With open out-cry, toward our monument. Watch. Sovereign, here lies the county Paris flain; To help to take her from her borrow'd grave, Prince. Search, feek, and know how this foul Came I to take her from her kindred's vault; Meaning to keep her closely at my cell, murder comes. Watch. Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's "Till I conveniently could fend to Romeo : man; With inftruments upon them, fit to open But, when I came, (fome minute ere the time The noble Paris, and true Romeo, dead. -O, wife! look how our She wakes; and I entreated her come forth, daughter bleeds! This dagger bath miftalen, for, lo! his house Enter Montague, and others. Prince. Come, Montague, for thou art early up, To fee thy fon and heir more early down. Mon. Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; Grief of my ton's exile hath stopp'd her breath : What further woe confpires against my age? Prince. Look, and thou shalt fee. Mon. Otrov untaught! what manners is in this, To prefs before thy father to a grave? And bear this work of heaven with patience: Prince. We ftill have known thee for a holy man. Where's Romeo's man? what can he fay to this? Balth. I brought my mafter news of Juliet's death; And then in poft he came from Mantua, Prince. Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, To this fame place, to this fame monument. 'Till we can clear thefe ambiguities, And know their spring, their head, their true de- And threaten'd me with death, going in the vault, fcent; And then will I be general of your woes, Lan. I am the greatest, able to do least, Priace. Then fay at once what thou doft know If I departed not, and left him there. Prince. Give me the letter, I will look on it. Where is the county's page that rais'd the watch?-Sirrah, what made your master in this place? Fuge. He came with flowers to ftrew his lady's And bid me stand aloof, and so I did: Lau. I will be brief, for my fhort date of breath Their course of love, the tidings of her death: Is not fo long as is a tedious tale. Romeo, there dead, was hufband to that Juliet ; A fleeping potion; which fo took effect As I intended, for it wrought on her The form of death: mean time I writ to Romeo, And here he writes-that he did buy a poison Cap. O, brother Montague, give me thy hand : Mon. But I can give thee more; There shall no figure at fuch rate be fet, As that of true and faithful Juliet. Cap. As rich fhall Romeo by his lady lie; It appears that the dagger was anciently worn behind the back. 8643 Prince. Prince. A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The fun, for forrow, will not fhew his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these fad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and fome purished'. Mr. Steavens fays, that this line has reference to the novel from which the fable is taken. H we read that Juliet's female attendant was banished for concealing her marriage; Romeo's fera.. fet at liberty because he had only acted in obedience to his master's orders; the apothecary take tortured, condemned, and hanged; while Friar Lawrence was permitted to retire to a hermiagra the neighbourhood of Verona, where he ended his life in penitence and peace. HAMLET QSTRICK, a Courtier. MARCELLUS, BERNARDO, } Officers, FRANCISCO, a Soldier. REYNALDO, Servant to Polonius. GERTRUDE, Queen of Denmark, and Mother to Hamlet. OPHELIA, Daughter to Polonius. Lords, Ladies, Players, Giave-diggers, Sailors, Messengers, and other Attendants, Fran. You come most carefully upon your hour. Fran. For this relief, much thanks: 'tis bitter And I am fick at heart. Ber. Have you had quiet guard? Fran. Not a mouse stirring. Ber. Well, good night. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch 3, bid them make hafte. Enter Horatio, and Marcellus. Fran. I think, I hear them.-Stand, ho! Who is there ? Hor. Friends to this ground. Mar. And leigemen to the Dane. Fran. Give you good night. Mar. O, farewel, honest foldier; Who hath reliev'd you ? Fran. Bernardo hath my place, Mar. Holla! Bernardo! Ber. Say, What, is Horatio there? Hor. A piece of him. [Exit Francifco Ber. Welcome, Horatio; welcome, good Mar cellus. [night? Mar. What, has this thing appear'd again to. Mar. Horatio fays, 'tis but our phantafy; With us to watch the minutes of this night; The original ftory on which this play is built, may be found in Saxo Grammaticus the Danish hiftorian. 2 i. e me who am already on the watch, and have a right to demand the watch-word, 3 Rivals for partners, according to Warburton. Hanmer says, that by rivals of the watch are meant those who were to watch on the next adjoining ground. Rivals, in the original fenfe of the word, were proprietors of neighbouring lands, parted only by a brook, which belonged equally to both. He He may approve our eyes, and speak to it. And let us once again affail your ears, Hor. Well, fit we down, Ber. Laft night of all, [pole, So nightly toils the fubject of the land? Hor. That can I; At least the whifper goes fo. Our laft king, Mar. Peace, break thee off; look where it Dar'd to the ombat ; in which, our vahint Heniet comes again! Enter Ghaft. Ber. In the fame figure, like the king that's dead. : [night, time of Hor. What art thou, that ufurp'ft this Ber. See! it ftalks away. Hor. Stay; fpeak; I charge thee, speak. (For fo this fide of our known world esteem'd him Did forfeit, with his life, all thofe his lands, Had he been vanquisher; as, by that covenant, His fell to Hamlet: Now, fir, young Fortinbras, That hath a ftomach 9 in't; which is no other [Exit Ghoft.(As it doth well appear unto our flate) Mar. 'Tis gone, and will not answer. Is not this fomething more than phantasy ? But to recover of us, by strong hand, and And terms compulfatory, thote forefaid lands So by his father loft: And this, I take it, Is the main motive of our preparations; The fource of this our watch; and the chief head Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe, Of this post-hafte and romage 10 in the land. Without the fenfible and true avouch 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, When be the ambitious Norway combated; [hour, know not; Ber. I think, it be no other, but even to: Well may it fort, that this portentous figure Comes armed through our watch; fo like the king That was, and is the queftion of thefe wars. Ho. A mote it is, to trouble the mind's eye. The graves ftood tenantlets, and the fhested dead I i. e add a new teftimony to that of our eyes. 2 To harrow is to conquer, to fubdue. The werd is of Saxon origin. 3 He speaks of a prince of Poland whom he flew in battle. Polack was, in that age, the term for an inhabitant of Poland: Pelaque, French. A fied, or jiedge, is a carriage made ufe of in the cold countries. 4. e. what particular train of thinking to follow. si. e. general thoughts, and tendency at large. 6 Carriage is import: dej gn'd, is formed, drawn up be Unimproved, for unrefined. 8 Tofhark up may mean to pick up without diftinction, as the far-nth collects his prey. 9 Stomach, in the time of our author, was used for cenfancy, refolution. 10 i. e. tumultuous hurry. 11 Palmy for victorious, flourishing. 12 Difflers is here finely af. d in its original fignification of evil conjunction of fars. 13 Fierce, for confpicuous, garing. 14 Omen, for fate. tween then, Re-enter Ghoft. But, foft; behold! lo, where it comes again! Speak to me : If there be any good thing to be done, That may to thee do eafe, and grace to me, If thou art privy to thy country's fate, Or, if thou haft uphoarded in thy life Ber. 'Tis here! Hor. 'Tis here! Mar. 'Tis gone! We do it wrong, being so majestical, SCENE II. A Room of State. Enter the Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Voltimand, Cornelius, Lords and Attendants. King. Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green; and that it us befitted [Exit Gloft. Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone And our vain blows malicious mockery. Ber. It was about to speak, when the cock crew. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock 4. Hor. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. know Where we fhall find him moft convenient. [Exeunt. Now follows,that you know, young Fortinbras,- Farewel; and let your hafte commend your duty. According to the pneumatology of that time, every element was inhabited by its peculiar order of fpirits, who had difpofitions different, according to their various places of abode. 2 i. e. got out of its bounds. 3 Bourne of Newcofile, in his Antiquities of the Common People, informs us, "It is a received tradition among the vulgar, that at the time of cock-crowing the midnight fpirits forfake these lower regions, and go to their proper places." 4 This is a very ancient fuperftition. 5 No fairy frikes with lamencls or difcales. The meaning is, He goes to war fo indifcreetly, and unprepared, that he has to allies to fupport him but a dream, with which he is colleagued or confederated. 7 Gate or gait is here used in the northern sense, for proceeding, paffage. articles when dilated. 8 i. e. the The |