Will want true colour; tears, perchance," for blood. Queen. To whom do you speak this ? Ham. Do you see nothing there? Queen. Nothing at all; yet all, that is, I see. Ham. Nor did you nothing hear? Queen. No, nothing, but ourselves. Ham. Why, look you there! look, how it steals away! My father, in his habit as he liv'd! Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal! [Exit Ghost. Queen. This is the very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstasy 8 Is very cunning in. Ham. Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful musick: It is not madness, That I have utter'd bring me to the test, And I the matter will Would gambol from. re-word; which madness Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue : Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg; Yea, curb' and woo, for leave to do him good. 7 Perhaps. 8 Frenzy. 9 Manure. 1 Bend. Queen. O Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain. Ham. O, throw away the worser part of it, That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat To the next abstinence: the next more easy : I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord, [Pointing to POLONIUS. I do repent: But heaven hath pleas'd it so,- Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. But 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;1 A term of endearment. And let him, for a pair of reechy3 kisses, Or padling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft. 'Twere good, you let him know: Unpeg the basket on the house's top, Let the birds fly; and, like the famous ape, 6 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-fel lows; Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd,— 3 Steaming with heat. 7 Having their teeth. 4 Toad. 5 Cat. 6 Experiments. 8 Blown up with his own bomb. I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room :— [Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging in Po LONIUS. ACT IV. SCENE I.-The same. Enter King, Queen, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUIL DENSTERN. King. There's matter in these sighs; these profound heaves; You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them: Queen. Bestow this place on us a little while.— Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night! Queen. Mad as the sea, and wind, when both con tend Which is the mightier: In his lawless fit, King. O heavy deed! It had been so with us, had we been there: His liberty is full of threats to all; To you yourself, to us, to every one. Alas! how shall this bloody deed be answer'd? Should have kept short, restrain'd, and out of haunt, To keep it from divulging, let it feed Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone? Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done. The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN. Friends both, go join you with some further aid: [Exeunt Ros. and GUIL, |