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Hamlet (Modern, Editor's Version)
11.1
4Who's there?
Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.
Long live the King!
Barnardo?
He.
You come most carefully upon your hour.
'Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to bed, Francisco.
For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold,
Have you had quiet guard?
Not a mouse stirring.
Well, good night.
I think I hear them.--Stand, ho! Who is there?
Friends to this ground.
And liegemen to the Dane.
Give you good night.
Oh, farewell, honest soldier. Who hath relieved you?
Barnardo hath my place. Give you good night.
1.1.20.1Exit Francisco.
Holla, Barnardo!
Say, what, is Horatio there?
A piece of him.
Welcome, Horatio. Welcome, good Marcellus.
What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
I have seen nothing.
Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.
Sit down awhile,
Well, sit we down,
Last night of all,
Peace, break thee off! Look where it comes again!
In the same figure like the King that's dead.
Thou art a scholar. Speak to it, Horatio.
Looks it not like the King? Mark it, Horatio.
Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder.
It would be spoke to.
Question it, Horatio.
What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,
It is offended.
See, it stalks away.
Stay, speak, speak, I charge thee speak!
1.1.55.1Exit the Ghost.
'Tis gone, and will not answer.
How now, Horatio, you tremble and look pale.
Before my God, I might not this believe
Is it not like the King?
As thou art to thyself.
Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
In what particular thought to work I know not,
Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,
That can I.
I think it be no other but e'en so.
A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
1.1.131.1It spreads his arms.
1.1.134If there be any good thing to be done
1.1.143.1The cock crows.
Stop it, Marcellus!
Shall I strike at it with my partisan?
Do, if it will not stand.
'Tis here.
'Tis here.
1.1.147.1Exit Ghost.
'Tis gone.
It was about to speak when the cock crew.
And then it started like a guilty thing
It faded on the crowing of the cock.
So have I heard and do in part believe it.
Let's do 't, I pray, and I this morning know
1.1.181.1Exeunt.