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- By William Shakespeare
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- <li id="chapter1" class="list-group-item chapter-thumbnail">ACT I
- SCENE I.
- Elsinore. A platform before the castle.
- FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO
- BERNARDO
- Who's there?
- FRANCISCO
- Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.
- BERNARDO
- Long live the king!
- FRANCISCO
- Bernardo?
- BERNARDO
- He.
- FRANCISCO
- You come most carefully upon your hour.
- BERNARDO
- 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.
- FRANCISCO
- For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
- And I am sick at heart.
- BERNARDO
- Have you had quiet guard?
- FRANCISCO
- Not a mouse stirring.
- BERNARDO
- Well, good night.
- If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
- The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
- FRANCISCO
- I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there?
- Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS
- HORATIO
- Friends to this ground.
- MARCELLUS
- And liegemen to the Dane.
- FRANCISCO
- Give you good night.
- MARCELLUS
- O, farewell, honest soldier:
- Who hath relieved you?
- FRANCISCO
- Bernardo has my place.
- Give you good night.
- Exit
- MARCELLUS
- Holla! Bernardo!
- BERNARDO
- Say,
- What, is Horatio there?
- HORATIO
- A piece of him.
- BERNARDO
- Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus.
- MARCELLUS
- What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?
- BERNARDO
- I have seen nothing.
- MARCELLUS
- Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
- And will not let belief take hold of him
- Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:
- Therefore I have entreated him along
- With us to watch the minutes of this night;
- That if again this apparition come,
- He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
- HORATIO
- Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.
- BERNARDO
- Sit down awhile;
- And let us once again assail your ears,
- That are so fortified against our story
- What we have two nights seen.
- HORATIO
- Well, sit we down,
- And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.
- BERNARDO
- Last night of all,
- When yond same star that's westward from the pole
- Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
- Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
- The bell then beating one,--
- Enter Ghost
- MARCELLUS
- Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!
- BERNARDO
- In the same figure, like the king that's dead.
- MARCELLUS
- Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
- BERNARDO
- Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.
- HORATIO
- Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.
- BERNARDO
- It would be spoke to.
- MARCELLUS
- Question it, Horatio.
- HORATIO
- What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,
- Together with that fair and warlike form
- In which the majesty of buried Denmark
- Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!
- MARCELLUS
- It is offended.
- BERNARDO
- See, it stalks away!
- HORATIO
- Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!
- Exit Ghost
- MARCELLUS
- 'Tis gone, and will not answer.
- BERNARDO
- How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:
- Is not this something more than fantasy?
- What think you on't?
- HORATIO
- Before my God, I might not this believe
- Without the sensible and true avouch
- Of mine own eyes.
- MARCELLUS
- Is it not like the king?
- HORATIO
- As thou art to thyself:
- Such was the very armour he had on
- When he the ambitious Norway combated;
- So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle,
- He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.
- 'Tis strange.
- MARCELLUS
- Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
- With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
- HORATIO
- In what particular thought to work I know not;
- But in the gross and scope of my opinion,
- This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
- MARCELLUS
- Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,
- Why this same strict and most observant watch
- So nightly toils the subject of the land,
- And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,
- And foreign mart for implements of war;
- Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
- Does not divide the Sunday from the week;
- What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
- Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:
- Who is't that can inform me?
- HORATIO
- That can I;
- At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,
- Whose image even but now appear'd to us,
- Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
- Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,
- Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet--
- For so this side of our known world esteem'd him--
- Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact,
- Well ratified by law and heraldry,
- Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands
- Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:
- Against the which, a moiety competent
- Was gaged by our king; which had return'd
- To the inheritance of Fortinbras,
- Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant,
- And carriage of the article design'd,
- His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,
- Of unimproved mettle hot and full,
- Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
- Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,
- For food and diet, to some enterprise
- That hath a stomach in't; which is no other--
- As it doth well appear unto our state--
- But to recover of us, by strong hand
- And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands
- So by his father lost: and this, I take it,
- Is the main motive of our preparations,
- The source of this our watch and the chief head
- Of this post-haste and romage in the land.
- BERNARDO
- I think it be no other but e'en so:
- Well may it sort that this portentous figure
- Comes armed through our watch; so like the king
- That was and is the question of these wars.
- HORATIO
- A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
- In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
- A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
- The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
- Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:
- As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
- Disasters in the sun; and the moist star
- Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands
- Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:
- And even the like precurse of fierce events,
- As harbingers preceding still the fates
- And prologue to the omen coming on,
- Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
- Unto our climatures and countrymen.--
- But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!
- Re-enter Ghost
- I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!
- If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
- Speak to me:
- If there be any good thing to be done,
- That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
- Speak to me:
- Cock crows
- If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
- Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!
- Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
- Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
- For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
- Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus.
- MARCELLUS
- Shall I strike at it with my partisan?
- HORATIO
- Do, if it will not stand.
- BERNARDO
- 'Tis here!
- HORATIO
- 'Tis here!
- MARCELLUS
- 'Tis gone!
- Exit Ghost
- We do it wrong, being so majestical,
- To offer it the show of violence;
- For it is, as the air, invulnerable,
- And our vain blows malicious mockery.
- BERNARDO
- It was about to speak, when the cock crew.
- HORATIO
- And then it started like a guilty thing
- Upon a fearful summons. I have heard,
- The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
- Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
- Awake the god of day; and, at his warning,
- Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
- The extravagant and erring spirit hies
- To his confine: and of the truth herein
- This present object made probation.
- MARCELLUS
- It faded on the crowing of the cock.
- Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
- Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
- The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
- And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;
- The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
- No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
- So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
- HORATIO
- So have I heard and do in part believe it.
- But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
- Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill:
- Break we our watch up; and by my advice,
- Let us impart what we have seen to-night
- Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,
- This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
- Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
- As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
- MARCELLUS
- Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know
- Where we shall find him most conveniently.
- Exeunt
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- <li id="chapter2" class="list-group-item chapter-thumbnail">SCENE II.
- A room of state in the castle.
- Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET,
- POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND,
- CORNELIUS, Lords, and Attendants
- KING CLAUDIUS
- Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
- The memory be green, and that it us befitted
- To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
- To be contracted in one brow of woe,
- Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
- That we with wisest sorrow think on him,
- Together with remembrance of ourselves.
- Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
- The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
- Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--
- With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
- With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
- In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--
- Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd
- Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
- With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
- Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,
- Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
- Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
- Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
- Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,
- He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,
- Importing the surrender of those lands
- Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
- To our most valiant brother. So much for him.
- Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:
- Thus much the business is: we have here writ
- To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--
- Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears
- Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress
- His further gait herein; in that the levies,
- The lists and full proportions, are all made
- Out of his subject: and we here dispatch
- You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,
- For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;
- Giving to you no further personal power
- To business with the king, more than the scope
- Of these delated articles allow.
- Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.
- CORNELIUS VOLTIMAND
- In that and all things will we show our duty.
- KING CLAUDIUS
- We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.
- Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS
- And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?
- You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes?
- You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,
- And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
- That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
- The head is not more native to the heart,
- The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
- Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
- What wouldst thou have, Laertes?
- LAERTES
- My dread lord,
- Your leave and favour to return to France;
- From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
- To show my duty in your coronation,
- Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,
- My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
- And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
- KING CLAUDIUS
- Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?
- LORD POLONIUS
- He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave
- By laboursome petition, and at last
- Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:
- I do beseech you, give him leave to go.
- KING CLAUDIUS
- Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,
- And thy best graces spend it at thy will!
- But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--
- HAMLET
- [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind.
- KING CLAUDIUS
- How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
- HAMLET
- Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.
- QUEEN GERTRUDE
- Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,
- And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
- Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
- Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
- Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,
- Passing through nature to eternity.
- HAMLET
- Ay, madam, it is common.
- QUEEN GERTRUDE
- If it be,
- Why seems it so particular with thee?
- HAMLET
- Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.'
- 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
- Nor customary suits of solemn black,
- Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
- No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
- Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,
- Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
- That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
- For they are actions that a man might play:
- But I have that within which passeth show;
- These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
- KING CLAUDIUS
- 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,
- To give these mourning duties to your father:
- But, you must know, your father lost a father;
- That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound
- In filial obligation for some term
- To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever
- In obstinate condolement is a course
- Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;
- It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
- A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
- An understanding simple and unschool'd:
- For what we know must be and is as common
- As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
- Why should we in our peevish opposition
- Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,
- A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
- To reason most absurd: whose common theme
- Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
- From the first corse till he that died to-day,
- 'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth
- This unprevailing woe, and think of us
- As of a father: for let the world take note,
- You are the most immediate to our throne;
- And with no less nobility of love
- Than that which dearest father bears his son,
- Do I impart toward you. For your intent
- In going back to school in Wittenberg,
- It is most retrograde to our desire:
- And we beseech you, bend you to remain
- Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
- Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.
- QUEEN GERTRUDE
- Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:
- I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.
- HAMLET
- I shall in all my best obey you, madam.
- KING CLAUDIUS
- Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:
- Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come;
- This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet
- Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,
- No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day,
- But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,
- And the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.
- Exeunt all but HAMLET
- HAMLET
- O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
- Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
- Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
- His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
- How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
- Seem to me all the uses of this world!
- Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
- That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
- Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
- But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
- So excellent a king; that was, to this,
- Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
- That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
- Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
- Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
- As if increase of appetite had grown
- By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
- Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
- A little month, or ere those shoes were old
- With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
- Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
- O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
- Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
- My father's brother, but no more like my father
- Than I to Hercules: within a month:
- Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
- Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
- She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
- With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
- It is not nor it cannot come to good:
- But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
- Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO
- HORATIO
- Hail to your lordship!
- HAMLET
- I am glad to see you well:
- Horatio,--or I do forget myself.
- HORATIO
- The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.
- HAMLET
- Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:
- And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?
- MARCELLUS
- My good lord--
- HAMLET
- I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir.
- But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?
- HORATIO
- A truant disposition, good my lord.
- HAMLET
- I would not hear your enemy say so,
- Nor shall you do mine ear that violence,
- To make it truster of your own report
- Against yourself: I know you are no truant.
- But what is your affair in Elsinore?
- We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
- HORATIO
- My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.
- HAMLET
- I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student;
- I think it was to see my mother's wedding.
- HORATIO
- Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon.
- HAMLET
- Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
- Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
- Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
- Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
- My father!--methinks I see my father.
- HORATIO
- Where, my lord?
- HAMLET
- In my mind's eye, Horatio.
- HORATIO
- I saw him once; he was a goodly king.
- HAMLET
- He was a man, take him for all in all,
- I shall not look upon his like again.
- HORATIO
- My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
- HAMLET
- Saw? who?
- HORATIO
- My lord, the king your father.
- HAMLET
- The king my father!
- HORATIO
- Season your admiration for awhile
- With an attent ear, till I may deliver,
- Upon the witness of these gentlemen,
- This marvel to you.
- HAMLET
- For God's love, let me hear.
- HORATIO
- Two nights together had these gentlemen,
- Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,
- In the dead vast and middle of the night,
- Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,
- Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,
- Appears before them, and with solemn march
- Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd
- By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,
- Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distilled
- Almost to jelly with the act of fear,
- Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me
- In dreadful secrecy impart they did;
- And I with them the third night kept the watch;
- Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,
- Form of the thing, each word made true and good,
- The apparition comes: I knew your father;
- These hands are not more like.
- HAMLET
- But where was this?
- MARCELLUS
- My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.
- HAMLET
- Did you not speak to it?
- HORATIO
- My lord, I did;
- But answer made it none: yet once methought
- It lifted up its head and did address
- Itself to motion, like as it would speak;
- But even then the morning cock crew loud,
- And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,
- And vanish'd from our sight.
- HAMLET
- 'Tis very strange.
- HORATIO
- As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true;
- And we did think it writ down in our duty
- To let you know of it.
- HAMLET
- Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.
- Hold you the watch to-night?
- MARCELLUS BERNARDO
- We do, my lord.
- HAMLET
- Arm'd, say you?
- MARCELLUS BERNARDO
- Arm'd, my lord.
- HAMLET
- From top to toe?
- MARCELLUS BERNARDO
- My lord, from head to foot.
- HAMLET
- Then saw you not his face?
- HORATIO
- O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up.
- HAMLET
- What, look'd he frowningly?
- HORATIO
- A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
- HAMLET
- Pale or red?
- HORATIO
- Nay, very pale.
- HAMLET
- And fix'd his eyes upon you?
- HORATIO
- Most constantly.
- HAMLET
- I would I had been there.
- HORATIO
- It would have much amazed you.
- HAMLET
- Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?
- HORATIO
- While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
- MARCELLUS BERNARDO
- Longer, longer.
- HORATIO
- Not when I saw't.
- HAMLET
- His beard was grizzled--no?
- HORATIO
- It was, as I have seen it in his life,
- A sable silver'd.
- HAMLET
- I will watch to-night;
- Perchance 'twill walk again.
- HORATIO
- I warrant it will.
- HAMLET
- If it assume my noble father's person,
- I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape
- And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
- If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
- Let it be tenable in your silence still;
- And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
- Give it an understanding, but no tongue:
- I will requite your loves. So, fare you well:
- Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,
- I'll visit you.
- All
- Our duty to your honour.
- HAMLET
- Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.
- Exeunt all but HAMLET
- My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;
- I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!
- Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,
- Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
- Exit
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- <li id="chapter3" class="list-group-item chapter-thumbnail">SCENE III.
- A room in Polonius' house.
- Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA
- LAERTES
- My necessaries are embark'd: farewell:
- And, sister, as the winds give benefit
- And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,
- But let me hear from you.
- OPHELIA
- Do you doubt that?
- LAERTES
- For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,
- Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,
- A violet in the youth of primy nature,
- Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
- The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
- OPHELIA
- No more but so?
- LAERTES
- Think it no more;
- For nature, crescent, does not grow alone
- In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,
- The inward service of the mind and soul
- Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,
- And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
- The virtue of his will: but you must fear,
- His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;
- For he himself is subject to his birth:
- He may not, as unvalued persons do,
- Carve for himself; for on his choice depends
- The safety and health of this whole state;
- And therefore must his choice be circumscribed
- Unto the voice and yielding of that body
- Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,
- It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
- As he in his particular act and place
- May give his saying deed; which is no further
- Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
- Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,
- If with too credent ear you list his songs,
- Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
- To his unmaster'd importunity.
- Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,
- And keep you in the rear of your affection,
- Out of the shot and danger of desire.
- The chariest maid is prodigal enough,
- If she unmask her beauty to the moon:
- Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes:
- The canker galls the infants of the spring,
- Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
- And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
- Contagious blastments are most imminent.
- Be wary then; best safety lies in fear:
- Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
- OPHELIA
- I shall the effect of this good lesson keep,
- As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,
- Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
- Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
- Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
- Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
- And recks not his own rede.
- LAERTES
- O, fear me not.
- I stay too long: but here my father comes.
- Enter POLONIUS
- A double blessing is a double grace,
- Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
- LORD POLONIUS
- Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
- The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
- And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
- And these few precepts in thy memory
- See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
- Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
- Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
- Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
- Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
- But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
- Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
- Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
- Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
- Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
- Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
- But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
- For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
- And they in France of the best rank and station
- Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
- For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
- And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- This above all: to thine ownself be true,
- And it must follow, as the night the day,
- Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!
- LAERTES
- Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.
- LORD POLONIUS
- The time invites you; go; your servants tend.
- LAERTES
- Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well
- What I have said to you.
- OPHELIA
- 'Tis in my memory lock'd,
- And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
- LAERTES
- Farewell.
- Exit
- LORD POLONIUS
- What is't, Ophelia, be hath said to you?
- OPHELIA
- So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.
- LORD POLONIUS
- Marry, well bethought:
- 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late
- Given private time to you; and you yourself
- Have of your audience been most free and bounteous:
- If it be so, as so 'tis put on me,
- And that in way of caution, I must tell you,
- You do not understand yourself so clearly
- As it behoves my daughter and your honour.
- What is between you? give me up the truth.
- OPHELIA
- He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
- Of his affection to me.
- LORD POLONIUS
- Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,
- Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
- Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?
- OPHELIA
- I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
- LORD POLONIUS
- Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby;
- That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
- Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;
- Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
- Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool.
- OPHELIA
- My lord, he hath importuned me with love
- In honourable fashion.
- LORD POLONIUS
- Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
- OPHELIA
- And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,
- With almost all the holy vows of heaven.
- LORD POLONIUS
- Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,
- When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
- Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,
- Giving more light than heat, extinct in both,
- Even in their promise, as it is a-making,
- You must not take for fire. From this time
- Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence;
- Set your entreatments at a higher rate
- Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
- Believe so much in him, that he is young
- And with a larger tether may he walk
- Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,
- Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,
- Not of that dye which their investments show,
- But mere implorators of unholy suits,
- Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
- The better to beguile. This is for all:
- I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,
- Have you so slander any moment leisure,
- As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
- Look to't, I charge you: come your ways.
- OPHELIA
- I shall obey, my lord.
- Exeunt
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- <li id="chapter4" class="list-group-item chapter-thumbnail">SCENE IV.
- The platform.
- Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS
- HAMLET
- The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.
- HORATIO
- It is a nipping and an eager air.
- HAMLET
- What hour now?
- HORATIO
- I think it lacks of twelve.
- HAMLET
- No, it is struck.
- HORATIO
- Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the season
- Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.
- A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within
- What does this mean, my lord?
- HAMLET
- The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,
- Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels;
- And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,
- The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out
- The triumph of his pledge.
- HORATIO
- Is it a custom?
- HAMLET
- Ay, marry, is't:
- But to my mind, though I am native here
- And to the manner born, it is a custom
- More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
- This heavy-headed revel east and west
- Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
- They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase
- Soil our addition; and indeed it takes
- From our achievements, though perform'd at height,
- The pith and marrow of our attribute.
- So, oft it chances in particular men,
- That for some vicious mole of nature in them,
- As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty,
- Since nature cannot choose his origin--
- By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,
- Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,
- Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens
- The form of plausive manners, that these men,
- Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
- Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--
- Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,
- As infinite as man may undergo--
- Shall in the general censure take corruption
- From that particular fault: the dram of eale
- Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
- To his own scandal.
- HORATIO
- Look, my lord, it comes!
- Enter Ghost
- HAMLET
- Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
- Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
- Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
- Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
- Thou comest in such a questionable shape
- That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
- King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
- Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell
- Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
- Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,
- Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
- Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,
- To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
- That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
- Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
- Making night hideous; and we fools of nature
- So horridly to shake our disposition
- With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
- Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?
- Ghost beckons HAMLET
- HORATIO
- It beckons you to go away with it,
- As if it some impartment did desire
- To you alone.
- MARCELLUS
- Look, with what courteous action
- It waves you to a more removed ground:
- But do not go with it.
- HORATIO
- No, by no means.
- HAMLET
- It will not speak; then I will follow it.
- HORATIO
- Do not, my lord.
- HAMLET
- Why, what should be the fear?
- I do not set my life in a pin's fee;
- And for my soul, what can it do to that,
- Being a thing immortal as itself?
- It waves me forth again: I'll follow it.
- HORATIO
- What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
- Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
- That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
- And there assume some other horrible form,
- Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
- And draw you into madness? think of it:
- The very place puts toys of desperation,
- Without more motive, into every brain
- That looks so many fathoms to the sea
- And hears it roar beneath.
- HAMLET
- It waves me still.
- Go on; I'll follow thee.
- MARCELLUS
- You shall not go, my lord.
- HAMLET
- Hold off your hands.
- HORATIO
- Be ruled; you shall not go.
- HAMLET
- My fate cries out,
- And makes each petty artery in this body
- As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
- Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen.
- By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!
- I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee.
- Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET
- HORATIO
- He waxes desperate with imagination.
- MARCELLUS
- Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.
- HORATIO
- Have after. To what issue will this come?
- MARCELLUS
- Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
- HORATIO
- Heaven will direct it.
- MARCELLUS
- Nay, let's follow him.
- Exeunt
- </li>
- <li id="chapter4" class="list-group-item chapter-thumbnail">SCENE V.
- Another part of the platform.
- Enter GHOST and HAMLET
- HAMLET
- Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further.
- Ghost
- Mark me.
- HAMLET
- I will.
- Ghost
- My hour is almost come,
- When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames
- Must render up myself.
- HAMLET
- Alas, poor ghost!
- Ghost
- Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing
- To what I shall unfold.
- HAMLET
- Speak; I am bound to hear.
- Ghost
- So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.
- HAMLET
- What?
- Ghost
- I am thy father's spirit,
- Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
- And for the day confined to fast in fires,
- Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
- Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
- To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
- I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
- Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
- Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
- Thy knotted and combined locks to part
- And each particular hair to stand on end,
- Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
- But this eternal blazon must not be
- To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
- If thou didst ever thy dear father love--
- HAMLET
- O God!
- Ghost
- Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
- HAMLET
- Murder!
- Ghost
- Murder most foul, as in the best it is;
- But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
- HAMLET
- Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift
- As meditation or the thoughts of love,
- May sweep to my revenge.
- Ghost
- I find thee apt;
- And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
- That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,
- Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear:
- 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
- A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
- Is by a forged process of my death
- Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
- The serpent that did sting thy father's life
- Now wears his crown.
- HAMLET
- O my prophetic soul! My uncle!
- Ghost
- Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
- With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--
- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
- So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust
- The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:
- O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!
- From me, whose love was of that dignity
- That it went hand in hand even with the vow
- I made to her in marriage, and to decline
- Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
- To those of mine!
- But virtue, as it never will be moved,
- Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
- So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,
- Will sate itself in a celestial bed,
- And prey on garbage.
- But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air;
- Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,
- My custom always of the afternoon,
- Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,
- With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,
- And in the porches of my ears did pour
- The leperous distilment; whose effect
- Holds such an enmity with blood of man
- That swift as quicksilver it courses through
- The natural gates and alleys of the body,
- And with a sudden vigour doth posset
- And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
- The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine;
- And a most instant tetter bark'd about,
- Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,
- All my smooth body.
- Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand
- Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:
- Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
- Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,
- No reckoning made, but sent to my account
- With all my imperfections on my head:
- O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!
- If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;
- Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
- A couch for luxury and damned incest.
- But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,
- Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
- Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven
- And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
- To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!
- The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
- And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire:
- Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.
- Exit
- HAMLET
- O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else?
- And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart;
- And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
- But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee!
- Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
- In this distracted globe. Remember thee!
- Yea, from the table of my memory
- I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
- All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
- That youth and observation copied there;
- And thy commandment all alone shall live
- Within the book and volume of my brain,
- Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
- O most pernicious woman!
- O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
- My tables,--meet it is I set it down,
- That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;
- At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark:
- Writing
- So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;
- It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.'
- I have sworn 't.
- MARCELLUS HORATIO
- [Within] My lord, my lord,--
- MARCELLUS
- [Within] Lord Hamlet,--
- HORATIO
- [Within] Heaven secure him!
- HAMLET
- So be it!
- HORATIO
- [Within] Hillo, ho, ho, my lord!
- HAMLET
- Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come.
- Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS
- MARCELLUS
- How is't, my noble lord?
- HORATIO
- What news, my lord?
- HAMLET
- O, wonderful!
- HORATIO
- Good my lord, tell it.
- HAMLET
- No; you'll reveal it.
- HORATIO
- Not I, my lord, by heaven.
- MARCELLUS
- Nor I, my lord.
- HAMLET
- How say you, then; would heart of man once think it?
- But you'll be secret?
- HORATIO MARCELLUS
- Ay, by heaven, my lord.
- HAMLET
- There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
- But he's an arrant knave.
- HORATIO
- There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
- To tell us this.
- HAMLET
- Why, right; you are i' the right;
- And so, without more circumstance at all,
- I hold it fit that we shake hands and part:
- You, as your business and desire shall point you;
- For every man has business and desire,
- Such as it is; and for mine own poor part,
- Look you, I'll go pray.
- HORATIO
- These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.
- HAMLET
- I'm sorry they offend you, heartily;
- Yes, 'faith heartily.
- HORATIO
- There's no offence, my lord.
- HAMLET
- Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,
- 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'ermaster 't as you may. And now, good friends,
- As you are friends, scholars and soldiers,
- Give me one poor request.
- HORATIO
- What is't, my lord? we will.
- HAMLET
- Never make known what you have seen to-night.
- HORATIO MARCELLUS
- My lord, we will not.
- HAMLET
- Nay, but swear't.
- HORATIO
- In faith,
- My lord, not I.
- MARCELLUS
- Nor I, my lord, in faith.
- HAMLET
- Upon my sword.
- MARCELLUS
- We have sworn, my lord, already.
- HAMLET
- Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.
- Ghost
- [Beneath] Swear.
- HAMLET
- Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there,
- truepenny?
- Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage--
- Consent to swear.
- HORATIO
- Propose the oath, my lord.
- HAMLET
- Never to speak of this that you have seen,
- Swear by my sword.
- Ghost
- [Beneath] Swear.
- HAMLET
- Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground.
- Come hither, gentlemen,
- And lay your hands again upon my sword:
- Never to speak of this that you have heard,
- Swear by my sword.
- Ghost
- [Beneath] Swear.
- HAMLET
- Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast?
- A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.
- HORATIO
- O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
- HAMLET
- And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
- Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come;
- Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
- How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,
- As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
- To put an antic disposition on,
- That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,
- With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake,
- Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,
- As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,'
- Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,'
- Or such ambiguous giving out, to note
- That you know aught of me: this not to do,
- So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear.
- Ghost
- [Beneath] Swear.
- HAMLET
- Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!
- They swear
- So, gentlemen,
- With all my love I do commend me to you:
- And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
- May do, to express his love and friending to you,
- God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;
- And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
- The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
- That ever I was born to set it right!
- Nay, come, let's go together.
- Exeunt
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- <div class="well" id="mainViewer" >
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
- <script>
- // this is a variable to keep track
- // of which chapter we are on
- var counter = 0;
- // when we click on a chapter thumbnail
- // it displays that chapter
- // this code is pretty similar to the
- // image gallery, but I've added some code
- // to update the counter
- $(".chapter-thumbnail").click(function(){
- // copy the html from the thumbnail (this)
- // to the main viwer
- $("#mainViewer").html(
- $(this).html());
- // get the id of this element so we can
- // get hold of its number
- var id = $(this).attr("id");
- // set the counter to the number of the
- // chapter we selected.
- // We get this by taking the last charcter
- // of the id and convert it to a number
- // id.slice gets a subsection of the string
- // passing in -1 means we get just the
- // last character
- // parseInt converts it to a number (integer)
- counter = parseInt(id.slice(-1));
- });
- // virtually click the first chapter to select it
- $("#chapter"+counter).click();
- // when we click on the main viewer we want to
- // move forward or backward in the
- // chapter
- $("#mainViewer").click(function (event){
- // move forward if we click to the right
- // or backward if we click to the left
- // event.offsetX is the horizontal
- // position of the mouse inside the
- // element we have clicked on,
- // it will be between 0
- // and the width of the element
- // $(this).width()*0.3 is 30% of
- // the with of the element
- // if event.offsetX is less than
- // 30% of the width, it means it is
- // on the left hand side
- if(event.offsetX
- < $(this).width()*0.3){
- // if we've clicked on the left
- // go back
- counter = counter - 1;
- } else {
- // if we've clicked on the right
- // go forwards
- counter = counter + 1;
- }
- // If we've gone below 0 it means
- // we were at the beginning, and
- // should just stay at zero
- if(counter < 0){
- counter = 0;
- }
- // $(".chapter-thumbnail").length
- // is the number of elements that
- // match the selector .chapter-thumbnail
- // i.e. the number of chapter thumbnails
- // if counter is equal to or more than
- // the number of thumbnails it means
- // we've gone past the last chapter which
- // is $(".chapter-thumbnail").length-1
- // (because we start counting at 0)
- if(counter >=
- $(".chapter-thumbnail").length){
- counter =
- $(".chapter-thumbnail").length-1;
- }
- // we get the id of the chapter thumbnail
- // we want by putting counter on the end
- // of it.
- // we can do a virtual click on the
- // chapter thumbnail to select it
- $("#chapter"+counter).click();
- });
- </script>
- </body>
- </html>
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