Sit down awhile; HOR. Tush! tush! 'twill not appear. HOR. Well, sit we down, And let us hear Barnardo speak of this. BAR. Last night of all, When yon same star, that's westward from the pole, MAR. Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again! Enter Ghost. BAR. In the same figure, like the king that's dead. MAR. Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio. BAR. Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio. HOR. Most like:-it harrows me with fear, and wonder.(7) BAR. It would be spoke to. MAR. Speak to it, Horatio. HOR. What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night," Together with that fair and warlike form What we have seen] We must here supply, "with," or "by relating." Usurp'st this time of night] Abuses, uses against right, and the order of things. "He but usurp'd his life;" i. e. occupied it beyond, and out of its season. End of Lear. Pollax. O. C. In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak. MAR. It is offended. 'BAR. See! it stalks away. HOR. Stay; speak: speak I charge thee, speak. [Exit Ghost. MAR. 'Tis gone, and will not answer. BAR. How now, Horatio? you tremble, and look pale: Is not this something more than fantasy? HOR. Before my God, I might not this believe, Of mine own eyes. MAR. Is it not like the king? HOR. As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on, MAR. Thus, twice before, and just at this dead With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. know not; But in the gross and scope of mine opinion, a I might not this believe, &c.] I could not: it had not been permitted me, &c. without the full and perfect evidence, &c. b In what particular thought to work] In what particular course to set my thoughts at work: in what particular train to direct the mind and exercise it in conjecture. ⚫ gross and scope] Uoon the whole, and in a general view. MAR. Good now," sit down, and tell me, he that Why this same strict and most observant watch HOR. That can I; Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands, Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same cov❜nant * deseigne, 4tos. de His fell to Hamlet: Now, sir, young Fortinbras, signe. 1623. Of unimproved mettle (13) hot and full, Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there, That hath a stomach in't: (14) which is no other Good now] In good time: à la bonne heure. An interjection, a gentle exclamation of intreaty.-Johns. Dict. As an adverb he interprets it, well. bmart] Marketing, exchange. And terms compulsative, those 'foresaid lands, The source of this our watch; and the chief head HOR. A moth (17) it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy" state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: As, stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; (18) and the moist star," Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to dooms-day with eclipse. And even the like precurse of fierce events,(29) As harbingers preceding still the fates, And prologue to the omen coming on,(21) Have heaven and earth together démonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen.-] (22) Re-enter Ghost. But, soft; behold! lo, where it comes again! I'll cross it, though it blast me.-Stay, illusion ! If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, Speak to me: d If there be any good thing to be done, a sort] Fall in with the idea of: suit, accord. b palmy state] Outspread, flourishing. Of victory palm branches were the emblem. c stands―sick to dooms-day] To death, to extinction, as at the day of doom. Stands is depends. d sound, or use of voice] Articulation. Speak to me: If thou art privy to thy country's fate, Or, if thou hast uphoarded in thy life For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, [Cock crows. Speak of it :-stay, and speak.-Stop it, Marcellus. MAR. Shall I strike at it with my partizan? HOR. Do, if it will not stand. a BAR. HOR. MAR. 'Tis gone! 'Tis here! 'Tis here! [Exit Ghost. We do it wrong, being so majestical, For it is, as the air, invulnerable, (24) And our vain blows malicious mockery. BAR. It was about to speak, when the cock crew. (25) The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Sayes. 1623, 32. MAR. It faded on the crowing of the cock.(28) Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth, all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dare stir* abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy (29) takes, nor witch hath power to charm, • So 4tos. So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.(30) • So 4tos. can walk, 1623, 32. talkes. 1623, 32. |