OPH. Indeed, without an oath, I'll make an end on't: (27) By Gis, and by Saint Charity, (28) Young men will do't, if they come to❜t; (29) Quoth she, before you tumbled me, So would I ha' done, by yonder sun, KING. How long hath she been thus? ОPH. I hope, all will be well. We must be patient: but I cannot choose but weep, to think, they should lay him i'the cold ground: My brother shall know of it, and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies: good night, good night. [Exit. KING. Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you. [Exit HORATIO. O! this is the poison of deep grief; it springs All from her father's death: And now behold, O, Gertrude, Gertrude, When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions! First, her father slain; Next, your son gone; and he most violent author Of his own just remove: The people muddied, Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers, For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly, (30) In hugger-mugger to inter him: (31) Poor Ophelia Divided from herself, and her fair judgment; Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts. Last, and as much containing as all these, a 1623, 32. Her brother is in secret come from France: * Where in necessitie of, 1623, 32. QUEEN. Alack what noise is this? Enter a Gentleman. KING. Attend. Where are my Switzers? (4) Let them guard the door: What is the matter? GENT. Save yourself, my lord; The ocean, overpeering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impitious haste, (35) keeps himself in clouds] At lofty distance and seclusion. necessity, of matter beggar'd, will nothing stick] The necessities. of one who has put himself in such a predicament (i. e., as Dr. Johnson says, the obligation of an accuser to support his charge) will, in want of grave or rational proof, have no reserve or scruple busily every where to accuse ourselves. c • The ocean, overpeering of his list] Swelling over his utmost line or boundary. See " list of my voyage." Tw, N. III. 1. Viola. in a riotous head] The tide, strongly flowing, is said to pour in with a great head. Antiquity forgot, custom not known, The ratifiers and props of every word] Word is term, and means appellation or title; as lord used before, and king They cry, Choose we; Laertes shall be king! QUEEN. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs.(3 KING. The doors are broke. [Noise within. Enter LAERTES, armed; Danes following. LAER. Where is this king?-Sirs, stand you all LAER. I thank you :-keep the door. O thou vile king, Give me my father. QUEEN. Calmly, good Laertes. LAER. That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard: Cries, cuckold, to my father; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow Of my true mother." KING. What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks so giant-like ?— afterwards: and in its more extended sense, must import "every human establishment." The sense of the passage is," As far as antiquity ratifies, and custom makes every term, denomination, or title known, they run counter to them, by talking, when they mention kings, of their right of chusing and of saying who shall be king or sovereign." a * the chaste unsmirched brow of my true mother] Unsmirched is unstained. See I. 3. Laert, Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person; Speak, man. LAER. Where is my father? KING. QUEEN. Dead. But not by him. KING. Let him demand his fill. LAER. How came he dead? I'll not be juggled To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! KING. Who shall stay you? LAER. My will, not all the world's : And, for my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far with little. KING. Good Laertes, If you desire to know the certainty Of your dear father's death, is't* writ in your re venge, That, sweepstake, you will draw both friend and foe, Winner and loser? LAER. None but his enemies. grace] A religious feeling, a disposition to yield obedience to the divine laws. b Both the worlds I give to negligence] I am careless of my present and future prospects, my views in this life, as well as that which is to come. sweepstake] By wholesale, undistinguishingly. So 4tos, if, 1623, 32. soopstake, O. C. in, 4tos. * rain'd, 4tos. KING. Will you know them then? LAER. To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms; And, like the kind life-rend'ring pelican,(38) Repast them with KING. Why, now you speak Like a good child, and a true gentleman. DANES. [Within.] Let her come in. LAER. How now! what noise is that? Enter OPHELIA, fantastically dressed with Straws and Flowers. O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt, OPн. They bore him barefac'd on the bier; * And on his grave rains* many a tear ;— Fare you well, my dove! sensible in grief] Poignantly affected with. Adjectives, having this termination, are, in our author, frequently used ad verbially. The quarto, 1604, reads sensibly. pierce] Make its way. The quartos read peare. |