[Hamlet (Quarto 1) Scene TP2]







Enter Two Centinels.



1. STand: who is that?

2. Tis I.









1. O you come most carefully vpon your watch, [10]













2. And if you meete Marcellus and Horatio,

The partners of my watch, bid them make haste.

1. I will: See who goes there.

Enter Horatio and Marcellus. Hor. Friends to this ground. [20]

Mar. And leegemen to the Dane,



O farewell honest souldier, who hath releeued you?

1. Barnardo hath my place, giue you good night.



Mar. Holla, Barnardo.

2. Say, is Horatio there?

Hor. A peece of him.

2. Welcome Horatio, welcome good Marcellus.

Mar. What hath this thing appear'd againe to night. [30]

2. I haue seene nothing.

Mar. Horatio sayes tis but our fantasie,

And wil not let beliefe take hold of him,

Touching this dreaded sight twice seene by vs,

Therefore I haue intreated him a long with vs

To watch the minutes of this night,

That if againe this apparition come,

He may approoue our eyes, and speake to it.

Hor. Tut, t'will not appeare.

2. Sit downe I pray, and let vs once againe [40]

Assaile your eares that are so fortified,



What we haue two nights seene.

Hor. Wel, sit we downe, and let vs heare Bernardo speake

of this.

2. Last night of al, when yonder starre that's west-

ward from the pole, had made his course to

Illumine that part of heauen. Where now it burnes,

The bell then towling one. [50]



Enter Ghost. Mar. Breake off your talke, see where it comes againe.

2. In the same figure like the King that's dead,

Mar. Thou art a scholler, speake to it Horatio.

2. Lookes it not like the king?

Hor. Most like, it horrors mee with feare and wonder.

2. It would be spoke to.

Mar. Question it Horatio.

Hor. What art thou that thus vsurps the state, in



Which the Maiestie of buried Denmarke did sometimes

Walke? By heauen I charge thee speake.

Mar. It is offended. exit Ghost.

2. See, it stalkes away.

Hor. Stay, speake, speake, by heauen I charge thee

speake.

Mar. Tis gone and makes no answer.

2. How now Horatio, you tremble and looke pale,

Is not this something more than fantasie?

What thinke you on't? [70]

Hor. Afore my God, I might not this beleeue, without

the sensible and true auouch of my owne eyes.



Mar. Is it not like the King?

Hor. As thou art to thy selfe,

Such was the very armor he had on,

When he the ambitious Norway combated.

So frownd he once, when in an angry parle

He smot the sleaded pollax on the yce,

Tis strange. [80]

Mar. Thus twice before, and iump at this dead hower,

With Marshall stalke he passed through our watch.

Hor. In what particular to worke, I know not,

But in the thought and scope of my opinion,

This bodes some strange eruption to the state.

Mar. Good, now sit downe, and tell me he that knowes

Why this same strikt and most obseruant watch,

So nightly toyles the subiect of the land,

And why such dayly cost of brazen Cannon

And forraine marte, for implements of warre, [90]

Why such impresse of ship-writes, whose sore taske

Does not diuide the sunday from the weeke:

What might be toward that this sweaty march

Doth make the night ioynt labourer with the day,

Who is't that can informe me?

Hor. Mary that can I, at least the whisper goes so,

Our late King, who as you know was by Forten-

Brasse of Norway,



Thereto prickt on by a most emulous cause, dared to [100]

The combate, in which our valiant Hamlet,

For so this side of our knowne world esteemed him,

Did slay this Fortenbrasse,

Who by a seale compact well ratified, by law

And heraldrie, did forfeit with his life all those

His lands which he stoode seazed of by the conqueror,

Against the which a moity competent,

Was gaged by our King:







Now sir, yong Fortenbrasse,

Of inapproued mettle hot and full,

Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there,

Sharkt vp a fight of lawlesse Resolutes

For food and diet to some enterprise,

That hath a stomacke in it: and this (I take it) is the











Chiefe head and ground of this our watch.







































Enter Ghost. But loe, behold, see where it comes againe,

Ile crosse it, though it blast me: stay illusion,



If there be any good thing to be done,

That may doe ease to thee, and grace to mee, [130]

Speake to mee. [130]

If thou are priuy to thy countries fate,

Which happly foreknowing may preuent, O speake to me,



Or if thou hast extorted in thy life,

Or hoorded treasure in the wombe of earth,

For which they say you Spirites oft walke in death, speake

to me, stay and speake, speake, stoppe it Marcellus.





2. Tis heere. exit Ghost.

Hor. Tis heere. [140]



Marc. Tis gone, O we doe it wrong, being so maiesti-

call, to offer it the shew of violence,

For it is as the ayre invelmorable,

And our vaine blowes malitious mockery.

2. It was about to speake when the Cocke crew.

Hor. And then it faded like a guilty thing,

Vpon a fearefull summons: I haue heard

The Cocke, that is the trumpet to the morning,

Doth with his earely and shrill crowing throate, [150]

Awake the god of day, and at his sound,

Whether in earth or ayre, in sea or fire,

The strauagant and erring spirite hies

To his confines, and of the trueth heereof

This present obiect made probation.

Marc. It faded on the crowing of the Cocke,

Some say, that euer gainst that season comes,

Wherein our Sauiours birth is celebrated,

The bird of dawning singeth all night long,

And then they say, no spirite dare walke abroade, [160]

The nights are wholesome, then no planet frikes,

No Fairie takes, nor Witch hath powre to charme,

So gratious, and so hallowed is that time.

Hor. So haue I heard, and doe in parte beleeue it:

But see the Sunne in russet mantle clad,

Walkes ore the deaw of yon hie mountaine top,

Breake we our watch vp, and by my aduise,

Let vs impart what wee haue seene to night

Vnto yong H amlet:: for vpon my life

This Spirite dumbe to vs will speake to him: [170]

Do you consent, wee shall acquaint him with it,

As needefull in our loue, fitting our duetie?

Marc. Lets doo't I pray, and I this morning know,

Where we shall finde him most conueniently.





[Hamlet (Quarto 1) Scene 1.1]







Enter King, Queene, H amlet, Leartes, Corambis,

and the two Ambassadors, with Attendants.























































King Lordes, we here haue writ to Fortenbrasse,

Nephew to olde Norway, who impudent

And bed-rid, scarcely heares of this his

Nephews purpose: and Wee heere dispatch







Yong good Cornelia, and you Voltemar

For bearers of these greetings to olde

Norway, giuing to you no further personall power

To businesse with the King,

Then those related articles do shew:

Farewell, and let your haste commend your dutie.

Gent. In this and all things will wee shew our dutie.

King. Wee doubt nothing, hartily farewel: [220]



And now Leartes, what's the news with you?

You said you had a sute what i'st Leartes?















Lea. My gratious Lord, your fauorable licence,

Now that the funerall rites are all performed,

I may haue leaue to go againe to France,

For though the fauour of your grace might stay mee,

Yet something is there whispers in my hart,

Which makes my minde and spirits bend all for France.



King: Haue you your fathers leaue, Leartes?



Cor. He hath, my lord, wrung from me a forced graunt, [240]

And I beseech you grant your Highnesse leaue.





King With all our heart, Leartes fare thee well.

Lear. I in all loue and dutie take my leaue.

King. And now princely Sonne Hamlet, Exit.

What meanes these sad and melancholy moodes?

For your intent going to Wittenburg,

Wee hold it most vnmeet and vnconuenient,

Being the Ioy and halfe heart of your mother.

Therefore let mee intreat you stay in Court,

All Denmarkes hope our coosin and dearest Sonne.















Ham. My lord, ti's not the sable sute I weare:





No nor the teares that still stand in my eyes,

Nor the distracted hauiour in the visage,

Nor all together mixt with outward semblance,

Is equall to the sorrow of my heart,



Him haue I lost I must of force forgoe,

These but the ornaments and sutes of woe.

King This shewes a louing care in you, Sonne Hamlet,





But you must thinke your father lost a father,

That father dead, lost his, and so shalbe vntill the

Generall ending. Therefore cease laments,



















It is a fault gainst heauen, fault gainst the dead,

A fault gainst nature, and in reasons

Common course most certaine,

None liues on earth, but hee is borne to die.



























Que. Let not thy mother loose her praiers H amlet, [300]

Stay here with vs, go not to Wittenburg.

Ham. I shall in all my best obay you madam.



King Spoke like a kinde and a most louing Sonne,







And there's no health the King shall drinke to day,

But the great Canon to the clowdes shall tell

The rowse the King shall drinke vnto Prince H amlet. [310]

Exeunt all but H amlet.

Ham. O that this too much grieu'd and sallied flesh

Would melt to nothing, or that the vniuersall

Globe of heauen would turne al to a Chaos!













O God, within two months; no not two: married,

Mine vncle: O let me not thinke of it, [330]

My fathers brother: but no more like

My father, then I to Hercules.

Within two months, ere yet the salt of most

Vnrighteous teares had left their flushing

In her galled eyes: she married, O God, a beast

Deuoyd of reason would not haue made

Such speede: Frailtie, thy name is Woman, [330]

Why she would hang on him, as if increase

Of appetite had growne by what it looked on.

O wicked wicked speede, to make such [340]

Dexteritie to incestuous sheetes,

Ere yet the shooes were olde,

The which she followed my dead fathers corse

Like Nyobe, all teares: married, well it is not,

Nor it cannot come to good:

But breake my heart, for I must holde my tongue.









Enter Horatio and Marcellus. Hor. Health to your Lordship.

Ham. I am very glad to see you, (Horatio) or I much

forget my selfe.

Hor. The same my Lord, and your poore seruant euer.



Ham. O my good friend, I change that name with you: [350]



but what make you from Wittenburg H oratio?

Marcellus.

Marc. My good Lord.

Ham. I am very glad to see you, good euen sirs:

But what is your affaire in Elsenoure?

Weele teach you to drinke deepe ere you depart.

Hor. A trowant disposition, my good Lord.

Ham. Nor shall you make mee truster

Of your owne report against your selfe: [360]

Sir, I know you are no trowant:

But what is your affaire in Elsenoure?



Hor. My good Lord, I came to see your fathers funerall.

Ham. O I pre thee do not mocke mee fellow studient,

I thinke it was to see my mothers wedding.

Hor. Indeede my Lord, it followed hard vpon.

Ham. Thrift, thrift, H oratio, the funerall bak't meates

Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables,

Would I had met my deerest foe in heauen [370]

Ere euer I had seene that day Horatio;

O my father, my father, me thinks I see my father.

Hor. Where my Lord?

Ham. Why, in my mindes eye H oratio.

Hor. I saw him once, he was a gallant King.

Ham. He was a man, take him for all in all,

I shall not looke vpon his like againe.

Hor. My Lord, I thinke I saw him yesternight,

Ham. Saw, who?

Hor. My Lord, the King your father. [380]

Ham. Ha, ha, the King my father ke you.

Hor. Ceasen your admiration for a while

With an attentiue eare, till I may deliuer,

Vpon the witnesse of these Gentlemen

This wonder to you.

Ham. For Gods loue let me heare it.

Hor. Two nights together had these Gentlemen,

Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,

In the dead vast and middle of the night.

Beene thus incountered by a figure like your father, [390]

Armed to poynt, exactly Capapea

Appeeres before them thrise, he walkes

Before their weake and feare oppressed eies

Within his tronchions length,

While they distilled almost to gelly.

With the act of feare stands dumbe,

And speake not to him: this to mee

In dreadfull secresie impart they did.

And I with them the third night kept the watch,

Where as they had deliuered forme of the thing. [400]

Each part made true and good,

The Apparition comes: I knew your father,

These handes are not more like.

Ham. Tis very strange.

