Ber. Have you had quiet Guard ? Fran. Not a mouse stirring. Ber. Well, good night. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my Watch, bid them make haste. Enter Horatio and Marcellus. Fran. I think, I hear them. Stand, ho! Who is there? Hor. Friends to this ground. Mar. And liege-men to the Dane. Fran. Give you good night... Mar. Oh, farewel, honest foldier. liev'd you ? night. Fran. Bernardo has my place. Mar. Holla! Bernardo. Ber. Say, what, is Horatio there? Hor. A piece of him. Give you good [Exit Francifco. Ber. Welcome, Horatio; welcome, good Mar cellus. Mar. What, has this thing appeared again to night? Ber. I have feen nothing. Mar. Horatio fays, 'tis but our phantafy, And will not let belief take hold of him, With us, to watch the minutes of this night, The rivals of my Watch,-] Rivals, for partners. WARB. By Rivals of the Watch are meant those who were to watch on the next adjoining ground. Riugls, in the original fenfe of the word, were proprietors of neighbouring lands, parted only Hor. A piece of him] But That if again this apparition come, And let us once again affail your ears, When yon same star, that's westward from the pole, Mar. Peace, break thee off; Enter the Ghost. Look, where it comes again. Ber. In the fame figure; like the King that's dead. wonder. Ber. It would be spoke to. Hor. What art thou, that ufurp'st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form, Did fometime march? By Heav'n, I charge thee, fpeak. Mar. It is offended. Ber. See! it stalks away. : 4 What we two nights have Seen.) This line is by Hanmer given to Marcellus, but without neceffity, 3-approve our eyes,] Add a new teftimony to that of our eyes. K 2 Hor. : 1 Hor. Stay; speak; I charge thee, speak. Mar. 'Tis gone, and will not answer. [Exit Ghost. Ber. How now, Horatio? you tremble and look pale, Is not this fomething more than phantasy? What think you of it? Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe, Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. Mar. Is it not like the King? Hor. As thou art to thyself. Such was the very armour he had on, 'Tis strange Mar. Thus twice before, and just at this dead hour, With martial ftalk, he hath gone by our Watch. Hor. In what particular thought to work, I know not, 5 He fmote the fleaded Polack on the ice.] Pole-ax in the common editions. He speaks of a Prince of Poland whom he flew in battle. He uses the word Polack again, Act 2. Scene 4. POPE. Polack was, in that age, the term for an inhabitant of Poland: Polaque, French. As in a tranflation of Pafferatius's epitaph on Henry III. of France, published by Camden: Whether thy chance or choice But, in the gross scope of my opinion, Mar. Good now fit down, and tell me, he that knows, Why this same strict and most observant Watch Hor. That can I; : At least, the whisper goes fo. Our last King, 7 who by seal'd compat, Well ratified by law AND beraldry,] The subject spoken of is a duel between two monarchs, who fought for a wager, and entered into articles for the just performance of the terms agreed upon. Two forts of law then were necessary to regulate the decifion of the affair; the Civil Law, and the Law of Arms; as, had there been a wager without a duel, it had been the civil law only; or a duel without a wager, the law of arms only. Let us fee now how our -1 Did K 3 which is ratified, one and the fame, For these reasons I con 1 1 Did forfeit, with his life, all those his Lands, That hath a stomach ist; which is no other, As it doth well appear unto our State, 1 But to recover of us by strong hand, I conclude Shakespear wrote, who by feal'd compact i. e. the execution of the civil the articles, the covenants entered into to confirm that bargain. Hence we see the common reading makes a tautology. WARB 9 And carriage of the articles design'd.] Carriage, is import: defigned, is formed, drawn up between them. Of unimproved mettle--] Unimproved, for unrefined. WAR. Full of unimproved mettle, is full of fpirit not regulated or guided by knowledge or experience. 2 That bath a stomach in't :-] Stamach, in the time of our authour, was used for constancy, reSolution. as by THAT COV'NANT, And carriage of the articles defign'd,] The old quarto reads, -as by the fame COMART; and this is right. Comart signifies a bargain, and Carriage of fatory. 3 And terms compulfative,-] The old quarto, better, compul WARBURTON. |