Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou 'lt mouth, Queen. This is mere madness: And thus awhile the fit will work on him; When that her golden couplets are disclosed, Hamlet. Hear you, sir; What is the reason that you use me thus? I loved you ever: but it is no matter; The cat will mew and dog will have his day. King. I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him. 280 [Exit. [Exit Horatio. [To Laertes] Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech; We'll put the matter to the present push. Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son. [Exeunt. SCENE II. A hall in the castle. Enter HAMLET and HORATIO. Ham. So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other; You do remember all the circumstance? Horatio. Remember it, my lord! Hamlet. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting, That would not let me sleep: methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly, And praised be rashness for it, let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should learn us ΙΟ Horatio. That is most certain. Hamlet. Up from my cabin, Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,— Importing Denmark's health and England's too, Horatio. Is 't possible? 20 Hamlet. Here's the commission: read it at more leisure. But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed? Horatio. I beseech you. Hamlet. Being thus be-netted round with villanies,- Horatio. Ay, good my lord. Hamlet. An earnest conjuration from the king, As love between them like the palm might flourish, 30 40 He should the bearers put to sudden death, Horatio. How was this seal'd? Hamlet. Why, even in that was heaven ordinant. Which was the model of that Danish seal; 50 Horatio. So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. Ham. Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow: 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. Horatio. Why, what a king is this! 60 Hamlet. Does it not, thinks 't thee, stand me now upon-- And with such cozenage-is't not perfect conscience, In further evil? 70 Horatio. It must be shortly known to him from England What is the issue of the business there. Hamlet. It will be short: the interim is mine; And a man's life 's no more than to say 'One.' That to Laertes I forgot myself; For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours: Horatio. Peace! who comes here? 80 Enter OSRIC. Osric. Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark. Hamlet. I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly? Horatio. No, my good lord. Hamlet. Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess: 'tis a chough; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt. Osric. Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should impart a thing to you from his majesty. 90 Hamlet. I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head. Osric. I thank your lordship, it is very hot. Ham. No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is northerly. Osric. It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed. But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot, or my Hamlet. complexion Osric. Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, as 'twere, -I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a great wager on your head: sir, this is the matter Hamlet. I beseech you, remember ΙΟΙ [Hamlet moves him to put on his hat. Osric. Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith. Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes; believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very soft society and great showing: indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see. Hamlet. Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article; and his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. Osric. Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him. Hamlet. The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath? Osric. Sir? 120 Horatio. Is 't not possible to understand in another tongue? You will do 't, sir, really. Hamlet. What imports the nomination of this gentleman ? Osric. Of Laertes ? Horatio. His purse is empty already; all's golden words are spent. Osric. I know you are not ignorant Hamlet. I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did, it would not much approve me. Well, sir? 130 Osric. You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes isHamlet. I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to know himself. Osric. I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed. Hamlet. What's his weapon? Osric. Rapier and dagger. Hamlet. That's two of his weapons: but, well. 139 Osric. The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary horses: against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit. Hamlet. What call you the carriages? Horatio. I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done. |