Hamlet Page #6

O most pernicious woman!

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain.

My tables...

...meet it is I set it down

that one may smile and smile and be a villain.

At least I'm sure

it may be so in Denmark.

So uncle, there you are.

Now to my word:

It is, "Adieu, adieu...

...remember me."

I have sworn 't.

-My lord!

-My lord!

-My lord!

-Lord Hamlet!

-Heaven secure him.

-So be it.

Illo, ho, ho, my lord!

Hillo, ho, ho, boy.

-Come, bird, come!

-How is't, my lord?

-What news?

-O wonderful.

-My lord, tell it.

-You'll reveal it.

-Not I, my lord, by heaven.

-Nor I , my lord.

How say you then,

would heart of man once think it?

-But you'll be secret?

-Ay, by heav'n, my lord.

There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark

but he's an arrant knave.

There needs no ghost come from the grave

to tell us.

Why, you are in the right.

Without more circumstance at all

I hold it fit that we shake hands and part...

...you as your business

and desires shall point you--

For every man hath business and desire,

such as it is.

--and for mine own poor part,

look you, Ill go pray.

These are but wild and whirling words.

I am sorry they offend you heartily

yes, faith, heartily.

-There's no offense.

-Yes by Saint Patrick but there is, Horatio...

...and much offense too.

Touching this vision here,

it is an honest ghost, that let me tell you.

For your desire

to know what is between us...

...o'ermaster't as you may.

And now, good friends,

as you are friends, scholars, and soldiers...

...give me one poor request.

What is't, my lord? We will.

Never make known

what you have seen tonight.

-My lord, we will not.

-Nay, but swear't.

In faith, my lord, not I.

Nor I , my lord, not I.

Upon my sword.

But we have sworn, my lord, already.

Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.

GHOST:

Swear!

Ah ha, boy, hear! Sayst thou so?

Art thou there, truepenny?

You hear this fellow in the cellarage.

Consent to swear.

Propose the oath, my lord.

Never to speak of this that you have seen.

Swear by my sword.

GHOST:

Swear.

[SPEAKS IN LATIN]

Then we'll shift our ground.

Come hither, gentlemen,

and lay your hands again upon my sword.

Never to speak of this that you have heard,

swear by my sword.

GHOST:
Swear.

-Well said, old mole.

Canst work i' th' earth so fast?

A worthy pioneer.

Once more remove, good friends.

O day and night,

but this is wondrous strange.

And therefore as a stranger

give it welcome.

There are more things

in heaven and earth, Horatio...

...than are dreamt of in our philosophy.

But come.

Here as before,

never, so help you mercy...

...how strange or odd

soe'er I bear myself--

As I perchance hereafter shall think meet

to put an antic disposition on.

--that you at times seeing me never shall

with arms encumbered thus...

...or with this headshake,

or by pronouncing some doubtful phrase...

...as "We know,"

or "We could an' if we would"...

...or "If we list to speak,"

or "There be, if they might"...

...or such ambiguous giving out, to note

that you know aught of me.

This not to do...

...so grace and mercy...

...at your most need help you...

...swear.

GHOST:

Swear.

[RUMBLING]

[PANTING]

Rest...

...rest...

...perturbed spirit.

So gentlemen,

with all my love I do commend me to you...

...and what so poor a man as Hamlet is...

...may do to express

his love and friending to you...

...God willing, shall not lack.

Let us go in together...

...and still your fingers on your lips,

I pray.

The time is out of joint.

O cursed spite...

...that ever I was born to set it right.

Nay, come.

Let's go together.

Give him this money

and these notes, Reynaldo.

I will, my lord.

You shall do marv'lous wisely,

good Reynaldo...

...before you visit him, to make inquire

of his behavior.

My lord, I did intend it.

Marry, well said, very well said.

Look you, sir,

inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris...

...and how, and who, what means,

and where they keep...

...what company, at what expense.

And finding by this encompassment

and drift of question...

...that they do know my son...

...come you more nearer

than your particular demands will touch it.

Take you, as 'twere,

some distant knowledge of him...

...as thus:
"l know his father and his friends,

and in part, him."

-Do you mark this, Reynaldo?

-Ay, very well, my lord.

"And in part him, but,"

you may say, "not well...

...but if't be he I mean, he's very wild,

addicted so and so."

And there put on him

what forgeries you please--

Marry, none so rank

as may dishonor him. Take heed of that.

--but, sir, such wanton,

wild, and usual slips...

...as are companions noted and most known

to youth and liberty.

-As gaming, my lord?

-Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing...

...quarreling, drabbing.

You may go so far.

My lord, that would dishonor him.

Faith, no, as you may season it

in the charge.

You must not put another scandal on him,

that he is open to incontinency--

That's not my meaning.

--but breathe his faults so quaintly

that they may seem the taints of liberty...

...the flash and outbreak

of a fiery mind...

...a savageness in unreclaimed blood,

of general assault.

-But, my good lord--

-Wherefore should you do this?

Ay, my lord.

I would know that.

Marry, sir, here's my drift,

and I believe it is a fetch of warrant.

You laying these slight sullies

on my son...

...as 'twere a thing

a little soiled i' th' working...

...mark you, your party in converse,

him you would sound...

...having ever seen in the prenominate crimes

the youth you breathe of guilty...

...be assured

he closes with you in this consequence:

"Good sir," or so, or "friend,"

or "gentleman"...

...according to phrase and addition

of man and country.

Very good, my lord.

And then, sir, does he this. He does--

What was I about to say?

By the mass, I was about to say something.

Where did I leave?

At "closes in the consequence"...

...at "friend, or so," and "gentleman."

At "closes in the consequence."

Ay, marry,

he closes me with thus:

"I know the gentleman,

I saw him yesterday"--

Or t'other day,

Or then, or then.

--"with such and such, and, as you say...

...there was a gaming,

there o'ertook in 's rouse...

...there falling out at tennis," or perchance,

"I saw him enter such a house of sale"...

...videlicet, a brothel, or so forth.

See you now, your bait of falsehood

takes this carp of truth.

And thus do we of wisdom

and of reach...

...with windlasses

and with assays of bias...

...by indirections find directions out.

So by my former lecture and advice,

shall you my son.

-You have me, have you not?

-My lord, I have.

God be wi' you. Fare ye well.

Good my lord.

Observe his inclination in yourself.

I shall, my lord.

And let him ply his music.

Well, my lord.

Farewell.

OPHELIA:

My lord!

POLONIUS:

How now, Ophelia, what's the matter?

Alas, my lord, I have been so affrighted.

With what, in the name of God?

My lord, as I was sewing

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