As, in their birth, (wherein they are not guilty, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason; b Shall in the general censure take corruption eale. 4to. ⚫ of a doubt. 4to. HOR. Enter Ghost. Look, my lord, it comes! HAM. Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, (81) hell, It chances that for some vicious mole of nature,— Or by some habit-that these men] To connect the sentence, we must before "that these men" supply "it happens," or something to that effect. The sense of the latter part of the speech is, A little vice will often obliterate all a man's good qualities; and the effect is, that the vice becomes scandalous, i. e. offensive; being taken for his predominating character. In All's Well, &c. plausive has been twice used for admirable. I.2. King. III. 1. Parolles. ↳ nature's livery, or fortune's star] The vesture or garb in which nature clothes us; the humour innate or complexion born with us: or some casualty or fatality, the influence of the star of fortune or chance. с d undergo] Support, possess. "To undergo such ample grace and honour." censure take corruption] Estimate become tainted. Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, સ Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, (89) To you alone. MAR. C It wafts you to a more removed ground: HOR. (85) (86) Look, with what courteous action No, by no means. HAM. It will not speak; then I will follow it. HAM. Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ;(87) It waves me forth again ;-I'll follow it. HOR. What, if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, * hearsed in death] Deposited with the accustomed funeral rites: conveyed in the vehicle appropriated to this ceremonial. b cerements] Waxen envelope. e disposition] Frame of mind; or affection of body and mind. • Revisitst. 1632. * Somnet, 4tos. Sonnet. 1623, 32. That beetles o'er his base into the sea? (8) HAM. Go on, I'll follow thee. It wafts me still: MAR. You shall not go, my lord. Hold off your hands. My fate cries out, HOR. Be rul'd, you shall not go. And makes each petty artery in this body (91) [Ghost beckons, Still am I call'd;-unhand me, gentlemen ; [Breaking from them. By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me: I say, away:-Go on, I'll follow thee. [Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET. HOR. He waxes desperate with imagination. MAR. Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. HOR. Have after:-To what issue will this come? MAR. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. HOR. Heaven will direct it." MAR. Nay, let's follow him. [Exeunt. lets] Obstructs. Have after] Take, or betake yourself, after! follow! < Heaven will direct it] "The state of Denmark," to health and soundness. SCENE V. A more remote Part of the Platform. Re-enter Ghost and HAMLET. HAM. Whither wilt thou lead me? Speak, I'll go no further. GHOST. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. HAM. Speak, I am bound to hear. GHOST. So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. HAM. What? GHOST. I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night; I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their · spheres; (94) Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, harrow up thy soul] Agitate and convulse. See I. 1. Horat. bhair to stand on end] A common image of that day. "Standing as frighted with erected haire." Drayton's Moses his Birth, B. II. 4to. 1633. Like quills upon the fretful porcupine: To ears of flesh and blood: (95)-List, list, O list!If thou didst ever thy dear father love, HAM. O heaven! GHOST. Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. HAM. Murder? GHOST. Murder most foul, as in the best it is; As meditation, or the thoughts of love,(96) GHOST. I find thee apt; And duller should'st thou be than the fat weed Would'st thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear: Rankly abus'd: but know, thou noble youth, HAM. O, my prophetick soul! my uncle! GHOST. Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,(98) With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts, a orchard] Garden. See Jul. Cæs. II. Orchard the scene. bforged process] Report of proceedings. |