Here, thou incestuous, murd'rous, damned Dane,

Follow my mother.

[Stabs the KING, who dies.

Laer. He is justly serv'd.-
Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:
Mine and my father's death come not upon thee;
Nor thine on me!-

[He dies.

Ham. Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.-
You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
That are but mutes or audience to this act,
Had I but time, -as this fell serjeant, Death,
Is strict in his arrest, -O, I could tell you,
But let it be :-Horatio, I am dead;

Thou liv'st; report me and my cause aright
To the unsatisfied.

Hor. Never believe't;

[Takes the Cup from FRANCISCo.

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane,—

Here's yet some liquor left.

Ham. As thou'rt a man,

[Snatches the Cup.

Give me the cup; let go; by Heaven, I'll have it.O, good Horatio, what a wounded name,

Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,

Absent thee from felicity a while,

And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story. — О, I die, Horatio !
The potent poison quite o'ergrows my spirit:
The rest is silence.-

[He dies.

Hor. Now cracks a noble heart: Good night,

sweet prince;

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!-
Give order, that these bodies

High on a stage be placed to the view;

And let me speak, to the yet unknowing world,

How these things came about.

Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;

For he was likely, had he been put on,

To have prov'd most royally: and, for his passage,
The soldiers' music, and the rites of war,

Speak loudly for him.

Take up the bodies: -Such a sight as this

Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.

[A Dead March.-Exeunt.

THE END.