35792084Ham. beleeue mee, it greeues mee much Horatio,

35802085That to Leartes I forgot my selfe:

35812086For by my selfe me thinkes I feele his griefe,

3581.12087Though there's a difference in each others wrong.

35882089Horatio, but you marke yon water-flie,

3588.12090The Court knowes him, but hee knowes not the Court.

I2 Gen.

35952091Gent. Now God saue thee, sweete prince Hamlet.

3595.12092Ham. And you sir: foh, how the muske-cod smels!

35962093Gen. I come with an embassage from his maiesty to you

35972094Ham. I shall sir giue you attention:

36002095By my troth me thinkes t'is very colde.

36022096Gent. It is indeede very rawish colde.

36032097Ham. T'is hot me thinkes.

36052098Gent. Very swoltery hote:

36062099The King, sweete Prince, hath layd a wager on your side,

36162100Six Barbary horse, against six french rapiers,

36182101With all their acoutrements too, a the carriages:

36202102In good faith they are very curiously wrought.

36222103Ham. The cariages sir, I do not know what you meane.

36232104Gent. The girdles, and hangers sir, and such like.

36242105Ham. The worde had beene more cosin german to the

36252106phrase, if he could haue carried the canon by his side,

36292107And howe's the wager? I vnderstand you now.

36302108Gent. Mary sir, that yong Leartes in twelue venies

36312109At Rapier and Dagger do not get three oddes of you,

2110And on your side the King hath laide,

36332111And desires you to be in readinesse.

36412112Ham. Very well, if the King dare venture his wager,

2113I dare venture my skull: when must this be?

3657.92114Gent. My Lord, presently, the king, and her maiesty,

3657.102115With the rest of the best iudgement in the Court,

3657.112116Are comming downe into the outward pallace.

36382117Ham. Goe tell his maiestie, I wil attend him.

36432118Gent. I shall deliuer your most sweet answer. exit.

36442119Ham. You may sir, none better, for y'are spiced,

3644.12120Else he had a bad nose could not smell a foole.

3644.22121Hor. He will disclose himselfe without inquirie.

36612122Ham. Beleeue me Horatio, my hart is on the sodaine

2123Very sore, all here about.

36662124Hor. My lord, forbeare the challenge then.

36682125Ham. No Horatio, not I, if danger be now,

36692126Why then it is not to come, theres a predestiuate prouidence

2127in the fall of a sparrow: heere comes the King.

36772129King Now sonne Hamlet, we hane laid vpon your head,

3677.12130And make no question but to haue the best.

37182131Ham. Your maiestie hath laide a the weaker side.

37152132King We doubt it not, deliuer them the foiles.

36782133Ham. First Leartes, heere's my hand and loue,

3678.12134Protesting that I neuer wrongd Leartes.

36862135If Hamlet in his madnesse did amisse,

36872136That was not Hamlet, but his madnes did it,

2137And all the wrong I e're did to Leartes,

36842138I here proclaime was madnes, therefore lets be at peace,

36952139And thinke I haue shot mine arrow o're the house,

36962140And hurt my brother.

36972141Lear. Sir I am satisfied in nature,

36992142But in termes of honor I'le stand aloofe,

37002143And will no reconcilement,

37012144Till by some elder maisters of our time

3701.12145I may be satisfied.

2146King Giue them the foyles.

37102147Ham. I'le be your foyle Leartes, these foyles,

37252148Haue all a laught, come on sir: a hit.

37442149Lear. No none. Heere they play:

37452150Ham. Iudgement.

37462151Gent. A hit, a most palpable hit.

37472152Lear. Well, come againe. They play againe.

37532153Ham. Another. Iudgement.

37542154Lear. I, I grant, a tuch, a tuch.

37482155King Here Hamlet, the king doth drinke a health to thee

37572156Queene Here Hamlet, take my napkin, wipe thy face.

37502157King Giue him the wine.

37522158Ham. Set it by, I'le haue another bowt first,

3752.12159I'le drinke anone.

37582160Queene Here Hamlet, thy mother drinkes to thee.

37602162King Do not drinke Gertred: O t'is the poysned cup!

I3 Ham.

37702163Ham. Leartes come, you dally with me,

37722164I pray you passe with your most cunningst play.

37742165Lear. I! say you so? haue at you,

37672166Ile hit you now my Lord:

37692167And yet it goes almost against my conscience.

37412168Ham. Come on sir.

37802171King Looke to the Queene.

37882172Queene O the drinke, the drinke, Hamlet, the drinke.

37912173Ham. Treason, ho, keepe the gates.

37822174Lords How ist my Lord Leartes?

3782.12175Lear. Euen as a coxcombe should,

37852176Foolishly slaine with my owne weapon:

37942177Hamlet, thou hast not in thee halfe an houre of life,

37972178The fatall Instrument is in thy hand.

37982179Vnbated and invenomed: thy mother's poysned

3798.12180That drinke was made for thee.

38022181Ham. The poysned Instrument within my hand?

38032182Then venome to thy venome, die damn'd villaine:

38092183Come drinke, here lies thy vnion here. The king dies.

38112184Lear. O he is iustly serued:

38132185Hamlet, before I die, here take my hand,

2186And withall, my loue: I doe forgiue thee. Leartes dies.

38162187Ham. And I thee, O I am dead Horatio, fare thee well.

38262188Hor. No, I am more an antike Roman,

2189Then a Dane, here is some poison left.

38292190Ham. Vpon my loue I charge thee let it goe,

38302191O fie Horatio, and if thou shouldst die,

2192What a scandale wouldst thou leaue behinde?

38352193What tongue should tell the story of our deaths,

2194If not from thee? O my heart sinckes Horatio,

38472195Mine eyes haue lost their sight, my tongue his vse:

2196Farewel Horatio, heauen receiue my soule. Ham. dies.

38542199Fort. Where is this bloudy sight?

38562200Hor. If aught of woe or wonder you'ld behold,

3856.12201Then looke vpon this tragicke spectacle.

38572202Fort. O imperious death! how many Princes

38592203Hast thou at one draft bloudily shot to death?

38622204Ambass. Our ambassie that we haue brought from Eng- (land,

38632205Where be these Princes that should heare vs speake?

3863.12206O most most vnlooked for time! vnhappy country.

38742207Hor. Content your selues, Ile shew to all, the ground,

38752208The first beginning of this Tragedy:

38722209Let there a scaffold be rearde vp in the market place,

3872.12210And let the State of the world be there:

2211Where you shall heare such a sad story tolde,

3875.12212That neuer mortall man could more vnfolde.

38852213Fort. I haue some rights of memory to this kingdome,

38862214Which now to claime my leisure doth inuite mee:

38952215Let foure of our chiefest Captaines

38962216Beare Hamlet like a souldier to his graue:

38972217For he was likely, had he liued,

38982218To a prou'd most royall.

39022219Take vp the bodie, such a sight as this

39032220Becomes the fieldes, but here doth much amisse.

39072221Finis