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Will you do this, keep close within your chamber,
135 Hamlet return'd, shall know you are come home,(:)
We'll put on those shall praise your excellence,
And set a double varnish on the fame
The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together<,>
And wager ore (on) your heads;(,) he being remiss,
140 Most generous and free from all contriving,
Will not peruse the foils,(?) so that with ease,
Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
A sword unbated, and in a pace (pass) of practise<,>
Requite him for your father.
Laertes
I will do't,
145 And for purpose, I'll anoint my sword.(:)
I bought an unction of a mountebank
So mortal, that (I) but dip a knife in it,
Where it draws blood, no cataplasm so rare,
Collected from all simples that have virtue
150 Under the moon, can save the thing from death<,>
That is but scratch'd withal,(:) I'll touch my point
With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.
King
Let's further think of this.(,)
Weigh what convenience both of time and means
155 May fit us to our shape<,> if this should fail,(;)
And that our drift look through our bad performance,
'Twere better not assay'd,(;) therefore this project
Should have a back or second<,> that might hold<,>
If this did (should) blast in proof;(:) soft<,> let me see{,}
160 We'll make a solemn wager on your cun(m)n(m)ings,
I ha 't,(:) when in your motion you are hot and dry,
As make your bouts more violent to the (that) end,
And that he calls for drink,(;) I'll have prefard (prepared) him
A chalice for the nonce,(;) whereon but sipping,
165 If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,
Our purpose may hold there; {but stay, what noise?}
Enter Queen.
Queen
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they<'l> follow;(:) your sister's drown'd Laertes.
Laertes
Drown'd,(!) О where?
Queen
170 There is a willow grows ask(l)ant the (a) brook<,>
That shows his horry (hoar) leaves in the glassy stream,(:)
There with fantastic garlands did she make (come,)
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples<,>
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,(;)
175 But our (cull-)cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.(:)
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang,(;) an envious sliver broke,(,)
When down her (the) weedy trophies<,> and herself
Fell in the weeping brook, her clothes spread wide,
180 And mermaid-like<,> awhile they bore her up,
Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds (tunes),
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element,(:) but long it could not be<,>
185 Till that her garments<,> heavy with their (her) drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay (buy)<,>
To muddy death.
Laertes
Alas, then, she (is) is (she) drown'd.(?)
Queen
Drown'd, drown'd.
Laertes
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia,
190 And therefore I forbid my tears;(:) but yet
It is our trick, nature her custom holds,
Let shame say what it will,(;) when these are gone{,}
The woman will be out.(:> Adieu my lord,
I have a speech of fire<,> that fain would blaze,
195 But that this folly drowns (doubts) it.
Exit.
King
Let's follow<,> Gertrude:
How much I had to do to calm his rage,(?)
Now fear I this will give it start again,(;)
Therefore let's follow.
Exeunt.
+АСТ 5+
+SCENE 1+
Enter two Clownes.
Clowne
Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she}
wilfully seeks her own salvation?
Other
I tell thee she is, therefore make her grave
straight, the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it
Christian burial.
Clowne
6 How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her
own defence.(?)
Other
Why 'tis found so.
Clowne
9 It must be so (se) offended (offendendo), it cannot
be else,(:) for here lies the point; if I drown myself
wittingly, it argues an act,(:) & an act hath three
branches,(.) it is, to (an) act, to do{,} to per-
form{, or all}; she drowned herself wittingly.
Other
Nay, but hear you, good{ }man delver.
Clowne
15 Give me leave. Here lies the water,(;) good,(:) here
stands the man,(;) good,(:) if the man go to this water,
& drown himself,(;) it is will he{,} nill he, he goes,(;)
mark you that,(?) but if the water come to him{,} &
drown him,(;) he drowns not himself,(.) argall, he that is
not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
Other
21 But is this law?
Clowne
Ay, marry, is 't, crowner's quest law.
Other
Will you ha' the truth on 't,{:} if this had not
been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried
out a (of) christian burial.
Clowne
26 Why there thou say'st: and the more pity that
great folk should have countna{u}nce in this world
to drown or hang themselves, more than their even-
christian:(.) come, my spade,(;) there is no ancient
gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-
makers,(;) they hold up Adam's profession.
Other
32 Was he a gentleman?
Clowne
He was the first that ever bore arms.
Why he had none.
Clowne
35 What, art a heathen? how dost thou understand
the Scripture? the Scripture says Adam digg'd;
could he dig without arms?> I'll put another ques-
tion to thee,(;) if thou answerest me not to the pur-
pose, confess thyself.(-)
Other
40 Go to.
Clowne
What is he that builrls stronger than either the
mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
Other
The gallows-maker,(,) for that outlives a
thousand tenants.
Clowne
45 I like thy wit well in good faith, the gallows
does well,(;) but how does it well? It does well
to those that do ill,(:) now thou dost ill to say
the gallows is built stronger than the church,(:)
argal, the gallows may do well to thee. To 't again,
come.
Other
51 Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright,
or a carpenter?
Clowne
Ay, tell me that<,> and unyoke.
Other
Marry<,> now I can tell.
Clowne
55 To 't.
Other
Mass<,> I cannot tell.
Clowne
Cudgel thy brains no more about it,(;) for your dull
ass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when
you are asked this question next,(;) say a grave-
maker,(:) the houses he makes last till dooms-
day.(:) Go<,> get thee {in, and} fetch
me a soope (stoup) of liquor.
In youth when I did love, did love,
{Song.}
Methought it was very sweet<:>
65 To contract о the time, for a my behove,
О methought there a was nothing {a} meet.
{Enter Hamlet and Horatio.}
Hamlet
Has this fellow no feeling of his business? {*}(,)
{* busines? a 2Кв}
he sings in (at) grave-making?
Horatio
Custom hath made it in (at) him a property of easiness.
Hamlet
70 Tis e'en so,(;) the hand of little employment hath
the dintier sense.
Clowne
But age with his stealing steps
{Song.}
Hath claw'd (caught) me in his clutch,(:)
And hath shipped me into (untill) the land,
75 As if I had never been such.
+Throws up a skull.+
Hamlet
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once:
how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were
Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder(:) this (it)
might be the pate of a politician, which this ass
o'erreaches (o'er Offices); one that w(c)ould circumvent
God, might it not?
Horatio
82 It might<,> my lord.
Hamlet
Or of a courtier, which could say<,> good morrow
sweet lord,(:) how dost thou sweet (good) lord? This
might be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord
such-a-one's horse, when he went (meant) to beg it,(;)
might it not?
Horatio
88 Ay<,> my lord.
Hamlet
Why e'en so,(:) & now my lady wormes<,> chap-
less, & knocked about the massene (mazard) with a
sexton's spade; here's fine revolution<,> and (if) we
had the trick to see 't,(.) did these bones cost no more
the breeding, but to play at loggets with them:(?) mine
ache to think on 't.
Clowne
Song (Clown sings).
95 A pick-axe and a spade<,> a spade,
For and a shrouding sheet,(:)
О a pit of clay for to be made<,>
For such a guest is meet.
+He digs up more skulls+.
Hamlet
99 There's another,(:) why may (might) not that be the
skull of a lawyer,(?) where be his quiddit{ie}s now,(?)
his quillities {*} (quillets),(?) his cases,(?) his tenures, and
{* quillites}
his tricks? why does he suffer this mad (rude) knave
now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty
shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery,(?)
hum,(.) this fellow might be in's time a great buyer of
land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his
double vouchers, his recoveries,(:)
his fine pate full of fine dirt,(?) will vouchers
vouch him no more of his purchases<,> & double{s}
, than the length and breadth of a pair of
indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will
scarcely (hardly) lie in this box,(;) & must the inheri-
tor himself have no more,(?) ha.(?)
Horatio
115 Not a jot more<,> my lord.
Hamlet
Is not parchment made of sheepskins?
Horatio
Ay my lord, and of calves' skins too.
Hamlet
They are sheep and calves which (that) seek out
assurance in that,(.) I will speak to this fellow.(:)
Whose grave's this sirrah (Sir)?
Clowne
121 Mine sir,(:)
+Sings.+
Or (O) a pit of clay for to be made.(,)
Hamlet
I think it be thine indeed,(:) for thou
liest in't.
Clowne
126 You lie out on't sir, and therefore it is not yours;(:)
for my part<,> I do not lie in 't,(;) yet it is mine.
Hamlet
Thou dost lie in 't<,> to be in 't & say it is thine,(:)
'tis for the dead, not for the quick, therefore thou
liest.
Clowne
131 Tis a quick lie sir, 'twill away again from me to
you.
Hamlet
What man dost thou dig it for?
Clowne
For no man sir.
Hamlet
135 What woman then?
Clowne
For none neither.
Hamlet
Who is to be buried in 't?
Clowne
One that was a woman sir,(;) but rest her soul<,>
she's dead.
Hamlet
140 How absolute the knave is(?) we must speak by the
card, or equivocation will undo us.(:) By the Lord
Horatio, this (these) three years I have took (taken) a
note of it, the age is grown so picked, that the toe of
the peasant comes so near the heel of the (our)
courtier<,> he galls his kibe. How long hast thou been
grave-maker?
Clownе
147 Of the days i' th' year<;> I came to 't
that day that our last king Hamlet overcame
Fortinbras.
Hamlet
150 How long is that since?
Clowne
Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that,(:) it
was that (the) very day that young Hamlet was bom:(,)
he that is (was) mad<,> and sent into England.
Hamlet
Ay marry, why was he sent into England?
Clowne
155 Why<,> because he was mad:(;) he shall recover
his wits there,(;) or if he do not, it's no great matter
there.
Hamlet
Why?
Clowne
'Twill not be seen in him {there}, there the men are
as mad as he.
Hamlet
161 How came he mad?
Clowne
Very strangely they say.
Hamlet
How strangely?
Clowne
Faith e'en with losing his wits.
Hamlet
165 Upon what ground?
Clowne
Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton
(sixeteene) here, man and boy, thirty years.
Hamlet
How long will a man lie i' th' earth ere he rot?
Clowne
169 Faith (Ifaith), if he be not rotten before he die{,}
<(>as we have many pocky corses, that
will scarce hold the laying in,()) he will last you some
eight year, or nine year. A tanner will last you nine year.
Hamlet
Why he more than another?
Clowne
174 Why sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that
he will keep out water a great while;(.) & your water
is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body,(.)
here's a skull now<: this Skull,> hath (has) lain {you}
in the earth 23 (three and twenty years).
Hamlet
Whose was it?
Clowne
180 A whoreson mad fellow's it was,(;) whose 6o you
think it was?
Hamlet
Nay<,> I know not.
Clowne
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue, a' poured a
flagon of rhenish on my head once;(.) this same
skull sir, was {sir} Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
Hamlet
186 This?
Clowne
E'en that.
Hamlet
Alas poor Yorick, I knew him, Hor-
atio, a fellow of infinite jest,(;) of most excellent fancy,
he hath bore me on his back a thousand times,(:)
and {now} how abhorred (in) my imagination {it} is:(,)
my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have
kissed I know not how oft,(.) where be your gibes
now? your gambols,(?) your songs,(?) your flashes of
merriment{,} that were wont to set the table on a roar,(?)
Not (no) one now to mock your own grinning (ieering)?
quite chap-fallen.(?) Now get you to my lady's table
(chamber), & tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this
favour she must come,(.) make her laugh at that.(:)
Prithee Horatio tell me one thing.
Horatio
201 What's that my lord?
Hamlet
Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'
th, earth?
Horatio
E'en so.
Hamlet
205 And smelt so<?> pah.
Horatio
E'en so<,> my lord.
Hamlet
To what base uses we may return Horatio?(.)
Why may not imagination trace the noble
dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-
hole?
Horatio
211 'Twere to consider<:> too curiously to consider
so.
Hamlet
No faith, not a jot,(.) but to follow him thither with
modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it,(;)
Alexander returnethto dust,(;) the dust is earth,(;)
of earth we make loam, & why of that loam <(>whereto
he was converted,()) might they not stop a beer-barrel?
219 Imperious (Imperiall) Caesar, dead and tum'd to clay,
Might stop a hole{,} to keep the wind away.
O<,> that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall to expel the waters (winter's) flaw.
But soft, but soft<,> awhile (aside)(,) here comes the king,(.)
{Enter K. Q. Laertes and the corse.}
The queen, the courtiers,(.) who is this (that) they follow?(,)
225 And with such maimed rites? this doth betoken,
The corse they follow, did with desp'(e)rate hand<,>
Fordo its own life,(;) 'twas {of} some estate.
Couch we awhile, and mark.
Laertes
What ceremony else?
Hamlet
230 That is Laertes<,> a very noble youth,(:) mark.
Laertes
What ceremony else?
Doctor (Priest)
Her obsequies have been as far enlarged<.>
As we have warranty, her death was doubtful,
And, but that great command<,> oversways the order,
235 She should in ground unsanctified been (haue) lodged<,>
Till the last trumpet:(.) for charitable pray(i)er{s},
flints and pebbles should be thrown on her:
Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants (rites),
Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home
240 Of bell and burial.
Laertes
Must there no more be done?
Doctor (Priest)
No more be done.(:)
We should profane the service of the dead;(,)
To sing a (sage) requiem<,> and such rest to her
As to peace-parted souls.
Laertes
Lay her i' th' earth:
245 And from her fair and unpolluted flesh<,>
May violets spring:(.) I tell thee <(>churlish priest,())
A ministering angel shall my sister be<,>
When thou liest howling.(?)
Hamlet
What, the fair Ophelia.(?)
Queen
250 Sweets<,> to the sweet{,} farewell,(.)
I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife,(:)
I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd <(>sweet maid,())
And not have strew'd thy grave.
Laertes
О treble (terrible) woe
255 Fall ten times double (treble,) on that cursed head{,}
Whose wicked deed<,> thy most ingenious sense
Deprived thee of,(.) hold off the earth awhile,
Till I have caught her once more in mine arms;(:)
Now pile your dust upon the quick<,> and dead,
260 Till of this flat a mountain you have made,
To overtop old Pelion, or the skyish head
Of blue Olympus.
Hamlet
What is he<,> whose grief
Bears such an emphasis,(?) whose phrase of sorrow
Conjure{s} the wandering stars, and makes them stand
265 Like wonder-wounded hearers:(?) This is I<,>
Hamlet the Dane.
Laertes
The devil take thy soul.
Hamlet
Thou pray'st not well.
I prithee take thy fingers from my throat,(;) {*}
{* Членение последних двух строк по Ф.}
For (Sir) though I am not splenitive <, and> rash,
270 Yet have I {in me} something dangerous,
Which let thy wisdom (wisenesse) fear;(.) {hold off} thy hand.
King
Pluck them asunder.
Queen
Hamlet, Hamlet.
{All
Gentlemen.}
Horatio (Gen.)
275 Good my lord be quiet.
Hamlet
Why I will fight with him upon this theme<.>
Until my eyelids will no longer wag.
Queen
O my son, what theme?
Hamlet
I loved Ophelia,(;) forty thousand brothers
280 Could not <(>with all their quantity of love<)>
Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her.(?)
King
O he is mad Laertes.
Queen
For love of God forbear him.
Hamlet
'Swounds (come), show me what thou't do:(.)
285 Woo't weep,(?> woo't fight,(?) {woo't fast,} woo't tear thyself,(?)
Woo't drink up eisel, eat a crocodile?
I'll do't,(.) dost come here to whine?(;)
To outface me with leaping in her grave,(?)
Be buried quick with her, and so will I.
290 And if thou prate of mountains,(;) let them throw
Millions of acres on us,(;) till our ground
Singeing his pate against the burning zone<,>
Make Ossa like a wart,(.) nay<,> and thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou.
Queen (King)
This is mere madness.(:)
296 And thi(u)s awhile the fit will work on him,о
Anon as patient as the female dove<,>
When that her golden couplets (cuplet) are disclosed<;>
His silence will sit drooping.
Hamlet
Hear you sir,(:)
300 What is the reason that you use me thus?
I loved you ever,(;) but it is no matter,(:)
Let Hercules himself do what he may<,>
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
{Exit Hamlet}.
King
I pray thee (you) good Horatio wait upon him.
{and Horatio.}
305 Strengthen you{r} patience in our last night's speech,
We'll put the matter to the present push:
Good Gertrude set some watch over your son,
This grave shall have a living monument,(:)
An hour of quiet thirtie (shortly) shall we see<;>
310 Till then<,> in patience our proceeding be.
Exeunt.
+SCENE 2+
Enter Hamlet and Horatio.
Hamlet
So much for this sir,(;) now {shall you} see the other,
You do remember all the circumstance.
Horatio
Remember it my lord.(?)
Hamlet
Sir<,> in my heart there was a kind of fighting<,>
5 That would not let me sleep,(;) {my thought} I lay
Worse than the mutines in the bilbo, rashly,
<(>And praise(d) be rashness for it:()) let us know,
Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well<,>
When our deep (deare) plots do pall {*} (paule), &
that should learn (teach) us<,>
{* fall 2Кв}
10 There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
Horatio
That is most certain.
Hamlet
Up from my cabin{,}
My sea-gown scarf'd about me in the dark<,>
Groped I to find out them,(;) had my desire,
15 Finger'd their packet, and in fine<,> withdrew
To mine own room again, making so bold<,>
<(>My fears forgetting manners<)> to unfold (unseale)
Their grand commission;(,) where I found, Horatio<,>
A (Oh) royal knavery,(:) an exact command<,>
20 Larded with many several sorts of reason{s},(;)
Importing Denmark's health, and England's too,
With ho<,> such bugs and goblins in my life,
That on the supervise no leisure bated,
No not to stay the grinding of the axe,
25 My head should be struck off.
Horatio
Is't possible?
Hamlet
Here's the commission, read it at more leisure,(:)
But wilt thou hear now (me) how I did proceed,(?)
Horatio
I beseech you.
Hamlet
Being thus be-netted round with villaines {*},
{* villainies Ed.}
30 Or (Ere) I could make a prologue to my brains,
They had begun the play,(.) I sat me down,
Devised a new commission, wrote it fair,
I once did hold it as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair,(;) and labour'd much
35 How to forget that learning,о but sir now<,>
It did me yeoman's service,о wilt thou know
Th'(e) effect of what I wrote?
Horatio
Ay<,> good my lord.
Hamlet
An earnest conjuration from the king,
40 As England was his faithful tributary,
As love between them like (, as) the palm might (should) flourish,
As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear<,>
And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
And many such-like{, as sir} {*} of great charge,
{* ases Ed.}
45 That on the view and know{ing} of these contents,
Without debatement further<,> more or less,
He should those (the) bearers put to sudden death,
Not shriving-time allow'd.
Horatio
How was this seal'd?
Hamlet
50 Why, even in that was heaven ordina{n}t,(;)
I had my father's signet in my purse<,>
Which was the model of that Danish seal,(;)
Folded the writ up in {the} form of the other,
Subscribe it, gave't the impression, placed it safely,
55 The changeling never known: now<,> the next day
Was our sea-fight, and what to this was se{qu}ent<,>
Thou know'st already.
Horatio
So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to 't.
Hamlet
Does by their own insinuation grow,(:)
'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
Between the pass<,> and fell incensed points
Of mighty opposites.
Horatio
65 Why<,> what a king is this!(?)
Hamlet
Does it not<,> think<'st> thee, stand me now upon{?}
He that hath kill'd my king, and whored my mother,
Popp'd in between the election and my hopes,
Thrown out his angle for my proper life,
70 And with such cozenage,(;) is 't not perfect conscience?(,)
<То quit him with this arm? and is 't not to be damn'd
To let this canker of our nature come
In further evil.
Horatio
It must be shortly known to him from England
75 What is the issue of the business there.
Hamlet
It will be short,
The interim's mine, and a man's life's no more
Than to say one: but I am very sorry good Horatio,
That to Laertes I forgot myself;
80 For by the image of my cause, I see
The portraiture of his; I'll count {*} his favours:
{* court Ed.}
But sure the bravery of his grief did put me
Into a tow'ring passion.
Horatio
Peace, who comes here?>
Enter {a Courtier}.
Courtier (Osric)
Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.
Hamlet
85 I humble(y) thank you sir.
Dost know this waterfly?
Horatio
No my good lord.
Hamlet
Thy state is the more gracious,(;) for 'tis a vice to
know him,(:) he hath much land<,> and fertile:(;) let a
beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the
king's mess,(;) 'tis a chough,(;) but, as I say (saw){,}
spacious in the possession of dirt.
Courtier (Osric)
92 Sweet lord, if your lordship (friendship) were at
leisure, I should impart a thing to you from his maj-
esty.
Hamlet
95 I will receive it (sir) with all diligence of spirit,(;)
put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head.
Courtier (Osric)
I thank your lordship, it is very hot.
Hamlet
No<,> believe me{,} 'tis very cold, the wind is northerly.
Courtter (Osric)
It is indifferent cold my lord indeed.
Hamlet
100 {But yet} methinks it is very sully (sultry,) and hot
or (for){,} my complexion.
Courtier (Osric)
Exceedingly<,> my lord, it is very sultry, as 'twere,
I cannot tell how: my lord<,> his majesty bade
me signify to you, that he has laid a great wager on
your head,(:) sir<,> this is the matter.
Hamlet
106 I beseech you remember.
+Hamlet moves him to put on his hat.+
Courtier
Nay, {good my lord},(:) for mine
ease, in good faith, {sir here is newly come to court
Laertes, believe me an absolute gentlemen {*}, full of
most excellent differences, of very soft society, and
great showing: indeed to speak fellingly {**} of him, he is
the card or calendar of gentry: for you shall find in
him the continent of what part a gentleman would see.
{* gentleman 3Кв
** Feelingly 3Кв; sellingly 2Кв до исправления }
Hamlet
114 Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you,
though I know to divide him inventorially, would daz-
zie {*} th' arithmetic of memory, and yet but raw {**} nei-
ther, in respect of his quick sail, but in the verity of
extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, &
his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as to make
true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, &
who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
{* dozy 2Кв до исправления
** yaw 2Кв до исправления }
Courtier (Osric)
126 Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.
Hamlet
The concernancy sir, why do we wrap the gentle-
man in our more rawer breath?
Courtier (Osric)
Sir.
Horatio
130 Is't not possible to understand in another tongue,
you will doo 't{*} sir really.
{* to 't 2Кв до исправления }
Hamlet
What imports the nomination of this gentleman.
Courtier (Osric)
Of Laertes.
Horatio
His purse is empty already, alls golden words are
spent.
Hamlet
136 Of him sir.
Courtier (Osric)
I know you are not ignorant.
Hamlet
I would you did sir, yet, in faith if you did, it
would not much approve me, well sir?}
Courtier (Osric)
141 You are not ignorant of what excellence
Laertes is.
{Hamlet
I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with
him in excellence, but to know a man well, were to
know himself.
Courtier (Osric)
146 I mean sir for this {*} weapon, but in the imputa-
tion laid on him, by them in his meed, he's unfel-
lowed.}
{* his 5Кв}
Hamlet
What's his weapon?
Courtier (Osric)
150 Rapier and dagger.
Hamlet
That's two of his weapons,(;) but well.
Courtier (Osric)
The king (sir) {sir}, hath (ha's) wagered
(wag'd) with him six barbary horses, against the which
he has impawned (impon'd) as I take it<,> six french
rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle,
hanger, and (or) so.(:) three of the carriages in
faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the
hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal con-
ceit.
Hamlet
158 What call you the carriages?
{Horatio
I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you
had done.}
Courtier (Osric)
The carriage sir<,> are the hangers.
Hamlet
162 The phrase would be more germane to the mat-
ter<:> if we could carry {a} cannon by our sides.(;) I
would it {be} might hangers till then,(;> but on{,}
six barbary horses against six french swords<:>
their assigns, and three liberal-conceited carriages,
that's the french bet (but) against the Danish,(;) why is
this +"impawned"+ you call it?
Courtier (Osric)
169 The king sir, hath laid sir, that in a dozen passes
between you(rself) and him, he shall not exceed you
three hits,(;) he hath {laid on} twelve for n(m)ine,
and it (that) would come to immediate trial, if your
lordship would vouchsafe the answer.
Hamlet
174 How if I answer no?
Courtier (Osric)
I mean my lord<,> the opposition of your person in
trial.
Hamlet
177 Sir, I will walk here in the hall,(;) if it please his
majesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me,(;) let
the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the
king hold his purpose; I will win for him an {*} (if) I
can,(:) if not, I will gain nothing but my shame, and
the odd hits.
{* and Кв2}
Courtier (Osric)
183 Shall Ideliver you so?
Hamlet
To this effect sir, after what flourish your nature
will.
Courtier (Osric)
186 I commend my duty to your lordship.
Hamlet
Yours<, yours; hee> doo(e){'}s well to commend
it himself, there are no tongues else for 's turn
(tongue).
Horatio
190 This lapwing runs away with the shell on his
head.
Hamlet
He did {so sir} {*} with his dug before he
sucked it,(:) thus has (had) he and many (mine) more
of the same breed (beauy) +bevy+ that I know the
drossy +dressy+ age dotes on,(;) only got the tune of
the time, and (out of an| habit of encoun-
ter, a kind of histy (yeasty) collection, which car-
ries them through and through the most {prophane and
trennowed} opinions,(;) and do
but blow them to their trial (tryalls),(:) the bubbles are
out.
{* sir Кв2 uncorr.}
{Enter a Lord.
Lord
201 My lord, his majesty commended him to you by
young Osric, who brings back to him that you at-
tend him in the hall, he sends to know if your
135 Hamlet return'd, shall know you are come home,(:)
We'll put on those shall praise your excellence,
And set a double varnish on the fame
The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together<,>
And wager ore (on) your heads;(,) he being remiss,
140 Most generous and free from all contriving,
Will not peruse the foils,(?) so that with ease,
Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
A sword unbated, and in a pace (pass) of practise<,>
Requite him for your father.
Laertes
I will do't,
145 And for
I bought an unction of a mountebank
So mortal, that (I) but dip
Where it draws blood, no cataplasm so rare,
Collected from all simples that have virtue
150 Under the moon, can save the thing from death<,>
That is but scratch'd withal,(:) I'll touch my point
With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.
King
Let's further think of this.(,)
Weigh what convenience both of time and means
155 May fit us to our shape<,> if this should fail,(;)
And that our drift look through our bad performance,
'Twere better not assay'd,(;) therefore this project
Should have a back or second<,> that might hold<,>
If this did (should) blast in proof;(:) soft<,> let me see{,}
160 We'll make a solemn wager on your cun(m)n(m)ings,
I ha 't,(:) when in your motion you are hot and dry,
As make your bouts more violent to the (that) end,
And that he calls for drink,(;) I'll have prefard (prepared) him
A chalice for the nonce,(;) whereon but sipping,
165 If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,
Our purpose may hold there; {but stay, what noise?}
Enter Queen.
Queen
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they<'l> follow;(:) your sister's drown'd Laertes.
Laertes
Drown'd,(!) О where?
Queen
170 There is a willow grows ask(l)ant the (a) brook<,>
That shows his horry (hoar) leaves in the glassy stream,(:)
There with fantastic garlands did she make (come,)
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples<,>
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,(;)
175 But our (cull-)cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.(:)
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang,(;) an envious sliver broke,(,)
When down her (the) weedy trophies<,> and herself
Fell in the weeping brook, her clothes spread wide,
180 And mermaid-like<,> awhile they bore her up,
Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds (tunes),
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element,(:) but long it could not be<,>
185 Till that her garments<,> heavy with their (her) drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay (buy)<,>
To muddy death.
Laertes
Alas, then, she (is) is (she) drown'd.(?)
Queen
Drown'd, drown'd.
Laertes
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia,
190 And therefore I forbid my tears;(:) but yet
It is our trick, nature her custom holds,
Let shame say what it will,(;) when these are gone{,}
The woman will be out.(:> Adieu my lord,
I have a speech of fire<,> that fain would blaze,
195 But that this folly drowns (doubts) it.
Exit.
King
Let's follow<,> Gertrude:
How much I had to do to calm his rage,(?)
Now fear I this will give it start again,(;)
Therefore let's follow.
Exeunt.
+АСТ 5+
+SCENE 1+
Enter two Clownes.
Clowne
Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she}
Other
I tell thee she is,
straight, the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it
Christian burial.
Clowne
6 How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her
own defence.(?)
Other
Why 'tis found so.
Clowne
9 It must be so (se) offended (offendendo), it cannot
be else,(:) for here lies the point; if I drown myself
wittingly, it argues an act,(:) & an act hath three
branches,(.) it is, to (an) act, to do{,}
form{, or all};
Other
Nay, but hear you, good{ }man delver.
Clowne
15 Give me leave. Here lies the water,(;) good,(:) here
stands the man,(;) good,(:) if the man go to this water,
& drown himself,(;) it is will he{,} nill he, he goes,(;)
mark you that,(?) but if the water come to him{,} &
drown him,(;) he drowns not himself,(.) argall, he that is
not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
Other
21 But is this law?
Clowne
Ay, marry, is 't, crowner's quest law.
Other
Will you ha' the truth on 't,{:} if this had not
been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried
out a (of) christian burial.
Clowne
26 Why there thou say'st: and the more pity that
great folk should have count
to drown or hang themselves, more than their even-
christian:(.) come, my spade,(;) there is no ancient
gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-
makers,(;) they hold up Adam's profession.
Other
32 Was he a gentleman?
Clowne
He was the first that ever bore arms.
Why he had none.
Clowne
35 What, art a heathen? how dost thou understand
the Scripture? the Scripture says Adam digg'd;
could he dig without arms?> I'll put another ques-
tion to thee,(;) if thou answerest me not to the pur-
pose, confess thyself.(-)
Other
40 Go to.
Clowne
What is he that builrls stronger than either the
mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
Other
The gallows-maker,(,) for that outlives a
thousand tenants.
Clowne
45 I like thy wit well in good faith, the gallows
does well,(;) but how does it well? It does well
to those that do ill,(:) now thou dost ill to say
the gallows is built stronger than the church,(:)
argal, the gallows may do well to thee. To 't again,
come.
Other
51 Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright,
or a carpenter?
Clowne
Ay, tell me that<,> and unyoke.
Other
Marry<,> now I can tell.
Clowne
55 To 't.
Other
Mass<,> I cannot tell.
Clowne
Cudgel thy brains no more about it,(;) for your dull
ass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when
you are asked this question next,(;) say a grave-
maker,(:) the houses
day.(:) Go<,> get thee {in, and}
me a soope (stoup) of liquor.
In youth when I did love, did love,
{Song.}
Methought it was very sweet<:>
65 To contract о the time, for a my behove,
О methought there a was nothing {a} meet.
{Enter Hamlet and Horatio.}
Hamlet
Has this fellow no feeling of his business? {*}(,)
{* busines? a 2Кв}
he sings in (at) grave-making?
Horatio
Custom hath made it in (at) him a property of easiness.
Hamlet
70 Tis e'en so,(;) the hand of little employment hath
the dintier sense.
Clowne
But age with his stealing steps
{Song.}
Hath claw'd (caught) me in his clutch,(:)
And hath shipped me into (untill) the land,
75 As if I had never been such.
+Throws up a skull.+
Hamlet
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once:
how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were
Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder(:) this (it)
might be the pate of a politician, which this ass
o'erreaches (o'er Offices); one that w(c)ould circumvent
God, might it not?
Horatio
82 It might<,> my lord.
Hamlet
Or of a courtier, which could say<,> good morrow
sweet lord,(:) how dost thou sweet (good) lord? This
might be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord
such-a-one's horse, when he went (meant) to beg it,(;)
might it not?
Horatio
88 Ay<,> my lord.
Hamlet
Why e'en so,(:) & now my lady wormes<,> chap-
less, & knocked about the massene (mazard) with a
sexton's spade; here's fine revolution<,> and (if) we
had the trick to see 't,(.) did these bones cost no more
the breeding, but to play at loggets with them:(?) mine
ache to think on 't.
Clowne
Song (Clown sings).
95 A pick-axe and a spade<,> a spade,
For and a shrouding sheet,(:)
О a pit of clay for to be made<,>
For such a guest is meet.
+He digs up more skulls+.
Hamlet
99 There's another,(:) why may (might) not that be the
skull of a lawyer,(?) where be his quiddit{ie}s now,(?)
his quillities {*} (quillets),(?) his cases,(?) his tenures, and
{* quillites}
his tricks? why does he suffer this mad (rude) knave
now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty
shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery,(?)
hum,(.) this fellow might be in's time a great buyer of
land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his
double vouchers, his recoveries,(:)
his fine pate full of fine dirt,(?) will
vouch him no more of his purchases<,> & double{s}
indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will
scarcely (hardly) lie in this box,(;) & must the inheri-
tor himself have no more,(?) ha.(?)
Horatio
115 Not a jot more<,> my lord.
Hamlet
Is not parchment made of sheepskins?
Horatio
Ay my lord, and of calves' skins too.
Hamlet
They are sheep and calves which (that) seek out
assurance in that,(.) I will speak to this fellow.(:)
Whose grave's this sirrah (Sir)?
Clowne
121 Mine sir,(:)
+Sings.+
Or (O) a pit of clay for to be made.(,)
Hamlet
I think it be thine indeed,(:) for thou
liest in't.
Clowne
126 You lie out on't sir, and therefore it is not yours;(:)
for my part<,> I do not lie in 't,(;)
Hamlet
Thou dost lie in 't<,> to be in 't & say it is thine,(:)
'tis for the dead, not for the quick, therefore thou
liest.
Clowne
131 Tis a quick lie sir, 'twill away again from me to
you.
Hamlet
What man dost thou dig it for?
Clowne
For no man sir.
Hamlet
135 What woman then?
Clowne
For none neither.
Hamlet
Who is to be buried in 't?
Clowne
One that was a woman sir,(;) but rest her soul<,>
she's dead.
Hamlet
140 How absolute the knave is(?) we must speak by the
card, or equivocation will undo us.(:) By the Lord
Horatio, this (these) three years I have took (taken) a
note of it, the age is grown so picked, that the toe of
the peasant comes so near the heel
courtier<,> he galls his kibe. How long hast thou been
grave-maker?
Clownе
147 Of
that day that our last king Hamlet overcame
Fortinbras.
Hamlet
150 How long is that since?
Clowne
Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that,(:) it
was that (the) very day that young Hamlet was bom:(,)
he that is (was) mad<,> and sent into England.
Hamlet
Ay marry, why was he sent into England?
Clowne
155 Why<,> because he was mad:(;) he shall recover
his wits there,(;) or if he do not, it's no great matter
there.
Hamlet
Why?
Clowne
'Twill not be seen in him {there}, there the men are
as mad as he.
Hamlet
161 How came he mad?
Clowne
Very strangely they say.
Hamlet
How strangely?
Clowne
Faith e'en with losing his wits.
Hamlet
165 Upon what ground?
Clowne
Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton
(sixeteene) here, man and boy, thirty years.
Hamlet
How long will a man lie i' th' earth ere he rot?
Clowne
169 Faith (Ifaith), if he be not rotten before he die{,}
<(>as we have many pocky corses
will scarce hold the laying in,()) he will last you some
eight year, or nine year. A tanner will last you nine year.
Hamlet
Why he more than another?
Clowne
174 Why sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that
he will keep out water a great while;(.) & your water
is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body,(.)
here's a skull now<: this Skull,> hath (has) lain {you}
in the earth 23 (three and twenty years).
Hamlet
Whose was it?
Clowne
180 A whoreson mad fellow's it was,(;) whose 6o you
think it was?
Hamlet
Nay<,> I know not.
Clowne
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue, a' poured a
flagon of rhenish on my head once;(.)
skull sir, was {sir} Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
Hamlet
186 This?
Clowne
E'en that.
Hamlet
atio, a fellow of infinite jest,(;) of most excellent fancy,
he hath bor
and {now} how abhorred (in) my imagination {it} is:(,)
my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have
kissed I know not how oft,(.) where be your gibes
now? your gambols,(?) your songs,(?) your flashes of
merriment{,} that were wont to set the table on a roar,(?)
Not (no) one now to mock your own grinning (ieering)?
quite chap-fallen.(?) Now get you to my lady's table
(chamber), & tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this
favour she must come,(.) make her laugh at that.(:)
Prithee Horatio tell me one thing.
Horatio
201 What's that my lord?
Hamlet
Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'
th, earth?
Horatio
E'en so.
Hamlet
205 And smelt so<?> pah.
Horatio
E'en so<,> my lord.
Hamlet
To what base uses we may return Horatio?(.)
Why may not imagination trace the noble
dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-
hole?
Horatio
211 'Twere to consider<:> too curiously to consider
so.
Hamlet
No faith, not a jot,(.) but to follow him thither with
modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it,(;)
Alexander returneth
of earth we make loam, & why of that loam <(>whereto
he was converted,()) might they not stop a beer-barrel?
219 Imperious (Imperiall) Caesar, dead and tum'd to clay,
Might stop a hole{,} to keep the wind away.
O<,> that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall to expel the waters (winter's) flaw.
But soft, but soft<,> awhile (aside)(,) here comes the king,(.)
{Enter K. Q. Laertes and the corse.}
The queen, the courtiers,(.) who is this (that) they follow?(,)
225 And with such maimed rites? this doth betoken,
The corse they follow, did with desp'(e)rate hand<,>
Fordo its own life,(;) 'twas {of} some estate.
Couch we awhile, and mark.
Laertes
What ceremony else?
Hamlet
230 That is Laertes<,> a very noble youth,(:) mark.
Laertes
What ceremony else?
Doctor (Priest)
Her obsequies have been as far enlarged<.>
As we have warranty, her death was doubtful,
And, but that great command<,> oversways the order,
235 She should in ground unsanctified been (haue) lodged<,>
Till the last trumpet:(.) for charitable pray(i)er{s},
Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants (rites),
Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home
240 Of bell and burial.
Laertes
Must there no more be done?
Doctor (Priest)
No more be done.(:)
We should profane the service of the dead;(,)
To sing a (sage) requiem<,> and such rest to her
As to peace-parted souls.
Laertes
Lay her i' th' earth:
245 And from her fair and unpolluted flesh<,>
May violets spring:(.) I tell thee <(>churlish priest,())
A ministering angel shall my sister be<,>
When thou liest howling.(?)
Hamlet
What, the fair Ophelia.(?)
Queen
250 Sweets<,> to the sweet{,} farewell,(.)
I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife,(:)
I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd <(>sweet maid,())
And not have strew'd thy grave.
Laertes
О treble (terrible) woe
255 Fall ten times double (treble,) on that cursed head{,}
Whose wicked deed<,> thy most ingenious sense
Deprived thee of,(.) hold off the earth awhile,
Till I have caught her once more in mine arms;(:)
Now pile your dust upon the quick<,> and dead,
260 Till of this flat a mountain you have made,
To overtop old Pelion, or the skyish head
Of blue Olympus.
Hamlet
What is he<,> whose grief
Bears such an emphasis,(?) whose phrase of sorrow
Conjure{s} the wandering stars, and makes them stand
265 Like wonder-wounded hearers:(?) This is I<,>
Hamlet the Dane.
Laertes
The devil take thy soul.
Hamlet
Thou pray'st not well.
I prithee take thy fingers from my throat,(;) {*}
{* Членение последних двух строк по Ф.}
For (Sir) though I am not splenitive <, and> rash,
270 Yet have I {in me} something
Which let thy wisdom (wisenesse) fear;(.) {hold off}
King
Pluck them asunder.
Queen
Hamlet, Hamlet.
{All
Gentlemen.}
Horatio (Gen.)
275 Good my lord be quiet.
Hamlet
Why I will fight with him upon this theme<.>
Until my eyelids will no longer wag.
Queen
O my son, what theme?
Hamlet
I loved Ophelia,(;) forty thousand brothers
280 Could not <(>with all their quantity of love<)>
Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her.(?)
King
O he is mad Laertes.
Queen
For love of God forbear him.
Hamlet
'Swounds (come), show me what thou't do:(.)
285 Woo't weep,(?> woo't fight,(?) {woo't fast,} woo't tear thyself,(?)
Woo't drink up eisel, eat a crocodile?
I'll do't,(.) dost
To outface me with leaping in her grave,(?)
Be buried quick with her, and so will I.
290 And if thou prate of mountains,(;) let them throw
Millions of acres on us,(;) till our ground
Singeing his pate against the burning zone<,>
Make Ossa like a wart,(.) nay<,> and thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou.
Queen (King)
This is mere madness.(:)
296 And thi(u)s awhile the fit will work on him,о
Anon as patient as the female dove<,>
When that her golden couplets (cuplet) are disclosed<;>
His silence will sit drooping.
Hamlet
Hear you sir,(:)
300 What is the reason that you use me thus?
I loved you ever,(;) but it is no matter,(:)
Let Hercules himself do what he may<,>
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
King
I pray thee (you) good Horatio wait upon him.
{and Horatio.}
305 Strengthen you{r} patience in our last night's speech,
We'll put the matter to the present push:
Good Gertrude set some watch over your son,
This grave shall have a living monument,(:)
An hour of quiet thirtie (shortly) shall we see<;>
310 Till then<,> in patience our proceeding be.
Exeunt.
+SCENE 2+
Enter Hamlet and Horatio.
Hamlet
So much for this sir,(;) now {shall you}
You do remember all the circumstance.
Horatio
Remember it my lord.(?)
Hamlet
Sir<,> in my heart there was a kind of fighting<,>
5 That would not let me sleep,(;) {my thought}
Worse than the mutines in the bilbo
<(>And praise(d) be rashness for it:()) let us know,
Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well<,>
When our deep (deare) plots do pall {*} (paule), &
that should learn (teach) us<,>
{* fall 2Кв}
10 There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
Horatio
That is most certain.
Hamlet
Up from my cabin{,}
My sea-gown scarf'd about me in the dark<,>
Groped I to find out them,(;) had my desire,
15 Finger'd their packet, and in fine<,> withdrew
To mine own room again, making so bold<,>
<(>My fears forgetting manners<)> to unfold (unseale)
Their grand commission;(,) where I found, Horatio<,>
A (Oh) royal knavery,(:) an exact command<,>
20 Larded with many several sorts of reason{s},(;)
Importing Denmark's health, and England's too,
With ho<,> such bugs and goblins in my life,
That on the supervise no leisure bated,
No not to stay the grinding of the axe,
25 My head should be struck off.
Horatio
Is't possible?
Hamlet
Here's the commission, read it at more leisure,(:)
But wilt thou hear now (me) how I did proceed,(?)
Horatio
I beseech you.
Hamlet
Being thus be-netted round with villaines {*},
{* villainies Ed.}
30 Or (Ere) I could make a prologue to my brains,
They had begun the play,(.) I sat me down,
Devised a new commission, wrote it fair,
I once did hold it as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair,(;) and labour'd much
35 How to forget that learning,о but sir now<,>
It did me yeoman's service,о wilt thou know
Th'(e) effect
Horatio
Ay<,> good my lord.
Hamlet
An earnest conjuration from the king,
40 As England was his faithful tributary,
As love between them like (, as) the palm might (should) flourish,
As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear<,>
And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
And many such-like{, as sir}
{* ases Ed.}
45 That on the view and know{ing} of these contents,
Without debatement further<,> more or less,
He should those (the) bearers put to sudden death,
Not shriving-time allow'd.
Horatio
How was this seal'd?
Hamlet
50 Why, even in that was heaven ordina{n}t
I had my father's signet in my purse<,>
Which was the model of that Danish seal,(;)
Folded the writ up in {the} form
Subscribe
55 The changeling never known: now<,> the next day
Was our sea-fight, and what to this was se{qu}
Thou know'st already.
Horatio
So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to 't.
Hamlet
Does by their own insinuation grow,(:)
'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
Between the pass<,> and fell incensed points
Of mighty opposites.
Horatio
65 Why<,> what a king is this!(?)
Hamlet
Does it not<,> think<'st> thee, stand me now upon{?}
He that hath kill'd my king, and whored my mother,
Popp'd in between the election and my hopes,
Thrown out his angle for my proper life,
70 And with such cozenage,(;) is 't not perfect conscience?(,)
<То quit him with this arm? and is 't not to be damn'd
To let this canker of our nature come
In further evil.
Horatio
It must be shortly known to him from England
75 What is the issue of the business there.
Hamlet
It will be short,
The interim's mine, and a man's life's no more
Than to say one: but I am very sorry good Horatio,
That to Laertes I forgot myself;
80 For by the image of my cause, I see
The portraiture of his; I'll count {*} his favours:
{* court Ed.}
But sure the bravery of his grief did put me
Into a tow'ring passion.
Horatio
Peace, who comes here?>
Enter {a Courtier}
Courtier (Osric)
Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.
Hamlet
85 I humble(y) thank you sir.
Dost know this waterfly?
Horatio
No my good lord.
Hamlet
Thy state is the more gracious,(;) for 'tis a vice to
know him,(:) he hath much land<,> and fertile:(;) let a
beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the
king's mess,(;) 'tis a chough,(;) but, as I say (saw){,}
spacious in the possession of dirt.
Courtier (Osric)
92 Sweet lord, if your lordship (friendship) were at
leisure, I should impart a thing to you from his maj-
esty.
Hamlet
95 I will receive it (sir) with all diligence of spirit,(;)
put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head.
Courtier (Osric)
I thank your lordship, it is very hot.
Hamlet
No<,> believe me{,} 'tis very cold, the wind is northerly.
Courtter (Osric)
It is indifferent cold my lord indeed.
Hamlet
100 {But yet} methinks it is very sully (sultry,) and hot
or (for){,} my complexion.
Courtier (Osric)
Exceedingly<,> my lord, it is very sultry, as 'twere,
I cannot tell how:
me signify to you, that he has laid a great wager on
your head,(:) sir<,> this is the matter.
Hamlet
106 I beseech you remember.
+Hamlet moves him to put on his hat.+
Courtier
Nay, {good my lord}
ease, in good faith, {sir here is newly come to court
Laertes, believe me an absolute gentlemen {*}, full of
most excellent differences, of very soft society, and
great showing: indeed to speak fellingly {**} of him, he is
the card or calendar of gentry: for you shall find in
him the continent of what part a gentleman would see.
{* gentleman 3Кв
** Feelingly 3Кв; sellingly 2Кв до исправления }
Hamlet
114 Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you,
though I know to divide him inventorially, would daz-
zie {*} th' arithmetic of memory, and yet but raw {**} nei-
ther, in respect of his quick sail, but in the verity of
extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, &
his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as to make
true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, &
who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
{* dozy 2Кв до исправления
** yaw 2Кв до исправления }
Courtier (Osric)
126 Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.
Hamlet
The concernancy sir, why do we wrap the gentle-
man in our more rawer breath?
Courtier (Osric)
Sir.
Horatio
130 Is't not possible to understand in another tongue,
you will doo 't{*} sir really.
{* to 't 2Кв до исправления }
Hamlet
What imports the nomination of this gentleman.
Courtier (Osric)
Of Laertes.
Horatio
His purse is empty already, alls golden words are
spent.
Hamlet
136 Of him sir.
Courtier (Osric)
I know you are not ignorant.
Hamlet
I would you did sir, yet, in faith if you did, it
would not much approve me, well sir?}
Courtier (Osric)
141
Laertes is
{Hamlet
I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with
him in excellence, but to know a man well, were to
know himself.
Courtier (Osric)
146 I mean sir for this {*} weapon, but in the imputa-
tion laid on him, by them in his meed, he's unfel-
lowed.}
{* his 5Кв}
Hamlet
What's his weapon?
Courtier (Osric)
150 Rapier and dagger.
Hamlet
That's two of his weapons,(;) but well.
Courtier (Osric)
The king (sir) {sir}
(wag'd) with him six barbary horses, against the which
he has impawned (impon'd) as I take it<,> six french
rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle,
hanger
faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the
hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal con-
ceit.
Hamlet
158 What call you the carriages?
{Horatio
I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you
had done.}
Courtier (Osric)
The carriage
Hamlet
162 The phrase would be more germane to the mat-
ter<:> if we could carry {a} cannon by our sides.(;) I
would it {be} might
six
their assigns, and three liberal-conceited carriages,
that's the french bet (but) against the Danish,(;) why is
this +"impawned"+
Courtier (Osric)
169 The king sir, hath laid sir, that in a dozen passes
between you(rself) and him, he shall not exceed you
three hits,(;) he hath {laid on}
and it (that) would come to immediate trial, if your
lordship would vouchsafe the answer.
Hamlet
174 How if I answer no?
Courtier (Osric)
I mean my lord<,> the opposition of your person in
trial.
Hamlet
177 Sir, I will walk here in the hall,(;) if it please his
majesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me,(;) let
the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the
king hold his purpose; I will win for him an {*} (if) I
can,(:) if not, I will gain nothing but my shame, and
the odd hits.
{* and Кв2}
Courtier (Osric)
183 Shall I
Hamlet
To this effect sir, after what flourish your nature
will.
Courtier (Osric)
186 I commend my duty to your lordship.
Hamlet
Yours<, yours; hee> doo(e){'}s well to commend
it himself, there are no tongues else for 's turn
(tongue).
Horatio
190 This lapwing runs away with the shell on his
head.
Hamlet
He did
sucked it,(:) thus has (had) he and many (mine) more
of the same breed (beauy) +bevy+ that I know the
drossy +dressy+ age dotes on,(;) only got the tune of
the time, and (out of an|
ter, a kind of histy (yeasty) collection, which car-
ries them through and through the most {prophane and
trennowed}
but blow them to their trial (tryalls),(:) the bubbles are
out.
{* sir Кв2 uncorr.}
{Enter a Lord.
Lord
201 My lord, his majesty commended him to you by
young Osric, who brings back to him that you at-
tend him in the hall, he sends to know if your