3865That Rosincrance and Guildensterne are dead:

3866Where should we haue our thankes?

3867Hor. Not from his mouth,

3868Had it th'abilitie of life to thanke you:

3869He neuer gaue command'ment for their death.

3870But since so iumpe vpon this bloodie question,

3871You from the Polake warres, and you from England

3872Are heere arriued. Giue order that these bodies

3873High on a stage be placed to the view,

3874And let me speake to th'yet vnknowing world,

3875How these things came about. So shall you heare

3876Of carnall, bloudie, and vnnaturall acts,

3877Of accidentall iudgements, casuall slaughters

3878Of death's put on by cunning, and forc'd cause,

3879And in this vpshot, purposes mistooke,

3880Falne on the Inuentors heads. All this can I

3881Truly deliuer.

3882For. Let vs hast to heare it,

3883And call the Noblest to the Audience.

3884For me, with sorrow, I embrace my Fortune,

3885I haue some Rites of memory in this Kingdome,

3886Which are ro claime, my vantage doth

3887Inuite me,

3888Hor. Of that I shall haue alwayes cause to speake,

3889And from his mouth

3890Whose voyce will draw on more:

3891But let this same be presently perform'd,

3892Euen whiles mens mindes are wilde,

3893Lest more mischance

3894On plots, and errors happen.

3895For. Let foure Captaines

3896Beare Hamlet like a Soldier to the Stage,

3897For he was likely, had he beene put on

3898To haue prou'd most royally:

3899And for his passage,

3900The Souldiours Musicke, and the rites of Warre

3901Speake lowdly for him.

3902Take vp the body; Such a sight as this

3903Becomes the Field, but heere shewes much amis.

3904Go, bid the Souldiers shoote.