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Title: The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9] Author: William Shakespeare Editor: William George Clark William Aldis Wright Release date: May 21, 2015 [eBook #49008] Most recently updated: October 24, 2024 Language: English Credits: Produced by Richard Tonsing, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [CAMBRIDGE EDITION] [VOL. 8 OF 9] *** _THE WORKS_ OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE EDITED BY WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A. FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE; AND WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A. LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. _VOLUME VIII._ London and Cambridge: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1866. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. CONTENTS. PAGE THE Preface vii HAMLET 3 Notes to Hamlet 185 The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke 197 KING LEAR 249 Notes to King Lear 427 OTHELLO 437 Notes to Othello 593 PREFACE. 1. The earliest edition of HAMLET appeared in 1603, with the following title-page: THE | Tragicall Historie of | HAMLET | _Prince of Denmarke_ | By William Shake-speare. | As it hath beene diuerse times acted by his Highnesse ser-| uants in the Cittie of London: as also in the two V-| niuersities of Cambridge and Oxford, and else-where | At London printed for N: L. and Iohn Trundell. | 1603. We refer to it as (Q₁). A copy of this edition belonged to Sir Thomas Hanmer, though he does not appear to have mentioned it in his notes to Shakespeare or in his correspondence, and its existence was not known till his library came into the possession of Sir E. H. Bunbury in 1821. In a copy of the Reprint of 1825, now at Barton, Sir E. H. Bunbury wrote the following note: 'The only copy of this edition of Hamlet (1603) which is known to be in existence was found by me in the Library at Barton when it came into my possession in 1821. The Hamlet was bound up with ten others of the small 4to editions of Shakespeare's Plays (1598 to 1603) and with The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634). Most of these were complete. I sold the volume in Dec. 1824 for £180 to Messrs Payne and Foss, who resold it to the Duke of Devonshire for £230.' This copy wanted the last leaf containing the 22 concluding lines. A second copy, wanting the title-page but otherwise perfect, was discovered in 1856 by Mr W. H. Rooney of Dublin. 'It was bought,' says Mr Timmins, 'by Mr Rooney from a student of Trinity College, Dublin, who had brought it from Nottinghamshire with his other books. After reprinting the last leaf, Mr Rooney sold the pamphlet to Mr Boone for £70, from whom Mr J. O. Halliwell bought it for £120, and it is now in the British Museum.' We have reprinted this edition, and recorded in foot-notes the few discrepancies which are found between the two copies. An extremely accurate reprint was made from the Devonshire copy in 1825, and it was lithographed in facsimile, with the addition of the missing leaf, in 1858, under the direction of Mr Collier and at the expense of the Duke. In 1860 Mr J. Allen, Junr., reprinted this edition and the Quarto of 1604, placing the corresponding passages as nearly as possible on opposite pages, with a preface by Mr Samuel Timmins. The edition of 1603 is obviously a very imperfect reproduction of the play, and there is every reason to believe that it was printed from a manuscript surreptitiously obtained. This manuscript may have been compiled in the first instance from short hand notes taken during the representation, but there are many errors in the printed text which seem like errors of a copyist rather than of a hearer. Compare for example lines 37, 38 of Scene III. of our Reprint, p. 205, with the corresponding lines of the more perfect drama as it was printed in the Quarto of 1604, Act I. Scene 3, lines 73, 74, p. 26. In the Quarto of 1603 the passage runs thus: And they of _France_ of the chiefe rancke and station Are of a most select and generall chiefe in that: In that of 1604: 'And they in Fraunce of the best ranck and station, Or of a most select and generous, chiefe in that:' It is clear that the corruption in both passages is due to an error in the transcript from which both were copied. Probably the author had originally written: 'And they in France of the best rank and station Are most select and generous in that:' and then given between the lines or in the margin, 'of,' 'chief', meaning these as alternative readings for 'in' and 'best' in the first line. The transcriber by mistake inserted them in the second line. A few lines above both Quartos give 'courage' for 'comrade,' a mistake due undoubtedly to the eye and not to the ear. We believe then that the defects of the manuscript from which the Quarto of 1603 was printed had been in part at least supplemented by a reference to the authentic copy in the library of the theatre. Very probably the man employed for this purpose was some inferior actor or servant, who would necessarily work in haste and by stealth, and in any case would not be likely to work very conscientiously for the printer or bookseller who was paying him to deceive his masters. The Quarto of 1604, which we call Q₂, has the following title-page: _THE_ | Tragicall Historie of | HAMLET, | _Prince of Denmarke_. | By William Shakespeare. | Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much | againe as it was, according to the true and perfect | Coppie. | AT LONDON, | Printed by I. R. for N. L. and are to be sold at his | shoppe vnder Saint Dunstons Church in | Fleetstreet. 1604. The printer 'I. R.' was no doubt, as Mr Collier says, James Roberts, who had made an entry in the books of the Stationers' company as early as July 26, 1602, of 'A booke, The Revenge of Hamlett prince of Denmarke, as yt was latelie acted by the Lord Chamberleyn his servantes.' For some unknown reason the projected edition was delayed, and in the mean time the popularity of the play encouraged N. L., i.e. Nicholas Ling, and the other publisher, Trundell, to undertake a surreptitious edition. In the interval between the two editions Shakespeare seems to have changed the names of some of his Dramatis Personæ, substituting 'Polonius' for 'Corambis' and 'Reynaldo' for 'Montano.' He may also have changed the order of one or two scenes, and here and there erased or inserted a few lines, but we think that no substantial change was made, and that the chief differences between (Q₁) and Q₂ are only such as might be expected between a bona fide, and a mala fide, transcription. The Quarto of 1605, which we call Q₃, is not, properly speaking, a new edition, being printed from the same forms as Q₂, and differing from it no more than one copy of the same edition may differ from another. The title-page differs only in the date, where 1605 is substituted for 1604. Another Quarto, our Q₄, printed in 1611, bears a title-page which does not substantially differ from that of Q₃, except that it is said to be: 'Printed for _Iohn Smethwicke_, and are to be sold at his shoppe | in Saint Dunstons Church-yeard in Fleetstreet. | Under the Diall. 1611. |' Another Quarto, without date, is said on the title-page to be 'Newly imprinted and inlarged, according to the true | and perfect Copy lastly Printed,' and to be 'Printed by W. S. for _Iohn Smethwicke_.' Otherwise the title-page is identical with that of Q₄. Mr Collier supposes this undated Quarto to have been printed in 1607, because there is an entry in the Stationers' books of that year and no edition with that date is known to exist. We are convinced however that the undated Quarto was printed from that of 1611, and we have therefore called it Q₅. Another Quarto, printed 'by _R. Young_ for _John Smethwicke_,' was published in 1637. This we call Q₆. It is printed from Q₅, though the spelling is considerably modernized and the punctuation amended. The symbol Qq signifies the agreement of Q₂, Q₃, Q₄, Q₅ and Q₆. Besides these, several editions, usually known as Players' Quartos, were printed at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the following century. Of these we have had before us during our collation, editions of 1676, 1685, 1695 and 1703. These we call respectively Q(1676), Q(1685), Q(1695) and Q(1703). We have given all readings which seemed in any way remarkable, though we need scarcely say that the changes made in these editions have no authority whatever. It is however worthy of notice that many emendations usually attributed to Rowe and Pope are really derived from one or other of these Players' Quartos. When we give a reading as belonging to one of these Quartos, it is to be understood that it occurs there for the first time and that all the subsequent Quartos adopt it. The text of Hamlet given in the Folio of 1623 is not derived from any of the previously existing Quartos, but from an independent manuscript. Many passages are found in the Folio which do not appear in any of the Quartos. On the other hand many passages found in the Quartos are not found in the Folio. It is to be remarked that several of those which appear in the Folio and not in the Quarto of 1604 or its successors, are found in an imperfect form in the Quarto of 1603, and therefore are not subsequent additions. Both the Quarto text of 1604 and the Folio text of 1623 seem to have been derived from manuscripts of the play curtailed, and curtailed differently, for purposes of representation. Therefore in giving in our text all the passages from both Folio and Quarto we are reproducing, as near as may be, the work as it was originally written by Shakespeare, or rather as finally retouched by him after the spurious edition of 1603. We have been unable to procure a copy of the Quarto edition of this play, edited in 1703 by 'the accurate Mr John Hughs' (Theobald's _Shakespeare Restored_, p. 26), and have therefore quoted the readings of it on Theobald's authority. It is different from the Players' Quarto of 1703, and is not mentioned in Bohn's edition of Lowndes's _Bibliographer's Manual_. No copy of it exists in the British Museum, the Bodleian, the library of the Duke of Devonshire, the Capell collection, or any other to which we have had access. We have to thank Dr C. M. Ingleby for the loan of several editions of _Hamlet_ which we should otherwise have had difficulty in procuring. 2. KING LEAR first appeared in 1608. In this year there were two editions in Quarto. One bears the following title: M. William Shakespeare, | _HIS_ | True Chronicle History of the life | and death of King _Lear_, and his | _three Daughters_. | _With the unfortunate life of_ EDGAR, | sonne and heire to the Earle of _Glocester_, and | _his sullen and assumed humour of_ TOM | of Bedlam. | _As it was plaid before the Kings Maiesty at White-Hall, vp-_ | _on S. Stephens night, in Christmas Hollidaies_. | By his Maiesties Seruants, playing vsually at the | _Globe_ on the _Banck-side_. | Printed for _Nathaniel Butter_. | 1608. | The printer's device is that of J. Roberts. This we have called Q₁. In the few instances in which there are differences between Capell's copy and that in the Duke of Devonshire's library, we have distinguished the readings as those of Q₁ (Cap.) and Q₁ (Dev.) respectively. Through the kindness of Sir S. Morton Peto and Mr Lilly, we have been enabled to collate two other copies, but without discovering any variations from that in the Capell collection. In the same year another Quarto edition of this play was issued by the same publisher. Its title is as follows: M. William Shak-speare: | _HIS_ | True Chronicle Historie of the life and | death of King LEAR and his three | Daughters. | _With the vnfortunate life of_ Edgar, _sonne_ | and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his | sullen and assumed humor of | TOM of Bedlam: | _As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon_ | _S._ Stephans _night in Christmas Hollidayes_. | By his Maiesties seruants playing vsually at the Gloabe | on the Bancke-side. | _LONDON_,| Printed for _Nathaniel Butter_, and are to be sold at his shop in _Pauls_ | Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neere | Sᵗ. _Austins_ Gate. 1608. | We have called this Q₂. In the six copies we have collated there are a large number of very curious and important variations. To distinguish them we have made use of the following notation. 1. Q₂ (Cap.) The copy in Capell's collection. 2. Q₂ (Dev.) The copy in the Library of the Duke of Devonshire. 3. Q₂ (Mus. per.) A perfect copy in the British Museum (C. 34. K. 18). 4. Q₂ (Mus. imp.) An imperfect copy (wanting title) in the British Museum (C. 34. K. 17); formerly in the possession of Mr Halliwell. 5. Q₂ (Bodl. 1). A copy in the Bodleian Library (Malone 35), with the title, but wanting the last leaf. 6. Q₂ (Bodl. 2). A copy in the Bodleian Library (Malone 37), wanting title but having the last leaf. It has been supposed in consequence of statements made by Malone and Boswell that a third edition of King Lear was published in 1608. We shall show that there is no evidence for this. In the _Variorum Shakespeare_ (II. 652), edited by Boswell in 1821, three Quartos are described, which are distinguished in the notes to the play by the letters A, B, C, respectively. The first of these is a copy of Q₂, quoted by us as Q₂ (Bodl. 1); the second is a copy of Q₁; and the third, which is in reality another copy of Q₂ and is quoted by us as Q₂ (Bodl. 2), is described as follows: "Title the same as the two former, except that like the first it begins at signature B: and like the second, has no reference to the place of sale." This statement of Boswell's is taken from a note in Malone's handwriting prefixed to the copy in question, which we transcribe. "This copy of King Lear differs in some particulars from the two others in Vol. IV. "The title-page of it is the same as the second of those copies, that is, it has no direction to the place of sale, and the first signat. is B,--notwithstanding which there are minute diversities; thus, in this copy in H₃ verso, we have 'A _foole_ vsurps my _bed_'; in the other whose first signature is also B, we find--'My _foote_ usurps my _body_', and in the copy without any direction to the place of sale (whose first signature is A) 'My _foote_ usurps my _head_'." Now it is a little remarkable that at present the copy has no title-page at all, and there is no trace of the title-page having been removed since the volume has been in its present condition. The probability is that the title was originally wanting and that one had been supplied from a copy of Q₁ before it came into Malone's hands, and that while it was in this condition he wrote the above note upon it. It was then sent to be bound in a volume with other quartos, and the title may have been lost at the binder's, or may have been intentionally removed as not belonging to the book. That alterations were made by the binder is evident from the fact that the copy to which Malone refers as the _second_ of those in Vol. IV. is in reality the _first_. Malone, writing his note when Vol. IV. was arranged for binding, described the then order of the plays, which must afterwards have been altered. In any case, however Malone's statement is to be accounted for, it is quite clear that Boswell must have described the Quarto after it was bound, when the title could not have existed. We have said that Boswell quotes the three Quartos of Lear, now in the Bodleian, by the letters A, B, C, respectively. In doing so, however, he is not consistent. We record his mistakes that others may not be misled by them. Bearing in mind therefore that A = Q₂ (Bodl. 1), B = Q₁, and C = Q₂ (Bodl. 2), we find in Act II. Scene 2 (Vol. X. p. 97) 'Quarto B, _ausrent_; Quarto A, reads _unreverent_.' Here B and A should change places. In Act III. Scene 7 (p. 188), 'Quarto A omits _roguish_:' for A read C. In Act IV. Scene 2 (p. 199), for 'Quartos B and C, _the whistling_,' read 'Quarto C' alone. In Act IV. Scene 6 (p. 220) B and A should again be interchanged. In Act V. Scene 3 (p. 277), 'Quarto A omits this line'; for A read B. It will be seen from these instances that A has been in turn made to represent three different copies. The differences in various copies of Q₂ are accounted for by supposing that the corrections were made before the sheets were all worked off, and that the corrected and uncorrected sheets were bound up indiscriminately. It will be observed that the readings of the uncorrected sheets of Q₂ agree for the most part with those of Q₁, and this led us to the conclusion which had previously been arrived at by Capell and also by J. P. Kemble, that the edition which we have called Q₁ was the earlier of the two printed in the same year. But upon collating a copy of Q₂ in the Bodleian, which we have called Q₂ (Bodl. 1), we found evidence which points to an opposite conclusion. In Kent's soliloquy (II. 2. 160) that copy, as will be seen in our notes, reads, nothing almost sees _my rackles_ But miserie, &c. which of course is an accidental corruption, by displacement of the type, of 'myrackles' (i.e. 'miracles') the true reading. In the corrected copies of Q₂ this is altered, apparently by the printer's conjecture, to 'my wracke', which is also the reading of Q₁. Throughout the sheet in which this occurs the readings of Q₁ agree with the corrected copies of Q₂, and had it not been for the instance quoted, we might have supposed that the corrections in the latter were made from Q₁. But the corruption 'my rackles' for 'miracles' must have come from the original MS., and 'my wracke' is only a conjectural emendation, so that the order of succession in this sheet at least appears to be the following. First the uncorrected copy of Q₂, then the same corrected, and lastly Q₁. On the other hand it is remarkable that Q₁, if printed from Q₂ at all, must have been printed from a copy made up, with the exception just mentioned from II. 1. 128 to II. 4. 133, and another containing from IV. 6. 224 to V. 3. 64, of uncorrected sheets. Another hypothesis which might be made is that Q₁ and Q₂ were printed from the same manuscript, and that the printer of Q₁ corrupted 'miracles' into 'my wracke', while the printer of Q₂ made it 'my rackles', which was afterwards altered by a reference to Q₁. The question, however, is very difficult to decide, and at most is one rather of bibliographical curiosity than of critical importance. We may mention that, without giving the reasons for his conclusion, Jennens, in his edition of _Lear_ in 1770, quotes as the 1st Quarto that which we have called Q₂ and vice versa. A third Quarto, which we have called Q₃, was printed very carelessly page for page from Q₁ and published in 1655. In the first Folio _King Lear_ was printed from an independent manuscript, and its text is on the whole much superior to that of the Quartos. Each however supplies passages which are wanting in the other. Capell appears to have prepared the play for press in the first instance from Pope's first edition. The manuscript readings and stage directions, marked in his copy of that edition but not adopted in his own, we have quoted as 'Capell MS'. * * * * * 3. OTHELLO was first printed in Quarto in 1622 with the following title: THE | Tragœdy of Othello, | The Moore of Venice. | _As it hath beene diuerse times acted at the_ | Globe, and at the Black-Friers, by | _his Maiesties Seruants_. | _Written by_ William Shakespeare. | _LONDON_,| Printed by _N. O._ for _Thomas Walkley_, and are to be sold at his | shop, at the Eagle and Child, in Brittans Bursse. | 1622. | To this edition which we call Q₁, the following preface was affixed by the publisher: The Stationer to the Reader. _To set forth a booke without an Epistle, were like to the old English prouerbe_, A blew coat without a badge, _& the Author being dead, I thought good to take that piece of worke vpon mee: To commend it, I will not, for that which is good, I hope euery man will commend, without intreaty: and I am the bolder, because the Authors name is sufficient to vent his worke. Thus leauing euery one to the liberty of iudgement: I haue ventered to print this Play, and leaue it to the generall censure._ _Yours_, Thomas Walkley. This first Quarto contains many oaths and expletives, which in all the later editions are altered or omitted. This shows that the MS. from which it was printed had not been recently used as an acting copy. Many passages are omitted in Q₁, by accident or design, and some which we find only in the later editions look like afterthoughts of the author. The title-page of the second Quarto is letter for letter the same as the first, except that it has the following imprint: _LONDON_,| Printed by _A. M._ for _Richard Hawkins_, and are to be sold at | his shoppe in Chancery-Lane, neere Sergeants-Inne. | 1630. | Of this Quarto, which we term Q₂, Mr Collier says: 'It was unquestionably printed from a manuscript different from that used for the Quarto of 1622, or for the Folio of 1623.' But after a minute comparison of the two it appears to us clear that the Quarto of 1630 must have been printed from a copy of the Quarto of 1622, which had received additions and corrections in manuscript. The resemblances between the two are too close to allow of any other supposition. These additions and corrections, though agreeing for the most part with the first Folio, which had appeared in the interval, were derived from an independent source. The third Quarto, which we refer to as Q₃, was printed from the second, and is called 'The Fourth Edition.' It has the following imprint: _LONDON_, | Printed for _William Leak_ at the _Crown_ _in Fleet-_ | _street_, between the two Temple Gates, 1655 | Jennens, in his edition of _Othello_, published in 1773, was not aware of the existence of the Quarto of 1630, and quotes as the readings of the second Quarto those of the edition of 1655. An edition in Quarto, without date, is quoted by Capell on the authority of Pope; but on reference to Pope's list it appears that, though he has omitted the date, he refers to the Quarto of 1622, which contains the publisher's preface. The kindness of Sir S. Morton Peto has enabled us to consult a copy of the first Quarto in the library at Chipstead, which, in cases where its readings differ from those of the copies in the Capell and Devonshire collections, we have distinguished as Q₁ (Chip.) A Players' Quarto of 1695, for the use of which, as well as for other acts of kindness, we have to thank Sir Charles Bunbury, is quoted as Q (1695). In the Addenda we have given some readings which we had not previously seen from an anonymous tract published in 1752, with the title, _Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark_. The rest are chiefly from books which have been published since the greater part of our volume was struck off. W. G. C. W. A. W. ADDENDA. HAMLET, I. 1. 117, 118. Add to note, _As stars with ... Distempered_ or _As stars with ... Discoloured_ Staunton conj. I. 4. 36, 37. Add to note, _the dram of leaven ... of a dough_ Cartwright conj. _the dram of evil ... oft weigh down_ Bailey conj. I. 4. 73. _your ... reason_] _of sovereignty your_ Hunter conj. I. 5. 11. _And for_] _Tho' in_ Anon. MS. I. 5. 32, 34. _shouldst ... Wouldst_] _wouldst ... Shouldst_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). II. 2. 82. Add to note, _And think upon and answer_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). II. 2. 140. _out of thy star_] _out of thy soar_ Bailey conj. II. 2. 162. _Be ... then;_] _Let ... then_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). II. 2. 438, 439. _tyrannous ... murder_] _treacherous and damned light To the vile murtherer_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). III. 1. 58. _slings and arrows_] _stings and harrows_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). _stings and horrors_ Anon. MS. III. 2. 21. _scorn_] _sin_ Bailey conj. III. 2. 22. _the very age_] _the visage_ Bailey conj. III. 2. 23. _pressure_] _posture_ Bailey conj. III. 2. 206. _Nor ... give_] _Let earth not give me_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). III. 3. 15. _The cease of_] _Deceasing_ Bailey conj. III. 3. 169. Add to note, _And either house_ Bailey conj. IV. 7. 112. _begun_] _begnawn_ Bailey conj. V. 2, 180. _and outward ... a kind_] _and out of the habit of encounter get a kind_ Bailey conj. V. 2. 180, 181. _collection_] _diction_ Bailey conj. V. 2. 182. Add to note, _profound and renowned_ Bailey conj. KING LEAR, I. 1. 72. Add to note, _precious treasure_ Bailey conj. I. 1. 226. Add to note, _burden, or_ Bailey conj. II. 4. 92. Add to note, _Fiery? what? quality?_ Taylor conj. MS. HAMLET. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[A]. CLAUDIUS, king of Denmark. HAMLET, son to the late, and nephew to the present king. POLONIUS, lord chamberlain. HORATIO, friend to Hamlet. LAERTES, son to Polonius. VOLTIMAND, } CORNELIUS, } ROSENCRANTZ, } courtiers. GUILDENSTERN, } OSRIC, } A Gentleman, } A Priest. MARCELLUS, } officers. BERNARDO, } FRANCISCO, a soldier. REYNALDO, servant to Polonius. Players. Two Clowns, grave-diggers. FORTINBRAS, prince of Norway. A Captain. English Ambassadors. GERTRUDE, queen of Denmark, and mother to Hamlet. OPHELIA, daughter to Polonius. Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, and other Attendants. Ghost of Hamlet's Father. SCENE: _Denmark_[B]. [A] DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.] First given by Rowe. [B] Denmark] Edd. (Globe ed.) Elsinoor. Rowe. THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET PRINCE OF DENMARK. ACT I. SCENE I. _Elsinore. A platform before the castle._ FRANCISCO _at his post. Enter to him_ BERNARDO.[1] _Ber._ Who's there?[2][3] _Fran._ Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.[3] _Ber._ Long live the king![3] _Fran._ Bernardo?[3][4] _Ber._ He.[3] 5 _Fran._ You come most carefully upon your hour.[5] _Ber._ 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.[6] _Fran._ For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart. _Ber._ Have you had quiet guard? _Fran._ Not a mouse stirring. 10 _Ber._ Well, good night.[7] If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,[7][8] The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.[7][8] _Fran._ I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who is there?[9] _Enter_ HORATIO _and_ MARCELLUS. _Hor._ Friends to this ground. _Mar._ And liegemen to the Dane. 15 _Fran._ Give you good night.[10] _Mar._ O, farewell, honest soldier:[11][12] Who hath relieved you?[13] _Fran._ Bernardo hath my place.[13] Give you good night. [_Exit._[10][13] _Mar._ Holla! Bernardo! _Ber._ Say,[14][15] What, is Horatio there?[14] _Hor._ A piece of him.[16] _Ber._ Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. 20 _Mar._ What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?[17] _Ber._ I have seen nothing. _Mar._ Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,[18] And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:[19] 25 Therefore I have entreated him along[20] With us to watch the minutes of this night,[20] That if again this apparition come, He may approve our eyes and speak to it. _Hor._ Tush, tush, 'twill not appear. _Ber._ Sit down awhile;[21] 30 And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story,[22] What we have two nights seen.[22][23] _Hor._ Well, sit we down, And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. _Ber._ Last night of all, 35 When yond same star that's westward from the pole[24] Had made his course to illume that part of heaven[25] Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one,--[26] _Enter_ Ghost. _Mar._ Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again![27] 40 _Ber._ In the same figure, like the king that's dead. _Mar._ Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. _Ber._ Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.[28] _Hor._ Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.[29] _Ber._ It would be spoke to. _Mar._ Question it, Horatio.[30] 45 _Hor._ What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night,[31] Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak![32] _Mar._ It is offended. _Ber._ See, it stalks away! 50 _Hor._ Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak![33] [_Exit Ghost._ _Mar._ 'Tis gone, and will not answer. _Ber._ How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale: Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on't?[34] 55 _Hor._ Before my God, I might not this believe[35] Without the sensible and true avouch[36] Of mine own eyes. _Mar._ Is it not like the king? _Hor._ As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on[37] 60 When he the ambitious Norway combated;[38] So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.[39] 'Tis strange.[40] _Mar._ Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,[41] 65 With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.[42] _Hor._ In what particular thought to work I know not;[43] But, in the gross and scope of my opinion,[44] This bodes some strange eruption to our state. _Mar._ Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,[45] 70 Why this same strict and most observant watch So nightly toils the subject of the land,[46] And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,[47] And foreign mart for implements of war; Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task 75 Does not divide the Sunday from the week;[48] What might be toward, that this sweaty haste Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:[49] Who is't that can inform me? _Hor._ That can I; At least the whisper goes so. Our last king, 80 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,[50] Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet--[51] For so this side of our known world esteem'd him-- 85 Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact,[52] Well ratified by law and heraldry,[53] Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands[54] Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:[55] Against the which, a moiety competent 90 Was gaged by our king; which had return'd[56] To the inheritance of Fortinbras, Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant[57] And carriage of the article design'd,[58] His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,[59] 95 Of unimproved mettle hot and full,[60] Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,[61][62] For food and diet, to some enterprise[62] That hath a stomach in't: which is no other--[63] 100 As it doth well appear unto our state--[64] But to recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands[65] So by his father lost: and this, I take it, Is the main motive of our preparations, 105 The source of this our watch and the chief head Of this post-haste and romage in the land. _Ber._ I think it be no other but e'en so:[66][67] Well may it sort, that this portentous figure[66] Comes armed through our watch, so like the king[66] 110 That was and is the question of these wars.[66] _Hor._ A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.[66][68] In the most high and palmy state of Rome,[66][69] A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,[66] The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead[66][70] 115 Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:[66][71] . . . . . . . As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,[66][72][73] Disasters in the sun; and the moist star,[66][74][73] Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands,[66] Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:[66] 120 And even the like precurse of fierce events,[66][75] As harbingers preceding still the fates[66][76] And prologue to the omen coming on,[66][77] Have heaven and earth together demonstrated[66] Unto our climatures and countrymen.[66][78] 125 _Re-enter_ Ghost. But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again! I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion![79] If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, Speak to me:[80] If there be any good thing to be done,[80] 130 That may to thee do ease and grace to me,[81] Speak to me:[81] If thou art privy to thy country's fate, Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,[82][83] O, speak![82] 135 Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,[84] Speak of it: stay, and speak! [_The cock crows._] Stop it, Marcellus.[85] _Mar._ Shall I strike at it with my partisan?[86] 140 _Hor._ Do, if it will not stand.[87][88] _Ber._ 'Tis here![87] _Hor._ 'Tis here![87] _Mar._ 'Tis gone! [_Exit Ghost._[87][89] We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence; For it is, as the air, invulnerable,[90] 145 And our vain blows malicious mockery. _Ber._ It was about to speak, when the cock crew. _Hor._ And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,[91] 150 Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day, and at his warning,[92] Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,[92] The extravagant and erring spirit hies[92][93] To his confine: and of the truth herein[92] 155 This present object made probation. _Mar._ It faded on the crowing of the cock.[94] Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes[95] Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long:[96] 160 And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,[97] The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm,[98] So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.[99] _Hor._ So have I heard and do in part believe it. 165 But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill:[100] Break we our watch up; and by my advice,[101] Let us impart what we have seen to-night Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,[102] 170 This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him: Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,[103] As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? _Mar._ Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know[104] Where we shall find him most conveniently. [_Exeunt._[105] 175 SCENE II. _A room of state in the castle._ _Flourish. Enter the_ KING, QUEEN, HAMLET, POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, _and_ Attendants.[106] _King._ Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death[107] The memory be green, and that it us befitted[107][108] To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom[109] To be contracted in one brow of woe, Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature 5 That we with wisest sorrow think on him, Together with remembrance of ourselves. Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,[110] The imperial jointress to this warlike state,[111] Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,-- 10 With an auspicious and a dropping eye,[112] With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole,-- Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone 15 With this affair along. For all, our thanks.[113] Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,[114] Holding a weak supposal of our worth, Or thinking by our late dear brother's death Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, 20 Colleagued with this dream of his advantage,[115] He hath not fail'd to pester us with message, Importing the surrender of those lands Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,[116] To our most valiant brother. So much for him.[117] 25 Now for ourself, and for this time of meeting:[118] Thus much the business is: we have here writ To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,-- Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears[119] Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress 30 His further gait herein; in that the levies,[120] The lists and full proportions, are all made Out of his subject: and we here dispatch[121] You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,[122] For bearers of this greeting to old Norway,[123] 35 Giving to you no further personal power[124] To business with the king more than the scope[124] Of these delated articles allow.[125] Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.[126] _Cor._} In that and all things will we show our duty.[127] 40 _Vol._} _King._ We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.[128] [_Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius._ And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?[129] You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes? You cannot speak of reason to the Dane, And lose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,[130] 45 That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?[131] The head is not more native to the heart,[132] The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.[133] What wouldst thou have, Laertes? _Laer._ My dread lord,[134] 50 Your leave and favour to return to France, From whence though willingly I came to Denmark, To show my duty in your coronation, Yet now, I must confess, that duty done, My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France[135] 55 And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon. _King._ Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?[136] _Pol._ He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave[137][138][139] By laboursome petition, and at last[138][139][140] Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:[139] 60 I do beseech you, give him leave to go. _King._ Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,[141] And thy best graces spend it at thy will![141][142] But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--[143] _Ham._ [_Aside_] A little more than kin, and less than kind.[144] 65 _King._ How is it that the clouds still hang on you? _Ham._ Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.[145] _Queen_ Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,[146] And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids[147] 70 Seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,[148] Passing through nature to eternity. _Ham._ Ay, madam, it is common. _Queen._ If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? 75 _Ham._ Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,[149] Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, 80 Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,[150] That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,[151] For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passes show;[152] 85 These but the trappings and the suits of woe. _King._ 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,[153] To give these mourning duties to your father: But, you must know, your father lost a father, That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound[154] 90 In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever[155] In obstinate condolement is a course[156] Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:[156][157] It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, 95 A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,[158] An understanding simple and unschool'd: For what we know must be and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense, Why should we in our peevish opposition 100 Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd, whose common theme[159] Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse till he that died to-day,[160] 105 'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth This unprevailing woe, and think of us[161] As of a father: for let the world take note,[162] You are the most immediate to our throne, And with no less nobility of love[163][164] 110 Than that which dearest father bears his son[164] Do I impart toward you. For your intent[164][165] In going back to school in Wittenberg,[166] It is most retrograde to our desire:[167] And we beseech you, bend you to remain[168] 115 Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye, Our chiefest courtier, cousin and our son. _Queen._ Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:[169] I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.[170] _Ham._ I shall in all my best obey you, madam.[171] 120 _King._ Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:[172] Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come; This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,[173] No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day, 125 But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,[174] And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,[175] Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.[176] [_Flourish. Exeunt all but Hamlet._ _Ham._ O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,[177] Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! 130 Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God![178] How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable[179] Seem to me all the uses of this world![180] Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,[181] 135 That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this![182] But two months dead! nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this,[183] Hyperion to a satyr: so loving to my mother,[183][184] 140 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven[185] Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth![186] Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,[186][187] As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--[188] 145 Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--[189] A little month, or ere those shoes were old[190] With which she follow'd my poor father's body,[191] Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she,--[192] O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,[193] 150 Would have mourn'd longer,--married with my uncle,[194] My father's brother, but no more like my father[195] Than I to Hercules: within a month; Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears[196] Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,[197] 155 She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets![198] It is not, nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue![199] _Enter_ HORATIO, MARCELLUS, _and_ BERNARDO. _Hor._ Hail to your lordship! _Ham._ I am glad to see you well:[200][201] 160 Horatio,--or I do forget myself.[201][202] _Hor._ The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.[203] _Ham._ Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:[204] And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?[205] 165 _Mar._ My good lord?[206] _Ham._ I am very glad to see you. [_To Ber._] Good even, sir.[207] But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?[208] _Hor._ A truant disposition, good my lord.[209] _Ham._ I would not hear your enemy say so,[210] 170 Nor shall you do my ear that violence,[211] To make it truster of your own report[212] Against yourself: I know you are no truant. But what is your affair in Elsinore?[213] We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.[214] 175 _Hor._ My lord, I came to see your father's funeral. _Ham._ I prethee, do not mock me, fellow-student;[215] I think it was to see my mother's wedding.[216] _Hor._ Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon.[217] _Ham._ Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked-meats 180 Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio![218] My father!--methinks I see my father. _Hor._ O where, my lord? _Ham._ In my mind's eye, Horatio.[219] 185 _Hor._ I saw him once; he was a goodly king.[220] _Ham._ He was a man, take him for all in all,[220][221] I shall not look upon his like again.[222] _Hor._ My lord, I think I saw him yesternight. _Ham._ Saw? Who?[223] 190 _Hor._ My lord, the king your father. _Ham._ The king my father! _Hor._ Season your admiration for a while[224] With an attent ear, till I may deliver,[225] Upon the witness of these gentlemen, This marvel to you. _Ham._ For God's love, let me hear.[226] 195 _Hor._ Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, In the dead vast and middle of the night,[227] Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father, Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,[228] 200 Appears before them, and with solemn march Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd[229] By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,[230] Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distill'd[231] Almost to jelly with the act of fear,[232] 205 Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to me In dreadful secrecy impart they did;[233] And I with them the third night kept the watch: Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,[234] Form of the thing, each word made true and good, 210 The apparition comes: I knew your father;[235] These hands are not more like. _Ham._ But where was this? _Mar._ My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. _Ham._ Did you not speak to it? _Hor._ My lord, I did,[236] But answer made it none: yet once methought[237] 215 It lifted up its head and did address[238] Itself to motion, like as it would speak:[239] But even then the morning cock crew loud, And at the sound it shrunk in haste away And vanish'd from our sight. _Ham._ 'Tis very strange. 220 _Hor._ As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true,[240] And we did think it writ down in our duty[241] To let you know of it.[242] _Ham._ Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.[243] Hold you the watch to-night? _Mar._ } We do, my lord.[244] 225 _Ber._ } _Ham._ Arm'd, say you? _Mar._ } Arm'd, my lord. _Ber._ } _Ham._ From top to toe?[244] _Mar._ } My lord, from head to foot.[244][245][246] _Ber._ } _Ham._ Then saw you not his face?[246][247] _Hor._ O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up.[246][248] _Ham._ What, look'd he frowningly?[249] 230 _Hor._ A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. _Ham._ Pale or red? _Hor._ Nay, very pale. _Ham._ And fix'd his eyes upon you? _Hor._ Most constantly. _Ham._ I would I had been there. _Hor._ It would have much amazed you.[250] 235 _Ham._ Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?[250][251] _Hor._ While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.[250][252] _Mar._} Longer, longer.[250][253] _Ber._} _Hor._ Not when I saw't. _Ham._ His beard was grizzled? no?[254][255] _Hor._ It was, as I have seen it in his life,[255][256] 240 A sable silver'd.[257] _Ham._ I will watch to-night; Perchance 'twill walk again. _Hor._ I warrant it will.[258] _Ham._ If it assume my noble father's person, I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all, 245 If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,[259] Let it be tenable in your silence still,[260] And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,[261] Give it an understanding, but no tongue: I will requite your loves. So fare you well:[262] 250 Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve.[263] I'll visit you. _All._ Our duty to your honour.[264] _Ham._ Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.[265] [_Exeunt all but Hamlet._ My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;[266] I doubt some foul play: would the night were come! 255 Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,[267] Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. [_Exit._ SCENE III. _A room in Polonius's house._ _Enter_ LAERTES _and_ OPHELIA.[268] _Laer._ My necessaries are embark'd: farewell:[269] And, sister, as the winds give benefit And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,[270] But let me hear from you. _Oph._ Do you doubt that? _Laer._ For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,[271] 5 Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature,[272] Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,[273] The perfume and suppliance of a minute;[274] No more. _Oph._ No more but so? _Laer._ Think it no more:[275] 10 For nature crescent does not grow alone[276] In thews and bulk; but, as this temple waxes,[277] The inward service of the mind and soul[278] Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now; And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch[279] 15 The virtue of his will: but you must fear,[280] His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;[281] For he himself is subject to his birth:[282] He may not, as unvalued persons do,[283] Carve for himself, for on his choice depends[284] 20 The safety and health of this whole state,[285] And therefore must his choice be circumscribed Unto the voice and yielding of that body Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,[286] It fits your wisdom so far to believe it 25 As he in his particular act and place[287] May give his saying deed; which is no further Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,[288] If with too credent ear you list his songs,[289] 30 Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open[290] To his unmaster'd importunity.[291] Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister, And keep you in the rear of your affection,[292] Out of the shot and danger of desire. 35 The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring[293] Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,[294] 40 And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary then; best safety lies in fear: Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. _Oph._ I shall the effect of this good lesson keep,[295] 45 As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,[296] Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,[297] Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,[298] Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads[299] 50 And recks not his own rede.[300] _Laer._ O, fear me not. I stay too long: but here my father comes. _Enter_ POLONIUS.[301] A double blessing is a double grace;[302] Occasion smiles upon a second leave. _Pol._ Yet here, Laertes! Aboard, aboard, for shame![303] 55 The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee![304] And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,[305] Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. 60 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,[306] Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel,[307] But do not dull thy palm with entertainment[308] Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware[309] 65 Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't, that th' opposed may beware of thee.[310] Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice:[311] Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 70 But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: For the apparel oft proclaims the man; And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that.[312] Neither a borrower nor a lender be:[313] 75 For loan oft loses both itself and friend,[314] And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.[315] This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day,[316] Thou canst not then be false to any man. 80 Farewell: my blessing season this in thee![317] _Laer._ Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.[318] _Pol._ The time invites you; go, your servants tend.[319] _Laer._ Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well What I have said to you. _Oph._ 'Tis in my memory lock'd,[320] 85 And you yourself shall keep the key of it. _Laer._ Farewell. [_Exit._[321] _Pol._ What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you?[322] _Oph._ So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.[323] _Pol._ Marry, well bethought: 90 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late Given private time to you, and you yourself Have of your audience been most free and bounteous: If it be so--as so 'tis put on me, And that in way of caution--I must tell you, 95 You do not understand yourself so clearly As it behoves my daughter and your honour. What is between you? give me up the truth.[324] _Oph._ He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders Of his affection to me. 100 _Pol._ Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,[325] Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.[326] Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? _Oph._ I do not know, my lord, what I should think. _Pol._ Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby,[327] 105 That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,[328] Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;[329] Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool.[330] _Oph._ My lord, he hath importuned me with love 110 In honourable fashion. _Pol._ Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.[331] _Oph._ And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,[332][333] With almost all the holy vows of heaven.[332][334] _Pol._ Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,[335] 115 When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul[336] Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,[337] Giving more light than heat, extinct in both,[338] Even in their promise, as it is a-making,[339] You must not take for fire. From this time[340] 120 Be something scanter of your maiden presence;[341] Set your entreatments at a higher rate[342] Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,[343] Believe so much in him, that he is young, And with a larger tether may he walk[344] 125 Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia, Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, Not of that dye which their investments show,[345] But mere implorators of unholy suits,[346] Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,[347] 130 The better to beguile. This is for all:[348] I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, Have you so slander any moment leisure,[349] As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. Look to't, I charge you: come your ways.[350] 135 _Oph._ I shall obey, my lord. [_Exeunt._[351] SCENE IV. _The platform._[352] _Enter_ HAMLET, HORATIO, _and_ MARCELLUS. _Ham._ The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.[353] _Hor._ It is a nipping and an eager air.[354] _Ham._ What hour now? _Hor._ I think it lacks of twelve. _Mar._ No, it is struck.[355] _Hor._ Indeed? I heard it not: it then draws near the season[356] 5 Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. [_A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off within._[357] What does this mean, my lord?[358] _Ham._ The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,[359] Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels;[360] And as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,[361] 10 The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out[362] The triumph of his pledge. _Hor._ Is it a custom?[363] _Ham._ Ay, marry, is't:[364] But to my mind, though I am native here[365] And to the manner born, it is a custom 15 More honour'd in the breach than the observance. This heavy-headed revel east and west[366][367][368][369] Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:[366][367][369][370] They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase[366][367][371] Soil our addition; and indeed it takes[366][367] 20 From our achievements, though perform'd at height,[366][367] The pith and marrow of our attribute.[366][367] So, oft it chances in particular men,[366][367][372] That for some vicious mole of nature in them,[366][367][373] As, in their birth,--wherein they are not guilty,[366][367] 25 Since nature cannot choose his origin,--[366][367] By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,[366][367][374] Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,[366][367] Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens[366][367] The form of plausive manners, that these men,--[366][367] 30 Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,[366][367] Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--[366][367][375] Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,[366][367][376] As infinite as man may undergo--[366][367] Shall in the general censure take corruption[366][367] 35 From that particular fault: the dram of eale[366][367][377][378] Doth all the noble substance of a doubt[367][377][378] To his own scandal.[367][377][379] _Enter Ghost._ _Hor._ Look, my lord, it comes![380] _Ham._ Angels and ministers of grace defend us![381] Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, 40 Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable,[382] Thou comest in such a questionable shape[383] That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me![384] 45 Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell[385] Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,[385][386] Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,[387] Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,[388] Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, 50 To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,[389] Making night hideous; and we fools of nature[390] So horridly to shake our disposition[391] 55 With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?[392] Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?[393] [_Ghost beckons Hamlet._ _Hor._ It beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. _Mar._ Look, with what courteous action 60 It waves you to a more removed ground:[394] But do not go with it. _Hor._ No, by no means.[395] _Ham._ It will not speak; then I will follow it.[396] _Hor._ Do not, my lord. _Ham._ Why, what should be the fear?[397] I do not set my life at a pin's fee;[398] 65 And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?[399] It waves me forth again: I'll follow it. _Hor._ What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,[400] Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff[401] 70 That beetles o'er his base into the sea,[402] And there assume some other horrible form,[403] Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason[404] And draw you into madness? think of it:[405] The very place puts toys of desperation,[406] 75 Without more motive, into every brain[406] That looks so many fathoms to the sea[406] And hears it roar beneath.[406][407][408] _Ham._ It waves me still.[407] Go on; I'll follow thee. _Mar._ You shall not go, my lord. _Ham._ Hold off your hands.[409] 80 _Hor._ Be ruled; you shall not go. _Ham._ My fate cries out,[410] And makes each petty artery in this body[411] As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.[412] Still am I call'd: unhand me, gentlemen;[413] By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me: 85 I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee. [_Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet._[414] _Hor._ He waxes desperate with imagination.[415] _Mar._ Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. _Hor._ Have after. To what issue will this come? _Mar._ Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 90 _Hor._ Heaven will direct it. _Mar._ Nay, let's follow him. [_Exeunt._[416] SCENE V. _Another part of the platform._ _Enter_ Ghost _and_ HAMLET.[417] _Ham._ Whither wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further.[418] _Ghost._ Mark me. _Ham._ I will. _Ghost._ My hour is almost come, When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames[419] Must render up myself. _Ham._ Alas, poor ghost! _Ghost._ Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing[420][421] 5 To what I shall unfold.[420] _Ham._ Speak; I am bound to hear.[422] _Ghost._ So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.[423] _Ham._ What?[424] _Ghost._ I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, 10 And for the day confined to fast in fires,[425] Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid[426] To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 15 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part[427] And each particular hair to stand an end,[428] Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:[429] 20 But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list![430] If thou didst ever thy dear father love--[431] _Ham._ O God![432] _Ghost._ Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. 25 _Ham._ Murder![433] _Ghost._ Murder most foul, as in the best it is,[434] But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. _Ham._ Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift[435] As meditation or the thoughts of love,[436] 30 May sweep to my revenge.[437] _Ghost._ I find thee apt; And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed[438][439] That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,[440] Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear:[440] 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,[441] 35 A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark[442] Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,[443] The serpent that did sting thy father's life[444] Now wears his crown. _Ham._ O my prophetic soul![445] 40 My uncle![445][446] _Ghost._ Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,[447] With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--[448] O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power[449] So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust[450] 45 The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:[451] O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there![452] From me, whose love was of that dignity That it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage; and to decline[453] 50 Upon a wretch, whose natural gifts were poor To those of mine![454][455] But virtue, as it never will be moved,[454] Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,[456] 55 Will sate itself in a celestial bed[457][458] And prey on garbage.[457][459] But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air;[460] Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,[461] My custom always of the afternoon,[462] 60 Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,[463] With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,[464] And in the porches of my ears did pour[465] The leperous distilment; whose effect[466] Holds such an enmity with blood of man[466] 65 That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body;[467] And with a sudden vigour it doth posset[468] And curd, like eager droppings into milk,[469] The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; 70 And a most instant tetter bark'd about,[470] Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:[471] 75 Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,[472] Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd;[473] No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head:[474] O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible![475] 80 If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,[476] Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive[477] 85 Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once! The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,[478] And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire: 90 Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me. [_Exit._[479] _Ham._ O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else? And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart;[480] And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee![481][482] 95 Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat[483] In this distracted globe. Remember thee![482] Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,[484] 100 That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven![485] O most pernicious woman![486] 105 0 villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables,--meet it is I set it down,[487][488] That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;[488] At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark. [_Writing._[488][489] So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;[488] 110 It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.'[488][490][491] I have sworn't.[488][490][492] _Hor._} [_Within_] My lord, my lord! _Mar._} _Enter_ HORATIO _and_ MARCELLUS.[493] _Mar._ Lord Hamlet! _Hor._ Heaven secure him![494] _Ham._ So be it![495] _Mar._ Illo, ho, ho, my lord![496] 115 _Ham._ Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come.[497] _Mar._ How is't, my noble lord? _Hor._ What news, my lord?[498] _Ham._ O, wonderful![499] _Hor._ Good my lord, tell it. _Ham._ No; you will reveal it.[500] _Hor._ Not I, my lord, by heaven. _Mar._ Nor I, my lord. 120 _Ham._ How say you, then; would heart of man once think it?[501] But you'll be secret?[502] _Hor._} Ay, by heaven, my lord. _Mar._} _Ham._ There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark[503][504] But he's an arrant knave.[504][505] _Hor._ There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave[506] 125 To tell us this.[506][507] _Ham._ Why, right; you are i' the right; And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit that we shake hands and part: You, as your business and desire shall point you;[508] For every man hath business and desire,[509] 130 Such as it is; and for my own poor part,[510] Look you, I'll go pray.[511] _Hor._ These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.[512] _Ham._ I'm sorry they offend you, heartily;[513] Yes, faith, heartily.[514] _Hor._ There's no offence, my lord. 135 _Ham._ Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,[515] And much offence too. Touching this vision here,[516] It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you: For your desire to know what is between us, O'ermaster't as you may. And now, good friends,[517] 140 As you are friends, scholars and soldiers, Give me one poor request. _Hor._ What is't, my lord? we will.[518] _Ham._ Never make known what you have seen to-night. _Hor._} _Mar._} My lord, we will not. _Ham._ Nay, but swear't. _Hor._ In faith,[519][520] 145 My lord, not I.[520] _Mar._ Nor I, my lord, in faith. _Ham._ Upon my sword. _Mar._ We have sworn, my lord, already.[521] _Ham._ Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.[522] _Ghost._ [_Beneath_] Swear.[523] _Ham._ Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there, true-penny?[524][525] 150 Come on: you hear this fellow in the cellarage:[524][526] Consent to swear. _Hor._ Propose the oath, my lord.[527] _Ham._ Never to speak of this that you have seen,[528] Swear by my sword. _Ghost._ [_Beneath_] Swear.[529] 155 _Ham._ Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground.[530] Come hither, gentlemen,[531] And lay your hands again upon my sword:[531] Never to speak of this that you have heard,[531][532] Swear by my sword.[531] 160 _Ghost._ [_Beneath_] Swear.[529][533] _Ham._ Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast?[534] A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.[535] _Hor._ O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! _Ham._ And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.[536] 165 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.[537][538] But come;[538][539] Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,[539][540] How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,[541][542][543] 170 As I perchance hereafter shall think meet[541][542][544][545] To put an antic disposition on,[541][542][544] That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,[542][546] With arms encumber'd thus, or this head-shake,[542][547] Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,[542][548] 175 As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,'[542][549][550] Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,'[542][550][551] Or such ambiguous giving out, to note[542][552] That you know aught of me: this not to do,[553] So grace and mercy at your most need help you,[553] 180 Swear.[553] _Ghost._ [_Beneath_] Swear.[529] _Ham._ Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! [_They swear._] So, gentlemen,[554] With all my love I do commend me to you:[555] And what so poor a man as Hamlet is 185 May do, to express his love and friending to you,[556] God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;[557] And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.[558] The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right![559] 190 Nay, come, let's go together. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [1] ACT I. SCENE I.] Actus Primus. Scæna prima. Ff. Omitted in Qq. See note [I] Elsinore.] Capell. A platform ...] Malone. An open Place before the Palace. Rowe. A Platform before the Palace. Theobald. Platform of the Castle. Capell. Francisco at ...] Francisco upon ... Capell. Enter Barnardo, and Francisco, two Centinels. Qq Ff. [2] _Who's_] Ff Q₆. _Whose_ The rest. [3] _Who's ... He_] As in Qq Ff. Two lines of verse in Capell, the first ending _unfold_. [4] _Bernardo?_] _Barnardo?_ F₁ F₂ Q₆ F₃. _Barnardo._ The rest. [5] _carefully_] _chearfully_ F₃ F₄. [6] _now struck_] _new-struck_ Elze (Steevens conj.) _struck_] _strooke_ Qq. _strook_ F₁. [7] _Well, ... haste._] As in Qq. Prose in Ff. [8] _Horatio ... rivals_] _Horatio, and Marcellus The rival_ Warner conj. [9] _ho_] Qq. om. Ff. _Who is_] Qq. _who's_ Ff. Enter ...] Qq Ff (after line 13). [10] _Give you_] om. Q (1676). [11] _O, farewell ... night._] Arranged as by Capell. Two lines in Qq Ff. [12] _soldier_] Ff. _souldiers_ Qq. [13] _Who hath_] _Who has_ Q (1676). _hath my_] Qq. _ha's my_ F₁ F₂ _has my_ F₃ F₄. [14] [Exit.] Exit Fran. Qq F₁. Exit Francisco. F₂ F₃ F₄. _Say,_] _Say._ Knight. [15] _Say, ... there?_] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff. [16] [Giving his hand. Warburton. [17] Mar.] (Q₁) Ff. Hora. Qq. _What, has_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff Q₆. _What has_ Q₄ Q₅. _to-night?_] _to night?_ Qq. _to night._ Ff. [18] _our_] _a_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [19] _sight_] _spright_ Warburton conj. [20] _along With us to_] _along, With us to_ Qq. _along With us, to_ Ff. [21] _Tush, tush,_] om. Q (1676). [22] _story, What ... seen._] _story._ Mar. _What ... seen--_Hanmer. [23] _have two nights_] (Q₁) Qq. _two nights have_ Ff. _sit we_] _let's_ Q (1676). [24] _yond_] _yon_ F₃ F₄. [25] _to illume_] _t' illume_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff. _t' illumin_ Q₅. _t' illumine_ Q₆. _to Illumine_ (Q₁). _to enlighten_ Q (1676). [26] _beating_] _towling_ (Q₁). _tolling_ Collier MS. See note (II). _one,--_] _one--_ Rowe. _one._ Qq Ff. [Castle-bell tolls one. Ingleby conj. Enter Ghost.] Qq. Enter the Ghost. Ff, after _off;_ line 40. Enter the Ghost armed. Collier MS. [27] _Peace ... again!_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff. _off_] _of_ Q₂ Q₃ F₁ (Capell's copy). [28] Ber. _Looks ... Horatio._] Omitted in Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _Looks it_] _Lookes a_ Q₂ Q₃. _Looke it_ F₂. [29] _harrows_] F₃ F₄. _horrowes_ Qq. _harrowes_ F₁ F₂. _horrors_ (Q₁). _startles_ Q (1676). [30] _Question_] (Q₁) Ff. _Speake to_ Qq. [31] _usurp'st_] _usurpest_ Q (1676). [32] _march?_] Q₆. _march,_ Q₂ Q₃. _march:_ The rest. _by heaven_] om. Q (1676). _thee,_] Rowe. _thee_ Qq Ff. [33] _speak, speak!_] _speak;_ Pope. [Exit Ghost.] Qq. Exit the Ghost. Ff. [34] _on't_] _of it_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [35] _Before ... believe_] _I could not believe this_ Q (1676). _not_] _nor_ F₂. [36] _true_] _try'd_ Warburton. [37] _very_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄. [38] _he_] om. Ff. [39] _smote_] _smot_ Q₂ Q₃ F₁ F₂ F₃. _sledded_] Ff. _sleaded_ (Q₁) Qq. _sturdy_ Leo conj. _Polacks_] Malone. _pollax_ (Q₁)Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Pollax_ Q₅ F₁ F₂ Q₆. _Polax_ F₃. _Pole-axe_ F₄. _Pole-axe_ Rowe. _Polack_ Pope. [40] _'Tis strange._] _'Tis strange--_ Rowe. om. Seymour conj. [41] _jump_] (Q₁) Qq. _just_ Ff. _jump at this dead_] _at the same_ Q (1676). _dead_] _same_ F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _dread_ Anon. conj. [42] _hath he gone by_] _he passed throught_ (Q₁) Staunton. [43] _thought to_] _it_ Collier MS. See note(II). [44] _gross and_] om. Q (1676). _my_] (Q₁) Ff. _mine_ Qq. [45] _Good now,_] _Pray_ Q (1676). [46] _subject_] _subjects_ Pope. [47] _why_] (Q₁) Ff. _with_ Qq. _cast_] _cost_ (Q₁) Qq. [48] _Does_] _Dos't_ F₃ F₄. [49] _Doth make_] _Makes_ Q (1676). _joint-labourer_] _joint labour_ Q₅ Q₆. [50] _emulate_] _emulant_ Seymour conj. [51] _combat_] _fight_ Pope. [52] _a_] om. Pope. [53] _and_] _of_ Hanmer (Warburton). _heraldry_] _heraldy_ Q₂ Q₃. [54] _those_] Ff. _these_ Qq. [55] _of_] Qq. _on_ Ff. _in_ Collier MS. See note (II). [56] _return'd_] Ff. _returne_ Qq. _remain'd_ Collier MS. See note (II). [57] _vanquisher;_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _vanquisher,_ Ff. _vanquisht;_ Q₆. _the same_] _that_ Pope. _covenant_] _Cov'nant_ Ff. _comart_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _co-mart_ Q₆. _compact_ Q (1676). [58] _article design'd_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _article desseigne_ Q₂ Q₃. _articles deseigne_ Q₄. _Articles designe_ Q₅ Q₆. _Article designe_ F₁. _articles design'd_ Pope. _article then sign'd_ Collier MS. See note (II). [59] _sir_] om. Pope [60] _unimproved_] _inapproved_ (Q₁) Collier conj. _unapproved_ Anon. conj. _mettle_] _metall_ Q₆. [61] _lawless_] _lawelesse_ Q₂ Q₃. _lawlesse_ (Q₁) Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _landlesse_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _landless_ F₄. [62] _lawless ... diet, to_] _landless resolutes, For food; and dieted to_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [63] _is_] om. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [64] _As_] Qq. _And_ Ff. [65] _compulsatory_] Qq. _compulsative_ Ff. [66] Ber. _I think ... countrymen._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [67] _e'en so_] _enso_ Q₂ Q₃. _even so_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [68] _mote_] Q₅ Q₆. _moth_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. [69] _palmy_] _flourishing_ Q (1676) and Rowe. _state_] _State_ (i.e. _city_) Wilson conj. [70] _tenantless_] _tennatlesse_ Q₂ Q₃. _and_] om. Pope. [71] _streets: ..._] Omission first marked by Jennens, who suggests _Tremendous prodigies in heaven appear'd._ Boaden proposes _The heavens too spoke in silent prodigies._ Hunter suggests _In the heavens above strange portents did appear._ Becket would transfer line 123 _And prologue ... on to follow streets:_ line 116. [72] _As ... blood,_] _Stars shon with trains of fire, dews of blood fell,_ Rowe. Omitted by Rann. Transferred by Mitford to follow _events,_ line 121. _and dews_] _shed dews_ Harness, reading _Disasters dimm'd_ in line 118. [73] _As stars with ... Disasters in_] _Astres with ... Disasterous dimm'd_ Malone conj. _Disastrous ... Disasters in_ Becket conj. _A star with ... Disasters in_ Jackson conj. _As stars with ... Did usher in_ Duane conj. _As stars with ... Disastering_ Anon. apud Singer (ed. 2) conj. _Astres with ... Did overcast_ Williams conj. _Ay, stars with ... Did darken e'en_ or _Ay, stars with ... Did enter in_ or _Ay, stars with ... Dy'd darkening_ Leo conj. _As stars with ... Disastrous dimm'd_ or _And stars with ... Disastrous dimm'd_ Anon. conj. (N. and Q.) _Asters with ... Disasters in_ Brae conj. (N. and Q.) _As stars, with ... Disastrous, ev'n_ or _As stars, with ... Disastrous hid_ Taylor conj. MS. _As stars with ... Distempered_ or _As stars with ... Discoloured_ Staunton conj. [74] _in_] _veil'd_ Rowe. _dim'd_ Capell. [75] _fierce_] Q₅ Q₆. _fearce_ Q₄. _feare_ Q₂ Q₃. _fear'd_ Collier conj. [76] _As_] _Are_ Mitford conj. [77] _omen_] _omen'd_ Theobald. _omens_ Becket conj. [78] _climatures_] _climature_ Dyce conj. Re-enter Ghost.] Enter Ghost. Qq. Enter Ghost againe. Ff. [79] [It spreads his armes. Qq. om. Ff. He spreads his arms. Q (1676). [80] _Speak ... done_] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff. [81] _That ... Speak to me_] As in Qq. One line in Ff. [82] _Which ... speak!_] As in Qq. One line in Ff. [83] _foreknowing_] _foreknowledge_ Collier MS. See note (II). [84] _you_] Ff. _your_ Qq. [85] [The cock crows.] Qq, after line 138. om. Ff. [86] _at_] Ff. om. Qq. [87] Hor ... Ber ... Hor ... Mar.] Ber ... Mar ... Ber ... Hor. Steevens conj. [88] _if it will_] _if't will_ S. Walker conj., ending lines 140, 141 _Do, ... gone!_ [89] [Exit Ghost.] Ff. om. Qq. [90] _For it is, as_] _It is ever as_ Q (1676). [91] _morn_] _morne_ Qq. _morning_ (Q₁). _day_ Ff. [92] _warning, ... confine:_] _warning, Th' extravagant ... hies To his confine, whether in sea or air, Or earth or fire_ Johnson conj. [93] _extravagant_] _extra-vagate_ Grey conj. [94] _on_] _at_ Q (1676). [95] _say_] Qq. _sayes_ Ff. [96] _The_] (Q₁) Ff. _This_ Qq. [97] _then_] om. F₂F₃F₄. _dare stir_] _dare sturre_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _dare stirre_ Q₅. _dares stirre_ Q₆. _dare walke_ (Q₁). _can walke_ Ff. _dares walk_ Rowe. _walks_ Pope. [98] _takes_] Qq. _talkes_ F₁ F₂. _talks_ F₃ F₄. _nor_] _no_ Q₆ F₄. [99] _the_] Ff. _that_ (Q₁) Qq. [100] _eastward_] Qq. _easterne_ Ff. [101] _advice_] Ff. _advise_ Qq. [102] _for, upon my life,_] _perhaps_ Q (1676). [103] _shall_] _do_ Rowe (ed. 2). [104] _Let's_] _Let_ F₁. [105] _conveniently_] (Q₁) Ff. _convenient_ Qq. A room ...] Capell, substantially. The Palace. Rowe Flourish.] Qq. om. Ff. [106] Enter ...] Malone, after Capell. Enter Claudius, King of Denmarke, Gertrad the Queene, Counsaile: as Polonius, and his Sonne Laertes, Hamlet, Cum Alijs. Qq. Enter Claudius King of Denmarke, Gertrude the Queene, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, and his Sister Ophelia, Lords Attendant. Ff (Attendants F₂ F₃ F₄). [107] _Though ... memory be_] _As ... memory's_ Seymour conj. [108] _that it us befitted_] _us befitted_ Steevens conj. _it befitted us_ Seymour conj. _us befitted_] _fitted_ Pope. [109] _bear_] _bathe_ Collier MS. [110] _sometime_] Qq. _sometimes_ Ff. [111] _to_] Qq. _of_ Ff. [112] _an ... a_] Qq. _one ... one_ Ff. _once ... once_ Becket conj. _a dropping_] _one drooping_ Grant White. [113] _along. For ... thanks._] _along: (for ... thanks.)_ Pope. _along (for all our thankes)_ Qq. _along, for all our thankes._ Ff. [114] _know, young_] _know: young_ S. Walker conj. [115] _Colleagued_] _Collogued_ Hanmer (Theobald conj). _Co-leagued_ Capell. _Colluded_ Becket conj. _this_] Qq. _the_ Ff. _his_] _this_ Long MS. and Collier MS. See note (II). [116] _with_] _by_ Pope. _bonds_] Ff. _bands_ Qq. [117] [Enter Voltemand and Cornelius. Ff (Voltimand F₂ F₃ F₄). om. Qq. [118] _meeting:_] F₄. _meeting,_ Qq. _meeting_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [119] _bed-rid_] _bedred_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [120] _gait_] Capell. _gate_ Qq Ff. _herein; in_] _heerein, in_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _herein, in_ Q₅ Q₆. _herein. In_ Ff. _the_] _he_ F₃ F₄. [121] _subject_] _subjects_ Q₆. _here_] _now_ Q (1676). [122] _Voltimand_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Valtemand_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Voltemand_ F₁ Q₆. _Voltemar_ (Q₁). [123] _For bearers_] (Q₁) Qq. _For bearing_ Ff. _Our bearers_ Theobald conj. _For bearers of this greeting_] _Ambassadors_ Q (1676). [124] _Giving to you ... To business_] _Who have ... Of treaty_ Q (1676). _Giving to you ... Of treaty_ Rowe. _more than_] _than does_ Seymour conj. [125] _Of_] _Which_ Pope. _delated_] Qq. _dilated_ Ff. _related_ (Q₁) Singer (ed. 1). _allow._] _allows._ Johnson. _allow._ [Give them. Collier MS. See note (II). [126] _duty_] _service_ S. Walker conj. [127] Cor. Vol.] Cor. Vo. Qq. Volt. Ff. [128] _it nothing_] _in nothing_ F₄. [Exeunt....] F₄. Exit ... F₁ F₂ F₃. Omitted in Qq. [129] _And_] om. Q (1676). [130] _lose_] Qq. _loose_ Ff. [131] _not thy_] _nor thy_ Q (1676). [132] _head_] _blood_ Hanmer (Warburton). _native_] _motive_ Bubier conj. [133] _is ... to_] _to ... is_ Hanmer (Warburton). [134] _My dread_] Qq. _Dread my_ Ff. _My Dear_ Q (1676). [135] _toward_] Qq. _towards_ Ff. [136] _Have ... Polonius?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [137] _He hath_] _Hath_ Q₂ Q₃. _lord,_] _lord:_ Ff. [138] _wrung ... petition_] _by laboursome petition, Wrung from me my slow leave_ Rowe and Pope. [139] _wrung ... consent:_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [140] _at last_] _at the last_ Pope. [141] _be thine ... spend_] _is thine, And my best graces; spend_ Johnson conj. [142] _graces_] _graces;_ Q₆. [Exit Laertes. Anon. conj. Exit. (Q₁). [143] _Hamlet, and_] _Hamlet.--Kind_ Warburton. _son,--_] _son--_ Rowe. _sonne._ Qq. _sonne?_ Ff. [144] [Aside] Warburton. [145] _so_] Ff. _so much_ Qq. _i' the sun_] _i' th' Sun_ Ff. _in the sonne_ Qq. _in the Sun_ Q (1676). [146] _nighted_] Qq. _nightly_ Ff. _night-like_ Collier MS. [147] _vailed_] Qq. _veyled_ F₁ F₂. _veiled_ F₃ F₄. [148] _know'st 'tis_] _know'st--'tis_ Seymour conj. _common;_] Theobald. _common,_ Ff. _common_ Qq. _lives_] Qq F₁. _live_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [149] _my inky_] _this mourning_ Q (1676). _good mother_] Ff. _coold mother_ Q₂ Q₃. _could smother_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [150] _moods_] _modes_ Capell. _shapes_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _chapes_ Q₂ Q₃. _shewes_ F₁ F₂. _shews_ F₃ F₄. [151] _denote_] Ff Q₆. _deuote_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _deuoute_ Q₅. _indeed_] _may_ Pope. [152] _passes_] Qq. _passeth_ Ff. [153] _'Tis_ ... _Hamlet,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _sweet and_] om. Seymour conj. _Hamlet,_] om. Pope. [154] _That_] _The_ F₄. _lost, lost his_] _dead, lost his_ (Q₁). _his_ Pope. [155] _sorrow_] _sorrowes_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _persever_] _persevere_ Q₆ F₄. [156] _is a course Of_] _dares express An_ Q (1676). [157] _'tis_] om. Pope. [158] _a mind_] _or minde_ Qq. [159] _absurd_] _absur'd_ F₂ F₃. [160] _corse_] _course_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _coarse_ Ff Q₆. [161] _unprevailing_] _unavailing_ Hanmer. [162] _for let_] _and let_ Q (1676). [163] _with_] _with't_ Theobald. _no less nobility_] _nobility no less_ Badham conj. [164] _with ... impart_] _still ... impart_ or _with ... my part_ Mason conj. [165] _Do I_] _Mine do I_ Keightley. _toward_] Qq. _towards_ Ff. _you. For_] Ff. _you for_ Qq. [166] _in Wittenberg_] _to Wittenberg_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [167] _retrograde_] F₁ Q₆ F₄. _retrogard_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _retrograd_ Q₅. _retrogarde_ F₂ F₃. [168] _bend_] _beg_ Anon. MS. [169] _mother_] _Brother_ F₄. _lose_] Ff Q₆. _loose_ The rest. [170] _I pray thee_] Qq. _I prythee_ F₁. _I prethee_ F₂ F₃. _I prithee_ F₄. [171] _I ... madam._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [172] _Why_] om. Q (1676). [173] _to_] _at_ Hanmer. _on_ Ritson conj. [174] _tell_] _tell it_ Hanmer. [175] _rouse_] _rowse_ Qq. _rouce_ Ff. _heaven_] Qq. _heavens_ Ff. _bruit_] Q₆ F₃ F₄. _brute_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _bruite_ F₁ F₂. [176] Flourish.] Qq. om. Ff. Exeunt....] Qq. Exeunt. Manet Hamlet. Ff. [177] SCENE III. Pope. _too too solid_] _too-too-solid_ Theobald. _solid_] Ff. _sallied_ (Q₁) Qq. _sullied_ Anon. conj. [178] _canon_] Q (1703). _cannon_ Qq Ff. _self-slaughter_] _seale slaughter_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _O God! God!_] _O God, O God!_ Ff. Om. Q (1676). [179] _weary_] Ff Q₆. _wary_ The rest. [180] _Seem_] _Seeme_ Qq. _Seemes_ F₁ F₂. _Seems_ F₃ F₄. [181] _Fie on't! ah fie!_] om. Q (1676). _ah fie_] Qq. _Oh fie,_ fie F₁ F₂. _Oh fie_ F₃. _O fie_ F₄. [182] _merely. That_] Pointed as in Ff. _meerely that_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _meerly: that_ Q₆. _come to this_] Ff. _come thus_ Qq. [183] _that ... satyr:_] Omitted in Q (1676). [184] _satyr_] F₄. _satire_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Satyre_ Q₅ F₁ F₂ Q₆ F₃. [185] _he ... heaven_] _the beteened winds of heaven might not_ Becket conj. _might not beteem_] _permitted not_ Q (1676) and Rowe. _would not let e'en_ Theobald (in text, ed. 1). _might not let e'en_ Theobald (in note, ed. 1, and text, ed. 2). _beteem_] _beteeme_ Qq. _beteene_ F₁ F₂. _beteen_ F₃. _between_ F₄. _permit_ Southern MS. [186] _Heaven ... remember?_] Omitted in Q (1676). [187] _remember?_] Rowe. _remember,_ Qq. _remember:_ Ff. _why, she would_] Pope. _why she would_ Ff. _why she should_ Qq. _she used to_ Q (1676). _on_] _upon_ Anon MS. [188] _and_] om. Pope. [189] _on't_] om. Pope. [190] _shoes_] _shoos_ F₃. _shooes_ The rest. _shows_ Ingleby conj. _month, or_] Ff. _month or_ Q₂ Q₃. _month. Or_ Q₄ Q₅. _month: Or_ Q₆. _or ere_] Qq Ff. _or e'er_ Rowe. [191] _follow'd_] Rowe. _followed_ Qq Ff. [192] _tears_] _in tears_ Anon. MS. _tears:--why_] _teares, why_ Qq. _teares. Why_ Ff. _even she,_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [193] _O God_] Qq. _O Heaven_ Ff. _of reason_] _and reason_ Gifford conj. [194] _with my_] Qq. _with mine_ Ff. [195] _but_] om. Pope. [196] _most unrighteous_] _moist and righteous_ Badham conj. [197] _in_] Qq. _of_ Ff. [198] _dexterity_] _celerity_ S. Walker conj. [199] _break, my_] F₄. _breake my_ or _break my_ The rest. Marcellus, and Bernardo.] Qq (Barnardo Q₆). Barnard, and Marcellus. Ff. [200] SCENE IV. Pope. _well_] om. Collier (Collier MS.) [201] _I ... myself_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [202] _Horatio,--_] Theobald. _Horatio,_ Qq Ff. _Horatio?_ Pope. _do_] om. Q (1676). [203] _The ... ever._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [204] _Sir, ... you:_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [205] _Marcellus?_] Capell. _Marcellus._ Qq Ff. _Marcellus!--_ Rowe. [206] _lord?_] Edd. _lord._ Qq Ff. _lord--_ Rowe. _lord!_ Keightley. [207] _you. Good even, sir._] _you, (good even sir)_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _you (good even sir_) Q₅ Q₆. _you: good even sir._ Ff (_even,_ F₄). _you good:--even, sir._ Jackson conj. [To Ber.] Edd. _even_] _morning_ Hanmer. [208] _what_] om. F₄. _in faith_] om. Q (1676). [209] _good my_] _my good_ Q (1676). [210] _hear_] _heare_ Qq. _have_ Ff. [211] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. [212] _make_] _take_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _make it truster_] _be a witness_ Q (1676). [213] _Elsinore_] Malone. _Elsonoure_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Elsenour_ F₁ F₂ Q₆ F₃. _Elsenoore_ F₄. [214] _to drink deep_] (Q₁) Ff. _for to drinke_ Qq. [215] _I prethee_] Qq. _I pray thee_ F₁. _I prythee_ F₂. _I prithee_ F₃ F₄. _student_] _studient_ Q₂ Q₃. [216] _see_] (Q₁) Ff. Omitted in Qq. [217] _follow'd_] Q₆. _followed_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. _followeth_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [218] _Or ever I had_] Qq. _Ere I had ever_ Ff. _Ere ever I had_ (Q₁) Collier. _E're I had_ Q (1676). [219] _O where_] Ff. _Where_ Qq. [220] _He ... He_] Ff. _a ... A_ Qq. [221] _for_] _from_ Theobald (ed. 1), a misprint. [222] _I shall_] _I should_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Eye shall_ Samwell apud Holt conj. [223] _Saw? who?_] Ff. _Saw, who?_ (Q₁) Qq. _Saw who?_ Q (1676) and Singer (ed. 2). _Saw! whom?_ Johnson. [224] _Season_] _Defer_ Q (1676). _for_] _but_ Q (1676) and Theobald. [225] _attent_] Q₂ Q₃ F₁ F₂. _attentive_ (Q₁) Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₃ F₄.] _may_] om. Pope. [226] _marvel_] _wonder_ Q (1676). _For God's love,_] _Pray_ Q (1676). _God's_] _Gods_ Qq. _Heavens_ Ff. [227] _vast_] (Q₁) Q₅ Q₆. _wast_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁. _waste_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _waist_ Malone. [228] _Armed at point_] Qq (_poynt_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄). _Armed to poynt_ (Q₁). _Arm'd at all points_ Ff. _cap-a-pe_] _Capapea_ (Q₁) Q₂ Q₃. _Cap apea_ Q₄ Q₅. _Cap a Pe_ Ff. _Cap a pe_ Q₆. [229] _stately by them: thrice_] _stately by them; thrice_ Qq. _stately: By them thrice_ Ff. [230] _fear-surprised_] Hyphened in Ff. [231] _his_] _this_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _distill'd_] Q₅ Q₆ _distilled_ (Q₁). _distil'd_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _bestil'd_ F₁. _bestill'd_ F₂. _be still'd_ F₃ F₄. _bechill'd_ Collier (Collier MS). _dissolv'd_ or _both thrill'd_ or _bethrill'd_ Bailey conj. [232] _the act of_] _their_ Q (1676). _th' effect of_ Warburton. _act of fear,_] _act: Of fear_ Becket conj. [233] _In ... did;_] _They did impart in dreadful secresie,_ Q (1676). [234] _Where, as_] Q₆. _Where as_ (Q₁). _Whereas_ The rest. _deliver'd, both in_] _deliver'd both, in_ Long MS. [235] _apparition_] _apparision_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. [236] _you not_] _not you_ Players' reading. [237] _made it_] _it made_ Q₆. [238] _its_] Q₅ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _his_ (Q₁) Staunton. _it_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂. [239] _like_] om. Q (1676). [240] _honour'd_] _honourable_ F₂ F₄. _honorable_ F₃. [241] _writ down in_] _then_ Q (1676). [242] _of_] om. Q (1676). [243] _Indeed, indeed_] (Q₁) Ff. _Indeede_ Qq. Seymour would read as Qq, and end the lines _but ... to-night?_ [244] Mar. Ber.] All. (Q₁) Qq. Both. Ff. [245] _My lord,_] om. Q (1676). [246] _My ... up._] As two lines, the first ending _not,_ in Steevens (1793). [247] _face?_] _face._ Q₂ Q₃. [248] _up_] _down_ Anon. ap. Hunter conj. [249] _What, look'd he_] Pointed as in Ff. No stop in Qq. _How look'd he,_ Staunton, from (Q₁). [250] Three lines ending _like, ... haste ... longer,_ in Capell. [251] _Very like, very like_] (Q₁) Ff. _Very like_ Qq. [252] _moderate_] _modern_ Knight, ed. 1 (a misprint). _a_] _an_ Q₆. _hundred_] _hundreth_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [253] Mar. Ber.] Both. Qq. All. Ff. [254] _grizzled? no?_] _grissl'd, no._ Qq. _grisly? no._ F₁. _grisly?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _grizled?_ Q (1676). _grisl'd? no._ Warburton. _grizl'd? no?_ Capell. [255] _no?_ Hor. _It was_] Hor. _No! It was_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LX. 403). [256] _as_] om. F₃ F₄. [257] _I will_] Qq. _Ile_ or _I'll_ Ff, reading _Ile ... againe_ as one line. [258] _walk_] _wake_ F₁. _warrant_] (Q₁). _warn't_ Qq. _warrant you_ Ff. [259] _conceal'd_] _concealed_ F₃ F₄. [260] _be tenable in_] _require_ Q (1676). _tenable_] Qq. _tenible_ (Q₁). _treble_ F₁ F₄. _trebble_ F₂ F₃. _tabled_ Nicholson conj. (withdrawn).] _tenable in your_] _in your treble_ Bailey conj. _tenable ... still_] _treble ... now_ Warburton conj. (withdrawn). [261] _whatsoever_] _what somever_ Q₂ Q₃. _else shall hap_] _shall befall_ Pope. [262] _fare_] _farre_ Q₂ Q₃. _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff. [263] _eleven_] _a leaven_ Q₂ Q₃. [264] _duty_] _duties_ (Q₁) Grant White. _honour_] _homor_ Q₄. [265] _loves_] Qq. _love_ Ff. _farewell._] _so fare you well._ Seymour conj. [Exeunt ... Hamlet.] Exeunt. Manet Hamlet. Q (1676). Exeunt Hor. Mar. and Ber. Capell. Exeunt. (after line 252) (Q₁) Qq Ff. [266] _spirit in arms!_] F₄. _spirit in armes?_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _spirit (in armes)_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _spirit in armes,_ Q₆. _spirit! in arms!_ Rann (Whalley conj.) [267] _foul_] _fonde_ Q₂ Q₃. _rise, Though ... them, to_] _rise, (Tho' ... them) to_ Pope. _rise Though ... them to_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _rise, Though ... them to_ Ff Q₆. _rise, Though ... them from_ Q (1676) and Long MS. [268] SCENE III.] SCENE V. Pope. A room....] An apartment.... Pope. Ophelia.] Ff. Ophelia his Sister. Qq. [269] _embark'd_] _inbarekt_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _imbarkt_ Q₅ Q₆. _imbark't_ F₁ F₂. _imbark'd_ F₃ F₄. [270] _convoy is assistant,_] _convoy is assistant;_ Ff. _convay, in assistant_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _convay, in assistant,_ Q₅. _convay in assistant,_ Q₆. _sleep_] _slip_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [271] _favour_] Qq. _favours_ Ff. [272] _youth of primy_] _youth, a prime of_ Q (1676). _primy_] _prime_ Q₆. [273] _Forward_] Qq F₃ F₄. _Froward_ F₁ F₂. _sweet, not_] _tho' sweet, not_ Rowe. _sweet, but not_ Capell. [274] _perfume and_] Qq. om. Ff. _suppliance_] _soffiance_ Johnson conj. _minute;_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _minute_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _minute?_ F₁. _minute:_ Q₆. [275] _No more._] As in Qq. At end of line 9, in Ff. _but no more_ Collier MS. See note (II). _so?_] Rowe. _so._ Qq Ff. _no more_] _mo more_ Q₄. [276] _crescent_] F₄. _cressant_ The rest. [277] _bulk_] _bulkes_ Qq. _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff. _the_ Hanmer. [278] _and_] om. Q₄. [279] _soil nor_] _foyle nor_ F₂ F₃. _foil nor_ F₄. _soil of_ Warburton. _soil, or_ So quoted by Heath. [280] _will_] Qq. _feare_ F₁ F₂. _fear_ F₃ F₄. _fear,_] _feare,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _feare_ F₁ F₂ Q₆. _fear_ F₃ F₄. _fear;_ Keightley. [281] _weigh'd_] Ff. _wayd_ Q₂ Q₃. _waid_ Q₄ Q₅. _wai'd_ Q₆. [282] _For ... birth:_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [283] _unvalued_] _inferior_ Q (1676). [284] _Carve for_] _Crave for_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _Bestow_ Q (1676). [285] _safety_] Q₄ Q₆. _safty_ Q₂ Q₃. _safetie_ Q₅. _sanctity_ Ff. _sanity_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.) _health_] _the health_ Warburton. _this_] Qq. _the_ Ff. _whole_] _weole_ F₁. [286] _he is the_] _he's_ Pope. [287] _particular act and place_] Qq. _peculiar sect and force_ Ff. _peculiar act and place_ Pope. [288] _weigh_] _way_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _what_] _that_ F₃ F₄. [289] _too_] _two_ F₂ F₃. [290] _lose_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _loose_ Qq F₄. [291] _unmaster'd_] _unmastred_ Qq F₁ F₂ F₃. _unmastered_ F₄. [292] _keep you in_] Qq. _keepe within_ Ff. [293] _galls_] _gaules_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Galls,_ F₁. _infants_] Q₂ Q₃ F₁. _infant_ Q₄ Q₅ F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄. [294] _their_] Qq. _the_ Ff. [295] _effect_] _effects_ Pope. [296] _As watchman to_] _About_ Q (1676). _watchman_] Q₂ Q₃. _watchmen_ The rest. _my_] om. Q (1676). [297] _steep_] _step_ Q₂. to heaven] of heaven Q₆. [298] _Whilst, like a_] _Whilst like a_ Ff. _Whiles a_ Qq. _Whilst, he a_ Warburton. _While as a_ Seymour conj. _puff'd and reckless_] om. Q (1676). _reckless_] _careless_ Pope. [299] _Himself ... treads_] _Thyself ... tread'st_ Seymour conj. [300] _recks_] Pope, _reakes_ Qq F₂. _reaks_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _reck'st_ Seymour conj. _his_] _thine_ Seymour conj. _rede_] _reed_ Qq. _reade_ F₁ F₂. _read_ F₃ F₄. _tread_ Smyth conj. MS. [301] SCENE VI. Pope. Enter Polonius.] As in Capell. After _reed_ in Qq: after _not_ in Ff. [302] [Kneeling to Polonius. Capell. [303] _Aboard, aboard_] _Get aboard_ Pope. [304] _stay'd_] _stayed_ Q₂ Q₃. _staied_ Q₄ Q₅. _for. There; my_] Theobald, substantially. _for, there my_ (Q₁) Qq. _for there: my_ Ff. _thee_] (Q₁) Qq. _you_ Ff. [Laying his hand on Laertes's head. Theobald. [305] _Look_] Qq. _See_ Ff. [306] _Those_] (Q₁) Qq. _The_ Ff. [307] _them to_] (Q₁) Ff. _them unto_ Qq. _unto_ Seymour conj. _hoops_] _hooks_ Pope. [308] _dull_] _stale_ S. Walker conj. [309] _new-hatch'd_] _new hatcht_ Qq. _unhatch't_ Ff. _comrade_] Ff. _courage_ (Q₁) Qq. _court-ape_ Badham conj. [310] _opposed_] (Q₁) Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _opposer_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [311] _thy ear_] _thy eare_ Qq. _thine eare_ or _thine ear_ Ff. [312] _Are ... that._] See note (III). [313] _lender be_] Ff. _lender boy_ Qq. [314] _loan_] F₃ F₄. _Loane_ F₂. _lone_ F₁. _loue_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _love_ Q₆. _loses_] Ff Q₆. _looses_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [315] _And_] Qq F₁. _A_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _dulls the edge_] Ff Q₆. _dulleth edge_ Q₂ Q₃. _dulleth the edge_ Q₄ Q₅. [316] _night_] _light_ Warburton.] _the day_] _to day_ Q₆. [317] _thee!_] Pope. _thee._ Qq Ff. [318] _do I_] _I do_ Q (1676). [319] _invites_] Ff. _invests_ Qq. [320] _to you_] om. Pope. _in_] om. F₃. [321] [Exit.] Exit Laertes. Qq. Exit Laer. Ff. [322] _hath_] om. F₃ F₄. [323] _Lord_] Qq. _L._ Ff. [324] _you? give ... truth._] Q₆. _you give ... truth,_ Q₂ Q₃. _you give ... truth._ Q₄ Q₅. _you, give ... truth?_ Ff. [325] _pooh!_] _puh,_ Qq. _puh._ Ff. [326] _Unsifted_] _Unsighted_ Becket conj. [327] _I'll_] _Ile_ F₁ F₂. _I'le_ F₃ F₄. _I will_ Qq. [328] _these_] Qq. _his_ Ff. [329] _sterling_] Qq. _starling_ F₁ F₂ F₄. _startling_ F₃. [330] _Running_] Dyce (Collier conj.) _Wrong_ Qq. _Roaming_ Ff. _Wronging_ Pope. _Wringing_ Theobald (Warburton). _Ranging_ Theobald conj. _Worrying_ Badham conj. _Urging_ or _Working_ Anon. conj. See note (IV). [331] _call it_] _call't_ Pope. [332] _to his_] _to it in his_ Collier MS. See note (II). [333] _my lord ... heaven_] As in Rowe. One line in Qq Ff. [334] _almost ... holy_] Qq. _all the_ Ff. _almost all the_ Rowe. [335] _springes_] (Q₁) Q₅ F₁ F₂ Q₆. _springs_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₃ F₄. [336] _prodigal_] _prodigally_ Q (1676). [337] _Lends_] (Q₁) Qq. _Gives_ Ff. _daughter_] _oh my daughter_ Pope. _gentle daughter_ Capell. See note (V). [338] _both_] _birth_ Badham conj. [339] _their_] _the_ Warburton. [340] _take_] _take't_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _From this time_] Qq. _For this time daughter,_ Ff. _From this time daughter,_ Long MS. [341] _something_] Qq. _somewhat_ Ff. _your_] _thy_ Johnson. [342] _entreatments_] Ff Q₆. _intreatments_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _intraitments_ Warburton. [343] _parley_] Ff Q₆. _parle_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [344] _tether_] Ff. _tider_ Q₂ Q₃. _teder_ Q₄ Q₅. _tedder_ Q₆. _may he_] _he may_ Warburton. [345] _that dye_] Q₆. _that die_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _the eye_ Ff. _that eye_ Grant White. [346] _mere_] om. Seymour conj. _implorators_] _imploratotors_ Q₂ Q₃. _implorers_ Pope. [347] _bawds_] Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _bonds_ Qq Ff. _bans_ Becket conj. _lauds_ Anon. conj. [348] _beguile_] _beguide_ Q₂ Q₃. [349] _slander_] _squander_ Collier (Collier MS.) _moment_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _moments_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _moment's_ Pope. _moments'_ Collier (ed. 2). [350] _come_] _and so come_ Seymour conj. _so now, come_ Collier MS. _ways_] _wayes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ Q₆. _waies_ Q₅. _way_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [351] Oph. _I ... lord._] om. Seymour conj. [352] SCENE IV.] Capell. om. Ff. SCENE III. Rowe. SCENE VII. Pope. The platform.] The Platform before the Palace. Rowe. and] om. Ff. [353] _shrewdly_] F₁ Q₆. _shroudly_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _shrew'dly_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _it is very cold._] Qq. _is it very cold?_ F₁ F₂. _it is very cold?_ F₃ F₄. [354] _a_] om. Qq. _an_] om. F₃ F₄. [355] _is_] _ha's_ F₃ F₄. _has not_ Rowe (ed. 2). _struck_] F₄. _strooke_ Qq F₁ F₂. _strook_ F₃. [356] _Indeed? I_] Capell. _Indeed;_ I Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Indeed I_ (Q₁) Ff. _Indeed, I_ Q₆. _I_ Rowe. _it then_] Qq. _then it_ Ff. [357] [A flourish....] Malone, after Capell. A florish of trumpets and 2. peeces goes of. Qq (goe Q₆. off Q₄ Q₅ Q₆). A flourish of Trumpets and Guns. Q (1676). Omitted in Ff. Noise of warlike Musick within. Rowe. [358] _What ... my lord?_] Omitted in Steevens's reprint of Q₄. [359] _wake_] _walke_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [360] _wassail_] _wassel_ (Q₁). _wassell_ Qq. _wassels_ Ff. _up-spring reels_] _up-spring reeles_ (Q₁) Qq. _upspring reeles_ F₁ F₂. _upspring reels_ F₃ F₄. _upstart reels_ Pope. _upsy freeze_ Badham conj. [361] _drains_] _takes_ Q (1676). [362] _bray out_] _proclaim_ Q (1676). [363] _Is it_] _It is_ F₂. [364] _is't:_] _is it; of an antique date:_ Seymour conj. [365] _But_] Qq. _And_ Ff. _native_] _a native_ Hammer (ed. 2). [366] _This ... fault._] Put in the margin by Pope. [367] _This ... scandal._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [368] _revel_] _reueale_ Q₂ Q₃. _reuelle_ Q₄. _reuell_ Q₅ Q₆. [369] _revel east and west Makes_] Pointed as in Qq. _revell, east and west: Makes_ Pope (ed. 1). _revell, east and west, Makes_ Pope (ed. 2). _revel east and west, Makes_ Warburton. [370] _traduced_] _tradust_ Q₂ Q₃. _tax'd_] Pope. _taxed_ Qq. [371] _clepe_] Q₆. _clip_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [372] _So, oft_] Theobald. _So oft_ Qq. [373] _mole_] _mould_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [374] _the_] Pope. _their_ Qq. [375] _livery_] _levity_ Becket conj. _star_] _starre_ Qq. _scar_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). [376] _Their_] Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _His_ Qq. [377] _the ... scandal_] Omitted by Pope. [378] _the dram of eale ... of a doubt_] Q₂ Q₃. _the dram of ease ... of a doubt_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _the dram of base ... of worth out_ Theobald. _the dram of base ... oft eat out_ or _the dram of base ... soil with doubt_ Heath conj. _the dram of ill ... of worth out_ Capell conj. _the dram of base Doth eat the noble substance of worth out_ Id. conj. _the dram of base ... oft adopt_ Holt conj. _the dram of base ... oft work out_ Robertson and Davies conj. _the dram of ill ... of good out_ Jennens. _the dram of base ... of worth dout_ Malone. _the dram of base ... often dout_ Steevens (1793). _the dram of base ... oft do out_ Id. conj. (withdrawn). _the dram of base ... of't corrupt_ Mason conj. _the dram of doubt ... oft anneal_ Anon. conj. (1814). _the dream of ease, The noble substance of a doubt,--doth all_ Becket conj. _the dram of ale ... over dough or oft a-dough_ Jackson conj. _the dram of ill ... often dout_ Caldecott. _the dram of bale ... often doubt_ Singer (ed. 1). _the dram of base ... of a doubt_ Singer (ed. 2). _the dram of base ... oft adoubt_ Singer conj. _the dram of bale ... off and out_ Delius. _the dram of base ... derogate_ Ingleby conj. _the dram of lead ... of a ducat_ Id. conj. _the dram of ail ... of a doubt_ Nichols conj. _the dram of lead ... of a pound_ Staunton conj. _the dram of evil ... oft outdo_ Jervis conj. _the dram of base ... offer doubt_ Brae conj. (N. and Q.) _the dram of base Doth, all the noble substance o'er, a doubt_ Anon. conj. (N. and Q.) _the dram of eale Doth all the noble, substance of a doubt_ Corson conj. _the dram of vile Turns ... of a draught_ Leo conj. _the dram of evil ... out of doubt or the dram of evil ... of a courtier_ Keightley conj. (withdrawn). _the dram of base ... often draw_ Arrowsmith conj. _the dram of evil ... oft debase_ Dyce (ed. 2). _the dram of eale ... oft endoubt_ Nicholson conj. _the dram of calce ... so adapt_ Bullock conj. _the dram of earth ... so adapt_ Bullock conj. (withdrawn). _the dram of base ... overcloud_ Lloyd conj. _the dram of base ... often drown_ Taylor conj. MS. _the dram of ease ... oft work out_ Smyth conj. MS. See note (VI). _the dram of leaven ... of a dough_ Cartwright conj. _the dram of evil ... oft weigh down_ Bailey conj. [379] _To his_] _To its_ Steevens conj. _By his_ Malone conj. _By it's_ Anon. apud Rann conj. Enter Ghost.] Enter Ghost armed as before. Collier MS. [380] _it_] _where it_ Q (1676). [381] Pause marked after this line in Collier MS. [382] _intents_] Qq. _events_ Ff. _advent_ Warburton. [383] _a questionable_] _unquestionable_ Becket conj. [384] _father, royal Dane: O_] _father,--Royal Dane, O_ Anon. conj. (St James's Chronicle, Oct. 15, 1761). _O_] Qq. _Oh, oh_ Ff. [385] _tell ... death_] _tell why Heried and canoniz'd in death, thy bones_ Becket conj. _tell Why thy_] _tell why Thy_ Lloyd conj. [386] _canonized_] _canoniz'd_ Qq Ff. _canonized ... death_] _bones hears'd in canonized earth_ Hanmer. _canoniz'd bones, hearsed in earth_ Warburton. [387] _cerements_] Qq. _cerments_ F₁. _cearments_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [388] _inurn'd_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _enurn'd_ F₁. _interr'd_ (Q₁) Qq. _immured_ Anon. conj. [389] _Revisit'st_] F₄. _Revisitst_ F₂ F₃. _Revisits_ Qq F₁. _thus the ... moon,_] _thus, the ... moon_ Becket conj. [390] _we_] _us_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). [391] _horridly_] _horribly_ Theobald. [392] _the reaches_] Qq. _thee; reaches_ Ff. [393] [Ghost beckons Hamlet.] Ghost beckens Hamlet. Ff. Beckins. Q₂ Q₃. Beckons. Q₄ Q₅. Beckens. Q₆. [394] _waves_] (Q₁) Qq. _wafts_ Ff. _to a more_] _off to a_ Johnson. _more removed_] _remote_ Q (1676). See note (VII). [395] [Holding Hamlet. Rowe. [396] _I will_] Qq. _will I_ Ff. [397] _should_] _shall_ Q (1676). [398] _fee;_] _fee?_ F₃ F₄. [399] _as_] _like_ (Q₁) Q₆. [400] _toward_] _towards_ Q₄ Q₅. _flood_] _floods_ Q (1676). _lord_] om. Q₂. [401] _summit_] Rowe. _somnet_ Qq. _sonnet_ Ff. _cliff_] F₃ F₄. _cleefe_ Qq. _cliffe_ F₁ F₂. [402] _beetles_] Ff. _bettels_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [403] _assume_] Qq. _assumes_ Ff. [404] _deprive_] _deprave_ Hanmer (Warburton). _your ... reason_] _you of your soveraign reason_ Collier MS. See note (II). _your ... reason_] _of sovereignty your_ Hunter conj. [405] _draw_] _drive_ (Q₁) S. Walker conj. _it:_] _it,_ Qq. _it?_ F₁. _it_. F₂ F₃ F₄. [406] _The very ... beneath._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [407] _It ... thee._] As in Qq. One line in Ff. [408] _waves_] Qq. _wafts_ Ff. [409] _off_] _of_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _hands_] Qq. _hand_ Ff. [410] Hor.] Mar. Theobald. [They struggle. Collier MS. See note (II). [411] _artery_] Q₆. _arture_ Q₂ Q₃. _artyre_ Q₄. _attire_ Q₅ F₄. _artire_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _this_] _his_ F₃ F₄. [412] _As hardy_] _Hardy_ Capell. _Nemean_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _Nemeon_ Q₂ Q₃. _Nemian_ F₁ F₂. [Ghost beckons. Malone. [413] _am I_] _I am_ Q (1676). _call'd:_] _cald,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _call'd;_ Q₆. _cal'd?_ F₁. _call'd?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [Breaking from them. Rowe. [414] _on_] _one_ Q₄ Q₅. [Exeunt....] Ff. Exit ... Qq. [415] _imagination_] _imagion_ Q₂ Q₃. [416] _Heaven_] _Heaven's_ Collier MS. See note (II). _direct it_] _discover it_ Q (1676). _detect it_ Farmer conj. [417] SCENE V.] Capell. SCENE VIII. Pope. Scene continued in Ff. Another part ...] Capell. A more remote part ... Theobald. Enter....] Re-enter ... Pope. [418] _Whither_] (Q₁) Q₆. _Whether_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Where_ Ff. [419] _hour_] F₃ F₄. _houre_ Qq. _hower_ F₁. _honour_ F₂. [420] _Pity ... unfold_] Prose in Q₄ Q₅. [421] _thy_] _my_ Q₅. [422] _hear._] _here,_ Q₄. [423] _when_] _what_ Q (1676). [424] _What?_] _Hear what?_ Keightley. _Revenge! what? how?_ Seymour conj. [425] _confined to fast_] _confined fast_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _to fast in_] _to roast in_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _too fast in_ Warburton. _to lasting_ Singer, ed. 2 (Heath conj.) _to waste in_ Steevens conj. (withdrawn). _to fasting_ Jackson conj. _fast to_ Anon. conj. ('Once a Week'). _And for_] _Tho' in_ Anon. MS. [426] _that I am_] _being_ Seymour conj. [427] _knotted_] (Q₁) Qq. _knotty_ Ff. [428] _an end_] _on end_ (Q₁) Pope. _an-end_ Boswell. [429] _fretful_] F₄. _fretfull_ (Q₁) F₁ F₂ F₃. _fearefull_ Qq. _porpentine_] _porcupine_ Q (1676). [430] _List, list_] Qq. _list Hamlet_ Ff (_Hamle_ F₂). [431] _love--_] Rowe. _love._ Qq Ff. [432] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff. [433] _Murder!_] Q₆. _Murther_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Murther?_ Ff. [434] _Murder most_] _Most_ Seymour conj. _in_] _at_ Long MS. [435] _Haste me_] Rowe. _Hast me_ Qq. _Hast, hast me_ F₁. _Haste, haste me_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Haste ... swift_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _know't_] Qq. _know it_ Ff. _know_ Pope. _I_] om. F₁. [436] _meditation_] _mediation_ Q₆. [437] _sweep_] _flye_ Q (1676). _swoop_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [438] _shouldst_] _shouldest_ Q₄ Q₅. [439] _shouldst ... Wouldst_] _wouldst ... Shouldst_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). [440] _roots_] Q₅ Q₆. _rootes_ (Q₁) Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _rots_ Ff. _itself ... wharf,_] _on Lethe's wharf: itself in ease,_--Becket conj. _Lethe_] _Lethe's_ Q (1676) and Rowe. [441] _'Tis_] Q₆. _Tis_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _It's_ Ff. _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. _orchard_] _garden_ Q (1676). [442] _so_] om. Pope. [443] _know, thou_] F₄. _knowe thou_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃. _know thou,_ Q₆. [444] _life_] _heart_ Q (1676). [445] _O my ... uncle!_] As in Dyce (S. Walker conj.) One line in Qq Ff. [446] _My_] _my_ Qq. _mine_ Ff. _uncle!_] Q₆. _uncle?_ Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _uncle:_ Q₄. _uncle._ Q₅. [447] _Ay,_] _Ay, Ay_ S. Walker conj., ending line 41 _Ay._ _Ay, ... that adulterate_] _Incestuous, adulterate_ Seymour conj. [448] _witchcraft_] _witchraft_ F₂. _wit_] Pope. _wits_ Qq Ff. _with_] Qq. _hath_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _and_ F₄. _gifts,--_] _gifts,_ Qq F₃. _guifts._ F₁. _gifts._ F₂. _gifts_ F₄. [449] _wit_] _wits_ Q₆. [450] _to his_] Qq F₃ F₄. _to to this_ F₁. _to this_ F₂. [451] _seeming-virtuous_] Hyphen inserted by Theobald. [452] _a_] Ff Q₆. om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [453] _marriage; and to_] _marriage, to_ Ingleby conj. [454] _To those ... moved,_] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff. [455] _mine!_] _mine, surpasses, almost, thinking._ Seymour conj. [456] _lust,_] (Q₁) Ff. _but_ Qq. _angel_] F₄. _angell_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _angle_ Qq. [457] _Will ... garbage._] Arranged as in Qq. One line in Ff. [458] _sate_] F₁ F₂. _sort_ Qq. _seat_ F₃ F₄. [459] _prey_] _pray_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _on_] _in_ F₃ F₄. [460] _scent_] _sent_ Q₂ Q₃ F₁ Q₆. _morning_] Qq. _mornings_ Ff. [461] _within my orchard_] _in my garden_ Q (1676). _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. [462] _of_] Qq. _in_ (Q₁) Ff. [463] _secure_] _secret_ Johnson. _stole_] _to me stole_ Q (1676). [464] _hebenon_] Ff. _hebona_ (Q₁) Qq. _hebon_ or _hemlock_ Elze conj. _vial_] _viall_ Qq. _violl_ F₁ F₂. _viol_ F₃ F₄. [465] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. [466] _effect Holds_] _effects Hold_ Q (1676). [467] _alleys_] Hanmer. _allies_ (Q₁) Qq Ff. [468] _vigour_] _rigour_ Staunton conj. _posset_] Ff. _possesse_ Qq. [469] _eager_] (Q₁) Qq. _Aygre_ Ff. [470] _bark'd_] _barckt_ Q₂ Q₃. _barkt_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _bak'd_ Ff. _barked_ (Q₁). [471] _of queen_] _of queene_ Qq. _and queene_ Ff (_queen_ F₃ F₄). _dispatch'd_] _dismatch'd_ Becket conj. _despoil'd_ Collier MS. [472] _blossoms_] _blossom_ Dyce conj. [473] _Unhousel'd_] Theobald. _Unhuzled_ Q₂ Q₃. _Unnuzled_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _Unhouzzled_ Ff. _disappointed_] _unanointed_ Pope. _unappointed_ Theobald. _unanel'd_] Pope. _unanueld_ Q₂ Q₃. _un-anneld_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _unnaneld_ Ff. _unaneal'd_ Theobald. _unanoil'd_ Jennens. _and unknell'd_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. XLVI. 267). _unassoiled_ Boucher conj. [474] _With all_] _Withall_ Q₂ Q₃. [475] See note (VIII). [476] _howsoever_] Ff. _howsomever_ Qq. _pursuest_] Ff Q₆. _pursues_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [477] _Taint_] _Tain't_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _contrive_] _design_ Q (1676). [478] _matin_] _morning_ Q (1676). _matins_ so quoted in Drake's _Shakespeare and his Times_, II. 414. [479] _Adieu, adieu, adieu!_] _Adiew, adiew, adiew,_ Qq (_Adieu_ Q₆). _Adue, adue, Hamlet:_ F₁ F₂. _Adieu, adieu, Hamlet:_ F₃ F₄. _Farewel_, Q (1676). [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq. [480] _O fie! Hold, hold, my_] _Oh hold, my_ Pope. _Hold, hold, my_ Capell. _O fie! Hold,_ Collier MS. _Hold, hold, my_] _hold, hold my_ Q₂ Q₃. _hold, my_ Q₄. _hold my_ Q₅ Ff Q₆. [481] _stiffly_] Ff. _swiftly_ Qq. _strongly_ Q (1676). [482] _thee!_] Q₆. _thee,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _thee?_ Ff. [483] _while_] Ff. _whiles_ Qq. [484] _saws_] _sawe_ Q₄. _saw_ Q₅ Q₆. _registers_ Q (1676). _all pressures_] _and pressures_ Q (1676). [485] _yes_] Qq. _yes, yes_ Ff. [486] _pernicious_] _prenicious_ Q₄. _pernicious and perfidious_ Collier (Collier MS.) [487] _My tables,--_] Pope. (_My tables_) (Q₁). _My tables,_ Qq. _My Tables, my Tables;_ Ff. _set it_] _set_ Q₆. [488] _down, ... villain; ... me.' ... sworn't._] _down.-- ... villain!... me.'_ [Writing _... sworn it._ [Having kissed the tables. Brae conj. [489] _I'm_] Ff. _I am_ Qq. [Writing.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. Opposite line 111, Keightley. [490] _It ... sworn't._] Two lines in Qq. One in Ff. Capell puts _It is_ in a separate line. [491] _It is_] _Its--_ Jackson conj. [492] _I have sworn't._] _I've sworn it--_ Pope. [493] SCENE IX. Pope. Hor. Mar. [Within] Ff. Hora. Qq. See note (IX). [494] _Heaven_] Ff. _Heavens_ (Q₁) Qq. [495] Ham.] Qq. Mar. Ff. Mar. [within. Knight. [496] Mar.] Qq. Hor. Ff. [497] _bird,_] Ff. _and_ Qq. _boy,_ (Q₁) Pope. [498] Hor. _What news, my lord?_] Omitted in Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [499] Ham.] Hora. Q₄ Q₅. [500] _you will_] Qq. _you'l_ F₁. _you'll_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [501] _it?_] (Q₁) Ff Q₆. _it,_ The rest. [502] _secret?_] Ff. _secret._ Qq. _secret--_ Theobald. Hor. Mar.] Booth. Q₂ Q₃. Both. Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆. _my lord._] (Q₁) Ff. Omitted in Qq. [503] _There's ... Denmark_] One line in (Q₁) Ff. Two in Qq. _ne'er_] F₂. _nere_ F₁. _ne're_ F₃ F₄. _never_ Qq. [504] _Denmark But_] _Denmark--But_ Seymour conj. [505] _But_] _Bate_ Becket conj. [506] _There ... this._] As in Qq. Prose in Ff. [507] _i' the_] _i' th'_ Ff. _in the_ Qq. [508] _desire_] Qq. _desires_ (Q₁) Ff. [509] _hath_] Qq. _ha's_ F₁. _has_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [510] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. [511] _Look you, I'll_] Ff. _I will_ Qq. _Look you, I will_ Capell. [512] _whirling_] Theobald. _wherling_ (Q₁) _whurling_ Qq. _hurling_ Ff. _windy_ Q (1676). _hurting_ Collier MS. See note (II). [513] _I'm_] Ff. _I am_ Qq. _offend_] _offended_ F₃ F₄. [514] _Yes, faith,_] _Yes,_ Pope. _'Faith,_ Capell. [515] _Horatio_] (Q₁) Qq. _my Lord_ Ff. [516] _too. Touching_] _too: touching_ Q₆. _too, touching_ (Q₁) Ff. _to, touching_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _here,_] _heere,_ or _here,_ Qq. _heere:_ or _here:_ Ff. [517] _O'ermaster't_] _Oremastret_ Q₂ Q₃. _O'er-master_ Rowe (ed. 2). [518] _we will_] om. (Q₁) Pope. Mar. _We will_ Collier MS. See note (II). [519] Hor. Mar.] Booth. Q₂ Q₃. Both. The rest. [520] _In faith, ... I._] Arranged as by Capell. One line in Qq Ff. [521] _We have_] _We've_ Pope. [522] _Indeed ... indeed._] _In deed ... in deed_ Staunton. [523] Ghost. [Beneath] _Swear._] Capell. Ghost cries under the Stage. Ghost. _Sweare._ Qq. Gho. _Sweare._ Ghost cries under the Stage. Ff. [524] _Ah, ha, ... cellarage_] Arranged as in Qq. Prose in Ff. [525] _Ah_] Ff. _Ha_ Qq. _so?_] Q₆. _so,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _so._ Ff. [526] _on: you hear_] _one you here_ F₁. [527] _the oath_] _my oath_ F₃ F₄. [528] _seen,_] _seene_ Q₂ Q₃. _seene,_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _seene._ F₁ F₂. _seen._ F₃ F₄. [529] [Beneath] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [530] _Hic_] _Hie_ Q₄ Q₅. _ubique?_] Ff. _ubique,_ Qq. _our_] Qq. _for_ Ff. [531] See note (X). [532] _this that_] _this which_ Rowe (ed. 2). [533] _Swear._] (Q₁) Ff. _Sweare by his sword._ Qq. [534] _canst_] _canst thou_ Q₆. _earth_] (Q₁) Qq. _ground_ Ff. [535] _good friends_] om. Seymour conj.] _friends_] Qq F₁. _friend_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [536] _give_] _bid_ F₃ F₄. [537] _your_] (Q₁) Qq. _our_ Ff. [538] _Than ... come;_] As in Hanmer. One line in Qq Ff. [539] _But come; Here_] _But_ Seymour conj. [540] _Here_] _Swear_ Pope (ed. 2). _swear here_ Keightley, reading _But ... mercy!_ as one line. [541] _How ... on_] Put in parentheses in Pope. (ed. 1). [542] _How ... note_] Put in parentheses in Qq. [543] _soe'er_] _so ere_ Ff Q₆. _so mere_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [544] _As ... on_] Put in parentheses in Ff. [545] _meet_] _fit_ So quoted by Theobald ('Shakespeare Restored'). [546] _times_] (Q₁) Qq. _time_ Ff. [547] _this head-shake_] Theobald. _this head shake_ (Q₁) Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _thus, head shake_ Ff. _head thus shak't_ Q₆. [548] _Or_] _Nor_ Malone conj. [549] _Well, well,_] Qq. _well,_ Ff. [550] _an if ... an if_] Hanmer. _and if ... and if_ Qq Ff. _and if ... or if_ Q (1676). _an ... those; An if_ Seymour conj. [551] _they_] (Q₁) Qq. _there_ Ff. [552] _giving_] _givings_ Warburton. _out, to note_] Steevens, 1793. (Malone conj.) _out, to note)_ Qq. _out to note,_ Ff. _out to note_ Malone. _to note_] _denote_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _to-note_ Porson conj. MS. [553] _this ... Swear._] _this ... doe: So ... you: Sweare._ Ff. _this doe sweare, So ... you._ Qq. _this you must swear. So ... you._ Q (1676). _this do ye swear. So ... you. Swear._ Pope. _This do you swear, So ... you!_ Capell. _This not to do, swear; So ... you!_ Boswell. [554] _Rest, rest,_] _Rest,_ Seymour conj. [They swear.] Edd. (Globe ed.) om. Qq Ff. [555] _I do_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄. _do I_ Theobald. [556] _friending_] _friendship_ Q (1676). [557] _God ... lack._] _Shall never fail,_ Q (1676). _Let us go in_] _Let's go_ Anon. conj. _together_] om. Hanmer. [558] _pray._] Rowe. _pray,_ Qq Ff. [559] _set_] see F₃ F₄. ACT II. SCENE I. _A room in Polonius's house._ _Enter_ POLONIUS _and_ REYNALDO.[560] _Pol._ Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.[561][562] _Rey._ I will, my lord. _Pol._ You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo,[562][563] Before you visit him, to make inquire[564] Of his behaviour. _Rey._ My lord, I did intend it. 5 _Pol._ Marry, well said, very well said. Look you, sir,[565] Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris,[566] And how, and who, what means, and where they keep, What company, at what expense, and finding[567] By this encompassment and drift of question 10 That they do know my son, come you more nearer[568] Than your particular demands will touch it:[568] Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him, As thus, 'I know his father and his friends,[569] And in part him:' do you mark this, Reynaldo?[562] 15 _Rey._ Ay, very well, my lord. _Pol._ 'And in part him; but,' you may say, 'not well: But if't be he I mean, he's very wild,[570] Addicted so and so;' and there put on him What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank 20 As may dishonour him; take heed of that; But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips As are companions noted and most known To youth and liberty. _Rey._ As gaming, my lord. _Pol._ Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,[571][572] 25 Drabbing: you may go so far.[571] _Rey._ My lord, that would dishonour him. _Pol._ Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge.[573] You must not put another scandal on him,[574] That he is open to incontinency;[575] 30 That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly That they may seem the taints of liberty, The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, A savageness in unreclaimed blood,[576][577] Of general assault.[576] _Rey._ But, my good lord,--[578] 35 _Pol._ Wherefore should you do this? _Rey._ Ay, my lord,[579][580] I would know that.[579] _Pol._ Marry, sir, here's my drift, And I believe it is a fetch of warrant:[581] You laying these slight sullies on my son,[582] As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working,[583] 40 Mark you,[584][585] Your party in converse, him you would sound,[584][586] Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes[587] The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured[588] He closes with you in this consequence;[589] 45 'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,'[590] According to the phrase or the addition[591] Of man and country. _Rey._ Very good, my lord. _Pol._ And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I[592][593] about to say? By the mass, I was about to say something:[592][594] 50 where did I leave?[592] _Rey._ At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,'[595] and 'gentleman.'[595] _Pol._ At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry;[596] He closes with you thus: 'I know the gentleman;[597] 55 I saw him yesterday, or t'other day,[598] Or then, or then, with such, or such, and, as you say,[599] There was a' gaming, there o'ertook in's rouse,[600] There falling out at tennis:' or perchance,[601] 'I saw him enter such a house of sale,'[602] 60 Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth.[603] See you now;[603] Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:[604] And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias,[605] 65 By indirections find directions out:[606] So, by my former lecture and advice,[607] Shall you my son. You have me, have you not? _Rey._ My lord, I have. _Pol._ God be wi' ye; fare ye well.[608] _Rey._ Good my lord![609] 70 _Pol._ Observe his inclination in yourself.[610] _Rey._ I shall, my lord. _Pol._ And let him ply his music. _Rey._ Well, my lord. _Pol._ Farewell! [_Exit Reynaldo._ _Enter_ OPHELIA.[611] How now, Ophelia! what's the matter? _Oph._ O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted![612] 75 _Pol._ With what, i' the name of God?[613] _Oph._ My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,[614] Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,[615] No hat upon his head, his stockings foul'd,[616] Ungarter'd and down-gyved to his ancle;[617] 80 Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, he comes before me.[618] _Pol._ Mad for thy love? _Oph._ My lord, I do not know,[619] 85 But truly I do fear it.[619] _Pol._ What said he? _Oph._ He took me by the wrist and held me hard;[620] Then goes he to the length of all his arm, And with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face 90 As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so;[621] At last, a little shaking of mine arm,[622] And thrice his head thus waving up and down, He raised a sigh so piteous and profound[623] As it did seem to shatter all his bulk[624] 95 And end his being: that done, he lets me go:[625] And with his head over his shoulder turn'd,[626] He seem'd to find his way without his eyes; For out o' doors he went without their helps,[627] And to the last bended their light on me. 100 _Pol._ Come, go with me: I will go seek the king.[628] This is the very ecstasy of love; Whose violent property fordoes itself[629] And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as any passion under heaven[630] 105 That does afflict our natures. I am sorry. What, have you given him any hard words of late? _Oph._ No, my good lord, but, as you did command, I did repel his letters and denied His access to me. _Pol._ That hath made him mad. 110 I am sorry that with better heed and judgement[631] I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle[632] And meant to wreck thee; but beshrew my jealousy![633] By heaven, it is as proper to our age[634] To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions 115 As it is common for the younger sort To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:[635] This must be known; which, being kept close, might move[636] More grief to hide than hate to utter love.[637] Come. [_Exeunt._[638] 120 SCENE II. _A room in the castle._ _Flourish. Enter_ KING, QUEEN, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, _and_ Attendants.[639] _King._ Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern![640][641] Moreover that we much did long to see you, The need we have to use you did provoke Our hasty sending. Something have you heard[642] Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it,[643] 5 Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man[644] Resembles that it was. What it should be, More than his father's death, that thus hath put him So much from th' understanding of himself, I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,[645] 10 That, being of so young days brought up with him And sith so neighbour'd to his youth and haviour,[646] That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time: so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather 15 So much as from occasion you may glean,[647] Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus,[648] That open'd lies within our remedy.[649] _Queen._ Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you, And sure I am two men there are not living[650] 20 To whom he more adheres. If it will please you To show us so much gentry and good will[651] As to expend your time with us awhile[652] For the supply and profit of our hope, Your visitation shall receive such thanks[653] 25 As fits a king's remembrance. _Ros._ Both your majesties Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,[654] Put your dread pleasures more into command Than to entreaty. _Guil._ But we both obey,[655] And here give up ourselves, in the full bent 30 To lay our service freely at your feet,[656] To be commanded.[657] _King._ Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.[640][641] _Queen._ Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:[640][641] And I beseech you instantly to visit 35 My too much changed son. Go, some of you,[658] And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.[659] _Guil._ Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him! _Queen._ Ay, amen! [_Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and some Attendants._[660] _Enter_ POLONIUS. _Pol._ The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, 40 Are joyfully return'd. _King._ Thou still hast been the father of good news. _Pol._ Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege,[661] I hold my duty as I hold my soul, Both to my God and to my gracious king:[662] 45 And I do think, or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure[663] As it hath used to do, that I have found[664] The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy. _King._ O, speak of that; that do I long to hear.[665] 50 _Pol._ Give first admittance to the ambassadors; My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.[666] _King._ Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in. [_Exit Polonius._[667] He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found[668] The head and source of all your son's distemper. 55 _Queen._ I doubt it is no other but the main; His father's death and our o'erhasty marriage.[669] _King._ Well, we shall sift him. _Re-enter_ POLONIUS, _with_ VOLTIMAND _and_ CORNELIUS. Welcome, my good friends![670] Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?[671] _Volt._ Most fair return of greetings and desires. 60 Upon our first, he sent out to suppress His nephew's levies, which to him appear'd[672] To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack,[673] But better look'd into, he truly found It was against your highness: whereat grieved, 65 That so his sickness, age and impotence Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys, Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine Makes vow before his uncle never more 70 To give the assay of arms against your majesty. Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy, Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee[674] And his commission to employ those soldiers, So levied as before, against the Polack:[673] 75 With an entreaty, herein further shown, [_Giving a paper._[675] That it might please you to give quiet pass Through your dominions for this enterprise,[676] On such regards of safety and allowance As therein are set down.[677] _King._ It likes us well, 80 And at our more consider'd time we'll read,[678] Answer, and think upon this business.[679] Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour: Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together:[680] Most welcome home! [_Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius._ _Pol._ This business is well ended.[681] 85 My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit[682] 90 And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,[683] I will be brief. Your noble son is mad: Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,[684] What is't but to be nothing else but mad?[685] But let that go. _Queen._ More matter, with less art. 95 _Pol._ Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,[686] And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure;[687] But farewell it, for I will use no art.[688] Mad let us grant him then: and now remains 100 That we find out the cause of this effect,[689] Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause: Thus it remains and the remainder thus.[690][691] Perpend.[690][692] 105 I have a daughter,--have while she is mine,--[693] Who in her duty and obedience, mark, Hath given me this: now gather and surmise. [_Reads._[694] 'To the celestial, and my soul's idol, the most beautified Ophelia,'--[695] That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is a vile[696] 110 phrase: but you shall hear. Thus: [_Reads._[697][698] 'In her excellent white bosom, these,' &c.[697][699] _Queen._ Came this from Hamlet to her? _Pol._ Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful. [_Reads._[700] 'Doubt thou the stars are fire; 115 Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. 'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers; I have not art to reckon my groans: but that I love thee best, O most 120 best, believe it. Adieu. 'Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this machine is to him, HAMLET.'[701] This in obedience hath my daughter shown me;[702] And more above, hath his solicitings,[703] 125 As they fell out by time, by means and place, All given to mine ear. _King._ But how hath she[704] Received his love?[704] _Pol._ What do you think of me? _King._ As of a man faithful and honourable. _Pol._ I would fain prove so. But what might you think,[705] 130 When I had seen this hot love on the wing,--[706] As I perceived it, I must tell you that, Before my daughter told me,--what might you, Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,[707] If I had play'd the desk or table-book,[708] 135 Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,[709] Or look'd upon this love with idle sight; What might you think? No, I went round to work, And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:[710] 'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star;[711] 140 This must not be:' and then I prescripts gave her,[712] That she should lock herself from his resort,[713] Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. Which done, she took the fruits of my advice;[714] And he repulsed, a short tale to make,[714][715] 145 Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,[716] Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,[717][718] Thence to a lightness, and by this declension[718][719] Into the madness wherein now he raves[720] And all we mourn for.[721] 150 _King._ Do you think this? _Queen._ It may be, very like.[722] _Pol._ Hath there been such a time, I'ld fain know that,[723] That I have positively said ''tis so,' When it proved otherwise? _King._ Not that I know. _Pol._ [_Pointing to his head and shoulder_] Take this from this, if this be otherwise:[724] 155 If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre. _King._ How may we try it further?[725] _Pol._ You know, sometimes he walks four hours together[726][727] Here in the lobby.[726] _Queen._ So he does, indeed.[728] 160 _Pol._ At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him: Be you and I behind an arras then;[729][730] Mark the encounter: if he love her not,[729] And be not from his reason fall'n thereon, Let me be no assistant for a state, 165 But keep a farm and carters.[731] _King._ We will try it. _Queen._ But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.[732] _Pol._ Away, I do beseech you, both away:[733] I'll board him presently. [_Exeunt King, Queen, and Attendants._ _Enter_ HAMLET, _reading_.[734] O, give me leave: how does my good Lord Hamlet?[735] 170 _Ham._ Well, God-a-mercy. _Pol._ Do you know me, my lord? _Ham._ Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.[736] _Pol._ Not I, my lord. _Ham._ Then I would you were so honest a man. 175 _Pol._ Honest, my lord![737] _Ham._ Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to[738] be one man picked out of ten thousand.[738][739] _Pol._ That's very true, my lord. _Ham._ For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog,[740] 180 being a god kissing carrion--Have you a daughter?[741] _Pol._ I have, my lord. _Ham._ Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a blessing; but as your daughter may conceive,--friend, look[742] to't. 185 _Pol._ [_Aside_] How say you by that? Still harping on[743] my daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I was a[743][744][745] fishmonger: he is far gone: and truly in my youth I[743][745][746][747] suffered much extremity for love; very near this. I'll[743][746][748] speak to him again. What do you read, my lord?[743][746][749] 190 _Ham._ Words, words, words. _Pol._ What is the matter, my lord?[749] _Ham._ Between who?[750] _Pol._ I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.[751] _Ham._ Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that[752] 195 old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and[753] that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most[754] weak hams: all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus 200 set down; for yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if like a[755] crab you could go backward. _Pol._ [_Aside_] Though this be madness, yet there is[756][757][758] method in't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?[757] _Ham._ Into my grave.[759] 205 _Pol._ Indeed, that's out of the air. [_Aside_] How pregnant[760][761] sometimes his replies are! a happiness that often madness[760][762] hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously[760][763][764] be delivered of. I will leave him, and suddenly contrive[760][764][765][766] the means of meeting between him and my daughter. My[760][766][767] 210 honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.[760][767] _Ham._ You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I[768] will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my[769][770] life, except my life.[770] _Pol._ Fare you well, my lord. 215 _Ham._ These tedious old fools! _Enter_ ROSENCRANTZ _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[771] _Pol._ You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is.[772] _Ros._ [_To Polonius_] God save you, sir! [_Exit Polonius._[773] _Guil._ My honoured lord![774] _Ros._ My most dear lord! 220 _Ham._ My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern?[775] Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do you both?[776] _Ros._ As the indifferent children of the earth. _Guil._ Happy, in that we are not over-happy;[777] On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.[777][778] 225 _Ham._ Nor the soles of her shoe?[779] _Ros._ Neither, my lord. _Ham._ Then you live about her waist, or in the middle[780] of her favours?[781] _Guil._ Faith, her privates we.[782] 230 _Ham._ In the secret parts of Fortune? O, most true; she is a strumpet. What's the news?[783] _Ros._ None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest.[784] _Ham._ Then is doomsday near: but your news is not[785] true. Let me question more in particular: what have you,[786] 235 my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune, that she[786] sends you to prison hither?[786] _Guil._ Prison, my lord![786] _Ham._ Denmark's a prison.[786] _Ros._ Then is the world one.[786] 240 _Ham._ A goodly one; in which there are many confines,[786] wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.[786][787] _Ros._ We think not so, my lord.[786] _Ham._ Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing[786][788] either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a[786][788] 245 prison.[786] _Ros._ Why, then your ambition makes it one; 'tis too[786] narrow for your mind.[786] _Ham._ O God, I could be bounded in a nut-shell and[786] count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I[786] 250 have bad dreams.[786][789] _Guil._ Which dreams indeed are ambition; for the very[786] substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.[786] _Ham._ A dream itself is but a shadow.[786] _Ros._ Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a[786] 255 quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.[786] _Ham._ Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs[786] and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we to[786] the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason.[786][790] _Ros. Guil._ We'll wait upon you.[786][791] 260 _Ham._ No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest[786] of my servants; for, to speak to you like an honest man, I[786] am most dreadfully attended. But, in the beaten way of[786] friendship, what make you at Elsinore?[792][793] _Ros._ To visit you, my lord; no other occasion. 265 _Ham._ Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but[794] I thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it your own[795] inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly with me:[796] come, come; nay, speak. 270 _Guil._ What should we say, my lord? _Ham._ Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were[797] sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks,[798] which your modesties have not craft enough to colour: I know the good king and queen have sent for you. 275 _Ros._ To what end, my lord? _Ham._ That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our[799] youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by[800] what more dear a better proposer could charge you withal, be[801] 280 even and direct with me, whether you were sent for, or no.[802] _Ros._ [_Aside to Guil._] What say you?[803] _Ham._ [_Aside_] Nay then, I have an eye of you.--If you[804][805] love me, hold not off.[804] _Guil._ My lord, we were sent for. 285 _Ham._ I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen[806][807] moult no feather. I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost[807][808] all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises; and indeed[809] it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly[810] 290 frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging[811] firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why,[812] it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent[813] congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man![814] 295 how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and[815][816] moving how express and admirable! in action how like an[816] angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the[816] world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman[817] 300 neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.[818] _Ros._ My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts. _Ham._ Why did you laugh then, when I said 'man[819] delights not me'? _Ros._ To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what 305 lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you:[820] we coted them on the way; and hither are they coming, to[821] offer you service. _Ham._ He that plays the king shall be welcome; his majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight[822] 310 shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis;[823] the humourous man shall end his part in peace; the clown[824] shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickled o' the sere,[824][825] and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse[826] shall halt for't. What players are they? 315 _Ros._ Even those you were wont to take such delight[827] in, the tragedians of the city.[828] _Ham._ How chances it they travel? their residence,[829] both in reputation and profit, was better both ways.[830] _Ros._ I think their inhibition comes by the means of the[831][832] 320 late innovation.[831][833] _Ham._ Do they hold the same estimation they did when[834] I was in the city? are they so followed? _Ros._ No, indeed, are they not.[835] _Ham._ How comes it? do they grow rusty?[836] 325 _Ros._ Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace:[836] but there is, sir, an eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry[836][837] out on the top of question and are most tyranically clapped[836][838] for't: these are now the fashion, and so berattle the common[836][839] stages--so they call them--that many wearing rapiers[836][840] 330 are afraid of goose-quills, and dare scarce come thither.[836] _Ham._ What, are they children? who maintains 'em?[836][841] how are they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no[836] longer than they can sing? will they not say afterwards, if[836] they should grow themselves to common players,--as it is[836][842] 335 most like, if their means are no better,--their writers do them[836][843] wrong, to make them exclaim against their own succession?[836][844] _Ros._ Faith, there has been much to do on both sides,[836] and the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to controversy:[836] there was for a while no money bid for argument unless[836] 340 the poet and the player went to cuffs in the question.[836] _Ham._ Is't possible?[836] _Guil._ O, there has been much throwing about of brains.[836] _Ham._ Do the boys carry it away?[836] _Ros._ Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too.[836][845] 345 _Ham._ It is not very strange; for my uncle is king of[846] Denmark, and those that would make mows at him while[847] my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats[848] a-piece, for his picture in little. 'Sblood, there is something[849] in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.[850] 350 [_Flourish of trumpets within._ _Guil._ There are the players.[851] _Ham._ Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your[793] hands, come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion[852] and ceremony: let me comply with you in this garb, lest[853][854] my extent to the players, which, I tell you, must show[854][855] 355 fairly outwards, should more appear like entertainment[856] than yours. You are welcome: but my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. _Guil._ In what, my dear lord? _Ham._ I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind 360 is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.[857] _Enter_ POLONIUS. _Pol._ Well be with you, gentlemen![858] _Ham._ Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too: at each[859] ear a hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet out[860] of his swaddling clouts.[861] 365 _Ros._ Happily he's the second time come to them; for[862] they say an old man is twice a child. _Ham._ I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the[863] players; mark it. You say right, sir: o'Monday morning;[864] 'twas so, indeed.[865] 370 _Pol._ My lord, I have news to tell you. _Ham._ My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius[866] was an actor in Rome,--[867] _Pol._ The actors are come hither, my lord. _Ham._ Buz, buz! 375 _Pol._ Upon my honour,--[868] _Ham._ Then came each actor on his ass,--[869] _Pol._ The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral,[870] tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral,[870][871] 380 scene individable, or poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too[872] heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the[873][874][875] liberty these are the only men.[873][875] _Ham._ O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure[876][877] hadst thou! 385 _Pol._ What a treasure had he, my lord?[878] _Ham._ Why,[879] 'One fair daughter, and no more,[879] The which he loved passing well.'[879] _Pol._ [_Aside_] Still on my daughter.[880] 390 _Ham._ Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah? _Pol._ If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter[881][882] that I love passing well.[881] _Ham._ Nay, that follows not.[881] _Pol._ What follows, then, my lord? 395 _Ham._ Why,[883] 'As by lot, God wot,'[883] and then, you know,[884] 'It came to pass, as most like it was,'--[884] the first row of the pious chanson will show you more;[885] 400 for look, where my abridgement comes.[886] _Enter four or five_ Players. You are welcome, masters; welcome, all. I am glad to see[887] thee well. Welcome, good friends. O, my old friend! Why[888][889] thy face is valanced since I saw thee last; comest thou to[889][890] beard me in Denmark? What, my young lady and mistress! 405 By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than[891] when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Pray[892] God, your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the ring. Masters, you are all welcome. We'll e'en to 't like French falconers, fly at any thing we[893] 410 see: we'll have a speech straight: come, give us a taste of your quality; come, a passionate speech. _First Play._ What speech, my good lord?[894][895] _Ham._ I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted; or, if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, 415 pleased not the million; 'twas caviare to the general:[896] but it was--as I received it, and others, whose judgements[897] in such matters cried in the top of mine--an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember, one said there were no sallets in[898] 420 the lines to make the matter savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affection; but called[899] it an honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very[900] much more handsome than fine. One speech in it I chiefly[900][901] loved: 'twas Æneas' tale to Dido; and thereabout of it especially,[902] 425 where he speaks of Priam's slaughter: if it live in[903] your memory, begin at this line; let me see, let me see; 'The rugged Pyrrhus, like th' Hyrcanian beast,'--[904] It is not so: it begins with 'Pyrrhus.'[905] 'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, 430 Black as his purpose, did the night resemble[906] When he lay couched in the ominous horse,[907] Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd[908] With heraldry more dismal: head to foot[909] Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd[910] 435 With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching streets,[911] That lend a tyrannous and a damned light[912][913] To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire,[913][914] And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,[915] 440 With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus[916] Old grandsire Priam seeks.' So, proceed you.[917] _Pol_ 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and good discretion. 445 _First Play._ 'Anon he finds him[894] Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword,[918] Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,[919] Repugnant to command: unequal match'd,[920] Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; 450 But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,[921] Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top[922] Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash[923] Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword,[924] 455 Which was declining on the milky head Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:[925] So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood.[926] And like a neutral to his will and matter,[927][928] Did nothing.[928] 460 But as we often see, against some storm, A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,[929] The bold winds speechless and the orb below[930] As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region, so after Pyrrhus' pause[924][931] 465 Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work;[932] And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall[933] On Mars's armour, forged for proof eterne,[934] With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword[924] Now falls on Priam. 470 Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods,[935] In general synod take away her power, Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,[936] And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven As low as to the fiends!' 475 _Pol._ This is too long.[937] _Ham._ It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee,[938] say on: he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps: say on: come to Hecuba. _First Play._ 'But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen--'[939][940][941] 480 _Ham._ 'The mobled queen?'[940][942] _Pol._ That's good; 'mobled queen' is good.[943] _First Play._ 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames[944] With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head[945] Where late the diadem stood; and for a robe, 485 About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins, A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up:[946] Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced:[947] But if the gods themselves did see her then, 490 When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,[948] The instant burst of clamour that she made, Unless things mortal move them not at all,[949] Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven[950] 495 And passion in the gods.'[951] _Pol._ Look, whether he has not turned his colour and[952] has tears in's eyes. Prithee, no more.[953] _Ham._ 'Tis well; I'll have thee speak out the rest of this[954] soon. Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed?[955] 500 Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract[956] and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.[957] _Pol._ My lord, I will use them according to their desert.[958] _Ham._ God's bodykins, man, much better: use every[959] 505 man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping? Use[958][960] them after your own honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in. _Pol._ Come, sirs. _Ham._ Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow. 510 [_Exit Polonius with all the Players but the First._[961] Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the Murder of[962] Gonzago?[963] _First Play._ Ay, my lord. _Ham._ We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a[961][964][965] need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which[965][966] 515 I would set down and insert in't, could you not?[967] _First Play._ Ay, my lord. _Ham._ Very well. Follow that lord; and look you[961] mock him not. [_Exit First Player._] My good friends, I'll[968] leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore.[969] 520 _Ros._ Good my lord![970] _Ham._ Ay, so, God be wi' ye! [_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._] Now I am alone.[971] O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,[972] 525 Could force his soul so to his own conceit[973] That from her working all his visage wann'd;[974] Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,[975] A broken voice, and his whole function suiting[976] With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing![977] 530 For Hecuba![978] What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,[979] That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion[980] That I have? He would drown the stage with tears 535 And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free,[981] Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.[982][983] Yet I,[982][984][985] 540 A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,[984][985][986] Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,[985][987] And can say nothing; no, not for a king,[985] Upon whose property and most dear life A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?[988] 545 Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?[988] Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?[988] Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,[988] As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?[988] Ha![989] 550 'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be[990] But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this[991] I should have fatted all the region kites[992] With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain![993] 555 Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain![994] O, vengeance![995] Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,[996] That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,[997] Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, 560 Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,[998][999] A scullion![998][999] Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! Hum, I have heard[998][1000] That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,[998][1001] 565 Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently[1002] They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players[1003] 570 Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,[1004] I know my course. The spirit that I have seen[1005] May be the devil; and the devil hath power[1006] 575 To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing 580 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [_Exit._ FOOTNOTES: [560] ACT II. SCENE I.] Q (1676) and Rowe. Actus Secundus. Ff. A room ...] An Apartment ... Rowe. Enter ... Reynaldo.] Capell. Enter old Polonius, with his man or two. Qq. Enter ... Reynoldo. Ff. [561] _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff. _these_] Q₂ Q₃ F₁. _these two_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _those_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [562] _Reynaldo_] Qq. _Reynoldo_ Ff. [563] _marvellous_] Q₅ Q₆. _meruiles_ Q₂ Q₃. _maruelous_ Q₄. _maruels_ F₁. _marvels_ F₂ F₃ F₄.] _wisely,_] Q₆. _wisely_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _wisely:_ Ff. [564] _to make inquire_] Qq. _you make inquiry_ Ff. _make you inquiry_ Rowe. _to make inquiry_ Q (1676) and Pope. [565] _Marry ... sir,_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff. _Marry_] _Mary_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. [566] _Danskers_] _Dantz'ckers_ Capell (corrected in MS.) [567] _at_] om. F₄. [568] _nearer Than_] Capell. _neerer Then_ Qq F₁. _neere Than_ F₂. _near Then_ F₃. _near. Then_ Q (1676) and Pope. _near, Then_ F₄. [569] _As_] Qq. _And_ Ff. [570] _if't_] Ff. _y'ft_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _if it_ Q₆. [571] _Ay ... far._] Arranged as in Capell. In Qq Ff the first line ends at _swearing._ [572] _fencing_] Put in brackets by Warburton as an interpolation. [573] _no_] Ff. om. Qq. [574] _another_] _an utter_ Hanmer (Theobald conj. withdrawn). [575] _That_] _Than_ Keightley. [576] _A savageness ... assault._] As in Qq. One line in Ff. [577] _unreclaimed_] Q₅ Q₆. _unreclamed_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _unreclaim'd_ Ff. [578] _lord,--_] _lord--_ Pope. _Lord._ Qq Ff. [579] _Ay, ... that._] As in Steevens (1778). One line in Qq Ff. [580] _lord_] _good lord_ Capell, ending the line at _lord._ [581] _warrant_] Ff. _wit_ Qq. [582] _sullies_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₄. _sallies_ Q₂ Q₃. _sulleyes_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [583] _i' the_] _i' th'_ Ff. _with_ Qq. [584] _Mark ... sound,_] As in Malone. One line in Qq Ff. [585] _you,_] Qq. _you_ Ff. [586] _him_] _he_ Q₆. _you would_] _you'ld_ Johnson. [587] _seen in_] _seene in_ Qq. _seene._ _In_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _seen. In_ F₄. _prenominate_] _prenominate_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. [588] _breathe_] Rowe (ed. 2). _breath_ Qq Ff. _speak_ Pope. [589] _consequence_] _cosequence_ Q₄. [590] _or so_] Put in parentheses in Qq. _or so, or_] _or Sir, or_ Hanmer. _or sire or_ Warburton. _forsooth, or_ Johnson conj. _or so forth,_ Steevens conj. (1778). [591] _or_] Qq. _and_ Ff. _addition_] _addistion_ Q₂ Q₃. [592] _And then ... leave?_] Prose first by Malone. Three lines in Qq, ending _say?... something, ... leave?_ Three lines in Ff, ending _this?... say? ... leave?_ Capell ends the lines _was I ... say ... leave?_ [593] _does he this--he does_] _does he this? He does:_ Ff. _doos a this, a doos,_ Q₂ Q₃. _doos a this, a doos:_ Q₄ Q₅. _does a this, a does:_ Q₆. [594] _By the mass_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. _something_] _nothing_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [595] _At ... gentleman.'_] Prose in Globe ed. Two lines, the first ending _consequence:_ in Ff. _at 'friend ... gentleman.'_] Omitted in Qq. [596] Pol.] Reynol. F₂. Pelon. F₃. [597] _closes with you thus_] Ff. _closes thus_ Qq. _closeth with him thus_ (Q₁). [598] _t'other_] _tother_ F₁ F₂. _'tother_ F₃ F₄. _th' other_ Qq. [599] _Or then, or then,_] _Or then,_ Pope. _or such_] Qq. _and such_ Ff. [600] _a'_] _a_ Qq. _he_ Ff. _gaming, there_] _gaming, there_ Ff. _gaming there_ Qq. _o'ertook_] _or tooke_ Qq. [601] _There_] _Their_ F₂ F₃. [602] _such_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _such or such_ Q₄ Q₅. _such and such_ Q₆. _sale_] Qq. _saile_ F₁ F₂. _sail_ F₃ F₄. [603] _Videlicet ... now_] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff. [604] _falsehood takes_] _falshood takes_ Q₆. _falshood, takes_ Ff. _falshood take_ Q₂ Q₃. _falshood: take_ Q₄ Q₅. _carp_] _carpe_ Qq. _cape_ Ff. [605] _assays_] _essayes_ Q₆. [606] _indirections_] _indirects_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [607] _advice_] Ff Q₆. _advise_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [608] _be wi' ye_] _buy ye_ Qq. _buy you_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _b'w'you_ F₄. _fare ye_] Q₆. _far ye_ Q₂ Q₃. _far yee_?] Q₄ Q₅. _fare you_ Ff. [609] _Good my lord!_] Dyce. _Good my Lord._ Qq Ff. _Good my Lord--_ Rowe. _But, my good lord,--_ Capell conj. [610] _in_] _e'en_ Hanmer. [611] [Exit Reynaldo.] Exit Rey. Qq (after _lord_). Exit. Ff (after _lord_). SCENE II.] Pope. [Enter Ophelia.] As in Singer (ed. 2). Before _Farewell!_ in Qq Ff. Enter Ophelia, hastily. Capell. [612] _O, my lord,_] Qq. _Alas,_ Ff. [613] _i' the_] _i' th_ Qq. _in the_ Ff. _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff. [614] _sewing_] Warburton. _sowing_ Qq Ff. _reading_ Q (1676). _closet_] Q₆. _closset_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _chamber_ Ff. [615] _Lord_] _Prince_ Q (1676). [616] _foul'd_] Ff Q₆. _fouled_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _loose_ Q (1676). See note (XI). [617] _down-gyved_] F₃ F₄. _downe gyved_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _downe gyred_ Q₄ Q₅. _downe gived_ F₁. _downe-gyved_ F₂. _down-gyred_ Theobald. [618] _horrors, he_] Qq. _horrors: he_ Ff. _horrors: thus he_ Pope. _horrors there, he_ Anon. conj. [619] _My lord ... it._] As in Qq. One line in Ff. [620] _and held me hard_] Omitted in F₂ F₃ F₄. [621] _As he_] Ff. _As a_ Qq. _Long_] _Long time_ Pope. [622] _mine_] Qq F₁. _my_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _his_ Pope (ed. 2). [623] _piteous_] Q₆. _pittious_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. _hideous_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [624] _As_] Qq. _That_ Ff. [625] _that done,_] _Then_ Pope. _me_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄. [626] _shoulder_] Q₂ Q₃. _shoulders_ The rest. [627] _o'doors_] Theobald. _adoores_ Q₂ Q₃. _a doores_ Q₄. _of doores_ Q₅ Q₆. _adores_ F₁ F₂. _adoors_ F₃ F₄. _helps_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _helpes_ Q₅ Q₆. _helpe_ (Q₁) F₁ F₂. _help_ F₃ F₄. [628] _Come_] Qq. om. Ff. [629] _fordoes_] _forgoes_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [630] _passion_] Ff. _passions_ Qq. [631] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. _heed_] Q₅ Q₆. _heede_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _speed_ Ff. [632] _quoted_] Ff. _coted_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _coated_ Q₆. _noted_ Warburton. _fear'd_] Qq. _feare_ F₁ F₂. _fear_ F₃ F₄. _did but trifle_] _trifl'd_ Pope. [633] _wreck_] _wrack_ Qq F₃ F₄. _wracke_ F₁ F₂. _rack_ Upton conj. _beshrew_] Ff Q₆. _beshrow_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [634] _By heaven,_] (Q₁) Qq. _It seemes_ F₁ F₂. _It seems_ F₃ F₄. [635] _we_] _with me_ Q (1676). [636] _which_] _wͨ_ F₁. [637] _than hate_] _hate, than_ Hanmer. _than haste_ Anon. conj. [638] _Come._] Qq. om. Ff. [639] SCENE II.] Scena secunda. Ff. SCENE III. Pope. A room....] Capell. The Palace. Rowe. Flourish.] om. Ff. Rosencratz,] Malone. Rossencraft, (Q₁). Rosencraus Qq. Rosincrane, F₁. Rosincrosse, F₂ F₃. Rosincross, F₄. Roseneraus, Rowe (ed. 2). Rosincrantz, Theobald. Guildenstern] Rowe. Gilderstone (Q₁). Guyldensterne Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Guildensterne F₁ Q₆. Guildenstare F₂ F₃ F₄. and Attendants.] Lords and other Attendants. Rowe. Omitted in Qq. Cumalijs. F₁ F₂. cum aliis. F₃ F₄. [640] _Rosencrantz_] Malone. _Rosencraus_ Qq. _Rosincrance_ F₁. _Rosincros_ F₂. _Rosincross_ F₃ F₄. [641] _Guildenstern_] Rowe. _Guyldensterne_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Guildensterne_ F₁ Q₆. _Guildenstare_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [642] _have you_] _you have_ Q₆. [643] _call_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _I call_ Ff Q₆. [644] _Sith nor_] Qq. _Since not_ Ff. [645] _dream_] _dreame_ Qq. _deeme_ F₁ F₂. _deem_ F₃ F₄. [646] _sith_] Qq. _since_ Ff. _neighbour_'d] Ff. _nabored_ Q₂ Q₃. _neighbored_ Q₄. _neighboured_ Q₅ Q₆. _haviour_] Q₅ Q₆. _hauior_ Q₂ Q₃. _hau r_ Q₄. _humour_ Ff. _'havour_ Warburton. [647] _occasion_] Qq. _occasions_ Ff. [648] _Whether ... thus,_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. _If ... thus,_ Rowe. [649] _open'd_] om. Q (1676). [650] _are_] _is_ Q₂ Q₃. [651] _gentry_] _gentleness_ Q (1676). [652] _expend_] _extend_ Q₄ Q₅. _employ_ Q (1676). [653] _shall_] _should_ Q₆. [654] _of us_] _over us_ Q (1676). _o'er us_ Mason conj. [655] _to_] _into_ Keightley. _But we_] Qq. _We_ Ff. [656] _service_] Qq. _services_ Ff. [657] _To be commanded._] Omitted in Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [658] _My ... you,_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff. _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff. [659] _these_] Qq. _the_ Ff. [660] _Ay,_] Capell. _I_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. om. Ff Q₆. _Amen,_ Keightley. [Exeunt Rosencrantz....] Exeunt Ros. and Gui., Attendants with them. Capell. Exeunt Ros. and Guyld. Qq. Exit. F₁ (after _him_). Exeunt. F₂ F₃ F₄ (after _him_). [661] [Aside to the King. Anon. conj. _I assure_] Qq. _Assure you,_ Ff. [662] _and_] Qq. _one_ Ff. [663] _sure_] _be sure_ F₃ F₄. [664] _it hath_] Qq. _I have_ Ff. [665] _that; that_] Capell. _that, that_ Qq Ff. _do I_] _doe I_ Qq. _I do_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _I doe._ F₂. [666] _fruit_] Q₅ Q₆. _fruite_ Q₂ Q₃. _frute_ Q₄. _newes_ F₁ F₂. _news_ F₃ F₄. _nuts_ Hunter conj. _to_] _of_ Johnson. [667] [Exit Polonius.] Ex. Pol. Rowe. Omitted in Qq Ff. [668] _my dear Gertrude_] Capell. _my deere Gertrard_ Q₂ Q₃. _my decree: Gertrud_ Q₄ Q₅. _my deare Gertrud_ Q₆. _my sweet queene, that_ Ff (_queen_ F₃ F₄). [669] _o'erhasty_] _hastie_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅ Q₆. _hasty_ Q₄. [670] SCENE IV. Pope. Re-enter Polonius....] Theobald. Enter Polonius, Voltimand, and Cornelius. Ff (Voltumand, F₁), after line 57. Enter Embassadors. Qq, after line 57. _Welcome, my_] _Welcome home,_ S. Walker conj. _my_] Qq. om. Ff. [671] _Voltimand_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Voltemand_ Qq. _Voltumand_ F₁. [672] _levies_] _lives_ Q (1695). [673] _Polack_] _Polacke_ (Q₁). _Pollacke_ Qq. _Poleak_ F₁. _Polak_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [674] _three_] (Q₁) Ff. _threescore_ Qq. [675] _shown_] _shone_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [Giving a paper.] Malone. om. Qq Ff. Letter. Collier MS. See note (II). [676] _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff. _that_ (Q₁). [677] _therein_] _herein_ Q₆. [678] _consider'd_] Ff. _considered_ Qq. [679] _Answer, and think upon_] _And think upon an answer to_ Hanmer. _And think upon and answer_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). [680] _thank_] _take_ F₁. _well-took_] _well-look't_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _well-luck'd_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [681] [Exeunt Vol. and Cor.] Capell. Exeunt Embassadors. Qq. Exit Ambass. Ff. _well_] Qq. _very well_ Ff. [682] _since_] Ff. om. Qq. _brevity is_] _brevity's_ Pope. [683] _limbs_] _lines_ Theobald. conj. (withdrawn). [684] _it:_] _it?_ Q (1676). [685] _mad?_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _mad,_ Q₂ Q₃. _mad._ Ff. [686] _he is_] Ff. _hee's_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₆. _he's_ Q₅. _mad, 'tis_] _mad, is_ Capell. [687] _'tis 'tis_] _it is_ Ff. _it is, 'tis_ Hanmer. [688] _farewell it_] _farewell, wit_ Anon. conj. [689] _the_] _the the_ F₂. [690] _remains ... Perpend._] _remains: remainder thus perpend._ Maginn conj. [691] _thus._] Ff Q₆. _thus_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [692] _Perpend._] A separate line in Qq. Ending line 104 in Ff. _Consider._ Q (1676). [693] _while_] (Q₁) Qq. _whil'st_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _whilst_ F₂. [694] [Reads.] Q (1676). The Letter. Ff. om. Qq. He opens a Letter, and reads. Rowe. [695] _and_] om. Q₆. _idol_] _fair idol_ Capell, reading as verse. _beautified_] _beatified_ Theobald. [696] _vile_] Qq F₄. _vilde_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _beautified_] _that beatify'd_ Capell, reading as verse. _vile_] Qq F₄. _vilde_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [697] _Thus: ... these,' &c._] See note (XII). [698] [Reads.] Dyce. om. Qq Ff. [699] _excellent white_] _excellent-white_ Dyce, ed. 2 (S. Walker conj.)] _&c._] Qq. om. Ff. [700] [Reads.] Reading. Rowe. Letter. Qq. om. Ff. [701] _HAMLET._] See note (XIII). [702] _shown_] _showne_ Qq. _shew'd_ Ff. [703] _above_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _aboue_ F₁. _about_ Qq. _above, hath_] _about have_ Q₆. _concerning_ Q (1676). _solicitings_] Qq. _soliciting_ Ff. [704] _But ... love?_] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff. [705] _think,_] Capell. _thinke_ Qq. _think?_ Ff. [706] _this_] _his_ F₃ F₄. _wing,--_] _wing,_ Q₂ Q₃ Ff Q₆. _wing?_ Q₄ Q₅. [707] _your_] _you_ F₂. [708] _play'd_] _ply'd_ Keightley conj. [709] _a winking_] Ff Q₆. _a working_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _working_ Pope. [710] _my young mistress_] Put in parentheses in F₁. _thus_] _this_ Q₄ Q₅. [711] _prince, out_] _prince:--out_ Steevens. _out of thy star_] Q₂ Q₃. _out of thy starre_ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. _out of your starre_ (Q₁). _out of thy sphere_ F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _above thy sphere_ Q (1676). _out of thy star_] _out of thy soar_ Bailey conj. [712] _prescripts_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _precepts_ Ff Q₆. [713] _his_] Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆. _her_ Q₂ Q₃. [714] _she took ... And he_] _see too ... For, he_ Warburton. [715] _repulsed, a_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _repulsed._ _A_ F₁. _repell'd, a_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _repel'd. a_ Q₄. _repel'd,_ a Q₅. _repelled, a_ Jennens. [716] _Fell into_] _Fell to_ Pope. [717] _watch_] _wath_ Q₂ Q₃. _watching_ Pope. _watch; and_ Keightley. _thence into_] _then into_ Q (1676). _and thence into_ Maginn conj. [718] _into a weakness, Thence to_] _to a weakness; thence Into_ S. Walker conj. [719] _a_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [720] _wherein_] Qq. _whereon_ Ff. [721] _all we mourn_] _all we mourne_ Qq. _all we wail_ Ff. _we all wail_ Collier MS. [722] _this_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _'tis this_ Ff Q₆. _like_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _likely_ Ff Q₆. [723] _I'ld_] _I'de_ Ff. _I would_ Qq. [724] [Pointing ... shoulder] Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). om. Qq Ff. _this, if ... otherwise:_] _this, if ... otherwise;_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _this; if ... otherwise,_ F₁. _this, if ... otherwise,_ F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄. [725] _further_] _farther_ Collier. [726] _You ... lobby._] As in Qq. Three lines, ending _sometimes ... heere ... lobby,_ in Ff. [727] _four_] F₃ F₄. _foure_ The rest. _for_ Hanmer. [728] _does_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _dooes_ Q₂ Q₃. _ha's_ F₁. _has_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [729] _an arras_] _the arras_ Q₆. _Be ... then;_] _Let ... then_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). [730] _arras then; Mark_] _arras then, Marke_ Qq Ff (_Mark_ F₄). _arras; then Mark_ Staunton. _arras then To mark_ Keightley. [731] _But_] Qq. _And_ Ff. _and_] _of_ Q (1703). [732] SCENE V. Pope. _But ... reading._] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _wretch,_ in Ff. [733] _you, both_] Ff. _you both_ Qq. _you both,_ Anon. conj. [734] [Exeunt.... Enter....] See note (XIV). [735] _Well, God-a-mercy._] _Excellent well._ Q (1676). [736] _Excellent_] Qq. _Excellent, excellent_ Ff. _you are_] Qq. _y'are_ Ff. _you're_ Dyce. [737] _lord!_] _lord?_ Ff Q₆. _lord._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [738] _Ay, sir ... thousand._] Prose in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _goes,_ in Qq. [739] _man_] om. F₃ F₄. _ten_] Q₅ Q₆. _tenne_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _two_ Ff. [740] Ham.] Ham. [reads]. Staunton. [741] _god kissing carrion_] Hanmer (Warburton). _good kissing carrion_ Qq Ff. _god-kissing carrion_ Malone conj. _good, kissing carrion_ Whiter conj. _carrion-kissing god_ Mitford conj. _carrion--_] Ff. _carrion._ Qq. [742] _but as ... conceive,--friend_] Malone. _but as ... conceave, friend_ Qq. _but not as ... conceive. Friend_ Ff. [743] _How ... again._] Marked as 'Aside' by Capell. _Still ... again._] Marked as 'Aside' by Steevens. Verse, Maginn conj., ending the lines _on ... first; ... he is ... youth ... love; ... again._ [744] _at first_] _at the first_ Q (1676). [745] _he said ... he_] Ff. _a said ... a_ Qq. _but said ... he_ Q (1676). [746] _he is ... again._] Marked as 'Aside' by Pope, who reads as three lines of verse. [747] _far gone_] Qq. _farre gone, farre gone_ Ff. [748] _much_] om. Maginn conj. [749] _lord?_] Ff Q₆. _lord._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [750] _who?_] F₁ Q₆. _who._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _whom?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [751] _that you read_] Qq. _you meane_ F₁ F₂. _you mean_ F₃ F₄. [752] _rogue_] Qq. _slave_ Ff. [753] _and plum-tree_] Q₅ Q₆. _& plum-tree_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _or plum-tree_ Ff. [754] _lack_] _lacke_ Qq. _locke_ F₁ F₂. _lock_ F₃ F₄. _most_] Qq. om. Ff. [755] _yourself_] _your selfe_ Qq. _you your selfe_ F₁ F₂. _you your self_ F₃ F₄. _shall grow old_] Qq. _should be old_ Ff. _shall be as old_ Rowe. _shall be but as old_ Hanmer. _shall grow as old_ Malone. [756] [Aside] First marked by Capell. [757] _Though ... lord?_] Prose in Qq. Three lines, ending _madnesse, ... walke ... lord?_ in Ff. Two lines of verse, the first ending _in't,_ in Rowe. [758] _there is_] _there's_ Rowe. [759] _grave._] Qq. _grave?_ Ff. [760] _Indeed ... you._] Prose in Qq. Eleven irregular lines in Ff: nine in Rowe and Pope. [761] _that's out of the_] Qq. _that is out oth'_ Ff. [Aside] Marked first by Capell. [762] _often madness_] _madness often_ Jennens. [763] _reason and sanity_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _reason and sanitie_ F₁. _reason and sanctity_ Qq. _sanity and reason_ Pope. [764] _so prosperously be_] _so happily be_ Q₆. _be So prosp'rously_ Pope. [765] _I will_] _I'll_ Pope. [766] _and suddenly ... him_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [767] _My ... humbly_] Ff. _My lord, I will_ Qq. [768] _sir_] Ff. om. Qq. [769] _will_] Ff. _will not_ Qq. [770] _except my life_] Three times in Qq. _except my life, my life._ Ff. _except my life._ Pope. [Aside] _except ... life._ Anon. conj. [771] _These ... fools!_] _Thou ... fool!_ Maginn conj. Enter....] As in Capell. Enter Guyldersterne, and Rosencraus. Qq (after line 214). Enter Rosincran and Guildensterne. F₁. Enter Rosincros and Guildenstar. F₂ F₃. Enter Rosincros and Guildensterne. F₄ (after line 217 in Ff). [772] _the Lord_] Qq. _my Lord_ Ff. _lord_ Pope. [773] SCENE VI. Pope. [To Polonius] Malone. [Exit Polonius.] As in Capell. Exit. Pope (after line 217). [774] _My_] Qq. _Mine_ Ff. [775] _excellent_] _extent_ Q₂ Q₃. _exelent_ Q₄. [776] _Ah_] Q₆. _A_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Oh_ Ff. _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff. [777] _Happy ... button._] Arranged as by Hanmer. Two lines, the first ending _lap,_ in Qq (_cap_ Q₆). Prose in Ff. _over-happy; On Fortune's cap we_] Hanmer. _over-happy: on Fortune's cap, we_ Ff. _ever happy on Fortunes lap, We_ Qq (_cap_ Q₆). [778] _On_] _Of_ Anon. conj. [779] _shoe_] _shooes_ Collier MS. See note (II). _shoe?_] _shoo?_ F₁. _shooe?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _shooe._ Qq. [780] _waist_] Johnson. _wast_ Qq. _waste_ Ff. [781] _favours?_] Pope. _favors._ Qq. _favour?_ Ff. [782] _her_] _in her_ Pope, ed. 2. [783] _What's the_] Ff. _What_ Qq. _news?_] _newes?_ Qq F₁. _newes._ F₂ F₃. _news._ F₄. [784] _that_] Ff. om. Qq. [785] _but_] _sure_ Q (1676). [786] _Let me ... attended._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [787] _o' the_] _o' th'_ Ff. _of the_ Capell. [788] _Why ... so:_] Two lines of verse, the first ending _nothing,_ S. Walker conj. [789] _bad_] _had_ Anon. conj. [790] _fay_] Pope. _fey_ Ff. [791] Ros. Guil.] Both. Ff. [792] _friendship,_] Qq F₁. _friendship._ F₂ F₃ F₄. [793] _Elsinore_] Malone. _Elsonoure_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Elsonower_ F₁. _Elsinooer_ F₂. _Elsenour_ Q₆. _Elsinoore_ F₃ F₄. [794] _even_] Ff Q₆. _ever_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [795] _a halfpenny_] _of a halfpenny_ Theobald. _at a halfpenny_ Hanmer. [796] _Come, deal_] Ff. _come, come, deale_ Qq. [797] _Why_] Ff. om. Qq.] _any thing, but_] Q₆. _any thing but_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _any thing. But_ Ff. _purpose. You_] _purpose you_ Q (1676). [798] _of_] Qq. om. Ff. [799] _our fellowship_] _our fellowships_ Q₆. _your fellowship_ F₃ F₄. [800] _ever-preserved_] _ever preferred_ Q (1676). [801] _could_] Ff. _can_ Qq. _charge_] _change_ Q₅. [802] _no._] Qq Ff. _no?_ Pope. [803] [Aside to Guil.] Edd. (Globe ed.) To Guilden. Theobald. To Hamlet. Delius conj. [804] Ham. _Nay ... off._] Omitted by Jennens. [805] [Aside] Marked first by Steevens (1793). _of you.--_] _of you:_ Ff. _of you?_ Q₂ Q₃. _of you,_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _on you_ Harness conj. [806] _discovery, and_] _discovery of_ Ff. [807] _and your ... moult_] Qq. _of your ... queene: moult_ Ff. _of your ... queen. Moult_ Knight. [808] _feather. I_] _feather: I_ Q₆. _feather, I_ The rest. [809] _exercises_] Qq. _exercise_ Ff. [810] _heavily_] Qq. _heavenly_ Ff. [811] _brave o'erhanging_] _brave-o'erhanging_ S. Walker conj. _o'erhanging_] _ore-hanged_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _o'erchanging_] Jennens. [812] _firmament_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [813] _appears_] _appeares_ F₁. _appeared_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _appeareth_ Qq. _no other thing to me than_] _nothing to me but_ Qq. [814] _What a piece_] Ff Q₆. _What peece_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _a man_] _man_ Q₆. [815] _faculty_] Ff. _faculties_ Qq. [816] _faculty!... god!_] Pointed as in Q₆ and Ff, substantially. _faculties, in ... mooving, how ... action, how ... apprehension, how ... God:_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ (no other stops). [817] _no_] om. Qq. _woman_] _women_ Q₂ Q₃. [818] _seem_] _see me_ F₂. [819] _you_] Ff. _yee_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _ye_ Q₆. _then_] Qq. om. Ff. [820] _lenten_] Q₆. _Lenton_ The rest. [821] _coted_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _coated_ Ff Q₆. _met_ Q (1676). _accosted_ Rowe. _'costed_ Capell. _quoted_ Jennens conj. _escoted_ Staunton conj. _are they_] _are the_ Q₄ Q₅. [822] _of me_] Ff Q₆. _on me_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [823] _sigh_] _sing_ Q₄ Q₅. [824] _the clown ... sere,_] Omitted in Qq. [825] _o' the_] _a' th'_ F₁. _ath'_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _sere_] _scene_ Malone conj. [826] _blank_] _black_ Q₂ Q₃. [827] _such_] Qq. om. Ff. [828] _in, the_] Qq F₄. _in the_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [829] _they_] _the_ Q₄ Q₅. _travel_] Q₆ F₃ F₄. _travaile_ The rest. [830] _was_] _were_ Anon conj. [831] _inhibition ... innovation._] _itineration ... innovation._ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _innovation ... inhibition._ Johnson conj. [832] _the means_] _means_ Johnson. [833] _innovation._] _innovation?_ Ff. [834] _Do they_] _Do the_ Q₄ Q₅. [835] _are they_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _they are_ Ff Q₆. [836] Ham. _How ... load too._] Omitted in Qq. [837] _eyrie_] _ayrie_ F₁. _ayry_ F₂. _airy_ F₃ F₄. _eyases_] Theobald. _Yases_ Ff. [838] _question_] _the question_ Capell. [839] _fashion_] _faction_ Hughs. _berattle_] _be-rattle_ F₃ F₄. _be ratle_ F₂. _be-ratled_ F₁. [840] _stages_] _stagers_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [841] _'em_] _them_ Capell. [842] _players,_] _players?_ Pope (ed. 1). [843] _most like,_] Pope. _like most_ Ff. _like, most,_ Capell. _like most will,_ Anon. conj. _no_] _not_ F₂. _them_] _them on_ Pope (ed. 2). [844] _succession?_] Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _succession_. Ff. [845] _load_] _club_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [846] _very strange; for_] Q₆. _very strange, for_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _strange: for_ F₁. _strange for_ F₂ F₃. _strange, for_ F₄. _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. [847] _mows_] _mowes_ Ff. _mouths_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _mouthes_ Q₆. [848] _fifty_] Qq. om. Ff. _a_] Qq. _an_ Ff. [849] _'Sblood_] _S'blood_ Q₆. _S'bloud_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. om. Ff. [850] [Flourish ...] Capell. A Florish. Qq. Flourish for the Players. Ff. [851] _There ... players._] _Shall we call the players?_ Q (1676). [852] _then_] Qq. om. Ff. _appurtenance_] _apportenance_ Q₄ Q₅. [853] _comply_] _complement_ Hanmer. _this_] Qq. _the_ Ff. [854] _lest my_] Ff Q₆. _let me_ Q₂ Q₃. _let my_ Q₄ Q₅. [855] _extent_] _ostent_ Collier conj. [856] _outwards_] Qq. _outward_ Ff. [857] _handsaw_] Ff. _hand saw_ Q Q₃. _hand-saw_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _hernshaw_ Hanmer. _heronsew_ Anon. conj. [858] SCENE VII. Pope. [859] _too: at_] Ff. _too, at_ Q₆. _to, at_ Q₂ Q₃. _to, are_ Q₄ Q₅. [860] _you see there is_] _as you see is_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [861] _swaddling clouts_] _swadling clouts_ Qq. _swathing clouts_ Ff. _swathling clouts_ Rowe (ed. 2). [862] _Happily_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Happely_ Q₆. _Haply_ F₄. _he's_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _he is_ Qq. _hes_ F₂. [863] _prophesy he_] _prophecy, he_ Q₂ Q₃. _prophecy that he_ Q₄. _prophecie that he_ Q₅ Q₆. _prophesie. Hee_ F₁. _prophesie, He_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [864] _it. You_] _it: You_ Q₆. _it, You_ Q₂ Q₃. _it, you_ Q₄ Q₅ Ff. _o'_] Capell. _a_ Qq. _for a_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _for on_ F₄. _morning;_] _morning,_ Q₂ Q₃. _morning_ Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆. [865] _so_] (Q₁) Ff. _then_ Qq. [866] _Roscius_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Rossius_ Qq F₁. [867] _was_] Qq. om. Ff. _Rome,--_] _Rome--_ Ff. _Rome._ Qq. [868] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. _honour,--_] _honour--_ Rowe. _honor._ or _honour._ Qq Ff. [869] _Then ... ass,--_] Marked as a quotation by Steevens (Johnson conj.) _came_] Qq. _can_ Ff. _ass,--_] _asse--_ Ff. _asse._ Qq. [870] _pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _pastorall comicall, historicall pastorall_ Q₂ Q₃. _pastoricall-comicall-historicall-pastorall_ Ff. [871] _tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral_] Omitted in Qq. [872] _scene_] _seeme_ Q₄ Q₅. _individable_] _indevidible_ Q₂ Q₃. _indevidable_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _indivible_ Ff. _undividable_ Rowe. [873] _light. For ... liberty, these_] Theobald. _light for ... liberty: these_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _light, for ... liberty. These_ Ff. _light for ... liberty; these_ Q₆ Q (1676). [874] _writ_] _wit_ Q (1676) and Rowe. [875] _the liberty_] _liberty_ Q (1676). [876] _O Jephthah ... Israel_] As a quotation in Pope. [877] _&c. Jephthah_] Hanmer. _Ieptha_ Qq. _Iephta_ F₁ F₂. _Jephta_ F₃ F₄. [878] _What a treasure_] (Q₁) Qq. Ff. _What treasure_ Dyce, ed. 2 (S. Walker conj.) [879] _Why ... well'_] As in Capell. Prose in Qq. Two lines in Ff. Marked as a quotation in Pope. [880] [Aside] Marked first by Capell. [881] Pol. _If ... not._] Omitted in Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [882] _you_] _thou_ Jennens. [883] _Why ... wot,_] As in Malone. Prose in Qq Ff. Pope prints as a quotation _by ... wot._ [884] _and then ... was,'_] As in Pope. Prose in Qq Ff. [885] _pious chanson_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Pons Chanson_ F₁. _Pans Chanson_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _pans chanson_ Q₆. _godly Ballet_ (Q₁). _rubrick_ Q (1676). _Pont-chansons_ Hanmer. _Pont chanson_ (i.e. 'chanson du Pont Neuf') Hunter conj. [886] _abridgement comes_] (Q₁) Q₅ Q₆. _abridgment comes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _abridgements come_ Ff. Enter....] Ff. Enter the Players. Qq. Enter certain players, usher'd. Capell. [887] _You are_] Qq. _Y'are_ Ff. [888] _thee_] _you_ Hanmer. _my_] Ff. om. Qq. [889] _Why, thy_] Qq. _Thy_ Ff. [890] _valanced_] _vallanced_ (Q₁). _valanct_ Q₂ Q₃. _valanc'd_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _valiant_ Ff. [891] _By'r lady_] _Byrlady_ F₁. _Berlady_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _burlady_ (Q₁). _by lady_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _my Ladie_ Q₅. _my Lady_ Q₆. _ladyship_] _lordship_ F₃ F₄. _to heaven_] Qq. _heaven_ Ff. [892] _chopine_] (Q₁) Qq. _choppine_ Ff. _chioppine_ Pope. _chapin_ Jennens. [893] _e'en to 't_] Q₆. _ento't_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _e'ne to 't_ Ff. _French_] (Q₁) Ff. _friendly_ Qq. _falconers_] (Q₁). _fankners_ Q₂ Q₃. _faukners_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _faulconers_ Ff. [894] First Play.] I Play. Ff. Player. Qq. [895] _good_] (Q₁) Qq. om. Ff. [896] _caviare_] Johnson. _cauiary_. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _cauiarie_ F₁. _cautary_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _caviary_ Q₆. _a caviary_ Q (1676). _caviar_ Rowe. _contrary_ Long MS. [897] _received_] _conceived_ Collier MS. See note (II). _judgements_] Qq. _judgement_ Ff. [898] _were no sallets_] Qq. _was no sallets_ (Q₁) Ff. _was no salts_ Pope (ed. I). _was no salt_ Pope (ed. 2). _were no salts_ Capell. _were no saletés_ Becket conj. [899] _indict_] Collier. _indite_ Qq Ff. _affection_] Qq. _affectation_ Ff. _but_] _but I_ Johnson conj. [900] _as wholesome ... fine_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [901] _speech_] Qq. _cheefe speech_ F₁. _chiefe speech_ F₂. _chief speech_ F₃ F₄. _in it_] (Q₁) Ff. _in't_ Qq. [902] _Æneas'_] Pope. _Aeneas_ Q₂ Q₃. _Æneas_ Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆. _tale_] (Q₁) Ff. _talke_ Qq. _talkt_ Q (1676). [903] _where_] (Q₁) Ff. _when_ Qq. [904] _th' Hyrcanian_] Ff. _Th' ircanian_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _th' ircanian_ Q₆. [905] _It is not so:_] Ff. _tis not so,_ Q₂ Q₃. _tis not_ Q₄ Q₅. _'tis not_ Q₆. _'tis not,_ Q (1695). [906] _his_] _he_ F₂ F₃. [907] _he_] _his_ F₂ F₄. _the ominous_] (Q₁) Ff. _th' omynous_ Q₂ Q₃. _th' ominous_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [908] _this_] _his_ (Q₁) Q₆. [909] _heraldry_] _heraldy_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _dismal: head to foot_] Pointed as in Ff. _dismall head to foote,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _dismall head to foot:_ Q₆. [910] _total gules_] _totall Gules_ Qq. _to take Geulles_ F₁ F₂. _to take Geules_ F₃ F₄. [911] _impasted_] _imbasted_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _streets_] _fires_ Pope. [912] _and a_] Qq. _and_ Ff. [913] _tyrannous ... murder_] _treacherous and damned light To the vile murtherer_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). [914] _their lord's murder_] _their Lords murther_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _their Lords murder_ Q₆. _their vilde Murthers_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _their vile Murthers_ F₄. _the vile Murthers_ Rowe. _murthers vile_ Pope. _their lords' murder_ S. Walker conj. [915] _o'er-sized_] _ore-cised_ Qq. [916] _carbuncles_] _carbuncle_ Q₆. [917] _So, proceed you._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [918] _antique_] Pope. _anticke_ or _antick_ Qq Ff. [919] _to his_] _in his_ Rowe (ed. 2). [920] _match'd_] _matcht_ Qq. _match_ Ff. [921] _falls ... Ilium_] _falls then senseless. Ilium_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _Then senseless Ilium_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [922] _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff. [923] _base_] Qq. _Bace_ Ff. [924] _Pyrrhus'_] Apostrophe inserted by Pope. [925] _reverend_] Ff. _reverent_ Qq. [926] _painted_] Omitted in F₃ F₄. [927] _And like_] F₁ F₄. _Like_ Qq. _And lik'd_ F₂ F₃. _and matter_] Erased in Long MS. [928] _And ... nothing._] As in Qq. One line in Ff. [929] _rack_] _rackes_ Q₆. _wrack_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [930] _winds_] _wind_ Q₆. [931] _region, so_] Qq. _region. So_ Ff. [932] _Aroused_] Collier. _A rowsed_ Qq F₂ F₃ F₄. _A ro wsed_ F₁. _A roused_ Theobald (ed. 2). _a-work_] _a-worke_ F₁. _aworke_ Q₆. _a worke_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₂. _a work_ F₃ F₄. _a' work_ Capell. [933] _Cyclops'_] Apostrophe inserted by Theobald. [934] _Mars's armour_] Capell. _Marses Armor_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Mars his Armours_ Ff. _Mars his armour_ Q₆. [935] _strumpet, Fortune_] Hyphened in Ff. [936] _fellies_] F₄. _follies_ Q₂ Q₃. _folles_ Q₄. _fellowes_ Q₅. _fallies_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _felloes_ Q₆. [937] _too_] _two_ F₃. [938] _to the_] (Q₁) Qq. _to'th_ F₁ F₂. _to th'_ F₃ F₄. [939] _who, O, who_] _who, O who_ (Q₁). _who, O who,_ Ff. _who, a woe,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _who, ah woe_ Q₆. _who alas_ Q (1676). _who, a woe!_ Capell. _who, ah woe!_ Malone (Mason conj.) [940] _mobled_] Qq. _Moblea_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _inobled_ F₁. _mob-led_ Upton conj. _ennobl'd_ Capell. _mabled_ Malone. _mobiled_ Becket conj. [941] _queen--_] _queen,--_ Theobald. _queene,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _queene._ Q₅ F₂ Q₆. _queen._ F₁ F₃. _queen?_ F₄. [942] _queen?_] Pointed as in Ff. _queene._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _queene!_ Q₆. [943] _mobled ... good._] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Inobled ... good._ F₁. Omitted in Qq. [944] _Run ... flames_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _flames_] Qq. _flame_ Ff. [945] _bisson rheum_] F₄. _Bison rehume_ (_Bison_ in italics) Q₂ Q₃. _bison rhume_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _bisson rheume_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [946] _alarm_] _alarme_ Qq. _alarum_ Ff. [947] _state_] Qq. _state,_ Ff. _pronounced:_] _pronounst;_ Q₂ Q₃. _pronounc'd;_ Q₄ Q₅. _pronounc'd:_ Q₆. _pronounc'd?_ Ff. [948] _husband's_] _husband_ Q₂ Q₃. [949] _move_] _meant_ F₃ F₄. _at_] om. F₃ F₄. [950] _milch_] _melt_ Pope. [951] _passion in_] _passioned_ Hanmer. _passionate_ Elze (Collier MS.) _passion e'en_ Taylor conj. MS. [952] _whether_] Malone. _where_ Qq Ff. _if_ (Q₁) Pope. _whe're_ Theobald. _whe'r_ Capell. _there, if_ Long MS. _whêr_ Dyce. [953] _has tears_] _has not tears_ Hanmer. _Prithee_] _Prethee_ Qq. _Pray you_ Ff. [954] _of this_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [955] _will_] _doe_ Q₆. _abstract_] Qq. _abstracts_ Ff. [956] _you hear_] _ye heare_ or _ye hear_ Ff. [957] _live_] Qq. _lived_ Ff. [958] _desert_] _desart_ F₁ F₂. [959] _God's_] _Odd's_ Johnson. _bodykins_] Ff. _bodkin_ Qq. _bodikin_ Capell. _much_] Qq. om. Ff. _farre_ (Q₁). [960] _shall_] Qq. _should_ (Q₁) Ff. [961] _hear_] _here_ Q₄ Q₅. [Exit ...] Dyce. Exit Polon. Ff, after line 509. Exeunt Pol. and Players. Qq (after _Elsinore_, line 520). Exeunt Polonius, and Players. Capell (after _not_, line 519). Exit Pol. with some of the Players. Reed (after line 509). [962] [Aside to Player. Staunton. [963] _Gonzago_] _Gonzaga_ Johnson. [964] _ha't_] Ff. _hate_ Q₂ Q₃. _hav't_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _have it_ Q (1676). [965] _for a need_] (Q₁) Ff. _for need_ Qq. [966] _dozen_] (Q₁) F₃ F₄. _dosen_ F₁ F₂. _dosen lines_ Qq. _or sixteen_] om. Q (1676). [967] _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff. [968] [Exit First Player.] Exit Player. Reed. om Qq Ff. [To Ros. and Guild. Johnson. [969] [Exeunt Players. Collier MS. See note (II). [970] _Good my_] _Good, my_ Capell. [971] SCENE VIII. Pope. _God be wi' ye_] _God b' w' ye_ F₄. _God buy 'ye_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _God buy to you_ Qq. _Good b' w' ye_ Rowe. _God be wi' you_ Capell. [Exeunt....] Edd. (Globe ed.) Exeunt. Q₂ Q₃ Ff (after line 522). Exit. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ (after line 522). _I am_] _am I_ Q₆. [972] _fiction_] F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _fixion_ The rest. [973] _own_] Qq. _whole_ Ff. [974] _his visage_] Ff. _the visage_ Qq. _wann'd_] _wand_ Qq. _warm'd_ Ff. [975] _in's_] F₁ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _ins_ F₂. _in his_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [976] _and_] _an_ Q₂ Q₃. [977] _conceit?_] Ff. _conceit;_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _conceit,_ Q₆. _nothing!_] _nothing?_ Ff. _nothing,_ Qq. [978] _For Hecuba!_] om. Seymour conj. _Hecuba!_] _Hecuba?_ Ff Q₆. _Hecuba._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [979] _to Hecuba_] (Q₁) Ff. _to her_ Qq. [980] _the cue for_] Ff. _that for_ Qq. _that cue for_ Anon. conj. [981] _appal_] _appall_ Rowe. _appale_ Q₂ Q₃. _appeale_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _apale_ Ff. [982] _The ... Yet I,_] Arranged as in Johnson. One line in Qq Ff. [983] _faculties_] Qq. _faculty_ Ff. _eyes and ears_] _ears and eyes_ Johnson. [984] _Yet I, A dull and_] _Yet I, a_ Seymour conj. [985] _Yet I, A dull ... can say_] _Yet I say_ Pope, giving the omitted words in the margin. [986] _muddy-mettled_] Hyphened in Ff. [987] _John-a-dreams_] _John a-deames_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _John-a-droynes_ Becket, after Steevens, conj. [988] _coward?... this?_] Pointed as in Ff, and Q₆ substantially. Stops in Qq. Commas in Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [989] _Ha!_] As a separate line by Steevens (1793). It begins line 552 in Qq Ff (_Hah,_ Q₂ Q₃. _Hah!_ Q₄ Q₅. _Hah?_ Q₆. _Ha?_ Ff), and ends line 550 in Collier. Omitted by Pope. [990] _'Swounds ... it:_] Qq (_it,_ Q₆). _Why I ... it:_ F₁ F₂. _Why should I take it?_ F₃ F₄. _Yet I should take it--_ Pope. [991] _oppression_] _transgression_ Collier MS. _aggression_ Singer conj. (withdrawn). [992] _have_] _a_ (Q₁) Q₂ Q₃. [993] _offal: bloody,_] _offall: bloudy,_ Q₆. _offall, bloody,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _offall, bloudy: a_ Ff (_bloody:_ F₃ F₄). [994] _Remorseless ... villain!_] Omitted by Jennens. [995] _O, vengeance!_] Omitted in Qq. [996] _Why,_] _Why_ Qq. _Who?_ Ff. om. Knight. _This_] Qq. _I sure, this_ Ff. [997] _a dear father murder'd_] _a dear father murther'd_ Capell. _a deere murthered_ Q₂ Q₃. _a deere father murthered_ Q₄ Q₅. _a deare father murthered_ Q₆. _the deere murthered_ Ff (_dear_ F₃ F₄). [998] _And fall ... play_] Arranged as in Capell. Three lines, ending _foh ... heard ... play,_ in Qq. Three lines, ending _drab, ... braine ... play,_ in Ff. Four lines, ending _drab, ... foh!... heard, ... play,_ in Johnson. [999] _drab, A scullion_] Ff. _drabbe; a stallyon_ Q₂ Q₃. _drabbe; a stallion_ Q₄. _drabbe; stallion_ Q₅. _drabbe, stallion_ Q₆. _drab--A stallion_ Pope. _drab--A cullion_ Theobald. [1000] _About, my brain!_] _About my braine,_ (Q₁). _About my braine._ Ff (_brain._ F₃ F₄). _About my braines;_ Q₂ Q₃. _About my braines,_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _about my brain--_ Pope (ed. 1). _about my brain!--_ Pope (ed. 2). _about, my brain!--_ Theobald. _about 't my brains!_ Hunter conj. See note (XV). _Hum_] Qq. om. Ff. _I have_] _I've_ Pope. [1001] _sitting_] om. Pope. [1002] _struck so to_] F₃ F₄. _strooke so to_ Qq F₁ F₂. _struck unto_ Rowe (ed. 2). [1003] _I'll have these players_] _I'll observe his looks,_ Pope (ed. 1), corrected in ed. 2. [1004] _tent_] Qq F₁. _rent_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _he but_] Ff. _a doe_ Qq. _he do_ Q (1676) and Capell. _blench_] _blink_ Taylor conj. MS. _bleach_ Anon. conj. [1005] _The_] _This_ Johnson. [1006] _be the devil_] F₃ F₄. _be the divell_ (Q₁) F₁ F₂. _be a deale_ Q₂ Q₃. _be a divell_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _and the devil_] _and the deale_ Q₂ Q₃. ACT III. SCENE I. _A room in the castle._ _Enter_ KING, QUEEN, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[1007] _King._ And can you, by no drift of circumstance,[1008] Get from him why he puts on this confusion,[1009] Grating so harshly all his days of quiet With turbulent and dangerous lunacy? _Ros._ He does confess he feels himself distracted, 5 But from what cause he will by no means speak.[1010] _Guil._ Nor do we find him forward to be sounded;[1011] But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,[1011] When we would bring him on to some confession[1011] Of his true state.[1011] _Queen._ Did he receive you well?[1011][1012] 10 _Ros._ Most like a gentleman. _Guil._ But with much forcing of his disposition. _Ros._ Niggard of question, but of our demands[1013] Most free in his reply.[1013] _Queen._ Did you assay him[1014][1015] To any pastime?[1014][1016] 15 _Ros._ Madam, it so fell out that certain players[1017] We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him,[1018] And there did seem in him a kind of joy To hear of it: they are about the court,[1019] And, as I think, they have already order 20 This night to play before him. _Pol._ 'Tis most true: And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties To hear and see the matter. _King._ With all my heart; and it doth much content me[1020] To hear him so inclined.[1020] 25 Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,[1020] And drive his purpose on to these delights.[1020][1021] _Ros._ We shall, my lord. [_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._ _King._ Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;[1022] For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,[1023] That he, as 'twere by accident, may here[1024][1025] 30 Affront Ophelia:[1024][1026] Her father and myself, lawful espials,[1026][1027] Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen,[1028] We may of their encounter frankly judge,[1029] And gather by him, as he is behaved, 35 If't be the affliction of his love or no[1030] That thus he suffers for. _Queen._ I shall obey you: And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish[1031] That your good beauties be the happy cause[1032] Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues[1032][1033] 40 Will bring him to his wonted way again,[1034] To both your honours. _Oph._ Madam, I wish it may. [_Exit Queen._ _Pol._ Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you,[1035] We will bestow ourselves. [_To Ophelia_] Read on this book;[1036] That show of such an exercise may colour 45 Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,--[1037] 'Tis too much proved--that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er[1038] The devil himself. _King._ [_Aside_] O, 'tis too true![1039] How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! 50 The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word: O heavy burthen! _Pol._ I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord.[1040] 55 [_Exeunt King and Polonius._ _Enter_ HAMLET.[1041] _Ham._ To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,[1042] Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,[1043] And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;[1044][1045] 60 No more; and by a sleep to say we end[1045][1046] The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation[1047] Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;[1048] To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; 65 For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,[1049] Must give us pause: there's the respect[1050] That makes calamity of so long life;[1050] For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,[1051] 70 The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,[1052] The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,[1053] The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make[1054] 75 With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,[1055] To grunt and sweat under a weary life,[1056] But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn[1057] No traveller returns, puzzles the will,[1058] 80 And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,[1059] And thus the native hue of resolution[1060] Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,[1061] 85 And enterprises of great pitch and moment[1062] With this regard their currents turn awry[1063] And lose the name of action. Soft you now![1064] The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons[1065] Be all my sins remember'd. _Oph._ Good my lord,[1066] 90 How does your honour for this many a day? _Ham._ I humbly thank you: well, well, well.[1067] _Oph._ My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longed long to re-deliver;[1068] I pray you, now receive them. _Ham._ No, not I;[1069][1070] 95 I never gave you aught.[1070] _Oph._ My honour'd lord, you know right well you did;[1071] And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich: their perfume lost,[1072] Take these again; for to the noble mind 100 Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord. _Ham._ Ha, ha! are you honest? _Oph._ My lord?[1073] _Ham._ Are you fair? 105 _Oph._ What means your lordship? _Ham._ That if you be honest and fair, your honesty[1074][1075] should admit no discourse to your beauty.[1075] _Oph._ Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce[1076] than with honesty?[1077] 110 _Ham._ Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was[1078] sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I[1079] did love you once. 115 _Oph._ Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. _Ham._ You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it:[1080] I loved you not.[1081] _Oph._ I was the more deceived. 120 _Ham._ Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a[1082] breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have[1083] 125 thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,[1084] or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth? We are arrant knaves[1085] all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.[1086] Where's your father? 130 _Oph._ At home, my lord. _Ham._ Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may[1087] play the fool no where but in's own house. Farewell.[1087][1088] _Oph._ O, help him, you sweet heavens! _Ham._ If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for[1089] 135 thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell.[1090] Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go; and quickly too. Farewell.[1091] 140 _Oph._ O heavenly powers, restore him![1092] _Ham._ I have heard of your paintings too, well enough;[1093] God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves[1094] another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name[1095] God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.[1096][1097] 145 Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.[1097][1098] I say, we will have no more marriages: those that are married[1099] already, all but one, shall live; the rest shall keep as[1100] they are. To a nunnery, go. [_Exit._[1101] _Oph._ O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown![1102] 150 The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword:[1103] The expectancy and rose of the fair state,[1104] The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,[1105] 155 That suck'd the honey of his music vows,[1106] Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,[1107] Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;[1108] That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth[1109] Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me, 160 To have seen what I have seen, see what I see![1110] _Re-enter_ KING _and_ POLONIUS. _King._ Love! his affections do not that way tend;[1111] Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little,[1112] Was not like madness. There's something in his soul[1113] O'er which his melancholy sits on brood, 165 And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose Will be some danger: which for to prevent,[1114] I have in quick determination Thus set it down:--he shall with speed to England,[1115] For the demand of our neglected tribute: 170 Haply the seas and countries different With variable objects shall expel This something-settled matter in his heart,[1116] Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus[1117][1118] From fashion of himself. What think you on 't?[1117] 175 _Pol._ It shall do well: but yet do I believe[1119][1120] The origin and commencement of his grief[1119][1121] Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia![1122] You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said; We heard it all. My lord, do as you please;[1123] 180 But, if you hold it fit, after the play, Let his queen mother all alone entreat him To show his grief: let her be round with him;[1124] And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear[1125] Of all their conference. If she find him not, 185 To England send him, or confine him where Your wisdom best shall think. _King._ It shall be so: Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. [_Exeunt._[1126] SCENE II. _A hall in the castle._ _Enter_ HAMLET _and_ Players.[1127] _Ham._ Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced[1128] it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as[1129] many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke[1130] my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your[1131] hand, thus; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, 5 and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you[1132] must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious[1133] periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very[1134] rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most[1135] 10 part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing[1136] Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. _First Play._ I warrant your honour.[1137] _Ham._ Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion 15 be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word[1138] to the action; with this special observance, that you o'er-step[1139] not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone[1140] is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first[1141] and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to 20 nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own[1142] image, and the very age and body of the time his form and[1143] pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though[1144][1145] it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious[1145] grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance[1146] 25 o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be[1147] players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and[1148] that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having[1149] the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan,[1150] nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought[1150][1151] 30 some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made[1152] them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. _First Play._ I hope we have reformed that indifferently[1137] with us, sir.[1153] _Ham._ O, reform it altogether. And let those that play 35 your clowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some[1154] quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the[1155] mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition 40 in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready. [_Exeunt Players._ _Enter_ POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[1156] How now, my lord! will the king hear this piece of work?[1157] _Pol._ And the queen too, and that presently.[1158] _Ham._ Bid the players make haste. [_Exit Polonius._[1159] Will you two help to hasten them? 45 _Ros. Guil._ We will, my lord. [_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._[1160] _Ham._ What ho! Horatio! _Enter_ HORATIO.[1161] _Hor._ Here, sweet lord, at your service.[1162] _Ham._ Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal.[1163] 50 _Hor._ O, my dear lord,--[1164] _Ham._ Nay, do not think I flatter; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits,[1165] To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?[1166] No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,[1167] 55 And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee[1168] Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?[1169] Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,[1170] And could of men distinguish, her election[1171] Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been[1171] 60 As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing; A man that fortune's buffets and rewards[1172] Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those[1173] Whose blood and judgement are so well commingled[1174] That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger 65 To sound what stop she please. Give me that man[1175] That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,[1176] As I do thee. Something too much of this. There is a play to-night before the king; 70 One scene of it comes near the circumstance Which I have told thee of my father's death:[1177] I prithee, when thou seest that act a-foot,[1178] Even with the very comment of thy soul[1179] Observe my uncle: if his occulted guilt[1180] 75 Do not itself unkennel in one speech,[1181] It is a damned ghost that we have seen, And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note;[1182] For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,[1183] 80 And after we will both our judgements join[1184] In censure of his seeming.[1185] _Hor._ Well, my lord: If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,[1186] And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft.[1187] _Ham._ They are coming to the play: I must be idle:[1188] 85 Get you a place. _Danish march. A flourish. Enter_ KING, QUEEN, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, _and other Lords attendant, with the Guard carrying torches_.[1189] _King._ How fares our cousin Hamlet?[1190] _Ham._ Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat[1191][1192] the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.[1191] _King._ I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these[1191] 90 words are not mine.[1191] _Ham._ No, nor mine now. [_To Polonius_] My lord, you[1191][1193] played once i' the university, you say?[1191][1194] _Pol._ That did I, my lord, and was accounted a good[1195] actor. 95 _Ham._ What did you enact?[1196] _Pol._ I did enact Julius Cæsar: I was killed i' the Capitol;[1197] Brutus killed me. _Ham._ It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there. Be the players ready? 100 _Ros._ Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience.[1198] _Queen._ Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.[1199] _Ham._ No, good mother, here's metal more attractive.[1200] _Pol._ [_To the King_] O, ho! do you mark that?[1201] _Ham._ Lady, shall I lie in your lap?[1202] 105 [_Lying down at Ophelia's feet._ _Oph._ No, my lord. _Ham._ I mean, my head upon your lap?[1203][1204] _Oph._ Ay, my lord.[1203] _Ham._ Do you think I meant country matters?[1205] _Oph._ I think nothing, my lord. 110 _Ham._ That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.[1206] _Oph._ What is, my lord? _Ham._ Nothing. _Oph._ You are merry, my lord.[1207] _Ham._ Who, I? 115 _Oph._ Ay, my lord. _Ham._ O God, your only jig-maker. What should a[1208] man do but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within 's two hours.[1209] _Oph._ Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.[1210] 120 _Ham._ So long? Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for[1211][1212] I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two months ago,[1212][1213] and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year: but, by'r lady, he[1214][1215] must build churches then; or else shall he suffer not thinking[1215] 125 on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is, 'For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot.'[1216] _Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters._ _Enter a_ King _and a_ Queen _very lovingly; the Queen embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the_ King's _ears, and exit. The_ Queen _returns; finds the_ King _dead, and makes passionate action. The_ Poisoner, _with some two or three_ Mutes, _comes in again, seeming to lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The_ Poisoner _wooes the_ Queen _with gifts: she seems loath and unwilling awhile, but in the end accepts his love_.[1217] [_Exeunt._ _Oph._ What means this, my lord?[1218] _Ham._ Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief. 130 _Oph._ Belike this show imports the argument of the play. _Enter_ Prologue.[1219] _Ham._ We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot[1220] keep counsel; they'll tell all.[1221] _Oph._ Will he tell us what this show meant?[1222] _Ham._ Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you[1223] 135 ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means. _Oph._ You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the[1224] play. _Pro._ For us, and for our tragedy, Here stooping to your clemency, 140 We beg your hearing patiently. _Ham._ Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?[1225] _Oph._ 'Tis brief, my lord. _Ham._ As woman's love. _Enter two_ Players, King _and_ Queen.[1226] _P. King._ Full thirty times hath Phœbus' cart gone round[1227][1228][1229] 145 Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground,[1228][1230] And thirty dozen moons with borrowed sheen[1231] About the world have times twelve thirties been,[1232] Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands Unite commutual in most sacred bands.[1233] 150 _P. Queen._ So many journeys may the sun and moon[1234] Make us again count o'er ere love be done! But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, So far from cheer and from your former state,[1235] That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust, 155 Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:[1236] For women's fear and love holds quantity,[1236][1237] In neither aught, or in extremity.[1238] Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know,[1239] And as my love is sized, my fear is so:[1240] 160 Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear,[1241][1242] Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.[1241] _P. King._ Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too; My operant powers their functions leave to do:[1243] And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,[1244] 165 Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind[1245] For husband shalt thou--[1246] _P. Queen._ O, confound the rest! Such love must needs be treason in my breast: In second husband let me be accurst! None wed the second but who kill'd the first.[1247] 170 _Ham._ [_Aside_] Wormwood, wormwood.[1248] _P. Queen._ The instances that second marriage move[1249] Are base respects of thrift, but none of love:[1250] A second time I kill my husband dead,[1251] When second husband kisses me in bed. 175 _P. King._ I do believe you think what now you speak,[1252] But what we do determine oft we break. Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth but poor validity:[1253] Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,[1254] 180 But fall unshaken when they mellow be. Most necessary 'tis that we forget To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt: What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. 185 The violence of either grief or joy[1255] Their own enactures with themselves destroy:[1256] Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.[1257] This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange[1258] 190 That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune or else fortune love.[1259] The great man down, you mark his favourite flies;[1260] The poor advanced makes friends of enemies: 195 And hitherto doth love on fortune tend;[1261] For who not needs shall never lack a friend,[1262] And who in want a hollow friend doth try Directly seasons him his enemy.[1263] But, orderly to end where I begun, 200 Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown, Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own: So think thou wilt no second husband wed,[1264] But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.[1265] 205 _P. Queen._ Nor earth to me give food nor heaven light![1266] Sport and repose lock from me day and night! To desperation turn my trust and hope![1267] An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope![1267][1268] Each opposite, that blanks the face of joy, 210 Meet what I would have well and it destroy! Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, If, once a widow, ever I be wife![1269] _Ham._ If she should break it now![1270] _P. King._ 'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile;[1271] 215 My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile The tedious day with sleep. [_Sleeps._[1272] _P. Queen._ Sleep rock thy brain; And never come mischance between us twain! [_Exit._[1273] _Ham._ Madam, how like you this play?[1274] _Queen._ The lady doth protest too much, methinks.[1275] 220 _Ham._ O, but she'll keep her word. _King._ Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in't? _Ham._ No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence i' the world.[1276] 225 _King._ What do you call the play? _Ham._ The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically.[1277] This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago[1278] is the duke's name; his wife, Baptista: you shall see[1279] anon; 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o' that? your[1280] 230 majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not: let[1281] the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.[1282] _Enter_ LUCIANUS.[1283] This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king.[1284] _Oph._ You are as good as a chorus, my lord.[1285] _Ham._ I could interpret between you and your love, if 235 I could see the puppets dallying. _Oph._ You are keen, my lord, you are keen. _Ham._ It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.[1286] _Oph._ Still better, and worse.[1287] _Ham._ So you must take your husbands. Begin, murderer;[1288][1289] 240 pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come:[1289][1290] the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.[1291] _Luc._ Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing;[1292] Confederate season, else no creature seeing;[1293] Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, 245 With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,[1294] Thy natural magic and dire property,[1295] On wholesome life usurp immediately. [_Pours the poison into the sleeper's ear._[1296] _Ham._ He poisons him i' the garden for his estate. His[1297] name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and written in very[1298] 250 choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago's wife. _Oph._ The king rises. _Ham._ What, frighted with false fire![1299] _Queen._ How fares my lord? 255 _Pol._ Give o'er the play. _King._ Give me some light. Away! _Pol._ Lights, lights, lights! [_Exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio._[1300] _Ham._ Why, let the stricken deer go weep,[1301] The hart ungalled play;[1302] 260 For some must watch, while some must sleep:[1303] Thus runs the world away.[1304] Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers--if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me--with two Provincial roses[1305] on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players,[1306] 265 sir?[1307] _Hor._ Half a share. _Ham._ A whole one, I.[1308] For thou dost know, O Damon dear, This realm dismantled was[1309] 270 Of Jove himself; and now reigns here[1309] A very, very--pajock.[1310] _Hor._ You might have rhymed. _Ham._ O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound. Didst perceive?[1311] 275 _Hor._ Very well, my lord. _Ham._ Upon the talk of the poisoning?[1312] _Hor._ I did very well note him.[1313] _Ham._ Ah, ha! Come, some music! come, the recorders! 280 For if the king like not the comedy,[1314] Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy. Come, some music! _Re-enter_ ROSENCRANTZ _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[1315] _Guil._ Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.[1316] _Ham._ Sir, a whole history. 285 _Guil._ The king, sir,--[1317] _Ham._ Ay, sir, what of him?[1318] _Guil._ Is in his retirement marvellous distempered. _Ham._ With drink, sir? _Guil._ No, my lord, rather with choler.[1319] 290 _Ham._ Your wisdom should show itself more richer to[1320] signify this to the doctor; for, for me to put him to his purgation[1321] would perhaps plunge him into far more choler.[1322] _Guil._ Good my lord, put your discourse into some[1323] frame, and start not so wildly from my affair.[1323][1324] 295 _Ham._ I am tame, sir: pronounce. _Guil._ The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of spirit, hath sent me to you. _Ham._ You are welcome.[1325] _Guil._ Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the 300 right breed. If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer, I will do your mother's commandment: if not, your pardon and my return shall be the end of my business.[1326] _Ham._ Sir, I cannot. _Guil._ What, my lord?[1327] 305 _Ham._ Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased:[1328] but, sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command;[1329] or rather, as you say, my mother: therefore no[1330] more, but to the matter: my mother, you say,--[1331] _Ros._ Then thus she says; your behaviour hath struck[1332] 310 her into amazement and admiration. _Ham._ O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother![1333] But is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's admiration?[1334] Impart.[1335] _Ros._ She desires to speak with you in her closet, ere 315 you go to bed. _Ham._ We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have you any further trade with us? _Ros._ My lord, you once did love me. _Ham._ So I do still, by these pickers and stealers.[1336] 320 _Ros._ Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you[1337] deny your griefs to your friend. _Ham._ Sir, I lack advancement. _Ros._ How can that be, when you have the voice of the 325 king himself for your succession in Denmark? _Ham._ Ay, sir, but 'while the grass grows,'--the proverb[1338] is something musty. _Re-enter_ Players _with recorders_.[1339] O, the recorders! let me see one. To withdraw with you:--[1340] why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you 330 would drive me into a toil? _Guil._ O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is[1341] too unmannerly.[1341] _Ham._ I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe? 335 _Guil._ My lord, I cannot.[1342] _Ham._ I pray you. _Guil._ Believe me, I cannot. _Ham._ I do beseech you.[1343] _Guil._ I know no touch of it, my lord.[1344] 340 _Ham._ It is as easy as lying: govern these ventages[1345] with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your[1346] mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look[1347] you, these are the stops. _Guil._ But these cannot I command to any utterance 345 of harmony; I have not the skill. _Ham._ Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem[1348] to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the[1349] 350 top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent[1349] voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak.[1350] 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a[1351] pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can[1352] fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.[1352][1353] 355 _Enter_ POLONIUS.[1354] God bless you, sir![1355] _Pol._ My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. _Ham._ Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape[1356][1357] of a camel?[1357][1358][1359] 360 _Pol._ By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.[1360][1359] _Ham._ Methinks it is like a weasel.[1361] _Pol._ It is backed like a weasel.[1361][1362] _Ham._ Or like a whale?[1363] _Pol._ Very like a whale. 365 _Ham._ Then I will come to my mother by and by.[1364] They fool me to the top of my bent. I will come by and[1365][1366] by.[1366] _Pol._ I will say so. [_Exit Polonius._[1366][1367] _Ham._ 'By and by' is easily said. Leave me, friends.[1366] 370 [_Exeunt all but Hamlet._[1368] 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out[1369] Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,[1370] And do such bitter business as the day[1371] Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother.[1372] 375 O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever[1373] The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: Let me be cruel, not unnatural:[1374] I will speak daggers to her, but use none;[1375] My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites; 380 How in my words soever she be shent,[1376][1377] To give them seals never, my soul, consent! [_Exit._[1376][1378] SCENE III. _A room in the castle._ _Enter_ KING, ROSENCRANTZ, _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[1379] _King._ I like him not, nor stands it safe with us To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;[1380] I your commission will forthwith dispatch, And he to England shall along with you: The terms of our estate may not endure[1381] 5 Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow[1382] Out of his lunacies. _Guil._ We will ourselves provide:[1383] Most holy and religious fear it is To keep those many many bodies safe[1384][1385] That live and feed upon your majesty.[1384] 10 _Ros._ The single and peculiar life is bound[1386] With all the strength and armour of the mind To keep itself from noyance; but much more[1387] That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests[1388] The lives of many. The cease of majesty[1389] 15 Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,[1390] Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,[1391] To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things[1392] Are mortised and adjoin'd; which, when it falls,[1393] 20 Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone[1394] Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.[1395] _King._ Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage,[1396] For we will fetters put about this fear,[1397] 25 Which now goes too free-footed. _Ros._ } We will haste us. _Guil._} [_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._[1398] _Enter_ POLONIUS. _Pol._ My lord, he's going to his mother's closet: Behind the arras I'll convey myself, To hear the process; I'll warrant she'll tax him home:[1399] And, as you said, and wisely was it said, 30 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege:[1400] I'll call upon you ere you go to bed, And tell you what I know. _King._ Thanks, dear my lord.[1401] 35 [_Exit Polonius._ O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,[1402] A brother's murder. Pray can I not,[1403][1404] Though inclination be as sharp as will:[1404][1405] My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,[1406] 40 And like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand[1407] Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 45 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer but this twofold force, To be forestalled ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up;[1408] 50 My fault is past. But O, what form of prayer[1409] Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?'[1410] That cannot be, since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder,[1411] My crown, mine own ambition and my queen. 55 May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?[1412] In the corrupted currents of this world[1413] Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,[1414] And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself[1415] Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; 60 There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd[1416] Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence. What then? what rests? Try what repentance can: what can it not? 65 Yet what can it when one can not repent?[1417] O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged! Help, angels! make assay![1418] Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,[1419] 70 Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe! All may be well. [_Retires and kneels._[1420] _Enter_ HAMLET. _Ham._ Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;[1421] And now I'll do't: and so he goes to heaven:[1422] And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:[1423] 75 A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send[1424] To heaven.[1425] O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.[1426] He took my father grossly, full of bread,[1427] 80 With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;[1428] And how his audit stands who knows save heaven? But in our circumstance and course of thought, 'Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged,[1429] To take him in the purging of his soul, 85 When he is fit and season'd for his passage?[1430] No.[1431] Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent:[1432] When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,[1433] Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;[1434] 90 At game, a-swearing, or about some act[1435] That has no relish of salvation in 't; Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven[1436] And that his soul may be as damn'd and black As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays: 95 This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. [_Exit._ _King._ [_Rising_] My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:[1437] Words without thoughts never to heaven go. [_Exit._ SCENE IV. _The Queen's closet._ _Enter_ QUEEN _and_ POLONIUS.[1438] _Pol._ He will come straight. Look you lay home to him:[1439] Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,[1440] And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between[1441] Much heat and him. I'll sconce me even here.[1442] Pray you, be round with him. _Ham._ [_Within_] Mother, mother, mother![1443] 5 _Queen._ I'll warrant you; fear me not. Withdraw, I[1444][1445][1446] hear him coming.[1445] [_Polonius hides behind the arras._ _Enter_ HAMLET.[1447] _Ham._ Now, mother, what's the matter? _Queen._ Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. _Ham._ Mother, you have my father much offended. 10 _Queen._ Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. _Ham._ Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.[1448] _Queen._ Why, how now, Hamlet! _Ham._ What's the matter now?[1449] _Queen._ Have you forgot me? _Ham._ No, by the rood, not so: You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife; 15 And--would it were not so!--you are my mother.[1450] _Queen._ Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak.[1451] _Ham._ Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;[1452] You go not till I set you up a glass[1453][1454] Where you may see the inmost part of you.[1454][1455] 20 _Queen._ What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho![1456][1457] _Pol._ [_Behind_] What, ho! help, help, help![1457][1458] _Ham._ [_Drawing_] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead![1457] [_Makes a pass through the arras._[1459] _Pol._ [_Behind_] O, I am slain! [_Falls and dies._ _Queen._ O me, what hast thou done?[1460] 25 _Ham._ Nay, I know not: is it the king?[1461] _Queen._ O, what a rash and bloody deed is this![1462] _Ham._ A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king, and marry with his brother. _Queen._ As kill a king! _Ham._ Ay, lady, 'twas my word.[1463] 30 [_Lifts up the arras and discovers Polonius._ Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell![1464] I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune;[1465] Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger. Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down, And let me wring your heart: for so I shall, 35 If it be made of penetrable stuff; If damned custom have not brass'd it so,[1466] That it be proof and bulwark against sense.[1467] _Queen._ What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue In noise so rude against me? _Ham._ Such an act 40 That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose[1468] From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows[1469] As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed 45 As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul, and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow;[1470][1471] Yea, this solidity and compound mass,[1471][1472] With tristful visage, as against the doom,[1473] Is thought-sick at the act. 50 _Queen._ Ay me, what act,[1474][1475] That roars so loud and thunders in the index?[1475] _Ham._ Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow;[1476] 55 Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;[1477] A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;[1478] A combination and a form indeed,[1479] 60 Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband. Look you now, what follows: Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear,[1480] Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?[1481] 65 Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?[1482] You cannot call it love, for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,[1483] And waits upon the judgement: and what judgement 70 Would step from this to this? Sense sure you have,[1484][1485] Else could you not have motion: but sure that sense[1485][1486] Is apoplex'd: for madness would not err,[1485] Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd[1485] But it reserved some quantity of choice,[1485] 75 To serve in such a difference. What devil was't[1485] That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?[1487] Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,[1488] Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,[1488] Or but a sickly part of one true sense[1488] 80 Could not so mope.[1488][1489] O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,[1489][1490] If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,[1491] To flaming youth let virtue be as wax And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame 85 When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,[1492] Since frost itself as actively doth burn, And reason panders will.[1493] _Queen._ O Hamlet, speak no more: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul,[1494] And there I see such black and grained spots[1495] 90 As will not leave their tinct.[1496] _Ham._ Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,[1497] Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty,-- _Queen._ O, speak to me no more;[1498] These words like daggers enter in my ears;[1499] 95 No more, sweet Hamlet! _Ham._ A murderer and a villain; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe[1500] Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,[1501] That from a shelf the precious diadem stole 100 And put it in his pocket! _Queen._ No more![1502] _Ham._ A king of shreds and patches-- _Enter_ Ghost.[1503] Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings,[1504] You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure?[1505] _Queen._ Alas, he's mad![1506] 105 _Ham._ Do you not come your tardy son to chide, That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by[1507] The important acting of your dread command? O, say![1508] _Ghost._ Do not forget: this visitation 110 Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose. But look, amazement on thy mother sits: O, step between her and her fighting soul:[1509] Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works: Speak to her, Hamlet. _Ham._ How is it with you, lady? 115 _Queen._ Alas, how is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy[1510] And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?[1511] Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep; And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm, 120 Your bedded hairs, like life in excrements,[1512] Start up and stand an end. O gentle son,[1513] Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look? _Ham._ On him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares![1514] 125 His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones,[1515] Would make them capable. Do not look upon me,[1516] Lest with this piteous action you convert My stern effects: then what I have to do[1517] Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood. 130 _Queen._ To whom do you speak this? _Ham._ Do you see nothing there?[1518] _Queen._ Nothing at all; yet all that is I see.[1519] _Ham._ Nor did you nothing hear? _Queen._ No, nothing but ourselves. _Ham._ Why, look you there! look, how it steals away![1520] My father, in his habit as he lived![1521] 135 Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal![1522] [_Exit Ghost._ _Queen._ This is the very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstasy[1523] Is very cunning in.[1523] _Ham._ Ecstasy![1524] My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, 140 And makes as healthful music: it is not madness That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,[1525] And I the matter will re-word, which madness[1526] Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,[1527] Lay not that flattering unction to your soul,[1528] 145 That not your trespass but my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within,[1529] Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,[1530] 150 And do not spread the compost on the weeds,[1531] To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue,[1532][1533][1534] For in the fatness of these pursy times[1533][1535] Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,[1533] Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.[1533][1536] 155 _Queen._ O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.[1537] _Ham._ O, throw away the worser part of it,[1538] And live the purer with the other half.[1539] Good night: but go not to my uncle's bed;[1540] Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 160 That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,[1541][1542] Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,[1541][1542] That to the use of actions fair and good[1541] He likewise gives a frock or livery,[1541] That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night,[1541][1543] 165 And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy;[1544] For use almost can change the stamp of nature,[1544][1545] And either ... the devil, or throw him out[1544][1546] With wondrous potency. Once more, good night:[1544] 170 And when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord, [_Pointing to Polonius._[1547] I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so,[1548] To punish me with this, and this with me,[1549] That I must be their scourge and minister. 175 I will bestow him, and will answer well The death I gave him. So, again, good night. I must be cruel, only to be kind:[1550] Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.[1550][1551] One word more, good lady.[1552] _Queen._ What shall I do? 180 _Ham._ Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed;[1553] Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse; And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, 185 Make you to ravel all this matter out,[1554] That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know; For who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise, Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,[1555] 190 Such dear concernings hide? who would do so?[1556] No, in despite of sense and secrecy, Unpeg the basket on the house's top, Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep[1557] 195 And break your own neck down. _Queen._ Be thou assured, if words be made of breath And breath of life, I have no life to breathe[1558] What thou hast said to me. _Ham._ I must to England; you know that? _Queen._ Alack,[1559][1560] 200 I had forgot: 'tis so concluded on.[1560][1561] _Ham._ There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,[1562] Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,[1562] They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way,[1562] And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;[1562][1563] 205 For 'tis the sport to have the enginer[1562][1564] Hoist with his own petar: and't shall go hard[1562][1565] But I will delve one yard below their mines,[1562] And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet[1562] When in one line two crafts directly meet.[1562][1566] 210 This man shall set me packing:[1567] I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room. Mother, good night. Indeed this counsellor[1568] Is now most still, most secret and most grave, Who was in life a foolish prating knave.[1569] 215 Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you. Good night, mother. [_Exeunt severally; Hamlet dragging in Polonius._[1570] FOOTNOTES: [1007] ACT III. SCENE I.] Q (1676) and Rowe. Omitted in Ff. A room in the castle] Malone. The Palace. Rowe. Another room in the same. Capell. Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.] Capell. Rosencraus, Guyldensterne, Lords. Qq. Rosincrance, Guildenstern, and Lords. F₁. Rosincros, Guildenstar, and Lords. F₂ F₃ F₄ (Guildenstare, F₄). [1008] _circumstance_] Ff. _conference_ Qq. [1009] _confusion_] _confesion_ Rowe (ed. 2). _confession_ Pope (in margin). [1010] _he will_] _a will_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1011] _Nor ... state._] Continued to Ros. by Jennens. [1012] _state_] _estate_ Q₆. [1013] _Niggard of ... of our ... Most free_] _Unapt to ... of our ... Most free_ Q (1676). _Most free of ... to our ... Niggard_ Hanmer. _Most free of ... of our ... Niggard_ Warburton. _Niggard of ... to our ... Most free_ Collier MS. [1014] _Did ... pastime?_] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff. [1015] _assay_] _invite_ Q (1676). [1016] _To_] _unto_ Hanmer. [1017] _so_] om. Johnson. [1018] _o'er-raught_] _ore-raught_ Qq. _ore-wrought_ F₁ F₂. _o're-took_ F₃ F₄. _o'er-rode_ Warburton. [1019] _about_] Ff. _heere about_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _here about_ Q₆. [1020] _With ... delights._] Arranged as by Pope. Five lines ending _hart, ... me, ... inclin'd ... edge, ... delights,_ in Qq. Four lines, ending _me ... gentlemen, ... on ... delights,_ in Ff. [1021] _drive ... on to_] _drive ... on To_ Ff. _drive ... into_ Qq. _urge him to_ Q (1676). [1022] [Exeunt....] Exeunt Ros. & Guyl. Qq. Exeunt. Ff. _Gertrude_] Ff. _Gertrard_ Qq. _too_] Ff. _two_ Qq. [1023] _hither_] Ff Q₆. _hether_ The rest. [1024] _he_] _we_ Jennens. _here_] Q₆. _heere_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _there_ Ff. [1025] _here Affront Ophelia_] _meet Ophelia here_ Q (1676). [1026] _Affront ... espials,_] As in Johnson. One line in Ff. One line, ending _myself,_ in Qq. [1027] _lawful espials_] Omitted in Qq. [1028] _Will_] Ff. _Wee'le_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Wee'll_ Q₆.] _unseen_] _and unseen_ Q (1676). [1029] _frankly_] om. Q (1676). [1030] _no_] Qq. _no,_ F₄. _no._ F₁ F₂ F₃. [1031] _for your_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _for my_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1032] _beauties ... virtues_] _beauty ... virtue_ S. Walker conj. [1033] _shall_] om. Pope. [1034] _Will_] _May_ Pope. [Exit Queen.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff. [1035] _please you_] Qq. _please ye_ Ff. [1036] [To Ophelia.] To Oph. Johnson. [1037] _loneliness_] _lowlines_ Q₂ Q₃. _lowlinesse_ Q₄ Q₅. _to blame_] Q₆ F₃ F₄. _too blame_ The rest. [1038] _sugar_] Qq. _surge_ Ff. [1039] [Aside] First marked by Pope. _'tis too_] Qq. _'tis_ Ff. _it is but too_ Hanmer. [1040] Pol.] Erased in Collier MS. See note (II). _let's_] om. Qq. [Exeunt....] Capell. Exeunt. Ff. om. Qq. Exeunt all but Ophelia. Rowe. [1041] SCENE II. Pope. Enter Hamlet.] As in Ff. After _burthen,_ line 54, in Qq. Enter Hamlet, with a book in his hand. Hunter conj. He would transfer the soliloquy to II. 2. 169. [1042] _slings_] _sling_ Campbell. _stings_ Fleischer (S. Walker conj.) _slings and arrows_] _stings and harrows_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). _stings and horrors_ Anon. MS. [1043] _a sea of_] _a siege of_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _th' assay of_ or _a 'say of_ Theobald conj. _assailing_ Hanmer conj. _assail of_ Warburton. _assays of_ Keightley conj. _the seat of_ Bailey conj. _assay of_ Brae conj. [1044] _opposing_] _a poniard_ or _deposing_ Bailey conj. _them?_] Pope. _them,_ Q₂ Q₃. _them:_ Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆. om. S. Evans conj. [1045] _die: to sleep; No_] _die to sleepe No_ Qq (dye Q₆). _dye, to sleepe No_ F₁. _dye, to sleepe: No_ F₂. _dye, to sleep No_ F₃ F₄. _die,--to sleep--No_ Pope. [1046] _more;_] F₁ Q₆. _more,_ Q₂ Q₃. _more:_ Q₄ Q₅ F₂ F₃ F₄. _more?_ Capell. _say we end_] _straightway end_ Bailey conj. [1047] _to,_] _to;_ Qq. _too?_ F₁. _to?_ F₂ F₃. {to.} F₄. [1048] _wish'd. To_] Ff. _wisht to_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _wisht, to_ Q₆. [1049] _we have_] _he have_ F₂. _he hath_ F₃ F₄. _shuffled_] _shuffel'd_ F₁ F₂. _coil_] _spoil_ Mason conj. _vail_ or _clay_ Elze conj. [1050] _Must ... life;_] As three lines ending _pause ... calamity ... life;_ S. Walker conj. [1051] _whips ... time_] _quips ... time_ Grey conj. _whips ... th' time_ Warburton conj. _whips ... tyrants or quips ... title_ Johnson conj. _whips ... o' the times_ Steevens conj. _scorns of weapon'd time_ Becket conj. _scorns of whiphand time_ Id. conj. (withdrawn). [1052] _proud_] Q₅ Q₆. _proude_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _poore_ F₁ F₂. _poor_ F₃ F₄. [1053] _pangs_] _pang_ Pope. _despised love, the_] _despiz'd love, the_ Q₂ Q₃. _office, and the_ Q₄ Q₅. _dispriz'd love, the_ Ff. _despised love, and the_ Q₆. _mispriz'd love, the_ Collier MS. (erased). See note (II). [1054] _When he_] _When_ Q₄ Q₅. _When as_ Q₆. _quietus_] _quietas_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. [1055] _who would fardels_] _who'd these fardels_ Grant White (S. Walker conj.) _fardels_] Qq. _these fardles_ Ff. [1056] _grunt_] _groan_ Q (1676) and Pope. [1057] _The undiscover'd_] Qq. _The undiscovered_ Ff. _That undiscover'd_ Pope. _In the undiscover'd_ Keightley. _bourn_] Capell. _bourne_ Pope. _borne_ Qq F₁ F₂. _born_ F₃ F₄. [1058] _returns, puzzles_] _returnes. Puzels_ F₁. [1059] _of us all_] (Q₁) Ff. om. Qq. [1060] _hue_] F₃ F₄. _hiew_ Qq. _hew_ F₁ F₂. [1061] _sicklied_] Ff Q₆. _sickled_ The rest. [1062] _pitch_] Qq. _pith_ Ff. See note (XVI). [1063] _awry_] Qq. _away_ Ff. [1064] [Seeing Oph. Rowe. [1065] _Ophelia!_] _Ophelia?_ Ff. _Ophelia,_ Qq. _orisons_] Theobald. _orizons_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. _horizons_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _orizons?_ Q₆. _oraisons_ Rowe. [1066] _remember'd._] _remembred?_ Q₆. [1067] _you: well, well, well._] Ff. _you well._ Q₂ Q₃. _you: well._ Q₄ Q₅. _you, well._ Q₆. [1068] _long_] om. Q (1676). _much_ Pope. [1069] _No, not I_] Qq. _No, no_ Ff. _No_ Pope. [1070] _No ... aught._] Arranged as by Capell. One line in Qq Ff. [1071] _you know_] Qq. _I know_ Ff. [1072] _the things_] Ff. _these things_ Qq. _rich: their perfume lost,_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _rich, their perfume lost,_ Q₂ Q₃. _rich, then perfume left:_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _rich, than perfume left:_ F₄. _rich: that perfume lost,_ Rowe. [1073] _lord?_] Capell. _lord._ Qq Ff. _lord--_ Rowe. [1074] _your honesty_] Ff. _you_ Qq. [1075] _your honesty ... beauty._] _you should admit your honesty to no discourse with your beauty._ Johnson conj. [1076] _commerce_] Q₅ Q₆ F₄. _comerse_ Q₂ Q₃. _comerce_ Q₄ F₁ F₂ F₃. _converse_ Anon. conj. [1077] _with_] Qq. _your_ Ff. [1078] _into_] _in_ Q₅ _to_ Q₆. _his_] _its_ Pope. [1079] _sometime_] _sometimes_ F₃ F₄. [1080] _inoculate_] _innocculate_ F₁. _inocculate_ F₂ F₃. _inocualte_ F₄. _euocutat_ Q₂ Q₃. _euacuat_ Q₄. _euacuate_ Q₅. _evacuate_ Q₆. [1081] _I loved you not._] _I did love you once._ Rowe (ed. 2). [1082] _to_] Ff. om. Qq. [1083] _at my beck_] _on my back_ Long MS. _at my back_ Collier MS. [1084] _in, imagination to_] Qq. _in imagination, to_ Ff. _in name, imagination to_ Warburton. [1085] _heaven and earth_] (Q₁) Ff. _earth and heaven_ Qq. [1086] _all_] (Q₁) Ff. om. Qq. [1087] _Let ... house._] Prose in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _him,_ in Qq. [1088] _no where_] Qq. _no way_ Ff. [1089] _plague_] _plage_ Q₄. [1090] _go_] Ff. om. Qq. [1091] _too_] Ff Q₆. _to_ The rest. [1092] _O_] Ff. om. Qq. [1093] _paintings_] (Q₁) Qq. _pratlings_ F₁. _pratling_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _painting_ Pope. _too_] Ff. om. Qq. [1094] _God_] _Nature_ Q (1676). _hath_] Qq. _has_ Ff. _face_] (Q₁) Qq. _pace_ Ff. _yourselves_] _your selves_ Q₅ Q₆. _your selfes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _your selfe_ F₁ F₂. _your self_ F₃ F₄. [1095] _you jig_] _gig_ Q₆. _fig_ (Q₁). _jig_] Q (1676). _gig_ Qq. _gidge_ Ff. _you amble_] Ff. _and amble_ Qq. _lisp,_] Q (1676) F₄. _lispe,_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _list_ Qq. _and nick-name_] Ff. you _nickname_ Qq. [1096] _God's_] _Heavens_ Q (1676). [1097] _wantonness your ignorance_] _ignorance your wantonness_ Anon. conj. _your ignorance_] (Q₁) Ff. _ignorance_ Qq. [1098] _Go to_] Q₅. _Goe to_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Go too_ F₁ Q₆. _Goe_ F₂. _Go_ F₃ F₄. [1099] _no more marriages_] (Q₁) Ff. _no mo marriage_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _no moe marriages_ Q₆. [1100] _live_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄. [1101] [Exit.] Qq. Exit Hamlet. Ff. [1102] _o'erthrown_] _othrowne_ Q₄ Q₅. [1103] _soldier's, scholar's_] _scholar's, soldier's_ Hanmer and Staunton, from (Q₁). _scholar's,_] _schollers,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _scholers,_ Q₅. _scholars,_ Q₆. _scholiers:_ F₁. _schollers?_ F₂. _schollars?_ F₃. _scholars!_ F₄. om. Jennens. [1104] _expectancy_] F₃ F₄. _expectansie_ F₁ F₂. _expectation_ Qq. [1105] _And I_] Qq. _Have I_ F₁ F₂. _I am_ F₃ F₄. [1106] _music_] _musickt_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _vows,_] Pointed as by Hanmer. _vowes;_ Qq. _vowes:_ or _vows:_ Ff. [1107] _that noble_] Ff. _what noble_ Qq. [1108] _jangled, out of tune_] Capell. _jangled out of time,_ Qq. _jangled out of tune,_ Ff. [1109] _unmatch'd_] _unmarcht_ Q₅. _unsnatch'd_ Jennens. _form_] _forme_ Qq F₁. _fortune_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _feature_] Ff. _stature_ Qq. _statute_ Q (1695). [1110] _To have_] _T' have_ Qq Ff. _see!_] _see._ Exit. Qq and Elze. Re-enter....] Capell. Enter.... Qq Ff. [1111] SCENE III. Pope. _Love!_] Q₆. _Love,_ Q₂ Q₃. _Love:_ Q₄ Q₅. _Love?_ Ff. [1112] _Nor_] _For_ Q₆. [1113] _There's something_] _Something's_ Pope. _soul_] _soule?_ F₁. [1114] _for to_] Qq. _to_ F₁ F₂. _how to_ F₃ F₄. [1115] _it_] om. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1116] _something-settled_] Hyphened by Warburton. _sometime-settled_ Daniel conj. [1117] _Whereon ... on't?_] Arranged as in Ff. Three lines, ending _beating ... himselfe ... on't?_ in Qq. [1118] _brains_] F₃ F₄. _braines_ Qq F₁ F₂. _brain_ Collier MS. _brain's_ Grant White. [1119] _but ... grief_] Arranged as in Ff. One line in Q₂ Q₃. [1120] _do I_] _I doe_ Q₆. [1121] _his grief_] Q₂ Q₃. _it_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆, reading _But ... of it_ as one line. _this greefe_ Ff. [1122] [Enter Ophelia. Elze. [1123] [Exit Ophelia. Elze. [1124] _grief_] _griefe_ Qq. _greefes_ F₁. _griefes_ F₂. _griefs_ F₃ F₄. [1125] _placed, so please you_] _plac'd so, please you_ F₁ F₂. [1126] _unwatch'd_] Ff. _unmatcht_ Qq. [1127] SCENE II.] Capell. SCENE IV. Pope. om. Ff. A hall....] A Hall, in the same, fitted as for a Play. Capell. and Players.] and the Players. (Q₁). and three of the Players. Qq. and two or three of the Players. Ff. [1128] _pronounced_] _pronoun'd_ Q₂ Q₃. [1129] _trippingly on_] _smoothly from_ Q (1676). [1130] _your players_] (Q₁) Ff. _our players_ Qq. _lief_] Steevens (1793). _live_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂. _lieve_ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _spoke_] Qq. _had spoke_ Ff. [1131] _Nor_] _And_ Pope. _much with your_] Qq. _much your_ Ff. _much, your_ Caldecott. [1132] _whirlwind of your passion_] Qq. _the whirle-winde of passion_ Ff. _whirlwind of passion_ Collier. _the whirlwind of your passion_ Staunton. [1133] _hear_] Qq. _see_ Ff. _robustious_] _robustous_ Q (1676) F₄. [1134] _periwig-pated_] Q (1676). _perwig-pated_ Qq. _Pery-wig-pated_ F₁. _Pery-wig-parted_ F₂. _Perriwig-parted_ F₃ F₄. _to tatters_] Ff. _to totters_ Qq. om. Q (1676). [1135] _split_] Ff. _spleet_ Qq. [1136] _would_] (Q₁) Qq. _could_ Ff. [1137] First Play.] 1. P. Capell. Player. or Play. Qq Ff. [1138] _suit_] Hanmer. _sute_ Qq F₁ F₃ F₄. _sure_ F₂. [1139] _o'erstep_] _ore-steppe_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _ore-step_ Q₅ Q₆. _ore-stop_ Ff. _ore-top_ Long MS. [1140] _overdone_] _ore-doone_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _ore-done_ Q₅ Q₆. [1141] _at the first_] _at first_ Q₅ Q₆. [1142] _her own feature_] _her feature_ Qq. _scorn_] _sin_ Bailey conj. [1143] _the very_] _every_ Mason conj. _age_] _face_ or _page_ Johnson conj. _eye_ Taylor conj. MS. _the very age_] _the visage_ Bailey conj. [1144] _tardy_] _trady_ Q₄. _off_] _of_ Q₆, and Mason conj. _pressure_] _posture_ Bailey conj. [1145] _though it make_] _though it makes_ Qq. [1146] _the censure_] _in the censure_ Long MS. _the which one_] Ff. _which one_ Qq. _one of which_ Hanmer. [1147] _o'erweigh_] _ore-weigh_ Qq. _o're-way_ F₁. _ore-sway_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1148] _praise_] Ff Q₆. _praysd_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _praisd_ Q₅. [1149] _neither ... nor man,_] Put within brackets, as an interpolation, by Warburton. [1150] _accent of Christians_] _accent of Christian_ Pope. _nor the_] _or the_ Rowe. [1151] _nor man_] Qq. _Nor Turke_ (Q₁). _or Norman_ Ff. _nor Mussulman_ Farmer conj. _or man_ Pope. _or Turk_ Grant White. [1152] _men_] _them_ Rann (Theobald conj. withdrawn). _the men_ Farmer conj. [1153] _sir_] Ff. om. Qq. [1154] _themselves_] _of themselves_ F₃ F₄. [1155] _too_] _to_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1156] [Exeunt Players.] F₂ F₃ F₄. Exit Players. F₁. Omitted in Qq. Enter ... Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.] As in Ff. Enter ... Guyldensterne, & Rosencrans. Qq (after _work?_ line 42). [1157] SCENE IV.] Warburton. [1158] _too_] Ff Q₆. _to_ The rest. [1159] [Exit Polonius.] Ff. om. Qq. [1160] Ros. Guil.] Both. Ff. Ros. Qq. _We will_] Ff. _I_ Qq. [Exeunt....] Exeunt they two. Q₂ Q₃. Exeunt those two. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. Exeunt. Ff. [1161] SCENE V. Pope. _What ho!_] _What hoe,_ Q₆. _What hoa,_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _What ho,_ F₄. _What howe_, Q₂ Q₃. _What how,_ Q₄ Q₅. Enter Horatio.] As in Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. After line 46 in Ff. Omitted in Q₆. [1162] _sweet lord_] _my lord_ Q (1676). [1163] _coped_] _copt_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _cop't_ Q₆. _coap'd_ Ff. _met_ Q (1676). [1164] _lord,--_] _lord--_ Rowe. _lord._ Qq Ff. [1165] _no revenue hast_] _hast no revenue_ Q (1676). [1166] _thee?_] Q₆. _thee,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _thee._ Ff. _Why_] om. Pope. [1167] _lick_] Q₄ Q₅. _licke_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _like_ Ff. _absurd_] _obsurd_ Q₄ Q₅. [1168] _pregnant_] _begging_ Collier MS. (in pencil). See note (II). [1169] _fawning._] _fawning:_ Q₆. _fauning;_ Q₂ Q₃. _fauning_, Q₄. _fawning,_ Q₅. _faining._ F₁ F₂ F₃. _feigning._ F₄. _hear?_] _heare?_ Q₆. _heare,_ or _hear,_ The rest. [1170] _dear_] _clear_ Johnson conj. _her_] Qq. _my_ Ff. [1171] _distinguish, ... Hath_] Ff. _distinguish her election, S'hath_ Qq (_Shath_ Q₄ Q₅. _Sh'ath_ Q₆). [1172] _fortune's_] _fortune_ F₃ F₄. [1173] _Hast_] Qq. _Hath_ Ff. [1174] _commingled_] _co-mingled_ Ff. _comedled_ Qq. _commedled_ Q (1676, 1683, 1695). _commended_ Q (1703). _comêl'd_ Capell conj. [1175] _stop_] _stops_ Q (1676). [1176] _of heart_] _of hearts_ Q (1676). [1177] _thee of_] Qq. _thee, of_ Ff. [1178] _a-foot_] _on foot_ Q₆. [1179] _very_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄. _thy_] Qq. _my_ Ff. [1180] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. _his occulted_] _then his hidden_ Q (1676). _his occult_ Rowe (ed. 2). [1181] _unkennel_] _discover_ Q (1676). [1182] _stithy_] Qq. _stythe_ F₁. _styth_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _smithy_ Theobald. _heedful_] Q(1676) F₄. _heedfull_ Qq. _needfull_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [1183] _face,_] _face?_ F₂. [1184] _judgements_] _judgement_ F₂. [1185] _In_] Qq. _To_ Ff. [1186] _he_] Ff. _a_ Qq. [1187] _detecting_] Ff. _detected_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _detection_ Q₆. [1188] SCENE VI. Pope. SCENE V. Warburton. _They are_] _They're_ Pope. [1189] Danish march. A flourish. Enter ... the Guard ... torches.] Capell, substantially. Enter ... his Guard ... torches. Danish March. Sound a Flourish. Ff (after line 84). Enter Trumpets and Kettle Drummes, King, Queene, Polonius, Ophelia. Qq (after line 84). [1190] _our_] _my_ F₃ F₄. [1191] _Excellent ... say?_] Prose in Ff. Irregular lines in Qq. [1192] _dish: I_] _dish I_ Q (1676). [1193] _mine now. My lord,_] Johnson. _mine now my lord._ Qq. _mine. Now my lord,_ Ff. [To Polonius] Rowe. [1194] _i' the_] _in the_ Q₆. [1195] _did I_] Qq. _I did_ Ff. [1196] _What_] Qq. _And what_ Ff. [1197] _Capitol_] F₁ F₄. _Capitall_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Capitoll_ F₂ Q₆ F₃. [1198] _stay_] _wait_ Q (1676). _patience_] _pleasure_ Johnson conj. _patents_ Becket conj. [1199] _dear_] _deere_ Q₂ Q₃. _deare_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _good_ Ff. [1200] _metal_] _metall_ Q₆. _mettle_ The rest. [1201] [To the King] Capell. _O, ho!_] _Oh, oh,_ Q₄ Q₅. _that?_] Ff Q₆. _that._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1202] [Lying....] Rowe. Seating himself at Ophelia's feet. Capell (after line 103). [1203] Ham. _I mean ... lord._] Omitted in Qq. [1204] _upon_] _in_ Capell. [1205] _country_] _contrary_ (Q₁). _contray_ Singer (ed. 1), a misprint. _matters_] _manners_ Johnson conj. [1206] _maids'_] _maydes_ or _maids_ Qq Ff. _a maid's_ Rowe. [1207] _lord._] Qq. _lord?_ Ff. [1208] _O God,_] om. Q (1676). _Oh!_ Johnson. [1209] _within 's_] Qq Ff. _within these_ Pope. [1210] _twice_] om. Hanmer. _quite_ Ingleby conj. [1211] _devil_] _deule_ Q₂ Q₃. [1212] _for ... sables_] (Q₁) Qq Ff. _for ... ermyn_ Hanmer. _'fore ... sable_ Warburton. _for ... sabell_ Anon. conj. (The Critic, 1854, p. 317). [1213] _have_] _not have_ Keightley. _leave_ Lloyd conj. _leave him_ Anon. conj. _have ne'er_ Anon. conj. _a suit_] _no suit_ Becket conj. [1214] _by'r lady_] _by'r-lady_ F₄. _byr-lady_ F₁. _ber Lady_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₆. _ber Ladie_ Q₅. _berlady_ F₂ F₃. om. Q (1676). [1215] _he ... he_] Ff. _a ... a_ Qq. [1216] Hautboys ... love.] Ff, substantially. The Trumpets sounds. Dumbe show followes. Enter a King and a Queene, the Queene embracing him, and he her, he takes her vp, and declines his head vpon her necke, he lyes him downe vppon a bancke of flowers, she seeing him asleepe, leaues him: anon come in an other man, takes off his crowne, kisses it, pours poyson in the sleepers eares, and leaues him: the Queene returnes, finds the King dead, makes passionate action, the poysner with some three or foure come in againe, seeme to condole with her, the dead body is carried away, the poysner wooes the Queene with gifts, shee seemes harsh awhile, but in the end accepts loue. Qq ( ... anon comes ... comes in ... Q₄ Q₅ Q₆). Theobald substitutes 'a Duke and a Dutchess, with regal coronets,' for 'a King and a Queen'. and a] and Ff. and he her] om. Ff. exit.] exits. Ff. [Exeunt.] Ff. om. Qq. [During the dumb show King and Queen whisper confidentially to each other and so do not see it. Halliwell conj. [1217] SCENE VII. Pope. SCENE VI. Warburton. [1218] _Marry_] om. Q(1676). _this is_] Ff. _this_ Q₂ Q₃. _tis_ Q₄. _it is_ Q₅ Q₆. _miching mallecho_] Malone. _myching Mallico_ (Q₁). _munching Mallico_ Qq. _miching Malicho_ Ff. _miching Malhechor_ Warburton. _miching Malbecco_ Grey conj. _munching Malicho_ Capell. _mimicking Malbecco_ Farmer conj. _mucho malhecho_ Keightley (Maginn conj.) _it_] Qq. _that_ Ff. [1219] _Belike_] _Be like_ F₂. _play._] Qq. _play?_ Ff. Enter Prologue.] As in Theobald. After _fellow,_ line 132, in Qq. After _play,_ line 138, in Ff. [1220] _this fellow_] Qq. _these fellowes_ Ff. [1221] _counsel_] Omitted in Qq. [1222] _he_] Pope, _a_ Qq. _they_ Ff. _tell us_] _shew us_ Q (1676). [1223] _you'll_] _you will_ Qq. _not you_] _not_ Q (1676). [1224] _mark_] _make_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1225] _posy_] _posie_ Qq F₄. _poesie_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [1226] Enter ...] Enter King and Queen, Players. Pope. Enter King and Queene. Qq. Enter King and his Queene. F₁ F₂. Enter King, and Queen. F₃ F₄. Enter Duke, and Dutchess, Players. Theobald, from (Q₁). [1227] P. King.] Steevens (1778). King. Qq Ff. [1228] _Phbus' ... Tellus'_] Apostrophes inserted by Pope. [1229] _cart_] _carr_ Q (1676). _car_ Rowe. [1230] _orbed_] Ff. _orb'd the_ Qq. [1231] _borrowed_] Qq Ff. _borrow'd_ Q (1676) and Capell. [1232] _times twelve thirties_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. _time, twelve thirties_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _twelve times thirty_ Q₆. _times twelve thirty_ Hanmer. [1233] _commutual in most_] _infolding them in_ Q (1676). [1234] P. Queen.] Steevens (1778). Quee. or Que. Qq F₂ F₃. Queen. F₄. Bap. or Bapt. F₁. [1235] _from cheer and_] _different_ Q (1676). _your_] _our_ Q₂ Q₃. _former_] _forme_ F₁. [1236] _must: For_] Ff. _must. For women feare too much, even as they love, And_ Qq. See note (XVII). [1237] HOLDS] Ff. HOLD Qq. [1238] IN NEITHER AUGHT] _In neither ought_ Ff. _Eyther none, in neither ought_ Qq. _'Tis either none_ Pope. _In neither: aught_ Hunter conj. _Either in nought_ Anon. conj. [1239] _love_] _Lord_ Q₂ Q₃. _is, proof hath made_] _has been, proof makes_ Q (1676). [1240] _sized_] _ciz'd_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _ciz'st_ Q₄ Q₅. _siz'd_ F₁. _siz_ F₂. _fixt_ F₃ F₄. _great_ Q (1676). [1241] _Where love ... there._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1242] _littlest_] Q₆. _litlest_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _smallest_ Q (1676). [1243] _operant_] _working_ Q (1676). _their functions_] Qq. _my functions_ Ff. [1244] _fair_] _fare_ Q₄. [1245] _kind_] Q₆. _kind,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _kinde._ F₁. _kind._ F₂ F₃ F₄. _a kind_ Rowe (ed. 2). [1246] _thou--_] Ff. _thou._ Qq. [1247] _kill'd_] _kill_ Theobald. [1248] [Aside] Capell. _Wormwood, wormwood._] Ff. _O wormewood, wormewood!_ (Q₁). _That's wormwood._ Qq (in the margin). [1249] P. Queen.] Bapt. Ff. om. Qq. [1250] _thrift_] _Trift_ F₂. [1251] _husband dead_] _lord that's dead_ (Q₁) Staunton. [1252] _you think_] Pointed as in Qq. _you. Think_ Ff. [1253] _but_] _and_ Q (1676). [1254] _like_] Ff. _the_ Qq. _fruit_] _fruits_ Q (1676) and Pope. [1255] _either_] Q₅ Q₆. _eyther_, Q₂ Q₃. _either_, Q₄. _other_ Ff. [1256] _enactures_] Q₆. _ennactures_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _ennactors_ F₁. _enactors_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1257] _joys_] F₄. _joyes_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _joy_ Qq. _grieves_ F₃ F₄. _greeves_ F₁ F₂. _griefes_ Qq. [1258] _nor_] _and_ Pope. _'tis not_] _is it_ Q (1676). [1259] _lead fortune_] _fortune lead_ Pope. _leads fortune_ Theobald. _else_] om. Pope. [1260] _favourite_] _favourites_ F₁. [1261] _hitherto_] _hither to_ F₂. [1262] _friend,_] Qq. _friend:_ F₁. _friend?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1263] _seasons him_] _sees in him_ Anon. conj. [1264] _So think_] _Think still_ Q (1676). [1265] _die thy thoughts_] _thy thoughts dye_ Q (1676). [1266] _to me give_] Qq. _to give me_ Ff. _oh! give me_ Hanmer. _do give me_ Seymour conj. _Nor ... give_] _Let earth not give me_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). [1267] _To desperation ... scope!_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1268] _An anchor's_] Theobald. _And anchors_ Qq. _And anchors'_ Jennens. _An anchoret's_ Anon, apud Rann conj. _cheer_] _chair_ Steevens conj. [1269] _once ... wife_] (Q₁) Ff. _once I be a widdow, ever I be a wife_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₆ (_bee_ Q₄. _widow_ Q₆). _once I be a widdow, ever I be wife_ Q₅. _once I widow be, and then a wife_ Q (1676). _once I be a widow, 'ere a wife_ Anon. MS. [1270] Ham. _If ... now!_] Ham. _If ... now._ Qq (in the margin) Ff. Ham. _If ... now--_ Pope. Ham. [to Oph.] _If ... now,--_ Capell. _it now_] _her vow_ Elze (Collier MS.) [1271] _'Tis ... awhile;_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _here_] _heare_ Q₄ Q₅ F₂. [1272] [Sleeps.] Ff (after _brain_). om. Qq. Lays him down. Capell. [1273] _betw 'en_] _betwixt_ Q₄ Q₅. [Exit.] Ff. Exeunt. Qq. Exit Lady. (Q₁). Exit Dutchess. Duke sleeps. Capell. [1274] _this_] _the_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1275] _doth protest_] Qq. _protests_ Ff. [1276] _i' the world_] om. Q (1676). [1277] _how?_] Ff Q₆. _how_ Q₂Q₃Q₄Q₅. [1278] _Gonzago_] _Gonzaga_ Johnson. [1279] _wife_] _wife's_ Theobald. [1280] _o'_] Ff. _a_ (Q₁). _of_ Qq. [1281] _that have_] _shall have_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _us not_] _not us_ Q (1676). [1282] _wince_] (Q₁) Steevens. _winch_ Qq Ff. _unwrung_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₃ F₄ _unwrong_ Q₂ Q₃. _unrung_ F₁F₂. [1283] Enter Lucianus.] Ff. After _king_, line 233, in Qq. [1284] _king_] _duke_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). [1285] _as good as a_] (Q₁) Qq. _a good_ Ff. [1286] _my_] Ff. _mine_ Qq. [1287] _better,_] _worse_ Q (1676 and Rowe). [1288] _must take your husbands._] Pope. _must take your husband_ (Q₁). _mistake your husbands_ Qq. _mistake husbands_ Ff. _most of you take husbands_ Hanmer. _must take husbands_ Long MS. [1289] _murderer_] _murther_ Ff. [1290] _pox_,] Ff. om. Qq. _a poxe_ (Q₁.) [1291] _the ... revenge._] Printed as a quotation in two half lines, the first ending _raven,_ by Steevens (1793). [1292] _Thoughts ... agreeing;_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [1293] _Confederate_](Q₁) Ff. _Considerat_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Considerate_ Q₅ Q₆. _else_] _and_ Q (1676) and Theobald. [1294] _ban_] _bane_ (Q₁) Q₆ F₄. _infected_] _invected_ Q₂ Q₃. [1295] _Thy_] _The_ F₄. _Thou_ Pope. [1296] _usurp_] F₃ F₄. _usurpe_ F₁ F₂. _usurps_ (Q₁) Qq. [Pours ... ear.] Capell, substantially. Powres the poyson in his eares. Ff. Omitted in Qq. [1297] _He_] (Q₁) Ff. _A_ Qq. _for his_] (Q₁) Qq. _for's_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _fors_ F₂ [1298] _name's_] F₁ Q₆. _names_ The rest. _written in very_] Qq. _writ in_ Ff. [1299] Ham. _What, ... fire_] Ff. Ham. _Frighted ... fires_ (Q₁). Omitted in Qq. [1300] Pol.] Qq. All. Ff. [Exeunt ...] Exeunt all but Ham. & Horatio. Qq. Exeunt. Manet Hamlet & Horatio. Ff (Manent F₄). [1301] SCENE VIII. Pope. SCENE VII. Warburton. _stricken_] (Q₁) Hanmer. _strooken_ Q₂ Q₃. _stroken_ Q₄ Q₅. _strucken_ Ff Q₆. [1302] _hart_] _heart_ F₂ F₃. [1303] _while_] _whilst_ Q₄ Q₅. _whilest_ Q₆. _sleep:_] _sleepe?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1304] _Thus_] (Q₁) Qq. _So_ Ff. [1305] _two_] Ff. om. Qq. _Provincial_] _Provencial_ Capell (Warton conj.) _Provençal_ Warton conj. [1306] _razed_] _raz'd_ Qq. _rac'd_ Ff. _rack'd_ Rowe (ed. 2). _rayed_ Pope. _rais'd_ Jennens (Theobald conj.) _cry_] _city_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _players_] _player_ Q₅. [1307] _sir_] Ff. om. Qq. [1308] _A whole one, I._] _Ay, a whole one._ Hanmer. _A whole one;--ay--_ Malone conj. _A whole one, ay,_ Grant White. [1309] _This ... himself_] Arranged as in Qq. One line in Ff. [1310] _pajock_] F₃ F₄. _paiock_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _paiocke_ F₁ Q₆. _pajocke_ F₂. _paicock_ Q (1676). _pecock_ Q (1695). _peacock_ Pope. _paddock_ Theobald. _puttock_ or _meacock_ Id. conj. (withdrawn). _baiocco_ Anon. conj. (1814). _hedjocke_ (i.e. _hedgehog_) S. Evans conj. _padge-hawk_ Id. conj. (withdrawn). _patokie_ (i.e. _pataicco_ or _pataikoi_) E. Warwick conj. _Polack_ Anon. conj. [hiccups. (as a stage direction) Leo conj. [1311] _pound_] _pounds_ Rowe (ed. 2). [1312] _poisoning?_] _poysoning?_ Ff. _poysning._ Q₂ Q₃. _poysoning._ Q₄. _poisoning._ Q₅ Q₆. [1313] _Ah, ha!_] _Ah ha,_ Qq. _Oh, ha?_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Oh ha!_ F₄. [1314] _like_] _likes_ Q₆. [1315] Re-enter....] Dyce. Enter.... Qq. Enter.... Ff. (after line 278). [1316] _vouchsafe_] Ff Q₆. _voutsafe_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1317] _sir,--_] _sir--_ Rowe. _sir._ Qq Ff. [1318] _him?_] Qq F₁. _him._ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1319] _rather_] Ff. om. Qq. [1320] _more richer_] Qq F₁. _more rich_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _richer_ Q (1676). [1321] _the doctor_] Qq. _his doctor_ F₁. F₂ F₃. _this doctor_ F₄. _for, for_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _for for_ F₁ Q₆ _for_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1322] _far_] F₄. _farre_ F₁ F₂ F₃. om. Qq. [1323] _Good ... affair._] Prose in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _frame,_ in Qq. [1324] _start_] Ff. _stare_ Qq. _from_] _upon_ Q₆. _my_] _the_ Collier MS. _affair_] _business_ Q (1676). [1325] [with great ceremony. Capell. [1326] _of my_] Ff. _of_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _of the_ Q₆. [1327] Guil.] Guild. Ff. Ros. Qq. _lord?_] Ff Q₆. _lord._ The rest. [1328] _wit's_] Q₆ F₄. _wits_ The rest. [1329] _answer_] Q₅ Q₆. _answere_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _answers_ Ff. [1330] _as you_] Qq. _you_ Ff. [1331] _say,--_] _say--_ Rowe. _say._ Qq Ff. [1332] _struck_] F₄. _strooke_ Qq. _stroke_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [1333] _so_] _thus_ Q (1676). _astonish_] Ff Q₆. _stonish_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _'stonish_ Capell. [1334] _mother's admiration_] _mother admiration_ F₃. _mother-admiration_ F₄. _admiration?_] _admiration,_ Q₂ Q₃. [1335] _Impart._] Qq. om. Ff. [1336] _So I_] Ff. _And_ Qq. [1337] _surely ... upon_] Qq. _freely of_ Ff. _surely ... of_ Grant White. _bar_] _but bar_ Reed (1803). [1338] _sir_] Qq. om. Ff. _grows,--_] _grows--_ Pope. _growes,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ F₃. _grows,_ Q₅ F₄. _growes;_ Q₆. [1339] Re-enter....] Dyce. Enter the Players with Recorders. Qq (after line 326). Enter one with a Recorder. Ff. [1340] _recorders_] Qq. _recorder_ Ff. _see one. To_] Pope. _see one, to_ Qq. _see, to_ F₁ F₂. _see to_ F₃ F₄. _set one. To_ Rowe. See note (XVIII). _To ... you:_] Marked as 'Aside' by Capell. _you:--_] _you;_ Q₆. _you,_ The rest. [1341] _love is too unmannerly._] _love is not unmannerly._ Tyrwhitt conj. _love too unmannerly...._ Keightley. [1342] Guil.] Ros. Nicholson conj. [1343] _do_] om. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1344] Guil.] Ros. Staunton conj. [1345] _It is_] Qq. _'Tis_ Ff. _ventages_] Qq. _ventiges_ Ff. [1346] _with ... thumb_] _and the umbo with your fingers_ Becket conj. _fingers_] Qq. _finger_ Ff. _and thumb,_] F₄. _and thumbe_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _& the vmber,_ Q₂ Q₃. _and the thumb_ Q₄ Q₅. _and the thumbe,_ Q₆. [1347] _eloquent_] Qq. _excellent_ Ff. [1348] _make_] _would make_ Johnson. [1349] _the top of_] Ff. om. Qq. [1350] _speak_] om. Ff. [1351] _'Sblood_] _s'bloud_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _s'blood_ Q₄ Q₅. _Why_ Ff. om. Q (1676). _I_] Qq. _that I_ Ff. [1352] _can fret me_] (Q₁) Ff. _fret me not_ Qq. [1353] _yet_] (Q₁) Edd. (Globe ed.) om. Qq Ff. [1354] Enter Polonius.] As in Capell. After _sir!,_ line 356, in Qq Ff. [1355] _you_] _your_ F₂. [1356] _yonder_] Qq. _that_ Ff. [1357] _cloud ... camel?_] Pointed as in Qq. _cloud?... camell._ F₁ F₂. _cloud, ... camell._ F₃. _cloud, ... camel?_ F₄. [1358] _of_] Qq. _like_ Ff. [1359] _camel ... camel_] _weasel ... weasel_ Capell. [1360] _By the mass_] _By'th masse_ Qq. _By th' mass_ F₄. _By 'th' misse_ F₁ F₂. _By th' misse_ F₃. _'tis like_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _tis, like_ Q₂ Q₃. _it's like_ Ff (_its_ F₂). _'tis--like_ Jennens. [1361] _a weasel ... a weasel_] _an ouzle ... an ouzle_ Pope, reading _black_ in line 363. _a camel ... a camel_ Capell. [1362] _backed_] _back'd_ Ff. _back't_ (Q₁). _backt_ Q₂ Q₃. _black_ Q₄ Q₅. _blacke_ Q₆. _beck'd_ Tollet conj. [1363] _whale?_] Ff. _whale._ Qq. [1364] _I will_] Qq. _will I_ Ff. [1365] _They fool me_] _They fool me_ [to Hor. Capell. _They ... bent._] A separate line in Ff. [1366] See note (XIX). [1367] [Exit Polonius.] Exit. Ff. om. Qq. After _said,_ line 370, in Dyce. [1368] [Exeunt....] Exeunt Ros. and Gui. Horatio, and the Players, withdraw. Capell. Exe. Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [1369] _breathes_] Q₆ F₃ F₄. _breaths_ F₁ F₂. _breakes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _breaks_ Q₅. [1370] _this_] _the_ Q₆. [1371] _bitter ... day_] Ff. _busines as the bitter day_ Qq. _business as day it self_ Q (1676). _business as the better day_ Warburton. _business as the bitter'st day_ Heath conj. _business as the light of day_ Cartwright conj. [1372] _Soft! now_] _soft, now_ Qq. _Soft now,_ Ff. [1373] _lose_] Q₆. _loose_ The rest. [1374] _not_] _but not_ Johnson. [1375] _daggers_] Ff Q₆. _dagger_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1376] _How ... consent!_] Omitted by Pope. [1377] _soever_] Q₆. _somever_ The rest. [1378] _never, my soul, consent_] Pointed as by Capell. _never my soule consent_ Qq Ff. [Exit.] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. om. Q₅ Ff Q₆. [1379] SCENE III.] Capell. SCENE IX. Pope. SCENE VII. Warburton. om. Ff. A ... castle.] Capell, substantially. [1380] _range_] _rage_ Pope. [1381] _estate may_] _estate, may_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1382] _near us_] _neare us_ Q₆. _neer's_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _dangerous_ Ff. [1383] _lunacies_] Ff. _browes_ Qq. _lunes_ Theobald. _frows_ Johnson conj. _braves_ Anon. conj. _ourselves provide_] _provide our selves_ Pope. [1384] _To keep ... live_] One line in Rowe, reading _many._ [1385] _many many_] _many_ F₂ F₃ F₄ and Q (1676). _very many_ Collier (Collier MS.) _many-many_ Staunton. [1386] _The ... bound_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _single,_ in Ff. [1387] _noyance_] _'noyance_ Hanmer. [1388] _upon_] _on_ Pope. _weal_] _weale_ Qq. _spirit_ Ff. _depends and rests_] _depend and rest_ Hanmer. [1389] _many. The_] _many: the_ Q₆. _many, the_ The rest. _cease_] Ff. _cesse_ Qq. _decease_ Pope. _The cease of_] _Deceasing_ Bailey conj. [1390] _it is_] _It is_ Ff. _or it is_ Qq. _It's_ Pope. [1391] _summit_] Rowe. _somnet_ Qq Ff and Q (1676). [1392] _huge_] _hough_ Q₂ Q₃. _hugh_ Q₄. [1393] _mortised_] _morteist_ Qq. _mortiz'd_ Ff. [1394] _ruin_] _ruine_ Ff. _raine_ Qq. _Never_] _Ne'er_ Pope. [1395] _with_] Ff. om. Qq. _groan_] F₃ F₄. _growne_ Q₄ Q₅. _grone_ The rest. [1396] _voyage_] _viage_ Q₂ Q₃. _voiage_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1397] _about_] Qq. _upon_ Ff. [1398] Ros. Guil.] Steevens (1793). Both. Ff. Ros. Qq. _haste us_] _make haste_ Q₆. [Exeunt....] Capell. Exeunt Gent. Qq Ff. [1399] _warrant_] _warnt_ Q₆. [1400] _speech, of vantage_] Theobald. _speech of vantage_ Qq Ff. [1401] _know_] _heare_ Q₆. [Exit Polonius.] Capell. Exit. Qq Ff (after _know_). [1402] _upon't_] Ff Q₆. _uppont_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1403] _A_] _That of a_ Theobald. _murder_] _murderer_ S. Walker conj. _can I not_] _I cannot_ Q (1676) and Rowe. _alas! I cannot_ Hanmer. _can I?--No!_ Jackson conj. _that can I not_ Seymour conj. [1404] _not, ... will:_] Pointed as in Ff. _not, ... will,_ Qq. [1405] _will_] _'t will_ Hanmer (Anon. ap. Theobald conj.) _th' ill_ Warburton. [1406] _guilt defeats_] _guilt, defeats_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [1407] _neglect. What_] _neglect: what_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _neglect; what_ Ff. _neglect, what_ Q₂ Q₃. [1408] _pardon'd_] Ff. _pardon_ Qq. [1409] _fault is_] _faults is_ Q₄ Q₅. [1410] _murder?_] _murther?_ Q₆. _murther,_ Q₂ Q₃. _murther:_ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂ F₃. _mother:_ F₄. _murther!_ Pope. [1411] _effects_] _affects_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1412] _pardon'd_] _pardoned_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _offence_] _effects_ Warburton. [1413] _corrupted currents_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₅ Q₆. _conrupted currents_ Q₄. _corrupted currants_ Ff. _corrupt occurrents_ Anon. conj. MS. and Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752. _corrupted 'currents_ Dyce, ed. 2 (S. Walker conj.) _currents of this world_] _courts of this bad world_ Long MS. [1414] _gilded_] F₁ F₄. _guilded_ Q₂ Q₃ F₂ F₃. _guided_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _shove_] Ff. _showe_ Q₂ Q₃. _show_ Q₄ Q₅. _shew_ Q₆. [1415] _prize_] _purse_ Collier (Collier MS.) [1416] _his_] _it's_ Long MS. _and_] om. Pope. [1417] _it_] _aught_ Hanmer. _can not_] _can but_ Warburton. [1418] _angels_] _angles_ Q₄ Q₅. [1419] _heart_] _hearts_ Q₆. _steel_] _steale_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. [1420] [Retires....] Malone. hee kneeles. (Q₁). The King kneels. Rowe. Remains in Action of Prayer. Capell. om. Qq Ff. [1421] SCENE X. Pope. SCENE IX. Warburton. _it pat, now he is_] Ff. _it, but now a is_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅ Q₆. _it, bot now a is_ Q₄. _praying_] _a praying_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1422] _so he goes_] Ff. _so a goes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅ Q₆. _so goes_ Q₄. [1423] _revenged._] _revendge,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _revenged,_ Q₅. _reveng'd:_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _reveng'd?_ Q₆. _revenged:_ F₄. [1424] _sole_] Qq. _foule_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _foul_ F₄. _fal'n_ Warburton. _fool_ Heath and Capell conj. [1425] _To heaven_] A separate line in Qq. Joined to line 79 in Ff. [1426] _O,_] _Oh_ Ff. _Why_ Qq. _hire and salary_] _hire and salery_ Ff. _base and silly_ Qq. _a reward_ Q (1676). _reward_ Q (1703). [1427] _He_] Ff. _A_ Qq. _bread_] _blood_ Mason conj. [1428] _as flush_] Qq. _as fresh_ Ff. _and flush_ Warburton. [1429] _and_] om. Pope. [1430] _season'd_] _seasoned_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1431] _No._] A separate line in Qq. Ends line 86 in Ff. Omitted by Pope. [1432] _hent_] _bent_ F₄. _time_ Q (1676) and Rowe. _hest_ Warburton conj. (withdrawn). _hint_ Capell (Theobald conj.) [1433] _drunk asleep_] Pointed as in Ff. _drunke, asleep_ Qq. _drunk-asleep_ Johnson. [1434] _incestuous_] _incestious_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _pleasure_] _pleasures_ Q (1676) and Capell. [1435] _game, a-swearing_] _game a swearing_ Q₂ Q₃. _game swaring_ (Q₁). _game, a swearing_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _gaming, swearing_ Ff. [1436] _heels may_] _heele mas_ Q₄ Q₅. _heele may_ Q₆. [1437] [Rising] Rises. Capell. The King rises, and comes forward. Theobald om. Qq Ff. [1438] SCENE IV.] Capell. SCENE II. Rowe. SCENE XI. Pope. SCENE X. Warburton. The Queen's closet.] Steevens. The Queen's Apartment. Rowe. Enter Queen....] Ff. Enter Gertrard.... Qq. [1439] _He_] Ff. _A_ Qq. _He.... him:_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [1440] _bear_] _berre_ F₂. [1441] _screen'd_] _scree'nd_ F₂ F₃. [1442] _sconce me even_] Hanmer. _silence me even_ Qq. _silence me e'ene_ F₁. _silence me e'ne_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _'sconce me e'en_ Warburton. _silence me in_ Long MS. See note (XX). [1443] _with him_] Ff. om. Qq. Ham ... _mother!_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [1444] Queen.] Qu., Que. or Queen. Ff. Ger. Qq (and throughout the scene, except line 51). [1445] _I'll ... coming._] Prose by Edd. Two lines, the first ending _not_, in Qq Ff. [1446] _warrant_] Ff Q₆. _wait_ Q₂ Q₃. _waite_ Q₄ Q₅. _not. Withdraw_] _not: you withdraw_ Hanmer, ending the previous line _warrant you._ [1447] [Polonius hides....] Polonius hides himself.... Rowe. om. Qq Ff. Enter Hamlet.] Ff. After _round_, line 5, in Qq. Enter Hamlet, abruptly. Capell. [1448] _a wicked_] Qq. _an idle_ Ff. [1449] _What's the matter now?_] Continued to Queen, S. Walker conj. [1450] _And--would ... so!--you_] _Pointed as in_ Pope, substantially. _And would it were not so, you_ Qq. _But would you were not so. You_ Ff. _But 'would it were not so!--You_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [1451] _set_] _send_ Collier MS. [1452] _budge_] Q₆ F₃ F₄. _boudge_ The rest. [1453] _go not_] _go not hence_ Long MS. reading with F₂. _set you up_] _set up_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1454] _glass Where ... you._] _glasse. Where ... you?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1455] _inmost_] Ff. _most_ Qq. _utmost_ Q (1676). [1456] _Help, help, ho!_] _Helpe, helpe, hoa._ F₁ F₂. _Help, help, hoa._ F₃ F₄. _Helpe how._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Helpe hoe._ Q₅. _Helpe ho._ Q₆. [1457] _Help, ... rat?_] As one line in Capell, reading _What, ho! help!_ [1458] [Behind] Capell. Behind the arras. Rowe. on. Ff. _What, ho!... help!_] Ff. _What how helpe._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _What hoe helpe._ Q₅ Q₆. [1459] [Drawing] Draws. Malone, after _rat?_ om. Qq Ff. [Makes ... arras.] Capell, substantially. om. Qq Ff. [1460] [Behind] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [Falls and dies.] Falls forward, and dies. Capell. Killes Polonius. Ff. om. Qq. _what hast_] _hast_ F₃. [1461] _Nay ... king?_] As in Qq Ff. Capell ends line 25 at _know not._ [1462] _is_] _was_ Q (1676). [1463] _kill_] Qq F₁. _killd_ F₂. _kill'd_ F₃ F₄. _king!_] _king?_ Ff Q₆. _king._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _'twas_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _twas_ F₂. _it was_ Qq. [Lifts ... discovers....] Lifts ... sees.... Dyce. Lifts up the arras, and draws forth Polonius. Capell (after line 26). om. Qq Ff. [1464] [To Polonius. Pope. [1465] _better_] Qq. _betters_ Ff. [1466] _brass'd_] _brasd_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _bras'd_ Ff Q₆. [1467] _be_] Qq. _is_ Ff. _sense_] _thy sense_ Q (1703). [1468] _hypocrite_] _hippocrit_ Q₂ Q₃. _hipocrit_ Q₄. _off_] Ff Q₆. _of_ The rest. [1469] _sets_] Qq. _makes_ Ff. [1470] _rhapsody_] F₄. _rapsedy_ Q₂ Q₃. _rapsody_ Q₄ F₂ F₃. _rapsodie_ Q₅ Q₆. _rapsidie_ F₁. _doth_] Ff. _dooes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _does_ Q₅ Q₆. [1471] _glow; Yea,_] _glow, Yea_ Ff. _glowe Ore_ Q₂ Q₃. _glow Ore_ Q₄ Q₅. _glow Yea_ Q₆. _glow; Yet_ Smyth conj. MS. [1472] _solidity_] _solidiry_ Q₄ Q₅. [1473] _tristful_] F₄. _tristfull_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _heated_ Qq. _as against_] _and, as 'gainst_ Warburton, reading _O'er_ in line 49. [1474] _act._] _act. Ah me, that act!_ Q (1676). [1475] _Ay ... index?_] Prose in Ff. See note (XXI). [1476] _was_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄. _this_] Q₂ Q₃. _his_ The rest. [1477] _and_] Qq. _or_ Ff. [1478] _New-lighted_] _New lighted_ Qq F₁. _Now lighted_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _a heaven-kissing_] Ff Q₆ (Ingleby's copy). _a heaue, a kissing_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ (Capell's copy). [1479] _and a_] _and_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1480] _mildew'd_] Ff Q₆. _mildewed_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _mil-dewed_ Q₅. _ear_] _eare_ Qq F₁. _deare_ F₂. _deer_ F₃ F₄. [1481] _brother_] Qq. _breath_ Ff. [1482] _batten_] _batter_ Q (1676). [1483] _in the_] _of the_ Q (1676). _it's_] _its_ F₂. [1484] _step_] _stoop_ Collier (Collier MS. and Anon. MS.) See note (XXII). [1485] _Sense ... difference._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1486] _motion_] _notion_ Warburton. [1487] _cozen'd_] F₃ F₄. _cosund_ Q₂ Q₃. _cosond_ Q₄ Q₅. _cousend_ F₁ F₂. _couzen'd_ Q₆. _hoodman_] Ff. _hodman_ Qq. _hobman_ (Q₁). _hoodman-blind_] Hyphen omitted in Q₂ Q₃. [1488] _Eyes ... mope._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1489] _Could ... blush?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [1490] _hell_] _heat_ Hanmer. [1491] _mutine_] _mutiny_ Q (1676) and Rowe. [1492] _ardour_] Pope. _ardure_ Qq Ff. [1493] _And_] Qq. _As_ Ff. _panders_] Ff. _pardons_ Qq. _guerdons_ Anon. conj. MS. [1494] _eyes into my very_] Ff. _very eyes into my_ Qq. [1495] _grained_] Ff. _greeued_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _grieued_ Q₅. _grieved_ Q₆. [1496] _not leave_] Ff. _leave there_ Qq. [1497] _enseamed_] Ff. _inseemed_ Q₂ Q₃. _incestuous_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1498] _sty,--_] _sty;--_ Theobald. _stie._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _stye._ F₁ F₂ Q₆ F₃. _sty._ F₄. _to me_] om. Pope. _me no_] Qq. _me, no_ Ff. [1499] _in_] _into_ Q (1676). _my_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _mine_ Ff Q₆. [1500] _that is not_] _that's not the_ Q (1676). _that is not a_ Keightley. _tithe_] _tythe_ Ff. _kyth_ Qq. [1501] _the rule,_] _a rogue_ Anon. apud Rann conj. [1502] _pocket!_] _pocket, a--_ Seymour conj. Queen. _No more!_] Omitted in Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _No_] _Oh! no_ Hanmer. [1503] _patches--_] Rowe. _patches,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _patches._ Ff Q₆. _patches, all unseemly._ Seymour conj. Enter Ghost.] As in Dyce. Before line 102 in Qq Ff. Enter the Ghost in his night gowne. (Q₁). Enter Ghost unarmed. Collier MS. [1504] [Starting up. Rowe. [1505] _your_] Qq. _you_ Ff. _you,_ Knight. [1506] Queen. _Alas, he's mad!_] om. (Q₁) and Seymour conj. _he's_] _hee's_ Qq. _hes_ F₂. [1507] _time_] _fume_ Collier MS. [1508] _O, say!_] As in Theobald. At the end of the previous line in Qq Ff. [1509] _fighting_] _sighting_ Q₄. _sighing_ Q₅ Q₆. [1510] _you do_] _you doe_ Qq. _you_ F₁. _thus you_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1511] _the incorporal_] _th' incorporall_ Qq. _their corporall_ F₁. _the corporall_ F₂ F₃. _th' incorporeal_ Q (1676). _the corporal_ F₄. [1512] _bedded_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _beaded_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. om. Q (1676). _hairs_] Rowe. _haire_ Qq F₁ F₂. _hair_ F₃ F₄. _like ... excrements_] om. Q (1676). [1513] _Start ... stand_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _Starts ... stands_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _an end_] Qq Ff. _on end_ Q (1676) and Pope (ed. 2). [1514] _glares_] _gleres_ Q₅ Q₆. [1515] _conjoin'd_] _conioyned_ Q₄ Q₅. [1516] _upon_] _on_ Pope. [1517] _effects_] _affects_ Singer. _I have_] _have I_ F₃ F₄. [1518] _whom_] _who_ F₁. [Pointing to the Ghost. Rowe. [1519] _that is_] _that's here_ Q (1676). _is_] _is there_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1520] _steals_] _stalks_ Anon. conj. MS. and Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752. [1521] _father, in his habit as_] _father--in his habit--as_ Steevens conj. _lived_] _lives_ Q₄. [1522] [Exit Ghost.] Qq. Exit. Ff. [1523] _This ... in._] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff. [1524] _Ecstasy!_] _Extasie?_ Ff. om. Qq. _What ecstasie?_ Pope. _How! ecstasy!_ Seymour conj. [1525] _utter'd_] _uttred_ Qq. _uttered_ Ff. [1526] _And I the_] Ff Q₆. _And the_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _re-word_] _re-ward_ Q (1703). [1527] _Would gambol from. Mother,_] _Cannot do mother,_ Q (1676). [1528] _that_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. a Ff. _this_ Q₆. [1529] _Whiles_] Qq. _Whilst_ Ff. _mining_] _running_ F₃ F₄. [1530] _what is_] _what else_ Seymour conj. [1531] _on_] Qq. _or_ Ff. _o'er_ Knight. [1532] _ranker_] Q₅ Q₆. _rancker_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _ranke_ F₁ F₂. _rank_ F₃ F₄. [1533] _Forgive ... good._] Marked as 'aside' by Staunton. [1534] _me_] om. Pope. [1535] _these_] _this_ F₁. [1536] _curb_] F₄. _curbe_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₃. _courb_ F₁ Q₆. _courbe_ F₂. _him_] _it_ Pope. [1537] _O Hamlet_] As in Qq. A separate line in Ff. _in twain_] om. Q (1676). [1538] _O_] _Then_ Q (1676). [1539] _live_] Ff. _leave_ Qq. [1540] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. [1541] _That ... put on._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1542] _eat, Of habits devil,_] _eat, Of habits divell,_ Q₆. _eate Of habits deuill,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _eat Of habit's devil,_ Rowe. _eat, Of habit's devil,_ Pope. _eat Of habits evil,_ Theobald (Thirlby conj.) _eat Of habit's evil,_ Grant White (Theobald conj. withdrawn). _eat Of habits, devil,_ Johnson. _eat, Or habit's devil,_ Steevens conj. _eat, If habit's devil,_ Becket conj. _ape, Oft habits devil,,_ or _ape Of devils' habits_ or _ape, Of habits evil_ Jackson conj. _eat, Oft habits' devil,_ Staunton. _create Of habits, devil_ Keightley. _eat,--O shapeless devil!--_ Bullock conj. [1543] _on. Refrain to-night_] _on: refrain to night_ Q₆. _on to refraine night_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Refrain to-night_] Put at the end of line 160 in Ff. [1544] _the next more ... potency._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1545] _almost can_] _can almost_ Rowe. [1546] _And either ... the_] _And either the_ Q₂ Q₃. _And Maister the_ Q₄. _And master the_ Q₅ Q₆. _And master ev'n the_ Pope. _And master even the_ Capell. _And either curb the_ Malone. _And either quell the_ Singer (ed. 1). _And either mate the_ Anon. conj. _And wither up the_ Bullock conj. _And either lay the_ Cartwright conj. _And either house_ Bailey conj. [1547] [Pointing to Polonius.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [1548] _heaven hath_] _the heavens have_ Hanmer. [1549] _me ... me_] _him with me, and me with this_ Hanmer. _this with me, and me with this_ Johnson. [1550] _I ... behind._] Aside. Delius conj. [1551] _Thus_] Ff Q₆. _This_ The rest. [1552] _One ... lady._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. _Hark, one ... lady._ Capell. _But one ... lady._ Steevens (1793). _One ... good my lady._ Keightley. [1553] _the bloat_] Warburton. _the blowt_ Qq. _the blunt_ Ff. _not the_ Q (1676). _the fond_ Pope. _again to bed_] _to bed again_ Q (1676). [1554] _to ravel_ Q (1676) _and_ F₄. _to ravell_ F₁ F₂ Q₆ F₃. _rouell_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1555] _gib_] Qq. _gibbe_ Ff. _gib-cat_ Keightley. [1556] _concernings_] _conceruings_ Q₄. _conseruings_ Q₅. [1557] _conclusions, in the basket_] F₃ F₄. _conclusions in the basket_ Qq. _conclusions in the basket,_ F₁. _conclusions, in the basket,_ F₂. [1558] _breathe_] F₃ Q₆ F₄. _breath_ The rest. [1559] _that?_] Ff. _that._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _that,_ Q₄ Q₅. _Alack,_] om. Seymour conj., ending lines 196-199, _assured ... life ... said ... that?_ [1560] _Alack ... on._] As in Capell. Two lines, the first ending _forgot,_ in Qq. One line in Ff. [1561] _on_] om. Hanmer. [1562] _There's ... meet._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1563] _knavery_] _naiveté_ or _naiverie_ Becket conj. [1564] _the sport_] _true sport_ Anon. conj. _enginer_] Qq. _engineer_ Q (1676) and Pope. [1565] _petar_] Qq. _petard_ Johnson. _and't_] Theobald. _an't_ Qq. _and it_ Steevens. [1566] _meet._] Q₆. _meete,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _meet,_ Q₅. [1567] _shall_] _will_ Q (1676). _packing:_] _packing: I'll pack him:_ Anon. conj. [1568] _good night. Indeed_] Pointed as in Ff. _good night indeed,_ Qq. [1569] _in life_] _in's life_ Q₆. _foolish_] (Q₁) Ff. _most foolish_ Qq. _foolish prating_] _foolish-prating_ S. Walker conj. [1570] [Exeunt....] Malone, after Capell. Exit. Qq. Exit Hamlet with the dead body. (Q₁). Exit Hamlet tugging in Polonius. Ff. ACT IV. SCENE I. _A room in the castle._ _Enter_ KING, QUEEN, ROSENCRANTZ, _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[1571] _King._ There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:[1572] You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them. Where is your son? _Queen._ Bestow this place on us a little while. [_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._[1573] Ah, mine own lord, what have I seen to-night![1574] 5 _King._ What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?[1575] _Queen._ Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend[1576] Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,[1577] Behind the arras hearing something stir, Whips out his rapier, cries 'a rat, a rat!'[1578] 10 And in this brainish apprehension kills[1579] The unseen good old man. _King._ O heavy deed! It had been so with us, had we been there:[1580] His liberty is full of threats to all, To you yourself, to us, to every one. 15 Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?[1581] It will be laid to us, whose providence Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt,[1582] This mad young man: but so much was our love, We would not understand what was most fit, 20 But, like the owner of a foul disease, To keep it from divulging, let it feed[1583] Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone? _Queen._ To draw apart the body he hath kill'd: O'er whom his very madness, like some ore[1584] 25 Among a mineral of metals base,[1585] Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done.[1586] _King._ O Gertrude, come away![1587] The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed[1588] 30 We must, with all our majesty and skill, Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern! _Re-enter_ ROSENCRANTZ _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[1589] Friends both, go join you with some further aid:[1590] Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him:[1591] 35 Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this. [_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._[1592] Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends; And let them know, both what we mean to do,[1593] And what's untimely done....[1594] 40 Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter[1594] As level as the cannon to his blank[1594] Transports his poison'd shot, may miss our name[1594][1595] And hit the woundless air. O, come away![1594] My soul is full of discord and dismay. [_Exeunt._ 45 SCENE II. _Another room in the castle._ _Enter_ HAMLET.[1596] _Ham._ Safely stowed. _Ros._ } [_Within_] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet![1597] _Guil._} _Ham._ But soft, what noise? who calls on Hamlet?[1598] O, here they come. _Enter_ ROSENCRANTZ _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[1599] _Ros._ What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? 5 _Ham._ Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.[1600] _Ros._ Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence And bear it to the chapel. _Ham._ Do not believe it. _Ros._ Believe what? 10 _Ham._ That I can keep your counsel and not mine own. Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what replication[1601] should be made by the son of a king? _Ros._ Take you me for a sponge, my lord? _Ham._ Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, 15 his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the[1602] corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. 20 _Ros._ I understand you not, my lord. _Ham._ I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. _Ros._ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. 25 _Ham._ The body is with the king, but the king is not[1603] with the body. The king is a thing--[1604] _Guil._ A thing, my lord?[1605] _Ham._ Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and[1606][1607] all after. [_Exeunt._[1607] 30 SCENE III. _Another room in the castle._ _Enter_ KING, _attended_.[1608] _King._ I have sent to seek him, and to find the body.[1609] How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! Yet must not we put the strong law on him:[1610] He's loved of the distracted multitude, Who like not in their judgement, but their eyes; 5 And where 'tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd,[1611] But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,[1612] This sudden sending him away must seem Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are relieved, 10 Or not at all. _Enter_ ROSENCRANTZ.[1613] How now! what hath befall'n? _Ros._ Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord, We cannot get from him. _King._ But where is he? _Ros._ Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure. _King._ Bring him before us. 15 _Ros._ Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord. _Enter_ HAMLET _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[1614] _King._ Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? _Ham._ At supper. _King._ At supper! where? _Ham._ Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a[1615] 20 certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your[1616] worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat[1617] king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two[1618] dishes, but to one table: that's the end.[1619] 25 _King._ Alas, alas![1620] _Ham._ A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of[1620] a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.[1620][1621] _King._ What dost thou mean by this? _Ham._ Nothing but to show you how a king may go a 30 progress through the guts of a beggar.[1622] _King._ Where is Polonius? _Ham._ In heaven; send thither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself. But indeed, if you find him not within this month, you[1623] 35 shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby. _King._ Go seek him there. [_To some Attendants._[1624] _Ham._ He will stay till you come. [_Exeunt Attendants._[1625] _King._ Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,[1626] Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve 40 For that which thou hast done, must send thee hence With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself;[1627] The bark is ready and the wind at help,[1628] The associates tend, and every thing is bent[1629] For England. _Ham._ For England? _King._ Ay, Hamlet. _Ham._ Good.[1630] 45 _King._ So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes. _Ham._ I see a cherub that sees them. But, come; for[1631] England! Farewell, dear mother. _King._ Thy loving father, Hamlet. _Ham._ My mother: father and mother is man and 50 wife; man and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother.[1632] Come, for England! [_Exit._ _King._ Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard;[1633] Delay it not; I'll have him hence to-night: Away! for every thing is seal'd and done 55 That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste.[1634] [_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._ And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught-- As my great power thereof may give thee sense, Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red After the Danish sword, and thy free awe 60 Pays homage to us--thou mayst not coldly set[1635] Our sovereign process; which imports at full, By letters congruing to that effect,[1636] The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; For like the hectic in my blood he rages, 65 And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done, Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun. [_Exit._[1637] SCENE IV. _A plain in Denmark._ _Enter_ FORTINBRAS, _a_ Captain _and_ Soldiers, _marching_.[1638] _For._ Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king;[1639] Tell him that by his license Fortinbras Craves the conveyance of a promised march[1640] Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.[1641] If that his majesty would aught with us, 5 We shall express our duty in his eye;[1642] And let him know so. _Cap._ I will do't, my lord. _For._ Go softly on.[1643] [_Exeunt Fortinbras and Soldiers._[1643] _Enter_ HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, _and others_.[1643][1644] _Ham._ Good sir, whose powers are these?[1643][1645] _Cap._ They are of Norway, sir.[1643][1645][1646] 10 _Ham._ How purposed, sir, I pray you?[1643][1645][1647] _Cap._ Against some part of Poland.[1643][1645][1648] _Ham._ Who commands them, sir?[1643][1645] _Cap._ The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras.[1645][1649] _Ham._ Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,[1645] 15 Or for some frontier?[1645] _Cap._ Truly to speak, and with no addition,[1645][1650] We go to gain a little patch of ground[1645] That hath in it no profit but the name.[1645] To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;[1645][1651] 20 Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole[1645] A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.[1645][1652] _Ham._ Why, then the Polack never will defend it.[1645] _Cap._ Yes, it is already garrison'd.[1645][1653] _Ham._ Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats[1645][1654][1655] 25 Will not debate the question of this straw:[1645][1655] This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,[1645] That inward breaks, and shows no cause without[1645] Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.[1645] _Cap._ God be wi' you, sir. [_Exit._[1645] _Ros._ Will't please you go, my lord?[1645][1656] 30 _Ham._ I'll be with you straight. Go a little before.[1645] [_Exeunt all but Hamlet._[1645][1657] How all occasions do inform against me,[1645] And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,[1645] If his chief good and market of his time[1645] Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.[1645] 35 Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,[1645] Looking before and after, gave us not[1645] That capability and god-like reason[1645] To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be[1645][1658] Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple[1645] 40 Of thinking too precisely on the event,--[1645] A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom[1645] And ever three parts coward,--I do not know[1645][1659] Why yet I live to say 'this thing's to do,'[1645][1659] Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means,[1645] 45 To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:[1645] Witness this army, of such mass and charge,[1645] Led by a delicate and tender prince,[1645] Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd[1645] Makes mouths at the invisible event,[1645] 50 Exposing what is mortal and unsure[1645] To all that fortune, death and danger dare,[1645] Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great[1645][1660] Is not to stir without great argument,[1645][1660][1661] But greatly to find quarrel in a straw[1645] 55 When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,[1645] That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,[1645] Excitements of my reason and my blood,[1645] And let all sleep, while to my shame I see[1645] The imminent death of twenty thousand men,[1645][1662] 60 That for a fantasy and trick of fame[1645] Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot[1645][1663] Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,[1645] Which is not tomb enough and continent[1645] To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,[1645][1664] 65 My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! [_Exit._[1645] SCENE V. _Elsinore. A room in the castle._ _Enter_ QUEEN, HORATIO, _and a_ Gentleman.[1665] _Queen._ I will not speak with her. _Gent._ She is importunate, indeed distract:[1666][1667] Her mood will needs be pitied.[1667] _Queen._ What would she have? _Gent._ She speaks much of her father, says she hears[1666] There's tricks i' the world, and hems and beats her heart, 5 Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt, That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing, Yet the unshaped use of it doth move The hearers to collection; they aim at it,[1668] And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;[1669] 10 Which, as her winks and nods and gestures yield them,[1670] Indeed would make one think there might be thought,[1671] Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily. _Hor._ 'Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew[1672] Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.[1672] 15 _Queen._ Let her come in. [_Exit Gentleman._[1672][1673][1674] [_Aside_] To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,[1674][1675][1676] Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss:[1676] So full of artless jealousy is guilt,[1676] It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.[1676][1677] 20 _Re-enter_ Gentleman, _with_ OPHELIA. _Oph._ Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark? _Queen._ How now, Ophelia![1678] _Oph._ [_Sings_] How should I your true love know[1679][1680] From another one?[1680] By his cockle hat and staff[1680] 25 And his sandal shoon.[1680][1681] _Queen._ Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? _Oph._ Say you? nay, pray you, mark.[1682] [_Sings_] He is dead and gone, lady,[1683][1684][1685] He is dead and gone;[1684][1685] 30 At his head a grass-green turf,[1685][1686] At his heels a stone.[1685] Oh, oh![1687] _Queen._ Nay, but, Ophelia,-- _Oph._ Pray you, mark. [_Sings_] White his shroud as the mountain snow,-- _Enter_ KING.[1688] _Queen._ Alas, look here, my lord. 35 _Oph._ [_Sings_] Larded with sweet flowers;[1689] Which bewept to the grave did go[1690] With true-love showers.[1691] _King._ How do you, pretty lady?[1692] _Oph._ Well, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a[1693] 40 baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know[1694] not what we may be. God be at your table![1695] _King._ Conceit upon her father. _Oph._ Pray you, let's have no words of this; but when[1696] they ask you what it means, say you this: 45 [_Sings_] To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,[1697][1698][1699] All in the morning betime,[1698][1700] And I a maid at your window,[1698] To be your Valentine.[1698] Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,[1701][1702] 50 And dupp'd the chamber-door;[1701][1703] Let in the maid, that out a maid[1701][1704] Never departed more.[1701] _King._ Pretty Ophelia! _Oph._ Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't:[1705] 55 [_Sings_] By Gis and by Saint Charity,[1706][1707] Alack, and fie for shame![1707] Young men will do't, if they come to't;[1707] By cock, they are to blame.[1707][1708] Quoth she, before you tumbled me,[1709][1710] 60 You promised me to wed.[1710] He answers:[1711] So would I ha' done, by yonder sun, An thou hadst not come to my bed.[1712] _King._ How long hath she been thus?[1713] _Oph._ I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but 65 I cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him i'[1714] the cold ground. My brother shall know of it: and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night,[1715] good night. [_Exit._[1715][1716] 70 _King._ Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you. [_Exit Horatio._[1717] O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs[1718] All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,[1719] When sorrows come, they come not single spies,[1720] But in battalions! First, her father slain:[1721] 75 Next, your son gone; and he most violent author Of his own just remove: the people muddied, Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers,[1722] For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly,[1723] In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia[1724] 80 Divided from herself and her fair judgement, Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts:[1725] Last, and as much containing as all these, Her brother is in secret come from France, Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,[1726] 85 And wants not buzzers to infect his ear[1727] With pestilent speeches of his father's death; Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd,[1728] Will nothing stick our person to arraign[1729] In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this, 90 Like to a murdering-piece, in many places[1730][1731] Gives me superfluous death. [_A noise within._[1731] _Queen._ Alack, what noise is this?[1732] _King._ Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.[1733][1734] _Enter another_ Gentleman.[1734] What is the matter?[1734] _Gent._ Save yourself, my lord:[1734][1735] The ocean, overpeering of his list, 95 Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste[1736] Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord;[1737] And, as the world were now but to begin,[1738] Antiquity forgot, custom not known,[1738] 100 The ratifiers and props of every word,[1738][1739][1740] They cry 'Choose we; Laertes shall be king!'[1739][1741] Caps, hands and tongues applaud it to the clouds,[1742] 'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!'[1743] _Queen._ How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! 105 O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs! [_Noise within._[1744] _King._ The doors are broke. _Enter_ LAERTES, _armed_; Danes _following_.[1745] _Laer._ Where is this king? Sirs, stand you all without.[1746] _Danes._ No, let's come in.[1747] _Laer._ I pray you, give me leave. _Danes._ We will, we will. 110 [_They retire without the door._[1747][1748] _Laer._ I thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king,[1749][1750] Give me my father![1749] _Queen._ Calmly, good Laertes. _Laer._ That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard;[1751] Cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow[1752] 115 Of my true mother. _King._ What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks so giant-like? Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person: There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would,[1753] 120 Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes,[1754] Why thou art thus incensed: let him go, Gertrude:[1755] Speak, man. _Laer._ Where is my father? _King._ Dead. _Queen._ But not by him.[1756] _King._ Let him demand his fill. 125 _Laer._ How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with: To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil![1757] Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit![1758] I dare damnation: to this point I stand,[1758] That both the worlds I give to negligence, 130 Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged Most throughly for my father. _King._ Who shall stay you? _Laer._ My will, not all the world:[1759] And for my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far with little.[1760] _King._ Good Laertes,[1761] 135 If you desire to know the certainty[1761] Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge,[1762] That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe,[1763] Winner and loser?[1764] _Laer._ None but his enemies. _King._ Will you know them then?[1765] 140 _Laer._ To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms;[1766] And, like the kind life-rendering pelican,[1767] Repast them with my blood.[1768] _King._ Why, now you speak Like a good child and a true gentleman. That I am guiltless of your father's death, 145 And am most sensibly in grief for it,[1769] It shall as level to your judgement pierce[1770] As day does to your eye. _Danes._ [_Within_] Let her come in. _Laer._ How now! what noise is that? _Re-enter_ OPHELIA.[1771] O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt, 150 Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye![1772] By heaven, thy madness shall be paid with weight,[1773] Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May![1774] Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! O heavens! is't possible a young maid's wits 155 Should be as mortal as an old man's life?[1775] Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine[1776][1777] It sends some precious instance of itself[1776][1777] After the thing it loves.[1776] _Oph._ [_Sings_] They bore him barefaced on the bier;[1778] 160 Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny:[1779] And in his grave rain'd many a tear,--[1780] Fare you well, my dove![1781] _Laer._ Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,[1782] It could not move thus.[1782][1783] 165 _Oph._ [_Sings_] You must sing down a-down,[1784] An you call him a-down-a.[1785] O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false steward, that[1786] stole his master's daughter. _Laer._ This nothing's more than matter.[1787] 170 _Oph._ There's rosemary, that's for remembrance: pray[1788][1789] you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for[1789][1790] thoughts. _Laer._ A document in madness; thoughts and remembrance fitted. 175 _Oph._ There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue for you; and here's some for me: we may call it herb[1791] of grace o' Sundays: O, you must wear your rue with a[1791][1792] difference. There's a daisy: I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died: they 180 say a' made a good end,--[1793] [_Sings_] For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.[1794] _Laer._ Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,[1795] She turns to favour and to prettiness. _Oph._ [_Sings_] And will a' not come again?[1796][1797] 185 And will a' not come again?[1797] No, no, he is dead,[1798] Go to thy death-bed,[1798][1799] He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow,[1800] 190 All flaxen was his poll:[1801] He is gone, he is gone,[1802] And we cast away moan:[1802] God ha' mercy on his soul![1803] And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' you. 195 [_Exit._[1804] _Laer._ Do you see this, O God?[1805] _King._ Laertes, I must commune with your grief,[1806] Or you deny me right. Go but apart, Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will, And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me: 200 If by direct or by collateral hand[1807] They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give,[1808] Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours, To you in satisfaction; but if not, Be you content to lend your patience to us,[1809] 205 And we shall jointly labour with your soul To give it due content. _Laer._ Let this be so; His means of death, his obscure funeral,[1810] No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,[1811] No noble rite nor formal ostentation,[1812] 210 Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth, That I must call't in question.[1813] _King._ So you shall; And where the offence is let the great axe fall.[1814] I pray you, go with me. [_Exeunt._ SCENE VI. _Another room in the castle._ _Enter_ HORATIO _and a_ Servant.[1815] _Hor._ What are they that would speak with me?[1816] _Serv._ Sea-faring men, sir: they say they have letters for you.[1816][1817] _Hor._ Let them come in. [_Exit Servant._[1816][1818] I do not know from what part of the world I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.[1819] 5 _Enter_ Sailors.[1820] _First Sail._ God bless you, sir.[1821][1822] _Hor._ Let him bless thee too. _First Sail._ He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a[1821][1823] letter for you, sir; it comes from the ambassador that was[1824] bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am let 10 to know it is. _Hor._ [_Reads_] 'Horatio, when thou shalt have over-looked[1825] 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 chase. 15 Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour: and in the grapple I boarded them: on the instant[1826] they got clear of our ship; so I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they did; I am to do a good turn[1827] 20 for them. Let the king have the letters I have sent; and repair thou to me with as much speed as thou wouldest[1828] fly death. I have words to speak in thine ear will make[1829] thee dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of[1830] the matter. These good fellows will bring thee where I[1830] 25 am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course for England: of them I have much to tell thee. Farewell.[1831] 'He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.'[1832] Come, I will make you way for these your letters;[1833] And do't the speedier, that you may direct me 30 To him from whom you brought them. [_Exeunt._[1834] SCENE VII. _Another room in the castle._[1835] _Enter_ KING _and_ LAERTES. _King._ Now must your conscience my acquittance seal, And you must put me in your heart for friend, Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear, That he which hath your noble father slain[1836] Pursued my life. _Laer._ It well appears: but tell me 5 Why you proceeded not against these feats,[1837] So crimeful and so capital in nature,[1838] As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,[1839] You mainly were stirr'd up. _King._ O, for two special reasons,[1840] Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinew'd,[1841] 10 But yet to me they're strong. The queen his mother[1842] Lives almost by his looks; and for myself-- My virtue or my plague, be it either which--[1843] She's so conjunctive to my life and soul,[1844] That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, 15 I could not but by her. The other motive, Why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him; Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,[1845] 20 Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows,[1846] Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,[1847] Would have reverted to my bow again[1848] And not where I had aim'd them.[1849] _Laer._ And so have I a noble father lost;[1850] 25 A sister driven into desperate terms, Whose worth, if praises may go back again,[1851] Stood challenger on mount of all the age[1852] For her perfections: but my revenge will come.[1853] _King._ Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think[1854] 30 That we are made of stuff so flat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger[1855] And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more:[1856] I loved your father, and we love ourself;[1857] And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine--[1858] 35 _Enter a_ Messenger, _with letters_. How now! what news?[1859] _Mess._ Letters, my lord, from Hamlet: This to your majesty; this to the queen.[1860] _King._ From Hamlet! who brought them?[1861] _Mess._ Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not: They were given me by Claudio; he received them 40 Of him that brought them. _King._ Laertes, you shall hear them.[1862] Leave us. [_Exit Messenger._[1863] [_Reads_] 'High and mighty, You shall know I am set[1864] naked on your kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave[1865] to see your kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your[1866][1867] 45 pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden and[1866][1868][1869] more strange return.[1869] 'HAMLET.'[1870] What should this mean? Are all the rest come back? Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?[1871] 50 _Laer._ Know you the hand? _King._ Tis Hamlet's character. 'Naked!'[1872][1873] And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.'[1872][1873] Can you advise me?[1872][1874] _Laer._ I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come;[1875] 55 It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,[1876] 'Thus didest thou.'[1877] _King._ If it be so, Laertes,--[1878] As how should it be so? how otherwise?--[1878][1879] Will you be ruled by me?[1878] _Laer._ Ay, my lord;[1880][1881] 60 So you will not o'errule me to a peace.[1880] _King._ To thine own peace. If he be now return'd,[1882] As checking at his voyage, and that he means[1883] No more to undertake it, I will work him To an exploit now ripe in my device,[1884] 65 Under the which he shall not choose but fall: And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe; But even his mother shall uncharge the practice, And call it accident.[1885] _Laer._ My lord, I will be ruled;[1886][1887] The rather, if you could devise it so[1886] 70 That I might be the organ.[1886][1888] _King._ It falls right.[1886] You have been talk'd of since your travel much,[1886] And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality[1886] Wherein, they say, you shine: your sum of parts[1886] Did not together pluck such envy from him,[1886] 75 As did that one, and that in my regard[1886] Of the unworthiest siege.[1886] _Laer._ What part is that, my lord?[1886] _King._ A very riband in the cap of youth,[1886][1889] Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes[1886] The light and careless livery that it wears[1886] 80 Than settled age his sables and his weeds,[1886] Importing health and graveness. Two months since,[1886][1890] Here was a gentleman of Normandy:--[1891] I've seen myself, and served against, the French,[1892] And they can well on horseback: but this gallant[1893] 85 Had witchcraft in't; he grew unto his seat,[1894] And to such wondrous doing brought his horse As had he been incorpsed and demi-natured[1895] With the brave beast: so far he topp'd my thought[1896] That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks, 90 Come short of what he did.[1897] _Laer._ A Norman was't? _King._ A Norman. _Laer._ Upon my life, Lamond. _King._ The very same.[1898] _Laer._ I know him well: he is the brooch indeed And gem of all the nation.[1899] 95 _King._ He made confession of you,[1900] And gave you such a masterly report, For art and exercise in your defence, And for your rapier most especial,[1901] That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed[1902] 100 If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation.[1903][1904] He swore, had neither motion, guard, nor eye,[1903] If you opposed them. Sir, this report of his[1903] Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy[1905] That he could nothing do but wish and beg 105 Your sudden coming o'er, to play with him.[1906] Now, out of this-- _Laer._ What out of this, my lord? _King._ Laertes, was your father dear to you?[1907] Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart? _Laer._ Why ask you this? 110 _King._ Not that I think you did not love your father, But that I know love is begun by time,[1908] And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love[1909] 115 A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;[1909][1910] And nothing is at a like goodness still,[1909] For goodness, growing to a plurisy,[1909][1911] Dies in his own too much: that we would do[1909][1912] We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes[1909][1913] 120 And hath abatements and delays as many[1909] As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,[1909][1914] And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,[1909][1913][1915] That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer:[1909] Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake,[1916] 125 To show yourself your father's son in deed[1917] More than in words? _Laer._ To cut his throat i' the church. _King._ No place indeed should murder sanctuarize;[1918] Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes, Will you do this, keep close within your chamber.[1919] 130 Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home: We'll put on those shall praise your excellence And set a double varnish on the fame[1920] The Frenchman gave you; bring you in fine together[1921] And wager on your heads: he, being remiss,[1922] 135 Most generous and free from all contriving, Will not peruse the foils, so that with ease,[1923] Or with a little shuffling, you may choose A sword unbated, and in a pass of practice[1924] Requite him for your father. _Laer._ I will do't 140 And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword.[1925] I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that but dip a knife in it,[1926] Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue 145 Under the moon, can save the thing from death That is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,[1927][1928] It may be death.[1927] _King._ Let's further think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means[1929] 150 May fit us to our shape: if this should fail,[1930] And that our drift look through our bad performance,[1931] 'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project Should have a back or second, that might hold If this did blast in proof. Soft! let me see:[1932] 155 We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings:[1933] I ha't:[1934][1935] When in your motion you are hot and dry--[1935][1936] As make your bouts more violent to that end--[1937] And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him[1938] 160 A chalice for the nonce; whereon but sipping,[1939] If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,[1940] Our purpose may hold there. But stay, what noise? _Enter_ QUEEN.[1941] How now, sweet queen![1942] _Queen._ One woe doth tread upon another's heel,[1943] 165 So fast they follow: your sister's drown'd, Laertes.[1944] _Laer._ Drown'd! O, where? _Queen._ There is a willow grows aslant a brook,[1945] That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;[1946] There with fantastic garlands did she come[1947] 170 Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,[1948] But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:[1949] There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds[1950] Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;[1951] 175 When down her weedy trophies and herself[1952] Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up:[1953] Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes,[1954] As one incapable of her own distress, 180 Or like a creature native and indued[1955] Unto that element: but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,[1956] Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay[1957] To muddy death. _Laer._ Alas, then she is drown'd![1958] 185 _Queen._ Drown'd, drown'd. _Laer._ Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, 190 The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord: I have a speech of fire that fain would blaze,[1959] But that this folly douts it. [_Exit._[1960] _King._ Let's follow, Gertrude: How much I had to do to calm his rage![1961] Now fear I this will give it start again; 195 Therefore let's follow. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [1571] ACT IV. SCENE I.] Q (1676) and Rowe. A room....] A Royal apartment. Rowe. The same. Capell. Enter....] Enter King, and Queene, with Rosencraus and Guyldensterne. Qq (Eenter Q₂ Q₃). Enter King. Ff. Enter the King and Lordes. (Q₁). [1572] _There's ... heaves:_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _matter_] Qq. _matters_ Ff. _sighs, these ... heaves:_] _sighs, these ... heaves;_ Rowe. _sighes, these ... heaves,_ Qq. _sighes. These ... heaves_ Ff. [1573] &c. Queen.] Ger. or Gert. in Qq. _Bestow ... while._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. _a little while_] om. Seymour conj. [Exeunt....] Q (1676) and Capell. To Ros. and Guild. who go out. Theobald. om. Qq Ff. [1574] _mine own_] Qq. _my good_ Ff. _to-night!_] _to night?_ Qq Ff. [1575] _Gertrude_] Ff. _Gertrard_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _Gertrad_ Q₄. _Gertard_ Q₅. _How_] _hast thou seen? and how_ Seymour conj. [1576] _sea_] Qq. _seas_ Ff. [1577] _mightier:_] _mightier;_ Rowe. _ightier,_ Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _mightier_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _fit,_] Qq. _fit_ Ff. [1578] _Whips out ... cries_] Qq (_Whyps_ Q₂ Q₃. _cryeis_ Q₄ Q₅). _He whips his Rapier out, and cries_ Ff. _'a rat, a rat!'_] _a rat!_ Pope, reading the rest of the line with Ff. [1579] _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff. [1580] _been_] Q₆ F₃ F₄. _beene_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _bin_ F₁. _bine_ F₂. _been_] Q₂ Q₃ F₃ Q₆ F₄. _beene_ Q₄ F₁ F₂. _bin_ Q₅. [1581] _answer'd_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _answered_ Ff Q₆. [1582] _haunt_] _harm_ Johnson conj. [1583] _let_] Qq. _let's_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _lets_ F₂. [1584] _ore_] Qq F₄. _oare_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _or_ (i.e. _gold_) Johnson conj. [1585] _metals_] _metal_ Mason conj. [1586] _he_] Ff. _a_ Qq. [1587] _O_] Q₂ Q₃. _Oh_ Ff. om. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1588] _vile_] Qq F₄. _vilde_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [1589] _Both ... Guildenstern!_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. Re-enter ...] Dyce. Enter Ros. & Guild. Qq (after line 31). After _excuse_ in Ff. [1590] _you with_] _with you_ Q (1676). [1591] _mother's closet_] _Mother Clossets_ F₁. _dragg'd_] _dreg'd_ Q₂ Q₃. [1592] _I pray_] _Pray_ Pope. [Exeunt ...] Ex. Ros. and Guild. Rowe. Exit Gent. Ff. om. Qq. [1593] _And let_] Qq. _To let_ Ff. [1594] See note (XXIII). [1595] _his_] _its_ Theobald. _poison'd_] _poysned_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _poysoned_ Q₅ Q₆. [1596] SCENE II.] Pope. Another....] Capell. Enter Hamlet.] Ff. Enter Hamlet, Rosencraus, and others. Qq. [1597] Ros. Guil. [Within] _... Hamlet!_] Gentlemen within. _Hamlet, Lord Hamlet._ Ff. Omitted in Qq. [1598] _But soft,_] See note (XXIV). [1599] Enter....] Ff. om. Qq. [1600] _Compounded_] _Compound_ Q₂ Q₃. _'tis kin_] _it is kin_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _it is akin_ Q (1676). [1601] _sponge!_] _sponge!--_ Steevens. _sponge,--_ Capell. _spunge,_ or _spundge,_ Qq Ff. [1602] _like an ape_] Ff. _like an apple_ Qq. _like an ape, an apple_ Farmer conj. _like an ape doth nuts_ Singer, from (Q₁). [1603] _with the king, but_] _not with the king, for_ Johnson conj. [1604] _a thing--_] Ff. _a thing._ Qq. _nothing._ Hanmer. [1605] _A thing_] _Nothing_ Hanmer. _lord?_] Ff Q₆. _lord._ The rest. [1606] _Of nothing:_] F₁. _Of nothing_ Qq. _Of nothing?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _A thing or nothing_ Hanmer. _Or nothing._ Johnson conj. [1607] _Hide ... after._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [1608] SCENE III.] Pope. Another....] Capell. Enter King, attended.] Capell. Enter King, and two or three. Qq. Enter King. Ff. [1609] _I have_] _I've_ Pope. [1610] _on_] _upon_ Keightley. [1611] _weigh'd_] Ff. _wayed_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _waigh'd_ Q₆. [1612] _never_] Qq. _neerer_ F₁ F₂. _nearer_ F₃ F₄. _ne'er_ Long MS. _and even_] om. Pope. _even_ Jennens (a misprint). [1613] Enter Rosencrantz.] Enter Rosencraus and all the rest. Qq. Enter Rosencrane. F₁. Enter Rosincros. F₂ F₃ F₄. [1614] _Ho, Guildenstern!_] _Hoa, Guildensterne?_ F₁. _Hoa, Guildenstar?_ F₂ F₃. _Ho, Guildenstare?_ F₄. _How,_ Q₂ Q₃. _Hoe,_ Q₄ Q₅. _Ho,_ Q₆. _Guildenstern_] om. Qq. _my lord_] Ff. _the lord_ Qq. _the lord Hamlet_ Q (1676). Enter ...] Ff. They enter. Qq. [1615] _he is_] _a is_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. [1616] _convocation_] _convacation_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _politic_] _politique_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _politick_ Q₅ Q₆. om. Ff. _palated_ Collier MS. _e'en_] om. Pope. [1617] _ourselves_] _our selfe_ F₁. [1618] _service, two_] _service to_ F₁. [1619] _but_] om. Pope. [1620] King. _Alas, alas!_ Ham. _A ... that worm._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1621] _and_] om. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1622] _guts_] Qq F₁. _gut_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1623] _indeed, if_] Ff. _indeed if_ Q₆. _if indeed_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _within_] Qq. om. Ff. [1624] [To some Attendants.] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [1625] _He_] Ff. _A_ Qq. _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff. [Exeunt Attendants.] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [1626] _deed, for thine_] Qq. _deed of thine, for thine_ Ff. [1627] _With fiery quickness:_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. _therefore_] _then_ Pope. [1628] _at help_] _sits fair_ Q (1676). _at helm_ Johnson conj. [1629] _is bent_] Qq. _at bent_ Ff. [1630] _For England ... Good._] As one line first by Steevens (1793). _England?_] F₁ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _England._ The rest. [1631] _sees_] _knows_ Seymour conj. _them_] Qq. _him_ Ff. [1632] _and so_] (Q₁) Ff Q₆. _so_ The rest. [1633] _Follow ... aboard:_] One line in Rowe. Two, the first ending _foote,_ in Qq Ff. _at foot_] om. Q (1676). [1634] [Exeunt ...] Theobald. om. Qq Ff. [1635] _set_] _let_ Pope (ed. 2). _set by_ Hanmer. _jet_ Becket conj. _rate_ Anon. conj. _see_ Collier MS. See note (II). [1636] _congruing_] Qq. _conjuring_ Ff. [1637] _my haps ... begun_] Ff (_happes_ F₁). _my haps, my ioyes will nere begin_ Qq. _my hopes, my joys are not begun_ Johnson conj. _'t may hap, my joys will ne'er begin_ Heath conj. _my hopes, my joys were ne're begun_ Collier MS. [1638] SCENE IV.] Pope. SCENE II. Rowe. A plain....] Capell. A camp. Rowe. A camp, on the Frontiers of Denmark. Theobald. Enter....] Edd. (Globe ed.) Enter Fortinbrasse with his Army over the stage. Qq. Enter Fortinbras with an Armie. Ff. Enter Fortinbras, and Forces, marching. Capell. [1639] _greet the_] _to the_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1640] _Craves_] Qq. _Claimes_ F₁ F₂. _Claims_ F₃ F₄. [1641] _kingdom_] _realm_ Pope. _rendezvous_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _randevous_ Q₂ Q₃. _rendevous_ F₁. _rendevouz_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1642] _duty_] _durie_ F₂. [1643] _Go ... sir?_] As four lines, ending _these?... sir, ... Who ... sir?_ in Steevens (1793). [1644] _softly_] Qq. _safely_ Ff. [Exeunt....] Exit Fortinbras, with the Army. Theobald. Exit. Ff. om. Qq. Enter ... and others.] Dyce. Enter ... Rosincrantz, Guildenstern, &c. Theobald. Enter Hamlet, Rosencraus, &c. Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1645] Ham. _Good sir, ... worth!_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1646] _They_] _The_ Q₄. [1647] _purposed_] _purposd_ Q₂ Q₃. _proposd_ Q₄ Q₅. _propos'd_ Q₆. [1648] _Against_] _Sir, against_ Capell, reading lines 9-13 as three lines, ending _sir ... against ... sir?_ [1649] _to_] _of_ Q₆. [1650] _speak_] _speak it_ Pope. _speak, sir_ Capell. _speak on't_ Anon. conj. _no_] _no more_ Anon. conj. [1651] _five ducats, five,_] _fiue duckets, fiue_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _five duckets, five_ Q₆. _five ducats--five,_ Theobald. _five ducats fine_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _five ducats; fly!_ Jackson conj. [1652] _sold_] _so_ Rowe (ed. 2). [1653] _Yes, it is_] _O, yes, it is_ Capell. _Nay, 'tis_ Q (1676) and Rowe. _Yes, 'tis_ Pope. [1654] _Two_] _Ten_ S. Walker conj. _twenty_] _many_ Hanmer. [1655] _Two ... straw:_] To be continued to Cap. Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LX. 403). [1656] _be wi' you_] Capell. _buy you_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _buy your_ Q₆. _b' w' ye_ Q (1676) and Rowe. [1657] _I'll_] _Ile_ Qq. _I will_ Capell (ending the line _straight_). _I will_ Malone. _straight_] om. Pope. [Exeunt.] Exe. Manet Hamlet. Rowe. om. Qq. [1658] _fust_] _rust_ Rowe. [1659] _know Why yet I live_] _know. Why yet live I_ Anon. conj. MS. [1660] _Rightly ... to stir_] _'Tis not to be great Never to stir_ Pope. [1661] _to stir_] _to never stir_ Bullock conj. [1662] _imminent_] Q₆. _iminent_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _eminent_ Q (1703) and Rowe. [1663] _plot_] _spot_ Pope. _plat_ Jennens conj. [1664] _slain_] _slain men_ or _slaughter'd_ Anon. conj. _O,_] _O then_ Pope. [1665] SCENE V.] Pope. SCENE III. Rowe. Elsinore. A room....] Capell. A Palace. Rowe. Enter....] Pope. Enter Horatio, Gertrard, and a Gentleman. Qq. Enter Queene and Horatio. Ff. Enter Queen, Horatio, and Attendants. Rowe. Enter Queen, and a Gentleman. Hanmer. Enter Queen, attended; Horatio, and a Gentleman. Capell. [1666] Gent.] Gent. or Gen. Qq. Hor. Ff. [1667] _She ... pitied._] As in Capell. Two lines, the first ending _importunat,_ in Qq. Prose in Ff. _distract: ... pitied._] _distracted, and deserves pity._ Q (1676). [1668] _collection; ... it_] _collect at what they aim_ Long MS. (obliterated). _aim_] F₃ F₄. _ayme_ F₁ F₂. _yawne_ Qq. _yearn_ Anon. conj. [1669] _botch_] _both_ F₃ F₄. [1670] _as her_] _as_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _at her_ F₃ F₄. [1671] _might_] Qq. _would_ Ff. _thought_] _thoughts_ F₃ F₄. _meant or seen_ Staunton conj. [1672] Hor. _'Twere ... minds._ Queen. _Let ... in._] Arranged as by Collier (Blackstone conj.) See note (XXV). [1673] [Exit Gentleman.] Hanmer. Exit Hor. Johnson, om. Qq Ff. [1674] _in. To_] Qq F₁. _in To_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1675] [Aside] Edd. om. Qq Ff. [1676] _To my ... spilt._] Marked with inverted commas in Qq. [1677] Re-enter....] Edd. Enter Ophelia. Qq (after line 16). Enter Ophelia distracted. Ff. Enter Horatio, with Ophelia, distracted. Johnson. Enter Ophelia, wildly. Capell. Re-enter Horatio, with Ophelia. Steevens (1778). [1678] _Ophelia!_] _Ophelia?_ Q₂ Q₃ Ff Q₆. _Ophelia._ Q₄ Q₅. [1679] [Sings] shee sings, Q₂ Q₃. she sings. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. om. Ff. [1680] _How ... shoon_] Four lines in Capell. Two in Qq Ff. [1681] _And his_] _and by his_ Q₆. _sandal_] Ff. _sendall_ Qq. [1682] _Say you?_] Ff. _Say you,_ Qq. [1683] [Sings] Song. Qq. om. Ff. [1684] _He is ... He is_] _He's ... he is_ Pope. _He's ... he's_ Hanmer. [1685] _He ... stone._] Four lines in Capell. Two in Qq Ff. [1686] _grass-green_] _green grass_ Elze (Percy's Reliques). [1687] _Oh, oh!_] _O ho._ Qq. om. Ff. [1688] _his_] _the_ Warburton. [Sings] Capell. om. Qq Ff. Enter King.] Qq. After _stone_, line 32, in Ff. [1689] [Sings] Song. Q₆. Song. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ (opposite line 37). om. Ff. _Larded_] (Q₁) Ff. _Larded all_ Qq. [1690] _bewept_] (Q₁) Ff. _beweept_ Qq. _unbewept_ Keightley, reading _did not_ with Qq Ff. _grave_] (Q₁) Ff. _ground_ Qq. _did_] Pope. _did not_ Qq Ff. [1691] _true-love_] Hyphened in Ff. _showers_] _flowers_ F₃ F₄. [1692] _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff. [1693] _God 'ild_] Capell. _good dild_ Qq. _God dil'd_ Ff. _Godild_ Hanmer. _God yield_ Warburton. _God 'ield_ Johnson. [1694] _but know_] _but we know_ Johnson. [1695] _God ... table!_] om. Q (1676). [1696] _Pray you, let's_] _Pray you let's_ F₁ F₂. _Pray lets_ Qq (_let's_ Q₆). _Pray you let us_ F₃ F₄. _Pray let us_ Pope. [1697] [Sings] Song. Qq. om. Ff. [1698] _To-morrow ... Valentine._] Four lines in Qq. Two in Ff. [1699] _To-morrow is_] _Good Morrow, 'tis_ Steevens, 1793 (Farmer conj.) [1700] _morning_] Qq F₁. _morne_ F₂. _morn_ F₃ F₄. [1701] _Then ... more._] Four lines in Johnson. Two in Qq Ff. Six in Capell. [1702] _clothes_] F₁ Q₆ F₃. _close_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _cloathes_ F₂. _cloths_ F₄. [1703] _dupp'd_] _dupt_ Qq Ff. _op'd_ Hanmer. _do'pt_ Warburton. _d'op'd_ Capell. [1704] _the maid, that out_] Qq F₁. _the maid, let in_ F₂. _a maid, that out_ F₃ F₄. _a maid, but out_ Hanmer. [1705] _Indeed, la,_] _Indeed la?_ Ff. _Indeede_ Q₂ Q₃. _Indeed_ Q₄ Q₅. _Indeed,_ Q₆. _Indeed?_ Pope. [1706] [Sings] Capell. om. Qq Ff. _Gis_] F₃ F₄. _gis_ Qq F₁ F₂. _Cis_ Johnson conj. [1707] _By ... blame._] Four lines in Qq Ff. Six in Capell. [1708] _to blame_] Q₅ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _too blame_ The rest. [1709] _Quoth she, before_] _Before, quoth she,_ Capell. [1710] _Quoth ... wed._] Two lines in Ff. One in Qq. Three lines in Capell. [1711] _He answers:_] _(He answers.)_ Qq. Omitted in Ff. _So ... sun,_] Two lines in Capell. _would_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _should_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _ha' done_] _ha done_ Ff. _a done_ Qq. [1712] _An_] Hanmer. _And_ Qq Ff. [1713] _been thus_] _bin this_ F₁. [1714] _should_] Ff. _would_ Qq. [1715] _Good ... good ... good ... good_] _God ... god ... god ... god_ Q₂ Q₃. _God ... God ... God ... God_ Q₄ Q₅. _night, sweet ... night._] Pointed as in Ff, substantially. _night. Sweet ... night._ Qq, reading _Sweet ... night_ as a separate line. [1716] [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq. [1717] _Follow ... you._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [Exit Horatio.] Theobald. Exeunt Hor. and Att. Capell. om. Qq Ff. [1718] _O, this_] _This_ Pope. [1719] _death. O_] _death. Oh_ Ff. _death, and now behold, ô_ Qq, reading lines 72, 73 as prose. [1720] _come, they_] _comes, they_ F₁. _spies_] _spyes_ Q₂ Q₃. _spies_ The rest. _files_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LX. 307). [1721] _battalions_] Q (1676) and Rowe. _battalians_ Qq. _battaliaes_ F₁ F₂. _battels_ F₃ F₄. [1722] _their_] Ff. om. Qq. [1723] _and we have_] _We've_ Pope. _but greenly,_] om. Q (1676). [1724] _In hugger-mugger_] _Obscurely_ Q (1676). _In private_ Pope. Omitted by Capell, ending the previous line at _done_. [1725] _the which we are_] _which we are but_ Q₆. _the which we're_ Pope. [1726] _Feeds on his wonder_] Johnson. _Feeds on this wonder_ Qq. _Keepes on his wonder_ Ff (_Keeps_ F₃ F₄). _Feeds on his anger_ Hanmer. _in clouds_] _inclos'd_ Thirlby conj. [1727] _buzzers_] _whispers_ Q (1676). [1728] _Wherein_] Qq. _Where in_ Ff. _Wherein necessity_] _Whence animosity_ Hanmer. [1729] _person_] Qq. _persons_ Ff. [1730] _murdering-piece_] Hyphen inserted in Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1731] _places Gives_] Qq. _places, Gives_ Ff. [1732] Queen. _Alack, ... this?_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [1733] SCENE VI. Pope. _Where_] Ff. _Attend, where_ Qq. _are_] _is_ Q₂ Q₃. _Switzers_] Ff. _Swissers_ Qq. [1734] _Let ... matter_] As in Qq. One line in Ff. Enter another Gentleman.] Enter a Gentleman, hastily. Capell. Enter a Messenger. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff, after _death_, line 92. Enter Messenger. Q₆. [1735] Gent.] Gen. Capell. Messen. Qq. Mes. Ff. [1736] _Eats_] _Beats_ Williams conj. _impetuous_] _impitious_ Q₂ Q₃. _impittious_ F₁. [1737] _lord_] _king_ Collier MS. [1738] _And ... word,_] Put in a parenthesis, Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LX. 403). [1739] _The ... shall be king!_] _The ... to be king,_ Q₆. _The ... for our king,_ Q (1676) and Rowe. _They cry ... for our king: The ratifiers ... word_ Hanmer. [1740] _word_] _ward_ Warburton. _weal_ Johnson conj. _work_ Capell (Tyrwhitt conj.) [1741] _They_] _The_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _we;_] _we,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _we?_ Ff. _we_ Q₆. [1742] _tongues_] _shouts_ Hanmer. [1743] [Noise again, and Shouts: Door assaulted. Capell. [1744] [Noise within.] Ff. A noise within. Qq, opposite to line 105. [1745] Enter ... following.] Capell. Enter Laertes with others. Qq, after line 106. Enter Laertes. Ff, after line 106. Enter Laertes, with a Party at the Door. Theobald. [1746] _this king? Sirs_] Qq. _the king, sirs?_ Ff. [1747] Danes.] Dan. Capell. All. Qq Ff. [1748] [They retire....] Capell. Exeunt. Theobald. om. Qq Ff. [1749] _O thou ... father!_] Arranged as in Qq. One line in Ff. [1750] _vile_] Qq F₄. _vilde_ F₁ F₂. _vild_ F₃. [1751] _That ... bastard;_] One line in Qq. Two lines in Ff. _that's calm_] _that's calme_ Q₅ Q₆. _thats calme_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _that calmes_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _that calms_ F₄. [1752] _unsmirched brow_] _unsmitched brow_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _brows_ Q (1676). _and unsmich'd brow_ Pope. _and unsmirch'd brow_ Theobald. _and unsmirch'd brows_ Johnson. _unsmirched brows_ Grant White. [1753] _can but_] _cannot_ Q₄ Q₅. _can but peep to_] _dares not reach at_ Q (1676). [1754] _Acts_] _Act's_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Act_ Hanmer. _his_] _its_ Pope. [1755] _thou art_] _art thou_ F₃ F₄. _are you_ Rowe (ed. 2). [1756] _Where is_] Qq. _Wheres_ F₁ F₂. _Where's_ F₃ F₄. _Dead_] _Dead, Laertes_ Capell. [1757] _blackest_] _black_ Hanmer. [1758] _grace, to ... pit! I_] _grace, to ... pit. I_ Ff. _grace, to ... pit I_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _grace to ... pit, I_ Q₆. [1759] _world_] Ff. _worlds_ Qq. _world's_ Hanmer. [1760] _They_] _The_ Q₄. [1761] _Good ... certainty_] As in Ff. _One line in_ Qq. [1762] _father's death_] F₃ F₄. _fathers death_ F₁ F₂. _father_ Qq. _is't_] Q₆. _i'st_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _if_ Ff. _if 'tis not_ Rowe. [1763] _That, swoopstake_] _Swoop-stake-like_ (Q₁). _That soopstake_ Q₂ Q₃. _That soope-stake_ Q₄. _That soop-stake_ Q₅ Ff Q₆. (_That sweep-stake_) Pope. _That, sweep-stake_ Johnson. _you will_] _will you_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.) [1764] _loser?_] Q₆. _loser._ F₄. _looser._ The rest. [1765] _then?_] Qq F₄. _then._ The rest. [1766] _his good friends_] _this, good friends_, Q (1676). _ope_] _hope_ F₂. [1767] _pelican_] _Politician_ F₁. [1768] _Repast_] _Relieve_ Q (1676). _Why, now you speak_] _Why now? what noyse is that?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1769] _sensibly_] _sencibly_ Q₂ Q₃. _sencible_ Q₄. _sensible_ The rest. [1770] _pierce_] Ff. _peare_ Qq. _lye_ Q (1676). _'pear_ Johnson. SCENE VII. Pope. Danes. [Within] Capell. See note (XXVI). [1771] Re-enter....] Collier. Enter Ophelia, fantastically drest with Straws and Flowers. Rowe. [1772] _Burn out_] _Burn on_ Pope (ed. 1). [1773] _with_] Qq. _by_ Ff. [1774] _Till_] _Tell_ Q₂ Q₃. _turn_] _turne_ Qq. _turnes_ F₁ F₂. _turns_ F₃ F₄. [1775] _an old_] Ff. _a poore_ Qq. _a sick_ Q (1676). [1776] _Nature ... loves._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [1777] _fine ... fine, ... instance_] _fire ... fire, ... incense_ Pope conj. _fal'n ... fal'n, ... instance_ Warburton. [1778] _barefaced_] _bure-faste_ Q₂ Q₃. [Sings] Song. Qq. om. Ff. [1779] _Hey ... nonny:_] _Hey ... nony:_ or _Hey ... noney:_ Ff. Omitted in Qq. [1780] _in_] Qq. _on_ Ff. _rain'd_] Qq. _raines_ F₁ F₂. _rains_ F₃ F₄. _remains_ Warburton. _rain_ Collier MS. See note (II). [1781] _Fare ... dove!_] See note (XXVII). [1782] _Hadst ... thus._] Verse in Qq. Prose in Ff. [1783] _move_] _move me_ S. Walker conj. [1784] See note (XXVIII). [1785] _An_] _an_ Capell. _And_ Qq. and Ff. [1786] _wheel becomes it_] _wheele becomes it_ Qq F₁. _wheeles become it_ F₂. _wheels become?_ F₃ F₄. _weal becomes it_ Warburton. [1787] _nothing's_] _nothing is much_ Q (1676). [1788] _There's ... remembrance:_] Prose in Qq. One line in Ff. _that's_] _that_ Q₄ Q₅. [1789] _pray you_] Qq. _Pray_ Ff. [1790] _there is_] _there's_ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _pansies_] Johnson. _paconcies_ F₁. _pancies_ The rest. [1791] _herb of grace_] _herbe of grace_ Qq. _herbe-grace_ Ff (_herb_ F₃ F₄). _hearb a grace_ (Q₁). [1792] _o'_] Theobald. _a_ Qq Ff. _O, you must_] _Oh you must_ or _O you must_ Ff. _you may_ Qq. _you must_ (Q₁). [1793] _a' made_] _a made_ Qq. _he made_ Ff. [1794] [Sings] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [1795] _Thought_] _Thoughts_ (Q₁) Q₆. _affliction_] Ff. _afflictions_ (Q₁) Qq. [1796] [Sings] Song. Qq. om. Ff. [1797] _a' ... a'_] _a ... a_ Qq. _he ... he_ Ff. [1798] Two lines in Johnson. One in Qq Ff. [1799] _Go to thy_] _Gone to his_ Collier (Collier MS.) [1800] _was as_] Qq. _as_ Ff. _was_ Collier (Collier MS.) [1801] _All flaxen_] Ff. _Flaxen_ Qq. _poll_] Johnson. _pole_ Qq Ff. [1802] _He ... moan:_] Two lines in Johnson. One in Qq Ff. [1803] _God ha' mercy_] Collier. _God a mercy_ Qq. _Gramercy_ Ff. _God a' mercy_ Steevens (1778). [1804] _of_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. om. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _on_ Johnson. _Christian_] Ff Q₆. _Christians_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _I pray God_] Ff. om. Qq. _God be wi' you_] _God buy you_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _God buy yous,_ Q₄ Q₅. _God buy ye_ F₁ F₂. _God bu'ye_ F₃. _God b' w' ye_ F₄. See note (XXIX). [Exit.] Exit dancing distractedly. Collier MS. [1805] _Do you see this, O God?_] Capell. _Doe you this ô God._ Qq _(God!_ Q₆). _Do you see this, you Gods?_ Ff. [1806] _commune_] Qq F₂ F₃ F₄. _common_ F₁. [1807] _collateral_] F₃ F₄. _colaturall_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _collaturall_ Q₅. _colaterall_ F₁. _collaterall_ F₂ Q₆. [1808] _kingdom_] _kindome_ Q₄. [1809] _patience_] _paience_ F₂. [1810] _funeral_] _funerall_ Qq. _buriall_ F₁ F₂. _burial_ F₃ F₄. [1811] _trophy_] _trophe_ Q₂ Q₃. _trophae_ Q₄ Q₅. _trophee_ Ff. trophey Q₆. [1812] _rite_] Ff. _right_ Qq. [1813] _call't_] Qq. _call_ Ff. [1814] _axe_] _tax_ Warburton. [1815] SCENE VI.] Capell. SCENE VIII. Pope. Another ...] Another Room in the same. Capell. Enter ...] Capell. Enter Horatio, with an Attendant. Ff. Enter Horatio and others. Qq. [1816] _What ... in._] Verse by Capell, ending the lines _sir ... in._ [1817] Serv.] Ser. Ff. Gent. or Gen. Qq. _Sea-faring men_] Qq. _Saylors_ F₁ F₂. _Sailors_ F₃ F₄. [1818] [Exit Servant.] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [1819] _greeted, if_] Ff Q₆. _greeted. If_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1820] Enter Sailors.] Enter Saylers. Qq. Enter Saylor. Ff (Sailor F₄). [1821] First Sail.] 1. S. Capell. Say. Qq F₁ F₂. Sayl. F₃. Sail. F₄. [1822] _you_] _your_ F₂. [1823] _He_] Ff. _A_ Qq. _an't_] Q₆ F₄. _and_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _and't_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [1824] _comes_] Ff. _came_ Qq. _ambassador_] _embassador_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Ambassadours_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _embassadour_ Q₆. _Ambassadour_ F₄. [1825] Hor. [Reads] Reads the Letter. Ff. Hor. Qq. [1826] _and in_] Qq. _in_ Ff. _on the instant_] _in the instant_ Q₆. [1827] _good_] Ff. om. Qq. [1828] _speed_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _speede_ Q₂ Q₃. _hast_ F₁ F₂. _haste_ F₃ F₄. _wouldest_] Q₂ Q₃ F₁ F₂ F₃. _wouldst_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₄. [1829] _thine_] Qq. _your_ Ff. _thy_ Pope. [1830] _bore of the_] Ff. _bord of the_ Qq. om. Q (1676) and Pope. [1831] _much_] _as much_ F₃ F₄. [1832] _He that ... thine, Hamlet._] Ff. _So that ... thine Hamlet._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _So that ... thine, Hamlet._ Q₆. _Hamlet._ Q (1676). [1833] _make_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _give_ Ff. om. Q₂ Q₃. [1834] [Exeunt.] Qq. Exit. Ff. [1835] SCENE VII.] Capell. SCENE IX. Pope. Another ... castle.] Another ... same. Capell. [1836] _which_] _who_ Q (1676). [1837] _proceeded_] Ff. _proceede_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _proceed_ Q₅ Q₆. [1838] _crimeful_] F₄. _crimefull_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _criminall_ Qq. _and so_] _and_ Q₆. [1839] _safety_] Ff. _safetie, greatnes_ Q₂ Q₃. _safety, greatnes_ Q₄. _safetie, greatnesse_ Q₅. _safety, greatnesse_ Q₆. [1840] _O, for two_] _For two_ Q (1676). _Two_ Pope. [1841] _unsinew'd_] _unsinnow'd_ Qq. _unsinnowed_ F₁ F₂. _unsinewed_ F₃ F₄. [1842] _But_] Qq. _And_ Ff. _they're_] _tha'r_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _tha're_ Q₆. _they are_ Ff. _are_ Pope. [1843] _be it_] _be't_ Pope. [1844] _She's so conjunctive_] Ff (_Shes_ F₂). _She is so concliue_ Qq. _She is so precious_ Q (1676). [1845] _Would_] Ff. _Worke_ Qq. [1846] _gyves_] F₁ F₂ Q₆ F₃. _gives_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₄. _gybes_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _that_] om. Pope. [1847] _timber'd_] _tymberd_ Q₂ Q₃. _tymbered_ Q₄. _timbered_ Q₅ Q₆. _timbred_ Ff. _loud a wind_] Ff (_winde_ F₁). _loued Arm'd_ Q₂ Q₃. _loued armes_ Q₄ Q₅. _loved armes_ Q₆. _loved, arm'd_ Jennens. [1848] _bow_] _brow_ Long MS. [1849] _And_] Ff. _But_ Qq. _not_] _not gone_ Keightley conj. _had_] Ff. _have_ Qq. _aim'd_] _arm'd_ F₁. [1850] _have I_] _I have_ Q₅ Q₆. [1851] _Whose worth_] Qq. _Who was_ Ff. _Who has_ Johnson. [1852] _Stood_] _Sole_ Collier MS. _on mount_] _on the mount_ Q (1676). [1853] _my_] om. Pope. [1854] _Break ... think_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [1855] _beard_] _berd_ Q₄. _beards_ Q₆. _with danger_] _of danger_ Capell conj. [1856] _pastime_] _pasttime_ F₂. _shortly shall_] _shall soon_ Pope. [1857] _ourself_] _your selfe_ F₂. _your self_ F₃ F₄. [1858] _imagine--_] Ff. _imagine._ Qq. Enter....] Qq. Enter a Messenger. Ff. [1859] _How ... news?_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. _Letters ... Hamlet:_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [1860] _This_] Ff. _These_ Qq. [1861] _Hamlet!_] _Hamlet?_ Ff Q₆. _Hamlet,_ The rest. [1862] _Of ... them._] Omitted in Ff. _him_] _them_ S. Walker conj. _hear_] om. F₂. _read_ F₃ F₄. [1863] _us._] _us, all--_ Pope, reading _Laertes ... all--_ as one line. [Exit....] Ff. om. Qq. [1864] [Reads] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [1865] _shall I_] _I shall_ Jennens. [1866] _first ... thereunto,_] _(first ... pardon) thereunto_ Q (1676). [1867] _asking your_] _asking you_ Q (1676) and Rowe. [1868] _occasion_] Qq. _occasions_ Ff. [1869] _and more strange_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. _and most strange_ Anon conj. [1870] _HAMLET._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [1871] _abuse, and_] Qq. _abuse? Or_ Ff. [1872] _'Tis ... me?_] Divided as in Qq. Prose in Ff. Pope ends the lines _character; ... says) ... me?_ [1873] _'Naked!' ... 'alone'._] Marked as quotations first by Johnson. [1874] _advise_] Ff. _devise_ Qq. [1875] _I'm_] Ff. _I am_ Qq. [1876] _shall_] Ff. om. Qq. _and tell_] _to tell_ Hanmer. [1877] _didest_] _diddest_ Ff. _didst_ Qq. [1878] _If it ... me?_] Arranged as in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _so?_, in Ff. [1879] _should it_] _should it but_ Keightley. _should't not_ Anon. conj. [1880] _Ay ... peace._] Arranged as by Steevens. One line in Qq. _Ay ... So you will_] _I my lord, so you will_ Qq. _If so you'l_ Ff. _I, so you'll_ Pope. _Ay; so you'll_ Johnson. _I will, my lord; So you will_ Capell, ending the first line at _lord_. [1881] _lord_] _good lord_ S. Walker conj. [1882] _return'd_] _returned_ Qq. [1883] _checking at_] Ff. _the King at_ Q₂ Q₃. _liking not_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _kecking at_ Long MS. [1884] _device_] Ff Q₆. _devise_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1885] _accident_] _accedent_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. [1886] Laer. _My Lord ... graveness._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1887] _My Lord,_] om. Pope. [1888] _organ_] _instrument_ Q(1676) and Rowe. [1889] _riband_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _ribaud_ Q₂ Q₃. _feather_ Q(1676) and Rowe. [1890] _health_] _wealth_ Warburton. _Two months since_] Qq. _Some two months hence_ Ff. [1891] _Normandy:--_] _Normandy._ Ff. _Normandy,_ Qq. [1892] _I've_] Ff. _I have_ Qq. [1893] _can_] Qq. _ran_ Ff. [1894] _unto_] Qq. _into_ Ff. [1895] _had he_] _he had_ Q₆. [1896] _topp'd_] _topt_ Qq. _past_ Ff. _my thought_] Ff Q₆. _me thought_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1897] _Come_] _Came_ Capell conj. [1898] _Lamond_] Pope. _Lamound_ Ff. _Lamord_ Qq. _Lamode_ Malone conj. _Lamont_ Grant White. _very_] om. Warburton. [1899] _the_] Qq. _our_ Ff. _that_ Collier MS. See note (II). [1900] _He made_] _Hee mad_ F₁. [1901] _especial_] _especiall_ Qq. _especiallyͨ_ F₁. _especially_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1902] _sight_] _fight_ Rowe (ed. 2). [1903] _you: the ... them. Sir, this_] _you; the ... them; sir this_ Qq. _you Sir. This_ Ff. omitting _the ... them,_ lines 101-103. _you. This_ Pope, following Ff. [1904] _the scrimers_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _the scrimures_ Q₂ Q₃. _the fencers_ Q (1676). _th' escrimeurs_ Grant White. [1905] _his_] _your_ S. Walker conj. [1906] _o'er_] _ore_ Qq F₁. _over_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _him_] Ff. _you_ Q₄. [1907] _this--_] Rowe. _this._ Qq Ff. _What_] Qq. _Why_ Ff. [1908] _But ... by time_] _Love is begun betime: but that I know,_ Becket conj. _begun_] _begone_ or _by-gone_ Mason conj. _benumb'd_ Jackson conj. _by time_] _betime_ Seymour conj. _begun_] _begnawn_ Bailey conj. [1909] _There ... ulcer:_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1910] _wick_] Rowe (ed. 2). _weeke_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _wicke_ Q₆. [1911] _plurisy_] _plurisie_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _pleurisie_ Q₆. _plethory_ Hanmer (Warburton conj.) [1912] _that_] _what_ Pope. [1913] _'would' ... 'should'_] Put in italics in Q₅ Q₆. [1914] _accidents_] _accedents_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. [1915] _spendthrift sigh_] _spend-thrift sigh_ Q₆. _spend thrifts sigh_ Q₂ Q₃. _spend-thrifts sigh_ Q₄ Q₅. _spend-thrift's sign_ Warburton. [1916] _Hamlet comes_] Qq F₁. _Hamlet come_ F₂ F₃. _Hamlet, come_ F₄. [1917] _your ... in deed_] F₄. _your fathers sonne indeed_ F₁ F₂. _your father's son indeed_ F₃. _indeede your fathers sonne_ Qq (_indeed_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆). [1918] _sanctuarize_] _sanctuarise_ Q₂ Q₃. _sancturize_ F₁. [1919] _this, ... chamber._] Pointed substantially as by Steevens (1778). _this, ... chamber,_ Q₂ Q₃ F₁ _this, ... chamber_ Q₄ Q₅. _this?... chamber,_ Q₆. _this, ... chamber?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [1920] _fame_] _same_ Q₅ Q₆ F₃ F₄. [1921] _Frenchman_] _Frenchmen_ Warburton. [1922] _on_] Ff. _ore_ Qq. [1923] _foils,_] Marked with a note of interrogation in Ff. [1924] _unbated_] Qq. _unbaited_ F₁ F₂. _un-baited_ F₃ F₄. _imbaited_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _unrebated_ Becket conj. See note (XXX). _pass_] F₃ F₄. _passe_ F₁ F₂. _pace_ Qq. [1925] _that_] Ff. om. Q₂ Q₃. _the_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _anoint_] _annoiot_ F₂. [1926] _that but dip_] Q₅ Q₆. _that but dippe_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _I but dipt_ Ff. [1927] _With ... death._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [1928] _if I_] _if't_ Anon. conj. [1929] _Weigh_] Q₅ Ff Q₆. _Wey_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _convenience_] _conveiance_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [1930] _us_] _it_ Hanmer. _shape: if ... fail,_] Pointed substantially as by Rowe. _shape if ... fayle,_ Qq. _shape, if ... faile;_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _shape if ... fail;_ F₄. [1931] _look_] _lookt_ F₄. [1932] _did_] Qq. _should_ Ff. [1933] _cunnings_] Qq. _commings_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _comings_ F₄. [1934] _I ha't_] Ff. _I hate_ Q₂ Q₃. _I hav't_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _That--_ Rowe. [1935] _I ha't ... dry_] Arranged as by Johnson. One line in Qq Ff. [1936] _and dry_] om. Pope, reading _I ha't ... hot_ as one line. [1937] _As_] _And_ Pope. _that end_] Qq. _the end_ Ff. [1938] _prepared_] _prepar'd_ Ff. _prefard_ Q₂ Q₃. _preferd_ Q₄ Q₅. _prefer'd_ Q₆. [1939] _nonce_] _once_ Q₄ Q₅. _sipping_] _tasting_ Q (1676). [1940] _stuck_] _tucke_ Q₆. _tuck_ Q (1676) and Rowe. [1941] _But ... noise?_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. Enter Queen.] As in Qq. After _queen!_ in Ff. [1942] _How ... queen!_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [1943] SCENE X. Pope. [1944] _they_] Qq. _they'l_ F₁ F₂. _they'll_ F₃ F₄. [1945] _grows aslant_] _growing o'er_ Q (1676). _aslant a_] Ff. _ascaunt the_ Qq. [1946] _hoar_] F₃ F₄. _hore_ F₁ F₂. _horry_ Q₂ Q₃. _hoary_ Q₄. _hoarie_ Q₅ Q₆. [1947] _There with ... come_] Ff. _Therewith ... make_ Qq. _Near which ... she did make_ Q (1676). [1948] _give_] _gave_ F₄. _name_] _name to_ Rowe. [1949] _cold_] Ff. _cull-cold_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _culcold_ Q₅ Q₆. [1950] _There_] Qq Ff. _Then_ Capell. _coronet_] _cronet_ Q₂ Q₃. [1951] _silver_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _sluer_ Q₄ Q₅. _shiver_ Q₆. [1952] _her_] Qq. _the_ Ff. _trophies_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _trophæs_ Q₄ Q₅. _tropheys_ Q₆. [1953] _bore_] _bear_ F₄. [1954] _snatches_] _remnants_ Q (1676). _tunes_] (Q₁) Ff. _laudes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _lauds_ Q₅ Q₆. [1955] _indued_] F₁ Q₆. _indewed_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _deduced_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _inured_ Mason conj. _reduced_ Collier MS. [1956] _their_] _her_ F₁. [1957] _poor wretch_] _poore wench_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _gentle maid_ Q (1676). _lay_] Qq. _buy,_ F₁. _by,_ F₂ F₃. _by_ F₄. [1958] _she is drown'd!_] Pope, _she is drownd._ Q₂ Q₃. _is she drownd._ Q₄. _is she drown'd._ Q₅. _is she drown'd?_ Ff Q₆. [1959] _of fire_] Ff. _a fire_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _afire_ Q₆. [1960] _douts_] Knight. _doubts_ F₁. _drownes_ Qq F₂. _drowns_ F₃ F₄. _Let's_] om. Pope. [1961] _I had_] _had I_ Pope (ed. 2). ACT V. SCENE I. _A churchyard._ _Enter two_ Clowns, _with spades, &c._[1962] _First Clo._ Is she to be buried in Christian burial that[1963][1964] wilfully seeks her own salvation? _Sec. Clo._ I tell thee she is; and therefore make her[1965][1966] grave straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial. 5 _First Clo._ How can that be, unless she drowned herself[1963][1967] in her own defence? _Sec. Clo._ Why, 'tis found so.[1965] _First Clo._ It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else.[1968] For here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues 10 an act: and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to[1969] do, and to perform: argal, she drowned herself wittingly.[1970] _Sec. Clo._ Nay, but hear you, goodman delver.[1971] _First Clo._ Give me leave. Here lies the water; good:[1972] here stands the man; good: if the man go to this water and[1973] 15 drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you[1974] that; but if the water come to him and drown him, he[1975] drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. _Sec. Clo._ But is this law? 20 _First Clo._ Ay, marry, is't; crowner's quest law. _Sec. Clo._ Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not[1976] been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o'[1977] Christian burial. _First Clo._ Why, there thou say'st: and the more pity that[1978] 25 great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than their even Christian. Come,[1979] my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners,[1980] ditchers and grave-makers: they hold up Adam's profession. _Sec. Clo._ Was he a gentleman? 30 _First Clo._ A' was the first that ever bore arms.[1981] _Sec. Clo._ Why, he had none.[1982] _First Clo._ What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand[1982][1983] the Scripture? The Scripture says Adam digged:[1982] could he dig without arms? I'll put another question[1982] 35 to thee: if thou answerest me not to the purpose, confess[1984] thyself--[1985] _Sec. Clo._ Go to. _First Clo._ What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? 40 _Sec. Clo._ The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a[1986] thousand tenants. _First Clo._ I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows does well; but how does it well? it does well to those that do ill: now, thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger 45 than the church: argal, the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come. _Sec. Clo._ 'Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?'[1987] _First Clo._ Ay, tell me that, and unyoke. 50 _Sec. Clo._ Marry, now I can tell. _First Clo._ To't. _Sec. Clo._ Mass, I cannot tell. _Enter_ HAMLET _and_ HORATIO, _afar off_.[1988] _First Clo._ Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating, and when 55 you are asked this question next, say 'a grave-maker:' the houses that he makes last till doomsday. Go, get thee to[1989][1990] Yaughan; fetch me a stoup of liquor. [_Exit Sec. Clown._[1990][1991] [_He digs, and sings._ In youth, when I did love, did love, Methought it was very sweet, 60 To contract, O, the time, for-a my behove,[1992] O, methought, there-a was nothing-a meet.[1993] _Ham._ Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that[1994][1995] he sings at grave-making?[1995] _Hor._ Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.[1996] 65 _Ham._ 'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.[1997] _First Clo._ [_Sings_] But age, with his stealing steps,[1998][1999] Hath claw'd me in his clutch,[1999][2000] 70 And hath shipped me intil the land,[1999][2001] As if I had never been such.[2002] [_Throws up a skull._ _Ham._ That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were[2003] Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be[2004] 75 the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches;[2005] one that would circumvent God, might it not?[2006] _Hor._ It might, my lord. _Ham._ Or of a courtier, which could say 'Good morrow, sweet lord! How dost thou, sweet lord?' This might[2007] 80 be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord such-a-one's[2008] horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not?[2009] _Hor._ Ay, my lord. _Ham._ Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's;[2010] chapless, and knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's[2011] 85 spade: here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to see't.[2012] Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggats with 'em? mine ache to think on't.[2013] _First Clo._ [_Sings_] A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade,[1998] For and a shrouding sheet:[2014] 90 O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet. [Throws up another skull.[2015] _Ham._ There's another: why may not that be the skull[2016] of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his[2017] cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he suffer this 95 rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty[2018] shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery? Hum![2019] This fellow might be in 's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines and the recovery[2020] 100 of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? will[2020][2021] his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double[2022][2023] ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures?[2023] The very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in[2024] this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha? 105 _Hor._ Not a jot more, my lord. _Ham._ Is not parchment made of sheep-skins? _Hor._ Ay, my lord, and of calf-skins too.[2025] _Ham._ They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance[2026] in that. I will speak to this fellow. Whose grave's 110 this, sirrah?[2027] _First Clo._ Mine, sir.[2028] [_Sings_] O, a pit of clay for to be made[2028][2029] For such a guest is meet.[2030] _Ham._ I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in't.[2031] 115 _First Clo._ You lie out on't, sir, and therefore 'tis not[2032] yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine.[2033] _Ham._ Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest. _First Clo._ 'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away again, from[2034] 120 me to you. _Ham._ What man dost thou dig it for? _First Clo._ For no man, sir. _Ham._ What woman then? _First Clo._ For none, neither. 125 _Ham._ Who is to be buried in 't? _First Clo._ One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead. _Ham._ How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord,[2035] 130 Horatio, this three years I have taken note of it; the age[2036] is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so[2037] near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. How long[2038] hast thou been a grave-maker?[2039] _First Clo._ Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that[2040] 135 day that our last king Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.[2041] _Ham._ How long is that since? _First Clo._ Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it was that very day that young Hamlet was born;[2042] he that is mad, and sent into England.[2043] 140 _Ham._ Ay, marry, why was he sent into England? _First Clo._ Why, because a' was mad: a' shall recover[2044] his wits there; or, if a' do not, 'tis no great matter there.[2044][2045] _Ham._ Why? _First Clo._ 'Twill not be seen in him there; there the[2046] 145 men are as mad as he.[2046] _Ham._ How came he mad? _First Clo._ Very strangely, they say. _Ham._ How 'strangely'? _First Clo._ Faith, e'en with losing his wits. 150 _Ham._ Upon what ground? _First Clo._ Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton[2047] here, man and boy, thirty years.[2048] _Ham._ How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot? _First Clo._ I'faith, if a' be not rotten before a' die--as[2049][2050] 155 we have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce[2051] hold the laying in--a' will last you some eight year or nine[2051] year: a tanner will last you nine year.[2052] _Ham._ Why he more than another? _First Clo._ Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade[2053] 160 that a' will keep out water a great while; and your water is[2054] a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. Here's a skull[2055] now: this skull has lain in the earth three and twenty years.[2055][2056] _Ham._ Whose was it? _First Clo._ A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do[2057] 165 you think it was?[2057] _Ham._ Nay, I know not. _First Clo._ A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a'[2058] poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same[2059] skull, sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.[2059][2060] 170 _Ham._ This? _First Clo._ E'en that. _Ham._ Let me see. [_Takes the skull._] Alas, poor[2061] Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a[2062] 175 thousand times; and now how abhorred in my imagination[2063][2064] it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I[2064] have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,[2065] that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one[2066] 180 now, to mock your own grinning? quite chop-fallen? Now[2067] get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint[2068] an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her[2069] laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. _Hor._ What's that, my lord? 185 _Ham._ Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion[2070] i' the earth? _Hor._ E'en so. _Ham._ And smelt so? pah! [_Puts down the skull._[2071] _Hor._ E'en so, my lord. 190 _Ham._ To what base uses we may return, Horatio![2072] Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?[2073] _Hor._ 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. _Ham._ No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither[2074] 195 with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it: as thus:[2075] Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth[2076] into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam;[2077] and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might[2078] they not stop a beer-barrel? 200 Imperious Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay,[2079] Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw![2080] But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. 205 _Enter_ Priests, _&c. in procession; the Corpse of Ophelia_, LAERTES _and_ Mourners _following_; KING, QUEEN, _their trains, &c._[2081] The queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow?[2082] And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken[2083] The corse they follow did with desperate hand Fordo its own life: 'twas of some estate.[2084] Couch we awhile, and mark. [_Retiring with Horatio._[2085] 210 _Laer._ What ceremony else?[2086] _Ham._ That is Laertes, a very noble youth: mark.[2087] _Laer._ What ceremony else? _First Priest._ Her obsequies have been as far enlarged[2088][2089] As we have warranty: her death was doubtful;[2090] 215 And, but that great command o'ersways the order, She should in ground unsanctified have lodged[2091] Till the last trumpet; for charitable prayers,[2092] Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her:[2093] Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants,[2094] 220 Her maiden strewments and the bringing home[2095] Of bell and burial. _Laer._ Must there no more be done?[2096] _First Priest._ No more be done:[2088] We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her[2097] 225 As to peace-parted souls. _Laer._ Lay her i' the earth:[2098] And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. _Ham._ What, the fair Ophelia! 230 _Queen._ [_Scattering flowers_] Sweets to the sweet: farewell![2099] I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;[2100] I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, And not have strew'd thy grave. _Laer._ O, treble woe[2101] Fall ten times treble on that cursed head[2102] 235 Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense[2103] Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile, Till I have caught her once more in mine arms: [_Leaps into the grave._[2104] Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead, Till of this flat a mountain you have made 240 To o'ertop old Pelion or the skyish head[2105] Of blue Olympus.[2106][2107] _Ham._ [_Advancing_] What is he whose grief[2107] Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow[2108] Conjures the wandering stars and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,[2109] 245 Hamlet the Dane. [_Leaps into the grave._ _Laer._ The devil take thy soul! [_Grappling with him._[2110] _Ham._ Thou pray'st not well.[2111] I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat;[2111] For, though I am not splenitive and rash,[2112] Yet have I in me something dangerous,[2113] 250 Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand.[2114] _King._ Pluck them asunder. _Queen._ Hamlet, Hamlet! _All._ Gentlemen,-- _Hor._ Good my lord, be quiet. [_The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave._[2115] _Ham._ Why, I will fight with him upon this theme[2116] Until my eyelids will no longer wag. 255 _Queen._ O my son, what theme? _Ham._ I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love,[2117] Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? _King._ O, he is mad, Laertes. 260 _Queen._ For love of God, forbear him. _Ham._ 'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do:[2118] Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself?[2119][2120] Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?[2119][2121] I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?[2122] 265 To outface me with leaping in her grave?[2123] Be buried quick with her, and so will I: And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone,[2124] 270 Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,[2125] I'll rant as well as thou. _Queen._ This is mere madness:[2126][2127] And thus awhile the fit will work on him;[2128] Anon, as patient as the female dove[2127][2129] When that her golden couplets are disclosed,[2130] 275 His silence will sit drooping. _Ham._ Hear you, sir; What is the reason that you use me thus? I loved you ever: but it is no matter;[2131] Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. [_Exit._[2132] 280 King. I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him. [_Exit Horatio._[2133] [_To Laertes_] Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech;[2134] We'll put the matter to the present push. Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son. This grave shall have a living monument: 285 An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;[2135] Till then, in patience our proceeding be. [_Exeunt._[2136] SCENE II. _A hall in the castle._[2137] _Enter_ HAMLET _and_ HORATIO. _Ham._ So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other;[2138] You do remember all the circumstance?[2139] _Hor._ Remember it, my lord! _Ham._ Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting, That would not let me sleep: methought I lay[2140] 5 Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,[2141][2142] And praised be rashness for it, let us know,[2142][2143][2144][2145] Our indiscretion sometime serves us well[2144][2145][2146] When our deep plots do pall; and that should learn us[2144][2147] There's a divinity that shapes our ends,[2144] 10 Rough-hew them how we will.[2144] _Hor._ That is most certain. _Ham._ Up from my cabin, My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark[2148] Groped I to find out them; had my desire,[2149] Finger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew 15 To mine own room again; making so bold,[2150][2151] My fears forgetting manners, to unseal[2151][2152] Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,-- O royal knavery!--an exact command,[2153] Larded with many several sorts of reasons,[2154] 20 Importing Denmark's health and England's too, With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,[2155] That, on the supervise, no leisure bated, No, not to stay the grinding of the axe,[2156] My head should be struck off.[2157] _Hor._ Is't possible? 25 _Ham._ Here's the commission: read it at more leisure. But wilt thou hear now how I did proceed?[2158] _Hor._ I beseech you.[2159] _Ham._ Being thus be-netted round with villanies,--[2160][2161] Or I could make a prologue to my brains,[2160][2162] 30 They had begun the play,--I sat me down;[2160][2163] Devised a new commission; wrote it fair: I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much[2164] How to forget that learning; but, sir, now 35 It did me yeoman's service: wilt thou know[2165] The effect of what I wrote?[2166] _Hor._ Ay, good my lord. _Ham._ An earnest conjuration from the king, As England was his faithful tributary, As love between them like the palm might flourish,[2167] 40 As peace should still her wheaten garland wear And stand a comma 'tween their amities,[2168] And many such-like 'As'es of great charge,[2169] That, on the view and knowing of these contents,[2170] Without debatement further, more or less, 45 He should the bearers put to sudden death,[2171] Not shriving-time allow'd.[2172] _Hor._ How was this seal'd? _Ham._ Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.[2173] I had my father's signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal: 50 Folded the writ up in the form of the other;[2174] Subscribed it; gave't the impression; placed it safely,[2175] The changeling never known. Now, the next day[2176] Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent[2177] Thou know'st already.[2178] 55 _Hor._ So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.[2179] _Ham._ Why, man, they did make love to this employment;[2180] They are not near my conscience; their defeat[2181] Does by their own insinuation grow:[2182] 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes[2183] 60 Between the pass and fell incensed points[2184] Of mighty opposites. _Hor._ Why, what a king is this! _Ham._ Does it not, thinks't thee, stand me now upon--[2185] He that hath kill'd my king, and whored my mother;[2186] Popp'd in between the election and my hopes;[2187] 65 Thrown out his angle for my proper life,[2188] And with such cozenage--is't not perfect conscience,[2189] To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd,[2190][2191] To let this canker of our nature come[2190] In further evil?[2190][2192] 70 _Hor._ It must be shortly known to him from England[2190] What is the issue of the business there.[2190] _Ham._ It will be short: the interim is mine;[2190][2193][2194] And a man's life's no more than to say 'One.'[2190][2193][2195] But I am very sorry, good Horatio,[2190][2193] 75 That to Laertes I forgot myself;[2190] For, by the image of my cause, I see[2190] The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours:[2190][2196] But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me[2190] Into a towering passion.[2190] _Hor._ Peace! who comes here?[2190][2197] 80 _Enter_ OSRIC. _Osr._ Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.[2198][2199] _Ham._ I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly?[2200][2201] _Hor._ No, my good lord.[2201] _Ham._ Thy state is the more gracious, for 'tis a vice to[2201] know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a beast be[2201] 85 lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess:[2201] 'tis a chough, but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt.[2201][2202] _Osr._ Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I[2203] should impart a thing to you from his majesty. _Ham._ I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of spirit.[2204] 90 Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head.[2205] _Osr._ I thank your lordship, it is very hot.[2206] _Ham._ No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is northerly. _Osr._ It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed. 95 _Ham._ But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot, or my[2207][2208] complexion--[2208] _Osr._ Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, as 'twere,--I[2209] cannot tell how. But, my lord, his majesty bade me[2210] signify to you that he has laid a great wager on your head:[2211] 100 sir, this is the matter--[2212] _Ham._ I beseech you, remember--[2213] [_Hamlet moves him to put on his hat._ _Osr._ Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith.[2214] Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes; believe me, an absolute[2215] gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very[2215][2216] 105 soft society and great showing: indeed, to speak feelingly of[2215][2217] him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find[2215][2218] in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see.[2215][2219] _Ham._ Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you;[2215] though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the[2215][2220] 110 arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect[2215][2221] of his quick sail. But in the verity of extolment, I take[2215] him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such[2215][2222] dearth and rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his[2215] semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his[2215] 115 umbrage, nothing more.[2215] _Osr._ Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.[2215] _Ham._ The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the[2215][2223] gentleman in our more rawer breath?[2215] _Osr._ Sir?[2215][2224] 120 _Hor._ Is't not possible to understand in another tongue?[2215][2225] You will do't, sir, really.[2215][2226] _Ham._ What imports the nomination of this gentleman?[2215] _Osr._ Of Laertes?[2215][2227] _Hor._ His purse is empty already; all's golden words[2215] 125 are spent.[2215] _Ham._ Of him, sir.[2215][2228] _Osr._ I know you are not ignorant--[2215][2229] _Ham._ I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did, it[2215] would not much approve me. Well, sir?[2215][2230] 130 _Osr._ You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is--[2215][2231] _Ham._ I dare not confess that, lest I should compare[2215] with him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to[2215][2232] know himself.[2215] _Osr._ I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation[2215][2233] 135 laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed.[2215][2234] _Ham._ What's his weapon? _Osr._ Rapier and dagger. _Ham._ That's two of his weapons: but, well. _Osr._ The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary[2235] 140 horses: against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six[2236] French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hanger, and so: three of the carriages, in faith, are very[2237] dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit. 145 _Ham._ What call you the carriages? _Hor._ I knew you must be edified by the margent ere[2238] you had done.[2238] _Osr._ The carriages, sir, are the hangers.[2239] _Ham._ The phrase would be more germane to the[2240] 150 matter if we could carry a cannon by our sides: I would[2241] it might be hangers till then. But, on: six Barbary horses[2242] against six French swords, their assigns, and three liberal-conceited carriages; that's the French bet against the[2243][2244] Danish. Why is this 'imponed,' as you call it?[2244][2245] 155 _Osr._ The king, sir, hath laid, sir, that in a dozen[2246] passes between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you[2247] three hits: he hath laid on twelve for nine; and it would[2248] come to immediate trial, if your lordship would vouchsafe the answer. 160 _Ham._ How if I answer 'no'? _Osr._ I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial. _Ham._ Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his[2249] majesty, it is the breathing time of day with me; let the[2249][2250] 165 foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the king hold[2251] his purpose, I will win for him an I can; if not, I will gain[2252] nothing but my shame and the odd hits. _Osr._ Shall I redeliver you e'en so?[2253] _Ham._ To this effect, sir, after what flourish your nature[2254] 170 will. _Osr._ I commend my duty to your lordship.[2255] _Ham._ Yours, yours. [_Exit Osric._] He does well to[2256] commend it himself; there are no tongues else for's turn.[2257] _Hor._ This lapwing runs away with the shell on his[2258] 175 head. _Ham._ He did comply with his dug before he sucked[2259] it. Thus has he--and many more of the same breed that[2260] I know the drossy age dotes on--only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter; a kind of yesty[2261][2262] 180 collection, which carries them through and through the most[2261] fond and winnowed opinions; and do but blow them to[2263] their trial, the bubbles are out.[2264] _Enter a_ Lord.[2265] _Lord._ My lord, his majesty commended him to you by[2265] young Osric, who brings back to him, that you attend him[2265][2266] 185 in the hall: he sends to know if your pleasure hold to play[2265] with Laertes, or that you will take longer time.[2265] _Ham._ I am constant to my purposes; they follow the[2265] king's pleasure: if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now or[2265] whensoever, provided I be so able as now.[2265] 190 _Lord._ The king and queen and all are coming down.[2265] _Ham._ In happy time.[2265] _Lord._ The queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment[2265][2267] to Laertes before you fall to play.[2265][2268] _Ham._ She well instructs me. [_Exit Lord._[2265][2269] 195 _Hor._ You will lose this wager, my lord.[2270] _Ham._ I do not think so; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice; I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my[2271] heart: but it is no matter. 200 _Hor._ Nay, good my lord,--[2272] _Ham._ It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving[2273] as would perhaps trouble a woman.[2273] _Hor._ If your mind dislike any thing, obey it. I will[2274] forestal their repair hither, and say you are not fit. 205 _Ham._ Not a whit; we defy augury: there is special[2275] providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to[2276] come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all; since no man has[2277][2278] aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let 210 be.[2278] _Enter_ KING, QUEEN, LAERTES, _and_ Lords, OSRIC _and other_ Attendants _with foils and gauntlets; a table and flagons of wine on it_.[2279] _King._ Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.[2280] [_The King puts Laertes' hand into Hamlet's._ _Ham._ Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong;[2281] But pardon't, as you are a gentleman.[2282] This presence knows,[2282][2283][2284] 215 And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd[2283][2284][2285] With sore distraction. What I have done,[2283][2284][2286] That might your nature, honour and exception[2284][2287] Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.[2284] Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:[2284] 220 If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,[2284] And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,[2284] Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.[2284] Who does it then? His madness: if't be so,[2284][2288] Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;[2284][2289] 225 His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.[2284] Sir, in this audience,[2284][2290] Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil Free me so far in your most generous thoughts, That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,[2291] 230 And hurt my brother.[2292] _Laer._ I am satisfied in nature, Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most To my revenge: but in my terms of honour I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement, Till by some elder masters of known honour[2293] 235 I have a voice and precedent of peace,[2294] To keep my name ungored. But till that time[2295] I do receive your offer'd love like love[2296] And will not wrong it. _Ham._ I embrace it freely,[2297][2298] And will this brother's wager frankly play.[2298] 240 Give us the foils. Come on.[2299] _Laer._ Come, one for me. _Ham._ I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance Your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night,[2300] Stick fiery off indeed.[2301] _Laer._ You mock me, sir. _Ham._ No, by this hand.[2302] 245 _King._ Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin[2303][2304] Hamlet,[2303] You know the wager? _Ham._ Very well, my lord;[2305][2306] Your grace has laid the odds o' the weaker side.[2306][2307] _King._ I do not fear it; I have seen you both:[2308] But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds.[2309] 250 _Laer._ This is too heavy; let me see another.[2310][2311] _Ham._ This likes me well. These foils have all a length?[2310][2312] [_They prepare to play._ _Osr._ Ay, my good lord. _King._ Set me the stoups of wine upon that table.[2313] If Hamlet give the first or second hit,[2314] 255 Or quit in answer of the third exchange,[2315] Let all the battlements their ordnance fire; The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; And in the cup an union shall he throw,[2316] Richer than that which four successive kings 260 In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups;[2317] And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,[2318] The trumpet to the cannoneer without,[2319] The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,[2320] 'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.' Come, begin;[2321] 265 And you, the judges, bear a wary eye. _Ham._ Come on, sir. _Laer._ Come, my lord. [_They play._[2322] _Ham._ One. _Laer._ No. _Ham._ Judgement. _Osr._ A hit, a very palpable hit.[2323] _Laer._ Well; again. _King._ Stay; give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;[2324] Here's to thy health. [_Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within._[2325] Give him the cup. 270 _Ham._ I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile.[2326] Come. [_They play._] Another hit; what say you?[2327] _Laer._ A touch, a touch, I do confess.[2328] _King._ Our son shall win. _Queen._ He's fat and scant of breath.[2329] Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows:[2330] 275 The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet. _Ham._ Good madam! _King._ Gertrude, do not drink.[2331] _Queen._ I will, my lord; I pray you, pardon me.[2332] _King._ [_Aside_] It is the poison'd cup; it is too late.[2333] _Ham._ I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by.[2334] 280 _Queen._ Come, let me wipe thy face. _Laer._ My lord, I'll hit him now.[2335] _King._ I do not think't. _Laer._ [_Aside_] And yet it is almost against my conscience.[2333][2336] _Ham._ Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally;[2337] I pray you, pass with your best violence; 285 I am afeard you make a wanton of me.[2338] _Laer._ Say you so? come on. [_They play._[2339] _Osr._ Nothing, neither way. _Laer._ Have at you now! [_Laertes wounds Hamlet; then, in scuffling, they change rapiers, and Hamlet wounds Laertes._[2340] _King._ Part them; they are incensed. _Ham._ Nay, come, again. [_The Queen falls._ _Osr._ Look to the queen there, ho![2341] 290 _Hor._ They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?[2342] _Osr._ How is't, Laertes?[2343] _Laer._ Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;[2344] I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.[2345] _Ham._ How does the queen? _King._ She swounds to see them bleed.[2346] 295 _Queen._ No, no, the drink, the drink,--O my dear Hamlet,--[2347] The drink, the drink! I am poison'd. [_Dies._[2347][2348] _Ham._ O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd:[2349] Treachery! seek it out. _Laer._ It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain;[2350] 300 No medicine in the world can do thee good,[2351] In thee there is not half an hour of life;[2352] The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,[2353] Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practice[2354] Hath turn'd itself on me; lo, here I lie,[2355] 305 Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd:[2356] I can no more: the king, the king's to blame.[2357] _Ham._ The point envenom'd too![2358][2359][2360] Then, venom, to thy work. [_Stabs the King._[2358][2360][2361] _All._ Treason! treason! 310 _King._ O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt. _Ham._ Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,[2362] Drink off this potion: is thy union here?[2363] Follow my mother. [_King dies._[2364] _Laer._ He is justly served;[2365] It is a poison temper'd by himself.[2365][2366] 315 Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet: Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,[2367] Nor thine on me! [_Dies._[2368] _Ham._ Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.[2369] I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu![2370] 320 You that look pale and tremble at this chance, That are but mutes or audience to this act,[2371] Had I but time--as this fell sergeant, death,[2372] Is strict in his arrest--O, I could tell you--[2372][2373] But let it be. Horatio, I am dead; 325 Thou livest; report me and my cause aright[2374] To the unsatisfied. _Hor._ Never believe it:[2375] I am more an antique Roman than a Dane:[2376] Here's yet some liquor left. _Ham._ As thou'rt a man,[2377][2378] Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have't.[2377][2379] 330 O good Horatio, what a wounded name,[2380] Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me![2381] If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile,[2382] And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, 335 To tell my story. [_March afar off, and shot within._[2383] What warlike noise is this? _Osr._ Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,[2384] To the ambassadors of England gives[2385][2386][2387] This warlike volley.[2386] _Ham._ O, I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:[2388] 340 I cannot live to hear the news from England; But I do prophesy the election lights On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,[2389] Which have solicited. The rest is silence. [_Dies._[2390] 345 _Hor._ Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,[2391] And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! [_March within._[2392] Why does the drum come hither? _Enter_ FORTINBRAS, _and the_ English Ambassadors, _with drum, colours, and_ Attendants.[2393] _Fort._ Where is this sight? _Hor._ What is it you would see?[2394] If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.[2395] 350 _Fort._ This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,[2396] What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,[2397] That thou so many princes at a shot[2398] So bloodily hast struck? _First Amb._ The sight is dismal;[2399] And our affairs from England come too late: 355 The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd, That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead: Where should we have our thanks? _Hor._ Not from his mouth Had it the ability of life to thank you:[2400] 360 He never gave commandment for their death.[2401] But since, so jump upon this bloody question,[2402] You from the Polack wars, and you from England,[2403] Are here arrived, give order that these bodies High on a stage be placed to the view;[2404] 365 And let me speak to the yet unknowing world[2405] How these things came about: so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts,[2406] Of accidental judgements, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,[2407] 370 And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this can I Truly deliver. _Fort._ Let us haste to hear it, And call the noblest to the audience.[2408] For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune: 375 I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,[2409] Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.[2410] _Hor._ Of that I shall have also cause to speak,[2411] And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more:[2412] But let this same be presently perform'd,[2413] 380 Even while men's minds are wild; lest more mischance[2414] On plots and errors happen.[2415] _Fort._ Let four captains Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;[2416] For he was likely, had he been put on, To have proved most royally: and, for his passage,[2417] 385 The soldiers' music and the rites of war[2418] Speak loudly for him. Take up the bodies: such a sight as this[2419] Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.[2420] Go, bid the soldiers shoot. 390 [_A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the bodies: after which a peal of ordnance is shot off._[2421] FOOTNOTES: [1962] ACT V. SCENE I.] Q (1676) and Rowe. om. Ff. A churchyard.] Capell. A Church. Rowe. Enter ...] Enter ... spades and mattocks. Q (1676) and Rowe. Enter two Clownes. Qq Ff (Clowns. F₃ F₄). [1963] First Clo.] 1 Clown. Rowe. Clowne, or Clown, or Clow. or Clo. Qq Ff. [1964] _that_] Ff. _when she_ Qq. [1965] Sec. Clo.] 2 Clown. Rowe. Other, or Othe. or Oth. Qq. Other. Ff. [1966] _and_] Ff. om. Qq. [1967] _she_] _he_ Q₆. [1968] _se offendendo_] Ff (in italics). _so offended_ Qq. [1969] _to act_] Qq. _an act_ Ff. [1970] _and to perform: argal,_] _and to performe; argall_ Ff (_perform_ F₃ F₄). _to performe, or all;_ Qq. [1971] _hear_] _here_ F₂. _delver_] Qq. _Delver_ F₁ F₂. _Delver_ (in italics) F₃ F₄. [1972] _Here_] _Clown, here_ Johnson. [1973] _this_] _his_ F₃. [1974] _himself_] _himsele_ F₁. [1975] _that;_] _that:_ Q₆. _that,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _that?_ Ff. [1976] _ha'_] F₃ F₄. _ha_ The rest, _have_ Q (1676). _on't_] Ff. _an't_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _ant't_ Q₆. [1977] _out o'_] Edd. (Globe ed.) _out a_ Qq. _out of_ Ff. _without_ Q (1676). [1978] _say'st:_] _say'st true:_ S. Walker conj. _say'st sooth:_ or _say'st somewhat:_ Anon. conj. [1979] _their even Christian_] Ff. _theyr even Christen_ Qq. _we_ Q(1676). _other Christians_ Rowe. [1980] _spade._] _spade._ [strips, and falls to digging. Capell. [1981] _A'_] _A_ Qq. _He_ Ff. [1982] Sec. Clo. _Why ... arms?_] Omitted in Qq. [1983] _a heathen_] _heathen_ Capell conj. [1984] _not_] om. Warburton. [1985] _thyself--_] _thy selfe--_ F₁ F₂. _thy self--_ F₃ F₄. _thy selfe._ Qq. [1986] _frame_] Ff. om. Qq. [1987] _carpenter?_] Ff Q₆. _carpenter._ The rest. [1988] Enter ...] Ff. Enter Hamlet and Horatio. Qq, after line 62. [1989] _that_] Ff. om. Qq. _last_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₄. _lasts_ Q₂ Q₃ F₁ F₂ F₃. _till_] _tell_ Q₄. _tel_ Q₅. [1990] _to Yaughan_] Ff (_Yaughan_ in italics). _in, and_ Qq. _to Youghan_ Rowe (ed. 2). _to Yaughan's_ Capell conj. _to Vaughan_ Singer (ed. 1). _to tavern_ Grant White conj. _to Johan_ Anon. conj. (N. and Q.) _to yᵉ ale and_ Anon. conj. _to yon_ Collier (Collier MS.) See note (XXXI). [1991] _stoup_] F₄. _stope_ (Q₁). _stoupe_ F₁. _stoape_ F₂. _stoap_ F₃. _soope_ Qq. [Exit Sec. Clown.] Exit 2 Clown. Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [He digs, and sings.] Rowe. Song. Qq. Sings. Ff. [1992] _contract, O,_] _contract-a_ Anon. conj. _time_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄. _for-a_] _for a_ Qq Ff. _for, ah,_ Capell. _for aye_ Mason conj. [1993] _there-a was nothing-a_] _there a was nothing a_ Qq. _there was nothing_ Ff. _there was nothing so_ Hanmer. [1994] _of_] _in_ Q (1676). [1995] _that he sings at_] Ff. _a sings in_ Qq. _he sings in Q_ (1676) and Capell. _he sings at_ Steevens (1778). [1996] _in him_] _to him_ Pope (ed. 2). [1997] _daintier_] _dintier_ Q₂ Q₃. [1998] [Sings] Clowne sings. Ff. Song. Qq. [1999] _steps ... shipped me intil the_] _steps ... into his band_ Johnson conj. _sand ... shifted me into his_ Jennens conj. [2000] _claw'd_] Pope. _clawed_ Qq. _caught_ Ff. [2001] _hath_] om. Capell. _intil_] _intill_ Ff. _into_ Qq. _the land_] _his land_ Hanmer. [2002] _had never_] _never had_ F₃ F₄. _ne'er had_ Pope. [Throws up a skull.] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [2003] _it were_] Ff. _twere_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _t'were_ Q₅. _'twere_ Q₆. [2004] _It might_] Ff. _This might_ Qq. [2005] _now o'er-reaches_] _now ore-reaches_ Qq. _o're Offices_ F₁. _ore-Offices_ F₂. _o're-Offices_ F₃. _o're-offices_ F₄. [2006] _would_] Qq. _could_ Ff. _God_] _Heaven_ Q (1676). [2007] _sweet lord_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _my lord_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _sweet lord_] Qq. _good lord_ Ff. [2008] _such-a-one_] _such a one's_ Hanmer. [2009] _when he meant_] Ff. _when a ment_ Q₄. _when a meant_ Q₅ Q₆. _when a went_ Q₂ Q₃. _beg it_] _beg him_ Q (1676). [2010] _now_] _now 'tis_ Rowe. [2011] _chapless_] F₃ F₄. _chaplesse_ F₁ F₂. _choples_ Qq. _mazzard_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _mazard_ F₁. _massene_ Q₂ Q₃. _mazer_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2012] _fine_] _a fine_ Q (1676) and Pope (ed. 2). _an_] Capell. _and_ Qq. _if_ Ff. [2013] _loggats_] _loggits_ Qq. _loggets_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _loggers_ F₄. _with 'em?_] Ff. _with them:_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _with them?_ Q₆. [2014] _For and_] _For,--and_ Theobald. [2015] [Throws ...] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [2016] _may_] Qq. _might_ Ff. [2017] _of_] _of of_ F₁. _quiddities_] Qq. _quiddits_ Ff. _quillits_] (Q₁) Ff. _quillites_ Q₂ Q₃. _quillities_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2018] _rude_] Ff. _madde_ Q₂ Q₃. _mad_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2019] _action_] _actions_ Q₅ Q₆. [2020] _is this ... recoveries_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2021] _fine dirt_] _foul dirt_ S. Walker conj. [2022] _his vouchers_] Ff. _vouchers_ Qq. [2023] _double ones too_] Ff. _doubles_ Qq. [2024] _lands_] _land_ Q₆. _hardly_] Ff. _scarcely_ Qq. [2025] _calf-skins_] _calve-skinnes_ Q₄ F₁ F₂ F₃. _calve-skins_ Q₅ Q₆ F₄. _calves-skinnes_ Q₂ Q₃. [2026] _which_] Qq. _that_ Ff. [2027] _sirrah_] Q₆. _sirra_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _sir_ Ff. [2028] _Mine ... made_] As in Ff. _Mine sir, or a ... made._ (as one line) in Qq. [2029] [Sings] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [2030] _For ... meet._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. _guest_] _ghost_ Rowe (ed. 2) and Pope. [2031] _it be_] _it_ Q₅. _it's_ Q₆. [2032] _'tis_] Q₆. _tis_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _it is_ Ff. [2033] _and yet_] Ff. _yet_ Qq. _it is_] _it's_ Q (1676). [2034] _away_] om. Q₆. [2035] _undo_] Q₆. _undoo_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _undoe_ F₁. _follow_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2036] _this_] Qq. _these_ Ff. _taken_] Ff. _tooke_ Qq. _note_] _notice_ Q (1676). [2037] _picked_ Qq Ff. _piqued_ Q (1676). _that_] _and_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2038] _heel_] _heeles_ F₁. _the courtier_] (Q₁) Qq. _our courtier_ Ff. _your courtier_ Grant White conj. _kibe_] _kibes_ Hunter conj. [2039] _a_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. om Q₂ Q₃. [2040] _all_] Ff. om. Qq. [2041] _o'ercame_] _o'recame_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _orecame_ F₂. _overcame_ Qq. [2042] _that very_] Qq. _the very_ Ff. [2043] _that is_] Qq. _that was_ Ff. [2044] _a' ... a' ... a'_] _a ... a ... a_ Qq. _he ... he ... he_ Ff. [2045] _'tis_] Q₆. _tis_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _it's_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _its_ F₂. [2046] _him there; there the men are_] _him there, there the men are_ Q₂ Q₃. _him there, there the are men_ Q₄. _him there, there are men_ Q₅ Q₆. _him, there the men are_ Ff. [2047] _I have_] _where I have_ Q (1676). _sexton_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₄. _sexten_ Q₂ Q₃. _sixeteene_ F₁. _sexestone_ F₂. _sexstone_ F₃. [2048] _here_] om. Q (1676). [2049] _I'faith_] _Ifaith_ Ff. _Fayth_ Q₂ Q₃. _Faith_ The rest. [2050] _a' ... a' ... a'_] _a ... a ... a_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _he ... he ... he_ Ff. _a ... he ... a_ Q₆. [2051] _now-a-days_] Ff. om. Qq. [2052] _you nine year_] _you nine yeares_ F₂ F₃. _you nine years_ F₄. [2053] _so_] om. F₃ F₄. [2054] _a'_] _a_ Qq. _he_ Ff. _your_] _you_ Rowe (ed. 2). [2055] _Here's ... in the_] Ff. _heer's a skull now hath lyen you i'th_ Qq. _Here's a skull now has lain in the_ Pope. [2056] _three and twenty_] Ff. 23. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₆. _twenty three_ Q₅. [2057] _A ... was?_] Two lines in Ff. [2058] _a'_] _a_ Qq Ff. _he_ Q (1676) and Pope. [2059] _This same skull, sir_] As in Qq. Twice in Ff. [2060] _Yorick's_] Ff. _sir Yoricks_ Qq. [2061] _Let me see_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [Takes the skull.] Capell (line 170). Transferred by Dyce. om. Qq Ff. [2062] _borne_] Ff. _bore_ Qq. [2063] _and now how_] Qq. _and how_ Ff. [2064] _in my ... it is_] Qq. _my imagination is_ Ff. _my imagination is now_ Rowe. [2065] _gambols_] _jests_ Q (1676). [2066] _on a roar_] _in a roar_ Pope. _Not one_] Qq. _No one_ Ff. [2067] _grinning_] Qq. _jeering_ Ff. [2068] _chamber_] (Q₁) Ff. _table_ Qq. [2069] _favour_] _savour_ Warburton. [2070] _o'_] Ff. _a_ Qq. [2071] _so? pah_] Q₆. _so pah_ Q₂ Q₃. _so: pah_ Q₄ Q₅. _so? Puh_ Ff. [Puts down ...] Collier. Throws it down. Capell. Smelling to the Scull. Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [2072] _we may_] _way we_ S. Walker conj. [2073] _he_] Ff. _a_ Qq. _find_] _found_ Jennens. [2074] _thither_] F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _thether_ The rest. [2075] _as thus:_] (Q₁) Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2076] _returneth_] _returned_ Collier (Collier MS.) [2077] _into_] Ff. _to_ Qq. [2078] _that loam ... was_] _this earth ... was_ or _that loam ... may have been_ Seymour conj. [2079] _Imperious_] Qq. _Imperiall_ F₁ F₂. _Imperial_ F₃ F₄. [2080] _Should_] _Shoulp_ Q₄. _Sould_ Q₅. _to expel_] _t' expell_ Qq F₁ F₃ F₄. _expell_ F₂. _winter's_] Ff. _waters_ Qq. [2081] _aside_] Ff. _awhile_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _a while_ Q₆. Enter ...] Malone, after Capell. Enter K. Q. Laertes and the corse. Qq (in margin) (King Quee. Q₄ Q₅. King, Que. Q₆). Enter King, Queene, Laertes, and a Coffin, with Lords attendant. Ff. [2082] SCENE II. Pope. _who is this_] Qq. _Who is that_ F₁. _Who is't that_ F₂. _What is't that_ F₃ F₄. _What is that_ Pope. [2083] _rites_] Qq F₁. _rights_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2084] _its_] Q₆. _it's_ F₃ F₄. _it_ The rest. _of_] Qq. om. Ff. [2085] _Couch we_] _Stand by_ Q (1676). _we_] _me_ Rowe (ed. 2). [Retiring ...] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [2086] [to the Priests. Capell. [2087] [to Horatio. Capell. _That ... mark._] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse by Capell, ending the line _Laertes_. _very_] _most_ Pope, reading as verse. _mark_] F₃ F₄. _marke_ Q₂ Q₃ F₁ F₂. _make_ Q₄ Q₅. om. Q₆. [2088] First Priest.] 1. P. Capell. Priest. Ff. Doct. Qq. [2089] _as far_] _so far_ Theobald (ed. 2). [2090] _warranty_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _warrantie_ Q₂ Q₃ F₂ F₃ F₄. _warrantis_ F₁. _warrantize_ Capell conj. _warranties_ Knight. _warrantise_ Dyce. [2091] _unsanctified_] _unsanctied_ F₂ F₃. _have_] Ff. _been_ Q₂ Q₃. _beene_ Q₄. _bin_ Q₅ Q₆. [2092] _trumpet_] _trump_ Pope. _prayers_] Qq. _prayer_ Ff. [2093] _Shards_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. _pebbles_] Q₆ F₃ F₄. _peebles_ The rest. [2094] _allow'd_] Qq. _allowed_ Ff. _crants_] _Crants_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Rites_ Ff Q₆. _chants_ Warburton. _grants_ or _wants_ or _pants_ Edwards conj. (in jest). _grants_ Heath conj. [2095] _strewments_] _'struments_ Edwards conj. (in jest). [2096] _there_] om. Pope. [2097] _a requiem_] Qq. _sage requiem_ Ff. _safe requiem_ Jackson conj. _sad requiem_ Collier MS. _such requiem_ Dyce. _false requiem_ Anon. conj. [2098] _peace-parted_] _peace-departed_ F₃ F₄. [Coffin lay'd in. Capell. [2099] [Scattering flowers] Johnson. om. Qq Ff. _Sweets ... farewell_] _Sweets to the sweet, farewell_ Qq. _Sweets to the sweet farewell_ F₁ F₂. _Sweets, to thee sweet farewell_ F₃ F₄. [2100] _shouldst_] _would'st_ F₃ F₄. [2101] _have_] Qq. _t'have_ Ff. _treble woe_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _trebble woe_ Q₄ Q₅. _terrible woer_ F₁. _terrible wooer_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _treble woes_ S. Walker conj. [2102] _treble_] F₃ F₄. _trebble_ F₁ F₂. _double_ Qq. _treble woes_ Rowe, reading line 234 as F₂ F₃ F₄. _cursed_] _curs'd_ Rowe. [2103] _ingenious_] _ingenuous_ Q₆. [2104] [Leaps into the grave.] F₄. Leaps in the grave. F₁ F₂ F₃. om. Qq. [2105] _To o'ertop_] _To'retop_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _To retop_ Q₅. _T'oretop_ Q₆. [2106] [Advancing] Capell. Discovering himself. Pope. om. Qq Ff. [2107] _grief Bears_] _griefe Beares_ Qq. _griefes Beares_ F₁ F₂. _griefs Bears_ F₃. _griefs Bear_ F₄. [2108] _Conjures_] _Conjure_ F₁. [2109] _This is_] _tis_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2110] [Leaps ...] Hamlet leaps ... Rowe. Hamlet leapes in after Leartes. (Q₁). om. Qq Ff. [Grappling ...] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [2111] _Thou ... throat_] Divided as in Ff. One line in Qq. [2112] _For_] Qq. _Sir_ Ff. _splenitive_] Warburton. _spleenitive_ or _spleenative_ Qq Ff. _spleneticke_ Collier MS. See note (II). _and_] Ff Q₆. om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [2113] _in me something_] Qq. _something in me_ Ff. [2114] _wisdom_] _wisedome_ Qq. _wisenesse_ F₁ F₂. _wiseness_ F₃ F₄. _Hold off_] Qq. _Away_ Ff. _hand._] _hand,_ Q₂ Q₃. _hand?_ Q₄ Q₅. [2115] All. _Gentlemen,--_] Att. _Gentlemen,--_ Capell. All. _Gentlemen._ Qq. Omitted in Ff. Hor.] Hora. Qq. Gen. Ff. [The Attendants ...] Capell, substantially. The Attendants part them. Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [2116] _this_] _his_ Rowe. [2117] _their_] _there_ F₁. [2118] _'Swounds_] _S'wounds_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Swounds_ Q₆. _Come_ Ff. _thou'lt_] Ff. _th' owt_ Q₂ Q₃. _th' out_ Q₄ Q₅. _thou't_ Q₆. [2119] _Woo't_] _Wilt_ (Q₁) Q (1676). [2120] _woo't fast_] Qq. om. Ff. _fast? woo't_] _storm, woo't_ Collier MS. _storme or_ Collier MS. apud Hamilton. [2121] _drink up ... crocodile?_] _drink? ape, esel, crocodile!_ Becket conj. _eisel_] Theobald. _vessels_ (Q₁). _Esill_ Qq. _Esile_ (in italics) Ff. _Yssel_ Keightley (Theobald conj.) _Nile_ Hanmer. _Elsil_ (in italics) Capell. _Nilus_ Elze (Capell conj.) _Weisel_ or _Oesil_ Steevens conj. _Isell_ Halliwell conj. _eat_] _woo't eat_ Hanmer. _or eat_ Hanmer as misquoted by Johnson. [2122] _I'll do't_] _I'll do't, I'll do't_ Collier MS. _I'll do it too_ Anon. conj. _thou_] Ff Q₆. om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _here_] _hither_ F₃ F₄. _hither but_ Pope. [2123] _in_] _in to_ F₄. _into_ Rowe. _grave?_] Ff Q₆. _grave,_ The rest. [2124] _zone_] _sun_ Warburton. [2125] _an_] Pope. _and_ Qq Ff. [2126] Queen.] Quee. Qq. Kin. F₁. King. F₂ F₃ F₄. [2127] Queen ... _Anon_] King ... _him._ Queen. _Anon_ Collier (Collier MS.) [2128] _thus_] _this_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [2129] _the_] _a_ Q₅ Q₆. _dove_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _doe_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2130] _When that_] _When first_ Q (1676). _E'er that_ Warburton. _Ere that_ Johnson. _Ere yet_ Johnson conj. _couplets_] _cuplets_ Qq. _cuplet_ Ff. [2131] _loved_] _loud'_ F₁. _ever_] _well_ Q₆. [2132] _and dog_] _a dogge_ Q₄ Q₆. _a dog_ Q₅. _the dog_ Theobald (ed. 2). [Exit.] Ff. Exit Hamlet and Horatio. Qq. [2133] _thee_] Qq. _you_ Ff. [Exit Horatio.] Exit Hor. Pope. om. Ff. [2134] [To Laertes] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. _your_] _you_ F₁ F₂. [2135] _An_] _In an_ Keightley. _shortly_] Ff. _thirtie_ Q₂. _thereby_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2136] _Till_] _Tell_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [2137] SCENE II.] Rowe. SCENE III. Pope. om. Ff. A hall ...] Capell. A Hall. Pope. A Hall, in the Palace. Theobald. [2138] _sir_] om. Pope. _shall you_] Qq. _let me_ Ff. [2139] _circumstance?_] Theobald. _circumstance._ Qq Ff. [2140] _methought_] _my thought_ Q₂ Q₃. _me thought_ The rest. [2141] _mutines in the_] _mutineers in the_ Rowe. _mutineers in_ Pope. _bilboes._] _bilboes;_ Rowe. _bilboes,_ Ff. _bilbo,_ Q₂ Q₃. _bilbo's,_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2142] _Rashly, And praised ... it, let_] _rashly, And praysd ... it: let_ Qq. _rashly, (And praise ... it) let_ Ff. _rashness (And prais'd ... it) lets_ Pope. _rashness (And prais'd ... it) let_ Hanmer (ed. 2). _rashly, And prais'd ... it--Let_ Steevens. [2143] _rashness for it, let_] _rashness, for it lets_ Tyrwhitt conj., putting _And ... certain,_ lines 7-11, in a parenthesis. [2144] _let ... will._] Put in a parenthesis by Jennens. [2145] _know, Our_] _know; Or_ Warburton, reading lines 6, 7 as Pope. _own, Our_ Collier MS. [2146] _sometime_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _sometimes_ Q₅ Ff Q₆. [2147] _deep_] Q₅ Q₆. _deepe_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _deare_ F₁ F₂. _dear_ F₃ F₄. _pall_] Q₂ F₄. _fall_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₆. _fal_ Q₅. _paule_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _fail_ Pope. _learn_] Qq. _teach_ Ff. [2148] _scarf'd_] _wrapt_ Q (1676). _me, in the dark_] _me, in the darke_ Q₆. _me in the darke_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _me in the darke,_ Ff (_dark,_ F₃ F₄). [2149] _Groped I_] _I grop'd_ Q (1676). [2150] _again; making so_] _againe making, so_ Q₅. [2151] _bold, My ... manners,_] _bold,_ (_My ... manners_) Ff. _bold My ... manners_ Qq. [2152] _fears_] _teares_ F₂ F₃. _tears_ F₄. _unseal_] F₃ F₄. _unseale_ F₁ F₂. _unfold_ Qq. [2153] _O_] _Oh_ Ff. _A_ Qq. _Ah_ Anon. conj. _O royal knavery!--_] Omitted in Q (1676). _knavery!--_] _knavery,_ Qq. _knavery:_ Ff. _knavery!_ Rowe. [2154] _sorts_] _forts_ F₂. _reasons_] Qq. _reason_ Ff. [2155] _ho!_] _hoe_ Qq. _hoo,_ Ff. [2156] _grinding_] _gringding_ F₂. [2157] _struck_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _strucke_ F₂. _strooke_ Qq. [2158] _now_] Qq. _me_ F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄. [2159] _I beseech_] _Ay, 'beseech_ Capell. [2160] _villanies,--Or ... play,--I_] _villanies,--Or ... play;--I_ Capell. _villaines, Or ... play, I_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _villaines, Ere ... play. I_ Ff (_villains,_ F₃ F₄). _villaines, Or ... play: I_ Q₆. _villainy,_ (_Ere ... prologue, to my bane They ... play:_) _I_ Theobald (Warburton and Bishop conj.) _villains, and Ere ... brains, They having ... play; I_ Hanmer. _villains, (Ere I could mark the prologue to my bane They had ... play:) I_ Warburton. [2161] _villanies_] _villainy_ Keightley. [2162] _brains_] _banes_ Chisselden conj. apud Theobald MS. [2163] _sat_] _sate_ Ff Q₆. [2164] _labour'd_] _laboured_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [2165] _yeoman's_] _yemans_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. [2166] _effect_] Qq. _effects_ Ff. [2167] _like_] Qq. _as_ Ff. _might_] Qq. _should_ Ff. [2168] _stand a comma_] _hold her olive_ Bailey conj. _a comma_] _a commere_ Theobald (Warburton). _no comma_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _a cement_ Hanmer. _a co-mere_ Singer (ed. 2). _a co-mate_ Becket conj. _a column_ Jackson conj. _commercing_ Anon. conj. _a comare_ Nicholson conj. _a comma 'tween_] _as one atween_ Cartwright conj. _amities_] _enmities_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [2169] _such-like 'As'es_] _such like Assis_ Ff. _such like, as sir_ Qq. [2170] _knowing of_] Qq. _know of_ Ff. _knowing_ Pope. [2171] _the bearers_] Ff. _those bearers_ Qq. [2172] _Not_] _No_ F₄. _shriving-time_] Hyphened by Theobald. _thriving time_ Jennens. _allow'd_] Q₅ Q₆. _alow'd_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _allowed_ Ff. [2173] _ordinant_] Qq. _ordinate_ Ff. [2174] _Folded_] _I folded_ Rowe, reading the rest of the line with Ff. _the form of the_] _the forme of th'_ Qq. _forme of the_ Ff (_form_ F₄). [2175] _Subscribed_] _Subscribe_ Q₂ Q₃. _gave't_] Q₆. _gav't_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. _gav'_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _gave_ Rowe. [2176] _changeling_] _change was_ Pope. _changing_ Anon. conj. [2177] _sequent_] Qq. _sement_ Ff. _sequell_ Collier MS. [2178] _know'st_] Ff Q₆. _knowest_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [2179] _So ... go_] Pointed as in Qq. _So ... Rosincrance, go_ F₁. _So Guildenstare and Rosincros, goe_ F₂ F₃ (_go_ F₃). _So, Guildenstare and Rosincross, go_ F₄. _go_] _went_ Q (1676). [2180] _Why ... employment;_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2181] _defeat_] Qq. _debate_ Ff. [2182] _Does_] Q₅ Q₆. _Dooes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Doth_ Ff. [2183] _the baser_] Qq F₁. _baser_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _the baser ... comes_] _baser natures come_ Hanmer. [2184] _fell incensed_] _fell-incensed_ Dyce, ed. 2 (S. Walker conj.) [2185] _thinks't thee_] Dyce (S. Walker conj.) _thinkst thee_ F₁. _think'st thee_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _thinke thee_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _think thee_ Q₅. _think you_ Q₆. _think'st thou_ Rowe. _upon--_] Boswell. _uppon?_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _upon?_ Q₅ Q₆. _upon_ F₁ _upon,_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2186] _my king_] _your king_ Anon. conj. [2187] _Popp'd_] _Stept_ Q (1676). [2188] _Thrown ... life_] _His angle for my proper life thrown out_ Collier MS. [2189] _cozenage--_] Boswell. _cusnage,_ Q₂ Q₃. _cosnage,_ Q₄ Q₅. _coozenage;_ F₁. _cozenage;_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _cosenage,_ Q₆. _conscience,_] _conscience?_ Qq. [2190] _To quit ... here?_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2191] _this_] F₁. _his_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _this arm_] _his own_ Collier MS. _and_] om. Hanmer. [2192] _evil?_] Rowe. _evill._ F₁ F₂. _evil._ F₃ F₄. [2193] _It will ... Horatio_] Arranged as by Hanmer. Three lines, ending _short, ... more ... Horatio,_ in Ff. Four, ending _short ... more ... one ... Horatio,_ in Pope. [2194] _interim is_] Hanmer. _interim's_ Ff. [2195] _life's_] _life_ Reed (1803, 1813, 1821). '_One_'] _one_ Ff. [2196] _court his favours_] Rowe. _count his favours_ Ff. _court his favour_ Theobald. _count his fervour_ Jackson conj. [2197] Enter Osric.] Enter young Osricke. F₁. Enter Osricke. F₂. Enter Osrick. F₃ F₄. Enter a Courtier. Qq. [2198] SCENE IV. Pope. [2199] Osr.] Ff. Cour. Qq. [2200] _I humbly ... water-fly?_] One line in Ff. Two in Qq. _sir. Dost_] Pointed as in Qq. _sir, dost_ F₁ F₂. _sir; dost_ F₃ F₄. [2201] _Dost ... dirt._] Marked as 'Aside' by Capell. [2202] _'tis_] _It is_ Johnson. _chough_] _cough_ Capell (corrected in Errata). _say_] _saw_ F₁. [2203] _lordship_] Q₅ Q₆. _lordshippe_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _friendship_ Ff. [2204] _sir_] Qq. om. Ff. [2205] _Put_] Ff. om. Qq. [2206] _it is_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _'tis_ Ff Q₆. [2207] _But yet_] Qq. om. Ff. _sultry_] Rowe. _soultry_ Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆. _sully_ Q₂ Q₃. [2208] _hot, or my complexion--_] Warburton. _hot, or my complection._ Q₂ Q₃. _hot, or my complexion._ Q₄ Q₅. _hot for my complexion._ Ff. _hot, for my complexion._ Q₆. [2209] _sultry_] _soultery_ Q₂ Q₃. _soultry_ The rest. [2210] _But_] om. Qq. _bade_] _bid_ F₄. _bad_ The rest. [2211] _to you_] _unto you_ Q₆. _he_] Ff. _a_ Qq. [2212] _matter--_] Rowe. _matter._ Qq Ff. [2213] _remember--_] Pope. _remember._ Qq Ff. [Hamlet ... hat.] Johnson. om. Qq Ff. [2214] _good my lord_] Qq. _in good faith_ Ff. [2215] _Sir, here ... unfellowed._] Qq. _Sir, you are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is at his weapon._ Ff, omitting all the rest, which was first restored by Theobald. [2216] _gentleman_] _gentlemen_ Q₂ Q₃. [2217] _showing_] _shew_ Q (1676) and Theobald. _feelingly_] _sellingly_ Q₂ Q₃. _seelingly_ Becket conj. [2218] _the card_] _the very card_ Capell. [2219] _in him_] _him_ Johnson conj. _part_] _parts_ Nicholson conj. _part ... see_] _port ... use_ Anon. conj. [2220] _dizzy_] _dizzie_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _dosie_ Q₂. _dazzie_ Q₃. [2221] _yet but yaw_] Q₂. _yet but raw_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _yet but slow_ Warburton. _it but yaw_ Singer (ed. 2). _wit but yaw_ Staunton conj. _yaw neither_] _yaw mynheer_ Bullock conj., reading _wit_ for _yet_, as Staunton conj. [2222] _article_] _altitude_ Johnson conj. (withdrawn). [2223] _sir? why_] Capell. _sir, why_ Qq. _sir?_--[To Horatio] _Why_ Theobald. _wrap_] _warp_ Becket conj. [2224] _Sir?_] Capell. _Sir._ Qq. _Sir_,--Theobald. [2225] _Is't not ... another tongue?_] _Is't possible not to be understood in a mother tongue?_ Johnson conj. _It is not ... another tongue._ Heath conj. _Is't possible not to understand in a mother tongue?_ Malone conj. _understand ... tongue? You_] _understand? In another tongue you_ Jennens. _in another_] _in's mother_ Staunton conj. _tongue?_] Theobald. _tongue_, Qq. [2226] _You ... really_] _You will too't sir really_ Q₂. _You will doo't sir really_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _You will doe't sir really_ Q₆. _You will do't, sir, rarely_ Theobald. _You do't, sir, rarely_ Heath conj. Given to Osric, Becket conj. _really_] _readily_ Jackson conj., reading the rest with Jennens. [2227] _Laertes?_] Q₆. _Laertes._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [2228] _sir._] _sir?_ Capell. [2229] _ignorant--_] Theobald, _ignorant._ Qq. [2230] _me. Well, sir?_] Edd. (Globe ed.) _me, well sir._ Qq. _me. Well, sir._ Theobald. [2231] _not ignorant_] Q₂ Q₃. _ignorant_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _is--_] Malone. _is:_ Capell. _is._ Qq. _is at his weapon?_ Caldecott, from Ff. [2232] _but,_] _for,_ Capell. [2233] _for his_] Q₆. _for this_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [2234] _in his_] _in this_ Capell. [2235] _king, sir_] _sir king_ F₁. _hath wagered_] _hath wagerd_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _hath wager'd_ Q₆. _ha's wag'd_ F₁. _has wag'd_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2236] _he has imponed_] Theobald. _hee has impaund_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _he has impawn'd_ Q₆. _he impon'd_ Ff. _he has deponed_ Johnson conj. [2237] _hanger_] Qq. _hangers_ Ff. _and so_] Qq. _or so_ Ff. [2238] Hor. _I knew ... done._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. Marked as 'Aside' by Theobald. [2239] _carriages_] Ff Q₆. _carriage_ The rest. [2240] _germane_ F₃ F₄. _Germaine_ F₁. _Germane_ F₂. _Ierman_ Q₂ Q₃ _German_ Q₄ Q₅. _german_ Q₆. [2241] _matter if_] Qq. _matter: If_ Ff _a cannon_] Qq (_a canon_ Q₅). _cannon_ Ff. [2242] _it might be_] _it be_ Q₂. _it be might_ Q₃. _on:_] Pope. _on_ F₁. _on,_ The rest. [2243] _French bet_] Qq. _French but_ F₁. _French, but_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2244] _French ... Why_] _French; but against the Danish, why_ Rowe. [2245] _this 'imponed,' as_] _this impon'd as_ Ff. _this all_ Qq. [2246] _sir, that_] Qq. _that_ Ff. [2247] _yourself_] _your selfe_ Qq. _you_ Ff. [2248] _he ... nine;_] An interpolation from the margin, Mitford conj. _laid on_] Q₅ Q₆. _layd on_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _one_ Ff. _won_ or _on_ Mitford conj. _nine_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. _it_] Qq. _that_ Ff. [2249] _hall: if ... majesty, it_] _hall; if ... majestie, it_ Ff. _hall, if ... maiestie, it_ Qq. _hall, if ... majesty: it_ Seymour conj. [2250] _it is_] Qq. _'tis_ Ff. [2251] _hold_] _holding_ Capell. [2252] _an_] Capell. _and_ Qq. _if_ Ff. _I will_] Qq. _Ile_ F₁ F₂. _I'le_ F₃. _I'll_ F₄. _I_ Collier MS. See note (II). [2253] _redeliver you e'en so_] Ff. _deliver you so_ Qq. [2254] _this_] _that_ Capell. [2255] [Exit. F₂ F₃ F₄. om. Qq F₁. [2256] _Yours, yours._ [Exit Osric.] _He does_] Capell. _Yours, yours; he does_ Ff (_hee_ F₁). _Yours doo's_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Yours does_ Q₆. _Yours. He does_ Jennens. [2257] _it himself_] _it self_ Q (1676), reading with Qq. _for's_] _for his_ Q₅ Q₆. _turn_] _turne_ Qq. _tongue_ Ff. [2258] _runs_] _ran_ Johnson conj. [2259] _He did comply with_] Ff (_Complie_ F₁). _A did sir with_ Q₂. _A did so sir with_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _He did so, sir, with_ Q (1676) and Theobald. _He did so with_ Rowe. _He did complement with_ Hanmer. _He did compliment with_ Warburton. _before he_] Ff. _before a_ Qq. [2260] _has he_] Qq. _had he_ Ff. _many_] Qq. _mine_ F₁. _nine_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _breed_] Q₅ Q₆. _breede_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Beauy_ F₁. _Beavy_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2261] _and outward_] Ff. _and out of an_ Qq. _an outward_ Capell. _and ... a_] _and (out of an habit of encounter) a_ Jennens. _yesty_] Ff. _histy_ Q₂ Q₃. _misty_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _hasty_ Anon. conj. _and outward ... a kind_] _and out of the habit of encounter get a kind_ Bailey conj. [2262] _collection_] _diction_ Bailey conj. [2263] _fond and winnowed_] Ff. _prophane and trennowed_ Q₂ Q₃. _prophane and trennowned_ Q₄. _profane and trennowned_ Q₅ Q₆. _prophane and renowned_ Q (1676). _fann'd and winnowed_ Hanmer (Warburton). _sane and renowned_ Johnson conj. _profane and tres-renowned_ Jennens. _sound and winnowed_ Mason conj. _fond and vinewed_ or _fond and fennowed_ Nicholson conj. _proven and renowned_ Bullock conj. _profound and renowned_ Bailey conj. [2264] _trial_] _triall_ Qq. _tryalls_ F₁ F₂. _tryals_ F₃ F₄. [2265] Enter ... _instructs me._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [2266] _Osric_] _Ostricke_ Qq. [2267] _to use_] _use_ S. Walker conj. reading lines 192--195 as three lines of verse, ending _use ... Laertes ... me._ [2268] _fall_] Q₂ Q₃. _goe_ Q₄ Q₆. _go_ Q₅. [2269] [Exit Lord.] Theobald, om. Qq Ff. [2270] _lose this wager_] Ff. _loose_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _lose_ Q₆. [2271] _But_] _but_ Ff. om. Qq. _how ill all's_] Qq. _how all_ Ff. _how all's_ Rowe. _how ill all is_ Collier MS. (_how ill is all_ according to Hamilton). [2272] _good my_] _my good_ Theobald (ed. 2). _lord,--_] Capell. _lord._ Qq Ff. [2273] _gain-giving_] Ff. _gam-giuing_ Q₂ Q₃. _game-giuing_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _boding_ Q (1676). _misgiving_ Pope (ed. 2). _'gaingiving_ Capell. [2274] _obey it_] Qq. _obey._ Ff. [2275] _there is_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _there's a_ Ff. _there is a_ Q₆. [2276] _now_] Ff. om. Qq. [2277] _will_] _well_ Q₂ Q₃. [2278] _the readiness ... Let be._] See note (XXXII). [2279] Enter ...] Ff, substantially. A table prepard, Trumpets, Drums and officers with Cushions, King, Queene, and all the state, Foiles, daggers, and Laertes. Qq. Osric and other Attendants....] Osrick with other Attendants.... Theobald. with other Attendants.... Ff. [2280] [The King ...] Gives him the hand of Laertes. Hanmer. King puts the hand of Laertes into the hand of Hamlet. Johnson. om. Qq Ff. [2281] _I've_] Ff. _I have_ Qq. [2282] _But ... knows,_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. S. Walker would end lines 213, 214, _pardon't ... knows._ [2283] _This ... done_] Three lines, ending _heard ... distraction ... done,_ in Rowe. [2284] _This ... audience,_] Omit, as spurious. Seymour conj. [2285] _punish'd_] _punished_ Rowe (ed. 2). [2286] _sore_] Ff. _a sore_ Qq. _distraction._] _distraction:_ Q₄ Q₅. _distraction,_ Q₂ Q₃. _distraction;_ Q₆. _distraction?_ Ff. [2287] _nature, honour_] Qq. _nature honour_ F₁. _natures honour_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _native honour_ Anon. conj. [2288] _madness:_] _madnesse._ Qq. _madnesse?_ F₁ F₂. _madness?_ F₃ F₄. [2289] _wrong'd_] Ff. _wronged_ Qq. [2290] _Sir ... audience,_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2291] _mine_] (Q₁) Ff. _my_ Qq. [2292] _brother_] (Q₁) Qq. _mother_ Ff. [2293] _masters_] _master_ S. Walker conj. [2294] _precedent_] Johnson. _president_ Qq Ff. [2295] _keep_] F₃ F₄. _keepe_ F₁ F₂. om. Qq. _ungored_] _ungord_ Q₂ Q₃. _ungor'd_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _ungorg'd_ Ff. _till_] Ff. _all_ Qq. [2296] _offer'd_] _offered_ Q₅ Q₆. [2297] _I_] Qq. _I do_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _I doe_ F₂. [2298] _I ... play_] Divided as in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2299] _Come on._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2300] _darkest_] Qq F₁. _brightest_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2301] _Stick ... indeed_] _Appear_ Q (1676). _Stick_] {_Strike_} Keightley. _off_] Ff Q₆. _of_ The rest. [2302] _by this hand_] _on my honour_ Q (1676). [2303] _Give ... wager?_] Divided as in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _Osricke_, in Ff. [2304] _them_] Qq F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄. _Osric_] _Ostricke_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Ostrick_ Q₅ Q₆. _Cousin_] om. Pope, dividing as Ff. _Hamlet_] _Ham._ Q₄ Q₅. [2305] _wager?_] Capell. _wager._ Qq Ff. _Very well_] _Well_ Pope. [2306] _lord; Your ... laid the_] _lord, Your ... laid; the_ Heath conj. [2307] _has_] Qq. _hath_ Ff. _laid_] _layed_ Q₂ Q₃. _layde_ Q₄. _laide_ F₁. _the odds o' the_] _upon the_ Hanmer. _o' the_] _o' th'_ F₄. _a' th_ Qq. _a' th'_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [2308] _I do ... both_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [2309] _But_] _'Tis true he did neglect his exercises, But_ Keightley conj. _he is_] _he's_ Pope. _better'd_] Ff. _better_ Qq. _we_] _you_ Capell. [2310] _This is ... length?_] Two lines in Qq. Four in Ff. [2311] _too_] Ff Q₆. _to_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [2312] _have_] _have have_ F₂. _length?_] Rowe. _length._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff. _length_ Q₆. [They prepare....] Prepare.... Ff. Omitted in Qq. Prepares.... Rowe (ed. 2). [2313] _stoups_] _stoopes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _stooops_ Q₅ Q₆. _stopes_ Ff. _that_] _the_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2314] _give_] _gives_ Theobald. [2315] _of the third_] _of a third_ F₃ F₄. _to the third_ Q (1703). [2316] _union_] Ff. _Vnice_ Q₂. _Onixe_ Q₃ Q₄. _Onix_ Q₅. _Onyx_ Q₆. [2317] _In ... cups_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [2318] _trumpet_] Qq. _trumpets_ Ff. [2319] _trumpet_] _trumpets_ F₃ F₄. [2320] _heaven to_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _heavens to_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2321] _'Now ... Hamlet.'_] Italicised by Capell. [Trumpets the while. Qq. om. Ff. [2322] _Come, my lord._] Qq. _Come on sir._ Ff. _So on, sir_ Rowe (ed. 2). [They play.] Ff. om. Qq. [2323] _palpable_] _palbable_ Q₆. [2324] _Stay ... thine;_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [2325] [Trumpets ...] Malone. Drum, trumpets and shot. Florish, a peece goes off. Qq (after _hit_, line 268). Trumpets sound, and shot goes off. F₁ (after _cup_). Trumpets sound, shot goes off. F₂ F₃ F₄ (after cup). Drinks, and puts Poison in the Cup. Flourish. Ordinance within. Capell. [2326] _set it_] Qq. _set_ Ff. [2327] _Come._] _Come:_ Ff. _Come,_ Qq. [They play.] Rowe. om. Qq. Ff. [2328] _A touch, a touch,_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. _confess_] _confest_ Qq. _confess't_ Q (1676) and Capell. [2329] _fat_] _faint_ Wyeth conj. _hot_ Brady conj. [2330] _Here ... napkin_] Qq. _Heere's a napkin_ F₁. _Here's a napkin_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _rub_] _wipe_ Q₆. _Here ... brows:_] _Here is a napkin, rub thy brows, my son._ Collier MS. [2331] _Good_] _Thank you, good_ Capell. _Gertrude_] _Gertrude, Gertrude_ Keightley. [2332] _I will ... me._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [Drinks. Hanmer. Drinks, and tenders the Cup to Hamlet. Capell. [2333] [Aside] First marked by Rowe. [2334] _I ... by._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [2335] _My lord,_] om. Pope. [2336] _it is ... against_] Qq. _'tis ... 'gainst_ Ff. _'tis ... against_ Q (1676). [2337] _Come ... dally;_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _third, Laertes: you_] Steevens. _third, Laertes. You_ Johnson. _third Laertes, you doe_ Qq. _third. Laertes, you_ Ff. [2338] _afeard_] F₃ F₄. _affear'd_ F₁. _affeard_ F₂. _sure_ Qq. _afraid_ Rowe. [2339] [They play.] Play. Ff. om. Qq. [2340] [Laertes ... Laertes.] Rowe. They catch one anothers Rapiers, and both are wounded, Laertes falles downe, the Queene falles downe and dies. (Q₁). In scuffling they change Rapiers. Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2341] _come, again._] _come, againe._ F₁. _come againe._ Qq F₂. _come again._ F₃ F₄. [The Queen falls.] Queen falls. Capell. om. Qq Ff. _there, ho!_] _there.--Ho!_ Staunton. See note (XXXIII). _ho_] Q₆. _hoa_ Ff. _howe_ Q₂ Q₃. _hoe_ Q₄ Q₅. [2342] _is it_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _is't_ Ff Q₆. [2343] _How is't, Laertes?_] _Host ist Laeres?_ Q₄. [2344] _Why ... Osric;_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _to mine_] _in my_ Q (1676) and Hanmer. _mine own_] _mine_ F₁. _my_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _my own_ Pope. _springe_] Q₅. _sprindge_ The rest. _Osric_] _Ostrick_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Ostricke_ Q₆. [2345] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. [2346] _swounds_] F₃ F₄. _sounds_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂. _swounes_ Q₆. [2347] _O my ... drink!_] Arranged as in Qq. One line in Ff. [2348] _poison'd_] F₃ F₄. _poysned_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _poyson'd_ F₁ F₂. _poysoned_ Q₆. [Dies.] Queen dies. Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [2349] _villany_] _villaine_ Q₅ Q₆. _Ho!_] _Ho_ Q₆. _how_ Q₂ Q₃. _Hoe_ Q₄ Q₅. _How?_ Ff. _How?--_Jennens. [2350] _It is ... slain;_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _Hamlet: Hamlet_] _Hamlet. Hamlet_ Ff. _Hamlet_ Qq. [2351] _medicine_] Ff Q₆. _medcin_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _medecine_ Q₅. [2352] _hour of_] Ff. _houres_ Qq. [2353] _thy hand_] Ff Q₆. _my hand_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [2354] _Unbated_] _Imbaited_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). [2355] _lo,_] _so_ Q (1676). [2356] _poison'd_] F₃ F₄. _poyson'd_ F₁ F₂ Q₆. _poysned_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [2357] _can_] _am_ Q₅ Q₆. _to blame_] _too blame_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. [2358] _The ... work._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [2359] _The point envenom'd_] _The point--envenom'd_ Staunton. [2360] _envenom'd ... work._] One line in Keightley. [2361] _to thy_] _do thy_ Theobald (ed. 2). [Stabs the King.] Rowe. Hurts the King. Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2362] _Here_] _Heare_ Q₂ Q₃. _Here ... Dane,_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _murdrous,_ in Ff. _incestuous_] Ff Q₆. _incestious_ The rest. _murderous_] _murdrous_ F₁ F₂. _murd'rous_ F₃ F₄. om. Qq. [2363] _off this_] Ff Q₆. _of this_ The rest. _thy union_] (Q₁) Ff. _the Onixe_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _the Onyx_ Q₆. _the union_ Theobald. [2364] [King dies.] om. Qq. [2365] _He ... himself._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [2366] _temper'd_] Q₆. _temperd_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _temp'red_ Ff. [2367] _upon_] _on_ Theobald. [2368] _me!_] _me._ Qq Ff. [Dies.] om. Qq. [2369] _thee free_] _the free_ Theobald. [2370] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. [2371] _to this_] Qq F₁. _at this_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2372] _time--as ... arrest--O_] _time, (as ... arrest) oh_ Ff Q₆. _time, as ... arrest, ô_ Q₂ Q₃. _time as ... arrest. O_ Q₄ Q₅. [2373] _his_] Qq F₁. _this_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _you--_] Pope. _you,_ Q₂ Q₃ F₂ F₃ F₄. _you!_ Q₄ Q₅. _you._ F₁. _you;_ Q₆. [2374] _cause aright_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _cause a right_ Q₂ Q₃. _causes right_ Ff. [2375] _the_] _be_ F₃ F₄. _Never believe_] _Never; believe_ Hanmer. [takes the cup. Collier MS. See note (II). [2376] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. _antique_] Q₆. _anticke_ Q₂ Q₃. _antike_ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂. _antick_ F₃ F₄. [2377] _As ... have't._] Divided as in Qq. The first line ends _cup,_ in Ff. [2378] _thou'rt_] Capell. _th'art_ Qq. Ff. [2379] _by heaven,_] om. Q (1676). _have't_] F₁ F₂. _hate_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _hav't_ Q₆ F₃ F₄. [Struggling, Hamlet gets it. Collier MS. See note (II). [2380] _good Horatio_] Ff. _god Horatio_ Q₂ Q₃. _God Horatio_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _God!--Horatio_ Capell. [2381] _live_] Ff. _I leave_ Qq. _leave_ Grant White. [2382] [firings within. Capell. [2383] _story_] _tale_ Pope. [March ... shot within.] Steevens. March afarre off, and shout within. Ff. A march a farre off. Qq. Omitted by Capell. _this?_] _this?_ [Exit Osrick. Jennens. [Enter Osrick. Qq Ff. Omitted first by Capell. [2384] SCENE VI. Pope. [2385] _To the_] _To th'_ Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _Th th'_ Q₄. _Th'_ Q₅ Q₆. [2386] _To ... volley._] Divided as in Pope. One line in Qq Ff. [2387] _ambassadors_] _ambassador_ Hanmer. [2388] _quite_] _quie_ F₂. _o'er-crows_] _ore-growes_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2389] _and less_] _or less_ F₄. [2390] _solicited._] Ff. _solicited,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _solicited:_ Q₆. _solicited,--_Capell. _so limited--_Jackson conj. _solicited. The...._ Hor. _Now_] _solicited--_[Dies.] Hor. _The ... silence. Now_ Anon. conj. _is silence_] _is in silence_ Q₆. _in silence_ Q (1676). _silence._] Qq. _silence. O, o, o, o._ F₁. _silence, O, o, o, o,_ F₂. _silence, O, o, o._ F₃ F₄. [Dies.] Ff. om. Qq. [2391] _Now ... prince,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _cracks_] _cracke_ F₁. _sweet prince_] _be blest_ Collier MS. _prince_] _prience_ F₂. [2392] _flights_] _flight_ Q₅ Q₆. _choires_ Q (1676). _sing_] _singe_ Q₄ Q₅. _wing_ Warburton. [March within.] Capell (after line 348). om. Qq Ff. [2393] Enter....] Theobald. Enter Fortinbras and English Ambassador, ... Ff. Enter Fortenbrasse, with the Embassadors. Qq (Fortinbrasse Q₄ Q₅ Q₆). [2394] _this_] _the_ F₃ F₄. _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff. [2395] _search._] _search?_ Q₆. [2396] _This_] Qq. _His_ Ff. _cries on_] _cries out,_ Hanmer. _cries,--on_ Jackson conj. _proud_] _prou'd_ Q₂ Q₃. [2397] _thine eternal_] _thine infernall_ Q₆. _thy infernal_ Theobald. [2398] _shot_] Qq. _shoote_ F₁. _shoot_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2399] _struck_] Rowe. _strook_ Q₂ Q₃ F₃ F₄. _strooke_ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. First Amb.] 1. E. Capell. Embas. Qq. Amb. Ff. [2400] _life_] _breath_ Q (1676). [2401] _commandment_] _commandement_ Qq. _command'ment_ Ff. [2402] _jump_] _apt_ Q (1676). _full_ Pope. [2403] _Polack_] F₃ F₄. _Pollack_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _Pollock_ Q₄ Q₅. _Polake_ F₁ F₂. [2404] _the view_] _publick view_ Q (1676). [2405] _to the yet_] _to th' yet_ Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆. _to yet_ Q₂ Q₃. [2406] _carnal_] _cruell_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. [2407] _deaths_] _death's_ F₁ F₂. _forced cause_] _forc'd cause_ Ff. _for no cause_ Qq. [2408] _noblest_] _nobless_ Q (1676) and Pope (ed. 2). [2409] _rights_] Qq. _Rites_ Ff. [2410] _Which ... me._] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _doth,_ in Ff. _now to_] Qq. _are to_ Ff. _vantage_] _interest_ Q (1676). [2411] _shall have also_] Qq. _shall have alwayes_ F₁. _shall alwayes_ F₂ F₃. _shall always_ F₄. _shall likewise have_ Long MS. [2412] _And ... more:_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _mouth,_ in Ff. _on more_] Ff. _no more_ Qq. [2413] _same_] _scene_ Collier (Collier MS.) [2414] _Even ... mischance_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _wilde,_ in Ff. _while_] Qq. _whiles_ Ff. [2415] _plots and_] Qq. _plots, and_ Ff. [2416] _to the_] _off the_ F₃ F₄. [2417] _To ... passage,_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _royally:_ in Ff. _royally_] Ff. _royall_ Qq. [2418] _rites_] Ff. _right_ Qq. _rights_ Q (1676). [2419] _bodies_] Qq. _body_ Ff. [2420] _amiss_] _amisse_ Qq. _amis_ F₁. _ami ess_ F₂. [2421] [A dead march.] Capell. Exeunt....] Exeunt solemnly,.... Capell. Exeunt. Qq. Exeunt Marching: after the which, a Peale of Ordenance are shot off. Ff (after which F₃ F₄. Ordnance F₂ F₃ F₄). NOTES. NOTE I. ACT I. SCENE I. In this play the Acts and Scenes are marked in the Folios only as far as the second Scene of the second Act, and not at all in the Quartos. NOTE II. I. 1. 91. This and other emendations of the MS. corrector, not recorded by Mr Collier, are given on the authority of Mr Hamilton (_An Enquiry into the Genuineness of the MS. Corrections in Mr J. Payne Collier's annotated Shakespeare_, pp. 34--85). NOTE III. I. 3. 74. The following are the readings of the different editions and the emendations which have been proposed for this line: 'Are of a most select and generall chiefe in that:' (Q₁). 'Or of a most select and generous, chiefe in that:' Q₂ Q₃. 'Ar of a most select and generous, cheefe in that:' Q₄. 'Are of a most select and generous, chiefe in that:' Q₅ Q₆. 'Are of a most select and generous cheff in that.' Ff. 'Are most select and generous, chief in that.' Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, Johnson, Capell, Steevens (1793), Rann, Caldecott, Singer, Harness, Delius, &c. 'Are most select, and generous, chief in that.' Steevens (1773). 'Are most select, and generous chief, in that.' Steevens (1778 and 1785). 'Are of a most select and generous chief, in that.' Malone. 'Select and generous, are most choice in that.' Steevens conj. 'Are of a most select and generous choice in that.' Collier MS., adopted by Elze, Collier, ed. 2, and Keightley. 'Are of a most select and generous sheaf in that.' Staunton. 'Are most select and generous in that.' Grant White. 'Are of a most select and generous class in that.' Bullock conj. 'Are of a most select and generous choice.' Lloyd conj. NOTE IV. I. 3. 109. The second and third Quartos include the words 'not ... thus' in a parenthesis. In the fourth, fifth, and sixth, the parenthesis ends at 'phrase;' an arrangement, which was adopted by Pope and corrected by Theobald at Warburton's suggestion. The Folios have no parenthesis. NOTE V. I. 3. 117. Malone conjectured that some epithet to 'blazes' has been omitted; and Coleridge 'did not doubt that a spondee had dropt out of the line.' He proposed either 'Go to, these blazes, daughter,' or 'these blazes, daughter, mark you.' _Notes and Lectures_, 1. p. 220 (ed. 1849). NOTE VI. I. 4. 36, 37. We have left this corrupt passage unaltered because none of the conjectures proposed appear to be satisfactory. Rann, reading in his text: 'The dram of base Doth all the noble substance of worth out To his own scandal....' gives some conjectures, without naming the authors, in a note thus: '_Doth all, &c. oft corrupt: oft work out: eat out: By it's own scandal._' The first of these alterations, 'oft corrupt,' anticipates one which Mitford published as his own, and the third, 'eat out,' is borrowed from the author of 'the Revisal' (Heath). Mr Grant White suggests that "the corruption lurks in a part of the passage hitherto unsuspected, and that 'Doth' is either a misprint of 'Hath,' or has the sense of 'accomplishes.'" Mr Keightley reads, 'The dram of evil Doth all the noble substance, out o' doubt, To his own scandal....' marking the sentence as incomplete. NOTE VII. I. 4. 61. Steevens says 'The first Folio reads--_remote_.' We have not been able to find this reading in any copy of that edition which we have consulted. Sir Frederic Madden has kindly collated for us the four copies in the British Museum, all of which have 'remoued.' This is also the reading of Capell's copy, of Malone's, and of two others to which we have had access, and it is the reading in Mr Booth's reprint. NOTE VIII. I. 5. 80. 'A very learned lady,' probably Mrs Montagu, suggested to Johnson that this line 'O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!' should be given to Hamlet, and it is said that Garrick adopted this suggestion when he played Hamlet. Rann appears to be the first editor who put it in his text. Mr Verplanck and Mr Hudson have followed his example. In the Quarto of 1603, (Q₁), the Ghost says 'O horrible, most horrible!' and Hamlet interrupts with 'O God!' NOTE IX. I. 5. 113-116. The second Quarto followed by the rest reads thus: '_Enter Horatio, and Marcellus._ _Hora._ My Lord, my Lord. _Mar._ Lord _Hamlet_. _Hora._ Heauens secure him. _Ham._ So be it. _Mar._ Illo, ho, ho, my Lord.' The Folios have: '_Hor. & Mar. within._ My Lord, my Lord. _Enter Horatio and Marcellus._ _Mar._ Lord _Hamlet_. _Hor._ Heauen secure him. _Mar._ So be it. _Hor._ Illo, ho, ho, my Lord.' Capell first transferred the stage direction '_Enter Horatio and Marcellus_' to follow line 117, and added the direction '_within_' to all the previous speeches. In this he has been followed by Steevens (1778) and all subsequent editors. As however the first Quarto, which was taken down probably during the representation of the play, puts the words _Enter Horatio, and Marcellus_ opposite 'My Lord, my Lord,' it is probable that they really entered at that place but were supposed, it being night-time, not to be seen by Hamlet till they were close to him. Capell followed the Quartos in assigning 'So be it' to Hamlet. NOTE X. I. 5. 157-160. The second Quarto followed substantially by the rest reads thus: 'Come hether Gentlemen, And lay your hands againe vpon my sword, Sweare by my sword Neuer to speak of this that you haue heard.' The first Folio has: 'Come hither Gentlemen, And lay your hands again upon my sword, Neuer to speake of this that you have heard: Sweare by my Sword.' The following Folios put a full stop after 'sword' in the second line. Capell, taking the order of words from the Quartos, arranged as three lines, thus: 'Come hither, gentlemen, and lay your hands Again upon my sword; Swear by my sword, Never to speak of this that you have heard.' The first Quarto supports the order of the words as found in the Folio. Perhaps we might follow it and arrange the words of the Folio in three lines ending 'hands' ... 'speak' ... 'sword.' NOTE XI. II. 1. 79. Theobald, who is followed by Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson, reads 'loose' for 'foul'd,' on the authority as he says of 'the elder Quartos.' It is not the reading of any of the first six, but of those of 1676, 1683, 1695 and 1703. Had Capell been aware of this, he would scarcely have designated Theobald's mistake as 'a downright falsehood.' Theobald, at the time of writing his 'Shakespeare Restored,' knew of no Quarto earlier than that of 1637 (_Shakespeare Restored_, p. 70), and it is just possible that some copy of this edition (Q₆), from which that of 1676 was printed, may have had the reading 'loose.' We have given in the note to III. 4. 59 an instance of different readings in two copies of Q₆. NOTE XII. II. 2. 111, 112. In the Quartos Polonius's comment, 'that's an ill phrase ...,' is printed in italics like the letter, and there is some confusion in the next line. The second, third, fourth and fifth have '_but you shall heare: thus in her excellent white bosom, these &c._' The sixth puts a comma after '_heare_.' In the Folios these last words are printed in Roman type as if they were part of Polonius's comment, thus: 'but you shall heare these in her excellent white bosome, these.' Rowe printed: 'but you shall hear--_These to her excellent white bosom, these_--' The succeeding editors followed Rowe, down to Capell who restored the word '_in_' for '_to_.' The reading and punctuation of our text was first given substantially by Jennens, and adopted by Malone. NOTE XIII. II. 2. 123. In the fourth and fifth Quartos the word 'Hamlet,' in italics, is by mistake printed not at the end of the letter but opposite to the first line of Polonius's speech. NOTE XIV. II. 2. 169. The Quartos have '_Enter Hamlet_' after 'try it,' line 166, and '_Exit King and Queene_' after the words 'both away,' line 168. The Folios have '_Enter Hamlet, reading on a Booke_' after 'try it,' line 166, and '_Exit King & Queen_' after 'presently,' line 169. The Quartos put commas at 'presently,' and 'leave,' reading 'Ile ... leave' as one line; the Folios put full stops, reading 'Oh give me leave. How does my good Lord Hamlet?' as one line. The earlier editors down to Johnson inclusive made no change. Capell supposed the words 'O, give me leave' to be addressed, not to Hamlet, but to the King and Queen, whose _Exeunt_ he placed after these words. His arrangement has been followed by all subsequent editors, till we ventured, in the Globe edition, to recur to the old order. It appears to us that the words 'O, give me leave,' commencing with an exclamation, are more naturally addressed to Hamlet than to the King and Queen, with whom Polonius had been previously conversing. Mr Dyce transferred the entrance of Hamlet to follow the _Exeunt_ of the King and Queen, line 169. As in the first Quarto he is made to enter earlier, it is possible that he was in sight of the audience, though so intent on his book as not to observe the presence of the others. NOTE XV. II. 2. 564. Capell quotes 'braves' as the reading of the Quarto of 1605. His own copy has 'braines.' That in the British Museum reads 'braues.' NOTE XVI. III. 1. 86. In this doubtful passage we have retained the reading of the Quartos, although the players' Quartos of 1676, 1683, 1695, 1703, have, contrary to their custom, followed the Folios, which may possibly indicate that 'pith' was the reading according to the stage tradition. NOTE XVII. III. 2. 156, 157. Jennens prints in brackets the line of the Quartos which we have omitted, and conjectures, as Johnson had done before him, that a line is lost either before or after it, which should rhyme to 'love.' As in the Quartos the line 'For women feare too much, even as they love,' occurs at the top of a page, the omission is more likely to have been caused by a line having dropped out at the foot of the previous page. Mr Keightley marks the omission of a line after 'love.' Malone supposes that the 'Either none' of the Quartos in line 158 was the commencement of the lost line, which he suggests may have run as follows: 'Either none they feel, or an excess approve.' Steevens proposes to retain the omitted line, reading 'lust' for 'love,' making a triplet rhyme with the preceding lines. The Quarto probably gives us the author's first thought, incomplete, as well as the lines which he finally adopted, as they stand in the Folio. The thought will hardly bear to be expanded over four lines. NOTE XVIII. III. 2. 329. Mason conjectured that the words 'To withdraw with you' were spoken to the players whom Hamlet wished to get rid of, and proposed to read 'So, withdraw you,' or 'So withdraw, will you?' Malone adds the stage direction 'Taking Guil. aside.' Steevens supposes that the words 'To ... you' "may refer to some gesture which Guildenstern had used, and which, at first was interpreted by Hamlet into a signal for him to attend the speaker into another room. 'To withdraw with you?' (says he) 'Is that your meaning?'" Mr Staunton, agreeing substantially with Mason, proposes to read 'So,--[_taking a recorder_] withdraw with you.' He adds that the disputed words may have been intended to mark the departure of the players. Jackson (1819) proposed the same reading and explanation, adding a stage direction, '_To the Players, who exit._' If the reading and punctuation given in our text be right, the words seem to be addressed to Guildenstern. Mr Knight, however, suggests that 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have intimated, by some signal, that they wish to speak with Hamlet in private.' NOTE XIX. III. 2. 366--371. In this passage we have followed the distribution of the Folios. In the Quartos it stands thus: 'They foole me to the top of my bent, I will come by and by, Leaue me friends. I will, say so. By and by is easily said, 'Tis now &c.' In the Quarto of 1676 the words 'I will come ... said' are marked in inverted commas to indicate that they were omitted by the actors. Pope following the arrangement of the Quartos, reading 'I will say so' with the Quarto of 1676. NOTE XX. III. 4. 4. We have adopted Hanmer's correction 'sconce' for 'silence' because in the corresponding passage of the first Quarto Polonius says: 'I'le shrowde my selfe behinde the Arras.' The Quartos of 1676, 1683, 1695 and 1703 give 'I'll here conceal my self.' In the Quarto of 1603 there is also a trace of the following speech of Hamlet, omitted in the subsequent Quartos but given in the Folios. NOTE XXI. III. 4. 51, 52. This speech is properly given to the Queen in the Folios, but is printed as prose. The second Quarto has: '_Quee._ Ay me, what act? _Ham._ That roares so low'd, and thunders in the Index, Looke heere &c.' This is followed by the subsequent Quartos, except the sixth, which has a colon at 'Index.' Warburton adopts the distribution of the Quartos, but alters the second line thus: '_Ham._ That roars so loud, it thunders to the Indies.' NOTE XXII. III. 4. 71. The reading 'stoop' for 'step' is found in manuscript in the margin of a copy of the Quarto of 1637, which has been kindly lent us by Dr Ingleby. The other readings in this play referred to as 'Anon. conj. MS.' or 'Anon. MS.' are from the same source. NOTE XXIII. IV. 1. 40--44. In the second and third Quartos these lines stand literatim as follows: 'And whats vntimely doone, Whose whisper ore the worlds dyameter, As leuell as the Cannon to his blanck, Transports his poysned shot, may misse our Name, And hit the woundlesse ayre, ô come away, My soule &c.' The later Quartos, including those of 1676, 1683, 1695, and 1703, spelling apart, have the same reading. In the first Folio, followed substantially by the rest, we find only these words: 'And what's vntimely done. Oh come away, My soule &c.' Rowe, Pope, Hanmer and Warburton followed the Folios. Theobald first adopted the text of the Quartos. In his _Shakespeare Restored_, p. 108, he had suggested 'Happily, slander,' or 'Happily, rumour;' in his edition he supplied the blank thus: 'And what's untimely done. For, haply, Slander (Whose whisper &c.' Hanmer, in his copy of Theobald's edition, erased the passage with a pen. Johnson, and Steevens in his editions of 1773, 1778 and 1785, followed Theobald. Capell filled the hiatus by '_So_, haply, slander,' and was followed by Steevens (1793) and most modern editors. Mason seems not to have consulted Capell's edition, for in 1788 he puts forward this reading as a conjecture of his own. Malone (1790) read: 'So viperous slander.' Mr Staunton proposes 'Thus calumny,' but in his text follows Capell. 'Malice' or 'Envy,' in the sense in which it is often used by Shakespeare, would suit the passage as well as 'Slander.' NOTE XXIV. IV. 2. 1--3. The second and third Quartos begin the scene thus: '_Ham._ Safely stowd, but soft, what noyse, who calls on _Hamlet?_' The fourth and fifth have 'softly' for 'soft.' The Folios have: '_Ham._ Safely stowed. _Gentlemen within._ _Hamlet_, Lord _Hamlet_. _Ham._ What noise? Who cals on _Hamlet_?' In the players' Quarto of 1676, and the following editions, which otherwise adhere to the reading of the old Quartos, the words 'but soft' are omitted. They omit also 'on'. Capell gives: 'HAM.---- Safely stow'd. But, soft; ROS. &c. [_within._] _Hamlet!_ lord _Hamlet!_ HAM. What noise? who calls on _Hamlet_? O, here they come.' The arrangement adopted in our text was first given by Malone. NOTE XXV. IV. 5. 14--16. The Quartos have: '_Hora._ Twere good she were spoken with, for shee may strew Dangerous coniectures in ill breeding mindes, Let her come in.' The Folios, '_Qu._ 'Twere good she were spoken with, For she may strew dangerous coniectures In ill breeding minds. Let her come in.' Rowe followed the Folios; Pope, Theobald, Warburton and Capell, the Quartos. Hanmer continues the lines ''Twere good ... minds' to the Gentleman who had spoken the previous lines, and gives 'Let her come in &c.' to the Queen. Johnson follows Hanmer's distribution of the speeches, but substitutes 'Hor.' for 'Gent.' in lines 2 and 4; the arrangement proposed by Blackstone. Steevens (1773) assigned the speech ''Twere good ... spilt' (14--20) to Horatio, but restored it to the Queen in his next edition. Mr Grant White follows the Folios in giving the whole Speech to the Queen, but marks ''Twere good ... minds' as spoken aside, and 'Let ... in' 'To Hor.' NOTE XXVI. IV. 5. 148. In the Quartos the passage is thus printed: '_A noyse within._ _Enter Ophelia._ _Laer._ Let her come in. How now, what noyse is that?' In the Folios: '_A noise within. Let her come in._ _Enter Ophelia._ _Laer._ How now? what noise is that?' Rowe followed the Folios, Pope the Quartos, reading 'Let ... that?' as one line. Theobald first transferred the stage direction, _Enter Ophelia_, to follow the first line of Laertes's speech. NOTE XXVII. IV. 5. 163. Capell was the first to print these words as not forming part of the song. In the Folios they are printed like the former lines in italics. As there is no change of type in the Quartos, it is impossible to say on which side their authority is. There is a comma after 'teare' (or 'tear') in all the Quartos and Folios, except the sixth Quarto, which has a full stop. NOTE XXVIII. IV. 5. 166. Ophelia's speech, or song, is printed as three lines in the Quarto, thus: '_Oph._ You must sing a downe a downe, And you call him a downe a. O how the wheele becomes it, It is the false Steward that stole his Maisters daughter.' It is printed as prose in the Folios; beginning, 'You must sing downe a-downe, &c.' There is no indication that any part was meant to be sung. Johnson first printed 'You must sing ... call him a-down-a' in italics, as a snatch of song. Steevens (1778) put 'Down a down, as you call him a-down-a' in italics, a reading suggested by Capell's text, where 'Down' begins with a capital letter. The late Mr John Taylor, in a copy of the second Variorum edition (1813) now in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, has made the following note. "Ophelia gives the song without the Burthen first, and then she instructs them 'You must sing _a-down a-down_, and you (speaking to another) call him _a-down-a_." NOTE XXIX. IV. 5. 195. In the Folios Ophelia's song is printed in Italics, and the words 'And ... you' in Roman type, 'God buy ye' being in a separate line. In the second and third Quartos the whole is printed in Roman type, and ends thus: 'God a mercy on his soule, and of all Christians soules, God buy you.' We have indicated in the foot-note how the later Quartos differ from the earlier. NOTE XXX. IV. 7. 139. Pope in his second edition says that 'one edition has it, _embaited_ or envenomed.' We have not been able to find this reading in any copy, but Theobald (_Shakespeare Restored_, p. 119) conjectured 'imbaited.' As this conjecture is not mentioned in his edition, we have here, as in other cases, recorded it as 'withdrawn.' NOTE XXXI. V. 1. 57, 58. Mr Collier in his first edition conjectured that 'Yaughan' might be 'a mis-spelt stage direction to inform the player that he was to _yawn_ at this point.' Mr Staunton says, "Whether by 'Yaughan' a man or place is meant, or whether the word is a corruption, we are not qualified to determine." Mr Grant White says, "I suspect that 'Yaughan' is a misprint for 'Tavern.' But some local allusion understood at the day may lurk under it." NOTE XXXII. V. 2. 205, 206. The reading in the text is taken partly from the Folios and partly from the Quartos, altering however the punctuation. The second Quarto, followed substantially by the rest, has as follows: 'The readines is all, since no man of ought he leaues, knowes what ist to leaue betimes, let be.' The first Folio, followed, except in spelling, by the rest, has: _'The readinesse is all, since no man ha's ought of what he leaues. What is't to leaue betimes?'_ The Quartos of 1676, 1683, 1695 and 1703 have: 'The readiness is all, since no man of ought he leaves knows what 'tis to leave betimes, let be.' Rowe, Pope and Theobald followed the Folios. Hanmer: 'The readiness is all. Since no man owes aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?' Warburton: 'The readiness is all. Since no man, of ought he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes? Let be.' Johnson: 'The readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?' Steevens (1773, 1778, 1785) and Rann adopt the reading of Johnson, adding the words 'Let be.' Warburton's reading was followed by Capell, Malone, Steevens (1793), the Editors of the three _Variorum Shakespeares_, 1803, 1813, 1821, Singer, Harness and Mr Collier. Caldecott first adopted the reading given in our text. Mr Grant White follows him. Becket would substitute 'has thought' for 'has aught.' Mr Keightley prints thus, marking the sentence as unfinished: 'The readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what it is to leave betimes.... Let be.' NOTE XXXIII. V. 2. 290. Mr Staunton says, "The exclamation 'Ho!' meaning _stop_, should perhaps be addressed to the combatants, and not, as it is always printed, to those who are to raise the Queen." The Tragicall Historie of HAMLET Prince of Denmarke. [Sidenote: [SC. I.]]] _Enter two Centinels._ 1. Stand: who is that? 2. Tis I. 1. O you come most carefully vpon your watch, 2. And if you meete _Marcellus_ and _Horatio_, The partners of my watch, bid them make haste. 5 1. I will: See who goes there. _Enter Horatio and Marcellus._ _Hor._ Friends to this ground. _Mar._ And leegemen to the Dane, O farewell honest souldier, who hath releeued you? 1. _Barnardo_ hath my place, giue you good night. 10 _Mar._ Holla, _Barnardo_. 2. Say, is _Horatio_ there? _Hor._ A peece of him. 2. Welcome _Horatio_, welcome good _Marcellus_. _Mar._ What hath this thing appear'd againe to night. 15 2. I haue seene nothing. _Mar._ _Horatio_ sayes tis but our fantasie, And wil not let beliefe take hold of him, Touching this dreaded sight twice seene by vs, Therefore I haue intreated him a long with vs 20 To watch the minutes of this night, That if againe this apparition come, He may approoue our eyes, and speake to it. _Hor._ Tut, t'will not appeare. 2. Sit downe I pray, and let vs once againe 25 Assaile your eares that are so fortified, What we haue two nights seene. _Hor._ Wel, sit we downe, and let vs heare _Bernardo_ speake of this. 2. Last night of al, when yonder starre that's westward 30 from the pole, had made his course to Illumine that part of heauen. Where now it burnes, The bell then towling one. _Enter Ghost._ _Mar._ Breake off your talke, see where it comes againe. 2. In the same figure like the King that's dead, 35 _Mar._ Thou art a scholler, speake to it _Horatio_. 2. Lookes it not like the king? _Hor._ Most like, it horrors mee with feare and wonder. 2. It would be spoke to. _Mar._ Question it _Horatio_. 40 _Hor._ What art thou that thus vsurps the state, in Which the Maiestie of buried _Denmarke_ did sometimes Walke? By heauen I charge thee speake. _Mar._ It is offended. _exit Ghost._ 2. See, it stalkes away. 45 _Hor._ Stay, speake, speake, by heauen I charge thee speake. _Mar._ Tis gone and makes no answer. 2. How now _Horatio_, you tremble and looke pale, Is not this something more than fantasie? 50 What thinke you on't? _Hor._ Afore my God, I might not this beleeue, without the sensible and true auouch of my owne eyes. _Mar._ Is it not like the King? _Hor._ As thou art to thy selfe, 55 Such was the very armor he had on, When he the ambitious _Norway_ combated. So frownd he once, when in an angry parle He smot the sleaded pollax on the yce, Tis strange. 60 _Mar._ Thus twice before, and iump at this dead hower, With Marshall stalke he passed through our watch. _Hor._ In what particular to worke, I know not, But in the thought and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to the state. 65 _Mar._ Good, now sit downe, and tell me he that knowes Why this same strikt and most obseruant watch, So nightly toyles the subiect of the land, And why such dayly cost of brazen Cannon And forraine marte, for implements of warre, 70 Why such impresse of ship-writes, whose sore taske Does not diuide the sunday from the weeke: What might be toward that this sweaty march Doth make the night ioynt labourer with the day, Who is't that can informe me? 75 _Hor._ Mary that can I, at least the whisper goes so, Our late King, who as you know was by Forten-Brasse of _Norway_, Thereto prickt on by a most emulous cause, dared to The combate, in which our valiant _Hamlet_, 80 For so this side of our knowne world esteemed him, Did slay this Fortenbrasse, Who by a seale compact well ratified, by law And heraldrie, did forfeit with his life all those His lands which he stoode seazed of by the conqueror, 85 Against the which a moity competent, Was gaged by our King: Now sir, yong Fortenbrasse, Of inapproued mettle hot and full, Hath in the skirts of _Norway_ here and there, 90 Sharkt vp a sight of lawlesse Resolutes For food and diet to some enterprise, That hath a stomacke in't: and this (I take it) is the Chiefe head and ground of this our watch. _Enter the Ghost._ But loe, behold, see where it comes againe, 95 Ile crosse it, though it blast me: stay illusion, If there be any good thing to be done, That may doe ease to thee, and grace to mee, Speake to mee. If thou art priuy to thy countries fate, 100 Which happly foreknowing may preuent, O speake to me, Or if thou hast extorted in thy life, Or hoorded treasure in the wombe of earth, For which they say you Spirites oft walke in death, speake to me, stay and speake, speake, stoppe it _Marcellus_. 105 2. Tis heere. _exit Ghost._ _Hor._ Tis heere. _Marc._ Tis gone, O we doe it wrong, being so maiesticall, to offer it the shew of violence, For it is as the ayre invelmorable, 110 And our vaine blowes malitious mockery. 2. It was about to speake when the Cocke crew. _Hor._ And then it faded like a guilty thing, Vpon a fearefull summons: I haue heard The Cocke, that is the trumpet to the morning, 115 Doth with his earely and shrill crowing throate, Awake the god of day, and at his sound, Whether in earth or ayre, in sea or fire, The strauagant and erring spirite hies To his confines, and of the trueth heereof 120 This present obiect made probation. _Marc._ It faded on the crowing of the Cocke, Some say, that euer gainst that season comes, Wherein our Sauiours birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long, 125 And then they say, no spirite dare walke abroade, The nights are wholesome, then no planet frikes, No Fairie takes, nor Witch hath powre to charme, So gratious, and so hallowed is that time. _Hor._ So haue I heard, and doe in parte beleeue it: 130 But see the Sunne in russet mantle clad, Walkes ore the deaw of yon his mountaine top, Breake we our watch vp, and by my aduise, Let vs impart what wee haue seene to night Vnto yong _Hamlet_: for vpon my life 135 This Spirite dumbe to vs will speake to him: Do you consent, wee shall acquaint him with it, As needefull in our loue, fitting our duetie? _Marc._ Lets doo't I pray, and I this morning know, Where we shall finde him most conueniently. 140 _Enter King, Queene, Hamlet, Leartes, Corambis, and the two Ambassadors, with Attendants._ [Sidenote: [SC. II.]] _King_ Lordes, we here haue writ to _Fortenbrasse_, Nephew to olde _Norway_, who impudent And bed-rid, scarcely heares of this his Nephews purpose: and Wee heere dispatch Yong good _Cornelia_, and you _Voltemar_ 5 For bearers of these greetings to olde _Norway_, giuing to you no further personall power To businesse with the King, Then those related articles do shew: Farewell, and let your haste commend your dutie. 10 _Gent._ In this and all things will wee shew our dutie. _King._ Wee doubt nothing, hartily farewel: And now _Leartes_ what's the newes with you?[2422] You said you had a sute what i'st _Leartes_? _Lea._ My gratious Lord, your fauorable licence, 15 Now that the funerall rites are all performed, I may haue leaue to go againe to _France_, For though the fauour of your grace might stay mee, Yet something is there whispers in my hart, Which makes my minde and spirits bend all for _France_. 20 _King_ Haue you your fathers leaue, _Leartes_? _Cor._ He hath, my lord, wrung from me a forced graunt, And I beseech you grant your Highnesse leaue. _King_ With all our heart, _Leartes_ fare thee well. _Lear._ I in all loue and dutie take my leaue. 25 _King._ And now princely Sonne _Hamlet_, _Exit._ What meanes these sad and melancholy moodes? For your intent going to _Wittenberg_, Wee hold it most vnmeet and vnconuenient, Being the Ioy and halfe heart of your mother. 30 Therefore let mee intreat you stay in Court, All _Denmarkes_ hope our coosin and dearest Sonne. _Ham._ My lord, ti's not the sable sute I weare: No nor the teares that still stand in my eyes, Nor the distracted hauiour in the visage, 35 Nor all together mixt with outward semblance, Is equall to the sorrow of my heart, Him haue I lost I must of force forgoe, These but the ornaments and sutes of woe. _King_ This shewes a louing care in you, Sonne _Hamlet_, 40 But you must thinke your father lost a father, That father dead, lost his, and so shalbe vntill the Generall ending. Therefore cease laments, It is a fault gainst heauen, fault gainst the dead, A fault gainst nature, and in reasons 45 Common course most certaine, None liues on earth, but hee is borne to die. _Que._ Let not thy mother loose her praiers _Hamlet_, Stay here with vs, go not to _Wittenberg_. _Ham._ I shall in all my best obay you madam. 50 _King_ Spoke like a kinde and a most louing Sonne, And there's no health the King shall drinke to day, But the great Canon to the clowdes shall tell The rowse the King shall drinke vnto Prince _Hamlet_. _Exeunt all but Hamlet._ _Ham._ O that this too much grieu'd and sallied flesh 55 Would melt to nothing, or that the vniuersall Globe of heauen would turne al to a Chaos! O God within two moneths; no not two: maried,[2423] Mine vncle: O let me not thinke of it, My fathers brother: but no more like My father, then I to _Hercules_. Within two months, ere yet the salt of most Vnrighteous teates had left their flushing In her galled eyes: she married, O God, a beast Deuoyd of reason would not haue made 65 Such speede: Frailtie, thy name is Woman, Why she would hang on him, as if increase Of appetite had growne by what it looked on. O wicked wicked speede, to make such Dexteritie to incestuous sheetes, 70 Ere yet the shooes were olde, The which she followed my dead fathers corse Like _Nyobe_, all teares: married, well it is not, Nor it cannot come to good: But breake my heart, for I must holde my tongue. 75 _Enter_ Horatio _and_ Marcellus. _Hor._ Health to your Lordship. _Ham._ I am very glad to see you, (Horatio) or I much forget my selfe. _Hor._ The same my Lord, and your poore seruant euer. _Ham._ O my good friend, I change that name with you: 80 but what make you from _Wittenberg_ _Horatio_? _Marcellus._ _Marc._ My good Lord. _Ham._ I am very glad to see you, good euen sirs: But what is your affaire in _Elsenoure_? 85 Weele teach you to drinke deepe ere you depart. _Hor._ A trowant disposition, my good Lord. _Ham._ Nor shall you make mee truster Of your owne report against your selfe: Sir, I know you are no trowant: 90 But what is your affaire in _Elsenoure_? _Hor._ My good Lord, I came to see your fathers funerall. _Ham._ O I pre thee do not mocke mee fellow studient, I thinke it was to see my mothers wedding. _Hor._ Indeede my Lord, it followed hard vpon. 95 _Ham._ Thrift, thrift, _Horatio_, the funerall bak't meates Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables, Would I had met my deerest foe in heauen Ere euer I had seene that day _Horatio_; O my father, my father, me thinks I see my father, 100 _Hor._ Where my Lord? _Ham._ Why, in my mindes eye _Horatio_. _Hor._ I saw him once, he was a gallant King. _Ham._ He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not looke vpon his like againe. _Hor._ My Lord, I thinke I saw him yesternight, _Ham._ Saw, who? _Hor._ My Lord, the King your father. _Ham._ Ha, ha, the King my father ke you. _Hor._ Ceasen your admiration for a while 110 With an attentiue eare, till I may deliuer, Vpon the witnesse of these Gentlemen This wonder to you. _Ham._ For Gods loue let me heare it. _Hor._ Two nights together had these Gentlemen, 115 _Marcellus_ and _Bernardo_, on their watch, In the dead vast and middle of the night. Beene thus incountered by a figure like your father, Armed to poynt, exactly _Capapea_ Appeeres before them thrise, he walkes 120 Before their weake and feare oppressed eies. Within his tronchions length, While they distilled almost to gelly. With the act of feare stands dumbe, And speake not to him: this to mee 125 In dreadfull secresie impart they did. And I with them the third night kept the watch, Where as they had deliuered forme of the thing. Each part made true and good, The Apparition comes: I knew your father, 130 These handes are not more like. _Ham._ Tis very strange. _Hor._ As I do liue, my honord lord, tis true, And wee did thinke it right done, In our dutie to let you know it. 135 _Ham._ Where was this? _Mar._ My Lord, vpon the platforme where we watched. _Ham._ Did you not speake to it? _Hor._ My Lord we did, but answere made it none, Yet once me thought it was about to speake, 140 And lifted vp his head to motion, Like as he would speake, but euen then The morning cocke crew lowd, and in all haste, It shruncke in haste away, and vanished Our sight. 145 _Ham._ Indeed, indeed sirs, but this troubles me: Hold you the watch to night? _All_ We do my Lord. _Ham._ Armed say ye? _All_ Armed my good Lord. 150 _Ham._ From top to toe? _All._ My good Lord, from head to foote. _Ham._ Why then saw you not his face? _Hor._ O yes my Lord, he wore his beuer vp. _Ham._ How look't he, frowningly? 155 _Hor._ A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. _Ham._ Pale, or red? _Hor._ Nay, verie pal _Ham._ And fixt his eies vpon you. _Hor._ Most constantly. 160 _Ham._ I would I had beene there. _Hor._ It would a much amazed you. _Ham._ Yea very like, very like, staid it long? _Hor._ While one with moderate pace Might tell a hundred. 165 _Mar._ O longer, longer. _Ham._ His beard was grisleld, no. _Hor._ It was as I haue seene it in his life, A sable siluer. _Ham._ I wil watch to night, perchance t'wil walke againe. 170 _Hor._ I warrant it will. _Ham._ If it assume my noble fathers person, Ile speake to it, if hell it selfe should gape, And bid me hold my peace, Gentlemen, If you haue hither consealed this sight, 175 Let it be tenible in your silence still, And whatsoeuer else shall chance to night, Giue it an vnderstanding, but no tongue, I will requit your loues, so fare you well, Vpon the platforme, twixt eleuen and twelue, 180 Ile visit you. _All._ Our duties to your honor. _exeunt._ _Ham._ O your loues, your loues, as mine to you, Farewell, my fathers spirit in Armes, Well, all's not well. I doubt some foule play, 185 Would the night were come, Till then, sit still my soule, foule deeds will rise Though all the world orewhelme them to mens eies. _Exit._ [Sidenote: [SC. III.]] _Enter Leartes_ and _Ofelia_. _Leart._ My necessaries are inbarkt, I must aboord, But ere I part, marke what I say to thee: I see Prince _Hamlet_ makes a shew of loue Beware _Ofelia_, do not trust his vowes, Perhaps he loues you now, and now his tongue, 5 Speakes from his heart, but yet take heed my sister, The Chariest maide is prodigall enough, If she vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone. Vertue it selfe scapes not calumnious thoughts, Belieu't _Ofelia_, therefore keepe a loofe 10 Lest that he trip thy honor and thy fame. _Ofel._ Brother, to this I haue lent attentiue eare, And doubt not but to keepe my honour firme, But my deere brother, do not you Like to a cunning Sophister, 15 Teach me the path and ready way to heauen, While you forgetting what is said to me, Your selfe, like to a carelesse libertine Doth giue his heart, his appetite at ful, And little recks how that his honour dies. 20 _Lear._ No, feare it not my deere _Ofelia_, Here comes my father, occasion smiles vpon a second leaue. _Enter Corambis._ _Cor._ Yet here _Leartes_? aboord, aboord, for shame, The winde sits in the shoulder of your saile, And you are staid for, there my blessing with thee 25 And these few precepts in thy memory. "Be thou familiar, but by no meanes vulgare; "Those friends thou hast, and their adoptions tried, "Graple them to thee with a hoope of steele, "But do not dull the palme with entertaine, 30 "Of euery new vnfleg'd courage, "Beware of entrance into a quarrell; but being in, "Beare it that the opposed may beware of thee, "Costly thy apparrell, as thy purse can buy. "But not exprest in fashion, 35 "For the apparell oft proclaimes the man." And they of _France_ of the chiefe rancke and station Are of a most select and generall chiefe in that: "This aboue all, to thy owne selfe be true, And it must follow as the night the day, 40 Thou canst not then be false to any one, Farewel, my blessing with thee. _Lear._ I humbly take my leaue, farewell _Ofelia_, And remember well what I haue said to you. _exit._ _Ofel._ It is already lock't within my hart, 45 And you your selfe shall keepe the key of it. _Cor._ What i'st _Ofelia_ he hath saide to you? _Ofel._ Somthing touching the prince _Hamlet_. _Cor._ Mary wel thought on, t'is giuen me to vnderstand, That you haue bin too prodigall of your maiden presence 50 Vnto Prince Hamlet, if it be so, As so tis giuen to mee, and that in waie of caution I must tell you; you do not vnderstand your selfe So well as befits my honor, and your credite. _Ofel._ My lord, he hath made many tenders of his loue 55 to me. _Cor._ Tenders, I, I, tenders you may call them. _Ofel._ And withall, such earnest vowes. _Cor._ Springes to catch woodcocks, What, do not I know when the blood doth burne, 60 How prodigall the tongue lends the heart vowes, In briefe, be more scanter of your maiden presence, Or tendring thus you'l tender mee a foole. _Ofel._ I shall obay my lord in all I may. _Cor._ _Ofelia_, receiue none of his letters, 65 "For louers lines are snares to intrap the heart; "Refuse his tokens, both of them are keyes To vnlocke Chastitie vnto Desire; Come in _Ofelia_, such men often proue, "Great in their wordes, but little in their loue." 70 _Ofel._ I will my lord. _exeunt._ [Sidenote: [SC. IV.]] _Enter_ Hamlet, Horatio, _and_ Marcellus. _Ham._ The ayre bites shrewd; it is an eager and An nipping winde, what houre i'st? _Hor._ I think it lacks of twelue. _Sound Trumpets._ _Mar._ No, t'is strucke. _Hor._ Indeed I heard it not, what doth this mean my lord? 5 _Ham._ O the king doth wake to night, & takes his rowse, Keepe wassel, and the swaggering vp-spring reeles, And as he dreames, his draughts of renish downe, The kettle, drumme, and trumpet, thus bray out, The triumphes of his pledge. 10 _Hor._ Is it a custome here? _Ham._ I mary i'st and though I am Natiue here, and to the maner borne, It is a custome, more honourd in the breach, Then in the obseruance. 15 _Enter the Ghost._ _Hor._ Looke my Lord, it comes. _Ham._ Angels and Ministers of grace defend vs, Be thou a spirite of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee ayres from heauen, or blasts from hell: Be thy intents wicked or charitable, 20 Thou commest in such questionable shape, That I will speake to thee, Ile call thee _Hamlet_, King, Father, Royall Dane, O answere mee, let mee not burst in ignorance, But say why thy canonizd bones hearsed in death 25 Haue burst their ceremonies: why thy Sepulcher, In which wee saw thee quietly interr'd. Hath burst his ponderous and marble Iawes, To cast thee vp againe: what may this meane, That thou, dead corse, againe in compleate steele, 30 Reuissets thus the glimses of the Moone, Making night hideous, and we fooles of nature, So horridely to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our soules? Say, speake, wherefore, what may this meane? 35 _Hor._ It beckons you, as though it had something To impart to you alone. _Mar._ Looke with what courteous action It waues you to a more remoued ground, But do not go with it. 40 _Hor._ No, by no meanes my Lord. _Ham._ It will not speake, then will I follow it. _Hor._ What if it tempt you toward the flood my Lord. That beckles ore his bace, into the sea, And there assume some other horrible shape, 45 Which might depriue your soueraigntie of reason, And driue you into madnesse: thinke of it. _Ham._ Still am I called, go on, ile follow thee. _Hor._ My Lord, you shall not go. _Ham._ Why what should be the feare? 50 I do not set my life at a pinnes fee, And for my soule, what can it do to that? Being a thing immortall, like it selfe, Go on, ile follow thee. _Mar._ My Lord be rulde, you shall not goe. 55 _Ham._ My fate cries out, and makes each pety Artiue As hardy as the Nemeon Lyons nerue, Still am I cald, vnhand me gentlemen; By heauen ile make a ghost of him that lets me, Away I say, go on, ile follow thee. 60 _Hor._ He waxeth desperate with imagination. _Mar._ Something is rotten in the state of _Denmarke_. _Hor._ Haue after; to what issue will this sort? _Mar._ Lets follow, tis not fit thus to obey him. _exit._ _Enter Ghost and Hamlet._ _Ham._ Ile go no farther, whither wilt thou leade me? 65 _Ghost_ Marke me. _Ham._ I will. _Ghost_ I am thy fathers spirit, doomd for a time To walke the night, and all the day Confinde in flaming fire, 70 Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature Arepurged and burnt away. _Ham._ Alas poore Ghost. _Ghost_ Nay pitty me not, but to my vnfolding Lend thy listning eare, but that I am forbid 75 To tell the secrets of my prison house I would a tale vnfold, whose lightest word Would harrow vp thy soule, freeze thy yong blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, 80 And each particular haire to stand on end Like quils vpon the fretfull Porpentine, But this same blazon must not be, to eares of flesh and blood Hamlet, if euer thou didst thy deere father loue. _Ham._ O God. 85 _Gho._ Reuenge his foule, and most vnnaturall murder: _Ham._ Murder. _Ghost_ Yea, murder in the highest degree, As in the least tis bad, But mine most foule, beastly, and vnnaturall. 90 _Ham._ Haste me to knowe it, that with wings as swift as meditation, or the thought of it, may sweepe to my reuenge. _Ghost_ O I finde thee apt, and duller shouldst thou be Then the fat weede which rootes it selfe in ease On _Lethe_ wharffe: briefe let me be. 95 Tis giuen out, that sleeping in my orchard, A Serpent stung me; so the whole eare of _Denmarke_ Is with a forged Prosses of my death rankely abusde: But know thou noble Youth: he that did sting Thy fathers heart, now weares his Crowne. 100 _Ham._ O my prophetike soule, my vncle! my vncle! _Ghost_ Yea he, that incestuous wretch, wonne to his will with gifts, O wicked will, and gifts! that haue the power So to seduce my most seeming vertuous Queene, But vertne, as it neuer will be moued, 105 Though Lewdnesse court it in a shape of heauen, So Lust, though to a radiant angle linckt, Would fate it selfe from a celestiall bedde, And prey on garbage: but soft, me thinkes I sent the mornings ayre, briefe let me be, 110 Sleeping within my Orchard, my custome alwayes In the after noone, vpon my secure houre Thy vncle came, with iuyce of Hebona In a viall, and through the porches of my eares Did powre the leaprous distilment, whose effect 115 Hold such an enmitie with blood of man, That swift as quickesiluer, it posteth through The naturall gates and allies of the body, And turnes the thinne and wholesome blood Like eager dropings into milke. 120 And all my smoothe body, barked, and tetterd ouer. Thus was I sleeping by a brothers hand Of Crowne, of Queene, of life, of dignitie At once depriued, no reckoning made of, But sent vnto my graue, 125 With all my accompts and sinnes vpon my head, O horrible, most horrible! _Ham._ O God! _Ghost_ If thou hast nature in thee, beare it not, But howsoeuer, let not thy heart 130 Conspire against thy mother aught, Leaue her to heauen, And to the burthen that her conscience beares. I must be gone, the Glo-worme shewes the Martin To be neere, and gin's to pale his vneffectuall fire: 135 Hamlet adue, adue, adue: remember me. [_Exit_ _Ham._ O all you hoste of heauen! O earth, what else? And shall I couple hell; remember thee? Yes thou poore Ghost; from the tables Of my memorie, ile wipe away all sawes of Bookes, 140 All triuiall fond conceites That euer youth, or else obseruance noted, And thy remembrance, all alone shall sit. Yes, yes, by heauen, a damnd pernitious villaine, Murderons, bawdy, smiling damned villaine, 145 (My tables) meet it is I set it downe, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villayne; At least I am sure, it may be so in _Denmarke_. So vncle, there you are, there you are. Now to the words; it is adue adue: remember me, 150 Soe t'is enough I haue sworne. _Hor._ My lord, my lord. _Enter. Horatio, and Marcellus._ _Mar._ Lord Hamlet. _Hor._ Ill, lo, lo, ho, ho. _Mar._ Ill, lo, lo, so, ho, so, come boy, come. 155 _Hor._ Heauens secure him. _Mar._ How i'st my noble lord? _Hor._ What news my lord? _Ham._ O wonderfull, wonderful. _Hor._ Good my lord tel it. 160 _Ham._ No not I, you'l reueale it. _Hor._ Not I my Lord by heauen. _Mar._ Nor I my Lord. _Ham._ How say you then? would hart of man Once thinke it? but you'l be secret. 165 _Both._ I by heauen, my lord. _Ham._ There's neuer a villaine dwelling in all _Denmarke_, But hee's an arrant knaue. _Hor._ There need no Ghost come from the graue to tell you this. 170 _Ham._ Right, you are in the right, and therefore I holde it meet without more circumstance at all, Wee shake hands and part; you as your busines And desiers shall leade you: for looke you, Euery man hath busines, and desires, such 175 As it is, and for my owne poore parte, ile go pray. _Hor._ These are but wild and wherling words, my Lord. _Ham._ I am sory they offend you; hartely, yes faith hartily. _Hor._ Ther's no offence my Lord. _Ham._ Yes by Saint _Patrike_ but there is _Horatio_, 180 And much offence too, touching this vision, It is an honest ghost, that let mee tell you, For your desires to know what is betweene vs, Or'emaister it as you may: And now kind frends, as yon are frends, 185 Schollers and gentlmen, Grant mee one poore request. _Both._ What i'st my Lord? _Ham._ Neuer make known what you haue seene to night _Both._ My Lord, we will not. 190 _Ham._ Nay but sweare. _Hor._ In faith my Lord not I. _Mar._ Nor I my Lord in faith. _Ham._ Nay vpon my sword, indeed vpon my sword. _Gho._ Sweare. 195 _The Gost vnder the stage._ _Ham._ Ha, ha, come you here, this fellow in the sellerige, Here consent to sweare. _Hor._ Propose the oth my Lord. _Ham._ Neuer to speake what you haue seene to night, Sweare by my sword. 200 _Gost._ Sweare. _Ham._ _Hic & vbique_; nay then weele shift our ground: Come hither Gentlemen, and lay your handes Againe vpon this sword, neuer to speake Of that which you haue seene, sweare by my sword. 205 _Ghost_ Sweare. _Ham._ Well said old Mole, can'st worke in the earth? so fast, a worthy Pioner, once more remoue. _Hor._ Day and night, but this is wondrous strange. _Ham._ And therefore as a stranger giue it welcome, 210 There are more things in heauen and earth _Horatio_, Then are Dream't of, in your philosophie, But come here, as before you neuer shall How strange or odde soere I beare my selfe, As I perchance hereafter shall thinke meet, 215 To put an Anticke disposition on, That you at such times seeing me, neuer shall With Armes, incombred thus, or this head shake, Or by pronouncing some vndoubtfull phrase, As well well, wee know, or wee could and if we would, 220 Or there be, and if they might, or such ambiguous: Giuing out to note, that you know aught of mee, This not to doe, so grace, and mercie At your most need helpe you, sweare _Ghost._ sweare. 225 _Ham._ Rest, rest, perturbed spirit: so gentlemen, In all my loue I do commend mee to you, And what so poore a man as _Hamlet_ may, To pleasure you, God willing shall not want, Nay come lett's go together, 230 But stil your fingers on your lippes I pray, The time is out of ioynt, O cursed spite, That euer I was borne to set it right, Nay come lett's go together. _Exeunt._ [Sidenote: [SC. V.]] _Enter Corambis, and Montano._ _Cor._ _Montano_, here, these letters to my sonne, And this same mony with my blessing to him, And bid him ply his learning good _Montano_. _Mon._ I will my lord. _Cor._ You shall do very well _Montano_, to say thus, 5 I knew the gentleman, or know his father, To inquire the manner of his life, As thus; being amongst his acquaintance, You may say, you saw him at such a time, marke you mee, At game, or drincking, swearing, or drabbing, 10 You may go so farre. _Mon._ My lord, that will impeach his reputation. _Cor._ I faith not a whit, no not a whit, Now happely hee closeth with you in the consequence, As you may bridle it not disparage him a iote. 15 What was I a bout to say, _Mon._ He closeth with him in the consequence. _Cor._ I, you say right, he closeth with him thus, This will hee say, let mee see what hee will say, Mary this, I saw him yesterday, or tother day, 20 Or then, or at such a time, a dicing, Or at Tennis, I or drincking drunke, or entring Of a howse of lightnes viz. brothell, Thus sir do wee that know the world, being men of reach, By indirections, finde directions forth, 25 And so shall you my sonne; you ha me, ha you not? _Mon._ I haue my lord. _Cor._ Wel, fare you well, commend mee to him. _Mon._ I will my lord. _Cor._ And bid him ply his musicke 30 _Mon._ My lord I wil. _exit._ _Enter, Ofelia._ _Cor._ Farewel, how now _Ofelia_, what's the news with you? _Ofe._ O my deare father, such a change in nature, So great an alteration in a Prince, So pitifull to him, fearefull to mee, 35 A maidens eye ne're looked on. _Cor._ Why what's the matter my _Ofelia_? _Of._ O yong Prince _Hamlet_, the only floure of _Denmark_, Hee is bereft of all the wealth he had, The Iewell that ador'nd his feature most 40 Is filcht and stolne away, his wit's bereft him, Hee found mee walking in the gallery all alone, There comes hee to mee, with a distracted looke, His garters lagging downe, his shooes vntide, And fixt his eyes so stedfast on my face, 45 As if they had vow'd, this is their latest obiect. Small while he stoode, but gripes me by the wrist, And there he holdes my pulse till with a sigh He doth vnclaspe his holde, and parts away Silent, as is the mid time of the night: 50 And as he went, his eie was still on mee, For thus his head ouer his shoulder looked, He seemed to finde the way without his eies: For out of doores he went without their helpe, And so did leaue me. 55 _Cor._ Madde for thy loue, What haue you giuen him any crosse wordes of late? _Ofelia_ I did repell his letters, deny his gifts, As you did charge me. _Cor._ Why that hath made him madde: 60 By heau'n t'is as proper for our age to cast Beyond our selues, as t'is for the yonger sort To leaue their wantonnesse. Well, I am sory That I was so rash: but what remedy? Lets to the King, this madnesse may prooue, 65 Though wilde a while, yet more true to thy loue. _exeunt._ [Sidenote: [SC. VI.]] _Enter King and Queene, Rossencraft, and Gilderstone._ _King_ Right noble friends, that our deere cosin Hamlet Hath lost the very heart of all his sence, It is most right, and we most sory for him: Therefore we doe desire, euen as you tender Our care to him, and our great loue to you, 5 That you will labour but to wring from him The cause and ground of his distemperancie. Doe this, the king of _Denmarke_ shal be thankefull. _Ros._ My Lord, whatsoeuer lies within our power Your maiestie may more commaund in wordes 10 Then vse perswasions to your liege men, bound By loue, by duetie, and obedience. _Guil._ What we may doe for both your Maiesties To know the griefe troubles the Prince your sonne, We will indeuour all the best we may, 15 So in all duetie doe we take our leaue. _King_ Thankes Guilderstone, and gentle Rossencraft. _Que._ Thankes Rossencraft, and gentle Gilderstone. _Enter Corambis and Ofelia._ _Cor._ My Lord, the Ambassadors are ioyfully Return'd from _Norway_. 20 _King_ Thou still hast beene the father of good news. _Cor._ Haue I my Lord? I assure your grace, I holde my duetie as I holde my life, Both to my God, and to my soueraigne King: And I beleeue, or else this braine of mine 25 Hunts not the traine of policie so well As it had wont to doe, but I haue found The very depth of Hamlets lunacie. _Queene_ God graunt he hath. _Enter the Ambassadors._ _King_ Now _Voltemar_, what from our brother _Norway_? 30 _Volt._ Most faire returnes of greetings and desires, Vpon our first he sent forth to suppresse His nephews leuies, which to him appear'd To be a preparation gainst the Polacke: But better look't into, he truely found 35 It was against your Highnesse, whereat grieued, That so his sickenesse, age, and impotence, Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests On _Fortenbrasse_, which he in briefe obays, Receiues rebuke from _Norway_: and in fine, 40 Makes vow before his vncle, neuer more To giue the assay of Armes against your Maiestie, Whereon olde _Norway_ ouercome with ioy, Giues him three thousand crownes in annuall fee, And his Commission to employ those souldiers, 45 So leuied as before, against the Polacke, With an intreaty heerein further shewne, That it would please you to giue quiet passe Through your dominions, for that enterprise On such regardes of safety and allowances 50 As therein are set downe. _King_ It likes vs well, and at fit time and leasure Weele reade and answere these his Articles, Meane time we thanke you for your well Tooke labour: go to your rest, at night weele feast togither: 55 Right welcome home. _exeunt Ambassadors._ _Cor._ This busines is very well dispatched. Now my Lord, touching the yong Prince Hamlet, Certaine it is that hee is madde: mad let vs grant him then: Now to know the cause of this effect, 60 Or else to say the cause of this defect, For this effect defectiue comes by cause. _Queene_ Good my Lord be briefe. _Cor._ Madam I will: my Lord, I haue a daughter, Haue while shee's mine: for that we thinke 65 Is surest, we often loose: now to the Prince. My lord, but note this letter, The which my daughter in obedience Deliuer'd to my handes. _King_ Reade it my Lord. 70 _Cor._ Marke my Lord. Doubt that in earth is fire, Doubt that the starres doe moue, Doubt trueth to be a liar, But doe not doubt I loue. 75 To the beautifull _Ofelia_: Thine euer the most vnhappy Prince _Hamlet_. My Lord, what doe you thinke of me? I, or what might you thinke when I sawe this? _King_ As of a true friend and a most louing subiect. 80 _Cor._ I would be glad to prooue so. Now when I saw this letter, thus I bespake my maiden: Lord _Hamlet_ is a Prince out of your starre, And one that is vnequall for your loue: Therefore I did commaund her refuse his letters, 85 Deny his tokens, and to absent her selfe. Shee as my childe obediently obey'd me. Now since which time, seeing his loue thus cross'd, Which I tooke to be idle, and but sport, He straitway grew into a melancholy, 90 From that vnto a fast, then vnto distraction, Then into a sadnesse, from that vnto a madnesse, And so by continuance, and weakenesse of the braine Into this frensie, which now possesseth him: And if this be not true, take this from this. 95 _King_ Thinke you t'is so? _Cor._ How? so my Lord, I would very faine know That thing that I haue saide t'is so, positiuely, And it hath fallen out otherwise. Nay, if circumstances leade me on, 100 Ile finde it out, if it were hid As deepe as the centre of the earth. _King._ How should wee trie this same? _Cor._ Mary my good lord thus, The Princes walke is here in the galery, 105 There let _Ofelia_, walke vntill hee comes: Your selfe and I will stand close in the study, There shall you heare the effect of all his hart, And if it proue any otherwise then loue, Then let my censure faile an other time. 110 _King._ see where hee comes poring vppon a booke. _Enter Hamlet._ _Cor._ Madame, will it please your grace To leaue vs here? _Que._ With all my hart. _exit._ _Cor._ And here _Ofelia_, reade you on this booke, 115 And walke aloofe, the King shal be vnseene. _Ham._ To be, or not to be, I there's the point, To Die, to sleepe, is that all? I all: No, to sleepe, to dreame, I mary there it goes, 120 For in that dreame of death, when wee awake, And borne before an euerlasting Iudge, From whence no passenger euer retur'nd, The vndiscouered country, at whose sight The happy smile, and the accursed damn'd. 125 But for this, the ioyfull hope of this, Whol'd beare the scornes and flattery of the world, Scorned by the right rich, the rich curssed of the poore? The widow being oppressed, the orphan wrong'd, The taste of hunger, or a tirants raigne, 130 And thousand more calamities besides, To grunt and sweate vnder this weary life, When that he may his full _Quietus_ make, With a bare bodkin, who would this indure, But for a hope of something after death? Which pusles the braine, and doth confound the sence, 135 Which makes vs rather beare those euilles we haue, Than flie to others that we know not of. I that, O this conscience makes cowardes of vs all, Lady in thy orizons, be all my sinnes remembred. _Ofel._ My Lord, I haue sought opportunitie, which now 140 I haue, to redeliuer to your worthy handes, a small remembrance, such tokens which I haue receiued of you. _Ham._ Are you faire? _Ofel._ My Lord. _Ham._ Are you honest? 145 _Ofel._ What meanes my Lord? _Ham._ That if you be faire and honest, Your beauty should admit no discourse to your honesty. _Ofel._ My Lord, can beauty haue better priuiledge than with honesty? 150 _Ham._ Yea mary may it; for Beauty may transforme Honesty, from what she was into a bawd: Then Honesty can transforme Beauty: This was sometimes a Paradox, But now the time giues it scope. 155 I neuer gaue you nothing. _Ofel._ My Lord, you know right well you did, And with them such earnest vowes of loue, As would haue moou'd the stoniest breast aliue, But now too true I finde, 160 Rich giftes waxe poore, when giuers grow vnkinde. _Ham._ I neuer loued you. _Ofel._ You made me beleeue you did. _Ham._ O thou shouldst not a beleeued me! Go to a Nunnery goe, why shouldst thou 165 Be a breeder of sinners? I am my selfe indifferent honest, But I could accuse my selfe of such crimes It had beene better my mother had ne're borne me, O I am very prowde, ambitious, disdainefull, With more sinnes at my becke, then I haue thoughts 170 To put them in, what should such fellowes as I Do, crawling between heauen and earth? To a Nunnery goe, we are arrant knaues all, Beleeue none of vs, to a Nunnery goe. _Ofel._ O heauens secure him! 175 _Ham._ Wher's thy father? _Ofel._ At home my lord. _Ham._ For Gods sake let the doores be shut on him, He may play the foole no where but in his Owne house: to a Nunnery goe. 180 _Ofel._ Help him good God. _Ham._ If thou dost marry, Ile giue thee This plague to thy dowry: Be thou as chaste as yce, as pure as snowe, Thou shalt not scape calumny, to a Nunnery goe. 185 _Ofel._ Alas, what change is this? _Ham._ But if thou wilt needes marry, marry a foole, For wisemen know well enough, What monsters you make of them, to a Nunnery goe. _Ofel._ Pray God restore him. 190 _Ham._ Nay, I haue heard of your paintings too, God hath giuen you one face, And you make your selues another, You fig, and you amble, and you nickname Gods creatures, Making your wantonnesse, your ignorance, 195 A pox, t'is scuruy, Ile no more of it, It hath made me madde: Ile no more marriages, All that are married but one, shall liue, The rest shall keepe as they are, to a Nunnery goe, To a Nunnery goe. _exit._ 200 _Ofe._ Great God of heauen, what a quicke change is this? The Courtier, Scholler, Souldier, all in him, All dasht and splinterd thence, O woe is me, To a seene what I haue seene, see what I see. _exit._ [Sidenote: [SC. VII.]] _King_ Loue? No, no, that's not the cause, _Enter King and Corambis._ Some deeper thing it is that troubles him. _Cor._ Wel, something it is: my Lord, content you a while, I will my selfe goe feele him: let me worke, Ile try him euery way: see where he comes, 5 Send you those Gentlemen, let me alone To finde the depth of this, away, be gone. _exit King._ Now my good Lord, do you know me? _Enter Hamlet._ _Ham._ Yea very well, y'are a fishmonger. _Cor._ Not I my Lord. 10 _Ham._ Then sir, I would you were so honest a man, For to be honest, as this age goes, Is one man to be pickt out of tenne thousand. _Cor._ What doe you reade my Lord? _Ham._ Wordes, wordes. 15 _Cor._ What's the matter my Lord? _Ham._ Betweene who? _Cor._ I meane the matter you reade my Lord. _Ham._ Mary most vile heresie: For here the Satyricall Satyre writes, That olde men haue hollow eyes, weake backes, Grey beardes, pittifull weake hammes, gowty legges, All which sir, I most potently beleeue not: For sir, your selfe shalbe olde as I am, If like a Crabbe, you could goe backeward. 25 _Cor._ How pregnant his replies are, and full of wit: Yet at first he tooke me for a fishmonger: All this comes by loue, the vemencie of loue, And when I was yong, I was very idle, And suffered much extasie in loue, very neere this: 30 Will you walke out of the aire my Lord? _Ham._ Into my graue. _Cor._ By the masse that's out of the aire indeed, Very shrewd answers, My lord I will take my leaue of you. 35 _Enter Gilderstone, and Rossencraft._ _Ham._ You can take nothing from me sir, I will more willingly part with all, Olde doating foole. _Cor._ You seeke Prince Hamlet, see, there he is. _exit._ _Gil._ Health to your Lordship. 40 _Ham._ What, Gilderstone, and _Rossencraft_, Welcome kinde Schoole-fellowes to Elsanoure. _Gil._ We thanke your Grace, and would be very glad You were as when we were at _Wittenberg_. _Ham._ I thanke you, but is this visitation free of 45 Your selues, or were you not sent for? Tell me true, come, I know the good King and Queene Sent for you, there is a kinde of confession in your eye: Come, I know you were sent for. _Gil._ What say you? 50 _Ham._ Nay then I see how the winde sits, Come, you were sent for. _Ross._ My lord, we were, and willingly if we might, Know the cause and ground of your discontent. _Ham._ Why I want preferment. 55 _Ross._ I thinke not so my lord. _Ham._ Yes faith, this great world you see contents me not, No nor the spangled heauens, nor earth, nor sea, No nor Man that is so glorious a creature, Contents not me, no nor woman too, though you laugh. 60 _Gil._ My lord, we laugh not at that. _Ham._ Why did you laugh then, When I said, Man did not content mee? _Gil._ My Lord, we laughed, when you said, Man did not content you. 65 What entertainement the Players shall haue, We boorded them a the way: they are comming to you. _Ham._ Players, what Players be they? _Ross._ My Lord, the Tragedians of the Citty, Those that you tooke delight to see so often. 70 _Ham._ How comes it that they trauell? Do they grow restie? _Gil._ No my Lord, their reputation holds as it was wont. _Ham._ How then? _Gil._ Yfaith my Lord, noueltie carries it away, For the principall publike audience that 75 Came to them, are turned to priuate playes, And to the humour of children. _Ham._ I doe not greatly wonder of it, For those that would make mops and moes At my vncle, when my father liued, 80 Now giue a hundred, two hundred pounds For his picture: but they shall be welcome, He that playes the King shall haue tribute of me, The ventrous Knight shall vse his foyle and target, The louer shall sigh gratis, 85 The clowne shall make them laugh That are tickled in the lungs, or the blanke verse shall halt for't, And the Lady shall haue leaue to speake her minde freely. _The Trumpets sound, Enter Corambis._ Do you see yonder great baby? He is not yet out of his swadling clowts. 90 _Gil._ That may be, for they say an olde man Is twice a childe. _Ham._ Ile prophecie to you, hee comes to tell mee a the Players, You say true, a monday last, t'was so indeede. _Cor._ My lord, I haue news to tell you. 95 _Ham._ My Lord, I haue newes to tell you: When _Rossios_ was an Actor in _Rome_. _Cor._ The Actors are come hither, my lord. _Ham._ Buz, buz. _Cor._ The best Actors in Christendome, 100 Either for Comedy, Tragedy, Historie, Pastorall, Pastorall, Historicall, Historicall, Comicall, Comicall historicall, Pastorall, Tragedy historicall: _Seneca_ cannot be too heauy, nor _Plato_ too light: For the law hath writ those are the onely men. 105 _Ha._ O _Iepha_ Iudge of _Israel_! what a treasure hadst thou? _Cor._ Why what a treasure had he my lord? _Ham._ Why one faire daughter, and no more, The which he loued passing well. _Cor._ A, stil harping a my daughter! well my Lord, 110 If you call me _Iepha_, I hane a daughter that I loue passing well. _Ham._ Nay that followes not. _Cor._ What followes then my Lord? _Ham._ Why by lot, or God wot, or as it came to passe, 115 And so it was, the first verse of the godly Ballet Wil tel you all: for look you where my abridgement comes: Welcome maisters, welcome all, _Enter players._ What my olde friend, thy face is vallanced Since I saw thee last, com'st thou to beard me in _Denmarke_? 120 My yong lady and mistris, burlady but your Ladiship is growne by the altitude of a chopine higher than you were: Pray God sir your voyce, like a peece of vncurrant Golde, be not crack't in the ring: come on maisters, Weele euen too't, like French Falconers, 125 Flie at any thing we see, come, a taste of your Quallitie, a speech, a passionate speech. _Players_ What speech my good lord? _Ham._ I heard thee speake a speech once, But it was neuer acted: or if it were, 130 Neuer aboue twice, for as I remember, It pleased not the vulgar, it was cauiary To the million: but to me And others, that receiued it in the like kinde, Cried in the toppe of their iudgements, an excellent play, 135 Set downe with as great modestie as cunning: One said there was no sallets in the lines to make the sauory, But called it an honest methode, as wholesome as sweete. Come, a speech in it I chiefly remember Was _Æneas_ tale to _Dido_, 140 And then especially where he talkes of Princes slaughter, If it liue in thy memory beginne at this line, Let me see. The rugged _Pyrrus_, like th'arganian beast: No t'is not so, it begins with _Pirrus_: 145 O I haue it. The rugged _Pirrus_, he whose sable armes, Blacke as his purpose did the night resemble, When he lay couched in the ominous horse, Hath now his blacke and grimme complexion smeered 150 With Heraldry more dismall, head to foote, Now is he totall guise, horridely tricked With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sonnes, Back't and imparched in calagulate gore, Rifted in earth and fire, olde grandsire _Pryam_ seekes: So goe on. _Cor._ Afore God, my Lord, well spoke, and with good accent. _Play._ Anone he finds him striking too short at Greeks, His antike sword rebellious to his Arme, Lies where it falles, vnable to resist. 160 _Pyrrus_ at _Pryam_ driues, but all in rage, Strikes wide, but with the whiffe and winde Of his fell sword, th' unnerued father falles. _Cor._ Enough my friend, t'is too long. _Ham._ It shall to the Barbers with your beard: 165 A pox, hee's for a Iigge, or a tale of bawdry, Or else he sleepes, come on to _Hecuba_, come. _Play._ But who, O who had seene the mobled Queene? _Cor._ Mobled Queene is good, faith very good. _Play._ All in the alarum and feare of death rose vp, 170 And o're her weake and all ore-teeming loynes, a blancket And a kercher on that head, where late the diademe stoode, Who this had seene with tongue inuenom'd speech, Would treason haue pronounced, For if the gods themselues had seene her then, 175 When she saw _Pirrus_ with malitious strokes, Mincing her husbandes limbs, It would have made milch the burning eyes of heauen, And passion in the gods. _Cor._ Looke my lord if he hath not changde his colour, 180 And hath teares in his eyes: no more good heart, no more. _Ham._ T'is well, t'is very well, I pray my lord, Will you see the Players well bestowed, I tell you they are the Chronicles And briefe abstracts of the time, 185 After your death I can tell you, You were better haue a bad Epiteeth, Then their ill report while you liue. _Cor._ My lord, I will vse them according to their deserts. _Ham._ O farre better man, vse euery man after his deserts, 190 Then who should scape whipping? Vse them after your owne honor and dignitie, The lesse they deserue, the greater credit's yours. _Cor._ Welcome my good fellowes. _exit._ _Ham._ Come hither maisters, can you not play the murder 195 of _Gonsago_? _Players_ Yes my Lord. _Ham._ And could'st not thou for a neede study me Some dozen or sixteene lines, Which I would set downe and insert? 200 _Players_ Yes very easily my good Lord. _Ham._ T'is well, I thanke you: follow that lord: And doe you heare sirs? take heede you mocke him not. Gentlemen, for your kindnes I thanke you, And for a time I would desire you leaue me. 205 _Gil._ Our loue and duetie is at your commaund. _Exeunt all but Hamlet._ _Ham._ Why what a dunghill idiote slaue am I? Why these Players here draw water from eyes: For Hecuba, why what is Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba? What would he do and if he had my losse? 210 His father murdred, and a Crowne bereft him, He would turne all his teares to droppes of blood, Amaze the standers by with his laments, Strike more then wonder in the iudiciall eares, Confound the ignorant, and make mute the wise, 215 Indeede his passion would be generall. Yet I like to an asse and Iohn a Dreames, Hauing my father murdred by a villaine, Stand still, and let it passe, why sure I am a coward: Who pluckes me by the beard, or twites my nose, 220 Giue's me the lie i'th throate downe to the lungs, Sure I should take it, or else I haue no gall, Or by this I should a fatted all the region kites With this slaues offell, this damned villaine, Treacherous, bawdy, murderous villaine: 225 Why this is braue, that I the sonne of my deare father, Should like a scalion, like a very drabbe Thus raile in wordes. About my braine, I haue heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play, Hath, by the very cunning of the scene, confest a murder 230 Committed long before. This spirit that I haue seene may be the Diuell, And out of my weakenesse and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such men, Doth seeke to damne me, I will haue sounder proofes, 235 The play's the thing, Wherein I'le catch the conscience of the King. _exit._ [Sidenote: [SC. VIII.]] _Enter the King, Queene, and Lordes._ _King_ Lordes, can you by no meanes finde The cause of our sonne Hamlets lunacie? You being so neere in loue, euen from his youth, Me thinkes should gaine more than a stranger should. _Gil._ My lord, we haue done all the best we could, 5 To wring from him the cause of all his griefe, But still he puts vs off, and by no meanes Would make an answere to that we exposde. _Ross._ Yet was he something more inclin'd to mirth Before we left him, and I take it, 10 He hath giuen order for a play to night, At which he craues your highnesse company. _King_ With all our heart, it likes vs very well: Gentlemen, seeke still to increase his mirth, Spare for no cost, our coffers shall be open, 15 And we vnto your selues will still be thankefull. _Both_ In all wee can, be sure you shall commaund. _Queene_ Thankes gentlemen, and what the Queene of _Denmarke_ May pleasure you, be sure you shall not want. _Gil._ Weele once againe vnto the noble Prince. 20 _King_ Thanks to you both: Gertred you'l see this play. _Queene_ My lord I will, and it ioyes me at the soule He is inclin'd to any kinde of mirth. _Cor._ Madame, I pray be ruled by me: And my good Soueraigne, giue me leaue to speake, 25 We cannot yet finde out the very ground Of his distemperance, therefore I holde it meete, if so it please you, Else they shall not meete, and thus it is. _King_ What i'st _Corambis_? 30 _Cor._ Mary my good lord this, soone when the sports are done, Madam, send you in haste to speake with him, And I my selfe will stand behind the Arras, There question you the cause of all his griefe, And then in loue and nature vnto you, hee'le tell you all: 35 My Lord, how thinke you on't? _King_ It likes vs well, Gertred, what say you? _Queene_ With all my heart, soone will I send for him. _Cor._ My selfe will be that happy messenger, Who hopes his griefe will be reueal'd to her. _exeunt omnes_ 40 [Sidenote: [SC. IX.]] _Enter Hamlet and the Players._ _Ham._ Pronounce me this speech trippingly a the tongue as I taught thee, Mary and you mouth it, as a many of your players do I'de rather heare a towne bull bellow, Then such a fellow speake my lines. 5 Nor do not saw the aire thus with your hands, But giue euery thing his action with temperance. O it offends mee to the soule, to heare a rebustious periwig fellow, To teare a passion in totters, into very ragges, To split the eares of the ignoraut, who for the Most parte are capable of nothing but dumbe shewes and noises, I would haue such a fellow whipt, for o're doing, tarmagant It out, Herodes Herod. _players_ My Lorde, wee haue indifferently reformed that among vs. 15 _Ham._ The better, the better, mend it all together: There be fellowes that I haue seene play, And heard others commend them, and that highly too, That hauing neither the gate of Christian, Pagan, Nor Turke, haue so strutted and bellowed, 20 That you would a thought, some of Natures journeymen Had made men, and not made them well, They imitated humanitie, so abhominable: Take heede, auoyde it. _players_ I warrant you my Lord. 25 _Ham._ And doe you heare? let not your Clowne speake More then is set downe, there be of them I can tell you That will laugh themselues, to set on some Quantitie of barren spectators to laugh with them, Albeit there is some necessary point in the Play 30 Then to be obserued: O t'is vile, and shewes A pittifull ambition in the foole that vseth it. And then you haue some agen, that keepes one sute Of ieasts, as a man is knowne by one sute of Apparell, and Gentlemen quotes his ieasts downe 35 In their tables, before they come to the play, as thus: Cannot you stay till I eate my porrige? and, you owe me A quarters wages: and, my coate wants a cullison: And, your beere is sowre: and, blabbering with his lips, And thus keeping in his cinkapase of ieasts, 40 When, God knows, the warme Clowne cannot make a iest Vnlesse by chance, as the blinde man catcheth a hare: Maisters tell him of it. _players_ We will my Lord. _Ham._ Well, goe make you ready. _exeunt players._ 45 _Horatio_. Heere my Lord. _Ham._ _Horatio_, thou art euen as iust a man, As e're my conuersation cop'd withall. _Hor._ O my lord! _Ham._ Nay why should I flatter thee? 50 Why should the poore be flattered? What gaine should I receiue by flattering thee, That nothing hath but thy good minde? Let flattery sit on those time-pleasing tongs, To glose with them that loues to heare their praise, 55 And not with such as thou _Horatio_. There is a play to night, wherein one Sceane they haue Comes very neere the murder of my father, When thou shalt see that Act afoote, Marke thou the King, doe but obserue his lookes, 60 For I mine eies will riuet to his face: And if he doe not bleach, and change at that, It is a damned ghost that we haue seene, _Horatio_, haue a care, obserue him well. _Hor._ My lord, mine eies shall still be on his face, 65 And not the smallest alteration That shall appeare in him, but I shall note it. _Ham._ Harke, they come. _Enter King, Queene, Corambis, and other Lords._ _King_ How now son _Hamlet_, how fare you, shall we haue a play? _Ham._ Yfaith the Camelions dish, not capon cramm'd, 70 feed a the ayre. I father: My lord, you playd in the Vniuersitie. _Cor._ That I did my L: and I was counted a good actor. _Ham._ What did you enact there? _Cor._ My lord, I did act _Julius Cæsar_, I was killed 75 in the Capitoll, _Brutus_ killed me. _Ham._ It was a brute parte of him, To kill so capitall a calfe. Come, be these Players ready? _Queene_ Hamlet come sit downe by me. 80 _Ham._ No by my faith mother, heere's a mettle more attractive: Lady will you giue me leaue, and so forth: To lay my head in your lappe? _Ofel._ No my lord. _Ham._ Vpon your lap, what do you thinke I meant contrary matters? 85 _Enter in a Dumbe Shew, the King and the Queene, he sits downe in an Arbor, she leaues him: Then enters Lucianus with poyson in a Viall, and powres it in his eares, and goes away: Then the Queene commeth and findes him dead: and goes away with the other._ _Ofel._ What meanes this my Lord? _Enter the Prologue._ _Ham._ This is myching Mallico, that meanes my chiefe. _Ofel._ What doth this meane my lord? _Ham._ You shall heare anone, this fellow will tell you all. _Ofel._ Will he tell vs what this shew meanes? 90 _Ham._ I, or any shew you'le shew him, Be not afeard to shew, hee'le not be afeard to tell: O these Players cannot keepe counsell, thei'le tell all. _Prol._ For vs, and for our Tragedie, Heere stowping to your clemencie, 95 We begge your hearing patiently. _Ham._ I'st a prologue, or a poesie for a ring? _Ofel._ T'is short my Lord. _Ham._ As womens loue. _Enter the Duke and Dutchesse._ _Duke_ Full fortie yeares are past, their date is gone, 100 Since happy time ioyn'd both our hearts as one: And now the blood that fill'd my youthfull veines, Runnes weakely in their pipes, and all the straines Of musicke, which whilome pleasde mine eare, Is now a burthen that Age cannot beare: 105 And therefore sweete Nature must pay his due, To heauen must I, and leaue the earth with you. _Dutchesse_ O say not so, lest that you kill my heart, When death takes you, let life from me depart. _Duke_ Content thy selfe, when ended is my date, 110 Thou maist (perchance) haue a more noble mate, More wise, more youthfull, and one. _Dutchesse_ O speake no more, for then I am accurst, None weds the second, but she kils the first: A second time I kill my Lord that's dead, 115 When second husband kisses me in bed. _Ham._ O wormewood, wormewood! _Duke_ I doe beleeue you sweete, what now you speake, But what we doe determine oft we breake, For our demises stil are ouerthrowne, 120 Our thoughts are ours, their end's none of our owne: So thinke you will no second husband wed, But die thy thoughts, when thy first Lord is dead. _Dutchesse_ Both here and there pursue me lasting strife, I once a widdow, euer I be wife. 125 _Ham._ If she should breake now. _Duke_ T'is deepely sworne, sweete leaue me here a while, My spirites growe dull, and faine I would beguile the tedious time with sleepe. _Dutchesse_ Sleepe rocke thy braine, 130 And neuer come mischance betweene vs twaine. _exit Lady_ _Ham._ Madam, how do you like this play? _Queene_ The Lady protests too much. _Ham._ O but shee'le keepe her word. _King_ Haue you heard the argument, is there no offence 135 in it? _Ham._ No offence in the world, poyson iniest, poison in iest. _King_ What do you call the name of the play? _Ham._ Mouse-trap: mary how trapically: this play is The image of a murder done in _guyana_, _Albertus_ 140 Was the Dukes name, his wife _Baptista_, Father, it is a knauish peece a worke: but what A that, it toucheth not vs, you and I that haue free Soules, let the galld iade wince, this is one _Lucianus_ nephew to the King. 145 _Ofel._ Ya're as good as a _Chorus_ my lord. _Ham._ I could interpret the loue you beare, if I sawe the poopies dallying. _Ofel._ Y'are very pleasant my lord. _Ham._ Who I, your onlie jig-maker, why what shoulde 150 a man do but be merry? for looke how cheerefully my mother lookes, my father died within these two houres. _Ofel._ Nay, t'is twice two months, my Lord. _Ham._ Two months, nay then let the diuell weare blacke, For i'le haue a sute of Sables: Iesus, two months dead, 155 And not forgotten yet? nay then there's some Likelyhood, a gentlemans death may outliue memorie, But by my faith hee must build churches then, Or els hee must follow the olde Epitithe, With hoh, with ho, the hobi-horse is forgot. 160 _Ofel._ Your iests are keene my Lord. _Ham._ It would cost you a groning to take them off. _Ofel._ Still better and worse. _Ham._ So you must take your husband, begin. Murdred Begin, a poxe, leaue thy damnable faces and begin, 165 Come, the croking rauen doth bellow for reuenge. _Murd._ Thoughts blacke, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing. Confederate season, else no creature seeing: Thou mixture rancke, of midnight weedes collected, With _Hecates_ bane thrise blasted, thrise infected, 170 Thy naturall magicke, and dire propertie, One wholesome life vsurps immediately. _exit._ _Ham._ He poysons him for his estate. _King_ Lights, I will to bed. _Cor._ The king rises, lights hoe. 175 _Exeunt King and Lordes._ _Ham._ What, frighted with false fires? Then let the stricken deere goe weepe, The Hart vngalled play, For some must laugh, while some must weepe, Thus runnes the world away. 180 _Hor._ The king is mooued my lord. _Hor._ I _Horatio_, i'le take the Ghosts word For more then all the coyne in _Denmarke_. _Enter Rossencraft and Gilderstone._ _Ross._ Now my lord, how i'st with you? _Ham._ And if the king like not the tragedy, 185 Why then belike he likes it not perdy. _Ross._ We are very glad to see your grace so pleasant, My good lord, let vs againe intreate To know of you the ground and cause of your distemperature. _Gil._ My lord, your mother craues to speake with you. 190 _Ham._ We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. _Ross._ But my good Lord, shall I intreate thus much? _Ham._ I pray will you play vpon this pipe? _Ross._ Alas my lord I cannot. _Ham._ Pray will you. 195 _Gil._ I haue no skill my Lord. _Ham._ Why looke, it is a thing of nothing, T'is but stopping of these holes, And with a little breath from your lips, It will giue most delicate musick. 200 _Gil._ But this cannot wee do my Lord. _Ham._ Pray now, pray hartily, I beseech you. _Ross._ My lord wee cannot. _Ham._ Why how vnworthy a thing would you make of me? You would seeme to know my stops, you would play vpon mee, 205 You would search the very inward part of my hart, And diue into the secreet of my soule. Zownds do you thinke I am easier to be pla'yd On, then a pipe? call mee what Instrument You will, though you can frett mee, yet you can not 210 Play vpon mee, besides, to be demanded by a spunge. _Ros._ How a spunge my Lord? _Ham._ I sir, a spunge, that sokes vp the kings Countenance, fauours, and rewardes, that makes His liberalitie your store house: but such as you, 215 Do the king, in the end, best seruise; For hee doth keep you as an Ape doth nuttes, In the corner of his Iaw, first mouthes you, Then swallowes you: so when hee hath need Of you, t'is but squeesing of you, 220 And spunge, you shall be dry againe you shall. _Ros._ Wel my Lord wee'le take our leaue. _Ham._ Farewell, farewell, God blesse you. _Exit Rossencraft and Gilderstone._ _Enter Corambis._ _Cor._ My lord, the Queene would speake with you. _Ham._ Do you see yonder clowd in the shape of a camell? _Cor._ T'is like a camell in deed. _Ham._ Now me thinkes it's like a weasel. _Cor._ T'is back't like a weasell. _Ham._ Or like a whale. _Cor._ Very like a whale. _exit Coram._ 230 _Ham._ Why then tell my mother i'le come by and by. Good night Horatio. _Hor._ Good night vnto your Lordship. _exit Horatio._ _Ham._ My mother she hath sent to speake with me: O God, let ne're the heart of _Nero_ enter 235 This soft bosome. Let me be cruell, not vnnaturall. I will speake daggers, those sharpe wordes being spent, To doe her wrong my soule shall ne're consent. _exit._ [Sidenote: [SC. X.]] _Enter the King._ _King_ O that this wet that falles vpon my face Would wash the crime cleere from my conscience! When I looke vp to heauen, I see my trespasse, The earth doth still crie out vpon my fact, Pay me the murder of a brother and a king, 5 And the adulterous fault I haue committed: O these are sinnes that are vnpardonable: Why say thy sinnes were blacker then is ieat, Yet may contrition make them as white as snowe: I but still to perseuer in a sinne, 10 It is an act gainst the vniuersall power, Most wretched man, stoope, bend thee to thy prayer, Aske grace of heauen to keepe thee from despaire. _Hee kneeles. enters Hamlet_ _Ham._ I so, come forth and worke thy last, And thus hee dies: and so am I reuenged: 15 No, not so: he tooke my father sleeping, his sins brim full, And how his soule stoode to the state of heauen Who knowes, saue the immortall powres, And shall I kill him now, When he is purging of his soule? 20 Making his way for heauen, this is a benefit, And not reuenge: no, get thee vp agen, When hee's at game swaring, taking his carowse, drinking, drunke, Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed, Or at some act that hath no relish 25 Of saluation in't, then trip him That his heeles may kicke at heauen, And fall as lowe as hel: my mother stayes, This phisicke but prolongs thy weary dayes. _exit Ham._ _King_ My wordes fly vp, my sinnes remaine below. 30 No _King_ on earth is safe, if Gods his foe. _exit King._ [Sidenote: [SC. XI.]] _Enter Queene and Corambis._ _Cor._ Madame, I heare yong Hamlet comming, I'le shrowde my selfe behinde the Arras. _exit Cor._ _Queene_ Do so my Lord. _Ham._ Mother, mother, O are you here? How i'st with you mother? 5 _Queene_ How i'st with you? _Ham._ I'le tell you, but first weele make all safe. _Queene_ Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. _Ham._ Mother, you haue my father much offended. _Queene_ How now boy? 10 _Ham._ How now mother! come here, sit downe, for you shall heare me speake. _Queene_ What wilt thou doe? thou wilt not murder me: Helpe hoe. _Cor._ Helpe for the Queene. 15 _Ham._ I a Rat, dead for a Duckat. Rash intruding foole, farewell, I tooke thee for thy better. _Queene_ Hamlet, what hast thou done? _Ham._ Not so much harme, good mother, 20 As to kill a king, and marry with his brother. _Queene_ How! kill a king! _Ham._ I a King: nay sit you downe, and ere you part, If you be made of penitrable stuffe, I'le make your eyes looke downe into your heart, 25 And see how horride there and blacke it shews. _Queene_ Hamlet, what mean'st thou by these killing words? _Ham._ Why this I meane, see here, behold this picture, It is the portraiture, of your deceased husband, See here a face, to outface _Mars_ himselfe, 30 An eye, at which his foes did tremble at, A front wherin all vertues are set downe For to adorne a king, and guild his crowne, Whose heart went hand in hand euen with that vow, He made to you in marriage, and he is dead. 35 Murdred, damnably murdred, this was your husband, Looke you now, here is your husband, With a face like _Vulcan_. A looke fit for a murder and a rape, A dull dead hanging looke, and a hell-bred eie, 40 To affright children and amaze the world: And this same haue you left to change with this. What Diuell thus hath cosoned you at hob-man blinde? A! haue you eyes and can you looke on him That slew my father, and your deere husband, 45 To liue in the incestuous pleasure of his bed? _Queene_ O Hamlet, speake no more. _Ham._ To leaue him that bare a Monarkes minde, For a king of clowts, of very shreads. _Queene_ Sweete Hamlet cease. 50 _Ham._ Nay but still to persist and dwell in sinne, To sweate vnder the yoke of infamie, To make increase of shame, to seale damnation. _Queene_ Hamlet, no more. _Ham._ Why appetite with you is in the waine, 55 Your blood runnes backeward now from whence it came, Who'le chide hote blood within a Virgins heart, When lust shall dwell within a matrons breast? _Queene_ Hamlet, thou cleaues my heart in twaine. _Ham._ O throw away the worser part of it, and keepe the 60 better. _Enter the ghost in his night gowne._ Saue me, saue me, you gratious Powers aboue, and houer ouer mee, With your celestiall wings. Doe you not come your tardy sonne to chide, 65 That I thus long haue let reuenge slippe by? O do not glare with lookes so pittifull! Lest that my heart of stone yeelde to compassion, And euery part that should assist reuenge, Forgoe their proper powers, and fall to pitty. 70 _Ghost_ Hamlet, I once againe appeare to thee, To put thee in remembrance of my death: Doe not neglect, nor long time put it off. But I perceiue by thy distracted lookes, Thy mother's fearefull, and she stands amazde: 75 Speake to her Hamlet, for her sex is weake, Comfort thy mother, Hamlet, thinke on me. _Ham._ How i'st with you Lady? _Queene_ Nay, how i'st with you That thus you bend your eyes on vacancie, 80 And holde discourse with nothing but with ayre? _Ham._ Why doe you nothing heare? _Queene_ Not I. _Ham._ Nor doe you nothing see? _Queene_ No neither. _Ham._ No, why see the king my father, my father, in the habite As he liued, looke you how pale he lookes, See how he steales away out of the Portall, Looke, there he goes. _exit ghost._ _Queene_ Alas, it is the weaknesse of thy braine, 90 Which makes thy tongue to blazon thy hearts griefe: But as I haue a soule, I sweare by heauen, I neuer knew of this most horride murder: But Hamlet, this is onely fantasie, And for my loue forget these idle fits. 95 _Ham._ Idle, no mother, my pulse doth beate like yours, It is not madnesse that possesseth Hamlet. O mother, if euer you did my deare father loue, Forbeare the adulterous bed to night, And win your selfe by little as you may, 100 In time it may be you wil lothe him quite: And mother, but assist mee in reuenge, And in his death your infamy shall die. _Queene_ _Hamlet_, I vow by that maiesty, That knowes our thoughts, and lookes into our hearts, 105 I will conceale, consent, and doe my best, What stratagem soe're thou shalt deuise. _Ham._ It is enough, mother good night: Come sir, I'le prouide for you a graue, Who was in life a foolish prating knaue. 110 _Exit Hamlet with the dead body._ _Enter the King and Lordes._ _King_ Now Gertred, what sayes our sonne, how doe you finde him? _Queene_ Alas my lord, as raging as the sea: Whenas he came, I first bespake him faire, But then he throwes and tosses me about, 115 As one forgetting that I was his mother: At last I call'd for help: and as I cried, _Corambis_ Call'd, which Hamlet no sooner heard, but whips me Out his rapier, and cries, a Rat, a Rat, and in his rage The good olde man he killes. 120 _King_ Why this his madnesse will vndoe our state. Lordes goe to him, inquire the body out. _Gil._ We will my Lord. _Exeunt Lordes._ _King_ Gertred, your sonne shall presently to England, His shipping is already furnished, 125 And we haue sent by _Rossencraft_ and _Gilderstone_, Our letters to our deare brother of England, For Hamlets welfare and his happinesse: Happly the aire and climate of the Country May please him better than his natiue home: 130 See where he comes. _Enter Hamlet and the Lordes._ _Gil._ My lord, we can by no meanes Know of him where the body is. _King_ Now sonne Hamlet, where is this dead body? _Ham._ At supper, not where he is eating, but 135 Where he is eaten, a certaine company of politicke wormes are euen now at him. Father, your fatte King, and your leane Beggar Are but variable seruices, two dishes to one messe: Looke you, a man may fish with that worme 140 That hath eaten of a King, And a Beggar eate that fish, Which that worme hath caught. _King_ What of this? _Ham._ Nothing father, but to tell you, how a King 145 May go a progresse through the guttes of a Beggar. _King_ But sonne _Hamlet_, where is this body? _Ham._ In heau'n, if you chance to misse him there, Father, you had best looke in the other partes below For him, and if you cannot finde him there, 150 You may chance to nose him as you go vp the lobby. _King_ Make haste and finde him out. _Ham._ Nay doe you heare? do not make too much haste, I'le warrant you hee'le stay till you come. _King_ Well sonne _Hamlet_, we in care of you: but specially 155 in tender preseruation of your health, The which we price euen as our proper selfe, It is our minde you forthwith goe for _England_, The winde sits faire, you shall aboorde to night, Lord _Rossencraft_ and _Gilderstone_ shall goe along with you. 160 _Ham._ O with all my heart: farewel mother. _King_ Your louing father, _Hamlet_. _Ham._ My mother I say: you married my mother, My mother is your wife, man and wife is one flesh, And so (my mother) farewel: for England hoe. 165 _Exeunt all but the king._ _King_ Gertred, leaue me, And take your leaue of _Hamlet_, To England is he gone, ne're to returne: Our Letters are vnto the King of England, That on the sight of them, on his allegeance, 170 He presently without demaunding why, That _Hamlet_ loose his head, for he must die, There's more in him than shallow eyes can see: He once being dead, why then our state is free. _exit._ [Sidenote: [SC. XII.]] _Enter Fortenbrasse, Drumme and Souldiers._ _Fort._ Captaine, from vs goe greete The king of Denmarke: Tell him that _Fortenbrasse_ nephew to old _Norway_, Craues a free passe and conduct over his land, According to the Articles agreed on: 5 You know our Randevous, goe march away. _exeunt all._ [Sidenote: [SC. XIII.]] _Enter King and Queene._ _King_ _Hamlet_ is ship't for England, fare him well, I hope to heare good newes from thence ere long, If every thing fall out to our content, As I doe make no doubt but so it shall. _Queene_ God grant it may, heav'ns keep my _Hamlet_ safe: 5 But this mischance of olde _Corambis_ death, Hath piersed so the yong _Ofeliaes_ heart, That she, poore maide, is quite bereft her wittes. _King_ Alas deere heart! And on the other side, We vnderstand her brother's come from _France_, 10 And he hath halfe the heart of all our Land, And hardly hee'le forget his fathers death, Vnlesse by some meanes he be pacified. _Qu._ O see where the yong _Ofelia_ is! _Enter Ofelia playing on a Lute, and her haire downe singing._ _Ofelia_ How should I your true love know 15 From another man? By his cockle hatte, and his staffe, And his sandall shoone. White his shrowde as mountaine snowe, Larded with sweete flowers, 20 That bewept to the graue did not goe With true louers showers: He is dead and gone Lady, he is dead and gone, At his head a grasse greene turffe, At his heeles a stone. _King_ How i'st with you sweete _Ofelia_? _Ofelia_ Well God yeeld you, It grieues me to see how they laid him in the cold ground, I could not chuse but weepe: And will he not come againe? 30 And will he not come againe? No, no, hee's gone, and we cast away mone, And he neuer will come againe. His beard as white as snowe: All flaxen was his pole, 35 He is dead, he is gone, And we cast away moane: God a mercy on his soule. And of all christen soules I pray God. God be with you Ladies, God be with you. _exit Ofelia._ 40 _King_ A pretty wretch! this is a change indeede: O Time, how swiftly runnes our ioyes away? Content on earth was neuer certaine bred, To day we laugh and liue, to morrow dead. How now, what noyse is that? 45 _A noyse within. Enter Leartes._ _Lear._ Stay there vntill I come, O thou vilde king, giue me my father: Speake, say, where's my father? _King_ Dead. _Lear._ Who hath murdred him? speake, i'le not 50 Be juggled with, for he is murdred. _Queene_ True, but not by him. _Lear._ By whome, by heau'n I'le be resolued. _King_ Let him goe _Gertred_, away, I feare him not, There's such diuinitie doth wall a king, 55 That treason dares not looke on. Let him goe _Gertred_, that your father is murdred, T'is true, and we most sory for it, Being the chiefest piller of our state: Therefore will you like a most desperate gamster, 60 Swoop-stake-like, draw at friend, and foe, and all? _Lear._ To his good friends thus wide I'le ope mine arms, And locke them in my hart, but to his foes, I will no reconcilement but by bloud. _King_ Why now you speake like a most louing sonne: 65 And that in soule we sorrow for for his death, Your selfe ere long shall be a witnesse, Meane while be patient, and content your selfe. _Enter Ofelia as before._ _Lear._ Who's this, _Ofelia_? O my deere sister! I'st possible a yong maides life, 70 Should be as mortall as an olde mans sawe? O heau'ns themselues! how now _Ofelia_? _Ofel._ Wel God a mercy, I a bin gathering of floures: Here, here is rew for you, You may call it hearb a grace a Sundayes, 75 Heere's some for me too: you must weare your rew With a difference, there's a dazie. Here Loue, there's rosemary for you For remembrance: I pray Loue remember, And there's pansey for thoughts. 80 _Lear._ A document in madnes, thoughts, remembrance: O God, O God! _Ofelia_ There is fennell for you, I would a giu'n you Some violets, but they all withered, when My father died: alas, they say the owle was 85 A Bakers daughter, we see what we are, But can not tell what we shall be. For bonny sweete Robin is all my joy. _Lear._ Thoughts & afflictions, torments worse than hell. _Ofel._ Nay Loue, I pray you make no words of this now: 90 I pray now, you shall sing a downe, And you a downe a, t'is a the Kings daughter And the false steward, and if any body Aske you of any thing, say you this. To morrow is saint Valentines day, 95 All in the morning betime, And a maide at your window, To be your Valentine: The yong man rose, and dan'd his clothes, And dupt the chamber doore, 100 Let in the maide, that out a maide Neuer departed more. Nay I pray marke now, By gisse, and by saint Charitie, Away, and fie for shame: 105 Yong men will doo't when they come too't: By cocke they are too blame. Quoth she, before you tumbled me, You promised me to wed. So would I a done, by yonder Sunne, 110 If thou hadst not come to my bed. So God be with you all, God bwy Ladies. God bwy you Loue. _exit Ofelia._ _Lear._ Griefe vpon griefe, my father murdered, My sister thus distracted: 115 Cursed be his soule that wrought this wicked act. _King_ Content you good Leartes for a time, Although I know your griefe is as a floud, Brimme full of sorrow, but forbeare a while, And thinke already the reuenge is done 120 On him that makes you such a haplesse sonne. _Lear._ You haue preuail'd my Lord, a while I'le striue, To bury griefe within a tombe of wrath, Which once vnhearsed, then the world shall heare Leartes had a father he held deere. 125 _King_ No more of that, ere many dayes be done, You shall heare that you do not dreame vpon. _exeunt om._ [Sidenote: [SC. XIV.]] _Enter Horatio and the Queene._ _Hor._ Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in _Denmarke_, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, 5 He found the Packet sent to the king of _England_, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. _Queene_ Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes 10 That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you _Horatio_ where he is? _Hor._ Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me 15 To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. _Queene_ O faile not, good _Horatio_, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he 20 Faile in that he goes about. _Hor._ Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, _Hamlet_ being here, 25 Things fell not to his minde. _Queene_ But what became of _Gilderstone_ and _Rossencraft_? _Hor._ He being set ashore, they went for _England_, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: 30 And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. _Queene_ Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, _Horatio_ once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. 35 _Horat._ Madam adue. [Sidenote: [SC. XV.]] _Enter King and Leartes._ _King._ Hamlet from _England!_ is it possible? What chance is this? they are gone, and he come home. _Lear._ O he is welcome, by my soule he is: At it my iocund heart doth leape for ioy, That I shall liue to tell him, thus he dies. 5 _King_ Leartes, content your selfe, be rulde by me, And you shall haue no let for your reuenge. _Lear._ My will, not all the world. _King_ Nay but Leartes, marke the plot I haue layde, I haue heard him often with a greedy wish, 10 Vpon some praise that he hath heard of you Touching your weapon, which with all his heart, He might be once tasked for to try your cunning. _Lea._ And how for this? _King_ Mary Leartes thus: I'le lay a wager, 15 Shalbe on _Hamlets_ side, and you shall giue the oddes, The which will draw him with a more desire, To try the maistry, that in twelue venies You gaine not three of him: now this being granted, When you are hot in midst of all your play, 20 Among the foyles shall a keene rapier lie, Steeped in a mixture of deadly poyson, That if it drawes but the least dramme of blood, In any part of him, he cannot liue: This being done will free you from suspition, 25 And not the deerest friend that _Hamlet_ lov'de Will euer haue Leartes in suspect. _Lear._ My lord, I like it well: But say lord _Hamlet_ should refuse this match. _King_ I'le warrant you, wee'le put on you 30 Such a report of singularitie, Will bring him on, although against his will. And lest that all should misse, I'le haue a potion that shall ready stand, In all his heate when that he calles for drinke, 35 Shall be his period and our happinesse. _Lear._ T'is excellent, O would the time were come! Here comes the Queene. _enter the Queene._ _King_ How now Gertred, why looke you heauily? _Queene_ O my Lord, the yong _Ofelia_ Hauing made a garland of sundry sortes of floures, Sitting vpon a willow by a brooke, The enuious sprig broke, into the brooke she fell, And for a while her clothes spread wide abroade, Bore the yong Lady vp: and there she sate smiling, 45 Euen Mermaide-like, twixt heauen and earth, Chaunting olde sundry tunes vncapable As it were of her distresse, but long it could not be, Till that her clothes, being heauy with their drinke, Dragg'd the sweete wretch to death. 50 _Lear._ So, she is drownde: Too much of water hast thou _Ofelia_, Therefore I will not drowne thee in my teares, Reuenge it is must yeeld this heart releefe, For woe begets woe, and griefe hangs on griefe. _exeunt._ 55 [Sidenote: [SC. XVI.]] _Enter Clowne and an other._ _Clowne_ I say no, she ought not to be buried In christian buriall. _2._ Why sir? _Clowne_ Mary because shee's drownd. _2._ But she did not drowne her selfe. 5 _Clowne_ No, that's certaine, the water drown'd her. _2._ Yea but it was against her will. _Clowne_ No, I deny that, for looke you sir, I stand here, If the water come to me, I drowne not my selfe: But if I goe to the water, and am there drown'd, 10 _Ergo_ I am guiltie of my owne death: Y'are gone, goe y'are gone sir. _2._ I but see, she hath christian buriall, Because she is a great woman. _Clowne_ Mary more's the pitty, that great folke 15 Should haue more authoritie to hang or drowne Themselues, more than other people: Goe fetch me a stope of drinke, but before thou Goest, tell me one thing, who buildes strongest, Of a Mason, a Shipwright, or a Carpenter? 20 _2._ Why a Mason, for he buildes all of stone, And will indure long. _Clowne_ That's prety, too't agen, too't agen. _2._ Why then a Carpenter, for he buildes the gallowes, And that brings many a one to his long home. 25 _Clowne_ Prety agen, the gallowes doth well, mary howe dooes it well? the gallowes dooes well to them that doe ill, goe get thee gone: And if any one aske thee hereafter, say, A Graue-maker, for the houses he buildes 30 Last till Doomes-day. Fetch me a stope of beere, goe. _Enter Hamlet and Horatio._ _Clowne_ A picke-axe and a spade, A spade for and a winding sheete, Most fit it is, for t'will be made, _he throwes vp a shouel_. For such a ghest most meete. 35 _Ham._ Hath this fellow any feeling of himselfe, That is thus merry in making of a graue? See how the slaue joles their heads against the earth. _Hor._ My lord, Custome hath made it in him seeme nothing. _Clowne_ A pick-axe and a spade, a spade, 40 For and a winding sheete, Most fit it is for to be made, For such a ghest most meet. _Ham._ Looke you, there's another _Horatio_. Why mai't not be the scull of some Lawyer? 45 Me thinkes he should indite that fellow Of an action of Batterie, for knocking Him about the pate with's shouel: now where is your Quirkes and quillets now, your vouchers and Double vouchers, your leases and free-holde, 50 And tenements? why that same boxe there will scarse Holde the conueiance of his land, and must The honor lie there? O pittifull transformance! I prethee tell me _Horatio_, Is parchment made of sheep-skinnes? 55 _Hor._ I my Lorde, and of calues-skinnes too. _Ham._ Ifaith they prooue themselues sheepe and calues That deale with them, or put their trust in them. There's another, why may not that be such a ones Scull, that praised my Lord such a ones horse, 60 When he meant to beg him? _Horatio_, I prethee Lets question yonder fellow. Now my friend, whose graue is this? _Clowne_ Mine sir. _Ham._ But who must lie in it? 65 _Clowne_ If I should say, I should, I should lie in my throat sir. _Ham._ What man must be buried here? _Clowne_ No man sir. _Ham._ What woman? _Clowne._ No woman neither sir, but indeede 70 One that was a woman. _Ham._ An excellent fellow by the Lord _Horatio_, This seauen yeares haue I noted it: the toe of the pesant, Comes so neere the heele of the courtier, That hee gawles his kibe, I prethee tell mee one thing, 75 How long will a man lie in the ground before hee rots? _Clowne_ Ifaith sir, if hee be not rotten before He be laide in, as we haue many pocky corses, He will last you, eight yeares, a tanner Will last you eight yeares full out, or nine. 80 _Ham._ And why a tanner? _Clowne_ Why his hide is so tanned with his trade, That it will holde out water, that's a parlous Deuourer of your dead body, a great soaker. Looke you, heres a scull hath bin here this dozen yeare, 85 Let me see, I euer since our last king _Hamlet_ Slew _Fortenbrasse_ in combat, yong _Hamlets_ father, Hee that's mad. _Ham._ I mary, how came he madde? _Clowne_ Ifaith very strangely, by loosing of his wittes. 90 _Ham._ Vpon what ground? _Clowne_ A this ground, in _Denmarke_. _Ham._ Where is he now? _Clowne_ Why now they sent him to _England_. _Ham._ To _England_! wherefore? 95 _Clowne_ Why they say he shall haue his wittes there, Or if he haue not, t'is no great matter there, It will not be seene there. _Ham._ Why not there? _Clowne_ Why there they say the men are as mad as he. 100 _Ham_. Whose scull was this? _Clowne_ This, a plague on him, a madde rogues it was, He powred once a whole flagon of Rhenish of my head, Why do not you know him? this was one _Yorickes_ scull. _Ham._ Was this? I prethee let me see it, alas poore _Yoricke_ 105 I knew him _Horatio_, A fellow of infinite mirth, he hath caried mee twenty times vpon his backe, here hung those lippes that I haue Kissed a hundred times, and to see, now they abhorre me: Wheres your iests now _Yoricke_? your flashes of meriment: now go 110 to my Ladies chamber, and bid her paint her selfe an inch thicke, to this she must come _Yoricke_. _Horatio_, I prethee tell me one thing, doost thou thinke that _Alexander_ looked thus? _Hor._ Euen so my Lord. 115 _Ham._ And smelt thus? _Hor._ I my lord, no otherwise. _Ham._ No, why might not imagination worke, as thus of _Alexander_, _Alexander_ died, _Alexander_ was buried, _Alexander_ became earth, of earth we make clay, and _Alexander_ being 120 but clay, why might not time bring to passe, that he might stoppe the boung hole of a beere barrell? Imperious _Cæsar_ dead and turnd to clay, Might stoppe a hole, to keepe the winde away. _Enter King and Queene, Leartes, and other lordes, with a Priest after the coffin._ _Ham._ What funerall's this that all the Court laments? 125 It shews to be some noble parentage: Stand by a while. _Lear._ What ceremony else? say, what ceremony else? _Priest_ My Lord, we haue done all that lies in vs, And more than well the church can tolerate, 130 She hath had a Dirge sung for her maiden soule: And but for fauour of the king, and you, She had beene buried in the open fieldes, Where now she is allowed christian buriall. _Lear._ So, I tell thee churlish Priest, a ministring Angell 135 shall my sister be, when thou liest howling. _Ham._ The faire _Ofelia_ dead! _Queene_ Sweetes to the sweete, farewell: I had thought to adorne thy bridale bed, faire maide, And not to follow thee vnto thy graue. 140 _Lear._ Forbeare the earth a while: sister farewell: _Leartes leapes into the graue._ Now powre your earth on, _Olympus_ hie, And make a hill to o're top olde _Pellon_: _Hamlet leapes in_ Whats he that coniures so? _after Leartes_ _Ham._ Beholde tis I, _Hamlet_ the Dane. 145 _Lear._ The diuell take thy soule. _Ham._ O thou praiest not well, I prethee take thy hand from off my throate, For there is something in me dangerous, Which let thy wisedome feare, holde off thy hand: 150 I lou'de _Ofelia_ as deere as twenty brothers could: Shew me what thou wilt doe for her: Wilt fight, wilt fast, wilt pray, Wilt drinke vp vessels, eate a crocadile? Ile doot: Com'st thou here to whine? 155 And where thou talk'st of burying thee a liue, Here let vs stand: and let them throw on vs, Whole hills of earth, till with the heighth therof, Make Oosell as a Wart. _King._ Forbeare _Leartes_, now is hee mad, as is the sea, Anone as milde and gentle as a Doue: Therfore a while giue his wilde humour scope. _Ham._ What is the reason sir that you wrong mee thus? I neuer gaue you cause: but stand away, A Cat will meaw, a Dog will haue a day. 165 _Exit Hamlet and Horatio._ [Sidenote: [SC. XVII.]] _Queene._ Alas, it is his madnes makes him thus, And not his heart, _Leartes_. _King._ My lord, t'is so: but wee'le no longer trifle, This very day shall _Hamlet_ drinke his last, For presently we meane to send to him, 5 Therfore _Leartes_ be in readynes. _Lear._ My lord, till then my soule will not bee quiet. _King._ Come _Gertred_, wee'l haue _Leartes_, and our sonne, Made friends and Louers, as befittes them both, Euen as they tender vs, and loue their countrie. 10 _Queene_ God grant they may. _exeunt omnes._ [Sidenote: [SC. XVIII.]] _Enter Hamlet and Horatio_ _Ham._ Beleeue mee, it greeues mee much _Horatio_, That to _Leartes_ I forgot my selfe: For by my selfe me thinkes I feele his griefe, Though there's a difference in each others wrong. _Enter a Bragart Gentleman._ _Horatio_, but marke yon water-flie, 5 The Court knowes him, but hee knowes not the Court. _Gent._ Now God saue thee, sweete prince _Hamlet_. _Ham._ And you sir: foh, how the muske-cod smels! _Gen._ I come with an embassage from his maiesty to you _Ham._ I shall sir giue you attention: 10 By my troth me thinkes t'is very colde. _Gent._ It is indeede very rawish colde. _Ham._ T'is hot me thinkes. _Gent._ Very swoltery hote: The King, sweete Prince, hath layd a wager on your side, 15 Six Barbary horse, against six french rapiers, With all their acoutrements too, a the carriages: In good faith they are very curiously wrought. _Ham._ The cariages sir, I do not know what you meane. _Gent._ The girdles, and hangers sir, and such like. 20 _Ham._ The worde had beene more cosin german to the phrase, if he could haue carried the canon by his side, And howe's the wager? I vnderstand you now. _Gent._ Mary sir, that yong _Leartes_ in twelue venies At Rapier and Dagger do not get three oddes of you, 25 And on your side the King hath laide, And desires you to be in readinesse. _Ham._ Very well, if the King dare venture his wager, I dare venture my skull: when must this be? _Gent._ My Lord, presently, the king, and her maiesty, 30 With the rest of the best iudgement in the Court, Are comming downe into the outward pallace. _Ham._ Goe tell his maiestie, I wil attend him. _Gent._ I shall deliuer your most sweet answer. _exit._ _Ham._ You may sir, none better, for y'are spiced, 35 Else he had a bad nose could not smell a foole. _Hor._ He will disclose himselfe without inquirie. _Ham._ Beleeue me _Horatio_, my hart is on the sodaine Very sore, all here about. _Hor._ My lord, forbeare the challenge then. 40 _Ham._ No _Horatio_, not I, if danger be now, Why then it is not to come, theres a predestiuate prouidence in the fall of a sparrow: heere comes the King. _Enter King, Queene, Leartes, Lordes._ _King_ Now sonne _Hamlet_, we hane laid vpon your head, And make no question but to haue the best. 45 _Ham._ Your maiestie hath laide a the weaker side. _King._ We doubt it not, deliuer them the foiles. _Ham._ First Leartes, heere's my hand and loue, Protesting that I neuer wrongd _Leartes_. If _Hamlet_ in his madnesse did amisse, 50 That was not _Hamlet_, but his madnes did it, And all the wrong I e're did to _Leartes_, I here proclaime was madnes, therefore lets be at peace, And thinke I haue shot mine arrow o're the house, And hurt my brother. 55 _Lear._ Sir I am satisfied in nature, But in termes of honor I'le stand aloofe, And will no reconcilement, Till by some elder maisters of our time I may be satisfied. 60 _King_ Giue them the foyles. _Ham._ I'le be your foyle Leartes, these foyles, Haue all a laught, come on sir: _a hit._ _Lear._ No none. _Heere they play:_ _Ham._ Iudgement. 65 _Gent._ A hit, a most palpable hit. _Lear._ Well, come againe. _They play againe._ _Ham._ Another. Iudgement. _Lear._ I, I grant, a tuch, a tuch. _King_ Here _Hamlet_, the king doth drinke a health to thee 70 _Queene_ Here _Hamlet_, take my napkin, wipe thy face. _King_ Giue him the wine. _Ham._ Set it by, I'le haue another bowt first, I'le drinke anone. _Queene_ Here _Hamlet_, thy mother drinkes to thee. 75 _Shee drinkes._ _King_ Do not drinke _Gertred_: O t'is the poysned cup! _Ham._ _Leartes_ come, you dally with me, I pray you passe with your most cunningst play. _Lear._ I! say you so? haue at you, He hit you now my Lord: 80 And yet it goes almost against my conscience. _Ham._ Come on sir. _They catch one anothers Rapiers, and both are wounded, Leartes falles downe, the Queene falles downe and dies._ _King_ Looke to the Queene. _Queene_ O the drinke, the drinke, _Hamlet_, the drinke. _Ham._ Treason, ho, keepe the gates. 85 _Lords_ How ist my Lord _Leartes_? _Lear._ Euen as a coxcombe should, Foolishly slaine with my owne weapon: _Hamlet_, thou hast not in thee halfe an houre of life, The fatall Instrument is in thy hand. 90 Vnbated and invenomed: thy mother's poysned That drinke was made for thee. _Ham._ The poysned Instrument within my hand? Then venome to thy venome, die damn'd villaine: Come drinke, here lies thy vnion here. _The king dies._ 95 _Lear._ O he is justly serued: _Hamlet_, before I die, here take my hand, And withall, my loue: I doe forgiue thee. _Leartes dies._ _Ham._ And I thee, O I am dead _Horatio_, fare thee well. _Hor._ No, I am more an antike Roman, 100 Then a Dane, here is some poison left. _Ham._ Vpon my loue I charge thee let it goe, O fie _Horatio_, and if thou shouldst die, What a scandale wouldst thou leaue behinde? What tongue should tell the story of our deaths, 105 If not from thee? O my heart sinckes _Horatio_, Mine eyes haue lost their sight, my tongue his vse: Farewel _Horatio_, heauen receiue my soule. _Ham. dies._ _Enter Voltemar and the Ambassadors from England. Enter Fortenbrasse with his traine._ _Fort._ Where is this bloudy sight? _Hor._ If aught of woe or wonder you'ld behold, Then looke vpon this tragicke spectacle. _Fort._ O imperious death! how many Princes Hast thou at one draft bloudily shot to death? _Ambass._ Our ambassie that we haue brought from _England_, Where be these Princes that should heare vs speake? 115 O most most vnlooked for time! vnhappy country. _Hor._ Content your selues, Ile shew to all, the ground, The first beginning of this Tragedy: Let there a scaffold be rearde vp in the market place, And let the State of the world be there: 120 Where you shall heare such a sad story tolde, That neuer mortall man could more vnfolde. _Fort._ I haue some rights of memory to this kingdome, Which now to claime my leisure doth inuite mee: Let foure of our chiefest Captaines 125 Beare _Hamlet_ like a souldier to his graue: For he was likely, had he liued, To a prou'd most royall. Take vp the bodie, such a fight as this Becomes the fieldes, but here doth much amisse. 130 _Finis._ FOOTNOTES: [2422] Leartes] Leartes, B. Mus. copy. _newes_] _news_ B. Mus. copy. [2423] _God_] _God_, B. Mus. copy. _moneths_] _months_ B. Mus. copy. _maried,_] _married_ B. Mus. copy. KING LEAR. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[C]. LEAR, king of Britain. KING OF FRANCE. DUKE OF BURGUNDY. DUKE OF CORNWALL. DUKE OF ALBANY. EARL OF KENT. EARL OF GLOUCESTER. EDGAR, son to Gloucester. EDMUND, bastard son to Gloucester. CURAN, a courtier. Old Man, tenant to Gloucester. Doctor. Fool. OSWALD, steward to Goneril. A captain employed by Edmund. Gentleman attendant on Cordelia. Herald. Servants to Cornwall. GONERIL, } REGAN, } daughters to Lear. CORDELIA, } Knights of Lear's train, Captains, Messengers, Soldiers, and Attendants. SCENE: _Britain_. [C] DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. First given by Rowe. THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR. ACT I. SCENE I. _King Lear's palace._ _Enter_ KENT, GLOUCESTER, _and_ EDMUND.[2424] _Kent._ I thought the king had more affected the Duke[2425][2426] of Albany than Cornwall.[2425][2426] _Glou._ It did always seem so to us: but now, in the[2425][2426][2427] division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes[2425][2426][2428] he values most; for equalities are so weighed that curiosity[2425][2426][2429] 5 in neither can make choice of either's moiety.[2425][2426] _Kent._ Is not this your son, my lord?[2425] _Glou._ His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I[2425] have so often blushed to acknowledge him that now I am[2425] brazed to it.[2425][2430] 10 _Kent._ I cannot conceive you.[2425] _Glou._ Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon[2425] she grew round-wombed, and had indeed, sir, a son for her[2425] cradle ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a[2425] fault?[2425] 15 _Kent._ I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it[2425] being so proper.[2425] _Glou._ But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year[2425][2431] elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account: though[2425][2432] this knave came something saucily into the world before he[2425][2433] 20 was sent for, yet was his mother fair; there was good sport[2425] at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged.[2425][2434] Do you know this noble gentleman, Edmund?[2425][2435] _Edm._ No, my lord.[2425][2436] _Glou._ My lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my[2425][2437] 25 honourable friend.[2425][2437] _Edm._ My services to your lordship.[2425] _Kent._ I must love you, and sue to know you better.[2425] _Edm._ Sir, I shall study deserving.[2425][2438] _Glou._ He hath been out nine years, and away he shall[2425] 30 again. The king is coming.[2425][2439] _Sennet. Enter one bearing a coronet,_ KING LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, CORDELIA, _and_ Attendants.[2440] _Lear._ Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.[2441] _Glou._ I shall, my liege. [_Exeunt Gloucester and Edmund._[2442] _Lear._ Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.[2443] Give me the map there. Know we have divided[2444] 35 In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent[2445] To shake all cares and business from our age,[2446] Conferring them on younger strengths, while we[2447][2448] Unburthen'd crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,[2448] And you, our no less loving son of Albany,[2448][2449] 40 We have this hour a constant will to publish[2448] Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife[2448][2450] May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,[2448][2451] Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,[2452] Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn, 45 And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters,[2453] Since now we will divest us both of rule,[2454] Interest of territory, cares of state,[2454][2455] Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may extend 50 Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,[2456] Our eldest-born, speak first.[2457] _Gon._ Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter,[2457][2458] Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty,[2459] Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare, 55 No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour, As much as child e'er loved or father found;[2460] A love that makes breath poor and speech unable; Beyond all manner of so much I love you.[2461] _Cor._ [_Aside_] What shall Cordelia do? Love, and be silent.[2462] 60 _Lear._ Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd,[2463][2464][2465] With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,[2464] We make thee lady. To thine and Albany's issue[2466] Be this perpetual. What says our second daughter,[2467] 65 Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall? Speak.[2468] _Reg._ I am made of that self metal as my sister,[2469] And prize me at her worth. In my true heart[2470] I find she names my very deed of love;[2471] Only she comes too short: that I profess[2471][2472] 70 Myself an enemy to all other joys[2471] Which the most precious square of sense possesses,[2473] And find I am alone felicitate[2474][2475] In your dear highness' love.[2474] _Cor._ [_Aside_] Then poor Cordelia![2476][2477][2478] And yet not so, since I am sure my love's[2479][2480] 75 More ponderous than my tongue.[2477][2480][2481] _Lear._ To thee and thine hereditary ever Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom, No less in space, validity and pleasure, Than that conferr'd on Goneril. Now, our joy,[2482][2483][2484] 80 Although the last, not least, to whose young love[2483][2485] The vines of France and milk of Burgundy[2483] Strive to be interess'd, what can you say to draw[2483][2486] A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.[2483][2487] _Cor._ Nothing, my lord. 85 _Lear._ Nothing![2488] _Cor._ Nothing.[2488] _Lear._ Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.[2489] _Cor._ Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave[2490][2491] My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty[2490] 90 According to my bond; nor more nor less.[2490][2492] _Lear._ How, how, Cordelia! mend your speech a little,[2493] Lest it may mar your fortunes.[2494] _Cor._ Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I[2495][2496] Return those duties back as are right fit,[2496][2497] 95 Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say[2498] They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,[2498][2499][2500] That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry[2500] Half my love with him, half my care and duty:[2500] 100 Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,[2500][2501][2502] To love my father all.[2502][2503] _Lear._ But goes thy heart with this? _Cor._ Ay, good my lord.[2504] _Lear._ So young, and so untender? _Cor._ So young, my lord, and true. 105 _Lear._ Let it be so; thy truth then be thy dower:[2505] For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night;[2506] By all the operation of the orbs[2507] From whom we do exist and cease to be; 110 Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee from this for ever. The barbarous Scythian,[2508] Or he that makes his generation messes[2509] 115 To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom[2509][2510] Be as well neighbour'd, pitied and relieved,[2510] As thou my sometime daughter. _Kent._ Good my liege,--[2511] _Lear._ Peace, Kent![2512] Come not between the dragon and his wrath.[2512] 120 I loved her most, and thought to set my rest On her kind nursery. Hence, and avoid my sight![2513] So be my grave my peace, as here I give Her father's heart from her! Call France. Who stirs? Call Burgundy. Cornwall and Albany,[2514] 125 With my two daughters' dowers digest this third:[2515] Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her. I do invest you jointly with my power,[2516] Pre-eminence and all the large effects[2517] That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,[2518] 130 With reservation of an hundred knights By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode Make with you by due turns. Only we still retain[2519] The name and all the additions to a king;[2520][2521] The sway, revenue, execution of the rest,[2520][2522] 135 Beloved sons, be yours: which to confirm, This coronet part betwixt you.[2523] _Kent._ Royal Lear, Whom I have ever honour'd as my king,[2524] Loved as my father, as my master follow'd,[2525] As my great patron thought on in my prayers,--[2526] 140 _Lear._ The bow is bent and drawn; make from the shaft. _Kent._ Let it fall rather, though the fork invade[2527] The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly, When Lear is mad. What wouldst thou do, old man?[2528] Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak, 145 When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound,[2529] When majesty stoops to folly. Reverse thy doom,[2530] And in thy best consideration check[2531] This hideous rashness: answer my life my judgement,[2532] Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; 150 Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound[2533] Reverbs no hollowness.[2533] _Lear._ Kent, on thy life, no more.[2534] _Kent._ My life I never held but as a pawn[2535] To wage against thy enemies, nor fear to lose it,[2536] Thy safety being the motive.[2537] _Lear._ Out of my sight! 155 _Kent._ See better, Lear, and let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. _Lear._ Now, by Apollo,-- _Kent._ Now, by Apollo, king,[2538][2539] Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.[2538] _Lear._ O, vassal! miscreant! [_Laying his hand on his sword._[2540] _Alb._ } Dear sir, forbear.[2541] 160 _Corn._} _Kent._ Do;[2542] Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow[2543][2544] Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy doom;[2543][2545] Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,[2543] I'll tell thee them dost evil.[2543] _Lear._ Hear me, recreant![2546][2547] 165 On thy allegiance, hear me![2546][2548] Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow,[2549] Which we durst never yet, and with strain'd pride[2550] To come between our sentence and our power,[2551] Which nor our nature nor our place can bear, 170 Our potency made good, take thy reward.[2552] Five days we do allot thee, for provision[2553] To shield thee from diseases of the world,[2554] And on the sixth to turn thy hated back[2555] Upon our kingdom: if on the tenth day following[2556] 175 Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions, The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,[2557] This shall not be revoked. _Kent._ Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,[2558] Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.[2559] 180 [_To Cordelia_] The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid,[2560] That justly think'st and hast most rightly said![2561] [_To Regan and Goneril_] And your large speeches may your deeds approve,[2562] That good effects may spring from words of love. Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu; 185 He'll shape his old course in a country new. [_Exit._[2563] _Flourish. Re-enter_ GLOUCESTER, _with_ FRANCE, BURGUNDY, _and_ Attendants.[2564] _Glou._ Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord.[2565] _Lear._ My lord of Burgundy,[2566][2567] We first address towards you, who with this king[2566][2568] Hath rivall'd for our daughter: what, in the least,[2566][2569] 190 Will you require in present dower with her,[2566] Or cease your quest of love?[2566][2570] _Bur._ Most royal majesty,[2571] I crave no more than what your highness offer'd,[2571][2572] Nor will you tender less.[2571][2573] _Lear._ Right noble Burgundy,[2574] When she was dear to us, we did hold her so;[2574][2575] 195 But now her price is fall'n. Sir, there she stands:[2574][2576] If aught within that little seeming substance,[2574][2577] Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced,[2574][2578] And nothing more, may fitly like your grace,[2579] She's there, and she is yours. _Bur._ I know no answer. 200 _Lear._ Will you, with those infirmities she owes,[2580] Unfriended, new adopted to our hate, Dower'd with our curse and stranger'd with our oath,[2581] Take her, or leave her?[2582] _Bur._ Pardon me, royal sir;[2583][2584] Election makes not up on such conditions.[2584][2585] 205 _Lear._ Then leave her, sir; for, by the power that made me, I tell you all her wealth. [_To France_] For you, great king,[2586] I would not from your love make such a stray, To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you To avert your liking a more worthier way[2587] 210 Than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed Almost to acknowledge hers. _France._ This is most strange,[2588] That she, that even but now was your best object,[2588][2589] The argument of your praise, balm of your age,[2588][2590] Most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time[2588][2591] 215 Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle[2588] So many folds of favour. Sure, her offence[2588][2592] Must be of such unnatural degree[2588] That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection[2593][2594] Fall'n into taint: which to believe of her,[2594][2595] 220 Must be a faith that reason without miracle[2596] Could never plant in me.[2596] _Cor._ I yet beseech your majesty,--[2597][2598] If for I want that glib and oily art,[2598][2599] To speak and purpose not, since what I well intend,[2600] I'll do't before I speak,--that you make known[2601] 225 It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,[2602] No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step,[2603] That hath deprived me of your grace and favour;[2604] But even for want of that for which I am richer,[2605] A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue[2606] 230 As I am glad I have not, though not to have it[2607] Hath lost me in your liking. _Lear._ Better thou[2608][2609] Hadst not been born than not to have pleased me better.[2609][2610] _France._ Is it but this, a tardiness in nature[2611] Which often leaves the history unspoke[2612][2613] 235 That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,[2613][2614] What say you to the lady? Love's not love[2613][2615] When it is mingled with regards that stand[2613][2616] Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?[2617] She is herself a dowry.[2618] _Bur._ Royal Lear,[2619][2620] 240 Give but that portion which yourself proposed,[2620] And here I take Cordelia by the hand,[2620] Duchess of Burgundy.[2620] _Lear._ Nothing: I have sworn; I am firm.[2621] _Bur._ I am sorry then you have so lost a father[2622] 245 That you must lose a husband. _Cor._ Peace be with Burgundy![2623][2624] Since that respects of fortune are his love,[2623][2625] I shall not be his wife.[2623] _France._ Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich being poor,[2626] Most choice forsaken, and most loved despised, 250 Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon:[2627] Be it lawful I take up what's cast away.[2628] Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect[2629] My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance,[2630] 255 Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy[2631] Can buy this unprized precious maid of me.[2632] Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind:[2633][2634] Thou losest here, a better where to find.[2634] 260 _Lear_. Thou hast her, France: let her be thine, for we[2635] Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see[2635] That face of hers again. Therefore be gone[2636] Without our grace, our love, our benison.[2637][2638] Come, noble Burgundy.[2637] 265 [_Flourish. Exeunt all but France, Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia._[2639] _France._ Bid farewell to your sisters.[2640] _Cor._ The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes[2641][2642] Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are;[2642][2643] And, like a sister, am most loath to call[2642] Your faults as they are named. Use well our father:[2642][2644] 270 To your professed bosoms I commit him:[2645] But yet, alas, stood I within his grace, I would prefer him to a better place.[2646] So farewell to you both. _Reg._ Prescribe not us our duties.[2647] _Gon._ Let your study[2648] 275 Be to content your lord, who hath received you[2648] At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,[2648][2649] And well are worth the want that you have wanted.[2650] _Cor._ Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides:[2651] Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.[2652] 280 Well may you prosper! _France._ Come, my fair Cordelia. [_Exeunt France and Cordelia._[2653] _Gon._ Sister, it is not a little I have to say of what most[2654][2655][2656] nearly appertains to us both. I think our father will hence[2655][2657] to-night.[2655] _Reg._ That's most certain, and with you; next month[2658] 285 with us. _Gon._ You see how full of changes his age is; the observation[2659] we have made of it hath not been little: he always[2660] loved our sister most; and with what poor judgement he hath now cast her off appears too grossly.[2661] 290 _Reg._ 'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself. _Gon._ The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then must we look to receive from his age, not alone[2662] the imperfections of long ingrafted condition, but[2663] 295 therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric[2664] years bring with them. _Reg._ Such unconstant starts are we like to have from[2665] him as this of Kent's banishment. _Gon._ There is further compliment of leave-taking between[2666] 300 France and him. Pray you, let's hit together: if our[2667] father carry authority with such dispositions as he bears,[2668] this last surrender of his will but offend us. _Reg._ We shall further think on 't.[2669] _Gon._ We must do something, and i' the heat. [_Exeunt._ 305 SCENE II. _The Earl of Gloucester's castle._ _Enter_ EDMUND, _with a letter_.[2670] _Edm._ Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law[2671] My services are bound. Wherefore should I[2671] Stand in the plague of custom, and permit[2671][2672] The curiosity of nations to deprive me,[2671][2673] For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines[2671] 5 Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?[2671][2674] When my dimensions are as well compact,[2671][2675] My mind as generous and my shape as true,[2671] As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us[2671][2676] With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?[2671][2677] 10 Who in the lusty stealth of nature take[2671] More composition and fierce quality[2671] Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,[2671][2678] Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,[2671][2679] Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well then,[2671][2680] 15 Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:[2671] Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund[2671] As to the legitimate: fine word,'legitimate!'[2671][2681] Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed[2671] And my invention thrive, Edmund the base[2671][2676] 20 Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:[2671][2682] Now, gods, stand up for bastards![2671] _Enter_ GLOUCESTER.[2671] _Glou._ Kent banish'd thus! and France in choler parted![2671][2683][2684] And the king gone to-night! subscribed his power![2671][2684][2685] Confined to exhibition! All this done[2671][2684][2686] 25 Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?[2671][2684] _Edm._ So please your lordship, none. [_Putting up the letter._[2687] _Glou._ Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?[2688] _Edm._ I know no news, my lord. _Glou._ What paper were you reading? 30 _Edm._ Nothing, my lord. _Glou._ No? What needed then that terrible dispatch of[2689] it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself. Let's see: come, if it be nothing, I shall[2690] not need spectacles. 35 _Edm._ I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter from[2691] my brother, that I have not all o'er-read; and for so much[2692] as I have perused, I find it not fit for your o'er-looking.[2693] _Glou._ Give me the letter, sir. _Edm._ I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The[2694] 40 contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame.[2694][2695] _Glou._ Let's see, let's see. _Edm._ I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.[2696] _Glou._ [_Reads_] 'This policy and reverence of age makes[2697] 45 the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes[2698] from us till our oldness cannot relish them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny; who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Come[2699] to me, that of this I may speak more. If our father would 50 sleep till I waked him, you should enjoy half his revenue for ever, and live the beloved of your brother, EDGAR.' Hum! Conspiracy!--'Sleep till I waked him, you should[2700] enjoy half his revenue!'--My son Edgar! Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brain to breed it in? When[2701] 55 came this to you? who brought it?[2702] _Edm._ It was not brought me, my lord; there's the cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the casement of my closet. _Glou._ You know the character to be your brother's? _Edm._ If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear 60 it were his; but, in respect of that, I would fain think it[2703][2704] were not.[2703] _Glou._ It is his.[2705] _Edm._ It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is[2706] not in the contents. 65 _Glou._ Hath he never heretofore sounded you in this[2707] business? _Edm._ Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft maintain[2708] it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age, and fathers declining,[2709] the father should be as ward to the son, and the[2710] 70 son manage his revenue.[2711] _Glou._ O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him; ay, apprehend[2712] him: abominable villain! Where is he? 75 _Edm._ I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please[2713] you to suspend your indignation against my brother till you can derive from him better testimony of his intent, you[2714] should run a certain course; where, if you violently proceed[2715] against him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great 80 gap in your own honour and shake in pieces the heart of[2716] his obedience. I dare pawn down my life for him that he[2717] hath wrote this to feel my affection to your honour and to[2718] no further pretence of danger.[2719] _Glou._ Think you so? 85 _Edm._ If your honour judge it meet, I will place you where you shall hear us confer of this and by an auricular[2720] assurance have your satisfaction, and that without any further delay than this very evening. _Glou._ He cannot be such a monster--[2721] 90 _Edm._ Nor is not, sure.[2722] _Glou._ To his father, that so tenderly and entirely loves[2722] him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him out; wind me[2722][2723] into him, I pray you: frame the business after your own[2724] wisdom. I would unstate myself, to be in a due resolution. 95 _Edm._ I will seek him, sir, presently, convey the business[2725] as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.[2726] _Glou._ These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend[2727][2728] no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it[2729] thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent[2730] 100 effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces,[2731] treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father. This[2732][2733] villain of mine comes under the prediction; there's son[2733] against father: the king falls from bias of nature; there's[2733] 105 father against child. We have seen the best of our time:[2733] machinations, hollowness, treachery and all ruinous disorders[2733] follow us disquietly to our graves. Find out this[2733] villain, Edmund; it shall lose thee nothing; do it carefully.[2734] And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, 110 honesty! 'Tis strange. [_Exit._[2735] _Edm._ This is the excellent foppery of the world, that[2736] when we are sick in fortune--often the surfeit of our own[2737] behaviour--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity,[2738] 115 fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers,[2739] by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars and adulterers,[2740] by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish 120 disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded[2741] with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the[2742] maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my[2743] 125 bastardizing. Edgar--[2744][2745][2746] _Enter_ EDGAR. And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy:[2744][2745] my cue is villanous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o'[2745][2747] Bedlam. O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! fa,[2745][2748][2749] sol, la, mi.[2749][2750] 130 _Edg._ How now, brother Edmund! what serious contemplation are you in? _Edm._ I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other day, what should follow these eclipses.[2727] _Edg._ Do you busy yourself about that?[2751] 135 _Edm._ I promise you, the effects he writ of succeed[2752] unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the[2753] parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities;[2753][2754] divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and[2753] nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends,[2753] 140 dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.[2753][2755] _Edg._ How long have you been a sectary astronomical?[2753] _Edm._ Come, come; when saw you my father last?[2753] _Edg._ Why, the night gone by.[2756] _Edm._ Spake you with him? 145 _Edg._ Ay, two hours together.[2757] _Edm._ Parted you in good terms? Found you no displeasure in him by word or countenance?[2758] _Edg._ None at all. _Edm._ Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended[2759] 150 him: and at my entreaty forbear his presence till some[2760] little time hath qualified the heat of his displeasure, which at this instant so rageth in him that with the mischief of[2761] your person it would scarcely allay.[2762] _Edg._ Some villain hath done me wrong. 155 _Edm._ That's my fear. I pray you, have a continent[2763] forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower and, as I[2763] say, retire with me to my lodging, from whence I will fitly[2763] bring you to hear my lord speak: pray ye, go; there's my[2763][2764] key: if you do stir abroad, go armed.[2763] 160 _Edg._ Armed, brother![2763] _Edm._ Brother, I advise you to the best: go armed: I[2763][2765] am no honest man if there be any good meaning towards[2766] you: I have told you what I have seen and heard; but[2767] faintly, nothing like the image and horror of it: pray you,[2767] 165 away. _Edg._ Shall I hear from you anon? _Edm._ I do serve you in this business. [_Exit Edgar._[2768] A credulous father, and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing harms 170 That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy. I see the business. Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit: All with me's meet that I can fashion fit. [_Exit._[2769] SCENE III. _The Duke of Albany's palace._ _Enter_ GONERIL _and_ OSWALD, _her steward_.[2770] _Gon._ Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool? _Osw._ Yes, madam.[2771][2772] _Gon._ By day and night he wrongs me; every hour[2773][2774] He flashes into one gross crime or other,[2774] 5 That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it: His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us[2775] On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,[2776] I will not speak with him; say I am sick: If you come slack of former services, 10 You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer. _Osw._ He's coming, madam; I hear him. [_Horns within._[2777] _Gon._ Put on what weary negligence you please,[2778][2779] You and your fellows; I'ld have it come to question:[2778][2780] If he distaste it, let him to our sister,[2778][2781] 15 Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,[2778] Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man,[2782] That still would manage those authorities[2782] That he hath given away! Now, by my life,[2782] Old fools are babes again, and must be used[2782][2783] 20 With checks as flatteries, when they are seen abused.[2782][2784] Remember what I tell you. _Osw._ Very well, madam.[2785] _Gon._ And let his knights have colder looks among you;[2786] What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so:[2786][2787] I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,[2788] 25 That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister,[2788][2789] To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner. [_Exeunt._[2789][2790] SCENE IV. _A hall in the same._ _Enter_ KENT, _disguised_.[2791] _Kent._ If but as well I other accents borrow,[2792][2793] That can my speech defuse, my good intent[2792][2794] May carry through itself to that full issue[2792] For which I razed my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,[2792][2795] If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,[2792] 5 So may it come, thy master whom thou lovest[2792][2796] Shall find thee full of labours.[2792] _Horns within. Enter_ LEAR, Knights, _and_ Attendants.[2797] _Lear._ Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready. [_Exit an Attendant._] How now! what art thou?[2798] _Kent._ A man, sir. 10 _Lear._ What dost thou profess? What wouldst thou with us? _Kent._ I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust; to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise and says little; to fear[2799] 15 judgement; to fight when I cannot choose, and to eat no fish. _Lear._ What art thou?[2800] _Kent._ A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king. _Lear._ If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a[2801] 20 king, thou art poor enough. What wouldst thou?[2802] _Kent._ Service. _Lear._ Who wouldst thou serve?[2803] _Kent._ You. _Lear._ Dost thou know me, fellow? 25 _Kent._ No, sir; but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master. _Lear._ What's that?[2804] _Kent._ Authority. _Lear._ What services canst thou do?[2805] 30 _Kent._ I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a[2806] curious tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence. _Lear._ How old art thou? 35 _Kent._ Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing,[2807] nor so old to dote on her for any thing: I have years on my back forty eight. _Lear._ Follow me; thou shalt serve me: if I like thee no[2808][2809] worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner,[2809][2810] 40 ho, dinner! Where's my knave? my fool? Go you, and[2810] call my fool hither. [_Exit an Attendant._[2811] _Enter_ OSWALD.[2812] You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?[2813] _Osw._ So please you,-- [_Exit._[2814] _Lear._ What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll[2815] 45 back. [_Exit a Knight._] Where's my fool, ho? I think[2816] the world's asleep. _Re-enter_ Knight.[2817] How now! where's that mongrel? _Knight._ He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.[2818] _Lear._ Why came not the slave back to me when I 50 called him? _Knight._ Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner,[2819][2820] he would not. _Lear._ He would not![2821] _Knight._ My lord, I know not what the matter is; but,[2819] 55 to my judgement, your highness is not entertained with that ceremonious affection as you were wont; there's a great abatement of kindness appears as well in the general dependants[2822] as in the duke himself also and your daughter. _Lear._ Ha! sayest thou so? 60 _Knight._ I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, if I be[2819] mistaken; for my duty cannot be silent when I think your highness wronged.[2823] _Lear._ Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception:[2824] I have perceived a most faint neglect of late; which I[2825] 65 have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as[2826] a very pretence and purpose of unkindness: I will look[2827] further into't. But where's my fool? I have not seen him[2828] this two days.[2829] _Knight._ Since my young lady's going into France, sir,[2830] 70 the fool hath much pined away. _Lear._ No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you,[2831] and tell my daughter I would speak with her. [_Exit an[2832] Attendant._] Go you, call hither my fool. [_Exit an Attendant._ _Re-enter_ OSWALD.[2833] O, you sir, you, come you hither, sir: who am I, sir?[2834] 75 _Osw._ My lady's father. _Lear._ My lady's father! my lord's knave: you whoreson dog! you slave! you cur! _Osw._ I am none of these, my lord; I beseech your[2835][2836][2837] pardon.[2835][2837] 80 _Lear._ Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal? [_Striking him._[2838] _Osw._ I'll not be struck, my lord.[2839] _Kent._ Nor tripped neither, you base foot-ball player.[2840] [_Tripping up his heels._ _Lear._ I thank thee, fellow; thou servest me, and I'll[2841] love thee.[2841] 85 _Kent._ Come, sir, arise, away! I'll teach you differences:[2842] away, away! If you will measure your lubber's length again,[2843] tarry: but away! go to; have you wisdom? so.[2844] [_Pushes Oswald out._ _Lear._ Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee: there's[2845] earnest of thy service. [_Giving Kent money._[2846] 90 _Enter_ Fool. _Fool._ Let me hire him too: here's my coxcomb.[2847] [_Offering Kent his cap._ _Lear._ How now, my pretty knave! how dost thou? _Fool._ Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb. _Kent._ Why, fool?[2848] _Fool._ Why, for taking one's part that's out of favour:[2849] 95 nay, an thou canst not smile as the wind sits, thou'lt catch[2850] cold shortly: there, take my coxcomb: why, this fellow hath[2851] banished two on's daughters, and done the third a blessing[2852] against his will; if thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb. How now, nuncle! Would I had two coxcombs 100 and two daughters![2853] _Lear._ Why, my boy? _Fool._ If I gave them all my living, I'ld keep my coxcombs[2854] myself. There's mine; beg another of thy daughters. _Lear._ Take heed, sirrah; the whip. 105 _Fool._ Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped[2855] out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and[2856] stink. _Lear._ A pestilent gall to me![2857] _Fool._ Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.[2858] 110 _Lear._ Do.[2859] _Fool._ Mark it, nuncle:[2860] Have more than thou showest,[2861] Speak less than thou knowest,[2861] Lend less than thou owest,[2861] 115 Ride more than thou goest,[2861] Learn more than thou trowest,[2861] Set less than thou throwest;[2861] Leave thy drink and thy whore,[2861] And keep in-a-door,[2861][2862] 120 And thou shalt have more[2861] Than two tens to a score.[2861] _Kent._ This is nothing, fool.[2863] _Fool._ Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer,[2864] you gave me nothing for't. Can you make no use of[2865] 125 nothing, nuncle?[2866] _Lear._ Why, no, boy; nothing can be made out of nothing. _Fool._ [To Kent] Prithee, tell him, so much the rent of[2867] his land comes to: he will not believe a fool. 130 _Lear._ A bitter fool![2868] _Fool._ Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between[2868][2869] a bitter fool and a sweet fool?[2868][2870] _Lear._ No, lad; teach me.[2868] _Fool._ That lord that counsell'd thee[2871][2872][2873] 135 To give away thy land,[2872][2873] Come place him here by me;[2872][2873] Do thou for him stand:[2872][2873][2874] The sweet and bitter fool[2872][2873] Will presently appear;[2872][2873] The one in motley here,[2872][2873] 140 The other found out there.[2872][2873] _Lear._ Dost thou call me fool, boy?[2872][2875] _Fool._ All thy other titles thou hast given away; that[2872] thou wast born with.[2872] 145 _Kent._ This is not altogether fool, my lord.[2872] _Fool._ No, faith, lords and great men will not let me; if[2872] I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't: and[2872][2876][2877] ladies too, they will not let me have all the fool to myself;[2872][2877][2878] they'll be snatching. Give me an egg, nuncle, and I'll give[2872][2879] 150 thee two crowns. _Lear._ What two crowns shall they be? _Fool._ Why, after I have cut the egg in the middle and[2880] eat up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou clovest thy crown i' the middle and gavest away both parts,[2881] 155 thou borest thine ass on thy back o'er the dirt: thou hadst[2882] little wit in thy bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away. If I speak like myself in this, let him be whipped[2883] that first finds it so.[2884] [_Singing_] Fools had ne'er less wit in a year;[2885][2886] 160 For wise men are grown foppish, And know not how their wits to wear,[2887] Their manners are so apish. _Lear._ When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?[2888] _Fool._ I have used it, nuncle, ever since thou madest thy[2889] 165 daughters thy mother: for when thou gavest them the rod[2890] and puttest down thine own breeches, [_Singing_] Then they for sudden joy did weep,[2885][2891][2892] And I for sorrow sung,[2892] That such a king should play bo-peep,[2892] 170 And go the fools among.[2892][2893] Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie.[2894] _Lear._ An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped.[2895] _Fool._ I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are: 175 they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt have me[2896] whipped for lying, and sometimes I am whipped for holding[2897] my peace. I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool:[2898] and yet I would not be thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides and left nothing i' the middle. Here comes[2899] 180 one o' the parings.[2898][2900] _Enter_ GONERIL. _Lear._ How now, daughter! what makes that frontlet on?[2901][2902][2903] Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.[2902][2904] _Fool._ Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning; now thou art an O without[2905] 185 a figure: I am better than thou art now; I am a fool, thou art nothing. [_To Gon._] Yes, forsooth, I will hold my[2906] tongue; so your face bids me, though you say nothing. Mum, mum:[2907] He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,[2908] 190 Weary of all, shall want some. [_Pointing to Lear_] That's a shealed peascod.[2909] _Gon._ Not only, sir, this your all-licensed fool,[2910][2911] But other of your insolent retinue[2910][2912] Do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth[2910] 195 In rank and not to be endured riots. Sir,[2910][2913] I had thought, by making this well known unto you,[2910][2914] To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful,[2910] By what yourself too late have spoke and done,[2910] That you protect this course and put it on[2910][2915] 200 By your allowance; which if you should, the fault[2910][2916][2917] Would not 'scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,[2910][2917][2918] Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,[2910] Might in their working do you that offence[2910] Which else were shame, that then necessity[2910][2919] 205 Will call discreet proceeding.[2910][2920] _Fool._ For, you know, nuncle,[2921] The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,[2922] That it had it head bit off by it young.[2922][2923] So out went the candle, and we were left darkling. 210 _Lear._ Are you our daughter? _Gon._ Come, sir,[2924] I would you would make use of that good wisdom[2925][2926] Whereof I know you are fraught, and put away[2925][2927] These dispositions that of late transform you[2925][2928] 215 From what you rightly are.[2925] _Fool._ May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse? Whoop, Jug! I love thee. _Lear._ Doth any here know me? This is not Lear:[2929][2930] Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?[2931] 220 Either his notion weakens, his discernings[2932] Are lethargied--Ha! waking? 'tis not so.[2933] Who is it that can tell me who I am?[2929][2934] _Fool._ Lear's shadow.[2935] _Lear._ I would learn that; for, by the marks of[2936][2937] 225 sovereignty knowledge and reason, I should be false[2936][2938] persuaded I had daughters.[2936] _Fool._ Which they will make an obedient father.[2936][2939][2940] _Lear._ Your name, fair gentlewoman?[2939] _Gon._ This admiration, sir, is much o' the savour[2941][2942] 230 Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you[2941] To understand my purposes aright:[2941][2943] As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.[2941][2944] Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;[2941][2945] Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd and bold,[2941][2946] 235 That this our court, infected with their manners,[2941] Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust[2941][2947] Make it more like a tavern or a brothel[2941][2948] Than a graced palace. The shame itself doth speak[2941][2949] For instant remedy: be then desired[2941][2950] 240 By her that else will take the thing she begs[2941] A little to disquantity your train,[2941][2951] And the remainder that shall still depend,[2941][2952] To be such men as may besort your age,[2941] Which know themselves and you.[2941][2953] _Lear._ Darkness and devils![2941] 245 Saddle my horses; call my train together.[2941] Degenerate bastard! I'll not trouble thee:[2941] Yet have I left a daughter.[2941] _Gon._ You strike my people, and your disorder'd rabble[2954] Make servants of their betters.[2954] 250 _Enter_ ALBANY.[2955] _Lear._ Woe, that too late repents,--[_To Alb._] O, sir, are you come?[2956] Is it your will? Speak, sir. Prepare my horses.[2957] Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Than the sea-monster![2958] _Alb._ Pray, sir, be patient.[2959][2960] 255 _Lear._ [_To Gon._] Detested kite! thou liest.[2959][2961][2962] My train are men of choice and rarest parts,[2962] That all particulars of duty know, And in the most exact regard support The worships of their name. O most small fault,[2963] 260 How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show! That, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature[2964] From the fix'd place, drew from my heart all love And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear![2965] Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in [_Striking his head._[2966] 265 And thy dear judgement out! Go, go, my people.[2967] _Alb._ My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant[2968] Of what hath moved you.[2969] _Lear._ It may be so, my lord.[2970] Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear![2970][2971] Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend[2970] 270 To make this creature fruitful:[2970] Into her womb convey sterility: Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring[2972] A babe to honour her! If she must teem, 275 Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her.[2973] Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth; With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;[2974] Turn all her mother's pains and benefits[2975] 280 To laughter and contempt; that she may feel[2976] How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! Away, away! [_Exit._[2977] _Alb._ Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?[2978] _Gon._ Never afflict yourself to know the cause,[2979] 285 But let his disposition have that scope That dotage gives it. _Re-enter_ LEAR.[2980] _Lear._ What, fifty of my followers at a clap! Within a fortnight! _Alb._ What's the matter, sir?[2981] _Lear._ I'll tell thee. [_To Gon._] Life and death! I am ashamed[2982] 290 That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus; That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,[2983] Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee![2984][2985] The untented woundings of a father's curse[2985] Pierce every sense about thee! Old fond eyes,[2986] 295 Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out[2987] And cast you with the waters that you lose,[2988] To temper clay. Yea, is it come to this?[2989] Let it be so: yet have I left a daughter,[2990] Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable:[2991] 300 When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find[2992] That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think I have cast off for ever: thou shalt, I warrant thee. [_Exeunt Lear, Kent, and Attendants._[2993] _Gon._ Do you mark that, my lord?[2994] 305 _Alb._ I cannot be so partial, Goneril, To the great love I bear you,--[2995][2996] _Gon._ Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho![2995][2997][2998] [_To the Fool_] You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.[2995][2997][2999] _Fool_. Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry; take the fool[3000][3001] 310 with thee.[3000][3002] A fox, when one has caught her,[3002] And such a daughter, Should sure to the slaughter, If my cap would buy a halter:[3003] 315 So the fool follows after. [_Exit._[3004] _Gon_. This man hath had good counsel: a hundred knights![3005][3006] 'Tis politic and safe to let him keep[3005][3007] At point a hundred knights: yes, that on every dream,[3008] Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike, 320 He may enguard his dotage with their powers And hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say![3009] _Alb._ Well, you may fear too far. _Gon._ Safer than trust too far:[3010] Let me still take away the harms I fear, Not fear still to be taken: I know his heart.[3011] 325 What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister: If she sustain him and his hundred knights,[3012] When I have show'd the unfitness,-- _Re-enter_ OSWALD.[3013] How now, Oswald![3014] What, have you writ that letter to my sister?[3014][3015] _Osw._ Yes, madam.[3016] 330 _Gon._ Take you some company, and away to horse:[3017] Inform her full of my particular fear,[3018] And thereto add such reasons of your own As may compact it more. Get you gone;[3019] And hasten your return. [_Exit Oswald._] No, no, my lord,[3020] 335 This milky gentleness and course of yours[3021] Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,[3022] You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom[3023] Than praised for harmful mildness.[3024] _Alb._ How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell:[3025] 340 Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.[3025][3026] _Gon._ Nay, then--[3027] _Alb._ Well, well; the event. [_Exeunt._[3028] SCENE V. _Court before the same._ _Enter_ LEAR, KENT, _and_ Fool.[3029] _Lear._ Go you before to Gloucester with these letters.[3030] Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you know than comes from her demand out of the letter. If your diligence be not speedy, I shall be there afore you.[3031] _Kent._ I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered 5 your letter. [_Exit._ _Fool._ If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in[3032] danger of kibes? _Lear._ Ay, boy. _Fool._ Then, I prithee, be merry; thy wit shall ne'er go[3033] 10 slip-shod. _Lear._ Ha, ha, ha! _Fool._ Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly; for though she's as like this as a crab's like an apple, yet I[3034] can tell what I can tell.[3035] 15 _Lear._ Why, what canst thou tell, boy?[3036] _Fool._ She will taste as like this as a crab does to a[3037] crab. Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i' the middle[3038] on's face?[3039] _Lear._ No. 20 _Fool._ Why, to keep one's eyes of either side's nose,[3040] that what a man cannot smell out he may spy into.[3041] _Lear._ I did her wrong--[3042] _Fool._ Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?[3043] _Lear._ No. 25 _Fool._ Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a house. _Lear._ Why? _Fool._ Why, to put's head in; not to give it away to his[3044] daughters, and leave his horns without a case.[3045] 30 _Lear._ I will forget my nature.--So kind a father!--Be my horses ready? _Fool._ Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why[3046] the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.[3047] _Lear._ Because they are not eight?[3048] 35 _Fool._ Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.[3049] _Lear._ To take 't again perforce! Monster ingratitude![3050] _Fool._ If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten[3051] for being old before thy time. _Lear._ How's that? 40 _Fool._ Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst[3052] been wise. _Lear._ O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven![3053][3054] Keep me in temper: I would not be mad![3053] _Enter_ Gentleman.[3055] How now! are the horses ready?[3056] 45 _Gent._ Ready, my lord.[3057] _Lear._ Come, boy.[3058] _Fool._ She that's a maid now and laughs at my departure[3059] Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter.[3060] [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [2424] ACT I. SCENE I.] Actus Primus. Scæna Prima. Ff. See note (I). King Lear's palace.] A Palace. Rowe. The King's Palace. Theobald. A State-room in King Lear's Palace. Capell. Edmund.] F₄. Edmond. F₁ F₂ F₃. Bastard. Qq. [2425] Kent. _I ... coming._] Spurious, according to Seymour. [2426] _I thought ... moiety._] Verse, S. Walker conj., ending the lines _Duke ... always ... division ... dukes ... pois'd ... choice ... moiety._ [2427] _so_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄. [2428] _of the ... of the_] _O' th' ... o' th'_ S. Walker conj. _kingdom_] F₄. _kingdome_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _kingdomes_ Qq. [2429] _equalities_] Q₁ Q₂. _qualities_ Ff. _equalties_ Q₃. _weighed_] _pois'd_ So quoted by S. Walker. [2430] _to it_] Qq. _too't_ F₁ F₂. _to't_ F₃ F₄. [2431] _sir, a son_] _sir a sonne_ Q₁ Q₂. _a sonne, sir_ F₁ F₂. _a sonne_ Q₃. _a son, sir_ F₃ F₄. _year_] _yeares_ Q₃. [2432] _this, ... account:_] _this, ... account;_ Theobald. _this, ... account,_ Qq. _this; ... account,_ Ff. [2433] _something_] _somewhat_ F₃ F₄. _into_] Q₁ Q₂. _to_ Ff. _in_ Q₃. [2434] _and the_] _and he_ Q₃. [2435] _noble gentleman_] Q₁ Q₂ F₁. _nobleman_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _noble gentlemen_ Q₃. [2436] Edm.] Ff. Bast. Qq. (and throughout). [2437] _My ... friend._] Prose in Q₁ Q₂. Two lines, the first ending _Kent,_ in Ff. See note (II). [2438] _deserving_] _your deserving_ Pope. [2439] _again._] _again._ [Trumpets sound, within. Theobald. [2440] Sennet.] Ff. Sound a Sennet, Q₁ Q₂. Sunday a Cornet, Q₃. Enter one bearing a coronet, King ... Attendants.] Enter King ... Attendants. Ff. Enter one bearing a Coronet, then Lear, then the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall, next Gonorill, Regan, Cordelia, with followers. Qq. [2441] SCENE II. Pope. _the lords_] Ff. _my lords_ Qq. _Gloucester_] om. Pope. [2442] _my liege_] Q₁ Q₃. _my leige_ Q₂. _my Lord_ Ff. [Exeunt....] Capell. Exit. Ff. om. Qq. [2443] _shall_] F₃ F₄. _shal_ F₁ F₂. _will_ Qq. _darker_] _dark_ Q₃. _purpose_] Ff. _purposes_ Qq. [2444] _Give ... there._] F₁ F₂. _The map there;_ Qq. _Give me the map here._ F₃ F₄. _Know_] Qq. _Know, that_ Ff. [2445] _In_] _Into_ F₄. _our_] om. Q₃. _fast_] Ff. _first_ Qq. om. Pope. See note (III). [2446] _from our age_] Ff. _of our state_ Qq. [2447] _Conferring_] Ff. _Confirming_ Qq. _strengths,_] Ff. _yeares_, Qq. [2448] _while we ... now._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2449] _loving son_] _lov'd_ Seymour conj. [2450] _daughters'_] Capell. _daughters_ F₁ F₂. _daughter's_ F₃ F₄. [2451] _now_] om. Hanmer. _The princes_] Ff. _The two great princes_ Qq. om. Seymour conj. [2452] _youngest_] Q₁ Q₂ _yongest_ F₁ Q₃. _yonger_ F₂. _younger_ F₃ F₄. [2453] _Tell me, my_] _Tell my_ F₃ F₄. _Tell me,_ Pope. [2454] _Since ... state,_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2455] _cares_] _and cares_ Hanmer. [2456] _Where ... challenge._] Ff. _Where merit doth most challenge it:_ Qq, ending the line at _it_. Capell, reading with Qq, divides the lines as Ff. [2457] _Our ... more_] As one line, S. Walker conj. [2458] _Sir,_] Put in a line by itself, Johnson. Erased in Collier MS. _Sir, I love_] _Sir, I Do love_ Steevens, ending line 52 at _I_. _Sir, I ... matter,_] _I love you sir,_ Pope. _Sir, I do love you Far more ... matter: love you_ Capell. _I love_] Ff. _I do love_ Qq. _words_] Qq. _word_ Ff. _wield_] Q₁ Q₃ F₄. _weild_ Q₂ F₁ F₂ F₃. _yield_ Capell conj. [2459] _and_] Ff. _or_ Qq. [2460] _much as_] Ff. _much a_ Qq. _e'er_] _e're_ F₃ F₄. _ere_ Q₁ Q₂ F₁ F₂. _eare_ Q₃. _found_] Ff. _friend_ Qq. [2461] _manner of so_] _manner. So_ Becket conj. [2462] [Aside] Pope. om. Qq Ff. _do?_] Pope. _do,_ Qq. _speake?_ F₁ F₂. _speak?_ F₃ F₄. [2463] _shadowy_] Ff. _shady_ Qq. [2464] _and with ... rivers_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2465] _champains_] F₁. _champions_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2466] _Albany's_] F₄. _Albanies_ Q₁ F₁ F₂. _Albaines_ Q₂. _Albaenids_ Q₃. _Albanie's_ F₃. _issue_] Qq. _issues_ Ff. [2467] _What says_] om. Seymour conj. [2468] _wife to_] Q₁ Q₂. _wife of_ Ff Q₃. _Cornwall? Speak._] Pope. _Cornwall, speake._ Q₁ Q₃. _Cornwell, speake?_ Q₂. _Cornwall?_ Ff (omitting _Speak_). [2469] _I am_] Ff. _Sir I am_ Qq. _I'm_ Pope. _Sir, I'm_ Dyce, ed. 2, putting _Sir_ in a separate line. _that self metal_] _that selfe-mettle_ F₁ F₂. _that self-metal_ F₃ F₄. _the selfe-same mettall_ Q₁. _the selfe same mettall_ Q₂. _the selfe-same mettell_ Q₃. _as my sister_] Ff. _that my sister is_ Qq. [2470] _me_] _you_ Mason conj. _worth. In ... heart_] _worth. In ... heart,_ Ff. _worth in ... heart,_ Qq. _worth, in ... heart._ Theobald (Bishop conj.) _worth, in ... heart_ Tyrwhitt conj. [2471] _I find ... joys,_] Three lines in Ff. Two, the first ending _short_, in Qq. [2472] _comes too short_] Ff. _came short_ Qq. _short:_] Theobald. _short,_ Qq Ff. _that_] _in that_ Keightley. [2473] _precious square_] _precious spirit_ Hanmer. _spacious sphere_ Singer (ed. 2). _precious sphere_ Collier (Collier MS.) _spacious square_ Keightley (Grant White conj. withdrawn). _sense_] _sense'_ Smith apud Grey conj. _possesses_] Qq. _professes_ Ff. _precious treasure_ Bailey conj. [2474] _And ... love._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [2475] _alone_] _all one_ Q₃. [2476] [Aside] Pope. om Qq Ff. [2477] _Then ... tongue._] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _sure,_ in Qq. [2478] _Cordelia_] _Cord._ Q₂. [2479] _love's_] Q₁ Ff Q₃. _loves_ Q₂. [2480] _love's ... tongue._] _love, ... tongue, outvalues theirs._ Seymour conj. [2481] _ponderous_] Ff. _richer_ Qq. _plenteous_ Collier MS. _precious_ Grant White conj. _my tongue_] _their tongue_ Warburton conj. [2482] _conferr'd_] Ff. _confirm'd_ Qq. [2483] See note (IV). [2484] _Now_] Ff. _but now_ Qq. [2485] _the last, not_] Qq. _our last and_ Ff. _our last, not_ Pope. _least, ... love_] _least; ... love,_ Ff. _least in our deere love,_ Qq. _least; in whose young love_ Hanmer. [2486] _interess'd_] Malone. _interest_ Ff. _int'ress'd_ Theobald. _can you say_] _say you_ Pope. _draw_] Ff. _win_ Qq. [2487] _opulent_] _opilent_ F₁. [2488] Lear. _Nothing!_ Cor. _Nothing._] Omitted in Qq. Lear. _How!_ Cor. _Nothing._ Capell. [2489] _Nothing will come_] Ff. _How, nothing can come_ Qq. [2490] _Unhappy ... less_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2491] _heave_] _have_ Q₃. [2492] _nor more_] Qq. _no more_ Ff. [2493] _How, how, Cordelia!_] _Go too, go too,_ Q₁ Q₃. _Goe to, goe to,_ Q₂. _mend_] _mend me_ Capell, reading with Qq. [2494] _it_] Qq. _you_ Ff. [2495] _begot_] _bgot_ Q₁ (Cap.) [2496] _I ... fit,_] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff. [2497] _are_] _is_ Keightley. [2498] _Why ... all?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [2499] _Haply_] Q₁ Q₃. _Happely_ Q₂. _Happily_ Ff. [2500] _Haply ... never_] Arranged as in Ff. Three lines, ending _hand ... him, ... never,_ in Qq. [2501] _marry_] _Matry_ Q₁ (Cap.) _Mary_ Q₂. [2502] _marry ... all._] Arranged as in Pope. One line in Qq. [2503] _To ... all._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [2504] _thy heart with this?_] Ff. _this with thy heart!_ Qq (tis Q₃). _Ay, good my_] _I good my_ Q₁ Q₂. _I goe my_ Q₃. _I my good_ Ff. [2505] _Let_] Ff. _Well let_ Qq. _thy truth_] _the truth_ F₃ F₄. [2506] _mysteries_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _mistresse_ Qq. _miseries_ F₁. _Hecate_] F₃ F₄. _Heccat_ Qq F₁. _Hecat_ F₂. _night_] Ff. _might_ Qq. [2507] _operation_] Qq F₁. _operations_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2508] _this_] _this tyme_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). _ever. The_] Ff. _ever, the_ Qq. _barbarous_] _barbarious_ Q₃. [2509] _Or ... appetite,_] Arranged as in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _generation,_ in Qq. [2510] _shall to my bosom Be_] Ff. _Shall be_ Q₁ Q₃. _Shall bee_ Q₂. [2511] _liege,--_] _liege--_ Rowe. _liege._ Qq Ff. [2512] _Peace ... wrath._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. _Peace, Kent!... between_] _Peace,--come not 'tween_ Seymour conj. [2513] _and_] om. Pope. [To Cor. Rowe. To Kent. Heath conj. [2514] _Burgundy._] _Burgundy--_ Rowe. _Burgundy,_ Qq Ff. [Exit an Att. Capell. Exit Edmund. Capell conj. MS. [2515] _daughters' dowers_] Warburton. _daughters dowres_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _daughters dower_ Qq. _daughters, dowres_ F₂. _this_] Qq. _the_ Ff. [2516] _with_] Ff. _in_ Qq. [2517] _Pre-eminence_] Malone. _Preheminence_ Qq Ff. [2518] _Ourself_] _We_ Seymour conj. [2519] _turns_] _turnes_ Qq. _turne_ F₁ F₂. _turn_ F₃ F₄. _we still_] Qq. _we shall_ Ff. om. Pope. _we_ Capell. [2520] _The name ... rest,_] As in Qq. The first line ends _sway,_ in Ff. Three lines, ending _king; ... sway, ... rest,_ in Steevens (1793). [2521] _name, and ... king;_] _name; but ... king,_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _and all_] om. Capell, reading _The name ... sway,_ as one line. _additions_] Qq. _addition_ Ff. [2522] _of the rest_] om. Pope. _office_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _of th' hest_ Warburton. _and the rest_ Capell. _interest_ Heath conj. _all the rest_ Jennens conj. [offers it. (a stage direction) Anon. conj. [2523] _betwixt_] Qq. _betweene_ F₁ F₂. _between_ F₃ F₄. [Giving the crown. Pope. [in Action of preventing him. Capell. [2524] _my king_] _a king_ F₄. [2525] _follow'd_] Ff. _followed_ Qq. [2526] _As my great_] Qq F₁ _As my_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _And as my_ Rowe. _prayers,--_] _prayers--_ Rowe. _praiers._ Q₁ Q₃ F₁ F₂. _prayers._ Q₂ F₃ F₄. [2527] _Let it ... hollowness_] As in Ff (except line 146). The lines end _rather, ... heart, ... mad ... duty ... bowes, folly, ... consideration ... life, ... least, ... sound ... hollownesse_ in Qq. [2528] _mad_] _man_ Q₂. _wouldst_] F₄. _wouldest_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _wilt_ Qq. [2529] _When ... bound,_] One line in Johnson. Two in Ff. _honour's_] Ff. _honours_ Qq. _honour Is_ Pope. [2530] _stoops to folly_] Qq. _falls to folly_ Ff. _to folly falls_ Pope, ending the lines _honour ... falls_. _folly._] Johnson, _folly;_ Rowe. _folly,_ Qq Ff. _Reverse thy doom_] Qq. _reserve thy state_ Ff. [2531] _And ... consideration_] _with better judgment_ Pope, reading _Reserve ... check_ as one line. [2532] _answer ... judgement_] _with my life I answer_ Pope. [2533] _sound Reverbs_] Qq. _sounds Reverbe_ Ff. [2534] _Kent,_] om. Seymour conj. _thy life_] _my life_ F₃ F₄. [2535] _as a_] _as_ F₁ [2536] _thy_] Qq. _thine_ Ff. _enemies_] _foes_ Pope. _nor_] Qq. _nere_ F₁ F₂. _ne're_ F₃. _ne'er_ F₄. [2537] _the motive_] Qq. _motive_ Ff. [2538] _Now ... vain._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [2539] _Apollo,--_] _Apollo--_ Q₁ Q₃. _Appollo,_ Q₂. _Apollo,_ F₁ _Apollo._ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2540] _swear'st_] _swearest_ Q₂ Q₃. _O, vassal! miscreant!_] _O vassal! miscreant._ Ff. _Vassall, recreant._ Qq. _O, vassal! recreant!_ Collier. [Laying....] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. In Action of drawing his Sword. Capell. [2541] Alb. Corn. _Dear sir, forbear._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2542] _Do_] Qq. om. Ff. Put in a separate line first by Steevens (1793). [2543] _Kill ... evil._] Divided as in Ff. The lines end _physition, ... disease, ... clamour ... evill_ in Qq. [2544] _the fee_] Qq. _thy fee_ Ff. [2545] _Upon the_] _Upon thy_ Capell. _thy doom_] _thy doome_ Qq. _thy gift_ Ff (_guift_ F₁). _the gift_ Rowe (ed. 2). [2546] _Hear ... me!_] Arranged as by Capell. One line in Qq Ff. [2547] _recreant_] Ff. om. Qq. [2548] _On thy ... me!_] Omitted by Pope. _thy_] Qq. _thine_ Ff. [2549] _Since_] Qq. _That_ Ff. _vow_] Qq. _vowes_ Ff. [2550] _strain'd_] Ff. _straied_ Qq. [2551] _between_] Q₃. _betweene_ Q₁ Q₂. _betwixt_ Ff. _sentence_] _sentences_ F₁. [2552] _Our ... made_] _Nor ... make_ Heath conj. _Or ... make_ Johnson conj. _Make we our potency_ Becket conj. _made_] Q₂ Ff. _make_ Q₁ Q₃. [2553] _Five_] Ff. _Foure_ Qq. [2554] _diseases_] Q₁ Q₂. _disasters_ Ff. _defeases_ Q₃. [2555] _sixth_] F₄. _sixt_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _fift_ Qq. [2556] _on_] Q₁ Q₂ F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄. _one_ Q₃. _tenth_] _seventh_ Collier (Collier MS.) [2557] _The ... Away!_] _That ... Away--begone!_ Seymour conj., ending the line _begone!_ _death. Away! By_] _death: away. By_ Pope, _death, away, By_ Q₁ Q₃ (ending the line _away_). _death, away, by_ Q₂ (ending the line _Jupiter_). _death, away. By_ Ff. [2558] _Fare_] Ff. _Why fare_ Qq. _sith thus_] Ff. _since thus_ Q₂. _since_ Q₁ Q₃. [2559] _Freedom_] Ff. _Friendship_ Qq. [2560] [To Cordelia] Hanmer. om. Qq Ff. _dear shelter_] Ff. _protection_ Qq. _thee, maid_] F₄. _thee maid_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _the maid_ Q₁ Q₃. _the maide_ Q₂. [2561] _justly_] Ff. _rightly_ Qq. _think'st_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _thinkes_ Q₁. _thinks_ Q₂ Q₃ F₄. _hast_] Q₂ Ff. _hath_ Q₁ Q₃. _rightly_] Ff. _justly_ Qq. [2562] [To Regan....] To Gon. and Regan. Hanmer. om. Qq Ff. _your large speeches_] _you, large speechers,_ Capell. [2563] _course_] _corse_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LX. 402). [2564] Flourish.] F₁. om. Qq F₂ F₃ F₄. Re-enter....] Capell. Enter France and Burgundy with Glocester. Qq (Burgundie Q₂. Gloster Q₂). Enter Gloster with France, and Burgundy, Attendants. Ff. [2565] SCENE III. Pope. Glou.] Glo. Q₁ Q₃. Glost. Q₂. Cor. Ff. [2566] _My ... love?_] Arranged as in Ff. Four lines, ending _you, ... daughter, ... present ... love?_ in Qq. [2567] _My_] _They are welcome both: my_ Seymour conj. _lord_] _L._ Q₂. [2568] _towards_] Qq. _toward_ Ff. _this_] Ff. _a_ Qq. [2569] _Hath_] _Have_ Pope. _in the least_] _at least_ Pope. _is the least_ Long MS. [2570] _Most_] Ff. om. Qq. [2571] _royal ... less._] Divided as in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _what,_ in Qq. [2572] _what_] Qq F₃ F₄. _hath_ F₁ F₂. _offer'd_] Ff. _offered_ Qq. [2573] _less._] F₄. _lesse?_ Qq F₁ F₂. _less?_ F₃. [2574] _Right ... pieced,_] Arranged as in Ff. Four lines, ending _us, ... fallen; ... little ... peec'st,_ in Qq. [2575] _did hold_] Qq F₁. _held_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2576] _price_] _prise_ Q₂. _fall'n_] F₃ F₄. _fallen_ Qq F₁ F₂. [2577] _little seeming_] _little, seeming,_ Capell. _little, seeming_ Steevens (1778). _little-seeming_ S. Walker conj. [2578] _with our_] _without_ Q₃. _pieced_] _peec'st_ Qq. _piec'd_ Ff. _pierc'd_ Pope. [2579] _more_] Ff. _else_ Qq. [2580] _Will_] Ff. _Sir, will_ Q₁ Q₃. _Sir will_ Q₂. [2581] _Dower'd_] _Dow'rd_ F₁. _Dowr'd_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Couered_ Q₁ Q₂. _Covered_ Q₃. [2582] _her?_] Rowe. _her._ Qq Ff. [2583] _Pardon ... conditions._] Divided as in Ff. The first line ends at _up_ in Qq. [2584] _me_] om. Pope. [2585] _makes not up on_] _mates not upon_ Jackson conj. _up on_] Qq. _up in_ Ff. _upon_ Mason conj. [2586] [To France] Pope. om. Qq Ff. [2587] _worthier_] _worthy_ Pope. [2588] _This ... degree_] Arranged as in Ff. Six lines, ending _now ... praise, ... deerest, ... thing ... favour, ... degree,_ in Qq. [2589] _she, that_] Q₂. _she that_ Q₁ Q₃. _she whom_ F₁. _she who_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _best_] Qq F₂ F₃ F₄. om. F₁. _blest_ Collier (Collier MS.) [2590] _The ... praise_] _Your praise's argument_ Pope. [2591] _Most best, most_] Qq. _The best, the_ Ff. _Most ... dearest_] _Dearest and best_ Pope. [2592] _her offence_] _th' offence_ Pope. [2593] _That monsters it_] _As monstrous is_ Rowe. _As monsters it_ Hanmer. _That masters it_ Becket conj. _That man starts at_ Jackson conj., reading the rest with Johnson conj. _or_] _ere_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _your_] Ff. _you_ Qq. _fore-vouchd_] _fore-voucht_ Ff. _for voucht_ Qq. _affection_] Ff. _affections_ Qq. [2594] _or ... Falln_] _or your fore-vouchd affection Could not fall_ Rowe. _or you for vouch'd affection Fall_ Johnson conj. [2595] _Falln_] _Falne_ Q₁ Q₂. _Falen_ Q₃. _Fall_ Ff. _Could not fall_ Rowe. _Falls_ Johnson conj. See note (VI). [2596] _reason without miracle Could_] _reason without A miracle should_ Hanmer. _without miracle, Reason could_ Seymour conj. [2597] _Could_] Qq. _Should_ Ff. _plant_] Q₂ Ff. _plaint_ Q₁ Q₃. _majesty,--_] A full stop in F₁; comma in the rest. [2598] _majesty,--If for_] _majesty If (for_ Pope. _majesty, (if so_ Hanmer, ending the lines _so ... speak_. [2599] _If for_] _Seeing_ Capell conj. [2600] _well_] Qq. _will_ Ff. [2601] _make known_] Ff. _may know_ Qq. _May know_ [To France. Jennens. [2602] _murder, or_] Q₁. _murder or_ Q₂. _murther, or_ Ff Q₃. _nor other_ Singer, ed. 2 (Collier MS.), _umber, or_ S. Walker conj. _misdeed or_ Keightley. _no slur, or_ Cartwright conj. _burden, or_ Bailey conj. [2603] _unchaste_] Ff. _uncleane_ Qq. _dishonourd_] _dishonord_ Q₂. _dishonored_ F₂. _dishonoured_ The rest. _step_] _stoop_ Collier (Collier MS.) [2604] _grace and_] _graces_ Anon. conj. [2605] _for want_] _the want_ Hanmer. _I am_] _Im_ Pope. _richer_] Ff. _rich_ Qq. [2606] _still-soliciting_] Hyphen inserted by Theobald. [2607] _As_] Qq. _That_ Ff. _I have not_] _I've not_ Pope. [2608] _Better_] Ff. _Go to, goe to, better_ Q₁. _Goe to, goe to, better_ Q₂. _Go to, go to, better_ Q₃. [2609] _Better ... better._] Divided as by Pope. The first line ends _borne_, in Qq, at _hadst_, in Ff. Capell, reading with Ff, divides as Qq. [2610] _to have_] Qq. _t have_ F₁. _t' have_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _have_ Pope. [2611] _but this_] Ff. _no more but this_ Qq. [2612] _Which_] Ff. _That_ Qq. [2613] _Which ... stand_] Arranged as in Ff. Three lines, ending _do, ... lady?... stands,_ in Qq. [2614] _to do_] om. Seymour conj. [2615] _Love's_] Ff. _Love is_ Qq. [2616] _regards that stand_] Pope. _respects that stands_ Qq. _regards, that stands_ Ff. _regards, and stands_ Capell. [2617] _the_] Qq. _th'_ Ff.] _point. Will_] Steevens. _point, will_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _point wil_ Q₂. _point. Say will_ Pope. [2618] _a dowry_] Ff. _and dower_ Q₁ Q₃. _and dowre_ Q₂. [2619] _Royal ... Burgundy._] Divided as in Ff. Three lines, ending _portion ... lake ... Burgundy,_ in Q₁ Q₃. Three lines, ending _portion ... Cordelia ... Burgundie,_ in Q₂. [2620] _Lear_] Q₁ Q₃. _Leir_ Q₂. _King_ Ff. [2621] _I have sworn; I am firm._] Ff (substantially). _I have sworne._ Qq. _I've sworn._ Pope. _I've sworn; I'm firm._ Anon. conj. [2622] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. [2623] _Peace ... wife._] Arranged as in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _respects,_ in Qq. [2624] _Burgundy_] _Burguny_ F₂. [2625] _respects of fortune_] _respects Of fortune_ Qq. _respect and fortunes_ Ff. [2626] _that_] _thou_ Hanmer. [2627] _seize_] _cease_ Q₂. [2628] _Be it_] _Be't_ Pope. [2629] _cold'st_] _couldst_ Q₂. _cold_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). [2630] _my chance_] Ff. _thy chance_ Qq. _the chance_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). [2631] _of_] Ff. _in_ Qq. [2632] _Can_] Ff. _Shall_ Qq. [2633] _unkind_] _unkinn'd_ Staunton conj. [2634] _unkind: Thou_] _unkinde, Thou_ Ff. _unkinde Thou_ Qq. [2635] _for we ... see_] Divided as in Ff. One line in Qq. [2636] [To Cor. Anon. conj. [2637] _Without ... Burgundy._] Divided as in Ff. One line in Qq. [2638] _our love_] _without our love_ Johnson conj. [2639] [Flourish.] Ff. om. Qq. Exeunt....] Exit Lear and Burgundy. Qq. Exeunt. Ff. Exeunt Lear, Burgundy, Cornwal, Albany, Gloster, and Attendants. Capell. [2640] SCENE IV. Pope. _sisters._] _sisters?_ Q₂. [2641] _The jewels_] _Ye jewels_ Rowe (ed. 2). [2642] _The ... father:_] Arranged as in Ff. Four lines, ending _father, ... are, ... faults ... father,_ in Qq. [2643] _you what_] _what_ Rowe (ed. 2). [2644] _Use_] Qq. _Love_ Ff. [2645] _professed_] _professing_ Pope. [2646] _prefer_] _perfer_ F₂. [2647] Reg.... Gon.] Ff. Gonorill ... Regan. Qq. _duties_] Qq. _dutie_ F₁. _duty_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2648] _Let ... scanted,_] Arranged as in Ff. Three lines, ending _lord, ... almes, ... scanted,_ in Qq. [2649] _At_] _As_ Capell. [2650] _worth ... wanted_] Ff. _worth the worth that you have wanted_ Qq. _worthy to want that you have wanted_ Hanmer. _worth the want that you have vaunted_ Warburton. _worth the want that you have wasted_ Heath conj. _worth to want the worth that you have wanted_ Capell. _worth to want that you have wanted_ Eccles conj. _worth the wit that you have wanted_ Jackson conj. _worthy want that worth have wanted_ Badham conj. [2651] _plaited_] Pope (ed. 2). _pleated_ Q₁ Q₂. _pleeted_ Q₃. _plighted_ Ff. _pleached_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _plated_ Malone conj. (withdrawn). [2652] _cover_] Steevens. _covers_ Qq. Ff. _cover'd_ Hanmer, reading the rest of the line as Ff. _covert_ Rann (Mason conj.), reading the rest as Ff. _cover faults, at_] _cover-faults at_ Singer (ed. 2), reading the rest as Ff. _shame them derides_] Qq. _with shame derides_ Ff. _their shame derides_ Anon. conj. [2653] _my_] Ff. om. Qq. [Exeunt....] F₃ F₄. Exit.... Qq F₁ F₂. [2654] SCENE V. Pope. [2655] _Sister ... to-night._] Prose in Capell. Three lines, ending _say, ... both ... to night,_ in Qq Ff. [2656] _a little I have_] Qq. _little I have_ Ff. _little I've_ Pope. _most_] om. Capell conj. [2657] _hence_] _go hence_ Rowe. [2658] _most_] om. Pope, reading as verse. [2659] _is; the_] _is the_ Q₂. [2660] _hath not been_] Qq. _hath beene_ Ff. [2661] _too_] Qq F₁. _too too_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _gross'y_] _grossely_ Ff. _grosse_ Qq. [2662] _to receive from his age_] Qq. _from his age, to receive_ Ff. [2663] _imperfections_] Ff. _imperfection_ Qq. _ingrafted_] Qq. _ingraffed_ F₁ F₂. _engraffed_ F₃ F₄. [2664] _the_] Ff. om. Qq. [2665] _starts_] Q₂ Ff. _stars_ Q₁ Q₃. [2666] _There is_] _Then his_ Anon. conj. _compliment_] _complement_ Qq Ff. _the compliment_ Anon. conj. [2667] _France_] _Burgundy_ Hanmer. _Pray you_] Ff. _Pray_ Qq. _let's hit_] _lets hit_ Qq. _let us sit_ Ff. _let us hit_ Theobald. [2668] _authority with_] _authority, with_ Hanmer. _dispositions_] Qq. _disposition_ Ff. [2669] _on't_] Qq. _of it_ Ff. [2670] SCENE II.] om. Rowe. SCENE VI. Pope. The whole scene is transferred to the beginning of ACT II. by Eccles. The ... castle.] A Castle belonging to the Earl of Glo'ster. Pope. A Hall in the Earl of Gloster's Castle. Capell. Enter ... letter.] Theobald. Enter Bastard solus. Qq. Enter Bastard. Ff. [2671] _Thou ... news?_] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2672] _in_] _to_ Hanmer. _plague_] _plage_ Warburton. _place_ Simpson conj. [2673] _curiosity_] _nicety_ Pope. _curtesie_ Theobald (Thirlby conj.) [2674] _Why ... base?_] _and why bastard? base?_ Hanmer. [2675] _dimensions_] Ff. _dementions_ Qq. [2676] _As ... base?_] Arranged as in Ff. Jennens, reading as Qq, ends the lines _issue?... bastardy?_ [2677] _With ... base?_] _With Base? With basenes Bastardie? Base, Base?_ F₁ and substantially F₂ F₃ F₄. _with base, base bastardy?_ Qq (_bastardie?_ Q₂). [2678] _dull, stale_] Ff. _stale dull_ Qq. _tired_] _tyred_ Ff. _lied_ Q₁ Q₃. _lyed_ Q₂. [2679] _the creating_] _th' creating_ Ff. _the creating of_ Qq. _creating_ Pope. [2680] _'tween asleep_] _atween sleep_ Dodd conj. _asleep_] _a-sleep_ Pope. _a sleepe_ Q₂ F₁ F₂ _a sleep_ F₃ F₄ _sleepe_ Q₁. _sleep_ Q₃. _then,_] Ff _the_ Qq _then, good brother,_ Hanmer. [2681] _fine word, 'legitimate!'_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2682] _top the_] Capell. _tooth'_ Qq. _to' th'_ F₁ F₂. _to th'_ F₃ F₄. _be th'_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _toe th'_ Hanmer. _out th'_ or _rout th'_ Jennens conj. _foe the_ Mason conj. _legitimate._] _legitimate:_ Qq Ff. _legitimate--_ Rowe, reading _to th'_ with F₃ F₄. [2683] SCENE VII. Pope. [2684] _Kent ... gad!_] Put in the margin by Eccles. [2685] _subscribed_] _subscrib'd_ Q₁ Q₃. _subscribd_ Q₂. _Perscrib'd_ Ff. [2686] _this done_] Q₁ F₁ Q₃. _this donne_ Q₂. _this gone_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _is gone_ Pope. [2687] [Putting....] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [2688] _Why_] _Whe_ F₂. [2689] _needed_] Ff. _needs_ Q₁ Q₃. _needes_ Q₂. _terrible_] _terribe_ Q₂. [2690] _hide_] _hid_ Q₃. [2691] Edm.] Bast. Q₁ Ff Q₃. Ba. Q₂. (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). om. Q₂ (Mus. imp.) [2692] _and_] Ff. om. Qq. [2693] _o'er-looking_] _ore-looking_ Ff. _liking_ Qq. _overlooking_ Warburton. [2694] _I ... blame._] Prose in Qq Three lines ending _it: ... them ... blame,_ in Ff. [2695] _to blame_] Q₃ F₃ F₄. _too blame_ Q₁ Q₂ F₁ F₂. [2696] _essay or taste_] _assay or test_ Johnson conj. [2697] [Reads] Ff. A Letter. Qq. _and reverence_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. _in reverence_ Hanmer. _age_] _ages_ Pope (ed. 2). [2698] _to the best_] _to best_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2699] _who_] _which_ Rowe. [2700] _Sleep_] F₃ F₄. _sleepe_ F₁ F₂. _slept_ Qq.] _waked_] _wakt_ Qq. _wake_ Ff. [2701] _brain_] _a brain_ Rowe. [2702] _this to you_] Qq F₃ F₄. _you to this_ F₁ F₂. [2703] _were his ... were not._] _was his ... is not._ Seymour conj. [2704] _his ... respect of_] _his but in respect, of_ Q₂. [2705] _It is his._] Ff. _It is his?_ Q₂. _Is it his?_ Q₁ Q₃. [2706] _but_] Qq F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄. [2707] _Hath_] Qq. _Has_ Ff. _heretofore_] Qq. _before_ Ff. [2708] _heard him oft_] Ff. _often heard him_ Qq. [2709] _at_] _being at_ Hanmer. _perfect_] _perfit_ Q₁. _declining_] Qq. _declin'd_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _declind_ F₂. [2710] _the father_] Ff. _his father_ Qq. _as ward_] _as a ward_ Q₃. [2711] _his_] Ff. _the_ Qq. [2712] _sirrah_] Ff. _sir_ Qq. _ay,_] _I,_ Q₁ Q₃. _I_ Q₂. _Ile_ F₁ F₂. _I'le_ F₃ F₄. om. Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). [2713] _lord_] _L._ F₁ F₂. [2714] _his_] Ff. _this_ Qq. [2715] _should_] Q₂ Ff (_shold_ F₁). _shal_ Q₁. _shall_ Q₃. [2716] _own_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄. [2717] _that_] Ff. om. Qq. [2718] _wrote_] Qq. _writ_ Ff. [2719] _further_] Qq. om. Ff. [2720] _auricular_] Ff. _aurigular_ Qq. [2721] _monster--_] Dyce. _monster._ Qq Ff. [2722] Edm. _Nor ... earth!_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [2723] _me_] _you_ Johnson conj. (withdrawn). [2724] _him, I pray you: frame_] Ff. _him, I pray you frame_ Qq. _the_] Ff. _your_ Qq. [2725] _will_] Ff. _shall_ Qq. [2726] _find_] Ff. _see_ Qq. [2727] _eclipses_] _elipses_ F₂. [2728] _moon_] _the moon_ Capell conj. [2729] _the wisdom of nature_] _your wisdom_ Lettsom conj. _nature_] _mankind_ Hanmer. _man_ Keightley (Lettsom conj.) _it_] Ff. om. Qq. [2730] _sequent_] _frequent_ Theobald. [2731] _discord_] Ff. _discords_ Qq. _in palaces_] _pallaces_ Q₁ Q₂. _pallcies_ Q₃. [2732] _treason_] _treasons_ Qq. _and the bond_] Ff. _the bond_ Qq. _'twixt_] Ff. _betweene_ Qq. [2733] _This villain ... graves._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2734] _villain_] _villanie_ Q₃. [2735] _honesty_] Ff. _honest_ Qq. _'Tis strange_] Ff. _strange, strange!_ Q₁. _Strange strange!_ Q₂. _Straing, strange!_ Q₃. [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq. [2736] SCENE VIII. Pope. [2737] _surfeit_] Q₂. _surfet_ Q₁ Q₃. _surfets_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _surfeits_ F₄. _forfeit_ Collier conj. [2738] _the stars_] Qq. _starres_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _stars_ F₄. _by_] Qq. _on_ Ff. [2739] _treachers_] Ff. _trecherers_ Qq. _treacherous_ Pope. [2740] _spherical_] F₃ F₄. _sphericall_ F₁. _sphæricall_ F₂. _spirituall_ Qq. [2741] _disposition to_] Qq. _disposition on_ Ff. _to the charge_] _on the charge_ Pope, _on the change_ Warburton. _a star_] F₃ F₄. _a starre_ F₁ F₂. _stars_ Q₁. _starres_ Q₂. _hars_ Q₃. [2742] _lecherous_] _treacherous_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).] _Tut_] Steevens. _Fut_ Q₁ Q₂. _But_ Q₃. om. Ff. _that_] _what_ Pope. [2743] _maidenliest_] F₃ F₄. _maidenlest_ Q₁ Q₂ F₁ F₂. _maidenleast_ Q₃. _in_] Ff. _of_ Qq. _bastardizing_] Ff. _bastardy_ Qq. [2744] _Edgar-- ... And pat_] Steevens (1778). _Edgar_, Enter Edgar. _& out_ Q₁ Q₃. _Edgar; and out_ Q₂ (Enter Edgar, in margin). Enter Edgar. _Pat:_ Ff. Enter Edgar. _Edgar! Pat;_ Capell. _Edgar--_Enter Edgar. _Pat!--_ Steevens (1773). [2745] _Edgar-- ... divisions!_] Marked as 'Aside' by Capell. [2746] SCENE IX. Pope. [2747] _my cue_] Ff. _mine_ Qq. _sigh_] _sighe_ F₁. _sith_ Q₂. _Tom o'_] Ff. _them of_ Qq. [2748] _do portend_] _portent_ Q₃. _portend_ Pope. [2749] _fa, ... mi._] _fa, ... me._ Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2750] [Humming. Hanmer. [2751] _about_] Qq. _with_ Ff. [2752] _you_] Qq F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄. _writ_] Qq. _writes_ Ff. [2753] _as of ... Come, come;_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [2754] _amities_] Q₂. _armies_ Q₁ Q₃. [2755] _cohorts_] Qq. _courts_ Steevens 1773 (as misquoted by Johnson in note). _comforts_ Jennens. [2756] _Why, the_] Q₂. _Why the_ Q₁ Q₃. _The_ Ff. [2757] _Ay,_] _I,_ Ff. om. Qq. [2758] _or_] Qq. _nor_ Ff. [2759] _may_] om. F₃ F₄. [2760] _till_] Qq. _untill_ F₁ F₂. _until_ F₃ F₄. [2761] _with_] _without_ Hanmer. _but with_ Johnson conj. [2762] _person_] _parson_ Q₂. _scarcely_] Ff. _scarse_ Q₁ Q₃. _scarce_ Q₂. [2763] _fear_ ... Edm. _Brother,_] Ff. _feare brother,_ Qq (omitting the rest). [2764] _pray ye_] _pray you_ Rowe. [2765] _go armed_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [2766] _towards_] Qq. _toward_ Ff. [2767] _heard; but faintly,_] _heard, but faintly,_ Qq. _heard: But faintly._ Ff. _heard, but faintly;_ Pope. [2768] SCENE X. Pope. _I do_] _I_ Pope. _I'll_ Heath conj. [Exit Edgar.] Exit Fdgar. Q₂. Exit Edgar. Q₁ Q₃ (after line 167). Exit. Ff (after line 167). [2769] _All with me's_] _All's with me_ Capell conj. [2770] SCENE III.] SCENE II. Rowe and Eccles. SCENE XI. Pope. The ...] Rowe. A room in the ... Capell. Oswald, her Steward.] Collier, a Gentleman. Q₁ Q₃. Gentleman. Q₂. Steward. Ff. [2771] Osw.] Collier. Gent. Qq. Ste. F₁ Stew. F₂ F₃ F₄. [2772] _Yes_] Qq. _I_ Ff. _Ay_ Rowe. [2773] _night_] Qq. _night,_ Ff. _night!_ Capell. [2774] _every ... other,_] Divided as in Ff. One line in Qq. [2775] _upbraids_] _obrayds_ Q₂. [2776] _trifle. When_] Ff. _trifle when_ Qq (_trifell_ Q₂). [2777] [Horns within.] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [2778] _Put on ... one,_] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2779] _weary_] _wary_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LX. 402). [2780] _fellows_] F₃ F₄. _fellowes_ F₁ F₂. _fellow-servants_ Q₁ Q₃. _fellow servants_ Q₂. _to_] Ff. _in_ Qq. [2781] _distaste_] Ff. _dislike_ Qq. _our_] Qq. _my_ Ff. [2782] _Not to be ... abused._] Verse first by Theobald. Prose in Qq. Omitted in Ff, Rowe, Pope and Hanmer. [2783] _fools_] _folks_ Warburton. [2784] _checks ... abused_] _checks; as flatteries, when they are seen, are abus'd_ Keightley. _as ... abused_] Qq. _like flatt'rers when they're seen t' abuse us._ Theobald. _as flatteries, when they are seen abuses._ or _as flatteries when they are seen t' abuse us._ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _not flatt'ries when they're seen abused._ Warburton. _by flatteries when they're seen abused._ Jennens. _of flatteries when they're seen abused._ Badham conj. Halliwell supposes that a line is omitted. [2785] _tell you_] Qq. _have said_ Ff. _have said to you_ Keightley. _Very well_] Qq. _Well_ Ff. [2786] _And let ... so:_] As in Capell. Verse first by Hanmer. Prose in Qq Ff. [2787] _advise_] _and advise_ Hanmer, ending the line _advise._ [2788] _I would ... speak:_] As in Capell. Prose in Qq. Omitted in Ff, and subsequent editions down to Johnson's. [2789] _I'll ... dinner._] As in Hanmer. Prose in Qq Ff. [2790] _very_] Qq. om. Ff. [Exeunt.] Qq. Exit. Ff. _Prepare_] Ff. _goe prepare_ Q₁ Q₂. _go prepare_ Q₃. _Go and prepare_ Hanmer. _dinner_] _dinner now_ Keightley. [2791] SCENE IV.] Rowe continues the scene. SCENE XII. Pope. SCENE III. Eccles. A hall in the same.] Malone. An outer Hall in the same. Capell. An open Place before the Palace. Theobald. Enter Kent, disguised.] Rowe. Enter Kent. Qq Ff. [2792] _If ... labours._] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2793] _well_] _will_ F₁. [2794] _That ... defuse_] Qq Ff. _And ... disuse_ Rowe. _And ... diffuse_ Theobald. _That ... deface_ Capell. _That ... diffuse_ Steevens. _That ... disuse_ Long MS. _That ... disguise_ Jennens conj. _That ... defeat_ Anon. conj. [2795] _razed_] _raz'd_ Q₂. _raizd_ Q₁ Q₃. _raiz'd_ F₁ F₂. _rais'd_ F₃ F₄. _Now_] om. Pope. [2796] _So ... come,_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2797] _thee full_] _the full_ Q₁ Q₂. _labours_] Ff. _labour_ Qq. Horns within.] Omitted in Qq. Knights, and Attendants.] Rowe. and Attendants. Ff. Omitted in Qq. Gentleman, Knights, and Attendants. Capell. [2798] [Exit an Attendant.] To an Attendant, who goes out. Capell. om. Qq Ff. [To Kent. Theobald. [2799] _and says_] _to say_ Hanmer (Warburton). [2800] _art_] _are_ F₂. [2801] _be_] Qq. _be'st_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _best_ F₂. _he is_] Qq. _he's_ Ff. [2802] _thou art_] _thar't_ Q₂. [2803] _Who_] Qq F₁. _Whom_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2804] _What's_] _What's is_ Q₃. [2805] _services_] _service_ Q₃. _thou_] om. Q₂. [2806] _counsel_] _counsaile_ Q₁ Q₂ F₁. _counsaill_ Q₃. _counsailes_ F₂. _counsels_ F₃ F₄. [2807] _sir_] Ff. om. Qq. _singing_] _sighing_ Anon. conj. [2808] _thou_] _that_ F₂. [2809] _me: if ... dinner, I_] _me; if ... dinner, I_ Rowe. _me, if ... dinner, I_ Qq Ff. _me, if ... dinner. I_ Jennens. [2810] _from ... dinner!_] _from thee. Yet no dinner ho? dinner--_ Hanmer. _Dinner, ho, dinner_] _Dinner, ho dinner_ Q₂. [2811] _hither_] _hether_ Q₁ Q₂. [To an Attendant. Capell. [Exit....] Dyce. [2812] Enter Oswald.] Enter Steward. Capell. Enter Steward (after _daughter?_). Qq Ff. Enter Steward (after _fool?_). Johnson. [2813] _You, you,_] F₃ F₄. _You you_ F₁ F₂. _You_ Qq. [2814] Osw.] Collier. Steward Qq. Ste. F₁. Stew. F₂ F₃ F₄. _you,--_] _you--_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _you,_ Q₂. [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq. [2815] _clotpoll_] _clotpole_ Ff. _clat-pole_ Qq. clodpoll Johnson. [2816] [Exit a Knight.] Dyce. om. Qq Ff. _fool, ho?_] _fool? Ho!_ Rowe. _foole? ho,_ Q₁ Q₃. _foole, ho_ Q₂. _foole? Ho,_ Ff. [2817] _world's_] _worlds_ F₂. Re-enter Knight.] Dyce. om. Qq Ff. [2818] Knight.] F₄. Knigh. F₁ F₂ F₃. Kent. Qq. _daughter_] _daughters_ F₁ F₂. [2819] Knight.] F₄. Knigh. F₁ F₂ F₃. Servant. Qq. [2820] _me_] om. F₃ F₄. [2821] _He_] _A_ Q₂. [2822] _of kindness_] Omitted in Qq. _dependants_] _dependance_ S. Walker conj. [2823] _wronged_] _is wrong'd_ Q₁ Q₃. [2824] _mine_] _my_ F₃ F₄. [2825] _faint_] _fain_ Becket conj. [2826] _mine own_] _my own_ Rowe (ed. 2). [2827] _purpose_] Ff. _purport_ Qq. [2828] _into 't_ Q₂ F₂ F₃ F₄. _into it_ Q₁ Q₃. _intoo't_ F₁. _where's_] _wheres_ F₂. _my_] Ff. _this_ Qq. [2829] _this_] _these_ Pope. [2830] Knight.] Ff. Servant. Qq. [2831] _well_] Ff. om. Qq. [To one Attendant. Capell. [2832] [Exit an Attendant.] Dyce. om. Qq Ff. [2833] [to Another. Capell. [Exit....] Dyce. om. Qq Ff. Re-enter Oswald.] Re-enter Steward, brought back by an Attendant. Capell (after _O,_ line 75). Enter Steward. Ff (after _sir?_ line 75). Omitted in Qq. [2834] _you, come ... sir_] Ff. _you sir, come you hither_ Qq. _come ... sir_ Rowe. [2835] _I am ... pardon._] Two lines in Ff. [2836] _these_] Ff. _this_ Qq. [2837] _your pardon_] Ff. _you pardon me_ Qq. [2838] _looks_] _locks_ Becket conj. [Striking him.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff, and Capell. [2839] _struck_] Q₂. _strucke_ Q₁ Q₃. _strucken_ Ff. [in Posture of defending himself. Capell. [2840] _player._] _player?_ Hanmer. [Tripping ... heels.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [2841] _I ... thee._] Two lines in Ff. [2842] _arise, away_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2843] _lubber's length_] _lubbers length_ Q₂ (Cap. & Dev.) _lubbers, length_ Q₂ (Mus. per. & imp. & Bodl. 1, 2). _lubbers-length_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). [2844] _tarry_] _tarry again_ Theobald (ed. 2). _go to_] Omitted in Qq. _have you wisdom? so._] Theobald. _have you wisedome, so._ Ff. _you have wisedome._ Qq. [Pushes....] Pushes the Steward out. Theobald. om. Qq Ff. [2845] _my_] Ff. om. Qq. _there's_] _their's_ Q₂. [2846] [Giving....] Capell. Giving money. Johnson. om. Qq Ff. [2847] SCENE XIII. Pope. [Offering....] Offering his cap. Capell. Giving his cap. Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [2848] Kent. _Why, fool?_] Kent. _Why foole?_ Qq. Lear. _Why my Boy?_ Ff. [2849] _Why, for_] _Why for_ Qq. _Why? for_ Ff. _one's_] _on's_ Q₂. _that's_] _that is_ F₄. [2850] _an_] Pope. & F₁. _and_ The rest. _as_ Warburton. _thou'lt_] Ff. _thou't_ Qq. [2851] _hath_] Qq. _ha's_ F₁. _has_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [2852] _on's_] _of his_ Q₁ Q₃. _done_] Qq. _did_ Ff. [2853] _and two_] _an' two_ (i.e. _if two_) Farmer conj. [2854] _gave_] _give_ F₃ F₄. _all my_] Ff. _any_ Qq. _I'ld_] _I'll_ Rowe. _coxcombs_] Q₂. _coxcombes_ F₁. _coxcombe_ Q₁ Q₃ F₂. _coxcomb_ F₃ F₄. [2855] _Truth's a_] Ff. _Truth is, a_ Q₁. _Truth is a_ Q₂ Q₃. _must to_] Ff. _that must to_ Qq. [2856] _Lady the brach_] _lady, the brach,_ Malone (Steevens). _Lady oth'e brach_ Q₁ Q₃. _Ladie oth'e brach_ Q₂. _the Lady Brach_ Ff. _the lady's brach_ Letherland conj. _Lie the brach_ Archibald Smith conj. [2857] _gall_] Ff. _gull_ Qq. [2858] [To Kent. Rowe. [2859] Lear] Ken. Capell. [2860] _nuncle_] _unckle_ Q₁ Q₃. _uncle_ Q₂. [2861] _Have ... score._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2862] _in-a-door_] Capell. _in a doore_ Qq. _in a dore_ F₁ F₂. _in dore_ F₃. _in door_ F₄. _within door_ Pope. [2863] Kent.] Ff. Lear. Qq. [2864] _'tis_] F₁ F₂ F₃. om. Qq. _it is_ F₄. [2865] _gave_] _give_ F₃ F₄. [2866] _nuncle_] Ff. _uncle_ Qq. [2867] [To Kent] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [2868] Lear. _A ... teach me._] Put in the margin by Pope, who omits altogether lines 135-142. Hanmer puts lines 131-142 in the margin. [2869] _my boy_] _nuncle_ Capell. [2870] _sweet fool_] Qq. _sweet one_ Ff. [2871] [Sings. Anon. conj. [2872] _That lord ... snatching._] Omitted in Ff. [2873] _That lord ... there._] Eight lines in Capell. Four in Qq. [2874] _Do_] _Or do_ Hanmer (in margin) and Capell. _And do_ Grant White. _thou_] _thou there_ Edd. conj. [2875] _boy_] om. Pope. [2876] _out_] Qq. _on't_ Pope. [2877] _on't: and ladies too,_] Capell. _on't, and lodes too,_ Q₁ Q₃. _an't, and lodes too,_ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) _an't, and Ladies too_, Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _on 't: nay the ladies too,_ Pope. _on't: and the ladies too,_ Steevens (1773). _on't, and loads too:_ Collier. [2878] _they will_] _they'll_ Pope. _all the fool_] Q₂. _all foole_ Q₁ Q₃ [2879] _Give ... egg, nuncle_] Qq. _Nunckle, give me an egge_ Ff. [2880] _in the_] Qq. _i' th'_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _ith'_ F₂. [2881] _crown_] _crownes_ F₁. _i' the_] _it'h_ Q₂. _i' th'_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _ith'_ F₂. _in the_ Q₁ Q₃. [2882] _borest_] Qq. _boar'st_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _bor'st_ F₄. _on thy_] _at'h_ Q₂. _at thy_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). _o'er_] over Capell. [2883] _one_] _crown_ Johnson. [2884] _so_] _sooth_ Warburton. [2885] [Singing] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [2886] _had ne'er_] _ne'er had_ Pope. _wit_] Qq. _grace_ Ff. [2887] _And_] Ff. _They_ Qq. _know not how_] _well may fear_ Collier MS.] _to_] Ff. _do_ Q₁ Q₃. _doe_ Q₂. [2888] _When_] _Since when_ Hanmer. [2889] _ever_] Qq. _ere_ F₁ F₂. _e're_ F₃ F₄. [2890] _mother_] Qq. _mothers_ Ff. [2891] _Then they_] First printed as part of the song by Theobald. As prose in Ff. [2892] _for ... among._] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2893] _fools_] F₃ F₄. _fooles_ Qq. _foole_ F₁ F₂. [2894] _learn to lie_] _learne to lye_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _learne lye_ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.)]. [2895] _An_] Knight. _And_ Q₂ Ff. _If_ Q₁ Q₃. _sirrah_] Omitted in Qq. [2896] _thou'lt_] Ff. _thou wilt_ Qq. [2897] _sometimes_] Ff. _sometime_ Qq. [2898] _o'_] Ff. _of_ Qq. [2899] _o'_ both] Ff _a both_ Qq. _i' the_] _i' th'_ Ff. _in the_ Qq. _Here_] _Heare_ F₂. [2900] _o' the_] _of the_ Capell. [2901] SCENE XIV. Pope. [2902] _How ... frown._] Prose in Ff. Two lines in Qq. [2903] _daughter_] _our daughter_ Keightley. _on?_] Ff. _on,_ Qq. [2904] _Methinks_] Omitted in Ff. _of late_] Ff. _alate_ Qq. [2905] _frowning_] Ff. _frowne_ Qq. _now thou_] Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) Ff. _thou_, _thou_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Q₃. [2906] [To Gon.] Pope. om. Qq Ff. [2907] _Mum, mum:_] Omitted by Pope. [Singing. Rowe. [2908] _nor crust_] Ff. _neither crust_ Qq. [2909] [Pointing to Lear] Johnson. Speaking to Lear. Warburton. To Kent, shewing Lear. Capell. _That's_] _Thou art_ Warburton. _shealed_] _shell'd_ Capell. _peascod_] Pope (ed. 2). _pescod_ Qq Ff. [2910] _Not ... proceeding_] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2911] _this_] _thus_ Johnson. [2912] _other_] _others_ Johnson. [2913] _and ... riots. Sir,_] Pointed as by Capell. _(not ... riots) Sir,_ Q₁. _(not ... riots,) Sir_ Q₂. _(not ... endur'd) riots Sir._ F₁ and F₂ F₃ F₄ substantially. _(not ... riots) Sir_ Q₃. _Sir,_] om. Theobald. [2914] _had_] om. Pope. [2915] _put it on_] Ff. _put on_ Qq. [2916] _which_] om. Pope. [2917] _if you should ... Would_] _did you not ... Would or if you should ... Shall_ Seymour conj. [2918] _redresses_] Ff. _redresse_ Q₁ Q₃. _redresse,_ Q₂. [2919] _Which_] Ff. _that_ Qq. [2920] _Will_] Ff. _must_ Qq. _proceeding_] Ff. _proceedings_ Qq. [2921] _know_] Ff. _trow_ Qq. [2922] _The ... young._] As verse first by Pope. Prose in Qq Ff. [2923] _it had it head_] Qq. _it's had it head_ F₁. _it had its head_ F₂. _it had it's head_ F₃ F₄. _by it_] F₁ F₂. _beit_ Q₁ Q₂. _be it_ Q₃. _by it's_ F₃ F₄. [2924] _Come, sir,_] Omitted in Ff. [2925] _I ... are._] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2926] _that_] Qq. _your_ Ff. [2927] _Whereof_] _Wherewith_ Jennens conj. [2928] _that ... transform_] Qq. _which ... transport_ Ff. [2929] _Doth ... am?_] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2930] _Doth_] Qq. _Do's_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _Dos_ F₂. _Doth ... Lear:_] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff. _This_] Ff. _why this_ Qq. [2931] _Doth_] Qq. _Do's_ Ff. [2932] _notion weakens_] Ff. _notion, weaknesse,_ Q₁ Q₃. _notion, weaknes_ Q₂. _his discernings_] Ff. _or his discernings_ Qq. _or's discernings_ S. Walker conj. [2933] _lethargied--_] Rowe. _lethargied._ Ff. _lethergy,_ Q₁ Q₃. _lethergie,_ Q₂. _lethargied--Ha! waking_] _lethargied or waking_ Edwards conj. _Ha! waking?_] _sleeping or waking; ha! sure_ Qq. [2934] _is it that_] _is it then_ Roderick conj. _is't_ S. Walker conj. [2935] Fool. _Lear's shadow._] Pointed as in Ff. _Lears shadow?_ Qq (continuing it to 'Lear'). Omitted by Rann. Fool. _Lear's shadow,--_ Singer. [2936] Lear. _I would ... father._] Steevens (1773). _I would ... father._ Qq. Omitted in Ff. See note (VII). [2937] _that_] om. Pope. _sovereignty_] _substantiality_ Jennens. [2938] _false_] _fast_ Jennens. _halfe_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). _persuaded I_] _persuaded.--I_ Tyrwhitt conj. _persuaded That I_ S. Walker conj. [2939] Fool. _Which ... father._ Lear.] Omitted by Pope. See note (VII). [2940] _Which they will_] Q₃. _Which they, will_ Q₁ Q₂. _Which of thee will_ Jennens. [2941] _This ... daughter._] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [2942] _This admiration, sir,_] Ff. _Come sir, this admiration_ Qq. _Come, sir; This admiration_ Steevens (1778). _o' the_] _o' th'_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _oth'_ F₂. _of the_ Qq. _savour_] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. _favour_ Q₃ and Capell. [2943] _To_] Ff. om. Qq. _aright:_] _aright,_ Boswell conj., reading line 233 with Ff. [2944] _As ... you should_] Q₁ Q₃. _As you are old and reverend, should_ Q₂. _As you are old, and reverend, should_ Ff. _You, as you are old and reverend, should_ Rowe. _You, as you're old and rev'rend, should_ Pope. _Being old ... you should_ Seymour conj. _you should_] om. Steevens conj. [2945] _a hundred_] Ff. _a_ 100. Q₂. _one hundred_ Q₁ Q₃. [2946] _debosh'd_] Ff. _deboyst_ Qq. _debauch'd_ Pope. [2947] _a riotous inn_] _an inn_ Steevens conj. [2948] _Make it more_] Rowe. _make more_ Qq. _Makes it more_ Ff. _a brothel_] _a brothell_ Ff. _brothell_ Qq. [2949] _graced_] _grac'd_ Ff. _great_ Qq. _The_] om. Pope. [2950] _then_] Ff. _thou_ Qq. _you_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). [2951] _A little_] _Of fifty_ Pope. [2952] _remainder_] Qq. _remainders_ Ff. [2953] _Which_] Ff. _and_ Q₁ Q₃. _that_ Q₂. [2954] _You ... betters._] Verse first in Rowe (ed. 2). Prose in Qq Ff. [2955] Enter Albany.] Ff. Enter Duke. Qq. [2956] SCENE XV. Pope. The rest of the Scene, except lines 340, 341, is prose in Qq. _Woe, ... repents,--_] _Woe!... repents--_ Rowe. _Woe, ... repents:_ Ff. _We that too late repent's us;_ Q₁ Q₃. _We that too late repent's,_ Q₂. _We ... repent._ Anon. conj. MS. _Fool! that too late repent'st--_ Jennens. _Woe's him that too late repents--_ Keightley. See note (V). [To Alb.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. _O, sir ... come?_] Qq. Omitted in Ff, and restored by Theobald. [2957] _will?... Prepare my_] Ff. _will that we prepare any_ Qq (_wee_ Q₂. _prepar_ Q₃). [2958] _Than the_] _Than i' th'_ Upton conj. [2959] Alb. _Pray, sir, be patient._ Lear.] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2960] _sir_] _you, sir_ Hanmer. [2961] [To Gon.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [2962] _liest. My train are_] _lessen my traine and_ Q₁ Q₃. _list my traine, and_ Q₂. [2963] _worships_] _worship_ Collier MS. _name_] _names_ Rowe. [2964] _That_] Qq. _Which_ Ff. [2965] _Lear, Lear, Lear!_] As in Ff. Twice in Qq. [2966] [Striking his head.] Pope. om. Qq Ff. [2967] _dear_] _clear_ Anon. conj. _Go ... people._] Ff. _Goe, goe, my people?_ Q₁ Q₂. _Go, go; my people!_ Q₃. _Go, go:--my people!_ Malone conj. [2968] _I am ... I am_] _I'm ... I'm_ Pope. [2969] _Of what ... you._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2970] _It ... fruitful!_] Three lines in Malone, ending _nature, hear! ... if ... fruitful!_ [2971] _Hear_] F₃ F₄. _Heare_ F₁ F₂ _harke_ Qq. _nature, hear; dear_] _Nature! hear, dear_ Grant White. _hear; dear_] Warburton. _heare deere_ Qq F₁ F₂. _hear dear_ F₃. _hear, dear_ F₄. _hear!_] om. Qq. _hear a father!_ Pope. [2972] _derogate_] _degenerate_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [2973] _thwart_] Ff. _thourt_ Qq. _disnatured_] _disnatur'd_ Ff. _disnetur'd_ Q₁ Q₂. _disventur'd_ Q₃. _disfeatur'd_ Henderson and Anon. MS. See note (V). [2974] _cadent_] Ff. _accent_ Q₁ Q₂. _accient_ Q₃. _candent_ Theobald (Warburton). _acrid_ or _ardent_ Anon. conj. [2975] _mother's pains_] _mother pains_ Becket conj. [2976] _feel_] _feele, that she may feele,_ Q₂. [2977] _Away, away!_] _Away, away._ Ff. _goe, goe, my people?_ Qq. [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq. [2978] _Now ... this?_] Two lines in Ff. _whereof_] _wherefore_ Johnson. [2979] _the cause_] Qq. _more of it_ F₁. _of it_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _of what_ Hanmer. [2980] _That_] _that_ Qq. _As_ Ff. _dotage_] _fretfulness and wayward dotage_ Seymour conj. Re-enter Lear.] Steevens. Enter Lear. Ff. Omitted in Qq. [2981] _What's_] Ff. _What is_ Qq. [2982] _I'll ... ashamed_] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff. [To Gon.] Theobald. [2983] _which_] Ff. _that_ Qq. [2984] _Should ... thee!_] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff. _thee worth them. Blasts_] _thee worth them, Blastes_ Ff. _the worst blasts_ Qq. [2985] _upon thee! The untented_] _upon thee: Th' untented_ Ff. _upon the untender_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Q₃. _upon the untented_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _upon the untainted_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). _upon thee! The unshented_ Becket conj. _upon thee! The indented_ Jackson conj. [2986] _Pierce_] Ff. _pierce_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _peruse_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Q₃. _sense_] _fence_ Warburton. _thee! Old_] _thee. Old_ Ff. _the olde_ Q₁ _the old_ Q₂ Q₃. [2987] _this cause_] Qq F₁. _thee once_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _her once_ Rowe. _ye_] Ff. _you_ Qq. [2988] _cast you_] Ff. _you cast_ Qq. _lose_] F₃ F₄. _loose_ F₁ F₂. _make_ Qq. [2989] _Yea, is it come to this?_] Q₁ Q₃. _yea, i'st come to this?_ Q₂. _Ha?_ Ff. _Ha! is it come to this?_ Pope. [2990] _Let it be so:_] Ff (ending line 298 at _so_). Omitted in Qq. Arranged as by Pope. _yet have I left a_] Qq. _I have another_ Ff. [2991] _Who_] Ff. _whom_ Qq. [2992] _flay_] Malone. _fley_ Q₁ Q₃. _flea_ Q₂ Ff. _wolvish_] _wolfish_ Theobald. [2993] _thou ... thee._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [Exeunt....] Exeunt Lear, Kent, Gen. and Att. Capell. Exit. Qq. om. Ff. Exit Lear and Attendants. Rowe (ed. 1). Ex. Lear and Attendants. Rowe (ed. 2). [2994] SCENE XVI. Pope. _my lord_] Qq. om. Ff. [2995] _To the ... master._] As in Ff. Capell ends the lines _content ... ho!... master._ S. Walker would end them _content.-- ... fool, ... master._ [2996] _you,--_] Theobald. _you_. Qq Ff. [2997] _Pray ... more_] Ff. _Come sir, no more; you, more_ Q₁ Q₃. _Come sir no more, you, more_ Q₂. [2998] _content_] _be content_ Rowe. [2999] [To the Fool] Johnson. [3000] _Nuncle ... thee_] Two lines in Ff. [3001] _take_] Ff. _and take_ Qq. [3002] _with thee. A fox_] _with thee: A fox_ Ff. _with a fox_ Qq. [3003] _buy_] _by_ F₂. [3004] [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq. [3005] _This ... unfitness_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [3006] _This ... knights!_] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff. [3007] _'Tis_] _Is't_ Hanmer. [3008] _At point_] Omitted by Pope. [3009] _in mercy_] _at mercy_ Pope. [3010] _too far_] om. Steevens (1793). [3011] _taken_] _harm'd_ Pope. [3012] _she_] F₁ F₂. _she'll_ F₃ F₄. [3013] _unfitness,--_] _unfitness--_ Rowe. _unfitnesse._ Ff. Re-enter Oswald.] Collier. Enter Steward. Ff. om. Qq. [3014] _How now, Oswald! What_] Ff. Gon. _What Oswald, ho._ Oswald. _Heere madam._ Gon. _What_ Qq. [3015] _that_] Ff. _this_ Qq. [3016] _Yes_] Qq. _I_ Ff. _Ay_ Rowe. [3017] _and_] om. Pope. [3018] _fear_] F₃ F₄. _feare_ F₁ F₂. _feares_ Q₁ Q₂. _fears_ Q₃. [3019] _Get_] _So get_ Pope. _Go, get_ Jennens. [3020] _And hasten ... lord_] _And hasten your returne: no, no, my lord_ Ff. _and after your returne--now my lord_ Q₁ Q₃. _and after your returne now my lord_ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) _& hasten your returne now my lord_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) [Exit Oswald.] Exit Steward. Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [3021] _milky_] Ff. _milkie_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _mildie_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Q₃. _gentleness and_] _gentle, easy_ Jennens. [3022] _condemn not_] Ff. _dislike not_ Qq. _condemn it not_ Pope. _pardon_] _your pardon_ Jennens. [3023] _You are_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Your are_ F₁. _y'are_ Qq. _attask'd for_] _attaskt for_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _alapt_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Q₃. _at task for_ F₁ F₃ F₄ _at taske for_ F₂. _taskt for_ Anon. conj. See note (VIII). _ajapt for_ Becket conj. _attack'd for_ Collier conj. [3024] _Than_] _By those who judge, than_ Seymour conj. _praised_] _prais'd_ Ff. _praise_ Qq. _harmful_] _harmless_ Rowe (ed. 2). [3025] _How ... well._] Verse in Q₁ Ff Q₃. Prose in Q₂. [3026] _better, oft_] Ff. _better ought,_ Qq. [3027] _then--_] Q₁ Ff Q₃. _then._ Q₂. [3028] _the event._] Q₁ Q₃. _the event,_ Q₂. _the 'vent._ Ff. [Exeunt.] Q₂ Ff. Exit. Q₁ Q₃. [3029] SCENE V.] SCENE XVII. Pope. SCENE IV. Eccles. Court....] Capell. A court-yard belonging to the Duke of Albany's Palace. Theobald. Enter Lear, Kent, and Fool.] Q₁ Q₃. Enter Lear. Q₂. Enter Lear, Kent, Gentleman, and Foole. Ff. Enter Lear, Kent, Gentlemen, and Fool. Warburton. [3030] Lear.] Lear [to a Gentleman. Jennens. _letters._] _letters.--You with this to my daughter Regan._ [to Kent. Jennens. [3031] _afore_] Ff. _before_ Qq. [3032] _brains_] _brain_ Pope. _were_] _where_ Q₂. _in's_] F₁. _ins_ F₂. _in his_ Qq F₃ F₄. _were't_] Rowe. _wert_ Qq Ff. [3033] _prithee_] _prethee_ Q₁ F₂ Q₃. _prethe_ Q. _prythee_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _ne'er_] _nere_ Qq. _net_ Ff. [3034] _she's_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _shees_ Q₂. _shes_ F₂. _she is_ Q₁ Q₃. _crab's_] _crabbe is_ Q₁. _crab is_ Q₂. _crabb is_ Q₃. [3035] _can tell what_] Ff. _con, what_ Qq. [3036] _Why, ... thou_] Qq. _What can'st_ Ff. [3037] _She will_] Ff. _Shee'l_ Q₁ _Sheel_ Q₂. _She'l_ Q₃. _does_] _do's_ Ff. _doth_ Qq. [3038] _Thou canst_] F₁ F₂. _Thou canst not_ Qq. _canst thou_ F₃ F₄. _stands_] _stande_ Q₂. _i' the_] _in the_ Qq. [3039] _on's_] Ff. _of his_ Qq. _of one's_ Pope. [3040] _one's_] _ones_ Ff. _his_ Qq. _of_] Ff. _on_ Qq. _side's_] Q₂ F₁ F₃ F₄. _sides_ F₂. _side his_ Q₁ Q₃. _side one's_ Pope. [3041] _he_] _a_ Q₂. [3042] _wrong--_] Theobald. _wrong._ Q₂ Ff. _wrong!_ Q₁ Q₃. [3043] _shell?_] Ff. _shell._ Qq. [3044] _put's_] _put his_ Qq. _to his_] Q₂ Ff. _unto his_ Q₁ Q₃. [3045] _daughters_] Ff. _daughter_ Qq. [3046] _'em_] _them_ Qq. [3047] _more_] Qq F₄. _mo_ F₁ F₂. _moe_ F₃. [3048] _eight?_] Capell. _eight._ Qq Ff. [3049] _indeed_] om. Qq. [3050] _take 't_] _take it_ Capell. _Monster_] Ff. _Monster,_ Qq. [3051] _thou wert_] Qq F₁. _you wert_ F₂. _you were_ F₃ F₄. [3052] _till_] _before_ Qq. [3053] _O, let ... mad!_] Verse by Pope. Prose in Qq Ff. [3054] _not mad_] Omitted in Qq. _heaven!_] Ff. _heaven! I would not bee mad,_ Qq (_be_ Q₂). [3055] Enter Gentleman.] Theobald. Omitted in Qq Ff. [3056] _How now!_] Omitted in Qq. [3057] Gent.] Ff. Servant. Qq. [3058] [Exit. Qq. Exeunt Lear, and Gentleman. Capell. [3059] _that's a_] _that is_ Qq. [3060] _unless_] _except_ Qq. [Exeunt.] Ff. Exit. Qq. To the Audience, as he goes out. Capell. ACT II. SCENE I. _The Earl of Gloucester's castle._ _Enter_ EDMUND _and_ CURAN, _meeting_.[3061] _Edm._ Save thee, Curan.[3062] _Cur._ And you, sir. I have been with your father, and[3063][3064] given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his[3063][3065] duchess will be here with him this night.[3063][3066] _Edm._ How comes that?[3062] 5 _Cur._ Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad, I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but[3067] ear-kissing arguments?[3068] _Edm._ Not I: pray you, what are they?[3069] _Cur._ Have you heard of no likely wars toward, 'twixt[3070][3071][3072] 10 the Dukes of Cornwall and Albany?[3070][3071][3073] _Edm._ Not a word.[3070] _Cur._ You may do then in time. Fare you well, sir. [_Exit._[3074] _Edm._ The duke be here to-night? The better! best![3075][3076][3077] This weaves itself perforce into my business.[3076] 15 My father hath set guard to take my brother;[3076] And I have one thing, of a queasy question,[3076][3078] Which I must act: briefness and fortune, work![3076][3079] Brother, a word; descend: brother, I say![3076] _Enter_ EDGAR.[3080] My father watches: O sir, fly this place;[3076][3081] 20 Intelligence is given where you are hid;[3076] You have now the good advantage of the night:[3076][3082] Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?[3076][3083] He's coming hither, now, i' the night, i' the haste,[3076][3084] And Regan with him: have you nothing said[3076] 25 Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?[3076][3085] Advise yourself.[3076][3086] _Edg._ I am sure on't, not a word.[3076] _Edm._ I hear my father coming: pardon me:[3076][3087] In cunning I must draw my sword upon you:[3076][3087] Draw: seem to defend yourself: now quit you well.[3076][3088] 30 Yield: come before my father. Light, ho, here![3076][3089] Fly, brother. Torches, torches! So farewell. [_Exit Edgar._[3076][3090] Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion [_Wounds his arm._[3076][3091] Of my more fierce endeavour: I have seen drunkards[3076][3092] Do more than this in sport. Father, father![3076][3093] 35 Stop, stop! No help?[3076] _Enter_ GLOUCESTER, _and_ Servants _with torches_.[3094] _Glou._ Now, Edmund, where's the villain?[3076][3095] _Edm._ Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,[3076] Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon[3076][3096] To stand 's auspicious mistress.[3076] _Glou._ But where is he?[3076] 40 _Edm._ Look, sir, I bleed.[3076] _Glou._ Where is the villain, Edmund?[3076][3097] _Edm._ Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could--[3076][3098] _Glou._ Pursue him, ho!--Go after. [_Exeunt some Servants._] 'By no means' what?[3076][3099] _Edm._ Persuade me to the murder of your lordship;[3076] But that I told him the revenging gods[3076][3100] 45 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend,[3076][3101] Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond[3076] The child was bound to the father; sir, in fine,[3076][3102] Seeing how loathly opposite I stood[3076] To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion[3076][3103] 50 With his prepared sword he charges home[3076] My unprovided body, lanced mine arm:[3076][3104] But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits[3076][3105] Bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter,[3076][3106] Or whether gasted by the noise I made,[3076][3107] 55 Full suddenly he fled.[3076][3108] _Glou._ Let him fly far:[3076] Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;[3076] And found--dispatch. The noble duke my master,[3076][3109] My worthy arch and patron, comes to-night:[3076][3110] By his authority I will proclaim it,[3076] 60 That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks,[3076][3111] Bringing the murderous caitiff to the stake;[3076][3112] He that conceals him, death.[3076][3113] _Edm._ When I dissuaded him from his intent[3076] And found him pight to do it, with curst speech[3076] 65 I threaten'd to discover him: he replied,[3076] 'Thou unpossessing bastard! dost thou think,[3076] If I would stand against thee, could the reposure[3076][3114][3115] Of any trust, virtue, or worth, in thee[3076][3114] Make thy words faith'd? No: what I should deny--[3076][3114][3116] 70 As this I would; ay, though thou didst produce[3076][3117] My very character--I'ld turn it all[3076][3118] To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice:[3076][3119] And thou must make a dullard of the world,[3076][3120] If they not thought the profits of my death[3076] 75 Were very pregnant and potential spurs[3076][3121] To make thee seek it.'[3076] _Glou._ Strong and fasten'd villain![3076][3122] Would he deny his letter? I never got him.[3076][3123] [_Tucket within._ Hark, the duke's trumpets! I know not why he comes.[3076][3124] All ports I'll bar; the villain shall not 'scape;[3076] 80 The duke must grant me that: besides, his picture[3076] I will send far and near, that all the kingdom[3076] May have due note of him; and of my land,[3076][3125] Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means[3076] To make thee capable.[3076] 85 _Enter_ CORNWALL, REGAN, _and_ Attendants.[3126] _Corn._ How now, my noble friend! since I came hither,[3076][3127] Which I can call but now, I have heard strange news.[3076][3128] _Reg._ If it be true, all vengeance comes too short[3076] Which can pursue the offender. How dost, my lord?[3076][3129] _Glou._ O, madam, my old heart is crack'd, is crack'd![3076][3130] 90 _Reg._ What, did my father's godson seek your life?[3076] He whom my father named? your Edgar?[3076][3131] _Glou._ O, lady, lady, shame would have it hid![3076][3132] _Reg._ Was he not companion with the riotous knights[3076][3133] That tend upon my father?[3076][3134] 95 _Glou._ I know not, madam: 'tis too bad, too bad.[3076][3135] _Edm._ Yes, madam, he was of that consort.[3076][3136] _Reg._ No marvel then, though he were ill affected: 'Tis they have put him on the old man's death, To have the waste and spoil of his revenues.[3137] 100 I have this present evening from my sister Been well inform'd of them, and with such cautions That if they come to sojourn at my house,[3138] I'll not be there.[3138] _Corn._ Nor I, assure thee, Regan.[3139][3140] Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father[3139][3141] 105 A child-like office.[3139] _Edm._ 'Twas my duty, sir.[3142] _Glou._ He did bewray his practice, and received[3143] This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him. _Corn._ Is he pursued? _Glou._ Ay, my good lord.[3144] _Corn._ If he be taken, he shall never more[3145] 110 Be fear'd of doing harm: make your own purpose,[3145] How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,[3145][3146] Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant[3145][3147] So much commend itself, you shall be ours:[3145][3148] Natures of such deep trust we shall much need:[3145][3149] 115 You we first seize on.[3145][3149] _Edm._ I shall serve you, sir,[3150][3151] Truly, however else.[3150] _Glou._ For him I thank your grace.[3152] _Corn._ You know not why we came to visit you,--[3153] _Reg._ Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night:[3154] Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,[3155] 120 Wherein we must have use of your advice:[3156] Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister, Of differences, which I least thought it fit[3157] To answer from our home; the several messengers[3158] From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend, 125 Lay comforts to your bosom and bestow[3159] Your needful counsel to our business,[3159][3160] Which craves the instant use.[3159][3161] _Glou._ I serve you, madam:[3162] Your graces are right welcome. [_Flourish. Exeunt._[3162][3163] SCENE II. _Before Gloucester's castle._ _Enter_ KENT _and_ OSWALD, _severally_.[3164] _Osw._ Good dawning to thee, friend: art of this house?[3165][3166] _Kent._ Ay. _Osw._ Where may we set our horses? _Kent._ I' the mire.[3167] _Osw._ Prithee, if thou lovest me, tell me.[3168] 5 _Kent._ I love thee not. _Osw._ Why then I care not for thee. _Kent._ If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make[3169] thee care for me. _Osw._ Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not. 10 _Kent._ Fellow, I know thee. _Osw._ What dost thou know me for? _Kent._ A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound,[3170] filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking[3171] 15 knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical[3172] rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a[3173] bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into[3174] 20 clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy[3175] addition. _Osw._ Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to[3176] rail on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee![3177] _Kent._ What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny 25 thou knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up[3178][3179] thy heels and beat thee before the king? Draw, you rogue:[3179] for, though it be night, yet the moon shines; I'll make a[3180] sop o' the moonshine of you: draw, you whoreson cullionly[3181] barber-monger, draw. [_Drawing his sword._[3182] 30 _Osw._ Away! I have nothing to do with thee. _Kent._ Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against[3183] the king, and take vanity the puppet's part against the royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I'll so carbonado[3184] your shanks: draw, you rascal; come your ways.[3185] 35 _Osw._ Help, ho! murder! help! _Kent._ Strike, you slave; stand, rogue; stand, you neat[3186] slave, strike. [_Beating him._[3187] _Osw._ Help, ho! murder! murder! _Enter_ EDMUND, _with his rapier drawn_, CORNWALL, REGAN, GLOUCESTER, _and_ Servants.[3188] _Edm._ How now! What's the matter? [_Parting them._[3189][3190][3191] 40 _Kent._ With you, goodman boy, an you please: come,[3192] I'll flesh you; come on, young master.[3193] _Glou._ Weapons! arms! What's the matter here?[3194] _Corn._ Keep peace, upon your lives;[3195] He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?[3195][3196] 45 _Reg._ The messengers from our sister and the king.[3197] _Corn._ What is your difference? speak.[3198] _Osw._ I am scarce in breath, my lord. _Kent._ No marvel, you have so bestirred your valour.[3199] You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a tailor made[3199][3200] 50 thee.[3199] _Corn._ Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?[3199][3201] _Kent._ Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone-cutter or a painter[3202] could not have made him so ill, though he had been but[3203] two hours at the trade.[3204] 55 _Corn._ Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?[3205] _Osw._ This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared[3206] at suit of his gray beard,--[3207] _Kent._ Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter![3208] My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this[3209] 60 unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the walls of a jakes[3210] with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail?[3211] _Corn._ Peace, sirrah![3212][3213] You beastly knave, know you no reverence?[3212][3214] _Kent._ Yes, sir; but anger hath a privilege.[3215] 65 _Corn._ Why art thou angry? _Kent._ That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,[3216] Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain[3217] Which are too intrinse to unloose; smooth every passion[3218] 70 That in the natures of their lords rebel;[3219] Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;[3220] Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks[3221] With every gale and vary of their masters,[3222] Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.[3223][3224] 75 A plague upon your epileptic visage![3223] Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?[3223][3225] Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain,[3226] I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot.[3227] _Corn._ What, art thou mad, old fellow?[3228] 80 _Glou._ How fell you out? say that.[3228][3229] _Kent._ No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave. _Corn._ Why dost thou call him knave? What is his fault?[3230] _Kent._ His countenance likes me not. 85 _Corn._ No more perchance does mine, nor his, nor hers.[3231] _Kent._ Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain: I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulders that I see[3232] Before me at this instant. _Corn._ This is some fellow,[3233][3234] 90 Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect[3233] A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb[3233][3235] Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,--[3233][3236] An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth![3233][3237] An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.[3233][3238] 95 These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness[3233][3239] Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends[3233][3240] Than twenty silly ducking observants[3233][3241] That stretch their duties nicely.[3233] _Kent._ Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity,[3242] 100 Under the allowance of your great aspect,[3243] Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire On flickering Phœbus' front,-- _Corn._ What mean'st by this?[3244] _Kent._ To go out of my dialect, which you discommend[3245] so much. I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled[3246] 105 you in a plain accent was a plain knave; which, for my part, I will not be, though I should win your displeasure to[3247] entreat me to't.[3247][3248] _Corn._ What was the offence you gave him?[3249] _Osw._ I never gave him any:[3250][3251] 110 It pleased the king his master very late[3251][3252] To strike at me, upon his misconstruction;[3251][3253] When he, conjunct, and flattering his displeasure,[3254] Tripp'd me behind; being down, insulted, rail'd, And put upon him such a deal of man,[3255] 115 That worthied him, got praises of the king[3255] For him attempting who was self-subdued; And in the fleshment of this dread exploit[3256] Drew on me here again.[3257] _Kent._ None of these rogues and cowards[3258] But Ajax is their fool.[3258][3259] _Corn._ Fetch forth the stocks! 120 You stubborn ancient knave, you reverend braggart,[3260] We'll teach you--[3261] _Kent._ Sir, I am too old to learn:[3262] Call not your stocks for me: I serve the king,[3262] On whose employment I was sent to you:[3262][3263] You shall do small respect, show too bold malice[3264] 125 Against the grace and person of my master, Stocking his messenger.[3265] _Corn._ Fetch forth the stocks! As I have life and honour,[3266][3267] There shall he sit till noon.[3266] _Reg._ Till noon! till night, my lord, and all night too.[3268] 130 _Kent._ Why, madam, if I were your father's dog,[3269] You should not use me so.[3269][3270] _Reg._ Sir, being his knave, I will. _Corn._ This is a fellow of the self-same colour[3271] Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks! [_Stocks brought out._[3272] _Glou._ Let me beseech your grace not to do so: 135 His fault is much, and the good king his master[3273] Will check him for't: your purposed low correction[3273] Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches[3273][3274] For pilferings and most common trespasses[3273] Are punish'd with: the king must take it ill,[3273] 140 That he, so slightly valued in his messenger,[3273][3275] Should have him thus restrain'd.[3273][3275] _Corn._ I'll answer that. _Reg._ My sister may receive it much more worse,[3276] To have her gentleman abused, assaulted,[3277] For following her affairs. Put in his legs.[3278] 145 [_Kent is put in the stocks._[3279] Come, my good lord, away. [_Exeunt all but Gloucester and Kent._[3280] _Glou._ I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure,[3281] Whose disposition, all the world well knows, Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd: I'll entreat for thee.[3282] _Kent._ Pray, do not, sir: I have watch'd and travell'd hard;[3283] 150 Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.[3284] A good man's fortune may grow out at heels: Give you good morrow! _Glou._ The duke's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken. [_Exit._[3285] _Kent._ Good king, that must approve the common saw, 155 Thou out of heaven's benediction comest[3286] To the warm sun! Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,[3287][3288] That by thy comfortable beams I may[3287] Peruse this letter! Nothing almost sees miracles[3287][3289] 160 But misery: I know 'tis from Cordelia,[3287][3290] Who hath most fortunately been inform'd[3287][3291] Of my obscured course; and shall find time[3287][3292][3293] From this enormous state, seeking to give[3287][3293][3294] Losses their remedies. All weary and o'er-watch'd,[3287][3295] 165 Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold[3296] This shameful lodging.[3297] Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy wheel![3297] [_Sleeps._[3298] SCENE III. _A wood._ _Enter_ EDGAR.[3299] _Edg._ I heard myself proclaim'd;[3300] And by the happy hollow of a tree Escaped the hunt. No port is free; no place, That guard and most unusual vigilance[3301] Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape[3302] 5 I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape[3303] That ever penury in contempt of man Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots,[3304] 10 And with presented nakedness out-face The winds and persecutions of the sky.[3305] The country gives me proof and precedent[3306] Of Bedlam beggars, who with roaring voices Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms[3307] 15 Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;[3308] And with this horrible object, from low farms,[3309] Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes and mills,[3310] Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,[3311] Enforce their charity. Poor Turlygod! poor Tom![3312] 20 That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am. [_Exit._ SCENE IV. _Before Gloucester's castle. Kent in the stocks._ _Enter_ LEAR, Fool, _and_ Gentleman.[3313] _Lear._ 'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,[3314] And not send back my messenger.[3315] _Gent._ As I learn'd,[3316] The night before there was no purpose in them[3316][3317] Of this remove.[3316][3318] _Kent._ Hail to thee, noble master! _Lear._ Ha![3319][3320] 5 Makest thou this shame thy pastime?[3320] _Kent._ No, my lord.[3321] _Fool._ Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied[3322][3323] by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the[3322][3324] loins, and men by the legs: when a man's over-lusty at[3322][3325] legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks.[3322][3326] 10 _Lear._ What's he that hath so much thy place mistook[3327] To set thee here?[3327] _Kent._ It is both he and she;[3328] Your son and daughter.[3328] _Lear._ No. _Kent._ Yes. 15 _Lear._ No, I say. _Kent._ I say, yea.[3329] _Lear._ No, no, they would not.[3330] _Kent._ Yes, they have.[3330] _Lear._ By Jupiter, I swear, no. 20 _Kent._ By Juno, I swear, ay.[3331] _Lear._ They durst not do't;[3332] They could not, would not do't; 'tis worse than murder,[3332][3333] To do upon respect such violent outrage: Resolve me with all modest haste which way Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,[3334] 25 Coming from us. _Kent._ My lord, when at their home I did commend your highness' letters to them, Ere I was risen from the place that show'd[3335] My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,[3336] Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth[3337] 30 From Goneril his mistress salutations;[3338] Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,[3339] Which presently they read: on whose contents[3340] They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse;[3341] Commanded me to follow and attend 35 The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks: And meeting here the other messenger,[3342] Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine-- Being the very fellow that of late[3343] Display'd so saucily against your highness-- 40 Having more man than wit about me, drew:[3344] He raised the house with loud and coward cries. Your son and daughter found this trespass worth The shame which here it suffers.[3345] _Fool._ Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.[3346][3347] 45 Fathers that wear rags[3346][3348] Do make their children blind;[3346][3348] But fathers that bear bags[3346][3348] Shall see their children kind.[3346][3348] Fortune, that arrant whore,[3346][3348] 50 Ne'er turns the key to the poor.[3346][3348] But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy[3346][3349][3350] daughters as thou canst tell in a year.[3346][3349] _Lear._ O, how this mother swells up toward my heart! Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,[3351] 55 Thy element's below! Where is this daughter? _Kent._ With the earl, sir, here within.[3352][3353] _Lear._ Follow me not; stay here. [_Exit._[3352][3354] _Gent._ Made you no more offence but what you speak of?[3355] _Kent._ None.[3356][3357] 60 How chance the king comes with so small a train?[3357][3358] _Fool._ An thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that[3359][3360] question, thou hadst well deserved it.[3361] _Kent._ Why, fool? _Fool._ We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee 65 there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow their[3360][3362] noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not[3362] a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking. Let[3363] go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that[3364] 70 goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man[3365] gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it. That sir which serves and seeks for gain,[3366][3367] And follows but for form,[3367] 75 Will pack when it begins to rain,[3367][3368] And leave thee in the storm.[3367][3369] But I will tarry; the fool will stay,[3367][3370] And let the wise man fly:[3367][3371] The knave turns fool that runs away;[3367][3372] 80 The fool no knave, perdy.[3367][3372] _Kent._ Where learned you this, fool? _Fool._ Not i' the stocks, fool.[3360][3373] _Re-enter_ LEAR, _with_ GLOUCESTER.[3374] _Lear._ Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?[3375] They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;[3376][3377] 85 The images of revolt and flying off.[3377][3378] Fetch me a better answer.[3379] _Glou._ My dear lord,[3380] You know the fiery quality of the duke;[3380] How unremoveable and fix'd he is[3380] In his own course.[3380] 90 _Lear._ Vengeance! plague! death! confusion![3380][3381] Fiery? what quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,[3380][3382] I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.[3380] _Glou._ Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so.[3383] _Lear._ Inform'd them! Dost thou understand me, man?[3383] 95 _Glou._ Ay, my good lord. _Lear._ The king would speak with Cornwall; the dear father[3384] Would with his daughter speak, commands her service:[3385] Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood![3386] 'Fiery'? 'the fiery duke'? Tell the hot duke that--[3387] 100 No, but not yet: may be he is not well:[3388] Infirmity doth still neglect all office[3389] Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves[3389][3390] When nature being oppress'd commands the mind[3389][3391] To suffer with the body: I'll forbear;[3389] 105 And am fall'n out with my more headier will,[3392] To take the indisposed and sickly fit[3393] For the sound man. [_Looking on Kent_] Death on my state! wherefore[3393][3394] Should he sit here? This act persuades me[3393][3395] That this remotion of the duke and her[3393] 110 Is practice only. Give me my servant forth.[3396] Go tell the duke and's wife I'ld speak with them,[3397] Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me, Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum Till it cry sleep to death.[3398] 115 _Glou._ I would have all well betwixt you. [_Exit._[3399] _Lear._ O me, my heart, my rising heart! But down![3400] _Fool._ Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels[3401] when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the[3402] coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down, wantons, down!' 120 'Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered[3403] his hay. _Re-enter_ GLOUCESTER, _with_ CORNWALL, REGAN, _and_ Servants.[3404] _Lear._ Good morrow to you both. _Corn._ Hail to your grace! [_Kent is set at liberty._[3405] _Reg._ I am glad to see your highness. _Lear._ Regan, I think you are; I know what reason[3406] 125 I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,[3407] I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,[3408] Sepulchring an adultress. [_To Kent_] O, are you free?[3409] Some other time for that. Beloved Regan, Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied[3410][3411] 130 Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here:[3410] [_Points to his heart._[3412] I can scarce speak to thee; thou'lt not believe[3413] With how depraved a quality--O Regan![3414] _Reg._ I pray you, sir, take patience: I have hope[3415] You less know how to value her desert 135 Than she to scant her duty.[3416] _Lear._ Say, how is that?[3417][3418] _Reg._ I cannot think my sister in the least[3417] Would fail her obligation: if, sir, perchance[3417][3419] She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,[3417] 'Tis on such ground and to such wholesome end[3417] 140 As clears her from all blame.[3417] _Lear._ My curses on her! _Reg._ O, sir, you are old; Nature in you stands on the very verge[3420][3421] Of her confine: you should be ruled and led[3420][3422] By some discretion that discerns your state[3420] 145 Better than you yourself. Therefore I pray you[3420][3423] That to our sister you do make return;[3420] Say you have wrong'd her, sir. _Lear._ Ask her forgiveness?[3424] Do you but mark how this becomes the house:[3425] [Kneeling] 'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;[3426] 150 Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed and food.' _Reg._ Good sir, no more; these are unsightly tricks: Return you to my sister. _Lear._ [_Rising_] Never, Regan:[3427] She hath abated me of half my train; 155 Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,[3428] Most serpent-like, upon the very heart: All the stored vengeances of heaven fall[3429] On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,[3429][3430] You taking airs, with lameness.[3429] _Corn._ Fie, sir, fie![3431] 160 _Lear._ You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames[3432] Into her scornful eyes. Infect her beauty, You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun[3433] To fall and blast her pride.[3433][3434] _Reg._ O the blest gods! so will you wish on me,[3435] 165 When the rash mood is on.[3435][3436] _Lear._ No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse: Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give[3437][3438] Thee o'er to harshness: her eyes are fierce, but thine[3438][3439] Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee[3438] 170 To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,[3438] To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes, And in conclusion to oppose the bolt Against my coming in: thou better know'st[3440] The offices of nature, bond of childhood, 175 Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude;[3441] Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot,[3442] Wherein I thee endow'd. _Reg._ Good sir, to the purpose.[3443] _Lear._ Who put my man i' the stocks? [_Tucket within._[3444] _Corn._ What trumpet's that? _Reg._ I know't; my sister's: this approves her letter,[3445] 180 That she would soon be here. _Enter_ OSWALD.[3446] Is your lady come? _Lear._ This is a slave whose easy-borrow'd pride[3447] Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.[3448] Out, varlet, from my sight! _Corn._ What means your grace? _Lear._ Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope[3449] 185 Thou didst not know on't. Who comes here? _Enter_ GONERIL.[3450] O heavens, If you do love old men, if your sweet sway[3451][3452] Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,[3451][3453] Make it your cause; send down, and take my part![3451] [_To Gon._] Art not ashamed to look upon this beard?[3454] 190 O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?[3455] _Gon._ Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended? All's not offence that indiscretion finds[3456] And dotage terms so. _Lear._ O sides, you are too tough; Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks?[3457] 195 _Corn._ I set him there, sir: but his own disorders[3458] Deserved much less advancement.[3459] _Lear._ You! did you? _Reg._ I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.[3460] If, till the expiration of your month,[3461] You will return and sojourn with my sister, 200 Dismissing half your train, come then to me: I am now from home and out of that provision[3462] Which shall be needful for your entertainment. _Lear._ Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd? No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose 205 To wage against the enmity o' the air,[3463][3464] To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,--[3463][3465] Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her? Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took[3466][3467] Our youngest born, I could as well be brought[3467] 210 To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pension beg[3468] To keep base life afoot. Return with her? Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter To this detested groom. [_Pointing at Oswald._[3469] _Gon._ At your choice, sir. _Lear._ I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:[3470] 215 I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell: We'll no more meet, no more see one another: But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter; Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,[3471] Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,[3472] 220 A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,[3473][3474] In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee;[3473] Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:[3475] I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,[3476] Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:[3477] 225 Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure: I can be patient; I can stay with Regan, I and my hundred knights. _Reg._ Not altogether so:[3478][3479] I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided[3478][3480] For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;[3478][3481] 230 For those that mingle reason with your passion[3478][3482] Must be content to think you old, and so--[3483] But she knows what she does. _Lear._ Is this well spoken?[3484] _Reg._ I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?[3485] Is it not well? What should you need of more? 235 Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger[3486] Speak 'gainst so great a number? How in one house[3487] Should many people under two commands Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible.[3488] _Gon._ Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance 240 From those that she calls servants or from mine? _Reg._ Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack you,[3489] We could control them. If you will come to me,[3490] For now I spy a danger, I entreat you[3491] To bring but five and twenty: to no more[3492] 245 Will I give place or notice. _Lear._ I gave you all--[3493] _Reg._ And in good time you gave it. _Lear._ Made you my guardians, my depositaries, But kept a reservation to be follow'd[3494] With such a number. What, must I come to you[3495] 250 With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?[3496] _Reg._ And speak't again, my lord; no more with me.[3497] _Lear._ Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd,[3498][3499] When others are more wicked; not being the worst[3498][3500] Stands in some rank of praise. [_To Gon._] I'll go with thee:[3501] 255 Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty, And thou art twice her love.[3502] _Gon._ Hear me, my lord: What need you five and twenty, ten, or five, To follow in a house where twice so many Have a command to tend you? _Reg._ What need one?[3503] 260 _Lear._ O, reason not the need: our basest beggars[3504] Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;[3505] If only to go warm were gorgeous, 265 Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,[3506] Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need,--[3507] You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need![3508] You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,[3509] As full of grief as age; wretched in both: 270 If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts[3510] Against their father, fool me not so much[3511] To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,[3512] And let not women's weapons, water-drops,[3513] Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, 275 I will have such revenges on you both[3514] That all the world shall--I will do such things,--[3515] What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep;[3516] No, I'll not weep:[3517] 280 I have full cause of weeping; but this heart[3517][3518] Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,[3517][3519] Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad! [_Exeunt Lear, Gloucester, Kent, and Fool._[3520] _Corn._ Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm. [_Storm and tempest._[3521][3522] _Reg._ This house is little: the old man and his people[3522][3523] 285 Cannot be well bestow'd.[3522][3524] _Gon._ 'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest,[3522][3525] And must needs taste his folly.[3522][3526] _Reg._ For his particular, I'll receive him gladly, But not one follower. _Gon._ So am I purposed.[3527][3528] 290 Where is my lord of Gloucester?[3528] _Corn._ Follow'd the old man forth: he is return'd.[3529] _Re-enter_ GLOUCESTER. _Glou._ The king is in high rage. _Corn._ Whither is he going?[3530][3531] _Glou._ He calls to horse; but will I know not whither.[3530][3532] _Corn._ 'Tis best to give him way; he leads himself.[3533] 295 _Gon._ My lord, entreat him by no means to stay. _Glou._ Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds[3534] Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about[3535][3536] There's scarce a bush.[3535][3537] _Reg._ O, sir, to wilful men The injuries that they themselves procure 300 Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors: He is attended with a desperate train; And what they may incense him to, being apt[3538] To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear. _Corn._ Shut up your doors, my lord; 'tis a wild night:[3539] 305 My Regan counsels well: come out o' the storm. [_Exeunt._[3540] FOOTNOTES: [3061] ACT II. SCENE I.] ACT II. SCENE II. Eccles. The ... castle.] A Castle belonging to the Earl of Gloster. Rowe. A Room in Gloster's Castle. Capell. A court within the castle of the earl of Gloster. Malone. Enter ... meeting.] Enter Bastard, and Curan meetes him. Q₁ Q₃. Enter Bast. and Curan meeting. Q₂. Enter Bastard, and Curan, severally. Ff. [3062] Edm.] Bast. Qq Ff. [3063] _And ... night._] Prose in Qq. Four lines, ending _bin ... notice ... Duchesse ... night,_ in Ff. [3064] _you_] _your_ F₁. [3065] _Regan_] Omitted in Qq. [3066] _this night_] Ff. _to night_ Qq. [3067] _they_] Ff. _there_ Qq. [3068] _ear-kissing_] Ff. _eare-bussing_ Qq. [3069] _Not I: pray_] Ff. _Not, I pray_ Qq. [3070] Cur. _Have ... word._] Omitted in Q₁ Q₃. [3071] _Have ... Albany?_] Prose in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _toward,_ in Ff. [3072] _toward_] Ff. _towards_ Q₂. [3073] _the_] Ff. _the two_ Q₂. [3074] _You ... sir._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _do_] om. Qq. [Exit.] om. Q₂. [3075] SCENE II. Pope. [3076] _The duke ... consort._] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3077] _better! best!_] Pope. _better best,_ Qq Ff. _better, best,_ Rowe. [3078] _queasy_] _quesie_ Qq. _queazie_ F₁ F₃. _queazy_ F₂ F₄. [3079] _Which ... work_] _Which must aske breefenesse and fortune helpe_ Qq (_breefnes_ Q₂). _Which must aske breefnes and fortune's helpe._ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). [3080] Enter Edgar.] To him, enter Edgar. Theobald. Enter Edgar. After _which_, line 18, in Q₁ Q₃; opposite line 15 in Q₂; after _worke_, line 18, in Ff. [3081] _sir_] om. Qq. [3082] _You have_] _You've_ Pope. [3083] _'gainst_] Ff. _gainst_ Q₂. _against_ Q₁ Q₃. _Cornwall?_] _Cornwall ought,_ Qq. [3084] _hither_] _hether_ Qq. _i' the night_] _i' th' night_ Ff (_ith'_ F₂). _in the night_ Qq. _i' the haste_] _haste_ Pope. _in haste_ Hanmer. [3085] _Upon ... 'gainst_] _Against his party, for_ Johnson conj. _'gainst_] _against_ Qq. [3086] _yourself._] _your--_ Qq. _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. [3087] _me: In cunning_] Ff. _me in crauing_ Qq. [3088] _Draw:_] Omitted in Qq. _Draw ... well._] One line in Capell. Two, the first ending _your selfe_, in Ff. [3089] _ho,_] _hoa,_ Ff. _heere,_ Q₁ Q₃. _here,_ Q₂. [3090] _brother_] _brother flie_ Qq. _Torches, torches_] Qq F₁. _Torches_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [Exit Edgar.] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [3091] [Wounds his arm.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [3092] _I have_] _I've_ Pope. [3093] _Father, father_] _Why, father, father_ Capell. _Father, father, father_ Keightley. [3094] and ... torches.] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [3095] SCENE III. Pope. _where's_] _where is_ Q₂. [3096] _Mumbling_] Ff. _warbling_ Qq. _stand's_] Q₂. _stand his_ Q₁ Q₃. _stand_ Ff. _mistress_.] _mistress_:--Capell. _mistress_,--Dyce (reading _stand_ with Ff). [3097] _villain, Edmund_] _villaine Edmund_ Q₂. [3098] _sir. When_] Capell. _sir, when_ Qq Ff. _could_--] Qq F₃ F₄. _could_. F₁. _could_ F₂. [3099] _ho_] om. Qq. _after.... By_] _after. By_ Ff. _after, by_ Q₁ Q₂. _after him, by_ Q₃. [Exeunt some Servants.] Dyce. Exit Servant. Capell. om. Qq Ff. [3100] _revenging_] Ff. _revengive_ Qq. [3101] _their thunders_] Qq. _the thunder_ Ff. _their thunder_ Heath conj. [3102] _in fine_] Ff. _in a fine_ Qq. [3103] _in_] Ff. _with_ Qq. [3104] _lanced_] _lanc'd_ Theobald. _launcht_ Q₁ Q₃. _lancht_ Q₂. _latch'd_ Ff. _mine_] _my_ Theobald. [3105] _But when_] Qq. _And when_ Ff. _But whether_ Collier (Collier MS.) _alarum'd_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _alarumd_ Qq. _alarm'd_ F₄. _alarmed_ Rowe. [3106] _quarrel's right_] _quarrels, rights_ Q₂. [3107] _gasted_] '_gasted_ Capell. '_ghasted_ Jennens. [3108] _Full_] Ff. _but_ Qq. [3109] _And found--dispatch._] Steevens. _and found; dispatch,_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _and found, dispatch,_ Q₂. _and found; dispatch_-- Pope. _for dispatch_ Hanmer. _and found, dispatch'd._--Warburton. _Unfound; dispatch._--Singer conj. (withdrawn). _And found,--! Dispatch_-- Brae conj. [3110] _worthy_] _worth_ F₄. _arch and patron_] and _arch-patron_ Theobald. _arch-patron_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [3111] _which_] _who_ Theobald (ed. 2). [3112] _caitiff_] _caytiffe_ Q₁ Q₃. _caytife_ Q₂. _coward_ Ff. [3113] _death._] _shall abide the death._ Seymour conj. [3114] _could the reposure_.... _Make_] _the reposal.... Would make_ Hanmer. [3115] _could the reposure_] Qq. _would the reposall_ Ff (_reposal_ F₃ F₄). [3116] _what I should_] Qq. _what should I_ Ff. _by what I should_ Rowe. _what I'd_ Hanmer. _when I should_ Warburton. [3117] _ay_, _though_] _I though_ Qq. _though_ Ff. _although_ Rowe (ed. 2). [3118] _I'ld_] _I'll_ F₄. _would_ Hanmer. [3119] _damned practice_] _damn'd pretense_ Collier conj. _practice_] F₃ F₄. _practise_ F₁ F₂. _pretence_ Qq. [3120] _must_] _maist_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). [3121] _very_] om. Steevens's reprint of Q₁. See note (IX). _spurs_] _spurres_ Qq. _spirits_ Ff. [3122] _Strong and fasten'd_] _Strong and fastened_ Q₁. _Strong and fastned_ Q₂ Q₃. _O strange and fastned_ Ff. _O strange, fasten'd_ Pope. _Strange, and fasten'd_ Capell MS. [3123] _I never got him._] Qq. _said he?_ Ff. _said he? hark!_ Hanmer. [Tucket within.] Ff (after _seek it_, line 77). Omitted in Qq. Trumpets within. Rowe. [3124] _why_] Qq. _wher_ F₁. _where_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _wher'_ Knight. [3125] _due_] Ff. om. Qq. [3126] Enter ...] Ff. Enter the Duke of Cornwall. Qq. [3127] SCENE IV. Pope. [3128] _strange news_] _strange newes_ Qq. _strangenesse_ F₁ F₂. _strangeness_ F₃ F₄. [3129] _dost_] Qq F₁. _does_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [3130] _O, madam,_] Omitted in Qq. _is ... is_] Qq. _is ... it's_ Ff. [3131] _named? your Edgar?_] _nam'd, your Edgar?_ Ff. _named your Edgar?_ Q₁ Q₂. _named your Edgar._ Q₃. _nam'd, your Edgar? He?_ Hanmer. _nam'd? your heir, your Edgar?_ Collier (Collier MS.) _nam'd? your Edgar, Gloster?_ Lettsom conj. [3132] _O_] Ff. _I_ Qq. _Ay_ Anon. conj. _it_] om. Q₃. [3133] _not_] om. Collier MS. [3134] _tend upon_] Theobald. _tends upon_ Qq. _tended upon_ Ff. _tended on_ Hanmer. [3135] _'tis_] _it is_ Capell, ending lines 95, 96 _at madam ... was_. [3136] _madam_] _madam, yes_ Collier (Collier MS.) _of that consort_] Ff. Omitted in Qq and Capell. _one of that consort_ Dyce conj. [3137] _the waste and spoil of his_] _the wast and spoyle of his_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _these--and waste of this his_ Q₁ Q₃. _these--and wast of this his_ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) _th' expence and wast of his_ F₁. _th' expence and wast of_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [3138] _That ... there._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3139] _Nor ... office._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3140] _assure_] _I assure_ Theobald (ed. 2). [3141] _hear_] F₃ F₄. _heare_ F₁ F₂. _heard_ Qq. [3142] _'Twas_] _Twas_ Qq. _It was_ F₁ F₂. _It is_ F₃ F₄. _It's_ Pope. [3143] _bewray_] Ff. _betray_ Qq. [3144] _lord_] _lord, he is_ Hanmer. [3145] _If he ... seize on._] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3146] _For_] Qq F₁. _as for_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Edmund_] _good Edmund_ Keightley. [3147] _doth this instant_] _in this instance_ Warburton. _doth, in this instance_ Jennens (Heath conj.) _doth, at this instant_ Capell conj. [3148] _commend_] _commends_ Warburton. [3149] _need: You we_] Ff. _need, you we_ Q₁ Q₃. _need you, we_ Q₂. [3150] _I shall ... else._] Arranged as by Pope. One line in Qq Ff. [3151] _sir_] Ff. om. Qq and Jennens, who ends the line at _truly_. [3152] _For him_] om. Pope. [3153] _came_] _come_ Capell conj. _you,--_] _you--_ Rowe (ed. 1). _you?_ Qq F₁ F₂. _you._ F₃ F₄. _you_ Rowe (ed. 2), continuing the next line to 'Corn.' [3154] _threading_] _thredding_ Ff. _threatning_ Qq. _treading_ Theobald conj. [3155] _poise_] _poyse_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _prize_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _prise_ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) _price_ Capell (Johnson conj.) [3156] _advice_:] _advices_: Capell. After this Keightley marks a line omitted. [3157] _differences_] Ff. _diferences_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _defences_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Q₃. _least_] Edd. _lest_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) _best_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Ff Q₃. See note (VIII). [3158] _home_] Q₂ (Bodl. 1, 2. Mus. per. and imp.) Ff. _hand_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. and Dev.) Q₃. [3159] _Lay ... use._] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _counsell_, in Qq. [3160] _business_] _businesse_ Q₁ Q₃. _busines_ Q₂. _businesses_ Ff. [3161] _craves_] Qq Ff. _crave_ Rowe. [Exit. Q₁ Q₃. Exeunt. Q₂. [3162] _I serve ... welcome._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3163] [Flourish. Exeunt.] Exeunt. Flourish. F₁. Exeunt. F₂ F₃ F₄. om. Qq. [3164] SCENE II.] SCENE V. Pope. Rowe and Theobald continue the Scene. SCENE III. Eccles. Before....] Before the Castle. Capell. Enter....] Collier. Enter Kent, and Steward severally. Ff. Enter Kent, and Steward. Qq. [3165] Osw.] Collier. Steward. or Stew. Qq Ff. [3166] _dawning_] Ff. _euen_ Qq (_deuen_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1)). _evening_ Pope. _downing_ Warburton. _awning_ Jackson conj. _this_] Ff. _the_ Qq. [3167] _I' the_] _I' th'_ F₁. _It'h_ Q₂. _I th'_ F₂ F₃ F₄. In the Q₁ Q₃. [3168] _Prithee_] _Prythee_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _Prethee_ Qq F₂. _lovest_] _lov'st_ Ff. _love_ Qq. [3169] _Lipsbury_] _Ledbury_ Jennens conj. _Finsbury_ Collier (Collier MS.) _I would_] _I'd_ Capell MS. [3170] _three suited_] _third-suited_ Farmer conj. _tree-suited_ Jackson conj. _thread-suited_ Anon. conj. _three-suited, hundred-pound_] _three shewted hundred pound_ Qq (_snyted_ Q₂ Bodl. 1). _three-suited-hundred pound_ F₁. _three-suited, hundred pound_ F₂ F₃ F₄ (_thre_ F₃). [3171] _worsted-stocking_] _worsted-stocken_ Qq (_wosted stocken_ Q₂ Bodl. 1). _woosted-stocking_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _woosted stocking_ F₄. [3172] _knave; a_] om. Ff. _superservicable, finical_] _super-finicall_ Qq. [3173] _one-trunk-inheriting_] F₃ F₄. _one trunke-inheriting_ F₁ F₂. No hyphen in Qq. [3174] _one_] Ff. om. Qq. [3175] _clamorous_] Qq F₃ F₄. _clamours_ F₁ F₂. _deniest_] _deny'st_ Ff. _deny_ Q₁ Q₃. _denie_ Q₂. _thy_] Ff. _the_ Qq. [3176] _Why_] Ff. om. Qq. [3177] _on one_] _against one_ Capell MS. _that is_] Ff. _that's_ Qq. [3178] _ago_] om. Ff. [3179] _tripped ... thee_] _tript ... thee_ Ff. _beate thee, and tript up thy heeles_ Qq (_beat_ Q₂). [3180] _yet_] Ff. om. Qq. [3181] _sop_] _fop_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _o' the_] _o' th'_ F₃ F₄. _oth'_ F₁ F₂. _of the_ Qq. _of you_] Ff. _a' you_ Qq. _draw_] Qq. om. Ff. _cullionly_] _cullyonly_ Q₁ Q₂. _cullyenly_ F₁ F₂. _cully only_ Q₃. _culleinly_ F₃ F₄. [3182] [Drawing his sword.] Rowe. [3183] _come with_] Ff. _bring_ Qq. [3184] _royalty of her_] _royalty, her_ Capell. [3185] _shanks:_] _shankes,_ Qq Ff. _shanks--_ Rowe. [3186] _rogue; stand, you_] _rogue, stand you_ Qq Ff. _rogue, stand; you_ Steevens (1778). [3187] [Beating him.] Rowe. [3188] _murder! murder!_] _murther, murther._ Ff. _murther, helpe._ Qq. Enter....] Edd. (Globe ed.) Enter Edmund with his Rapier drawne, Glocester, the Duke and Dutchesse. Qq (Gloster Q₂). Enter Bastard, Cornewall, Regan, Gloster, Servants. Ff (Servant. F₂ F₃ F₄). Enter Edmund. Stauton (Dyce). [3189] SCENE VI. Pope. [3190] Edm.] Bast. Qq Ff. [3191] [Parting them.] Edd. _Part._ Ff. om. Qq. See note (X). [3192] _an_] Staunton. _and_ Qq. _if_ Ff. [3193] _flesh_] Ff. _fleash_ Qq. _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff. Enter Cornwall, Regan, Gloucester, and Servants. Staunton. Enter Gloster. Dyce (ed. 2). [3194] _Weapons! arms!_] Capell. _Weapons? Armes?_ Ff. _Weapons, armes,_ Qq. Enter Cornwall, Regan, and Servants. Dyce (ed. 2). [3195] _Keep ... matter?_] As in Cappell. Prose in Qq Ff. [3196] _What is_] Ff. _what's_ Qq. [3197] _messengers_] _messenger_ Grant White. _king._] Qq. _king?_ Ff. [3198] _What is_] Ff. _What's_ Q₁ Q₃. _Whats_ Q₂. _difference? speak._] Rowe. _difference, speake?_ Qq Ff. [3199] _No ... man?_] Prose in Qq Ff. Four lines, ending _valour, ... thee; ... fellow: ... man?_ in Capell. [3200] _in_] _all share in_ Rowe. [3201] _man?_] Ff. _man._ Qq. [3202] _Ay,_] _I,_ Qq. om. Ff. _sir:_] _sir;_ Q₂ F₂ F₃ F₄. _sir,_ Q₁ F₁ Q₃. [3203] _he_] Q₁ Q₃. _hee_ Q₂. _they_ Ff. [3204] _hours_] Q₃. _houres_ Q₁ Q₂. _yeares_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _years_ F₄. _at the_] Qq. _oth'_ F₁ F₂. _o' th'_ F₃ F₄. [3205] _yet_] _you_ Pope. [3206] _This ... spared_] Prose in Qq Ff. One line of verse in Capell. _ruffian_] _ruffen_ Q₂. [3207] _gray beard,--_] _gray beard—-_ Rowe. _gray-beard._ Qq F₁ F₂. _gray beard._ F₃ F₄. [3208] _zed!_] _C!_ Johnson conj. [3209] _you will_] _you'l_ Q₂. [3210] _walls_] _wals_ Q₁ Q₃. _walles_ Q₂. _wall_ Ff. _of a jakes_] _of a Iaques_ Q₁. _of a iaques_ Q₂. _of a Iakes_ F₁ F₂. _of Iaques_ Q₃. _of a Jakes_ F₃ F₄. [3211] _gray beard_] Q₂. _gray-beard_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. [3212] _Peace ... reverence?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3213] _sirrah_] Ff. _sir_ Qq. [3214] _know you no reverence?_] Ff. _you have no reverence._ Qq. [3215] _hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq. [3216] _Who_] Ff. _That_ Qq. _as these_] Put at the beginning of line 69 by Pope (reading _those_ as Qq). om. Hanmer. [3217] _the holy_] Ff. _those_ Qq. _those holy_ Jennens. _the boly_ Grimes conj. MS. _a-twain_ F₃ F₄. _a twaine_ F₁ F₂. _in twaine_ Qq. Malone would read with Qq, ending line 69, _which are_. [3218] _Which are too intrinse_] Malone. _Which are t' intrince,_ F₁. _Which art t' intrince,_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Which are to intrench,_ Qq. _Too intricate_ Pope. _Too 'intrinsecate_ Theobald. _Too intrinsick_ Hanmer. _Too intresse_ or _Too intrigue_ Singer conj. _to unloose;_] _t' unloose:_ Ff. _to inloose_ Qq. _to enloose_ Seymour conj. _smooth_] _sooth_ Pope. _smothe_ (i.e. _smother_) Becket conj. [3219] _natures_] _nature_ Pope. _rebel_] _rebels_ Pope. [3220] _Bring_] Qq. _Being_ Ff. _fire_] Ff. _stir_ Qq. _their_] Qq. _the_ Ff. [3221] _Renege_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Reneag_ Qq. _Revenge_ F₁. [3222] _gale_] _gall_ F₁. _vary_] _varry_ F₁. [3223] _Knowing ... fool?_] Two lines, the first ending _epeliptick,_ in Q₂. [3224] _Knowing_] _As knowing_ Pope. _And knowing_ Collier (Collier MS.) _Knowing of_ Anon. conj. _nought_] Qq. _naught_ Ff. _dogs_] F₄. _dogges_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _daies_ Q₁ Q₂. _dayes_ Q₂. [3225] _Smile you_] F₄. _Smoile you_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃ F₃. _smoyle you_ Q₂. _Smile at_ Collier MS. _Smile you at_ Keightley. [3226] _if_] Q₁ Ff Q₃. _and_ Q₂. [3227] _drive ye_] Ff. _send you_ Qq. _drive you_ Capell. _Camelot_] Ff. _Camulot_ Qq. [3228] _What, ... out?_] As one line in Steevens (1793). [3229] _out? say that._] Pope. _out, say that?_ Qq Ff. _say that._] om. Seymour conj. [3230] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _What is his fault_] Ff. _What's his offence_ Qq. [3231] _does_] Q₂. _do's_ Ff. _doth_ Q₁ Q₃. _nor ... nor_] Ff. _or ... or_ Qq. [3232] _Than_] Q₁. _Then_ Ff Q₃. _That_ Q₂. _stands_] _stand_ Pope. [3233] _This ... nicely._] As in Ff. Nine lines, ending _praised ... ruffines, ... nature, ... plaine, ... so, ... know, ... craft, ... ducking ... nicely,_ in Qq. [3234] _some_] Ff. _a_ Qq. [3235] _roughness_] _ruffines_ Qq. [3236] _cannot_] _can't_ Pope. [3237] _An ... plain_] _he must be plaine_ Qq. [3238] _An_] Pope. _And_ Ff. _and_ Qq. _take it, so_] Rowe. _take it so_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _tak't so_ Q₂. [3239] _plainness_] A full stop here in F₂ F₃ F₄. [3240] _more_] _far_ Pope. [3241] _silly_] _silky_ Hanmer (Warburton). _silly ducking_] Qq. _silly-ducking_ Ff. [3242] _faith, in_] Ff. _sooth, or in_ Qq. [3243] _great_] Ff. _grand_ Q₁ Q₃. _graund_ Q₂. [3244] _On_] Ff. _In_ Qq. _Or_ Rowe. _flickering_] Pope. _flitkering_ Q₁ Q₂. _fletkering_ Q₃. _flicking_ Ff. _front,--_] _front--_ Rowe. _front._ Qq Ff. _by_] _thou by_ Qq. [3245] _dialect_] Ff. _dialogue_ Qq. [3246] _he_] _but he_ Hanmer. _beguiled_] _beguil'd_ F₃ F₄. _beguild_ The rest. [3247] _to entreat_] _that entreat_ Badham conj. [3248] _to't_] F₃ F₄. _too't_ Q₂ F₁ F₂. _to it_ Q₁ Q₃. [3249] _What was_] Ff. _What's_ Qq. [3250] _I ... any_] _Never any_ Hanmer. [3251] _I ... misconstruction;_] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _master,_ in Qq. [3252] _late_] _lately_ Rowe. [3253] _misconstruction_] _misinstruction_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). [3254] _conjunct_] _coniunct_ Qq. _compact_ Ff. [3255] _man, That_] Ff. _man, that That_ Q₁ Q₃. _man, that, That_ Q₂. _man That't_ Anon. conj. [3256] _fleshment_] Ff. _flechuent_ Q₁ Q₂. _flechvent_ Q₃. _dread_] Qq. _dead_ Ff. _dear_ Anon. conj. [3257] _again_] om. Steevens (1793). [3258] _None ... fool_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3259] _Ajax_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _A'Iax_ Qq. _Aiax_ F₁. _their_] _there_ F₁. _fool_] _foil_ Hanmer (Warburton). _Fetch ... stocks!_] _Fetch ... stocks?_ Ff (_stockes?_ F₂). _Bring ... stockes ho?_ Qq. _Fetch ... stocks, ho!_ Steevens (1778). [3260] _stubborn ancient_] _stubborn-ancient_ S. Walker conj. _ancient_] Ff. _miscreant_ Qq (_ausrent_ Q₂ Bodl. 1). _reverend_] _rev'rend_ Pope. _reverent_ Q₂ Ff. _unreverent_ Q₁. _unreverant_ Q₃. [3261] _you--_] Theobald, _you._ Qq Ff. _Sir,_] Ff. om. Qq. [3262] _Sir, I am ... you_] As in Ff. _I am ... you_ As two lines, the first ending _me,_ in Qq. [3263] _employment_] _imployment_ Ff. _imploiments_ Q₁. _imployments_ Q₂ Q₃. [3264] _shall_] Ff. _should_ Qq. _respect_] Qq. _respects_ Ff. [3265] _Stocking_] Ff. _Stopping_ Qq. [3266] _Fetch ... noon._] As in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _stocks;_ in Ff. [3267] _stocks!_] _stockes?_ Q₂. _stockes;_ Q₁ F₂. _stocks;_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _and honour_] om. Hanmer. [3268] _noon!_] _noone?_ Ff. _noone._ Qq. [3269] _Why, ... so._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3270] _should_] Ff. _could_ Q₁ Q₂. _cold_ Q₃. [3271] _self-same colour_] _same nature_ Q₁ Q₃. _selfe same nature_ Q₂. [3272] _speaks of_] _speakes off_ Q₁ Q₃. _speake of_ Q₂. _Come_] om. Pope. [Stocks brought out.] As in Dyce. After line 132 in Ff. Omitted in Qq. [3273] _His ... restrain'd._] See note (XI). [3274] _basest_] _belest_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _contemned'st_] Capell. _temnest_ Qq (_contaned_ Q₂ Bodl. 1). _the meanest_ Pope. [3275] _he, so ... Should_] _he so ... Should_ F₁ F₂. _hee's so ... should_ Qq. _he's so ... Should_ F₃ F₄. _he's so ... To_ Rowe. [3276] _much more_] _yet much_ Hanmer. [3277] _gentleman_] _gentlemen_ Q₂. [3278] _For ... legs._] Omitted in Ff. [3279] _Put in his legs_] A stage-direction. Seymour conj. [Kent ...] As in Pope. After line 142 in Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [3280] _Come_] Qq. Corn. _Come_ Ff. _good lord_] Q₂. _lord_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _lord, let's_ Capell conj. MS. [Exeunt ...] Exeunt Cor. Reg. Edm. Ste. and Ser. Capell. Exit. Q₁ Ff Q₃. om. Q₂. Exeunt Regan and Cornwall. Pope. [3281] SCENE VI. Pope and Hanmer (a misprint). SCENE VII. Warburton. _I am_] _Im_ Pope. _duke's_] _duke_ F₁. [3282] _rubb'd_] _ruled_ Anon. conj. [3283] _Pray_] Ff. _Pray you_ Qq. _I have_] _I've_ Pope. _travelld_] _traveld_ F₃ F₄. _travaild_ Qq. _travaild_ F₁ F₂. [3284] _Some time_] _Sometime_ Q₂. _out_] _out_ Q₂. [3285] _The ... taken._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _to blame_] Q₂ F₃ F₄. _too blame_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃. _'twill ... taken._] [to Edm.] _'twill be ill taken._ Capell conj. MS. (withdrawn). _taken_] Ff. _tooke_ Qq. [Exit.] om. Q₂. Exeunt Gloster, Edmund, and Servants. Capell conj. MS. (withdrawn). [3286] _Thou_] _That_ Johnson. [3287] _Approach ... remedies._] Put in the margin by Hanmer. [3288] [Looking up to the moon. Pope. Addressing the absent sun, and wishing for its return. Rann (Malone conj.) [3289] _miracles_] Ff. _my wracke_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. & imp. and Bodl. 2) Q₃. _my rackles_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). [3290] _misery: I know_] _miserie. I know_ Ff. _misery, I know_ Qq. _misery, I know._--Jennens. [Reading the letter. Johnson. Opening the letter. Jennens. [3291] _most_] _not_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). [3292] _course; and_] _course. And_ Ff. _course, and_ Qq. _course. I_ Rowe. See note (XII). [3293] _shall ... From_] _she'll ... For_ Daniel conj. _shell ... From_ Staunton. [3294] _state, seeking_] _state-seeking_ Johnson conj. _states sinking_ Jackson conj. [3295] _o'er-watchd,_] _ore-watchd_ Ff. _ouer-watcht,_ Q₁ Q₃. _ouerwatch_ Q₂. _oer-watchd!_ S. Walker conj. [3296] _Take_] _Late_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). [3297] _This ... wheel!_] As in Pope. In Qq Ff the first line ends _goodnight._ [3298] _smile ... turn_] _Smile once more, turn_ Ff. _Smile, once more turne_ Q₁ Q₂. _Smile once more turne_ Q₃. [Sleeps.] sleepes. Q₂. He sleepes. Q₁ Q₃. om. Ff. [3299] SCENE III.] Steevens. SCENE VII. Pope. SCENE VIII. Johnson. SCENE IV. Eccles. The Folios, Rowe, Warburton, and Capell continue the scene. A wood.] Staunton. A part of a Heath. Theobald. A part of the heath. Steevens. A part of the neighbouring country. Eccles. The open country. Dyce. Enter Edgar.] Qq Ff. Enter Edgar, at a Distance. Capell. [3300] _I heard_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _I heare_ Qq. _I have heard_ F₄. _I've heard_ Pope. [3301] _unusual_] _unusall_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃. [3302] _Does_] _Do's_ Ff. _Dost_ Qq. _Doth_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). _taking. Whiles_] Ff. _taking while_ Qq. [3303] _most_] _the_ Pope. [3304] _elf_] _elfe_ F₁. _else_ Qq F₂. _put_ F₃ F₄. _tye_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _hair_] F₄. _haire_ Q₁ Q₂. _haires_ F₁ F₂. _heare_ Q₃. _hairs_ F₃. _in_] Ff. _with_ Qq. [3305] _winds_] F₃ F₄. _windes_ F₁ F₂. _winde_ Q₁. _wind_ Q₂ Q₃. _persecutions_] Ff. _persecution_ Qq. [3306] _precedent_] Johnson, _president_ Qq Ff. [3307] _Strike_] _Stick_ S. Walker conj. _and_] om. Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _bare_] Qq. om. Ff. [3308] _Pins_] _Pies_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _wooden_] Q₁ Q₂ F₃ F₄ _wodden_ Q₂ F₁ F₂. [3309] _from_] _frame_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _farms_] F₄. _farmes_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _seruice_ Qq. [3310] _sheep-cotes_] _sheep-coates_ Qq. _sheeps-coates_ F₁. _sheepes-coates_ F₂. _sheep's-coats_ F₃. _sheeps-coats_ F₄. _mills_] _miles_ Q₃. [3311] _Sometime_] Qq. _Sometimes_ Ff. _sometime_] Qq F₁. _sometimes_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [3312] _their_] _reer_ Warburton conj. _Turlygod_] _Tuelygod_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _Turlygood_ Theobald. _Turlurù_ Hanmer. _Turlupin_ Warburton conj. [3313] SCENE IV.] Steevens. SCENE VIII. Pope. SCENE IX. Warburton (an error). SCENE IX. Johnson. Ff, Rowe and Capell continue the Scene. Before ... castle.] Changes again to the Earl of Glo'ster's Castle. Pope. Kent ...] Dyce. Enter ...] Ff. Enter King, and a Knight. Q₁ Q₃. Enter King. Q₂. [3314] _home_] Ff. _hence_ Qq. [3315] _messenger_] _messengers_ F₁ F₂. [3316] _As I ... remove._] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _was_, in Qq. [3317] _in them_] Ff. om. Qq. [3318] _this_] Ff. _his_ Qq. [3319] _Ha!_] _Ha?_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Ha_, F₄. _How_, Qq. [3320] _Ha!... pastime?_] Arranged as by Steevens (1793), who reads, _How!_ One line in Qq Ff. _thy_] _ahy_ F₁. [3321] _this_] om. Pope. _thy_ Theobald. Kent. _No, my lord._] Omitted in Qq. [3322] _Ha, ... nether-stocks._] Prose in Ff. Five lines in Qq. [3323] _he_] Ff. _looke, he_ Qq. _cruel_] _cruell_ F₁ F₂. _crewell_ Q₁ Q₂. _crewill_ Q₃. _crewel_ F₃ F₄. _tied_] _tide tide_ F₂. [3324] _heads_] Ff. _heeles_ Qq. _head_ Boswell. [3325] _man's_] Q₁ Q₃. _mans_ Q₂. _man_ F₁. _man is_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [3326] _then_] _hen_ Q₁. _When_ Q₃. _wooden_] _wodden_ F₁ F₂. _nether-stocks_] _neather-stockes_ Q₁. _neatherstockes_ Q₂. _neather-stocke_ Q₃. _nether socks_ Heath conj. [3327] _What's ... here?_] As in Rowe. Prose in Qq. Three lines in Ff. [3328] _It ... daughter._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3329] _I say, yea._] _But I say, yea._ Hanmer. [3330] Lear. _No ... have._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [3331] Kent. _By ... ay._ Lear.] Omitted in Qq. [3332] _do't ... do't_] _do it ... do it_ Q₁ Q₃. [3333] _could ... would_] Ff. _would ... could_ Qq. [3334] _mightst_] _maist_ Q₁ Q₃. _may'st_ Q₂.] _impose_] Ff. _purpose_ Qq. [3335] _show'd_] _shew'd_ Pope. _shewed_ Qq Ff. [3336] _came there_] _came_ Pope. _there came_ Jennens (a misprint). [3337] _panting_] _painting_ F₁. [3338] _salutations_] Qq F₁. _salutation_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [3339] _Deliver'd_] Ff. _Delivered_ Qq. [3340] _whose_] Qq. _those_ Ff. [3341] _meiny_] F₃ F₄. _meiney_ F₁ F₂. _men_ Qq. [3342] _And_] _I,_ Jennens. [3343] _that_] Qq. _which_ Ff. [3344] _drew_] _I drew_ Rowe. [3345] _The shame_] Ff. _This shame_ Qq. [3346] Fool. _Winters ... year._] Omitted in Qq. [3347] _Winter's_] F₃ F₄. _Winters_ F₁ F₂. _wild_] _wil'd_ F₁. [3348] _Fathers ... poor._] As in Pope. Three lines in Ff. [3349] _this, ... daughters_] _this, it follows ... daughters dear_ Collier (Collier MS.), reading 52, 53 as four lines of rhyme. [3350] _for thy_] F₁. _for thy deare_ F₂. _for thy dear_ F₃ F₄. _from thy dear_ Theobald. [3351] _Hysterica_] F₄. _Historica_ Qq F₁ F₂. _Hystorica_ F₃. [3352] _With ... not;_] As in Qq Ff. One line in Steevens (1793). [3353] _here_] Ff. om. Qq. [3354] _here._] Ff. _there._ Q₁ Q₃. _there?_ Q₂. [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq. [3355] _Made ... of?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _but_] Ff. _then_ Qq. [3356] _None_] Ff. _No_ Qq. [3357] _None ... train?_] _None: How ... number?_ Ff. _No, how ... traine?_ Qq. [3358] _train_] _traine_ Qq. _number_ Ff. [3359] _An_] Pope. _And_ Q₂ Ff. _If_ Q₁ Q₃. [3360] _i' the_] _i' th'_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _ith'_ F₂. _in the_ Qq. [3361] _thou hadst_] Qq. _thou'dst_ Ff. _deserved_] _deserve_, Pope, reading _thou'dst_ with Ff. [3362] _All ... men;_] _All men are led by their eyes, but blind men, and they follow their noses,_ Johnson conj. [3363] _twenty_] Ff. _a hundred_ Q₁ Q₃. _a 100._ Q₂. _stinking_] _sinking_ Mason conj. [3364] _following it_] Qq. _following_ Ff. [3365] _up the hill_] Qq. _upward_ Ff. _him_] _it_ Hanmer. [3366] [Sings. Anon. conj. _That sir_] _That, sir,_ F₄. _which_] Ff. _that_ Qq. _and seeks_] om. Qq. [3367] _That ... perdy._] Italics in Q₁ Q₃. Roman in Q₂ Ff. [3368] _begins_] _begin_ Q₂. _begins to rain_] _'gins rain_ Capell. [3369] _the storm_] _a storm_ F₄. [3370] _But_] _And_ F₃ F₄. [3371] _wise man_] Qq F₄. _wiseman_ F₁ F₂ F₃. [3372] _The knave ... knave,_] _The fool turns knave, that runs away, The knave no fool,_ Collier, ed. 2 (Johnson conj.) _The fool turns knave, that runs away; The fool's no knave,_ Heath conj. _The fool turns knave, that runs away; The fool no knave,_ Capell. [3373] _fool_] om. Qq. [3374] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter Lear and Glocester. Qq (Gloster Q₂). Enter Lear, and Gloster: Ff (Glocester. Q₁ Q₃. Glower. F₂), after line 81. [3375] SCENE IX. Pope. SCENE X. Warburton. _Deny ... weary?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _They are ... they are_] _they're ... they're_ Pope. _sick?... weary?_] Johnson. _sicke, ... weary,_ Qq Ff. [3376] _have travell'd_] F₄. _have travail'd_ F₁ F₂. _have travel'd_ F₃. _traveld_ Q₁. _traveled_ Q₂ Q₃. _all the_] Ff. _hard to_ Qq. [3377] _fetches; The_] _fetches, The_ Ff. _Iustice, I the_ Qq. _fetches; ay, The_ Capell conj. _fetches all--The_ Steevens conj. _fetches these; The_ Keightley. [3378] _images_] _image'_ S. Walker conj. [3379] _Fetch_] _Bring_ Pope. [3380] _My dear ... wife._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3381] _plague! death!_] _plague, death,_ Ff. _death, plague,_ Qq. [3382] _Fiery? what quality?_] Ff. _what fiery quality;_ Qq. _Fiery? what fiery quality?_ Pope. _Gloucester, Gloucester_] _Gloster, Gloster_ Qq Ff. _Glo'ster_ Pope. _Fiery? what? quality?_ Taylor conj. MS. [3383] Glo. _Well ... man?_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [3384] _The ... father_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _Cornwall,_ in Ff. _father_] _fate_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). [3385] _with his_] _with the_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _commands her service_] Qq (_come and tends seruise_ Q₂ Bodl. 1). _commands, tends, service_ Ff. _commands tends service_ Rowe (ed. 1). _commands, tends service_ Rowe (ed. 2). [3386] _Are ... blood!_] Omitted in Qq. [3387] _'Fiery'?... that--_] Ff. _Fiery duke, tell the hot duke that Lear,_ Qq (_The fierie_ Q₂ Bodl. 1). _that--_] _that--_ [Glocester offers to go. Johnson. [3388] _No_] _Mo_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). [3389] _Infirmity ... forbear;_] Divided as in Ff. Three lines, the first two ending _health ... opprest,_ in Qq. [3390] _Whereto_] Ff. _where to_ Qq. _we are_] _we're_ Pope. [3391] _commands_] _cōmand_ Q₂. [3392] _fall'n_] F₃ F₄. _fallen_ Qq F₁ F₂. _headier_] _heady_ Pope. [3393] _To ... her_] Divided as in Ff. Three lines, the first two ending _man, ... here?_ in Qq. [3394] [Looking on Kent] Johnson. om. Qq Ff. _wherefore_] _but wherefore_ Pope. [3395] _act_] _very act_ Keightley. _persuades_] _persuadeth_ Hanmer. _almost persuades_ Steevens conj. _alone persuades_ Seymour conj. [3396] _practice only. Give_] _practise only. Give_ F₁. _practise, onely give_ Qq. _practise onely, Give_ F₂. _practice onely, Give_ F₃. _practice only, give_ F₄. [3397] _Go tell_] _Tell_ Qq. _and's_] _and his_ Capell. _I'ld_ F₄. _Il'd_ F₂ F₃. _Ile_ Qq. [3398] _sleep to death_] Printed in italics by Johnson. _death to sleep_ Mason conj. [3399] _I would_] _I'd_ Capell. [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq. [3400] _O ... down!_] _O my heart! my heart._ Qq. [3401] _cockney_] _cokney_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. & imp. and Bodl. 2). _coknay_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _cook-maid_ Badham conj. [3402] _she_] Qq F₁. _hee_ F₂. _he_ F₃ F₄. _put 'em i' the_] _put vm it'h_ Q₂. _put 'em i' th'_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _put them up i' th_ Q₁ Q₃. _put them i' th'_ F₄. _paste_] _pâst_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. & imp. and Bodl. 2). _past_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _pasty_ Pope. _she_] Qq Ff. _he_ Rowe. _knapped 'em o' the_] _knapt 'em o' th'_ Ff. _knapt vm ath_ Qq. [3403] _her_] _his_ F₃ F₄. [3404] Re-enter....] Capell. Enter Duke and Regan. Qq. Enter Cornewall Regan, Gloster, Servants. Ff. [3405] SCENE X. POPE. SCENE XI. Warburton. [Kent is set....] Rowe. Kent here set at liberty. Ff. Omitted in Qq. [3406] _you_] _your_ F₁. [3407] _shouldst not be_] _wert not_ Pope. [3408] _divorce_] _deuose_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). _mother's_] _mother_ F₁. _tomb_] _fruit_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1). [3409] [To Kent] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. _O_] Ff. _yea_ Qq. [3410] _sister's_] F₃ F₄. _sisters_ F₁ F₂. _sister is_ Qq. [3411] _tied Sharp-tooth'd unkindness,_] _tired Sharp-tooth'd unkindness,_ Sympson conj. _tired, (Sharp-tooth'd unkindness!)_ Roderick conj. [3412] _here:_] _heere._ Q₁. _heere,_ F₁ Q₃. _heare,_ Q₂. _here,_ The rest. [Points to his heart.] Pope. om. Qq Ff. [3413] _thou'lt_] Ff. _thou't_ Q₁ Q₃. _thout_ Q₂. [3414] _With how depraved_] _Of how deprived_ Q₁ Q₂ (_deptoued_ Q₂ (Bodl. 1)). _Of how depriyed_ Q₃. _Of how depravd_ Johnson and Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). _quality_--] Rowe. _quality_, Qq. _quality_. Ff. [3415] _you_] om. Qq. [3416] _scant_] Ff. _slacke_ Q₁ Q₂. _slack_ Q₃. _scan_ Hanmer. [3417] Lear. _Say_, ... _blame_.] Omitted in Qq. [3418] _Say, how is_] _How is_ Pope. _Ha! how's_ Capell conj. [3419] _sir_,] om. Pope. [3420] _Nature_ ... _return_;] Divided as in Ff. Four lines, the first three ending _confine_, ... _discretion_ ... _your selfe_, in Qq. [3421] _in you_] _on you_ Qq. [3422] _her_] _his_ F₁. [3423] _you_] om. Qq. [3424] _her, sir_.] _her sir_. Q₁ Q₃. _her sir_? Q₂. _her._ Ff. _Ask her_] _Ask of her_ Keightley, omitting _sir_ with Ff. [3425] _but_] om. Qq. _becomes the house:_] _becometh us:_ Hanmer. _becometh--thus._ Johnson conj. _the house:_] _the house,_ Q₂. _the house?_ The rest. _the use?_ Theobald. _me now:_ Jennens. _the mouth?_ Collier MS. [3426] [Kneeling] The King kneeling. Hanmer. Om. Qq Ff. Kneeling. Johnson, after line 151. [3427] [Rising] Dyce (Collier MS.) om. Qq Ff. _Never_] _No_ Qq. [3428] _black_] _backe_ Q₁. _back_ Q₃. _blank_ Theobald. _struck_] _stroke_ Q₁ Q₃. _strooke_ Q₂ Ff. [3429] _All ... lameness._] Divided as in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _top_, in Qq. [3430] _ingrateful_] _ungrateful_ Johnson (1771). _top_] _head_ Pope. [3431] _You taking_] _Infecting_ Pope. _Fie, sir, fie_] _Fie, fie sir_ Q₁ Q₃. _Fie fie sir_ Q₂. [3432] Lear.] om. Q₂. [3433] _sun To_] Edd. _sunne, To_ or _sun, To_ Qq Ff. [3434] _To fall_] _Do, fall_ Johnson conj. _O, fall_ Capell. _To-fall_ Porson conj. MS. _Fall ye_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). _and blast her pride._] Qq. _and blister._ Ff. [3435] _O the_ ...] Divided as in Qq. The first line ends _Gods!_ in Ff. [3436] _mood is on._] F₃ F₄. _moode is on._ F₁ F₂. _mood--_ Qq. _mood's on._ Steevens (1793), dividing as in Ff. [3437] _Thy_] _The_ Qq. _tender-hefted_] Ff. _tender hested_ Q₁. _tēder hested_ Q₂. _tender hasted_ Q₃. _tender-hearted_ Rowe (ed. 2) and Pope. _tender_ Seymour conj., ending lines 164--168 _gods!... mood ... have ... give._ [3438] _Thy ... train,_] Divided as in Ff. Three lines, the first two ending _ore ... burn,_ in Qq. [3439] _Thee_] _the_ Q₂. _o'er_] _are_ Q₃. _harshness_] _rashness_ Johnson. _her_] _no, her_ Seymour conj. [3440] _know'st_] _knowest_ Qq. [3441] _dues_] _and dues_ Rowe. [3442] _hast thou_] _thou hast_ Rowe (ed. 2). [3443] _endow'd_] Ff. _endowed_ Q₁ Q₃. _indow'd_ Q₂. _to the_] _too'th_ Q₂. [3444] [Tucket within.] Ff, after line 178. Transferred by Collier. Trumpets within. Rowe. [3445] _know't; my_] _know't, my_ F₁ F₄. _know't my_ Qq F₂ F₃. _sister's_] _sister_ Q₃. _letter_] Ff. _letters_ Qq. [3446] Enter Oswald.] Dyce. Enter Steward. Qq, after _that?_ line 179. Enter Steward. Ff, after _stocks?_ line 179. Enter Oswald. Collier, after line 179. [3447] _easy-borrow'd_] Capell. _easie borrowed_ Qq Ff. _easy-borrowed_ Theobald. [3448] _fickle_] Qq. _fickly_ F₁ F₂. _sickly_ F₃ F₄. _he_] _a_ Q₂. [3449] SCENE XI. Pope. SCENE XII. Warburton. Lear.] Ff. Gon. Qq. _stock'd_] _stockt_ Ff. _strucke_ Q₁ Q₃. _struck_ Q₂. _I have_] _I've_ Pope. [3450] _Thou ... heavens,_] As in Pope. Two lines, the first ending _ant_ or _on't_, in Qq Ff. _on't_] Ff. _ant_ Q₁ Q₂. _ont_ Q₃. _Who_] Ff. Lear. _Who_ Qq. Enter Goneril.] As in Johnson. After _grace?_ (line 184) in Qq Ff. _heavens_] _gods_ Anon. conj. [3451] _If ... part!_] As in Ff. Three lines, the first two ending _alow_ (_allow_ Q₂ Cap.) ... _cause,_ in Qq. [3452] _your_] Ff. _you_ Qq. [3453] _Allow_] _Hallow_ Theobald (Warburton). _if_] _if you_ Ff. [3454] [To Gon.] Johnson. [3455] _wilt thou_] Qq. _will you_ Ff. [3456] _finds_] _fines_ Warburton conj. [3457] _Will ... stocks?_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff. _yet hold?_] _hold yet?_ Capell conj. [3458] _sir_] Q₂ Ff. om. Q₁ Q₃. [3459] _much less_] _no less_ Hanmer. _much more_ Johnson conj. [3460] _weak_] _'wake_ Hanmer. _seem so_] _deem't so_ Warburton. [3461] _month_] F₄. _moneth_ Qq F₁ F₂ F₃. [3462] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. [3463] _To wage ... owl,--_] Theobald transposed these lines. [3464] _wage_] _wage war_ Keightley. _o' the_] _oth'_ F₁ F₂. _o' th'_ F₃ F₄. _of the_ Qq. [3465] _owl,--_] _owle,_ or _owl,_ Qq Ff. _howl_ Collier (Collier MS.) [3466] _hot-blooded_] Pope. _hot-bloodied_ Ff. _hot blood in_ Qq (_bloud_ Q₂). [3467] _took ... brought_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3468] _knee_] _knee to_ Anon. conj. MS. See note (V). _beg_] _bag_ Q₂. [3469] [Pointing ...] Dyce. Looking on the Steward. Johnson. [3470] _I_] Ff. _Now I_ Qq. [3471] _that's in_] Ff. _that lies within_ Qq. [3472] _boil_] Malone. _byle_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃. _bile_ Q₂ F₃ F₄. [3473] _A ... In my_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3474] _plague-sore_] Hyphened in F₃ F₄. _an_] Qq. _or_ Ff. [3475] _call it_] _callit_ Q₂ (Dev.) [3476] _thunder-bearer_] _thunder-beater_ Warburton. [3477] _takes_] _tailes_ Q₂. _high-judging_ Hyphened in Ff. [3478] _Not ... passion_] Arranged as in Ff. Four lines, ending _yet, ... welcome, ... those ... passion,_ in Qq. [3479] _altogether so_] Ff. _altogether so sir_ Qq. _all together_ Pope. _allto so_ Seymour conj. [3480] _look'd_] Ff. _looke_ Qq. [3481] _sir_] Q₂ Ff. om. Q₁ Q₃. [3482] _your_] _you_ F₂. [3483] _you old_] Ff. _you are old_ Qq. _so--_] Rowe. _so,_ Qq Ff. [3484] _spoken_] Ff. _spoken now_ Qq. [3485] _what, fifty_] Rowe. _what fifty_ Qq Ff. [3486] _sith that_] _since_ Pope. [3487] _Speak_] F₃ F₄. _Speake_ F₁ F₂. _Speakes_ Qq. _one house_] Ff. _a house_ Qq. [3488] _almost_] om. Seymour conj. [3489] _Why ... you,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _chanced_] _chanc'd_ Ff. _chancst_ Q₁. _chanc'st_ Q₂. _chancest_ Q₃. _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff. [3490] _you will_] _you'll_ Pope. [3491] _For ... danger,_] Put in parenthesis in Q₁ Ff Q₃. [3492] _but_] om. F₃ F₄. [3493] _all--_] Rowe. _all._ Qq Ff. [3494] _kept_] _keep_ F₃ F₄. _follow'd_] Pope. _followed_ Qq Ff. [3495] _What_] om. Pope. [3496] _twenty, Regan?_] Capell. _twenty, Regan,_ Q₁ Q₃. _twentie, Regan_ Q₂. _twenty? Regan,_ Ff. [3497] _speak't_] _speak it_ Capell. [3498] _wicked ... wicked_] _wrinkled ... wrinkled_ Warburton. [3499] _look_] _seeme_ Q₁ Q₃. _seem_ Q₂. [3500] _the_] om. Pope. [3501] [To Gon.] Hanmer. [3502] _art_] _hast_ Pope. [3503] _need_] _needs_ Q₁ Q₃. _needes_ Q₂. [3504] _need_] _deed_ Qq. [3505] _life's as_] Q₁ Q₃. _life as_ Q₂. _life is_ Ff. _beast's_] Capell. _beasts_ Qq F₃ F₄. _beastes_ F₁ F₂. _beasts'_ Hanmer. [3506] _wear'st_] Ff. _wearest_ Qq. [3507] _warm. But ... need,--_] _warm; but ... need,--_ Warburton. _warme, but ... need,_ Qq Ff. [3508] _that patience, patience_] _that patience which_ Pope. _that: patience, patience_ Jennens. _patience:--patience_ Mason conj. _patience!--that_ or _that patience that_ Ritson conj. _that patience_ Grant White (Malone conj.) _but patience! that_ Collier MS. _but patience that_ Collier conj. _your patience that_ Nicholson conj. [3509] _man_] _fellow_ Qq. [3510] _stirs_] F₄. _stirres_ Q₁ Q₂ F₁ F₂ F₃. _stirrs_ Q₃. _stir_ Rowe. [3511] _so_] Ff. _too_ Q₁. _to_ Q₂ Q₃. [3512] _tamely_] _lamely_ Qq. [3513] _And let_] _O let_ Qq. [3514] [Storm heard at a distance. Capell conj. MS. [3515] _shall--_] Q₁ Ff Q₃. _shall,_ Q₂. _things,--_] Capell. _things,_ Qq Ff. [3516] _earth._] _earth;_ Q₁ Q₃ F₃. _earth,_ Q₂ F₄. _earth?_ F₁ F₂. [3517] _No ... flaws,_] Arranged as by Steevens (1778). Two lines, the first ending _weeping,_ in Qq Ff. [3518] _I have_] _Though I have_ Hanmer, dividing as Qq Ff, and reading with Pope. _but this_] _This_ Pope. [3519] _into a hundred thousand_] Ff. _in a 100. thousand_ Q₂. _in a thousand_ Q₁ Q₃. _into a thousand_ Pope. _flaws_] _flowes_ Qq. [3520] _Or ere_] Q₂ F₁ F₂. _Ere_ Q₁ Q₃. _Or e'er_ F₃ F₄. _I'll_] _ile_ Qq. _Ile_ F₁. _I_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [Exeunt ... Fool.] Q₁ Q₃, substantially. Exeunt Lear, Leister, Kent.... Q₂. Exeunt. Ff. Exeunt ... Gentleman, and Fool. Capell. [3521] Corn.] Ff. Duke. Qq. _withdraw; 'twill_] _withdraw us; it will_ Keightley. [Storm and tempest.] Ff, after _weeping_, line 281. Transferred by Pope. Omitted in Qq. Storm heard at a Distance. Capell, after 'Exeunt ... Fool.' SCENE XII. Pope. _Scene xiii._ Warburton. [3522] _Let ... folly._] As in Qq Ff. Four lines, ending _house ... cannot ... put ... folly,_ in Capell. Keightley ends them _storm ... people ... blame; ... folly._ [3523] _little_] _small_ Pope. _and his_] Qq. _an'ds_ F₁. _and's_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [3524] _bestow'd_] Ff. _bestowed_ Qq. [3525] _blame; hath_] Boswell. _blame hath_ Qq Ff. _blame, he 'ath_ Hanmer. _blame; he hath_ Capell. [3526] _And_] _He_ Collier MS. [3527] Gon.] Ff. Duke. Qq. _purposed_] _puspos'd_ Q₂. [3528] _So ... Gloucester?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3529] Corn.] Ff. Reg. Qq. _Follow'd_] Pope. _Followed_ Qq Ff. _Follow_ Johnson (1771). Re-enter....] As in Dyce. Enter.... Qq Ff, after line 291. Re-enter.... Capell, after line 291. [3530] _rage._ Corn. _... whither._] As in Ff. _rage, and will I know not whether._ Qq. [3531] _Whither_] F₃ F₄. _Whether_ F₁ F₂. [3532] _whither_] F₃ F₄. _whether_ F₁ F₂. [3533] Corn.] Ff. Reg. Q₁ Q₃. Re. Q₂. _best_] _good_ Qq. [3534] _bleak_] Q₂. _bleake_ Q₁ Q₃. high Ff. [3535] _Do ... bush._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3536] _ruffle_] Ff. _russell_ Q₁ Q₃. _russel_ Q₂. _rustle_ Capell. [3537] _There's_] _There is_ Q₃. _scarce_] _not_ Qq. [3538] _to_] _too_ Q₁ F₁ Q₃. [3539] _wild_] _wil'd_ F₁ F₂. [3540] _Regan_] _Reg_ Q₂. _o' the_] _oth'_ F₁ F₂. _o' th'_ F₃ F₄. _ath_ Q₁ Q₃. _at'h_ Q₂. [Exeunt.] Exeunt omnes. Q₁ Q₃. ACT III. SCENE I. _A heath._ _Storm still. Enter_ KENT _and a_ Gentleman, _meeting_.[3541] _Kent._ Who's there, besides foul weather?[3542] _Gent._ One minded like the weather, most unquietly. _Kent._ I know you. Where's the king? _Gent._ Contending with the fretful elements;[3543] Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, 5 Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main,[3544] That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,[3545] Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,[3545] Catch in their fury, and make nothing of;[3545] Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn[3545][3546][3547] 10 The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.[3545][3546][3548] This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,[3545][3549] The lion and the belly-pinched wolf[3545][3550] Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,[3545] And bids what will take all.[3545] _Kent._ But who is with him? 15 _Gent._ None but the fool; who labours to out-jest His heart-struck injuries.[3551] _Kent._ Sir, I do know you; And dare, upon the warrant of my note,[3552] Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,[3553] Although as yet the face of it be cover'd[3554] 20 With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall;[3555] Who have--as who have not, that their great stars[3556][3557] Throned and set high?--servants, who seem no less,[3556][3558] Which are to France the spies and speculations[3556][3559] Intelligent of our state; what hath been seen,[3556][3560] 25 Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,[3556] Or the hard rein which both of them have borne[3556][3561] Against the old kind king, or something deeper,[3556] Whereof perchance these are but furnishings,--[3556][3562] But true it is, from France there comes a power[3563][3564] 30 Into this scatter'd kingdom; who already,[3564][3565][3566] Wise in our negligence, have secret feet[3564][3565][3567] In some of our best ports, and are at point[3564][3565] To show their open banner. Now to you:[3564][3565] If on my credit you dare build so far[3564][3565] 35 To make your speed to Dover, you shall find[3564] Some that will thank you, making just report[3564] Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow[3564][3568] The king hath cause to plain.[3564][3569] I am a gentleman of blood and breeding,[3564][3569] 40 And from some knowledge and assurance offer[3564][3569][3570] This office to you.[3564][3569][3570] _Gent._ I will talk further with you.[3571] _Kent._ No, do not. For confirmation that I am much more[3572] Than my out-wall, open this purse and take 45 What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,-- As fear not but you shall,--show her this ring,[3573] And she will tell you who your fellow is[3574] That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm! I will go seek the king. _Gent._ Give me your hand:[3575] 50 Have you no more to say?[3575] _Kent._ Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet; That when we have found the king,--in which your pain[3576] That way, I'll this,--he that first lights on him[3576] Holla the other. [_Exeunt severally._[3576][3577] 55 SCENE II. _Another part of the heath. Storm still._[3578] _Enter_ LEAR _and_ Fool. _Lear._ Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow![3579] You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout[3580][3581] Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks![3580][3582] You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,[3580][3583] Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,[3580][3584] 5 Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,[3580][3585] Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world![3580][3586] Crack nature's moulds, all germins spill at once[3580][3587] That make ingrateful man![3580][3588] _Fool._ O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is[3589] 10 better than this rain-water out o' door. Good nuncle, in,[3589][3590] and ask thy daughters' blessing: here's a night pities[3589][3591] neither wise man nor fool.[3589][3592] _Lear._ Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain![3593] Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: 15 I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;[3594] I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,[3595] You owe me no subscription: then let fall[3596][3597] Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave,[3596][3598] A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man:[3596] 20 But yet I call you servile ministers,[3596] That have with two pernicious daughters join'd[3596][3599] Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head[3596][3600] So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul![3596][3601] _Fool._ He that has a house to put's head in has a good[3602] 25 head-piece. The cod-piece that will house[3603] Before the head has any,[3603] The head and he shall louse;[3603] So beggars marry many.[3603] 30 The man that makes his toe[3603][3604] What he his heart should make[3603][3605] Shall of a corn cry woe,[3603][3606] And turn his sleep to wake.[3603] For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths[3607] 35 in a glass. _Lear._ No, I will be the pattern of all patience;[3608] I will say nothing. _Enter_ KENT. _Kent._ Who's there? _Fool._ Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a 40 wise man and a fool. _Kent._ Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night[3609][3610] Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies[3609] Gallow the very wanderers of the dark,[3609][3611] And make them keep their caves: since I was man,[3609][3612] 45 Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,[3609] Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never[3609][3613] Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry[3609] The affliction nor the fear.[3609] _Lear._ Let the great gods,[3609][3614] That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads,[3609][3615] 50 Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,[3609] That hast within thee undivulged crimes,[3609] Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand;[3609] Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue[3609][3616] That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake,[3609][3617] 55 That under covert and convenient seeming[3609][3618] Hast practised on man's life: close pent-up guilts,[3609][3619] Rive your concealing continents and cry[3609][3620] These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man[3609] More sinn'd against than sinning.[3621] _Kent._ Alack, bare-headed![3622] 60 Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;[3622] Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest:[3622] Repose you there; while I to this hard house--[3622][3623] More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised;[3622][3624] Which even but now, demanding after you,[3622][3625] 65 Denied me to come in--return, and force[3622] Their scanted courtesy.[3622] _Lear._ My wits begin to turn.[3626] Come on, my boy: how dost, my boy? art cold? I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?[3627] The art of our necessities is strange,[3628] 70 That can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel.[3628][3629][3630] Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart[3628][3630][3631] That's sorry yet for thee.[3632] _Fool._ [_Singing_] He that has and a little tiny wit,--[3633][3634][3635] With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,--[3634][3636] 75 Must make content with his fortunes fit,[3634] For the rain it raineth every day.[3634][3637] _Lear._ True, my good boy. Come, bring us to this hovel. [_Exeunt Lear and Kent._[3638] _Fool_. This is a brave night to cool a courtezan. I'll[3639][3640][3641] speak a prophecy ere I go:[3639][3640][3642] 80 When priests are more in word than matter;[3639][3643] When brewers mar their malt with water;[3639] When nobles are their tailors' tutors;[3639] No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;[3639] When every case in law is right;[3639] 85 No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;[3639][3644] When slanders do not live in tongues,[3639][3645] Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;[3639][3646] When usurers tell their gold i' the field,[3639] And bawds and whores do churches build;[3639] 90 Then shall the realm of Albion[3639][3647] Come to great confusion:[3639][3647] Then comes the time, who lives to see't,[3639][3648] That going shall be used with feet.[3639][3648] This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his time. 95 [_Exit._[3649] SCENE III. _Gloucester's castle._ _Enter_ GLOUCESTER _and_ EDMUND.[3650] _Glou._ Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural[3651] dealing. When I desired their leave that I might pity him,[3651] they took from me the use of mine own house; charged[3651][3652] me, on pain of their perpetual displeasure, neither to speak[3651][3653] of him, entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.[3651][3654] 5 _Edm._ Most savage and unnatural![3651][3655] _Glou._ Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt[3651][3656] the dukes, and a worse matter than that: I have received[3651] a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be spoken; I[3651] have locked the letter in my closet: these injuries the king[3651] 10 now bears will be revenged home; there is part of a power[3651][3657] already footed: we must incline to the king. I will seek[3651][3658] him and privily relieve him: go you, and maintain talk[3651] with the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived: if[3651] he ask for me, I am ill and gone to bed. Though I die[3651][3659] 15 for it, as no less is threatened me, the king my old master[3651][3660] must be relieved. There is some strange thing toward,[3651][3661] Edmund; pray you, be careful. [_Exit._[3651] _Edm._ This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke[3662][3663] Instantly know, and of that letter too:[3662] 20 This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me[3662][3664] That which my father loses; no less than all:[3662][3665] The younger rises when the old doth fall. [_Exit._[3662][3666] SCENE IV. _The heath. Before a hovel._[3667] _Enter_ LEAR, KENT, _and_ FOOL. _Kent_. Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter:[3668] The tyranny of the open night's too rough[3668][3669] For nature to endure. [_Storm still._[3668][3670] _Lear._ Let me alone.[3671] _Kent._ Good my lord, enter here.[3671] _Lear._ Wilt break my heart?[3672] _Kent._ I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.[3673] 5 _Lear._ Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm[3674] Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee;[3675] But where the greater malady is fix'd The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'ldst shun a bear,[3676] But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea[3677] 10 Thou'ldst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free[3678] The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind[3679] Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude![3680] Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand[3681] 15 For lifting food to't? But I will punish home.[3682] No, I will weep no more. In such a night[3683] To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure.[3683] In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave you all,--[3684] 20 O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that. _Kent._ Good my lord, enter here.[3685] _Lear._ Prithee, go in thyself; seek thine own ease:[3686] This tempest will not give me leave to ponder On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in. 25 [_To the Fool_] In, boy; go first. You houseless poverty,--[3687][3688][3689] Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. [_Fool goes in._[3688][3690] Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,[3691] How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, 30 Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you[3692] From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them 35 And show the heavens more just.[3693] _Edg._ [_Within_] Fathom and half, fathom and half![3694][3695] Poor Tom! [_The Fool runs out from the hovel._[3695][3696] _Fool._ Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit. Help[3697] me, help me![3697] 40 _Kent._ Give me thy hand. Who's there?[3698] _Fool._ A spirit, a spirit: he says his name's poor Tom.[3699] _Kent._ What art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw?[3700][3701] Come forth.[3700] _Enter_ EDGAR _disguised as a madman_.[3702] _Edg._ Away! the foul fiend follows me! 'Through the[3703][3704][3705][3706] 45 sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind.' Hum! go to thy[3704][3706][3707] cold bed and warm thee.[3704][3708] _Lear._ Hast thou given all to thy two daughters? and[3709][3710] art thou come to this?[3709] _Edg._ Who gives any thing to poor Tom? whom the 50 foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through[3711] ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath laid[3712] knives under his pillow and halters in his pew; set ratsbane[3713] by his porridge; made him proud of heart, to ride on[3714] a bay trotting-horse over four-inched bridges, to course his[3715] 55 own shadow for a traitor. Bless thy five wits! Tom's[3716] a-cold. O, do de, do de, do de. Bless thee from whirlwinds,[3716][3717] star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some[3718] charity, whom the foul fiend vexes. There could I have him now, and there, and there again, and there. [_Storm still._[3719] 60 _Lear._ What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?[3720] Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give them all?[3721] _Fool._ Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all shamed.[3722] _Lear._ Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air 65 Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters![3723] _Kent._ He hath no daughters, sir. _Lear._ Death, traitor! nothing could have subdued nature To such a lowness but his unkind daughters. Is it the fashion that discarded fathers 70 Should have thus little mercy on their flesh? Judicious punishment! 'twas this flesh begot[3724] Those pelican daughters.[3724][3725] _Edg._ Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:[3726][3727] Halloo, halloo, loo, loo![3726][3728] 75 _Fool._ This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. _Edg._ Take heed o' the foul fiend: obey thy parents;[3729] keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's[3730] sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array.[3731] 80 Tom's a-cold. _Lear._ What hast thou been? _Edg._ A serving-man, proud in heart and mind; that curled my hair; wore gloves in my cap; served the lust of[3732] my mistress' heart and did the act of darkness with her;[3733] 85 swore as many oaths as I spake words and broke them in the sweet face of heaven: one that slept in the contriving of[3734] lust and waked to do it: wine loved I deeply, dice dearly,[3735] and in woman out-paramoured the Turk: false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth,[3736] 90 wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy[3737] poor heart to woman: keep thy foot out of brothels, thy[3738] hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy[3739] the foul fiend. 95 'Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind.'[3740] Says suum, mun, ha, no, nonny.[3741] Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa! let him trot by. [_Storm still._[3742] _Lear._ Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer[3743][3744] with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.[3744] 100 Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest[3744][3745] the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the[3744] cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated.[3744][3746] Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more[3744] but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off,[3744] 105 you lendings! come, unbutton here.[3744] [_Tearing off his clothes._[3747] _Fool._ Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night[3748] to swim in. Now a little fire in a wild field were like an[3749] old lecher's heart, a small spark, all the rest on's body cold.[3750] Look, here comes a walking fire. 110 _Enter_ GLOUCESTER, _with a torch_.[3751] _Edg._ This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at[3752] curfew and walks till the first cock; he gives the web and[3753][3754] the pin, squints the eye and makes the hare-lip; mildews[3754][3755] the white wheat and hurts the poor creature of earth.[3756] Saint Withold footed thrice the 'old;[3757][3758] 115 He met the night-mare and her nine-fold;[3757][3759] Bid her alight,[3757][3760] And her troth plight,[3757][3761] And aroint thee, witch, aroint thee![3757][3762] _Kent._ How fares your grace? 120 _Lear._ What's he?[3763] _Kent._ Who's there? What is't you seek?[3764] _Glou._ What are you there? Your names? _Edg._ Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury[3765] 125 of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the[3766] green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished, and imprisoned;[3767] who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body,[3768] 130 horse to ride and weapon to wear;[3769] But mice and rats and such small deer[3770] Have been Tom's food for seven long year.[3771] Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin; peace, thou fiend![3772] _Glou._ What, hath your grace no better company? 135 _Edg._ The prince of darkness is a gentleman: Modo[3773][3774] he's call'd, and Mahu.[3773][3775] _Glou._ Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,[3776][3777] That it doth hate what gets it.[3776][3778] _Edg._ Poor Tom's a-cold.[3779][3780] 140 _Glou._ Go in with me: my duty cannot suffer[3781] To obey in all your daughters' hard commands:[3781] Though their injunction be to bar my doors[3781][3782] And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,[3781] Yet have I ventured to come seek you out[3781][3783] 145 And bring you where both fire and food is ready.[3781][3784] _Lear._ First let me talk with this philosopher. What is the cause of thunder? _Kent._ Good my lord, take his offer; go into the house.[3785] _Lear._ I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.[3786][3787] 150 What is your study?[3786] _Edg._ How to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin. _Lear._ Let me ask you one word in private.[3788] _Kent._ Importune him once more to go, my lord;[3789][3790] His wits begin to unsettle.[3789] _Glou._ Canst thou blame him? [_Storm still._[3791] 155 His daughters seek his death: ah, that good Kent![3792] He said it would be thus, poor banish'd man! Thou say'st the king grows mad; I'll tell thee, friend,[3793] I am almost mad myself: I had a son,[3794] Now outlaw'd from my blood; he sought my life,[3795] 160 But lately, very late: I loved him, friend, No father his son dearer: truth to tell thee,[3796] The grief hath crazed my wits. What a night's this![3797] I do beseech your grace,--[3798] _Lear._ O, cry you mercy, sir.[3799] Noble philosopher, your company.[3799] 165 _Edg._ Tom's a-cold.[3780] _Glou._ In, fellow, there, into the hovel: keep thee warm.[3800] _Lear._ Come, let's in all. _Kent._ This way, my lord. _Lear._ With him;[3801] I will keep still with my philosopher.[3801] _Kent._ Good my lord, soothe him; let him take the fellow.[3802] 170 _Glou._ Take him you on. _Kent._ Sirrah, come on; go along with us.[3803] _Lear._ Come, good Athenian.[3804] _Glou._ No words, no words: hush.[3804] _Edg._ Child Rowland to the dark tower came:[3805] 175 His word was still 'Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man.' [_Exeunt._[3806] SCENE V. _Gloucester's castle._ _Enter_ CORNWALL _and_ EDMUND.[3807] _Corn._ I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.[3808] _Edm._ How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think of. _Corn._ I now perceive, it was not altogether your brother's evil disposition made him seek his death, but a provoking[3809] 5 merit, set a-work by a reproveable badness in himself.[3809][3810] _Edm._ How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to be just! This is the letter he spoke of, which approves[3811] him an intelligent party to the advantages of France. O[3812] heavens! that this treason were not, or not I the detector![3813] 10 _Corn._ Go with me to the duchess. _Edm._ If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty business in hand. _Corn._ True or false, it hath made thee earl of Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our 15 apprehension. _Edm._ [_Aside_] If I find him comforting the king, it will[3814] stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persever in my course[3815] of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my blood. 20 _Corn._ I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love. [_Exeunt._[3816] SCENE VI. _A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle._ _Enter_ GLOUCESTER, LEAR, KENT, Fool, _and_ EDGAR.[3817] _Glou._ Here is better than the open air; take it thankfully. I will piece out the comfort with what addition I can: I will not be long from you. _Kent._ All the power of his wits have given way to his[3818] impatience: the gods reward your kindness! 5 [_Exit Gloucester._[3819] _Edg._ Frateretto calls me, and tells me Nero is an[3820] angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware[3821] the foul fiend. _Fool._ Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a[3822] gentleman or a yeoman.[3823] 10 _Lear._ A king, a king! _Fool._ No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his[3824] son, for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman[3824][3825] before him.[3824] _Lear._ To have a thousand with red burning spits[3824][3826] 15 Come hissing in upon 'em,--[3826][3827] _Edg._ The foul fiend bites my back.[3828] _Fool._ He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf,[3828][3829] a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.[3828][3830] _Lear._ It shall be done; I will arraign them straight.[3828][3831] 20 [_To Edgar_] Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer;[3828][3832] [_To the Fool_] Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she foxes![3828][3833] _Edg._ Look, where he stands and glares! Wantest[3828][3834][3835][3836][3837] thou eyes at trial, madam?[3828][3834][3835][3837][3838] Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me.[3828][3834][3835][3839] 25 _Fool._ Her boat hath a leak,[3828][3834][3840][3841] And she must not speak[3828][3834][3841] Why she dares not come over to thee.[3828][3834] _Edg._ The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of[3828] a nightingale. Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two white[3828] 30 herring. Croak not, black angel; I have no food for thee.[3828][3842] _Kent._ How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed:[3828][3843] Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?[3828][3843][3844] _Lear._ I'll see their trial first. Bring in the evidence.[3828][3845][3846] [_To Edgar_] Thou robed man of justice take thy place;[3828][3845][3847] 35 [_To the Fool_] And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity,[3828][3845][3848] Bench by his side. [_To Kent_] You are o' the commission;[3828][3845][3849] Sit you too.[3828][3845] _Edg._ Let us deal justly.[3828][3845][3850] Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?[3828][3845][3850][3851][3852] 40 Thy sheep be in the corn;[3828][3845][3850][3852] And for one blast of thy minikin mouth,[3828][3845][3850][3852] Thy sheep shall take no harm.[3828][3845][3850][3852] Pur! the cat is gray.[3828][3845][3850] _Lear._ Arraign her first; 'tis Goneril. I here take my[3828][3845][3850][3853] 45 oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the poor[3828][3845][3853][3854] king her father.[3828][3845][3853] _Fool._ Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?[3828] _Lear._ She cannot deny it.[3828][3855] _Fool._ Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.[3828][3856] 50 _Lear._ And here's another, whose warp'd looks proclaim[3828][3857] What store her heart is made on. Stop her there![3828][3857][3858] Arms, arms, sword, fire! Corruption in the place![3828][3859] False justicer, why hast thou let her 'scape?[3828] _Edg._ Bless thy five wits! 55 _Kent._ O pity! Sir, where is the patience now, That you so oft have boasted to retain?[3860] _Edg._ [_Aside_] My tears begin to take his part so much,[3861] They'll mar my counterfeiting.[3862] _Lear._ The little dogs and all, 60 Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me. _Edg._ Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you[3863] curs![3863] Be thy mouth or black or white,[3863] Tooth that poisons if it bite;[3863] 65 Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,[3863][3864] Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,[3863][3864][3865] Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,[3863][3866] Tom will make them weep and wail:[3863][3867] For, with throwing thus my head,[3863] 70 Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.[3863][3868] Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and fairs[3869][3870] and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.[3869][3871] _Lear._ Then let them anatomize Regan; see what[3872][3873] breeds about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that[3872][3874] 75 makes these hard hearts? [_To Edgar_] You, sir, I entertain[3872][3875] for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion[3872][3876] of your garments. You will say they are Persian attire;[3872][3877] but let them be changed.[3872] _Kent._ Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile.[3878] 80 _Lear._ Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains:[3879] so, so, so. We'll go to supper i' the morning. So,[3879][3880] so, so. _Fool._ And I'll go to bed at noon. _Re-enter_ GLOUCESTER.[3881] _Glou._ Come hither, friend: where is the king my master?[3882] 85 _Kent._ Here, sir; but trouble him not: his wits are gone. _Glou._ Good friend, I prithee, take him in thy arms; I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him: There is a litter ready; lay him in't,[3883][3884] And drive toward Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet[3883][3885] 90 Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master:[3883] If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,[3883][3886] With thine and all that offer to defend him,[3883] Stand in assured loss. Take up, take up,[3883][3887] And follow me, that will to some provision[3883] 95 Give thee quick conduct. _Kent._ Oppressed nature sleeps.[3888][3889] This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken sinews,[3888][3890] Which, if convenience will not allow,[3888][3891][3892] Stand in hard cure. [_To the Fool_] Come, help to bear thy master;[3888][3891][3893] Thou must not stay behind.[3888][3891] _Glou._ Come, come, away. 100 [_Exeunt all but Edgar._[3894] _Edg._ When we our betters see bearing our woes,[3895][3896] We scarcely think our miseries our foes.[3895][3896] Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind,[3895][3897] Leaving free things and happy shows behind:[3895] But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip,[3895][3898] 105 When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.[3895] How light and portable my pain seems now,[3895] When that which makes me bend makes the king bow,[3895] He childed as I father'd! Tom, away![3895][3899] Mark the high noises, and thyself bewray[3895][3900] 110 When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee,[3895][3901] In thy just proof repeals and reconciles thee.[3895] What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king![3895][3902] Lurk, lurk. [_Exit._[3895][3903] SCENE VII. _Gloucester's castle._ _Enter_ CORNWALL, REGAN, GONERIL, EDMUND, _and_ Servants.[3904] _Corn._ Post speedily to my lord your husband; show[3905] him this letter: the army of France is landed. Seek out the[3905] traitor Gloucester. [_Exeunt some of the Servants._[3905][3906] _Reg._ Hang him instantly. _Gon._ Pluck out his eyes. 5 _Corn._ Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep[3907][3908] you our sister company: the revenges we are bound to take[3907][3909] upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding.[3907] Advise the duke, where you are going, to a most festinate[3907][3910] preparation: we are bound to the like. Our posts shall be[3907][3911][3912] 10 swift and intelligent betwixt us. Farewell, dear sister:[3911][3913] farewell, my lord of Gloucester.[3911] _Enter_ OSWALD.[3914] How now! where's the king? _Osw._ My lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence: Some five or six and thirty of his knights,[3915] 15 Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;[3915][3916] Who, with some other of the lords dependants,[3915][3917] Are gone with him toward Dover; where they boast[3915][3918] To have well-armed friends.[3915] _Corn._ Get horses for your mistress. _Gon._ Farewell, sweet lord, and sister. 20 _Corn._ Edmund, farewell. [_Exeunt Goneril, Edmund, and Oswald._[3919] Go seek the traitor Gloucester. Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us. [_Exeunt other Servants._[3920] Though well we may not pass upon his life[3921] Without the form of justice, yet our power Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men[3922][3923] 25 May blame but not control. Who's there? the traitor?[3922] _Enter_ GLOUCESTER, _brought in by two or three_.[3924] _Reg._ Ingrateful fox! 'tis he. _Corn._ Bind fast his corky arms. _Glou._ What mean your graces? Good my friends, consider[3925][3926] You are my guests: do me no foul play, friends.[3925] 30 _Corn._ Bind him, I say. [_Servants bind him._[3927] _Reg._ Hard, hard. O filthy traitor! _Glou._ Unmerciful lady as you are, I'm none.[3928] _Corn._ To this chair bind him. Villain, thou shalt find-- [_Regan plucks his beard._[3929] _Glou._ By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done[3930] To pluck me by the beard.[3930] 35 _Reg._ So white, and such a traitor! _Glou._ Naughty lady,[3931] These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin[3931] Will quicken and accuse thee: I am your host:[3932] With robbers' hands my hospitable favours[3933] You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?[3934] 40 _Corn._ Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?[3935] _Reg._ Be simple answerer, for we know the truth.[3936] _Corn._ And what confederacy have you with the traitors[3937] Late footed in the kingdom?[3937][3938] _Reg._ To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king?[3939][3940] 45 Speak.[3939] _Glou._ I have a letter guessingly set down,[3941] Which came from one that's of a neutral heart And not from one opposed. _Corn._ Cunning. _Reg._ And false. _Corn._ Where hast thou sent the king? _Glou._ To Dover.[3942] 50 _Reg._ Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charged at peril--[3943] _Corn._ Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that.[3944] _Glou._ I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.[3945] _Reg._ Wherefore to Dover, sir?[3946] _Glou._ Because I would not see thy cruel nails 55 Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.[3947] The sea, with such a storm as his bare head[3948] In hell-black night endured, would have buoy'd up,[3949] And quench'd the stelled fires:[3950][3951] 60 Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain.[3950][3952] If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time,[3953] Thou shouldst have said, 'Good porter, turn the key,'[3954] All cruels else subscribed: but I shall see[3955] The winged vengeance overtake such children. 65 _Corn._ See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair. Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot.[3956] _Glou._ He that will think to live till he be old,[3957] Give me some help! O cruel! O you gods![3958] _Reg._ One side will mock another; the other too.[3959] 70 _Corn._ If you see vengeance--[3960] _First Serv._ Hold your hand, my lord: I have served you ever since I was a child;[3961] But better service have I never done you[3962] Than now to bid you hold.[3962] _Reg._ How now, you dog! _First Serv._ If you did wear a beard upon your chin,[3963] 75 I'ld shake it on this quarrel. What do you mean?[3963][3964] _Corn._ My villain! [_They draw and fight._[3965] _First Serv._ Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.[3966] _Reg._ Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus! [_Takes a sword and runs at him behind._[3967] _First Serv._ O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left[3968][3969] 80 To see some mischief on him. O! [_Dies._[3968][3970] _Corn._ Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly![3971] Where is thy lustre now?[3972] _Glou._ All dark and comfortless. Where's my son Edmund?[3973] Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature,[3974][3975] 85 To quit this horrid act.[3974] _Reg._ Out, treacherous villain![3976][3977] Thou call'st on him that hates thee: it was he[3976] That made the overture of thy treasons to us;[3976][3978] Who is too good to pity thee.[3976] _Glou._ O my follies! Then Edgar was abused.[3979][3980] 90 Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him![3979] _Reg._ Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell[3979][3981][3982] His way to Dover. [_Exit one with Gloucester._] How is't, my lord? how look you?[3979][3981][3983] _Corn._ I have received a hurt: follow me, lady. Turn out that eyeless villain: throw this slave[3984] 95 Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace:[3984][3985] Untimely comes this hurt: give me your arm. [_Exit Cornwall, led by Regan._[3984][3986] _Sec. Serv._ I'll never care what wickedness I do,[3987][3988] If this man come to good.[3987] _Third Serv._ If she live long,[3987][3989][3990] And in the end meet the old course of death,[3987][3990] 100 Women will all turn monsters.[3987][3990] _Sec. Serv._ Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam[3987][3991] To lead him where he would: his roguish madness[3987][3992] Allows itself to any thing.[3987] _Third Serv._ Go thou: I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs[3987][3993][3994] 105 To apply to his bleeding face. Now, heaven help him! [_Exeunt severally._[3987][3994][3995] FOOTNOTES: [3541] A heath.] Rowe. Storm still.] Ff. om. Qq. A Storm is heard, with Thunder and Lightning. Rowe. meeting.] Capell. at severall doores. Qq. severally. Ff. [3542] _Who's there_] Ff. _What's heere_ Q₁. _Whats here_ Q₂. _What's heare_ Q₃. _besides_] _beside_ Qq. [3543] _elements_] _element_ Qq. [3544] _main_] _moon_ Jennens. [3545] _tears ... all._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [3546] _Strives ... rain._] Omitted by Pope. [3547] _out-scorn_] _out-storm_ Steevens conj. [3548] _to-and-fro-conflicting_] Hyphenated by Capell. [3549] _wherein_] _in which_ Pope. [3550] _belly-pinched_] Hyphened by Pope. [3551] _heart-struck_] Rowe. _heart strooke_ Qq. _heart-strooke_ F₁ F₂. _heart-strook_ F₃ F₄. [3552] _note_] _arte_ Q₁ Q₂. _art_ Q₃. [3553] _Commend_] _Commended_ Q₃. _There is_] _There's_ Pope. [3554] _be_] Qq. _is_ Ff. [3555] _cunning_] _craft_ Pope. [3556] _Who have ... furnishings,--_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. Put in the margin by Pope. [3557] _that_] _whom_ Rowe (ed. 2). _stars_] _Stars have_ Keightley. [3558] _Throned_] _Thron'd_ Ff. _Throne_ Theobald (ed. 2). _high?--_] _high.)_ Rowe (ed. 2). _high;_ Ff. _high,_ Rowe (ed. 1). [3559] _speculations_] _speculators_ Singer, ed. 2 (Johnson conj.) _spectators_ Collier (Collier MS.) [3560] _state;_] _state._ Lloyd conj. _hath_] _have_ Pope (ed. 2), in margin. [3561] _have_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _hath_ F₁. [3562] _furnishings,--_] _furnishings--_ Rowe. _furnishings._ Ff. _flourishings._ Collier MS. [3563] _But_] _And_ Hanmer. [3564] _But ... you._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [3565] _Into ... far_] Divided as in Pope. Four lines, ending _negligence ... ports, ... banner ... farre,_ in Qq. [3566] _scatter'd_] _scatterd_ Q₁ Q₃. _scattered_ Q₂. _shatter'd_ Hanmer. _scathed_ Warburton. _satured_ Becket conj. [3567] _feet_] Q₂. _fee_ Q₁. _see_ Q₃. _sea_ Pope. _seize_ Warburton. _foot_ Capell. [3568] _bemadding_] _madding_ Pope. [3569] _The ... you._] Three lines, ending _gentleman, ... knowledge and ... you,_ in Capell. [3570] _And ... you._] Divided as in Steevens. The first line ends _assurance,_ in Qq. _assurance, ... you._] _assurance of you, Offer this office._ Pope. _Assurance of you, offer this office to you._ Capell. [3571] _I will_] _Ill_ Pope. _further_] Ff Q₃. _farther_ Q₁ Q₂. [3572] _I am_] _I_ Qq. [3573] _fear_] F₃ F₄. _feare_ Q₂ F₁ F₂. _doubt_ Q₁ Q₃. _this_] _that_ Rowe. [3574] _your_] Qq. _that_ Ff. _this_ Rowe. [3575] _Give ... say?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3576] _That ... other._] See note (XIII). [3577] _Holla_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _hollow_ Qq. _Hollow_ F₄. _Halloo_ Warburton. [Exeunt severally.] Theobald. Exeunt. Qq Ff. [3578] SCENE II.] Scena secunda. Ff. Rowe and Theobald continue the Scene. Another part....] Capell. Storm still.] Ff. Omitted in Qq. Storm continues. Steevens (1793). [3579] _winds_] F₃ F₄. _windes_ F₁ F₂. _winde_ Qq. _crack_] _crake_ Q₃. _rage! blow!_] _blow; rage, and blow!_ Capell conj. _storm! bellow! rage!_ Seymour conj. [3580] _You ... man!_] Divided as in Ff. Eight lines, ending _drencht ... and ... to ... head, ... flat ... natures ... make ... man,_ in Qq. [3581] _You_] See note (XIV). _cataracts_] Ff. _carterickes_ Q₁. _caterickes_ Q₂. cartericks Q₃. _hurricanoes_] _Hurricano's_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Hyrricano's_ F₁. _Hircanios_ Q₁ Q₂. _Hercantos_ Q₃. [3582] _our_] Ff. _The_ Qq. _drown'd_] Q₂. _drownd_ Q₁ Q₃. _drown_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _drowne_ F₂. [3583] _thought-executing_] Ff. _thought executing_ Qq. [3584] _Vaunt-couriers_] Pope. _vaunt-currers_ Qq. _Vaunt-curriors_ Ff. _Vant-couriers_ Capell. _to_] Qq. _of_ Ff. [3585] _Singe_] Q₂. _sing_ Q₁ Q₃. _sindge_ Ff. [3586] _Smite_] _smite_ Qq. _Strike_ Ff. _o' the_] _o' th'_ Ff. _of the_ Qq. [3587] _Crack_] _Crake_ Q₃. _moulds_] Ff. _Mold_ Qq. _germins_] Theobald. _Germains_ Qq. _germaines_ F₁ F₂. _germanes_ F₃ F₄. [3588] _make_] Qq. _makes_ Ff. _ingrateful_] _Ingrate full_ Q₃. [3589] _O nuncle ... fool._] Prose in Ff. Four lines in Qq. [3590] _this rain-water_] _the rain-water_ F₃ F₄. _the rain-waters_ Pope (ed. 2). _o'door_] F₃ F₄. _o'doore_ F₁ F₂. _a doore_ Qq. [3591] _and_] Qq. om. Ff. _pities_] _that pities_ Pope. [3592] _wise man nor fool_] _wise man nor foole_ Qq. _wisemen, nor fooles_ F₁ F₂. _wise-men, nor fools_ F₃ F₄. [3593] _bellyful_] _bellyfull_ Malone. _belly full_ Qq Ff. _Spit, fire! spout, rain!_] Capell. _spit fire, spout raine,_ Qq Ff (_spowt_ F₁ F₂. _rain_ F₃ F₄). [3594] _tax_] F₃ F₄. _taxe_ F₁ F₂. _taske_ Qq. [3595] _kingdom_] _kingdoms_ Johnson. [3596] _You owe ... foul!_] As in Ff. Six lines, ending _horrible ... and ... servile ... joyn'd ... white ... foule,_ in Qq. [3597] _subscription_] _submission_ Pope. _then_] Ff. _why then_ Qq. [3598] _stand, your slave_] _stand your brave_ Warburton. [3599] _have ... join'd_] _have ... joyn'd_ Qq. _will ... joyne_ Ff (_join_ F₃ F₄). [3600] _high-engender'd_] Hyphened in Ff. _high engendered_ Q₁. _battles_] F₄. _battailes_ F₁ F₂. _battels_ F₃. _battell_ Q₁ Q₃. _battel_ Q₂. [3601] _O! O!_] _Oh! Oh!_ Theobald. _O, ho!_ Ff. _O_ Qq. [3602] _put's_] _put his_ Qq. _puts_ F₂. [3603] _The ... wake._] As in Johnson. Four lines in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3604] _The man_] _That man_ F₃ F₄. [3605] _heart_] _head_ Eccles conj. [3606] _Shall of_] Ff. _shall have_ Qq. [3607] _but_] _hut_ Q₂ (Dev.) [3608] SCENE III. Pope. [Sitting down. Jennens. Enter Kent.] As in Q₁ Q₂. After _patience,_ line 37, in Qq. After _glass,_ line 36, in Ff. [3609] _Alas ... sinning._] As in Ff. Twenty lines, ending _heere?... these; ... of the ... caves, ... fire, ... grones of ... remember ... carry ... force ... dreadfull ... now, ... thee ... justice, ... perjur'd, and ... incestious, ... covert ... life, ... centers, ... grace, ... sinning,_ in Qq. [3610] _are you_] Ff. _sit you_ Qq. [3611] _Gallow the_] _gallow, the_ Q₁ Q₂. _Gally the_ Jennens. _wanderers_] Ff. _wanderer_ Qq. [3612] _make_] Ff. _makes_ Qq. [3613] _never_] Ff. _nere_ Q₁ Q₃. _ne're_ Q₂. [3614] _fear_] F₃ F₄. _feare_ F₁ F₂. _force_ Qq. [3615] _pother_] Johnson. _Powther_ Q₂. _Thundring_ Q₁ Q₃. _pudder_ Ff. [3616] _perjured_] _perjure_ Theobald. _simular_] _simulier_ Q₃. _simuler_ Collier conj. _man_] Qq om. Ff. [3617] _incestuous_] Ff. _incestious_ Qq. _to pieces shake_] F₃ F₄. _to peeces shake_ F₁ F₂. _in peeces shake_ Qq. _shake to pieces_ Pope. [3618] _covert and convenient_] _cover of convivial_ Warburton. [3619] _Hast_] Qq. _Ha's_ F₁. _Has_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [3620] _concealing continents_] Ff. _concealed centers_ Qq. _cry_] _ask_ Pope. [3621] _than_] F₄. _then_ F₁ F₂ F₃ _their_ Qq. [3622] _Alack ... courtesy._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3623] _while_] Ff. _whilst_ Qq. [3624] _harder ... stones_] Ff. _hard then is the stone_ Qq. [3625] _you_] Ff. _me_ Qq. [3626] _wits begin_] Ff. _wit begins_ Qq. [3627] _I am_] _I'm Pope._ _this_] _the_ Theobald. [3628] _The art ... heart._] Arranged as in Ff. Three lines, ending _can ... poore, ... heart_, in Qq. [3629] _That_] Qq. _And_ Ff. _vile_] Pope. _vilde_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃. _vild_ Q₂ F₃ F₄. [3630] _your hovel. Poor fool_] _your hovel; Poore foole,_ Ff. _you hovell poore, Foole_ Qq. [3631] _I have one part in_] Ff. _I have one part of_ Qq. _I've one thing in_ Pope. _I've one string in_ Hanmer. _I've one part in_ Johnson. [3632] _That's sorry_] Ff (_Thats_ F₂). _That sorrowes_ Qq. [3633] [Singing] Sings. Capell. om. Qq Ff. [3634] _He ... day._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3635] _and_] Ff. om. Qq. _an_ Theobald. _little tiny_] _little tynie_ Pope. _little tine_ Qq. _little-tyne_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _little tyne_ F₄. [3636] _hey, ho,_] _hey ho_ Qq. _heigh-ho._ F₁. _height-ho_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _a heigh, ho,_ Capell conj. MS. _rain_] _rain in his way_ Johnson conj. [3637] _For_] Qq. _Though_ Ff. [3638] my good] Qq. om. Ff. _hovel._] _hovell?_ Q₂. [Exeunt....] Capell. Exit. Ff. om. Qq. [3639] Fool. _This ... time._ [Exit.] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [3640] _This ... go:_] Prose in Malone. Two lines in Ff. [3641] _This is_] _'Tis_ Pope. _courtezan_] _curtizan_ Ff. [3642] _ere_] _or ere_ Pope, reading as verse. _or two ere_ Warburton. [3643] _word_] _words_ F₃ F₄. [3644] _nor no_] _and no_ Warburton. [3645] _not live_] _nor live_ F₂. [3646] _Nor_] _And_ Pope. [3647] _Then ... confusion:_] As in Pope. One line in Ff. [3648] _Then ... feet._] Transferred by Hanmer (Warburton) to follow line 84. [3649] _I live_] _I do live_ F₃ F₄, reading line 95 as two lines. [3650] SCENE III.] SCENE II. Rowe. SCENE IV. Pope. Gloucester's castle.] An Apartment in Gloster's Castle. Rowe. Enter....] Enter Gloster, and Edmund. Ff. Enter Glocester, and the Bastard with lights. Qq (Gloster Q₂). [3651] _Alack ... careful._] Prose in Ff. Twenty lines in Qq. [3652] _took_] _took me_ Q₂. [3653] _their perpetual_] Jennens. _their_ Qq. _perpetuall_ Ff. [3654] _nor_] Qq. _or_ Ff. [3655] _and_] om. Rowe (ed. 2). [3656] _There's a_] Qq. _There is_ Ff. _betwixt_] Qq. _betweene_ Ff. [3657] _there is_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _ther is_ F₁. _There's_ Q₁ Q₃. _Ther's_ Q₂. [3658] _footed_] Ff. _landed_ Qq. _seek_] _seeke_ Qq. _looke_ Ff. _look for_ Pope. [3659] _bed. Though_] Edd. (Globe ed.) _bed, though_ Qq. _bed, if_ Ff. _bed; if_ Rowe (ed. 2). [3660] _for it_] _for 't_ Q₂. [3661] _is some strange thing_] Qq. _is strange things_ Ff. _are strange things_ Pope. [3662] _This ... fall._] As in Ff. Four lines, ending _know, ... deserving, ... lesse ... fall,_ in Qq. [3663] _courtesy, forbid thee,_] _courtesie, forbid thee_, Theobald, _courtesie forbid thee_, Q₁ F₄. _curtesie forbid thee,_ Q₂ F₁ F₂ F₃. _curtisie forbid thee,_ Q₃. _courtesie forbid thee_ Pope. [3664] _draw me_] Q₂ Ff. _draw to me_ Q₁ Q₃. [3665] _loses_] Q₁ Q₃ F₄. _looses_ The rest. [3666] _The_] Ff. _then_ Qq. _doth_] Ff. _do_ Q₁ Q₃. _doe_ Q₂. [3667] SCENE IV.] SCENE III. Rowe. SCENE V. Pope. The heath....] Part of the Heath with a Hovel. Rowe. [3668] _Here ... endure._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3669] _of the_] _of_ Pope. _night's_] _nights_ Q₂. [3670] [Storm still.] Ff. om. Qq. Transferred by Capell to the beginning of the Scene. [3671] Lear. _Let ... here._] Repeated in Johnson, and Steevens (1773). [3672] _here_] Ff. om. Qq. _Wilt_] _Will't_ Theobald (ed. 2). _break my_] _break, my_ Steevens conj. [3673] _I had ... enter._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _I had_] _I'd_ Pope. [3674] _think'st 'tis_] _think'st_ So quoted in Johnson's Dictionary (ed. 1). _contentious_] Ff. _crulentious_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _tempestious_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _truculent_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _cruel, lentous_ Jackson conj. [3675] _skin: so 'tis_] _skin, so tis_ Qq. _skin, so: 'tis_ Ff. Corrected by Rowe (ed. 2). [3676] _Thou'ldst_] _Thou'dst_ Ff. _thoud'st_ Q₂. _thou wouldst_ Q₁ Q₃. [3677] _thy_] _they_ F₁. _lay_] _light_ F₄. _raging_] Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _roring_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _roaring_ Ff. [3678] _Thou'ldst_] _Thou'dst_ Ff. _Thoud'st_ Qq. _mind's_] _minds_ F₃ F₄. [3679] _body's_] Rowe. _bodies_ Qq Ff. _the_] Q₁ Ff. _this_ Q₂. om. Q₃. _in my mind_] _here_ Seymour conj. [3680] _beats_] F₃ F₄. _beates_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2) F₁ F₂. _beares_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _there. Filial ingratitude!_] Rowe. _there. Filial ingratitude,_ F₃ F₄. _their filiall ingratitude,_ Qq. _there, Filiall ingratitude,_ F₁ F₂. [3681] _this hand_] _his hand_ F₃ F₄. [3682] _to't_] _to it_ Q₁ Q₃. _home_] _sure_ Qq. [3683] _In such ... endure:_] Omitted in Qq, ending the lines _sure; ... this!... father, ... lies, ... that._ [3684] _gave you_] Qq. _gave_ Ff. _all,--_] _all--_ Rowe. _all,_ Qq Ff. [3685] _enter here._] _enter._ Qq. [3686] _thine own_] _thy owne_ Q₁. _thy one_ Q₂. [3687] [To the Fool] Johnson. [3688] _In, boy; ... sleep._] Omitted in Qq. [3689] _poverty,--_] _poverty--_ Rowe. _povertie,_ F₁. _proverty,_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [3690] [Fool goes in.] Johnson. Exit. Ff (after line 26). om. Qq. Exit Fool. Rowe, after line 26. Exit Fool. Capell, after _in,_ line 27. [3691] _storm_] _night_ Qq. [3692] _loop'd_] Pope. _loopt_ Qq. _lop'd_ Ff. _window'd_] Ff. _windowed_ Qq. [3693] [Enter Edgar, and Foole. Ff. Enter Edgar disguised like a Madman and Fool. Rowe. [3694] SCENE VI. Pope. Edg. [Within] Theobald. Edg. Ff. om. Qq. [3695] _Fathom ... Tom!_] Omitted in Qq. [3696] [The Fool ... hovel.] Theobald, after line 40. Transferred by Capell. om. Qq Ff. [3697] _Come ... me!_] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse, the first line ending _spirit_, in Johnson. [3698] _Who's there?_] _whose there_. Q₂. [3699] _A spirit, a spirit,_] Once only in Qq. _name's_] _name_ is Q₁ Q₃. _nam's_ Q₂. [3700] _What ... forth._] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Johnson. [3701] _i' the_] _in the_ Qq. [3702] _forth._] _forth?_ Q₂. Enter ... madman.] Theobald. [3703] SCENE VI. Hanmer. [3704] _Away!... thee._] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Johnson. [3705] _Through_] _thorough_ Q₂. [3706] _Through ... wind._] Printed in italics by Staunton. [3707] _hawthorn_] F₄. _hathorne_ Qq. _hauthorne_ F₁ F₂. _hauthorn_ F₃. _blows the cold wind_] _blowes the colde winde_ Q₁ Q₃. _blowes the cold wind_ Q₂. _blow the windes_ F₁. _blow the winds_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Hum!_] _Humh,_ Ff. _Humph,_ Rowe. om. Qq. [3708] _cold_] Qq. om. Ff. [3709] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Steevens (1778). [3710] _Hast ... thy two_] Qq. _Did'st thou give all to thy_ Ff. _thou_] _thou too_ Keightley, reading as verse. [3711] _through flame,_] Omitted in Qq. [3712] _ford_] _foord_ Qq. _sword_ Ff. _swamp_ Collier MS. _sward_ Anon. conj. _flood_ Anon. conj. _whirlpool_] _whirl-pool_ Q₃. _whirli-poole_ Q₁ Q₂. _whirle-poole_ F₁. _whirle poole_ F₂ F₃. _whirlepool_ F₄. _through whirlpool_ Johnson. _hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq. [3713] _pew_] Pope (ed. 2). _pue_ Qq Ff. _ratsbane_] _rate-bane_ F₂. [3714] _porridge_] _porredge_ Ff. _pottage_ Qq. [3715] _four-inched_] Hyphened by Capell _foure incht_ Qq F₁. _foure archt_ F₂. _four arch'd_ F₃ F₄. [3716] _Bless_] _Blesse_ Qq. _Blisse_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Bliss_ F₄. [3717] _O do, de, ... de._] Omitted in Qq. [3718] _star-blasting_] _starre-blusting_ Qq. [3719] _there again_] _here again_ F₄. _and there_] om. Qq. [Storm still.] Ff. om. Qq. [3720] _What, have his_] Theobald. _What, his_ Q₁ Q₂. _Ha's his_ F₁. _Has his_ F₂ F₃. _What his_ Q₃. _Have his_ F₃. _pass_] _asse_ F₄. [3721] _Didst ... them_] Qq. _Would'st ... 'em_ Ff. _Didst ... 'em_ Pope. [3722] _shamed_] _ashamed_ Keightley. [3723] _light_] _fall_ Qq. [3724] _begot ... daughters._] Divided as in Ff. One line in Qq. [3725] _daughters_] _daughter_ F₂. [3726] _Pillicock ... loo!_] As in Johnson. One line in Qq Ff. [3727] _on_] _one_ Q₃. _Pillicock-hill_] Hyphened by Rowe. _pelicocks hill_ Q₁ Q₂. _pelicacks hill_ Q₃. [3728] _Halloo, ... loo!_] Warburton. _alow: alow, loo, loo._ Ff. _a lo lo lo._ Qq. _Haloo, loo, loo._ Capell. [3729] _o' the]_ _o' th'_ F₁. _oth'_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _of the_ Q₁ Q₃. _at'h_ Q₂. [3730] _word justly_] Pope. _words justly_ Qq. _words Iustice_ F₁ _word, justice_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _word, do justice_ Rowe. _word's justice_ Knight. [3731] _set not_] _set on_ F₃ F₄. _sweet heart_] Qq. Hyphened in Ff. [3732] _gloves_] _cloves_ Anon. apud Theobald conj. [3733] _mistress'_] Dyce. _mistris_ Qq Ff. _mistress's_ Rowe (ed. 2). [3734] _in ... of_] _in the contriving_ Pope. _on the contriving_ Hanmer. _on the contriving of_ Capell. [3735] _deeply_] Q₂ Q₃. _deepely_ Q₁. _deerely_ F₁ F₂. _dearly_ F₃ F₄. [3736] _of hand_] Qq F₁. _hand_ F₂. _handed_ F₃ F₄. [3737] _rustling_] Ff. _ruslings_ Qq. _rufflings_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _silks_] _sickles_ Q₃. [3738] _woman_] _women_ Qq. _brothels_] _brothell_ Qq. [3739] _plackets_] _placket_ Qq. _books_] _booke_ Qq. [3740] _Still ... wind._] Printed in italics by Staunton. _the hawthorn_] _thy hawthorn_ F₃ F₄. _hawthorn_] _hathorne_ Qq. _hauthorne_ F₁ F₂. [3741] says _suum, mun, ha, no, nonny_] Steevens. _sayes suum, mun, nonny_ Ff. _hay no on ny,_ Qq. _Ha! nenni;_ Capell. _Hey!--no--on--_ Johnson conj. [3742] _my boy, my boy_] Qq. _my Boy, Boy_ Ff. _sessa! let_] _sessa; let_ Malone. _Sesey: let_ F₁. _Sessy: let_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _cease let_ Q₁. _caese let_ Q₂. _ceas let_ Q₃. _sesse; let_ Capell. _trot by_] _trot my_ F₃ F₄. [Storm still.] Omitted in Qq. [3743] _Why,_] _Why_ Qq. om. Ff. _wert_] _were_ Staunton. _thy grave_] Qq. _a grave_ Ff. [3744] _Why ... here._] None lines of verse in Keightley, ending _answer ... skies ... well: ... hide, ... Ha!... art ... is, ... animal ... here._ [3745] _than_] _but_ Qq. _this? Consider_] _this cōsider_ Q₂. [3746] _Ha!_] _Ha?_ Ff. om. Qq. _here's_] Ff. _he'rs_ Q₁ Q₃. _her's_ Q₂. _on's_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _ons_ Q₂ F₂. _ones_ Q₁ Q₃. _of us_ Pope. _sophisticated_] _so phisticated_ Q₂. [3747] _lendings_] Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2) Ff. _leadings_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _come, unbutton here._] Ff (_heere_ F₁ F₂). _come on be true._ Q₁ Q₃. _come on bee true_. Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _come on_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). [Tearing ...] Rowe. Tearing ...; Kent and the Fool strive to hinder him. Capell. om Qq Ff. [3748] _Prithee_] Q₁. _Prithe_ Q₂. _Prythee_ F₁. _Prethee_ The rest. _contented_] _content_ Qq. [3749] _wild field_] Q₂ F₃ F₄. _wilde field_ Q₁ F₁ F₂. _wildfield_ Q₃. _wide field_ Jennens, and Long MS. [3750] _all_] _and all_ Rowe. _on's_] Ff. _in_ Qq. [3751] Enter ... torch.] Ff, after line 106. Transferred by Capell. Enter Glocester. Qq (Gloster. Q₂), after line 110. Pope puts it after line 120. [3752] _fiend_] Qq. om. Ff. _Flibbertigibbet_] Ff. _Sirberdegibit_ Q₁ Q₃. _Sriberdegibit_ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _Fliberdegibek_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). [3753] _till the_] Qq. _at_ Ff. _gives_] _gins_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. [3754] _and the pin, squints_] Ff. _the pinqueuer_ Q₁. _the pin-queues_ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _& the pin, squemes_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. and Mus. per.) _the pinquever_ Q₃. See note (XV). [3755] _hare-lip_] F₃. _hare-lippe_ F₁ F₂. _hair-lip_ F₄. _hare lip_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _hart lip_ Q₁ Q₃. _harte lip_ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). [3756] _creature_] _creatures_ Hanmer. _earth_] _the earth_ F₃ F₄. [3757] _Saint ... aroint thee:_] Arranged as by Capell. Four lines in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3758] _Saint Withold_] _St. Withold_ Theobald. _swithald_ Qq. _Swithold_ Ff. _Swithin_ So quoted by Hill. _'old_] _olde_ Q₁. _old_ Q₂ Ff Q₃. _wold_ Theobald (Bishop conj.) _cold_ So quoted by Hill. _world_ Colman's version (a misprint). _oles_ Farmer conj. [3759] _He met the night-mare_] Ff. _anelthu night Moore_ Q₁. _a nellthu night more_ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _he met the night mare_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _anelthunight Moor_ Q₃. _nine-fold_] F₁. _ninefold_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _nine fold_ Qq. _name told_ Warburton. _nine foles_ Farmer conj. [3760] _her alight_] _her a-light_ Ff. _her, O light_ Q₁ Q₂. _her O light_ Q₃. [3761] _troth plight_] Qq. _troth-plight_ Ff. [3762] _aroint ... aroint_] _aroynt ... aroynt_ Ff. _arint ... arint_ Qq. _thee, witch,_] _thee, witch_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _thee witch,_ F₁ F₂. _the witch,_ F₃ F₄. _thee, with_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. Imp. and Bodl. 1). _thee!_] _thee right._ Warburton. [3763] SCENE VII. Pope. [3764] _Who's_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _Whos_ F₂. _Whose_ Qq. [3765] _tadpole_] Johnson. _toade pold_ Q₁. _tode pold_ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _tod pole_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _toade-pold_ Q₃. _tod-pole_ F₁ F₂. _tod-pool_ F₃ F₄. _wall-newt_] Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _wall neut_ Ff. _wall-wort_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _water_] Qq Ff. _water-neut_ Rowe. _fury_] _fruite_ Q₁. _fruit_ Q₃. [3766] _sallets_] _sallet_ Capell conj. [3767] _stock-punished_] _stock-punisht_ Q₁ Q₂. _stock-punish_ Q₃. _stockt, punish'd_ Ff. [3768] _had_] Qq. om. Ff. [3769] _horse ... wear;_] Prose in Qq. Verse in Ff. [3770] _deer_] _deere_ Qq. _deare_ F₁ F₂. _dear_ F₃ F₄. _geer_ Hanmer. _cheer_ Grey conj. [3771] _Have_] Ff. _Hath_ Qq. [3772] _Smulkin_] Ff. _snulbug_ Qq. _Smolkin_ Theobald. [3773] _The ... Mahu._] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Capell. [3774] _Modo_] _Mohu_ Johnson. [3775] _Mahu_] Ff. _ma hu--_ Qq. [3776] _Our ... gets it._] Verse in Pope. Prose in Qq Ff. [3777] _is ... lord,_] _is growne so vilde my Lord,_ Qq (_vild_ Q₂). _my Lord, is growne so vilde,_ Ff (_grown_ F₃ F₄. _vild,_ F₂ F₃ F₄). [3778] _gets it_] _it gets_ F₃ F₄. [3779] _Poor_] om. Pope. [3780] _a-cold_] Hyphened by Rowe. [3781] _Go ... ready._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3782] _Though_] _Though all_ F₃ F₄. [3783] _ventured_] Ff _venterd_ Qq. [3784] _fire and food_] Ff. _food and fire_ Qq. _is_] _are_ Hanmer. [3785] _Good ... house._] Two lines in Ff. _Good my_] Ff. _My good_ Qq. [3786] _I'll ... study?_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3787] _talk_] _take_ F₃ F₄. _same_] Ff. _most_ Qq. [3788] _me_] _us_ F₃ F₄. _private_] _private, friend_ Keightley. [3789] _Importune ... unsettle._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3790] _once more_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [3791] [Storm still.] Ff. om. Qq. [3792] _ah_] Ff. _O_ Qq. [3793] _say'st_] _saist_ Q₁ Q₃. _sayest_ Q₂ Ff. [3794] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. [3795] _outlaw'd_] _out-lawed_ Qq. _he sought_] _a sought_ Q₂. [3796] _truth_] Q₁ Q₃. _true_ Q₂ Ff. [Storm still. Malone. [3797] _hath_] _has_ Q₁ _haz_ Q₃. _night's_] _nights_ Qq. [3798] _grace,--_] Capell. _grace_. Qq Ff. [3799] _O ... company._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. _mercy, sir. Noble_] _mercy, sir: Noble_ Ff. _mercy noble_ Qq. [3800] _there, into the_] _there, into th'_ Q₁ Ff. _there, in't_ Q₂. _there, into th_ Q₃. _into th'_ Pope. _there, to the_ Capell. [3801] _With ... philosopher._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. _him; I_] Ff. _him I_ Qq. [3802] _Good ... fellow._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [3803] _Sirrah ... us._] _Sirrah, come on; along with us._ Pope. _On, sirrah; go with us._ Capell. [3804] _Come ... words:_] As a line of verse in Steevens (1793). [3805] _tower_] Ff. _towne_ Q₁ Q₂. _town_ Q₃. _came_] Ff. _come_ Qq. After this Capell, reading _come_, marks the omission of a line and proposes to add _The giant roar'd, and out he ran._ Keightley proposes _The giant saw him, and out he ran._ [3806] [Exeunt.] Ff. om. Qq. [3807] SCENE V.] SCENE IV. Rowe. SCENE VIII. Pope. Gloucester's castle.] Rowe. A Room in Gloster's Castle. Capell. Enter ... Edmund.] Ff. Enter ... Bastard. Qq. Omitted by Johnson. [3808] _my_] om. F₃ F₄. _his_] Ff. _the_ Qq. [3809] _provoking merit_] _provoked spirit_ Hanmer. [3810] _a-work_] _a-worke_ F₁. _a worke_ Qq F₂. _a-work_ F₃ F₄. _himself_] _him_ Hanmer. [3811] _letter_] Qq. _letter which_ Ff. [3812] _advantages_] _advances_ Anon. conj. [3813] _this treason were not_] Ff. _his treason were_ Qq. _his treason were not_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [3814] [Aside] Theobald. om. Qq Ff. [3815] _persever_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _persevere_ Qq F₄. [3816] _dearer_] Qq. _deere_ F₁ F₂. _dear_ F₃ F₄. [Exeunt.] Ff. Exit. Qq. [3817] SCENE VI.] SCENE V. Rowe. SCENE IX. Pope. A chamber ... castle.] A Chamber. Rowe. A Chamber, in a Farmhouse. Theobald. A Room in some of the out-buildings of the Castle. Capell. Enter ... Edgar.] Enter ... Tom. Qq (and Lear, Q₂). Enter Kent, and Gloucester Ff. [3818] _have_] _has_ Pope. _hath_ Capell. _to his_] Ff. _to_ Qq. [3819] _reward_] Ff. _deserve_ Qq. _preserve_ Capell conj. [Exit Gloucester.] As in Capell. After line 3 in Ff. Omitted in Qq. Enter Lear, Edgar, and Foole. Ff. om. Qq. [3820] _Frateretto_] _Fretereto_ Qq. _Fraterretto_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Fraterreto_ F₄. _Nero_] _Trajan_ Upton conj. [3821] _and_] Ff. om. Qq. [3822] _be_] _may bee_ Q₁ Q₃. [3823] _gentleman_] _gentlemen_ F₂. [3824] Fool. _No ... him._ Lear.] Ff. Omitted in Qq. [3825] _mad_] om. F₃ F₄. [3826] _To have ... 'em,--_] Divided as in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3827] _hissing_] Q₁ Q₃. _hiszing_ Q₂. _hizzing_ Ff. _whizzing_ Boswell (Malone conj.) _'em,--_] _'em--_ Theobald. _'em._ Ff. _them._ Qq. [3828] Edg. _The foul ... 'scape?_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [3829] _trusts_] _trust_ Q₃. [3830] _a horse's health_] _the heels of a horse_ Warburton. _a horse's heels_ Singer, ed. 2 (Anon. MS.) See note (V). _a horse's ... oath._] _the health of a horse, the love of a boy, or the oath of a whore._ Pope. [3831] _them_] _'em_ Pope. [3832] [To Edgar.] Capell. To the Fool. Hanmer. _justicer_] Theobald. _justice_ Qq. [3833] [To the Fool.] Capell. To Edgar. Hanmer. _here. Now, you_] _heere, now you_ Q₁ _here, no you_ Q₂. _here now you_ Q₃. _here. Now ye_ Pope. _foxes!_] _foxes._ Pope. _Foxes_--Qq. [3834] Edg. _Look ... thee._] Omitted by Pope. [3835] _Look ... me._] As in Capell. Prose in Qq. Verse, the first line ending _eyes_, in Theobald, and Capell's Errata. [3836] _he_] _she_ Theobald. _Wantest_] Theobald. _wantst_ Q₁ Q₃. _wanst_ Q₂. _wanton'st_ Jennens (Seward conj.) [3837] _Wantest thou eyes_] _Wantonizeth thou_ Staunton conj. [3838] _eyes ... madam?_] _eyes_? Lear. _At trial, Madam._ Rann (Johnson conj.) _trial, madam_?] _triall madam_, Q₁ Q₃. _tral madam_ Q₂. [3839] [Sings. Edd. conj. _bourn_] _boorne_ Capell. _broome_ Qq. _brook_ Jennens (Johnson conj.) [3840] [Sings. Edd. conj. [3841] _Her ... speak_] As in Capell. One line in Qq. [3842] _herring_] _herrings_ Pope and Anon. MS. See note (V). [3843] Kent. _How ... cushions_?] Verse in Theobald. Prose in Qq. Omitted by Pope. [3844] _cushions_] _cushings_ Q₂. [3845] _I'll ... father_] Verse in Pope and Theobald. Prose in Qq. [3846] _trial first. Bring_] _trial, bring me in_ Pope, _trial first, bring me in_ Theobald. _the_] Pope, _their_ Qq. [3847] To Edgar] Capell. _robed_] Pope, _robbed_ Qq. [3848] [To the Fool] Capell. [3849] [To Kent] Capell.] _o' the_] _of the_ Hanmer. [3850] Edg. _Let ... gray._ Lear.] Omitted by Pope. [3851] [Sings. Edd. conj. [3852] _Sleepest ... harm_] Verse by Theobald. Prose in Qq. [3853] _I here ... father._] Omitted by Pope. [3854] _she_] Q₁ Q₃. om. Q₂. [3855] _cannot_] _can't_ Hanmer. [3856] _joint-stool_] _joynt stoole_ Q₁ Q₃. _joyne stoole_ Q₂. [3857] _And ... there!_] Omitted by Pope. [3858] _store_] _stuff_ Jennens conj. _stone_ Collier, ed. 2 (Theobald conj.) _made on_] Capell. _made an_ Qq. _made of_ Theobald. [3859] _Corruption_] _corruption's_ Hanmer. _place_] _palace_ Grant White. [3860] _retain_] _remain_ F₃ F₄. [3861] [Aside] Rowe. [3862] _They'll_] _They'l_ Q₁ Q₃. _Theile_ Q₃. _They_ Ff.] _counterfeiting_] Q₂ F₃ F₄. _counterfeting_ Q₁. _counterfetting_ F₁ F₂ Q₃. [3863] _Tom ... fled._] As in Rowe. Verse in Ff, the first line ending _you._ Prose in Qq. [3864] _mongrel grim, Hound_] Rowe (substantially). _Mongrill, Grim, Hound_ Ff (_Mungril_ F₄). _Mungrel, Grim-hound_ Q₁. _mungril, grim-hoūd_ Q₂. _Mungril, Grim-hound_ Q₃. [3865] _lym_] Hanmer. _Him_ Q₁. _him_ Q₂ Q₃. _Hym_ Ff. [3866] _Or bobtail tike_] F₄. _Bobtaile tike_ Qq. _Or Bobtaile tight_ F₁ F₂ F₃ (_Bobtail_ F₃). _trundle-tail_] _Trundle-taile_ Qq. _Troudle taile_ F₁ F₂. _Troudle tail_ F₃ F₄. [3867] _them_] Qq. _him_ Ff. _you_ Eccles conj. [3868] _leap_] _leape_ Qq. _leapt_ Ff. [3869] _Do ... dry._] Prose in Qq and Capell. Two lines, the first ending _fayres_, in Ff. [3870] _Do ... Sessa!_] Malone. _Do, de, de, de: sese:_ Ff. _loudla doodla_, Qq. _Do, do, de, de, &c._ [singing. Capell. _Sessa! Come_] _Sessy, come_ Pope. _Bessy, come_ Anon. ap. Rann conj. _see, see! Come_ Collier. [3871] _dry._] Qq F₁. _dry._ [Exit. F₂ F₃ F₄. [3872] _Then ... changed._] Prose in Ff. Five lines in Qq. [3873] _anatomize_] Ff. _anotomize_ Qq. [3874] _her heart. Is_] Ff. _her, Hart is_ Q₁. _her Hart is_ Q₂. _her Heart is_ Q₃. [3875] _makes_] Qq. _make_ Ff. _these hard hearts?_] Rowe. _these hard-hearts._ F₁ F₂. _these hard hearts._ F₃ F₄. _this hardnesse;_ Q₁ Q₃. _this hardnes_, Q₂. [To Edgar] Capell. [3876] _for_] Ff. _you for_ Qq. [3877] _garments. You will say_] Ff. _garment; youl say_ Q₁ Q₃. _garments youle say,_ Q₂. _attire_] Qq. om. Ff. [3878] _and rest_] Omitted in Qq. [pointing to a mean Couch. Capell. [3879] Prose in Qq Ff. Verse in Rowe, reading with Ff. [3880] _so, so, so._] Qq. _so, so._ Ff. _i' the_] _in the_ Q₁ Q₃. _So, so, so._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [3881] Fool. _And ... noon._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter Glocester. Qq (Gloster Q₂). Enter Gloster. Ff, after line 79. Re-Enter Glo'ster. Pope, after line 79. [3882] _Come ... master?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [3883] _There ... provision_] Arranged as in Ff. Five lines, ending _friend, ... master, ... thine, ... losse, ... provision,_ in Qq. [3884] _in't_] _in it_ Q₁ Q₃. [3885] _toward_] Ff. _towards_ Qq. [3886] _shouldst_] _should_ Johnson. [3887] _Take up, take up_] Ff. _Take up to keepe_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _Take up the King_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _Take up to the keep_ Becket conj. [3888] Kent. _Oppressed ... behind._ Glou.] Omitted in Ff. [3889] _Oppressed_] Qq. _Opprest_ Theobald. [3890] _balm'd_] Theobald. _balmed_ Qq. _sinews_] Qq. _senses_ Theobald. [3891] _Which ... behind._] Arranged as by Theobald. Two lines, the first ending cure, in Qq. [3892] _convenience_] _conveniency_ Theobald. [3893] [To the Fool] Theobald. [3894] _Come, come,_] _Come, away,_ Pope. [Exeunt ... Edgar.] Edd. (Globe ed.) Exit. Qq. Exeunt. Ff. Exeunt, bearing off the King. Manet Edgar. Theobald. Exeunt Kent, Gloster, and the Fool, bearing off Lear. Capell. [3895] Edg. _When ... lurk._] Omitted in Ff. See note (XVI). [3896] _When ... foes_] As in Q₁ Q₃. Prose in Q₂. [3897] _suffers suffers most_] _suffers, suffers most_ Theobald. _suffers suffers, most_ Q₂. _suffers, most_ Q₁ Q₃. [3898] _doth_] _does_ Theobald. [3899] _father'd!_] Theobald, _fatherd,_ Q₁. _fathered,_ Q₂ Q₃. [3900] After _bewray_ Warburton marks an omission. [3901] _thought defiles_] Theobald. _thoughts defile_ Qq. [3902] _What will hap_] _Hap what will hap_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _What will, hap_ Theobald. _What ... to-night,_] Qq. _What ... to-night?_ Capell. [3903] [Exit.] Exit Edgar. Theobald, om. Qq Ff. [3904] SCENE VII.] SCENE VI. Rowe. SCENE X. Pope. Gloucester's castle.] Rowe. A Room in the Castle. Capell. Regan] Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃. and Regan and Q₂. om. F₃ F₄. Edmund, and Servants.] Theobald. Bastard, and Servants. Ff. and Bastard. Qq. [3905] _Post ... Gloucester._] Prose in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _letter,_ in Qq. [3906] _traitor_] Ff. _villaine_ Q₁ Q₃. _vilaine_ Q₂. [Exeunt....] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [3907] _Leave ... like._] Prose in Q₁ Ff Q₃. Four lines in Q₂. [3908] _displeasure_] _disposure_ Collier MS. [3909] _revenges_] _revenge_ Qq. [3910] _Advise_] _Advice_ F₁. _where_] _when_ Steevens (1778). _festinate_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _festuant_ Qq. _festiuate_ F₁. _festivant_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [3911] _Our ... Gloucester._] Prose in Ff. Two lines in Qq. [3912] _posts_] _poste_ Q₁. _post_ Q₂ Q₃. [3913] _and intelligent_] Ff. _and intelligence_ Qq. _in intelligence_ Capell (withdrawn in MS.) [3914] Enter Oswald.] Collier. Enter Steward. Ff. Enter Steward. Qq, after _king?_ line 13. [3915] _Some ... friends._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3916] _questrists_] Ff. _questrits_ Qq. _questers_ Pope, _coystrills_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _questists_ Heath conj. _after him_] _after_ Hanmer (ed. 2). [3917] _lords_] _lord's_ Pope. [3918] _toward_] Ff. _towards_ Qq. [3919] [Exeunt ... Oswald.] Dyce. Exeunt ... Steward. Capell, (after line 20). Exit Gon. and Bast. Qq, after line 20. Exit. Ff, after line 20. Exit Oswald (after line 19), Exeunt Goneril and Edmund (after line 21). Staunton. [3920] [Exeunt other Servants.] Capell. om. Qq Ff. [3921] _well_] om. Qq. [3922] _Shall ... blame_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3923] _courtesy_] _curtesie_ Qq. _curt'sie_ Ff. [3924] SCENE XI. Pope. _Who's_] _Whose_ Q₂. Enter ... three.] Qq. Enter Gloucester, and Servants. Ff (after _comptroll_). Re-enter Servants, with Gloster Prisoner. Capell. [3925] _What ... friends._] As in Qq. Three lines, the first two ending _graces?... ghests,_ in Ff. [3926] _mean_] F₄. _meanes_ Qq F₁ F₂. _means_ F₃. _friends_] _friends_ [to the Ser. Capell MS. [3927] [Servants bind him.] They bind him. Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [3928] _I'm none_] F₃ F₄. _I'me none_ F₁. _Ime none_ F₂. _I am none_ Capell. _I am true_ Qq. [3929] _To ... find--_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff. _find--_] Qq. _finde._ F₁ F₂. _find._ F₃ F₄. [Regan....] Johnson, om. Qq Ff. [3930] _By ... beard._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3931] _Naughty ... chin_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3932] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. [3933] _robbers'_] Theobald. _robbers_ Qq Ff. _robber's_ Pope. _favours_] _favour_ Hanmer (Warburton). [3934] _do?_] Q₁ F₁ Q₃ F₄. _doe._ Q₂. _doe_ F₂. _do_ F₃. [3935] _Come, sir,_] As in Qq. In a separate line in Ff. [3936] _simple answerer_] Qq. _simple answer'd_ Ff. _simple-answer'd_ Hanmer. [3937] _And what ... kingdom?_] As in Rowe. Prose in Qq Ff. [3938] _Late_] Q₂ Ff. _lately_ Q₁ Q₃. [3939] _To ... Speak._] As in Capell. One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _hands,_ in Ff. [3940] _have you sent_] Q₁ Q₃. _you have sent_ Q₂ Ff. [3941] _I have_] _I've_ Hanmer. [3942] _Dover_] _Dover, sir_ Hanmer. [3943] _Wherefore ... peril--_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _peril--_] _perill--_ Qq. _perill._ F₁ F₂ F₃. _peril?_ F₄. [3944] _first_] Qq. om. Ff. [3945] _I am ... course._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [3946] _sir_] Qq. om. Ff. [3947] _anointed_] F₄. _annoynted_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _annointed_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _aurynted_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _stick_] F₃ F₄. _sticke_ F₁ F₂. _rash_ Qq. _rush_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [3948] _as his bare_] Ff. _of his lou'd_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _on his lowd_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _of his lov'd_ Q₃. [3949] _hell-black night_] Pope. _hell-blacke-night_ Ff. _hell blacke night_ Qq. _buoy'd_] Ff. _laid_ Q₁ Q₃. _layd_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _bod_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _boil'd_ Warburton. [3950] _And ... heart,_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3951] _stelled_] Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2) Ff. _steeled_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _stellar_ Hanmer. [3952] _holp_] F₃ F₄. _holpe_ F₁ F₂. _holpt_ Qq. _help'd_ Pope. _rain_] F₃ F₄. _raine_ F₁ F₂. _rage_ Qq. [3953] _howl'd that stern_] F₃ F₄. _howl'd that sterne_ F₁ F₂. _heard that dearne_ Qq. _howl'd that dearn_ Capell. [3954] _Good_] _go,_ Theobald (ed. 2). [3955] _cruels_] _quarrels_ Jervis conj. _subscribed_] _subscrib'd_ Qq. _subscribe_ Ff. [3956] _these_] Ff. _those_ Qq. [Gloster is held down while Cornwall treads out one of his Eyes. Rowe. Gloster is held down in his Chair, while Cornwal plucks out one his Eyes, and stamps on it. Capell. [3957] _old,_] Ff. _old_ Q₂. _old--_ Q₁ Q₃. [3958] _you_] Ff. _ye_ Qq. [3959] _the other too_] _th other too_ Ff. _tother to_ Qq. [3960] _vengeance--_] Qq. _vengeance._ Ff. First Serv.] 1. S. Capell. Servant. Qq. Serv. Ff. [3961] _I have_] _I've_ Pope. _you_] om. Q₂. [3962] _But ... hold._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [3963] _If ... mean?_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3964] _on this_] _in this_ Capell conj. [3965] [They draw....] Draw and fight. Qq. Omitted in Ff. Fight, in the scuffle Cornwall is wounded. Rowe. [3966] _Nay_] Ff. _Why_ Qq. [3967] Reg.] Reg. [to another servant. Johnson. Reg. [To Corn. Collier conj. _thus!_] _thus?_ Ff. _thus._ Qq. [Takes....] She takes.... Qq. Killes him. Ff. Snatches a Sword from an Att: and stabs him. Capell. [3968] _O ... him. O!_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3969] _slain! My lord, you have_] _slaine: my Lord, you have_ Ff. _slaine my Lord, yet have you_ Qq. [3970] _him_] _them_ Dyce (ed. 2). _'em_ Dyce conj. (ed. 1). [Dies.] He dies. Q₁. om. Q₂ Ff Q₃. [3971] _vile_] Pope. _vilde_ Q₁ F₁ F₂. _vild_ Q₂ F₃ F₄. [3972] [Treads out the other Eye. Rowe. Dashing Gloster's other Eye to the Ground. Capell. [3973] _All ... Edmund!_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _comfortless._] _comfortles,_ Qq. _comfortlesse?_ Ff. [3974] _Edmund ... act._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3975] _enkindle_] Ff. _unbridle_ Qq. [3976] _Out ... thee._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3977] _treacherous_] Ff. _om._ Qq. [3978] _overture_] _o'erture_ S. Walker conj. [3979] _O ... you?_] Five lines, ending _follies!... forgive ... out ... Dover ... you?_ in Pope. [3980] _O ... abused._] As in Qq Ff. Two lines in Capell. [3981] _Go ... you?_] As in Capell. Three lines in Ff. Prose in Qq. [3982] _at gates_] _At th' gates_ Hanmer. [3983] [Exit....] Exit with Glouster. Ff. Omitted in Qq. _look_] _do_ Jennens. [3984] _Turn ... arm._] As in Ff. In Qq the first two lines end _upon ... untimely._ [3985] _dunghill_] _dungell_ Q₂. [3986] [Exit....] Exit Qq. Exeunt. Ff. Exeunt Cornwal, and Regan. Servants unbind Gloster, and lead him out. Capell. [3987] Sec. Serv. _I'll ... him!_] Omitted in Ff. [3988] Sec. Serv.] 2. S. Capell. Servant. Qq. 1st Serv. Theobald. [3989] Third Serv.] 3. S. Capell. 2. Servant. Qq. [3990] _If ... monsters._] As in Theobald. Prose in Qq. [3991] Sec. Serv.] 2. S. Capell. 1 Ser. Qq. _Bedlam_] _bedlom_ Q₂. [3992] _roguish_] om. Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). [3993] Third Serv.] 3. S. Capell. 2 Ser. Qq. [3994] _Go ... him!_] As in Theobald. Prose in Qq. [3995] _To ... his_] _T' apply to's_ Theobald. [Exeunt severally.] Theobald. Exit. Qq. ACT IV. SCENE I. _The heath._[3996] _Enter_ EDGAR. _Edg._ Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd,[3997] Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,[3998] The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,[3999] Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:[4000] The lamentable change is from the best; 5 The worst returns to laughter. Welcome then,[4001][4002] Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace![4002] The wretch that them hast blown unto the worst[4002] Owes nothing to thy blasts. But who comes here?[4002][4003][4004] _Enter_ GLOUCESTER, _led by an_ Old Man.[4005] My father, poorly led? World, world, O world![4005][4006] 10 But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,[4007] Life would not yield to age.[4008] _Old Man._ O, my good lord, I have been your tenant,[4009] and your father's tenant, these fourscore years.[4009][4010] _Glou._ Away, get thee away; good friend, be gone: 15 Thy comforts can do me no good at all; Thee they may hurt. _Old Man._ Alack, sir, you cannot see your way.[4011] _Glou._ I have no way and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw: full oft 'tis seen, 20 Our means secure us, and our mere defects[4012] Prove our commodities. Ah, dear son Edgar,[4013] The food of thy abused father's wrath! Might I but live to see thee in my touch, I'ld say I had eyes again! _Old Man._ How now! Who 's there?[4014] 25 _Edg. [Aside]_ O gods! Who is't can say 'I am at the worst'?[4015][4016] I am worse than e'er I was.[4017] _Old Man._ 'Tis poor mad Tom. _Edg. [Aside]_ And worse I may be yet: the worst is not[4015] So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'[4018] _Old Man._ Fellow, where goest? _Glou._ Is it a beggar-man? 30 _Old Man._ Madman and beggar too. _Glou._ He has some reason, else he could not beg.[4019] I' the last night's storm I such a fellow saw,[4020] Which made me think a man a worm: my son Came then into my mind, and yet my mind 35 Was then scarce friends with him: I have heard more since.[4021] As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;[4022] They kill us for their sport.[4023] _Edg. [Aside]_ How should this be?[4015][4024][4025] Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,[4024][4026] Angering itself and others. Bless thee, master![4024][4027] 40 _Glou._ Is that the naked fellow? _Old Man._ Ay, my lord. _Glou._ Then, prithee, get thee gone: if for my sake[4028] Thou wilt o'ertake us hence a mile or twain[4029] I' the way toward Dover, do it for ancient love;[4030] And bring some covering for this naked soul,[4031] 45 Who I'll entreat to lead me.[4032] _Old Man._ Alack, sir, he is mad. _Glou._ 'Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.[4033] Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure;[4034] Above the rest, be gone. _Old Man._ I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have,[4035][4036] 50 Come on't what will. [_Exit._ _Glou._ Sirrah, naked fellow,--[4037] _Edg._ Poor Tom's a-cold. [_Aside_] I cannot daub it further.[4015][4038] _Glou._ Come hither, fellow. _Edg. [Aside]_ And yet I must. Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.[4015][4039] 55 _Glou._ Know'st thou the way to Dover? _Edg._ Both stile and gate, horse-way and foot-path. Poor[4040] Tom hath been scared out of his good wits. Bless thee, good[4040][4041][4042] man's son, from the foul fiend! Five fiends have been in poor[4040][4042][4043] Tom at once; of lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididence, prince of[4043][4044] 60 dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Modo, of murder;[4043][4045] Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and mowing; who since possesses[4043][4046] chambermaids and waiting-women. So, bless thee, master![4043][4047] _Glou._ Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues[4048] Have humbled to all strokes: that I am wretched[4049] 65 Makes thee the happier. Heavens, deal so still![4049] Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,[4050] That slaves your ordinance, that will not see[4051] Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly;[4052] So distribution should undo excess[4053] 70 And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover? _Edg._ Ay, master. _Glou._ There is a cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep:[4054] Bring me but to the very brim of it, 75 And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear With something rich about me: from that place[4055] I shall no leading need.[4055][4056] _Edg._ Give me thy arm:[4057] Poor Tom shall lead thee. [_Exeunt._[4057][4058] SCENE II. _Before the Duke of Albany's palace._ _Enter_ GONERIL _and_ EDMUND.[4059] _Gon._ Welcome, my lord: I marvel our mild husband Not met us on the way. _Enter_ OSWALD.[4060] Now, where's your master? _Osw._ Madam, within; but never man so changed.[4061] I told him of the army that was landed;[4061] He smiled at it: I told him you were coming;[4061] 5 His answer was, 'The worse:' of Gloucester's treachery[4061] And of the loyal service of his son[4061] When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot[4061] And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out:[4061] What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him;[4061][4062] 10 What like, offensive.[4061][4063] _Gon. [To Edm.]_ Then shall you go no further. It is the cowish terror of his spirit,[4064] That dares not undertake: he'll not feel wrongs, Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way[4065] May prove effects. Back, Edmund, to my brother;[4065][4066] 15 Hasten his musters and conduct his powers: I must change arms at home and give the distaff[4067] Into my husband's hands. This trusty servant Shall pass between us: ere long you are like to hear,[4068] If you dare venture in your own behalf,[4069] 20 A mistress's command. Wear this; spare speech; [_Giving a favour._[4070] Decline your head: this kiss, if it durst speak, Would stretch thy spirits up into the air: Conceive, and fare thee well.[4071] _Edm._ Yours in the ranks of death. _Gon._ My most dear Gloucester![4072] 25 [_Exit Edmund._[4073] O, the difference of man and man![4072][4074][4075] To thee a woman's services are due:[4075][4076] My fool usurps my body.[4075] _Osw._ Madam, here comes my lord. [_Exit._ _Enter_ ALBANY.[4077] _Gon._ I have been worth the whistle.[4078] _Alb._ O Goneril![4079] You are not worth the dust which the rude wind[4079][4080] 30 Blows in your face. I fear your disposition:[4081] That nature which contemns its origin[4081][4082] Cannot be border'd certain in itself;[4081][4083] She that herself will sliver and disbranch[4081][4084] From her material sap, perforce must wither[4081][4085] 35 And come to deadly use.[4081] _Gon._ No more; the text is foolish.[4081][4086] _Alb._ Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile:[4081] Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?[4081][4087] Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd?[4081] 40 A father, and a gracious aged man,[4081] Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick,[4081][4088] Most barbarous, most degenerate! have you madded.[4081] Could my good brother suffer you to do it?[4081] A man, a prince, by him so benefited![4081][4089] 45 If that the heavens do not their visible spirits[4081] Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,[4081][4090][4091] It will come,[4081][4090][4092] Humanity must perforce prey on itself,[4081][4093][4094] Like monsters of the deep.[4081][4093] _Gon._ Milk-liver'd man! 50 That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;[4095] Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning[4096][4097] Thine honour from thy suffering; that not know'st[4096][4098][4099] Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd[4098][4099][4100] Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?[4098] 55 France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,[4098][4101] With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,[4098][4102] Whiles thou, a moral fool, sit'st still and criest[4098][4103] 'Alack, why does he so?'[4098] _Alb._ See thyself, devil![4104] Proper deformity seems not in the fiend[4104][4105] 60 So horrid as in woman.[4104] _Gon._ O vain fool! _Alb._ Thou changed and self-cover'd thing, for shame,[4106][4107] Be-monster not thy feature. Were 't my fitness[4106][4108][4109] To let these hands obey my blood,[4106][4109][4110] They are apt enough to dislocate and tear[4106][4109][4111] 65 Thy flesh and bones: howe'er thou art a fiend,[4106][4112] A woman's shape doth shield thee.[4106] _Gon_. Marry, your manhood mew.[4106][4113] _Enter a_ Messenger. _Alb._ What news?[4114] _Mess._ O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall's dead,[4115][4116] 70 Slain by his servant, going to put out[4116] The other eye of Gloucester.[4116] _Alb._ Gloucester's eyes! _Mess._ A servant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse,[4117] Opposed against the act, bending his sword[4118] To his great master; who thereat enraged[4118][4119] 75 Flew on him and amongst them fell'd him dead,[4120] But not without that harmful stroke which since[4121][4122] Hath pluck'd him after.[4122] _Alb._ This shows you are above,[4123][4124] You justicers, that these our nether crimes[4123][4124][4125] So speedily can venge. But, O poor Gloucester![4123] 80 Lost he his other eye?[4123] _Mess._ Both, both, my lord.[4126] This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer;[4126] 'Tis from your sister.[4126] _Gon._ [_Aside_] One way I like this well;[4127] But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,[4128] May all the building in my fancy pluck[4129] 85 Upon my hateful life: another way,[4130] The news is not so tart. I'll read, and answer. [_Exit._[4130][4131] _Alb._ Where was his son when they did take his eyes?[4132] _Mess._ Come with my lady hither. _Alb._ He is not here.[4133] _Mess._ No, my good lord; I met him back again. 90 _Alb._ Knows he the wickedness? _Mess._ Ay, my good lord; 'twas he inform'd against him, And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment[4134] Might have the freer course. _Alb._ Gloucester, I live[4135][4136] To thank thee for the love thou show'dst the king,[4135][4136][4137] 95 And to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend:[4135][4136][4138] Tell me what more thou know'st. [_Exeunt._[4136][4139] SCENE III. _The French camp near Dover._[4140] _Enter_ KENT _and a_ Gentleman. _Kent._ Why the King of France is so suddenly gone[4141] back know you the reason?[4141][4142] _Gent._ Something he left imperfect in the state which[4143] since his coming forth is thought of, which imports to the[4143][4144] kingdom so much fear and danger that his personal return[4143][4145] 5 was most required and necessary.[4143] _Kent._ Who hath he left behind him general?[4146] _Gent._ The Marshal of France, Monsieur La Far.[4147] _Kent._ Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration[4148] of grief?[4148] 10 _Gent._ Ay, sir; she took them, read them in my presence,[4149] And now and then an ample tear trill'd down Her delicate cheek: it seem'd she was a queen[4150] Over her passion, who most rebel-like[4150][4151] Sought to be king o'er her.[4150] _Kent._ O, then it moved her. 15 _Gent._ Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove[4152] Who should express her goodliest. You have seen[4153] Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears[4154] Were like a better way: those happy smilets[4154][4155] That play'd on her ripe lip seem'd not to know[4156] 20 What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. In brief,[4157][4158] Sorrow would be a rarity most beloved,[4157] If all could so become it.[4157] _Kent._ Made she no verbal question?[4159] _Gent._ Faith, once or twice she heaved the name of 'father'[4160] 25 Pantingly forth, as if it press'd her heart; Cried 'Sisters! sisters! Shame of ladies! sisters![4161] Kent! father! sisters! What, i' the storm? i' the night?[4161][4162] Let pity not be believed!' There she shook[4163] The holy water from her heavenly eyes, 30 And clamour moisten'd: then away she started[4164] To deal with grief alone. _Kent._ It is the stars,[4165][4166] The stars above us, govern our conditions;[4166] Else one self mate and mate could not beget[4167] Such different issues. You spoke not with her since?[4168] 35 _Gent._ No. _Kent._ Was this before the king return'd? _Gent._ No, since. _Kent._ Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i' the town;[4169] Who sometime in his better tune remembers[4170] What we are come about, and by no means[4171] 40 Will yield to see his daughter.[4171] _Gent._ Why, good sir? _Kent._ A sovereign shame so elbows him: his own unkindness[4172] That stripp'd her from his benediction, turn'd her[4173] To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights To his dog-hearted daughters: these things sting[4174][4175] 45 His mind so venomously that burning shame[4174][4175] Detains him from Cordelia.[4174][4176] _Gent._ Alack, poor gentleman! _Kent._ Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?[4177] _Gent._ 'Tis so; they are afoot.[4178] _Kent._ Well, sir, I'll bring you to our master Lear, 50 And leave you to attend him: some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile; When I am known aright, you shall not grieve Lending me this acquaintance. I pray you, go[4179] Along with me. [_Exeunt._[4179][4180] 55 SCENE IV. _The same. A tent._ _Enter, with drum and colours,_ CORDELIA, Doctor, _and_ Soldiers.[4181] _Cor._ Alack, 'tis he: why, he was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud;[4182] Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,[4183] With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,[4184] Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow 5 In our sustaining corn. A century send forth;[4185] Search every acre in the high-grown field, And bring him to our eye. [_Exit an Officer._] What can man's wisdom[4186][4187][4188][4189] In the restoring his bereaved sense?[4186][4188][4190] He that helps him take all my outward worth.[4186][4191] 10 _Doct._ There is means, madam:[4192] Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, The which he lacks: that to provoke in him,[4193] Are many simples operative, whose power Will close the eye of anguish. _Cor._ All blest secrets,[4194] 15 All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth,[4194] Spring with my tears! be aidant and remediate[4195] In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him;[4196] Lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life That wants the means to lead it. _Enter a_ Messenger.[4197] _Mess._ News, madam;[4198] 20 The British powers are marching hitherward.[4198] _Cor._ 'Tis known before; our preparation stands In expectation of them. O dear father, It is thy business that I go about;[4199] Therefore great France[4199] 25 My mourning and important tears hath pitied.[4200] No blown ambition doth our arms incite,[4201] But love, dear love, and our aged father's right:[4202] Soon may I hear and see him! [_Exeunt._[4203] SCENE V. _Gloucester's castle._ _Enter_ REGAN _and_ OSWALD.[4204] _Reg._ But are my brother's powers set forth?[4205] _Osw._ Ay, madam.[4205] _Reg._ Himself in person there?[4205][4206] _Osw._ Madam, with much ado:[4207] Your sister is the better soldier.[4207][4208] _Reg._ Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home?[4209] _Osw._ No, madam. 5 _Reg._ What might import my sister's letter to him?[4210] _Osw._ I know not, lady. _Reg._ Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.[4211] It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out, To let him live: where he arrives he moves 10 All hearts against us: Edmund, I think, is gone,[4212] In pity of his misery, to dispatch[4213] His nighted life; moreover, to descry[4213] The strength o' the enemy.[4213][4214] _Osw._ I must needs after him, madam, with my letter.[4215] 15 _Reg._ Our troops set forth to-morrow: stay with us;[4216] The ways are dangerous. _Osw._ I may not, madam:[4217] My lady charged my duty in this business.[4217] _Reg._ Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you[4218] Transport her purposes by word? Belike,[4218][4219] 20 Something--I know not what: I'll love thee much,[4220] Let me unseal the letter. _Osw._ Madam, I had rather--[4221] _Reg._ I know your lady does not love her husband; I am sure of that: and at her late being here[4222] She gave strange œillades and most speaking looks[4223] 25 To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom.[4224] _Osw._ I, madam?[4225] _Reg._ I speak in understanding: you are; I know't:[4226] Therefore I do advise you, take this note:[4227] My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd; 30 And more convenient is he for my hand Than for your lady's: you may gather more.[4228] If you do find him, pray you, give him this;[4229] And when your mistress hears thus much from you, I pray, desire her call her wisdom to her. 35 So, fare you well.[4230] If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor, Preferment falls on him that cuts him off. _Osw._ Would I could meet him, madam! I should show[4231] What party I do follow. _Reg._ Fare thee well. [_Exeunt._[4232] 40 SCENE VI. _Fields near Dover._ _Enter_ GLOUCESTER, _and_ EDGAR _dressed like a peasant_.[4233] _Glou._ When shall we come to the top of that same hill?[4234] _Edg._ You do climb up it now: look, how we labour.[4235] _Glou._ Methinks the ground is even. _Edg._ Horrible steep.[4236][4237] Hark, do you hear the sea?[4237][4238] _Glou._ No, truly. _Edg._ Why then your other senses grow imperfect 5 By your eyes' anguish. _Glou._ So may it be indeed: Methinks thy voice is alter'd, and thou speak'st[4239] In better phrase and matter than thou didst.[4240] _Edg._ You're much deceived: in nothing am I changed[4241] But in my garments. _Glou._ Methinks you're better spoken.[4242] 10 _Edg._ Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful[4243] And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low![4244] The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade![4245] 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen that walk upon the beach[4246] Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark[4247] Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy[4248] Almost too small for sight: the murmuring surge 20 That on the unnumberd idle pebbles chafes[4249] Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,[4250] Lest my brain turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. _Glou._ Set me where you stand. _Edg._ Give me your hand: you are now within a foot[4251][4252] 25 Of the extreme verge: for all beneath the moon[4251][4253] Would I not leap upright.[4251][4254] _Glou._ Let go my hand. Here, friend, 's another purse; in it a jewel Well worth a poor man's taking: fairies and gods[4255] Prosper it with thee! Go thou farther off;[4256] 30 Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going. _Edg._ Now fare you well good sir.[4257] _Glou._ With all my heart. _Edg._ Why I do trifle thus with his despair[4258] Is done to cure it.[4258] _Glou._ [_Kneeling_] O you mighty gods![4259] This world I do renounce, and in your sights 35 Shake patiently my great affliction off: If I could bear it longer and not fall To quarrel with your great opposeless wills, My snuff and loathed part of nature should[4260] Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O bless him![4261] 40 Now, fellow, fare thee well. [_He falls forward._[4262] _Edg._ Gone, sir: farewell.[4263][4264] And yet I know not how conceit may rob[4263][4265][4266] The treasury of life, when life itself[4263][4265][4267] Yields to the theft: had he been where he thought[4263][4265] By this had thought been past. Alive or dead?[4263][4265][4268] 45 Ho, you sir! friend! Hear you, sir! speak![4263][4269] Thus might he pass indeed: yet he revives.[4263][4270] What are you, sir?[4263] _Glou._ Away, and let me die. _Edg._ Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,[4271] So many fathom down precipitating, 50 Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg: but thou dost breathe;[4272] Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound.[4273] Ten masts at each make not the altitude[4274] Which thou hast perpendicularly fell:[4275] Thy life's a miracle. Speak yet again. 55 _Glou._ But have I fall'n, or no?[4276] _Edg._ From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.[4277] Look up a-height; the shrill-gorged lark so far[4278] Cannot be seen or heard: do but look up.[4279] _Glou._ Alack, I have no eyes. 60 Is wretchedness deprived that benefit, To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort,[4280] When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage And frustrate his proud will. _Edg._ Give me your arm:[4281] Up: so. How is't? Feel you your legs? You stand.[4282] 65 _Glou._ Too well, too well. _Edg._ This is above all strangeness. Upon the crown o' the cliff, what thing was that[4283] Which parted from you? _Glou._ A poor unfortunate beggar.[4284] _Edg._ As I stood here below, methought his eyes[4285] Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses,[4286] 70 Horns whelk'd and waved like the enridged sea:[4287] It was some fiend; therefore, thou happy father, Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours[4288] Of men's impossibilities, have preserved thee. _Glou._ I do remember now: henceforth I'll bear 75 Affliction till it do cry out itself 'Enough, enough,' and die. That thing you speak of,[4289] I took it for a man; often 'twould say[4290] 'The fiend, the fiend:' he led me to that place.[4291] _Edg._ Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here? 80 _Enter_ LEAR, _fantastically dressed with wild flowers_.[4292] The safer sense will ne'er accommodate[4293][4294][4295] His master thus.[4294] _Lear._ No, they cannot touch me for coining; I am the[4296] king himself. _Edg._ O thou side-piercing sight![4297] 85 _Lear._ Nature's above art in that respect. There's your[4298] press-money. That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper:[4299] draw me a clothier's yard. Look, look, a mouse![4299] Peace, peace; this piece of toasted cheese will do 't.[4300] There's my gauntlet; I'll prove it on a giant. Bring up 90 the brown bills. O, well flown, bird! i' the clout, i' the[4301][4302] clout: hewgh! Give the word.[4302][4303] _Edg._ Sweet marjoram. _Lear._ Pass. _Glou._ I know that voice. 95 _Lear._ Ha! Goneril, with a white beard! They flattered[4304] me like a dog, and told me I had white hairs in my[4305] beard ere the black ones were there. To say 'ay' and 'no' to every thing that I said! 'Ay' and 'no' too was no good[4306] divinity. When the rain came to wet me once and the wind[4307] 100 to make me chatter; when the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. Go[4308] to, they are not men o' their words: they told me I was[4309] every thing; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.[4310] _Glou._ The trick of that voice I do well remember:[4311] 105 Is't not the king?[4311] _Lear._ Ay, every inch a king:[4312][4313] When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.[4312][4314] I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause?[4312][4315][4316] Adultery?[4315][4317][4318] Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No:[4318][4319] 110 The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly[4318] Does lecher in my sight.[4318][4320] Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son[4318] Was kinder to his father than my daughters[4318][4321] Got 'tween the lawful sheets.[4318][4322] 115 To't, luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers.[4318] Behold yond simpering dame,[4323][4324] Whose face between her forks presages snow,[4323][4325] That minces virtue and does shake the head[4323][4326] To hear of pleasure's name;[4323][4327] 120 The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to't[4323][4328] With a more riotous appetite.[4323][4328][4329] Down from the waist they are Centaurs,[4323][4330] Though women all above:[4323] But to the girdle do the gods inherit,[4323] 125 Beneath is all the fiends';[4331][4332] There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit,[4331][4333] Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; fie, fie, fie! pah,[4334] pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to[4335] sweeten my imagination: there's money for thee.[4335] 130 _Glou._ O, let me kiss that hand! _Lear._ Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.[4336] _Glou._ O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world[4337] Shall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?[4337][4338] _Lear._ I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou[4339] 135 squiny at me? No, do thy worst, blind Cupid; I'll not love.[4340] Read thou this challenge; mark but the penning on't.[4341] _Glou._ Were all the letters suns, I could not see one.[4342] _Edg._ I would not take this from report: it is,[4343] And my heart breaks at it.[4343] 140 _Lear._ Read. _Glou._ What, with the case of eyes?[4344] _Lear._ O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your head, nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are in a[4345][4346] heavy case, your purse in a light: yet you see how this[4345][4347] 145 world goes.[4348] _Glou._ I see it feelingly. _Lear._ What, art mad? A man may see how this world[4349] goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond[4350][4351] justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear:[4351][4352] 150 change places, and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which[4353][4354] is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a[4353] beggar? _Glou._ Ay, sir.[4355] _Lear._ And the creature run from the cur? There thou 155 mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed[4356] in office. Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand![4357] Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;[4357][4358] Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind[4357][4359] 160 For which thou whip'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.[4357][4360] Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;[4361][4362] Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,[4361][4363][4364] And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;[4361][4364] Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.[4361][4364][4365] 165 None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em:[4361][4364][4366] Take that of me, my friend, who have the power[4361][4364] To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes,[4361][4364] And, like a scurvy politician, seem[4361] To see the things thou dost not.[4361] 170 Now, now, now, now: pull off my boots: harder, harder:[4367][4368] so.[4368] _Edg._ O, matter and impertinency mix'd![4369][4370] Reason in madness![4369] _Lear._ If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.[4371][4372] 175 I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester:[4371] Thou must be patient; we came crying hither:[4371] Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air,[4371][4373] We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee: mark.[4371][4374] _Glou._ Alack, alack the day![4371] 180 _Lear._ When we are born, we cry that we are come[4371] To this great stage of fools. This 's a good block.[4371][4375] It were a delicate stratagem, to shoe[4371][4376] A troop of horse with felt: I'll put 't in proof;[4371][4377] And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in-law,[4371][4378] 185 Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill![4371] _Enter a_ Gentleman, _with_ Attendants.[4379] _Gent._ O, here he is: lay hand upon him. Sir,[4371][4380] Your most dear daughter--[4371][4381] _Lear._ No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even[4371][4382] The natural fool of fortune. Use me well;[4371] 190 You shall have ransom. Let me have a surgeon;[4371][4383] I am cut to the brains.[4371][4384] _Gent._ You shall have any thing.[4371] _Lear._ No seconds? all myself?[4371] Why, this would make a man a man of salt,[4371][4385] To use his eyes for garden water-pots,[4371][4386] 195 Ay, and laying autumn's dust.[4371][4387] _Gent._ Good sir,--[4371][4387] _Lear._ I will die bravely, like a smug bridegroom. What![4371][4387][4388] I will be jovial: come, come; I am a king,[4371][4387] My masters, know you that.[4371][4387] 200 _Gent._ You are a royal one, and we obey you.[4371] _Lear._ Then there's life in't. Nay, if you get it, you[4371][4389][4390] shall get it by running. Sa, sa, sa, sa.[4371][4389] [_Exit running; Attendants follow._[4391] _Gent._ A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch,[4371] Past speaking of in a king! Thou hast one daughter,[4371][4392] 205 Who redeems nature from the general curse[4371] Which twain have brought her to.[4371][4393] _Edg._ Hail, gentle sir. _Gent._ Sir, speed you: what's your will? _Edg._ Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?[4394] _Gent._ Most sure and vulgar: every one hears that,[4395][4396] 210 Which can distinguish sound.[4395][4397] _Edg._ But, by your favour,[4398] How near's the other army?[4398][4399] _Gent._ Near and on speedy foot; the main descry[4400] Stands on the hourly thought. _Edg._ I thank you, sir: that's all.[4401] _Gent._ Though that the queen on special cause is here, 215 Her army is moved on. _Edg._ I thank you, sir. [_Exit Gent._[4402] _Glou._ You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me;[4403] Let not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please! _Edg._ Well pray you, father.[4404] _Glou._ Now, good sir, what are you? 220 _Edg._ A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows;[4405] Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,[4406] Am pregnant to good pity. Give me your hand, I'll lead you to some biding. _Glou._ Hearty thanks:[4407] The bounty and the benison of heaven[4407][4408] 225 To boot, and boot![4407] _Enter_ OSWALD.[4409] _Osw._ A proclaim'd prize! Most happy![4410][4411] That eyeless head of thine was first framed flesh[4410][4412] To raise my fortunes. Thou old unhappy traitor,[4410][4413] Briefly thyself remember: the sword is out[4410] That must destroy thee.[4410] _Glou._ Now let thy friendly hand[4410][4414] 230 Put strength enough to't. [_Edgar interposes._[4410][4415] _Osw._ Wherefore, bold peasant,[4410] Darest thou support a publish'd traitor? Hence![4410][4416] Lest that the infection of his fortune take[4410][4417] Like hold on thee. Let go his arm.[4410] _Edg._ Chill not let go, zir, without vurther 'casion.[4418] 235 _Osw._ Let go, slave, or thou diest! _Edg._ Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk[4419] pass. An chud ha' been zwaggered out of my life, 'twould[4420] not ha' been zo long as 'tis by a vortnight. Nay, come not[4421] near th' old man; keep out, che vor ye, or I'se try whether[4422] 240 your costard or my ballow be the harder: chill be plain[4423] with you. _Osw._ Out, dunghill! [_They fight._[4424] _Edg._ Chill pick your teeth, zir: come; no matter vor[4425] your foins. [_Oswald falls._[4426] 245 _Osw._ Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse: If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body; And give the letters which thou find'st about me[4427] To Edmund earl of Gloucester; seek him out[4428] Upon the British party. O, untimely death![4428][4429][4430] 250 Death! [_Dies._[4430][4431] _Edg._ I know thee well: a serviceable villain, As duteous to the vices of thy mistress[4432] As badness would desire. _Glou._ What, is he dead? _Edg._ Sit you down, father; rest you.[4433][4434][4435] 255 Let's see these pockets: the letters that he speaks of[4433][4434][4436] May be my friends. He's dead; I am only sorry[4433][4437][4438] He had no other deathsman. Let us see:[4433][4437] Leave, gentle wax; and, manners, blame us not:[4433][4439][4440] To know our enemies' minds, we'ld rip their hearts;[4440][4441] 260 Their papers, is more lawful.[4442] [_Reads_] 'Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You[4443][4444][4445] have many opportunities to cut him off: if your will want[4444] not, time and place will be fruitfully offered. There is[4444] nothing done, if he return the conqueror: then am I[4444][4446] 265 the prisoner, and his bed my gaol; from the loathed[4444][4447] warmth whereof deliver me, and supply the place for your[4444][4448] labour. 'Your--wife, so I would say--affectionate servant,[4449] 'GONERIL.' 270 O undistinguish'd space of woman's will![4450] A plot upon her virtuous husband's life; And the exchange my brother! Here, in the sands,[4451] Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified[4452] Of murderous lechers; and in the mature time[4453] 275 With this ungracious paper strike the sight Of the death-practised duke: for him 'tis well[4454] That of thy death and business I can tell.[4455] _Glou._ The king is mad: how stiff is my vile sense,[4456] That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling 280 Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract: So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs,[4457] And woes by wrong imaginations lose[4458] The knowledge of themselves. [_Drum afar off._[4459] _Edg._ Give me your hand:[284, 285] Far off, methinks, I hear the beaten drum:[4460] 285 Come, father, I'll bestow you with a friend. [_Exeunt._[4461] SCENE VII. _A tent in the French camp._ LEAR _on a bed asleep, soft music playing_; Gentleman, _and others attending_. _Enter_ CORDELIA, KENT, _and_ Doctor.[4462] _Cor._ O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work,[4463] To match thy goodness? My life will be too short,[4463][4464] And every measure fail me.[4463] _Kent._ To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid.[4465] All my reports go with the modest truth, 5 Nor more nor clipp'd, but so. _Cor._ Be better suited:[4466] These weeds are memories of those worser hours:[4466] I prithee, put them off.[4466] _Kent._ Pardon me, dear madam;[4467] Yet to be known shortens my made intent:[4468] My boon I make it, that you know me not 10 Till time and I think meet. _Cor._ Then be't so, my good lord. [_To the Doctor_] How does the king?[4469] _Doct._ Madam, sleeps still.[4470][4471] _Cor._ O you kind gods,[4472][4473] Cure this great breach in his abused nature![4473] 15 The untuned and jarring senses, O, wind up[4474] Of this child-changed father! _Doct._ So please your majesty[4470][4475][4476] That we may wake the king: he hath slept long.[4476][4477] _Cor._ Be govern'd by your knowledge, and proceed I' the sway of your own will. Is he array'd?[4478] 20 _Gent._ Ay, madam; in the heaviness of his sleep[4479] We put fresh garments on him. _Doct._ Be by, good madam, when we do awake him;[4480] I doubt not of his temperance.[4481] _Cor._ Very well.[4482] _Doct._ Please you, draw near. Louder the music there![4482] 25 _Cor._ O my dear father! Restoration hang[4483][4484] Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss[4483][4485] Repair those violent harms that my two sisters[4483] Have in thy reverence made![4483] _Kent._ Kind and dear princess![4486] _Cor._ Had you not been their father, these white flakes[4487] 30 Had challenged pity of them. Was this a face[4488] To be opposed against the warring winds?[4489] To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?[4490][4491] In the most terrible and nimble stroke[4490] Of quick, cross lightning? to watch--poor perdu!--[4490][4492] 35 With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog,[4490][4493][4494][4495] Though he had bit me, should have stood that night[4494] Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father,[4494] To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack![4496] 40 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once[4497] Had not concluded all. He wakes; speak to him.[4498] _Doct._ Madam, do you; 'tis fittest.[4499] _Cor._ How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty?[4500] _Lear._ You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave:[4501] 45 Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. _Cor._ Sir, do you know me?[4502] _Lear._ You are a spirit, I know: when did you die?[4503] _Cor._ Still, still, far wide! 50 _Doct._ He's scarce awake: let him alone awhile.[4504] _Lear._ Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight?[4504] I am mightily abused. I should e'en die with pity,[4505] To see another thus. I know not what to say.[4506] I will not swear these are my hands: let's see; 55 I feel this pin prick. Would I were assured[4507] Of my condition![4507] _Cor._ O, look upon me, sir,[4508][4509] And hold your hands in benediction o'er me.[4508][4510] No, sir, you must not kneel.[4508] _Lear._ Pray, do not mock me:[4511] I am a very foolish fond old man, 60 Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;[4512] And, to deal plainly,[4513] I fear I am not in my perfect mind.[4514] Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant[4515] 65 What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments, nor I know not[4516] Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;[4517] For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. _Cor._ And so I am, I am.[4518] 70 _Lear._ Be your tears wet? yes, faith. I pray, weep not:[4519] If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know you do not love me; for your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong:[4520] You have some cause, they have not.[4521] _Cor._ No cause, no cause. 75 _Lear._ Am I in France? _Kent._ In your own kingdom, sir. _Lear._ Do not abuse me.[4522] _Doct._ Be comforted, good madam: the great rage,[4523] You see, is kill'd in him: and yet it is danger[4523][4524][4525][4526] To make him even o'er the time he has lost.[4523][4525][4527] 80 Desire him to go in; trouble him no more[4523][4528] Till further settling.[4523] _Cor._ Will't please your highness walk?[4529] _Lear._ You must bear with me. Pray you now, forget[4530] and forgive: I am old and foolish.[4530] 85 [_Exeunt all but Kent and Gentleman._[4531] _Gent._ Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall[4532][4533][4534] was so slain?[4532][4533] _Kent._ Most certain, sir.[4532][4533] _Gent._ Who is conductor of his people?[4532][4533] _Kent._ As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloucester.[4532][4533][4535] 90 _Gent._ They say Edgar, his banished son, is with the[4532][4533] Earl of Kent in Germany.[4532][4533][4536] _Kent._ Report is changeable. 'Tis time to look about;[4532][4536][4537] the powers of the kingdom approach apace.[4532][4536][4537] _Gent._ The arbitrement is like to be bloody. Fare you[4532][4536][4537][4538] 95 well, sir. [_Exit._[4532][4536][4537][4539] _Kent._ My point and period will be throughly wrought,[4532] Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought. [_Exit._[4532][4540] FOOTNOTES: [3996] The heath.] Capell. An open Country. Rowe. [3997] _Yet_] _Yes,_ Collier (Collier MS.) _and known_] _unknown_ Collier, ed. 2 (Johnson conj.) [3998] _flatter'd. To be worst,_] Pope. _flattered to be worst,_ Qq. _flatter'd, to be worst:_ Ff. _flatter'd to be worse._ Tyrwhitt conj. [3999] _and_] om. Pope. _dejected_] _deject_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [4000] _esperance_] Ff. _experience_ Qq. [4001] _laughter._] Ff. _laughter,_ Qq. [4002] _Welcome ... blasts._] Omitted in Qq. [4003] _thy_] _my_ Rowe. _But ... here?_] Ff. _Who's here,_ Qq. [4004] _But ... world!_] Divided as in Capell. Two lines, the first ending _led?_ in Ff. One line in Qq. [4005] Enter Gloucester, led by an Old Man.] Qq, after _age_, line 12. Transferred by Pope to follow _blasts_, line 9. Enter Glouster, and an Oldman. F₁ F₂, after _blasts_. Enter Gloster led by an old man. F₃ F₄, after _blasts_. [4006] _poorly led?_] F₃ F₄. _poorely led?_ F₁ F₂. _poorely led,_ Q₁ Q₃. _poorlie, leed,_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _parti, eyd_, Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). [4007] _hate,_] _wait_ Theobald. _bate_ Sewel conj. [4008] _Life would not_] _Life would ill_ or _Loath should we_ or _Life would not but reluctant_ Hanmer conj. MS. See note (XVII). [4009] _O, my ..._] Prose in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _your tenant,_ in Ff. Three lines, ending _lord, ... father's tenant ... years,_ in Johnson. [4010] _these fourscore years._] _this fourescore--_ Q₁ Q₃. _this forescore--_ Q₂. [4011] _Alack, sir,_] Qq. om. Ff. [4012] _Our means secure_] F₃ F₄. _Our meanes secure_ Qq F₁ F₂. _Our mean secures_ Pope. _Our means ensnare_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _Meanness secures_ Hanmer. _Our means seduce_ or _Our maims secure_ Johnson conj. _Our means recuse_ Brae conj. _Our wants secure_ Collier (Collier MS.) _Our meanness succours_ Hunter conj. _Our needs secure_ Singer (ed. 2). _Our means secures_ Arrowsmith conj. _Our harms secure_ Jervis conj. [4013] _Ah_] Qq. _Oh_ Ff. [4014] _Who's_] _whose_ Q₂. [4015] [Aside] Johnson. [4016] _I am at the_] Qq F₁ F₃ F₄. _I am at_ F₂. _I'm at the_ Pope. [4017] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. _e'er_] Rowe. _ere_ Qq Ff. [4018] _So long_] _As long_ Qq. [4019] _He_] _A_ Q₂. [4020] _I' the_] _In the_ Qq. [4021] _Was ... since._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _I have_] _I've_ Pope. [4022] _to wanton_] F₁ F₂. _to th' wanton_ F₃ F₄. _are to'th wanton_ Q₁ Q₃. _are toth' wanton_ Q₂. [4023] _kill_] _bit_ Q₁ Q₃. _bitt_ Q₂. _bite_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _hit_ Delius conj. [4024] _How ... master!_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4025] _this_] _their_ F₂. [4026] _that must play fool to_] F₁. _that must play the foole to_ Qq. _that must play to foole_ F₂. _that must play the fool to_ F₃ F₄. _Must play the fool to_ Pope. [4027] _Angering itself_] _Anguishing't self_ Hanmer. _Ang'ishing it self_ Warburton. [4028] _Then ... gone_] Qq. (_gon_ Q₂). _Get thee away_ Ff. [4029] _hence_] _here_ Qq. [4030] _toward_] Q₂ Ff. _to_ Q₁ Q₃. [4031] _this_] _his_ Rowe (ed. 2). [4032] _Who_] Qq. _Which_ Ff. _Whom_ Pope. [4033] _'Tis ... blind._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _times'_] Capell. _times_ Qq Ff. _time's_ Rowe. [4034] _thee_] om. Pope. [4035] _'parel_] _'parrel_ Rowe. _parrell_ Qq F₁ F₂ F₃. _parrel_ F₄. [4036] [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq. [4037] _Sirrah,_] _Sirrah, you_ Hanmer. _Sirrah, thou_ Keightley. _fellow,--_] Capell. _fellow._ Qq Ff. [4038] _daub it_] _dance it_ Qq. _dally_ Hanmer. _further_] _farther_ Qq. [4039] _And yet I must._] Omitted in Qq. _And ... bleed._] One line in Capell. Two in Ff. [4040] _Both ... fiend!_] Prose in Ff. Three lines in Qq. [4041] _scared_] _scard_ Qq. _scarr'd_ F₁ F₂. _scar'd_ F₃ F₄. [4042] _thee, good man's son,_] _the good man_ Qq. _thee, good man,_ Pope. [4043] _Five ... master!_] As prose by Pope. Five lines in Qq. Omitted in Ff. [4044] _at once_] _in once_ Capell (corrected in Errata). _of lust, as Obidicut;_] Omitted by Pope. _as Obidicut, of lust;_ S. Walker conj. _Hobbididence_] Qq. _Hobbididen_ Pope. _Hobbididdance_ Capell. [4045] _dumbness_] _darkness_ Capell (corrected in Errata). _Modo_] _Mohu_ Pope. _Flibbertigibbet_] Pope. _Stiberdigebit_ Qq. and _Flibbertigibbet_ Theobald. [4046] _mopping and mowing;_] Theobald. _Mobing, and Mohing_ Q₁ Q₃. _Mobing, & Mohing_ Q₂ (_Mohing_ in italics in all). _moping, and Mowing_ Pope (_Mowing_ in italics). [4047] _So ... master!_] Omitted by Pope. [4048] _heavens'_] _heaven's_ Hanmer. _plagues_] _plagues._ Q₂. [4049] _Have ... Makes thee_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4050] _and_] _and the_ Rowe. _lust-dieted_] _lust-dieting_ Capell. [4051] _slaves_] Ff. _stands_ Qq. _braves_ Hanmer (Warburton). _staves_ Jackson conj. _slights_ Anon. conj. [4052] _doth_] Q₁ Q₃. _does_ Q₂. _do's_ Ff. [4053] _undo_] F₃ F₄. _undoo_ F₁. _undoe_ F₂. _under_ Qq. [4054] _fearfully_] _firmely_ Q₁ Q₂. _firmly_ Q₃. _in_] _on_ Rowe. [4055] _With ... need._] As in Ff. The first line ends _me,_ in Qq. [4056] _I shall_] _shall I_ Q₁ Q₃. _leading_] _lending_ F₃ F₄. [4057] _Give ... thee._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4058] [Exeunt.] Ff. om. Qq. [4059] Before....] The Duke of Albany's Palace. Rowe. Before Albany's Palace. Capell. A Courtyard of the Duke of Albany's Palace. Eccles conj. Enter....] Enter Gonorill and Bastard. Qq. Enter Gonerill, Bastard, and Steward. Ff. Enter Goneril, and Edmund; Steward meeting them. Capell. [4060] Enter Oswald] Enter Steward. Theobald. Enter Steward. Qq (after _master?_). [4061] _Madam ... offensive._] Arranged as in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4062] _most ... dislike_] _hee should most desire_ Qq. _hee should most dislike_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [4063] [To Edm.] Hanmer. _shall you_] _thou shalt_ Jennens. [4064] _terror_] Ff. _terrer_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _curre_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. [4065] _Our ... Edmund, to_] _that our wishes On th' way may prove effects, back, to_ Hanmer. [4066] _Edmund_] _Edgar_ Q₂. [4067] _arms_] _armes_ Qq. _names_ Ff. [4068] _ere ... hear_] _you ere long shall hear_ Pope. [4069] _venture_] Q₂ Ff. _venter_ Q₁ Q₃. [4070] _command_] Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2) Ff. _coward_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _this; spare_] Ff. _this, spare_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _this spare_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. [Giving a favour.] Johnson. Gives him a ring. Hanmer. om. Qq Ff. [4071] _fare thee well_] Ff. _faryewell_ Q₁ Q₃. _far you well_ Q₂. [4072] _My ... man!_] One line in Keightley. [4073] [Exit Edmund.] Exit Bastard. Rowe. Exit. Ff (after _death_). om. Qq. [4074] _O, ... man!_] Omitted in Qq, which read _My ... due_ as one line. _O,_] om. Seymour conj. In a separate line, S. Walker conj., ending lines 26-28 with Steevens (1793). _But O,_ transposing lines 26, 27. Anon. conj. _difference_] _strange difference_ Pope. [4075] The lines end _thee ... fool_ in Steevens (1793). [4076] _a_] Ff Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). om. Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. [4077] _My fool ... body._] F₃ F₄. _My foole usurpes my body._ F₁ F₂. _My foote ... head._ Q₁. _My foote ... body._ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _A foole ... bed._ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _My foot ... head._ Q₃. _My fool ... bed._ Malone. [Exit.] Exit Steward. Qq om. Ff. Enter Albany.] Ff. Enter the Duke of Albeney. Q₁ Q₃. om. Q₂. [4078] _whistle_] _whistling_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). [4079] _O ... wind_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4080] _rude_] om. Q₁ Q₃. [4081] _I fear ... deep._] Omitted in Ff. [4082] _its_] Q₃. _it_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _ith_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). [4083] _border'd_] Pope. _bordered_ Qq. _order'd_ Bailey conj. [4084] _sliver_] _shiver_ Pope. _silver_ Jennens (a misprint). [4085] _material_] _maternal_ Theobald. [4086] _the text is_] _tis_ Pope. [4087] _Filths ... done?_] Omitted by Pope. [4088] _Whose ... lick_,] Omitted by Pope. _reverence ... bear_] _reverend head the rugged bear_ Capell. _even_] Q₂. om. Q₁ Q₃. [4089] _benefited_] _benifited_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _beneflicted_ Q₁ Q₃. _beniflicted_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). After this Warburton conjectures that there is an omission of a line or two. [4090] _Send ... come,_] Arranged as in Malone. One line in Qq. [4091] _these vile_] Jennens. _this vild_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _the vilde_ Q₁ Q₃. _the vild_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). [4092] _It will come,_] Omitted by Pope. _'Twill come,_ Jennens, reading _'Twill ... prey on_ as one line. _'Twill come,_ in a separate line, Steevens (1793). [4093] _Humanity ... deep._] Arranged as in Pope. One line in Qq. [4094] _Humanity_] Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _Humanly_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _that humanity_ Keightley, reading _It ... deep_ as two lines, the first ending _perforce._ [4095] _bear'st_] Ff. _bearest_ Qq. [4096] _Who ... honour_] Arranged as in Ff. One line in Qq. [4097] _not_] _now_ Grant White. _eye discerning_] Rowe. _eye-discerning_ Ff. _eie deserving_ Q₁. _eye deserving_ Q₂ Q₃. [4098] _that ... so?_] Arranged as by Theobald. The first three lines end _pity ... mischiefe, ... noiselesse,_ in Q₁ Q₃. They end _pitty ... mischiefe, ... land,_ in Q₂. Omitted in Ff. [4099] _know'st Fools do_] _know'st, Fools do_ Theobald, _know'st fooles, do_ Q₁. _know'st fools, do_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _know'st, fools do_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). [4100] _those_] Q₂. _these_ Q₁ Q₃. [4101] _noiseless_] _noystles_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _noyseles_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). [4102] _plumed_] _a plumed_ Q₃. _thy state begins to threat_] Staunton (Eccles conj.) _thy state begins thereat_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _thy slaier begins threats_ Q₁ Q₃. _thy slayer begin threats_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _thy slayer begins his threats_ Theobald. _the slayer begins his threats_ Hanmer. [4103] _Whiles_] Q₁ Q₃. _Whil's_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _Whil'st_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _moral_] _mortall_ Q₃. _sit'st ... criest_] _sit'st ... cry'st_ Theobald, _sits ... cries_ Qq. [4104] _See ... woman._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4105] _deformity_] _deformiry_ Q₁ Q₃. _seems_] _shewes_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). [4106] _Thou ... mew_] Omitted in Ff. [4107] _changed_] Q₂. _chang'd_ Q₁ Q₃. _self-cover'd_] _self-converted_ Theobald. _self-convict_ Becket conj. _self-govern'd_ Collier conj. _self-discover'd_ Cartwright conj. [4108] _Were't_] _Were it_ Capell. [4109] Keightley ends the lines _feature ... blood ... tear,_ reading _Were it._ [4110] _To_] _As man to_ Anon. conj. _hands_] _hands of mine_ Anon. conj. _blood_] _boiling blood_ Theobald. _blood's behest_ Anon. conj. [4111] _They are_] _They're_ Theobald. _dislocate_] Q₃. _dislecate_ Q₁ Q₂. _dissecate_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [4112] _howe'er_] Theobald, _how ere_ Qq. [4113] _manhood mew._] Edd. _manhood mew--_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _man-hood now--_ Q₁ Q₃. _manhood now--_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1). _manhood now!--_ Theobald. Enter a Messenger.] Ff, after _foole,_ line 61. Enter a Gentleman. Q₁ Q₃. Enter a Gentleman (after _news?_) Q₂. [4114] Alb. _What news?_] Omitted in Ff. [4115] Mess.] Mes. Ff. Gent. Qq. [4116] _O ... Gloucester._] Arranged as in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4117] _thrill'd_] Ff. _thrald_ Qq. [4118] _against ... his sword To_] _the act, bending aside the sword Of_ Eccles conj. [4119] _thereat enraged_] _threat-enrag'd_ F₁. [4120] _fell'd him_] _fell he_ Capell conj. [4121] _not_] _now_ Warburton (a misprint). [4122] _which ... after._] As in Q₂ Ff. One line in Q₁ Q₃. [4123] _This ... eye?_] Arranged as in Ff. Three lines, ending _Iustisers_ (or _Iustices_) _... venge ... eye?_ in Qq. [4124] _above, You justicers_] Steevens, 1778 (Capell conj.) _above you Iustisers_ Q₂ (Mus. per. and Bodl. 2). _above your Iustices_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. imp. and Bodl. 1) Q₃. _above You Justices_ Ff. [4125] _nether_] _neather_ Q₁ F₁ Q₃. [4126] _Both ... sister._] As in Ff. Two lines in Qq the first ending _speedy_ in Q₁ Q₃, and _answer_ in Q₂. [4127] [Aside] Johnson. [4128] _being_] _she being_ Keightley. [4129] _in_] Ff. _on_ Qq. _of_ Capell conj. [4130] _Upon ... tart_] Ff. _Upon ... tooke,_ Qq (in one line). [4131] [Exit.] Qq. om. Ff. [4132] _Where ... eyes?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [4133] _He is_] _He's_ Pope. [4134] _on purpose_] Qq F₁ F₂. _of purpose_ F₃ F₄. _their_] _there_ Q₂. [4135] _Gloucester ... eyes._] Marked as 'Aside' by Johnson. [4136] _Gloucester ... know'st._] Arranged as in Ff. Three lines in Qq, the first two ending _love ... eyes;_ in Q₁ Q₃, and _king, ... friend,_ in Q₂. [4137] _show'dst_] _shew'dst_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _shewdst_ F₂. _shewedst_ Qq. [4138] _thine_] Ff. _thy_ Qq. [4139] _know'st_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _knowst_ F₂. _knowest_ Qq. [Exeunt.] Ff. Exit. Qq. [4140] SCENE III.] Pope. The whole of this Scene is omitted in Ff and Rowe. SCENE IV. Eccles, who here inserts SCENE V. The French....] Steevens. French Camp under Dover. Capell. om. Pope. Dover. Theobald. [4141] _Why ... back_] _The King of France so suddenly gone back!_ Pope. _Why ... reason?_] Prose in Q₂. Two lines, the first ending _backe,_ in Q₁ Q₃. [4142] _the_] Q₁ Q₃. _no_ Q₂. [4143] _Something ... necessary_] As in Qq. Four lines, ending _state, ... which ... danger, ... necessary._ in Pope. [4144] _to_] om. Pope. [4145] _personal_] om. Pope. [4146] _Who_] _Whom_ Warburton. [4147] _Marshal_] _Mareschal_ Pope. _La Far_] Qq. _le Far_ Pope. _le Fer_ Capell. [4148] _Did ... of grief?_] _Well; say, sir, did ... of her grief?_ Capell, reading as two lines of verse. _But tell me, did ... of grief?_ Seymour conj. [4149] _Ay, sir;_] _I, sir,_ Theobald. _I say_ Qq. _them ... them_] _'em ... 'em_ Pope. [4150] _Her ... her._] As in Pope. Two lines, the first ending _passion,_ in Qq. [4151] _Over_] _over_ Q₂. _ore_ Q₁ Q₃. _who_] _which_ Pope. [4152] _Not to a rage_] _Not to rage_ Q₃. _But not to rage_ Pope. _strove_] Pope. _streme_ Qq. [4153] _Who_] _Which_ Pope. [4154] _her ... way:_] Omitted by Pope. [4155] _like_] _linked_ Jackson conj. _a better way:_] _a better way,_ Q₁ Q₃. _a better way_ Q₂. _a wetter May._ Theobald (Warburton). _an April day._ Heath conj. _a better day._ Steevens. _a better May:_ Malone. _a chequer'd day._ Dodd conj. _the better day._ Becket conj. _like; a better way._ Singer (Boaden conj.) _a bitter May._ Lloyd conj. _'em;--a better way._ Keightley. _happy_] _happiest_ Pope (ed. 2). _smilets_] _smiles_ Pope. [4156] _seem'd_] Pope, _seeme_ Qq. [4157] _As pearls ... it._] As in Qq. Capell, reading _In brief, sir,_ ends the lines at _sorrow ... all ... it._ Steevens (1778), omitting _sir,_ follows Capell's arrangement. [4158] _dropp'd_] _dropping_ Steevens conj. [4159] _question_] _quests_ Hanmer. _quest_ Warburton. [4160] _Faith,_] om. Pope, ending line 24 at _twice._ _Yes,_ Theobald. [4161] _Shame ... father! sisters!_] Omitted by Pope. [4162] In Q₁ Q₃ _Kent_ is printed in italics with full stop. _Kent!... What_] Ken. _Father Sisters_ Gen. _What_ Capell. _storm? i' the night_] _storme ith night_ Qq. _storm of night_ Pope. [4163] _pity not be believed_] _pitty not be beleev'd_ Q₁ Q₃. _pitie not be beleeft_ Q₂. _pity ne'er believe it_ Pope. _it not be believed_ Capell. _pity not believe it_ Jennens. _There_] Then Pope. [4164] _And clamour moisten'd:_] Capell. _And clamour moistened her,_ Qq. _And, clamour-motion'd,_ Theobald. _And clamour motion'd her._ Becket conj. _And, clamour-moisten'd,_ Grant White. _And clamour-moistened:_ S. Walker conj. _And clamour softend:_ Cartwright conj. _And choler masterd her:_ Anon. conj. _And ... started_] _And then retired_ Pope, reading _And ... alone_ as one line. [4165] _It is the stars,_] Omitted by Pope. [4166] _It ... conditions:_] Arranged as by Theobald. One line in Qq. [4167] _self mate_] _self-mate_ Pope. _and mate_] Q₁ Q₃. _and make_ Q₂. [4168] _You spoke not_] _Spoke you_ Pope. _since?_] Q₁ Q₃. _since._ Q₂. [4169] _Well, sir_] om. Pope. _Lear's i' the_] _Lear's ith_ Qq. _Lears in_ Pope. _Lear is i the_ Capell. _Lear is in_ Hanmer. [4170] _sometime_] Q₁ Q₃. _some time_ Q₂. _sometimes_ Pope. _tune_] _lune_ Becket conj. [4171] _What ... daughter._] Arranged as by Pope. One line in Qq. [4172] _so elbows him: his own_] _so so bows him, his_ Pope. _so bows him: his own_ Capell. _so awes him, his own_ Seymour conj. _soul-bows him: his own_ Jackson conj. _so embows his own_ Badham conj. _sole bars him: his own_ Bailey conj. [4173] _from his_] _from her_ Johnson (1771). [4174] _To ... Cordelia_] Arranged as by Johnson. Two lines, the first ending _minde,_ in Qq. [4175] _sting His mind_] _sting him_ Pope, ending the lines _him ... him ... Cordelia._ [4176] _from_] _From his_ Pope. [4177] _not?_] Q₁ Q₃. _not._ Q₂. [4178] _so;_] _so,_ Pope. _so_ Qq. _said_ Warburton. _so deliver'd me:_ Seymour conj. _afoot_] Q₃. _afoote_ Q₁. _a foote_ Q₂. [4179] _Lending ... me._] Arranged as by Steevens (1778). One line in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _acquaintance,_ in Delius. _I ... Along_] _Pray along_ Pope, reading _Lending ... with me_ as one line. _Pray you, along_ Capell, reading as one line. [4180] [Exeunt.] Pope. Exit. Qq. [4181] SCENE IV.] Pope. Scena Tertia. Ff. SCENE V. Eccles. The same. A tent.] Capell. A Camp. Rowe. A tent in the Camp at Dover. Steevens (1773). Enter....] Enter ... Cordelia, Gentlemen, and Souldiours. Ff. Enter Cordelia, Doctor, and others. Qq. Enter Cordelia, Physician, and Soldiers. Pope. [4182] _mad as_] _made_ F₃ F₄. _vex'd_] _vext_ Ff. _vent_ Qq. [4183] _fumiter_] _fumiterr_ Theobald, _femiter_ Qq. _Femitar_ Ff. _fumitory_ Hanmer. _furrow-weeds_] _farrow weeds_ Boucher conj. [4184] _bur-docks_] Hanmer. _hor-docks_ Qq. _Hardokes_ F₁ F₂. _Hardocks_ F₃ F₄. _harlocks_ Steevens, 1778 (Farmer conj.) _charlocks_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. LVI. 214). _hoar-docks_ Collier, _hediokes_ Nicholson conj. _nettles_] _nettle_ Johnson. [4185] _sustaining corn._] _sustaining, Corne,_ Q₁ Q₃. _sustayning, corne,_ Q₂. _A ... forth;_] _Send forth a cent'ry:_ Pope. _century_] Q₁ Q₃ F₃ F₄. _centurie_ Q₂. _centery_ F₁ F₂. _sen'try_ Johnson. _send_] Ff. _is sent_ Qq. [4186] _And ... worth._] Arranged as by Pope. The lines end _wisedome do ... helpe him ... worth_ in Q₁ Q₃. They end _wisdome ... helpe him ... worth_ in Q₂. They end _wisedome ... helpes him ... worth_ in Ff. Four lines, ending _eye ... restoring ... him, ... worth,_ in Capell. [4187] _our eye_] _us_ Seymour conj. [Exit....] Malone. To an Officer, who goes out. Capell. om. Qq Ff. [4188] _What ... sense?_] _Do, what man's wisdom can, In ... sense._ Boswell conj. [4189] _man's_] om. Seymour conj. [4190] _In_] _do In_ Q₁ Q₃. _do, in_ Capell. _his_] _Of his_ Capell. [4191] _helps_] _can helpe_ Qq. [4192] Doct.] Qq. Gent. Ff. _is_] _are_ Rowe. [4193] _lacks: that_] F₃ F₄. _lackes: that_ F₁ F₂. _lackes, that_ Q₁ Q₃. _lackes that_ Q₂. [4194] _All ... earth,_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4195] _remediate_] _remediant_ Johnson. [4196] _distress_] _distresse_ Qq. _desires_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _desire_ F₄. [4197] Enter a Messenger.] Q₁ Ff Q₃. Enter Messenger. Q₂. [4198] _News ... hitherward._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4199] _It ... France_] Arranged as by Johnson. One line in Qq Ff. [4200] _mourning and_] om. Hanmer, reading _Therefore ... pitied_ as one line. _important_] Qq. _importun'd_ Ff. _importunate_ Capell. [4201] _incite_] Ff. _insite_ Q₁ Q₃. _in sight_ Q₂. [4202] _and our aged_] _to our dear_ Johnson (1771). _right_] Qq F₃ F₄. _Rite_ F₁ F₂. [4203] _Soon ... him!_] om. Seymour conj. [Exeunt.] Ff. Exit. Qq. om. Jennens. [4204] SCENE V.] Pope. Scena Quarta Ff. SCENE III. Eccles, who transfers it to follow SCENE II. Gloucester's castle.] A room in Gloster's Castle. Capell. Regan's Palace. Rowe. Oswald.] Steward Qq Ff. [4205] _But ... Himself_] Marked as one line in Capell MS. [4206] _there_] Ff. om. Qq. _Madam,_] om. Pope. [4207] _Madam ... soldier._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4208] _sister is_] Q₂ Ff. _sister's_ Q₁ Q₃. [4209] _lord_] Ff. _lady_ Qq. [4210] _letter_] _letters_ Q₂. [4211] _serious_] Q₂ Ff. _a serious_ Q₁ Q₃. [4212] _Edmund_] Ff. _and now_ Qq. [4213] _In ... enemy._] _In ... army._ Qq, in two lines, the first ending _life._ [4214] _o' the enemy_] _o' th' Enemy_ F₁. _oth' Enemy_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _of the Army_ Q₁ Q₃. _at'h army_ Q₂. [4215] _madam_] om. Qq. _letter_] Ff. _letters_ Qq. [4216] _troops set_] F₃ F₄. _troopes set_ F₁ F₂. _troope sets_ Qq. [4217] _I may ... business._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4218] _Might ... Belike_,] Arranged as in Qq. One line in Ff. [4219] _by word? Belike_,] Ff. _by word, belike_ Qq. _by word?_ Pope. _by word of mouth?_ Hanmer. [4220] _Something--_] Pope. _Something,_ Qq. _Some things,_ Ff. [4221] _I had_] Ff. _Ide_ Q₁ Q₃. _I'de_ Q₂. [4222] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. [4223] _gave strange_] _gave_ Warburton (in text). _gave him_ Warburton (in note). _œillades_] _aliads_ Qq. _Eliads_ F₁. _Iliads_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _œiliads_ Rowe. _eylids_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [4224] _you are_] _you're_ Pope. [4225] _madam?_] Ff. _madam._ Qq. [4226] _you are; I know't_] Rowe (ed. 2). _Y'are: I know't_ Ff. _for I know't_ Qq. _you're; I know't_ Rowe (ed. 1). _you are, I know it_ Capell. [4227] _this note:_] _note of this_, Grey conj. [4228] _lady's_] Rowe. _ladies_ Qq Ff. [4229] _do find_] _so find_ Quoted thus by Grey. [4230] _So, fare you well_] Ff. _so farewell_ Qq, reading _I ... farewell_ as one line. Omitted by Hanmer. [4231] _him_] om. F₁. _should_] Ff Q₃. _would_ Q₁ Q₂. [4232] _party_] Ff. _lady_ Qq. [Exeunt.] Ff. Exit. Qq. Exeunt severally. Capell. [4233] SCENE VI.] Pope. Scena Quinta. Ff. Fields ...] Capell. The Country. Rowe. The Country, near Dover. Theobald. Enter] ... Enter Glo'ster, and Edgar as a Peasant. Theobald. Enter Gloucester, and Edgar. Ff. Enter Gloster and Edmund. Qq. [4234] _we_] Qq. _I_ Ff. [4235] _up it_] Ff. _it up_ Qq. [4236] _Horrible_] _Horribly_ Collier MS. [4237] _Horrible ... sea?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4238] _Hark, do you_] _Hark, hark; do you not_ Capell. _No, truly._] _No truly, not_ Hanmer. [4239] _alter'd_] Ff. _altered_ Qq. _speak'st_] _speakest_ Q₂. [4240] _In_] Ff. _With_ Qq. [4241] _You're_] Rowe. _Y'are_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _Y'ar_ Q₂. [4242] _Methinks_] _Sure_ Pope. _you're_] Rowe. _y'are_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _y'ar_ Q₂. _you are_ Capell. [4243] _Come ... fearful_] As in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _sir,_ in Ff. [4244] _dizzy_] F₃ F₄. _dizy_ Q₁ F₂ Q₃. _dizi_ Q₂. _dizie_ F₁. [4245] _that_] _who_ So quoted by Wordsworth (Preface: Ed. 1815). _samphire_] _samphier_ Q₃. _sampire_ Q₁ Q₂ Ff. [4246] _walk_] _walke_ Qq. _walkd_ Ff. _beach_] Q₂ Ff. _beake_ Q₁ Q₃. [4247] _yond_] Ff Q₃. _yon_ Q₁ Q₂. [4248] _a buoy_] Ff. _a boui_ Q₂. _aboue_ Q₁. _above_ Q₃. [4249] _pebbles chafes_] Pope. _peebles chafe_ Q₁ Q₃. _peeble chaffes_ Q₂. _pebble chafes_ Ff. [4250] _heard ... I'll_] F₄. _heard ... Ile_ F₁ F₂. _heard ... I'le_ F₃. _heard: it is so hie Ile_ Q₁. _heard, its so hie ile_ Q₂. _heard it is so: hie Ile_ Q₃. [4251] _Give ... upright._] As in Qq. Three lines, ending _hand: ... verge: ... upright,_, in Ff. [4252] _you are_] _you're_ Pope. [4253] _beneath_] _below_ Pope. [4254] _upright_] _outright_ Hanmer (Warburton). [4255] _fairies_]_fairiegs_ Q₃. [4256] _farther_] Qq. _further_ Ff. [4257] _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff. [Seems to go. Rowe. [4258] _Why I do ... despair Is_] Q₂ F₁ F₂, substantially. _Why I do ... dispaire, tis_ Q₁ Q₃. _Why do I ... despair, 'Tis_ F₃ F₄. _Why do I ... despair? 'Tis_ Rowe. _Why ... it._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4259] [Kneeling] He kneels. Qq. om. Ff. [4260] _snuff_] _snurff_ Q₂. [4261] _him_] Ff. om. Qq. [4262] [He ...] He falles. Qq. Omitted in Ff. He leaps and falls along. Rowe. Gloster leaps, and falls along. Knight (Jackson conj.), after _farewell._ [4263] _Gone ... sir?_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4264] _Gone, sir:_] _Gon sir,_ Qq. _Gone sir,_ F₁. _Good sir,_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Gone, sir?_ Jennens. _Gone, sir._ Knight. _Go on, sir;_ Jackson conj. _Going, sir,_ Grant White conj. [4265] _And yet ... past._] Marked as 'Aside' by Capell. [4266] _may_] _my_ Q₂. [4267] _treasury_] _treasure_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [4268] _had thought_] _thought had_ Q₁ Q₃. [4269] _Ho, ... speak!_] _Hoa, you, hear you, friend! Sir! Sir! speak!_ Theobald. _Ho, you sir, you sir, friend! Hear you, sir? Speak:_ Capell. _friend_] om. Qq. _Hear_] _heare_ Qq F₁. _here_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _speak_] _speak, speak_ Keightley. [4270] _Thus ... revives._] Marked as 'Aside' by Capell. [4271] _Hadst ... air,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _gossamer_] _goss'mer_ Pope. _gosmore_ Qq. _gozemore_ Ff. _gossemeer_ Capell. _feathers,_] _feathers and_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [4272] _Thou'dst_] F₁. _Thoud'st_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Thou hadst_ Qq. [4273] _not;_] _not?_ Jennens. _speak'st_] F₁ F₂. _speakst_ Q₁ Q₃. _speakest_ Q₂. _speak_ F₃ F₄. _sound._] _sound?_ F₄. [4274] _at each_] Qq Ff. _at least_ Rowe. _attacht_ Pope. _on end_ Johnson conj. _a-stretch_ Jennens conj. _at reach_ Steevens conj. _at end_ Jackson conj. _at eche_ Singer (ed. 2). _at eke_ Grant White conj. _at length_ Jervis conj. _at lash_ Anon. conj. [4275] _fell_] _fallen_ Rowe. [4276] _no?_] _no I_ Q₂. [4277] _summit_] Rowe (ed. 2). _summet_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _somnet_ F₁. _summons_ Q₁ Q₃. _sommons_ Q₂. _bourn._] _bourn!_ Pope. _bourn_ F₃ F₄. _bourne_ F₁ F₂. _borne_, Qq. [4278] _a-height_] Hyphened by Warburton. _shrill-gorged_] _shrill-gorg'd_ F₁. _shrill gorg'd_ Qq. _shrill-gor'd_ F₂ F₃. _shrill gor'd_ F₄. [4279] _up._] _up?_ Q₂. [4280] _death? 'Twas_] _death twas_ Q₂. [4281] _arm:_] _arme?_ Q₂. [4282] _How is't? Feel_] _how feele_ Qq. [4283] _o' the_] _o' th'_ F₁. _oth'_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _of the_ Qq. _cliff, what_] _cliffe, what_ Q₁ Q₃. _cliffe what_ Q₂. _cliffe. What_ Ff. [4284] _unfortunate_] _unfortune_ F₂. _beggar_] _bagger_ Q₂. [4285] _methought_] Q₁. _me thought_ Ff Q₃. _me thoughts_ Q₂. [4286] _he had_] Ff. _a had_ Qq. [4287] _whelk'd_] Hanmer. _welkt_ Q₁ Q₃. _welk't_ Q₂. _wealk'd_ F₁ F₂. _walk'd_ F₃ F₄. _enridged_] Qq. _enraged_ Ff. [4288] _clearest_] F₃ F₄. _cleerest_ Qq F₁ F₂. _clarest_ Pope. _make them_] Ff. _made their_ Qq. [4289] _die_] _dye_ (in italics) Capell. _die. That_] _die that_ Q₂. [4290] _'twould_] Ff. _would he_ Q₁ Q₃. _would it_ Q₂. [4291] _'The fiend, the fiend:' he_] _The fiend, the fiend--he_ Rowe. _The fiend, the fiend, he_ Q₁ Ff. _The fiend the fiend, he_ Q₂. _The fiend, the fiend he_ Q₃. [4292] _Bear ... here?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _Bear free_] F₃ F₄. _Beare free_ F₁ F₂. _Bare, free_ Q₁ Q₃. _Bare free_ Q₂. Enter Lear ...] Capell. Enter Lear mad. Qq (after _thus_, line 82). Enter Lear. Ff (after _thoughts_). Enter Lear, drest madly with Flowers. Theobald (after _thoughts_). [4293] SCENE VII. Pope. [4294] _The ... thus._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4295] _safer_] _sober_ Warburton. _saner_ Johnson conj. _will_] _would_ Hanmer. [4296] _coining_] _coyning_ Qq. _crying_ Ff. [4297] _side-piercing_] Hyphened in Ff. [4298] _Nature's_] F₁. _Nature is_ Qq. _Natures_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [4299] _crow-keeper_] _cow-keeper_ Rowe (ed. 2). [4300] _piece of_] om. Qq. _do't_] _doo't_ Ff. _do it_ Qq. [4301] _well flown, bird_] _well-flown bird_ Eccles conj. [4302] _bird! i' the clout, i' the clout:_] _bird: i' th' clout, i' th' clout:_ Ff (_ith'_ F₂ F₃ F₄). _birde in the ayre,_ Qq (_bird_ Q₂). _barb! i' th' clout, i' th' clout:_ Theobald (Warburton). [4303] _hewgh_] Ff. _hagh_ Qq. [4304] _with ... They_ _with a white beard? They_ Ff. _ha Regan, they_ Qq. [4305] _white_] Qq. _the white_ Ff. _three white_ Anon. conj. [4306] _every thing that_] Ff. _every thing_ Q₂. _all_ Q₁ Q₃. _said!... too was_] _saide: I and no too was_ Q₁ Q₃. _saide, I and no toe, was_ Q₂. _said: I, and no too, was_ Ff. _said ay and no to, was_ Grant White (Anon. apud Pye conj.) [4307] _the wind_] _wind_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [4308] _'em ... 'em_] _them ... them_ Qq. [4309] _men_] _women_ Upton conj. _o' their_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _otheir_ F₂. _of their_ Qq. [4310] _ague-proof_] F₄. _agu-proofe_ F₁ F₂. _agu-proof_ F₃. _argue-proofe_ Qq. [4311] _The ... king?_] Prose in Qq F₄. [4312] _Ay ... cause?_] Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4313] _every_] _ever_ Q₂. [4314] _quakes_] _quake_ S. Walker conj. [4315] _I pardon ... Adultery?_] _What was the cause? Adultery. I pardon that man's life._ Eccles conj. [4316] _thy_] _the_ Pope. [4317] _Adultery?_] om. Seymour conj. [4318] _Adultery?... soldiers._] Arranged as in Johnson. Six lines, ending _for adultery?... fly ... thrive: ... father, ... sheets ... souldiers,_ in Ff. Prose in Qq. Capell ends the lines _Adultery.-- ... No: ... fly ... thrive: ... father, ... sheets ... soldiers._ [4319] _die: die for_] F₃ F₄. _dye: dye for_ F₁ F₂. _dye for_ Q₁. _die for_ Q₂ Q₃. [4320] _Does_] _do's_ Ff. _do_ Q₁ Q₃. _doe_ Q₂. [4321] _than_] _Than were_ Capell. [4322] _sheets._] _sheets, were unto me._ Keightley. [4323] _Behold ... inherit,_] Arranged as by Johnson. Prose in Qq Ff. [4324] _yond_] F₁ F₂. _yon_ Qq F₃. _you_ F₄. [4325] _presages_] Ff. _presageth_ Qq. [4326] _minces_] _mimics_ Collier (Collier MS.) _does_] _do's_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _dos_ F₂. _do_ Qq. [4327] _To hear_] _heare_ Qq. _hearing_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [4328] _name; The_] _name. The_ Ff. _name to_ Qq. [4329] _soiled_] _soyled_ Qq Ff. _stalled_ Warburton. _spoiled_ Daniel conj. _soil'd_ Keightley, reading _To hear ... appetite_ as two lines, the first ending _nor_. [4330] _waist_] _waste_ Q₁ Ff Q₃. _wast_ Q₂. _they are_] _tha're_ Q₂. _they're_ Johnson. [4331] _Beneath ... pit,_] Arranged as in Globe ed. Prose in Qq Ff. Johnson reads _Beneath ... darkness_ as one line. [4332] _is all_] _it is all_ Warburton. _fiends'_] Capell. _fiends_ Qq Ff. _fiend's_ Johnson. [4333] _there's the sulphurous_] Edd. (Globe ed.) _theres the sulphury_ Qq (_ther's_ Q₂). _there is the sulphurous_ Ff. [4334] _Burning_] _there's burning_ Keightley, ending the lines _stench, ... me ... apothecary ... there's ... thee._ _consumption_] Ff. _consummation_ Q₁ Q₃. _consumation_ Q₂. [4335] _Give ... thee._] Prose in Qq Ff. Two lines, the first ending _apothecary_, in Johnson. _civet, good apothecary, to sweeten_] Punctuated as in Qq. _Civet; good Apothecary sweeten_ Ff. [4336] _Let me ... mortality_] Two lines in Ff. _Here ... mortality._ Qq (as one line). [4337] _O ... me?_] As in Rowe. Three lines in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4338] _Shall_] Ff. _shold_ Q₁. _should_ Q₂ Q₃. _nought_] _naught_ Qq Ff. _Dost thou_] _Do'st thou_ Ff. _do you_ Qq. [4339] _thine_] Ff. _thy_ Qq. [4340] _squiny_] _squint_ Q₃. _at me_] Ff. _on me_ Qq. [4341] _this_] Ff. _That_ Qq. _but_] Ff. om. Qq. _on't_] Q₁ Q₃. _oft_ Q₂. _of it_ Ff. [4342] _the letters_] Qq. _thy letters_ Ff. _one_] om. F₁ F₂. [4343] _I would ... at it_] As in Theobald. Prose in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _report_, in Ff. Marked as 'Aside' by Hanmer. [4344] _the case_] _this case_ Rowe. [4345] _nor no_] _nor_ Q₁ Q₃. [4346] _a heavy_] _heavy_ F₃ F₄. [4347] _light_] _light one_ Keightley. [4348] _goes._] Q₂ Ff. _goes?_ Q₁ Q₃. [4349] _this_] Ff. _the_ Qq. [4350] _thine_] Ff. _thy_ Qq. [4351] _yond ... yond_] Ff. _yon ... yon_ Qq. [4352] _thine_] Ff. _thy_ Qq. [4353] _change places, and_] Omitted in Qq. [4354] _justice ... thief_] _theefe ... Iustice_ Qq. [4355] _Ay,_] _I_ Qq F₁ F₂. om. F₃ F₄. [4356] _dog's obeyed_] _dogge, so bad_ Q₁ Q₃. _dogge, so bade_ Q₂. [4357] _Thou ... cozener._] Arranged as in Pope. Prose in Qq Ff. [4358] _thine_] Qq. _thy_ Ff. [4359] _Thou hotly lust'st_] Rowe. _thou hotly lusts_ Ff. _thy blood hotly lusts_ Qq (_bloud_ Q₂). [4360] _cozener_] _cosioner_ Q₂. [4361] _Through ... not._] Arranged as in Rowe. Prose in Qq Ff. [4362] _Through_] Qq. _Thorough_ Ff. _tatter'd_] F₁ F₂. _tattered_ Q₁ Q₃. _tottered_ Q₂. _and tatter'd_ F₃ F₄. _clothes_] _ragges_ Q₁ Q₃. _raggs_ Q₂. _small_] Q₁ Q₃. _smal_ Q₂. _great_ Ff. [4363] _hide_] Ff. _hides_ Qq. _Plate sin_] Theobald (ed. 2). _Plate sins_ Pope. _Place sinnes_ F₁ F₂. _Place sinns_ F₃. _Place sins_ F₄. [4364] _Plate ... lips._] Omitted in Qq. [4365] _in rags_] _with rags_ Jennens. _a_] _and_ Rowe. _does_] F₂. _do's_ F₁. _doth_ F₃ F₄. [4366] _offend, none_,] _offend_, Hanmer. _able_] _absolve_ Hanmer. _'em_] _them_ Capell MS. [4367] _Now, now, now, now_] Ff. _No, now_ Q₁ Q₃. _no now_ Q₂. _harder, harder_] _pull harder, harder_ Keightley. [4368] _Now ... so._] One line of verse in Pope (ed. 2). Capell reads _Pull ... so_ as one line. [4369] _O ... madness!_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4370] _impertinency mix'd!_] _Impertinency mixt,_ Ff. _impertinency, mixt_ Q₁. _impertinencie mixt_ Q₂. [4371] _If ... her to._ Verse in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4372] _fortunes_] Ff. _fortune_ Qq. [4373] _know'st_] _knowest_ Q₂. [4374] _wawl_] _wawle_ Ff. _waile_ Q₁ Q₃. _wayl_ Q₂. _mark._] _marke me._ Qq. _mark--_Rowe. [4375] _This's a good block._] Edd. _This a good blocke._ Qq. _This a good blocke:_ F₁ F₂. _This a good block:_ F₃ F₄. _This a good block!--_ Rowe. _This a good flock!--_ Johnson conj. _This a good block?_ Steevens (1778). _Tis a good block._ Ritson conj. _This' a good block:--_ Dyce (S. Walker conj.) _'Tis a good plot._ Collier (Collier MS.) [4376] _shoe_] _shoo_ F₁. _shooe_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _shoot_ Qq. _suit_ Anon. conj. [4377] _felt_] Ff. _fell_ Qq. _I'll ... proof;_] Omitted in Qq. _put't_] _put it_ Capell. [4378] _I have_] _I've_ Pope. _stol'n_] _stole_ Qq. _sons-in-law_] _sonnes in law_ Q₁ Q₃. _sonne in lawes_ Q₂. _son in lawes_ F₁. _sonnes in lawes_ F₂. _sons in laws_ F₃. _sons-in-laws_ F₄. [4379] Enter ... Attendants.] Rowe. Enter three Gentlemen. Qq. Enter a Gentleman. Ff. Enter Gentleman, Attendants of Cordelia; and Guard. Capell. [4380] SCENE VIII. Pope. _hand_] Ff. _hands_ Qq. _him. Sir,_] _him; sir,_ Rowe. _him sirs._ Q₁ Q₃. _him sirs,_ Q₂. _him, sir._ Ff. [4381] _Your ... daughter--_] Ff. Omitted in Q₁ Q₃. _your most deere_ Q₂ (at the end of line 187). [4382] _even_] Ff. _eene_ Qq. [4383] _ransom_] _a ransom_ Q₁ Q₃. _a surgeon_] Capell. _a chirurgeon_ Q₁ Q₃. _a churgion_ Q₂. _surgeons_ Ff. [4384] _to the_] Q₂. _to 'th_ Q₁ Q₃. _to'th'_ F₁. _toth'_ F₂. _to th'_ F₃ F₄. [4385] _a man a man_] Ff. _a man_ Qq. [4386] _garden_] _garding_ Q₃. [4387] _Ay, ... that._] See note (XVIII). [4388] _die_] _bid_ Becket conj. [4389] _Then ... sa._] Prose in Qq and Capell. Two lines, the first ending _get it_, in Ff. [4390] _Nay, if_] _nay if_ Q₁ Q₃. _nay and_ Q₂. _Come, and_ Ff. _Come, an_ Pope. _Nay, an_ Capell. _Nay, come, an_ Jennens. [4391] _by_] Ff. _with_ Qq. _Sa, sa, sa, sa._] Omitted in Qq. [Exit ...] Exit, running; Attendants and Guard follow. Capell. Exit King running. Qq. Exit. Ff. [4392] _one_] Qq. _a_ Ff. [4393] _have_] Ff. _hath_ Qq. _had_ Anon. conj. [4394] _sir,_] Ff. om. Qq. [4395] _Most ... sound._] Divided as in Q₂. The first line ends at _heares_ in Q₁ Q₃; at _vulgar_ in Ff. [4396] _one_] _ones_ Q₁ Q₃. _hears that_] F₃ F₄. _heares that_ F₁ F₂. _heares_ Q₁ Q₃. _here's that_ Q₂. [4397] _Which ... sound_] _That ... sense_ Q₁. _That ... sence_ Q₂ Q₃. [4398] _But ... army?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4399] _near's_] F₃ F₄. _neeres_ Q₁ F₂ Q₃. _neer's_ Q₂. _neere's_ F₁. [4400] _speedy foot_] Ff. _speed for't_ Q₁ Q₃. _speed fort_ Q₂. _descry_] Ff. _descries_ Q₁. _descryes_ Q₂. _discries_ Q₃. [4401] _Stands_] _Standst_ Q₂. _thought_] Ff. _thoughts_ Qq. _that's all_] om. Q₁. [4402] _Her_] Ff. _His_ Q₁ Q₃. _Hir_ Q₂. Edg. _I ... sir._] Omitted by Pope. [Exit Gent.] Johnson. Exit. Qq. Exit. Ff (after _on_). [4403] _ever-gentle_] Hyphened by Capell. [4404] _Well pray_] _Well, pray_ Q₂ F₄. [4405] _tame to_] Ff. _lame by_ Qq. [4406] _known_] _knowing_ Hanmer. [4407] _Hearty ... boot!_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4408] _bounty_] _bornet_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). _the benison_] _beniz_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). [4409] _To ... boot_] Ff. _to boot, to boot_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp.) Q₃. _to saue thee_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). _to boot_ Pope, reading _The bounty ... to boot_ as one line. _To boot_ Hanmer, reading as a seperate line. Enter Oswald.] Collier. Enter Steward. Qq Ff. SCENE IX. Pope. [4410] _A ... arm._] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4411] _Most_] _this is most_ Hanmer. _happy!_] _happy;_ Q₁ Q₃. _happy,_ Q₂. _happie_ F₁. _happy:_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [4412] _first_] Omitted in Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). [4413] _Thou_] om. Pope. _old_] Ff. _most_ Qq. [4414] _Now_] om. Pope. [4415] _to 't_] Qq F₃ F₄. _too 't_ F₁ F₂. _to it_ Johnson. [Edgar interposes.] Collier. Edgar opposes. Johnson. om. Qq Ff. [4416] _Darest_] _darst_ Q₁ Q₃. _durst_ Q₂. _Dar'st_ F₁. _Darst_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [4417] _that_] om. Qq. [4418] _Chill ... 'casion._] Two lines in Ff. Capell ends line 234 _Ch'ill not._ _zir_] Ff. _sir_ Qq. _vurther_] om. Qq. _further_ Jennens. _'casion_] _cagion_ Qq. [4419] _and_] om. Qq.] _volk_ F₃ F₄. _volke_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃. _voke_ Q₂. [4420] _An_] Capell. _and_ Qq Ff. _ha'_] Ff. _have_ Qq. _zwaggered_] _zwaggar'd_ Q₁ Q₃. _swaggar'd_ Q₂. _zwaggerd_ F₁. _zwagged_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _'twould_] _it wold_ Q₁. _it would_ Q₂ Q₃. [4421] _zo_] _so_ Q₂. _as 'tis_] om. Qq. _vortnight_] _fortnight_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). [4422] _th'_] Ff. _the_ Qq. _che vor ye_] _che vor 'ye_ Ff. _chevore ye_ Qq. _I'se_] _ice_ Ff. _ile_ Qq. _iz_ Capell. _whether_] Qq. _whither_ Ff. [4423] _costard_] Q₁ Ff Q₃. _coster_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). _costerd_ Q₂ (Mus. imp.) _ballow_] Ff. _bat_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp.) Q₃. _battero_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). _chill_] _ile_ Q₂. [4424] [They fight.] Qq. om. Ff. [4425] _zir_] _sir_ Q₂. _vor_] Ff. _for_ Qq. [4426] [Oswald falls.] Edd. Edgar knocks him down. Rowe. om. Qq Ff. [4427] _letters_] _letter_ Rann (Smith conj.) [4428] _To ... out Upon_] Divided as in Ff. One line in Qq. [4429] _Upon the British_] Qq. _Upon the English_ Ff. _On th' English_ Hanmer. [4430] _Upon ... death!_] Capell arranges as two half-lines. _death! Death!_] Edd. _death! death._ Qq. _death, death._ Ff. _death,--_ Pope. [4431] [Dies.] He dyes. Q₁. He dies. Q₂ Q₃. om. Ff. [4432] _As duteous ... desire._] One line in Q₂. [4433] _Sit ... not:_] As in Ff. Four lines, ending _pockets, ... friends, deathsman ... not,_ in Qq. [4434] _you. Lets_] Ff. _you, lets_ Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp.) Q₃. _you lets_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). [4435] [seating him at a Distance. Capell. [4436] _these_] Ff. _his_ Qq. _the letters_] Ff. _These letters_ Qq. _this letter_ Rann (Smith conj.) [4437] _of May_] Ff. _of may_ Q₁ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2) Q₃. _of, May_ Q₂ (Mus imp.) [4438] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. _sorry_] _sorrow_ Q₂. [4439] _Leave_] _By your leave_ Rowe. _manners, blame_] _manners blame_ Qq. _manners: blame_ Ff. _manners--blame_ Rowe. [4440] _not: To_] Pope. _not, To_ Q₁ Q₃. _not To_ Q₂ Ff. [4441] _we'ld_] _wee'd_ Qq. _we_ Ff. [4442] _is_] Qq F₁. _are_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [4443] [Reads] Reads the Letter. Ff. A Letter. Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp.) Q₃. om. Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). [4444] _Let ... labour._] Prose in Q₂ Ff. Seven lines in italics in Q₁ Q₃. [4445] _our_] Ff. _your_ Qq. [4446] _done, if_] _done, If_ Q₂. _done: If_ Q₁. _done. If_ Ff. _done; If_ Q₃. _conqueror: then_] _conqueror. Then_ Pope, _conqueror, then_ Qq Ff. [4447] _gaol_] F₄. _gaole_ F₁. _goale_ F₂. _goal_ F₃. _Iayle_ Q₁ Q₃. _gayle_ Q₂. [4448] _for your_] _of our_ F₃ F₄. [4449] _--wife ... say--_] Put in parentheses in Ff. _wife (so ... say) & your_ Q₁ Q₃. _wife (so ... say) your_ Q₂. _servant,_] _servant and for you her owne for Venter,_ Q₂. _servant and for you her owne for Ventering_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _servant, and for you her own foventer_ Becket conj. _servant, and your own for ever_ Mitford conj. (from Q₁). [4450] _O_] Qq. _Oh_ F₁. _Of_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _undistinguish'd_] _undistinguisht_ Q₁ Q₃. _Indistinguisht_ Q₂. _indinguish'd_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _indistinguish'd_ F₄. _unextinguish'd_ Collier (Collier MS.) _undistinguishable_ Staunton conj. _undistinguish'd ... will_] _undisguised scope of woman's will or undisguised scape of woman's wit_ Singer conj. _space_] _scope_ Theobald conj. _blaze_ Collier (Collier MS.) _sense_ Staunton conj. _maze_ Bailey conj. _will_ Ff. _wit_ Qq. [4451] _in the_] _i' th'_ Pope. [4452] _post_] _most_ Anon. conj. MS. [4453] _the mature_] _mature_ Pope. [4454] _death-practised_] Hyphened in Ff. [4455] _thy_] Ff. _his_ Q₁ Q₃. [4456] _The king ... sense,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _vile_] F₄. _vilde_ Q₁ F₁ F₂ Q₃ F₃. _vild_ Q₂. [4457] _sever'd_] Ff. _fenced_ Qq. [4458] _imaginations_] _imagination_ Johnson. [4459] [Drum afar off.] A Drumme afarre off. Q₁ Q₃. A drum a farre off. Q₂. Drum afarre off. Ff (after line 282). [4460] _Give ... drum:_] One line in Q₂. [4461] _Come, father_] _Come further_ Johnson. [Exeunt.] Ff. Exit. Qq. [4462] SCENE VII.] SCENE VI. Rowe. SCENE X. Pope. A tent ... camp.] Steevens, after Capell. A Chamber. Rowe. Lear ... asleep,] Steevens, after Capell. soft music playing,] Dyce. Gentleman ...] Edd. (Globe ed.) Physician, Gentleman, ... Capell. Enter ... and Doctor.] Qq. Enter ... and Gentleman. Ff. Enter Cordelia and Kent. Capell. [4463] _O ... me._] Arranged as in Rowe. Three lines, ending _Kent, ... goodnesse, ... me,_ in Q₁ Q₃. Two lines, the first ending _goodnes,_ in Q₂. Five lines, ending _Kent, ... worke ... goodnesse?... short, ... me,_ in Ff. [4464] _My life_] _Life_ Pope. [4465] _is_] _'tis_ Eccles conj. [4466] _Be ... off._] Arranged as in Q₁ Ff Q₃. Two lines, the first ending _those,_ in Q₂. [4467] _me_] Qq. om. Ff. [4468] _made_] _laid_ Warburton. _main_ Collier (Collier MS.) [4469] _Then ... king?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. Pope ends line 11 at _so_. _be't_] Ff. _beet_ Q₂. _be it_ Q₁ Q₃. _so, my good lord. How_] _so my good lord: How_ Ff. _so: my lord how_ Q₁ Q₃. _so, my good lord how_ Q₂. _so. My lord, how_ Pope (ed. 1). _so My lord--how_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). [To the Doctor] To the Physician. Theobald. om. Qq Ff. [Going towards the Bed. Capell. [4470] Doct.] Qq. Gent. Ff. [4471] _sleeps_] _he sleeps_ Keightley. [4472] _O you kind_] _Kind_ Capell. [4473] _O ... nature_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4474] _and jarring_] Ff. _and hurrying_ Q₁ Q₂. _hurrying_ Q₃. [4475] _child-changed_] Hyphen omitted in Q₂. _So please_] _Please_ Pope. [4476] _So ... king:_] Divided as in Ff. One line in Qq. [4477] _That_] om. Q₁ Q₃. _king: he ... long._] _king, He ... long._ Q₂. _king He ... long._ Q₁ Q₃. _king, he ... long?_ Ff. _king? he ... long._ Hanmer. [4478] _array'd?_] _arayd,_ Q₂.] [Soft music. Grant White. [Enter Lear in a chaire carried by Servants. Ff. om. Qq. [4479] Gent.] Ff. Doct. Qq. _his_] Qq. om. Ff. [4480] Doct.] Edd. (Globe ed.) Phy. Capell. Continued to Phy. by Pope. Kent. Q₁ Q₃. Gent. Q₂. Continued to Gent. in Ff. _Be by, good madam_] _Good madam be by_ Qq. [4481] _not_] Omitted in F₁ F₂. [4482] Cor. _Very well._ Doct. _Please ... there!_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [4483] _O ... made!_] Arranged as in Ff. Four lines, ending _father, ... lippes, ... harmes ... made,_ in Q₁ Q₃. Three lines, ending _lips, ... sisters ... made,_ in Q₂. [4484] _father! Restoration_] Pope. _father, Restoration_ Q₁ Q₃. _father restoratiō_ Q₂. _father, restauratian_ F₁. _father, restauration_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Restoration hang_] _Restauration, hang_ Theobald. [4485] _Thy_] _Her_ Hanmer. [4486] _dear_] _dearest_ Theobald. [4487] _you_] _he_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [4488] _Had challenged_] _Did challenge_ Ff. _a face_] _face_ F₃ F₄. [4489] _opposed_] _oppos'd_ Ff. _exposd_ Qq. _warring_] Qq. _iarring_ F₁. _jarring_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [4490] _To stand ... helm?_] Omitted in Ff. [4491] _dread-bolted_] Hyphened by Theobald. [4492] _lightning? to_] Pointed as in Theobald. _lightning, to_ Q₁ Q₃. _lightning to_ Q₂. _watch--poor perdu!--_] _watch, poor perdu!_ Warburton. _watch poore Per du,_ Qq. _watch poor perdue:_ Theobald. _watch pour perdu_ Pye conj. [4493] _helm? Mine_] Pointed as in Q₁ Q₃. _helme mine_ Q₂. [4494] _Mine ... father,_] Arranged as in Qq. Three lines, ending _me, ... fire, ... father)_ in Ff. Three, ending _shou'd ... fire: ... father,_ in Pope. [4495] _Mine enemy's_] _Mine Enemies_ Ff. _Mine iniurious_ Q₁ Q₂. _Mine injurious_ Q₃. _My very enemy's_ Theobald. _Mine injurer's_ Capell. _dog_] _dog, even_ Keightley. _furious dog_ Mitford conj. [4496] _Alack, alack_] _Alack_ Hanmer, ending lines 36-42, _Mine ... him,_ at _shou'd ... wast ... swine ... straw?... wits, ... wakes, ... him._ [4497] _thy_] _my_ F₃ F₄. [4498] _concluded all. He_] Q₁ Ff Q₃. _concluded all, he_ Q₂. _concluded.--Ah! he_ Warburton. [4499] Doct.] Qq. Gen. F₁. Gent. F₂ F₃ F₄. _do you;_] _do you speak,_ Hanmer. [4500] _How does ... majesty?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [4501] _o' the_] _o' th'_ F₁. _oth'_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _a'th_ Q₁ Q₃. _ath_ Q₂. [4502] _scald_] _scal'd_ F₁. _do you know me?_] Ff. _know ye me?_ Q₁ Q₃. _know me._ Q₂. _know you me?_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [4503] _You are_] Ff. _Y'are_ Q₁ Q₃. _Yar_ Q₂. _when_] Q₁ Q₃ F₃ F₄. _where_ Q₂ F₁ F₂. [4504] _He's ... daylight?_] Two lines in Qq. Four in Ff. [4505] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope. _mightily_] _much_ Hanmer. _e'en_] _ene_ Qq. _ev'n_ F₁ F₂. _even_ F₃ F₄. [4506] _what to say_] _what_ Hanmer. [4507] _I feel ... condition_] Arranged as in Ff. One line in Qq. [4508] _O ... kneel._] Arranged as in Q₁ Ff Q₃. Prose in Q₂. [4509] _upon_] _on_ Hanmer. [4510] _hands_] Qq. _hand_ Ff. [4511] _No, sir,_] Omitted in Ff. _me_] Omitted in Q₂. [4512] _Fourscore ... less;_] One line in Knight. Two, the first ending _upward,_ in Ff. Capell ends the lines _upward ... plainly,_ reading with Ff. _Fourscore_] _Fourscore years_ Keightley, reading the rest as Qq. _not ... less;_] Omitted in Qq, which read _Fourscore ... plainly_ as one line. [4513] _plainly_] _plainly with you_ Hanmer, reading the rest as Qq. [4514] _in my perfect_] Q₂ Ff. _perfect in my_ Q₁ Q₃. [4515] _for I am_] _for I'm_ Pope. [4516] _nor I_] _nay I_ Pope. [4517] _not_] Q₂ Ff. _no_ Q₁. _noe_ Q₃. [4518] _I am, I am_] _I am_ Qq. [4519] _Be ... not:_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _wet?_ in Ff. _pray_] _pray you_ Rowe. [4520] _me_] _we_ F₂. [4521] _not_] _none_ Hanmer. [4522] _me._] _me?_ Q₂. [4523] _Be ... settling._] Arranged as in Theobald. Prose in Qq. Three lines, ending _rage ... go in, ... setling,_ in Ff. [4524] _kill'd in him_] Ff. _cured in him_ Qq. _cur'd_ Hanmer. _quell'd in him_ Collier conj. [4525] _and yet ... lost._] Omitted in Ff. [4526] _it is_] Qq. _'tis_ Steevens. _'twere_ Theobald. [4527] _make him even o'er_] _wake him even, o'er_ Jackson conj. _even_] _even go_ Keightley. [4528] _trouble_] _And trouble_ Pope, arranging as Ff. [4529] _Will't_] Rowe. _Wilt_ Qq Ff. _your_] _you_ F₂. [4530] _You ... foolish._] Prose, apparently, in Q₂. Three lines, ending _me: ... forgive, ... foolish,_ in Q₁ Ff Q₃. Two lines, the first ending _me:_ in Capell. [4531] [Exeunt ... Gentleman.] Exeunt. Manet Kent and Gentleman. Q₁. Exeunt. Manet Kent and Gent. Q₂. Exeunt. Manet Kent and Gentlemen. Q₃. Exeunt. Ff. [4532] Gent. _Holds ... fought._ [Exit.] Omitted in Ff. [4533] _Holds ... Germany._] Prose in Qq. Verse, the lines ending _sir, ... sir ... said, ... Edgar, ... Kent,_ in Capell. [4534] _that_] om. Capell. [4535] _As 'tis_] _'Tis_ Capell. [4536] _in Germany ... sir._] Prose in Theobald. Four lines, ending _changeable ... kingdom ... arbitrement ... sir,_ in Capell. [4537] _Report ... sir._] Three lines, ending _about, ... apace ... sir,_ in Qq. [4538] _The_] _And the_ Capell. _bloody_] _most bloody_ Capell. _a bloody_ Steevens (1793), reading _The ... a bloody_ as one line. [4539] [Exit.] Exit Gent. Theobald. om. Qq. [4540] _battle's_] Theobald. _battels_ Qq. [Exit.] Exit Kent. Theobald. om. Qq. ACT V. SCENE I. _The British camp near Dover._ _Enter, with drum and colours_, EDMUND, REGAN, Gentlemen, _and_ Soldiers.[4541] _Edm._ Know of the duke if his last purpose hold, Or whether since he is advised by aught To change the course: he's full of alteration[4542] And self-reproving: bring his constant pleasure. [_To a Gentleman, who goes out._[4543] _Reg._ Our sister's man is certainly miscarried. 5 _Edm._ 'Tis to be doubted, madam. _Reg._ Now, sweet lord, You know the goodness I intend upon you: Tell me, but truly, but then speak the truth,[4544] Do you not love my sister? _Edm._ In honour'd love.[4545] _Reg._ But have you never found my brother's way[4546] 10 To the forfended place?[4546] _Edm._ That thought abuses you.[4546][4547] _Reg._ I am doubtful that you have been conjunct[4546][4547][4548] And bosom'd with her, as far as we call hers.[4546][4547][4548] _Edm._ No, by mine honour, madam.[4546][4549] _Reg._ I never shall endure her: dear my lord,[4550] 15 Be not familiar with her.[4550] _Edm._ Fear me not.--[4551][4552] She and the duke her husband![4551] _Enter, with drum and colours_, ALBANY, GONERIL, _and_ Soldiers.[4553] _Gon._ [_Aside_] I had rather lose the battle than that sister[4554][4555] Should loosen him and me.[4554][4556] _Alb._ Our very loving sister, well be-met.[4557] 20 Sir, this I hear; the king is come to his daughter,[4558] With others whom the rigour of our state Forced to cry out. Where I could not be honest,[4559] I never yet was valiant: for this business,[4559][4560] It toucheth us, as France invades our land,[4559] 25 Not bolds the king, with others, whom, I fear,[4559][4561] Most just and heavy causes make oppose.[4559] _Edm._ Sir, you speak nobly.[4559][4562] _Reg._ Why is this reason'd? _Gon._ Combine together 'gainst the enemy; For these domestic and particular broils[4563] 30 Are not the question here.[4564] _Alb._ Let's then determine[4565] With the ancient of war on our proceedings.[4565][4566] _Edm._ I shall attend you presently at your tent.[4567] _Reg._ Sister, you'll go with us? _Gon._ No. 35 _Reg._ 'Tis most convenient; pray you, go with us.[4568] _Gon._ [_Aside_] O, ho, I know the riddle.--I will go. _As they are going out, enter_ EDGAR _disguised_.[4569] _Edg._ If e'er your grace had speech with man so poor,[4570] Hear me one word. _Alb._ I'll overtake you. Speak. [_Exeunt all but Albany and Edgar._[4571] _Edg._ Before you fight the battle, ope this letter. 40 If you have victory, let the trumpet sound For him that brought it: wretched though I seem,[4572] I can produce a champion that will prove What is avouched there. If you miscarry, Your business of the world hath so an end, 45 And machination ceases. Fortune love you![4573] _Alb._ Stay till I have read the letter.[4574] _Edg._ I was forbid it.[4575] When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,[4575] And I'll appear again.[4575] Alb. Why, fare thee well: I will o'erlook thy paper. 50 [_Exit Edgar._ _Re-enter_ EDMUND.[4576] _Edm._ The enemy's in view: draw up your powers.[4577] Here is the guess of their true strength and forces[4578] By diligent discovery; but your haste[4579][4580] Is now urged on you.[4579] _Alb._ We will greet the time. [_Exit._[4581] _Edm._ To both these sisters have I sworn my love;[4582] 55 Each jealous of the other, as the stung[4583][4584] Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take?[4583] Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoy'd,[4583][4585] If both remain alive: to take the widow Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril; 60 And hardly shall I carry out my side,[4586] Her husband being alive. Now then we'll use His countenance for the battle; which being done, Let her who would be rid of him devise[4587] His speedy taking off. As for the mercy[4588] 65 Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia,[4589] The battle done, and they within our power, Shall never see his pardon; for my state[4590] Stands on me to defend, not to debate. [_Exit._ SCENE II. _A field between the two camps._ _Alarum within. Enter, with drum and colours_, Lear, CORDELIA, _and_ Soldiers, _over the stage; and exeunt_. _Enter_ EDGAR _and_ GLOUCESTER.[4591] _Edg._ Here, father, take the shadow of this tree[4592] For your good host; pray that the right may thrive: If ever I return to you again,[4593] I'll bring you comfort.[4593] _Glou._ Grace go with you, sir! [_Exit Edgar._ _Alarum and retreat within. Re-enter_ EDGAR.[4594] _Edg._ Away, old man; give me thy hand; away! 5 King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en: Give me thy hand; come on. _Glou._ No farther, sir; a man may rot even here.[4595] _Edg._ What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure[4596] Their going hence, even as their coming hither: 10 Ripeness is all: come on. _Glou._ And that's true too. [_Exeunt._[4597] SCENE III. _The British camp near Dover._ _Enter, in conquest, with drum and colours,_ EDMUND; LEAR _and_ CORDELIA, _as prisoners_; Captain, Soldiers, _&c._[4598] _Edm._ Some officers take them away: good guard, Until their greater pleasures first be known[4599] That are to censure them. _Cor._ We are not the first[4600][4601] Who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst.[4600] For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;[4600][4602] 5 Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown.[4603] Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters? _Lear._ No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:[4604] We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down 10 And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh[4605] At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,[4606] Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out;[4607] 15 And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones[4608] That ebb and flow by the moon. _Edm._ Take them away. _Lear_. Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, 20 The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?[4609] He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven, And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes;[4610] The good-years shall devour them, flesh and fell,[4611][4612] Ere they shall make us weep: we'll see 'em starve first.[4612][4613] 25 Come. [_Exeunt Lear and Cordelia, guarded._[4613][4614] _Edm._ Come hither, captain; hark.[4615] Take thou this note: go follow them to prison:[4616] One step I have advanced thee; if thou dost[4617][4618] As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way[4618] 30 To noble fortunes: know thou this, that men[4618] Are as the time is: to be tender-minded[4618][4619] Does not become a sword: thy great employment[4618][4620] Will not bear question; either say thou'lt do 't,[4618][4621] Or thrive by other means.[4618] _Capt._ I'll do 't, my lord. 35 _Edm._ About it; and write happy when thou hast done.[4622] Mark; I say, instantly, and carry it so[4623] As I have set it down. _Capt._ I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;[4624] If it be man's work, I'll do't. [_Exit._[4624] 40 _Flourish. Enter_ ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, _another_ Captain, _and_ Soldiers.[4625] _Alb._ Sir, you have shown to-day your valiant strain,[4626] And fortune led you well: you have the captives[4627] That were the opposites of this day's strife:[4628] We do require them of you, so to use them[4629] As we shall find their merits and our safety 45 May equally determine. _Edm._ Sir, I thought it fit[4630] To send the old and miserable king[4631][4632] To some retention and appointed guard;[4631][4633] Whose age has charms in it, whose title more,[4634] To pluck the common bosom on his side,[4635] 50 And turn our impress'd lances in our eyes Which do command them. With him I sent the queen:[4636] My reason all the same; and they are ready[4636][4637] To-morrow or at further space to appear[4637][4638] Where you shall hold your session. At this time[4637][4639][4640][4641] 55 We sweat and bleed: the friend hath lost his friend;[4640][4641] And the best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed[4641] By those that feel their sharpness.[4641][4642] The question of Cordelia and her father[4641] Requires a fitter place.[4641] _Alb._ Sir, by your patience, 60 I hold you but a subject of this war,[4643] Not as a brother.[4643] _Reg._ That's as we list to grace him. Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded,[4644] Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers, Bore the commission of my place and person; 65 The which immediacy may well stand up[4645] And call itself your brother. _Gon._ Not so hot:[4646] In his own grace he doth exalt himself[4646] More than in your addition.[4646][4647] _Reg._ In my rights,[4648][4649] By me invested, he compeers the best.[4649] 70 _Gon._ That were the most, if he should husband you.[4650] _Reg._ Jesters do oft prove prophets. _Gon._ Holla, holla![4651][4652] That eye that told you so look'd but a-squint.[4652][4653] _Reg._ Lady, I am not well; else I should answer From a full-flowing stomach. General, Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony; Dispose of them, of me; the walls are thine:[4654] Witness the world, that I create thee here My lord and master. _Gon._ Mean you to enjoy him?[4655] _Alb._ The let-alone lies not in your good will.[4656] 80 _Edm._ Nor in thine, lord. _Alb._ Half-blooded fellow, yes. _Reg. [To Edmund_] Let the drum strike, and prove my title thine.[4657] _Alb._ Stay yet; hear reason. Edmund, I arrest thee[4658] On capital treason; and in thine attaint[4659] This gilded serpent [_pointing to Gon._]. For your claim, fair sister,[4660] 85 I bar it in the interest of my wife;[4661] 'Tis she is sub-contracted to this lord,[4662] And I, her husband, contradict your bans.[4663] If you will marry, make your loves to me;[4664] My lady is bespoke. _Gon._ An interlude![4665] 90 _Alb._ Thou art arm'd, Gloucester: let the trumpet sound:[4665][4666] If none appear to prove upon thy person[4667] Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons, There is my pledge [_throwing down a glove_]: I'll prove it on thy heart,[4668][4669] Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less 95 Than I have here proclaim'd thee. _Reg._ Sick, O, sick! _Gon._ [_Aside_] If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine.[4670] _Edm._ [_Throwing down a glove_] There's my exchange: what in the world he is[4668][4671] That names me traitor, villain-like he lies: Call by thy trumpet: he that dares approach,[4672] 100 On him, on you,--who not?--I will maintain[4673] My truth and honour firmly. _Alb._ A herald, ho! _Edm._ A herald, ho, a herald![4674] _Alb._ Trust to thy single virtue; for thy soldiers,[4675] All levied in my name, have in my name[4676] 105 Took their discharge.[4676][4677] _Reg._ My sickness grows upon me. _Alb._ She is not well; convey her to my tent. [_Exit Regan, led._ _Enter a_ Herald.[4678] Come hither, herald,--Let the trumpet sound,--[4679][4680] And read out this.[4679] _Capt._ Sound, trumpet! [_A trumpet sounds._[4681] 110 _Her._ [_Reads_] 'If any man of quality or degree within[4682][4683] the lists of the army will maintain upon Edmund, supposed[4683] Earl of Gloucester, that he is a manifold traitor, let him[4684] appear by the third sound of the trumpet: he is bold in[4685] his defence.' 115 _Edm._ Sound! [_First trumpet._[4686] _Her._ Again! [_Second trumpet._[4687] _Her._ Again! [_Third trumpet._ [_Trumpet answers within._ _Enter_ EDGAR, _at the third sound, armed, with a trumpet before him_.[4688] _Alb._ Ask him his purposes, why he appears Upon this call o' the trumpet. _Her._ What are you?[4689] 120 Your name, your quality? and why you answer[4689][4690] This present summons?[4689] _Edg._ Know, my name is lost;[4691][4692][4693] By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit:[4692][4693] Yet am I noble as the adversary[4692][4694] I come to cope.[4692][4695] _Alb._ Which is that adversary? 125 _Edg._ What's he that speaks for Edmund, Earl of Gloucester? _Edm._ Himself: what say'st thou to him? _Edg._ Draw thy sword, That if my speech offend a noble heart,[4696] Thy arm may do thee justice: here is mine.[4696][4697] Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,[4698] 130 My oath, and my profession: I protest, Maugre thy strength, youth, place and eminence,[4699] Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,[4700] Thy valour and thy heart, thou art a traitor, False to thy gods, thy brother and thy father,[4701] 135 Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince,[4702] And from the extremest upward of thy head To the descent and dust below thy foot,[4703] A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou 'No,' This sword, this arm and my best spirits are bent[4704][4705] 140 To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,[4704] Thou liest.[4704] _Edm._ In wisdom I should ask thy name,[4706] But since thy outside looks so fair and warlike And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes,[4707] What safe and nicely I might well delay[4708] 145 By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn:[4709] Back do I toss these treasons to thy head;[4710] With the hell-hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart;[4711] Which for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise,[4712] This sword of mine shall give them instant way, 150 Where they shall rest for ever. Trumpets, speak! [_Alarums. They fight. Edmund falls._[4713] _Alb._ Save him, save him![4714] _Gon._ This is practice, Gloucester:[4715][4716] By the law of arms thou wast not bound to answer[4715][4717] An unknown opposite; thou art not vanquish'd,[4715] But cozen'd and beguiled.[4715] _Alb._ Shut your mouth, dame,[4718][4719] 155 Or with this paper shall I stop it. Hold, sir;[4718][4720] Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil.[4718][4721] No tearing, lady; I perceive you know it.[4718][4722] _Gon._ Say, if I do, the laws are mine, not thine:[4723] Who can arraign me for't?[4723][4724] _Alb._ Most monstrous![4725] 160 Know'st thou this paper?[4725] _Gon._ Ask me not what I know. [_Exit._[4726] _Alb._ Go after her: she's desperate; govern her.[4727] _Edm._ What you have charged me with, that have I done;[4728] And more, much more; the time will bring it out: 'Tis past, and so am I. But what art thou[4729] 165 That hast this fortune on me? If thou'rt noble,[4729][4730] I do forgive thee.[4729] _Edg._ Let's exchange charity.[4731] I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund; If more, the more thou hast wrong'd me.[4732] My name is Edgar, and thy father's son. 170 The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices[4733] Make instruments to plague us:[4734][4735] The dark and vicious place where thee he got[4734][4736] Cost him his eyes.[4734] _Edm._ Thou hast spoken right, 'tis true;[4737][4738] The wheel is come full circle; I am here.[4737][4739] 175 _Alb._ Methought thy very gait did prophesy[4740] A royal nobleness: I must embrace thee: Let sorrow split my heart, if ever I[4741] Did hate thee or thy father![4741] _Edg._ Worthy prince, I know't.[4742] _Alb._ Where have you hid yourself?[4743] 180 How have you known the miseries of your father?[4743][4744] _Edg._ By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;[4745] And when 'tis told, O, that my heart would burst![4745][4746] The bloody proclamation to escape[4745][4746] That follow'd me so near,--O, our lives' sweetness![4745][4747] 185 That we the pain of death would hourly die[4745][4748] Rather than die at once!--taught me to shift[4745] Into a madman's rags, to assume a semblance[4745] That very dogs disdain'd: and in this habit[4745][4749] Met I my father with his bleeding rings,[4745] 190 Their precious stones new lost; became his guide,[4750] Led him, begg'd for him, saved him from despair; Never--O fault!--reveal'd myself unto him,[4751] Until some half-hour past, when I was arm'd;[4752] Not sure, though hoping, of this good success, 195 I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last Told him my pilgrimage: but his flaw'd heart,--[4753][4754] Alack, too weak the conflict to support!--[4754] 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,[4754][4755] Burst smilingly.[4756] _Edm._ This speech of yours hath moved me, 200 And shall perchance do good: but speak you on; You look as you had something more to say. _Alb._ If there be more, more woful, hold it in;[4757] For I am almost ready to dissolve, Hearing of this.[4758] _Edg._ This would have seem'd a period[4759][4760][4761][4762] 205 To such as love not sorrow; but another,[4759][4760][4762][4763][4764] To amplify too much, would make much more,[4759][4760][4762][4764][4765] And top extremity.[4759][4760] Whilst I was big in clamour, came there in a man,[4759][4766] Who, having seen me in my worst estate,[4759][4767] 210 Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding[4759][4768] Who 'twas that so endured, with his strong arms[4759][4769] He fasten'd on my neck, and bellow'd out[4759][4770] As he'ld burst heaven; threw him on my father;[4759][4771] Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him[4759][4772] 215 That ever ear received: which in recounting[4759] His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life[4759][4773] Began to crack: twice then the trumpets sounded,[4759][4774] And there I left him tranced.[4759] _Alb._ But who was this?[4759] _Edg._ Kent, sir, the banish'd Kent; who in disguise[4759] 220 Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service[4759][4775] Improper for a slave.[4759] _Enter a_ Gentleman, _with a bloody knife_.[4776] _Gent._ Help, help, O, help![4777][4778] _Edg._ What kind of help?[4779] _Alb._ Speak, man. _Edg._ What means this bloody knife?[4779] _Gent._ 'Tis hot, it smokes;[4780][4781] It came even from the heart of--O, she's dead![4781][4782] 225 _Alb._ Who dead? speak, man.[4783] _Gent._ Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister By her is poisoned; she hath confess'd it.[4784] _Edm._ I was contracted to them both: all three Now marry in an instant. _Edg._ Here comes Kent.[4785] 230 _Alb._ Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead. [_Exit Gentleman._[4786] This judgement of the heavens, that makes us tremble,[4787] Touches us not with pity. _Enter_ KENT. O, is this he?[4788][4789] The time will not allow the compliment[4789][4790] Which very manners urges.[4789][4791] _Kent._ I am come[4792][4793] 235 To bid my king and master aye good night:[4793] Is he not here? _Alb._ Great thing of us forgot![4794][4795][4796] Speak, Edmund, where's the king? and where's Cordelia?[4795] See'st thou this object, Kent?[4795] [_The bodies of Goneril and Regan are brought in._[4797] _Kent._ Alack, why thus? _Edm._ Yet Edmund was beloved:[4798] 240 The one the other poison'd for my sake,[4798][4799] And after slew herself.[4798][4800] _Alb._ Even so. Cover their faces.[4794] _Edm._ I pant for life: some good I mean to do,[4801] Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send,[4801][4802] 245 Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ[4801][4803] Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia:[4801][4804] Nay, send in time.[4801] _Alb._ Run, run, O, run![4794][4805] _Edg._ To who, my lord? Who hath the office? send[4806][4807] Thy token of reprieve.[4806] 250 _Edm._ Well thought on: take my sword,[4808] Give it the captain.[4808] _Alb._ Haste thee, for thy life. [_Exit Edgar._[4794][4809] _Edm._ He hath commission from thy wife and me[4810] To hang Cordelia in the prison, and[4810] To lay the blame upon her own despair,[4810] 255 That she fordid herself.[4810][4811] _Alb._ The gods defend her! Bear him hence awhile.[4794] [_Edmund is borne off._[4812] _Re-enter_ LEAR, _with_ CORDELIA _dead in his arms_; EDGAR, Captain, _and others following_. _Lear._ Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones:[4813] Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever![4814] 260 I know when one is dead and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,[4815][4816] Why, then she lives.[4815][4817] _Kent._ Is this the promised end? _Edg._ Or image of that horror? _Alb._ Fall and cease.[4794][4818] 265 _Lear._ This feather stirs; she lives. If it be so,[4819] It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows[4819][4820] That ever I have felt.[4819] _Kent._ [_Kneeling_] O my good master![4821] _Lear._ Prithee, away. _Edg._ 'Tis noble Kent, your friend. _Lear._ A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all![4822][4823] 270 I might have saved her; now she's gone for ever![4822] Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha![4822][4824] What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft,[4822][4825] Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.[4822][4826] I kill'd the slave that was a-hanging thee.[4822] 275 _Capt._ 'Tis true, my lords, he did.[4827] _Lear._ Did I not, fellow?[4828] I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion[4828][4829] I would have made them skip: I am old now,[4828][4830] And these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?[4828] Mine eyes are not o' the best: I'll tell you straight.[4828][4831] 280 _Kent._ If fortune brag of two she loved and hated,[4832] One of them we behold.[4833] _Lear._ This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?[4834] _Kent._ The same,[4835] Your servant Kent. Where is your servant Caius?[4835] _Lear._ He's a good fellow, I can tell you that;[4836] 285 He'll strike, and quickly too: he's dead and rotten.[4837] _Kent._ No, my good lord; I am the very man--[4838] _Lear._ I'll see that straight. _Kent._ That from your first of difference and decay[4839] Have follow'd your sad steps. _Lear._ You are welcome hither.[4840] 290 _Kent._ Nor no man else: all's cheerless, dark and deadly.[4841] Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves.[4842] And desperately are dead. _Lear._ Ay, so I think.[4843] _Alb._ He knows not what he says, and vain is it[4794][4844] That we present us to him. _Edg._ Very bootless. 295 _Enter a_ Captain.[4845] _Capt._ Edmund is dead, my lord.[4846] _Alb._ That's but a trifle here.[4847][4848] You lords and noble friends, know our intent.[4847] What comfort to this great decay may come[4847][4849] Shall be applied: for us, we will resign,[4847] During the life of this old majesty,[4847] 300 To him our absolute power: [_To Edgar and Kent_] you, to your rights;[4847][4850] With boot, and such addition as your honours[4847][4851] Have more than merited. All friends shall taste[4847][4852] The wages of their virtue, and all foes[4852] The cup of their deservings. O, see, see![4852][4853] 305 _Lear._ And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life![4854][4855] Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,[4854][4856] And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,[4854][4857] Never, never, never, never, never![4854][4858] Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir.[4854][4859][4860] 310 Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,[4860][4861] Look there, look there! [_Dies._[4860] _Edg._ He faints. My lord, my lord![4862] _Kent._ Break, heart; I prithee, break! _Edg._ Look up, my lord.[4863] _Kent._ Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him[4864][4865] That would upon the rack of this tough world[4864][4866] 315 Stretch him out longer.[4864] _Edg._ He is gone indeed.[4867] _Kent._ The wonder is he hath endured so long: He but usurp'd his life.[4868] _Alb._ Bear them from hence. Our present business[4869] Is general woe. [_To Kent and Edgar_] Friends of my soul, you twain[4870] 320 Rule in this realm and the gored state sustain.[4871] _Kent._ I have a journey, sir, shortly to go;[4872] My master calls me, I must not say no.[4872][4873] _Alb._ The weight of this sad time we must obey,[4872][4874] Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.[4872] 325 The oldest hath borne most: we that are young[4872][4875] Shall never see so much, nor live so long. [_Exeunt, with a dead march._[4872][4876] FOOTNOTES: [4541] The British......] Camp of the British Forces, near Dover. Capell. A Camp. Rowe. Enter ...] Ff. Enter Edmund, Reagan, and their powers. Qq. Enter Bastard, Regan, Gentlemen, and Soldiers. Rowe. Enter Edmund, Regan, Gentleman and Soldiers. Warburton. [4542] _alteration_] Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp.) Ff Q₃. _abdication_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). [4543] _self-reproving_] Hyphened in Q₁ Q₃. _self-reproving: bring_] _self-reproving brings_ Pope. [To ...] Edd. (Globe ed.) To an Officer; who bows, and goes out. Capell. om. Qq Ff. [4544] _me, but truly,_] _me--but truly--_ Johnson, _me but truly,_ Q₂ Ff. _me truly_ Q₁ Q₃. [4545] _In_] Ff. _I_ Q₁ Q₃. _I,_ Q₂. _Ay, in_ Anon. conj. [4546] Reg. _But ... madam._] Omitted by Johnson. [4547] Edm. _That ... hers._] Omitted in Ff. [4548] _I am ... hers._] As in Q₁ Q₃. Prose in Q₂. [4549] _madam_] om. Pope. [4550] _I never ... her._] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _endure her_ in Q₁ Q₃. Prose in Q₂. [4551] _Fear ... husband!_] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff. [4552] _me_] Qq. om. Ff. [4553] _husband!_] _husband._ Qq Ff. _husband--_ Rowe. Enter ... and Soldiers.] Enter ... soldiers. Ff. Enter Albany and Gonorill with troopes. Qq (troupes. Q₂. Troops. Q₃). [4554] Gon. _I ... me._] Arranged as in Theobald. Two lines, the first ending _battell,_ in Q₁ Q₃. Prose in Q₂. Omitted in Ff. [4555] [Aside] First marked by Theobald. _I had_] _I'd_ Theobald. _lose_] Theobald, _loose_ Q₁ Q₂. _loos_ Q₃. [4556] _loosen_] _cosin_ Q₃. [4557] _be-met_] _be met_ Q₃. [4558] _Sir, this I hear_] Theobald. _For this I heare_ Q₁ Q₂. _Sir, this I heard_ Ff. _For this I hear_ Q₃. _'Fore this, I hear,_ Malone conj. [4559] _Where ... nobly._] Omitted in Ff. [4560] _for_] _'fore_ Theobald. [4561] _Not ... others_] _Not the old king with others,_ or _Not holds with the king, and others_ or _Upholds the king and others_ Mason conj. _bolds_] _holds_ Pope. _holds to_ Hanmer. _holds for_ Capell. See note (XIX). [4562] Edm. _Sir, ... nobly._] Omitted by Pope, reading the rest as Qq. _nobly_] _odly_ or _coldly_ Mason conj. [4563] _and particular broils_] _doore particulars_, Q₁. _dore particulars_ Q₂. _door particulars,_ Q₃. _in-door particulars,_ Collier conj. (from Q₁). _poore particulars,_ Mitford conj. (from Q₁). [4564] _the_] Ff. _to_ Qq. _Let's_] Ff. _Let us_ Qq. [4565] _Let's ... proceedings._] Arranged as in Q₁ Q₃. Prose in Q₂. In Ff the first line ends _warre._ [4566] _the ancient_] _the Ancient_ Q₁ Q₃. _the auntient_ Q₂. _th' ancient_ Ff. _th' ancients_ Hanmer. _the ancient men_ S. Walker conj. _the argument_ Anon. conj. _proceedings_] Qq. _proceeding_ Ff. [4567] Edm. _I shall ... tent._] Omitted in Ff. Transferred by Theobald to follow _here,_ line 31. [4568] _pray you_] Qq. _pray_ Ff. [4569] _O ... riddle._] First marked as 'Aside' by Capell. Hanmer marks the whole line as 'Aside.' As ... disguised.] Theobald. Exit. Enter Edgar. Q₁. Enter Edgar. Q₂. Exit. Enter Edgare. Q₃. Exeunt both the Armies. Enter Edgar. Ff. Exeunt. SCENE II. Manet Albany. Enter Edgar. Pope. As they are going out, and Albany last, Enter Edgar. Capell. [4570] _had_] _did_ Q₃. _man_] Q₂ Ff. _one_ Q₁ Q₃. [4571] [Exeunt ...] Exeunt Edm. Reg. Gon. and Attendants. Theobald. om. Q₁ Ff Q₃. Exeunt. Q₂ (after _word_). [4572] _wretched_] Qq F₁. _wretch_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _though_] _thoughts_ Q₃. [4573] _And ... ceases._] Omitted in Qq. _love_] Qq. _loves_ Ff. [4574] _I have_] _I've_ Pope. [4575] _I was ... again._] Prose in Q₂. [4576] _o'erlook_] _looke ore_ Q₁. _look ore_ Q₃. _thy_] Ff. _the_ Qq. [Exit Edgar.] Dyce. Exit. Qq Ff (after _again,_ line 49). Re-enter ...] Theobald. Enter ... Qq Ff. [4577] _enemy's_] _enemies_ Q₂. [4578] _Here_] _Hard_ Qq. _guess_] _quesse_ Q₂. _conquest_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _guise_ Becket conj. _true_] _great_ Qq. [Showing a Paper. Collier (Collier MS.) [4579] _By ... you._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4580] [giving a paper. Jennens. [4581] [Exit.] om. Q₁ Q₃. [4582] SCENE III. Pope. _sisters_] _sister_ Q₂. [4583] _Each ... enjoyd._] As in Ff. Three lines, ending _adder, ... one ... enjoyd,_ in Q₁ Q₃. Two lines, the first ending _adder,_ in Q₂. [4584] _stung_] Ff. _sting_ Qq. [4585] _Both? one_?] Ff. _both one_ Qq. [4586] _side_] _suite_ S. Walker conj. [4587] _who_] Ff. _that_ Qq. [4588] _the_] Ff. _his_ Qq. [4589] _intends_] Ff. _entends_ Q₂. _extends_ Q₁ Q₃. [4590] _Shall never_] _They shall ne'er_ Hanmer. _They shall never_ Keightley. [4591] SCENE II.] SCENE IV. Pope. A field ...] Fields between the camps. Capell. A Field. Rowe. Another open Field. Theobald. Alarum within. Enter ...] Ff. Alarum. Enter the powers of France over the stage, Cordelia with her Father in her hand. Qq. [4592] _tree_] Ff. _bush_ Qq. [4593] _If ... comfort._] One line in Q₂. [4594] _go_] _be_ F₃ F₄. [Exit Edgar.] Pope. Exit. Ff. Exit. Qq (after _comfort_). Alarum ...] Ff. Alarum and retreat. Qq. Re-enter ...] Theobald. Enter ... Qq Ff. [4595] _farther_] Qq. _further_ Ff. [4596] _What ... endure_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. _again? Men_] _againe men_ Q₂. [4597] _all: come_] _all; come_ Rowe (ed. 2). _all, come_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _all come_ Qq F₁. Glou. _And ... too._] Omitted in Qq. [Exeunt.] Ff. Exit. Q₁ Q₃. om. Q₂. [4598] SCENE III.] SCENE V. Pope. Theobald continues the Scene. The British ... near ...] Malone. The British ... under ... Capell. A Camp. Rowe. Enter ... Captain, Soldiers, &c.] Enter ... Souldiers, Captaine. Ff. Enter Edmund, with Lear and Cordelia prisoners. Qq. [4599] _first_] Ff. _best_ Qq. [4600] _We ... down;_] Two lines, the first ending _incurd,_ in Q₂. [4601] _We are_] _We're_ Pope. [4602] _am I_] Q₁ Q₂. _I am_ Ff Q₃. [4603] _out-frown_] _out-face_ Anon. conj. [4604] _No, no, no, no_] Ff. _No, no_ Qq. [4605] _and sing_] Q₂ Ff. om. Q₁ Q₃. [4606] _talk_] _talk'd_ F₂. _too_] _to_ Q₂. [4607] _loses_] F₄. _looses_ The rest. _who's ... who's_] _whose ... whose_ Qq. _whos ... whos_ F₂. [4608] _sects_] _sets_ Johnson conj. [4609] _The ... thee?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. [4610] _eyes_] Qq F₁. _eye_ F₂ F₃ F₄. [4611] _good-years_] _good yeares_ F₁. _good yeeres_ F₂. _good years_ F₃ F₄. _good_ Qq. _good-jers_ Theobald. _goujeres_ Hanmer. _gougers_ Bubier conj. _flesh_] Ff. _fleach_ Qq. [4612] _fell, Ere ... starve first._] _fell: E'er ... weep, ... starve._ Seymour conj. [4613] _Ere ... Come._] as in Pope. One line in Q₂. Two, the first ending _weepe?_ in Ff. _weep:_] _weep;_ Pope, _weepe?_ Qq Ff. _weep,_ Rowe (ed. 2). _'em_] Q₃ F₃ F₄. _em_ Q₁, _vm_ Q₂. _e'm_ F₁ F₂. _them_ Capell. _starve_] Qq. _starv'd_ Ff. [4614] _Come._] om. Q₁ Q₃. [Exeunt ...] Theobald. Exit. Q₁ Ff Q₃. om. Q₂. Ex. Lear and Cordelia. Pope. [4615] _Come hither_] _Come thou hither_ Hanmer. [Whispering. Rowe. [4616] [Giving a paper. Malone. [4617] _One_] Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp.) Ff Q₃. _And_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). _step I_] _step, I_ Q₂. [4618] _One ... means._] As in Q₂ Ff. Six lines, ending _thee, ... fortunes: ... is; ... sword, ... question, ... meanes,_ in Q₁ Q₃. [4619] _tender-minded_] Hyphened by Rowe (ed. 2). [4620] _thy_] _my_ Theobald. [4621] _thou'lt_] Ff. _thout_ Qq. [4622] _thou hast_] Qq. _th' hast_ F₁ F₂. th'ast F₃ F₄. [4623] _Mark; I_] _Mark, I_ Rowe. _Marke I_ Qq Ff. [4624] Capt. _I cannot ... do't._] Omitted in Ff. [4625] _If ... do't_] _But if it be a man's work, I will do it_ Keightley. _If it_] _If't_ S. Walker conj. _I'll_] _I will_ Steevens. [Exit.] Exit Captaine. Ff. om. Qq. Flourish.] F₁. om. Qq F₂ F₃ F₄. Enter....] Enter Albany, Gonerill, Regan, Soldiers. Ff. Enter the Duke, the two Ladies, and others. Qq (Enter Duke Q₂). Enter Albany, Regan, Goneril, Officers, and Attendants. Capell. [4626] SCENE VI. Pope. _shown_] _shewne_ Q₁. _showne_ Q₃. _shewed_ Q₂. _shew'd_ Ff. [4627] _the_] _them_ Keightley. [4628] _That_] Qq. _Who_ Ff. [4629] _We_] Qq. _I_ Ff. _require them_] Ff. _require then_ Qq. [4630] _Sir ... fit_] _I thought fit_ Pope. [4631] _To send ... retention_] As in Q₁ Q₃. One line in Q₂. [4632] _send_] _saue_ Q₂. [4633] _and appointed guard_] Q₁ Q₂ (Mus. imp.) Q₃. Omitted in Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2) Ff. [4634] _has_] Qq. _had_ Ff. [4635] _common bosom_] F₄. _common bosome_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _common bossome_ Q₂ (Mus. imp.), _common blossomes_ Q₁ Q₃. _coren bossom_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). _common bosoms_ Pope. _on_] Ff. _of_ Qq. [4636] _queen: My reason all_] _queen My reason, all_ Q₂. [4637] _My ... session._] Arranged as in Ff. The lines end _to morrow, ... hold_ in Qq. [4638] _further_] Q₂ Ff. _a further_ Q₁ Q₃. [4639] _you ... your_] _we ... our_ Hanmer. [4640] _session ... time We_] Theobald. _session at this time: we_ Q₁ Q₃. _session at this time, wee_ Q₂ (Mus. imp.) _session at this time, mee_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). [4641] _At ... place._] Arranged as in Theobald. The lines end _bleed, ... quarrels ... sharpenesse ... father ... place_ in Qq. Omitted in Ff. [4642] _sharpness_] _sharpenesse_ Q₁ Q₃. _sharpnes_ Q₂ (Mus. imp.), _sharpes_ Q₂ (Cap. Dev. Mus. per. and Bodl. 1, 2). [4643] _I hold ... brother._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4644] _might_] Ff. _should_ Qq. [4645] _immediacy_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _immediacie_ F₁. _immediate_ Qq. [4646] _Not ... addition._] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _himselfe,_ in Q₁ Q₃. Prose in Q₂. [4647] _addition_] Ff. _advancement_ Qq. [4648] _In ... best._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4649] _rights_] Ff. _right_ Qq. [4650] Gon.] Qq. Alb. Ff. [4651] _Holla, holla_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Hola, hola_ Qq F₁. [4652] _Holla ... a-squint._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4653] _a-squint_] Rowe. _a squint_ Qq Ff. [4654] _Dispose ... thine._] Ff. Omitted in Qq. _the walls are_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _the walls is_ F₁. _they all are_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.) _thy will is_ Jennens. _the whole is_ Anon. conj. _the laws are_] Anon. conj. [4655] _him_] Ff. _him then_ Qq. [4656] _let-alone_] Hyphened by Capell. [4657] Reg.] Ff. Bast. Qq. [To Edmund] Malone. om. Qq Ff. To the Bast. They offer to go out. Hanmer. _thine_] Ff. _good_ Qq. [4658] _Stay yet; hear reason._] _Stay hear my reason:_ Hanmer. [4659] _thine attaint_] Qq. _thy arrest_ Ff. [4660] [pointing to Gon.] Johnson. _sister_] Qq. _sisters_ Ff. [4661] _bar_] Rowe (ed. 2). _bare_ Qq Ff. [4662] _this_] Q₂ Ff. _her_ Q₁ Q₃. [4663] _your bans_] Malone. _your banes_ Ff. _the banes_ Qq. [4664] _loves_] Ff. _love_ Qq. [4665] Gon. _An interlude!_ Alb.] Omitted in Qq, which read _My lady ... Gloster_ as one line. [4666] _Thou ... sound:_] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff. _armd_] Qq. _armed_ Ff. _let ... sound:_] Omitted in Qq. [4667] _person_] Ff. _head_ Qq. [4668] [throwing ...] Malone. om. Qq Ff. [4669] _prove it_] Qq. _ma ke it_ F₁. _make it_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _mark it_ Anon. conj. _make good_ Collier MS. [4670] Gon. [Aside] _If ... medicine._] om. Seymour conj. [Aside] Marked first by Rowe. _medicine_] Ff. _poyson_ Qq. [4671] _he is_] _hes_ F₁. [4672] _thy_] Qq. _the_ Ff. [4673] _who_] _whom_ Hanmer. [4674] Edm. _A ... herald!_] Omitted in Ff. [4675] _virtue_] _vertues_ F₃ F₄. [4676] _All ... discharge._] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4677] _My_] Ff. _This_ Qq. [4678] [Exit Regan, led.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff. Exit Reg. Rowe. Enter a Herald.] As in Collier. After _firmly,_ line 102, in Ff. Omitted in Qq. After _ho!_ line 103, in Theobald. After _me,_ line 106, in Capell. After _herald!_ line 103, in Jennens. [4679] _Come ... this._] Divided as in Q₂ Ff. One line in Q₁ Q₃. Pointed as by Capell. _herald, let ... sound_, Qq Ff. [4680] _trumpet_] _Trumper_ F₁. [4681] Capt. _Sound, trumpet!_] Omitted in Ff. [A trumpet sounds.] Ff. om. Qq. [4682] Her. [Reads] Herald reads. Ff. Her. Qq. [4683] _within the lists_] Ff. _in the hoast_ Qq. [4684] _he is_] Ff. _he's_ Qq. [4685] _by_] Ff. _at_ Qq. [4686] Edm. _Sound_!] Capell. Bast. _Sound._ Q₁ Q₃. Bast. _Sound?_ Q₂. Omitted in Ff. Continued to Herald by Jennens. [First trumpet.] 1 Trumpet. Ff. om. Qq. [4687] Her. _Again!_] Ff. _Againe._ Q₁ Q₃. _Againe?_ Q₂. [Second trumpet.] 2 Trumpet. Ff. om. Qq. [4688] Her. _Again!_] Ff. om. Qq. [Third trumpet.] 3 Trumpet. Ff. om. Qq. [Trumpet answers within.] Ff. om. Qq. Enter ... him.] Enter Edgar at the third sound, with a trumpet before him. Qq (with om. Q₂). Enter Edgar armed. Ff. [4689] _What ... summons?_] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _quality?_ in Qq. [4690] _your quality_] _and quality_ Q₁ Q₃. _and qualitie_ Q₂. _why you_] _why do you_ Keightley. [4691] _Know_] Ff. _O know_ Qq. [4692] _Know ... cope._] As in Ff. Three lines, ending _tooth: ... canker-bit, ... wilh all?_ in Q₁ Q₃. The lines end _tooth ... mou't ... with all,_ in Q₂. [4693] _lost; By ... tooth_] Pointed as in Theobald. _lost by treasons tooth:_ Q₁ Q₃. _lost by treasons tooth._ Q₂. _lost By treasons tooth:_ Ff. [4694] _Yet am I noble as_] Ff. _Where is_ Q₁ Q₃. _yet are I mou't Where is_ Q₂. [4695] _cope._] Ff. _cope with all?_ Q₁ Q₃. _cope with all._ Q₂. [4696] _That ... arm_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. [4697] _Thy_] _thine_ Q₃. _thee_] _the_ Q₃. [4698] _the ... honours_] Pope. _the priviledge of my tongue_ Qq (_tougne_ Q₃). _my priviledge, The priviledge of mine honours_ Ff. [4699] _youth, place_] Qq. _place, youth_ Ff. _skill, youth_ Collier MS. [4700] _Despite_] _Despight_ Qq. _Despise_ Ff. _Spite of_ Pope. _victor sword_] Capell. _victor-sword_ Ff. _victor, sword_ Qq. _fire-new fortune_] Rowe. _fire new fortune_ Ff. _fire new fortun'd_ Qq (_fier_ Q₃). [4701] _thy gods_] _the gods_ Q₁ Q₃. [4702] _Conspirant_] Ff. _Conspicuate_ Qq. _Conspirate_ Capell. _Conspirator_ Anon. MS. See note (V). _illustrious_] _illustirous_ F₁. [4703] _below_] Ff. _beneath_ Qq. _foot_] F₃ F₄. _foote_ F₁ F₂. _feet_ Qq. [4704] _This ... liest._] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _spirits,_ in Qq. [4705] _are_] Ff. _Is_ Q₁ Q₃. _As_ Q₂. [4706] _should_] _sholud_ Q₂. [4707] _tongue_] Ff. _being_ Qq. _some say_] Qq. _(some say)_ Ff. _some 'say_ Pope. _somewhat_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [4708] _What ... delay_] Ff. Omitted in Qq. _well delay_] _claim, delay,_ Eccles conj. [4709] _By rule_] Ff. _By right_ Qq. _My right_ Anon. MS. See note (V). [4710] _Back ... head;_] Ff. Omitted in Q₁ Q₃. _Heere do I tosse those treasons to thy head._ Q₂. [4711] _With_] _May_ Eccles conj. _hell-hated lie_] _hell hatedly_ Qq. _o'erwhelm_] _ore-turn'd_ Q₁ Q₃. _oreturnd_ Q₂. [4712] _Which ... and scarcely bruise_] _To which ... scarcely bruising_ Hanmer. _scarcely_] _scarely_ F₁. [4713] _they shall_] _thou shalt_ Theobald. [Alarums. They fight. Edmund falls.] Capell. Alarum. Fight. Bastard falls. Hanmer. Alarums. Fights. Ff (after _him!_ line 152). Omitted in Qq. [4714] Alb.] Amb. (i.e. Both Ladies) or Lad. Theobald conj. Alb. _Save...._ Gon. _This_] Gon. _O, save him, save him; This_ Theobald. Gon. _Save him, O save him; this_ Hanmer. Gon. _Save him, save him; this_ Jennens. [4715] _This ... beguiled._] Arranged as in Ff. Three lines, ending _armes ... opposite, ... beguil'd,_ in Qq. [4716] _practice_] Ff. _meere practise_ Qq. _mere practice_ Jennens. [4717] _arms_] _armes_ Qq. _warre_ Ff. _wast_] Ff. _art_ Qq. _answer_] Ff. _answere_ Q₂. _offer_ Q₁ Q₃. [4718] _Shut ... know it_] As in Ff. Prose in Qq. [4719] _Shut_] Ff. _Stop_ Qq. [4720] _stop_] _stople_ Q₂. _Hold, sir_] Ff. om. Qq. Given to 'Gon.' by Jennens. [To Edg. Capell MS. and Grant White. [4721] _name_] Ff. _thing_ Qq. [4722] _No_] Ff. _Nay, no_ Q₁ Q₃. _nay no_ Q₂. _No tearing, lady:_] _No tearing.--Lady,_ Johnson. _know it_] Ff. _know't_ Qq. [Gives the letter to Edmund. Johnson. [4723] _Say ... for't?_] As in Ff. One line in Q₂. Prose in Q₁ Q₃. [4724] _can_] Ff. _shal_ Q₁ Q₂. _shall_ Q₃. _for't_] _for it_ Q₁ Q₃. [4725] _Most ... paper?_] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff. _Most monstrous! Know'st_] _Most monstrous knowst_ Q₂. _Monster, knowst_ Q₁ Q₃. _Most monstrous! O, know'st_ Ff. [4726] Gon.] Qq. Bast. Ff. _know_] _do know_ Hanmer. [Exit.] Exit Gonorill. Qq. Exit. Ff (after _for't?_ line 160). [4727] [To an Officer, who goes out after her. Capell. [4728] SCENE VIII. Pope. _What ... done;_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _with_, in Ff. _have I_] _I have_ Rowe (ed. 2). [4729] _'Tis ... thee._] As in Q₂ Ff. Prose in Q₁ Q₃. [4730] _thou'rt_] Ff. _thou beest_ Q₁ Q₃. _thou bee'st_ Q₂. [4731] _Let's_] _Let us_ Capell. _charity_] _our charity_ Pope. [4732] _more, the more_] _more than thou, the more then_ Anon. conj. _thou hast_] Qq. _th' hast_ Ff. _hast wrong'd_] _then hast wronged_ Grant White conj. [4733] _vices_] Ff. _vertues_ Q₁ Q₃. _vertues_. Q₂. [4734] _Make ... eyes._] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _place_, in Q₁ Q₃. Two, the first ending _vitious_, in Q₂. [4735] _plague us_] Ff. _scourge us_ Qq. _plague and punish us_ Hanmer. _plague us in their time_ Keightley. _scourge us and to plague us_ Anon. conj. [4736] _thee he_] Q₂ Ff. _he thee_ Q₁ Q₃. [4737] _Thou ... here._] Prose in Q₂. [4738] _Thou hast_] Qq. _Th' hast_ Ff. _right_] Ff. _truth_ Qq. _'tis true_] Ff. om. Qq. [4739] _circle_] Ff. _circkled_ Q₁. _circled_ Q₂. _cirkled_ Q₃. [4740] [To Edgar. Jennens. _gait_] Johnson. _gate_ Qq Ff. [4741] _Let ... father!_] As in Ff. One line in Qq. _ever I Did_] Ff. _I did ever_ Qq. [4742] _know't_] _know it_ Q₁ Q₃. _know it well_ Hanmer, ending the line _prince_. [4743] _Where ... known_] As one line, S. Walker conj., reading the previous line with Hanmer. [4744] _How have you know