He may approve our eyes,1 and speak to it. Sit down awhile; And let us once again assail your ears, Ho. Well, sit we down, And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. Ber. Last night of all, When yon same star, that's westward from the pole, Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus, and myself, The bell then beating one, Mar. Peace; break thee off; look, where it comes again! Enter GHOST. Ber. In the same figure, like the king that's dead. Mar. Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. Ber. Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio. Ho. Most like :-it harrows me with fear and wonder. Ber. It would be spoke to. Mar. Speak to it, Horatio. Ho. What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night, I Have proof that we were no way mistaken. Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? by heaven, I charge thee, speak. Mar. It is offended. Ber. See, it stalks away. Ho. Stay; speak; speak, I charge thee; speak. Mar. 'Tis gone, and will not answer. [Exit Ghost. Ber. How now, Horatio? you tremble and look pale: Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you of it? Ho. Before my God, I might not this believe, Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. Mar. Is it not like the king? Ho. As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on, "Tis strange. Mar. Thus, twice before, and jump 2 at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. Ho. In what particular tnought to work, I know not; 1 Sledged Polanders. 2 Just. But, in the gross and scope of mine opinion, Mar. Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows, Why this same strict and most observant watch Ho. At least, the whisper goes so. That can I; Our last king, Whose image even but now appear'd to us, Dared to the combat; in which, our valiant Hamlet Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands, Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same comart,1 1 Joint bargain. And carriage of the article design'd,1 His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras. Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there, For food and diet, to some enterprise 2 That hath a stomach in 't; which is no other Is the main motive of our preparations; The source of this our watch; and the chief head Of this post-haste and romage 3 in the land. 3 Ber. I think it be no other, but even so: Well may it sort, that this portentous figure Comes armed through our watch; so like the king That was, and is the question 5 of these wars. Ho. A mote it is, to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy 6 state 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.7 As, stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, I i. e. import of the articles drawn up between them. 2 Resolution. 3 Romage here signifies inquiry into the means of defence 4 Suit. 5 The theme or subject. 6 Victorious. 7 An intermediate verse is here evidently lost. Disasters in the sun; and the moist star,1 Re-enter GHOST. But, soft; behold! lo, where it comes again! Speak to me: 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 For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, [cock crows. Speak of it-stay, and speak.-Stop it, Marcellus. Mar. Shall I strike at it with my partisan ? 3 Ho. Do, if it will not stand. 1 i. e. the moon. A partisan is a kind of pike. • Portentous event. |