Oph. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart: But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Laer. O fear me not. I stay too long;—But here my father comes, Enter POLONIUS. A double blessing is a double grace; Pol. Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame ; The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are staid for: There,—my blessing with you; [Laying his Hand on LAERTES' Head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou charácter. 2 tongue, Give thy thoughts no Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. 9 Careless. ment.. 1 Regards not his own lessons, 3 Palm of the hand. 2 Write. 4 Opinion. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: And they in France, of the best rank and station, For loan oft loses both itself and friend; tend. 9 Laer. Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well What I have said to you. Oph. 'Tis in my memory lock❜d, [Exit LAERTES. And you yourself shall keep the key of it. Laer. Farewell. Pol. What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you ? Oph. So please you, something touching the lord Hamlet. Pol. Marry, well bethought: 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late Given private time to you; and you yourself teous: If it be so, (as so 'tis put on me, And that in way of caution,) I must tell you, 7 Economy. 5 Noble. 6 Chieflv. 8 Infix. 9 Wait. Oph. He hath, my lord, of late, made many tenders Of his affection to me. Pol. Affection? puh! you speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? think. Pol. Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby; That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly; Or (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, Oph. My lord, he hath impórtun'd me with love, In honourable fashion. 2 Pol. Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to. Oph. And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, With almost all the holy vows of heaven. Pol. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul 1 Untempted. 2 Manner. › Company. + Longer line; a horse fastened by a string to a stake, is tethered. Than may be given you: In few, Ophelia, I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, SCENE IV. The Platform. [Exeunt. Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS. Ham. What hour now? Mar. No, it is struck. I think it lacks of twelve. Hor. Indeed? I heard it not; it then draws near the season, Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. [A Flourish of Trumpets, and Ordnance shot off, within. What does this mean, my lord? Ham. The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,8 Keeps wassel9, and the swaggering up-spring reels; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, 5 Pimps. 6 Implorers. 7 Sharp. 8 Jovial draught. 1 A dance. The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out Hor. Ham. Ay, marry, is't: Is it a custom ? But to my mind, though I am native here, More honour'd in the breach, than the observance. Makes us traduc'd, and tax'd of other nations: They clepe us, drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our addition; and, indeed it takes From our achievements, though perform'd at The pith and marrow of our attribute. That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, Shall in the general censure take corruption Hor. Enter Ghost. Look, my lord, it comes! Ham. Angels and ministers of grace defend us! 2 Call. 3 Humour. + Do out. |