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 punished: Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. [Exeunt omnes. 2 Mr. Steevens fays, that this line has reference to the novel from which the fable is taken. Here we read that Juliet's female attendant was banished for concealing her marriage; Romeo's fervant fet at liberty because he had only acted in obedience to his master's orders; the apothecary taken, tortured, condemned, and hanged; while Friar Lawrence was permitted to retire to a hermitage in the neighbourhood of Verona, where he ended his life in penitence and peace. HAMLET. a Lords, Ladies, Players, Grave diggers, Sailors, Meffengers, and other Attendants, The original flory on which this play is built, may be found in Saxo Grammaticus the Danish iftorian. 2. e me who am already on the watch, and have a right to demand the watch-word. 4 Rivals for partners, according to Warburton. Hanmer fays, that by rivals of the watch are meant hose 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 Had made his courfe to illume that part of heaven | Whofe image even but now appear'd to us, The bell then beating one, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, Mar. Peace, break thee off; look where it Dar'd to the combat, in which, our valiant Hamlet comes again! Enter Ghoft. Ber. In the fame figure, like the king that's dead. ratio. (For fo this fide of our known world esteem'd him) Did flay this Fortinbras; who, by a feal'd compact, Well ratify'd by law, and heraldry, Did forfeit, with his life, all thofe his lands, Ber. Looks it not like the king? mark it, Ho-Which he stood feiz'd of, to the conqueror: Hor. Most like it harrows 2 me with fear and [night, time of Hor. What art thou, that ufurp'ft this Ber. See! it ftalks away. Har. Stay; speak; I charge thee, speak. [Exit Ghef. Mar. 'Tis gone, and will not answer. Is not this fomething more than phantafy? and Had he been vanquisher; as, by that covenant, That hath aftomach 9 in't; which is no other Is the main motive of our preparations; The fource of this our watch; and the chief Lead Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe, Of this post-haste 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, [hour, I know not; But, in the grofs and scope 5 of mine opinion, This bodes fome ftrange eruption to our state. Mar. Good now, fit down, and tell me, he that knows, Why this fame ftrict and most obfervant watch that age, Ber. I think, it be no other, but even fo: Hor. A mote it is, to trouble the mind's eye. The graves ftood tenantlets, and the sheeted dead si. e. 1 i. e. add a new teflimony to that of our eyes. 2 To harrow is to conquer, to fubdue. The word is of Saxon origin. 3 He fpeaks of a prince of Poland whom he flew in battle. Pelack was, in the term for an inhabitant of Poland: Polaque, French. A fled, or fledge, is a carriage made use of in the cold countries. 4 i. e. what particular train of thinking to follow. general thoughts, and tendency at large. Carriage is import: defign'd, is formed, drawn up beteen them. 7 Unimproved, for unrepned. 8 Tofhark up may mean to pick up without diftinction, as the fhark-fith colicets his prey. 9 Stomach, in the time of our author, was used for conftancy, refolution. 10 i. e. tumultuous hurry. 11 Palmy for victorious, flourishing. 12 Difafters is here finely fed in its original fignification of evil conjunction of stars. 13 Fierce, for confpicuous, glaring. Re-enter Re-enter Ghoft. But, foft; behold! lo, where it comes again! If there be any good thing to be done, That may to thee do ease, and grace to me, If thou art privy to thy country's fate, death The memory be green; and that it us befitted Or, if thou haft uphoarded in thy life Ber. 'Tis here! Hor. 'Tis here! Mar. 'Tis gone! We do it wrong, being fo majeftical, 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. Mur. Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know Now follows,that you know, young Fortinbras,- duty. ४ King. We doubt it nothing; heartily farewel. Where we shall find him most convenient. [Exeunt. That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? 2 i. c. got "It According to the pneumatology of that time, every element was inhabited by its peculiar order of fpirits, who had dispositions different, according to their various places of abode. 3 Bourne of Newcastle, in his Antiquities of the Common People, informs us, out of its bounds. is a received tradition among the vulgar, that at the time of cock-crowing the midnight fpirits for4 This is a very ancient fuperftition. fake thefe lower regions, and go to their proper places." The meaning is, He goes to war fo indifcreetly, s No fairy frikes with lamenets or difeafes. and unprepared, that he has no allies to fupport him but a dream, with which he is colleagued 1 Gate or gait is here used in the northern fenfe, for proceeding, paluge. articics when dilated. federated. or con 8 i. e. the The The head is not more native to the heart, Laer. My dread lord, Your leave and favour to return to France; [mark, But, you must know, your father loft a father: 6 To do obfequious forrow: but to persever Of impious stubbornnefs: 'tis unmanly grief : From whence though willingly I came to Den-It fhews a will moit incorrect ® to heaven; To fhew my duty in your coronation; A heart unfortify'd, or mind impatient; An understanding fimple and uníchool'd: My thoughts and withes bend again toward France, fays Polonius? 1 do befcech you, give him leave to go. King. Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be This must be fo. We pray you throw to earth thine, And thy best graces frend it at thy wi!! But now, my coufin Hamlet, and my fon,- [ide. This unprevailing woe; and think of us As of a father: for, let the world take note, You are the most immediate to our throne; And, with no lefs nobility 9 of love Than that which dearest father bears his fon, King. How is it that the clouds ftill hang on Do I impart toward you. For your intent you? [fun 3. In going back to school in Wittenberg, Ham. Not fo, my lord, I am too much i' the It is most retrograde to our defire : Qugen. Good Hamlet, caft thy nighted colour off, Ham. Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor cuftomary fuits of folemu black, To give thofe mourning duties to your father: And, we beseech you, bend you to remain Queen. Let not thy mother lote her prayers, I pray thee, stay with us, go not to Wittenberg. Manet Hamlet. Ham. O, that this too too folid flesh would melt, Thaw, and refolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 12 'gainst felf-flaughter! O God! O God! The fenfe is, The head is not formed to be more ufeful to the heart, the hand is not more at the fervice of the mouth, than my power is at your father's fervice. 2 Hanmer obferves. It is not unreafonable to fuppofe that this was a proverbial expreflion, known in former times for a relation fo couiufed and blended, that it was hard to define it. Dr. Johnfon afferts kind to be the Teutonick word for child: Hamlet therefore, he adds, anfwers with propriety, to the titles of coujon and fon, which the king had given him, that he was fomewhat more than coufin, and lefs than Jon. Mr. Steevens fays, that a jingle of the fame fort is found in another oid play, and seems to have been proverbial, as he has met with it more than once. 3 Mr. Farmer questions whether a quibble between fun and fon be not here intended. 4 With lowering eves, cait-down eyes. 3 That is, Your father tot a father, i. e. your grandfather, which left grandfather alfo loft his father. 6 05quicus is here from cheques or funeral ceremonies. 7 Condolement, for forrow. 8 Incorrect, tor 10 i. e. communicate whatever I can beitow. 9 Notility here means generopty. 11 Refolte means the fame as diffolve. 12 i. e. that he had not reftrained fuicide by his exprets law and peremptory prohibition. That |