Laer. Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric; I'm justly kill'd with mine own treachery. Hum. How does the queen? King. She swoons to see them bleed. Queen. No, no, the drink, the drink, O my dear Laer. It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain; -- Then, venom, to thy work. All. Treason! treason! [Stabs the King. King. O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt. Ham. Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damnèd Dane, Drink off this potion: Follow my mother. Laer. is thy union here? He is justly serv'd; It is a poison temper'd by himself. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet: [King dies. Ilam. Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee. [Dies. Thou liv'st; report me and my cause aright I'm more an antique Roman than a Dane: Ham. As thou'rt a man, Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have't. O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story. [March at some distance, and shot within. What warlike noise is this? Osr. Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland, To the ambassadors of England gives The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit: On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less, prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! [Dies. good night, sweet [March within. Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors, and others. Fort. Where is this sight? What is it ye would see? O proud Death, Hor First Amb. The sight is dismal; And our affairs from England come too late: The cars are senseless that should give us hearing, That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead: Ilor. Not from his mouth, Had it th' ability of life to thank you: He never gave commandment for their death. And let me speak to the yet unknowing world Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; Fall'n on th' inventors' heads: all this can I Fort. Let us haste to hear it, And call the noblest to the audience. For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune: Hor. Of that I shall have also cause to speak, Even while men's minds are wild; lest more mischance, Fort. T' have prov'd most royally: and, for his passage, 116 Speak loudly for him. HAMLET, PR. OF DENM. [ACT V. SCENE 11.] such a sight as this Take up the bodies: Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. [A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies ; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off. Knights attending on Lear, Officers, Messengers, Soldiers, and Attendants. SCENE - Britain. ACT I. SCENE I. A room of state in King LEAR's palace. Enter KENT, GLOSTER, and EDMund. Kent. I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. Glo. It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes be values most; for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety. Kent. Is not this your son, my lord? Glo. His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am brazed to't. |