But what is your affair in Elfinoor? We'll teach you to drink deep, ere you depart. Hor. Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon. meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage-tables. Ham. In my mind's eye, Horatio. Hor. I faw him once, he was a goodly King. I fhall not look upon his like again. Hor. My lord, I think, I saw him yefternight. Hor. My lord, the King your father. Hor. Seafon your admiration but a while, Upon the witnefs of thefe gentlemen, This marvel to you. Ham. For heaven's love, let me hear. Hor. Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, In the dead vaft and middle of the night, Been thus encounter'd. A figure like Appears before them, and with folemn march Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distill'd This to me And I with them the third night kept the watch; Form of the thing, each word made true and good, Thefe hands are not more like. Ham. But where was this? Mar. My lord, upon the Platform where we watcht. Ham. Did you not speak to it? Hor. My lord, I did; But answer made it none; yet once, methought, Itself to motion, like as it would speak; But even then the morning cock crew loud; Ham. 'Tis very strange. Hor. As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true; 8 with the ACT of fear,] Shak fear could never write fo improperly, as to call the paffion of fear, the act of fear. Without doubt the true reading is, with TH' EFFECT of fear, WARBURTON. Here is an affectation of fubtilty without accuracy. Fear is every day confidered as an agent. Fear laid hold on him; fear drove him away. If it were proper to be rigorous in examining trifles, it might be replied, that Shake Speare would write more erroneoufly, if he wrote by the direction of this critick; they were not diftilled, whatever the word may mean, by the effect of fear; for that diftillation was itself the effect; fear was the caufe, the active caufe, that diflilled them by that force of operation which we ftrictly call act in voluntary, and power in involuntary agents, but popularly call a in both. But of this too much. Ham. In Ham. Indeed, indeed, Sirs, but this troubles me. Hold you the watch to-night? Both. We do, my lord. Ham. Arm'd, fay you? Both. Arm'd, my lord. Ham. From top to toe? Both. My lord, from head to foot. Ham. Then faw you not his face ? Hor. Oh, yes, my lord, he wore his beaver up. Ham. What look'd, he frowningly? Ham. Pale, or red? Hor. A count'nance more in forrow than in anger. Ham. And fixt his eyes upon you? Hor. Nay, very pale. Hor. Moft conftantly. Ham. I would, I had been there! Hor. It would have much amaz'd you. Ham. Very like. Staid it long? Hor. While one with moderate hafte might tell a hundred. Both. Longer, longer. Hor. Not when I faw't. Ham. His beard was grifly? Hor. It was, as I have feen it in his life, A fable filver'd. Ham. I'll watch to night; perchance, 'twill walk again. Hor. I warrant you, it will. Ham. If it affume my noble father's perfon, 150 And whatfoever shall befal to night, All. Our duty to your Honour. [Exeunt. Ham. Your loves, as mine to you, Farewel. My father's Spirit in arms! all is not well. I doubt fome foul play. come! Would, the night were 'Till then fit ftill, my foul. Foul deeds will rife, Tho' all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. [Exit. SCENE v. Changes to an Apartment in Polonius's House. Lacr. M And, fifter, as the winds give, benefit, Y neceffaries are imbark'd, farewel. And Convoy is affiftant, do not fleep, Oph. Do you doubt that? Laer. For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, tho' fweet, not lafting: The perfume, and Suppliance of a minute: Thus the quarto; the folio has it, ·Sweet, not lafting, The Appliance of a minute. Opb. It is plain that perfume is neceffary to exemplify the idea of fweet, not lafting. With the word fuppliance I am not fatisfied, and yet dare hardly offer what I imagine Oph. No more but so? Laer. Think it no more: For Nature, crefcent, does not grow alone In thews and bulk; but, as this Temple waxes, May give his Saying deed; which is no further, imagine to be right. I-fufpect that foffiance, or fome fuch word, formed from the Italian, was then used for the act of fumigating with sweet scents. And now no foil, NOR cautel, From cautela, which fignifies only a prudent forefight or caution; but paffing thro' French hands, it lost its innocence, and now fignifies fraud, deceit. And fo he ufes the adjective in Julius Cafar, Swear priefts and cowards and men cautelous. But I believe Shakespear wrote, And now no foil OF cautelwhich the following words confirm, -doth befmerch The virtue of his will: L 4 Then |