Doth rend the region: So, after Pyrrhus' pause, Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods, 1623, 32. Break all the spokes and fellies* from her wheel,(53) fallies. POL. This is too long. HAM. It shall to the barber's with your beard. Pr'ythee, say on:-He's for a jig, or a tale of baw-+ ah woe! dry,(54) or he sleeps:-say on: Come to Hecuba. 1 PLAY. But who, O who had seen the mobled queen HAM. The mobled§ queen? POL. That's good; mobled || queen is good. 4tos. & 1603. So 4tos. & 1632. inobled. 1623. § id. 1 PLAY. Run barefoot up and down, threat'ning || id. the flame ¶ dames. With bisson rheum; (56) a clout about** that head, 4tos. ** upon. 4tos. tt th' ala A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up; Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd rum, 1623, 'Gainst fortune's state would treason have pro nounc'd: But if the gods themselves did see her then, 32, & 1603. POL. Look, whether‡‡ he has not turned his co-‡‡ where. lour, and has tears in's eyes.-Pr'ythee, no more.(58) O. C. HAM. 'Tis well; I'll have thee speak out the rest §§ § of this. soon.-Good my lord, will you see the players well 4tos. F bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract, and brief chronicles, of the time: After your death you were better have a bad live. 4tos. epitaph, than their ill report while you lived.* POL. My lord, I will use them according to their desert. & 1603. + much better. 4tos. buy'ye. 1623, 32. buy to. 4tos. § dunghill HAM. God's bodikin, man, better: Use every man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity: The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in. POL. Come, sirs. [Exit POLONIUS with some of the Players. HAM. Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play tomorrow. Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the murder of Gonzago? 1 PLAY. Ay, my lord. HAM. We'll have it to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a speech (59) of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down, and insert in't? could you not? 1 PLAY. Ay, my lord. HAM. Very well.-Follow that lord; and look you mock him not. [Exit Player.] My good friends, [To Ros. and GUIL.] I'll leave you till night you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord! [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN. HAM. Ay, so, God be wi' you: -Now I am alone. ideote O, what a rogue and peasant slave § am I! slave. 1603. Is it not monstrous,(60) that this player here, Il So 4tos. But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, 1623, 32. Could force his soul so to his own || conceit, whole. the That, from her working, all his ¶ visage warm'd ;(61) wan'd. 4tos. Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,** ** in his aspect. 4tos. ++ to her. 4tos. A broken voice, and his whole function suiting,(62) What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,++ That he should weep for her? What would he do, Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? Why,* I should take it: for it cannot be, I should have fatted all the region kites lain! O vengeance! Who? What an ass am I? ay sure, this is most brave; A scullion! * Swounds. 4tos. + So 4tos. offal bloudy; a 1623, 32. dear father murdered, 4tos. b defeat was made] i. e. overthrow. See M. ado &c. IV. 1. Leon. e kindless] i. e. unnatural. See "kin and kind," I. 2. Haml. d unpack my heart with words] Such was the language of the day. "There are some, that are never well, but when they are unpacking their bosomes with wordes." I. S's. Anthropophagus. A Sermon, 4to. 1624. p. 38. Fye upon't! foh! About, my brains! I have heard, For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak [Exit. a about, my brains] i. e. wits, to work. Steevens points out the phrase in Heywood's Iron Age, 1632. b blench] i. e. shrink, start aside. See M. for M. V. 5. Duke, and Wint. T. I. 2. Camil. с more relative than this] i. e. directly applicable. ACT III. SCENE I. A Room in the Castle. Enter King, Queen, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSEN- KING. And can you, by no drift of *circumstance** conferGet from him, why he puts on this confusion; Grating so harshly all his days of quiet With turbulent and dangerous lunacy? Ros. He does confess, he feels himself distracted; But from what cause he will by no means speak. GUIL. Nor do we find him forward' to be sounded; When we would bring him on to some confession QUEEN. Did he receive you well? Ros. Most like a gentleman. GUIL. But with much forcing of his disposition. Ros. Niggard of question; but, of our demands, Most free in his reply. QUEEN. To any pastime? Did you assay him Ros. Madam, it so fell out, that certain players a drift of circumstance] i. e. "introduction and shaping of topics and facts." bforward] i. e. disposed, inclinable. c niggard of question,] i. e. “rarely started any topic, but to our questions most frank and open in answering.' d assay him to] i. e. " try his disposition towards." See II. 1. Polon, and 2 Volt. ence. 4tos. |