And, Princes all, believe me, I beseech you;
My father is wild into his grave;

gone

For in his tomb lie my affections;
And with his fpirit fadly I furvive,
To mock the expectations of the world;
To fruftrate prophecies, and to raze out
Rotten opinion, which hath writ me down.
After my feeming. Though my tide of blood
Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now;
Now doth it turn and ebb back to the fea,
Where it shall mingle with the state of floods,
And flow henceforth in formal majesty. -
Now call we our high court of Parliament;
And let us chufe fuch limbs of noble counfel,
That the great body of our ftate may go
In equal rank with the best govern'd nation;
That war or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us,

In which you, father, fhall have foremost hand.
Our coronation done, we will accite

(As I before remember'd) all our state,

And (Heav'n configning to my good intents)
No prince, nor peer, shall have just cause to say,
Heav'n fhorten Harry's happ life one day.

SHAKSPEARE.

С НА Р. XII.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND BISHOP

CANT.

OF ELY.

MY Lord, I'll tell you; that felf bill is urg'd,

Which, in the eleventh year o' th' laft King's

Grew like the fummer-grafs, fafteft by night,
Unfeen, yet crefcive in his faculty.

CANT. It must be fo: for miracles are ceas'd:
And therefore we must needs admit the means,

How things are perfected.

SHAKSPEARE.

HOR.

CHA P. XIII.

HAMLET AND HORATIO.

HAIL to your Lordship!

HAM. I am glad to fee you well.

Horatio,or I do forget my felf.

HOR. The fame, my Lord, and your poor fervant ever. HAM. Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with

you:

And what makes you from Wittenburg, Horatio?
HOR. A truant difpofition, good my Lord.
HAM. I would not hear your enemy say so;

Nor shall you do mine ear that violence,
To make it truster of your own report
Against yourself. I know you are no truant;
But what is your affair in Elfincor?

We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
HOR. My Lord, I came to see your father's funeral.
HAM. I pr'ythee do not mock me, fellow-student;
I think it was to fee my mother's wedding.

HOR. Indeed, my Lord, it follow'd hard upon.
HAM. Thrift, thrift, Horatio; the funeral bak'd meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heav'n,

Or

Or ever I had feen that day, Horatio!

My father

-Methinks I fee my

HOR. Oh where, my Lord?

father.

HAM. In my mind's eye, Horatio.

HOR. I faw him once, he was a goodly King.
HAM. He was a man, take him for all in all,
I fhall not look upon his like again.

HOR. My Lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
HAM. Saw! who?

HOR. My Lord, the King your father.

HAM. The King my father!

HOR. Seafon your admiration but a while,

With an attentive ear; till I deliver,

Upon the witness of these gentlemen,

This marvel to you.

HAM. For Heaven's love, let me hear,

HOR. Two nights together had thefe gentlemen,
Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,

In the dead waste and middle of the night,
Been thus encountered: A figure like

Arm'd at all points exactly, cap-à-pe,

your

father,

Appears before them, and with folemn march
Goes flow and ftately by them; thrice he walk'd
By their opprefs'd and fear-furprised eyes,

Within his truncheon's length; whilft they (diftill'a
Almoft to jelly with th' effect of fear)

Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to me
In dreadful fecrecy impart they did,

And I with them the third night kept the watch:
Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,

Form of the thing, each word made true and good,

The

your father:

The apparition comes. I knew

Thefe hands are not more like.

HAM. But where was this?

HOR. My Lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. HAM. Did you not speak to it?

HOR. My Lord I did;

But anfwer made it none. Yet once methought

It lifted up its head, and did addrefs

Itself to motion, like as it would speak,

But even then the morning cock crew loud;

And at the found it shrunk in hafte away,
And vanifh'd from our fight.

HAM. 'Tis very ftrange.

HOR. As I do live, my honour'd Lord, 'tis true; And we did think it writ down in our duty

To let you know of it.

HAM. Indeed, indeed, Sir, but this troubles me.

Hold you the watch to-night?

HOR. We do, my Lord.

HAM. Arm'd, fay you?

HOR. Arm'd, my Lord.

HAM. From top to toe?

HOR. My Lord, from head to foot.

HAM. Then faw you not his face?

HOR. Oh, yes, my Lord; he wore his beaver up.

HAM. What, look'd he frowningly?

HOR. A count'nance more in forrow than in anger.
HAM. Pale, or red?

HOR. Nay, very pale.

HAM. And fix'd his eyes upon you?

HOR. Moft constantly.

HAM. I would I had been there!

HOR

HOR. It would have much amaz'd you.

HAM. Very like. Staid it long?

HOR. While one with moderate hafte might tell a hundred.

HAM. His beard was grifl'd ?—no.—

HOR. It was, as I have feen it in his life,

A fable filver'd.

HAM. I'll watch to-night; perchance 'twill walk again,

HOR. I warrant you, it will.

HAM. If it affumes my noble father's perfon,

I'll fpeak to it, tho' hell itself fhould gape,
And bid me hold my peace. I pray you
If you have hitherto conceal'd this fight,
Let it be ten'ble in your filence still:
And whatsoever fhall befal to night,
Give it an understanding, but no tongue :
I will requite your love: fo fare ye well.
Upon the platform 'twixt eleven and twelve
I'll vifit you.

BRU. Not I.

CAS. I pray you, do.

BR U. I am not gamefome; I do lack fome part

Of that quick spirit that is in Antony ;

Let me not hinder, Caffius, your defires ;
I'll leave you.

CAS. Brutus, I do obferve you now of late;
I have not from your eyes that gentleness