The Tragedie of Hamlet.Or padling in your necke with his damn'd Fingers,Make you to rauell all this matter out,
[2480]
That I essentially am not in madnesse,But made in craft. 'Twere good you let him know,For who that's but a Queene, faire, sober, wise,Would from a Paddocke, from a Bat, a Gibbe,Such deere concernings hide, Who would do so,
[2485]
No in despight of Sense and Secrecie,Vnpegge the Basket on the houses top:Let the Birds flye, and like the famous ApeTo try Conclusions in the Basket, creepeAnd breake your owne necke downe.Qu.
[2490]
Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath,And breath of life: I haue no life to breathWhat thou hast saide to me.Ham.I must to England, you know that?Qu.Alacke I had forgot: 'Tis so concluded on.Ham.
[2495]
This man shall set me packing:Ile lugge the Guts into the Neighbor roome,Mother goodnight. Indeede this CounsellorIs now most still, most secret, and most graue,Who was in life, a foolish prating Knaue.
[2500]
Come sir, to draw toward an end with you.Good night Mother.Exit Hamlet tugging in Polonius.
[Act 4, Scene 1]
Enter King.King.There's matters in these sighes.These profound heauesYou must translate; Tis fit we vnderstand them.
[2505]
Where is your Sonne?Qu.Ah my good Lord, what haue I seene to night?King.What
Gertrude? How do's
Hamlet?
Qu.Mad as the Seas, and winde, when both contendWhich is the Mightier in his lawless fit
[2510]
Behinde the Arras, hearing some thing stirre,He whips his Rapier out, and cries a Rat, a Rat,And in his brainish apprehension killesThe vnseene good old man.King.Oh heauy deed:
[2515]
It had bin so with vs had we beene there:His Liberty is full of threats to all,To you your selfe, to vs, to euery one.Alas, how shall this bloody deede be answered
?It will be laide to vs, whose prouidence
[2520]
Should haue kept short, restrain'd, and out of haunt,This mad yong man. But so much was our loue,We would not vnderstand what was most fit,But like the Owner of a foule disease,To keepe it from divulging, let's it feede
[2525]
Euen on the pith of life. Where is he gone?Qu.To draw apart the body he hath kild,O're whom his very madnesse like some OareAmong a Minerall of Mettels baseShewes it selfe pure. He weepes for what is done.King.
[2530]
Oh
Gertrude, come away:
The Sun no sooner shall the Mountaines touch,But we will ship him hence, and this vilde deed,We must with all our Maiesty and SkillBoth countenance, and excuse.Enter Ros. & Guild.
[2535]
Ho
Guildenstern:
Friends both go ioyne you with some further ayde:Hamlet in madnesse hath
Polonius slaine,
And from his Mother Clossets hath he drag'd him.Go seeke him out, speake faire, and bring the body
[2540]
Into the Chappell. I pray you hast in this.Exit Gent.Come
Gertrude, wee'l call vp our wisest friends,
To let them know both what we meane to do,And what's vntimely done. Oh come away,My soule is full of discord and dismay.Exeunt.
[Act 4, Scene 2]
Enter Hamlet.Ham.
[2545]
Safely stowed.Gentlemenwithin.Hamlet, Lord
Hamlet.
Ham.What noise? Who cals on
Hamlet?
Oh heere they come.Enter Ros. and Guildensterne.Ro.What haue you done my Lord with the dead body?Ham.
[2550]
Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis Kinne.Resin.Tell vs where 'tis, that we may take it thence,And beare it to the Chappell.Ham.Do not beleeue it.Rosin.Beleeue what?Ham.
[2555]
That I can keepe your counsell, and not mine
owne. Besides, to be demanded of a Spundge, what re
plication should be made by the Sonne of a King.
Rosin.Take you me for a Spundge, my Lord?Ham.
I sir, that sokes vp the Kings Countenance, his
[2560]
Rewards, his Authorities (but such Officers do the King
best seruice in the end. He keepes them like an Ape in
the corner of his iaw, first mou
h'd to be last swallowed,
when he needes what you haue glean'd
, it is but squee
zing you, and Spundge you shall be dry againe.
Rosin.
[2565]
I vnderstand you not my Lord.Ham.
I am glad of it: a knauish speech sleepes in a
foolish eare.
Rosin.
My Lord, you must tell vs where the body is,
and go with vs to the King.
Ham.
[2570]
The body is with the King, but the King is not
With the body. The King, is a thing ⸺
Guild.
A thing my Lord?
Ham.
Of nothing: bring me to him, hide Fox, and all
after.
Exeunt
[Act 4, Scene 3]
Enter King.King.
[2575]
I haue sent to seeke him, and to find the bodie:How dangerous is it that this man goes loose:Yet must not we put the strong Law on him:Hee's loued of the distracted multitude,Who like not in their iudgement, but their eyes:
[2580]
And where 'tis so, th'Offenders scourge is weigh'dBut neerer the offence: to beare all smooth, and euen,This sodaine sending him away, must seemeDeliberate pause, diseases desperate growne,By desperate appliance are releeued,
[2585]
Or not at all.Enter
RosincraneRosincrance.
How now? What hath befalne?Rosin.Where the dead body is bestow'd my'Lord,We cannot get from him.King.But where is he?Rosin.
[2590]
Without my Lord, guarded to know your
pleasure.
King.Bring him before vs.Rosin.Hoa,
Guildensterne? Bring in my Lord.
Enter Hamlet and Guildensterne.King.Now
Hamlet, where's
Polonius?
Ham.
At Supper.
King.
[2595]
At Supper? Where?
Ham.
Not where he eats, but where he is eaten, a cer
taine conuocation of wormes are e'ne at him. Your worm
is your onely Emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else
to fat vs, and we fat our selfe for Magots. Your fat King,
[2600]
and your leane Begger is but variable seruice to dishes,
I haue sent to seeke him, and to find the bodie:How dangerous is it that this man goes loose:Yet must not we put the strong Law on him:Hee's loued of the distracted multitude,Who like not in their iudgement, but their eyes:
[2580]
And where 'tis so, th'Offenders scourge is weigh'dBut neerer the offence: to beare all smooth, and euen,This sodaine sending him away, must seemeDeliberate pause, diseases desperate growne,By desperate appliance are releeued,
[2585]
Or not at all.Enter
RosincraneRosincrance.
How now? What hath befalne?Rosin.Where the dead body is bestow'd my'Lord,We cannot get from him.King.But where is he?Rosin.
[2590]
Without my Lord, guarded to know your
pleasure.
King.Bring him before vs.Rosin.Hoa,
Guildensterne? Bring in my Lord.
Enter Hamlet and Guildensterne.King.Now
Hamlet, where's
Polonius?
Ham.
At Supper.
King.
[2595]
At Supper? Where?
Ham.
Not where he eats, but where he is eaten, a cer
taine conuocation of wormes are e'ne at him. Your worm
is your onely Emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else
to fat vs, and we fat our selfe for Magots. Your fat King,
[2600]
and your leane Begger is but variable seruice to dishes,
but to one Table that's the end.
King.
What dost thou meane by this?
Ham.
Nothing but to shew you how a King may go
a Progresse through the guts of a Begger.
King.
[2605]
Where is
Polonius.
Ham.
In heauen, send thither to see. If your Messen
ger finde him not there, seeke him i'th other place your
selfe: but indeed, if you finde him not this moneth, you
shall nose him as you go vp the staires into the Lobby.
King.
[2610]
Go seeke him there.
Ham.
He will stay till ye come.
K.Hamlet, this deed of thine, for thine especial safety
Which we do tender, as we deerely greeueFor that which thou hast done, must send thee hence
[2615]
With fierie Quicknesse. Therefore prepare thy selfe,The Barke is readie, and the winde at helpe,Th'Associates tend, and euery thing at bentFor England.Ham.
For England?
King.
[2620]
I
Hamlet.
Ham.
Good.
King.So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.Ham.
I see a Cherube that see's him: but come, for
England. Farewell deere Mother.
King.
[2625]
Thy louing Father
Hamlet.
Hamlet.
My Mother: Father and Mother is man and
wife: man & wife is one flesh, and so my mother. Come,
for England.
ExitKing.Follow him at foote,
[2630]
Tempt him with speed aboord:Delay it not, Ile haue him hence to night.Away, for euery thing is Seal'd and doneThat else leanes on th'Affaire, pray you make hast.And England, if my loue thou holdst at ought,
[2635]
As my great power thereof may giue thee sense,Since yet thy Cicatrice lookes raw and redAfter the Danish Sword, and thy free awePayes homage to vs; thou maist not coldly setOur Soueraigne Processe, which imports at full
[2640]
By Letters coniuring to that effectThe present death of
Hamlet. Do it England,
For like the Hecticke in my blood he rages,And thou must cure me: Till I know 'tis done,How ere my happes, my ioyes were ne're begun.Exit
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