{"id":11514,"date":"2017-09-04T21:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11514"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:34","slug":"HamletAtext4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/HamletAtext4\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 1, page 4"},"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=11515&#39;\" value=\"  Questions for this Chapter  \"><\/p>\n<p><b>ACT I SCENE V\ufffd<\/b> Setting: Another part of the platform.<\/p>\n<p>[Enter\ufffdGHOST and HAMLET]<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I&#39;ll go no further.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>Mark me.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>I will.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>My hour is almost come,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Must render up myself.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Alas, poor ghost!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To what I shall unfold.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Speak; I am bound to hear.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>What?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>I am thy father&#39;s spirit,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Doom&#39;d for a certain term to walk the night,<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And for the day confined to fast in fires,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To tell the secrets of my prison&#8211;house,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>I could a tale unfold whose lightest word<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Thy knotted and combined locks to part<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And each particular hair to stand on end,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But this eternal blazon must not be<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>If thou didst ever thy dear father love&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>O God!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Murder!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>Murder most foul, as in the best it is;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But this most foul, strange and unnatural.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Haste me to know&#39;t, that I, with wings as swift<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>As meditation or the thoughts of love,<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>May sweep to my revenge.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>I find thee apt;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Is by a forged process of my death<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The serpent that did sting thy father&#39;s life<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Now wears his crown.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>O my prophetic soul! My uncle!<\/td>\n<td>40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>So to seduce!&#8211;&#8211;won to his shameful lust<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The will of my most seeming&#8211;virtuous queen:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>O Hamlet, what a falling&#8211;off was there!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>From me, whose love was of that dignity<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That it went hand in hand even with the vow<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>I made to her in marriage, and to decline<\/td>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To those of mine!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But virtue, as it never will be moved,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>So lust, though to a radiant angel link&#39;d,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Will sate itself in a celestial bed,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And prey on garbage.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>My custom always of the afternoon,<\/td>\n<td>60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And in the porches of my ears did pour<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The leperous distilment; whose effect<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Holds such an enmity with blood of man<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That swift as quicksilver it courses through<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The natural gates and alleys of the body,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And with a sudden vigour doth posset<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And curd, like eager droppings into milk,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine;<\/td>\n<td>70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And a most instant tetter bark&#39;d about,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Most lazar&#8211;like, with vile and loathsome crust,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>All my smooth body.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother&#39;s hand<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch&#39;d:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Unhousel&#39;d, disappointed, unanel&#39;d,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>No reckoning made, but sent to my account<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With all my imperfections on my head:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!<\/td>\n<td>80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Let not the royal bed of Denmark be<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>A couch for luxury and damned incest.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The glow&#8211;worm shows the matin to be near,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And &#39;gins to pale his uneffectual fire:<\/td>\n<td>90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Exit]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>In this distracted globe. Remember thee!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Yea, from the table of my memory<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>I&#39;ll wipe away all trivial fond records,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That youth and observation copied there;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And thy commandment all alone shall live<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Within the book and volume of my brain,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Unmix&#39;d with baser matter: yes, by heaven!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>O most pernicious woman!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>My tables,&#8211;&#8211;meet it is I set it down,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>At least I&#39;m sure it may be so in Denmark:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[Writing]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;<\/td>\n<td>110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>It is &#39;Adieu, adieu! remember me.&#39;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>I have sworn &#39;t.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>[Within] My lord, my lord,&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>[Within] Lord Hamlet,&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>[Within] Heaven secure him!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>So be it!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>[Within] Hillo, ho, ho, my lord!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Enter\ufffdHORATIO and MARCELLUS]<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>How is&#39;t, my noble lord?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>What news, my lord?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>O, wonderful!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Good my lord, tell it.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>No; you&#39;ll reveal it.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Not I, my lord, by heaven.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Nor I, my lord.<\/td>\n<td>120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>How say you, then; would heart of man once think it?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But you&#39;ll be secret?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Ay, by heaven, my lord.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>There&#39;s ne&#39;er a villain dwelling in all Denmark<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>But he&#39;s an arrant knave.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To tell us this.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Why, right; you are i&#39; the right;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And so, without more circumstance at all,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>I hold it fit that we shake hands and part:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>You, as your business and desire shall point you;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For every man has business and desire,<\/td>\n<td>130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Such as it is; and for mine own poor part,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Look you, I&#39;ll go pray.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>I&#39;m sorry they offend you, heartily;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Yes, &#39;faith heartily.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>There&#39;s no offence, my lord.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And much offence too. Touching this vision here,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>For your desire to know what is between us,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>O&#39;ermaster &#39;t as you may. And now, good friends,<\/td>\n<td>140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>As you are friends, scholars and soldiers,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Give me one poor request.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>What is&#39;t, my lord? we will.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Never make known what you have seen to&#8211;night.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>My lord, we will not.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Nay, but swear&#39;t.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>In faith,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>My lord, not I.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>Nor I, my lord, in faith.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Upon my sword.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MARCELLUS<\/td>\n<td>We have sworn, my lord, already.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>[Beneath]\ufffdSwear.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Ah, ha, boy! say&#39;st thou so? art thou there,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>truepenny?<\/td>\n<td>150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Come on&#8211;&#8211;you hear this fellow in the cellarage&#8211;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Consent to swear.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>Propose the oath, my lord.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Never to speak of this that you have seen,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Swear by my sword.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>[Beneath] Swear.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Hic et ubique? then we&#39;ll shift our ground.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Come hither, gentlemen,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And lay your hands again upon my sword:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Never to speak of this that you have heard,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Swear by my sword.<\/td>\n<td>160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>[Beneath] Swear.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Well said, old mole! canst work i&#39; the earth so fast?<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HORATIO<\/td>\n<td>O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>How strange or odd soe&#39;er I bear myself,<\/td>\n<td>170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>As I perchance hereafter shall think meet<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>To put an antic disposition on,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With arms encumber&#39;d thus, or this headshake,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>As &#39;Well, well, we know,&#39; or &#39;We could, an if we would,&#39;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Or &#39;If we list to speak,&#39; or &#39;There be, an if they might,&#39;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Or such ambiguous giving out, to note<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>That you know aught of me: this not to do,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear.<\/td>\n<td>180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ghost<\/td>\n<td>[Beneath] Swear.<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HAMLET<\/td>\n<td>Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[They swear]<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>So, gentlemen,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>With all my love I do commend me to you:<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>And what so poor a man as Hamlet is<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>May do, to express his love and friending to you,<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>God willing, shall not lack. 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