him To kill so capitall a calfe Come be these Players ready Queene Hamlet come sit downe by me Ham. No by my faith mother heere 's a mettle more attractiue Lady will you giue me leaue and so forth To lay my head in your lappe Ofel. No my Lord. Ham. Vpon your lap what do you thinke I meant contrary matters Enter in a Dumbe Shew the King and the Queene he sits downe in an Arbor she leaues him Then enters Lucianus with poyson in a Viall and powres it in his eares and goes away Then the Queene commeth and findes him dead and goes away with the other Ofel. What meanes this my Lord Enter the Prologue Ham. This is myching Mallico that meanes my chiefe Ofel. What doth this meane my lord Ham. you shall heare anone this fellow will tell you all Ofel. Will he tell vs what this shew meanes Ham. I or any shew you 'le shew him Be not afeard to shew hee 'le not be afeard to tell O these Players cannot keepe counsell thei 'le tell all Prol. For vs and for our Tragedie Heere stowpiug to your clemencie We begge your hearing patiently Ham. I' st a prologue or a poesie for a ring Ofel. T' is short my Lord. Ham. As womens loue Enter the Duke and Dutchesse Duke Full fortie yeares are past their date is gone Since happy time ioyn'd both our hearts as one And now the blood that fill'd my youthfull veines Runnes weakely in their pipes and all the straines Of musicke which whilome pleasde mine eare Is now a burthen that Age cannot beare And therefore sweete Nature must pay his due To heauen must I and leaue the earth with you Dutchesse O say not so lest that you kill my heart When death takes you let life from me depart Duke Content thy selfe when ended is my date Thon maist perchance haue a more noble mate More wise more youthfull and one Dutchesse O speake no more for then I am accurst None weds the second but she kils the first A second time I kill my Lord that 's dead When second husband kisses me in bed Ham. O wormewood wormewood Duke I doe beleeue you sweete what now you speake But what we doe determine oft we breake For our demises stil are ouerthrowne Our thoughts are ours their end 's none of our owne So thinke you will no second husband wed But die thy thoughts when thy first Lord is dead Dutchesse Both here and there pursue me lasting strife If once a widdow euer I be wife Ham. If she should breake now Duke T' is deepely sworne sweete leaue me here a while My spirites growe dull and faine I would beguile the tedious time with sleepe Dutchesse Sleepe rocke thy braine And neuer come mischance betweene vs twaine exit Lady Ham. Madam how do you like this play Queene The Lady protests too much Ham. O but shee 'le keepe her word King Haue you heard the argument is there no offence in it Ham. No offence in the world poyson in iest poison in iest King What do you call the name of the play Ham. Mouse-trap mary how trapically this play is The image of a murder done in guyana Albertus Was the Dukes name his wife Baptista Father it is a knauish peece a worke but what A that it toucheth not vs you and I that haue free Soules let the galld iade wince this is one Lucianus nephew to the King Ofel. Ya 're as good as a Chorus my lord Ham. I could interpret the loue you beare if I sawe the poopies dallying Ofel. Y' are very pleasant my lord Ham. Who I your onlie jig-maker why what shoulde a man do but be merry for looke how cheerefully my mother lookes my father died within these two houres Ofel. Nay t' is twice two months my Lord. Ham. Two months nay then let the diuell weare blacke For I 'le haue a sute of Sables Iesus two months dead And not forgotten yet nay then there 's some Likelyhood a gentlemans death may outliue memorie But by my faith hee must build churches then Or els hee must follow the olde Epitithe With hoh with ho the hobi-horse is forgot Ofel. Your iests are keene my Lord. Ham. It would cost you a groning to take them off Ofel. Still better and worse Ham. So you must take your husband begin Murdred Begin a poxe leaue thy damnable faces and begin Come the croking rauen doth bellow for reuenge Murd Thoughts blacke hands apt drugs fit and time agreeing Confederate season else no creature seeing Thou mixture rancke of midnight weedes collected With Hecates bane thrise blasted thrise infected Thy naturall magicke and dire propertie One wholesome life vsurps immediately exit Ham. He poysons him for his estate King Lights I will to bed Cor. The king rises lights hoe Exeunt King and Lordes Ham. What frighted with false fires Then let the stricken deere goe weepe The Hart vngalled play For some must laugh while some must weepe Thus runnes the world away Hor. The king is mooued my lord Hor. I Horatio I 'le take the Ghosts word For more then all the coyne in Denmarke Enter Rossencraft and Gilderstone Ross. Now my lord how i' st with you Ham. And if the king like not the tragedy Why then belike he likes it not perdy Ross. We are very glad to see your grace so pleasant My good lord let vs againe intreate To know of you the ground and cause of your distemperature Gil. My lord your mother craues to speake with you Ham. We shall obey were she ten times our mother Ross. But my good Lord shall I intreate thus much Ham. I pray will you play vpon this pipe Ross. Alas my lord I cannot Ham. Pray will you Gil. I haue no skill my Lord. Ham. why looke it is a thing of nothing T' is but stopping of these holes And with a little breath from your lips It will giue most delicate musick Gil. But this cannot wee do my Lord. Ham. Pray now pray hartily I beseech you Ros. My lord wee cannot Ham. Why how vnworthy a thing would you make of me You would seeme to know my stops you would play vpon mee You would search the very inward part of my hart And diue into the secreet of my soule Zownds do you thinke Iam easier to be pla'yd On then a pipe call mee what Instrument You will though you can frett mee yet you can not Play vpon mee besides to be demanded by a spunge Ros. How a spunge my Lord Ham. I sir a spunge that sokes vp the kings Countenance fauours and rewardes that makes His liberalitie your store house but such as you Do the king in the end best seruise For hee doth keep you as an Ape doth nuttes In the corner of his law first mouthes you Then swallowes you so when hee hath need Of you t' is but squeefing of you And spunge you shall be dry againe you shall Ros. Wel my Lord wee 'le take our leaue Ham Farewell farewell God blesse you
know That thing that I haue saide t' is so positiuely And it hath fallen out otherwise Nay if circumstances leade me on I le finde it out if it were hid As deepe as the centre of the earth King how should wee trie this same Cor. Mary my good lord thus The Princes walke is here in the galery There let Ofelia walke vntill hee comes Your selfe and I will stand close in the study There shall you heare the effect of all his hart And if it proue any otherwise then loue Then let my censure faile an other time King see where hee comes poring vppon a booke Enter Hamlet Cor. Madame will it please your grace To leaue vs here Que. With all my hart exit Cor. And here Ofelia reade you on this booke And walke aloofe the King shal be vnseene Ham. To be or not to be I there 's the point To Die to sleepe is that all I all No to sleepe to dreame I mary there it goes For in that dreame of death when wee awake And borne before an euerlasting Iudge From whence no passenger euer retur'nd The vndiscouered country at whose sight The happy smile and the accursed damn'd But for this the ioyfull hope of this Whol'd beare the scornes and flattery of the world Scorned by the right rich the rich curssed of the poore The widow being oppressed the orphan wrong'd The taste of hunger or a tirants raigne And thousand more calamities besides To grunt and sweate vnder this weary life When that he may his full Quietus make With a bare bodkin who would this indure But for a hope of something after death Which pusles the braine and doth confound the sence Which makes vs rather beare those euilles we haue Than flie to others that we know not of I that O this conscience makes cowardes of vs all Lady in thy orizons be all my sinnes remembred Ofel. My Lord I haue sought opportunitie which now I haue to redeliuer to your worthy handes a small remembrance such tokens which I haue receiued of you Ham. Are you faire Ofel. My Lord. Ham. Are you honest Ofel. What meanes my Lord Ham. That if you be faire and honest Your beauty should admit no discourse to your honesty Ofel. My Lord can beauty haue better priuiledge than with honesty Ham. Yea mary may it for Beauty may transforme Honesty from what she was into a bawd Then Honesty can transforme Beauty This was sometimes a Paradox But now the time giues it scope I neuer gaue you nothing Ofel. My Lord you know right well you did And with them such earnest vowes of loue As would haue moou'd the stoniest breast aliue But now too true I finde Rich giftes waxe poore when giuers grow vnkinde Ham. I neuer loued you Ofel. You made me beleeue you did Ham. O thou shouldst not a beleeued me Go to a Nunnery goe why shouldst thou Be a breeder of sinners I am myselfe indifferent honest But I could accuse my selfe of such crimes It had beene better my mother had ne're borne me O I am very prowde ambitious disdainefull With more sinnes at my becke then I haue thoughts To put them in what should such fellowes as I Do crawling between heauen and earth To a Nunnery goe we are arrant knaues all Beleeue none of vs to a Nunnery goe Ofel. O heauens secure him Ham. Wher 's thy father Ofel. At home my lord Ham. For Gods sake let the doores be shut on him He may play the foole no where but in his Owne house to a Nunnery goe Ofel. Help him good God Ham. If thou dost marry I le giue thee This plague to thy dowry Be thou as chaste as yee as pure as snowe Thou shalt not scape calumny to a Nunnery goe Ofel. Alas what change is this Ham. But if thou wilt needes many marry a foole For wisemen know well enough What monsters you make of them to a Nunnery goe Ofel. Pray God restore him Ham. Nay I haue heard of your paintings too God hath giuen you one face And you make your selues another You fig and you amble and you nickname Gods creatures Making your wantonnesse your ignorance A pox t' is scuruy I le no more of it It hath made me madde I le no more marriages All that are married but one shall liue The rest shall keepe as they are to a Nunnery goe To a Nunnery goe exit Ofe Great God of heauen what a quicke change is this The Courtier Scholler Souldier all in him All dasht and splinterd thence O woe is me To a seene what I haue seene see what I see exit King Loue No no that 's not the cause Some deeper thing it is that troubles him Enter King and Corambis Cor. Wel something it is my Lord content you a while I will my selfe goe feele him let me worke I le try him euery way see where he comes Send you those Gentlemen let me alone To finde the depth of this away be gone Now my good Lord do you know me exit King Enter Hamlet Ham. Yea very well y' are a fishmonger Cor. Not I my Lord. Ham. Then sir I would you were so honest a man For to be honest as this age goes Is one man to be pickt out of tenne thousand Cor. What doe you reade my Lord Ham. Wordes wordes Cor. What 's the matter my Lord Ham. Betweene who Cor. I meane the matter you reade my Lord. Ham. Mary most vile heresie For here the Satyricall Satyre writes That olde men haue hollow eyes weake backes Grey beardes pittifull weake hammes gowty legges All which sir I most potently beleeue not For sir your selfe shal be olde as I am If like a Crabbe you could goe backeward Cor. How pregnant his replies are and full of wit Yet at first he tooke me for a fishmonger All this comes by loue the vemencie of loue And when I was yong I was very idle And suffered much extasie in loue very neere this Will you walke out of the aire my Lord Ham. Into my graue Cor. By the masse that 's out of the aire indeed Very shrewd answers My lord I will take my leaue of you Enter Gilderstone and Rossencraft Ham. You can take nothing from me sir I will more willingly part with all Olde doating foole Cor You seeke Prince Hamlet see there he is exit Gil. Health to your Lordship Ham. What Gilderstone and Rossencraft Welcome kinde Schoole-fellowes to Elsanoure Gil. We thanke your Grace and would be very glad You were as when we were at Wittenberg Ham. I thanke you but is this visitation free of Your selues or were you not sent for Tell me true come I know the good King and Queene Sent for you there is a kinde of confession in your eye Come I know you were sent for Gil. What say you Ham. Nay then I see how the winde sits Come you were sent for Ross. My lord we were and willingly if we might Know the cause and ground of your discontent Ham.
Exit Rossencraft and Gilderstone Enter Corambis Cor. My lord the Queene would speake with you Ham. Do you see yonder clowd in the shape of a camell Cor. T' is like a camell in deed Ham. Now me thinkes it 's like a weasel Cor. T' is back't like a weasell Ham. Or like a whale Cor. Very like a whale exit Coram Ham. Why then tell my mother I 'le come by and by Good night Horatio Hor. Good night vnto your Lordship exit Horatio Ham. My mother she hath sent to speake with me O God let ne're the heart of Nero enter This soft bosome Let me be cruell not vnnaturall I will speake daggers those sharpe wordes being spent To doe her wrong my soule shall ne're consent exit Enter the King King O that this wet that falles vpon my face Would wash the crime cleere from my conscience When I looke vp to heauen I see my trespasse The earth doth still crie out vpon my fact Pay me the murder of a brother and a king And the adulterous fault I haue committed O these are sinnes that are vnpardonable Why say thy sinnes were blacker then is ieat Yet may contrition make them as white as snowe I but still to perseuer in a sinne It is an act gainst the vniuersall power Most wretched man stoope bend thee to thy prayer Aske grace of heauen to keepe thee from despaire hee kneeles enter Hamlet Ham. I so come forth and worke thy last And thus hee dies and so am I reuenged No not so he tooke my father sleeping his sins brim full And how his soule stoode to the state of heauen Who knowes saue the immortall powres And shall I kill him now When he is purging of his soule Making his way for heauen this is a benefit And not reuenge no get thee vp agen When hee 's at game swaring taking his carowse drinking drunke Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed Or at some act that hath no relish Of saluation in 't then trip him That his heeles may kicke at heauen And fall as lowe as hel my mother stayes This phisicke but prolongs thy weary dayes exit Ham. King My wordes fly vp my sinnes remaine below No King on earth is safe if Gods his foe exit King Enter Queene and Corambis Cor. Madame I heare yong Hamlet comming I 'le shrowde my selfe behinde the Arras exit Cor. Queene Do so my Lord. Ham. Mother mother O are you here How i' st with you mother Queene How i' st with you Ham I 'le tell you but first wee le make all safe Queene Hamlet thou hast thy father much offended Ham. Mother you haue my father much offended Queene How now boy Ham. How now mother come here sit downe for you shall heare me speake Queene What wilt thou doe thou wilt not murder me Helpe hoe Cor. Helpe for the Queene Ham. I a Rat dead for a Duckat Rash intruding foole farewell I tooke thee for thy better Queene Hamlet what hast thou done Ham. Not so much harme good mother As to kill a king and marry with his brother Queene How kill a king Ham. Ia King nay sit you downe and ere you part If you be made of penitrable stuffe I 'le make your eyes looke downe into your heart And see how horride there and blacke it shews Queene Hamlet what mean'st thou by these killing words Ham. Why this I meane see here behold this picture It is the portraiture of your deceased husband See here a face to outface Mars himselfe An eye at which his foes did tremble at A front wherin all vertue are set downe For to adorne a king and guild his crowne Whose heart went hand in hand euen with that vow He made to you in marriage and he is dead Murdred damnably murdred this was your husband Looke you now here is your husband With a face like Unlcan A looke fit for a murder and a rape A dull dead hanging looke and a hell-bred eie To affright children and amaze the world And this same haue you left to change with this What Diuell thus hath cosoned you at hob-man blinde A haue you eyes and can you looke on him That slew my father and your deere husband To liue in the incestuous pleasure of his bed Queene O Hamlet speake no more Ham. To leaue him that bare a Monarkes minde For a king of clowts of very shreads Queene Sweete Hamlet cease Ham. Nay but still to persist and dwell in finne To sweate vnder the yoke of insamie To make increase of shame to seale damnation Queene Hamlet no more Ham. Why appetite with you is in the waine Your blood runnes backeward now from whence it came who 'le chide hote blood within a Virgins heart When lust shall dwell within a matrons breast Queene Hamlet thou cleaues my heart in twaine Ham. O throw away the worser part of it and keepe the better Enter the ghost in his night gowne Saue me saue me you gratious Powers aboue and houer ouer mee With your celestiall wings Doe you not come your tardy sonne to chide That I thus long haue let reuenge slippe by O do not glare with lookes so pittifull Lest that my heart of stone yeelde to compassion And euery part that should assist reuenge Forgoe their proper powers and fall to pitty Ghost Hamlet I once againe appeare to thee To put thee in remembrance of my death Doe not neglect nor long time put it off But I perceiue by thy distracted lookes Thy mother 's fearefull and she stands amazde Speake to her Hamlet for her sex is weake Comfort thy mother Hamlet thinke on me Ham. How i' st with you Lady Queene Nay how i' st with you That thus you bend your eyes on vacancie And holde discourse with nothing but with ayre Ham. Why doe you nothing heare Queene Not I. Ham. Nor doe you nothing see Queene No neither Ham. No why see the king my father my father in the habite As he liued looke you how pale he lookes See how he steales away out of the Portall Looke there he goes exit ghost Queene Alas it is the weakenesse of thy braine Which makes thy tongue to blazon thy hearts griefe But as I haue a soule I sweare by heauen I neuer knew of this most horride murder But Hamlet this is onely fantasie And for my loue forget these idle fits Ham. Idle no mother my pulse doth beate like yours It is not madnesse that possesseth Hamlet O mother if euer you did my deare father loue Forbeare the adulterous bed to night And win your selfe by little as you may In time it may be you wil lothe him quite And mother but assist mee in reuenge And in his death your infamy shall die Queene Hamlet I vow by that maiesty That knowes our thoughts and lookes into our hearts I will conceale consent and doe my best What stratagem soe're thou shalt deuise Ham. It is enough mother good night Come sir I 'le prouide for you a graue
countrie Queene God grant they may exeunt omnes Enter Hamlet and Horatio Ham. beleeue mee it greeues mee much Horatio That to Leartes I forgot my selfe For by my selfe me thinkes I feele his griefe Though there 's difference in each others wrong Enter a Bragart Gentleman Horatio but marke yon water-flie The Court knowes him but hee knowes not the Court. Gent. Now God saue thee sweete prince Hamlet Ham. And you sir foh how the muske-cod smels Gen. I come with an embassage from his maiesty to you Ham. I shall sir giue you attention By my troth me thinkes t' is very colde Gent. It is indeede very rawish colde Ham. T' is hot me thinkes Gent. Very swoltery hote The King sweete Prince hath layd a wager on your side Six Barbary horse against six french rapiers With all their acoutrements too a the carriages In good faith they are very curiously wrought Ham. The cariages sir I do not know what you meane Gent. The girdles and hangers sir and such like Ham. The worde had beene more cosin german to the phrase if he could haue carried the canon by his side And howe's the wager I vnderstand you now Gent. Mary sir that yong Leartes in twelue venies At Rapier and Dagger do not get three oddes of you And on your side the King hath laide And desires you to be in readinesse Ham. Very well if the King dare venture his wager I dare venture my skull when must this be Gent. My Lord presently the king and her maiesty With the rest of the best iudgement in the Court Are comming downe into the outward pallace Ham. Goe tell his maiestie I wil attend him Gent I shall deliuer your most sweet answer exit Ham. You may sir none better for y' are spiced Else he had a bad nose could not smell a foole Hor. He will disclose himselfe without inquirie Ham. Beleeue me Horatio my hart is on the sodaine Very sore all here about Hor. My lord forbeare the challenge then Ham. No Horatio not I if danger be now Why then it is not to come there 's a predestiuate prouidence in the fall of a sparrow heere comes the King Enter King Queene Leartes Lordes King Now sonne Hamlet we hane laid vpon your head And make no question but to haue the best Ham. Your maiestie hath laide a the weaker side King We doubt it not deliuer them the foiles Ham. First Leartes heere 's my hand and loue Protesting that I neuer wrongd Leartes If Hamlet in his madnesse did amisse That was not Hamlet but his madnes did it And all the wrong I e're did to Leartes I here proclaime was madnes therefore le ts be at peace And thinke I haue shot mine arrow o're the house And hurt my brother Lear. Sir I am satisfied in nature But in termes of honor I 'le stand aloofe And will no reconcilement Till by some elder maisters of our time I may be satisfied King Giue them the foyles Ham. I 'le be your foyle Leartes these foyles Haue all a laught come on sir a hit Lear. No none Heere they play Ham. Iudgement Gent. A hit a most palpable hit Lear. Well come againe They play againe Ham. Another Iudgement Lear. I I grant a tuch a tuch King Here Hamlet the king doth drinke a health to thee Queene Here Hamlet take my napkin wipe thy face King Giue him the wine Ham. Set it by I 'le haue another bowt first I 'le drinke anone Queene Here Hamlet thy mother drinkes to thee Shee drinkes King Do not drinke Gertred O t' is the poysned cup Ham. Leartes come you dally with me I pray you passe with your most cunningst play Lear. I say you so haue at you I le hit you now my Lord And yet it goes almost against my conscience Ham. Come on sir. They catch one anothers Rapiers and both are wounded Leartes falles downe the Queene falles downe and dies King Looke to the Queene Queene O the drinke the drinke Hamlet the drinke Ham. Treason ho keepe the gates Lords How i st my Lord Leartes Lear. Euen as a coxcombe should Foolishly slaine with my owne weapon Hamlet thou hast not in thee halfe an houre of life The fatall Instrument is in thy hand Vnbated and invenomed thy mother 's poysned That drinke was made for thee Ham. The poysned Instrument within my hand Then venome to thy venome die damn'd villaine Come drinke here lies thy vnion here The king dies Lear. O he is iustly serued Hamlet before I die here take my hand And withall my loue I doe forgiue thee Leartes dies Ham. And I thee O I am dead Horatio fare thee well Hor. No I am more an antike Roman Then a Dane here is some poison left Ham. Vpon my loue I charge thee let it goe O fie Horatio and if thou shouldst die What a scandale wouldst thou leaue behinde What tongue should tell the story of our deaths If not from thee O my heart sinckes Horatio Mine eyes haue lost their sight my tongue his vse Farewel Horatio heauen receiue my soule Ham. dies Enter Uoltemar and the Ambassadors from England enter Fortenbrasse with his traine Fort. Where is this bloudy sight Hor. If aught of woe or wonder you 'ld behold Then looke vpon this tragicke spectacle Fort. O imperious death how many Princes Hast thou at one draft bloudily shot to death Ambass Our ambassie that we haue brought from England Where be these Princes that should heare vs speake O most most vnlooked for time vnhappy country Hor. Content your selues I le shew to all the ground The first beginning of this Tragedy Let there a scaffold be rearde vp in the market place And let the State of the world be there Where you shall heare such a sad story tolde That neuer mortall man could more vnfolde Fort. I haue some rights of memory to this kingdome Which now to claime my leisure doth inuite mee Let foure of our chiefest Captaines Beare Hamlet like a souldier to his graue For he was likely had he liued To a prou'd most royall Take vp the bodie such a fight as this Becomes the fieldes but here doth much amisse Finis