puppits dallying Ophel You are keen my Lord you are keen Ham. It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge Ophel Still worse and worse Ham. So you mistake you husbands Begin murtherer leave thy damnable faces and begin come the croaking Raven doth bellow for revenge Luc. Thoughts black hands apt drugs fit and time agreeing Considerate season and no creature seeing Thou mixture rank of midnight weeds collected With Hecats bane thrice blasted thrice infected Thy natural magick and dire property On wholsome life usurps immediately Ham. He poisons him i' th Garden for his estate his name 's Gonzago the story is extant and written in very choice Italian you shall see anon how the murtherer gets the love of Gonzago's Wife Ophel The King rises Queen How fares my Lord Pol. Give o're the Play King Give me some light away Pol. Lights lights lights Exeunt all but Hamlet and Hora. Ham. Why let the strucken Deer go weep The Hart ungalled go play For some must watch whilst some must sleep Thus runs the world away Would not this sir and a forrest of feathers if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me with provincial Roses on my raz'd shooes get me a fellowship in a City of Players Hora. Half a share Ham. A wholeone I ' For thou doest know O Damon dear This Realm dismantled was Of Jove himself and now reigns here A very very Paicock Hora. You might have rim'd Ham. O good Horatio I 'll take the Ghosts word for a thousand pound Didst perceive Hora. Very well my Lord. Ham. Upon the talk of the poisoning Hora. I did very well note him Ham. Ah ha come some musick come the Recorders For if the King likes not the Comedy Why then belike he likes it not perdie Come some musick Enter Rosencraus and Guildenstern Guil. Good my Lord vouchsafe me a word with you Ham. Sir a whole History Guil. The King Sir Ham. I Sir what of him Guil. Is in his retirement marvellous distempered Ham. With drink Sir Guil. No my Lord with choler Ham. Your wisdom should shew it self richer to signifie this to the Doctor for for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into more choler Guil. Good my Lord put your discourse into some frame And start not so wildly from my business Ham. I am tame Sir pronounce Guil. The Queen your mother in most great affliction of spirit hath sent me to you Ham. You are welcome Guild Nay good my Lord this courtesie is not of the right breed if it shall please you to make me a wholsome answer I will do your Mothers commandment if not your pardon and my return shall be the end of the business Ham. Sir I cannot Ros What my Lord Ham. Make you a wholsome answer my wit 's diseas'd but Sir such answer as I can make you shall command or rather as you say my mother therefore no more but to the matter my mother you say Ros Then thus she says your behaviour hath strook her into amazement and admiration Ham. O wonderful son that can thus astonish a mother but is there no sequel at the heels of this mothers admiration impart Ros She desires to speak with you in her Closet e're you go to bed Ham. We shall obey were she ten times our mother have you any further trade with us Ros My Lord you once did love me Ham. And do still by these pickers and stealers Ros Good my Lord what is the cause of your distemper you do surely bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend Ham. Sir I lack advancement Ros How can that be when you have the voice of the King himself for your succession in Denmark Enter the Players with Recorders Ham. I Sir but while the grass grows the Proverb is something musty oh the Recorders let me see one to withdraw with you why do you go about to recover the wind of me as if you would drive me into a toil Guil. O my Lord if my duty be too bold my love is too unmannerly Ham. I do not well understand that will you play upon this pipe Guil. My Lord I cannot Ham. I pray you Guil. Believe me I cannot Ham. I beseech you Guil. I know no touch of it my Lord. Ham. It is as easie as lying govern these ventages with your fingers and the thumb give it breath with your mouth and it will discourse most eloquent musick look you these are the stops Guil. But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony I have not the skill Ham. Why look you now how unworthy a thing you make of me you would play upon me you would seem to know my stops you would pluck out the heart of my mystery you would sound me from my lowest note to my compass and there is much musick excellent voice in this little organ yet cannot you make it speak do you think I am easier to be plaid on than a pipe Call me what instrument you will though you can fret me you cannot play upon me Enter Polonius Pol. My Lord the Queen would speak with you and presently Ham. Do you see yonder cloud that 's almost in shape of a Camel Pol. 'T is like a Camel indeed Ham. Methinks it is like a Wezel Pol. It is black like a Wezel Ham. Or like a Whale Pol. Very like a Whale Ham. Then I will come to my mother by and by They fool me to the top of my bent ' I will come by and by Leave me friends I will say so By and by is easily said 'T is now the very witching time of night When Church-yards yawn and hell it self breaths out Contagion to the world now could I drink hot blood And do such business as day it self Would quake to look on soft now to my mother O heart lose not thy nature let not ever The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom Let me be cruel not unnatural I will speak daggers to her but use none My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites How in my words soever she be shent To give them seals never my soul consent Exit Enter King Rosencraus and Guildenstern King I like him not nor stands it safe with us To let his madness range therefore prepare you I your Commission will forth with dispatch And he to England shall along with you The terms of our estate may not endure Hazzard so near us as doth hourly grow Out of his brows Guil. We will our selves provide Most holy and religious fear it is To keep those many bodies safe That live and feed upon your majesty Ros The single and peculiar life is bound With all the strength and armour of the mind To keep it self from noyance but much more That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests The lives of many the cess of Majesty Dies not alone but like a gulf doth draw What 's near it with it or it
creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance go to I 'll no more on 't it hath made me mad I say we will have no more marriages those that are married already all but one shall live the rest shall keep as they are to a Nunnery go Exit Ophel O what a noble mind is here o'rethrown The Courtiers Souldiers Scholars eye tongue sword Th' expectation and Rose of the fair state The glass of fashion and the mould of form Th' observ'd of all observers quite quite down And I of Ladies most deject and wretched ' That suckt the honey of his Musick vows Now see that noble and most sovereign reason Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh That unmatcht form and stature of blown youth Blasted with extasie O woe is me T' have seen what I have seen see what I see Exit Enter King and Polonius King Love his affections do not that way tend For what he spake though it lack form a little Was not like madness there 's something in his soul O're which his melancholly sits on brood And I doubt the hatch and the disclose Will be some danger which to prevent I have in quick determination Thus set down he shall with speed to England For the demand of our neglected tribute Haply the Seas and Countries different With variable objects shall expel This something setled matter in his heart Whereon his brains still beating Puts him thus from fashion of himself What think you on 't Pol. It shall do well But yet I do believe the origen and commencement of it Sprung from neglected love how now Ophelia You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said We heard it all my Lord do as you please But if you hold it fit after the Play Let his Queen-mother all alone entreat him To shew his grief let her be round with him ' ' And I 'll be plac'd so please you in the ear Of all their conference if she find him not To England send him or confine him where Your wisdom best shall think King It shall be so Madness in great ones must not unwatcht go Exeunt Enter Hamlet and three of the Players Ham. Speak the speech I pray you as I pronounc'd it to you smoothly from the tongue but if you mouth it as many of our Players do I had as lieve the Town-crier spoke my lines nor do not saw the air too much with your hand thus but use all gently for in the very torrent tempest and as I may say whirlwind of your passion you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness O it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious Periwig-pated fellow rear a passion to very rags to split the ears of the ground-lings who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shews and noise I would have such a fellow whipt for ore-doing Termagant it-out Herods Herod pray you avoid it Pla. I warrant your honour Ham. Be not too tame neither but let your own discretion be your tutor sute the action to the word the word to the action with this special observance that you o're-step not the modesty of Nature for any thing so o're-done is from the purpose of Playing whose end both at first and now was and is to hold as'twere the mirror up to nature to shew vertue her feature scorn her own image and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure now this over-done or come tardy of though it makes the unskilful laugh cannot but make the judicious grieve the censure of which one must in your allowance o're-weigh a whole Theatre of others O there be Players that I have seen play and heard others praise and that highly not to speak it profanely that neither having the accent of Christians nor the gate of Christian Pagan nor man have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Natures journey-men had made men and not made them well they imitated humanity so abominably Play I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us Ham. O reform it altogether and let those that play your Clowns speak no more than is set down for them for there be of them that will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too though in the mean time some necessary question of the Play be then to be considered that 's villanous and shews a most pitiful ambition in the Fool that uses it go make you ready How now my Lord will the King hear this piece of work Enter Polonius Guildenstern and Rosencraus Pol. And the Queen too and that presently Ham. Bid the Players make haste Will you two help to hasten them Ros I my Lord. Exeunt those two Ham. What ho Horatio Enter Horatio Hora. Here my Lord at your service Ham Horatio thou art e'en as just a man As c're my conversation met withal Hora. O my dear Lord. Ham. Nay do not think I flatter For what advancement may I hope from thee That hast no revenue but thy good spirits To feed and cloath thee why should the poor be flattered No let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning doest thou hear Since my dear soul was Mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election Sh'ath seal'd thee for her self for thou hast been As one in suffering all that suffers nothing A man that fortunes buffets and rewards Hast ta'n with equal thanks and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commedled That they are not a pipe for fortunes finger To sound what stop she please ' ' give me that man That is not passions slave and I will wear him In my hearts core I in my heart of hearts As I do thee Something too much of this There is a Play to night before the King One Scene of it comes near the circumstance Which I have told thee of my fathers death I prethee when thou seest that Act on foot Even with the very comment of thy soul Observe my Uncle if then his hidden guilt Do not it self discover in one speech It is a damned Ghost that we have seen And my imaginations are as soul As Vuloan's stithy ' ' give him heedful note For I mine eyes will rivet to his face And after we will both our judgments joyn In censure of his seeming Hora. Well my Lord If he steal ought the whilst this Play is playing And scape detection I will pay the theft Enter Trumpets and Kettle Drums King Queen Polonius Ophelia Ham. They are coming to the Play I must be idle Get you a place King How fares our Cousin Hamlet Ham. Excellent ifaith Of the Carneleons dish I eat the air Promise-cram'd you cannot feed Capons so King I have nothing with this answer Hamlet These words are not mine Ham. No nor mine now my Lord. You play'd once in the University you say
tame it 's humble And waits upon the judgment and what judgment Would step from this to this sense sure you have Else could you not have motion but sure that sense Is apoplext for madness would not err Nor sense to extasie was ne'er so thrall'd But it reserv'd some quantity of choice To serve in such a difference what Devil was 't That thus hath couzen'd you at hodman-blind Eyes without feeling feeling without sight Ears without hands or eyes smelling sans all Or but a sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope ' ' Oh shame where is thy blush Rebellious hell If thou canst mutine in a Matrons bones To flaming youth let vertue be as wax And melt in her own fire proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardure gives the charge Since frost it self as actively doth burn And reason pardons will Qu. O Hamlet speak no more Thou turn'st my very eyes into my soul And there I see such black and grieved spots As will leave there their tinct Ham. Nay but to live In the rank sweat of an incestuous bed Stew'd in corruption honeying and making love Over the nasty stye Qu. O speak to me no more These words like daggers enter in mine ears No more sweet Hamlet Ham. A murtherer and a villain A slave that 's not the twentieth part the tythe Of your precedent Lord a vice of Kings A cut-purse of the Empire and the rule That from a shelf the precious Diadem stole And put it in his pocket Enter Ghost Ham. A King of shreds and patches Save me and hover o're me with your wings You heavenly guards what would your gracious fire Qu. Alas he 's mad Ham. Do you not come your tardy son to chide That lap'st in time and person le ts go by Th' important acting of your dead command O say Ghost Do not forget this visitation Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose But look amazement on thy mother sits O step between her and her sighing soul Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works Speak to her Hamlet Ham. How is it with you Lady Qu. Alass how is 't with you That you do bend your eye on vacancy And with th' incorporeal air do hold discourse Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep And as the sleeping Souldiers in th' alarm Your hair Starts up and stands an end O gentle son Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper Sprinkle cool patience whereon do you look Ham. On him on him look you how pale he gleres His form and cause conjoyn'd preaching to stones Would make them capable do not look upon me Lest with this piteous action you convert My stern effects then what I have to do Will want true colour tears perchance for blood Qu. To whom do you speak this Ham Do you see nothing there Qu Nothing at all yet all that is here I see Ham. Nor did you nothing hear Qu. No nothing but our selves Ham. Why look you there look how it steals away My father in his habit as he liv'd Look where he goes even now out at the portal Exit Ghost Qu. This is the very coinage of your brain This bodiless creation extasie is very cunning in Ham. My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time And makes as healthful musick it is not madness That I have uttered bring me to the test And I the matter will re-word which madness Cannot do Mother for love of grace Lay not that flattering unction to your soul That not your trespass but my madness speaks It will but skin and film the ulcerous place Whiles rank corruption mining all within Infects unseen confess your self to heaven Repent what 's past avoid what is to come And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker forgive me this my vertue For in the fatness of these pursie times Vertue it self of vice must pardon beg Yea curb and wooe for leave to do him good Qu. O Hamlet thou hast cleft my heart Ham. Then throw away the worser part of it And leave the purer with the other half Goodnight but go not to my Uncles bed Assume a vertue if you have it not Once more goodnight That monster custom who all sense doth eat of habits devil is Angel yet in this That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on refrain to night And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence the next more easie For use almost can change the stamp of nature And master the Devil or throw him out With wonderous potency Once more good night And when you are desirous to be blest Ill blessing beg of you for this same Lord I do repent but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this and this with me That I must be their scourge and minister I will bestow him and will answer well The death I gave him so again good night I must be cruel only to be kind Thus bad begins and worse remains behind One word more good Lady Qu. What shall I do Ham. Not this by no means that I bid you do Let not the King tempt you to bed again Pinch wanton on your cheek call you his Mouse And let him for a pair of reechy kisses Or padling in your neck with his damn'd fingers Make you to ravel all this matter out That I essentially am not in madness But mad in craft 't were good you let him know For who that 's but Queen fair sober wise Would from a paddock from a Bat a Gib Such dear concernings hide who would do so No in despight of sense and secresie Unpeg the basket on the houses top Let the birds flie and like the famous Ape To try conclusions in the basket creep And break your own neck down Qu. Be thou assur'd if words be made of breath And breath of life I have no life to breath What thou hast said to me Ham. I must to England you know that Qu. Alack I had forgot 'T is so concluded on Ham. There 's letters seal'd and my two School-fellows Whom I will trust as I will Adders fang'd They bear the mandate they must sweep my way And marshal me to knavery let it work For 't is the sport to have the Engineer Hoist with his own petar and 't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their Mines And blow them at the Moon O 't is most sweet When in one line two crafts directly meet This man will set me packing I 'll lug the guts into the neighbour room Mother good night indeed this Counseller Is now most still most secret and most grave Who was in 's life a most foolish prating knave Come Sir to draw toward an end with you Good night mother Exit ACT IV. SCENE I. Enter King and Queen with Rosencraus and Guildenstern King THere 's matter in these sighs these profound heaves You must translate 't is fit we
heart fie 't is a fault to heaven A fault against the dead a fault to nature To reason most absurd whose common theam Is death of fathers and who still hath cried From the first coarse till he that died to day This must be so we pray you throw to earth This unprevailing woe and think of us As of a father and let the world take note You are the most immediate to our throne And with no less nobility of love Than that which dearest father bears his son Do I impart toward you for your intent In going back to School to Wittenberg It is most retrograde to our desire And we beseech you bend you to remain Here in the chear and comfort of our eye Our chiefest Courtier cousin and our son Queen Let not thy mother lose her prayers Hamlet I pray thee stay with us go not to Wittenberg Ham. I shall in all my best obey you Madam King 'T is a loving and a fair reply Be as our self in Denmark Madam come This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart in grace whereof No jocund health that Denmark drinks to day But the great Cannon to the Clouds shall tell And the Kings rowse the heaven shall bruit again Respeaking earthly thunder Come away Flourish Exeunt all Ham. O that this too too solid flesh would melt but Hamlet Thaw and resolve it self into a dew Or that the everlasting had not fixt His Cannon ' gainst self slaughter How weary stale flat and unprofitable Seem to mee all the uses of this world 'T is an unweeded Garden That grows to seed things rank and gross in nature Possess it â—â—â—…rly that it should come thus But two months dead nay not so much not two So excellent a King So loving to my mother That he permitted not the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly She used to hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on and yet within a month Let me not think on 't frailty thy name is woman A little month or e're those shooes were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe all tears why she Heaven a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn'd longer married with my uncle My fathers brother but no more like my father Than I to Hercules within a month E're yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes She married O most wicked speed to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets It is not nor it cannot come to good But break my heart for I must hold my tongue Enter Horatio Marcellus and Barnardo Hor. Hail to your Lordship Ham. I am glad to see you well Horatio or I forget my self Hora. The same my Lord and your poor servant ever Ham. Sir my good friend I 'le change that name with you And what make you from Wittenberg Horatio Marcellus Mar. My good Lord. Ham. I am very glad to see you good even Sir But what make you from Wittenberg Hora. A truant disposition my good Lord. Ham. I would not hear your enemy say so Nor shall you do my ear that violence To be a witness of your own report Against your self I know you are no truant But what is your affair in Elsenour Wee 'l teach you here to drink e're you depart Hora. My Lord I came to see your Fathers Funeral Ham. I prethee do not mock me fellow student I think it was to my Mothers Wedding Hor. Indeed my Lord it follow'd hard upon Ham. Thrift thrift Horatio the Funeral bak'd 〈◊〉 Did coldly furnish forth the Marriage tables Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven E're I had seen that day Horatio My father methinks I see my father Hora. Where my Lord Ham. In my minds eye Horatio Hora. I saw him once he was a goodly King Ham. He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again Hora. My Lord I think I saw him yesternight Ham. Saw who Hora. My Lord the King your father Ham. The King my father Hora. Defer your admiration but a while With an attentive ear till I may deliver Upon the witness of these Gentlemen This wonder to you Ham. Pray let me hear Hor. Two nights together had these Gentlemen Marcellus and Barnardo on their watch In the dead vast and middle of the night Been thus encountred a figure like your father And armed exactly Cap ape Appears before them and with solemn march Goes slow and stately by them thrice he walkt By their opprest and fear surprized eyes Within this truncheons length whilst they distill'd Almost to gelly with their fear Stand dumb and speak not to him this to me They did impart in dreadful secresie And I with them the third night kept the watch Where as they had delivered both in time Form of the thing each word made true and good The apparition comes ' I knew your father These hands are not more like Ham. But where was this Mar. My Lord upon the platform where we watcht Ham. Did you not speak to it Hor. My Lord I did But answer made it none yet once methought It lifted up its head and did address It self to motion as it would speak But even then the morning Cock crew loud And at the sound it shrunk in haste away And vanisht from our sight Ham. 'T is very strange Hor. As I do live my honour'd Lord 't is true And we did think it then our duty To let you know it Ham. Indeed Sirs but this troubles me Hold you the watch to night All. We do my Lord. Ham. Arm'd say you All. Arm'd my Lord. Ham. From top to toe All. From head to foot Ham. Then saw you not his face Hora. O yes my Lord he wore his Beaver up Ham. What lookt he frowningly Hor. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger Ham Pale or red Hor Nay very pale Ham. And fixt his eyes upon you Hor. Most constantly Ham. I would I had been there Hor. It would have much amaz'd you Ham. Very like staid it long Hor. While one with moderate haste might tell an hundred Both. Longer longer Hor. Not when I saw 't Ham. His beard was grifled Hor. It was as I have seen it in his life A sable silver'd Ham. I will watch to night Perchance 't will walk again Hor. I warn't it will Ham. If it assume my noble fathers person I 'le speak to it though hell it self should gape And bid me hold my peace I pray you all If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight Let it require your silence still And whatsoever else shall hap to night Give it an understanding but no tongue I will require your loves So fare you well Upon the platform 'twixt eleven and twelve I 'le visit you All. Our duty to your honour Exeunt Ham. Your loves as mine to you farewel Manet Hamlet My fathers spirit in arms all is
not well I doubt some foul play would the night were come Till then fit still my soul foul deeds will rise Though all the earth o'rewhelm them from mens eyes Exit Enter Laertes and Ophelia his Sister Laer. My necessaries are imbark't farewel And sister as the winds give benefit And convey in assistant ' ' do not sleep But let me hear from you Ophel Do you doubt that Laert. For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood A violet in the youth and prime of nature Forward not permanent sweet not lasting The perfume and suppliance of a minute No more Ophel No more but so Laer. Think it no more For nature cressant does not grow alone In thews and bulks but as this Temple waxes The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal perhaps he loves you now And now no soil nor cautel doth besmerch The virtue of his will but you must fear His greatness weigh'd his will is not his own He may not as inferiour persons do Bestow himself for on his choice depends The safety and health of this whole state And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd Unto the voice and yielding of that body Whereof he is the head then if he says he loves you It fits your wisdom so far to believe it As he in his particular act and place May give his saying deed which is no further Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain If with your credulous ear you hear his songs Or loose your heart or your chaste treasure open To his unmastred importunity Fear it Ophelia fear it my dear sister And keep you in the rear of your affection Out of the shot and danger of desire The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the Moon Virtue it self scapes not calumnious strokes The canker galls the infant of the Spring Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd And in the morn and liquid dew of youth ' Contagious blastments are most imminent Be wary then best safety lies in fear Youth to it self rebells though none else near Ophel I shall the effect of this good lesson keep About my heart But good brother Do not as some ungracious Pastors do Shew me the steep and thorny way to heaven Whiles like a Libertine Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And reaks not his own reed Enter Polonius Laer. O fear me not I stay too long but here my father comes A double blessing is a double grace Occasion smiles upon a second leave Polo Yet here Laertes aboord aboord for shame The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail And you are staid for There my blessing with thee And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character Give thy thoughts no tongue Nor any unproportion'd thought his act Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch't unfledg'd courage beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in Bear 't that th' opposer may beware of thee Give every man thy ear but few thy voice Take each mans censure but reserve thy judgment Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not exprest in fancy rich nor gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that Neither a borrower nor a lender boy For love oft loses both it self and friend And borrowig dulls the edge of husbandry This above all to thine own self be true And it must follow as the night to day Thou canst not then be false to any man Farewel my blessing season this in thee Laer. Most humbly I do take my leave my Lord. Pol. The time invests you go your servants tend Laer. Farewel Ophelia and remember well What I have said to you Ophel 'T is in my memory lockt And you your self shall keep the key of it Laer. Farewel Exit Laertes Pol. What is 't Ophelia he hath said to you Ophel So please you something touching the Lord Hamlet Pol. Marry well bethought 'T is told me he hath very oft of late Given private time to you and you your self Have of your audience been most free and bounteous If it be so as so 't is put on me And that in way of caution I must tell you You do not understand your self so clearly As it behoves my daughter and your honour What is between you give me up the truth Ophel He hath my Lord of late made many tenders Of his affection to me Pol. Affection puh you speak like a green girl Unsifted in such perillous circumstance Do you believe his tenders as you call them Ophel I do not know my Lord what I should think Pol. Marry I will teach you think your self a baby That you have ta'n these tenders for true pay Which are not sterling tender your self more dearly Or not to crack the wind of the poor phrase Wrong it thus you 'l tender me a fool Ophel My Lord he hath importun'd me with love In honourable fashion Pol. I fashion you may call it go too go too Ophel And hath given countenance to his speech My Lord with almost all the holy vows of heaven Pol. I springes to catch Wood-cocks I know When the blood burns how prodigally the soul Lends the tongue vows these blazes daughter Giving more light than heat extinct in both Even in their promise as it is a making You must not tak 't for fire from this time Be something scanter of your maiden presence Set your entreatments at a higher rate Than a command to parley for Lord Hamlet Believe so much in him that he is young And with a larger tedder may he walk Than may be given you in few Ophelia Do not believe his vows for they are Brokers Not of that dye which their investments shew But meer implorators of unholy suits Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds The better to beguile this is for all I would not in plain terms from this time forth Have you so slander any moments leisure As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet Look to 't I charge you come your ways Ophel I shall obey my Lord. Exeunt Enter Hamlet Horatio and Marcellus Ham. The air bites shrewdly it is very cold Hora. It is a nipping and an eager air Ham. What hour now Hora. I think it lacks of twelve Mar. No it is strook Hora. I heard it not it then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk What does this mean my Lord A flourish of Trumpets and Guns Ham. The King doth walk to night and takes his rowse Keeps wassel and the swaggering up spring reels And as he takes his draughts of Rhenish down The Kettle Drum and