The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Part 6

I cannot believe the same word. The latter means _produce for_, as from the place of origin. The word, in the sense necessary to this pa.s.sage, is not, so far as I know, to be found anywhere else. I have no suggestion to make.]

[Footnote 6: From his mother he generalizes to _woman_. After having believed in such a mother, it may well be hard for a man to believe in any woman.]

[Footnote 7: _Q._ omits 'euen she.']

[Footnote 8: the going abroad among things.]

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My Fathers Brother: but no more like my Father, Then I to _Hercules_. Within a Moneth?

Ere yet the salt of most vnrighteous Teares Had left the flus.h.i.+ng of her gauled eyes, [Sidenote: in her]

She married. O most wicked speed, to post[1]

With such dexterity to Incestuous sheets: It is not, nor it cannot come to good, But breake my heart, for I must hold my tongue.[2]

_Enter Horatio, Barnard, and Marcellus._ [Sidenote: _Marcellus, and Bernardo._]

_Hor._ Haile to your Lords.h.i.+p.[3]

_Ham._ I am glad to see you well: _Horatio_, or I do forget my selfe.

_Hor._ The same my Lord, And your poore Seruant euer.

[Sidenote: 134] _Ham._ [4]Sir my good friend, Ile change that name with you:[5]

And what make you from Wittenberg _Horatio_?[6]

_Marcellus._[7]

_Mar._ My good Lord.

_Ham._ I am very glad to see you: good euen Sir.[8]

But what in faith make you from _Wittemberge_?

_Hor._ A truant disposition, good my Lord.[9]

_Ham._ I would not haue your Enemy say so;[10] [Sidenote: not heare]

Nor shall you doe mine eare that violence,[11] [Sidenote: my eare]

[Sidenote: 134] To make it truster of your owne report Against your selfe. I know you are no Truant: But what is your affaire in _Elsenour_?

Wee'l teach you to drinke deepe, ere you depart.[12]

[Sidenote: you for to drinke ere]

_Hor._ My Lord, I came to see your Fathers Funerall.

_Ham._ I pray thee doe not mock me (fellow Student) [Sidenote: pre thee]

I thinke it was to see my Mothers Wedding. [Sidenote: was to my]

[Footnote 1: I suggest the pointing:

speed! To post ... sheets!]

[Footnote 2: Fit moment for the entrance of his father's messengers.]

[Footnote 3: They do not seem to have been intimate before, though we know from Hamlet's speech (134) that he had had the greatest respect for Horatio. The small degree of doubt in Hamlet's recognition of his friend is due to the darkness, and the unexpectedness of his appearance.]

[Footnote 4: _1st Q._ 'O my good friend, I change, &c.' This would leave it doubtful whether he wished to exchange servant or friend; but 'Sir, my _good friend_,' correcting Horatio, makes his intent plain.]

[Footnote 5: Emphasis on _that_: 'I will exchange the name of _friend_ with you.']

[Footnote 6: 'What are you doing from--out of, _away from_--Wittenberg?']

[Footnote 7: In recognition: the word belongs to Hamlet's speech.]

[Footnote 8: _Point thus_: 'you.--Good even, sir.'--_to Barnardo, whom he does not know._]

[Footnote 9: An ungrammatical reply. He does not wish to give the real, painful answer, and so replies confusedly, as if he had been asked, 'What makes you?' instead of, 'What do you make?']

[Footnote 10: '--I should know how to answer him.']

[Footnote 11: Emphasis on _you_.]

[Footnote 12: Said with contempt for his surroundings.]

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_Hor._ Indeed my Lord, it followed hard vpon.

_Ham._ Thrift, thrift _Horatio_: the Funerall Bakt-meats Did coldly furnish forth the Marriage Tables; Would I had met my dearest foe in heauen,[1]

Ere I had euer seerie that day _Horatio_.[2] [Sidenote: Or ever I had]

My father, me thinkes I see my father.

_Hor._ Oh where my Lord? [Sidenote: Where my]

_Ham._ In my minds eye (_Horatio_)[3]

_Hor._ I saw him once; he was a goodly King. [Sidenote: once, a was]

_Ham._ He was a man, take him for all in all: [Sidenote: A was a man]

I shall not look vpon his like againe.

_Hor._ My Lord, I thinke I saw him yesternight.

_Ham._ Saw? Who?[4]

_Hor._ My Lord, the King your Father.

_Ham._ The King my Father?[5]

_Hor._ Season[6] your admiration for a while With an attent eare;[7] till I may deliuer Vpon the witnesse of these Gentlemen, This maruell to you.

_Ham._ For Heauens loue let me heare. [Sidenote: G.o.d's love]