But, look! amazement on thy mother sits: Ham. How is it with you, lady? Queen. Alas, how is't with you? 840 That you do bend your eye on vacancy, His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones, Will want true colour; tears, perchance, for blood. 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. 851 Ham. Why, look you there! look, how it steals Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal! [Exit Ghost. Queen. This is the very coinage of your brain This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in. Ham. Ecstasy! : 860 My pulse as yours, doth temperately keep time, Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; 870 To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue : Yea, curb, and woo, for leave to do him good. Ham. O, throw away the worser part of it, 880 That That to the use of actions fair and good To the next abstinence: the next, more easy: 890 [Pointing to POLONIUS. I do repent; But heaven hath pleas'd it so,— The death I gave him. So, again good night! goo Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.→ One word more, good lady. Queen. What shall I do? Ham. 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; Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, That I essentially am not in madness, 910 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 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, And break your neck down. 920 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? Queen. Alack, I had forgot; 'tis so concluded on. Ham. There's letters seal'd: and my two`schoolfellows, Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd,— Hoist with his own petar: and it shall go hard, I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room :— 930 Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you :- 940 Good night, mother. [Exit the Queen, and HAMLET dragging in POLONIUS. ACT ACT IV. SCENE I. A royal Apartment. Enter King, Queen, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN. King. T HERE'S matter in these sighs, these profound You must translate; 'tis fit we understand them: Queen. Bestow this place on us a little while. [To Ros. and GUIL. who go out. Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to night? Which is the mightier: In his lawless fit, Behind the arras hearing something stir, He whips his rapier out, and cries, A rat! a rat! 10 And, in this brainish apprehension, kills The unseen good old man. King. O heavy deed! It had been so with us, had we been there : His liberty is full of threats to all; To you yourself, to us, to every one. Alas! how shall this bloody deed be answer'd ? 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 |