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4 cer ta the very Cloaths he weares. As for PIN re- Lates to Men of Letters, the Knowledge of an Au-
* thot iy Ometimes conduce to the better under-
anding his Book: And tho the Works of Mr.
SHAKE ES EAR may ſeem to many not to want a Comment, yet If ancy ſome little Account of him-
ſelf may not be thought improper to go with them. Hg was the Son of Mr. JOHN SHAKESPEAR, and was born at Stratford upon Avon, i in Warwick-
ſhire, in April 1564. His Family, as appears by the Regiſter and Publick Writings relating to that
4 - Town, were of good Figure and Fafthion there,
and are mention'd as Gentlemen. His_ Father,
. Who was a conſiderable Dealer in Wool, had ſo
large a Family, ten Children in all, that · tho: he was his eldeſt Son, he could give him no better
Education than his o.w]n Employment. He hac
bred him, * tis true, for ſome time at a Free-School,
where tis probable he acquir'd that little Lariꝶ he was Maſter of: But the narrowneſs of his Cir-
cumſtances, and the want of his aſſiſtance at Home, forc'd his Father to withdraw him from thence,
and unhappily prevented his further Proficiency in
that Language. It is without- Controverſy, that
tient Poets, not only from this Reaſon, but from his Works: u where we find no traces of
any thing that looks like an, Imitation of em; the Delicacy of his Taſte, and the natural Bent of his own Great Genius, equal, if not ſuperior to ſome
of the beſt of theirs, would certainly have led him to Read and Study em with ſo much Pleaſure, that ſome of their fine Images would naturally have inſinuated themſelves! into, and been mix'd with his own Writings; ſo that his not copying at leaſt ſomething from dem, may be an Argumeiit eee eee em. "Whether his leb.
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a Mr. Mirai SHAKESPEAR, Mt rance of the Antients were a Diſadvantage: to hind .
- or no, may admit of a Diſpute: For tho? the know
- ledge of 'em-might-have- made him more Correct, 1 vet it is not improbable but that the Regularity a and Deference for them, which would have attend- 5 ed that Correctneſs, might have reſtrain'd ſome of 1. that Fire, Impetuoſity, and even beautiful Extra- . vagance which we admire i in SHAKESPEAR : And
— I believe we are better pleas d with thoſe Thoughts,
y altogether New and Uncommon,. which his own.
Imagination ſupply d him ſo abundantly with, than if he had given us the moſt beautiful Paſſages out of the Greek and Latin Poets, and that in +. I moſt agreeable- manner that it was poſſible for a Maſter of the Engljh Language to deliver em. Some Latin without queſtion he did know, and one may ſee up and down in his Plays how far his Reading that way went: In Love's: Labour lat, the Pedant comes out with a Verſe of Mantuan ;- and in Titus Andronicus, FOE the. erer Princes,
upon reading © ;
Integer vitæ fulerifqus Peres
Neon eget "ary ate pn Nec areu—
ſays, 77g a Verſe in Horace, but he remembers it out
of his Grammar: Which, I ſuppoſe, was the
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Mm Author's. Caſe.” Whatever. Latin he had, tis cer- of tain he underſtood French, as may be.obſerv'd from he many Words and.Sentences ſcatter'd up apd down his his Plays in that Language; and eſpecially from me one Scene in Henry the Fifth written wholly in it. led Upon his leaving School, he ſeems to have given re, intirely into that way of Living which his Father
propos d to him; and in order to ſettle in the
xd World after a Family manner, he thought fit to rat marry while he was yet very young. His Wife was the Daughter of one Hathaway, ſaid to have
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of Stratford. In this kind of Settlement he cons - tinued for ſome time, till an Extravagance that that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his _ - Country and . way of Living which he had ta-
5 upon his good Manners,” and a Misfortune to him,
5 into ill Company; and amongſt them, ſome that made a frequent Practice of Deer- ſtealing, engag d
= he is faid to have made his firſt Acquaintance in the Play-houſe. He was receiv'd into the Com-
Players, before ſome old Plays, but without any
19 Some Hecount of the Liſe, Rc."
ken u-; and tho it ſeem'd at firft to be a Blemiſn
yet it afterwards happily prov id the occaſion of ex- erting one of the greateſt Gemius's that ever was known in Dramatick Poctry. He had, by a Miſ- fortune common. enough to young Fellows, fallen
him with more than once in robbing a Park that belong'd to Sir Thimas Lucy of Charlecot, near Stratford, For this he . was proſecuted by that Gentleman, as he thought, ſomewhat. too ſeverely ; . and in order to revenge that ill Uſage, he made a Ballad upon him. And tho?" this, probably the - firſt Eſſay of his poetry, be loſt, yet it is ſaid to a have been ſo · very bitter, that it 7 cdodbled the- 7 Proſecution againſt him to that degree, that he [ was oblig'd to leave his Buſineſs and F amily in it WW arwickſhree,” for ſome awe: 1 irs ſhelter himſelf 3
in London. It is at this Time, a upon this rin that k
pany then in being, at firſt in a very mean Rank; But his admirable Wit, and the natural Turn of it to the Stage, ſoon diſtinguiſn'd him, if not as an extraordinary Actor, yet as an excellent Writer. His Name is Printed, as the Cuſtom was in thoſe Times, amongſt thoſe of the other
particular Account of what ſort of Parts he us'd to play; and tho T have inquir'd, I could never 15 det with gay farther Account of him this Ways
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than that the top of his Performance was the Ghoſt in his own. Hamlet. I ſhould have been much more pleas'd, to have learn'd from ſome certain Authority, which was the firſt Play he
wrote; it would be without doubt a Pleaſure. to
any Man, curious in Things of this Kind, to ſee and know what was the firſt Eſſay of a Fancy like SHAKESPEAR'S.,
their leaſt perfect Writings; Art had ſo little, and Nature fo large a Share in what he did, that, for ought I know, the Performances of his. Youth,
as they were the moſt vigorous, and had the molt bur and ſtrength of Imagination in em, were tlie belt.
be I e d on 455 Bale, a and Government of
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and was at it wats —.— F by an ch avis Judgment at the firſt ſight. Mr. Dryden ſeems to think that Pericles is one of his firſt Plays; but there is no Judgment to be form'd on that, fince there is good Reaſon to believe that the greateſt Part of that Play was not written by him;
Perhaps we axe not to look for his Beginnings, like thoſe of other Authors, among
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I -would. not be thought by this to mean, that his Fancy vas 10 looſe; and extravagant, as to
thô' it is own'd, ſome part of it certainly was,
Time in which the ſeveral Pieces vrere written be generally uncertain, yet there are Paſſages in ſome few of them which ſeem to fix their Dates. 80 the Chorus in the beginning of the fifth Act of
Henry V. by a Compliment very handſomly turn'd
to he Earl of Eſex, ſhews the Play to have been written when that Lord was General for the Queen in Ireland. And his Elogy upon Queen
9 and her 1 King N in the
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Some Account of the Life, Kc.
| 8 of his Henry VIII. is a Proof of that Play's being written after the Acceſſion of the latter of thoſe two Princes to the Crown of Eng-
land. Whatever the particular Times of his Writ-
ing were, the People of his Age, who began to
98 grow wonderfully fond of Diverſions of this kind,
Could not but be highly pleaſed to ſee a Genius ariſe amongſt em of fo pleaſurable, ſo rich a Vein, an fo plentifully capable of furniſhing their favourite Entertainments. Beſides the poo tromng of his Wit, he was in himſelf 2 good- natur d Man, of great Sweetneſs in his Manners, and a moſt agree- | able Companion; fo that it is no wonder if with ſo many good Qualities he made himſelf acquain- ted with the be{t Converfations of thoſe Times. Queen Ebi had ſeveraf of his Plays acted be- fore her, and without doubt ga ave him many graci- ous Marks of her Favour * out It is that Maiden Princeſs plainly, whom ke mika 57 |
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Kaif that vale Pallage + is 2 Compliment very properly brought in, and- very handſomly apply'd | to her. She was ſo well pleas d with that admir- | able Character of Pal/taff, in the two Parts of Hew- the Fourth, that ſhe commanded him to continue it for one Play more. - And to ſhew him in Love. This is faid to be the Occaſion of his writing the Merry N ives 77 Windſor. How well ſhe. was o- bey'd, the Play it ſelf is an admirable Proof. Up- on this Occaſion. it may not be improper to obſerve that this Part of Fal/taff is ſaid to have been writ- ten originally under the Name of Oldeaflle; ; ſome of that Family being then remaining, the Queen Was pleaſed to command him to alter it; upon : which he * uſe N Fa Nl. The * „
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| Ence was indeed avoided; but I don't know whether | Falflaff, who ns Knight of, the Garter, and a and Henry the Sixth's Times.
Favour and Friendſhip from the Earl of Sauthamp- tion, famous in the Hiſtories of that Time for his
Was to that N oble Lord that he dedicated his Venus ever publiſhed himſelf, tho many of his Plays
Probably very well acquainted wich his Af. fairs, I ſhould not have ventuf'd to have inſerted,
and almoſt equal to that profuſe Generoſity the pre- ſent Age has ſheyen-to French Dancers and Italian Eunuchs.
Of Mr WI rern We vir
theAuthor may not have been ſomewhat to blame in his ſecond Choice, ſince it is certain that Sir Jahn
Lieutenant-General, wasa Name of diſtinguiſhed Merit in the Wars in "France in Henry the Fifth's What Grace ſo- ever the Queen conferred upon him, it was not to her only he owed; the Fortune which the Reputa- tion of his Wit made. He had the Honour to meet with many great and uncommon Marks of
Friendſhip to the unfortunate Earl of Z//ex. Tt and Adonis, the only Picce of his Poetry which he
were ſurrepticiouſſy and lamely printed in his Life time. There is one Inſtance fo ſingular in the Magnificence of this Patron of 'SHAKESPEAR” 8, that if I had not been affured that the Story was handed down by Sir Milliam D' Ayenant, who was
that my Lord Southampten, aff one time, gave him a Thoufand Pounds, to enable him to go through with a Fase which he heard he had a Mind to.
A Bounty very great, and very rare at any time,
What particuler Habitudes or Friendſhips de con- t racted with private Men, I have not been able to earn, more than that every one who had a true Taſte of Merit, and could diſtinguiſh Mien, 5 -generally a-quft Value and Eſteem for hn. exceeding — and Hoo Nature mor Seb.
911 "Pp "I Account i, the Tife, Ke.
Jy: . inclin'd all the gentler Part of the. World to love him, as the Power of his Wit oblig'd the Men of the moſt delicate Knowledge and polite Learning to admire him. Among theſe was the 'K] ancomparable Mr. Edmund Spencer, who ſpeaks of him in his Tears. of the Muſes, not only with | the Praiſes due to a good Poet, but even lamenting his Abſence with the Tenderneſs of a Friend. The Paſlage is in Thalia's Complaint for the De- cay of Dramatick Poetry, and the Contempt the Wer then lay under, e his e | Work. 3
oy Sis th Man, whom as 5 ſelf bad made "To mock her ſelf, and Truth to imitate THith kindly Counter under mimick Shade, Dur pleaſant Willy, ah! is dead of late: Hith whom all Fey and jolly Merriment hs alſo deaded, and in Dolour —_ i. *
=, Inſtead thereof, ſcoffing Seurrility | „ | "And {corning Folly with Contempt is creepy Nalling in Rhimes of ſhameleſs Ribaldry,
A ilbout Regard to due Decorum kept;
Each idle Wi at will preſumes to make,
And doth the Learned s Tast upon him take.
But that fame gentle Spirit, Yom + 4-80 Large S he "Si Honey and ip Nate flow, Scorning the By of fuch baſe-born Men, l hich dare their 125 Vert Jo rafhly throw ; ; + Dith rather chuſe to ſit in idle Cell | | 70 Than fo himſelf to Mockery to Gag
— 1 know: ſome People have been of Opinion, . that SHAKESPEAR is not meant by Willy in the fixſt Stanza of theſe Verſes, becauſe: Spencer's Death
happen d twenty Vears before SHAKESPEAR's. But, beſides tLat the, Character 1 is not applicable, to
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any Man of that time but himſelf, it is plain by the laſt Sranza that Mr. Spencer does not mean that
de was then really Dead, but only that he had
withdrawn himſelf from the Publick, or at leaſt with-held his Hand from Writing, out of a di- guſt he had taken at the then ill taſte of the Ton,
and the mean Condition of the State. Mr. Dryden
was always of Opinion theſe Verſes were meant of
SHAKESPEAR and 'tis highly probable they were fo, ſince he was three and thirty Years old at Spencer's Death; and his Reputation in Poetry
muff have been great enough before that Time to
have deſerv'd what is here faid of him. His Ac- quaintance with Ben Johnſon began with a remar-
2 piece of Humanity and good Nature; Mr.
ahnſon, who was at that Time altogether un- own to the World, had offer'd one of his Plays to the Players, in order to have it Acted; and the
| Perſons into whoſe Hands it was put, after having turn'd it careleſsly and fſuperciliouſly over, were
juſt upon returning it to him with an )-natur'd Anſwer, that it would be of no ſervice to their Conipany, when SHAKESPEAR Huickily caſt his Ms wag it, and found ſomething ſo well in it as to engage him firſt to read it through, and after- wards to recommend Mr. Jobnſan and his Wri- tings to the Publick. After this they were pro- feſs d Friends; tho T don't know whether the other ever made him an equal return of Gentleneſs and Sincerity. Ben was naturally Proud and Inſo- lent, and in the Days of his Reputation did fo far. take upon him the Supremacy in Wit, that be could not but look with an evil Eye upon any one that ſeem'd to ſtand in Competition with him. And if at times he has affected to commend him, it has always been with ſome Reſerve, inſinuating
Bis Uncorrectneſs, a careleſs manner ek "Writings
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. Some mt of. the rife, SU and what of Judgment ; the Praiſe of ſeldo ale,
_ "tering or booting. out what he writ, which was | 22 him by the Players who were the firſt Pub- rs. of his Works after his- Death, was what. FJabnſan could not bear; he thought it impoſſible, perhaps, for another Man to ſtrike out the greateſt Thoughts in the fineſt Expreſſion, and to reach thoſe Excellencies of Poetry with the Eaſe of a firſt
* Imagination, which himſelf with infinite Labour and Study could but hardly attain to. ohnen was
certainly a very good Scholar, and in that had the advantage of SHAk ES PEAR; tho' at the ſame J believe it muſt be allow'd, that what Nature gave the latter, was more than a Balance for what Books had given the former; and the Judgment of a great Man upon this occaſion was, I think, very juſt and proper. In a Converſation between Sir Jahn Suclling, Sir IVillam D' Avenant, Endy- mon Perter, Mr. "Hales of Eaten, and Ben obnfon 3 Sir Jahn Sackling, who was a profeſs d Admirer of SHAKESPEAR, had undertaken: his Defence a- gainſt Ben Fehn ſan with ſome warmth; Mr. Halrs, who had fat ſtill for ſome time, hearing Ben frequently reproaching him with the want of Learning, and Ignorance of the Antients, told him at laſt,” That if ' Mr.. SHAKESPEAR had not read | 7 Autients, he had likewiſe not tollen any thing from *em ; (a. Fault the other made no Conſcience of) and that if he would produce any one Topick finely treated by any of them, he would undertake to ſhaw bing upon the ſame Subject at leaſt as well written
| by SHAKESPEAR, Fobnſon did indeed take a
large liberty, even. to the tranſcribing and tranſ-
| lating of whole Scenes together ; and ſometimes,
| with all Deference to fo. great a Name as his, not | altogetherfor the adyantage of theAuthors of whom
| he borrow” d. _ Alt if Acullu and. Ou wer cally VE : REO» . i
of Mr. WII Lia Sulkkezan. ĩ4 1
really what he has made em in a Scene of his. Poctaſter, they are as odd an Emperor and a Poet | as ever met. SHAKESPEAR,'0n the other Hand, was beholding to no body farther than the Foun- dation of the Tale, the Incidents were often his own, and the Writing intirely ſo. There i is one Play of his, indeed, The Comedy of Errors, in a » great meaſure taken from the Memechmi of Plantus. How that happened, I cannot eaſily Divine, ſince as J hinted before, I do not take him to have been Maſter of Latin enough to read it in the Original, and I know of no ae of Plautus ſo Old as his Time. As J have not W to my ſelf to enter into ” Large and Compleat Criticiſm upon Mr. SnAk E- spEAR's Works, ſo I ſuppoſe it will neither be expected that I ſhould take notice of the ſevere Re- marks that have been formerly made upon him by Mr. Rhymer.. I muſt confeſs, I cannot very well ſee what could be the Reaſon of his animadverting with ſo much Sharpneſs, upon the Faults of a Man Excellent on moſt Occaſions, and whom all the World ever was and will. be inclia'd to have an Eſteem and Veneration for. If it was to ſhew his own Knowledge in the Art of Poetry, beſides that here, is a Vanity in making that only his De- ſign, 1 queſtion if there be not many Imperfecti- ons as well in thoſeSchemes amdPrecepts he has gi- ven for the Direction of others, as well as in that Sample of Tragedy which he has written to ſhew the Excellency of his own Genius. If he had a Pique againſt the Man, and wrote on purpoſe to ruin a Reputation ſo well eſtabliſh'd, he has. had the Mortification to. fail altogether in his Attempt, and to ſee the World at leaſt as fond of Shakeſpear.as of his Critique. But I won't believe a Gentle.
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laſt Intention. Whatever may have been His Meaning, Siding Fault is certainly the eaſieſt Task of Knowledge, and commonly thoſe Men of Judgment, who are likewiſe of good and gentle Diſpoſitions, abandon this ungrateful Province to the Tyranny of Pedants. If one would enter into the Beauties of SHAKESPEAR, there is a much larger, as well as a more delightful Field; but as I won't preſcribe to the Taſtes of other Peo- ple, fo I will only take the liberty, with all due Submiſſion to the Judgment of others, to obſerve ſome of thoſe Things : have been 1 with in in looking him over. His Plays are properly to be diftinguiſh'd oy; in- to Comedies and Fragedies. Thoſe which are called Hiſtories, and even fome of his Comedies, - are really T ragedies, with a run or mixture of Comedy amongſt dem. That way of Trage- Comedy was the common Miſtake of that Ag ge, and is indeed become fo agreeable to the Engl: ih Taſte, that tho? the ſevereſt Critiques among us cannot bear it, yet the generality of our Au- diences feem to be better pleas d with it than with an exact Tragedy. The Merry Wrves of Windſor, The Comedy of Errors, and The Tam ing of the Shrew, are all pure Comedy; the reſt, however they are call'd, have ſomething of both Kinds. Tis not very eaſy to determine which way of Writing he was moſt excellent in. There is certainly a great deal of Entertainment in his Comical Humours; and tho' they did not then ſtrike at all Ranks of People, as the Satyr of the preſent Age has taken the Liberty to do, yet there s a pleaſing and a well-diſtinguiſh'd Variety in thoſe | + | — Ib which he thought fit to meddle with. | Falſtaff is allowed by every body to be a Maſter- piece; the ——— * well-ſuſtain'd, the?
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drain out into the length of three Plays; and e- ven the Account of his Death, given by his Old 3 Mrs. Quicll y, in the firſt Act of Flenry + - tho? it be extremely natural, is yet as diverting. as 3 any Part of his Life; If there be any Fault in. the Draught he has made of this lewd, old F ellow, it is, that tho“ he has made him a Thief, Lying, .Cowardly, Vain-glorious, and. in ſhort every way Vicious, yet. he has given him ſo much Wit as to make him al moſt too agreeable; and I don't know. whether ſome People have not, in remembrance of the Diverſion he had formerly afforded em been ſorry to ſee his Friend Hal uſe hint fo ſcurvily, When he comes to the Crown in the End of the
Second Part of Henry the Fourth. Amongſt o-
ther Extravagancies, in The Merry M iues of Wind- ſor, he has made him a Deer: ſtealer, that he might- at the ſame time remember his //arwick/hire Pro- ſecutor, under the Name of Juſtice. $hallxv; he bas given him very near the fame Coat of Arms which Dugdale, in his Antiquities of that County
deſcribes for a Family there, and makes a 1Veljh
Parſon deſcant very pleaſantly upon em. That
whole Play is admirable; the Humours are various. and well. oppos'd; the main Deſign, which is to cure Ford of his unreaſonable Jealouty, is extreme- - ly well conducted. Fa M s Billet- Ws and Ma- ſter Slender s |
u Scot Ann Pige!: +
are very good -Expreffions of Love in their Wap. In Twelfh- Might there is ſomething ſingularly Ri- diculous and pleaſant in the fantaſtical Steward
Malvuclia. The Pare: {ite and the. Vain-glorious in
Parolles in Als Well that Ends Mell, is as good a
any Thing of that Kind in Plaztus or'T erence. Petruchio, in The Taming of the Sire cw, is an un-
common Piece of Humour. The verfatioh :
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* 1 2 me emf 5 Zi, ife, Se of Benedick and Beatrice, in Much AA. Abo NV
thing,and of Raſalind in A jou "like it, have much Wit and Sprigfitlinefs alk along. His Clowns, Without which Character there was hardly any
Play writ in that Time, are all very entertaining:
And I believe Ther/ttes in Troilus and. Craſſida, and
Abemantus in Timon, will be allow'd to be Maſter- Pieces of ill Nature, and ſatyrical Snarling. To. theſe T might add, that in comparable Character of
. Shyhc# the Few, in The Merchant Venice; but
tho we have ſeen that Play receiv'd and acted as a Comedy, and the Part of the Few perform'd by an excellent Comedian, yet E cannot but think it was
deſign'd Tragically by the Author, There appears ire it ſuch a deadly Spirit of Revenge, fuch a ſavage Fierceneſs and F ellnek, and ſuch a bloody Deſigna- tion of Cruelty and Mifchief, as cannot agree either”
with the Stile and Characters of Comedy. The
Play it ſelf, take it all together, ſeems to me to be
g bone of the Wen finiſh'd of any of SHAKESPEAR's.
The Tale indeed, in that Part relating to the Caſ- kets, and the extravagant and unuſual Kind of
Bond given by Atom, is a little too much remov'd- from the Rules of Probability: But taking the
| Fact for granted, we muſt allow it to be very beautifully written. There is ſomething in the
Friendſhip of Arntonio to Baſſanio very great, ge- nerous and tender. The whole fourth Act, ſup-
poſing as I faid, the Fact to be probable, is ex- tremely Fine. For there are two Paſſages that
. a particular Notice. The firſt is, that Portia ſays in praiſe of Mercy, andthe other on- the power of Muſick. he Melancholly of
* Faquesr, in As you like it, is as ſingular and odd: as.
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That ends this ftrange eventful Hiſtory,
of Me. WrrIt rau Sun ETAR xy
Till be a hard Task for any one to go beyond
Kim in the Deſcription of the ſeveral Degrees and
Ages of Man's Life, the? NE: 4 be TN | | Fan enough. ;
: Aide Words a Stage, oO: And all the Men and Namen merry Players” They have their Exits and their Entrance, Nö And one Man in his Time plays many Parts, © His Afts being ſtuen Ages. Alt firſt the Infants © | Metoling and puking in the Nurſes Arme . Aud then, the whming School-boy with his Satchels « £ : 5 | Aud fhining Morning Fare, creeping like ont | Unwillngly to Schral. And then the Lover 795 2 Sig bing like Furnace, with a weful Ballad | Made to his Miſtreſs” Eye-brow, Then.a Soldier Full of firange Oaths, and bearded like the Pard, » Fealous in Honour, Lawn and quick. in Quarrel, | f 7 ecking the Bubble 1 0 Don in the Cannom's 2 Ah. Aud then the Tele In fair round Belly, with goad\Capon lin d, Mitb Eyes ſevere, and Beard.of formal Cut, Full of a0 . Sacus and modern Inftances; - - And ja he plays his Part. The fixth Age an Into the lean and ſlipper d Pantalun, FVith Spectacles fe A and Pouch on Sid His youthful Haſe, well fav'd, a World 05 width © For bis frunk Shank; — bis big manly Voice 4 Turning again tew'rd childiſh treble Pipes, 9 And whiſtles in his Sound. Laft Scene of all. |
I ſecond Childiſhneſs and meer Olin, ur Teeth, Jans Eyes, fans Taſte, fans e x Thing.
His Images are indeed every where ſo lively,
that the Thing he would repreſent ſtands full be-
fore W and you 2 ey ery Part of it. Twill. i a venture
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j a x1 * js in 119 of. the. Life, 3 N venture to point out one more, which is, I thinla, as ſtrong and as uncommon as any thing I ever ſaws _ tis an Image of Patience. n a a . in Love, he ſays, # 3 Heme
ere told 1 e . But let Cancealment, like a Warm 7 4% Bud + WE Feed on her Damask Cheek © She find in Di, And ſat like Patience on 4 ma, = Sing at Grief, 8 | What an Ichage i is here given! We . 2 Task would it have been for the greateſt Maſters of Greece and Rome to have expreſs'd the Paſſions de- ſign'd by this Sketch of Statuary ? The Stile of his Comedy is, in general, natural to the Charac- ters, and eaſy in it ſelf; and the Wit moſt com- monly ſprightly and plealing, except in thoſe Places where he runs into Dogrel Rhymes, as in The Co- , medy of Errors, and a Paſſage or two in ſome other Plays. As for his Jingling ſometimss, and play- ing upon Words, it was the common Vice of the Age he lived in: And if we ſind it in the Pulpit, made uſe of as an Ornament to the Sermons of ſome of the graveſt Divines of thoſe Limes; perhaps it Wy. not be thought too light for the Stage. 5 But certainly the GredtnkG 00 this Author's Genius do's no Where ſo much appear, as where he gives his Immagination an entire Looſe, and raiſes his Fancy to a flight above Mankind and the Limits of the viſible World. Such are his Attempts in The Tempeſt, Midſummer - Night's Dream, 'Mackbeth and Hamlet. Of theſe, The
© Tempeſt, however it comes to be plac'd the firſt by
the former Publiſhers of his Works, can never
have been the firſt written by him: It ſeems to me
28 FEES in its Kind, as almoſt any thing we __ 0
= Mr Wir rau SHAKESPBAR.. xvrr of his. One may obſerve, that the Unities are
kept here with an Exactneſs uncommon to the 55 berties of his Writing: Tho” that was what
ſuppoſe, he valu'd himſelf leaſt upon, ſince his Ex- cellencies were all of another Kind, I am. very | ſenſible that he does, in this Play, depart too much
from that Likeneſs to Truth which ought to be obſerv'd in theſe ſort. of Writings ; yet he does it
ſo very finely, that one is eaſih drawn in to have
more Faith for his fake, than Reaſon does well al-
low of. His Magick has ſomething in it very ſo- lemn and very poetical: And that extravagant
Character of Caliban is mighty well ſuſtain'd, ſhews
a wonderful invention in the Author; who could ſtrike out ſuch a particular wild Image, and is cer- tainly one of the fineſt and moſt uncommon. Gro- teſques that was ever ſeen. The Obſervation which I have been inform'd + three very great Men coneurr'd in making upon this Part, was extreamly juſt. That SHAKESPEAR had not only- found out a new Character in his Caliban, but had*alſo*devis'd and adapted a new maimer of Language for that Cha- rafter. Among the particular Beauties of this Piece, I think one may be allowed to point out the
Tale of Praſpero i in the firſt Act; his Speech to 1 Ferdinand in the fourth, upon the breaking up the
Maſque of Juno and Ceres 1 “and that in the fifth, | Feng he diflolves his Charms, and reſolves to break Eis Magick Rod. This Play has been alter'd by Sir Willow D' oenant and Mr. Duden; and tho?
I won't arraign the Judgment of thoſe two great Men, yet I think I may be allow'd. to fay, that there are ſome things left out by them, that Git and even you to have been keptin. Mr.
Duden
+ L. Falkland, Ed. C. 7. Vaughan, and Mr. SS * ...: .. |
rtr 2 Arcount of tbr Lit, Kr. Duden was an Admiiter of our Author, and indeed,
omit what Mr. Dryden has faid'of him.
Shakeſpear, who, taught by none, dig 21 impart 75 Fletcher Wit, to lab ring Johnſon
Hie, Monarch lite, gave thoſe his Subjefts Law, Aud is that Nature which they paint and draw. . _ Fletcher reach'd that which on his haghts did graws. W/bilft Johnſon crept and gather d all below: This did his Love, and this his Mirth age „
Ons imitates him moſt, the other beſt.
I they have fince out-writ all other Men,
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Was taught by. Shakeſpear- s Temps ft feſt to roars 55 Dat Innocence and Beauty which did ſmile yi In Fletcher, grow on this Enchanted Ille. 7
But Shakeſpear Magirſ could not capied be,
HVitbin that Circle none durſt walk but he.
4 #$ mf confeſs *trwas bold, nor would you now' Dat Liberiy to wilear Wits allews, © | Which works by Magick ſupernatural things +. n But panes l Pow is ſacred as a King's. Berk
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is alter d by Mr. Dryden.
11 is the "IC Mas rele that raiſes the Fairies in 3 Niebts Drombs the Witches in Mack- bel, and the Ghoſt in Hamlet, with Thoughts and
peculiar to the Talent of this Writer. But of the two laſt of theſe Plays I ſhall have occaſion to take
* Alludivg to the Sea Voyage of Fletcher,
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he owed him a great deal, as thoſe who have read them both may very eaſily obſerve. And ITthink, in. Juſtice to them both, I ſhould not on this Go
Ns with the Drops which fell from ar Pos. |
Prologue to the Tempeſt, as ĩt
Language ſo proper to the Parts they ſuſtain, and ſo
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of Mr. WilLtam SHaAkESPrAR Mt notice, among the Tragedies of Mr. SHAKESPEAR,
If one undertook to examine the greateſt Part of theſe by thoſe Rules which are eſtabliſh*d by Ari fretle and taken from the Model of the Gririan Stage, it would be no very hard Task to find a great
many Faults: But as SHAKESPEAR liv'd under a Kind of mere Light of Nature, and had never been made acquainted with the Regularity of thoſe- written Precepts, fo it would be hard to judge him by a Law he knew nothing of. We are to conſi- der him as a Man that liv'd ina State of almoſt univerſal Licence and Ignorance : There was no e--
fabliſh'd Judge, but every one took the Liberty to. _ write according to the Dictates of his own Fancy.
When one conſiders, that there is not one Play before him of a Reputation good enough. to entitle it to an Appearance on the preſent Stage, it cannot but be a Matter of great Wonder that he ſhould advance Dramatick Poetry fo far as he did. The Fable is what is generally phc'd the firſt, among thoſe that are reckon'd the confti-- tuent Parts of a Tragick or Heroick Poem: not, perhaps, as it is the moſt difficult or beauti- ful, but as it is the firſt properly to be thought oß in the Contrivance and Courſe of the whole; and with the Fable ought to be conſider' d, the fit Diſpoſition, Order and Conduct of its ſeveral. Parts. As it is not in this Province of the Drama that the Strength and Maſtery of SRARESPEAR lay, fo I ſhall not undertake the tedious and ill- na- tur'd Trouble to point out the ſeveral Faults he:
was guilty of in it. His Tales were ſeldom. in-
vented, but rather taken either from true Hiſtory, or Novels and Romances: And he common!
made ' uſe of em in that Order, with thoſe Inci- dents; and that extent of Time in which he found them in the Authors from whence he borrow'd RES + © $6 #4 | M them,
K Same Area of the Life, c- ** them, S0 The Hinter Tale, which is taken from an old Book, call'd The dele&table H i/tory of Dorſtus and Faunia, contains the Space of ſixteen or ſeven- teen Years, and the Scene is ſometimes laid in Bo- bemia, and ſometimes in Sicih, according to the Ori- Pas Order of the Story. Almoſt all his Hiſtorical lays comprehend a Lt length of Time, and ve- ry different and diſtinct Places: And in his Ant and Clespatra, the Scene travels over the . Part of the Roman Empire, But in Recompence for his Careleſsneſs in this Point, when he comes to another Part of the Drama, The Manners f his C hara#ers, in Acting or Speaking what is proper for them, and fit to be ſhown by the. Poet, he may be gene- rally juſtified, and. in very many Places greatly commended. For thoſe Plays which he has taken From the Engliſh or Roman Hiſtory, let any Man | compare dem, and he will find the Character as exact in the Poet as the Hiſtorian, He ſeems in- deed ſo far from propoſing to himſelf any one Ac- tion for a Subject, that the Title very often tells you, tis The Life of King John, King Richard Sc. - What can be more agreeable. the Idea our Hiſto- Tians gave of Hemp the Sixth, than the Picture SHAKESPEAR has drawn of him ! His Manners are every where exactly the ſame with the Story; one finds him ſtill deſcrib'd with Simplicity, aſſive Sanctity, want of Courage, weakneſs. of f Mind. and eaſy Submiſſion to the Governance 0 of an imperious Wife, or prevailing Faction : - "Tho? at the ſame time the Poet does Juſtice to his good Qualities, and moves the Pity of his Audience for him, by ſhowing, him pious diſinte- 1 reſted, a contemner of the Things of this World, s and wholly reſign d to the ſevereſt Diſpenſations of | God's Providence. - There is A tort Scene i an the Second Part of 1 | Hau . *
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Henry VI. which I cannot biit think admitable in its Kind. Cardinal Beaufort, who had murder'd the Duke of Gheefer, is ſhewn in the laſt Agonies on his Death<Bed, with the good King praying over him. APhets *is 18 much- Terror in one, ſo much Tenderneſs and moving Piety in the other, as muſt touch any one who is capable either of Fear or Pity. In his Henry VIII. that Prince is drawn with that Greatneſs of Mind, and all . thoſe good Qualities which are attributed to him in any Account of his Reign. If his Faults are not ſhewn'in an equal degree, and the Shades in this Picture do Hot bear a juſt Proportion to the Lights, it is not that the Artiſt wanted either Colours or Skill in the Diſpoſition of em; but the truth, I believe, might be, that he forebore doing it out of regard to Queen Elizabeth, ſince it could have been no very great Reſpect to the Me- | mory of his Miſtreſs, to have expos'd fome cer- tain Parts of her Father's Life upon the Stage. He has dealt much more freely with the Miniſter © of that Great King, and certainly nothing was ever more juſtly en than the Character of Cardinal olſy. He has ſnewm him Tyrannical, = Cruel, and Inſolent in his Proſperity ; and yet, 1 by a wonderful Addreſs, he makes his Fall and Ruin the Subject of general Compaſſion. The b whole Man, with his Vices and Virtues, is finely and exactly deſcrib'd in the ſecond Scene of the IV Act. | The Diſtreſſes likewiſe of Queen Katherine, in this Play, are very movingly touch'd ; and . tho” the = Art of the Poet has skreen'd King Henry from any groſs Imputation of Injuſtice, yet one is inclin'd to with, the Queen had met with a Fortune more worthy 'of her Birth and: Virtue. Nor are the Manners, proper to the Perſons repreſented, leſs 5 th ol obſerv'd in — CharaRters: taken. . e 2.4178
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Impatience of Coriolanus, his Courage and Diſdain
Roman: Hiſtory ; and of this the 'Fierceneſs and of the. common People, the Victas and Philoſo-
Phical Temper of Brutus, and the irregular Great-
neſs of Mind in M. Aiutony, are beautiful Proofs, For the two laſt eſpecially, you find em exactly
Yo -as they are deſcrib'd by Plutarch, from whom * certainly SHAKESPEAR copy d 'em. He has
indeed follow'd his Original pretty cloſe, and
taken in ſeveral little Incidents that might have been ſpar d in a Play. But, as I hinted be-
fore, his Deſign ſeems: -moſt commonly rather
to deſcribe thoſe great Men in the ſeveral For- tunes and Accidents of their Lives, than to take any fingle great Action, and form his Work fimp! imply upon that. However, there are ſome of
teces, where the Fable is founded upon one
| 3 only. Such are more eſpecially, Romeo
and Futiet, Hamlet, and Othello. The Deſign in
Names and Juliet, is plainly the Puniſhment of of their two Families, for the unreaſonable Feuds and Animoſities that had been fo long kept up be- _ "tween em, and occafion'd the Effuſion of ſo *
Blood. In the Management of this Story, he has
ſheun ſomething wonderfully. Tender and Paſſio- nate in the Love- part, and very Pitiful in the Diſtreſs. Hamlet is founded on much the fame Lale with the Electra of Sipboclæs. In each of
em a young Prince is engag d to Revenge the Death
of his Father, their Mothers are equally Guilty, are both concern'd in the Murder of their Huf- bands, and are aftewards married to the Murderers.
E There is in the firſt Part of the Greet Tragedy, ſomething very moving in the Grief of Electra;
- but as Mr. B. Keie, has obſerv*d, there is ſome- thing very unnatural and ſhocking i in the Manners
be has * that Princeſs and en in the latter -
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Part. Ore/tes embrues Hands in the Blood of bis
own Mother; and that barbarous Action is perform'd, tho' not immediately upon the Stage, get ſo near, that the Audience hear Chtemngſtra crying out to Esthy/tus for Help, and to her Son for Mercy:
While Electra, her Daughter, and a Princeſs,
both of them 1 that ought to have ap- peared with more Decency, ſtands upon the Stage and encourages her Brother in the Parricide. What Horror does this not raiſe! Chtemneſtra. Was Aa wicked Woman, and had deferv'd to Die; nay, in the truth of the Story, ſhe was kill'd by her own. Son; but to repreſent an Action of this Kind on the Stage, is certainly an Offence
againſt thoſe Rules of Manners proper to the
Perſons that ought to be obſerv'd there. On the contrary, let us only look a little on the Con- duct of SHAKESPEAR, Hamlet is repreſented with the ſame Piety towards his Father, and Re- ſolution to Revenge his Death, as Orefes ; he has the ſame Abhorrence for his. Mother” s Guilt, which, to provoke him the more, is heighten'd by Inceſt : But tis with wonderful Art and Juſt- neſs of Judgment, that the Poet reſtrains him from doing Violence to his Mother. To pre- vent any thing of that Kind, he makes his Fa- ther's Gholt to torbid that part of IS |
But boryforver thou purſe ff this An, 8
Teint not thy Mind; nar let thy Soul contrive Againſt thy Mather ought ; ; leave her to Heaven, And to thoſe Thorns that in her * 4 prick and fling 8 5
This 4 is to diſtinguiſh rightly between N and Terror, The latter is a- proper Paſfion of Tra-
he! 5 BE the Hormer 5 * to be ure Y
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fully avoided ; And certainly no Dramatick Wri- ter ever ſucceeded better in raiſing Terror in the Minds of an Audience than SHAKESPEAR has done, The whole Tragedy of Macbeth, but more eſpecially the Scene. where the King is murder'd, in the ſecond Act, as well this Play, is a noble Proof of the manly Spirit with which
be writ; ; and both ſhew how powerful he was,
in giving the ſtrongeſt Motions to our Souls that "they are capable 1 1 cannot leave Hamlet, without taking notice of the Advantage with which we have ſeen this Maſter-piece of SHAKESPEAR Ciſtinguiſh it felf upon the Stage,” by Mr. Better- tors fine Performance of that Part. A Man, who tho* he had no 6ther good Qualities, as he has a great many, muſt have made his way into the Eſſ- teem of all Men of Letters, by this only Excel- lency. No Man is better acquainted with SHAK E- 8PEAR'sS manner of Expreſſion, and indeed he has ſtudy'd him fo well, and is fo much a Mafter of him, that whatever Part of his he performs, he does it as if it had been written. on purpoſe for him, and that the Author had exactly conceiv'd it as he plays it. I muſt own a particular Obligation to him, for the moſt conſiderable Part of the Paſſages relating to his Life, which J have here tranſmitted to -the Publick ;
up What Remains he eould of a Name for which he had fo great a Value, Since I had at firſt re- ſolv*d-not to enter into any Critical Controverſy, I won't pretend to enquire into the Fuſtneſs of Mr. Rhymer's Remarks on Othello ; he has certainly pointed out. ſome Faults very judiciouſſy; and indeed they are ſuch -as moſt People will agree,
was him, to be Faults: Bus: I with he would — e likewiſe
N.
His Veneration for the Memory = SHAKESPEAR having engag'd him to make a * Journey into » Warwickſhire, on purpoſe to gather
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Ake wiſe have obſerv'd ſome of the Beauties too; as I think it became an Exact and Equal Critique to do. It ſeems ſtrange that he ſhould allow nothing Good in the whole : If the Fable and Incidents are not to his Taſte, yet the Thoughts are almoſt-every where very Noble, and the Dic- tion manly and proper. "Theſe laſt, indeed, are 15 Parts of SHAKE SPEAR“'s Praiſe, nn . ü be very hard to Diſpute with him. His Sent hk ments and Images of Things are Great and Na- 1 tural; and his Expreſſion (tho* perhaps in ſome | Inſtances a | little. Irregular, juſt, and rais'd in | Proportion to his Subject and Occaſion. It would be even endleſs to mention the particular Inſtances that might be given of this Kind: But his Book ;s in the Poſſeſſion of the Publick, and *twill be hard to dip into any Part of it, without finding what I haye ſaid of him made good.
The latter Part of his Life was ſpent, as all Men of good Senſe will wiſh "theirs may be, in Eaſe, Retirement, and the Converſation of - his * Friends. He had the good Fortune to gather an Eſtate equal to his Occaſion, and, in that, to his Wiſh; and is ſaid to have ſpent ſome Years before d bis Death at his native Stratford. His pleaſurable 4 Wit, and good Nature, engag'd him in the Ac- Wo quaintance, and entitled him to the Friendſhip of the Gentlemen of the Neighbourhood. Amongſt ch them, it is a Story almoſt ſtill remember'd in that Country, that he had a particular Intimacy with 0 Mr. Cambe, an old Gentleman noted thereabouts 4 bor his Wealth and Uſury : It happen'd, that in 2 pleaſant Converſation amongſt their common a) Friends, Mr. Combe told SHAKESPEAR in a | laughing manner, that he fancy'd, he intended ad 0 Write his Epitaph, if he happen'd to out-live ie bim; and ſince he could not know what gle, by al
K* Some "Actornt "of ibe Tiſe, c. Haid of him when he was dead, he'defir'd it might
be done immediately: Upon which * gave him theſe four Verſes. EO
Ten in the Hundred Fes hero engrav 4, AE Nis a Hundred to Ten, his Soul is not 2 4. 1 1 any Mam asl, I bo lies in ibis Tomb? Oh ! ho! guoth theDevil, "tis my John-a-Cambe,
| 901 abt Sharpneſs of the Satyr is ſaid to have | Hug the Man ſo ſeverely, that he never forgave
To >
"Be dy'4in the 5 3d Year of bis Abs: and was buris). on the North Side of the Chancel, in the
eat Church at Stratford, where a Monument,
; s placed in the Wall Ons . ander- watch is, 85
E Sud Friend, for Foſs ake e 170
„ 4 '. To dig the Du Nell 25 , 12
=_ - B be the Mam that ſpares theſe States, TY
= And curft be he that niodes my Bones. 5
married; Fudith, the Elder, to one Mr. Thomas Qui- nich, by whom he had three Sons, who all dy'd without Children ; and Suſannah, who was his Fa- vourite, to Dr. John Hall, a Phyſician of good Reputation in that Country. She left one Child _ only, a Daughter, who was marry'd firſt to Thomas "Naſh, Eſq; and afterwards to Sir John Bernard of Abington, but dy d likewiſe without Iſſu»,. ++ This is what I could learn of any Note, either re- 2 himſelf or Family: The Character of the Manu is beſt ſeen in his Wyfkeing. But ſince Ben Folien has made a ſort ot an Eſſay towards it in his Diſcoveries, tho? as I have before hinted, he was not very cordial in his F riendſhip, 1 will ven- ture to give it in his Words, 1
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He had three Daughters, of which two lived + to be
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I remember the Players have often mention'd it as an Honour to SHAKESPEAR, that in Wri- ing (whatſoever he penn'd) he never blotted out a Line. My Anſwer hath been, Maul he had blitted athouſand, which they thought a malevo- lent Speech. I had not told Poſterity this, but for their Ignorance, who choſe that Circumſtance to commend their Friend by, wherein he moſt faulted. And to juſtify mine own Candour, (for I loy'd the Man, and do honour his — on this fide Idolatry, as much as any.) He was indeed, honeſt, and of an open and free Nature, and an tient Fancy, brave Notions, and gen- tle Expreſſions; wherein he flow'd with that Fa- cility, that ſometimes it was neceflary he ſhould be ſtopp'd : Sigflaminandus erat, as Augustus ſaid of Haterius. His Wit was in his own Power, would the Rule of it had been ſo too. Many times he fell into thoſe things which could not eſcape Laughter; as when he ſaid in the Perſon of Cæſar, one ſpeaking to him,
* Cæſar thou doſt me wrang, « Hereply'd : | 8 E did never erung, but with uſt Gan.
and ſuch like, which. were ridiculous. But he redeem'd his Vicesgvith his Virtues : There was ever more in him 0 De Prais'd than to be Par- « den'd. . As for the Paſſage Which he mentions out of
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For SHAKESPEAR, there is ſomewhat like it in Fulius
3 Cæſar, but without the Abſurdity; nor did I ever Fa. i Imcet with it in any Edition that I have ſeen, as 1 he uoted by Mr. Fabien. Beſides his Plays in this ven- Edition, there are two or three aſcrib'd to him by
8 Langbaing, Ou 1 have never ſeen, and know ” . nothing
3 X XVIII Same 1 the Life,” c.
and Targuin and Lucrece, in Stanza's 's, Which have
' Romans, who wrote Tragedy upon t
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nothing of. He writ likewiſe, Venus and Adonis,
been printed in a late Collection of Poems. As to the Character given of him by Ben Fohnſon, there
is a good deal true in it: But I believe it may be
as well expreſs d by what Horace |: 95 of the firſt. |
© Greel Mo- dels, (or indeed ee PER in | his Epiſtle, to
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| M am pirat Tragicum atis & feliciter Audet, __ turpem putat in Chartis metuitg; Lituram.
There is a Book of Poems, publiſhed. in 50405 under the Name of... Mr. WILLIAM SnARE-
SPEAR ;. but as I have but very lately ſeen it, without an Opportunity of making any Judgment
upon it, I won't . to determine, Whether it it be his or no. : ; |
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AOT I SCENE I E | SCE N E. An open Place before the Palace.
Enter Bernardo and F ranciſco, Ins Conrinele,
I E R VAR D O. H O's there? e Mo Bran. Nay, anſwer me: Stand and- - unfold yourſelf. 232 Ber. Long live the "_ 8 | Fran. Bernardo. £ 5 — Be,. He. . 5 1 * You come molt carefully upon your Hour. Ber. Tis now ſtruck twelve, get thee to bed, Franci/co, Fran. For this relief, much thanks : 'tis bier cold, And I am fick at heart. | 4 Ber. Have you had quiet Guard ? Fran, Not a Mouſe ſtirrin Ber. Well, good night. It you do meet Horatis oo | | Marcelies, the Rivals ot my Watch, bid them make haſte. Exter Horatio and Marcel ius. Fran. I think I hear them. Stand ho, os there ? Hor. Friends to this Ground. 1 Mar. Aud Liege men to the Daze.
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Fran Good night, FE ORs WINK Mogan, Mar. Farewel, dose Soldier; ; who hath reliev'd 1
Fran. Bernerdo has my. 2 good. night. ö
Tk F raneiſco Mar. 11 3 | Ber. Say, what is Horatio FRE 7 — ü— Hor. A piece of him. Ber. Welcome, Horatio; we! come, ew? Marcellus... Mar. What, has this thing appear'd again to N 0 Ber. I have ſeen nothing. ; A Mar. Horatio ſays, tis but a Phantaſy, And will not let belief rake hold of him, Touching the dreadful fight, twice ſeen of us; Therefore I have intreated him long | With us, to watch the Minutes of this Night, Uhat if again this Apparition. come, n le may approve our Eyes, and erk to it. Hor. Iwill not r. | | Ber. Sit down awhile, f And, let us once again aſſail your Ears, That are ſo fortified againſt our ſtory,
What we have two Nights ſeen. Hor. Well, let us hear Bernardo ſpeak of this 1 Ber. Laſt night WA 2 When yon ſame Star, that's Weſtward from the Pole. 1 Had made his Courſe enlighten that part of Heawn n v Where now it burns, Marcellus and * ſelf. . D The Bell then beating one: N : Euter Ghoſt. H Aar. Peace, break thee off; 5 81 Look where it comes again. Ti Ber, In the ſame Figure, like the King that 8 dead. 80 Mar. Speak to it, Horatio. 4 Is Hor, Moſt like: it ſtartles me with P ear n Wonder. | 'Y Ber. It would be ſpoke to. W Mar. Speak to it, Haratio. | Co Hor. W hat art thou that alp ſt this time e of night, T} Together with that fair and warlike Form, | | In which the Majeſty of buried Denmark EA Bu
Did ſometimes march ? 1 Gig _ e . Pi Mar. It is oftended. IRE? Ber. See | it ſtaiks away.
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7. Tis gone, ny will not anſwer. 5 How now, Horatio? you tremble atd look pale 5
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What think you of it.? G 60072 0 15441 £ £97 I rien Hor. I could not this believe; e
Without the ſenſible e true EY ko leg 2 f mine own: Eyes. ad? Jo
Mar. Is it not like the King? + os, 1.35 of 6 FL
Her. As thou art ta thy ff 4b Such was the very Armour he had on, 32 When th' ambitious Nora combatet.
Mar. Thus twice before, and juſt at the ſame boar, With martial ſlalk hath he gone by our Watch. |
Hor. In what particular thought to work, I know. 0 But "AY ſcope. of mine Opt $ 0 foo N l „e — This bodes ſome ſtrange Eruption to our Sale. bar WP bs
Mar. Pray tell me, he that knows - 50 Why this ſame ſtrict and; moſt: obſervant Watch: So 15 toils the Subject of the Lands
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Hor. That can 1; Gur la King OLA Whole Image ey n but now — HI W Was, as you know, by Fortis a5: Uf - "1+ be 152 3.1
»Dar'd to the Combate; in which our valiant Hand! Did ſlay this Fortinbras 5: who by a ſeal d e
Well ratified by Law and Herald,
Did forfeit (with his Life) all theſe bis Lands, T Now, Sir, young Fartinbraſ, as 5 7 Hath in the Bk irts of Norzoay, here — ae, U 55.4 Shark'd. up Aa 115 of lawleſs Reſolutes, OY n To ——— thoſe, foreſaid Lands 01 dif 88855 tXÞD So by his Father loſt, And chis, I de 49M Is the main Motive of or Preparation - 2 7
Ber. I think it is no other, but eyen ſo: Well may it ſort that this portentoss Figure Thaty armed thro our Watch ſo like the Kin . t was, and is the Queſtion of. the Wars. EL: A. . Ente * GH. 13318 * 'q 10 s By. 1 |
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If thou are privy to thy (Country's Fate,
Which happily foreknowing ap avoid, O h ſpeak ! Or if thou haſtuphoardedin.thy Life
Extorted Treaſure in the Womb of Bale L Cr
For which, they ſay, youn Spirits oſt Walle th Death, Speak of it. Stay and Speak Stop it Marcellus. = Mar. Shall I ſtrike it with wy | Partizan = T2 1.
Hor. Do if it will not [ 5" Ber. Tis here Hor, er, here. "FTE Mar. Tis gone. +45 941 TH , hg. Weds ic wr? lag ormnxjeieet) ei 90 To oſſer it the ſhe ] of Vioſence; ng 2 af Wo It is ever, as thie Air, involnexable;'s 26
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Ber. It was about to ſpeak when the Cock crew. mow Hor. And:then-it ſtarted like a. guilty thin | Upon a fearful Summons: T have Heard
Doth with his lafty:and-ſhrill-founding Ni Awake the God of Day and at his Warni . * Whether in Sea or Fire, in Earth * Air, Fal
"20H: extrayagant /and erring Spirit bies'” ast 1 . Ni. 1 85 0
Mar. It faded at tne Crowwing of the: eber: Fe þ 5 Hor. But look, the Morn is ruſſet Mantle ch
Walks o'er che Dew of yon en. Eaſtern Hill;
Break we our Watch up, and by my Advice au uf Let us impart what we have ſeen to night 5 1 Vat | . Unto young Hamlat: Perhaps 9 aged 'This Spirit, dumb to us, will ſpe OY 6 him. n Mar. Let's dot, E pray, and 1 this Moming — | Where we ſhall find him moſt convenient). [E æcunt. 8E NE II. De Palace. 2 nter King, D. Hamlet, Polonius, Lacites 'Gentle- | mn and Guards. r arg | 8 King. Tho! yet of :Hamlet our dear Brothers Death | The Memory be green, and that it us befitted , To bear our Hearts in Grief, and our whole Kingdom | To be contractedꝭ in one Brow of Woo: F Vet ſo far hath Diſcretion fought with Natare, _. That we with Wiſeſt Sorrow think on him,
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Har, Prince r Denmark. 7 Therefore « our ſometimes r 1755 Th' Imperial Jointreſs to this warlike Stats, {1-7 Have we as twere With a defeated ,,,, . Taken to Wife. Nor have we herein barr- T1 Vour better Wiſdoms, which have freely gene = JA Nl
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With this Affair along; and we. now ee AT You, good Cornelius, and n 7 pltimond, 10 1 Ambaſſadors tg Norzeay...; warnt Roc 5 dy 5 . 33
Laer. My dear Lord, ü ie eines
Your Leave and Favour to return l L From whence, tho! willingly, I came to e ' To ſhew my — in your Coronation be Yet now I mult eonſels, that Duty done, F. a My Thouglits and Wiſhes: bend again E Frames! King. Hays. er FOE: Father's: Leave?! what _ Polomus ! - 11 2 Pol. He hath, f my Lond. ks labourſome Petition, by Wrung from me my flow Leave; and at laſt Upon tis Will I ſeal d my hard Conſent. mg King 0 thy fair Hour Laertes, Time be net But _ my Couſin Hamlet, and my Son Ham. A little more han Kin, and leſs that kind. | King. How is it, that the Clouds ill hang on you! Ham. Not ſo, my Lord, Im too much ich Sun. Queen. Good — caſt thy nightly Colour: e. And let thine Eye look like a Friend * en 4 Do not forever, ps thy. veiled Lids, o 16:1 T Seek for t noble 1 Father in the Duſt; 229 f . Thowkknow'ſt 7 tis common. ache wal de. 2 Paffing ys Nature 13 ai A A ee 07 ©
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Ham. A 8 Wwe cum 110 2 al 95 Queen. 1 it be 001i B T. 7 a 101 Y Why ſeems it ſo 3 ular with hee 7
Ham. Seems, Madam / Nayy it i iss I ebener: |
"Tis not alone this moutnipg Suit, good Mothen. Teer vs with all Forms, Modes, Shapes of: Gries That can, . me. truly, Theſe indeed ſeem, 3 But I have chin which paſſeth Shew. 15:l1n'] Theſe but the Trappings, and the Suits af Woe * King, Tis ſweet and commendable, id xour N ar BY To give theſe mourning Duties to your Facher; (Hater. |
3 But you muſt know, vour Eather loſt a Father, That Father loſt, lol dur, aud dba Sagiter hound.
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In filial Obligation for ſome term odd To do obſequious Sorrow. But to irs | |
In obſtinate Condolement, does expreſs
An impious Stubbornneſs; tis unmanly Grief, -
Me pray you throw to Earth by ER | This unprevailing Woe; and think of us 0 As of a Father; and let the World take rote, |
You are the moſt immediate to our Throne:
Our chiefeſt Courtier, Couſin, and our Son. — Queen. Let not thy Mother loſe her Nip, Hen.
1 Pray thee ſtay with us, go nat to Mittenburg. Ham. I ſhall in all my beſt obey 1 you, Madam. King. Why, tis a loving and fair Repl ß,,
Be 6 our {elf in Denniurk. Madam, come,
This gentle and unfore'd Aecord ef an, 1 5 2505
Sits — my Heart; in grace whereof, ROW.
No jocund Health that Dehmar drinks to lay! - 5
But the e Cannon to the Clouds ſhall axc# LE. xeunt. Manet Hamlet.
8 Has. 0 that this too too ſolid Fleſh would men, Thaw, and diſſolve itſelf into a Dew; #74 ee Or that the Everlaſting had not fl His Cannon àgainſt Self Marder? 4 6 How weary, ſtale, flat, and unproftable Scem to me all the Uſes of this mot OR Fie-on't! O-fie!*tis an unweeded Garden, That grows to Seed; things rank and grofsin OOTY Pofleſs it meerly. That it ſhall come to this, io But two Months dead; nay not ſo much. So excellent a King, ſo loving to my Metber, That he permitted ot the Winds of . Viſit her Face too roughly.— Why ſhe would hang on him
By what is fed on; and yet within a 13 Let me not thinle ont Frailty, thy Name is Woman: A little Montb ! married with mine Uncle,
My Father's Brother; büt ne mofe Be ty Father,” a
ARS F'to'Hercates © tn igen! ; 25 ” Enter Horatio, Bernardo, and Marcellus A
IF Hz Hail to your Lordſhip. om "od | Ham, 1 am 15. to ſee you wel e e Dh gIpitas Horatio, or orger my elf, Gal e er
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Ham. very like; Raid-it long? 4+ Hor. While one with moderate date migh cel a0 hundred. | WE : 18 ; All. Longer, longer. ens [s lib ng 2 igt os Hor. Not when I G's TOP 63 * 620 151 3 — wa I Ham. His Beard was-grizled 2 {4-4 1 8 4D Hor. It was, as I have ſen u in be Liſe, A A Sable: ſilverC d. lite Stag! (CT
Ham. T'll nene perchahce "twill walk gin Hor. I warrant my Lord it will, a dt © £ 22ltt 07 Ham. If itaſſume my noble F acher's eren.
I'll ſpeak to it, tho' Hell itſelf ſhould: gape;! |
And bid me hold ny Peace. I pray ae hoz vall
If you have hitherto cod this Wight, 1 |
Let it require dr ſilende ſtilll hu u 2151 * * 3
And whatſoever elt ſhall hap to Night, 44 1
Give it an Underſtanding: hut: no Fongue 3: 55
J will requite your Loves: So fare ye Vell |
Upon the Platform, * ewixt eleven; ee, 1; 8
Pl viſit YOu. | * JQt 40 1455 81 21 T E 0 All. Our Duty to your Hongur! elt Ern Ham. Your Loves, as mine to you: Fare wel A
My Father's Spirit in Aras! Alb not Wr! doubt ſome foul play: Would the Nicht he ere comet
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But let me hear from õ,F Oęph. Do you doubt that?: Laer. For Hamlet, and the wifi of TR Paroan,
Hold it a Faſhion and a Toy m:Bloodg
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The perfume of a Minute hats Oph. No more ut G + nn lin Dd hs 4 | Laer. Thinle it na more: 1
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Himſelf the Frimroſe Path of Dablance creads.
And that in way of Caution; T * tell 5e You do not underſtand your ſelf ſo clearly, As it behoves my Daughter, and your Honour.
Of his Affection to me.
Unſifted in ſuch perilous Circumſtanctee.
. ee of Daman!
Then weigh what Loſs your Honour may ſuſtain,
Phe charieſt Maid is prodigal enough,
Opb. T ſhall th'effect of this good SER
Do not as, ſome ugracious Paſtors do, Erk 0 8 She me the ſteep and thorny way to Heav n n; Whilſt like a Libertine,
Laer. Oh, fear me not, 1: I an too long, but here my Father comes. em b Enten Polonius Pol. Vet here, Laertes ! abcard; abdent for ſhame, | Laer. Moſt humbly I do take my leave my Lord. Pol. The'time invites you, go, your [Servants tend. Laer. Fare wel Ophelia, ani ar gens well” What [ have ſaid to you: "rt Oph.* Tis in my Menvey lockt, And you yourſelf ſhall pop tle Key * it. ö Laer. Farewell | Een Laer. Pol. What br Ophelia, be has ſaid to 705 5 Ops. 80 pleaſe: you," v en l the Lord
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Pol. Affection! puh! you Pale like a green Gin,
Do you believe his Tenders, as lie calls them 2 Opb. I do not know my Lord; what 1 ſhould thinks) Pol. Marry I'll teach you; think yourſelf a Baby,
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Which are not Sterling, Tender yourſelf 1 more dearly 3 1 You'll tender me a Fcol. bk O;h. My Lord, he hath importan'd we wich Loves:
In honourable Faſhion. * Pol. Ay, Faſhion you may call it: g⁰ to; os bo. Ws Opb. And hath given Countenance to his Speech my
With almoſt all the holy Vows'of Heaven. [Lord. Pol. Ay, Springes to catch Woodcocks. I do know
When the Blood burns, how brit the ad; |
Lends the Tongue Vows: : al |
This is for all: |
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Look to't, I charge you; come your way.
:Oph. I ſhall obey, my Lord. 3 SCENE UL. The Platfrm before the Palace. Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus. | Ham. The Air bites ſhrewdly; it is very cold. 4 Hoy. It is anipping and an eager a Ag 1 Ham. What Hour now? 1 ee Hor. I think it lacks of twelve. DA £2 590 02 HIRE = Mar. No, it has ſtruck. /. | : | Hor, I heard it not? Then it Aries near ola Seaſon. Wherein the Spirit held his wont to walk. | [Mose of Warlike Muſick ads.
What 4 this mean, my Lordꝰ Ham. The King doth wake to-night, and takes his
Ape cakes his Draughts of Rheniſh down, nay . =
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Hor. Look, my Lord, where it comes: Ham. Angels and Miniſters of Grace defend as þ Ze thou a Spirit of Health, or Goblin damn'd ; Bring with thee: Airs fm Heav'n, or Blaſts from: Hell > h Be thy Intents wicked or charitable, _ | ich Tur com in — * Thou
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That I will {peak to thee :: I'll call thee Hale, King, Father, Royal Dare; Oh! anſwer me, Let me not burſt in Ignorance ; but tell! Why thy canoniz'd Bones hearſed in Death, : Have burſt their Cearments? why 72 nee 6 Wherein we ſa w thee quietly. ipterr | Hath op'd his ponderoùs and abe Jawa, E Jo caſt thee up again; What may this mean? That thou dead Caarſe again in compleat _ . Reviſit thus the Glimpſes of the __ Making Night hideous ? And we Fools: of Nature, So horridly to ſhake our 8 Ty Wich Thoughts bez end the Nene Loud . 57 0 Why is this? TGT what ſhould we do? [Ghoft beckons Hamlet ha. It bedkwns you to go away with i it, 4 As if ſome Impartment did df 88 To you alone. Mar. Look with what aourteous Agtion | It waves you to a. remote nn n | But do not go with itt. | Hor. No, by no means. [holding Hauer, 6
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1 value not my Life; 3 Ar And for my Soul, What can it ts to that 2 * Te Being a thing immortal as itſelt. k. 1 le It waves me forth again, II fallow: iti W. Hor. What if it tempts yau towards the Pleo. my. I
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As Meditation, or the Thoughts of Love. 52 Shot. I find thee apt, | Now Hamlet hear, * Ane Tis given out, that liceping 5 in arr But A Serpent ſtung me, ſo the e Ear of Denmark Ay 1 by a forged Proceſs of my Deatn In Rankly abus d. But know, thou noble Youth, | Ye: The Serpent that did ſting thy Father's Mart, N TI Now wears his Crown. | All Ham. O my prophetick Soul. my Uocle! Th . Ay, that incetigous, that Auhkrate Beaſt, An | | Won to his ſhameful Luſt Ui g WI * The Will of my moſt ſeeming virtuaud Deen. O 1 But ſoft, methinks I ſcent the Morning Air. 0 F Brief let me be: Sleeping within my eel My | My Cuſtom always of the After Th = pon my ſecure Hour thy Uncle ſlole Ev = At | With Juice of curſed Hebona in a Viall, | 80 bl And in the Porckes of my Ears did peut It A be leprous Diſtilement, whole effects I} = - "Hold ſuch an Enmity with Blood of Man, Wr 1 That ſwift as Quickſilver it courſes chr“ N The natural Gates and Alleys of the Body. 56 1 And with a ſudden Vigour it does poſſes if _ The thin and wholſome Blood: ſo * it mine, N And a molt inſtant Tetter bark'd; about, | k "Moft lazer- like, with vile ang. loathſome cd. mM Jv All my ſmooth Body Thas was I fleepinge- by. a/Brother's Hand, Lit, of Crown, oſ Queen at once reren, $ Qu of even in the Blome of my sin. No reckoning made, but ſent to my account > With all my Tae on my > 205 If theu haſt Nature in thee, bear it Bot 2 44%! | | Let * Royal Bed of : Danmark he 4 c By \ A Couch of Luxury. and damned Inceſt. | | | But howſoever thou purſu'ſt this An © .Taintmht thy; Mind, ner let thy Soul denen D | Againſt thy Mother ought, leave her' to — BL ' | And thoſe Thotns that in her Boſom lodge, | i To goad and ſting her, Fare thee well at once, Ti
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Mar. How is't, my noble Lord?”
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Farewel, remember me. 8 G Ham. Hold, hold, my Heart. |
\nd you my Sinews grow not | inſtant old, | | 2
But bear me flrongly up. Remember ther! Hie L Ay, thou por G beſt, while Memory ies Seat |
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That Youth and Obſervation copied chere, And thy Commandment all alone ſhall live Within the Book and Volume of my Brain, ME, O moſt pernicious. Woman! T: get 2 A. O Villain, Villain, ſmiling damned Villain! M1015) My Tables; meet its I nduld ſet down, That one may ſmile, and ſmile, and be See At leaſt T'm ſure he may be ſo in Dermark. e So Uncle there you are: Tow. to my Word, It is, farewel, remember me; 3 I have ſworn't. 6141 57 att Hor. within, My Land, my ce Mar. within, Lord Hamlet. Hor. within. Heavens ſecure him ' Ham. So be it. Hor. =vithin. Tllo, ho, ho, my 3 . Ham. Hillo, ho, ho, boy, come boy, come. y Enter Horatio and Marcellus. n
Ham. O wonderful!
Hor. Good my Lord, tell it.
Ham. No, you'll reveal it.
Hor. Not I, my Lord. ; | | Mar. Not I, my Lord. | | Ham. How. ſay you then, would Heart of. Man once 4
But you'll be ſecret, - 9 (ihinle it?
Both, As Death, my Lord. | | Ham There's ne er a Villamn. - Dwelling in all Detmark, / | * But he's an arrant Knave. ; Hor, There needs no Ghaſt, my Wel. come fronds OR = To tell us this. (Grave, Ham. Why right, you are in the right: And ſo wilnout more nee at all. J hold
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Ham. I am ſorry they offend you; neartly's' Hor. There's no' offence my Lord. 970 Ham. Ves, by Saint Patrick, but there is, ral, And much Offence too : touching this Viſion here, It is an honeſt Ghoſt, that let me tell you; For your deſire to know what is between us, O'er-maſter*tas:you' q may: And now good Friends, As you are Friends, Scholars, and Soldiers, 118 10.1 Grant me one pdor Requeſt. Tt ee a 1 57 Hor. What ist my Lord? t I. fr Ham. Never make known what you have ſeento 285 Beth. My Lord we will net. Ham. Nay but ſwear't. „„ Hor. In faith, my Lord, 4 | ING Mar, Nor I, my Lord, in faith, 25 ev IV. Han. Upon. my Sword.” Me
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Swear by my Sword, Never to {peak of this chat you baye beard.
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Here as before, never, fo help your Mercy,
{How ſtrange or odd ſoe er | beat my lelf,
As I perchance hereafter ſhall thinks meet,
To put an antick Dupolition on,
That you at ſuch times ſeeing me, never ſha!l
With Arms encumbred thus, or Head thus ſhak'd,
Or by . ſome doubtful Phraſe,
As well, weil, we know, or we couid, and if we would
Or there be, or if they might,
Or ſuch ambiguous giving out, to note)
That you know ought of me, this you muſt ſwear, Ghoſt. Swear. | Ham. Reit, reſt, perturbed Spirit. So Gentlemen,
With all my Love I do commend me to you; 2
And what fo poor a Man as Hamlet is
May do, texprels his Love and Friendſhip to you,
Shall never fail: let us go in together,
And fill your Fingers on your Laps, I pray. The time is out of joint; O curſed Spight, a That ever 1 was barn to let it REN: | [Exeunt, |
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Pol, With what? Opb. My Lord, as I was * in my Cloſet, Prince Hamlet, all unbrac'd,
Pale as his Shirt, his Knees lcnacking cen aller. And with a Look fo Pusan.
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To ſpeak of Horrors, he comes before me. Pol. Mad for thy Love 5 7 Oph. My Lord, I do not know, |
But truly 1 do fear it. :
Pol. What faid be?
- Oph. He took me by the ; Wriſt, and held me ard,
Then goes he to the length of all his Arms, And with his other Hand thus o'er his Brow e falls to ſuch peruſal of my Face, As he would draw it: long ſtaid he ſo; As laft, a little ſhaking of my Arm, | and thrice his Head thus waving up and down, He raiſed a Sigh © piteous and profound, As it did ſcem to thaiter all his Bulk, | | And end his Being. This done, he lets me go, And with his Head over his Shoulders turn'd, He ſeem'd to find his way without his Eyes; For out of Doors he went without their helps, | And to the laſt bended their Light on me. | Pol. Come, go with me, I will go leek the King; This is the very extaſy of Love, Have you given him any hard Words of as} |
Oph. No, my good Lord, but as you did para J did repel his Letters, and deny'd 1 5 His Acceſs to me.
Pol. That hath made him mad: Come, go with me to the King: This muſt be known, which Sg Fac cloſe, ks
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Bome little time, ſo by your Compa r To draw him on to Pleaſures, and to lean, - Whether ought unknown to us afflicts him thus, That lies within our Remedy. Nucen. Good Gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of non : And ſure I am, two Men there are not living To whom he more adheres: If it will pleaſe ou To ſhew us ſo much Gentleneſs and Good will, As to employ your time with us a while, For the Supply and Profit of our Hope, Your Viſitation ſhall receive ſuch Thanks As fits a King's Remembrance. Roſ. Both your Majeſties Might, by the Sovereign Power you Lott over us, 8 Put your dread Pleaſures more into Command | Than to Intreaty. | Guil. But we both obey, /, And here give up ourſelves in the full —— To lay our Service freely at your Feet. King. Thanks, Roſencraus, and gentle Guildenftern. Queen. And I beſeech you inſtantly to viſit. My too much changed Son: Go ſome of you, And bring theſe Gentlemen where Hamlet is. Guil. Heavens make our Preſence and our Practices Pleaſant and helpful to him.
Veen. Amen. - tree: Ref, & Guil. Enter WIT : 5 TE I do think, or elſe this Brain of mine Hunts not the Trail of Policy ſo ſure. . 1 A As.t. has us'd to do, that I. have found Ay The very Cauſe of Hamlet's Lunacy. . King. O ſpeak of that, that I do long to Bex. Pol. My Liege and Madam, to expoſtulate What Majeſty ſhould be, what Ducy is, | Why Day is Day, Night Night, and Time is Time ; Were nothing but to waſte Night, Day and Time: Therefore Brevity is the Soul of Wit, | And Tediouſneſs the Limbs and outward Flouriſhes. | I will be brief; your noble Son is mad, Mad call J it; for to define true Madness, What it's but to be nothing elſe but 0 3 5 But * * 98
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Pol. Madam, I ſwear I uſe no Art at all. F Whac] That he's mad, tis true, tis pity ; = And h And pity tis, tis true : A fooliſh Figure, I QPell in But farewel it, for I will uſe no Art. | | Then Mad let us grant him then; and now remains Into t
That we find out the Cauſe of this Effect, 6 And 2 Or rather ſay the Cauſe of this Defect, | Ki For this Effect defective comes by Cauſe - | ' Nu Thus it remains, and the Remainder thus. Conſider, # Po IT have a Daughter, have while ſhe is mine, That Who in her Duty and Obedience, mark, Whe
Hath given me this: Now gather and ſurmiſe. { Read K To the Celeflial and my Soul's Idol, the moſt beautiful Po Ophelia: That's an ill Phraſe, a vile Phraſe ; beautified h If C
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dent white Boſom, Theſe, cc. Wit! Queen. Came this from Hamlet to her? =» K Pol. Good Madam, ſtay awhile, I will be faichful. * Doubt that the Stars are Fire, Her
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Lady, whilft this Machine is to him, Hamlet, Let
This in Obedience hath my Daughter ſhewn me, But
And more concerning his Sollicitings, " "nn
As they fell out by I ime, by Means, and Place.
King. But how hath ſhe receiv'd his Love? WY Pol. What do you think of me? os rea Lig. As of a Man faithful and honourable. - 4
Pol. I would fain prove ſo ; but what might you think, Or my dear Majeſty your Queen here think,
F I had? No, I went round to work, . Ho And my young Miſtreſs thus I charg'd : | | 5 Lord Hamlet is a Prince above thy Sphere,
This muſt not be; and then I Precepts gave her, That ſhe ſnould lock herſelf from his Reſort, Admit no Meſſengers, receive no Tokens. N
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Which done, ſhe took the Fruits of my Advice 3 And he repell' d, a ſhort Tale to make,
Fell into a Sadneſs, then into a Faſt, 1 Thence to a Lightneſs, and by this Declenſion,
And all we mourn for.
King. Do you think 'tis this.
Queen. It may be very likely.
Pol. Hath there been ſuch a time e (1 would fain Ke That I have poſitively ſaid 'tis ſo, | (that). When it prov'd otherwiſe ?
King. Not that I know, | NS +: =
Pol. Take this from this; if this 55 otherwiſe, 5 | If Circumſtances lead me, T will find | =—_
Where Truth is hid, the' it were hid indeed Within the Center.
King. How may we try it farther 1 3 | Fol Sometimes he walks four Hours together :
Here in the Lobby.
Queen. So he does indeed. SES |
Pol. At ſuch a time I'll looſe my Daogliter to Kim, So pleaſe your Majeſty to hide yourſelf | Behind the Arras then: 1 l Mark the Encounter; if he love her not, a
And be not from his Reaſon fal'n thereon,
Let me be no Aſſiſtant for a State,
But keep a Farm and Carters.
King, We will try it. | Enter Hamlet reading. Daves, But look where ſadly the poor Wretch comes reading. Pol. Away, I do beſeech you both away, ; L Eætunt King and Nuten. I'll board him preſently.
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Ham. Excellent well, you are a Fiſhmonger. Pol. Not I, my Lord. Ham. Then I would have you Þ honeſt a Man. Pol. Honeſt, my Lord. = Ham. Ay Sir, to be heneſb as this World goes, i= 5 to be one Man pick'd —_ of ten thouſand, ho. =. 0.
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Pol. That is very true, my Lord. | Ham. For it the Sun breed Maggots in a dead Dog being a 8 _ kiſſing Carrion Have you a Daughter
Pol. J have, my Lord. |
Ham. Let her not walk ith? Sun ; ; Conception is a ping, but as your Daughter may conceive, Friend look to't
Pol. Still harping on my Daughter; yet he knew 145 4e. ] me not at firſt, but ſaid I was a Fiſhmonger ; he
s far gone: And trujy in my Youth I ſuffer'd much
Extremity for Love, very near this. I'll ſpeak to *
again: What do you read, my Lord? _ Ham, Words, Words, Words. Pol. What is the Matter, my Lord ? Ham. Between who? Pol. IJ mean the Matter that you read, my Lord?
Ham. Slanders, Sir; for the Satirical Rogue ſays here, that old Men have grey Beards, that their Faces are wrink·
led, their Eyes purging thick Amber, and Plumtree-Gum, and that they have a moſt plentiful lack of Wit, together with moſt weak Hams; all which, Sir, tho' I moſt
tently believe, yet I hold it not Honeſty to have it hy
ſet down; for you yourſelf, Sir, ſhall grow old, as I am,
if like a Crab you, could go backward,
Pẽol. Tho' this be Madneſs, yet there is Method int, Will you walk out of the Air, my Sand.
Ham. Into my Grave,
Pol. Marry, that's out of the Air indeed : How preg- | nant his rag K are! A Happineſs that often Madneſs hit
ga. My Lord, I will take my leave of you.
Ham. You cannot take from me any thing that I will |
not more willingly part withal, except my. Life, Pal. Fare you well, my Lord. | Ham. Theſe tedious old Fools. | Enter Guildenſtern' and 9
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Rof. Save you, Sir.
Guil, My, honoured Lord.
Ro/, My moſt dear Lord.
Ham, My excellent good Friends! 1 doi tas Guil. dernſtern? Ah Roſencraus, good Lads, how de you both?
Well, what News.
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Ro. None, my Lord, but the World's grown honeſt. Ham. Then is Doomſday near; ſure your News is not true. . But in the beaten Way of Friendſhip, what makes you at EH õ,M;:! . © | | Rof. To viſit you, my Lord, no other Occaſion. + Ham. Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; Were you not ſent for? Is it your own inclining ? Is it a free Viſitation ? Come, come, deal Guil, What ſhould we ſay, my Lord? BY 8 Ham. Any thing, but to the Purpoſę you were ſent for; there is a kind of Confeſſion in your Looks, which your Modeſties have not Craft enough to colour, I know the good King and Queen have ſent for you. | Rof. To what End, my Lord? | | Ham. Nay, that you muſt teach me: But let me con- jure you, by the Rights of our Fellowſhips, by the Con- ſonancy of our Youth, by the Obligation of our Love, and by what more dear, a better Propoſer could charge you withal, be even and direct with me, whether you were ſent for or no. 5 5 Na. What ſay you? | | Ham, Nay then I have an Eye of you; if you love me, hold not off. „„ | Cuil. My I. ord, we were ſent for. |
- Ham, I will tell you why, fo ſhall my Anticipation iy your Diſcovery, and your Secrecy to the King and
ueen moult no Feather: I have of late, but wherefore I know not, loſt all my Mirth, foregone all Cuſtom of Exerciſes, that this goodly Frame, the Earth, ſeems to me a ſteril Promontory : This moit excellent Canopy the Air, this majeſtical Roof fretted with golden Fire, why it appears nothing to me but a foul and peſtilent Congre- gation of Vapours. What a Piece of \ Work is Man!
how voble in Reaſon! how infinite in Faculties! in Form and Moving how expreſs and admirable ! in Action
how like an Angel! in Apprehenſion the Beauty of
the World, the Paragon of Animals! And yet to me
what is this Quintefſence of Duſt ? Man delights not me, . 8 tho' by your ſmilling you ſeem to ay. ſo.
| 4 R My Lord, there w-as na ſuch Stuff in my Thoughts.
Ham.
26 HAML ET, Prince of Denmark. Ham. Why did ye laugh then, when I ſaid Man de- lights not me ?
R/ To think, my Lord, if you delight not in Man, what Lenten Encercinmen the Players ſhall receive from
you: We 1 hem on the Way, and hither are they coming to offer you Service.
Hau. He that plays the King mall be welcome, his Majeſty ſhall have Tribute of me, the adventrous Knight mall uſe his Foil and Target, the Lover ſhall not tigh - gratis, the humourous Man ſhall end his Part in Peace, and the Lady ſhall ſpeak her Mind freely, or the blank Verſe ſhall hak fort. What Players are they? -
"Rof. Even thoſe you were wont to take ſuch Delight in, the Tragedians of the City.
Ham. How chances it they travel ? their Reſidence both _
in Reputation and Profit were better both ways.
Ref. I think their Inhibition comes by the Means of the late Innovation.
Ham. Do they hold the ſame Eſtimation they did when I was in the City? Are they ſo follow'd?
Ro/. No indeed they are not.
Ham, It is very ſtrange; for my Uncle is King of Denmark, and thoſe that would make Mouths at him while my Father lived, now give twenty, forty, fifty, nay a hundred Ducats apiece for his Picture in little; there is ſomething in this more than natural, if Philoſophy could find it out. [4 Flourißb.
"Guil. Shall we call the Players.
Ham. Gentlemen you are welcome to E 4 inoor, your hands; come then, th' 8 of Welcome is - Faſhion and Ceremony: but my Uncle. Father and Aunt- Mother are deceiv'd :
Gui. In what, my dear Lord?
Ham. I am but mad North-North-Weſt ; when thes Wind is Southerly, 1 know a Hawk from a Hand ſaw. N Enter Polonius.
Pol. Well be with you, Gentlemen.
Ham. Hark you Guildenftern and Roſtnerass ; ; that
great Baby that you ſee there is not yet out of his ſwad - ling Clouts.
Ro/. Haply he is the ſecond time come to them, for they jay an old Man is tw: ee a Child.
Ham.
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HAMLET, Prince of Denmark. 27 e- Hen F propheſy that he comes to tell me of the Play- | ers; mark it: you ſay right, Sir, a Monday- morning,
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m Pol. My Lord, I have News to tell you. =
Y Han. My Lord, I have News to tell you; when 5 Roſcius was an Actor in Rome — .
is Pol. The Actors are come hither, my Lord.
ht | Ham. Buz, buz. 1 |
h Pio. Upon mine Honour. 1 5
d | Ham, Then came each Actor on his Aſs ö
ſe Pol. The beſt Actors in the World, either for Tragedy,
Comedy, Hiſtory, Paſtoral, Paſtoral-Comical, Hiſterical- ht \ Paſtoral. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too
light for the Law of Wit and Liberty. Theſe are the h F only Men. | 6 | Ham. O Jeptba, Judge of 1/rael, what a Treaſure
pf hadſt thou! | : a 4 Pol. What a Treaſure had he, my Lord?
d # Ham. Why one fair Daughter, and no more, the i= KF which he lov'd paſſing well, _ F ; | Pol. Still on my Bau ghter. LAlide.
of =® Ham. Nay that follows not. 8 is
m Pol. What follows then, my Lord ? aL} 5
Ham. The firſt Row of the Rubrick will ſhew you 1
re more, for look where my Abridgment comes, |
y Enter Players. 3 |
5. Ham. Welcome good Friends. Oh my old Friend?
why thy Face is valanc'd fince I ſaw thee laſt, com'ſt
1 hou to beard me in Denmark? What my young Lady |
is and Miſtreſs ! marry your Ladyſhip is grown nearer to 1
d Heaven than when I ſaw you laſt by the Altitude |
of a Chopine: I wiſh your Voice, lik a piece of u- current Gold, be not crack'd within the Ring. Maſters © |
e you are all welcome, we'll een to't like friendly Fal- v. KF coners, fly at any thing we ſee, we'll have 4 Speech ſtrait 3 come give us a Taſte of your Quality, come, a F paſlionate Speech. 5 | at # Players, What Speech, my good Lord? d? }- Ham. I heard thee ſpeak me a Speech once, but it
— was never acted, or if it was, not above once, for the if r | Ply I remember pleaſed not the Million, tas Caviare 4
l do the Multitude. One Speech in't I chiefly lov'd,
28 HAMLET, Prince of Denmark.
"twas AEncas's talk to Dido, and thereabout of it efpe- cially when he ſpeaks of Priam s Slaughter; if it live in your Memory, begin at this Line, let me ſee, let me ſee——The rugged Pyrrhus like th' Hircanian Beaſt ; | Beaſt, no, that's not it, yet it begins with Pyrrhus. The rugged Pyrrhus, he whoſe fable Arms,
Black as his Purpoſe did the Night reſemble,
Pal. My Lord, well ſpoken, with good Accent, —
good Diſcretion. Ham. So proceed you.
Play. Ad he finds him
Striking too ſhort at Greeks, his antick Sword |
Rebellious to his Arm, hes where it falls, nant to command; unequal match'd
| . at Priam drives, in Sy ſtrikes wide, Fut with the whiff and wind o
* Sword, Th' unnerved Father falls.
But as we often ſee againſt ſome Storm rn
The bold Wind ſpeechleſs, and the Orb below
As huſh as Death ; anon the dreadful Thunder Doth rend the Region: So after Pyrrhus* paule, A rouſed Vengeance ſets him new awork,
And never did the Cyclops Hammers fall
On Mars his Armour, forg'd for proof etern, With leſs Remorſe than Pyrrhus” bleeding Sword. Now falls on Priam.
Out, out thou Strumpet Fortune !
Pol. This is too lon Ham. It ſhall to the Barber's with your Beard : pri- thee ſay on, he's for a Jigg, or a Tale of Bawdry, or he Sleeps. Say on, come to Hecuba. | Play. But who, alas, had ſeen the mobled Queen? Haw The mobled Queen! Pol. That's good. | Play. Run bare-foot up and down, threatning the A Clout upon that Head Flame Where late the Diadem ſtood, and for a Robe, A Blanket in th“ Alarm of Fear caught up. _ Tho this had ſeen with Tongue in. Venom ſteep'd, inſt Fortunes State would Trea on tavz pronounced; 0%
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W has Tears inis Eyes, Prithee no more.
| Make mad the Guilty, and appall the Free,
Hatz T, Prince of Denmark. 29 Pol, Look where he has not turn'd his Colour, and
Ham. Tis well, I'll have thee ſpeak out the reſt of | this ſoon. Good my Lord, will you fee the Players | well beſtowed ? 205 yon hear, let them be well uſed, for they are the Abſtract and brief Chronicles of the time | After your Death, you were better have a bad Epitaph, 1 than their ill Re ＋ 7 while you live. J
Pol. My Lord, I will uſe them according to their | Deſert. |
Ham. Much better 3 uſe every Man, Sir, according to | his Deſert, and who ſhall ſcape whipping ? Uſe t ba after your n Honour and. Dignity ; the leſs they deſerve, the more Merit is in. your Bounty. FRE them in.
Pol. Come Sirs. =
Ham. Follow him, Friends; we'll have a Play to-' morrow. Doſt thou hear me old Friend? Can you | play the Murder of Gonzago 3 | |
Play. Ay, my Lord. -- | « |
Ham. We'll have it to-morrow Night : you could 8 |
for need ſtudy a Speech of ſome dozen Lines, * 1
Play. Ay, my Lord. I Ham, Very well, follow that Lord, and look you | mock him, not My good Friends, - Foil leave you tall |
would ſet down and inſert in it, could you not? A | k
"ow y 15 . to E//noor. |
Rof. Faxewel, my Lord. Exeunt all but Ham. Ham. O what a Wretch and pleaſant- Slave am 7 Is it not monſtrous that this Player here, „ But in a Fiction, in a Dream of Paſſion, $3 þ Could force his Soul ſo to his own Conceit, : That from her Working all the Viſage warm'd,
Tears in his Eyes, DiſtraQtion in's Aſpect,
A broken Voice, and his whole Function ſuiting With Forms to his Conceit, and all for nothing,
: For Hecuba ?
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, |
That he ſhould weep for her? What would he Fe Had he the Motive, and that Ground for Paſſion |
That I have? he would
Confound
30 HamLer, Prince of Denmark. Confound the 1 and amaze indeed The very Faculties of Eyes and Ears:
For it cannot be, 7 But I am Pigeon-liver'd, and lack Gaul To make Oppreſſion bitter, or e er this I ſhould have fatted all the Region Kites With this Slave's Offal. | 7 I have heard 5 | That guilty Creatures fitting at a Play,
Have by the very Cunning of the Scene Been ſtruck ſo to the Soul, that prefently They have proclaim'd their Melefactions:
For Murder, tho it have no Tongue, will ſpeak Pl have theſe Players N Play ſomething like the Murder of my Father, Before my Uncle; I'll obſerve his Looks Tl tent him to the Quick, if he look pale,
T know my Courſe. The Spirit that 1 have ſeen
May be a Devil, and the Devil may have power To aſſume a pleaſing Shape; ts Fl have Grounds 1 | | | More relative than this; the Play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the Conſcience of the King. 'E
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Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Roſencraus, Guildenſtern, Gentlemen and Guards.
King. AND can you by no Drift of Conference
= | Get from him, why he puts on this Con-
= #takon,”*--: 2 A046: | g Rof. He does confeſs he feels himſelf diſtracted
But from what Cauſe he will by no means ſpeak. Queen Did he receive you well?
Rof. Moſt civily. La: Guil. But with much forcing of his Diſpoſition. Ro | 1 F
Ro/. Unapt to queſtion ; but of our Demands Moſt free in his Reply.
72 Did you invite him to any Paſtime?
Ref. Madam, it ſo. fell out that certain Players
We o'ertook on the way; of theſe we told him, And there did ſeem in him a kind of Joy To hear of it: they're here about the Court, And as I think they have already order This Night to play before him. 1
Pol. Tis moſt true, And he beſeech'd me to intreat your Majſtes To hear and fee the matter.
King. With all my Heart, And it did much content me To hear him fo inclin d: Good Gentlemen, give him a further Edge, And urge him to theſe Delights.
Rof: We ſhall, my Lord. [Ex. Roſ. ** Guil.
King. Sweet G leave us too, For we have cloſely ſent for Hamlet hither, That he as twere by accident may meet Ophelia here ; her Father and myſelf Will ſo beſtow ourſelves, that — and unſeen, We may of their Eneounter judge, | If it be the Affliction of Love or no.
Queen. I ſhall obey you: And for my part, Ophelia, I do wiſh That your good Beauties be the happy Cauſe Of Hamlet s Wildneſs; fo ſhall I hope your Virtues Will * him to his wonted way again.
Oph. Madam, I wiſh it may. Pol. Ophelia, walk you here whilſt ve (If ſo your Majeſty ſhall pleaſe) retire conceal'd ; ; I hear him canli. retire, my Lord. |
Enten Hamlet.
Han. To be er not to be, that is the Queſlion; Whether tis nobler in the Mind to ſuffer | The Slings and Arrows of . outrageous F me, Or to take Arms againſt a Sea of n
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32 HAM ET, Prince of Denmark. And by oppoſing end them : To die to ſleep
No more; and by a Sleep to ſay we end
The Heart-ach,; and the thouſand natural Shocks That Fleſh is heir to; tis a Conſummation =.
Devoutly to be wiſh'd, to die to ſleep ;- To ſleep perchance to dream; 5 there's the Rub: For in that Sleep of Death what Dreams may come, When we have fhuMed: off this mortal Coil, Muſt give us pauſe; there's the Reſpect
That makes Calamity of fo long Life.
For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of Time ; Th' Oppreſſors Wrong, the proud Man's Contumely, The Pangs of deſpis d Love, the Law's 11 a The Inſolence of Office, and the Spurns
That patient Merit of th' Unworthy takes,
When as himſelf might his Quierus make With a bare Bodkin? Who would F ardels bear,
To groan and ſweat under a weary Life ?
But that the Dread of ſomething after Death, The undiſcover'd Country, from whoſe Bourn No Traveller retarns, puzzles the Will, 5
And makes us rather bear thoſe IIls-we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of.
Thus Conſcience does make Cowards of us all,
And thus the healthfal Face of Reſolution ©
Is ſicklyed o'er with the pale Caft of Thought,
And Enterprizes of great pith and moment With this regard their Currents turn away, And loſe the Name of Action. The fair Ophelia, Nymph, in thy Oraiſons Be all my Sins remembred. Opb. Good my Lord, how do ye? Ham. I humbly thank you, well. Oph. My Lord, I have Remembrances of yours, That I have long d to re- deliver, Pray you now receive them. _ Ham. No, not I, I never gave you ought. 25 Obb. My honoured Lord, you know right well you did. And with them words of ſo ſweet Breath compos d, As made theſe things more rich: Their Ferfume lol,
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Rich Gifts wax poor, when Givers prove unkind.
| There, my Lord. | W Ham. Ha, ha, are you honeſt?
85 Obb. My Lord.
Ham. Are you fair? A 5 85 + Oph. What means your Lordſhip? 5 AY „ Ham. That if you be honeſt and fair, you ſt. ould 4
admit no Diſcourſe to your Beauty.
Osb. Could Beauty, my Lord, have better Commerce than with Honeſty? ? | 5
1e; Ham. Ay truly, for the Power of Beauty will ſooner ' 1 1 trans form Honeity from what it is to a Bawd, than the Z
I Porce of Honeſty can tranſlate Beauty to his Likeneſs: | This was ſometime a Paradox, but now the time gives
it proof. I did love you once, i Oph. Indeed, my Lord, you made me believe ſo. Ham. You fhould not have believ'd me, for Virtue | cannot ſo evacuate our old ſtock, but we ſhall rel:ſh of it: i” Ioan > 04h. I was the more deceiv'd. | | : : am. Get thee to a Nunnery, why wouldſt thou be a 4
LP,
Preeder of Sinners? I am myſelf indifferent honeſt, but | yet I could accuſe me of ſuch things, that it were better J my Mother had not bore me. I am very proud, reven e- | 5
fu, ambitions, with more Offences at my Back; than I have thoughts to put them in, Imagination to give i them ſhape, or time to act them in: What ſhould uch q Fellows as I do c'awling between Earth and Heaven? | | We are arrant Knaves, De none of us; go thy ways! to a Nunnery. Where's yogr Father? i Oh. At home, my Lord.
Ham, Let the Doors be ſhut upon him, * |
That he may play the Fool no where but in's own Houſe. q
's Farewel. 5 Wo: e e WR 2 © | : Opb. O help him, you ſweet Heavens! 5 6 Ham. If thou. dot: marry, I'll give thee this Plague 1
e for thy Dowry ; Be thou as chaſte as Ice, as pure as did. Snow, thou ſhalt not ſcape Calumny; get thee to a
J, Nunnery. Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a Fool,
loſt, for wiſe Men know well enough what Monſters you make of them: Jo a Nunnery go. DE
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34 HAMLET, Prince of Denmark. Ham. I have heard of your Paintings well enough: Nature hath given you. one Face, and you make your. ſelves another; you jig and amble, and you liſp, you nick-name Heavens Creatvres, and make your Wan- tonneſs your Ignorance ; go to, III no more on't, it hath made me mad: I ſay we will have no more Mar. rages, thoſe that are married already, all but one ſhall
live, the reſt ſhall keep as they are. To a Nunnery'f ; | | [Er
Oh, O what a noble Mind is here o'erthrown ! The Expectation and Roſe of the fair State, 'The obſerv'd of all Obſervers, quite, quite down, - And I of Ladies moſt deje&t and wretched, Now ' ſee that noble and moſt ſovereign Reaſon, Like ſweet Bells jangled out of tune and harſh, O woe is me! | 8 ; 5 J have ſeen what I have ſeen, ſeeing what I ſee | | 5 3 > 4x17; | Enter King and Polonius. | | King. Love! his Affections do not that way tend; For what he ſpake, tho' it lack Form a little, Was not like Madneſs? 8 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 ſettled Matter in his Heart, Whereon his Brain's ſtill beating, Puts him thus from Faſhion of himſelf - What think you on't? Enter Ophelia. Pol. It ſhall do well: © 5 How now Ophelia? * 55 Vou need not tell us what Lord Hart ſaid, We heard it all. My Lord, do as you pleaſe, NVut if you hold it fit, after the Play Let his Queen-Mocher alone intreat him To ſhew his Grief; let her be round with him, And I'll be plac'd ({o pleaſe you) in the Ear Of ail their Conference: if ſhe find him not, To England ſend him, or confine him Where Laut Wiſdom beſt ſhall think,
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Hau r, Prince of Den Finz. It ſhall be ſo,
Madneſs in great ones muſt not unwatched go.
ee . : 5 : „Leist. 1 5 Enter Hamlet and three, ef the Players, Ma! Ham. Speak the Speech I 2 you as I pronounc'd if tit to you, ſmoothly from the Tongue; but if you mouth han it, as many of our Players do, I had as lief the Town.
| Crier ſpoke my Lines: nor do not ſaw the Air too ei much with your hand thus, but. uſe all gently ; for in 5% | the very torrent Tempeſt, and, as I may ſay, Whirlwind
| but inexplicable dumb Shews and 5 out- Herods Herod, pray you avoid it. | Play. I warrant your Honour. |
F Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let your own ? | Diſcretion be your Tutor; ſuit the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action, with this ſpecial obſervance, that you o'er-ſtep not the Modeſty of Nature, for any thing ſo o erdone, 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 Virtue her Feature, Scorn her own Image, and the very Age and Body cf O'there be Players that I have ſeen play, and heard others praiſe, and that highly, not to ſpeak it prophanely, 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 Nature's Journeymen had made Men, and not made them well, they imitated Humanity-
the Time his Form and Preſſure.
ſo abominably.
Pla. 1 hope we have reſrmed that indiff-rently with
us
mark. Js
of 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 tear a Paſſion to very Rags, to ſplit the Kars of the Ground- | lings, who for the moſt part are capable of nothing oiſe : I. would have ſuch a Fellow whipp'd for o'er-doing Termagant ;
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, tho in the mean time ſome neceſſary Queſtion of the * ;
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36 HAMLET, Printe of Denmark.
be then to be conſider'd; that villainous, and ſhews 3 moſt pitiful Ambition in the Fool that uſes it. G0
make you ready. Enter Polonius, Guildenſtern and Roſencraus. Ham. Bid the Players make haſte. Will you two
help to haſten them Exeunt thoſe thre,
Ra. Ay, my Lord. 4 Enter Modetho,
Ham. What ho, Horatio?
Hor. Here, my Lord, at your ſervice. . ©
Ham. Horatiy, thou art © en as juſt a Man As e'er my Converfation met withal. Her. O my dear Lord!
Ham. Nay do not think T flatter; For what Advancement may J hope from thee,
That haſt no Revenue but thy good Spirits [flatter'd} |
To feed and cloath thee; Why ſhould the Poor be
Since my dear Soul was Miſtreſs of her choice, |
And could of Men diſtinguiſh her Election,
Sh'hath ſeabd thee for herſelf: for thou haſt been
As one in ſuffering all has ſuffel d nothing;
Give me the Man
That is not Paffion's Slave, and I Will wear him
In my Hearts Core, ay, 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 Father's Death:
1 prithee 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 itlelf diſcover in one Speech,
It is a damned Ghoſt that we have ſeen,
Give him heedful note,
For I mine Eyes will rivet to his Face,
And after we will both our Judgments join
In XCenſure of his ſeeming,
Hlor. I will, my Lord.
Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, and Gentlemen. Ham. "They are coming to the Play, I muſt be
Get you a Place. © ie; King. How fares our Coufin Hamlet?
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King. 1 have nothing with this Anſwer, nde Theſe Words are not mine,
Ham. No nor mine now, my Lord
You plaid once in the Univerſity, you ſay. [To Pol.
Pol That I did, my Lord, and was accounted a very Ham. What did you ena? [good Actor. Pol. I did enact FuliusCe/ar. I was killd i th; Capitol.
+ Brutus kill'd me.
Ham. It was a brute part of bim to kill ſo capital a
Be the Players ready ? | (Calf there.
Rof. Ay my Lord, they wait upon your Patience. Queen. Come hither, my dear Hamlet, fit by me. Ham, No, good Mother, here's Metal more attractive Pol. O ho, do you mark that? Ham. Lady, ſhall I lie in aur 1p? Oph. No, my Lord. Ham. Do you think I mean Country matters? Oph. You are merry, my Lord: Ham, Your only Jig: maker; what ſhould a Man do
but be merry ? for look you how. chearfully my Mother © |
looks, and my Father died within's two hours. Oph. Nay, tis twice two Months, my Lord. 5 Ham. So long! nay then let the Devil wear black,
for 1'il have a Suit of Sables: Die two Months ago,
and not forgotten yet! then there's hope a great Man's Memory may. out-live his Life half a year: Sue: he | muſt build Churches then. | Oph. What meaus the Play, my Lad: Ham. It is munching Mallico, it means Miſchief. Opb. But what's the Argument? | | Enter Prologue. + Ham. We ſhall know by this Fellow:
The Players cannot keep ſecret, they'll ſhew all.
.Oph. Are they ſo good at Shew, my Lord? f Ham. Ay, at any Shew that you will ſhew them : be
not you aſham'd to ſhew, and they'll not bluſh to tell
you what it means. be] You- are naught, you are naught II mark
| | * Play. E 3 Pro,
| | | |
38 Harter, Price of Denmark.
* For us and for our Tragedy,
TT
Tiere ffcgęing to your Clemency,
e beg your - hearing patientiy.
Han. Is this a Prologue, or the Poly of a Ring! Op4. Tis brief my Lord. | Ham. As Woman's Love. |
Emer Player-King and Queen.
N King. Full thirty times has Phæbus Car gone round Since Love our Hearts, and Eymen did our Hands . Untie, infolding :hem in ſacred Bands.
PI. Queen. So many Journeys may the Sun and Moon
Make us again count o'er, e ere love be done;
But woe is me, you are ſo fick of late,
And ſo far different from your former State, That I diſtruſt you; yet tho' I diſtruſt, Diſcomfort you, my Lord, it nothing muſt,
For Women fear too much, even'as the love. 5 Now what my Love has been, Proof makes you know,
And as my Love is great, my Fear is o :
Where Love is great, the ſmalleſt Doubts are Fear ;
Where little Fear grows great, great Love grows there, PI. King. 1 — leave thee love, and ſhortly too,
My working Powers their Functions leave to do;
But thou ſhalt live in this fair World behind, Honour'd, belov'd, and haply one as. kind, | For Hausband ſnalt thou
Pl. Queen. © confound the reſt ?
such Love muſt needs be Treaſon in my Brea.
In ſecond Husband let me be accurſt, None wed the ſecond, but who kill'd the firſt, Ham. That's Wormwodd..
Fl. King. 1 do believe you think what now you ſpeak But * we do determine, oft we break; ;
Think ſtill thou wilt no ſecond Husband wed, But thy thoughts die when thy firſt Lord is dead.
Pl. Quern. Nor Earth to give me Food, nor Heaven
Light,
Sport and Repo e lock from me day and nighs, : Both here hence purſue me laſting Strife, I once 1 Widow be, and then a Wife.
Han. If ſhe ſhould break it now *
Tl. King,
4 wy ww Sq yV,#&H+ TM 4 Wd -
ms. VV 4 V am
The Hart ungalb d go play,
Hawmrter, Prince of Denmark. 38
p. King. "Tis deeply ſworn: Sweet, leave me here My Spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile [a-white;
”
The tedious Day with Sleep. : PI. Queen. Sleep rock thy Brain,
And never come Miſchance between us twain. (Exeunt,
Ham. Madam, how like you the Play? | Queen. The Lady doth proteſt too much methinks, Ham. O but ſhe'll keep her Word. [ fence in it? King. Have you heard the Argument? is there no of- Ham. No, no, they do but jeſt, poiſon in jeſt, no of- King. What do they call the Play? flenee.
_ - Ham. The Mouſe- trap; marry how? topically. This
Play is the Image of a Murder done in Vienna. Gon-
zago is the Duke's Name, his Wife Baptiſta, you ſhall ſee anon. Tis a knaviſh Piece of Work; but whatof that?
your Majeſty and we ſhall have free Souls, it touches us
not; let the galled Jade winch, our Withers are un-
wrung. This is one Eucianus, Nephew to the King, Enter Lucianus. 55 Oph. You are as good as a Chorus, my Lord, Ham. I could interpret between you and your Love, If I could ſee the Puppits dallying. Begin Murderer, leave thy damnabie Faces and begin; come, the croak-
ing Raven doth bellow for Revenge.
Euc. 'Thoughts black, hands apt, Drugs fit, and Time
Confederate Seaſon, and no Creature ſeeing, (agreeing,
Thou Mixture rank, of Midnight Weeds collected,
With Hecate's Bane, thrice blaſted, thrice infected;
Thy natural Magick and dire Property, On wholeſome Life uſurps immediately. |
Ham. He poiſons him in the Garden for his Eflate, his Name's Gonxago; the Sto: y is extant, and written in
very choice Iraliam: You ſhall fee anon how the Mur -
derer gets the Love of Gonzago's Wife. Ops. The Eiigrmes:: <o e | Queen. How fares my Lord? Pol. Give over the Play. King. Give me ſome Lights : Away !
Pol. Lights, Lights. [Ex. all but Ham. and Hor!
Ham. Why let the ſtricken Deer go weep,
For ſome muſt watch whilſt ſome muſt ſleep,
I kus runs the World away, O good
\ 3
— Drennan wc ne end. 8
40 HamrerT, Prince of Denmark. O good Horatio, I'll take the Ghoſt's Word for a'thou. Z ſand Pound. Didſt perceive ? | |
corders.
you go to Bed.
Hor, Very well my Lord.
Ham. Upon the Talk of the poiſoning. Hor. I did very well note him. 1 Ham. Ah, ah, come ſome Muſick, come he Re- |
0 Enter Roſencraus and Guildenſtern. | Guild, Good my Lord vouchſafe me aWord with you,
Ham. Sir, a whole Hiſtory, Guild. The King Sir.
. Ham. Ay Sir, what of him ? Guild. Is in his Retirement marvelous diſtemper'd. | Ham. With Drink, Sir ? | i Guild. No my Lord, with Choler. Ham. Your Wiſdom would ſhow it ſelf ae to 1g
-nify this to the Doctor; for me to put him to his Pur-
gation, would perhaps plunge him into more Choler. Guild. Good my Lord, put your Diſcourſe into ſome And ſtart not ſo wildly from my Buſineſs. (Frame Ham. Jam tame, Sir, pronounce, | Guild. The Queen your Mother, in moſt great Affic-
tion of Spirit, hath ſent me to you.
Ham. You are welcome. - | Guild. Nay, good my Lord, this Courteſy is not of
the right Breed: If it Ov pleaſe you to make me a who]-
ſome Anſwer, I will do your Mother's Commandment, if
not, your Pardon and my Return ſhall be the end of the
Buſineſs. | Ki Ham. Sir, I cannot: F 2 Rof. What my Lord? ? Ham. Make you a wholeſome Anſwer, my Wit's &if-
| -gaſed:: 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. Ro/. Then thus ſhe ſays, your Behaviour of late hath
ſtruck her into Amazement and Admiration. | Ham. O wonderful Son, that can thus aſtoniſh a Mo-
ther! but is there no Sequel at the Heels of this Mother's
Admiration } Impart. Re. She defires to ſpeak with you in her Cloſet, eber
Hon.
10U-
Re-
Ou.
upon this Pipe?
HAML ET, Prince of Denmark. 41
"FM We ſhall obey, were ſhe ten times our Mother: have you any farther Trade with us? 5
Ro}. My Lord you once did love me.
Ham. And do ſtill by theſe Pickers and Stealers,
Ro/. Good my Lord, what is the Cauſe of your Di- temper ? You do ſurely bar the Door upon Liberty, if you deny your Griefs to your Friend.
Ham. Sir, I lack Advancement. |
Rof. How can that be when you have the Voice of the King himſelf for your Succeſſion in Denmark?
Enter Horatio with Recorders. Ham. Ay Sir, but white the Graſs grows, the Pro-
verb 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 Toll.
Gui). O, my Lord, if my Duty be too bold, my Love is too uumannerly.
Ham, I do not well underſtand. that, will you play
Gul. 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 [4 Ham, It is as eaſy as Lying: govern theſe Vantages
with your Fingers and the Thumb ; give it Breath with
your Mouth, and it will diſcourſe moſt eloquent | Muſick ; look you, theſe are the Sto |
Gail, But theſe cannot 3 to 71 Utterance of Harmony, I have not the Skill. :
Ham. Why look ye now, how unworthy a ching 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 to the Top of my Compaſs and there is much Muſick, excellent Voice in this little Organ, yet cannot you make it ſpeak, SDeath, do you think I am eaſier to be plaid on than a Pipe? Call me what Inſtrument you will, tho' you can fret me, you, cannot play upon me.
Inter Polonius.
Bol. My Lord, the Queen wood ſpeak N you, and
preſently, Ham.
42 HAMLET, Prince of Denmark.
Han. Do you ſee yonder Cloud, that's almoſt in nag
of a Camel?
Pol. Tis like a Camel indeed. Ham. Methinks tis like a Wezel. Pol. It is black like a Wezel, Ham: Orlikea Whale. | Pel. Very like a Whale,
Ham. Then I will come to my Mother by and a; They fool me to the top of my bent. [Exit Pol. By ade 7: is eaſily ſaid. Leave me Friends. |
[Exeunt,
Tis now the very witching time of Night,
When Church-yards yaun, and Hell itſelf breaths out
Contagion to the World : Now could 1 gugy hot Blood,
And do ſuch Deeds as Day it ſelf
Would quake to look on. Soft / now ty 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:
Iwill ſpeak Daggers to her, but uſe none. [Exit
Enter King, Roſencraus, and Guildenſtern, King. T like him not, nor ſtands it ſafe with us To let his Madneſs range; therefore prepare you: Arm then I pray you to this ſpeedy cage, For we will Fetters put about this Fear Mhich now goes too free footed.
Rof. We will make haſte. [E xeunt, Rot & Gull,
Enter Polonius. Pol. Sir, he's going to his Mother's Cloſet, Behind the Arras I'll convey my elf
To hear the Proceſs ;-I'll warrant ſhe']l tax him home, |
And as you ſaid, and wiſely was it ſaid,
?Tis meet that ſome more Audience than a Mother, Since Nature makes them partial, ſhould o' er- hear Pheir Speech. Fare you well my Liege,
III call upon you e'er you go to Bed,
And tell you what I hear. FT [Exiti
King. Thanks, dear my Lord.
O my Offence is rank, it ſmells to Heaven 3,
It hath the eldeſt Curſe upon't, |; A Brother's Murder: pray I catinot, — Tho Inclination be as . N
. 8 My * 5 — * 5 * * b E . 5 2 % +> „ 4 * 0 7 5
ape
uit,
HamLeT, Prince of Denmark. 43
| My ſtronger Guilt defeats my firong Intent;
And like a Man to double Buſineſs bound, I ſtand in pauſe where I ſhall ſirſt begin, | And both neglect. What if this curſed Hand .
Mere thicker than it ſelf with Brother's Blood?
Is there not Rain enough in the ſweet Heavens | To.waſh it white as Snow ? Whereto ſerves Mercy,
But to.confront the Viſage of Offence !
Then I'll look up. My Fault is paſt;
But oh ! what Form of Prayer | 7 Can ſerve my turn? Forgive. me my foul Murder ! That cannot be, ſince I am ſtill poſſeſs'd |
Of thoſe Effects for which I did the Murder,
My Crown, mine own Ambition, and my Queen,
| May one be pardon'd, and retain the Offence ?
In the corrupted Curten s of this World, Offence's gilded Hand may ſhove by Juſtice; And eft 'tis {&en the wicked Prize it ſelf
Zuys out the Law : but *tis not ſo above,
There is no ſhuffling : there the Action lies
In its true Nature, and we ourſelves compell'd Even to the Teeth and Forehead of our Faults To give in Evidence. What then! What reſts? Try what Repentance can; what can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent ?
O wretched State!” O Boſom black as Death
O limed Soul ! that ſtruggling to be free, |
Art moreengag'd !
ne,
it.
he ſoft as Sinews of the new- born Babe,
Bow ſtubboin Knees, and Heart with Strings of Steel
All may be well. [The King Ancels. x Enter Hamlet. Ham. Where is the Murderer ? he kneels and prays, And now Pl do't, and fo he goes to Heaven, |
And fo I am reveng'd : that would be ſcann'd 8 ep
He kill'd my Father, and for that | F I his ſole Son ſend him to Heaven. Why this is Reward not Revenge :
He took my Father grolly, | y With all his Crimes broad blown as fluſh as May; And how his Audit-ſtands, who knows fave Heaven? But in our Circumſtances and Courſe of Thought,
7
Tis
2
is heavy with him; and am I then reveng'd, When he is fit and ſeaſon'd for his Paſſage | ? No.
44 HAMLET, Prince of Denmark. To take him in the purging of his Soul,
ee and know thou a more horrid time, hen he is drunk, aſleep, or in his Rage, Or in th' inceſtuous Pleaſures of his Bed; Or about ſome Act that has no Reliſh of Salvation in t. Then trip him, that his Heels may kick at Heaven.
My Mother ſtays, 1 | This Phyfick but prolongs thy ſickly Days. [ZE vit.
King, My Words fly up, my Thoughts remain below,
Words without Thoughts never to Heaven go. 2 vit. |
Enter Queen and Polonius. Pol. He will come ſtrait, look you lay home to him, Tell him his Pranks have been too broad to bear ich, And that your Grace hath ſtood between
Much Heat and him, T'll here conceal my 15
Pray you be round With him. Queen. T warrant you, I fear him. not.
| Withdraw, 1 hear him coming.
Euter Hamlet. Has. Now Mother, what's the Matter ? Quten. Hamlet, thou haſt thy Father much offended: Ham. Nother, you. have my Father much cfffended.
Queen. Come, come, you anſwer with an idle Tongue.
Ham. Go, go, you queſtion with a wicked I ae.
Queen. W h y how now, Hamlet.
Ham. What's the Matter now ?
Queen. Have you forgot me?
NN,, You are the Queen, your Husband's Brother's Wiſe; And would it were not fo, yon are my Mother,
Queen. Nay then INI ſet thoſe to you that can ſpeak.
Ham. Come, come, and fit you down, you ſhall not, You go not tl I ſet you up a Glaſs, » { oudge, |
Where you may ſee the, utmoſt Part of you.
Queen. What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?.
Help, ho! | Pol. What ho, he'p. [Behind the Arai Ham. How now, a Rat ? ded for a Ducket, dead.
. Pol. Pol. O Jam ſlain.
| Queth,
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9 Prince 17 mk. 16
| Queen. O me, what haſt thou done? | | Ham. Nay, I know not, is it the King? PEE E Queen. O what a-raſh and bloody Deed is this? 1 | Ham. A bloody Deed, almoſt as bad, good Mother, 75 | As kill a King, and marry with his Brother, ES | - Þ 2ueen. As killa King. 8 Lo Ham. Ay, Lady, 'twas my Word. | 15 Thou wretched, raſh intruding Fool, farewel ; Þ I:took thee for thy better, take thy Fortune: % Thou find' ſt to be too buſy, is ſome dan | w. Leave wringing of your Hands; peace, fit you down, | „ And let me wring your Heart, for ſo I mall, 325 lf it be made ot penetrable ſtuff. | * m. | 2xecen. What have I done, that thou dar'ſt . = = ch. In Noiſe ſo rude againſt me? | bf Han. Such an Act, ö | That blors the Grace and Bluſh of Modeſty, Calls Virtue Hypocrite, takes off the Roſe From the fair Forehead of an innocent Love, And ſets a Bliſter there, makes Marriage Vows} As falſe as Dicers Oaths : Oh ſuch a Deed'! - Idas from the Body of ContraQion plucks 2d. The very Soul, and ſweet rn makes d U
A Rhapſody of Words. |
Ah me! that Act! 6) 0 15 e
I 2:n. Ah me, what Act“! e
Han Look here upon this Picture, MY on 2 5 The counterfeit Preſentment of two Brothers; | See what a Grace was ſeated on this Brow, _. Hyperion's Curls; the Front of Jobe himſelf, An Eye like Mars, to threaten and command,
2 Combination, and a Form indeed,
* Where every God did ſeem to ſet his Seal.
f To give the World Aſſurance of a Man
2
as | This was your Husband. Look you now what follows, 5
Se, Here is your Huſband, like a mildewd Err... {| Blaſting his wholeſome Brother. Have you E yes 2
mn Could you on this fair Mountain Jeave to feed,
"2 And batten on the Moor? Ha, have you Eyes * 2. 4 q
You cannot call it love, fo at your Age nt 215 2 , * | The heyday of the Blood is tame, ids humble Pol. Aud waits roa the r ; and what Judgment
n
—
| Since Froſt itſelf
* *
Would flep from this to this? Senſe ſure you have,
_ Elſe could you not have Motion; but ſure that Sen
Is apopiex'd, for Madneſs would not err, Nor Senſe to Extaſy was ne'er ſo thrall'd, But it reſerv'd ſome quantity of gs To ſerve in ſuch a Difference. | Oh Shame, where is thy Bluſh ?_ Rebellious Hell, | If thou can'ſt mutiny in a Matron' $ "AR To flaming . Youth let Virtue be as Wax, And melt in her own. Fire,
When the compulſive. Ardor gives the Charge; IF as actively dach burn, 5 As Reaſon panders Will. s Queen. O Hamlet, ſpeak no more; ;
Thou turn'ſt my very Eyes into my Soul.
Ham. Nay, but to live In the rank Sweat of an inceſtuous Bed, Stew d in Corruption. | Buren, O ſpeaks to me no more. Theſe Words like Daggers enter in mine 1 No more, 2 | 975
Ham. A Murderer and a Villain! A Slave, that's not the twentieth part the Tythe Of your precedent Lord; a Vice of Kings; A Cutpurſe of the Empire and the Rule, That from a Shelf the precious Diadem ſtole, And put it in his Pocket: 2 0 A King of Sbh.nds and Patches.
Enter Ghoſt. 5
Save me, and hover o'er me with your Wings,
You heavenly Guards; what wopld your. orion Fi igure? |
Queen. Alas! he's mad.
Ham. Do you not come your tardy Son to chide, *
That laps'd in Time and Paſſion, let's go by
Th' important acting of your dread Command? 0 Kay |
Ghoft. Do not forget; this Viſitation Is but te wet thy almoſt blunted Purpoſe. But look, Amazement on thy Mother ſits: O ſtep between her and. her fighting Soul ! Conczit in weakeſt Bodies A ke: pooch 20 her, 3
46 HANMLET, Prince of Denmark. x
nl
Tee,
4 1
It will but kin and f KF Whites rank Corruption mining all within, Infects unſeen : Conleſs yourieif to Heaven,
| HAMLET, Prince of Denmark. 47 : Ham. How is it with you, Madam? . Qucen. Alas! how is't with you,
That you do bend your Eye on: Vacancy, And with the incorporal Air do hold Diſcourſe ?
Mocha, your Eyes your Spirits wildly peep,
And, as the ſleeping Soldiers in th' Alarm * Your Lair ſtarts up and ſtands an end: 9 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 glares, His Form and Cauſe conjoin'd, preaching to Stones I Would not make them capable : do not look upon me, Leit with his pite us Action you convert | | My. tern Effects; then what I have to do, | Will want true Colour, Tears perchance for Blood.
Queen. To whom do you ſpeak this? |
Ham. Do you ſee nothing there? 8
Quecn. Nothing at all, yet all that's here 1 ſee.
Ham. Nor did you nothing hear ? |
een. No, nothing but ourlelves. 5
Ham. Why look you there; look how it ſtalks away,
My Father in his Habit as he liv'd;
Look where he gces, even now out at tlie Portal. 5 [Ex. Ghoft. . Queen. Th's is the very Coinage of your Brain,
Ibis bodileſs Creation Extaſy is very cunning in.
Ham. My Pulſe, as yours, doth temperatel) keep time,
And mkes as healthful Muſick: it is not Madneis
That IJ have utter'd, bring me to the Teſt, |
And I the matter wi.l re- word; which Madneſs Cannot do. Mother, for Love of Grace,
Lay not that flattering Unction to your Soul, That not your 5 but my Madneſs peaks; fim the ulcerous Place,
Repent what's paſt, avoid what is to come; N O Halt, thou haſt cleft my Heart. lam, Then throw away the worſer part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
2
Good -night, but go not to my % -_gþ Bed;
Aſſume a Virtue if ye have itot. | Pp | | F 2 For
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48 Haut r, Prince of Denmark.
For this ſame Lord, [Pointing to Pap Ido repent ; but Heaven 5 it ſo,
To puniſh me with this, and this with me, That I muſt be their Scourge and Miniſter, J will beſtow him, and will anſwer well The Neath I gave him; ſo again good night.
1 muſt be cruel, only to be kind? Thus bad begins, and worſe remains wing. One Word more.
8 What ſhall I 45 |
am. Jet not the King eempe you to Bed again, Make you to travel all this matter out,
That I eſſentially am not in Madneſs,
But Mad in Craft;
uten. Be thou aſſur' d, if Words be made of Break,
And Breath of Life, I have no Life to breaths
What thou haſt ſaid to me. Ham, I muſt to England, you know chat. Queen. Alack I had forgot,
*Tis ſo concluded on. | Ham. This Man will ſet me packing,
PH lug the Guts into the neighbour. Room,
Mother, good-night; this Counſellor
Is now moſt till, moſt ſecret, and moſt prave,
2 Who was in's Life a fooliſh prating Knave,
Come Sir, to draw toward an end with you. [Exit Hamlet, dragging # in Polonia
2 Good night, Mother.
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A ET - $8 SCENE 1. A Royal Apartment. Enter wats and Queen, æuith Roſencraus and Guildenſten
King. * s matter in theſe Sighs, | You muſt expound them. Where is * Son?
1
2 = 1 '
SY Ya.
. \ | Hamrer, Prince of Denmark. 49 e Pa Den. Beſtow this place on us a little while. 9 5 [Exeunt Roſ. and Gul Ah my Lard; what have I ſeen to Night? King. What, Gertrude? how does Hamlet? | geen. Mad as the Sea and Wind, vrhen 5003 contend Which is the mightier; in his lawleſs . Behind the Arras hearing ſomething ſtir, 3 Whips out his Rapier, cries a Rat, a Rat, . And in this brainiſh Apprehenſion kills . The unſeen good old Mann. ä in, King. O heavy Deed! "2 It I been ſo with us, had we been bete ; Quten. To draw apart the Body he hath kill d, lle weeps for what is done.
reath, King. Gertrude, come away; |
I The Sun uo ſooner ſhall the Mountains touch, But we will ſhip him hence; and this vile Deed | We muſt, with all our Majeſty and Skill.
Enter Ro. and Guil. |
Bath countenance and excuſe. Ho, Guildenſern, Friends both, go join with you ſome further Aid; Hamlet in Madnefs hath Polonius ſlain, IF And from his Mother's Cloſet has he dragg'd him: Go ſeek him out, ſpeak fair, and bring the Body) Into the Chapel; I pray you haſte in t Yi
; Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wiſeſt F riends, -
MBs And let them know both what we mean 9
And what's untimely done. LErtuz.
£ Enter Hamlet,
$4 en Safely ſtow d. [Within Hamlet ! Lord Hambet . Ham, What Noile ? who calls Hamlet?
O here they come. Ro/.What have you done, my Lord, with the dead ad Body? Ham. Compounded it with Duſt, whereto it is a-kin. Ro/. Tell us where tis, that we may * it thence,
And bear it to the Chapel. Ham. Do not believe it.
Rof. Believe What? | Ham. That I can keep yourk Counſel, and not my own,
/ | F beſides, to be demanded of a Fee: what ka
| ſhould be made by the Son of a Ring?
2 Take ** me for a N my Lord?
4 *
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50 Hater, Prince of Denmark. Hem, Ay, Sir, that ſoaks up the King':'Countenanct, his Rewards, bis Authorities: but ſuch Officers do the King beſt ſervice in the end, he keeps them like an Ap- ple in the corner of his Jaw, firft mouth'd to be laſt foul low'd ; win he needs what you have gleaned, it is but ſqueezing yon, and ſponge, you ſhall be dry again. Rea, J underſtand; you not, my Lord.
fooliſh Ear. Ra. My Lord you muſt tell us where the Body i is, and go with us to the King, | — Bring me to him. [ Excunt, Enter King and Gentlemen,
How angerous is it that this Man goes looſe ? Vet muſt we not put the ſtrong Law upon him: _ He's lov'd of the diſtracted Multitude, Who like not in their Judgment, but their Eyes; ; Ard where tis ſo, th' O ender”. s Scourge is weigh'd, But never the Offence. To bear all ſmooth and even, This ſudden ſending him a way muſt ſeem Deliberate Pauſe : Diſeaſes deſperate grown, By deſperate Appliance are xgliev'd, Or not at all. Enter Roſencraus and — 9 | What hath befallen? 5 2 Where the dead Body is | beſtow'd, my Lud Me cannot get from him. King. But where is he?
Xing. Bring him before us. | (ure. OMe Ho, — in the Lord Hamler. | | Enter Hamlet and Guards. | Now Hamlet, where's Polonius F:. * At Supper. OY . Ling. At Supper ! where ? 5
certain Convocation of politick Worms are e'en at him. King. Where is Polanius ? Ham. In Heaven; ſend thither to ſee : if your Meſſen-
1 - ger find him tot there, ſeek him i'th' other place your Ni 1 6 1 706
Ham, I am glad of it: a knaviſh Speech Neeps i in a
1 have ſent to ſeek him, and to find the Body ;
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ſhall noſe him as you go up the Stairs i into the Lobby.
"Xe. Go ſeek him there.
Ham. He will ſtay till you come.
King. Hamlet, this Deed, for thine @ eſpecial Safety, Mutt ſend thee hence; | Therefore prepare thy ſelf, -
The Bark is ready, and the Wind ſes far For England. |
* For England ?
King. Ay Hamlet.
Ham. Good.
King. So is it if thou knew ft our as Ham. I ſee a Cherube that ſees them : but come, for Farewel, dear Mother. (England.
- King. I hy loving Father, Hamlet.
Ham. My Mother; Father and Mother is Man andWife, Man and Wife js one Fleſh ; and ſo my Mother. Farewel Come. for England. [Extr. EL "Pu
King. Follow ar | IS | Tempt him with ſpeed aboard, | Away, for every thi ling is ſeal'll and — | Ard England, if my preſent Love thou holdſt at ought,
The prejent Death of Hamlet. | [Exit.
Enter Qucen, Horatio, and a Gentleman.
' Oveen. I will not ſpeak with her.
Gent. She is importunate, - Indeed diſtracted, and deſeryes your pity.
Queen. What would ſhe have ? |
Gent, She ſpeaks much of her Father, fays ſhe Vaio There's Tricks i'th' World, and hems, and beats her 1 Spurns enviouſly at Straws, ſpeaks things i in doubt, That carry but half Senſe, her Speech is wee, ; Yet the unſhaped Uſe of it doth move The Hearers to Collection.
Which, as her Winks, and Nods, and Geſture yield chem; Tho nothing ſure, yet much unhappily
Hor. Twere good ſhe were ſpol a with, for ſhe may Dangerous ConjeQures in il breeding Minds, Lion Let her come in. -
© Enter Ophelia, 005. Where is the beauteous Majeſty of Danmark 7 Seen. How now, Opbelia? Lb 25
52 HAMLET, Prince of Denmark:
(ther one? By fo. How mould I your true Love know from ano. s cockle Hat and Staff, and by his Sandal Shoon.
* * Alas, ſweet Lady, what imports this Song? |
Oph. Say you, nay pray you mark :
Heb dead and gone, Lady he is dead and gone, [Singy, |
2 125 Head a graſegreen Turf, at is heals a Stone.
Queen. Nay but, Ophelia. Oph. Pray you mark. White his Shroud as the Mountain Snow, Larded all with faveet Flowers, " Which beaeept to the Ground did not go. With true Love-Showers. Enter King. How do. you, pretty Lady ?
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King Well good dild you, they ſay the Owl was a Bay her 8 8 we know what we are, but know not
what we may be,
King. Conceit upon her Father.
Oph. Pray lets have no Words of this, but wh they ask you what it means, ſay you this:
To-morrow is t Valentine's Day, [Sings..
All in the Morning betime, And I a Maid at your Window To be your Valentine, | King. Pretty Ophelia,
Opb. Indeed without an Oath, III make an ond on't. Then up he roſe, and dond his Clothes, and ope'd his Chan-
ber Door, Let in the Maid, that out a Maid never departed more. King. How fon ng hath ſhe been thus? |
055. # hope all will be well, we muft be patient: but I cannot chuſe but weep, to think they would lay him i'th* cold Ground; my Brother ſhall know of it, and |
ſo I thank you for your good Counſelo—— Come my Coach, good- night, 80 night,
Sweet Ladies, good- -night, good-night. (Exit. e, give her ood watch r pray. your |
King. Follow her clo O this is the Poiſon of deep Grief, it ſprings All from her Father I Dent, 8
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Enter Gentleman. 5 hg
— | Queen. Alack, what Noiſe is this; ng | King What is the matter 3 > | Cent. Young Laertes ina riotous head
O'er-bears your Officer; the Rabble call him 1 . os | They cry, chuſe we Laertes for our King;
. | Caps, Hands, and "Tongues applaud it to the Clouds, | ZLaertes ſhall be King, Laertes King. [4 Noiſe within, Queen. O this is counter, you falſe Dany? Dogs!
Laer. Within, Where i is the King ? Sa W Leu all without. . :
All. No, let's come In, |
Laer. I pray you give me leave,
All. We will, we will.
Laer. I thank you, keep the Door. | Enter Laertes.
0 thou vile King, give me my Father.
Queen. Calmly, good Laertes. #
Laer. That drop of Blood that's calm, oidelatois me Cries Cuckold to my Father, brands the Harlot (Baſtard, . Eren here between the chaſte unſmitched Brows 7 Þ Of my true Mother.
King. What is the cauſe, Laertes, : That thy Rebellion looks ſo Giant like ? Let him go, Gertrue, do not fear our Perſon; There's ſuch Divinity doth hedge a King, | That Treaſon dares not reach at what it Nets Let him go Gertrude. | Speak Man. + i Laer. Where is my Father? : | King. Dead. 1 Queen. But not by him. 2 |
King. Let him demand his fill. = Laer. How came he dead? I'll not be rooted with : = To Hell Allegiance, Vows to the blackeſt Devil.
To this Point I ſtand, That both the Worlds l give to Negligence, Let come what will, only I'll be reveng d Moſt throughly for my Father. King. Who ſhall ſtay you? Laer. My Will, not all the World: . | And for my Means, I'll husband them 0 well, 5 1 8927 ſhall 90 far with little. | King.
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54 Haul zr, Prince of Denmark.
avs © Will you in Revenge of your
Dear Father's Death, deſtroy both Friend and F oe? . Laer. None but his Enemies. King. Will you know them then?
Taer. To his good Friends thus wide I'il ope my Am,
And like the kind prof N Pelican Relieve them with my Blood. i Ling. Why now you ſpeak Like a good Child, and a true Gentleman,” That I am guiltleſs of your Father's Leath, And am moſt ſenſible in griet for it, It ſhall as level to your Judgment Le, As Day does to your Eye. Within, O poor Ophelia? Laer. Let her come in. Enter Ophelia. By Heaven, thy Madneſs ſhall be paid with weight, Lill our Scale turn the Beam. O Roſe of May“ Dear Maid! kind Siſter, ſweet Ophelia ! O Heavens! is't poſſible a young Maid's Wits Should be as mortal as a ſick Man's Life! Ob. They bore him bargſac'd on the Bier, And in his Grave rain'd many a Tear, Fare you well, my Dove.
hy,
Laer. Hadit thou thy Wits, and didfl TOME” Revenge,
It could not move us. Opb. You muſt ſing a- Jown, a down, | And you call him a-down-a. O how the Wheel becomes it,
It is the falſe Steward that ſtole his Maſter's Daughter.
Laer. This nothing is much more than matter, Oph. There's Roſemary, that's for Remembrance;
Pray you, Love, remember ; ; and there's Pancies, that's
tor Thoughts.
Laer. A Document in Madneſs Thoughts and Re- membrance fitted.
0Oph. There's Fennel for you, and Co: umbines ; there's Rue for you, and here's ſome for me, we may call it Ferb of Grace o' Sundays; O you may wear your Rue „ ha Difference, for Violets, but they wither'd all um * x ather d.cd : they tuy he made a good end. f For bonny K wect Robin is all "BY 7s (Slows:
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[S ings. |
There's a Daiſy : I would give. you : |
Laer.
„ Laer. Thoughts and Afffictions, Paſſion, Hell itſelf, She turns to Favour and to Prettineſs. | | Oph. And vill he not come again, . (ige. | And wwill he not come again? | 3 No, mo, he is dead, go to thy Death- 4. He never will come again. His Beard was as white as Snow; Flaxen was his Pole; He is gone, he ts gone, and awe caft away moan,
Ad peace be with his Soul, and with all Lowers Souls.
1 Exit.
King. Fader: I muſt ſhare in your Grief, Or you deny my Right: go but apart. Make choice of whom your wiſeft Friends you will, | And they ſhall hear and judge twixt you and me; If by direct or by collateral Hand | They find us touch d, we will our Kirgdom give, To you in ſati faction but if not, Be you content to lend your Patience to us, And we ſhall jointly labour with your Souls | Topive it due content. Laer. Let this be fo.” His Means of Death, his obſcure Funeral, „No Trophy, Sword, or Hatchment o'er his Bones, No noble Rite, nor formal Oſtentation, | Cry to be heard as tw-ere from Earth to Heaven, e. That I muſt call it in queſtion. ; King. So you ſhall ; And where th* Offence i is, let the great Ax fall:
t, I pray you go with me. I [Exeunt, |
1. Enter Horatio and 18 Hor. What are they that would ſpeak with me? ; b Gen. Sea - ſaring Men, Sir; they {1y they have Letters | for you. Hor, Let them come "Er. b ] I do not know from what part of the World
I ſhould: be greeted; if not from Lord Hamlet.
$ F#Fnter two Sailors.
t 2 Sail. Here are Letters for you, if your Name be Horatio, as we are in formed it is.
i Hor. reads the Letter, © :
Horatio, when "thou ſhalt have owver-look 4 ebis, 2 theſe
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Jor him. Ker we were two Days old at Sea, a Pirate of very warlike Appointment gave us chaſe. 77 our. felves too flow of ſail, we put on a compelled /alour,
and in the Grapple'T boarded them: On the inſtant they.
got clear of our Ship, ſo I alone became their Priſoner, They have dealt with me like Thieves of Mercy, but they knew <wwhat they did; I am to do a turn for them. Let the King have the Letters I have ſent, aud repair thou
to me with as much ſpeed as thou wouldſt fly Death. I
have words to ſpeak in thine Ear will make thee dumb, yet are they much too light for the matter. Theſe good Felloaus will bring thee where I am. Roſencraus and
Quildenſtern hold their Courſe for England; of them 1
hawe much to: tell thee, Fareabel. Hamlet. Come, I will make you way for theſe-your Letters; And-do't the ſpeedier, that you may direct me . To him from whom you brought them. (Exeunt. N Enter King and Laertes. King. Now muſt your Go And you muſt put me in your Heart for Friend, Since you have heard, and with a knowing Ear, That he who. hath your noble Father ſlain, Purſu'd my Life. RR TON Laer. It well appears: but tell ne Why you proceed not againſt theſe Crimes So capital in Nature, 5 King. For two ſpecial Reaſons, . Which may perhaps to you ſeem weak,
But yet to me they are ſtrong: the Queen his Mother
Lives almoſt by his Looks, and for my ſelf,
My Virtue or my Plague, be it either,
She is ſo precious to my Life and Soul,
That as a Star anoves not but in- his Sphere,
I could not but by her. The other Motive
Why to a publick Count I might not go,
Ils the great Love the People bear him, Who dipping all his Faults in their Affection, Work like the Spring that turneth Wood to Stone.
Laer. And fo I have a noble Father loſt ;
A Siſter driven into deſperate. Terms,
Whoſe Worth, if Praiſes may go back again,
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theſe Fellows Jome means to the King, they have Letters
nſcience my Acquittance ſeal, |
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For her Perfections: but my Revenge will come, ; Kjng. Break not your Sleep for that, you muſt not think
| That we are made of Stuff fo flat and dull,
That we can let our Beard be ſhook with Danger,
| And think it paſtime : you ſhortly ſhall hear more, 'Þ 1 lov'd your Father, and we love ourſelf;
Enter a Meſſenger, Mef. Letters, my Lord, from Hamlet. King. From Hamlet! who brought them? . Me/. Sailors, my Lord, they ſay, I ſaw them not; They were given me by Claudio, he receiv'd them Of him that brought them.
King. Laertes you ſhall hear them: leave. us. Ex. Meſ.
High and Mighty, you ſhail know J am jet naked ow wur Kingdom : to-morrow ſhall beg leave to ſee Jour
. lingly Eyes, wwhen IT hall firfl, asking your pardon, there-
unto recount the Occaft on of my ſudden Return. What thould this mean? are all the reſt come back ? 2 Oris it ſome Abuje, or no tuch ming] | Laer. Know you the Hand ? King. "Tis Hambr's Character. Naked [ And in a Pollſeript here he ſays, alone: Can you adviie me ? Laer. Pm Joſt in it, my Lord; but let him come It warms the very Sickneſs. of my Heart, That I ſhall live, and tell him to his Teeth,
| Thus didſt thou.
King. If it be ſo, Leer ,
As how ſhould it be ſo? — how, otherwiſe?
Will you be rul'd by me ?
Laer. Ay, my Lord, ſo you will not o'er. rule me to a
peace.
King. To thine own peace if he be now return'd, As liking not his Voyage, and that he means No mote to undertake it, I will work him
To an Exploit now ripe in my Device,
Under the which he ſhall mot chuſe but fall, And for his Death no Wind of Blame ſhall breathe,
| Bat even his Mother ſhall uncharge the P:aQice, | * call it Accident. |
F HamLEr, Prince ef Denmark 87 Stood Challenger on the Mount of all the Ape
\ Lact.
A Face without a Heart.
Laer. My Lord, I will be rul'ld, © The rather if you could deviſe it fo,
That I might be the Inſtrument.
King. It falls right: | | You'have been talk d of ſince your travel much, And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a Quality Wherein they ſay you ſhine. |
Laer. What part is that, my Lord? | King. A very Feather in the Cap of youth, Yet needful too. Two months fince 5
Here was a Gentleman of Normandy,
I've ſeen myfelf, and ſerv'd againſt the French, And they can well on Horſeback : but this Gallant Had Witchcraft in't, he grew unto his Seat,
And to ſuch wondrous doing brought his Horſe, As he had been incorpos'd and demi- natur'd : With the brave Beaſt: ſo far he topt my Thought, That I in Forgery of Shapes and Tricks ; Come ſhort of what he did. | a
Laer. A Norman was t? King. A Norman. N Laer. Upon my Life, Lamound. King. The very ſame. go Laer. I know him well, he is indeed The Gem of all the Nation. LE King. He made Confeſſion of you,
And gave you ſuch a maſterly Report
For Art and Exerciſe in your Defence, And for your Rapier mot eſpecially, That he cry'd out, *twould be a fight indeed
If one could match you: The Fencers of their Nation Þ
He ſwore had neither Motion, Guard, nor Eye, If you oppos'd them. Sir, this Report of his
Did Hamlet fo evenom with his Envy,
That he could nothing do, but wiſh and beg Your ſudden coming Oer to play with you. Now out of this EE * Laer. What out of this, my Lord? King, Laertes, was your Father dear to you ? Or are you like the Painting of a Sorrow, .
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King. Not that I think you did not love your F ather, 4
But to the buſineſs,
Hamlet comes back; what would you ieee,
To ſhew yourſelf indeed your Father's n N More than in