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Hamlet
I'm sorry they offend you heartily,(:)
140 Yes faith<,> heartily.
Horatio
There's no offence my lord.
Hamlet
Yes<,> by Saint Patrick<,> but there is Horatio (my lord),
And much offence too, touching this vision here,(:)
It is an honest Ghost<,> that let me tell you,(:)
For your desire to know what is between us<,>
145 O'ermaster 't as you may,(.) and now, good friends,
As you are friends, scholars{,} and soldiers,
Give me one poor request.
Horatio
What is't my lord,(?) we will.
Hamlet
Never make known what you have seen to-night.
Both
150 My lord, we will not.
Hamlet
Nay<,> but swear't.
Horatio
In faith my lord<,> not I.
Marcellus
Nor I my lord<:> in faith.
Hamlet
Upon my sword.
Marcellus
We have sworn my lord already.
Hamlet
155 Indeed<,> upon my sword, indeed.
{Ghost cries under the Stage.}
Ghost
Swear.
Hamlet
Ah{,} ha{,} boy, say'st thou so,(.) art thou there truepenny?
Come on - you hear this fellow in the cellarage{,}
Consent to swear.
Horatio
Propose the oath my lord.
Hamlet
160 Never to speak of this that you have seen<.>
Swear by my sword.
Ghost +Beneath+
Swear.
Hamlet
Hic(,) & ubique? then we'll shift our (for) ground:(,)
Come hither gentlemen<,>
165 And lay your hands again upon my sword,
Swear by my sword
Never to speak of this that you have heard. {*}
{* В Ф две строки идут в обратном порядке.}
Ghost +Beneath+
Swear {by his sword}.
Hamlet
Well said old mole, canst work i' the earth (ground) so fast,(?)
170 A worthy pioner, once more remove, good friends.
Horatio
О day and night, but this is wondrous strange.
Hamlet
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome,(.)
There are more things in heaven and earth<,> Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your (our) philosophy,(.) but come<,>
175 Here as before, never so help you mercy,
{(}How strange or odd some er (so ere) I bear myself,(;)
<(>As I perchance hereafter shall think meet{,}
To put an antic disposition on<:)>
That you at such time(s) seeing me, never shall
180 With arms encumber'd thus, or this (thus) head shake,(;)
Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,(;)
As (well,) well, we know, or we could, and if we would,
Or if we list to speak,(;) or there be and if they (there) might,
Or such ambiguous giving out<,> to note)(,)
185 That you know aught of me,(;) this {do swear},(:)
So grace and mercy at your most need help you.(:)
Ghost +Beneath+
Swear.
Hamlet
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit:
+They swear+
so, gentlemen,
190 Withall (With all) my love I do commend me to you,(;)
And what so poor a man as Hamlet is,
May do to express his love and friending to you<,>
God willing shall not lack,(:) let us go in together,
And still your fingers on your lips I pray.
195 The time is out of joint,(:) о cursed spite<,>
That ever I was born to set it right.
Nay<,> come{,} let's go together.
Exeunt.
+SCENE 1+
Enter {old} Polonius, {with his man or two}.
Polonius
Give him this (his) money, and these notes Reynaldo.
Reynaldo
I will my lord.
Polonius
You shall do meruiles (maruels) wisely<:> good Reynaldo,
Before you visit him{,} to (you) make inquire (inquiry)
5 Of his behavior.
Reynaldo
My lord, I did intend it.
Polonius
Marry<,> well said,(;) very well said;(.) look you sir.
Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris,(;)
And how, and who,(;) what means,(;) and where they keep,(:)
What company, at what expense;(:) and finding
10 By this encompassment{,} and drift of question
That they do know my son,о come you more nearer
Than your particular demands will touch it,
Take you as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him,
As (And) thus, I know his father{,} and his friends,
15 And in part him,(.) do you mark this, Reynaldo?
Reynaldo
Ay, very well my lord.
Polonius
And in part him, but, you may say not well,(;)
But if 't be he I mean, he's very wild,(;)
Addicted so and so,(;) and there put on him
20 What forgeries you please,(;) marry<,> none so rank
As may dishonour him,(;) take heed of that,(:)
But sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips,
As are companions noted and most known
To youth and liberty.
Reynaldo
As gaming my lord.
Polonius
25 Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing,
Quarrelling, drabbing,(.) you may go so far.
Reynaldo
My lord{,} that would dishonour him.
Polonius
Faith as you may season it in the charge.(;)
You must not put another scandal on him,
30 That he is open to incontinency,(;)
That's not my meaning,(:) but breathe his faults so quaintly
That they may seem the taints of liberty,(;)
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
A savageness in unreclaimed (unreclaim'd) blood,
35 Of general assault.
Reynaldo
But my good lord.
Polonius
Wherefore should you do this?
Reynaldo
I my lord, I would know that.
Polonius
Marry sir, here's my drift,
40 And I believe it is a fetch of wit (warrant),(:)
You laying these slight sullies on my son<,>
As 'twere a thing a little soil'd with (i' th') working,(:)
Mark you, your party in converse, him you would sound<,>
Having ever seen<.> in the prenominate crimes
45 The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured
He closes with you in this consequence,(:)
Good sir, {(}or so,{)} or friend, or gentleman,(.)
According to the phrase{,} or (and) the addition
Of man and country.
Reynaldo
Very good my lord.
Polonius
50 And then, sir, does he this,(?) he does,(:) what was
I about to say? {By the mass,} I was about to say
something.(:) Where did I leave?
Reynaldo
At closes in the consequence.<:>
Polonius
55 At closes in the consequence, I marry,
He closes thus,(.) I know the gentleman,
I saw him yesterday, or th' other day,<;>
Or then{.} or then; with such or (and) such,(;) and as you say,
There was a(he) gaming<,> there{, or tooke} in's rouse,
60 There falling out at tennis,(;) or perchance,
I saw him enter such a house of sale,(;)
Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth,(.) see you now,(;)
Your bait of falsehood take this carp (cape) of truth,(;)
And thus do we of wisdom{,} and of reach{,}
65 With windlasses, and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out,(:)
So by my former lecture and advice
Shall you my son(;) you have me, have you not?
Reynaldo
My lord{,} I have.
Polonius
God be wi' you(;) fare you well.
Reynaldo
70 Good my lord.
Polonius
Observe his inclination in yourself.
Reynaldo
I shall my lord.
Polonius
And let him ply his music.
Reynaldo
Well<,> my lord.
Exit {Reynaldo}.
Enter Ophelia.
Polonius
75 Farewell! How now Ophelia, what's the matter?
Ophelia
{O, my lord,} my lord, I have been so affrighted,(.)
Polonius
With what {i' th'} <, in the> name of God (Heaven)?
Ophelia
My lord, as I was sewing in my closet (chamber),
Lord Hamlet with his doublet all unbraced,
80 No hat upon his head, his stockings foul'd,
Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ankle,
Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,
And with a look so piteous in purport<,>
As if he had been loosed out of hell<,>
85 To speak of horrors,(:) he comes before me.
Polonius
Mad for thy love?
Ophelia
My lord<,> I do not know,(:)
But truly I do fear it.
Polonius
What said he?
Ophelia
He took me by the wrist, and held me hard,(;)
Then goes he to the length of all his arm,(;)
90 And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow,
He falls to such perusal of my face<,>
As he would draw it,(.) long stay'd he so,
At last, a little shaking of mine arm,(:)
And thrice his head thus waving up and down,(;)
95 He raised a sigh so piteous and profound<,>
As (that) it did seem to shatter all his bulk,
And end his being;(.) that done, he lets me go,
And, with (thrice) his head over his shoulder tum'd,
He seem'd to find his way without his eyes,
100 For out o' doors he went without their help{s},(;)
And to the last, bended their light on me.
Polonius
{Come,} go with me, I will go seek the king,
This is the very ecstasy of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself,
105 And leads the will to desperate undertakings<,>
As oft as any passion(s) under heaven<,>
That does afflict our natures:(.) I am sorry,
What, have you given him any hard words of late?
Ophelia
No, my good lord,(:) but as you did command<,>
110 I did repel his letters, and denied
His access to me.
Polonius
That hath made him mad.
I am sorry that with better heed (speed) and judgment
I had not coted {*} him,(.) I feare{d} he did but trifle<,>
{* quoted Ed.}
And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy:
115 {By heaven} it is as proper to our age<,>
To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions,
As it is common for the younger sort
To lack discretion;(.) come, go we to the king,
This must be known, which, being kept close{,} might move
120 More grief to hide than hate to utter love,(.)
{Come.}
Exeunt.
{Flourish.} Enter King<,> {and} Queen, Rosencrantz <, and> Guildenstern,
.
King
Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,(.)
Moreover that we much did long to see you,
The need we have to use you did provoke
Our hasty sending,(.) something have you heard
5 Of Hamlet's transformation,(:) so call it,
{Sith nor} the exterior, nor the inward man
Resembles that it was,(.) what it should be(,)
More than his father's death, that thus hath put him
So much from the understanding of himself,
10 I cannot dream (deeme) of:(.) I entreat you both<,>
That, being of so young days brought up with him,(:)
And sith (since) so neighbour'd to his youth and havior (humour),
That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
Some little time,(:) so by your companies
15 To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather
So much as from occasion you may glean,
{Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus,}
That, open'd, lies within our remedy.
Queen
Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you,
20 And sure I am two men there is (are) not living<,>
To whom he more adheres,(.) if it will please you
To show us so much gentry and good will,
As to expend your time with us awhile,
For the supply and profit of our hope,
25 Your visitation shall receive such thanks
As fits a king's remembrance.
Rosencrantz
Both your majesties
Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,
Put your dread pleasures more into command
30 Than to entreaty.
Guildenstern
{But} we both obey.(,)
And here give up ourselves, in the full bent,
To lay our service freely at your feet<,>
To be commanded.
King
Thanks, Rosencrantz, and gentle Guildenstern.
Queen
35 Thanks, Guildenstern{,} and gentle Rosencrantz.
And I beseech you instantly to visit
My too much changed son,(.) go some of you<,>
And bring these (the) gentlemen where Hamlet is.
Guildenstern
Heavens make our presence and our practises
40 Pleasant and helpful to him.
Queen
{Ay} amen!
{Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.}
Enter Polonius.
Polonius
The ambassadors from Norway<,> my good lord,
Are joyfully return'd.
King
Thou still hast been the father of good news.
Polonius
Have I, my lord? {I} assure my good liege<,>
45 I hold my duty<,> as I hold my soul,
Both to my God, and (one) to my gracious king;(:)
And I do think, or else this brain of mine
Hunts not the trail of policy<,> so sure
As it (I) hath (have) used to do,(:) that I have found
50 The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
King
O, speak of that, that do (I) I (do) long to hear.
Polonius
Give first admittance to the ambassadors,
My news shall be the fruit (newes) to that great feast.
King
Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
+Exit Polonius.+
55 He tells me, my dear (sweet) Gertrude (queene,) he hath found
The head and source of all your son's distemper.
Queen
I doubt it is no other but the main<,>
His father's death, and our hastie (o'erhasiy) marriage.
Enter Ambassadors (Polonius, Voltimand and Cornelius).
King
Well, we shall sift him,(.) welcome, {my} good friends,(?)
60 Say Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?
Voltimand
Most fair return of greetings and desires;(.)
Upon our first, he sent out to suppress
His nephew's levies, which to him appear'd
To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack,(:)
65 But, better look'd into, he truly found
It was against your highness, whereat grieved<,>
That so his sickness, age, and impotence
Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests
On Fortinbras, which he <(>in brief<)> obeys,
70 Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine,
Makes vow before his unde<,> never more
To give the assay of arms against your majesty:(.)
Whereon old Norway<,> overcome with joy,
Gives him three(-score) thousand crowns in annual fee,
75 And his commission to employ those soldiers
So levied {(}as before)(,) against the Polack,(:)
With an entreaty, herein further shown {*},
{* shone 2Кв }
+He gives a paper+
That it might please you to give quiet pass
Through your dominions for this (his) enterprise<,>
80 On such regards of safety and allowance<,>
As therein are set down.
King
It likes us well,(:)
And at our more consider'd time{,} well read,
Answer, and think upon this business:(.)
Meantime we thank you<,> for your well-took labour:
85 Go to your rest, at night we'll feast together,(.)
Most welcome home.
{Exeunt Ambassadors}
Polonius
This business is well ended.
My liege<,> and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day,(:) night, night,(;) and time is time,
90 Were nothing but to waste night, day and time,(.)
Therefore<, since> brevity is the soul of wit.
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief,(.) your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it,(:) for, to define true madness,
95 What is 't but to be nothing else but mad,(.)
But let that go.
Queen
More matter<,> with less art.
Polonius
Madam, I swear I use no art at all,(:)
That he is mad<,> 'tis true,(:) 'tis true{,} 'tis pity,
And pity {'tis 'tis} true,(:) a foolish figure,
100 But farewell it,(:) for I will use no art.
Mad let us grant him then,(;) and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,(;)
For this effect defective comes by cause:(,)
105 Thus it remains, and the remainder thus<.>
Perpend.(,)
I have a daughter,(:) have while she is mine,
Who in her duty and obedience, mark,
Hath given me this,(:) now gather<,> and surmise,(.)
110 To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most
beautified Ophelia,(.) That's an ill phrase, a vile
phrase, beautified is a vile phrase,(:) but you shall
heart{:} thus (these) in her excellent white bosom,
these {&c}.
Queen
115 Came this from Hamlet to her?(.)
Polonius
Good madam stay awhile, I will be faithful,(.)
{Letter.}
Doubt thou<,> the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,(:)
Doubt truth to be a liar,
120 But never doubt<,> I love.
О dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers,(:) I have
not art to reckon my groans,(;) but that I love thee
best, о most best believe it, adieu.
124 Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst this machine
is to him.(,) Hamlet.
Polonius
This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown (shew'd) me,(:)
And more about (above) hath his soliciting{s},
As they fell out by time, by means, and place,
All given to mine ear.
King
130 But how hath she received his love?
Polonius
What do you think of me?
King
As of a man faithful and honourable.
Polonius
I would fain prove so,(.) but what might you think<?>
When I had seen this hot love on the wing,
135 As I perceived it<,> {(}I must tell you that{)}
Before my daughter told me{,} what might you{,}
Or my dear majesty your queen here<,> think,
If I had play'd the desk or table-book,
Or given my heart a working (winking,) mute and dumb,
140 Or look'd upon this love<,> with idle sight,
What might you think? no, I went round to work,
And <(>my young mistress<)> thus I did bespeak{,}
Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star,
This must not be: and then<,> I prescripts (precepts) gave her<,>
145 That she should lock herself from her (his) resort,
Admit no messengers, receive no tokens,(:)
Which done, she took the fruits of my advice:(,)
And he repelled (repulsed), a short tale to make,
Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
150 Thence to a wath (watch), thence into a weakness,
Thence to lightness, and by this declension{,}
Into the madness wherein (whereon) now he raves,
And all we mourn (waile) for.
King
Do you think <'tis> this?
Queen
It may be very like.
Polonius
155 Hath there been such a time, I'd fain know that,
That I have positively said, 'tis so,
When it proved otherwise?
King
Not that I know.
Polonius
Take this{,} from this, if this be otherwise;(,)
If circumstances, lead me, I will find
160 Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
Within the centre.
King
How may we try it further?
Polonius
You know, sometimes he walks four hours together
Here in the lobby.
Queen
So he does (ha's) indeed.
Polonius
At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him,
165 Be you and I behind an arras then,
Mark the encounter,(:) if he love her not,
And be not from his reason fall'n thereon<;>
Let me be no assistant for a state<,>
But (And) keep a farm and carters.
King
We will try it.
Enter Hamlet.
Queen
170 But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.
Polonius
Away{,} I do beseech you<,> both away,
I'll board him presently,(.)
Exit King and Queen.
o, give me leave,(.)
How does my good Lord Hamlet?
Hamlet
Well, God-a-mercy.
Polonius
175 Do you know me, my lord?
Hamlet
Excellent<, excellent> well,(:) you are a fishmonger.
Polonius
Not I my lord.
Hamlet
Then I would you were so honest a man.
Polonius
Honest<,> my lord.(?)
Hamlet
180 Ay sir<,> to be honest as this world goes, is to be
one man picked out of ten (two) thousand.
Polonius
That's very true<,> my lord.
Hamlet
For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being
a good kissing carrion.(-) Have you a daughter?
Polonius
185 I have my lord.
Hamlet
Let her not walk i' th' sun,(:) conception is a
blessing, but as your daughter may conceive,(.)
friend, look to 't.
Polonius
189 How say you by that,(?) still harping on my
daughter,(:) yet he knew me not at first,(;) he said I
was a fishmonger,(:) he is far gone,
and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for
love,(:) very near this. I'll speak to him again. What
do you read my lord.(?)
Hamlet
195 Words, words, words.
Polonius
What is the matter<,> my lord.(?)
Hamlet
Between who.(?)
Polonius
I mean, the matter {that you read} my
lord.
Hamlet
200 Slanders sir;(:) for the satirical rogue (slave) says
here, that old men have grey beards,(;) that their faces
are wrinkled,(;) their eyes purging thick amber, and
(or) plum-tree gum,(:) and that they have a plentiful
lack (locke) of wit, together with most weak hams,(.)
all which sir<,> though I (most) powerfully<,> and
potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it
thus set down,(:) for yourself (you your selfe) sir, {shall
grow} old as I am:(,) if like a crab you
could go backward.
Polonius +Aside+
210 Though this be madness, yet there is method in
't,(:) will you walk out of the air my lord?
Hamlet
Into my grave.
Polonius
Indeed that is out of the air;(:) how pregnant some-
times his replies are,(?) a happiness that often madness
hits on, which reason and sanctity (sanity) could not
so prosperously be delivered of. I will leave him <, and
suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him>
and my daughter. My lord, will
take my leave of you.
Hamlet
220 You cannot<, sir,> take from me any thing<,> that
I will (not) more willingly part withal:(,) except my life,
{except my life, except} my life.
{Enter Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.}
Polonius
Fare you well my lord.
Hamlet
These tedious old fools.
Polonius
225 You go to seek the (my) lord Hamlet,(;) there he is.
Rosencrantz
God save you sir.
+Exit Polonius+
Guildenstern
My honoured lord.(?)
Rosencrantz
My most dear lord.(?)
Hamlet
229 My extent (excellent) good friends,(?) how dost thou,
Guildenstem? A(O)h, Rosencrantz,(;) good lads<:> how
do you both?
Rosencrantz
As the indifferent children of the earth.
Guildenstern
Happy, in that we are not overhappy<:> on for-
tune's lap (cap). We are not the very button.
Hamlet
235 Nor the soles of her shoe.(?)
Rosencrantz
Neither my lord.
Hamlet
Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of
her favours.(?)
Guildenstern
Faith<,> her privates<,> we.
Hamlet
240 In the secret parts of fortune,(?) о most true.(J she
is a strumpet,(.) What<'s the> news?
Rosencrantz
None my lord,(;) but the world's grown
honest.
Hamlet
244 Then is doomsday near,(:) but your news is not
true;(.)
tune, that she sends you to prison hither?
Guildenstern
Prison, my lord?
Hamlet
Denmark's a prison.
Rosencrantz
250 Then is the world one.
Hamlet
A goodly one, in which there are many confines,
wards and dungeons; Denmark being one o' th'
worst.
Rosencrantz
We think not so my lord.
Hamlet
255 Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it
is a prison.
Rosencrantz
Why then your ambition makes it one: 'tis too
narrow for your mind.
Hamlet
260 O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell, and
count myself a king of infinite space; were it not that I
have bad dreams.
Guildenstern
Which dreams indeed are ambition: for the very
substance of the ambitious, is merely the shadow of a
dream.
Hamlet
266 А dream itself is but a shadow.
Rosencrantz
Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a
quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow.
Hamlet
270 Then are our beggars bodies; and our monarchs
and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows: shall we
to th' court: for, by my fay I cannot reason?
Both
We'll wait upon you.
Hamlet
274 No such matter. I will not sort you with the rest of
my servants: for, to speak to you like an honest man:
I am most dreadfully attended;> But, in the beaten
way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?
Rosencrantz
278 To visit you my lord, no other occasion.
Hamlet
Beggar that I am, I am euer (even) poor in thanks,(:)
but I thank you,(:) and sure dear friends{,} my thanks
are too dear a halfpenny:(;) were you not sent for?
is it your own inclining? is it a free visitation? come,
{come} deal justly with me,(:) come, come,(;) nay
speak.
Guildenstern
285 What should we say my lord?
Hamlet
any thing, but to th' purpose:(;) you were
sent for,(;) and there is a kind {of} confession in your
looks.(;) which your modesties have not craft enough
to colour, I know the good king and queen have sent
for you.
Rosencrantz
290 To what end my lord?
Hamlet
That you must teach me: but let me conjure you,
by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of
our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved
love;(,) and by what more dear a better proposer can
(could) charge you withal,(;) be even and direct with
me<,> whether you were sent for or no?
Rosencrantz
What say you.(?)
Hamlet
Nay, then, I have an eye of you?(:) if you love me
hold not off.
Guildenstern
300 My lord<,> we were sent for.
Hamlet
301 I will tell you why,(;) so shall my anticipation pre-
vent your discovery{,} and (of) your secrecy to the king
& queen<:> moult no feather, I have of lat, but
wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all
custom of exercise{s}:(;) and indeed it goes so heavily
(heauently) with my disposition,(;) that this goodly
frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory,(;)
this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave
o'erhanging {firmament}, this majestical roof fretted
with golden fire,(:) why<,> it {appeareth nothing}
to me<,> but (then) a foul
and pestilent congregation of vapours. What piece
of work is a man,(!) how noble in reason,(?) how infi-
nite in facult{ies},(?) in form and moving how ex-
press and admirable<?> in action, how like an an-
gel<?> in apprehension, how like a god:(?) the beauty
of the world;(,) the paragon of animals; and yet to me,
what is this quintessence of dust:(?) Man delights not
me,(;) nor wome(a)n neither, though by your
smiling{,} you seem to say so.
Rosencrantz
321 My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
Hamlet
Why did you laugh (then), when I said<,> man
delights not me.(?)
Rosencrantz
324 To think<,> my lord<,> if you delight not in man,
what lenten entertainment the players shall receive
from you,(:) we coted them on the way, and hither are
they coming to offer you service.
Hamlet
328 He that plays the king shall be welcomes;) his
majesty shall have tribute on (of) me,(:) the adventur-
ous knight shall use his foil and target,(:) the lover
shall not sigh gratis, the humourous man shall end his
part in peace,(:)
are tickled о' th' sere:> and the lady shall say her
mind freely:(;) or the black (blank) verse shall halt
for 't.(:) what players are they?
Rosencrantz
336 Even those you were wont to take (such) delight
in<,> the tragedians of the city.
Hamlet
339 How chances it they travel? their residence both in
reputation<,> and profit was better both ways.
Rosencrantz
341 I think their inhibition{,} comes by the means of the
late innovation(?)
Hamlet
Do they hold the same estimation they did when I
was in the city;(?) are they so followed.(?)
Rosencrantz
345 No indeed<,> are (they) they (are) not.
How comes it? do they grow rusty?
Rosencrantz
Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace;
but there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that
cry out on the top of question; and are most tyranni-
cally clapped for 't: these are now the fashion, and so
be-rattled {*} the common stages (so they call them) that
many wearing rapiers, are afraid of goose-quills, and
dare scarce come thither.
{* berattle, 2Ф }
Hamlet
354 What, are they children? Who maintains 'em?
How are they escoted? Will they pursue the quality
no longer than they can sing? Will they not say after-
wards if they should grow themselves to common
players (as it is like most, if their means are no bet-
ter) their writers do them wrong, to make them ex-
claim against their own succession.
Rosencrantz
361 Faith, there has been much to do on both sides:
and the nation holds it no sin, to tarre them to con-
troversy. There was for a while, no money bid for
argument, unless the poet and the player went to cuffs
in the question.
Hamlet
366 Is 't possible?
Guildenstern
О there has been much throwing about of
brains.
Hamlet
Do the boys carry it away?
Rosencrantz
370 Ay that they do my lord. Hercules and his load
too.>
Hamlet
It is not {very} strange,(:) for mine uncle is king of
Denmark, and those that would make mouths (mowes)
at him while my father lived,(;) give twenty, forty,
{fifty,} an hundred ducats apiece, for his picture in
little,(.) {'Sblood,{ there is something in this more than
natural, if philosophy could find it out.
A flourish
Guildenstern
378 There are the players.
Hamlet
Gentlemen<,> you are welcome to Elsinore,(:) your
hands<,> come {then},(:) th' appurtenance of wel-
come<,> is fashion and ceremony;(.) let me comply
with you in this (the) garb:(,) {let me} extent
to the players{,} <(>which, I tell you, must show fairly
outward,()) should more appear like entertainment than
yours?(.) you are welcome: but my uncle-father, and
aunt-mother<,> are deceived.
Guildenstern
386 In what, my dear lord?
Hamlet
I am but mad north-north-west;(:) when the wind is
southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Enter Polonius.
Polonius
390 Well be with you, gentlemen.
I'm sorry they offend you heartily,(:)
140 Yes faith<,> heartily.
Horatio
There's no offence my lord.
Hamlet
Yes<,> by Saint Patrick<,> but there is Horatio (my lord),
And much offence too, touching this vision here,(:)
It is an honest Ghost<,> that let me tell you,(:)
For your desire to know what is between us<,>
145 O'ermaster 't as you may,(.) and now, good friends,
As you are friends, scholars{,} and soldiers,
Give me one poor request.
Horatio
What is't my lord,(?) we will.
Hamlet
Never make known what you have seen to-night.
Both
150 My lord, we will not.
Hamlet
Nay<,> but swear't.
Horatio
In faith my lord<,> not I.
Marcellus
Nor I my lord<:> in faith.
Hamlet
Upon my sword.
Marcellus
We have sworn my lord already.
Hamlet
155 Indeed<,> upon my sword, indeed.
{Ghost cries under the Stage.}
Ghost
Swear.
Hamlet
Ah{,} ha{,} boy, say'st thou so,(.) art thou there truepenny?
Come on - you hear this fellow in the cellarage{,}
Consent to swear.
Horatio
Propose the oath my lord.
Hamlet
160 Never to speak of this that you have seen<.>
Swear by my sword.
Ghost +Beneath+
Swear.
Hamlet
Hic(,) & ubique? then we'll shift our (for) ground:(,)
Come hither gentlemen<,>
165 And lay your hands again upon my sword,
Swear by my sword
Never to speak of this that you have heard. {*}
{* В Ф две строки идут в обратном порядке.}
Ghost +Beneath+
Swear {by his sword}.
Hamlet
Well said old mole, canst work i' the earth (ground) so fast,(?)
170 A worthy pioner, once more remove, good friends.
Horatio
О day and night, but this is wondrous strange.
Hamlet
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome,(.)
There are more things in heaven and earth<,> Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your (our) philosophy,(.) but come<,>
175 Here as before, never so help you mercy,
{(}How strange or odd some er (so ere) I bear myself,(;)
<(>As I perchance hereafter shall think meet{,}
To put an antic disposition on<:)>
That you at such time(s) seeing me, never shall
180 With arms encumber'd thus, or this (thus) head shake,(;)
Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,(;)
As (well,) well, we know, or we could, and if we would,
Or if we list to speak,(;) or there be and if they (there) might,
Or such ambiguous giving out<,> to note)(,)
185 That you know aught of me,(;) this {do swear}
So grace and mercy at your most need help you.(:)
Ghost +Beneath+
Swear.
Hamlet
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit:
+They swear+
so, gentlemen,
190 Withall (With all) my love I do commend me to you,(;)
And what so poor a man as Hamlet is,
May do to express his love and friending to you<,>
God willing shall not lack,(:) let us go in together,
And still your fingers on your lips I pray.
195 The time is out of joint,(:) о cursed spite<,>
That ever I was born to set it right.
Nay<,> come{,} let's go together.
Exeunt.
+SCENE 1+
Enter {old} Polonius, {with his man or two}
Polonius
Give him this (his) money, and these notes Reynaldo.
Reynaldo
I will my lord.
Polonius
You shall do meruiles (maruels) wisely<:> good Reynaldo,
Before you visit him{,} to (you) make inquire (inquiry)
5 Of his behavior.
Reynaldo
My lord, I did intend it.
Polonius
Marry<,> well said,(;) very well said;(.) look you sir.
Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris,(;)
And how, and who,(;) what means,(;) and where they keep,(:)
What company, at what expense;(:) and finding
10 By this encompassment{,} and drift of question
That they do know my son,о come you more nearer
Than your particular demands will touch it,
Take you as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him,
As (And) thus, I know his father{,} and his friends,
15 And in part him,(.) do you mark this, Reynaldo?
Reynaldo
Ay, very well my lord.
Polonius
And in part him, but, you may say not well,(;)
But if 't be he I mean, he's very wild,(;)
Addicted so and so,(;) and there put on him
20 What forgeries you please,(;) marry<,> none so rank
As may dishonour him,(;) take heed of that,(:)
But sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips,
As are companions noted and most known
To youth and liberty.
Reynaldo
As gaming my lord.
Polonius
25 Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing,
Quarrelling, drabbing,(.) you may go so far.
Reynaldo
My lord{,} that would dishonour him.
Polonius
Faith
You must not put another scandal on him,
30 That he is open to incontinency,(;)
That's not my meaning,(:) but breathe his faults so quaintly
That they may seem the taints of liberty,(;)
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
A savageness in unreclaimed (unreclaim'd) blood,
35 Of general assault.
Reynaldo
But my good lord.
Polonius
Wherefore should you do this?
Reynaldo
I my lord, I would know that.
Polonius
Marry sir, here's my drift,
40 And I believe it is a fetch of wit (warrant),(:)
You laying these slight sullies on my son<,>
As 'twere a thing a little soil'd with (i' th') working,(:)
Mark you, your party in converse, him you would sound<,>
Having ever seen<.> in the prenominate crimes
45 The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured
He closes with you in this consequence,(:)
Good sir, {(}or so,{)} or friend, or gentleman,(.)
According to the phrase{,} or (and) the addition
Of man and country.
Reynaldo
Very good my lord.
Polonius
50 And then, sir, does he this,(?) he does,(:) what was
I about to say? {By the mass,} I was about to say
something.(:) Where did I leave?
Reynaldo
At closes in the consequence.<:>
Polonius
55 At closes in the consequence, I marry,
He closes
I saw him yesterday, or th' other day,<;>
Or then{.} or then; with such or (and) such,(;) and as you say,
There was a(he) gaming<,> there{, or tooke}
60 There falling out at tennis,(;) or perchance,
I saw him enter such a house of sale,(;)
Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth,(.) see you now,(;)
Your bait of falsehood take
And thus do we of wisdom{,} and of reach{,}
65 With windlasses, and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out,(:)
So by my former lecture and advice
Shall you my son(;) you have me, have you not?
Reynaldo
My lord{,} I have.
Polonius
God be wi' you(;) fare you well.
Reynaldo
70 Good my lord.
Polonius
Observe his inclination in yourself.
Reynaldo
I shall my lord.
Polonius
And let him ply his music.
Reynaldo
Well<,> my lord.
Exit {Reynaldo}.
Enter Ophelia.
Polonius
75 Farewell! How now Ophelia, what's the matter?
Ophelia
{O, my lord,}
Polonius
With what {i' th'} <, in the> name of God (Heaven)?
Ophelia
My lord, as I was sewing in my closet (chamber),
Lord Hamlet with his doublet all unbraced,
80 No hat upon his head, his stockings foul'd,
Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ankle,
Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,
And with a look so piteous in purport<,>
As if he had been loosed out of hell<,>
85 To speak of horrors,(:) he comes before me.
Polonius
Mad for thy love?
Ophelia
My lord<,> I do not know,(:)
But truly I do fear it.
Polonius
What said he?
Ophelia
He took me by the wrist, and held me hard,(;)
Then goes he to the length of all his arm,(;)
90 And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow,
He falls to such perusal of my face<,>
As he would draw it,(.) long stay'd he so,
At last, a little shaking of mine arm,(:)
And thrice his head thus waving up and down,(;)
95 He raised a sigh so piteous and profound<,>
As (that) it did seem to shatter all his bulk,
And end his being;(.) that done, he lets me go,
And, with (thrice) his head over his shoulder
He seem'd to find his way without his eyes,
100 For out o' doors he went without their help{s},(;)
And to the last, bended their light on me.
Polonius
{Come,} go with me, I will go seek the king,
This is the very ecstasy of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself,
105 And leads the will to desperate undertakings<,>
As oft as any passion(s) under heaven<,>
That does afflict our natures:(.) I am sorry,
What, have you given him any hard words of late?
Ophelia
No, my good lord,(:) but as you did command<,>
110 I did repel his letters, and denied
His access to me.
Polonius
That hath made him mad.
I am sorry that with better heed (speed) and judgment
I had not coted {*} him,(.) I feare{d} he did but trifle<,>
{* quoted Ed.}
And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy:
115 {By heaven}
To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions,
As it is common for the younger sort
To lack discretion;(.) come, go we to the king,
This must be known, which, being kept close{,} might move
120 More grief to hide than hate to utter love,(.)
{Come.}
Exeunt.
{Flourish.} Enter King<,> {and} Queen, Rosencrantz <, and> Guildenstern,
King
Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,(.)
Moreover that we much did long to see you,
The need we have to use you did provoke
Our hasty sending,(.) something have you heard
5 Of Hamlet's transformation,(:) so call it,
{Sith nor}
Resembles that it was,(.) what it should be(,)
More than his father's death, that thus hath put him
So much from the understanding of himself,
10 I cannot dream (deeme) of:(.) I entreat you both<,>
That, being of so young days brought up with him,(:)
And sith (since) so neighbour'd to his youth and havior (humour),
That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
Some little time,(:) so by your companies
15 To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather
So much as from occasion
{Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus,}
That, open'd, lies within our remedy.
Queen
Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you,
20 And sure I am two men there is (are) not living<,>
To whom he more adheres,(.) if it will please you
To show us so much gentry and good will,
As to expend your time with us awhile,
For the supply and profit of our hope,
25 Your visitation shall receive such thanks
As fits a king's remembrance.
Rosencrantz
Both your majesties
Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,
Put your dread pleasures more into command
30 Than to entreaty.
Guildenstern
{But} we both obey.(,)
And here give up ourselves, in the full bent,
To lay our service
To be commanded.
King
Thanks, Rosencrantz, and gentle Guildenstern.
Queen
35 Thanks, Guildenstern{,} and gentle Rosencrantz.
And I beseech you instantly to visit
My too much changed son,(.) go some of you<,>
And bring these (the) gentlemen where Hamlet is.
Guildenstern
Heavens make our presence and our practises
40 Pleasant and helpful to him.
Queen
{Ay} amen!
{Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.}
Enter Polonius.
Polonius
The ambassadors from Norway<,> my good lord,
Are joyfully return'd.
King
Thou still hast been the father of good news.
Polonius
Have I, my lord? {I} assure
45 I hold my duty<,> as I hold my soul,
Both to my God, and (one) to my gracious king;(:)
And I do think, or else this brain of mine
Hunts not the trail of policy<,> so sure
As it (I) hath (have) used to do,(:) that I have found
50 The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
King
O, speak of that, that do (I) I (do) long to hear.
Polonius
Give first admittance to the ambassadors,
My news shall be the fruit (newes) to that great feast.
King
Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
+Exit Polonius.+
55 He tells me, my dear (sweet) Gertrude (queene,)
The head and source of all your son's distemper.
Queen
I doubt it is no other but the main<,>
His father's death, and our hastie (o'erhasiy) marriage.
Enter Ambassadors (Polonius, Voltimand and Cornelius).
King
Well, we shall sift him,(.) welcome, {my} good friends,(?)
60 Say Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?
Voltimand
Most fair return of greetings and desires;(.)
Upon our first, he sent out to suppress
His nephew's levies, which to him appear'd
To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack,(:)
65 But, better look'd into, he truly found
It was against your highness, whereat grieved<,>
That so his sickness, age, and impotence
Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests
On Fortinbras, which he <(>in brief<)> obeys,
70 Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine,
Makes vow before his unde<,> never more
To give the assay of arms against your majesty:(.)
Whereon old Norway<,> overcome with joy,
Gives him three(-score) thousand crowns in annual fee,
75 And his commission to employ those soldiers
So levied {(}as before)(,) against the Polack,(:)
With an entreaty, herein further shown {*},
{* shone 2Кв }
+He gives a paper+
That it might please you to give quiet pass
Through your dominions for this (his) enterprise<,>
80 On such regards of safety and allowance<,>
As therein are set down.
King
It likes us well,(:)
And at our more consider'd time{,} well read,
Answer, and think upon this business:(.)
Meantime we thank you<,> for your well-took labour:
85 Go to your rest, at night we'll feast together,(.)
Most welcome home.
{Exeunt Ambassadors}
Polonius
This business is
My liege<,> and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day,(:) night, night,(;) and time is time,
90 Were nothing but to waste night, day and time,(.)
Therefore<, since> brevity is the soul of wit.
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief,(.) your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it,(:) for, to define true madness,
95 What is 't but to be nothing else but mad,(.)
But let that go.
Queen
More matter<,> with less art.
Polonius
Madam, I swear I use no art at all,(:)
That he is mad<,> 'tis true,(:) 'tis true{,} 'tis pity,
And pity {'tis 'tis}
100 But farewell it,(:) for I will use no art.
Mad let us grant him then,(;) and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,(;)
For this effect defective comes by cause:(,)
105 Thus it remains, and the remainder thus<.>
Perpend.(,)
I have a daughter,(:) have while she is mine,
Who in her duty and obedience, mark,
Hath given me this,(:) now gather<,> and surmise,(.)
110 To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most
beautified Ophelia,(.) That's an ill phrase, a vile
phrase, beautified is a vile phrase,(:) but you shall
heart{:} thus (these) in her excellent white bosom,
these {&c}.
Queen
115 Came this from Hamlet to her?(.)
Polonius
Good madam stay awhile, I will be faithful,(.)
{Letter.}
Doubt thou<,> the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,(:)
Doubt truth to be a liar,
120 But never doubt<,> I love.
О dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers,(:) I have
not art to reckon my groans,(;) but that I love thee
best, о most best believe it, adieu.
124 Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst this machine
is to him.(,) Hamlet.
Polonius
This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown (shew'd) me,(:)
And more about (above) hath his soliciting{s},
As they fell out by time, by means, and place,
All given to mine ear.
King
130 But how hath she received his love?
Polonius
What do you think of me?
King
As of a man faithful and honourable.
Polonius
I would fain prove so,(.) but what might you think<?>
When I had seen this hot love on the wing,
135 As I perceived it<,> {(}I must tell you that{)}
Before my daughter told me{,} what might you{,}
Or my dear majesty your queen here<,> think,
If I had play'd the desk or table-book,
Or given my heart a working (winking,) mute and dumb,
140 Or look'd upon this love<,> with idle sight,
What might you think? no, I went round to work,
And <(>my young mistress<)> thus I did bespeak{,}
Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star,
This must not be: and then<,> I prescripts (precepts) gave her<,>
145 That she should lock herself from her (his) resort,
Admit no messengers, receive no tokens,(:)
Which done, she took the fruits of my advice:(,)
And he repelled (repulsed), a short tale to make,
Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
150 Thence to a wath (watch), thence into a weakness,
Thence to lightness, and by this declension{,}
Into the madness wherein (whereon) now he raves,
And all we mourn (waile) for.
King
Do you think <'tis> this?
Queen
It may be very like
Polonius
155 Hath there been such a time, I'd fain know that,
That I have positively said, 'tis so,
When it proved otherwise?
King
Not that I know.
Polonius
Take this{,} from this, if this be otherwise;(,)
If circumstances, lead me, I will find
160 Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
Within the centre.
King
How may we try it further?
Polonius
You know, sometimes he walks four hours together
Here in the lobby.
Queen
So he does (ha's) indeed.
Polonius
At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him,
165 Be you and I behind an arras then,
Mark the encounter,(:) if he love her not,
And be not from his reason fall'n thereon<;>
Let me be no assistant for a state<,>
But (And) keep a farm and carters.
King
We will try it.
Enter Hamlet
Queen
170 But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.
Polonius
Away{,} I do beseech you<,> both away,
I'll board him presently,(.)
Exit King and Queen.
o, give me leave,(.)
How does my good Lord Hamlet?
Hamlet
Well, God-a-mercy.
Polonius
175 Do you know me, my lord?
Hamlet
Excellent<, excellent> well,(:) you are a fishmonger.
Polonius
Not I my lord.
Hamlet
Then I would you were so honest a man.
Polonius
Honest<,> my lord.(?)
Hamlet
180 Ay sir<,> to be honest as this world goes, is to be
one man picked out of ten (two) thousand.
Polonius
That's very true<,> my lord.
Hamlet
For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being
a good kissing carrion.(-) Have you a daughter?
Polonius
185 I have my lord.
Hamlet
Let her not walk i' th' sun,(:) conception is a
blessing, but
friend, look to 't.
Polonius
189 How say you by that,(?) still harping on my
daughter,(:) yet he knew me not at first,(;) he said I
was a fishmonger,(:) he is far
and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for
love,(:) very near this. I'll speak to him again. What
do you read my lord.(?)
Hamlet
195 Words, words, words.
Polonius
What is the matter<,> my lord.(?)
Hamlet
Between who.(?)
Polonius
I mean, the matter {that you read}
lord.
Hamlet
200 Slanders sir;(:) for the satirical rogue (slave) says
here, that old men have grey beards,(;) that their faces
are wrinkled,(;) their eyes purging thick amber, and
(or) plum-tree gum,(:) and that they have a plentiful
lack (locke) of wit, together with most weak hams,(.)
all which sir<,> though I (most) powerfully<,> and
potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it
thus set down,(:) for yourself (you your selfe) sir, {shall
grow}
could go backward.
Polonius +Aside+
210 Though this be madness, yet there is method in
't,(:) will you walk out of the air my lord?
Hamlet
Into my grave.
Polonius
Indeed that is out of the air;(:) how pregnant some-
times his replies are,(?) a happiness that often madness
hits on, which reason and sanctity (sanity) could not
so prosperously be delivered of. I will leave him <, and
suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him>
and my daughter. My
Hamlet
220 You cannot<, sir,> take from me any thing<,> that
I will (not) more willingly part withal:(,) except my life,
{except my life, except} my life.
{Enter Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.}
Polonius
Fare you well my lord.
Hamlet
These tedious old fools.
Polonius
225 You go to seek the (my) lord Hamlet,(;) there he is.
Rosencrantz
God save you sir.
+Exit Polonius+
Guildenstern
My honoured lord.(?)
Rosencrantz
My most dear lord.(?)
Hamlet
229 My extent (excellent) good friends,(?) how dost thou,
Guildenstem? A(O)h, Rosencrantz,(;) good lads<:> how
do you both?
Rosencrantz
As the indifferent children of the earth.
Guildenstern
Happy, in that we are not overhappy<:> on for-
tune's lap (cap). We are not the very button.
Hamlet
235 Nor the soles of her shoe.(?)
Rosencrantz
Neither my lord.
Hamlet
Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of
her favours.(?)
Guildenstern
Faith<,> her privates<,> we.
Hamlet
240 In the secret parts of fortune,(?) о most true.(J she
is a strumpet,(.) What<'s the> news?
Rosencrantz
None my lord,(;) but
honest.
Hamlet
244 Then is doomsday near,(:) but your news is not
true;(.)
tune, that she sends you to prison hither?
Guildenstern
Prison, my lord?
Hamlet
Denmark's a prison.
Rosencrantz
250 Then is the world one.
Hamlet
A goodly one, in which there are many confines,
wards and dungeons; Denmark being one o' th'
worst.
Rosencrantz
We think not so my lord.
Hamlet
255 Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it
is a prison.
Rosencrantz
Why then your ambition makes it one: 'tis too
narrow for your mind.
Hamlet
260 O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell, and
count myself a king of infinite space; were it not that I
have bad dreams.
Guildenstern
Which dreams indeed are ambition: for the very
substance of the ambitious, is merely the shadow of a
dream.
Hamlet
266 А dream itself is but a shadow.
Rosencrantz
Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a
quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow.
Hamlet
270 Then are our beggars bodies; and our monarchs
and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows: shall we
to th' court: for, by my fay I cannot reason?
Both
We'll wait upon you.
Hamlet
274 No such matter. I will not sort you with the rest of
my servants: for, to speak to you like an honest man:
I am most dreadfully attended;> But, in the beaten
way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?
Rosencrantz
278 To visit you my lord, no other occasion.
Hamlet
Beggar that I am, I am euer (even) poor in thanks,(:)
but I thank you,(:) and sure dear friends{,} my thanks
are too dear a halfpenny:(;) were you not sent for?
is it your own inclining? is it a free visitation? come,
{come} deal justly with me,(:) come, come,(;) nay
speak.
Guildenstern
285 What should we say my lord?
Hamlet
sent for,(;) and there is a kind {of} confession in your
looks.(;) which your modesties have not craft enough
to colour, I know the good king and queen have sent
for you.
Rosencrantz
290 To what end my lord?
Hamlet
That you must teach me: but let me conjure you,
by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of
our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved
love;(,) and by what more dear a better proposer can
(could) charge you withal,(;) be even and direct with
me<,> whether you were sent for or no?
Rosencrantz
What say you.(?)
Hamlet
Nay, then, I have an eye of you?(:) if you love me
hold not off.
Guildenstern
300 My lord<,> we were sent for.
Hamlet
301 I will tell you why,(;) so shall my anticipation pre-
vent your discovery{,} and (of) your secrecy to the king
& queen<:> moult no feather, I have of lat, but
wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all
custom of exercise{s}:(;) and indeed it goes so heavily
(heauently) with my disposition,(;) that this goodly
frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory,(;)
this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave
o'erhanging {firmament}, this majestical roof fretted
with golden fire,(:) why<,> it {appeareth nothing}
and pestilent congregation of vapours. What piece
of work is a man,(!) how noble in reason,(?) how infi-
nite in facult{ies}
press and admirable<?> in action, how like an an-
gel<?> in apprehension, how like a god:(?) the beauty
of the world;(,) the paragon of animals; and yet to me,
what is this quintessence of dust:(?) Man delights not
me,(;)
smiling{,} you seem to say so.
Rosencrantz
321 My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
Hamlet
Why did you laugh (then), when I said<,> man
delights not me.(?)
Rosencrantz
324 To think<,> my lord<,> if you delight not in man,
what lenten entertainment the players shall receive
from you,(:) we coted them on the way, and hither are
they coming to offer you service.
Hamlet
328 He that plays the king shall be welcomes;) his
majesty shall have tribute on (of) me,(:) the adventur-
ous knight shall use his foil and target,(:) the lover
shall not sigh gratis, the humourous man shall end his
part in peace,(:)
are tickled о' th' sere:> and the lady shall say her
mind freely:(;) or the black (blank) verse shall halt
for 't.(:) what players are they?
Rosencrantz
336 Even those you were wont to take (such) delight
in<,> the tragedians of the city.
Hamlet
339 How chances it they travel? their residence both in
reputation<,> and profit was better both ways.
Rosencrantz
341 I think their inhibition{,} comes by the means of the
late innovation(?)
Hamlet
Do they hold the same estimation they did when I
was in the city;(?) are they so followed.(?)
Rosencrantz
345 No indeed<,> are (they) they (are) not.
How comes it? do they grow rusty?
Rosencrantz
Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace;
but there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that
cry out on the top of question; and are most tyranni-
cally clapped for 't: these are now the fashion, and so
be-rattled {*} the common stages (so they call them) that
many wearing rapiers, are afraid of goose-quills, and
dare scarce come thither.
{* berattle, 2Ф }
Hamlet
354 What, are they children? Who maintains 'em?
How are they escoted? Will they pursue the quality
no longer than they can sing? Will they not say after-
wards if they should grow themselves to common
players (as it is like most, if their means are no bet-
ter) their writers do them wrong, to make them ex-
claim against their own succession.
Rosencrantz
361 Faith, there has been much to do on both sides:
and the nation holds it no sin, to tarre them to con-
troversy. There was for a while, no money bid for
argument, unless the poet and the player went to cuffs
in the question.
Hamlet
366 Is 't possible?
Guildenstern
О there has been much throwing about of
brains.
Hamlet
Do the boys carry it away?
Rosencrantz
370 Ay that they do my lord. Hercules and his load
too.>
Hamlet
It is not {very} strange,(:) for mine uncle is king of
Denmark, and those that would make mouths (mowes)
at him while my father lived,(;) give twenty, forty,
{fifty,} an hundred ducats apiece, for his picture in
little,(.) {'Sblood,{ there is something in this more than
natural, if philosophy could find it out.
A flourish
Guildenstern
378 There are the players.
Hamlet
Gentlemen<,> you are welcome to Elsinore,(:) your
hands<,> come {then},(:) th' appurtenance of wel-
come<,> is fashion and ceremony;(.) let me comply
with you in this (the) garb:(,) {let me}
to the players{,} <(>which, I tell you, must show fairly
outward,()) should more appear like entertainment than
yours?(.) you are welcome: but my uncle-father, and
aunt-mother<,> are deceived.
Guildenstern
386 In what, my dear lord?
Hamlet
I am but mad north-north-west;(:) when the wind is
southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Enter Polonius.
Polonius
390 Well be with you, gentlemen.