Ham. I doe not greatly wonder of it,

[II, ii, 347.] For those that would make mops and moes

At my vncle, when my father liued,

Now giue a hundred,two hundred pounds

For his picture: but they shall be welcome,

[II, ii, 309.] He that playes the King fhall haue tribute of me, The ventrous Knight shall vse his foyle and target, The louer fhall figh gratis,

The clowne shall make them laugh

980

985

(for't,

That are tickled in the lungs, or the blanke verfe shall halt

[II, ii, 314.] And the Lady fhall haue leaue to speake her minde freely.

The Trumpets found, Enter Corambis.

Ham. Ile prophecie to you, hee comes to tell mee a the

[II, ii, 384.]

Ha. O Iepha Iudge of Ifrael! what a treasure hadft thou?

Ham. Why by lot, or God wot,or as it came to passe,
And so it was, the first verse of me godly Ballet
Wil tel you all:for look you where my abridgement comes:

1015

[II, ii, 402.] Welcome maifters, welcome all,

Enter players.

What my olde friend,thy face is vallanced

Since I saw thee laft,com'ft thou to beard me in Denmarke?
My yong lady and miftris, burlady but your (you were:
Ladiship is growne by the altitude of a chopine higher than
Pray God for 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,

1020

1025

Flie at any thing we fee, come, a taste of your
Quallitie, a speech,a passionate speech.

Players What speech my good lord?
Ham. I heard thee fpeake a speech once,

But it was neuer acted:or if it were,
Neuer aboue twice, for as I remember,

It pleafed not the vulgar,it was cauiary

To the million but to me

1030

And others, that receiued it in the like kinde,

Cried in the toppe of their iudgements,an excellent play,

1035

Set downe with as great modeftie as cunning:

One faid there was no fallets in the lines to make the fauory,
But called it an honest methode,as wholefome as sweete.
Come, a speech in it I chiefly remember

[II, ii, 425.] Was Eneas tale to Dido,

1040

And then especially where he talkes of Princes flaughter,
If it liue in thy memory beginne at this line,

Cor.

Play. But who,O who had seene the mobled Queene?
Mobled Queene is good,faith very good.

1070

Play. All in the alarum and feare of death rose vp,
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 feene with tongue inuenom'd speech,

1073. tongue inuenom'd] The space between these words (if there be any at all) is of the very least.

Would treafon haue pronounced,

For if the gods themfelues had feene her then,
When the faw Pirrus with malitious ftrokes,

Mincing her husbandes limbs,

It would haue made milch the burning eyes of heauen,

[II, ii, 496.] And passion in the gods.

1075

Cor. Looke my lord if he hath not changde his colour,
And hath teares in his eyes: no more good heart, no more.
Ham. T'is well, t'is very well, I pray my lord,

1080

Will you

fee the Players well bestowed,
I tell you they are the Chronicles
And briefe abftracts of the time,
After your death I can tell you,
You were better haue a bad Epiteeth,

1085

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,
Then who should scape whipping?

1090

[II, ii, 511.]

Ham. Come hither maifters, can you not play the murder of Gonfago?

1095

players Yes my Lord.

And doe you heare firs? take heede you mocke him not.

For Hecuba, why what is Hecuba to him,or he to Hecuba?
What would he do and if he had my losse?

[II, ii, 548.] Giue's me the lie i'th throate downe to the lungs,

Hath,by the very cunning of the scene,confeft a murder

1130

Committed long before.

This fpirit that I haue feene may be the Diuell,

And out of my weakenesse and my melancholy,

As he is very potent with fuch men,

Doth feeke to damne me, I will haue founder proofes,

The play's the thing,

[II. ii. 581.] Wherein I'le catch the confcience of the King.

[III, i, 1.]

Enter the King, Queene, and Lordes.

King Lordes, can you by no meanes finde
The cause of our fonne Hamlets lunacie?

1135

exit.

At which he craues your highnesse company.
King With all our heart, it likes vs very well:

1150

[III, i, 26.] Gentlemen, feeke still to increase his mirth,

Gil. Weele once againe vnto the noble Prince.
King Thanks to you both: Gertred you'l fee this play.
Queene My lord I will, and it ioyes me at the foule

He is inclin'd to any kinde of mirth.

1160

Cor. Madame, I pray be ruled by me:

And my good Soueraigne, giue me leaue to fpeake,

We cannot yet finde out the very ground

Of his diftemperance, therefore

I holde it meete, if so it please you,

Else they shall not meete,and thus it is.

1165

King What i'ft Corambis?

(done,

[III, i, 181.]

Cor. Mary my good lord this,foone when the sports are
Madam, send you in hafte to speake with him,

And I my felfe will stand behind the Arras,

1170

There queftion you the cause of all his griefe,

And then in loue and nature vnto you, hee'le tell you all:
My Lord,how thinke you on't?

King It likes vs well, Gerterd, what say you?

Queene With all my heart, foone will I fend for him.

1175

[III, ii, 1.]

Cor. My felfe will be that happy messenger,
Who hopes his griefe will be reueal'd to her.

Enter Hamlet and the Players.

Ham. Pronounce me this fpeech trippingly a the tongue as I taught thee,

exeunt omnes

O it offends mee to the foule, to heare a rebuftious periwig
To teare a paffion in totters, into very ragges,

1185

To split the eares of the ignoraut,who for the

(noises,

[III, ii, 13.] [III, ii, 33.]

Ham. The better, the better, mend it all together: [III, ii, 26.] There be fellowes that I haue feene play,

Moft parte are capable of nothing but dumbe shewes and
I would haue fuch a fellow whipt, for ore doing, tarmagant
It out, Herodes Herod.

players My Lorde, wee haue indifferently reformed that among vs.

1190

And heard others commend them,and that highly too,
That hauing neither the gate of Christian, Pagan,
Nor Turke,haue so strutted and bellowed,

1195

That you would a thought, fome of Natures journeymen
Had made men,and not made them well,
They imitated humanitie,so abhominable:
Take heede,auoyde it.

[III, ii, 14.]

players I warrant you my Lord.

I 200

[III, ii, 35.]

Ham. And doe you heare? let not your Clowne speake
More then is fet downe, there be of them I can tell you
That will laugh themselues, to set on fome