I'll visit you.

Mar. Ber. Longer, longer.

Too oft before their buttons be disclos d; Hor. Not when I saw it.

And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Ham.

His beard was grizzlid ? no? Contagious blastments are most imminent. Hor. It was, as I have seen it in his life,

Be wary then: best safety lies in fear; A sable silver'd.

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. Ham. I will watch to-night;

Oph. I shall the effects of this good lesson keep, Perchance, 'twill walk again.

As watchmen to my heart: But, good my brother Hor

I warrant, it will. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Ham. If it assume my noble father's person, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,

And recks not his own read. Let it be tenable in your silence still;

Laer.

O fear me not. And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,

I stay too long ;-But here my father comes.
Give it an understanding, but no tongue;

Enter POLONIUS.
I will requite your loves : So, fare you well:
Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve, A double blessing is a double grace;

Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
AU. Our duty to your honour.

Pol. Yet here, Laertes ! aboard, aboard, for shame; Ham. Your loves, as mine to you : Farewell. The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,

(Ereunt HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO. And you are staid for : There, my blessing with you! My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;

(Laying his hand on LAERTES' head I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! And these few precepts in thy memory Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men's eyes. 'Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.

[Éxit. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, SCENE III.- A Room in Polonius' House. Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA.

Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd counrade. Beware
Laer. My necessaries are embark’d; farewell : Of entrance to a quarrel : but, being in,
And, sister, as the winds give benefit,

Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: But let me hear from you.

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Oph.

Do you doubt that? Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
Laer. For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour, But not express’d in fancy: rich, not gaudy:
Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood;

For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
A violet in the youth of primy nature,

And they in France, of the best rank and station, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, Are most select and generous, chief in that. The perfume and suppliance of a minute;

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be: No more.

For loan oft loses both itself and friend; Oph. No more but so?

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Laer,

Think it no more: This above all, -To thine ownself be true; For nature, crescent, does not grow alone

And it must follow, as the night the day, In thews, and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, Thou canst not then be false to any man. The inward service of the mind and soul

Farewell; my blessing season this in thee! Grows wide withal. Perhaps, he loves you now; Laer. Most humbly lo I take my leave, my lord. And now no soil, nor cautel, doth besmirch

Pol. The time invites you; go, your servants tend The virtue of his will: but, you must fear,

Laer. Farewell, Ophelia : and remember well His greatness weigh’d, bis will is not his own; What I have said to you. For he himself is subject to his birth :

Oph.

'Tis in my memory lock'd He may not, as unvalued persons do,

And you yourself shall keep the key of it. Carve for himself; for on his choice depends

Laer. Farewell.

[Erit LAERTES.
The safety and the health of the whole state ; Pol. What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you?
And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd Oph. So please you, something touching the lord
Unto the voice and yielding of that body,

Hamlet.
Whereof he is the head: Then ifhe says, he loves you, Pol. Marry, well bethought;
It fits your wisdom so far to believe it,

'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late As he in his particular act and place

Given private time to you: and you yourself May give his saying deed; which is no further, Have of your audience been most free and boun Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.

teous: Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, If it be so, (as so 'tis put on me, f with too credent ear you list his songs;

And that in way of caution,) I must tell you, Or lose your heart; or your chaste treasure open You do not understand yourself so clearly, To his unmaster'd importunity.

As it behoves my daughter and vour honou Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister;

What is between you ? give me up the truth. Jers And keep you in the rear of your affection,

Oph. He hath, my lord, of late, made many ten. Out of the shot and danger of desire.

Of his affection to me. The chariest maid is prodigal enough,

Pol. Affection ? puh! you speak like a green gi:' If she unmask her beauty to the moon :

Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. Virtue itsellscapes not calumnious strokes ; Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? The canker galls the infants of the spring,

Oph. I do no: kuow, my lord, vhat I shoulu think

my lord,

Pul. Marry, I'll teach you : think yourself a baby ; Or by some habit, that too much o'er-leavens That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, The form of plausive manners;—that these men, Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect; dearly;

Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,Or, (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,

Their virtues else (be they as pure as grace,
Wronging it thus,) you'll tender me a fool.

As infinite as man may undergo,)
Oph. My lord, he hath importun'd me with love, Shall in the general censure take corruption
In honourable fashion.

From that particular fault: The dram of base
Pol. Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.

Doth all the noble substance often dout,
Oph. And hath given countenance to his speech, To his own scandal.
With almost all the holy vows of heaven.

Enter Ghost.
Pol. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, Hor.

Look, my lord, it comes ! When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul

Ham. Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter, Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Giving more light than heat, -extinct in both, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Even in their promise, as it is a making,

Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, You must not take for fire. From this time, Thou com’st in such a questionable shape, Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence; That I will speak to thee; I'll call thee, Hamlet, Set your entreatments at a higher rate,

King, father, royal Dane : 0, answer me: Than a command to parley. For lord Hamlet, Let me not burst in ignorance! but tell, Believe so much in him, That he is young;

Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, And with a larger tether may he walk,

Have burst their cerements! why the sepulchre, Than may be given you : In few, Ophelia,

Wherein we saw thee quietly ip-urn'd, Do not believe his vows: for they are brokers Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws, Not of that die which their investments show, To cast thee up again! What may this mean, But mere implorators of unholy suits,

That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel, Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds,

Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, The better to beguile. This is for all,

Making night hideous; and we fools of nature, I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, So horribly to shake our disposition, Have you so slander any moment's leisure, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? As to give words or talk with the lord Hamlet. Say, why is this? wherefore ? what should we do? Look to't, I charge you; come your ways.

Hor. It beckons you to go away with it, Oph. I shall obey, my lord.

(Ereunt. As if it some impartment did desire

To you alone,
SCENE IV.-The Platform.

Mar.

Look, with what courteous action

It waves you to a more removed ground: Enter HAMLET, Horatio, and MARCELLUS.

But do not go with it. Ham. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.

Hor.

No, by no means. Hor. It is a nipping and an eager air.

Ham. It will not speak; then I will follow it. Hain, What hour now?

Hor. Do not, my lord.
Hor.
I think, it lacks of twelve. Ham.

Why, what should be the feur ? Mar. No, it is struck.

I do not set my life at a pin's fee; Hor. Indeed ? I heard it not; it then draws near And, for my soul, what can it do to that, the season,

Being a thing immortal as itself? Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.

It waves me forth again ;-I'll follow it. [4 flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot Hor. What, if it tempt you toward the flood, my off, wiihin.

lord, What does this mean, my lord ?

Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, Ham. The king doth wake to-night, and takes That beetles o'er his base into the sea ?

And there assume some other horrible form,
Keeps wassel, and the swaggering up-spring reels; Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason,
And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, And draw you into madness ? think of it:
The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The very place puts toys of desperation,
The triumph of his pledge.

Without more motive, into every brain,
Hor.
Is it a custom ?

That looks so many fathoms to the sea,
Ham. Ay, marry, is't:

And hears it roar beneath. But to my mind, -though I am native here,

Ham.

It waves me siill:And to the manner born,-it is a custom

Go on, I'll follow thee.
More honour'd in the breach, than the observance. Mar. You shall not go, my lord.
This heavy-headed revel, east and west,

Hum,

Hold off your hands. Makes us traduc'd, and tax'd of other nations :

Hor. Be rul’d, you shall not go. They clepo us, drunkards, and with swinish phrase Ham.

My fate cries out, Soil our addition; and, indeed, it takes

And makes each petty artery in this body From our achievements, though perform’d at height, As hardy as the Némean lion's nerve.The pith and marrow of our attribute.

(Ghost beckons. So, oft it chances in particular men,

Still am I call d ;unhand me, gentlemen ;That for some vicious mole of nature in them,

[Breaking from them. As, in their birth, (wherein they are not guilty By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me:Since nature cannot choose his origin,)

I say, away :-Go on, I'll follow thee. By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,

(Exeunt Ghost and Hamir7 Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason; Hor. He waxes desperate with imagination.

his rouse,

Mar. Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd
Hor. Have after:-To what issue will this come? Will sate itself in a celestial bed,
Mar. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. And prey ou garbage.
Hor. Heaven will direct it.

But, soft! methinks, I scent the morning air;
Mar.

Nay, let's follow him. Brief let me be :-Sleeping within mine orchard,

(Ereunt. My custom always of the afternoon,

Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,
SCENE V.-A more remote Part of the Platform. With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,

And in the porches of mine ears did pour
Re-enter Ghost and HAMLET.

The leperous distilment; whose effect
Ham. Whither wilt thou lead me ? speak, I'll go Holds such an enmity with blood of man,
no further.

That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through
Ghost. Mark me.

The natural gates and alleys of the body;
Ham.
I will.

And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset
Ghost.

My hour is almost come, And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
When I to sulphurous and torinenting flames The thin and wholesome blood : so did it mine;
Must render up myself.

And a most instant tetter bark'd about,
Han.
Alas, poor ghost !

Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,
Ghost. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing All my smooth body.
To what I shall unfold.

Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's band,
Ham.

Speak, I am bound to hear. Of life, of crown, of queen, at once despatch'd: Ghost. So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Ham. What ?

Unhousel'd, unanointed, unaneld;
Ghost. I am thy father's spirit;

No reckoning made, but sent to my account
Doom'd for a certain term to waik the night; With all my imperfections on my head :
And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires,

O, horrible! o, horrible! most horrible !
Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;
Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,

A couch for luxury and damped incest.
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word

But, howsoever thou pursu'st this act, Would barrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood; Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, Thy knotted and combined locks to part,

And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, And each particular hair to stand on end,

To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once! Like quills upon the fretful porcupine :

The glow worm shows the matin to be near, But this eternal blazon must not be

And'gins to pale bis uneffectual fire: To ears of Aesh and blood :-List, list, O list!- Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

| Exit If thou didst ever thy dear father love,

Ham. O all you host of heaven! O earth! What Ham. O heaven !

else? Ghost. Revenge his foul and most unnatural and shall I couple hell ?-0 fye ! -Hold, hold, «; murder.

heart; Ham. Murder?

And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, Ghost. Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But bear me stiftly up!-Remember thee? But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat Ham. Haste me to know it; that I, with wings In this distracted globe. Remember thee? as swift

Yea, from the table of my memory As meditation, or the thoughts of love,

I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, May sweep to my revenge.

All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, Ghost.

I find thee apt; That youth and observation copied there ;
And duller should'st thou be than the fat weed And thy commandment all alone shall live
That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,

Within the book and volume of my brain,
Would’st thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear: Unmix'd with baser matter : yes, by heaven.
'Tis given out, that sleeping in mine orchard, O most pernicious woman !
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain !
Is by a forged process of my death

My tables, ---meet it is, I set it down,
Rankly abus'd: but know, thou noble youth, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;
The serpent that did sting thy father's life,

At least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark: Noy wears his crown.

[Writing Ham. O, my prophetick soul! my uncle ! So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word; Ghost. Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, It is, Adieu, adieu! remember me. With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts, I have sworn't. (O wicked wit, and gifts, that have the power

Hor. (Within.) My lord, my lord, So to seduce !) won to his shameful lust

Mur. I Within.) Lord Hamlet,The wili of my most seeming virtuous queen :

Hor. (Within.)

Heaven secure him 0, Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!

Ham.

So be it' From me, wbose love was of that dignity,

Mar. (Within.) Illo, ho, ho, my lord ! That it went hand in hand even with the vow

Ham. Hiilo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come. I made to her in marriage; and to decline Upon a wreteh, whose natural gifts were poor

Enter Horatio anri MARCELLUS. To those of mine!

Mar. How is't, my noble lord ? But virtue, as it never will be mur'd.

Hor

Wha: news, my lord, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven Ham, 0), wonderful !

.

the grave,

Hor.

Good my lord, tell it. That you, at such times seeing me, never shall Ham.

No; With arms encumber'd thus, or this bead-shake, You will reveal it.

Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, Hor. Not I, my lord, by heaven.

As, Well, well, we know ;-or, We could, and if we Mar.

Nor I, my lord. would ;-or, If we list to speak ;-—or, There be, an if Ham. How say you then; would heart of man they might ;once think it ?

Or such ambiguous giving out, to note But you'll be secret,

That you know aught of me :-This do you swear, Hor. Mar.

Ay, by heaven, my lord. So grace and mercy at your most need help you ! Ham. There's ne'er a villain, dwelling in all Ghost. (Beneath.) Swear. Denmark,

Ham. Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! So, gentlemen, But he's an arrant knave.

With all my love I do commend me to you, Hor. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from And what so poor a man as Hamlet is

May do, to express his love and friending to you, To tell us this.

God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;
Ham. Why, right; you are in the right; And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
And so, without more circumstance at all,

The time is out of joint;-O cursed spite !
I hold it fit, that we shake hands, and part: That ever I was born to set it right!
You, as your business, and desire, shall point you ;- Nay, come, let's go together.

[Ereto lo
For every man hath business, and desire,
Such as it is, and for my own poor part,
Look you, I will go pray;

[lord. Hor. These are but wild and whirling words, my Ham. I am sorry they offend you, heart ly; yes,

ACT II.
Faith, heartily.
Hor.
There's no offence, my lord.

SCENE I.-A Rvom in Polonius' House.
Ham. Yes, by St. Patrick, but there is, Horatio,
And much offence too. Touching this vision here, -

Enter Polonius and REYNALDO. It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you;

Pol. Give him this money, and these notes, hvy. For your desire to know what is between us,

naldo. O'er-master it as you may. And now, good friends, Rey. I will, my lord.

(naldo, As you are friends, scholars, and soldiers,

Pol. You shall do marvellous wisely, good ReyGive me one poor request.

Before you visit him, to make inquiry Hor.

What is't, my lord Of his behaviour. We will.

Rey.

My lord, I did intend it. Ham. Never make known what you have seen Pol. Marry, well said : very well said. Look

to-night. Hor. Mar. My lord, we will not.

Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris ; Ham.

Nay, but swear't. And how, and who, what means, and where they Hor.

In faith,

keep, My lord, not I.

What company, at what expence; and finding, Mar. Nor I, my lord, in faith,

By this encompassment and drift of question, Ham. Upon my sword.

That they do know my son, come you more nearer Mar.

We have sworn, my lord, already. Than your particular demands will touch it: Ham. Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.

Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him; Ghost. (Beneath.] Swear.

As thus, -I know his father, and his friends, Ham. Ha, ha, boy! say'st thou so ? art thou And, in part, him ;-Do you mark this, Reynaldo ? there, true-penny?

Rey. Ay, very well, my lord.
Come on,-you hear this fellow in the cellarage, - Pol. And, in part, him ;-but, you may say, not
Consent to swear.
Hor.

Propose the oath, my lord. But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild ;
Ham. Never to speak of this that you have seen, Addicted so and so ;-and there put on him
Swear by my sword.

What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank Ghost. (Beneath.) Swear.

As may dishonour him; take heed of that,
Ham. Hic et ubique ? then we'll shift our ground:- But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips,
Come hither, gentlemen,

As are companions noted and most known
And lay your hands again upon my sword: To youth and liberty.
Swear by my sword,

Rey.

As gaming, my lord. Never to speak of this that you have heard.

Poi. Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarGhost. ( Beneath.] Swear by his sword.

relling, Ham. Well said, old mole! can’st work i'the Drabbing :- You may go so far. earth so fast ?

Rey. My lord, that would dishonour him. A worthy pioneer!-Once more remove, good friends. Pol. 'Faith, no; as you may season it in the Hor. O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

charge. Ham. And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. You must not put another scandal on him, There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, That he is open to incontinency; (quaintly Than are dreamt of in your philosc phy.

That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so But come;

That they may seem the taints of liberty: Here, as before, never, so help you mercy !

The flash and out-break of a fiery mind;
How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,

A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
As I, perchance, hereafter shall think meet Of general assault.
To put an antick disposition on-

Rey.

But, my good lord,

you, sir,

well :

Mark you,

Pol Wherefore should you du this?

And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd, Rey.

Ay, my lord, He seem'd to find his way without his eyes; I would know that,

For out o’dvors be went without ineir helps, Pol.

Marry, sir, here's my drift; And, to the last, bended their light on me. And, I believe, it is a fetch of warrant:

l'ol. Ceme, go with me; I will go seek the king. You laying these slight sullies on my son,

This is the rery ecstasy of love;
As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i'the working, Whose violent property foredoes itself,

And leads the will to desperate undertakings,
Your party in converse, him you would sound, As ost as any passion under heaven,
Having ever seen, in the predominate crimes, That does afflict our natures. I am sorry,
The youth you breathe of, guilty, be assur'd, What, have you given him any hard words of late?
He closes with you in this consequence;

Oph. No, my good lord; but, as you did comGood sir, or so; or friend, or genileman,

mand, According to the phrase, or the addition,

I did repel his letters, and denied
Of man, and country.

His access to me.
Rey.
Very good, my lord.

Pol.

That hath made him mad.
Pol. And then, sir, does he this, -He does I am sorry, that with better heed, and judgment,
What was I about to say ? By the mass, I was about I had not quoted him: I fear'd, he did but trifle,
to say some something :- Where did I leave ? And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy!
Rey. At, closes in the consequence.

It seems, it is as proper to our age
Pol. At, closes in the consequence, -Ay, marry; To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions,
He closes with you thus :- I know the gentleman; As it is common for the younger sort
I saw him yesterday, or t’other day,

To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:
Or then, or then ; with such, or such ; and, as you say, This must be known; which, being kept close,
There was he gaming; there o'ertook in his rouse :

might move There falling out at tennis ; or, perchance,

More gries to hide, than hate to utter love. I saw him enter such a house of sale,

Come.

(Ereuni. (Videlicet, a brothel,) or so forth.See you now;

SCENE II.-A Room in the Castle.
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,

Enter KING, QUEEN, RosenCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, With windlaces, and with assays of bias,

and Attendants. By indirections find directions out;

King. Welcome, dear Rosencrantz, and GuilSo, by my former lecture and advice,

denstern! Shall you my son : You have me, have you not ?

Moreover that we much did long to see you, Rey. My lord, I have.

The neea, we have to use you, did provoke Pol.

God be wi' you; fare you well. Our hasty sending. Something have you heard Rey. Good my lord, —

Of Hamlet's transformation; so I call it, Pol. Observe his inclination in yourself,

Since not the exterior nor the inward man Rey. I shall, my lord.

Resembles that it was: What it should be, Pol. And let him ply his musick.

More than his father's death, that thus hath put him, Rey.

Well, my lord. So much from the understanding of himself,
[Exit. I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,

That,-being of so young days brought up with him;
Enter OPHELIA.

And, since, so neighbour'd to his youth and humour, Pol. Farewell!-How pow, Ophelia ? what's the That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court matter?

Some little time : so by your companies Oph. O, my lord, my lord, I have been so af. To draw him on to pleasures; and to gather, frighted!

So much as from occasion you may glean, Pol. With what, in the name of heaven? Whether aught, to us unknown, aftlicts him thus, Oph. My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, That, open'd, lies within our remedy.

(you ; Lord Hamlet, --with his doublet all unbrac'd; Queen. Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, And, sure I am, two men there are not living, Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle;

To whom he more adheres. If it will please you Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; To show us so much gentry, and good will, And with a look so piteous in purport,

As to expend your time with us a while,
As if h? had been loosed out of hell,

For the supply and profit of our hope,
To speak of horrors,—he comes before me. Your visitation shall receive such thanks
Pol. Mad for thy love ?

As fits a king's remembrance.
Oph.
My lord, I do not know; Ros.

Both your majesties But, truly, I do fear it.

Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,
Pol.
What said he ?

Put your dread pleasures more into command
Oph. He took me by the wrist, and held me hard; Than to entreaty.
Then goes he to the length of all his arm;

Guil.

But we both obey;
And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, And here give up ourselves, in the full bent,
He falls to such perusal of my face,

To lay our service freely at your feet,
As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so;

To be commanded. At last,-a little shaking of mine arm,

King. Thanks, Rosencrantz, and gentle Guilden. And thrice his head thus waving up and down,

steru.

(cranta He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound,

Queen. Thanks, Guildenstern, and gentle Rosen As it did seem to shatter all his bulk,

And I beseech you instantly to visit And end his being : That done, he lets me go: My too much changed son.-Go some of you,