The Tragedie of Hamlet
14451027Pa
storall, Hi
storicall, Hi
storicall, Comicall,
14461028Comicall hi
storicall, Pa
storall, Tragedy hi
storicall:
14481029Seneca cannot be too heauy, nor
Plato too light:
14491030For the law hath writ tho
se are the onely men.
14511031Ha. O
Iepha Iudge of
Israel! what a trea
sure had
st thou?
14531032Cor. Why what a trea
sure had he my lord?
14541033Ham. Why one faire daughter, and no more,
14551034The which he loued pa
ssing well.
14581035Cor. A,
stil harping a my daughter! well my Lord,
1036If you call me
Iepha, I hane a daughter that
14611039Cor. What followes then my Lord?
14621040Ham. Why by lot, or God wot, or as it came to pa
sse,
14631041And
so it was, the
fir
st ver
se of the godly Ballet
14641042Wil tel you all: for look you where my abridgement comes:
14661043Welcome mai
sters, welcome all,
Enter players. 14681044What my olde friend, thy face is vallanced
14691045Since I
saw thee la
st, com'
st thou to beard me in
Denmarke? 14701046My yong lady and mi
stris, burlady but your
14711047Ladi
ship is growne by the altitude of a chopine higher than
(you were: 14721048Pray God
sir your voyce, like a peece of vncurrant
14731049Golde, be not crack't in the ring: come on mai
sters,
14741050Weele euen too't, like French Falconers,
14751051Flie at any thing we
see, come, a ta
ste of your
14761052Quallitie, a
speech, a pa
ssionate
speech.
14781053Players What
speech my good lord?
14791054Ham. I heard thee
speake a
speech once,
1055But it was neuer a
cted: or if it were,
14801056Neuer aboue twice, for as I remember,
14811057It plea
sed not the vulgar, it was cauiary
1058To the million: but to me
14821059And others, that receiued it in the like kinde,
14831060Cried in the toppe of their iudgements, an excellent play,
14841061Set downe with as great mode
stie as cunning:
14851062One
said there was no
sallets in the lines to make
thē sauory,
But