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Hor. Now cracks a noble heart:-Good night, sweet

Prince;

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Why does the drum come hither.

[March within.

Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors, and Others. Fort. Where is this sight?

Hor.

What is it ye would see?

If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.

Fort. This quarry cries on havoc.89. - O proud Death, What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,

That thou so many princes at a shot

So bloodily hast struck?

1 Amb.

The sight is dismal;

And our affairs from England come too late :

The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd;

That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

Where should we have our thanks?

Hor.

Had it th' ability of life to thank you:

Not from his mouth,

He never gave commandment for their death.
But since, so jump upon this bloody question,40
You from the Polack wars, and you from England,
Are here arriv'd, give order that these bodies
High on a stage be placed to the view;
And let me speak to th' yet unknowing world
How these things came about: so shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts;
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;
Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause;
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on th' inventors' heads: all this can I
Truly deliver.

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For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:
I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,"
Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.

89 To cry on was to exclaim against. — Quarry was the term used for a heap of slaughtered game.

40 It has been already observed that jump and just, or exactly, are synonymous. See page 519, note 10.

41 The phrase put on here means instigated or set on foot. Cunning, refers, apparently, to Hamlet's action touching "the packet," and forc'd cause, to the compelling occasion," which moved him to that piece of practice.

42 Rights of memory appears to mean rights founded in prescription or the order of inheritance.

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HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK.

Hor. Of that I shall have also cause to speak,

And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more:
But let this same be presently perform'd,

43

ACT V

Even while men's minds are wild; lest more mischance,
On plots and errors, happen.

Fort.

Let four captains

Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;

For he was likely, had he been put on,

T' have prov'd most royally: and, for his passage,
The soldier's music and the rites of war

Speak loudly for him.

Take up the bodies.

Such a sight as this

Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

[A dead March.

[Exeunt, marching; after which a Peal of Ordnance is shot off.

48 Whose vote will induce others to vote the same way. Horatio refer

to Hamlet saying of Fortinbras, "he has my dying voice."

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