Ber. Have you had quiet Guard ? If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my Watch, bid them make hafte. Enter Horatio and Marcellus. Fran. I think, I hear them. Stand, ho! Who is there? Ilor. Friends to this ground. Mar. And liege-men to the Dane. Fran. Give you good night. . Mar. Oh, farewel, honeft foldier. Who hath re Fran. Bernardo has my place. liev'd you? place. night. Mer. Holla! Bernardo. Ber. Say, what, is Horatio there? 2 Hor. A piece of him. Ber. Welcome, Horatio; welcome, good Marcellus. Mar. What, has this thing appeared again to night? Ber. I have feen nothing. Mar. Horatio fays, 'tis but our phantafy, Touching this dreadful fight, twice feen of us; 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 thofe who were to watch on the next adjoining ground. Rivals, in the original fenfe of the word, were proprietors of neighbouring lands, parted only by a brook, which belonged equally to both. HANMER. 2 Hor. A piece of him] But why a piece? He fays this as he gives his hand. Which direction thould be marked. WARB. That That if again this apparition come, He may 3 approve our eyes, and fpeak to it. And let us once again affail your ears, And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. When yon fame ftar, that's weftward from the pole, Had made his courfe t'illume that part of heav'n Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one, Mar. Peace, break thee off; Enter the Ghoft. Look, where it comes again. Ber. In the fame figure; like the King that's dead. Ber. It would be spoke to. Mar. Speak to it, Horatio. Hor. What art thou, that ufurp'ft this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form, In which the Majefty of buried Denmark Did fometime march? By Heav'n, I charge thee, fpeak. 3 Mar. It is offended. Ber. See! it ftalks away. approve our eyes,] Add a new teftimony to that of our eyesé 4 What we two nights have Jeen.] This line is by Hanmer given to Marcellus, but without neceffity. Hor. Stay; fpeak; I charge thee, fpeak. Mar. 'Tis gone, and will not answer. [Exit Ghoft. Ber. How now, Horatio? you tremble and look pale, Is not this fomething more than phantafy? Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe, Of mine own eyes. Mar. Is it not like the King? Such was the very armour he had on, When he th' ambitious Norway combated; So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle, • He fmote the fleaded Polack on the ice. 'Tis ftrange Mar. Thus twice before, and juft at this dead hour, With martial ftalk, he hath gone by our Watch, But, in the grofs fcope of my opinion, This bodes fome ftrange eruption to our State. Mar. Good now fit down, and tell me, he that knows, Why this fame ftrict and moft obfervant Watch Hor. That can I; At least, the whisper goes fo. Our laft King, Did forfeit, with his life, all thofe his Lands, 8 Had he been vanquisher; as by that cov❜nant, Fortinbras, For food and diet, to fome enterprize That hath a ftomach it; which is no other, Is the main motive of our preparations, I conclude Shakespear wrote, who by fear'd compact Well ratified by law of be. raldry. i. e. the execution of the civil compact was ratified by the law of arms; which in our author's time, was called the law of he raldry. So the best and exactest fpeaker of that age: In the third kind, [i. e. of the Fus gentium] the LAW OF HERALDRY in war is pofitive, &c. Hooker's Ecclefiaftical Polity. WARB. as by THAT COV'NANT, And carriage of the articles defign'd,] The old quarto reads, 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 defign'd.] Carriage, is import: defigned, is formed, drawn гар 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 ftomach in't. -}· Stomach, in the time of our authour, was used for conftancy, reJolution. 3 And terms compulfative,-] The old quarto, better, compulWARBURTON. as by the fame COMART; and this is right. Comart fignifies a bargain, and Carriage of fatory. Ber. |