461337 Enter Leartes and Ofelia. 462338Leart. My nece
ssaries are inbarkt, I mu
st aboord,
462.1339But ere I part, marke what I
say to thee:
467340I
see Prince
Hamlet makes a
shew of loue
592341Beware
Ofelia, do not tru
st his vowes,
477342Perhaps he loues you now, and now his tongue,
Speakes
Prince of Denmarke.
496343Speakes from his heart, but yet take heed my
sister,
499344The Charie
st maide is prodigall enough,
500345If
she vnma
ske hir beautie to the Moone.
501346Vertue it
selfe
scapes not calumnious thoughts,
347Belieu't
Ofelia, therefore keepe a loofe
496.1348Le
st that he trip thy honor and thy fame.
496.2349Ofel. Brother, to this I haue lent attentiue eare,
496.3350And doubt not but to keepe my honour
firme,
509351But my deere brother, do not you
510352Like to a cunning Sophi
ster,
511353Teach me the path and ready way to heauen,
511.1354While you forgetting what is
said to me,
512355Your
selfe, like to a carele
sse libertine
512.1356Doth giue his heart, his appetite at ful,
514357And little recks how that his honour dies.
515358Lear. No, feare it not my deere
Ofelia, 517359Here comes my father, occa
sion
smiles vpon a
second leaue.
520361Cor. Yet here
Leartes? aboord, aboord, for
shame,
521362The winde
sits in the
shoulder of your
saile,
522363And you are
staid for, there my ble
ssing with thee
523364And the
se few precepts in thy memory.
526365"Be thou familiar, but by no meanes vulgare;
527366"Tho
se friends thou ha
st, and their adoptions tried,
528367"Graple them to thee with a hoope of
steele,
529368"But do not dull the palme with entertaine,
530369"Of euery new vn
fleg'd courage,
370"Beware of entrance into a quarrell; but being in,
532371"Beare it that the oppo
sed may beware of thee,
535372"Co
stly thy apparrell, as thy pur
se can buy.
536373"But not expre
st in fa
shion,
537374"For the apparrell oft proclaimes the man.
538375And they of
France of the chiefe rancke and
station
539376Are of a mo
st sele
ct and generall chiefe in that:
543377"This aboue all, to thy owne
selfe be true,
544378And it mu
st follow as the night the day,
C2 Thou
The Tragedy of Hamlet
545379Thou can
st not then be fal
se to any one,
546380Farewel, my ble
ssing with thee.
547381Lear. I humbly take my leaue, farewell
Ofelia, 549382And remember well what I haue
said to you.
exit. 551383Ofel. It is already lock't within my hart,
552384And you your
selfe
shall keepe the key of it.
554385Cor. What i'
st Ofelia he hath
saide to you?
555386Ofel. Somthing touching the prince
Hamlet. 556387Cor. Mary wel thought on, t'is giuen me to vnder
stand,
558388That you haue bin too prodigall of your maiden pre
sence
560389Vnto Prince Hamlet, if it be
so,
390As
so tis giuen to mee, and that in waie of caution
561391I mu
st tell you; you do not vnder
stand your
selfe
562392So well as be
fits my honor, and your credite.
565393Ofel. My lord, he hath made many tenders of his loue
569395Cor. Tenders, I, I, tenders you may call them.
580396Ofel. And withall,
such earne
st vowes.
581397Cor. Springes to catch woodcocks,
398What, do not I know when the blood doth burne,
582399How prodigall the tongue lends the heart vowes,
587400In briefe, be more
scanter of your maiden pre
sence,
575401Or tendring thus you'l tender mee a foole.
602402Ofel. I
shall obay my lord in all I may.
602.1403Cor. Ofelia, receiue none of his letters,
602.2404"For louers lines are
snares to intrap the heart;
602.3405"Refu
se his tokens, both of them are keyes
602.4406To vnlocke Cha
stitie vnto De
sire;
601407Come in
Ofelia, such men often proue,
601.1408"Great in their wordes, but little in their loue.
409Ofel. I will my lord.
exeunt.