682477Ham. Ile go no farther, whither wilt thou leade me?

683478Ghost Marke me.

684479Ham. I will.

694480Ghost I am thy fathers spirit, doomd for a time

695481To walke the night, and all the day

696482Confinde in flaming fire,

697483Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature

698484Are purged and burnt away.

688485Ham. Alas poore Ghost.

689486Ghost Nay pitty me not, but to my vnfolding

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,

744523Sleeping within my Orchard, my custome alwayes

745524In the after noone, vpon my secure houre

746525Thy vncle came, with iuyce of Hebona

747526In a viall, and through the porches of my eares

748527Did powre the leaprous distilment, whose effect

750528Hold such an enmitie with blood of man,

751529That swift as quickesilner, it posteth through

752530The naturall gates and allies of the body,

753531And turnes the thinne and wholesome blood

754532Like eager dropings into milke.

756533And all my smoothe body, barked, and tetterd ouer.

759534Thus was I sleeping by a brothers hand

760535Of Crowne, of Queene, of life, of dignitie

536At once depriued, no reckoning made of,

763537But sent vnto my graue,

764538With all my accompts and sinnes vpon my head,

765539O horrible, most horrible!

765.1540Ham. O God!

766541ghost If thou hast nature in thee, beare it not,

769542But howsoeuer, let not thy heart

770543Conspire against thy mother aught,

771544Leaue her to heauen,

772545And to the burthen that her conscience beares.

774546I must be gone, the Glo-worme shewes the Martin

547To be neere, and gin's to pale his vneffectuall fire:

776548Hamlet adue, adue, adue: remember me. Exit

777549Ham. O all you hoste of heauen! O earth, what else?

778550And shall I couple hell; remember thee?

781551Yes thou poore Ghost; from the tables

783552Of my memorie, ile wipe away all sawes of Bookes,

784553All triuiall fond conceites

786554That euer youth, or else obseruance noted,

787555And thy remembrance, all alone shall sit.

789556Yes, yes, by heauen, a damnd pernitious villaine,

791557Murderons, bawdy, smiling damned villaine,

792558(My tables) meet it is I set it downe,

793559That one may smile, and smile, and be a villayne;

794560At least I am sure, it may be so in Denmarke.

795561So vncle, there you are, there you are.

562Now to the words; it is adue adue: remember me,

796563Soe t'is enough I haue sworne.

797564Hor. My lord, my lord. Enter. Horatio,and Marcellus.

798565Mar. Lord Hamlet.

802566Hor. Ill, lo, lo, ho, ho.

803567Mar. Ill, lo, lo, so, ho, so, come boy, come.

800568Hor. Heauens secure him.

804569Mar. How i'st my noble lord?

805570Hor. What news my lord?

806571Ham. O wonderfull, wonderful.

807572Hor. Good my lord tel it.

808573Ham. No not I, you'l reueale it.

809574Hor. Not I my Lord by heauen.

810575Mar. Nor I my Lord.

811576Ham. How say you then? would hart of man

577Once thinke it? but you'l be secret.

813578Both. I by heauen, my lord.

814579Ham. There's neuer a villaine dwelling in all Denmarke,

815580But hee's an arrant knaue.

816581Hor. There need no Ghost come from the graue to tell

817582you this.

818583Ham. Right, you are in the right, and therefore

819584I holde it meet without more circumstance at all,

820585Wee shake hands and part; you as your busines

821586And desiers shall leade you: for looke you,

822587Euery man hath busines, and desires, such

823588As it is, and for my owne poore parte, ile go pray.

825589Hor. These are but wild and wherling words, my Lord.

826590Ham. I am sory they offend you; hartely, yes faith hartily.

828591Hor. Ther's no offence my Lord.

829592Ham. Yes by Saint Patrike but there is Horatio,

830593And much offence too, touching this vision,

831594It is an honest ghost, that let mee tell you,

D For

832595For your desires to know what is betweene vs,

833596Or'emaister it as you may:

597And now kind frends, as yon are frends,

834598Schollers and gentlmen,

835599Grant mee one poore request.

836600Both. What i'st my Lord?

837601Ham. Neuer make known what you haue seene to night

838602Both. My lord, we will not.

839603Ham. Nay but sweare.

840604Hor. In faith my Lord not I.

841605Mar. Nor I my Lord in faith.

842606Ham. Nay vpon my sword, indeed vpon my sword.

845607Gho. Sweare.

846609Ham. Ha, ha, come you here, this fellow in the sellerige,

848610Here consent to sweare.

849611Hor. Propose the oth my Lord.

850612Ham. Neuer to speake what you haue seene to night,

851613Sweare by my sword.

852614Gost. Sweare.

853615Ham. Hic & vbique; nay then weele shift our ground:

854616Come hither Gentlemen, and lay your handes

855617Againe vpon this sword, neuer to speake

856618Of that which you haue seene, sweare by my sword.

858619Ghost Sweare.

859620Ham. Well said old Mole, can'st worke in the earth?

621so fast, a worthy Pioner, once more remoue.

861622Hor. Day and night but this is wondrous strange.

862623Ham. And therefore as a stranger giue it welcome,

863624There are more things in heauen and earth Horatio,

864625Then are Dream't of, in your philosophie,

626But come here, as before you neuer shall

866627How strange or odde soere I beare my selfe,

867628As I perchance hereafter shall thinke meet,

868629To put an Anticke disposition on,

869630That you at such times seeing me, neuer shall

870631With Armes, incombred thus, or this head shake,

871632Or by pronouncing some vndoubtfull phrase,

872633As well well, wee know, or wee could and if we would,

873634Or there be, and if they might, or such ambiguous:

874635Giuing out to note, that you know aught of mee,

875636This not to doe, so grace, and mercie

876637At your most need helpe you, sweare

878638Ghost. sweare.

879639Ham. Rest, rest, perturbed spirit: so gentlemen,

880640In all my loue I do commend mee to you,

881641And what so poore a man as Hamlet may,

882642To pleasure you, God willing shall not want,

883643Nay come lett's go together,

884644But stil your fingers on your lippes I pray,

885645The time is out of ioynt, O cursed spite,

886646That euer I was borne to set it right,

887647Nay come lett's go together. Exeunt.