487Lend thy listning eare, but that I am forbid

699488To tell the secrets of my prison house

700489I would a tale vnfold, whose lightest word

701490Would harrow vp thy soule, freeze thy yong blood,

702491Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,

703492Thy knotted and combined locks to part,

704493And each particular haire to stand on end

705494Like quils vpon the fretfull Porpentine,

706495But this same blazon must not be, to eares of flesh and blood

707496Hamlet, if euer thou didst thy deere father loue.

709497Ham. O God.

710498Gho. Reuenge his foule, and most vnnaturall murder:

711499Ham. Murder.

712500Ghost Yea, murder in the highest degree,

501As in the least tis bad,

713502But mine most foule, beastly, and vnnaturall.

714503Ham. Haste me to knowe it, that with wings as swift as

716504meditation, or the thought of it, may sweepe to my reuenge.

718505Ghost O I finde thee apt, and duller shouldst thou be

719506Then the fat weede which rootes it selfe in ease

720507On Lethe wharffe: briefe let me be.

722508Tis giuen out, that sleeping in my orchard,

723509A Serpent stung me; so the whole eare of Denmarke

724510Is with a forged Prosses of my death rankely abusde:

725511But know thou noble Youth: he that did sting

726512Thy fathers heart, now weares his Crowne.

728513Ham. O my prophetike soule, my vncle! my vncle!

729514Ghost Yea he, that incestuous wretch, wonne to his will (with gifts,

731515O wicked will, and gifts! that haue the power

732516So to seduce my most seeming vertuous Queene,

739517But vertne, as it neuer will be moued,

740518Though Lewdnesse court it in a shape of heauen,

741519So Lust, thought to a radiant angle linckt,

742520Would fate it selfe from a celestiall bedde,

521And prey on garbage: but soft, me thinkes

743522I sent the mornings ayre, briefe let me be,