how is't with you,
- That you do bend your eye on vacancy
- And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?
- Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep;
- And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm,
- Your bedded hair, like life in excrements,
- Starts up, and stands on end. O gentle son,
- Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
- Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look?
-
-HAMLET On him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares!
- His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones,
- Would make them capable. Do not look upon 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 GERTRUDE To whom do you speak this?
-
-HAMLET Do you see nothing there?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Nothing at all; yet all that is I see.
-
-HAMLET Nor did you nothing hear?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE No, nothing but ourselves.
-
-HAMLET Why, look you there! look, how it steals away!
- My father, in his habit as he lived!
- Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal!
-
- [Exit Ghost]
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE This the very coinage of your brain:
- This bodiless creation ecstasy
- Is very cunning in.
-
-HAMLET Ecstasy!
- My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
- And makes as healthful music: it is not madness
- That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,
- And I the matter will re-word; which madness
- Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
- Lay not that mattering unction to your soul,
- That not your trespass, but my madness speaks:
- It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
- Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
- Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;
- Repent what's past; avoid what is to come;
- And do not spread the compost on the weeds,
- To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue;
- For in the fatness of these pursy times
- Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,
- Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
-
-HAMLET O, throw away the worser part of it,
- And live the purer with the other half.
- Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed;
- Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
- That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
- Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
- That to the use of actions fair and good
- He likewise gives a frock or livery,
- That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night,
- And that shall lend a kind of easiness
- To the next abstinence: the next more easy;
- For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
- And either [ ] the devil, or throw him out
- With wondrous potency. Once more, good night:
- And when you are desirous to be bless'd,
- I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord,
-
- [Pointing to POLONIUS]
-
- I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so,
- To punish me with this and this with me,
- That I must be their scourge and minister.
- I will bestow him, and will answer well
- The death I gave him. So, again, good night.
- I must be cruel, only to be kind:
- Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
- One word more, good lady.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE What shall I do?
-
-HAMLET Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:
- Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed;
- Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse;
- And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,
- Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers,
- Make you to ravel all this matter out,
- That I essentially am not in madness,
- 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,
- Unpeg the basket on the house's top.
- Let the birds fly, and, like the famous ape,
- To try conclusions, in the basket creep,
- And break your own neck down.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,
- And breath of life, I have no life to breathe
- What thou hast said to me.
-
-HAMLET I must to England; you know that?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Alack,
- I had forgot: 'tis so concluded on.
-
-HAMLET There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,
- Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,
- They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way,
- And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
- For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
- Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard
- But I will delve one yard below their mines,
- And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,
- When in one line two crafts directly meet.
- This man shall set me packing:
- I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.
- Mother, good night. Indeed this counsellor
- Is now most still, most secret and most grave,
- Who was in life a foolish prating knave.
- Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.
- Good night, mother.
-
- [Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging in POLONIUS]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT IV
-
-
-
-SCENE I A room in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ,
- and GUILDENSTERN]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:
- You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them.
- Where is your son?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Bestow this place on us a little while.
-
- [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
- Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night!
-
-KING CLAUDIUS What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend
- Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,
- Behind the arras hearing something stir,
- Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!'
- And, in this brainish apprehension, kills
- The unseen good old man.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS 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?
- It will be laid to us, whose providence
- 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
- Even on the pith of Life. Where is he gone?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE To draw apart the body he hath kill'd:
- O'er whom his very madness, like some ore
- Among a mineral of metals base,
- Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS O Gertrude, come away!
- The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch,
- But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed
- We must, with all our majesty and skill,
- Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern!
-
- [Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
- Friends both, go join you with some further aid:
- Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
- And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him:
- Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body
- Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.
-
- [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
- Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends;
- And let them know, both what we mean to do,
- And what's untimely done [ ]
- Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter,
- As level as the cannon to his blank,
- Transports his poison'd shot, may miss our name,
- And hit the woundless air. O, come away!
- My soul is full of discord and dismay.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT IV
-
-
-
-SCENE II Another room in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter HAMLET]
-
-HAMLET Safely stowed.
-
-
-ROSENCRANTZ: |
- | [Within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!
-GUILDENSTERN: |
-
-
-HAMLET What noise? who calls on Hamlet?
- O, here they come.
-
- [Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
-ROSENCRANTZ What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?
-
-HAMLET Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence
- And bear it to the chapel.
-
-HAMLET Do not believe it.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Believe what?
-
-HAMLET That I can keep your counsel and not mine own.
- Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what
- replication should be made by the son of a king?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Take you me for a sponge, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his
- rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the
- king best service in the end: he keeps them, like
- an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to
- be last swallowed: when he needs what you have
- gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you
- shall be dry again.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ I understand you not, my lord.
-
-HAMLET I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a
- foolish ear.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go
- with us to the king.
-
-HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with
- the body. The king is a thing--
-
-GUILDENSTERN A thing, my lord!
-
-HAMLET Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT IV
-
-
-
-SCENE III Another room in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, attended]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS I have sent to seek him, and to find the body.
- How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!
- Yet must not we put the strong law on him:
- He's loved of the distracted multitude,
- Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes;
- And where tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd,
- But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,
- This sudden sending him away must seem
- Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown
- By desperate appliance are relieved,
- Or not at all.
-
- [Enter ROSENCRANTZ]
-
- How now! what hath befall'n?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord,
- We cannot get from him.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS But where is he?
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Bring him before us.
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord.
-
- [Enter HAMLET and GUILDENSTERN]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?
-
-HAMLET At supper.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS At supper! where?
-
-HAMLET Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain
- convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your
- worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all
- creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for
- maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but
- variable service, two dishes, but to one table:
- that's the end.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Alas, alas!
-
-HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a
- king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS What dost you mean by this?
-
-HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a
- progress through the guts of a beggar.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Where is Polonius?
-
-HAMLET In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger
- find him not there, seek him i' the other place
- yourself. But indeed, if you find him not within
- this month, you shall nose him as you go up the
- stairs into the lobby.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Go seek him there.
-
- [To some Attendants]
-
-HAMLET He will stay till ye come.
-
- [Exeunt Attendants]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,--
- Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve
- For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence
- With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself;
- The bark is ready, and the wind at help,
- The associates tend, and every thing is bent
- For England.
-
-HAMLET For England!
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Ay, Hamlet.
-
-HAMLET Good.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.
-
-HAMLET I see a cherub that sees them. But, come; for
- England! Farewell, dear mother.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Thy loving father, Hamlet.
-
-HAMLET My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man
- and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England!
-
- [Exit]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard;
- Delay it not; I'll have him hence to-night:
- Away! for every thing is seal'd and done
- That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste.
-
- [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]
-
- And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught--
- As my great power thereof may give thee sense,
- Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
- After the Danish sword, and thy free awe
- Pays homage to us--thou mayst not coldly set
- Our sovereign process; which imports at full,
- By letters congruing to that effect,
- The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England;
- For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
- And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done,
- Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun.
-
- [Exit]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT IV
-
-
-
-SCENE IV A plain in Denmark.
-
-
- [Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching]
-
-PRINCE FORTINBRAS Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king;
- Tell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras
- Craves the conveyance of a promised march
- Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.
- If that his majesty would aught with us,
- We shall express our duty in his eye;
- And let him know so.
-
-Captain I will do't, my lord.
-
-PRINCE FORTINBRAS Go softly on.
-
- [Exeunt FORTINBRAS and Soldiers]
-
- [Enter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others]
-
-HAMLET Good sir, whose powers are these?
-
-Captain They are of Norway, sir.
-
-HAMLET How purposed, sir, I pray you?
-
-Captain Against some part of Poland.
-
-HAMLET Who commands them, sir?
-
-Captain The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras.
-
-HAMLET Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,
- Or for some frontier?
-
-Captain Truly to speak, and with no addition,
- We go to gain a little patch of ground
- That hath in it no profit but the name.
- To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
- Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
- A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
-
-HAMLET Why, then the Polack never will defend it.
-
-Captain Yes, it is already garrison'd.
-
-HAMLET Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
- Will not debate the question of this straw:
- This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,
- That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
- Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.
-
-Captain God be wi' you, sir.
-
- [Exit]
-
-ROSENCRANTZ Wilt please you go, my lord?
-
-HAMLET I'll be with you straight go a little before.
-
- [Exeunt all except HAMLET]
-
- How all occasions do inform against me,
- And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
- If his chief good and market of his time
- Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
- Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
- Looking before and after, gave us not
- That capability and god-like reason
- To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be
- Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
- Of thinking too precisely on the event,
- A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
- And ever three parts coward, I do not know
- Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'
- Sith I have cause and will and strength and means
- To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:
- Witness this army of such mass and charge
- Led by a delicate and tender prince,
- Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd
- Makes mouths at the invisible event,
- Exposing what is mortal and unsure
- To all that fortune, death and danger dare,
- Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great
- Is not to stir without great argument,
- But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
- When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,
- That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,
- Excitements of my reason and my blood,
- And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see
- The imminent death of twenty thousand men,
- That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
- Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
- Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
- Which is not tomb enough and continent
- To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,
- My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
-
- [Exit]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT IV
-
-
-SCENE V Elsinore. A room in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE, HORATIO, and a Gentleman]
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE I will not speak with her.
-
-Gentleman She is importunate, indeed distract:
- Her mood will needs be pitied.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE What would she have?
-
-Gentleman She speaks much of her father; says she hears
- There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;
- Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
- That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,
- Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
- The hearers to collection; they aim at it,
- And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;
- Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures
- yield them,
- Indeed would make one think there might be thought,
- Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.
-
-HORATIO 'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew
- Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Let her come in.
-
- [Exit HORATIO]
-
- To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,
- Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss:
- So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
- It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
-
- [Re-enter HORATIO, with OPHELIA]
-
-OPHELIA Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE How now, Ophelia!
-
-OPHELIA [Sings]
-
- How should I your true love know
- From another one?
- By his cockle hat and staff,
- And his sandal shoon.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?
-
-OPHELIA Say you? nay, pray you, mark.
-
- [Sings]
-
- He is dead and gone, lady,
- He is dead and gone;
- At his head a grass-green turf,
- At his heels a stone.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Nay, but, Ophelia,--
-
-OPHELIA Pray you, mark.
-
- [Sings]
-
- White his shroud as the mountain snow,--
-
- [Enter KING CLAUDIUS]
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, look here, my lord.
-
-OPHELIA [Sings]
-
- Larded with sweet flowers
- Which bewept to the grave did go
- With true-love showers.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS How do you, pretty lady?
-
-OPHELIA Well, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a baker's
- daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not
- what we may be. God be at your table!
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Conceit upon her father.
-
-OPHELIA Pray you, let's have no words of this; but when they
- ask you what it means, say you this:
-
- [Sings]
-
- To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
- All in the morning betime,
- And I a maid at your window,
- To be your Valentine.
- Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
- And dupp'd the chamber-door;
- Let in the maid, that out a maid
- Never departed more.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Pretty Ophelia!
-
-OPHELIA Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't:
-
- [Sings]
-
- By Gis and by Saint Charity,
- Alack, and fie for shame!
- Young men will do't, if they come to't;
- By cock, they are to blame.
- Quoth she, before you tumbled me,
- You promised me to wed.
- So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,
- An thou hadst not come to my bed.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS How long hath she been thus?
-
-OPHELIA I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I
- cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him
- i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it:
- and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my
- coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies;
- good night, good night.
-
- [Exit]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Follow her close; give her good watch,
- I pray you.
-
- [Exit HORATIO]
-
- O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs
- All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,
- When sorrows come, they come not single spies
- But in battalions. First, her father slain:
- Next, your son gone; and he most violent author
- Of his own just remove: the people muddied,
- Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers,
- For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly,
- In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia
- Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
- Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts:
- Last, and as much containing as all these,
- Her brother is in secret come from France;
- Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
- And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
- With pestilent speeches of his father's death;
- Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd,
- Will nothing stick our person to arraign
- In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,
- Like to a murdering-piece, in many places
- Gives me superfluous death.
-
- [A noise within]
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Alack, what noise is this?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.
-
- [Enter another Gentleman]
-
- What is the matter?
-
-Gentleman Save yourself, my lord:
- The ocean, overpeering of his list,
- Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
- Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,
- O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord;
- And, as the world were now but to begin,
- Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
- The ratifiers and props of every word,
- They cry 'Choose we: Laertes shall be king:'
- Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds:
- 'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!'
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!
- O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!
-
-KING CLAUDIUS The doors are broke.
-
- [Noise within]
-
- [Enter LAERTES, armed; Danes following]
-
-LAERTES Where is this king? Sirs, stand you all without.
-
-Danes No, let's come in.
-
-LAERTES I pray you, give me leave.
-
-Danes We will, we will.
-
- [They retire without the door]
-
-LAERTES I thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king,
- Give me my father!
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Calmly, good Laertes.
-
-LAERTES That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard,
- Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot
- Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow
- Of my true mother.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS What is the cause, Laertes,
- That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?
- Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person:
- There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
- That treason can but peep to what it would,
- Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes,
- Why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude.
- Speak, man.
-
-LAERTES Where is my father?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Dead.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE But not by him.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Let him demand his fill.
-
-LAERTES How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:
- To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
- Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
- I dare damnation. To this point I stand,
- That both the worlds I give to negligence,
- Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged
- Most thoroughly for my father.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Who shall stay you?
-
-LAERTES My will, not all the world:
- And for my means, I'll husband them so well,
- They shall go far with little.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Good Laertes,
- If you desire to know the certainty
- Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge,
- That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe,
- Winner and loser?
-
-LAERTES None but his enemies.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Will you know them then?
-
-LAERTES To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms;
- And like the kind life-rendering pelican,
- Repast them with my blood.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Why, now you speak
- Like a good child and a true gentleman.
- That I am guiltless of your father's death,
- And am most sensible in grief for it,
- It shall as level to your judgment pierce
- As day does to your eye.
-
-Danes [Within] Let her come in.
-
-LAERTES How now! what noise is that?
-
- [Re-enter OPHELIA]
-
- O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt,
- Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!
- By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,
- Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!
- Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!
- O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits
- Should be as moral as an old man's life?
- Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine,
- It sends some precious instance of itself
- After the thing it loves.
-
-OPHELIA [Sings]
-
- They bore him barefaced on the bier;
- Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny;
- And in his grave rain'd many a tear:--
- Fare you well, my dove!
-
-LAERTES Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,
- It could not move thus.
-
-OPHELIA [Sings]
-
- You must sing a-down a-down,
- An you call him a-down-a.
- O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false
- steward, that stole his master's daughter.
-
-LAERTES This nothing's more than matter.
-
-OPHELIA There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,
- love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts.
-
-LAERTES A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.
-
-OPHELIA There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue
- for you; and here's some for me: we may call it
- herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with
- a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you
- some violets, but they withered all when my father
- died: they say he made a good end,--
-
- [Sings]
-
- For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
-
-LAERTES Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,
- She turns to favour and to prettiness.
-
-OPHELIA [Sings]
-
- And will he not come again?
- And will he not come again?
- No, no, he is dead:
- Go to thy death-bed:
- He never will come again.
-
- His beard was as white as snow,
- All flaxen was his poll:
- He is gone, he is gone,
- And we cast away moan:
- God ha' mercy on his soul!
-
- And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' ye.
-
- [Exit]
-
-LAERTES Do you see this, O God?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, I must commune with your grief,
- Or you deny me right. Go but apart,
- Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will.
- And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me:
- If by direct or by collateral hand
- They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give,
- Our crown, our life, and all that we can ours,
- To you in satisfaction; but if not,
- Be you content to lend your patience to us,
- And we shall jointly labour with your soul
- To give it due content.
-
-LAERTES Let this be so;
- His means of death, his obscure funeral--
- No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,
- No noble rite nor formal ostentation--
- Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,
- That I must call't in question.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS So you shall;
- And where the offence is let the great axe fall.
- I pray you, go with me.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT IV
-
-
-
-SCENE VI Another room in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter HORATIO and a Servant]
-
-HORATIO What are they that would speak with me?
-
-Servant Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you.
-
-HORATIO Let them come in.
-
- [Exit Servant]
-
- I do not know from what part of the world
- I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.
-
- [Enter Sailors]
-
-First Sailor God bless you, sir.
-
-HORATIO Let him bless thee too.
-
-First Sailor He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for
- you, sir; it comes from the ambassador that was
- bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am
- let to know it is.
-
-HORATIO [Reads] 'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked
- this, give these fellows some means to the king:
- they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old
- at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us
- chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on
- a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded
- them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so
- I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with
- me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they
- did; I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king
- have the letters I have sent; and repair thou to me
- with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I
- have words to speak in thine ear will make thee
- dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of
- the matter. These good fellows will bring thee
- where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their
- course for England: of them I have much to tell
- thee. Farewell.
- 'He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.'
- Come, I will make you way for these your letters;
- And do't the speedier, that you may direct me
- To him from whom you brought them.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT IV
-
-
-SCENE VII Another room in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter KING CLAUDIUS and LAERTES]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Now must your conscience my acquaintance seal,
- And you must put me in your heart for friend,
- Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,
- That he which hath your noble father slain
- Pursued my life.
-
-LAERTES It well appears: but tell me
- Why you proceeded not against these feats,
- So crimeful and so capital in nature,
- As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,
- You mainly were stirr'd up.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS O, for two special reasons;
- Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd,
- But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother
- Lives almost by his looks; and for myself--
- My virtue or my plague, be it either which--
- She's so conjunctive to my life and soul,
- That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,
- I could not but by her. The other motive,
- Why to a public count I might not go,
- Is the great love the general gender bear him;
- Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
- Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
- Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows,
- Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,
- Would have reverted to my bow again,
- And not where I had aim'd them.
-
-LAERTES And so have I a noble father lost;
- A sister driven into desperate terms,
- Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
- Stood challenger on mount of all the age
- For her perfections: but my revenge will come.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think
- That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
- That we can let our beard be shook with danger
- And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more:
- I loved your father, and we love ourself;
- And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine--
-
- [Enter a Messenger]
-
- How now! what news?
-
-Messenger Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:
- This to your majesty; this to the queen.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS From Hamlet! who brought them?
-
-Messenger Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not:
- They were given me by Claudio; he received them
- Of him that brought them.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, you shall hear them. Leave us.
-
- [Exit Messenger]
-
- [Reads]
-
- 'High and mighty, You shall know I am set naked on
- your kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see
- your kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your
- pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden
- and more strange return. 'HAMLET.'
- What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?
- Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
-
-LAERTES Know you the hand?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS 'Tis Hamlets character. 'Naked!
- And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.'
- Can you advise me?
-
-LAERTES I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come;
- It warms the very sickness in my heart,
- That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
- 'Thus didest thou.'
-
-KING CLAUDIUS If it be so, Laertes--
- As how should it be so? how otherwise?--
- Will you be ruled by me?
-
-LAERTES Ay, my lord;
- So you will not o'errule me to a peace.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS To thine own peace. If he be now return'd,
- As checking at his voyage, and that he means
- No more to undertake it, I will work him
- To an exploit, now ripe in my device,
- Under the which he shall not choose but fall:
- And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,
- But even his mother shall uncharge the practise
- And call it accident.
-
-LAERTES My lord, I will be ruled;
- The rather, if you could devise it so
- That I might be the organ.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS It falls right.
- You have been talk'd of since your travel much,
- And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality
- Wherein, they say, you shine: your sum of parts
- Did not together pluck such envy from him
- As did that one, and that, in my regard,
- Of the unworthiest siege.
-
-LAERTES What part is that, my lord?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS A very riband in the cap of youth,
- Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes
- The light and careless livery that it wears
- Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
- Importing health and graveness. Two months since,
- Here was a gentleman of Normandy:--
- I've seen myself, and served against, the French,
- And they can well on horseback: but this gallant
- Had witchcraft in't; he grew unto his seat;
- And to such wondrous doing brought his horse,
- As he had been incorpsed and demi-natured
- With the brave beast: so far he topp'd my thought,
- That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks,
- Come short of what he did.
-
-LAERTES A Norman was't?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS A Norman.
-
-LAERTES Upon my life, Lamond.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS The very same.
-
-LAERTES I know him well: he is the brooch indeed
- And gem of all the nation.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS He made confession of you,
- And gave you such a masterly report
- For art and exercise in your defence
- And for your rapier most especially,
- That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed,
- If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation,
- He swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye,
- If you opposed them. Sir, this report of his
- Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy
- That he could nothing do but wish and beg
- Your sudden coming o'er, to play with him.
- Now, out of this,--
-
-LAERTES What out of this, my lord?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, was your father dear to you?
- Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
- A face without a heart?
-
-LAERTES Why ask you this?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Not that I think you did not love your father;
- But that I know love is begun by time;
- And that I see, in passages of proof,
- Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
- There lives within the very flame of love
- A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;
- And nothing is at a like goodness still;
- For goodness, growing to a plurisy,
- Dies in his own too much: that we would do
- We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes
- And hath abatements and delays as many
- As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
- And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
- That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer:--
- Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake,
- To show yourself your father's son in deed
- More than in words?
-
-LAERTES To cut his throat i' the church.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;
- Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,
- Will you do this, keep close within your chamber.
- Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home:
- We'll put on those shall praise your excellence
- And set a double varnish on the fame
- The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together
- And wager on your heads: he, being remiss,
- Most generous and free from all contriving,
- Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease,
- Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
- A sword unbated, and in a pass of practise
- Requite him for your father.
-
-LAERTES I will do't:
- And, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword.
- I bought an unction of a mountebank,
- So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
- Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,
- Collected from all simples that have virtue
- Under the moon, can save the thing from death
- That is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point
- With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
- It may be death.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Let's further think of this;
- Weigh what convenience both of time and means
- May fit us to our shape: if this should fail,
- And that our drift look through our bad performance,
- 'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project
- Should have a back or second, that might hold,
- If this should blast in proof. Soft! let me see:
- We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings: I ha't.
- When in your motion you are hot and dry--
- As make your bouts more violent to that end--
- And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him
- A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping,
- If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,
- Our purpose may hold there.
-
- [Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE]
-
- How now, sweet queen!
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
- So fast they follow; your sister's drown'd, Laertes.
-
-LAERTES Drown'd! O, where?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
- That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
- There with fantastic garlands did she come
- Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
- That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
- But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
- There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
- Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
- When down her weedy trophies and herself
- Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
- And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
- Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
- As one incapable of her own distress,
- Or like a creature native and indued
- Unto that element: but long it could not be
- Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
- Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
- To muddy death.
-
-LAERTES Alas, then, she is drown'd?
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Drown'd, drown'd.
-
-LAERTES Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
- And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet
- It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
- Let shame say what it will: when these are gone,
- The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord:
- I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,
- But that this folly douts it.
-
- [Exit]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Let's follow, Gertrude:
- How much I had to do to calm his rage!
- Now fear I this will give it start again;
- Therefore let's follow.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT V
-
-
-
-SCENE I A churchyard.
-
-
- [Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c]
-
-First Clown Is she to be buried in Christian burial that
- wilfully seeks her own salvation?
-
-Second Clown I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave
- straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it
- Christian burial.
-
-First Clown How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her
- own defence?
-
-Second Clown Why, 'tis found so.
-
-First Clown It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else. For
- here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly,
- it argues an act: and an act hath three branches: it
- is, to act, to do, to perform: argal, she drowned
- herself wittingly.
-
-Second Clown Nay, but hear you, goodman delver,--
-
-First Clown Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here
- stands the man; good; if the man go to this water,
- and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he
- goes,--mark you that; but if the water come to him
- and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he
- that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
-
-Second Clown But is this law?
-
-First Clown Ay, marry, is't; crowner's quest law.
-
-Second Clown Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been
- a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o'
- Christian burial.
-
-First Clown Why, there thou say'st: and the more pity that
- great folk should have countenance in this world to
- drown or hang themselves, more than their even
- Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient
- gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers:
- they hold up Adam's profession.
-
-Second Clown Was he a gentleman?
-
-First Clown He was the first that ever bore arms.
-
-Second Clown Why, he had none.
-
-First Clown What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the
- Scripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:'
- could he dig without arms? I'll put another
- question to thee: if thou answerest me not to the
- purpose, confess thyself--
-
-Second Clown Go to.
-
-First Clown What is he that builds stronger than either the
- mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
-
-Second Clown The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a
- thousand tenants.
-
-First Clown I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows
- does well; but how does it well? it does well to
- those that do in: now thou dost ill to say the
- gallows is built stronger than the church: argal,
- the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come.
-
-Second Clown 'Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or
- a carpenter?'
-
-First Clown Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.
-
-Second Clown Marry, now I can tell.
-
-First Clown To't.
-
-Second Clown Mass, I cannot tell.
-
- [Enter HAMLET and HORATIO, at a distance]
-
-First Clown Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull
- ass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when
- you are asked this question next, say 'a
- grave-maker: 'the houses that he makes last till
- doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan: fetch me a
- stoup of liquor.
-
- [Exit Second Clown]
-
- [He digs and sings]
-
- In youth, when I did love, did love,
- Methought it was very sweet,
- To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove,
- O, methought, there was nothing meet.
-
-HAMLET Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he
- sings at grave-making?
-
-HORATIO Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.
-
-HAMLET 'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath
- the daintier sense.
-
-First Clown [Sings]
-
- But age, with his stealing steps,
- Hath claw'd me in his clutch,
- And hath shipped me intil the land,
- As if I had never been such.
-
- [Throws up a skull]
-
-HAMLET That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once:
- how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were
- Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It
- might be the pate of a politician, which this ass
- now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God,
- might it not?
-
-HORATIO It might, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Or of a courtier; which could say 'Good morrow,
- sweet lord! How dost thou, good lord?' This might
- be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord
- such-a-one's horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not?
-
-HORATIO Ay, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and
- knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade:
- here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to
- see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding,
- but to play at loggats with 'em? mine ache to think on't.
-
-First Clown: [Sings]
-
- A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade,
- For and a shrouding sheet:
- O, a pit of clay for to be made
- For such a guest is meet.
-
- [Throws up another skull]
-
-HAMLET There's another: why may not that be the skull of a
- lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets,
- his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he
- suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the
- sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of
- his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be
- in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes,
- his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers,
- his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and
- the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine
- pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him
- no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than
- the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The
- very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in
- this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha?
-
-HORATIO Not a jot more, my lord.
-
-HAMLET Is not parchment made of sheepskins?
-
-HORATIO Ay, my lord, and of calf-skins too.
-
-HAMLET They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance
- in that. I will speak to this fellow. Whose
- grave's this, sirrah?
-
-First Clown Mine, sir.
-
- [Sings]
-
- O, a pit of clay for to be made
- For such a guest is meet.
-
-HAMLET I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in't.
-
-First Clown You lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not
- yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine.
-
-HAMLET 'Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine:
- 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.
-
-First Clown 'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away gain, from me to
- you.
-
-HAMLET What man dost thou dig it for?
-
-First Clown For no man, sir.
-
-HAMLET What woman, then?
-
-First Clown For none, neither.
-
-HAMLET Who is to be buried in't?
-
-First Clown One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.
-
-HAMLET How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the
- card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord,
- Horatio, these three years I have taken a note of
- it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the
- peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he
- gaffs his kibe. How long hast thou been a
- grave-maker?
-
-First Clown Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day
- that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.
-
-HAMLET How long is that since?
-
-First Clown Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it
- was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that
- is mad, and sent into England.
-
-HAMLET Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?
-
-First Clown Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits
- there; or, if he do not, it's no great matter there.
-
-HAMLET Why?
-
-First Clown 'Twill, a not be seen in him there; there the men
- are as mad as he.
-
-HAMLET How came he mad?
-
-First Clown Very strangely, they say.
-
-HAMLET How strangely?
-
-First Clown Faith, e'en with losing his wits.
-
-HAMLET Upon what ground?
-
-First Clown Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man
- and boy, thirty years.
-
-HAMLET How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?
-
-First Clown I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we
- have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce
- hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year
- or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year.
-
-HAMLET Why he more than another?
-
-First Clown Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that
- he will keep out water a great while; and your water
- is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.
- Here's a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth
- three and twenty years.
-
-HAMLET Whose was it?
-
-First Clown A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was?
-
-HAMLET Nay, I know not.
-
-First Clown A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a
- flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull,
- sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
-
-HAMLET This?
-
-First Clown E'en that.
-
-HAMLET Let me see.
-
- [Takes the skull]
-
- Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
- of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
- borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
- abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
- it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
- not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
- gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
- that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
- now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
- Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
- her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
- come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell
- me one thing.
-
-HORATIO What's that, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'
- the earth?
-
-HORATIO E'en so.
-
-HAMLET And smelt so? pah!
-
- [Puts down the skull]
-
-HORATIO E'en so, my lord.
-
-HAMLET To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
- not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,
- till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
-
-HORATIO 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
-
-HAMLET No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with
- modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as
- thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,
- Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of
- earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he
- was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?
- Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
- Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
- O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
- Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
- But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king.
-
- [Enter Priest, &c. in procession; the Corpse of
- OPHELIA, LAERTES and Mourners following; KING
- CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, their trains, &c]
-
- The queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow?
- And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken
- The corse they follow did with desperate hand
- Fordo its own life: 'twas of some estate.
- Couch we awhile, and mark.
-
- [Retiring with HORATIO]
-
-LAERTES What ceremony else?
-
-HAMLET That is Laertes,
- A very noble youth: mark.
-
-LAERTES What ceremony else?
-
-First Priest Her obsequies have been as far enlarged
- As we have warrantise: her death was doubtful;
- And, but that great command o'ersways the order,
- She should in ground unsanctified have lodged
- Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers,
- Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her;
- Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants,
- Her maiden strewments and the bringing home
- Of bell and burial.
-
-LAERTES Must there no more be done?
-
-First Priest No more be done:
- We should profane the service of the dead
- To sing a requiem and such rest to her
- As to peace-parted souls.
-
-LAERTES Lay her i' the earth:
- And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
- May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,
- A ministering angel shall my sister be,
- When thou liest howling.
-
-HAMLET What, the fair Ophelia!
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
-
- [Scattering flowers]
-
- I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;
- I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,
- And not have strew'd thy grave.
-
-LAERTES O, treble woe
- Fall ten times treble on that cursed head,
- Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense
- Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,
- Till I have caught her once more in mine arms:
-
- [Leaps into the grave]
-
- Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead,
- Till of this flat a mountain you have made,
- To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head
- Of blue Olympus.
-
-HAMLET [Advancing] What is he whose grief
- Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow
- Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand
- Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,
- Hamlet the Dane.
-
- [Leaps into the grave]
-
-LAERTES The devil take thy soul!
-
- [Grappling with him]
-
-HAMLET Thou pray'st not well.
- I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat;
- For, though I am not splenitive and rash,
- Yet have I something in me dangerous,
- Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Pluck them asunder.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Hamlet, Hamlet!
-
-All Gentlemen,--
-
-HORATIO Good my lord, be quiet.
-
- [The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave]
-
-HAMLET Why I will fight with him upon this theme
- Until my eyelids will no longer wag.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE O my son, what theme?
-
-HAMLET I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
- Could not, with all their quantity of love,
- Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS O, he is mad, Laertes.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE For love of God, forbear him.
-
-HAMLET 'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do:
- Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself?
- Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?
- I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?
- To outface me with leaping in her grave?
- Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
- And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
- Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
- Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
- Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
- I'll rant as well as thou.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE This is mere madness:
- And thus awhile the fit will work on him;
- Anon, as patient as the female dove,
- When that her golden couplets are disclosed,
- His silence will sit drooping.
-
-HAMLET Hear you, sir;
- What is the reason that you use me thus?
- I loved you ever: but it is no matter;
- Let Hercules himself do what he may,
- The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
-
- [Exit]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS I pray you, good Horatio, wait upon him.
-
- [Exit HORATIO]
-
- [To LAERTES]
-
- Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech;
- We'll put the matter to the present push.
- Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.
- This grave shall have a living monument:
- An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;
- Till then, in patience our proceeding be.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
- HAMLET
-
-
-ACT V
-
-
-
-SCENE II A hall in the castle.
-
-
- [Enter HAMLET and HORATIO]
-
-HAMLET So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other;
- You do remember all the circumstance?
-
-HORATIO Remember it, my lord?
-
-HAMLET Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,
- That would not let me sleep: methought I lay
- Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,
- And praised be rashness for it, let us know,
- Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
- When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us
- There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
- Rough-hew them how we will,--
-
-HORATIO That is most certain.
-
-HAMLET Up from my cabin,
- My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark
- Groped I to find out them; had my desire.
- Finger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew
- To mine own room again; making so bold,
- My fears forgetting manners, to unseal
- Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,--
- O royal knavery!--an exact command,
- Larded with many several sorts of reasons
- Importing Denmark's health and England's too,
- With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,
- That, on the supervise, no leisure bated,
- No, not to stay the grinding of the axe,
- My head should be struck off.
-
-HORATIO Is't possible?
-
-HAMLET Here's the commission: read it at more leisure.
- But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed?
-
-HORATIO I beseech you.
-
-HAMLET Being thus be-netted round with villanies,--
- Ere I could make a prologue to my brains,
- They had begun the play--I sat me down,
- Devised a new commission, wrote it fair:
- I once did hold it, as our statists do,
- A baseness to write fair and labour'd much
- How to forget that learning, but, sir, now
- It did me yeoman's service: wilt thou know
- The effect of what I wrote?
-
-HORATIO Ay, good my lord.
-
-HAMLET An earnest conjuration from the king,
- As England was his faithful tributary,
- As love between them like the palm might flourish,
- As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear
- And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
- And many such-like 'As'es of great charge,
- That, on the view and knowing of these contents,
- Without debatement further, more or less,
- He should the bearers put to sudden death,
- Not shriving-time allow'd.
-
-HORATIO How was this seal'd?
-
-HAMLET Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
- I had my father's signet in my purse,
- Which was the model of that Danish seal;
- Folded the writ up in form of the other,
- Subscribed it, gave't the impression, placed it safely,
- The changeling never known. Now, the next day
- Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent
- Thou know'st already.
-
-HORATIO So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.
-
-HAMLET Why, man, they did make love to this employment;
- They are not near my conscience; their defeat
- Does by their own insinuation grow:
- 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
- Between the pass and fell incensed points
- Of mighty opposites.
-
-HORATIO Why, what a king is this!
-
-HAMLET Does it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon--
- He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother,
- Popp'd in between the election and my hopes,
- Thrown out his angle for my proper life,
- And with such cozenage--is't not perfect conscience,
- To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd,
- To let this canker of our nature come
- In further evil?
-
-HORATIO It must be shortly known to him from England
- What is the issue of the business there.
-
-HAMLET It will be short: the interim is mine;
- And a man's life's no more than to say 'One.'
- But I am very sorry, good Horatio,
- That to Laertes I forgot myself;
- For, by the image of my cause, I see
- The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours.
- But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me
- Into a towering passion.
-
-HORATIO Peace! who comes here?
-
- [Enter OSRIC]
-
-OSRIC Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.
-
-HAMLET I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly?
-
-HORATIO No, my good lord.
-
-HAMLET Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to
- know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a
- beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at
- the king's mess: 'tis a chough; but, as I say,
- spacious in the possession of dirt.
-
-OSRIC Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I
- should impart a thing to you from his majesty.
-
-HAMLET I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of
- spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head.
-
-OSRIC I thank your lordship, it is very hot.
-
-HAMLET No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is
- northerly.
-
-OSRIC It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.
-
-HAMLET But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my
- complexion.
-
-OSRIC Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry,--as
- 'twere,--I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his
- majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a
- great wager on your head: sir, this is the matter,--
-
-HAMLET I beseech you, remember--
-
- [HAMLET moves him to put on his hat]
-
-OSRIC Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith.
- Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes; believe
- me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent
- differences, of very soft society and great showing:
- indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or
- calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the
- continent of what part a gentleman would see.
-
-HAMLET Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you;
- though, I know, to divide him inventorially would
- dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw
- neither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the
- verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of
- great article; and his infusion of such dearth and
- rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his
- semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace
- him, his umbrage, nothing more.
-
-OSRIC Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.
-
-HAMLET The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman
- in our more rawer breath?
-
-OSRIC Sir?
-
-HORATIO Is't not possible to understand in another tongue?
- You will do't, sir, really.
-
-HAMLET What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
-
-OSRIC Of Laertes?
-
-HORATIO His purse is empty already; all's golden words are spent.
-
-HAMLET Of him, sir.
-
-OSRIC I know you are not ignorant--
-
-HAMLET I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did,
- it would not much approve me. Well, sir?
-
-OSRIC You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is--
-
-HAMLET I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with
- him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to
- know himself.
-
-OSRIC I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation
- laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed.
-
-HAMLET What's his weapon?
-
-OSRIC Rapier and dagger.
-
-HAMLET That's two of his weapons: but, well.
-
-OSRIC The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary
- horses: against the which he has imponed, as I take
- it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their
- assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: three of the
- carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very
- responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages,
- and of very liberal conceit.
-
-HAMLET What call you the carriages?
-
-HORATIO I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done.
-
-OSRIC The carriages, sir, are the hangers.
-
-HAMLET The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we
- could carry cannon by our sides: I would it might
- be hangers till then. But, on: six Barbary horses
- against six French swords, their assigns, and three
- liberal-conceited carriages; that's the French bet
- against the Danish. Why is this 'imponed,' as you call it?
-
-OSRIC The king, sir, hath laid, that in a dozen passes
- between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you
- three hits: he hath laid on twelve for nine; and it
- would come to immediate trial, if your lordship
- would vouchsafe the answer.
-
-HAMLET How if I answer 'no'?
-
-OSRIC I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial.
-
-HAMLET Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his
- majesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me; let
- the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the
- king hold his purpose, I will win for him an I can;
- if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.
-
-OSRIC Shall I re-deliver you e'en so?
-
-HAMLET To this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature will.
-
-OSRIC I commend my duty to your lordship.
-
-HAMLET Yours, yours.
-
- [Exit OSRIC]
-
- He does well to commend it himself; there are no
- tongues else for's turn.
-
-HORATIO This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
-
-HAMLET He did comply with his dug, before he sucked it.
- Thus has he--and many more of the same bevy that I
- know the dressy age dotes on--only got the tune of
- the time and outward habit of encounter; a kind of
- yesty collection, which carries them through and
- through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do
- but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out.
-
- [Enter a Lord]
-
-Lord My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young
- Osric, who brings back to him that you attend him in
- the hall: he sends to know if your pleasure hold to
- play with Laertes, or that you will take longer time.
-
-HAMLET I am constant to my purpose; they follow the king's
- pleasure: if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now
- or whensoever, provided I be so able as now.
-
-Lord The king and queen and all are coming down.
-
-HAMLET In happy time.
-
-Lord The queen desires you to use some gentle
- entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play.
-
-HAMLET She well instructs me.
-
- [Exit Lord]
-
-HORATIO You will lose this wager, my lord.
-
-HAMLET I do not think so: since he went into France, I
- have been in continual practise: I shall win at the
- odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here
- about my heart: but it is no matter.
-
-HORATIO Nay, good my lord,--
-
-HAMLET It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of
- gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.
-
-HORATIO If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will
- forestall their repair hither, and say you are not
- fit.
-
-HAMLET Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
- providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
- 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
- now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
- readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he
- leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
-
- [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES,
- Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, &c]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.
-
- [KING CLAUDIUS puts LAERTES' hand into HAMLET's]
-
-HAMLET Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong;
- But pardon't, as you are a gentleman.
- This presence knows,
- And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd
- With sore distraction. What I have done,
- That might your nature, honour and exception
- Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
- Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:
- If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,
- And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,
- Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.
- Who does it, then? His madness: if't be so,
- Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;
- His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
- Sir, in this audience,
- Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil
- Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,
- That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,
- And hurt my brother.
-
-LAERTES I am satisfied in nature,
- Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most
- To my revenge: but in my terms of honour
- I stand aloof; and will no reconcilement,
- Till by some elder masters, of known honour,
- I have a voice and precedent of peace,
- To keep my name ungored. But till that time,
- I do receive your offer'd love like love,
- And will not wrong it.
-
-HAMLET I embrace it freely;
- And will this brother's wager frankly play.
- Give us the foils. Come on.
-
-LAERTES Come, one for me.
-
-HAMLET I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance
- Your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night,
- Stick fiery off indeed.
-
-LAERTES You mock me, sir.
-
-HAMLET No, by this hand.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,
- You know the wager?
-
-HAMLET Very well, my lord
- Your grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS I do not fear it; I have seen you both:
- But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds.
-
-LAERTES This is too heavy, let me see another.
-
-HAMLET This likes me well. These foils have all a length?
-
- [They prepare to play]
-
-OSRIC Ay, my good lord.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Set me the stoops of wine upon that table.
- If Hamlet give the first or second hit,
- Or quit in answer of the third exchange,
- Let all the battlements their ordnance fire:
- The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath;
- And in the cup an union shall he throw,
- Richer than that which four successive kings
- In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups;
- And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
- The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
- The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,
- 'Now the king dunks to Hamlet.' Come, begin:
- And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.
-
-HAMLET Come on, sir.
-
-LAERTES Come, my lord.
-
- [They play]
-
-HAMLET One.
-
-LAERTES No.
-
-HAMLET Judgment.
-
-OSRIC A hit, a very palpable hit.
-
-LAERTES Well; again.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Stay; give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;
- Here's to thy health.
-
- [Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within]
-
- Give him the cup.
-
-HAMLET I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile. Come.
-
- [They play]
-
- Another hit; what say you?
-
-LAERTES A touch, a touch, I do confess.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Our son shall win.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE He's fat, and scant of breath.
- Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows;
- The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.
-
-HAMLET Good madam!
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Gertrude, do not drink.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE I will, my lord; I pray you, pardon me.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS [Aside] It is the poison'd cup: it is too late.
-
-HAMLET I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE Come, let me wipe thy face.
-
-LAERTES My lord, I'll hit him now.
-
-KING CLAUDIUS I do not think't.
-
-LAERTES [Aside] And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience.
-
-HAMLET Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally;
- I pray you, pass with your best violence;
- I am afeard you make a wanton of me.
-
-LAERTES Say you so? come on.
-
- [They play]
-
-OSRIC Nothing, neither way.
-
-LAERTES Have at you now!
-
- [LAERTES wounds HAMLET; then in scuffling, they
- change rapiers, and HAMLET wounds LAERTES]
-
-KING CLAUDIUS Part them; they are incensed.
-
-HAMLET Nay, come, again.
-
- [QUEEN GERTRUDE falls]
-
-OSRIC Look to the queen there, ho!
-
-HORATIO They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?
-
-OSRIC How is't, Laertes?
-
-LAERTES Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;
- I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.
-
-HAMLET How does the queen?
-
-KING CLAUDIUS She swounds to see them bleed.
-
-QUEEN GERTRUDE No, no, the drink, the drink,--O my dear Hamlet,--
- The drink, the drink! I am poison'd.
-
- [Dies]
-
-HAMLET O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd:
- Treachery! Seek it out.
-
-LAERTES It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain;
- No medicine in the world can do thee good;
- In thee there is not half an hour of life;
- The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
- Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practise
- Hath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie,
- Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd:
- I can no more: the king, the king's to blame.
-
-HAMLET The point!--envenom'd too!
- Then, venom, to thy work.
-
- [Stabs KING CLAUDIUS]
-
-All Treason! treason!
-
-KING CLAUDIUS O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt.
-
-HAMLET Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,
- Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?
- Follow my mother.
-
- [KING CLAUDIUS dies]
-
-LAERTES He is justly served;
- It is a poison temper'd by himself.
- Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:
- Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,
- Nor thine on me.
-
- [Dies]
-
-HAMLET Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.
- 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,
- Had I but time--as this fell sergeant, death,
- Is strict in his arrest--O, I could tell you--
- But let it be. Horatio, I am dead;
- Thou livest; report me and my cause aright
- To the unsatisfied.
-
-HORATIO Never believe it:
- 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 good 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.
-
- [March afar off, and shot within]
-
- What warlike noise is this?
-
-OSRIC Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,
- To the ambassadors of England gives
- This warlike volley.
-
-HAMLET O, I die, Horatio;
- 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;
- So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,
- Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
-
- [Dies]
-
-HORATIO Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
- And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
- Why does the drum come hither?
-
- [March within]
-
- [Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors,
- and others]
-
-PRINCE FORTINBRAS Where is this sight?
-
-HORATIO What is it ye would see?
- If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.
-
-PRINCE FORTINBRAS This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,
- What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,
- That thou so many princes at a shot
- So bloodily hast struck?
-
-First 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 Not from his mouth,
- Had it the ability of life to thank you:
- He never gave commandment for their death.
- But since, so jump upon this bloody question,
- You from the Polack wars, and you from England,
- Are here arrived give order that these bodies
- 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
- Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
- Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
- Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
- And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
- Fall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I
- Truly deliver.
-
-PRINCE FORTINBRAS Let us haste to hear it,
- And call the noblest to the audience.
- For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:
- I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,
- Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.
-
-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.
-
-PRINCE FORTINBRAS Let four captains
- Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;
- For he was likely, had he been put on,
- To have proved 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.
-
- [A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead
- bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off]
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- #KING #LEAR
-
-
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
-
-
-#LEAR king of Britain (#KING LEAR:)
-
-KING OF FRANCE:
-
-DUKE OF #BURGUNDY (BURGUNDY:)
-
-DUKE OF #CORNWALL (CORNWALL:)
-
-DUKE OF #ALBANY (ALBANY:)
-
-EARL OF #KENT (KENT:)
-
-EARL OF #GLOUCESTER (GLOUCESTER:)
-
-#EDGAR son to Gloucester.
-
-#EDMUND bastard son to Gloucester.
-
-#CURAN a courtier.
-
-Old Man tenant to Gloucester.
-
-#Doctor:
-
-#Fool:
-
-#OSWALD steward to Goneril.
-
- A #Captain employed by Edmund. (Captain:)
-
- #Gentleman attendant on Cordelia. (Gentleman:)
- A Herald.
-
- Servants to Cornwall.
- (First Servant:)
- (Second Servant:)
- (Third Servant:)
-
-
-#GONERIL |
- |
-#REGAN | daughters to Lear.
- |
-#CORDELIA |
-
-
- Knights of Lear's train, #Captains, Messengers,
- Soldiers, and Attendants
- (Knight:)
- (#Captain:)
- (Messenger:)
-
-
-
-SCENE Britain.
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT I
-
-
-
-SCENE I King Lear's palace.
-
-
- [Enter #KENT, #GLOUCESTER, and #EDMUND]
-
-#KENT I thought the king had more affected the Duke of
- Albany than Cornwall.
-
-#GLOUCESTER It did always seem so to us: but now, in the
- division of the kingdom, it appears not which of
- the dukes he values most; for equalities are so
- weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice
- of either's moiety.
-
-#KENT Is not this your son, my lord?
-
-#GLOUCESTER His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have
- so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am
- brazed to it.
-
-#KENT I cannot conceive you.
-
-#GLOUCESTER Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon
- she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son
- for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed.
- Do you smell a fault?
-
-#KENT I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it
- being so proper.
-
-#GLOUCESTER But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year
- elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account:
- though this knave came something saucily into the
- world before he was sent for, yet was his mother
- fair; there was good sport at his making, and the
- whoreson must be acknowledged. Do you know this
- noble gentleman, Edmund?
-
-#EDMUND No, my lord.
-
-#GLOUCESTER My lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my
- honourable friend.
-
-#EDMUND My services to your lordship.
-
-#KENT I must love you, and sue to know you better.
-
-#EDMUND Sir, I shall study deserving.
-
-#GLOUCESTER He hath been out nine years, and away he shall
- again. The king is coming.
-
- [Sennet. Enter #KING #LEAR, #CORNWALL, #ALBANY,
- #GONERIL, #REGAN, #CORDELIA, and Attendants]
-
-#KING #LEAR Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.
-
-#GLOUCESTER I shall, my liege.
-
- [Exeunt #GLOUCESTER and #EDMUND]
-
-#KING #LEAR Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
- Give me the map there. Know that we have divided
- In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent
- To shake all cares and business from our age;
- Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
- Unburthen'd crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,
- And you, our no less loving son of Albany,
- We have this hour a constant will to publish
- Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife
- May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,
- Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,
- Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
- And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters,--
- Since now we will divest us both of rule,
- Interest of territory, cares of state,--
- Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
- That we our largest bounty may extend
- Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,
- Our eldest-born, speak first.
-
-#GONERIL Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter;
- Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty;
- Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare;
- No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour;
- As much as child e'er loved, or father found;
- A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable;
- Beyond all manner of so much I love you.
-
-#CORDELIA [Aside] What shall Cordelia do?
- Love, and be silent.
-
-#LEAR Of all these bounds, even from this line to this,
- With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd,
- With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,
- We make thee lady: to thine and Albany's issue
- Be this perpetual. What says our second daughter,
- Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall? Speak.
-
-#REGAN Sir, I am made
- Of the self-same metal that my sister is,
- And prize me at her worth. In my true heart
- I find she names my very deed of love;
- Only she comes too short: that I profess
- Myself an enemy to all other joys,
- Which the most precious square of sense possesses;
- And find I am alone felicitate
- In your dear highness' love.
-
-#CORDELIA [Aside] Then poor Cordelia!
- And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love's
- More richer than my tongue.
-
-#KING #LEAR To thee and thine hereditary ever
- Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom;
- No less in space, validity, and pleasure,
- Than that conferr'd on Goneril. Now, our joy,
- Although the last, not least; to whose young love
- The vines of France and milk of Burgundy
- Strive to be interess'd; what can you say to draw
- A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.
-
-#CORDELIA Nothing, my lord.
-
-#KING #LEAR Nothing!
-
-#CORDELIA Nothing.
-
-#KING #LEAR Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.
-
-#CORDELIA Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
- My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty
- According to my bond; nor more nor less.
-
-#KING #LEAR How, how, Cordelia! mend your speech a little,
- Lest it may mar your fortunes.
-
-#CORDELIA Good my lord,
- You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I
- Return those duties back as are right fit,
- Obey you, love you, and most honour you.
- Why have my sisters husbands, if they say
- They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,
- That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
- Half my love with him, half my care and duty:
- Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,
- To love my father all.
-
-#KING #LEAR But goes thy heart with this?
-
-#CORDELIA Ay, good my lord.
-
-#KING #LEAR So young, and so untender?
-
-#CORDELIA So young, my lord, and true.
-
-#KING #LEAR Let it be so; thy truth, then, be thy dower:
- For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,
- The mysteries of Hecate, and the night;
- By all the operation of the orbs
- From whom we do exist, and cease to be;
- Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
- Propinquity and property of blood,
- And as a stranger to my heart and me
- Hold thee, from this, for ever. The barbarous Scythian,
- Or he that makes his generation messes
- To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom
- Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and relieved,
- As thou my sometime daughter.
-
-#KENT Good my liege,--
-
-#KING #LEAR Peace, Kent!
- Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
- I loved her most, and thought to set my rest
- On her kind nursery. Hence, and avoid my sight!
- So be my grave my peace, as here I give
- Her father's heart from her! Call France; who stirs?
- Call Burgundy. Cornwall and Albany,
- With my two daughters' dowers digest this third:
- Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.
- I do invest you jointly with my power,
- Pre-eminence, and all the large effects
- That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,
- With reservation of an hundred knights,
- By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode
- Make with you by due turns. Only we still retain
- The name, and all the additions to a king;
- The sway, revenue, execution of the rest,
- Beloved sons, be yours: which to confirm,
- This coronet part betwixt you.
-
- [Giving the crown]
-
-#KENT Royal Lear,
- Whom I have ever honour'd as my king,
- Loved as my father, as my master follow'd,
- As my great patron thought on in my prayers,--
-
-#KING #LEAR The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft.
-
-#KENT Let it fall rather, though the fork invade
- The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly,
- When Lear is mad. What wilt thou do, old man?
- Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak,
- When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound,
- When majesty stoops to folly. Reverse thy doom;
- And, in thy best consideration, cheque
- This hideous rashness: answer my life my judgment,
- Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least;
- Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound
- Reverbs no hollowness.
-
-#KING #LEAR Kent, on thy life, no more.
-
-#KENT My life I never held but as a pawn
- To wage against thy enemies; nor fear to lose it,
- Thy safety being the motive.
-
-#KING #LEAR Out of my sight!
-
-#KENT See better, Lear; and let me still remain
- The true blank of thine eye.
-
-#KING #LEAR Now, by Apollo,--
-
-#KENT Now, by Apollo, king,
- Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.
-
-#KING #LEAR O, vassal! miscreant!
-
- [Laying his hand on his sword]
-
-
-#ALBANY |
- | Dear sir, forbear.
-#CORNWALL |
-
-
-#KENT Do:
- Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow
- Upon thy foul disease. Revoke thy doom;
- Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,
- I'll tell thee thou dost evil.
-
-#KING #LEAR Hear me, recreant!
- On thine allegiance, hear me!
- Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow,
- Which we durst never yet, and with strain'd pride
- To come between our sentence and our power,
- Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,
- Our potency made good, take thy reward.
- Five days we do allot thee, for provision
- To shield thee from diseases of the world;
- And on the sixth to turn thy hated back
- Upon our kingdom: if, on the tenth day following,
- Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,
- The moment is thy death. Away! by Jupiter,
- This shall not be revoked.
-
-#KENT Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,
- Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
-
- [To #CORDELIA]
-
- The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid,
- That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said!
-
- [To #REGAN and #GONERIL]
-
- And your large speeches may your deeds approve,
- That good effects may spring from words of love.
- Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu;
- He'll shape his old course in a country new.
-
- [Exit]
-
- [Flourish. Re-enter #GLOUCESTER, with KING OF FRANCE,
- #BURGUNDY, and Attendants]
-
-#GLOUCESTER Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord.
-
-#KING #LEAR My lord of Burgundy.
- We first address towards you, who with this king
- Hath rivall'd for our daughter: what, in the least,
- Will you require in present dower with her,
- Or cease your quest of love?
-
-#BURGUNDY Most royal majesty,
- I crave no more than what your highness offer'd,
- Nor will you tender less.
-
-#KING #LEAR Right noble Burgundy,
- When she was dear to us, we did hold her so;
- But now her price is fall'n. Sir, there she stands:
- If aught within that little seeming substance,
- Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced,
- And nothing more, may fitly like your grace,
- She's there, and she is yours.
-
-#BURGUNDY I know no answer.
-
-#KING #LEAR Will you, with those infirmities she owes,
- Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate,
- Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath,
- Take her, or leave her?
-
-#BURGUNDY Pardon me, royal sir;
- Election makes not up on such conditions.
-
-#KING #LEAR Then leave her, sir; for, by the power that made me,
- I tell you all her wealth.
-
- [To KING OF FRANCE]
-
- For you, great king,
- I would not from your love make such a stray,
- To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you
- To avert your liking a more worthier way
- Than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed
- Almost to acknowledge hers.
-
-KING OF FRANCE This is most strange,
- That she, that even but now was your best object,
- The argument of your praise, balm of your age,
- Most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time
- Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle
- So many folds of favour. Sure, her offence
- Must be of such unnatural degree,
- That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection
- Fall'n into taint: which to believe of her,
- Must be a faith that reason without miracle
- Could never plant in me.
-
-#CORDELIA I yet beseech your majesty,--
- If for I want that glib and oily art,
- To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend,
- I'll do't before I speak,--that you make known
- It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,
- No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step,
- That hath deprived me of your grace and favour;
- But even for want of that for which I am richer,
- A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue
- As I am glad I have not, though not to have it
- Hath lost me in your liking.
-
-#KING #LEAR Better thou
- Hadst not been born than not to have pleased me better.
-
-KING OF FRANCE Is it but this,--a tardiness in nature
- Which often leaves the history unspoke
- That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,
- What say you to the lady? Love's not love
- When it is mingled with regards that stand
- Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?
- She is herself a dowry.
-
-#BURGUNDY Royal Lear,
- Give but that portion which yourself proposed,
- And here I take Cordelia by the hand,
- Duchess of Burgundy.
-
-#KING #LEAR Nothing: I have sworn; I am firm.
-
-#BURGUNDY I am sorry, then, you have so lost a father
- That you must lose a husband.
-
-#CORDELIA Peace be with Burgundy!
- Since that respects of fortune are his love,
- I shall not be his wife.
-
-KING OF FRANCE Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;
- Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised!
- Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon:
- Be it lawful I take up what's cast away.
- Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
- My love should kindle to inflamed respect.
- Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance,
- Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France:
- Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy
- Can buy this unprized precious maid of me.
- Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind:
- Thou losest here, a better where to find.
-
-#KING #LEAR Thou hast her, France: let her be thine; for we
- Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
- That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
- Without our grace, our love, our benison.
- Come, noble Burgundy.
-
- [Flourish. Exeunt all but KING OF FRANCE, #GONERIL,
- #REGAN, and #CORDELIA]
-
-KING OF FRANCE Bid farewell to your sisters.
-
-#CORDELIA The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes
- Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are;
- And like a sister am most loath to call
- Your faults as they are named. Use well our father:
- To your professed bosoms I commit him
- But yet, alas, stood I within his grace,
- I would prefer him to a better place.
- So, farewell to you both.
-
-#REGAN Prescribe not us our duties.
-
-#GONERIL Let your study
- Be to content your lord, who hath received you
- At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,
- And well are worth the want that you have wanted.
-
-#CORDELIA Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides:
- Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
- Well may you prosper!
-
-KING OF FRANCE Come, my fair Cordelia.
-
- [Exeunt KING OF FRANCE and #CORDELIA]
-
-#GONERIL Sister, it is not a little I have to say of what
- most nearly appertains to us both. I think our
- father will hence to-night.
-
-#REGAN That's most certain, and with you; next month with us.
-
-#GONERIL You see how full of changes his age is; the
- observation we have made of it hath not been
- little: he always loved our sister most; and
- with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off
- appears too grossly.
-
-#REGAN 'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever
- but slenderly known himself.
-
-#GONERIL The best and soundest of his time hath been but
- rash; then must we look to receive from his age,
- not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed
- condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness
- that infirm and choleric years bring with them.
-
-#REGAN Such unconstant starts are we like to have from
- him as this of Kent's banishment.
-
-#GONERIL There is further compliment of leavetaking
- between France and him. Pray you, let's hit
- together: if our father carry authority with
- such dispositions as he bears, this last
- surrender of his will but offend us.
-
-#REGAN We shall further think on't.
-
-#GONERIL We must do something, and i' the heat.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT I
-
-
-
-SCENE II The Earl of Gloucester's castle.
-
-
- [Enter #EDMUND, with a letter]
-
-#EDMUND Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law
- My services are bound. Wherefore should I
- Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
- The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
- For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines
- Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
- When my dimensions are as well compact,
- My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
- As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
- With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
- Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
- More composition and fierce quality
- Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
- Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,
- Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then,
- Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
- Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
- As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!
- Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
- And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
- Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:
- Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
-
- [Enter #GLOUCESTER]
-
-#GLOUCESTER Kent banish'd thus! and France in choler parted!
- And the king gone to-night! subscribed his power!
- Confined to exhibition! All this done
- Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?
-
-#EDMUND So please your lordship, none.
-
- [Putting up the letter]
-
-#GLOUCESTER Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?
-
-#EDMUND I know no news, my lord.
-
-#GLOUCESTER What paper were you reading?
-
-#EDMUND Nothing, my lord.
-
-#GLOUCESTER No? What needed, then, that terrible dispatch of
- it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath
- not such need to hide itself. Let's see: come,
- if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles.
-
-#EDMUND I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter
- from my brother, that I have not all o'er-read;
- and for so much as I have perused, I find it not
- fit for your o'er-looking.
-
-#GLOUCESTER Give me the letter, sir.
-
-#EDMUND I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The
- contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame.
-
-#GLOUCESTER Let's see, let's see.
-
-#EDMUND I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote
- this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.
-
-#GLOUCESTER [Reads] 'This policy and reverence of age makes
- the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps
- our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish
- them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage
- in the oppression of aged tyranny; who sways, not
- as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Come to
- me, that of this I may speak more. If our father
- would sleep till I waked him, you should half his
- revenue for ever, and live the beloved of your
- brother, #EDGAR.'
-
- Hum--conspiracy!--'Sleep till I waked him,--you
- should enjoy half his revenue,'--My son Edgar!
- Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brain
- to breed it in?--When came this to you? who
- brought it?
-
-#EDMUND It was not brought me, my lord; there's the
- cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the
- casement of my closet.
-
-#GLOUCESTER You know the character to be your brother's?
-
-#EDMUND If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear
- it were his; but, in respect of that, I would
- fain think it were not.
-
-#GLOUCESTER It is his.
-
-#EDMUND It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is
- not in the contents.
-
-#GLOUCESTER Hath he never heretofore sounded you in this business?
-
-#EDMUND Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft
- maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age,
- and fathers declining, the father should be as
- ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue.
-
-#GLOUCESTER O villain, villain! His very opinion in the
- letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested,
- brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah,
- seek him; I'll apprehend him: abominable villain!
- Where is he?
-
-#EDMUND I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please
- you to suspend your indignation against my
- brother till you can derive from him better
- testimony of his intent, you shall run a certain
- course; where, if you violently proceed against
- him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great
- gap in your own honour, and shake in pieces the
- heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life
- for him, that he hath wrote this to feel my
- affection to your honour, and to no further
- pretence of danger.
-
-#GLOUCESTER Think you so?
-
-#EDMUND If your honour judge it meet, I will place you
- where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an
- auricular assurance have your satisfaction; and
- that without any further delay than this very evening.
-
-#GLOUCESTER He cannot be such a monster--
-
-#EDMUND Nor is not, sure.
-
-#GLOUCESTER To his father, that so tenderly and entirely
- loves him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him
- out: wind me into him, I pray you: frame the
- business after your own wisdom. I would unstate
- myself, to be in a due resolution.
-
-#EDMUND I will seek him, sir, presently: convey the
- business as I shall find means and acquaint you withal.
-
-#GLOUCESTER These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend
- no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can
- reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself
- scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,
- friendship falls off, brothers divide: in
- cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in
- palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son
- and father. This villain of mine comes under the
- prediction; there's son against father: the king
- falls from bias of nature; there's father against
- child. We have seen the best of our time:
- machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all
- ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our
- graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall
- lose thee nothing; do it carefully. And the
- noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his
- offence, honesty! 'Tis strange.
-
- [Exit]
-
-#EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
- when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
- of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our
- disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
- if we were villains by necessity; fools by
- heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and
- treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,
- liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
- planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,
- by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion
- of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
- disposition to the charge of a star! My
- father compounded with my mother under the
- dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa
- major; so that it follows, I am rough and
- lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,
- had the maidenliest star in the firmament
- twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar--
-
- [Enter #EDGAR]
-
- And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old
- comedy: my cue is villanous melancholy, with a
- sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. O, these eclipses do
- portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi.
-
-#EDGAR How now, brother Edmund! what serious
- contemplation are you in?
-
-#EDMUND I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read
- this other day, what should follow these eclipses.
-
-#EDGAR Do you busy yourself about that?
-
-#EDMUND I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed
- unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child
- and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of
- ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and
- maledictions against king and nobles; needless
- diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation
- of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
-
-#EDGAR How long have you been a sectary astronomical?
-
-#EDMUND Come, come; when saw you my father last?
-
-#EDGAR Why, the night gone by.
-
-#EDMUND Spake you with him?
-
-#EDGAR Ay, two hours together.
-
-#EDMUND Parted you in good terms? Found you no
- displeasure in him by word or countenance?
-
-#EDGAR None at all.
-
-#EDMUND Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended
- him: and at my entreaty forbear his presence
- till some little time hath qualified the heat of
- his displeasure; which at this instant so rageth
- in him, that with the mischief of your person it
- would scarcely allay.
-
-#EDGAR Some villain hath done me wrong.
-
-#EDMUND That's my fear. I pray you, have a continent
- forbearance till the spied of his rage goes
- slower; and, as I say, retire with me to my
- lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to
- hear my lord speak: pray ye, go; there's my key:
- if you do stir abroad, go armed.
-
-#EDGAR Armed, brother!
-
-#EDMUND Brother, I advise you to the best; go armed: I
- am no honest man if there be any good meaning
- towards you: I have told you what I have seen
- and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image
- and horror of it: pray you, away.
-
-#EDGAR Shall I hear from you anon?
-
-#EDMUND I do serve you in this business.
-
- [Exit #EDGAR]
-
- A credulous father! and a brother noble,
- Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
- That he suspects none: on whose foolish honesty
- My practises ride easy! I see the business.
- Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:
- All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
-
- [Exit]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT I
-
-
-
-SCENE III The Duke of Albany's palace.
-
-
- [Enter #GONERIL, and #OSWALD, her steward]
-
-#GONERIL Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?
-
-#OSWALD Yes, madam.
-
-#GONERIL By day and night he wrongs me; every hour
- He flashes into one gross crime or other,
- That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it:
- His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us
- On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,
- I will not speak with him; say I am sick:
- If you come slack of former services,
- You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.
-
-#OSWALD He's coming, madam; I hear him.
-
- [Horns within]
-
-#GONERIL Put on what weary negligence you please,
- You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question:
- If he dislike it, let him to our sister,
- Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,
- Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man,
- That still would manage those authorities
- That he hath given away! Now, by my life,
- Old fools are babes again; and must be used
- With cheques as flatteries,--when they are seen abused.
- Remember what I tell you.
-
-#OSWALD Well, madam.
-
-#GONERIL And let his knights have colder looks among you;
- What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so:
- I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,
- That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister,
- To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT I
-
-
-
-SCENE IV A hall in the same.
-
-
- [Enter #KENT, disguised]
-
-#KENT If but as well I other accents borrow,
- That can my speech defuse, my good intent
- May carry through itself to that full issue
- For which I razed my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,
- If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,
- So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest,
- Shall find thee full of labours.
-
- [Horns within. Enter #KING #LEAR, Knights, and
- Attendants]
-
-#KING #LEAR Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready.
-
- [Exit an Attendant]
-
- How now! what art thou?
-
-#KENT A man, sir.
-
-#KING #LEAR What dost thou profess? what wouldst thou with us?
-
-#KENT I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve
- him truly that will put me in trust: to love him
- that is honest; to converse with him that is wise,
- and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I
- cannot choose; and to eat no fish.
-
-#KING #LEAR What art thou?
-
-#KENT A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king.
-
-#KING #LEAR If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a
- king, thou art poor enough. What wouldst thou?
-
-#KENT Service.
-
-#KING #LEAR Who wouldst thou serve?
-
-#KENT You.
-
-#KING #LEAR Dost thou know me, fellow?
-
-#KENT No, sir; but you have that in your countenance
- which I would fain call master.
-
-#KING #LEAR What's that?
-
-#KENT Authority.
-
-#KING #LEAR What services canst thou do?
-
-#KENT I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious
- tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message
- bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am
- qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.
-
-#KING #LEAR How old art thou?
-
-#KENT Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor
- so old to dote on her for any thing: I have years
- on my back forty eight.
-
-#KING #LEAR Follow me; thou shalt serve me: if I like thee no
- worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet.
- Dinner, ho, dinner! Where's my knave? my fool?
- Go you, and call my fool hither.
-
- [Exit an Attendant]
-
- [Enter #OSWALD]
-
- You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?
-
-#OSWALD So please you,--
-
- [Exit]
-
-#KING #LEAR What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back.
-
- [Exit a Knight]
-
- Where's my fool, ho? I think the world's asleep.
-
- [Re-enter Knight]
-
- How now! where's that mongrel?
-
-Knight He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.
-
-#KING #LEAR Why came not the slave back to me when I called him.
-
-Knight Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner, he would
- not.
-
-#KING #LEAR He would not!
-
-Knight My lord, I know not what the matter is; but, to my
- judgment, your highness is not entertained with that
- ceremonious affection as you were wont; there's a
- great abatement of kindness appears as well in the
- general dependants as in the duke himself also and
- your daughter.
-
-#KING #LEAR Ha! sayest thou so?
-
-Knight I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken;
- for my duty cannot be silent when I think your
- highness wronged.
-
-#KING #LEAR Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception: I
- have perceived a most faint neglect of late; which I
- have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity
- than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness:
- I will look further into't. But where's my fool? I
- have not seen him this two days.
-
-Knight Since my young lady's going into France, sir, the
- fool hath much pined away.
-
-#KING #LEAR No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you, and
- tell my daughter I would speak with her.
-
- [Exit an Attendant]
-
- Go you, call hither my fool.
-
- [Exit an Attendant]
-
- [Re-enter #OSWALD]
-
- O, you sir, you, come you hither, sir: who am I,
- sir?
-
-#OSWALD My lady's father.
-
-#KING #LEAR 'My lady's father'! my lord's knave: your
- whoreson dog! you slave! you cur!
-
-#OSWALD I am none of these, my lord; I beseech your pardon.
-
-#KING #LEAR Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?
-
- [Striking him]
-
-#OSWALD I'll not be struck, my lord.
-
-#KENT Nor tripped neither, you base football player.
-
- [Tripping up his heels]
-
-#KING #LEAR I thank thee, fellow; thou servest me, and I'll
- love thee.
-
-#KENT Come, sir, arise, away! I'll teach you differences:
- away, away! if you will measure your lubber's
- length again, tarry: but away! go to; have you
- wisdom? so.
-
- [Pushes #OSWALD out]
-
-#KING #LEAR Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee: there's
- earnest of thy service.
-
- [Giving #KENT money]
-
- [Enter #Fool]
-
-#Fool Let me hire him too: here's my coxcomb.
-
- [Offering #KENT his cap]
-
-#KING #LEAR How now, my pretty knave! how dost thou?
-
-#Fool Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb.
-
-#KENT Why, fool?
-
-#Fool Why, for taking one's part that's out of favour:
- nay, an thou canst not smile as the wind sits,
- thou'lt catch cold shortly: there, take my coxcomb:
- why, this fellow has banished two on's daughters,
- and did the third a blessing against his will; if
- thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb.
- How now, nuncle! Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters!
-
-#KING #LEAR Why, my boy?
-
-#Fool If I gave them all my living, I'ld keep my coxcombs
- myself. There's mine; beg another of thy daughters.
-
-#KING #LEAR Take heed, sirrah; the whip.
-
-#Fool Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped
- out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink.
-
-#KING #LEAR A pestilent gall to me!
-
-#Fool Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.
-
-#KING #LEAR Do.
-
-#Fool Mark it, nuncle:
- Have more than thou showest,
- Speak less than thou knowest,
- Lend less than thou owest,
- Ride more than thou goest,
- Learn more than thou trowest,
- Set less than thou throwest;
- Leave thy drink and thy whore,
- And keep in-a-door,
- And thou shalt have more
- Than two tens to a score.
-
-#KENT This is nothing, fool.
-
-#Fool Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you
- gave me nothing for't. Can you make no use of
- nothing, nuncle?
-
-#KING #LEAR Why, no, boy; nothing can be made out of nothing.
-
-#Fool [To #KENT] Prithee, tell him, so much the rent of
- his land comes to: he will not believe a fool.
-
-#KING #LEAR A bitter fool!
-
-#Fool Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a
- bitter fool and a sweet fool?
-
-#KING #LEAR No, lad; teach me.
-
-#Fool That lord that counsell'd thee
- To give away thy land,
- Come place him here by me,
- Do thou for him stand:
- The sweet and bitter fool
- Will presently appear;
- The one in motley here,
- The other found out there.
-
-#KING #LEAR Dost thou call me fool, boy?
-
-#Fool All thy other titles thou hast given away; that
- thou wast born with.
-
-#KENT This is not altogether fool, my lord.
-
-#Fool No, faith, lords and great men will not let me; if
- I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't:
- and ladies too, they will not let me have all fool
- to myself; they'll be snatching. Give me an egg,
- nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns.
-
-#KING #LEAR What two crowns shall they be?
-
-#Fool Why, after I have cut the egg i' the middle, and eat
- up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou
- clovest thy crown i' the middle, and gavest away
- both parts, thou borest thy ass on thy back o'er
- the dirt: thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown,
- when thou gavest thy golden one away. If I speak
- like myself in this, let him be whipped that first
- finds it so.
-
- [Singing]
-
- #Fools had ne'er less wit in a year;
- For wise men are grown foppish,
- They know not how their wits to wear,
- Their manners are so apish.
-
-#KING #LEAR When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?
-
-#Fool I have used it, nuncle, ever since thou madest thy
- daughters thy mothers: for when thou gavest them
- the rod, and put'st down thine own breeches,
-
- [Singing]
-
- Then they for sudden joy did weep,
- And I for sorrow sung,
- That such a king should play bo-peep,
- And go the fools among.
-
- Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach
- thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie.
-
-#KING #LEAR An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped.
-
-#Fool I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are:
- they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt
- have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am
- whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any
- kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be
- thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides,
- and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o'
- the parings.
-
- [Enter #GONERIL]
-
-#KING #LEAR How now, daughter! what makes that frontlet on?
- Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.
-
-#Fool Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to
- care for her frowning; now thou art an O without a
- figure: I am better than thou art now; I am a fool,
- thou art nothing.
-
- [To #GONERIL]
-
- Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue; so your face
- bids me, though you say nothing. Mum, mum,
- He that keeps nor crust nor crum,
- Weary of all, shall want some.
-
- [Pointing to #KING #LEAR]
-
- That's a shealed peascod.
-
-#GONERIL Not only, sir, this your all-licensed fool,
- But other of your insolent retinue
- Do hourly carp and quarrel; breaking forth
- In rank and not-to-be endured riots. Sir,
- I had thought, by making this well known unto you,
- To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful,
- By what yourself too late have spoke and done.
- That you protect this course, and put it on
- By your allowance; which if you should, the fault
- Would not 'scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,
- Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,
- Might in their working do you that offence,
- Which else were shame, that then necessity
- Will call discreet proceeding.
-
-#Fool For, you trow, nuncle,
- The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,
- That it's had it head bit off by it young.
- So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.
-
-#KING #LEAR Are you our daughter?
-
-#GONERIL Come, sir,
- I would you would make use of that good wisdom,
- Whereof I know you are fraught; and put away
- These dispositions, that of late transform you
- From what you rightly are.
-
-#Fool May not an ass know when the cart
- draws the horse? Whoop, Jug! I love thee.
-
-#KING #LEAR Doth any here know me? This is not Lear:
- Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?
- Either his notion weakens, his discernings
- Are lethargied--Ha! waking? 'tis not so.
- Who is it that can tell me who I am?
-
-#Fool Lear's shadow.
-
-#KING #LEAR I would learn that; for, by the
- marks of sovereignty, knowledge, and reason,
- I should be false persuaded I had daughters.
-
-#Fool Which they will make an obedient father.
-
-#KING #LEAR Your name, fair gentlewoman?
-
-#GONERIL This admiration, sir, is much o' the savour
- Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you
- To understand my purposes aright:
- As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
- Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;
- Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd and bold,
- That this our court, infected with their manners,
- Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust
- Make it more like a tavern or a brothel
- Than a graced palace. The shame itself doth speak
- For instant remedy: be then desired
- By her, that else will take the thing she begs,
- A little to disquantity your train;
- And the remainder, that shall still depend,
- To be such men as may besort your age,
- And know themselves and you.
-
-#KING #LEAR Darkness and devils!
- Saddle my horses; call my train together:
- Degenerate bastard! I'll not trouble thee.
- Yet have I left a daughter.
-
-#GONERIL You strike my people; and your disorder'd rabble
- Make servants of their betters.
-
- [Enter #ALBANY]
-
-#KING #LEAR Woe, that too late repents,--
-
- [To #ALBANY]
-
- O, sir, are you come?
- Is it your will? Speak, sir. Prepare my horses.
- Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
- More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
- Than the sea-monster!
-
-#ALBANY Pray, sir, be patient.
-
-#KING #LEAR [To #GONERIL] Detested kite! thou liest.
- My train are men of choice and rarest parts,
- That all particulars of duty know,
- And in the most exact regard support
- The worships of their name. O most small fault,
- How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!
- That, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature
- From the fix'd place; drew from heart all love,
- And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear!
- Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in,
-
- [Striking his head]
-
- And thy dear judgment out! Go, go, my people.
-
-#ALBANY My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant
- Of what hath moved you.
-
-#KING #LEAR It may be so, my lord.
- Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!
- Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend
- To make this creature fruitful!
- Into her womb convey sterility!
- Dry up in her the organs of increase;
- And from her derogate body never spring
- A babe to honour her! If she must teem,
- Create her child of spleen; that it may live,
- And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!
- Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;
- With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;
- Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
- To laughter and contempt; that she may feel
- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
- To have a thankless child! Away, away!
-
- [Exit]
-
-#ALBANY Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?
-
-#GONERIL Never afflict yourself to know the cause;
- But let his disposition have that scope
- That dotage gives it.
-
- [Re-enter #KING #LEAR]
-
-#KING #LEAR What, fifty of my followers at a clap!
- Within a fortnight!
-
-#ALBANY What's the matter, sir?
-
-
-#KING #LEAR I'll tell thee:
-
- [To #GONERIL]
-
- Life and death! I am ashamed
- That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus;
- That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,
- Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee!
- The untented woundings of a father's curse
- Pierce every sense about thee! Old fond eyes,
- Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out,
- And cast you, with the waters that you lose,
- To temper clay. Yea, it is come to this?
- Let is be so: yet have I left a daughter,
- Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable:
- When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails
- She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find
- That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think
- I have cast off for ever: thou shalt,
- I warrant thee.
-
- [Exeunt #KING #LEAR, #KENT, and Attendants]
-
-#GONERIL Do you mark that, my lord?
-
-#ALBANY I cannot be so partial, Goneril,
- To the great love I bear you,--
-
-#GONERIL Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho!
-
- [To the #Fool]
-
- You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.
-
-#Fool Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry and take the fool
- with thee.
- A fox, when one has caught her,
- And such a daughter,
- Should sure to the slaughter,
- If my cap would buy a halter:
- So the fool follows after.
-
- [Exit]
-
-#GONERIL This man hath had good counsel:--a hundred knights!
- 'Tis politic and safe to let him keep
- At point a hundred knights: yes, that, on every dream,
- Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,
- He may enguard his dotage with their powers,
- And hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say!
-
-#ALBANY Well, you may fear too far.
-
-#GONERIL Safer than trust too far:
- Let me still take away the harms I fear,
- Not fear still to be taken: I know his heart.
- What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister
- If she sustain him and his hundred knights
- When I have show'd the unfitness,--
-
- [Re-enter #OSWALD]
-
- How now, Oswald!
- What, have you writ that letter to my sister?
-
-#OSWALD Yes, madam.
-
-#GONERIL Take you some company, and away to horse:
- Inform her full of my particular fear;
- And thereto add such reasons of your own
- As may compact it more. Get you gone;
- And hasten your return.
-
- [Exit #OSWALD]
-
- No, no, my lord,
- This milky gentleness and course of yours
- Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,
- You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom
- Than praised for harmful mildness.
-
-#ALBANY How far your eyes may pierce I can not tell:
- Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
-
-#GONERIL Nay, then--
-
-#ALBANY Well, well; the event.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT I
-
-
-
-SCENE V Court before the same.
-
-
- [Enter #KING #LEAR, #KENT, and #Fool]
-
-#KING #LEAR Go you before to Gloucester with these letters.
- Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you
- know than comes from her demand out of the letter.
- If your diligence be not speedy, I shall be there afore you.
-
-#KENT I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered
- your letter.
-
- [Exit]
-
-#Fool If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in
- danger of kibes?
-
-#KING #LEAR Ay, boy.
-
-#Fool Then, I prithee, be merry; thy wit shall ne'er go
- slip-shod.
-
-#KING #LEAR Ha, ha, ha!
-
-#Fool Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly;
- for though she's as like this as a crab's like an
- apple, yet I can tell what I can tell.
-
-#KING #LEAR Why, what canst thou tell, my boy?
-
-#Fool She will taste as like this as a crab does to a
- crab. Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i'
- the middle on's face?
-
-#KING #LEAR No.
-
-#Fool Why, to keep one's eyes of either side's nose; that
- what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into.
-
-#KING #LEAR I did her wrong--
-
-#Fool Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?
-
-#KING #LEAR No.
-
-#Fool Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a house.
-
-#KING #LEAR Why?
-
-#Fool Why, to put his head in; not to give it away to his
- daughters, and leave his horns without a case.
-
-#KING #LEAR I will forget my nature. So kind a father! Be my
- horses ready?
-
-#Fool Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the
- seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.
-
-#KING #LEAR Because they are not eight?
-
-#Fool Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.
-
-#KING #LEAR To take 't again perforce! Monster ingratitude!
-
-#Fool If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten
- for being old before thy time.
-
-#KING #LEAR How's that?
-
-#Fool Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst
- been wise.
-
-#KING #LEAR O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven
- Keep me in temper: I would not be mad!
-
- [Enter #Gentleman]
-
- How now! are the horses ready?
-
-#Gentleman Ready, my lord.
-
-#KING #LEAR Come, boy.
-
-#Fool She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,
- Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT II
-
-
-
-SCENE I #GLOUCESTER's castle.
-
-
- [Enter #EDMUND, and #CURAN meets him]
-
-#EDMUND Save thee, Curan.
-
-#CURAN And you, sir. I have been with your father, and
- given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan
- his duchess will be here with him this night.
-
-#EDMUND How comes that?
-
-#CURAN Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad;
- I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but
- ear-kissing arguments?
-
-#EDMUND Not I pray you, what are they?
-
-#CURAN Have you heard of no likely wars toward, 'twixt the
- Dukes of Cornwall and Albany?
-
-#EDMUND Not a word.
-
-#CURAN You may do, then, in time. Fare you well, sir.
-
- [Exit]
-
-#EDMUND The duke be here to-night? The better! best!
- This weaves itself perforce into my business.
- My father hath set guard to take my brother;
- And I have one thing, of a queasy question,
- Which I must act: briefness and fortune, work!
- Brother, a word; descend: brother, I say!
-
- [Enter #EDGAR]
-
- My father watches: O sir, fly this place;
- Intelligence is given where you are hid;
- You have now the good advantage of the night:
- Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?
- He's coming hither: now, i' the night, i' the haste,
- And Regan with him: have you nothing said
- Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?
- Advise yourself.
-
-#EDGAR I am sure on't, not a word.
-
-#EDMUND I hear my father coming: pardon me:
- In cunning I must draw my sword upon you
- Draw; seem to defend yourself; now quit you well.
- Yield: come before my father. Light, ho, here!
- Fly, brother. Torches, torches! So, farewell.
-
- [Exit #EDGAR]
-
- Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion.
-
- [Wounds his arm]
-
- Of my more fierce endeavour: I have seen drunkards
- Do more than this in sport. Father, father!
- Stop, stop! No help?
-
- [Enter #GLOUCESTER, and Servants with torches]
-
-#GLOUCESTER Now, Edmund, where's the villain?
-
-#EDMUND Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
- Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon
- To stand auspicious mistress,--
-
-#GLOUCESTER But where is he?
-
-#EDMUND Look, sir, I bleed.
-
-#GLOUCESTER Where is the villain, Edmund?
-
-#EDMUND Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could--
-
-#GLOUCESTER Pursue him, ho! Go after.
-
- [Exeunt some Servants]
-
- By no means what?
-
-#EDMUND Persuade me to the murder of your lordship;
- But that I told him, the revenging gods
- 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend;
- Spoke, with how manifold and strong a bond
- The child was bound to the father; sir, in fine,
- Seeing how loathly opposite I stood
- To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion,
- With his prepared sword, he charges home
- My unprovided body, lanced mine arm:
- But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits,
- Bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter,
- Or whether gasted by the noise I made,
- Full suddenly he fled.
-
-#GLOUCESTER Let him fly far:
- Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;
- And found--dispatch. The noble duke my master,
- My worthy arch and patron, comes to-night:
- By his authority I will proclaim it,
- That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks,
- Bringing the murderous coward to the stake;
- He that conceals him, death.
-
-#EDMUND When I dissuaded him from his intent,
- And found him pight to do it, with curst speech
- I threaten'd to discover him: he replied,
- 'Thou unpossessing bastard! dost thou think,
- If I would stand against thee, would the reposal
- Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee
- Make thy words faith'd? No: what I should deny,--
- As this I would: ay, though thou didst produce
- My very character,--I'ld turn it all
- To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practise:
- And thou must make a dullard of the world,
- If they not thought the profits of my death
- Were very pregnant and potential spurs
- To make thee seek it.'
-
-#GLOUCESTER Strong and fasten'd villain
- Would he deny his letter? I never got him.
-
- [Tucket within]
-
- Hark, the duke's trumpets! I know not why he comes.
- All ports I'll bar; the villain shall not 'scape;
- The duke must grant me that: besides, his picture
- I will send far and near, that all the kingdom
- May have the due note of him; and of my land,
- Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means
- To make thee capable.
-
- [Enter #CORNWALL, #REGAN, and Attendants]
-
-#CORNWALL How now, my noble friend! since I came hither,
- Which I can call but now, I have heard strange news.
-
-#REGAN If it be true, all vengeance comes too short
- Which can pursue the offender. How dost, my lord?
-
-#GLOUCESTER O, madam, my old heart is crack'd, it's crack'd!
-
-#REGAN What, did my father's godson seek your life?
- He whom my father named? your Edgar?
-
-#GLOUCESTER O, lady, lady, shame would have it hid!
-
-#REGAN Was he not companion with the riotous knights
- That tend upon my father?
-
-#GLOUCESTER I know not, madam: 'tis too bad, too bad.
-
-#EDMUND Yes, madam, he was of that consort.
-
-#REGAN No marvel, then, though he were ill affected:
- 'Tis they have put him on the old man's death,
- To have the expense and waste of his revenues.
- I have this present evening from my sister
- Been well inform'd of them; and with such cautions,
- That if they come to sojourn at my house,
- I'll not be there.
-
-#CORNWALL Nor I, assure thee, Regan.
- Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father
- A child-like office.
-
-#EDMUND 'Twas my duty, sir.
-
-#GLOUCESTER He did bewray his practise; and received
- This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him.
-
-#CORNWALL Is he pursued?
-
-#GLOUCESTER Ay, my good lord.
-
-#CORNWALL If he be taken, he shall never more
- Be fear'd of doing harm: make your own purpose,
- How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,
- Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant
- So much commend itself, you shall be ours:
- Natures of such deep trust we shall much need;
- You we first seize on.
-
-#EDMUND I shall serve you, sir,
- Truly, however else.
-
-#GLOUCESTER For him I thank your grace.
-
-#CORNWALL You know not why we came to visit you,--
-
-#REGAN Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night:
- Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,
- Wherein we must have use of your advice:
- Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,
- Of differences, which I least thought it fit
- To answer from our home; the several messengers
- From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend,
- Lay comforts to your bosom; and bestow
- Your needful counsel to our business,
- Which craves the instant use.
-
-#GLOUCESTER I serve you, madam:
- Your graces are right welcome.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT II
-
-
-
-SCENE II Before Gloucester's castle.
-
-
- [Enter #KENT and #OSWALD, severally]
-
-#OSWALD Good dawning to thee, friend: art of this house?
-
-#KENT Ay.
-
-#OSWALD Where may we set our horses?
-
-#KENT I' the mire.
-
-#OSWALD Prithee, if thou lovest me, tell me.
-
-#KENT I love thee not.
-
-#OSWALD Why, then, I care not for thee.
-
-#KENT If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee
- care for me.
-
-#OSWALD Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.
-
-#KENT Fellow, I know thee.
-
-#OSWALD What dost thou know me for?
-
-#KENT A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
- base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
- hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
- lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
- glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
- one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
- bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
- the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
- and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
- will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
- the least syllable of thy addition.
-
-#OSWALD Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail
- on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee!
-
-#KENT What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou
- knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up
- thy heels, and beat thee before the king? Draw, you
- rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon
- shines; I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you:
- draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw.
-
- [Drawing his sword]
-
-#OSWALD Away! I have nothing to do with thee.
-
-#KENT Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against the
- king; and take vanity the puppet's part against the
- royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I'll so
- carbonado your shanks: draw, you rascal; come your ways.
-
-#OSWALD Help, ho! murder! help!
-
-#KENT Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand; you neat
- slave, strike.
-
- [Beating him]
-
-#OSWALD Help, ho! murder! murder!
-
- [Enter #EDMUND, with his rapier drawn, #CORNWALL,
- #REGAN, #GLOUCESTER, and Servants]
-
-#EDMUND How now! What's the matter?
-
-#KENT With you, goodman boy, an you please: come, I'll
- flesh ye; come on, young master.
-
-#GLOUCESTER Weapons! arms! What 's the matter here?
-
-#CORNWALL Keep peace, upon your lives:
- He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?
-
-#REGAN The messengers from our sister and the king.
-
-#CORNWALL What is your difference? speak.
-
-#OSWALD I am scarce in breath, my lord.
-
-#KENT No marvel, you have so bestirred your valour. You
- cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a
- tailor made thee.
-
-#CORNWALL Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?
-
-#KENT Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone-cutter or painter could
- not have made him so ill, though he had been but two
- hours at the trade.
-
-#CORNWALL Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?
-
-#OSWALD This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared
- at suit of his gray beard,--
-
-#KENT Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My
- lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this
- unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of
- a jakes with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail?
-
-#CORNWALL Peace, sirrah!
- You beastly knave, know you no reverence?
-
-#KENT Yes, sir; but anger hath a privilege.
-
-#CORNWALL Why art thou angry?
-
-#KENT That such a slave as this should wear a sword,
- Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,
- Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain
- Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion
- That in the natures of their lords rebel;
- Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;
- Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
- With every gale and vary of their masters,
- Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
- A plague upon your epileptic visage!
- Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?
- Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain,
- I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot.
-
-#CORNWALL Why, art thou mad, old fellow?
-
-#GLOUCESTER How fell you out? say that.
-
-#KENT No contraries hold more antipathy
- Than I and such a knave.
-
-#CORNWALL Why dost thou call him a knave? What's his offence?
-
-#KENT His countenance likes me not.
-
-#CORNWALL No more, perchance, does mine, nor his, nor hers.
-
-#KENT Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain:
- I have seen better faces in my time
- Than stands on any shoulder that I see
- Before me at this instant.
-
-#CORNWALL This is some fellow,
- Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect
- A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb
- Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,
- An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth!
- An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.
- These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
- Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends
- Than twenty silly ducking observants
- That stretch their duties nicely.
-
-#KENT Sir, in good sooth, in sincere verity,
- Under the allowance of your great aspect,
- Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire
- On flickering Phoebus' front,--
-
-#CORNWALL What mean'st by this?
-
-#KENT To go out of my dialect, which you
- discommend so much. I know, sir, I am no
- flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain
- accent was a plain knave; which for my part
- I will not be, though I should win your displeasure
- to entreat me to 't.
-
-#CORNWALL What was the offence you gave him?
-
-#OSWALD I never gave him any:
- It pleased the king his master very late
- To strike at me, upon his misconstruction;
- When he, conjunct and flattering his displeasure,
- Tripp'd me behind; being down, insulted, rail'd,
- And put upon him such a deal of man,
- That worthied him, got praises of the king
- For him attempting who was self-subdued;
- And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit,
- Drew on me here again.
-
-#KENT None of these rogues and cowards
- But Ajax is their fool.
-
-#CORNWALL Fetch forth the stocks!
- You stubborn ancient knave, you reverend braggart,
- We'll teach you--
-
-#KENT Sir, I am too old to learn:
- Call not your stocks for me: I serve the king;
- On whose employment I was sent to you:
- You shall do small respect, show too bold malice
- Against the grace and person of my master,
- Stocking his messenger.
-
-#CORNWALL Fetch forth the stocks! As I have life and honour,
- There shall he sit till noon.
-
-#REGAN Till noon! till night, my lord; and all night too.
-
-#KENT Why, madam, if I were your father's dog,
- You should not use me so.
-
-#REGAN Sir, being his knave, I will.
-
-#CORNWALL This is a fellow of the self-same colour
- Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks!
-
- [Stocks brought out]
-
-#GLOUCESTER Let me beseech your grace not to do so:
- His fault is much, and the good king his master
- Will cheque him for 't: your purposed low correction
- Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches
- For pilferings and most common trespasses
- Are punish'd with: the king must take it ill,
- That he's so slightly valued in his messenger,
- Should have him thus restrain'd.
-
-#CORNWALL I'll answer that.
-
-#REGAN My sister may receive it much more worse,
- To have her gentleman abused, assaulted,
- For following her affairs. Put in his legs.
-
- [#KENT is put in the stocks]
-
- Come, my good lord, away.
-
- [Exeunt all but #GLOUCESTER and #KENT]
-
-#GLOUCESTER I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure,
- Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
- Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd: I'll entreat for thee.
-
-#KENT Pray, do not, sir: I have watched and travell'd hard;
- Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.
- A good man's fortune may grow out at heels:
- Give you good morrow!
-
-#GLOUCESTER The duke's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken.
-
- [Exit]
-
-#KENT Good king, that must approve the common saw,
- Thou out of heaven's benediction comest
- To the warm sun!
- Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,
- That by thy comfortable beams I may
- Peruse this letter! Nothing almost sees miracles
- But misery: I know 'tis from Cordelia,
- Who hath most fortunately been inform'd
- Of my obscured course; and shall find time
- From this enormous state, seeking to give
- Losses their remedies. All weary and o'erwatch'd,
- Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
- This shameful lodging.
- Fortune, good night: smile once more: turn thy wheel!
-
- [Sleeps]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT II
-
-
-
-SCENE III A wood.
-
-
- [Enter #EDGAR]
-
-#EDGAR I heard myself proclaim'd;
- And by the happy hollow of a tree
- Escaped the hunt. No port is free; no place,
- That guard, and most unusual vigilance,
- Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape,
- I will preserve myself: and am bethought
- To take the basest and most poorest shape
- That ever penury, in contempt of man,
- Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth;
- Blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots;
- And with presented nakedness out-face
- The winds and persecutions of the sky.
- The country gives me proof and precedent
- Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,
- Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms
- Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;
- And with this horrible object, from low farms,
- Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes, and mills,
- Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,
- Enforce their charity. Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!
- That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am.
-
- [Exit]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT II
-
-
-
-SCENE IV Before #GLOUCESTER's castle. #KENT in the stocks.
-
-
- [Enter #KING #LEAR, #Fool, and #Gentleman]
-
-#KING #LEAR 'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,
- And not send back my messenger.
-
-#Gentleman As I learn'd,
- The night before there was no purpose in them
- Of this remove.
-
-#KENT Hail to thee, noble master!
-
-#KING #LEAR Ha!
- Makest thou this shame thy pastime?
-
-#KENT No, my lord.
-
-#Fool Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied
- by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by
- the loins, and men by the legs: when a man's
- over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden
- nether-stocks.
-
-#KING #LEAR What's he that hath so much thy place mistook
- To set thee here?
-
-#KENT It is both he and she;
- Your son and daughter.
-
-#KING #LEAR No.
-
-#KENT Yes.
-
-#KING #LEAR No, I say.
-
-#KENT I say, yea.
-
-#KING #LEAR No, no, they would not.
-
-#KENT Yes, they have.
-
-#KING #LEAR By Jupiter, I swear, no.
-
-#KENT By Juno, I swear, ay.
-
-#KING #LEAR They durst not do 't;
- They could not, would not do 't; 'tis worse than murder,
- To do upon respect such violent outrage:
- Resolve me, with all modest haste, which way
- Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,
- Coming from us.
-
-#KENT My lord, when at their home
- I did commend your highness' letters to them,
- Ere I was risen from the place that show'd
- My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,
- Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth
- From Goneril his mistress salutations;
- Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,
- Which presently they read: on whose contents,
- They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse;
- Commanded me to follow, and attend
- The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks:
- And meeting here the other messenger,
- Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine,--
- Being the very fellow that of late
- Display'd so saucily against your highness,--
- Having more man than wit about me, drew:
- He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
- Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
- The shame which here it suffers.
-
-#Fool Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.
- Fathers that wear rags
- Do make their children blind;
- But fathers that bear bags
- Shall see their children kind.
- Fortune, that arrant whore,
- Ne'er turns the key to the poor.
- But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours
- for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year.
-
-#KING #LEAR O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!
- Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,
- Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?
-
-#KENT With the earl, sir, here within.
-
-#KING #LEAR Follow me not;
- Stay here.
-
- [Exit]
-
-#Gentleman Made you no more offence but what you speak of?
-
-#KENT None.
- How chance the king comes with so small a train?
-
-#Fool And thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that
- question, thou hadst well deserved it.
-
-#KENT Why, fool?
-
-#Fool We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee
- there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow
- their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and
- there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him
- that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel
- runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with
- following it: but the great one that goes up the
- hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man
- gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I
- would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.
- That sir which serves and seeks for gain,
- And follows but for form,
- Will pack when it begins to rain,
- And leave thee in the storm,
- But I will tarry; the fool will stay,
- And let the wise man fly:
- The knave turns fool that runs away;
- The fool no knave, perdy.
-
-#KENT Where learned you this, fool?
-
-#Fool Not i' the stocks, fool.
-
- [Re-enter #KING #LEAR with #GLOUCESTER]
-
-#KING #LEAR Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?
- They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;
- The images of revolt and flying off.
- Fetch me a better answer.
-
-#GLOUCESTER My dear lord,
- You know the fiery quality of the duke;
- How unremoveable and fix'd he is
- In his own course.
-
-#KING #LEAR Vengeance! plague! death! confusion!
- Fiery? what quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,
- I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.
-
-#GLOUCESTER Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so.
-
-#KING #LEAR Inform'd them! Dost thou understand me, man?
-
-#GLOUCESTER Ay, my good lord.
-
-#KING #LEAR The king would speak with Cornwall; the dear father
- Would with his daughter speak, commands her service:
- Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood!
- Fiery? the fiery duke? Tell the hot duke that--
- No, but not yet: may be he is not well:
- Infirmity doth still neglect all office
- Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves
- When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
- To suffer with the body: I'll forbear;
- And am fall'n out with my more headier will,
- To take the indisposed and sickly fit
- For the sound man. Death on my state! wherefore
-
- [Looking on #KENT]
-
- Should he sit here? This act persuades me
- That this remotion of the duke and her
- Is practise only. Give me my servant forth.
- Go tell the duke and 's wife I'ld speak with them,
- Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me,
- Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum
- Till it cry sleep to death.
-
-#GLOUCESTER I would have all well betwixt you.
-
- [Exit]
-
-#KING #LEAR O me, my heart, my rising heart! but, down!
-
-#Fool Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels
- when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em
- o' the coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down,
- wantons, down!' 'Twas her brother that, in pure
- kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.
-
- [Enter #CORNWALL, #REGAN, #GLOUCESTER, and Servants]
-
-#KING #LEAR Good morrow to you both.
-
-#CORNWALL Hail to your grace!
-
- [#KENT is set at liberty]
-
-#REGAN I am glad to see your highness.
-
-#KING #LEAR Regan, I think you are; I know what reason
- I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,
- I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,
- Sepulchring an adultress.
-
- [To #KENT]
-
- O, are you free?
- Some other time for that. Beloved Regan,
- Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied
- Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here:
-
- [Points to his heart]
-
- I can scarce speak to thee; thou'lt not believe
- With how depraved a quality--O Regan!
-
-#REGAN I pray you, sir, take patience: I have hope.
- You less know how to value her desert
- Than she to scant her duty.
-
-#KING #LEAR Say, how is that?
-
-#REGAN I cannot think my sister in the least
- Would fail her obligation: if, sir, perchance
- She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,
- 'Tis on such ground, and to such wholesome end,
- As clears her from all blame.
-
-#KING #LEAR My curses on her!
-
-#REGAN O, sir, you are old.
- Nature in you stands on the very verge
- Of her confine: you should be ruled and led
- By some discretion, that discerns your state
- Better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray you,
- That to our sister you do make return;
- Say you have wrong'd her, sir.
-
-#KING #LEAR Ask her forgiveness?
- Do you but mark how this becomes the house:
- 'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;
-
- [Kneeling]
-
- Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg
- That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.'
-
-#REGAN Good sir, no more; these are unsightly tricks:
- Return you to my sister.
-
-#KING #LEAR [Rising] Never, Regan:
- She hath abated me of half my train;
- Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,
- Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:
- All the stored vengeances of heaven fall
- On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,
- You taking airs, with lameness!
-
-#CORNWALL Fie, sir, fie!
-
-#KING #LEAR You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames
- Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty,
- You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun,
- To fall and blast her pride!
-
-#REGAN O the blest gods! so will you wish on me,
- When the rash mood is on.
-
-#KING #LEAR No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse:
- Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give
- Thee o'er to harshness: her eyes are fierce; but thine
- Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee
- To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,
- To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
- And in conclusion to oppose the bolt
- Against my coming in: thou better know'st
- The offices of nature, bond of childhood,
- Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude;
- Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot,
- Wherein I thee endow'd.
-
-#REGAN Good sir, to the purpose.
-
-#KING #LEAR Who put my man i' the stocks?
-
- [Tucket within]
-
-#CORNWALL What trumpet's that?
-
-#REGAN I know't, my sister's: this approves her letter,
- That she would soon be here.
-
- [Enter #OSWALD]
-
- Is your lady come?
-
-#KING #LEAR This is a slave, whose easy-borrow'd pride
- Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.
- Out, varlet, from my sight!
-
-#CORNWALL What means your grace?
-
-#KING #LEAR Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope
- Thou didst not know on't. Who comes here? O heavens,
-
- [Enter #GONERIL]
-
- If you do love old men, if your sweet sway
- Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,
- Make it your cause; send down, and take my part!
-
- [To #GONERIL]
-
- Art not ashamed to look upon this beard?
- O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?
-
-#GONERIL Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended?
- All's not offence that indiscretion finds
- And dotage terms so.
-
-#KING #LEAR O sides, you are too tough;
- Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks?
-
-#CORNWALL I set him there, sir: but his own disorders
- Deserved much less advancement.
-
-#KING #LEAR You! did you?
-
-#REGAN I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.
- If, till the expiration of your month,
- You will return and sojourn with my sister,
- Dismissing half your train, come then to me:
- I am now from home, and out of that provision
- Which shall be needful for your entertainment.
-
-#KING #LEAR Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?
- No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
- To wage against the enmity o' the air;
- To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,--
- Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?
- Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took
- Our youngest born, I could as well be brought
- To knee his throne, and, squire-like; pension beg
- To keep base life afoot. Return with her?
- Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
- To this detested groom.
-
- [Pointing at #OSWALD]
-
-#GONERIL At your choice, sir.
-
-#KING #LEAR I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:
- I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:
- We'll no more meet, no more see one another:
- But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;
- Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,
- Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,
- A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,
- In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee;
- Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:
- I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,
- Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:
- Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure:
- I can be patient; I can stay with Regan,
- I and my hundred knights.
-
-#REGAN Not altogether so:
- I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided
- For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;
- For those that mingle reason with your passion
- Must be content to think you old, and so--
- But she knows what she does.
-
-#KING #LEAR Is this well spoken?
-
-#REGAN I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?
- Is it not well? What should you need of more?
- Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger
- Speak 'gainst so great a number? How, in one house,
- Should many people, under two commands,
- Hold amity? 'Tis hard; almost impossible.
-
-#GONERIL Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance
- From those that she calls servants or from mine?
-
-#REGAN Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack you,
- We could control them. If you will come to me,--
- For now I spy a danger,--I entreat you
- To bring but five and twenty: to no more
- Will I give place or notice.
-
-#KING #LEAR I gave you all--
-
-#REGAN And in good time you gave it.
-
-#KING #LEAR Made you my guardians, my depositaries;
- But kept a reservation to be follow'd
- With such a number. What, must I come to you
- With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?
-
-#REGAN And speak't again, my lord; no more with me.
-
-#KING #LEAR Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd,
- When others are more wicked: not being the worst
- Stands in some rank of praise.
-
- [To #GONERIL]
-
- I'll go with thee:
- Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty,
- And thou art twice her love.
-
-#GONERIL Hear me, my lord;
- What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,
- To follow in a house where twice so many
- Have a command to tend you?
-
-#REGAN What need one?
-
-#KING #LEAR O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
- Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
- Allow not nature more than nature needs,
- Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;
- If only to go warm were gorgeous,
- Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,
- Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,--
- You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
- You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
- As full of grief as age; wretched in both!
- If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts
- Against their father, fool me not so much
- To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
- And let not women's weapons, water-drops,
- Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,
- I will have such revenges on you both,
- That all the world shall--I will do such things,--
- What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
- The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep
- No, I'll not weep:
- I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
- Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,
- Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!
-
- [Exeunt #KING #LEAR, #GLOUCESTER, #KENT, and #Fool]
-
- [Storm and tempest]
-
-#CORNWALL Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm.
-
-#REGAN This house is little: the old man and his people
- Cannot be well bestow'd.
-
-#GONERIL 'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest,
- And must needs taste his folly.
-
-#REGAN For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,
- But not one follower.
-
-#GONERIL So am I purposed.
- Where is my lord of Gloucester?
-
-#CORNWALL Follow'd the old man forth: he is return'd.
-
- [Re-enter #GLOUCESTER]
-
-#GLOUCESTER The king is in high rage.
-
-#CORNWALL Whither is he going?
-
-#GLOUCESTER He calls to horse; but will I know not whither.
-
-#CORNWALL 'Tis best to give him way; he leads himself.
-
-#GONERIL My lord, entreat him by no means to stay.
-
-#GLOUCESTER Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
- Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
- There's scarce a bush.
-
-#REGAN O, sir, to wilful men,
- The injuries that they themselves procure
- Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors:
- He is attended with a desperate train;
- And what they may incense him to, being apt
- To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.
-
-#CORNWALL Shut up your doors, my lord; 'tis a wild night:
- My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm.
-
- [Exeunt]
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT III
-
-
-
-SCENE I A heath.
-
-
- [Storm still. Enter #KENT and a #Gentleman, meeting]
-
-#KENT Who's there, besides foul weather?
-
-#Gentleman One minded like the weather, most unquietly.
-
-#KENT I know you. Where's the king?
-
-#Gentleman Contending with the fretful element:
- Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea,
- Or swell the curled water 'bove the main,
- That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,
- Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,
- Catch in their fury, and make nothing of;
- Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn
- The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.
- This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
- The lion and the belly-pinched wolf
- Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,
- And bids what will take all.
-
-#KENT But who is with him?
-
-#Gentleman None but the fool; who labours to out-jest
- His heart-struck injuries.
-
-#KENT Sir, I do know you;
- And dare, upon the warrant of my note,
- Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,
- Although as yet the face of it be cover'd
- With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall;
- Who have--as who have not, that their great stars
- Throned and set high?--servants, who seem no less,
- Which are to France the spies and speculations
- Intelligent of our state; what hath been seen,
- Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,
- Or the hard rein which both of them have borne
- Against the old kind king; or something deeper,
- Whereof perchance these are but furnishings;
- But, true it is, from France there comes a power
- Into this scatter'd kingdom; who already,
- Wise in our negligence, have secret feet
- In some of our best ports, and are at point
- To show their open banner. Now to you:
- If on my credit you dare build so far
- To make your speed to Dover, you shall find
- Some that will thank you, making just report
- Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow
- The king hath cause to plain.
- I am a gentleman of blood and breeding;
- And, from some knowledge and assurance, offer
- This office to you.
-
-#Gentleman I will talk further with you.
-
-#KENT No, do not.
- For confirmation that I am much more
- Than my out-wall, open this purse, and take
- What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,--
- As fear not but you shall,--show her this ring;
- And she will tell you who your fellow is
- That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!
- I will go seek the king.
-
-#Gentleman Give me your hand: have you no more to say?
-
-#KENT Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet;
- That, when we have found the king,--in which your pain
- That way, I'll this,--he that first lights on him
- Holla the other.
-
- [Exeunt severally]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT III
-
-
-
-SCENE II Another part of the heath. Storm still.
-
-
- [Enter #KING #LEAR and #Fool]
-
-#KING #LEAR Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
- You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
- Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
- You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
- Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
- Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
- Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
- Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,
- That make ingrateful man!
-
-#Fool O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry
- house is better than this rain-water out o' door.
- Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters' blessing:
- here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool.
-
-#KING #LEAR Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
- Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
- I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
- I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,
- You owe me no subscription: then let fall
- Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,
- A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:
- But yet I call you servile ministers,
- That have with two pernicious daughters join'd
- Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head
- So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!
-
-#Fool He that has a house to put's head in has a good
- head-piece.
- The cod-piece that will house
- Before the head has any,
- The head and he shall louse;
- So beggars marry many.
- The man that makes his toe
- What he his heart should make
- Shall of a corn cry woe,
- And turn his sleep to wake.
- For there was never yet fair woman but she made
- mouths in a glass.
-
-#KING #LEAR No, I will be the pattern of all patience;
- I will say nothing.
-
- [Enter #KENT]
-
-#KENT Who's there?
-
-#Fool Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise
- man and a fool.
-
-#KENT Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night
- Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies
- Gallow the very wanderers of the dark,
- And make them keep their caves: since I was man,
- Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
- Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
- Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry
- The affliction nor the fear.
-
-#KING #LEAR Let the great gods,
- That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads,
- Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,
- That hast within thee undivulged crimes,
- Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand;
- Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue
- That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake,
- That under covert and convenient seeming
- Hast practised on man's life: close pent-up guilts,
- Rive your concealing continents, and cry
- These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man
- More sinn'd against than sinning.
-
-#KENT Alack, bare-headed!
- Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;
- Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest:
- Repose you there; while I to this hard house--
- More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised;
- Which even but now, demanding after you,
- Denied me to come in--return, and force
- Their scanted courtesy.
-
-#KING #LEAR My wits begin to turn.
- Come on, my boy: how dost, my boy? art cold?
- I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?
- The art of our necessities is strange,
- That can make vile things precious. Come,
- your hovel.
- Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart
- That's sorry yet for thee.
-
-#Fool [Singing]
-
- He that has and a little tiny wit--
- With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,--
- Must make content with his fortunes fit,
- For the rain it raineth every day.
-
-#KING #LEAR True, my good boy. Come, bring us to this hovel.
-
- [Exeunt #KING #LEAR and #KENT]
-
-#Fool This is a brave night to cool a courtezan.
- I'll speak a prophecy ere I go:
- When priests are more in word than matter;
- When brewers mar their malt with water;
- When nobles are their tailors' tutors;
- No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;
- When every case in law is right;
- No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;
- When slanders do not live in tongues;
- Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;
- When usurers tell their gold i' the field;
- And bawds and whores do churches build;
- Then shall the realm of Albion
- Come to great confusion:
- Then comes the time, who lives to see't,
- That going shall be used with feet.
- This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his time.
-
- [Exit]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT III
-
-
-
-SCENE III Gloucester's castle.
-
-
- [Enter #GLOUCESTER and #EDMUND]
-
-#GLOUCESTER Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural
- dealing. When I desire their leave that I might
- pity him, they took from me the use of mine own
- house; charged me, on pain of their perpetual
- displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for
- him, nor any way sustain him.
-
-#EDMUND Most savage and unnatural!
-
-#GLOUCESTER Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt
- the dukes; and a worse matter than that: I have
- received a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be
- spoken; I have locked the letter in my closet:
- these injuries the king now bears will be revenged
- home; there's part of a power already footed: we
- must incline to the king. I will seek him, and
- privily relieve him: go you and maintain talk with
- the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived:
- if he ask for me. I am ill, and gone to bed.
- Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me,
- the king my old master must be relieved. There is
- some strange thing toward, Edmund; pray you, be careful.
-
- [Exit]
-
-#EDMUND This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke
- Instantly know; and of that letter too:
- This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me
- That which my father loses; no less than all:
- The younger rises when the old doth fall.
-
- [Exit]
-
-
-
-
- #KING #LEAR
-
-
-ACT III
-
-
-
-SCENE IV The heath. Before a hovel.
-
-
- [Enter #KING #LEAR, #KENT, and #Fool]
-
-#KENT Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter:
- The tyranny of the open night's too rough
- For nature to endure.
-
- [Storm still]
-
-#KING #LEAR Let me alone.
-
-#KENT Good my lord, enter here.
-
-#KING #LEAR Wilt break my heart?
-
-#KENT I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.
-
-#KING #LEAR Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm
- Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee;
- But where the greater malady is fix'd,
- The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'ldst shun a bear;
- But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,
- Thou'ldst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the
- mind's free,
- The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind
- Doth from my senses take all feeling else
- Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!
- Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand
- For lifting food to't? But I will punish home:
- No, I will weep no more. In such a night
- To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure.
- In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!
- Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,--
- O, that way madness lies; let me shun that;
- No more of that.
-
-#KENT Good my lord, enter here.
-
-#KING #LEAR Prithee, go in thyself: seek thine own ease:
- This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
- On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in.
-
- [To the #Fool]
-
- In, boy; go first. You houseless poverty,--
- Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.
-
- [#Fool goes in]
-
- Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,
- That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
- How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
- Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
- From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en
- Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;
- Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
- That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,
- And show the heavens more just.
-
-#EDGAR [Within] Fathom and half, fathom and half! Poor Tom!
-
- [The #Fool runs out from the hovel]
-
-#Fool Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit
- Help me, help me!
-
-#KENT Give me thy hand. Who's there?
-
-#Fool A spirit, a spirit: he says his name's poor Tom.
-
-#KENT What art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw?
- Come forth.
-
- [Enter #EDGAR disguised as a mad man]
-
-#EDGAR Away! the foul fiend follows me!
- Through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind.
- Hum! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.
-
-#KING #LEAR Hast thou given all to thy two daughters?
- And art thou come to this?
-
-#EDGAR Who gives any thing to poor Tom? whom the foul
- fiend hath led through fire and through flame, and
- through ford and whirlipool e'er bog and quagmire;
- that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters
- in his pew; set ratsbane by his porridge; made film
- proud of heart, to ride on a bay trotting-horse over
- four-inched bridges, to course his own shadow for a
- traitor. Bless thy five wits! Tom's a-cold,--O, do
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