BAR. See! it stalks away. HOR. Stay; speak: speak I charge thee, speak. [Exit Ghost. MAR. 'Tis gone, and will not answer. BAR. How now, Horatio? you tremble, and look Is not this something more than fantasy? HOR. Before my God, I might not this believe, Of mine own eyes. MAR. a Is it not like the king? HOR. As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on, When [he] the ambitious Norway combated; So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle, * Pollax. He smote the sledded Polacks* on the ice.(8) O. C. + jump. 4tos. + mine. 4tos. 'Tis strange. MAR. Thus, twice before, and just at this dead hour,(9) With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. HOR. In what particular thought to work, I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, MAR. Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that Why this same strict and most observant watch a I might not this believe, &c.] i. e. I could not: it had not been permitted me, &c. without the full and perfect evidence, &c. b In what particular thought to work] i. e. in what particular course to set my thoughts at work: in what particular train to direct the mind and exercise it in conjecture. с gross and scope] i. e. upon the whole, and in a general view. d Good now] i. e. in good time: à la bonne heure. An interjection, a gentle exclamation of intreaty.-Johns. Dict. As an adverb he interprets it, well. And why such daily cast of brazen cannon, HOR. At least, the whisper goes so. That can I; Our last king, Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands, ⚫ of. 4tos. + comart. Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same tcov'nant 4to. 1604. His fell to Hamlet: Now, sir, young Fortinbras, That hath a stomach in't :(14) which is no other And terms compulsative, those 'foresaid lands, The source of this our watch; and the chief head mart] i. e. marketing, exchange. b toward] i. e. in preparation, going forward. See towards. Rom. & Jul. I. 5. Cap. I deseigne. 4tos. designe. 1623. § inapproved. 4to. 1603. Well may it sort, that this portentous figure Comes armed thro' our watch; so like the king, That was and is the question of these wars.(16) eye. HOR. A moth (17) it is to trouble the mind's In the most high and palmy state(18) of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: As, stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun;(19) and the moist star, (20) Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to dooms-day with eclipse. And even the like precurse of fierce events,(21) As harbingers preceding still the fates, And prologue to the omen coming on,(22) Have heaven and earth together démonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen.-](23) Re-enter Ghost. But, soft; behold! lo, where it comes again! Speak to me: If there be any good thing to be done, If thou art privy to thy country's fate, Or, if thou hast uphoarded in thy life Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,(24) a sort] i. e. fall in with the idea of: suit, accord. b stands-sick to dooms-day] i. e. to death, to extinction, as at the day of doom. Stands is depends, rests. c sound, or use of voice] i. e. articulation. d Which, happily, foreknowing &c.] i. e. by good and happy fortune; or haply, i. e. by hap or chance, as the words in our author often seem to be indifferently used. For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, BAR. HOR. MAR. 'Tis gone! "Tis here! 'Tis here! [Exit Ghost. We do it wrong, being so majestical, BAR. It was about to speak, when the cock crew. morn. 4tos. + sayes. 1623, 32. MAR. It faded on the crowing of the cock.(29) Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy (30) takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So 4tos. So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.(31) my partizan] "A weapon between a pike and an halbert, from Lat. pertica, or Germ. bart, an axe." Douce's Illustr. II. 90. Pertuisane, Fr. halberd. с lofty] i. e. high-raised. no spirit can walk] The quartos read, dare sturre: he had just said, " spirits walk in death." The term too is almost technical, a stalking, pedetentim, pace, or sliding motion; such being alone thought consistent with the majesty and state of ghost or apparition. talkes. 1623, 32. HOR. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. MAR. Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know SCENE II. [Exeunt. The same. A Room of State in the same. Enter the King, Queen, HAMLET, POLONIUS, LAERTES, KING. Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's The memory be green; and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe; b Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature, green] i. e. fresh. See Rom. & Jul. IV. 3. Jul. с ·b wisest sorrow] i. e. sober grief, passion discreetly reined. e barr'd] i. e. shut out, excluded: acted without the concurrence of. |