HAM. Saw! who? HOR. My lord, the king your father. HAM. The king my father! HOR. Season your admiration for a while HAM. For God's love, let me hear. HOR. Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch, In the dead waste (54) and middle of the night, Appears before them, and, with solemn march, Almost to jelly with the act of fear,(56) Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to me And I with them, the third night kept the watch : HAM. But where was this? MAR. My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. HAM. Did you not speak to it? (57) HOR. My lord, I did; But answer made it none: yet once, methought, It lifted up its head, and did address Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear] By close attention qualify or restrain the expression of your astonishment. b address] Make ready. See M. N. Dr. V. 1. Phil. Itself to motion, like as it would speak: But, even then, the morning cock crew loud; HAM. (58) 'Tis very strange. HOR. As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true; And we did think it writ down in our duty, To let you know of it. HAM. Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me. Hold you the watch to-night? (59) ALL. My lord, from head to foot. HOR. O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up. HAM. What, look'd he frowningly? Very like Stay'd it long? HOR. While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. MAR. BER. Longer, longer. writ down] Prescribed by. C HOR. Not when I saw it. • grissl'd, НАМ. 4to. His beard was grizly?* no. HOR. It was, as I have seen it in his life, HAM. I will watch to-night; Perchance, 'twill walk again. HOR. I warrant, it will. HAM. If it assume my noble father's person, I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all, If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight, tenable, Let it be treble* in your silence still; (61) And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Give it an understanding, but no tongue; I will requite your loves: So, fare you well: Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve, I'll visit you. 4to. ALL. Our duty to your honour. HAM. Your loves, as mine to you: Farewell. NARDO. My father's spirit in arms! all is not well; come! Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, eyes. SCENE III. [Exit. A Room in Polonius' House. Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA. LAER. My necessaries are embark'd; farewell: And, sister, as the winds give benefit," benefit] Favourable means. And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, ОРН. Do you doubt that? LAER. For Hamlet, and the trifling of his fa vours, Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature, с * Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The [pérfume and] suppliance of a minute; d No more. ОРН. No more but so? LAER. Think it no more: For nature, crescent, does not grow alone e In thews, and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, b * trifling of his favours] Gay and thoughtless intimation. primy] Springtide, youthy. Forward, not permanent] Early, ripe before due season, and thence having in it the principles of premature decay. This is so plainly the sense, that we have not hesitated to adopt the reading of the quartos, forward. a suppliance] The means of filling up the vacancy. Mr. Steevens finds the word in Chapman's Iliad, IX. "By my suppliance given." thews] Sinews, muscular strength. II. H. IV. Falst. III. 2. ' circumscrib'd unto the voice and yielding] Confined to the sense expressed, and limited to the inclination. • Froward. 1623, 32. fear. 1623, 32. * Safety and health of this. 4tos. Whereof he is the head: Then if he says he loves you, It fits your wisdom so far to believe it, May give his saying deed; which is no further, Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs; Or lose your heart; or your chaste treasure open Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister; (65) OPH. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart: But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; As he in his particular sect and force May give his saying deed] As he in that peculiar rank and class that he fills in the state, and the power and means thereto annexed, may enable him to give his professions effect. "The deed of saying." Tim. V. 1. Painter. "Speaking in deeds." Tr. & Cr. IV. 5. Ulyss. For sect and force the quartos have act and place. bunmaster'd importunity] Unruly, unrestrained. с keep you in the rear of your affection] Front not the peril: withdraw or check every warm emotion: advance not, as Johnson says, so far as your affection would lead you. 66 d puff'd and reckless libertine] Bloated and swoln, the effect of excess; and heedless and indifferent to consequences. navus, inefficax, rechelesse." Ortus Vocab. 4to. 1514. Ig |