Be somewhat scantera of your maiden presence; b Than a command to parley. For lord Hamlet, Do not believe his vows: for they are brokers (75) the eye. Not of that die* which their investments show, But mere implorators of unholy suits, 1623, 32. e Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, (76) [Exeunt. SCENE IV. The Platform. Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS. HAM. The air bites shrewdly; it is very scanter] More sparing. cold. b entreatments] Opportunities of entreating or parley. Johnson derivcs it from entretien, Fr. larger tether] Rope or license. d that die, which their investments show] Investments are covering or exterior. That die, instead of the eye, is the reading of the quartos. ⚫slander any moment's leisure] Let in reproach upon. HOR. I think, it lacks of twelve. MAR. No, it is struck." HOR. Indeed? I heard it not; it then draws near the season, Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. (78) [A Flourish of Trumpets, and Ordnance shot What does this mean, my lord? HAM. The king doth wake to-night, and takes Keeps wassels and the swaggering up-spring reels; HOR. HAM. Ay, marry, is't: Is it a custom? But to my mind, though I am native here, b More honour'd in the breach, than the observance. e That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, it is struck] See I. 1. Barn. east and west] Every where: from the rising to the setting sun. • Clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our addition] Disparage us by using as characteristic of us, terms that imply or impute swinish properties, that fix a swinish" addition" or title to our names. Clepe, clypian. Sax. to call. d at height] To the utmost, topping every thing. mole of nature] Natural blemish. "For marks descried in man's nativity "Are nature's fault, not their own infamy." Rape of Lucrece. MALONE. Wassel, 4to. ⚫ease. 4to. eale. 4to. ⚫ of a doubt. 4to. As, in their birth, (wherein they are not guilty, b Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason; d HOR. Enter Ghost. Look, my lord, it comes! HAM. Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, (81) hell, It chances-that for some vicious mole of nature,— Or by some habit-that these men] To connect the sentence, we must before "that these men" supply "it happens," or something to that effect. The sense of the latter part of the speech is, A little vice will often obliterate all a man's good qualities; and the effect is, that the vice becomes scandalous, i. e. offensive; being taken for his predominating character. In All's Well, &c. plausive has been twice used for admirable. I.2. King. III. 1. Parolles. b nature's livery, or fortune's star] The vesture or garb in which nature clothes us; the humour innate or complexion born with us: or some casualty or fatality, the influence of the star of fortune or chance. с e undergo] Support, possess. "To undergo such ample grace and honour." M. for M. I. 1. Escal. censure take corruption] Estimate become tainted. Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, (83) To you alone. MAR. (86) Look, with what courteous action It wafts you to a more removed ground: But do not go with it. HOR. No, by no means. HAM. It will not speak; then I will follow it. HAM. Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; (87) And, for my soul, what can it do to that, It waves me forth again ;-I'll follow it. HOR. What, if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit* of the cliff, hearsed in death] Deposited with the accustomed funeral rites: conveyed in the vehicle appropriated to this ceremonial. b cerements] Waxen envelope. с disposition] Frame of mind; or affection of body and mind. • Revisitst. 1632. Somnet, 4tos. Sonnet. 1623, 32. That beetles o'er his base into the sea?(88) HAM. Go on, I'll follow thee. It wafts me still: MAR. You shall not go, my lord. Hold off your hands. My fate cries out, HOR. Be rul'd, you shall not go. [Ghost beckons, Still am I call'd ;-unhand me, gentlemen ; [Breaking from them. By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets* I me: say, away :-Go on, I'll follow thee. [Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET. HOR. He waxes desperate with imagination. MAR. Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. HOR. Have after:- To what issue will this come? MAR. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. HOR. Heaven will direct it. MAR. Nay, let's follow him. [Exeunt. lets] Obstructs. Have after] Take, or betake yourself, after! follow! • Heaven will direct it] "The state of Denmark," to health and soundness. |