HAM. A little more than kin, and less than kind. (37) [Aside. KING. How is it that the clouds still hang on you? HAM. Not so, my lord, I am too much i'the QUEEN. Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour" off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know'st, 'tis common; all that lives (39) must die, Passing through nature to eternity. HAM. Ay,* madam, it is common. с Why seems it so particular with thee? HAм. Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, a nighted colour] Black, night-like; as presently he says, "inky cloak:" and in Lear, IV. 5, Regan speaks of the "nighted life," of "the dark and blinded Gloster." bvailed lids] Cast down. See M. of V. Salar. I. 1. & L. L. L. V. 2. Boyet. C Ay, madam, it is common] Similar examples of frailty, connected with such an event, are the things or occurrences, that, he would have it inferred, were common. d trappings] Trappings are furnishings,' as in Lear III. 1. Kent. KING. 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father: But, you must know, your father lost a father; That father lost, lost his; and the survivor bound In filial obligation, for some term a To do obsequious sorrow: But to perséver e Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief: That father lost, lost his] "That lost father (of your father, i. e. your grandfather) or father so lost, lost his." b do obsequious sorrow] Follow with becoming and ceremonious observance the memory of the deceased. See III. H. VI. Father. II. 5. & M. W. of W. IV. 2. Falst. We have "Shed obsequious tears upon his trunk." Tit. Andr. V. 3. Luc. cobstinate condolement] Ceaseless and unremitted expression of grief. d incorrect to heaven] Contumacious towards. as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense] To sense is as "addressed to" sense: in every hour's occurrence offering itself to our observation and feelings. “Most sure and vulgar." Lear, IV. 6. Gent. Than that which dearest father bears his son, QUEEN. Let not thy mother lose her prayers, I pray thee, stay with us, go not to Wittenberg. Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away. [Exeunt King, Queen, Lords, &c. POLONIUS, and LAERTES. HAM. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself (45) into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon (46) 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Fye on't! O fye! 'tis an unweeded garden, nature, Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead!-nay, not so much, not two: bend you] Dispose, incline. Sits smiling to my heart] To is at: gladdens. e in grace whereof] Respectful regard or honour. merely] Wholly. See Tempest, I. 1. Anton. So excellent a king; that was, to this, By what it fed on.(49) And yet, within a month,- woman! A little month; or ere those shoes were old, uncle, my father, My father's brother; but no more like But break, my heart: for I must hold my tongue! Enter HORATIO, BARNARDO, and MARCELLUS. ·HOR. Hail to your lordship! НАМ. I am glad to see you well: Horatio,—or I do forget myself. HOR. The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever. HAM. Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you.b a Discourse of reason] Faculty of discussing and reasoning. See Tr. & Cr. II. 2, Hect. & infra IV. 4. Haml. I'll change that name with you] myself upon an exact level with. Reciprocally use: I'll put And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio?Marcellus? MAR. My good lord,—— HAM. I am very glad to see you; good even, (50) sir. But what, in faith," make you" from Wittenberg? We'll teach you to drink deep, ere you depart. I think, it was to see my mother's wedding. HOR. Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon. HAM. Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak'd meats (51) Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. HOR. My lord? HAM. - In In my mind's eye, (53) Horatio. Where, HOR. I saw him once, he was a goodly king. HAM. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. HOR. My lord, I think I saw him yesternight. in faith] Faithfully and honestly, in pure and simple verity. b But what make you] Is your object? Are you doing. See M. W. of W. IV. 2. Mrs. Page. goodly king] See "goodliest," H. VIII. IV. 2. 3 Gent. |