{"id":11510,"date":"2017-09-04T21:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11510"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:34","slug":"HamletAtext0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/HamletAtext0\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 1, page 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/content-restricted\/edmereading\/hamlet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Table of Contents<\/a><input type=\"button\" name=\"NextPage\" style=\"float : right; font-size : 20px;\" onclick=\"location.href=&#39;http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11511&#39;\" value=\"  Next Page  \"><\/p>\n<p><b>ACT I SCENE I\ufffd<\/b> Setting: Elsinore. A platform before the castle.<\/p>\n<p>[FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO]<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Who&#39;s there?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FRANCISCO<\/td>\n<td>Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Long live the king!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FRANCISCO<\/td>\n<td>Bernardo?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>He.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FRANCISCO<\/td>\n<td>You come most carefully upon your hour.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FRANCISCO<\/td>\n<td>For this relief much thanks: &#39;tis bitter cold,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And I am sick at heart.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Have you had quiet guard?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FRANCISCO<\/td>\n<td>Not a mouse stirring.<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Well, good night.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FRANCISCO<\/td>\n<td>I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who&#39;s there?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Friends to this ground.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>And liegemen to the Dane.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FRANCISCO<\/td>\n<td>Give you good night.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>O, farewell, honest soldier:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Who hath relieved you?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FRANCISCO<\/td>\n<td>Bernardo has my place.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Give you good night.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Exit]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Holla! Bernardo!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Say,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>What, is Horatio there?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>A piece of him.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus.<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>What, has this thing appear&#39;d again to&#8211;night?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>I have seen nothing.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Horatio says &#39;tis but our fantasy,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And will not let belief take hold of him<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Therefore I have entreated him along<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With us to watch the minutes of this night;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That if again this apparition come,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>He may approve our eyes and speak to it.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Tush, tush, &#39;twill not appear.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Sit down awhile;<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And let us once again assail your ears,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That are so fortified against our story<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>What we have two nights seen.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Well, sit we down,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Last night of all,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>When yond same star that&#39;s westward from the pole<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Had made his course to illume that part of heaven<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The bell then beating one,&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Enter Ghost]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!<\/td>\n<td>40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>In the same figure, like the king that&#39;s dead.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>It would be spoke to.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Question it, Horatio.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>What art thou that usurp&#39;st this time of night,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Together with that fair and warlike form<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>In which the majesty of buried Denmark<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>It is offended.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>See, it stalks away!<\/td>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Exit Ghost]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Tis gone, and will not answer.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Is not this something more than fantasy?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>What think you on&#39;t?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Before my God, I might not this believe<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Without the sensible and true avouch<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Of mine own eyes.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Is it not like the king?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>As thou art to thyself:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Such was the very armour he had on<\/td>\n<td>60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>When he the ambitious Norway combated;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>So frown&#39;d he once, when, in an angry parle,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Tis strange.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>In what particular thought to work I know not;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But in the gross and scope of my opinion,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>This bodes some strange eruption to our state.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,<\/td>\n<td>70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Why this same strict and most observant watch<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>So nightly toils the subject of the land,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And foreign mart for implements of war;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Does not divide the Sunday from the week;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>What might be toward, that this sweaty haste<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Doth make the night joint&#8211;labourer with the day:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Who is&#39;t that can inform me?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>That can I;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,<\/td>\n<td>80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Whose image even but now appear&#39;d to us,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Thereto prick&#39;d on by a most emulate pride,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For so this side of our known world esteem&#39;d him&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal&#39;d compact,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Well ratified by law and heraldry,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Against the which, a moiety competent<\/td>\n<td>90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Was gaged by our king; which had return&#39;d<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To the inheritance of Fortinbras,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And carriage of the article design&#39;d,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Of unimproved mettle hot and full,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Shark&#39;d up a list of lawless resolutes,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For food and diet, to some enterprise<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That hath a stomach in&#39;t; which is no other&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>As it doth well appear unto our state&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But to recover of us, by strong hand<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>So by his father lost: and this, I take it,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Is the main motive of our preparations,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The source of this our watch and the chief head<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Of this post&#8211;haste and romage in the land.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>I think it be no other but e&#39;en so:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Well may it sort that this portentous figure<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Comes armed through our watch; so like the king<\/td>\n<td>110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That was and is the question of these wars.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>A mote it is to trouble the mind&#39;s eye.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>In the most high and palmy state of Rome,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Disasters in the sun; and the moist star<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Upon whose influence Neptune&#39;s empire stands<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:<\/td>\n<td>120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And even the like precurse of fierce events,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>As harbingers preceding still the fates<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And prologue to the omen coming on,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Have heaven and earth together demonstrated<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Unto our climatures and countrymen.&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Re&#8211;enter Ghost]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>I&#39;ll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Speak to me:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>If there be any good thing to be done,<\/td>\n<td>130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That may to thee do ease and grace to me,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Speak to me:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Cock crows]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>If thou art privy to thy country&#39;s fate,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Shall I strike at it with my partisan?<\/td>\n<td>140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Do, if it will not stand.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>Tis here!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Tis here!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Tis gone!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Exit Ghost]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>We do it wrong, being so majestical,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To offer it the show of violence;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For it is, as the air, invulnerable,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And our vain blows malicious mockery.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BERNARDO<\/td>\n<td>It was about to speak, when the cock crew.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>And then it started like a guilty thing<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Upon a fearful summons. I have heard,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,<\/td>\n<td>150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Doth with his lofty and shrill&#8211;sounding throat<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Awake the god of day; and, at his warning,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The extravagant and erring spirit hies<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To his confine: and of the truth herein<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>This present object made probation.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>It faded on the crowing of the cock.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Some say that ever &#39;gainst that season comes<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Wherein our Saviour&#39;s birth is celebrated,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The bird of dawning singeth all night long:<\/td>\n<td>160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>So hallow&#39;d and so gracious is the time.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>So have I heard and do in part believe it.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Walks o&#39;er the dew of yon high eastward hill:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Break we our watch up; and by my advice,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Let us impart what we have seen to&#8211;night<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,<\/td>\n<td>170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Let&#39;s do&#39;t, I pray; and I this morning know<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Where we shall find him most conveniently.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Exeunt]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><input type=\"button\" name=\"NextPage\" style=\"float : right; font-size : 20px;\" onclick=\"location.href=&#39;http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11511&#39;\" value=\"  Next Page  \"><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Act 1, page 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"opened","ping_status":"opened","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Hatchet","category-The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}