That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by Ghost. Do not forget: this visitation Ham. How is it with you, lady? Queen. Alas, how is 't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones, My stern effects: then what I have to do ΣΤΟ 120 Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood. 130 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. 114. Conceit, imagination. 121. bedded. The adjective is suggested by the image of the recumbent soldiers. 121. excrements, outgrowth, VOL. VIII especially the hair and nails. 127. make capable, endow with sensibility. 129. My stern effects, the deed he had to accomplish. 225 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. My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, 140 And I the matter will re-word; which madness Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue; Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, 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, 153. pursy, short-winded (as with excessive corpulence). 155. curb, bend. 161. all sense, all sensibility to sin. That to the use of actions fair and good That aptly is put on. And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord, [Pointing to Polonius. I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so, Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. Queen. What shall I do? Ham. Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know; Such dear concernings hide? who would do so? 169. either... the devil. Qq have either the devil.' A word has clearly dropped out; 180 199 probably 'lay,' 'quell,' or the like. 190. gib, tom-cat. Let the birds fly, and, like the famous ape, 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, Hoist with his own petar: and 't shall go hard I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room. [Exeunt severally; Hamlet dragging 194. like the famous ape. The story alluded to is not otherwise known. 195. To try conclusions, to see what will happen. in Polonius. 203. fang'd, having fangs. 207. petar, petard, mortar. 211. packing, plotting (with a play upon the other sense, to be off quickly). ACT IV. SCENE I. A room in the castle. Enter KING, QUEEN, ROSENCRANTZ, and King. There's matter in these sighs, these pro- You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them. Queen. Bestow this place on us a little while. [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ah, mine own lord, what have I seen to-night! King. What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet? Queen. Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit, King. O heavy deed! It had been so with us, had we been there : "His liberty is full of threats to all; To you yourself, to us, to every one. Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd? Sc. I. 11. brainish, illusory. ΙΟ 20 |