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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 be-
hind me!

If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity a while,

And in this harsh world draw thy breath in
pain,

To tell my story.

370

[March afar off, and shot within. What warlike noise is this?

Osr. Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,

To the ambassadors of England gives

This warlike volley.

Ham.

O, I die, Horatio;

The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
I cannot live to hear the news from England;
But I do prophesy the election lights
On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;

So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited. The rest is silence. 380

[Dies. Hor. Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

[March within.

Why does the drum come hither?

Enter Fortinbras, and the English Ambassadors, with drum, colors, and Attendants.

367. “live”; so Ff.; Qq., “I leave.”—I. G.

Fort. Where is this sight?
Hor.

What is it you would see? If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search. Fort. This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death, What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, That thou so many princes at a shot

So bloodily hast struck?

First Amb.

The sight is dismal;

And our affairs from England come too late: The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,

391

To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd,
That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:
Where should we have our thanks?

Hor.

Not from his mouth
Had it the ability of life to thank you:
He never gave commandment for their death.
But since, so jump upon this bloody question,
You from the Polack wars, and you from Eng-
land,

400

Are here arrived, give order that these bodies
High on a stage be placed to the view;
And let me speak to the yet unknowing world
How these things came about: so shall

Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts,

you

Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,

hear

Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook

Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this can I
Truly deliver.

Fort.

Let us haste to hear it,

405. "forced cause"; so Ff.; Qq. read "for no cause."-I. G.

And call the noblest to the audience.
For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune: 410
I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,
Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.
Hor. Of that I shall have also cause to speak,

And from his mouth whose voice will draw on

more:

But let this same be presently perform'd,

Even while men's minds are wild; lest more
mischance

On plots and errors happen.

Fort.

Let four captains
Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,

To have proved most royally: and, for his pas

sage,

The soldiers' music and the rites of war

Speak loudly for him.

Take up the bodies: such a sight as this

Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

420

[A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the bodies: after which a peal of ordnance is shot off.

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GLOSSARY

By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A.

A', he; (Ff. "he"); II. i. 58. ABOUT, get to your work! II. ii.

638.

ABOVE; "more a," moreover; II. ii. 128.

A BRIDGEMENT (Ff. 'Abridgements'), entertainment for pastime (with perhaps a secondary idea of that which makes one brief and shortens tedious conversation); II. ii. 453. ABSOLUTE, positive; V. i. 154; perfect, faultless (used by Osric); V. ii. 111.

ABSTRACT, Summary, or epitome; (Ff. "abstracts"); II. ii. 566. ABUSE, delusion; IV. vii. 51. ABUSES, deceives; II. ii. 653. ACQUITTANCE, acquittal; IV. vii.

1.

ACT, operation; (Warburton "effect"); I. ii. 205. ADDITION, title; I. iv. 20. ADDRESS, prepare; I. ii. 216. ADMIRATION, wonder, astonishment; I. ii. 192.

ADULTERATE, adulterous; I. v. 42. ENEAS' TALE TO DIDO; burlesque

lines from an imaginary play written after the grandiloquent manner of quasi-classical plays (e. g. Nash's contributions to Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage); II. ii. 486.

A FEARD, afraid; V. ii. 321.

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A-FOOT, in progress; III. ii. 87. AFTER, according to; II. ii. 570. AGAINST, in anticipation of; III. iv. 50.

AIM, guess; IV. v. 9. ALLOWANCE, permission (according to some, "regards of a."= allowable conditions); II. ii. 79. AMAZE, confound, bewilder; II. ii. 612.

AMAZEMENT, astonishment; III. ii. 351.

AMBITION, attainment of ambition; III. iii. 55.

AMBLE, move in an affected manner; III. i. 153. AMISS, misfortune; IV. v. 18. ANCHOR'S, Anchorite's, hermit's; III. ii. 233.

"AND WILL HE NOT COME AGAIN," etc.; a well-known song found in song-books of the period, called The Milkmaid's Dumps; IV. v. 193.

AN END, on end; (Q. 1, "on end"); I. v. 19.

ANGLE, angling-line; V. ii. 66.
AN IF, if; I. v. 177.

ANNEXMENT, appendage; III. iii.

21.

ANON, Soon, presently; II. ii. 525.

ANSWER, reply to a challenge;

V. ii. 183.

ANSWER'D, explained; IV. i. 16. ANTIC, disguised, fantastic; I. v. 172.

ANTIQUE, ancient; V. ii. 363. APART, aside, away; IV. i. 24. APE; "the famous ape," etc., a reference to an old fable which has not yet been identified; III. iv. 193-196 APOPLEX'D, affected with apoplexy; III. iv. 73.

› APPOINTMENT, equipment; IV. vi. 17.

APPREHENSION, conception, perception; II. ii. 327.

APPROVE, affirm, confirm, I. i. 29; credit, make approved, V. ii. 144.

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ARM YOU, prepare yourselves; III. iii. 24.

ARRAS, tapestry (originally made at Arras); II. ii. 165. ARTICLE, clause in an agreement, I. i. 94; "a soul of great a." i. e. a soul with so many qualities that its inventory would be very large; V. ii. 124. As, as if; II. i. 91.

-, as if, as though; IV. v. 105; co; IV. vii. 159; namely; I. iv. 25. As'Es, used quibblingly, (Ff. “Assis"; Qq. "as sir"); V. ii. 43. ASLANT, across; IV. vii. 168. ASSAULT; "of general a.", "incident to all men"; II. i. 35.

ASSAY, trial, test; II. ii. 71. try; III. i. 14.

"make a.", "throng to the rescue"; III. iii. 69.

ASSAYS OF BIAS, indirect aims, (such as one takes in the game of bowls, taking into account the bias side of the bowl); II. i. 65.

ASSIGNS, appendages; V. ii. 160. ASSISTANT, helpful; I. iii. 3. ASSURANCE, Security; with play upon the legal sense of the word; V. i. 132.

ATTENT, attentive; I. ii. 193. ATTRIBUTE, reputation; I. iv. 22. AUGHT; "hold'st at a.", holds of any value, values at all; IV. iii. 63. AUTHORITIES, Offices of authority,

attributes of power; IV. ii. 17. AVOUCH, declaration; I. i. 57. A-WORK, at work; II. ii. 527.

BACK, "support in reserve"; IV. vii. 154. BAKED-MEATS, pastry; "funeral b.", cold entertainment prepared for the mourners at a funeral; I. ii. 180. BAN, curse; III. ii. 276. BAPTISTA, used as a woman's name (properly a man's, cf. Tam. of Shrew); III. ii. 256. BARE, mere; III. i. 76.

BARK'D ABOUT, grew like bark around; I. v. 71.

BARREN, barren of wit, foolish; III. ii. 50.

BARR'D, debarred, excluded; I. ii. 14.

BATTEN, grow fat; III. iv. 67. BEATEN, well-worn, familiar; II. ii. 283.

BEATING, striking; (Q. 1, "towl

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