Prince of Denmarke.
609415Hor. Indeed I heard it not, what doth this mean my lord?
612416Ham. O the king doth wake to night, & takes his row
se,
613417Keepe wa
ssel, and the
swaggering vp-
spring reeles,
614418And as he dreames, his draughts of reni
sh downe,
615419The kettle, drumme, and trumpet, thus bray out,
616420The triumphes of his pledge.
617421Hor. Is it a cu
stome here?
618422Ham. I mary i'
st and though I am
619423Natiue here, and to the maner borne,
620424It is a cu
stome, more honourd in the breach,
623427Hor. Looke my Lord, it comes.
624428Ham. Angels and Mini
sters of grace defend vs,
625429Be thou a
spirite of health, or goblin damn'd,
626430Bring with thee ayres from heanen, or bla
sts from hell:
627431Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
628432Thou comme
st in
such que
stionable
shape,
629433That I will
speake to thee,
434Ile call thee
Hamlet, King, Father, Royall Dane,
630435O an
swere mee, let mee not bur
st in ignorance,
631436But
say why thy canonizd bones hear
sed in death
633437Haue bur
st their ceremonies: why thy Sepulcher,
634438In which wee
saw thee quietly interr'd,
635439Hath bur
st his ponderous and marble Iawes,
636440To ca
st thee vp againe: what may this meane,
637441That thou, dead cor
se, againe in compleate
steele,
638442Reui
ssets thus the glim
ses of the Moone,
639443Making night hideous, and we fooles of nature,
640444So horridely to
shake our di
spo
sition,
641445With thoughts beyond the reaches of our
soules?
642446Say,
speake, wherefore, what may this meane?
644447Hor. It beckons you, as though it had
something
647449Mar. Looke with what courteous a
ction
648450It waues you to a more remoued ground,
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