I do repent: But heaven hath pleas'd it so," The death I gave him. So, again, good night! Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. QUEEN. What shall I do? do: HAM. Not this, by no means, that I bid you mouse; (110) And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,(1) Or padling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft. (2) 'Twere good, you let him For who, that's but a queen,' fair, sober, wise, Let the birds fly ;(13) and, like the famous ape, QUEEN. Be thou assur'd, if words be made of ⚫ heaven hath pleas'd it so] Ordained, hath been pleased that it should be so. For who, that's but a queen] Strictly speaking, "no more than :" but, in the familiar language of banter, importing," who being as much as, having some pretence at least, or title, to the rank and state of," &c. c a paddock] Toad. See Macb. I. 1. Witches. d a gib] Gilbert, a he cat. See I. H. IV. Falst. I. 2. * blunt, 1623, 32. And breath of life, I have no life to breathe* 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 schoolfellows, Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd,(115) They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, (116) go hard, And marshal me to knavery: Let it work; I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room :(118) [Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging in to breathe] Most distantly glance at. "Him you breathe of." II. 1. Polon. to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar] i. e. mount. Hoist is used as a verb neuter. Petard, Fr. is an engine to blow up gates, &c. You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them: your son? [QUEEN. Bestow this place on us a little To ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN, who Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night! KING. What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet? 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? in this brainish apprehension] Distempered, brainsick, mood. • Whips out his rapier, 4tos. It will be laid to us, whose providence Should have kept short, restrain'd, and out of This mad young man: but, so much was our love, To keep it from divulging, let it feed Where is he gone? QUEEN. To draw apart the body he hath kill'd: 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. Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends; And, 4tos. To let them know, both what we mean to do, And what's untimely done: so haply slander, [Whose whisper (*) o'er the world's diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank,(5) Transports his poison'd shot, may miss our name, •kept short-and out of haunt] Narrowed the range, and prohibited from places of public resort. These words were supplied by Theobald. SCENE II. Another Room in the same. Enter HAMLET. HAM.-Safely stowed. [Gentlemen within. Hamlet! lord Hamlet!] [But soft,-] what noise? who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come. Enter ROSENCRANTZ and Guildenstern. Ros. What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? (6) HAM. Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin. Ros. Tell us where 'tis; that we may take it thence, And bear it to the chapel. HAM. Do not believe it. Ros. Believe what? HAM. 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? Ros. Take you me for a sponge, my lord? HAM. 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 * to be demanded of a sponge] Of, for by, was the common phraseology of the day; and more particularly in the use of this |