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break thee off; look, where it comes again!
Bernardo
In the same figure, like the king that’s dead.
Marcellus
Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
Bernardo
Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.
Horatio
Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.
Bernardo
It would be spoke to.
Marcellus
Question it, Horatio.
Horatio
What art thou that usurp’st this time of night,Together with that fair and warlike formIn which the majesty of buried DenmarkDid sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!
Marcellus
It is offended.
Bernardo
See, it stalks away!
HoratioExit Ghost
Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!
Marcellus
’Tis gone, and will not answer.
Bernardo
How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:Is not this something more than fantasy?What think you on’t?
Horatio
Before my God, I might not this believeWithout the sensible and true avouchOf mine own eyes.
Marcellus
Is it not like the king?
Horatio
As thou art to thyself:Such was the very armour he had onWhen he the ambitious Norway combated;So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle,He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.’Tis strange.
Marcellus
Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
Horatio
In what particular thought to work I know not;But in the gross and scope of my opinion,This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
Marcellus
Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,Why this same strict and most observant watchSo nightly toils the subject of the land,And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,And foreign mart for implements of war;Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore taskDoes not divide the Sunday from the week;What might be toward, that this sweaty hasteDoth make the night joint-labourer with the day:Who is’t that can inform me?
Horatio
That can I;At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,Whose image even but now appear’d to us,Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate pride,Dared to the combat; in which our valiant HamletFor so this side of our known world esteem’d him —Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal’d compact,
Bernardo
Well ratified by law and heraldry,Did forfeit, with his life, all those his landsWhich he stood seized of, to the conqueror:Against the which, a moiety competentWas gaged by our king; which had return’dTo the inheritance of Fortinbras,Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant,And carriage of the article design’d,His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,Of unimproved mettle hot and full,Hath in the skirts of Norway here and thereShark’d up a list of lawless resolutes,For food and diet, to some enterpriseThat hath a stomach in’t; which is no other —As it doth well appear unto our state —But to recover of us, by strong handAnd terms compulsatory, those foresaid landsSo by his father lost: and this, I take it,Is the main motive of our preparations,The source of this our watch and the chief headOf this post-haste and romage in the land.I think it be no other but e’en so:
Horatio
Well may it sort that this portentous figureComes armed through our watch; so like the kingThat was and is the question of these wars.A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye.
Re-enter Ghost
In the most high and palmy state of Rome,A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted deadDid squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,Disasters in the sun; and the moist starUpon whose influence Neptune’s empire standsWas sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:And even the like precurse of fierce events,As harbingers preceding still the fatesAnd prologue to the omen coming on,Have heaven and earth together demonstratedUnto our climatures and countrymen. —But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!
I’ll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,Speak to me:If there be any good thing to be done,That may to thee do ease and grace to me,Speak to me:
Cock crows
If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy lifeExtorted treasure in the womb of earth,For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus.
Marcellus
Shall I strike at it with my partisan?
Horatio
Do, if it will not stand.
Bernardo
’Tis here!
Horatio
’Tis here!
Marcellus
’Tis gone!
Exit Ghost
We do it wrong, being so majestical,To offer it the show of violence;For it is, as the air, invulnerable,And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Bernardo
It was about to speak, when the cock crew.
Horatio
And then it started like a guilty thingUpon a fearful summons. I have heard,The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throatAwake the god of day; and, at his warning,Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,The extravagant and erring spirit hiesTo his confine: and of the truth hereinThis present object made probation.
Marcellus
It faded on the crowing of the cock.Some say that ever ’gainst that season comesWherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,The bird of dawning singeth all night long:And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,