LAER. None but his enemies.— KING. Will you know them then? LAER. To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms; And, like the kind life-rend'ring pelican,* (38) KING. * So 4tos. & 1632. Politician. Why, now you speak 1623. Like a good child, and a true gentleman. DANES [within.] Let her come in. LAER. How now! what noise is that? Enter OPHELIA, fantastically dressed with Straws and Flowers. + peare. 4tos. O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt, So 4tos. By heaven, thy madness shall be paid with weight, O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits OPH. They bore him barefac'd on the bier; (40) And on his grave rains¶ many a tear ;— Fare you well, my dove! by. 1623, 32. § So 4tos. turns. 1623, 32. Il in. 4tos. ¶rain'd. 4tos. a sensible in grief] i. e. poignantly affected with." Adjectives, having this termination, are, in our author, frequently used adverbially. The quarto, 1604, reads sensibly. pierce] i. e. make its way. LAER. Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge, It could not move thus. OPH. You must sing, Down a-down,(41) an you call him a-down-a. O, how the wheel becomes it !(42) It is the false steward, that stole his master's daughter. LAER. This nothing's more than matter.a OPH. There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; (43) pray [you,] love, remember: and there * So 4tos. is pansies, that's for thoughts.(44) paconcies. 1623. + the King. grace. 4tos. LAER. A document in madness; thoughts and remembrance fitted. OPH. There's fennel for you,t and columbines :(45)—there's rue for you; and here's some herb of for me:-we may call it, herb-grace‡ o'Sundays :(46) -you must wear your rue with a difference.(47)____ you may. There's a daisy; (48)-I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died :-They say, he made a good end, 4tos. For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy,—(49) [Sings. LAER. Thought and affliction, passion, hell it self, She turns to favour, and to prettiness. OPH. And will he not come again? And will he not come again? Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. a This nothing's more than mutter] See " O matter," &c. Lear, IV. 6. Edg. b Thought] "Thought or hevynesse of herte. Molestia. Mæstitia." Promptuar. parvulor. 4to. 1514. Ant. & Cl. III. 2. Enobarb. "Think and die." See Tw. N. II. 4. Viola. His beard as white as snow,(50) And of all christian souls! I pray God. God be wi' you! was as. 4tos. + God a. 4tos. [Exit OPHELIA. So 4tos. LAER. Do you see this, O God? ‡ Or you deny me right. Go but apart, Make choice of whom your wisest friends" you will, They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give, Be you content to lend your patience to us, His means of death, his obscure burial, || you Gods. 1623, 32. Scommune. 4tos. & Fo. 1632. || funeral. No trophy, sword, nor hatchment, o'er his bones,(52) 4tos. Cry to be heard,(53) as 'twere from heaven to earth, KING. So you shall; And, where the offence is, let the great axe (54) fall. pray you go with me. I [Exeunt. a And of all christian souls] This was the old and common benison of the Romish Church. b of whom your wisest friends] i. e. of whom, or which of. Any amongst. ¶ So 4tos. call. 1623, 32. * seafaring SCENE VI. Another Room in the same. Enter HORATIO, and a Servant. HOR. What are they, that would speak with me? SERV. men. 4tos. They say, they have letters for you. HOR. Sailors,* sir ; Let them come in. [Exit Servant. I do not know from what part of the world Enter Sailors. 1 SAIL. God bless you, sir. 1 SAIL. He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for you, sir; it comes from the ambassadors that was bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is. с HOR. [Reads.] Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked this, give these fellows some means to the king; they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old at sea," a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chace: Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour; [and] in the grapple I boarded them: on the instant, they got clear of our ship; so I alone became their prisoner. They have a means to the king] i. e. means of access, introduction. b Ere we were two days old at sea] i. e. at the end of a second day's voyage. See M. for M. IV. 2. Prov. dealt with me, like thieves of mercy; but they knew what they did; I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king have the letters I have sent; and repair thou to me with as much haste as thou would'st fly death. I have words to speak in your* ear, will make * thine. thee dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore 4tos. of the matter. These good fellows will bring thee where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course for England: of them I have much to tell thee. Farewell. He that thou knowest thine, Hamlet. Come, I will give you way for these your letters; b [Exeunt. SCENE VII. Another Room in the same. Enter King and LAERTES. KING. Now must your conscience my acquittance And you must put me in your heart for friend; LAER. It well appears :-But tell me, Why you proceeded not against these feats, а for the bore of the matter] The bore is the caliber of a gun, or the capacity of the barrel. The matter (says Hamlet) would carry heavier words. JOHNSON. b I will give you way for these your letters] Way is passage, means of conveyance. |