Elze, could you not have motion: But, sure, that sense Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err; To serve in such a difference. What devil was't, O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, And melt in her own fire: Proclaim no shame, And reason panders will. Queen. 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.|| Enter GHOST. Ham. Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings, You heavenly guards!--What would your gracious figure? Queen. Alas, he's mad. Ham. Do you not come your tardy son to chide, Ghost. Do not forget. This visitation Ham. How is it with you, lady? Queen. Alas, how is't with you? * Frenzy. + Blindman's-buff. Il Colour § Be so stupid. + Without. ¶ Imagination That you do bend your eye on vacancy, His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones, My stern effects: then what I have to do Will want true colour; tears, perchance,§ for blood. Queen. To whom do you speak this? Ham. Do you see nothing there? Queen. Nothing at all; yet all, that is, I see. Ham. Nor did you nothing hear? Queen. No, nothing, but ourselves. Ham. Why, look you there! look, how it steals away! My father, in his habit as he liv'd! Look, where he goes, ev'n now, out at the portal! [Exit GHOST. Queen. This is the very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in. Ham. Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, The hair of animals is excrementitious, that is, withor life or sensation. Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; And do not spread the compost* on the weeds, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg; Yea, curbt and woo, for leave to do him good. Queen. O Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain. Ham. O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat To the next abstinence: the next more easy: [Pointing to POLONIUS. Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.— Queen. * Manure. † Bend. A term of endearinent. 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. Such dear concernings hide? Who would do so? 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. Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath, And breath of life, I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me. Ham. I must to England: you know that? I had forgot; 'tis so concluded on. Alack, Ham. There's letters seal'd: and my two school fellows, 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 from his own petar: and it shall go hard, ACT IV HAMLET'S IRRESOLUTION. 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 godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be A thought, which, quarter'd, hath but one part wis dom, And, ever, three parts coward,-I do not know Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't. Examples, gross as earth, exhort me: When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, SORROWS RARELY SINGLE. O Gertrude, Gertrude, When sorrows come, they come not single spies, THE DIVINITY OF KINGS. Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person; |