Are here arriv'd.; give Order, that these bodies.
High on a Stage be placed to the view,
And let me fpeak to th' yet unknowing world,
How these things came about. So fhall you hear
Of cruel, bloody, and unnatural acts;

Of accidental judgments, cafual flaughters;
Of deaths put on by cunning, and forc'd cause ;
And, in this upfhot, purposes mistook,

Fall'n on th' inventors" heads. All this can I
Truly deliver.

Fort. Let us hafte to hear it,

And call the Noblefs to the audience.

For me, with forrow I embrace my fortune;
I have fome rights of memory in this Kingdom,
Which, now to claim my vantage doth invite me.
Hor. Of that I fhall have also cause to speak,

And from his mouth whofe voice will draw on more: (35)
But let this fame be presently perform'd,

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Even while men's minds are wild, left more mischance On plots and errors happen.

Fort. Let four captains

Bear Hamlet, like a foldier, to the Stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,

To have prov'd most royally. And for his paffage,

(35) And from his Mouth, whofe Voice will draw no more.] This is the Reading of the old Quarto's, but certainly a miftaken one. We fay, a Man will no more draw Breath; but that a Man's Voice will draw no more, is, I believe, an Expreffion without any Authority. I chufe to espouse the Reading of the Elder Folio.

And from his Mouth, whofe Voice will draw on more. And this is the Poet's Meaning. Hamlet, juft before his Death, had faid;

But I do prophefie, th' Election lights

On Fortinbras: He has my dying Voice;

So tell him, &c.

Accordingly,, Horatio here delivers that Meffage; and very justly infers, that Hamlet's Voice will be feconded by others, and procure them in Favour of Fortinbras's Succeffion.

The

The Soldiers' mufick, and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him

Take up the body: fuch a fight as this

Becomes the field, but here fhews much amifs.
Go, bid the Soldiers shoot.

[Exeunt, marching: after which, a peal of Ordnance is foot off.

OTHELLO,

OTHELLO,

THE

Moor of VENICE.