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| Shakespeare homepage | Hamlet | Entire play\ | |
| ACT I\ | |
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| SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle.\ | |
| \ | |
| FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| Who's there?\ | |
| FRANCISCO\ | |
| Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| Long live the king!\ | |
| FRANCISCO\ | |
| Bernardo?\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| He.\ | |
| FRANCISCO\ | |
| You come most carefully upon your hour.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.\ | |
| FRANCISCO\ | |
| For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,\ | |
| And I am sick at heart.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| Have you had quiet guard?\ | |
| FRANCISCO\ | |
| Not a mouse stirring.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| Well, good night.\ | |
| If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,\ | |
| The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.\ | |
| FRANCISCO\ | |
| I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there?\ | |
| Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS\ | |
| \ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| Friends to this ground.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| And liegemen to the Dane.\ | |
| FRANCISCO\ | |
| Give you good night.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| O, farewell, honest soldier:\ | |
| Who hath relieved you?\ | |
| FRANCISCO\ | |
| Bernardo has my place.\ | |
| Give you good night.\ | |
| Exit\ | |
| \ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| Holla! Bernardo!\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| Say,\ | |
| What, is Horatio there?\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| A piece of him.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| I have seen nothing.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,\ | |
| And will not let belief take hold of him\ | |
| Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:\ | |
| Therefore I have entreated him along\ | |
| With us to watch the minutes of this night;\ | |
| That if again this apparition come,\ | |
| He may approve our eyes and speak to it.\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| Sit down awhile;\ | |
| And let us once again assail your ears,\ | |
| That are so fortified against our story\ | |
| What we have two nights seen.\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| Well, sit we down,\ | |
| And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| Last night of all,\ | |
| When yond same star that's westward from the pole\ | |
| Had made his course to illume that part of heaven\ | |
| Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,\ | |
| The bell then beating one,--\ | |
| Enter Ghost\ | |
| \ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| In the same figure, like the king that's dead.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| It would be spoke to.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| Question it, Horatio.\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,\ | |
| Together with that fair and warlike form\ | |
| In which the majesty of buried Denmark\ | |
| Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| It is offended.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| See, it stalks away!\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!\ | |
| Exit Ghost\ | |
| \ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| 'Tis gone, and will not answer.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:\ | |
| Is not this something more than fantasy?\ | |
| What think you on't?\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| Before my God, I might not this believe\ | |
| Without the sensible and true avouch\ | |
| Of mine own eyes.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| Is it not like the king?\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| As thou art to thyself:\ | |
| Such was the very armour he had on\ | |
| When he the ambitious Norway combated;\ | |
| So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle,\ | |
| He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.\ | |
| 'Tis strange.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,\ | |
| With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| In what particular thought to work I know not;\ | |
| But in the gross and scope of my opinion,\ | |
| This bodes some strange eruption to our state.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,\ | |
| Why this same strict and most observant watch\ | |
| So nightly toils the subject of the land,\ | |
| And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,\ | |
| And foreign mart for implements of war;\ | |
| Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task\ | |
| Does not divide the Sunday from the week;\ | |
| What might be toward, that this sweaty haste\ | |
| Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:\ | |
| Who is't that can inform me?\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| That can I;\ | |
| At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,\ | |
| Whose image even but now appear'd to us,\ | |
| Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,\ | |
| Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,\ | |
| Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet--\ | |
| For so this side of our known world esteem'd him--\ | |
| Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact,\ | |
| Well ratified by law and heraldry,\ | |
| Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands\ | |
| Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:\ | |
| Against the which, a moiety competent\ | |
| Was gaged by our king; which had return'd\ | |
| To the inheritance of Fortinbras,\ | |
| Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant,\ | |
| And carriage of the article design'd,\ | |
| His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,\ | |
| Of unimproved mettle hot and full,\ | |
| Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there\ | |
| Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,\ | |
| For food and diet, to some enterprise\ | |
| That hath a stomach in't; which is no other--\ | |
| As it doth well appear unto our state--\ | |
| But to recover of us, by strong hand\ | |
| And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands\ | |
| So by his father lost: and this, I take it,\ | |
| Is the main motive of our preparations,\ | |
| The source of this our watch and the chief head\ | |
| Of this post-haste and romage in the land.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| I think it be no other but e'en so:\ | |
| Well may it sort that this portentous figure\ | |
| Comes armed through our watch; so like the king\ | |
| That was and is the question of these wars.\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.\ | |
| In the most high and palmy state of Rome,\ | |
| A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,\ | |
| The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead\ | |
| Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:\ | |
| As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,\ | |
| Disasters in the sun; and the moist star\ | |
| Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands\ | |
| Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:\ | |
| And even the like precurse of fierce events,\ | |
| As harbingers preceding still the fates\ | |
| And prologue to the omen coming on,\ | |
| Have heaven and earth together demonstrated\ | |
| Unto our climatures and countrymen.--\ | |
| But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!\ | |
| Re-enter Ghost\ | |
| \ | |
| I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!\ | |
| If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,\ | |
| Speak to me:\ | |
| If there be any good thing to be done,\ | |
| That may to thee do ease and grace to me,\ | |
| Speak to me:\ | |
| Cock crows\ | |
| \ | |
| If thou art privy to thy country's fate,\ | |
| Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!\ | |
| Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life\ | |
| Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,\ | |
| For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,\ | |
| Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| Shall I strike at it with my partisan?\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| Do, if it will not stand.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| 'Tis here!\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| 'Tis here!\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| 'Tis gone!\ | |
| Exit Ghost\ | |
| \ | |
| We do it wrong, being so majestical,\ | |
| To offer it the show of violence;\ | |
| For it is, as the air, invulnerable,\ | |
| And our vain blows malicious mockery.\ | |
| BERNARDO\ | |
| It was about to speak, when the cock crew.\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| And then it started like a guilty thing\ | |
| Upon a fearful summons. I have heard,\ | |
| The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,\ | |
| Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat\ | |
| Awake the god of day; and, at his warning,\ | |
| Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,\ | |
| The extravagant and erring spirit hies\ | |
| To his confine: and of the truth herein\ | |
| This present object made probation.\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| It faded on the crowing of the cock.\ | |
| Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes\ | |
| Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,\ | |
| The bird of dawning singeth all night long:\ | |
| And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;\ | |
| The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,\ | |
| No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,\ | |
| So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.\ | |
| HORATIO\ | |
| So have I heard and do in part believe it.\ | |
| But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,\ | |
| Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill:\ | |
| Break we our watch up; and by my advice,\ | |
| Let us impart what we have seen to-night\ | |
| Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,\ | |
| This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.\ | |
| Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,\ | |
| As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?\ | |
| MARCELLUS\ | |
| Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know\ | |
| Where we shall find him most conveniently.\ | |
| Exeunt\ | |
| \ | |
| SCENE II. A room of state in the castle.\ | |
| \ | |
| Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET, POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, and Attendants\ | |
| KING CLAUDIUS\ | |
| Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death\ | |
| The memory be green, and that it us befitted\ | |
| To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom\ | |
| To be contracted in one brow of woe,\ | |
| Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature\ | |
| That we with wisest sorrow think on him,\ | |
| Together with remembrance of ourselves.\ | |
| Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,\ | |
| The imperial jointress to this warlike state,\ | |
| Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--\ | |
| With an auspicious and a dropping eye,\ | |
| With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,\ | |
| In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--\ | |
| Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd\ | |
| Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone\ | |
| With this affair along. For all, our thanks.\ | |
| Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,\ | |
| Holding a weak supposal of our worth,\ | |
| Or thinking by our late dear brother's death\ | |
| Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,\ | |
| Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,\ | |
| He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,\ | |
| Importing the surrender of those lands\ | |
| Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,\ | |
| To our most valiant brother. So much for him.\ | |
| Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:\ | |
| Thus much the business is: we have here writ\ | |
| To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--\ | |
| Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears\ | |
| Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress\ | |
| His further gait herein; in that the levies,\ | |
| The lists and full proportions, are all made\ | |
| Out of his subject: and we here dispatch\ | |
| You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,\ | |
| For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;\ | |
| Giving to you no further personal power\ | |
| To business with the king, more than the scope\ | |
| Of these delated articles allow.\ | |
| Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.\ | |
| CORNELIUS VOLTIMAND\ | |
| In that and all things will we show our duty.\ | |
| KING CLAUDIUS\ | |
| We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.\ | |
| Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS\ | |
| \ | |
| And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?\ | |
| You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes?\ | |
| You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,\ | |
| And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,\ | |
| That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?\ | |
| The head is not more native to the heart,\ | |
| The hand more instrumental to the mouth,\ | |
| Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.\ | |
| What wouldst thou have, Laertes?\ | |
| LAERTES\ | |
| My dread lord,\ | |
| Your leave and favour to return to France;\ | |
| From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,\ | |
| To show my duty in your coronation,\ | |
| Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,\ | |
| My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France\ | |
| And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.\ | |
| KING CLAUDIUS\ | |
| Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?\ | |
| LORD POLONIUS\ | |
| He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave\ | |
| By laboursome petition, and at last\ | |
| Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:\ | |
| I do beseech you, give him leave to go.\ | |
| KING CLAUDIUS\ | |
| Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,\ | |
| And thy best graces spend it at thy will!\ | |
| But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--\ | |
| HAMLET\ | |
| [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind.\ | |
| KING CLAUDIUS\ | |
| How is it that the clouds still hang on you?\ | |
| HAMLET\ | |
| Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.\ | |
| QUEEN GERTRUDE\ | |
| Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,\ | |
| And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.\ | |
| Do not for ever with thy vailed lids\ | |
| Seek for thy noble father in the dust:\ | |
| Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,\ | |
| Passing through nature to eternity.\ | |
| HAMLET\ | |
| Ay, madam, it is common.\ | |
| QUEEN GERTRUDE\ | |
| If it be,\ | |
| Why seems it so particular with thee?\ | |
| HAMLET\ | |
| Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.'\ | |
| 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,\ | |
| Nor customary suits of solemn black,\ | |
| Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,\ | |
| No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,\ | |
| Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,\ | |
| Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,\ | |
| That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,\ | |
| For they are actions that a man might play:\ | |
| But I have that within which passeth show;\ | |
| These but the trappings and the suits of woe.\ | |
| KING CLAUDIUS\ | |
| 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,\ | |
| To give these mourning duties to your father:\ | |
| But, you must know, your father lost a father;\ | |
| That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound\ | |
| In filial obligation for some term\ | |
| To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever\ | |
| In obstinate condolement is a course\ | |
| Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;\ | |
| It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,\ | |
| A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,\ | |
| An understanding simple and unschool'd:\ | |
| For what we know must be and is as common\ | |
| As any the most vulgar thing to sense,\ | |
| Why should we in our peevish opposition\ | |
| Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,\ | |
| A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,\ | |
| To reason most absurd: whose common theme\ | |
| Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,\ | |
| From the first corse 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: for 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 in Wittenberg,\ | |
| It is most retrograde to our desire:\ | |
| And we beseech you, bend you to remain\ | |
| Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,\ | |
| Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.\ | |
| QUEEN GERTRUDE\ | |
| Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:\ | |
| I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.\ | |
| HAMLET\ | |
| I shall in all my best obey you, madam.\ | |
| KING CLAUDIUS\ | |
| Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:\ | |
| Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come;\ | |
| This gentle and unforced 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 king's rouse the heavens all bruit again,\ | |
| Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.\ | |
| Exeunt all but HAMLET\ | |
| \ | |
| HAMLET\ | |
| O, that this too too solid flesh would melt\ | |
| Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!\ | |
| Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd\ | |
| His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!\ | |
| How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,\ | |
| Seem to me all the uses of this world!\ | |
| Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,\ | |
| That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature\ | |
| Possess it merely. That it should come to this!\ | |
| But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:\ | |
| So excellent a king; that was, to this,\ | |
| Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother\ | |
| That he might not beteem the winds of heaven\ | |
| Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!\ | |
| Must I remember? why, she would 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 ere those shoes were old\ | |
| With which she follow'd my poor father's body,\ | |
| Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--\ | |
| O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,\ | |
| Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,\ | |
| My father's brother, but no more like my father\ | |
| Than I to Hercules: within a month:\ | |
| Ere 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 BERNARDO"; | |
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