With fuch a heady current, fcowering faults: So foon did lofe his feat, and all at once, As in this King. ELY. We're bleffed in the change. CANT. Hear him but reason in divinity, You would defire, the King were made a Prelate. You'd fay, it had been all in all his study. Lift his difcourfe of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in mufic. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloofe, His companies unletter'd, rude and fhallow; ELY. The ftrawberry grows underneath the nettle, Grew Grew like the fummer-grafs, fastest by night, CANT. It must be fo: for miracles are ceas'd: SHAKSPEARE. CHA P. XIII. HAMLET AND HORATIO. HOR. TAIL to your Lordship! HOR.HAIL HAM. I am glad to fee you well. Horatio, or I do forget myself. HOR. The fame, my Lord, and your poor fervant ever. HAM. Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you: And what makes you from Wittenburg, Horatio ? HOR. A truant difpofition, good my Lord.. Nor fhall you do mine ear that violence, We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. HOR. My Lord, I came to fee your father's funeral.. I think it was to fee my mother's wedding. HOR. Indeed, my Lord, it follow'd hard upon. HAM. Thrift, thirft, Horatio; the funeral bak'd meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe in heav'n, On Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio? father. HOR. Oh where, my Lord? HOR. I faw him once, he was a goodly King.. HOR. My Lord, I think I faw him yesternight. HOR. My Lord, the King your father. HAM. The King my father? HOR. Seafon your admiration but a while, With an attentive ear; till I deliver, Upon the witness of these gentlemen, This marvel to you. HAM. For Heaven's love, let me hear. HOR. Two nights together had these gentlemen, In the dead waste and middle of the night, Appears before them, and with folemn march Within his truncheon's length; whilft they (diftill'a Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to me And I with them the third night kept the watch: The The apparition comes. I knew Thefe hands are not more like. HAM. But where was this? your father : HOR. My Lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. HAM. Did you not speak to it? HOR. My Lord I did; But anfwer made it none. Yet once methought It lifted up its head, and did address Itfelf to motion, like as it would speak, But even then the morning cock crew loud; HAM. 'Tis very strange. HOR. As I do live, my honour'd Lord, 'tis true; And we did think it writ down in our duty To let you know of it. HAM. Indeed, indeed, Sir, but this troubles me. Hold you the watch to-night? HOR. We do, my Lord. HAM. Arm'd, say you? HOR. Arm'd, my Lord. HAM. From top to toe? HOR. My Lord, from head to foot. HAM. Then faw you not his face? HOR. Oh, yes, my Lord; he wore his beaver up. HOR. A count'nance more in forrow than in anger. HOR. Nay, very pale. HAM. And fix'd his eyes upon you? HOR. Moft constantly. HAM. I would I had been there! HOR. HOR. It would have much amaz'd you. HAM. Very like. Staid it long? HOR. While one with moderate hafte might tell a hundred. HAM. His beard was grifl'd?-no. HOR. It was, as I have seen it in his life, A fable filver'd. HAM. I'll watch to-night; perchance 'twill walk again. HOR. I warrant you, it will. HAM. If it affumes my noble father's perfon, I'll speak to it, tho' hell itself should I'll vifit you. SHAKSPEARE. CHA P. XIV. BRUTUS AND CASSIUS. CAS.WILL you go fee the order of the course? BRU. Not I. CAS. I pray you, do. BRU. I am not gamefome; I do lack fome part Of that quick fpirit that is in Antony; Let me not hinder, Caffius, your desires ; I'll leave you. CAS. Brutus, I do obferve you now of late; I have not from your eyes that gentleness And |