That beetles o'er his base into the sea? (88) НАМ. Go on, I'll follow thee. It wafts me still: MAR. You shall not go, my lord. Hold off your hands. My fate cries out, HOR. Be rul'd, you shall not go. (91) [Ghost beckons, Still am I call'd;-unhand me, gentlemen ; [Breaking from them. By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me: I say, away :-Go on, I'll follow thee. [Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET. HOR. He waxes desperate with imagination. MAR. Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. HOR. Have after:-To what issue will this come? MAR. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. HOR. Heaven will direct it." Nay, let's follow him. [Exeunt. a Have after] Take, or betake yourself, after! follow! Heaven will direct it] "The state of Denmark," to health and soundness. SCENE V. A more remote Part of the Platform. Re-enter Ghost and HAMLET. HAM. Whither wilt thou lead me? Speak, I'll go no further. My hour is almost come, Alas, poor ghost! When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must render up myself. HAM. GHOST. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. HAM. Speak, I am bound to hear. GHOST. So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. HAM. What? GHOST. I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night; I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; (4) Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, • harrow up thy soul] Agitate and convulse. See I. 1. Horat. bhair to stand on end] A common image of that day. "Standing as frighted with erected haire." Drayton's Moses his Birth, B. II. 4to. 1633. Like quills upon the fretful porcupine: To ears of flesh and blood: (95)-List, list, O list!-If thou didst ever thy dear father love, HAM. O heaven! GHOST. Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. HAM. Murder? GHOST. Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. HAM. Haste me to know it; that I, with wings as swift As meditation, or the thoughts of love,(96) GHOST. I find thee apt; And duller should'st thou be than the fat weed Would'st thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear: Rankly abus'd: but know, thou noble youth, HAM. O, my prophetick soul! my uncle! GHOST. Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, (98) With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts, a b orchard] Garden. See Jul. Cæs. II. Orchard the scene. forged process] Report of proceedings. Upon a wretch," whose natural gifts were poor But virtue, as it never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven; And prey on garbage. (99) But, soft! methinks, I scent the morning air; Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, Of life, of crown, of queen, at once despatch'd:" • Decline upon a wretch] With degradation stoop to. See d despatch'd] Despoiled. e luxury] Lasciviousness. See Tr. & Cr. V. 2. Thersit. • Adew, 4tos. adue, 1623, 32. But, howsoever thou pursu'st this act, [Exit. HAM. O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple hell?-O fye!"— Hold, hold, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, (103) I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, b All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; (104) [Writing. So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word; It is, Adieu, adieu!* remember me. I have sworn't. HOR. [Within] My lord, my lord,- And shall I couple hell?-O fye] Mend thy thought! stain not thy mind with an association so unfit and unworthy. b c saws of books] Maxims, sayings. See song at end of L. L. L. pressures past,] Impressions heretofore made. |