Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, (83) Το you alone. MAR. с (85) (86) Look, with what courteous action It wafts you to a more removed ground: HOR. No, by no means. HAM. It will not speak; then I will follow it. HAM. Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; (87) And, for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? It waves me forth again ;-I'll follow it. HOR. What, if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, hearsed in death] Deposited with the accustomed funeral rites: conveyed in the vehicle appropriated to this ceremonial. b cerements] Waxen envelope. C disposition] Frame of mind; or affection of body and mind. • Revisitst. 1632. Somnet, 4tos. Sonnet. 1623, 32. 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. [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. MAR. Nay, let's follow him. [Exeunt. lets] Obstructs. 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. 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; (9) 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 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; Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, (101) с Of life, of crown, of queen, at once despatch'd:" • Decline upon a wretch] With degradation stoop to. See Tr. & Cr. IV. 5, Nestor. b secure] Unguarded. с e eager droppings into milk] Acid. See " eager air," Sc. 4. despatch'd] Despoiled. luxury] Lasciviousness. See Tr. & Cr. V. 2. Thersit. |