quarters wages: and, my coate wants a cullison :a Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTern. How now, my lord? will the king hear this piece of work? POL. And the queen too, and that presently. HAM. Bid the players make haste. HOR. Here, sweet lord, at your service. HAM. Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coap'd withal." HOR. O, my dear lord. Нам. flatter'd ? poor No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp; a be my coate wants a cullison-thus keeping in his cinkapase of jeasts] i. e. "wants a collar-and an ambling succession of jests." "Cull or Coll about the neck, or Fr. G. accoller &c. to clip or coll." Skin. Collet is modern French for collar. Cinque-pace is a dance the measures of which are regulated by the number five and such is the number of instances of jests here given. Sce Tw. N. I. 3. Sir Toby. : b coap'd withal] i. e. encountered with. And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, fauning. Where thrift may follow faining; *(27) Dost thou 4tos. hear? + So 4tos. Since my dear soul(28) was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish, her election my. 1623, 32. Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been Has ta'en with equal thanks: and bless'd are those, Icomedled. Whose blood and judgment are so well 4tos. gled,(29) co-min That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please: Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, core,(30) ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee. Something too much of this.— There is a play to-night before the king; One scene of it comes near the circumstance, Which I have told thee of my father's death. I pr'ythee, when thou seest that act a-foot, § So 4tos. Even with the very comment of thy § soula Observe my uncle: if his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech, It is a damned ghost (31) that we have seen; And my imaginations are as foul my. 1623, 32. As Vulcan's stithe.(32) Give him heedful note: For I mine eyes will rivet to his face; And, after, we will both our judgments join In censure of his seeming. HOR. the very comment of thy soul] i. e. the most intense direction of every faculty. bocculted guilt do not itself unkennel] i. e. stifled, secret guilt, do not develop itself. In censure of his seeming] i. e. in making our estimate of the appearance he shall put on. d steal aught] i. e. contrive so to carry it off, as that the slightest conscious feeling, he shews, should escape unobserved. HAM. They are coming to the play; I must be idle : Get you a place. Danish March. A Flourish. Enter King, Queen, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and Others. KING. How fares our cousin Hamlet? HAM. Excellent, i'faith; of the cameleon's dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed: You cannot feed capons so." KING. I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words are not mine.b HAM. No, nor mine. Now, my lord,-you played once in the university, you say?(33) [TO POLONIUS. POL. That did I, my lord; and was accounted a good actor. HAM. And what did you enact? POL. I did enact Julius Cæsar: I was killed 'the Capitol; (34) Brutus killed me. HAM. It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there.(35)-Be the players ready? Ros. Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience.(36) * promise-cramm'd: you cannot feed capons so] As afterwards in this scene he replies to Rosencrantz, who tells him he has the voice of the king himself for the succession, “but, sir, while the grass grows, &c. the proverb is something musty." I have nothing with this answer; these words are not mine] i e. they grow not out of mine: have no relation to any thing said by me. No, nor mine, now] i. e. "They are now any body's." Johnson observes," a man's words, says the proverb, are his own no longer than while he keeps them unspoken." G ⚫ dear. 4tos. + contrary. 4to. 1603. me. QUEEN. Come hither, my good* Hamlet, sit by HAM. No, good mother, here's metal more attractive. Poz. O ho! do you mark that? [To the King. [Lying down at OPHELIA'S Feet.(37) HAM. Lady, shall I lie in your lap? OPH. No, my lord. HAM. I mean, my head upon your lap? HAM. Do you think, I meant country + matters? HAM. That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. OPH. What is, my lord? HAM. Nothing. OPH. You are merry, my lord. HAM. Who, I? OPH. Ay, my lord. HAM. O God! your only jig-maker. What should a man do, but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within these two hours. OPH. Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord. HAM. So long? Nay, then let the devil wear Jesus. black, for I'll have a suit of sables.(38) O heavens! 4to. 1603. die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope, a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year: But, by'r-lady, he must build churches then: or else shall he suffer not thinking jig-maker] i. e. writer of ludicrous interludes. See II. 2. Haml. b But, by r-lady, he must build churches then] i. e. " the remembrance of such conspicuous and signal acts of piety, and public benefit, does not presently pass away." on, with the hobby-horse; whose epitaph is, For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot. (39) Trumpets sound. The dumb show follows.(40) Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down upon a bank of flowers; she, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's ears, and exit. The Queen returns; finds the King dead, and makes passionate action. The poisoner, with some two or three Mutes, comes in again, seeming to lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The poisoner wooes the Queen with gifts; she seems loath and unwilling awhile; but, in the end, accepts his love. [Exeunt. OPH. What means this, my lord? HAM. Marry, this is miching *mallecho; (41) it malicho. means mischief. 1623, 32. munching 4tos. OPH. Belike,(42) this show imports the argumenta malleco. of the play. Enter Prologue. HAM. We shall know by this fellow + the players + So 4tos. cannot keep counsel; they'll tell all. ОPH. Will he tell us what this show meant? HAM. Ay, or any show that you'll show him: Be not you ashamed to show, he'll not shame to you what it means. tell OPH. You are naught, you are naught; I'll mark the play. & 1603. these fellows. 1623, 32. a imports the argument] i. e. contains, includes, and dis closes the subject matter." See Tim. II. 2. Flav. |