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Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n

ACT I SCENE IV\ufffd<\/b> Setting: The platform.<\/p>\n

[Enter\ufffdHAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS]<\/p>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\nThe air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO<\/td>\nIt is a nipping and an eager air.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\nWhat hour now?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO<\/td>\nI think it lacks of twelve.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET<\/td>\nNo, it is struck.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO<\/td>\nIndeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the season<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nWherein the spirit held his wont to walk.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

[A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nWhat does this mean, my lord?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nThe king doth wake to–night and takes his rouse,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nKeeps wassail, and the swaggering up–spring reels;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe kettle–drum and trumpet thus bray out<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe triumph of his pledge.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HORATIO<\/td>\nIs it a custom?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nAy, marry, is't:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut to my mind, though I am native here<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd to the manner born, it is a custom<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMore honour'd in the breach than the observance.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis heavy–headed revel east and west<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMakes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThey clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSoil our addition; and indeed it takes<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFrom our achievements, though perform'd at height,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe pith and marrow of our attribute.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo, oft it chances in particular men,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat for some vicious mole of nature in them,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs, in their birth––wherein they are not guilty,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSince nature cannot choose his origin––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy the o'ergrowth of some complexion,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr by some habit that too much o'er–leavens<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe form of plausive manners, that these men,<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCarrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBeing nature's livery, or fortune's star,––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTheir virtues else––be they as pure as grace,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs infinite as man may undergo––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShall in the general censure take corruption<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFrom that particular fault: the dram of eale<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDoth all the noble substance of a doubt<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo his own scandal.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HORATIO<\/td>\nLook, my lord, it comes!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Enter Ghost]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nAngels and ministers of grace defend us!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBe thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBe thy intents wicked or charitable,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou comest in such a questionable shape<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nKing, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet me not burst in ignorance; but tell<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo cast thee up again. What may this mean,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat thou, dead corse, again in complete steel<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRevisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMaking night hideous; and we fools of nature<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo horridly to shake our disposition<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSay, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Ghost beckons\ufffdHAMLET]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HORATIO<\/td>\nIt beckons you to go away with it,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs if it some impartment did desire<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo you alone.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARCELLUS<\/td>\nLook, with what courteous action<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt waves you to a more removed ground:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut do not go with it.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HORATIO<\/td>\nNo, by no means.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nIt will not speak; then I will follow it.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HORATIO<\/td>\nDo not, my lord.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nWhy, what should be the fear?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI do not set my life in a pin's fee;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd for my soul, what can it do to that,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBeing a thing immortal as itself?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt waves me forth again: I'll follow it.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HORATIO<\/td>\nWhat if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr to the dreadful summit of the cliff<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat beetles o'er his base into the sea,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd there assume some other horrible form,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich might deprive your sovereignty of reason<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd draw you into madness? think of it:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe very place puts toys of desperation,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWithout more motive, into every brain<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat looks so many fathoms to the sea<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd hears it roar beneath.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nIt waves me still.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGo on; I'll follow thee.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARCELLUS<\/td>\nYou shall not go, my lord.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nHold off your hands.<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HORATIO<\/td>\nBe ruled; you shall not go.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMLET<\/td>\nMy fate cries out,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd makes each petty artery in this body<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nStill am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Exeunt Ghost\ufffdand HAMLET]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HORATIO<\/td>\nHe waxes desperate with imagination.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARCELLUS<\/td>\nLet's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HORATIO<\/td>\nHave after. To what issue will this come?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARCELLUS<\/td>\nSomething is rotten in the state of Denmark.<\/td>\n90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HORATIO<\/td>\nHeaven will direct it.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARCELLUS<\/td>\nNay, let's follow him.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Exeunt]<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/h3>\n

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