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Till I have caught her once more in mine arms: Leaps into the grave.
Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead,
Till of this flat a mountain you have made,
To oâertop old Pelion, or the skyish head
Of blue Olympus. Hamlet
Advancing. What is he whose grief
Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow
Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand
Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,
Hamlet the Dane. Leaps into the grave.
Thou prayâst not well.
I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat;
For, though I am not splenitive and rash,
Yet have I something in me dangerous,
Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand.
Why, I will fight with him upon this theme
Until my eyelids will no longer wag.
I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
âSwounds, show me what thouâlt do:
Wooât weep? wooât fight? wooât fast? wooât tear thyself?
Wooât drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?
Iâll doât. Dost thou come here to whine?
To outface me with leaping in her grave?
Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thouâlt mouth,
Iâll rant as well as thou.
This is mere madness:
And thus awhile the fit will work on him;
Anon, as patient as the female dove,
When that her golden couplets are disclosed,
His silence will sit drooping.
Hear you, sir;
What is the reason that you use me thus?
I loved you ever: but it is no matter;
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will have his day. Exit.
I pray you, good Horatio, wait upon him. Exit Horatio.
To Laertes. Strengthen your patience in our last nightâs speech;
Weâll put the matter to the present push.
Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.
This grave shall have a living monument:
An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;
Till then, in patience our proceeding be. Exeunt.
A hall in the castle.
Enter Hamlet and Horatio. HamletSo much for this, sir: now shall you see the other;
You do remember all the circumstance?
Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,
That would not let me sleep: methought I lay
Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,
And praised be rashness for it, let us know,
Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us
Thereâs a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we willâ â
Up from my cabin,
My sea-gown scarfâd about me, in the dark
Groped I to find out them; had my desire,
Fingerâd their packet, and in fine withdrew
To mine own room again; making so bold,
My fears forgetting manners, to unseal
Their grand commission; where I found, Horatioâ â
O royal knavery!â âan exact command,
Larded with many several sorts of reasons
Importing Denmarkâs health and Englandâs too,
With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,
That, on the supervise, no leisure bated,
No, not to stay the grinding of the axe,
My head should be struck off.
Hereâs the commission: read it at more leisure.
But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed?
Being thus be-netted round with villaniesâ â
Ere I could make a prologue to my brains,
They had begun the playâ âI sat me down,
Devised a new commission, wrote it fair:
I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair and labourâd much
How to forget that learning, but, sir, now
It did me yeomanâs service: wilt thou know
The effect of what I wrote?
An earnest conjuration from the king,
As England was his faithful tributary,
As love between them like the palm might flourish,
As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
And stand a comma âtween their amities,
And many such-like âAsâes of great charge,
That, on the view and knowing of these contents,
Without debatement further, more or less,
He should the bearers put to sudden death,
Not shriving-time allowâd.
Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
I had my fatherâs signet in my purse,
Which was the model of that Danish seal;
Folded the writ up in form of the other,
Subscribed it, gaveât the impression, placed it safely,
The changeling never known. Now, the next day
Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent
Thou knowâst already.
Why, man, they did make love to this employment;
They are not near my conscience; their defeat
Does by their own insinuation grow:
âTis dangerous when the baser nature comes
Between the pass and fell incensed points
Of mighty opposites.
Does it not, thinkâst thee, stand me now uponâ â
He that hath killâd my king and whored my mother,
Poppâd in between the election and my hopes,
Thrown out his angle for my proper life,
And with such cozenageâ âisât not perfect conscience,
To quit him with this arm? and isât not to be damnâd,
To let this canker of our nature come
In further evil?
It must be shortly known to him from England
What is the issue of the business there.
It will be short: the interim is mine;
And a manâs lifeâs no more than to say âOne.â
But I am very sorry, good Horatio,
That to Laertes I forgot myself;
For, by the image of my cause, I see
The portraiture of his: Iâll court his favours:
But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me
Into a towering passion.
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