Ham. On him! on him!-Look you, how pale he glares! His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones, Would make them capable.-Do not look upon me; Lest, with this piteous action, you convert Will want true colour; tears, perchance, for blood. Queen. To whom do you speak this? Ham. Do you see nothing there? Queen. Nothing at all; yet all that is I see. Ham. Nor did you nothing hear? Queen. No, nothing, but ourselves. Ham. Why, look you there! look how it steals away! My father, in his habit as he lived! Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal! [Exit Ghost. Queen. This is the very coinage of your brain : This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in. Ham. Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, To make them ranker.-[Aside.] Forgive me this my virtue : For in the fatness of these pursy times, Yea, curb and woo, for leave to do him good. Queen. O Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain. Ham. O throw away the worser part of it, That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat- And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And master thus the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency. Once more, good night: And when you are desirous to be bless'd, Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.- Queen. What shall I do? Ham. Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed; Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, Make you to ravel all this matter out, know: 'Twere good you let him For who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise, Unpeg the basket on the house's top, Queen. Be thou assured, if words be made of breath, And breath of life, I have no life to breathe Ham. I must to England; you know that? I had forgot; 'tis so concluded on. Alack, Ham. There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd,— They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work, For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar: and 't shall go hard, I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room :— [Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging the body of POLONIUS, ACT IV. SCENE I.-A Room in the Castle. Enter KING and QUEEN. King. HERE'S matter in these sighs, these pro T found heaves; You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them : Where is your son? Queen. Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night! King. What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet? Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit, The unseen good old man. King. O heavy deed! It had been so with us, had we been there; To you yourself, to us, to every one. Alas! how shall this bloody deed be answer'd? Should have kept short, restrain'd, and out of haunt This mad young man : but, so much was our love, To keep it from divulging, let it feed Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done. The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, Both countenance and excuse.-Ho! Guildenstern! Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN. Friends both, go join you with some further aid: Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him : Go, seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body Transports his poison'd shot,-may miss our name, |