WEBVTT 00:00:22.122 --> 00:00:25.862 THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY HAMLET 00:00:36.929 --> 00:00:38.834 - Who's there? - Nay, answer me: 00:00:38.941 --> 00:00:40.681 stand, and unfold yourself. 00:00:40.682 --> 00:00:42.165 Long live the king! 00:00:42.245 --> 00:00:44.273 - Bernardo? - He. 00:00:44.349 --> 00:00:46.161 You come most carefully upon your hour. 00:00:46.162 --> 00:00:50.551 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco. 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:52.755 For this relief much thanks: 00:00:52.756 --> 00:00:56.037 'tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart. 00:00:57.519 --> 00:01:00.849 Have you had quiet guard? 00:01:01.300 --> 00:01:03.036 Not a mouse stirring. 00:01:03.650 --> 00:01:06.175 Well, good night. 00:01:06.254 --> 00:01:07.277 Stand, ho! Who's there? 00:01:07.278 --> 00:01:10.346 Friends to this ground. And liegemen to the Dane. 00:01:10.347 --> 00:01:13.207 - Give you good night. - O, farewell, honest soldier:. 00:01:14.681 --> 00:01:16.285 Who hath relieved you? 00:01:16.286 --> 00:01:18.161 Bernardo has my place. 00:01:18.848 --> 00:01:20.582 Give you good night. 00:01:23.129 --> 00:01:25.367 Holla! Bernardo! 00:01:25.368 --> 00:01:28.504 Say, What, is Horatio there? 00:01:30.175 --> 00:01:34.942 - A piece of him. - Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. 00:01:34.943 --> 00:01:38.329 What, has this thing appear'd again to-night? 00:01:38.330 --> 00:01:40.567 I have seen nothing. 00:01:40.597 --> 00:01:43.003 Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, 00:01:43.024 --> 00:01:44.843 And will not let belief take hold of him 00:01:44.844 --> 00:01:48.003 Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: 00:01:48.316 --> 00:01:50.517 Therefore I have entreated him along with us 00:01:50.518 --> 00:01:52.805 To watch the minutes of this night; 00:01:53.049 --> 00:01:56.766 That if again this apparition come, 00:01:57.002 --> 00:01:59.172 He may approve our eyes and speak to it. 00:01:59.173 --> 00:02:00.626 Tush, tush, 'twill not appear. 00:02:00.627 --> 00:02:03.141 Than let us once again assail your ears, 00:02:03.142 --> 00:02:05.673 That are so fortified against our story 00:02:05.674 --> 00:02:07.742 What we have two nights seen. 00:02:07.743 --> 00:02:11.764 Well, let us hear Bernardo speak of this. 00:02:11.765 --> 00:02:13.095 Last night of all, 00:02:13.096 --> 00:02:15.875 When yond same star that's westward from the pole 00:02:15.876 --> 00:02:18.515 Had made his course to illume that part of heaven 00:02:18.516 --> 00:02:21.049 Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, 00:02:21.050 --> 00:02:22.844 The bell then beating one,-- 00:02:22.845 --> 00:02:25.205 Peace, break thee off; 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:29.281 look, where it comes again! 00:02:29.282 --> 00:02:31.817 In the same figure, like the king that's dead. 00:02:31.818 --> 00:02:34.282 Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. 00:02:34.283 --> 00:02:36.770 Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio. 00:02:36.771 --> 00:02:39.857 Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder. 00:02:40.221 --> 00:02:43.001 It would be spoke to. Question it, Horatio. 00:02:43.033 --> 00:02:46.844 What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, 00:02:46.845 --> 00:02:48.593 Together with that fair and warlike form 00:02:48.594 --> 00:02:52.113 In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? 00:02:52.114 --> 00:02:54.363 by heaven I charge thee, speak! 00:02:54.364 --> 00:02:56.552 It is offended. See, it stalks away! 00:02:56.553 --> 00:03:00.489 Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak! 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:03.067 'Tis gone, 00:03:03.253 --> 00:03:05.000 and will not answer. 00:03:06.030 --> 00:03:08.749 Before my God, I might not this believe 00:03:08.750 --> 00:03:11.450 Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. 00:03:11.451 --> 00:03:14.989 Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, 00:03:14.990 --> 00:03:17.143 With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. 00:03:17.144 --> 00:03:19.517 In what particular thought to work I know not; 00:03:19.802 --> 00:03:22.342 But in the gross and scope of my opinion, 00:03:22.489 --> 00:03:25.091 This bodes some strange eruption to our state. 00:03:25.092 --> 00:03:30.781 Good now, stand close, and tell me, he that knows, 00:03:31.156 --> 00:03:34.329 Why this same strict and most observant watch 00:03:34.330 --> 00:03:37.092 So nightly toils the subject of the land, 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:40.692 And why such daily cast of brazen cannon, 00:03:40.693 --> 00:03:45.079 And foreign mart for implements of war; What might be toward, 00:03:45.180 --> 00:03:47.090 to this sweaty haste 00:03:47.281 --> 00:03:50.779 Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day: 00:03:50.272 --> 00:03:52.280 Who is't that can inform me? 00:03:52.281 --> 00:03:53.894 That can I; 00:03:54.565 --> 00:03:57.076 At least, the whisper goes so. 00:03:58.987 --> 00:04:00.684 Our last king, 00:04:01.168 --> 00:04:04.295 Whose image even but now appear'd to us, 00:04:04.581 --> 00:04:07.248 Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, 00:04:07.249 --> 00:04:10.778 Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet-- 00:04:10.779 --> 00:04:12.389 Did slay this Fortinbras; 00:04:12.390 --> 00:04:15.825 who does his forfeit, with his life, all these his lands 00:04:15.842 --> 00:04:18.668 Now, sir, young Fortinbras, 00:04:19.031 --> 00:04:20.622 Of unimproved mettle hot and full, 00:04:20.623 --> 00:04:22.689 Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there 00:04:22.690 --> 00:04:25.152 Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes, 00:04:25.153 --> 00:04:27.502 to recover of us, those foresaid lands 00:04:27.503 --> 00:04:31.465 So by his father lost: and this, I take it, 00:04:31.527 --> 00:04:34.110 Is the main motive of our preparations, 00:04:34.266 --> 00:04:36.901 The source of this our watch and the chief head 00:04:36.902 --> 00:04:39.964 Of this post-haste and romage in the land. 00:04:40.412 --> 00:04:43.160 But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again! 00:04:43.161 --> 00:04:46.195 I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion! 00:04:46.196 --> 00:04:48.566 If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, Speak to me: 00:04:48.567 --> 00:04:50.145 If thou art privy to thy country's fate, 00:04:50.146 --> 00:04:52.849 Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak! 00:04:56.678 --> 00:04:58.508 Stay, and speak! 00:04:58.909 --> 00:05:00.980 Stop it, Marcellus. 00:05:00.981 --> 00:05:03.415 Shall I strike at it? Do, if it will not stand. 00:05:03.416 --> 00:05:05.543 'Tis here! 'Tis here! 00:05:08.168 --> 00:05:09.606 'Tis gone! 00:05:12.471 --> 00:05:15.322 We do it wrong, being so majestical, 00:05:15.323 --> 00:05:17.292 To offer it the show of violence; 00:05:17.293 --> 00:05:22.775 For it is, as the air, invulnerable, 00:05:24.141 --> 00:05:26.481 And our vain blows malicious mockery. 00:05:26.482 --> 00:05:29.805 It was about to speak, when the cock crew. 00:05:29.806 --> 00:05:31.666 And then it started like a guilty thing 00:05:31.667 --> 00:05:33.370 Upon a fearful summons. 00:05:33.371 --> 00:05:35.262 It faded on the crowing of the cock. 00:05:36.340 --> 00:05:39.101 Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes 00:05:39.568 --> 00:05:42.196 Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 00:05:42.256 --> 00:05:46.419 The bird of dawning singeth all night long: 00:05:46.944 --> 00:05:51.040 And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; 00:05:51.340 --> 00:05:55.758 The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, 00:05:55.967 --> 00:06:00.413 No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, 00:06:01.318 --> 00:06:04.166 So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. 00:06:04.239 --> 00:06:08.194 So have I heard and do in part believe it. 00:06:09.633 --> 00:06:10.341 But, look... 00:06:13.042 --> 00:06:14.642 the morn, in russet mantle clad, 00:06:14.677 --> 00:06:18.179 Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill: 00:06:23.402 --> 00:06:28.341 Break we our watch up; and by my advice, 00:06:28.833 --> 00:06:31.191 Let us impart what we have seen to-night 00:06:31.192 --> 00:06:35.995 Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life, 00:06:36.651 --> 00:06:39.989 This spirit, dumb to us, 00:06:41.434 --> 00:06:42.802 will speak to him. 00:06:47.788 --> 00:06:51.566 Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death 00:06:51.567 --> 00:06:53.416 The memory be green, 00:06:55.401 --> 00:06:57.148 and that it us befitted 00:06:57.149 --> 00:07:01.174 To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom 00:07:01.175 --> 00:07:04.934 To be contracted in one brow of woe, 00:07:05.410 --> 00:07:10.065 Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature 00:07:10.066 --> 00:07:13.442 That we with wisest sorrow think on him, 00:07:14.006 --> 00:07:17.253 Together with remembrance of ourselves. 00:07:17.535 --> 00:07:22.208 Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, 00:07:22.209 --> 00:07:26.179 The imperial jointress to this warlike state, 00:07:26.436 --> 00:07:31.265 Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,-- 00:07:31.866 --> 00:07:36.059 With an auspicious and a dropping eye, 00:07:36.060 --> 00:07:40.183 With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, 00:07:40.447 --> 00:07:44.164 In equal scale weighing delight and dole,-- 00:07:45.211 --> 00:07:46.945 Taken to wife. 00:07:50.092 --> 00:07:51.710 Nor have we herein barr'd 00:07:51.711 --> 00:07:55.051 Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone 00:07:55.052 --> 00:08:00.053 With this affair along. For all, our thanks. 00:08:00.153 --> 00:08:06.090 Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras, 00:08:06.474 --> 00:08:09.589 Holding a weak supposal of our worth, 00:08:09.590 --> 00:08:15.319 Or thinking by our late dear brother's death 00:08:15.400 --> 00:08:18.958 Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, 00:08:19.153 --> 00:08:22.160 He hath not fail'd to pester us with message, 00:08:22.161 --> 00:08:25.365 Importing the surrender of those lands 00:08:25.366 --> 00:08:28.774 Lost by his father, with all bonds of law, 00:08:28.775 --> 00:08:33.097 To our most valiant brother. 00:08:33.989 --> 00:08:35.551 So much for him. 00:08:35.552 --> 00:08:37.623 Thus much the business is. 00:08:38.400 --> 00:08:40.299 We have here writ to Norway 00:08:40.301 --> 00:08:43.289 uncle of young Fortinbras,-- 00:08:43.465 --> 00:08:46.238 that is suppress his nephiew further march 00:08:46.239 --> 00:08:49.194 and threatening enterprise against our state. 00:08:49.504 --> 00:08:52.604 And we here dispatch you, good Cornelia 00:08:52.744 --> 00:08:57.463 and Voltimand, as our ambasadores to old Norway. 00:08:57.464 --> 00:09:00.613 In that and all things will we show our duty. 00:09:00.614 --> 00:09:03.649 We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell. 00:09:09.252 --> 00:09:15.246 And now, Laertes, what's the news with you? 00:09:16.086 --> 00:09:19.879 You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes? 00:09:23.180 --> 00:09:26.002 You cannot speak of reason to the Dane, 00:09:26.003 --> 00:09:27.297 And loose your voice. 00:09:27.298 --> 00:09:28.878 My dread lord, 00:09:31.181 --> 00:09:34.878 Your leave and favour to return to France; 00:09:34.924 --> 00:09:37.347 From whence though willingly I came to Denmark, 00:09:37.348 --> 00:09:39.534 To show my duty in your coronation, 00:09:39.597 --> 00:09:42.566 Yet now, I must confess, that duty done, 00:09:42.567 --> 00:09:45.923 My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France 00:09:46.165 --> 00:09:49.805 And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon. 00:09:49.806 --> 00:09:53.227 Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius? 00:09:53.228 --> 00:09:57.702 He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave 00:09:57.703 --> 00:09:59.790 I do beseech you, give him leave to go. 00:09:59.791 --> 00:10:03.955 Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, 00:10:04.853 --> 00:10:07.726 And thy best graces spend it at thy will! 00:10:10.479 --> 00:10:12.123 But now, 00:10:12.700 --> 00:10:15.975 our cousin Hamlet, and our son,-- 00:10:15.976 --> 00:10:18.574 A little more than kin, and less than kind. 00:10:20.476 --> 00:10:23.711 How is it that the clouds still hang on you? 00:10:23.712 --> 00:10:26.258 Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. 00:10:26.259 --> 00:10:30.436 Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, 00:10:30.437 --> 00:10:34.352 And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. 00:10:34.573 --> 00:10:36.930 Do not for ever with thy vailed lids 00:10:36.931 --> 00:10:39.998 Seek for thy noble father in the dust: 00:10:40.182 --> 00:10:43.600 Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, 00:10:43.601 --> 00:10:46.265 Passing through nature to eternity. 00:10:46.266 --> 00:10:49.172 Ay, madam, it is common. If it be, 00:10:49.173 --> 00:10:52.423 Why seems it so particular with thee? 00:10:52.424 --> 00:10:55.219 Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.' 00:10:55.937 --> 00:10:58.389 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, 00:10:58.390 --> 00:11:00.890 Nor customary suits of solemn black, 00:11:00.891 --> 00:11:03.428 Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, 00:11:03.429 --> 00:11:06.201 That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, 00:11:06.328 --> 00:11:09.096 For they are actions that a man might play: 00:11:09.097 --> 00:11:11.735 But I have that within which passeth show; 00:11:12.484 --> 00:11:15.374 These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:19.826 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, 00:11:19.827 --> 00:11:22.482 To give these mourning duties to your father: 00:11:22.483 --> 00:11:27.326 But, you must know, your father lost a father; 00:11:27.327 --> 00:11:32.064 That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound 00:11:32.065 --> 00:11:34.733 In filial obligation for some term 00:11:34.734 --> 00:11:37.285 To do obsequious sorrow. 00:11:37.640 --> 00:11:41.751 but to persever In obstinate condolement is 00:11:41.752 --> 00:11:45.607 a course Of impious stubbornness 00:11:47.531 --> 00:11:49.748 'tis unmanly grief; 00:11:50.202 --> 00:11:52.183 I pray you, throw to earth 00:11:52.184 --> 00:11:56.308 this unprevailing woe, and think of us 00:11:56.309 --> 00:12:00.222 As of a father: for let the world take note, 00:12:00.846 --> 00:12:01.989 You are the most immediate 00:12:02.024 --> 00:12:05.642 to our throne; And with no less nobility of love 00:12:05.643 --> 00:12:07.559 Than that which dearest father bears his son, 00:12:09.009 --> 00:12:12.147 Do I impart toward you. 00:12:16.028 --> 00:12:19.796 For your intent In going back to school in... 00:12:20.097 --> 00:12:22.129 - Wittenberg. - Wittenberg, 00:12:22.130 --> 00:12:24.471 It is most retrograde to our desire. 00:12:24.472 --> 00:12:27.074 And we beseech you, bend you to remain here, 00:12:27.075 --> 00:12:29.449 in the cheer and comfort of our eye, 00:12:29.450 --> 00:12:35.190 Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son. 00:12:35.191 --> 00:12:38.383 Let not thy mother lose her prayers, 00:12:40.177 --> 00:12:41.902 Hamlet. 00:12:42.198 --> 00:12:45.511 I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg. 00:12:45.512 --> 00:12:47.909 I shall in all my best obey you, madam. 00:12:48.098 --> 00:12:52.096 Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply! 00:12:53.973 --> 00:12:56.794 Be as ourself in Denmark. 00:12:58.160 --> 00:12:59.527 Madam, come; 00:12:59.528 --> 00:13:03.323 This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet 00:13:03.324 --> 00:13:07.011 Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof, 00:13:07.012 --> 00:13:09.676 No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day, 00:13:09.677 --> 00:13:12.183 But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, 00:13:12.184 --> 00:13:17.761 Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away. 00:13:35.488 --> 00:13:37.506 O, that this too 00:13:38.313 --> 00:13:42.656 too solid flesh would melt... 00:13:47.136 --> 00:13:49.010 Thaw 00:13:49.839 --> 00:13:52.701 and resolve itself into a dew! 00:13:59.386 --> 00:14:02.325 Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd 00:14:02.667 --> 00:14:05.260 His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! 00:14:05.261 --> 00:14:06.930 O God! 00:14:08.573 --> 00:14:10.245 God! 00:14:17.871 --> 00:14:19.573 How weary, 00:14:19.870 --> 00:14:21.543 stale, 00:14:22.766 --> 00:14:24.930 flat and unprofitable, 00:14:24.931 --> 00:14:27.797 Seem to me all the uses of this world! 00:14:27.798 --> 00:14:30.326 Fie on't! ah fie! 00:14:32.714 --> 00:14:37.704 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:43.576 things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. 00:14:50.995 --> 00:14:53.168 That it should come to this! 00:14:53.931 --> 00:14:56.244 But two months dead: 00:14:56.827 --> 00:14:59.138 nay, not so much, not two: 00:15:01.921 --> 00:15:04.584 So excellent a king; that was, to this, 00:15:04.585 --> 00:15:07.047 Hyperion to a satyr; 00:15:08.805 --> 00:15:10.617 so loving to my mother 00:15:10.618 --> 00:15:13.526 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven 00:15:13.527 --> 00:15:16.806 Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! 00:15:18.617 --> 00:15:20.476 Must I remember? 00:15:23.303 --> 00:15:25.384 why, she would hang on him, 00:15:25.572 --> 00:15:27.412 As if increase of appetite had grown 00:15:27.413 --> 00:15:30.304 By what it fed on: and yet, within a month-- 00:15:30.305 --> 00:15:32.286 Let me not think on't-- 00:15:32.287 --> 00:15:34.304 Frailty, thy name is woman!-- 00:15:34.305 --> 00:15:38.554 A little month, or ere those shoes were old 00:15:38.555 --> 00:15:41.993 With which she follow'd my poor father's body, 00:15:42.428 --> 00:15:47.021 Like Niobe, all tears: why she, even she-- 00:15:47.022 --> 00:15:50.114 O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, 00:15:50.115 --> 00:15:52.053 Would have mourn'd longer-- 00:15:52.958 --> 00:15:55.553 married with my uncle, 00:15:59.944 --> 00:16:04.007 My father's brother, but no more like my father 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:08.211 Than I to Hercules: within a month... 00:16:11.523 --> 00:16:14.946 Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears 00:16:15.460 --> 00:16:18.739 Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, 00:16:18.740 --> 00:16:20.229 She married. 00:16:22.488 --> 00:16:24.824 O, most wicked speed, to post 00:16:24.864 --> 00:16:29.822 With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! 00:16:33.834 --> 00:16:37.912 It is not nor it cannot come to good. 00:16:43.222 --> 00:16:48.489 But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue. 00:16:51.567 --> 00:16:54.135 Hail to your lordship! I am glad to see you well: 00:16:55.385 --> 00:16:57.144 Horatio, 00:16:57.487 --> 00:16:59.289 or I do forget myself. 00:16:59.290 --> 00:17:02.502 The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever. 00:17:02.503 --> 00:17:06.082 Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you: 00:17:06.134 --> 00:17:08.739 And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus! 00:17:08.740 --> 00:17:10.112 My good lord-- I am very glad to see you. 00:17:10.159 --> 00:17:12.093 Good even, sir. 00:17:12.127 --> 00:17:14.027 What, in faith, make you from Wittenberg? 00:17:14.175 --> 00:17:17.863 We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. 00:17:17.864 --> 00:17:20.173 My lord, I came to see your father's funeral. 00:17:20.174 --> 00:17:22.609 I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; 00:17:22.611 --> 00:17:24.579 I think it was to see my mother's wedding. 00:17:24.580 --> 00:17:28.852 Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon. Thrift, thrift, Horatio! 00:17:29.111 --> 00:17:30.360 the funeral baked meats 00:17:30.361 --> 00:17:32.738 Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 00:17:34.282 --> 00:17:36.110 My father!-- 00:17:36.760 --> 00:17:39.221 methinks I see my father. 00:17:41.113 --> 00:17:42.830 Where, my lord? 00:17:43.726 --> 00:17:45.736 In my mind's eye, Horatio. 00:17:46.753 --> 00:17:48.925 I saw him once; 00:17:51.455 --> 00:17:53.423 he was a goodly king. 00:17:54.844 --> 00:17:57.456 He was a man, take him for all in all, 00:17:59.024 --> 00:18:01.144 I shall not look upon his like again. 00:18:05.205 --> 00:18:06.549 My lord, 00:18:08.706 --> 00:18:11.329 I think I saw him yesternight. Saw? who? 00:18:11.330 --> 00:18:13.296 My lord, the king your father. 00:18:16.612 --> 00:18:18.208 The king my father! 00:18:18.576 --> 00:18:22.495 Season your admiration With an attent ear, till I may deliver, 00:18:22.496 --> 00:18:26.003 Upon the witness of these gentlemen, This marvel to you. 00:18:26.004 --> 00:18:27.841 For God's love, let me hear. 00:18:27.842 --> 00:18:30.283 Two nights together had these gentlemen, 00:18:30.284 --> 00:18:32.636 Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, 00:18:32.637 --> 00:18:35.214 In the dead vast and middle of the night, 00:18:35.215 --> 00:18:37.171 Been thus encounter'd. 00:18:37.307 --> 00:18:38.982 A figure like your father, 00:18:38.983 --> 00:18:40.885 Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe, 00:18:40.886 --> 00:18:43.531 Appears before them, and with solemn march 00:18:43.532 --> 00:18:46.574 Goes slow and stately by them. This to me 00:18:46.575 --> 00:18:49.341 In dreadful secrecy impart they did; 00:18:49.434 --> 00:18:51.307 And I with them the third night kept the watch; 00:18:51.308 --> 00:18:56.199 Where, as they had deliver'd, The apparition comes: 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:59.512 I knew your father; These hands are not more like. 00:18:59.595 --> 00:19:00.490 But where was this? 00:19:00.491 --> 00:19:03.736 My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. 00:19:03.948 --> 00:19:05.025 Did you not speak to it? 00:19:05.026 --> 00:19:07.760 My lord, I did; But answer made it none: 'Tis very strange. 00:19:07.761 --> 00:19:10.480 As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true; 00:19:10.481 --> 00:19:12.244 And we did think it writ down in our duty 00:19:12.245 --> 00:19:15.385 To let you know of it. Indeed. 00:19:16.009 --> 00:19:19.575 indeed, sirs, but this troubles me. 00:19:20.192 --> 00:19:22.136 Hold you the watch to-night? We do, my lord. 00:19:22.137 --> 00:19:23.838 Arm'd, say you? Arm'd, my lord. 00:19:23.873 --> 00:19:25.376 From top to toe? My lord, from head to foot. 00:19:25.411 --> 00:19:26.620 Then saw you not his face? 00:19:26.621 --> 00:19:30.542 O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up. 00:19:34.967 --> 00:19:36.218 What, look'd he frowningly? 00:19:36.219 --> 00:19:38.607 A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. 00:19:38.608 --> 00:19:40.606 Pale or red? Nay, very pale. 00:19:40.734 --> 00:19:43.023 And fix'd his eyes upon you? Most constantly. 00:19:43.024 --> 00:19:46.983 I would I had been there. It would have much amazed you. 00:19:47.053 --> 00:19:50.047 Very like, very like. 00:19:50.518 --> 00:19:51.564 Stay'd it long? 00:19:51.565 --> 00:19:54.073 While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. 00:19:54.074 --> 00:19:55.034 Longer, longer. 00:19:55.035 --> 00:19:56.237 Not when I saw't. 00:19:56.238 --> 00:19:58.659 His beard was grizzled--no? 00:19:59.551 --> 00:20:02.533 It was, as I have seen it in his life, 00:20:03.267 --> 00:20:05.392 A sable silver'd. 00:20:06.768 --> 00:20:09.703 I will watch to-night; Perchance 'twill walk again. 00:20:09.704 --> 00:20:10.828 I warrant it will. 00:20:10.829 --> 00:20:12.391 If it assume my noble father's person, 00:20:12.392 --> 00:20:14.625 I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape 00:20:14.626 --> 00:20:17.162 And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all, 00:20:17.163 --> 00:20:19.016 If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight, 00:20:19.017 --> 00:20:21.519 Let it be tenable in your silence still; 00:20:21.724 --> 00:20:23.311 And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, 00:20:23.312 --> 00:20:25.517 Give it an understanding, but no tongue: 00:20:26.632 --> 00:20:28.237 I will requite your loves. 00:20:28.612 --> 00:20:29.874 So, fare you well: 00:20:29.875 --> 00:20:32.250 Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve, I'll visit you. 00:20:32.251 --> 00:20:34.130 Our duty to your honour. 00:20:36.912 --> 00:20:40.233 My father's spirit in arms! all is not well; 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:44.299 I doubt some foul play: 00:20:44.750 --> 00:20:46.547 would the night were come! 00:20:47.327 --> 00:20:49.485 Till then sit still, my soul: 00:20:49.486 --> 00:20:51.641 foul deeds will rise, 00:20:53.077 --> 00:20:56.202 Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. 00:20:59.803 --> 00:21:02.327 My necessaries are embark'd: 00:21:02.548 --> 00:21:04.035 farewell: 00:21:05.360 --> 00:21:08.326 And, sister, as the winds give benefit 00:21:08.327 --> 00:21:11.099 And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, 00:21:11.100 --> 00:21:12.827 But let me hear from you. 00:21:12.828 --> 00:21:14.640 Do you doubt that? 00:21:20.170 --> 00:21:24.016 For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour, 00:21:24.750 --> 00:21:28.062 Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, 00:21:28.606 --> 00:21:31.856 A violet in the youth of primy nature, 00:21:32.098 --> 00:21:36.201 Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, 00:21:36.202 --> 00:21:40.170 The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more. 00:21:40.171 --> 00:21:45.120 No more but so? Think it no more. Perhaps he loves you now, 00:21:45.121 --> 00:21:48.434 And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch 00:21:48.435 --> 00:21:51.701 The virtue of his will: but you must fear, 00:21:51.808 --> 00:21:54.902 His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; 00:21:54.903 --> 00:21:57.676 For he himself is subject to his birth: 00:21:58.514 --> 00:22:02.045 He may not, as unvalued persons do, 00:22:02.046 --> 00:22:05.026 Carve for himself; for on his choice depends 00:22:05.027 --> 00:22:08.421 The safety and health of this whole state; 00:22:08.782 --> 00:22:11.344 And therefore must his choice be circumscribed 00:22:11.345 --> 00:22:15.105 Unto the voice and yielding of that body Whereof he is the head. 00:22:15.106 --> 00:22:17.251 Then if he says he loves you, 00:22:18.870 --> 00:22:22.748 It fits your wisdom so far to believe it 00:22:22.749 --> 00:22:25.446 As he in his particular act and place... 00:22:25.447 --> 00:22:28.675 May give his saying deed; 00:22:28.676 --> 00:22:31.889 which is no further Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. 00:22:35.730 --> 00:22:38.854 Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, 00:22:38.855 --> 00:22:42.343 If with too credent ear you list his songs, 00:22:43.572 --> 00:22:48.762 Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open 00:22:48.763 --> 00:22:51.168 To his unmaster'd importunity. 00:22:51.169 --> 00:22:53.321 Fear it, Ophelia, 00:22:55.249 --> 00:22:57.919 fear it, my dear sister, 00:22:58.886 --> 00:23:01.338 And keep you in the rear of your affection, 00:23:01.339 --> 00:23:04.592 Out of the shot and danger of desire. 00:23:07.946 --> 00:23:13.195 Be wary then; best safety lies in fear: 00:23:13.196 --> 00:23:15.978 Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. 00:23:15.979 --> 00:23:18.417 I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, 00:23:18.418 --> 00:23:22.023 As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, 00:23:22.024 --> 00:23:24.757 Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 00:23:24.758 --> 00:23:27.604 Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; 00:23:27.605 --> 00:23:30.852 Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, 00:23:30.853 --> 00:23:35.367 Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, 00:23:37.011 --> 00:23:39.930 And recks not his own rede. O, fear me not. 00:23:40.031 --> 00:23:42.759 I stay too long: but here my father comes. 00:23:42.760 --> 00:23:46.570 A double blessing is a double grace, Occasion smiles upon a second leave. 00:23:46.571 --> 00:23:50.526 Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! 00:23:50.563 --> 00:23:54.382 The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. 00:23:54.383 --> 00:23:57.152 There; my blessing with thee! 00:23:57.153 --> 00:24:01.116 And these few precepts in thy memory 00:24:01.117 --> 00:24:05.068 See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, 00:24:05.069 --> 00:24:08.508 Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 00:24:08.509 --> 00:24:12.131 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 00:24:12.151 --> 00:24:14.960 Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 00:24:14.961 --> 00:24:17.694 Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; 00:24:17.695 --> 00:24:20.290 But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 00:24:20.291 --> 00:24:23.517 Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. 00:24:23.671 --> 00:24:28.225 Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, 00:24:28.226 --> 00:24:31.491 Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. 00:24:31.617 --> 00:24:36.241 Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; 00:24:36.286 --> 00:24:40.772 Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. 00:24:41.340 --> 00:24:44.588 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 00:24:44.589 --> 00:24:49.773 But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; 00:24:49.840 --> 00:24:52.880 For the apparel oft proclaims the man, 00:24:53.121 --> 00:24:56.114 Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan 00:24:56.115 --> 00:24:57.682 oft loses both itself and friend, 00:24:57.683 --> 00:25:00.120 - And borrowing - dulls the edge of husbandry. 00:25:01.130 --> 00:25:03.350 This above all: 00:25:03.852 --> 00:25:06.617 to thine ownself be true, 00:25:06.995 --> 00:25:09.851 And it must follow, as the night the day, 00:25:09.944 --> 00:25:12.975 Thou canst not then be false to any man. 00:25:15.349 --> 00:25:16.839 Farewell 00:25:16.879 --> 00:25:20.914 my blessing season this in thee! 00:25:23.088 --> 00:25:25.253 Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord. 00:25:25.254 --> 00:25:29.911 The time invites you; go; your servants tend. 00:25:29.912 --> 00:25:31.553 Farewell, Ophelia; 00:25:33.951 --> 00:25:36.363 and remember well What I have said to you. 00:25:36.364 --> 00:25:38.124 'Tis in my memory lock'd, 00:25:38.125 --> 00:25:41.043 And you yourself shall keep the key of it. 00:25:41.593 --> 00:25:42.902 Farewell. 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:54.607 What is't, Ophelia, be hath said to you? 00:25:54.608 --> 00:25:57.802 So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet. 00:25:57.965 --> 00:26:00.028 Marry, well bethought: 00:26:00.029 --> 00:26:02.512 Tis told me, he hath very oft of late 00:26:02.513 --> 00:26:06.076 Given private time to you; and you yourself 00:26:06.077 --> 00:26:09.715 Have of your audience been most free and bounteous: 00:26:09.716 --> 00:26:11.947 If it be so, as so 'tis put on me, 00:26:11.948 --> 00:26:14.358 And that in way of caution, I must tell you, 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:17.433 You do not understand yourself so clearly 00:26:17.434 --> 00:26:21.121 As it behoves my daughter and your honour. 00:26:21.984 --> 00:26:24.261 What is between you? give me up the truth. 00:26:24.434 --> 00:26:27.080 He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders 00:26:27.081 --> 00:26:29.497 Of his affection to me. 00:26:29.532 --> 00:26:31.403 Affection! pooh! 00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:33.259 you speak like a green girl, 00:26:33.260 --> 00:26:37.261 Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. 00:26:37.357 --> 00:26:40.293 Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? 00:26:41.604 --> 00:26:45.164 I do not know, my lord, what I should think. 00:26:45.165 --> 00:26:49.404 Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby; 00:26:49.405 --> 00:26:51.654 That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, 00:26:51.655 --> 00:26:55.240 Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly; 00:26:55.241 --> 00:26:57.601 Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, 00:26:57.602 --> 00:27:00.194 Running it thus-- you'll tender me a fool. 00:27:00.195 --> 00:27:02.978 My lord, he hath importuned me with love 00:27:02.979 --> 00:27:04.789 In honourable fashion. 00:27:04.790 --> 00:27:07.979 Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to. 00:27:07.980 --> 00:27:10.217 And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, 00:27:10.218 --> 00:27:12.352 With almost all the holy vows of heaven. 00:27:12.353 --> 00:27:17.009 Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, 00:27:17.010 --> 00:27:19.318 When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul, 00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:23.245 Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter, 00:27:23.246 --> 00:27:25.645 Giving more light than heat, extinct in both, 00:27:25.646 --> 00:27:28.342 You must not take for fire. From this time 00:27:28.343 --> 00:27:30.966 Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence; 00:27:30.967 --> 00:27:35.693 For Lord Hamlet, Believe so much in him, that he is young 00:27:35.694 --> 00:27:37.777 And with a larger tether may he walk 00:27:37.778 --> 00:27:39.351 Than may be given you: 00:27:39.352 --> 00:27:43.067 in few, Ophelia, Do not believe his vows;. 00:27:46.758 --> 00:27:48.557 This is for all: 00:27:48.590 --> 00:27:52.724 I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, 00:27:52.725 --> 00:27:56.057 Have you so slander any moment leisure, 00:27:56.058 --> 00:28:00.240 As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. 00:28:00.464 --> 00:28:03.165 Look to't, I charge you: 00:28:04.917 --> 00:28:07.192 come your ways. 00:28:07.364 --> 00:28:09.341 I shall obey, my lord. 00:28:11.364 --> 00:28:16.254 The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. 00:28:16.255 --> 00:28:18.178 It is a nipping and an eager air. 00:28:18.179 --> 00:28:20.057 - What hour now? - I think it lacks of twelve. 00:28:20.058 --> 00:28:24.569 - No, it is struck. - Indeed? I heard it not: 00:28:26.380 --> 00:28:28.755 then it draws near the season 00:28:28.756 --> 00:28:30.600 Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. 00:28:36.442 --> 00:28:38.149 What does this mean, my lord? 00:28:38.524 --> 00:28:41.397 The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, 00:28:42.176 --> 00:28:45.744 Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; 00:28:46.972 --> 00:28:49.488 And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, 00:28:49.489 --> 00:28:52.409 The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out 00:28:52.899 --> 00:28:55.770 - The triumph of his pledge. - Is it a custom? 00:28:56.143 --> 00:28:58.681 Ay, marry, is't: 00:28:58.803 --> 00:29:01.275 But to my mind, though I am native here 00:29:01.276 --> 00:29:03.807 And to the manner born, it is a custom 00:29:04.597 --> 00:29:07.503 More honour'd in the breach than the observance. 00:29:11.977 --> 00:29:13.814 Look, my lord, it comes! 00:29:17.503 --> 00:29:19.879 Angels and ministers of grace defend us! 00:29:23.300 --> 00:29:26.019 Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, 00:29:26.830 --> 00:29:30.563 Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, 00:29:31.597 --> 00:29:33.596 Be thy intents wicked or charitable, 00:29:33.597 --> 00:29:36.018 Thou comest in such a questionable shape 00:29:37.086 --> 00:29:38.939 That I will speak to thee: 00:29:39.971 --> 00:29:42.721 I'll call thee Hamlet, 00:29:43.360 --> 00:29:45.021 King, 00:29:45.022 --> 00:29:46.647 father, 00:29:46.735 --> 00:29:49.242 royal Dane: O, answer me! 00:29:49.988 --> 00:29:52.688 Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell 00:29:52.689 --> 00:29:56.284 Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, 00:29:56.285 --> 00:29:59.534 Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, 00:29:59.535 --> 00:30:02.409 Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, 00:30:02.410 --> 00:30:05.327 Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, 00:30:05.328 --> 00:30:07.896 To cast thee up again. What may this mean, 00:30:09.704 --> 00:30:14.733 That thou, dead corpse, again in complete steel 00:30:15.360 --> 00:30:18.343 Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, 00:30:18.459 --> 00:30:21.437 Making night hideous; and we fools of nature 00:30:21.438 --> 00:30:24.711 So horridly to shake our disposition 00:30:25.064 --> 00:30:28.677 With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? 00:30:31.735 --> 00:30:34.688 Say, why is this? 00:30:36.283 --> 00:30:37.877 wherefore? 00:30:39.374 --> 00:30:41.060 what should we do? 00:30:43.053 --> 00:30:44.810 It beckons you to go away with it, 00:30:44.811 --> 00:30:47.241 As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. 00:30:47.242 --> 00:30:50.000 It waves you to a more removed ground: But do not go with it. 00:30:50.001 --> 00:30:52.547 - No, by no means. - It will not speak; then I will follow it. 00:30:52.548 --> 00:30:54.670 - Do not, my lord. - Why, what should be the fear? 00:30:54.671 --> 00:30:56.845 I do not set my life in a pin's fee; 00:30:56.846 --> 00:31:00.436 And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? 00:31:01.022 --> 00:31:02.636 It waves me forth again: I'll follow it. 00:31:02.637 --> 00:31:04.907 What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, 00:31:04.908 --> 00:31:06.927 Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff 00:31:06.928 --> 00:31:09.672 That beetles o'er his base into the sea, 00:31:09.673 --> 00:31:11.486 And there assume some other horrible form, 00:31:11.487 --> 00:31:13.481 Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason 00:31:13.482 --> 00:31:15.968 - And draw you into madness? - It waves me still. 00:31:15.969 --> 00:31:17.466 - Go on; I'll follow thee. - You shall not go, my lord. 00:31:17.467 --> 00:31:19.924 - Hold off your hands. - Be ruled; you shall not go. 00:31:19.925 --> 00:31:21.481 My fate cries out, 00:31:21.482 --> 00:31:23.497 And makes each petty artery in this body 00:31:23.498 --> 00:31:26.032 As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. 00:31:26.124 --> 00:31:29.029 Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen. 00:31:29.030 --> 00:31:31.342 By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me! 00:31:31.343 --> 00:31:33.669 I say, away! 00:31:37.301 --> 00:31:39.720 Go on; I'll follow thee. 00:31:42.581 --> 00:31:44.611 He waxes desperate with imagination. 00:31:44.612 --> 00:31:47.310 Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. 00:31:47.311 --> 00:31:49.612 - Have after. - To what issue will this come? 00:31:49.998 --> 00:31:52.468 Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 00:31:52.794 --> 00:31:56.074 - Heaven will direct it. - Nay, let's follow. 00:31:58.138 --> 00:32:00.902 Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further. 00:32:00.903 --> 00:32:03.039 - Mark me. - I will. 00:32:03.273 --> 00:32:09.948 My hour is almost come, When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must render up myself. 00:32:09.949 --> 00:32:11.327 Alas, poor ghost! 00:32:11.328 --> 00:32:12.934 Pity me not, 00:32:12.995 --> 00:32:16.244 but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. 00:32:16.245 --> 00:32:19.669 Speak; I am bound to hear. 00:32:19.670 --> 00:32:22.619 So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. 00:32:22.620 --> 00:32:23.995 What? 00:32:24.168 --> 00:32:27.122 I am thy father's spirit, 00:32:27.649 --> 00:32:31.683 Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, 00:32:32.419 --> 00:32:37.574 And for the day confined to fast in fires, 00:32:37.575 --> 00:32:41.303 Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature 00:32:41.304 --> 00:32:46.601 Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid 00:32:46.602 --> 00:32:49.960 To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 00:32:50.522 --> 00:32:54.231 I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 00:32:54.232 --> 00:32:58.105 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, 00:32:58.106 --> 00:33:02.802 Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, 00:33:02.803 --> 00:33:06.677 But this eternal blazon must not be 00:33:06.678 --> 00:33:09.428 To ears of flesh and blood. 00:33:09.429 --> 00:33:13.710 List, list, O, list! 00:33:13.711 --> 00:33:16.604 - If thou didst ever thy dear father love... - O God! 00:33:16.605 --> 00:33:21.234 ... Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. 00:33:21.235 --> 00:33:22.505 Murder!! 00:33:22.506 --> 00:33:25.144 Murder most foul, 00:33:25.145 --> 00:33:26.771 as in the best it is, 00:33:26.772 --> 00:33:31.066 But this most foul, strange and unnatural. 00:33:31.067 --> 00:33:34.333 Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift 00:33:34.334 --> 00:33:36.931 As meditation or the thoughts of love, 00:33:36.932 --> 00:33:38.491 May sweep to my revenge. 00:33:38.492 --> 00:33:40.552 I find thee apt; 00:33:42.299 --> 00:33:48.178 'Tis given out that sleeping in my orchard, 00:33:48.802 --> 00:33:51.426 A serpent stung me. 00:33:52.010 --> 00:33:53.690 but know, 00:33:53.691 --> 00:33:55.582 thou noble youth, 00:33:55.913 --> 00:34:00.067 The serpent that did sting thy father's life 00:34:00.068 --> 00:34:02.925 Now wears his crown. 00:34:02.926 --> 00:34:05.893 O my prophetic soul! My uncle! 00:34:05.894 --> 00:34:11.754 Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, 00:34:11.815 --> 00:34:15.302 With witchcraft of his wit, 00:34:15.303 --> 00:34:21.275 with traitorous gifts, won to his shameful lust 00:34:21.770 --> 00:34:25.987 The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: 00:34:25.989 --> 00:34:31.891 O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! 00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:36.916 From me, whose love was of that dignity 00:34:36.917 --> 00:34:42.297 That it went hand in hand even with the vow 00:34:42.299 --> 00:34:44.463 I made to her in marriage, 00:34:45.522 --> 00:34:49.322 and to decline upon a wretch 00:34:49.322 --> 00:34:52.501 whose natural gifts were poor 00:34:52.502 --> 00:34:54.176 To those of mine! 00:34:54.177 --> 00:34:58.220 But lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, 00:34:58.221 --> 00:35:01.068 Will sate itself in a celestial bed, 00:35:01.069 --> 00:35:03.382 And prey on garbage. 00:35:03.939 --> 00:35:05.393 But, soft! 00:35:07.552 --> 00:35:12.192 methinks I scent the morning air. 00:35:14.082 --> 00:35:15.745 Brief let me be. 00:35:16.181 --> 00:35:18.049 Sleeping within my orchard, 00:35:18.050 --> 00:35:20.399 My custom always in the afternoon, 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.847 Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, 00:35:23.848 --> 00:35:26.806 With juice of cursed 00:35:27.471 --> 00:35:31.092 hebenon in a vial, 00:35:31.243 --> 00:35:34.568 And in the porches of my ears did pour 00:35:34.569 --> 00:35:37.439 The leperous distilment; whose effect 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:40.018 Holds such an enmity with blood of man 00:35:40.019 --> 00:35:43.149 That swift as quicksilver it courses through 00:35:43.150 --> 00:35:46.083 The natural gates and alleys of the body, 00:35:46.084 --> 00:35:50.036 And with a sudden vigour doth posset 00:35:50.244 --> 00:35:54.536 And curd, The thin and wholesome blood: 00:35:56.034 --> 00:35:57.909 so did it mine; 00:35:57.911 --> 00:36:03.329 And a most instant tetter bark'd about, 00:36:03.330 --> 00:36:08.501 Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, 00:36:08.705 --> 00:36:11.379 All my smooth body. 00:36:12.956 --> 00:36:14.659 Thus was I, 00:36:15.580 --> 00:36:20.360 sleeping, by a brother's hand of life 00:36:20.755 --> 00:36:25.337 of crown, and queen, at once 00:36:25.372 --> 00:36:27.118 dispatch'd 00:36:27.697 --> 00:36:29.783 O, horrible! 00:36:30.268 --> 00:36:32.908 - Most horrible! - O God! 00:36:32.909 --> 00:36:36.626 If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; 00:36:36.627 --> 00:36:40.258 Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch 00:36:40.259 --> 00:36:42.821 for luxury and damned incest. 00:36:44.417 --> 00:36:47.935 But, howsoever thou pursuest this act, 00:36:48.622 --> 00:36:52.146 Taint not thy mind, 00:36:53.578 --> 00:36:57.882 nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught. 00:36:58.332 --> 00:36:59.793 leave her to heaven 00:37:00.494 --> 00:37:05.836 And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. 00:37:06.832 --> 00:37:08.589 Fare thee well at once! 00:37:10.768 --> 00:37:14.106 The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, 00:37:14.107 --> 00:37:18.281 And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire: 00:37:20.842 --> 00:37:24.903 Adieu, adieu! 00:37:26.308 --> 00:37:28.151 Hamlet... 00:37:29.841 --> 00:37:32.966 remember me! 00:37:36.773 --> 00:37:39.300 O all you host of heaven! 00:37:39.537 --> 00:37:41.706 O earth! what else? 00:37:41.771 --> 00:37:43.986 And shall I couple hell? O, fie!! 00:37:43.987 --> 00:37:46.863 Hold, hold, my heart; 00:37:47.896 --> 00:37:51.081 And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, 00:37:51.082 --> 00:37:54.114 But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee! 00:37:55.448 --> 00:37:59.112 Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat 00:37:59.113 --> 00:38:01.989 In this distracted globe. Remember thee! 00:38:02.385 --> 00:38:04.100 Yea, from the table of my memory 00:38:04.101 --> 00:38:06.424 I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, 00:38:06.425 --> 00:38:09.017 All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, 00:38:09.018 --> 00:38:11.270 That youth and observation copied there; 00:38:11.271 --> 00:38:13.549 And thy commandment all alone shall live 00:38:13.550 --> 00:38:16.660 Within the book and volume of my brain, 00:38:16.661 --> 00:38:20.799 Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven! 00:38:25.173 --> 00:38:28.486 O most pernicious woman! 00:38:30.766 --> 00:38:32.455 O villain, 00:38:33.569 --> 00:38:34.986 villain, 00:38:35.877 --> 00:38:38.456 smiling, damned villain! 00:38:38.457 --> 00:38:40.400 My tables,-- meet it is I set it down, 00:38:40.401 --> 00:38:44.414 That one may smile, and smile, 00:38:44.986 --> 00:38:46.695 and be a villain. 00:38:48.032 --> 00:38:49.171 At least, 00:38:50.206 --> 00:38:52.596 I'm sure it may be so in Denmark. 00:38:57.008 --> 00:38:58.294 So, 00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:00.730 uncle, 00:39:02.631 --> 00:39:04.363 there you are. 00:39:09.421 --> 00:39:10.896 Now to my word 00:39:12.859 --> 00:39:16.467 It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.' 00:39:18.733 --> 00:39:20.796 I have sworn 't. 00:39:21.269 --> 00:39:24.831 - My lord, my lord,--, - Heaven secure him! - So be it! 00:39:24.972 --> 00:39:26.635 Hillo, ho, ho, my lord! 00:39:26.636 --> 00:39:29.767 Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come. 00:39:30.040 --> 00:39:31.708 How is't, my noble lord? 00:39:32.165 --> 00:39:34.482 - What news, my lord? - O, wonderful! 00:39:34.517 --> 00:39:35.404 Good my lord, tell it. 00:39:35.533 --> 00:39:38.041 - No; you'll reveal it. - Not I, my lord, by heaven. 00:39:38.042 --> 00:39:40.240 - Nor I, my lord. - How say you, then; 00:39:40.347 --> 00:39:42.364 would heart of man once think it? 00:39:43.612 --> 00:39:45.956 - But you'll be secret? - Ay, by heaven, my lord. 00:39:46.957 --> 00:39:50.205 There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark 00:39:50.979 --> 00:39:52.737 But he's an arrant knave. 00:39:52.752 --> 00:39:55.410 There needs no ghost come from the grave To tell us this. 00:39:55.411 --> 00:39:56.750 Why, right; you are i' the right; 00:39:56.751 --> 00:39:59.694 And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit that we shake hands and part: 00:39:59.695 --> 00:40:01.501 You, as your business and desire shall point you; 00:40:01.502 --> 00:40:03.658 For every man has business and desires, 00:40:03.659 --> 00:40:05.281 Such as it is; and for mine own poor part, 00:40:05.282 --> 00:40:07.080 Look you, I'll go pray. 00:40:07.081 --> 00:40:09.853 These are but wild and whirling words, my lord. 00:40:09.953 --> 00:40:12.657 I'm sorry they offend you, heartily; Yes, 'faith heartily. 00:40:12.658 --> 00:40:14.454 There's no offence, my lord. 00:40:15.078 --> 00:40:18.768 Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio, 00:40:19.938 --> 00:40:21.443 And much offence too. 00:40:21.444 --> 00:40:23.001 Touching this vision here, 00:40:24.470 --> 00:40:27.890 It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you: 00:40:27.891 --> 00:40:29.345 For your desire to know what is between us, 00:40:29.346 --> 00:40:31.765 O'ermaster 't as you may. And now, good friends, 00:40:31.766 --> 00:40:34.267 As you are friends, scholars and soldiers, 00:40:34.268 --> 00:40:35.470 Give me one poor request. 00:40:35.471 --> 00:40:37.252 What is't, my lord? we will. 00:40:38.093 --> 00:40:40.053 Never make known what you have seen to-night. 00:40:40.054 --> 00:40:41.050 My lord, we will not. 00:40:41.051 --> 00:40:42.453 Nay, but swear't. 00:40:42.454 --> 00:40:44.812 In faith, My lord, not I. 00:40:44.813 --> 00:40:48.311 - Nor I, my lord, in faith. - Upon my sword. 00:40:48.312 --> 00:40:50.560 - We have sworn, my lord, already. - Indeed, upon my sword, indeed. 00:40:50.561 --> 00:40:54.015 - Swear. - Ah, ha, boy! 00:40:54.016 --> 00:40:55.925 say'st thou so? art thou there, truepenny? 00:40:55.926 --> 00:40:58.263 Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage-- 00:40:58.264 --> 00:41:00.326 - Consent to swear. - Propose the oath, my lord. 00:41:00.327 --> 00:41:02.764 Never to speak of this that you have seen, Swear by my sword. 00:41:02.765 --> 00:41:03.937 Swear. 00:41:03.938 --> 00:41:06.671 Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground. 00:41:06.672 --> 00:41:09.422 Come hither, gentlemen, And lay your hands again upon my sword: 00:41:10.379 --> 00:41:12.202 Never to speak of this that you have heard, 00:41:12.203 --> 00:41:14.173 - Swear by my sword. - Swear. 00:41:14.224 --> 00:41:16.626 Well said, old mole! 00:41:16.627 --> 00:41:18.784 canst work i' the earth so fast? A worthy pioner! 00:41:18.785 --> 00:41:20.248 Once more remove, good friends. 00:41:20.249 --> 00:41:23.404 O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! 00:41:23.405 --> 00:41:26.060 And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. 00:41:27.160 --> 00:41:29.951 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:34.183 Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come; 00:41:34.184 --> 00:41:36.323 Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, 00:41:36.324 --> 00:41:39.012 How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, 00:41:39.173 --> 00:41:41.058 As I perchance hereafter shall think meet 00:41:41.059 --> 00:41:43.856 To put an antic disposition on, 00:41:44.637 --> 00:41:46.844 That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, 00:41:46.845 --> 00:41:50.044 With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake, 00:41:50.045 --> 00:41:51.744 Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, 00:41:51.745 --> 00:41:55.386 As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,' 00:41:55.387 --> 00:41:57.839 Or such ambiguous giving out, to note 00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:02.415 That you know aught of me: this not to do, 00:42:03.526 --> 00:42:07.191 So grace and mercy at your most need help you, 00:42:07.192 --> 00:42:07.736 Swear! 00:42:07.737 --> 00:42:11.997 - Swear! - We swear! We swear! 00:42:11.998 --> 00:42:17.638 Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! 00:42:25.309 --> 00:42:27.874 So, gentlemen, 00:42:28.988 --> 00:42:30.560 Let us go in together; 00:42:30.996 --> 00:42:33.248 And still your fingers on your lips, I pray. 00:42:40.872 --> 00:42:42.639 The time is out of joint. 00:42:45.060 --> 00:42:46.933 O cursed spite, 00:42:51.749 --> 00:42:54.344 That ever I was born to set it right! 00:43:02.518 --> 00:43:07.941 Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo. 00:43:07.976 --> 00:43:09.105 I will, my lord. 00:43:09.106 --> 00:43:11.766 You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo, 00:43:11.767 --> 00:43:15.823 Before you visit him, to make inquire Of his behavior. 00:43:15.824 --> 00:43:17.682 My lord, I did intend it. 00:43:17.683 --> 00:43:22.079 Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir, 00:43:22.080 --> 00:43:25.384 Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris; 00:43:25.385 --> 00:43:27.984 And how, and who, what means, and where they keep, 00:43:27.985 --> 00:43:30.613 What company, at what expense; and finding 00:43:30.614 --> 00:43:33.717 By this encompassment and drift of question 00:43:33.718 --> 00:43:36.891 That they do know my son, come you more nearer 00:43:36.892 --> 00:43:40.245 Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him; 00:43:40.246 --> 00:43:44.140 As thus, 'I know his father and his friends, 00:43:44.141 --> 00:43:47.477 And in part him: ' do you mark this, Reynaldo? 00:43:47.478 --> 00:43:49.446 Ay, very well, my lord. 00:43:49.447 --> 00:43:53.340 'And in part him; but' you may say 'not well: 00:43:53.341 --> 00:43:57.404 But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild; 00:43:57.405 --> 00:44:00.869 Addicted so and so: ' and there put on him 00:44:00.870 --> 00:44:05.201 What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank 00:44:05.202 --> 00:44:08.281 As may dishonour him; take heed of that; 00:44:08.282 --> 00:44:11.454 But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips 00:44:11.455 --> 00:44:15.149 As are companions noted and most known 00:44:15.150 --> 00:44:16.901 To youth and liberty. 00:44:16.902 --> 00:44:18.742 As gaming, my lord. 00:44:18.743 --> 00:44:24.291 Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling, 00:44:24.680 --> 00:44:26.836 Drabbing: you may go so far. 00:44:26.837 --> 00:44:28.711 My lord, that would dishonour him. 00:44:28.712 --> 00:44:31.476 'Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge 00:44:31.477 --> 00:44:33.710 - But, my good lord,-- - Wherefore should you do this? 00:44:33.711 --> 00:44:37.276 - Ay, my lord, I would know that. - Marry, sir, here's my drift; 00:44:37.277 --> 00:44:39.453 And I believe, it is a fetch of wit: 00:44:39.454 --> 00:44:42.289 You laying these slight sullies on my son, 00:44:42.290 --> 00:44:45.150 As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you, 00:44:45.151 --> 00:44:48.569 Your party in converse, him you would sound, 00:44:48.570 --> 00:44:51.076 Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes 00:44:51.077 --> 00:44:53.702 The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured 00:44:53.703 --> 00:44:56.741 He closes with you in this consequence; 00:44:56.743 --> 00:44:59.397 'Good sir,' or so, 00:44:59.432 --> 00:45:02.978 or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,' 00:45:03.013 --> 00:45:04.928 According to the phrase or the addition 00:45:04.929 --> 00:45:06.529 Of man and country. 00:45:06.530 --> 00:45:08.177 Very good, my lord. 00:45:08.949 --> 00:45:11.494 And then, sir, does he this-- 00:45:14.351 --> 00:45:15.869 he does-- 00:45:23.555 --> 00:45:25.524 what was I about to say? 00:45:25.900 --> 00:45:28.349 By the mass, I was about to say something: 00:45:29.084 --> 00:45:30.399 where did I leave? 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:32.972 At 'closes in the consequence... 00:45:32.973 --> 00:45:36.477 At 'closes in the consequence...? 00:45:36.512 --> 00:45:37.627 ' ay, marry; 00:45:37.678 --> 00:45:40.303 He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman; 00:45:40.304 --> 00:45:44.036 I saw him yesterday, or t' other day, 00:45:44.037 --> 00:45:47.834 Or then, or then; with such, or such; 00:45:47.835 --> 00:45:49.988 and, as you say, There was a' gaming; 00:45:49.989 --> 00:45:52.661 There falling out at tennis: ' or perchance, 00:45:52.662 --> 00:45:57.275 'I saw him enter such a house of sale,' 00:45:58.241 --> 00:46:03.864 Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. See you now; 00:46:04.065 --> 00:46:10.036 Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth: 00:46:10.666 --> 00:46:12.990 And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, 00:46:12.991 --> 00:46:18.488 By indirections find directions out: 00:46:18.925 --> 00:46:21.776 - You have me, have you not? - My lord, I have. 00:46:21.777 --> 00:46:23.668 God be wi' you; 00:46:23.738 --> 00:46:26.241 - fare you well. - Good my lord! 00:46:26.524 --> 00:46:29.651 Observe his inclination in yourself. 00:46:29.652 --> 00:46:33.897 - I shall, my lord. - And let him ply his music. 00:46:33.898 --> 00:46:35.538 Well, my lord. 00:46:36.615 --> 00:46:38.083 Farewell! 00:46:40.497 --> 00:46:42.525 How now, Ophelia! what's the matter? 00:46:42.526 --> 00:46:45.604 O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! 00:46:45.605 --> 00:46:47.211 With what, i' the name of God? 00:46:47.212 --> 00:46:50.589 My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, 00:46:50.821 --> 00:46:54.110 Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; 00:46:54.111 --> 00:46:57.110 No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, 00:46:57.111 --> 00:46:59.835 Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle; 00:46:59.836 --> 00:47:03.422 Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; 00:47:03.423 --> 00:47:07.369 And with a look so piteous in purport 00:47:08.110 --> 00:47:09.960 As if he had been loosed out of hell 00:47:09.961 --> 00:47:12.397 To speak of horrors, --he comes before me. 00:47:12.398 --> 00:47:15.544 - Mad for thy love? - My lord, I do not know; 00:47:15.545 --> 00:47:19.887 - But truly, I do fear it. - What said he? 00:47:20.623 --> 00:47:23.386 He took me by the wrist and held me hard; 00:47:23.982 --> 00:47:26.556 Then goes he to the length of all his arm; 00:47:26.670 --> 00:47:29.861 And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, 00:47:30.109 --> 00:47:35.138 He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. 00:47:35.712 --> 00:47:37.463 Long stay'd he so; 00:47:38.077 --> 00:47:41.212 At last, a little shaking of mine arm 00:47:41.213 --> 00:47:44.803 And thrice his head thus waving up and down, 00:47:44.804 --> 00:47:49.459 He raised a sigh so piteous and profound 00:47:49.460 --> 00:47:53.335 As it did seem to shatter all his bulk 00:47:53.336 --> 00:47:55.522 And end his being 00:47:56.231 --> 00:47:58.418 that done, he lets me go: 00:47:58.620 --> 00:48:01.336 And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd, 00:48:02.435 --> 00:48:05.758 He seem'd to find his way without his eyes; 00:48:07.500 --> 00:48:10.687 For out o' doors he went without their helps, 00:48:10.977 --> 00:48:14.387 And, to the last, bended their light on me. 00:48:14.388 --> 00:48:19.459 Come, This is the very ecstasy of love, 00:48:19.460 --> 00:48:21.569 Whose violent property fordoes itself 00:48:21.570 --> 00:48:25.008 And leads the will to desperate undertakings 00:48:25.084 --> 00:48:27.131 I am sorry. 00:48:27.247 --> 00:48:30.131 What, have you given him any hard words of late? 00:48:30.132 --> 00:48:32.476 No, my good lord, but, as you did command, 00:48:32.477 --> 00:48:35.522 I did repel his fetters and denied 00:48:35.523 --> 00:48:39.851 - His access to me. - That hath made him mad. 00:48:39.852 --> 00:48:42.027 I am sorry that with better heed and judgment 00:48:42.028 --> 00:48:45.448 I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle, 00:48:45.449 --> 00:48:50.712 And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy! 00:48:51.287 --> 00:48:54.021 Come, go we to the king: 00:48:54.685 --> 00:48:56.662 This must be known; 00:48:58.897 --> 00:49:03.847 Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern! 00:49:03.848 --> 00:49:06.681 Moreover that we much did long to see you, 00:49:06.682 --> 00:49:10.629 The need we have to use you did provoke 00:49:10.630 --> 00:49:13.347 Our hasty sending. Something have you heard 00:49:13.348 --> 00:49:18.260 Of Hamlet's transformation. What it should be, 00:49:18.287 --> 00:49:21.129 More than his father's death, that thus hath put him 00:49:21.130 --> 00:49:24.121 So much from the understanding of himself, 00:49:24.257 --> 00:49:28.034 I cannot dream of: I beseech you, 00:49:28.035 --> 00:49:29.763 That, being of such 00:49:29.764 --> 00:49:32.223 young days brought up with him, 00:49:32.881 --> 00:49:35.910 That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court 00:49:35.911 --> 00:49:38.581 Some little time: so by your companies 00:49:38.582 --> 00:49:44.159 To lead him on to pleasures, and to gather, 00:49:44.160 --> 00:49:46.964 So much as from occasion you may glean, 00:49:46.965 --> 00:49:50.316 Whether aught, unknown to us, afflicts him thus, 00:49:50.317 --> 00:49:52.379 That, open'd, lies within our remedy. 00:49:52.380 --> 00:49:55.505 Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you; 00:49:55.506 --> 00:49:57.493 And sure I am two men there are not living 00:49:57.494 --> 00:50:00.345 To whom he more adheres. If it will please you 00:50:00.346 --> 00:50:02.127 To show us so much gentry and good will 00:50:02.128 --> 00:50:04.867 As to expend your time with us awhile, 00:50:04.868 --> 00:50:07.222 For the supply and profit of our hope, 00:50:07.971 --> 00:50:10.554 Your visitation shall receive such thanks 00:50:10.555 --> 00:50:12.959 As fits a king's remembrance. 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:14.284 Both your majesties 00:50:14.285 --> 00:50:16.821 Might, by the sovereign power you have of us, 00:50:16.822 --> 00:50:18.901 Put your dread pleasures more into command 00:50:18.902 --> 00:50:20.003 Than to entreaty. 00:50:20.004 --> 00:50:21.534 But we both obey, 00:50:22.536 --> 00:50:24.696 And here give up ourselves, in the full bent 00:50:24.697 --> 00:50:28.034 To lay our service freely at your feet, To be commanded. 00:50:28.035 --> 00:50:31.079 Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern. 00:50:31.080 --> 00:50:34.642 Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz: 00:50:34.643 --> 00:50:38.844 And I beseech you instantly to visit My too much changed son. 00:50:38.845 --> 00:50:40.970 Go, some of you, And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is. 00:50:40.971 --> 00:50:42.593 Heavens make our presence and our practises 00:50:42.594 --> 00:50:44.659 Pleasant and helpful to him! Ay, amen! 00:50:47.241 --> 00:50:49.741 The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, 00:50:49.742 --> 00:50:51.617 Are joyfully return'd. 00:50:52.056 --> 00:50:54.468 Thou still hast been the father of good news. 00:50:54.469 --> 00:50:55.959 Have I, my lord? 00:50:55.960 --> 00:51:01.422 I assure my good liege, I hold my duty, as I hold my soul, 00:51:01.423 --> 00:51:04.752 Both to my God and to my gracious king: 00:51:04.985 --> 00:51:07.907 And I do think that I have found 00:51:07.930 --> 00:51:11.953 The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy. 00:51:12.392 --> 00:51:15.219 O, speak of that; that do I long to hear. 00:51:15.220 --> 00:51:17.738 A first give admittance to the ambassadors; 00:51:17.739 --> 00:51:20.564 My news shall be the fruit to that great feast. 00:51:20.565 --> 00:51:22.866 Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in. 00:51:24.171 --> 00:51:29.878 He tells me, my dear Gertrude, that he hath found 00:51:29.879 --> 00:51:32.841 The head and source of all your son's distemper. 00:51:32.842 --> 00:51:35.488 I doubt it is no other but the main; 00:51:35.489 --> 00:51:37.177 His father's death, 00:51:37.767 --> 00:51:40.585 and our o'erhasty marriage. 00:51:41.427 --> 00:51:43.093 Well, we will sift him. 00:51:43.956 --> 00:51:46.467 Welcome, good friends! 00:51:46.779 --> 00:51:49.002 Say, what from our brother Norway? 00:51:49.003 --> 00:51:51.873 Most fair return of greetings and desires. 00:51:51.874 --> 00:51:54.123 he sent out to suppress His nephew's march. 00:51:54.124 --> 00:51:56.465 the which is told a propose 'gainst the Poles 00:51:56.466 --> 00:51:58.113 But, better look'd into, he truly found 00:51:58.114 --> 00:52:00.466 It was against your highness and our state. 00:52:00.467 --> 00:52:03.425 So, Fortinbras Receives rebuke from him 00:52:03.426 --> 00:52:05.655 and vowes before his uncle never more 00:52:05.656 --> 00:52:08.421 To give the assay of arms against stand mark here. 00:52:12.491 --> 00:52:14.661 It likes us well; 00:52:15.349 --> 00:52:17.368 at night we'll feast together: 00:52:17.369 --> 00:52:19.052 Most welcome home! 00:52:21.809 --> 00:52:24.677 This business is well ended. 00:52:25.725 --> 00:52:29.652 My liege, and madam, to expostulate 00:52:29.653 --> 00:52:34.098 What majesty should be, what duty is, 00:52:34.099 --> 00:52:38.036 Why day is day, night night, 00:52:38.037 --> 00:52:43.507 and time is time, 00:52:47.714 --> 00:52:50.442 Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. 00:52:50.443 --> 00:52:53.129 Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, 00:52:53.130 --> 00:52:55.676 And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, 00:52:55.677 --> 00:52:58.629 I will be brief: your noble son is mad: 00:52:58.630 --> 00:53:03.487 Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, 00:53:03.488 --> 00:53:08.067 What is't but to be nothing else but mad? 00:53:08.068 --> 00:53:11.398 - But let that go. - More matter, with less art. 00:53:11.399 --> 00:53:14.867 Madam, I swear I use no art at all. 00:53:14.868 --> 00:53:17.786 That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity; 00:53:17.787 --> 00:53:20.611 And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure; 00:53:20.612 --> 00:53:23.189 But farewell it,' for I will use no art. 00:53:23.190 --> 00:53:26.039 Mad let us grant him, then: and now remains 00:53:26.040 --> 00:53:29.564 That we find out the cause of this effect, 00:53:29.565 --> 00:53:32.223 Or rather say, the cause of this defect, 00:53:32.224 --> 00:53:35.346 For this effect defective comes by cause: 00:53:35.347 --> 00:53:39.252 Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. 00:53:39.956 --> 00:53:44.112 I have a daughter --have while she is mine-- 00:53:44.113 --> 00:53:46.986 Who, in her duty and obedience, mark, 00:53:46.987 --> 00:53:48.875 Hath given me this: 00:53:48.876 --> 00:53:51.816 now gather, and surmise. 00:53:52.714 --> 00:53:56.746 'To the celestial and my soul's idol, 00:53:56.781 --> 00:53:59.255 the most beautified Ophelia,'-- 00:53:59.290 --> 00:54:01.945 Oh that's an ill phrase, a vile phrase 00:54:02.048 --> 00:54:07.564 'beautified' is a vile phrase: but you shall hear. Thus: 00:54:07.986 --> 00:54:13.768 'In her excellent white bosom, these, &c.' 00:54:18.114 --> 00:54:20.361 Came this from Hamlet to her? 00:54:20.362 --> 00:54:23.668 Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful. 00:54:23.669 --> 00:54:27.341 'Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; 00:54:27.342 --> 00:54:32.060 Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. 00:54:32.061 --> 00:54:35.593 This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me, and more above 00:54:35.594 --> 00:54:38.201 But how hath she Received his love? 00:54:38.615 --> 00:54:40.251 What do you think of me? 00:54:40.545 --> 00:54:43.277 As of a friend faithful and honourable. 00:54:43.278 --> 00:54:46.252 I would fain prove so. But what might you think, 00:54:46.253 --> 00:54:50.292 When I had seen this hot love on the wing-- 00:54:50.293 --> 00:54:52.232 As I perceived it, I must tell you that, 00:54:52.233 --> 00:54:54.717 Before my daughter told me-- what might you, 00:54:54.718 --> 00:54:56.940 Or my dear majesty your queen here, think, 00:54:56.941 --> 00:55:00.341 If I had given my heart a winking, mute and dumb, 00:55:00.342 --> 00:55:02.589 Or look'd upon this love with idle sight; 00:55:02.590 --> 00:55:04.356 No, I went round to work, 00:55:04.357 --> 00:55:06.860 And my young mistress thus I did bespeak: 00:55:06.861 --> 00:55:10.340 'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star; 00:55:10.341 --> 00:55:13.887 This must not be:' and then I precepts gave her, 00:55:13.888 --> 00:55:16.449 That she should lock herself from his resort, 00:55:16.450 --> 00:55:19.044 Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. 00:55:19.045 --> 00:55:22.197 Which done, she took the fruits of my advice; 00:55:22.198 --> 00:55:25.245 And he, repulsed-- a short tale to make-- 00:55:25.246 --> 00:55:30.573 Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, 00:55:30.574 --> 00:55:32.623 Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, 00:55:32.624 --> 00:55:35.714 Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension, 00:55:35.715 --> 00:55:39.730 Into the madness wherein now he raves, 00:55:39.731 --> 00:55:41.887 And all we mourn for. 00:55:42.338 --> 00:55:44.231 Do you think 'tis this? 00:55:46.027 --> 00:55:49.760 It may be, very likely. 00:55:49.761 --> 00:55:53.186 Hath there been such a time-- I'd fain know that-- 00:55:53.187 --> 00:55:56.064 That I have positively said 'Tis so,' 00:55:56.065 --> 00:55:57.561 When it proved otherwise? 00:55:57.596 --> 00:55:59.058 Not that I know. 00:55:59.108 --> 00:56:02.043 Take this from this, if this be otherwise: 00:56:02.044 --> 00:56:05.574 If circumstances lead me, I will find 00:56:05.575 --> 00:56:07.605 Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed 00:56:07.606 --> 00:56:09.388 Within the centre. 00:56:09.389 --> 00:56:11.380 How may we try this further? 00:56:12.082 --> 00:56:15.751 You know, sometimes he walks four hours together 00:56:15.752 --> 00:56:17.049 Here in the lobby. 00:56:17.050 --> 00:56:18.268 So he does indeed. 00:56:18.269 --> 00:56:21.646 At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him: 00:56:21.647 --> 00:56:23.627 Be you and I behind an arras then; 00:56:23.628 --> 00:56:25.784 Mark the encounter: if he love her not 00:56:25.785 --> 00:56:28.564 And be not from his reason fall'n thereon, 00:56:28.565 --> 00:56:33.536 Let me be no assistant for a state, But keep a farm and carters. 00:56:33.537 --> 00:56:37.190 - We will try it. - But, look, where sadly the poor wretch comes. 00:56:39.118 --> 00:56:41.033 Sweet Gertrude, leave us too; 00:56:41.034 --> 00:56:44.124 Her father and myself, lawful espials, 00:56:44.125 --> 00:56:47.109 us may of their encounter frankly judge, 00:56:47.110 --> 00:56:49.264 If 't be the affliction of his love or no 00:56:49.265 --> 00:56:50.562 That thus he suffers for. 00:56:50.563 --> 00:56:52.250 I shall obey you. 00:56:52.970 --> 00:56:56.677 And for your part, Ophelia, 00:56:59.313 --> 00:57:00.458 I do wish 00:57:00.459 --> 00:57:02.967 That your good beauties be the happy cause 00:57:02.968 --> 00:57:08.034 Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues 00:57:08.035 --> 00:57:10.500 Will bring him to his wonted way again, 00:57:10.501 --> 00:57:12.014 To both your honours. 00:57:12.015 --> 00:57:13.708 Madam, I wish it may. 00:57:16.876 --> 00:57:19.347 Ophelia, walk you here. 00:57:19.991 --> 00:57:22.459 Read on this book; 00:57:22.624 --> 00:57:27.263 That show of such an exercise may colour your loneliness. 00:57:27.264 --> 00:57:30.186 - I hear him coming. - Let's withdraw, my lord. 00:57:46.108 --> 00:57:48.232 To be, or not to be... 00:57:49.302 --> 00:57:51.062 that is the question. 00:58:00.170 --> 00:58:03.143 Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer 00:58:03.436 --> 00:58:06.918 The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 00:58:07.794 --> 00:58:10.168 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 00:58:10.169 --> 00:58:13.112 And by opposing end them? 00:58:15.793 --> 00:58:17.310 To die, 00:58:19.277 --> 00:58:20.965 to sleep, 00:58:22.183 --> 00:58:23.810 No more. 00:58:25.293 --> 00:58:27.494 and by a sleep to say we end 00:58:27.495 --> 00:58:31.140 The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks 00:58:31.141 --> 00:58:33.308 That flesh is heir to 00:58:35.809 --> 00:58:37.859 'tis a consummation 00:58:39.214 --> 00:58:41.419 Devoutly to be wish'd. 00:58:42.238 --> 00:58:43.683 To die, 00:58:45.683 --> 00:58:47.435 to sleep; 00:58:51.245 --> 00:58:53.608 To sleep: perchance to dream: 00:58:53.672 --> 00:58:55.558 ay, there's the rub; 00:58:59.825 --> 00:59:03.653 For in that sleep of death what dreams may come 00:59:03.654 --> 00:59:06.119 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 00:59:06.120 --> 00:59:07.887 Must give us pause: 00:59:10.948 --> 00:59:12.856 there's the respect 00:59:13.683 --> 00:59:17.619 That makes calamity of so long life; 00:59:23.908 --> 00:59:27.837 For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 00:59:28.233 --> 00:59:30.933 But that the dread of something after death, 00:59:33.698 --> 00:59:36.844 The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 00:59:38.104 --> 00:59:43.089 No traveller returns, puzzles the will, 00:59:48.077 --> 00:59:51.076 And makes us rather bear those ills we have 00:59:51.229 --> 00:59:53.827 Than fly to others that we know not of? 00:59:57.319 --> 01:00:02.339 Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; 01:00:05.914 --> 01:00:09.993 And thus the native hue of resolution 01:00:11.773 --> 01:00:16.162 Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, 01:00:18.617 --> 01:00:21.866 And enterprises of great pith and moment 01:00:22.638 --> 01:00:26.014 With this regard their currents turn awry, 01:00:29.196 --> 01:00:32.544 And lose the name of action. --Soft you now! 01:00:34.615 --> 01:00:36.554 The fair Ophelia! 01:00:38.096 --> 01:00:43.124 Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd. 01:00:43.125 --> 01:00:46.865 Good my lord, How does your honour for this many a day? 01:00:46.866 --> 01:00:49.062 I humbly thank you; well, well, well. 01:00:49.220 --> 01:00:52.503 My lord, I have remembrances of yours, 01:00:52.504 --> 01:00:56.241 That I have longed long to re-deliver; 01:00:56.518 --> 01:00:58.032 I pray you, now receive them. 01:00:58.033 --> 01:01:00.532 Not I; I never gave you aught. 01:01:02.332 --> 01:01:05.188 My honour'd lord, you know right well you did; 01:01:05.782 --> 01:01:09.549 And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed 01:01:09.550 --> 01:01:13.405 As made the things more rich: their perfume lost, 01:01:13.406 --> 01:01:16.282 Take these again; for to the noble mind 01:01:16.564 --> 01:01:19.965 Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 01:01:19.966 --> 01:01:21.514 There, my lord. 01:01:24.530 --> 01:01:26.779 - Are you honest? - My lord? 01:01:29.020 --> 01:01:31.460 - Are you fair? - What means your lordship? 01:01:34.403 --> 01:01:36.018 I did love you once. 01:01:36.019 --> 01:01:38.716 Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. 01:01:39.090 --> 01:01:40.608 You should not have believed me; I loved you not. 01:01:40.609 --> 01:01:42.063 I was the more deceived. 01:01:43.635 --> 01:01:46.354 Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? 01:01:46.355 --> 01:01:47.831 I am myself indifferent honest; 01:01:47.832 --> 01:01:50.411 but yet I could accuse me of such things 01:01:50.446 --> 01:01:51.177 it would be better my mother had not borne me: 01:01:51.212 --> 01:01:54.526 What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? 01:01:54.527 --> 01:01:57.586 We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us. 01:01:57.587 --> 01:01:59.616 Go thy ways to a nunnery. 01:02:02.178 --> 01:02:03.570 Where's your father? 01:02:03.571 --> 01:02:05.133 At home, my lord. 01:02:13.477 --> 01:02:15.601 Let the doors be shut upon him, 01:02:15.849 --> 01:02:19.973 that he may play the fool no where but in's own house. 01:02:19.974 --> 01:02:21.272 Farewell. 01:02:21.974 --> 01:02:23.629 O, help him, you sweet heavens! 01:02:23.630 --> 01:02:26.821 If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: 01:02:26.822 --> 01:02:28.957 be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, 01:02:28.992 --> 01:02:30.008 thou shalt not escape calumny. 01:02:30.258 --> 01:02:31.913 Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell. 01:02:31.914 --> 01:02:34.441 Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; 01:02:34.442 --> 01:02:37.913 for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. 01:02:37.914 --> 01:02:40.707 To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell. 01:02:40.909 --> 01:02:42.681 O heavenly powers, restore him! 01:02:42.682 --> 01:02:46.071 You jig, you amble, and you lisp, 01:02:46.072 --> 01:02:48.796 and nick-name God's creatures, 01:02:48.831 --> 01:02:49.847 and make your wantonness your ignorance. 01:02:49.897 --> 01:02:54.505 Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad. 01:02:55.663 --> 01:02:58.067 I say, we will have no more marriages: 01:02:58.614 --> 01:03:02.369 those that are married already, all but one, shall live; 01:03:02.550 --> 01:03:04.533 the rest shall keep as they are. 01:03:04.534 --> 01:03:06.128 To a nunnery, go. 01:03:08.972 --> 01:03:11.746 O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! 01:03:13.849 --> 01:03:15.555 The courtier's, 01:03:15.849 --> 01:03:17.474 soldier's, 01:03:17.944 --> 01:03:19.756 scholar's, eye, 01:03:20.408 --> 01:03:23.098 tongue, sword; 01:03:25.299 --> 01:03:28.537 The expectancy and rose of the fair state, 01:03:30.285 --> 01:03:32.744 The glass of fashion 01:03:33.346 --> 01:03:35.320 and the mould of form, 01:03:36.409 --> 01:03:39.005 The observed of all observers, 01:03:39.433 --> 01:03:40.908 quite, 01:03:42.097 --> 01:03:43.649 quite down! 01:03:45.751 --> 01:03:47.157 And I, 01:03:48.130 --> 01:03:51.932 of ladies most deject and wretched, 01:03:52.629 --> 01:03:57.566 That suck'd the honey of his music vows, 01:03:57.907 --> 01:04:01.743 Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, 01:04:01.744 --> 01:04:06.161 Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; 01:04:06.807 --> 01:04:10.470 That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth 01:04:10.472 --> 01:04:13.410 Blasted with ecstasy: 01:04:19.691 --> 01:04:21.785 O, woe is me, 01:04:23.193 --> 01:04:26.054 To have seen what I have seen, 01:04:26.834 --> 01:04:28.629 see what I see! 01:04:29.632 --> 01:04:33.238 Love! his affections do not that way tend; 01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:35.377 There's something in his soul, 01:04:35.378 --> 01:04:38.344 O'er which his melancholy sits on brood; 01:04:38.345 --> 01:04:40.688 And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose 01:04:40.689 --> 01:04:42.493 Will be some danger: 01:04:46.655 --> 01:04:48.396 How now, Ophelia! 01:04:48.444 --> 01:04:51.032 You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said; 01:04:51.033 --> 01:04:53.451 We heard it all. 01:04:53.499 --> 01:04:56.248 Away, I do beseech you, here he comes! 01:04:56.688 --> 01:04:58.740 I'll board him presently. 01:04:59.877 --> 01:05:02.908 How does my good Lord Hamlet? 01:05:08.062 --> 01:05:09.616 Well, 01:05:11.936 --> 01:05:13.532 God-a-mercy. 01:05:13.941 --> 01:05:16.747 Do you know me, my lord? 01:05:16.748 --> 01:05:19.803 Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. 01:05:19.804 --> 01:05:22.811 - Not I, my lord. - Then I would you were so honest a man. 01:05:22.812 --> 01:05:23.634 Honest, my lord! 01:05:23.635 --> 01:05:25.592 Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be 01:05:25.593 --> 01:05:28.781 one man picked out of ten thousand. 01:05:28.782 --> 01:05:30.373 That's very true, my lord. 01:05:30.374 --> 01:05:32.803 For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a 01:05:32.804 --> 01:05:35.737 god kissing carrion,-- Have you a daughter? 01:05:35.738 --> 01:05:37.438 I have, my lord. 01:05:37.439 --> 01:05:39.313 Let her not walk i' the sun: 01:05:40.076 --> 01:05:43.988 conception is a blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive. 01:05:45.251 --> 01:05:49.593 Friend, look to 't. 01:05:50.247 --> 01:05:53.428 How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter: 01:05:53.748 --> 01:05:57.643 yet he knew me not at first; he said I was a fishmonger: 01:05:57.676 --> 01:06:00.559 he is far gone, far gone: 01:06:01.022 --> 01:06:05.934 and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; 01:06:05.935 --> 01:06:09.592 very near this. I'll speak to him again. 01:06:12.178 --> 01:06:14.824 What do you read, my lord? 01:06:15.936 --> 01:06:17.294 Words, 01:06:19.002 --> 01:06:22.465 words, words? 01:06:22.671 --> 01:06:24.699 What is the matter, my lord? 01:06:25.021 --> 01:06:26.742 Between who? 01:06:26.743 --> 01:06:29.898 I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. 01:06:29.899 --> 01:06:33.238 Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here 01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:36.149 that old men have grey beards, 01:06:38.290 --> 01:06:40.854 that their faces are wrinkled, 01:06:42.665 --> 01:06:46.633 their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum 01:06:47.002 --> 01:06:51.381 and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, 01:06:51.382 --> 01:06:53.679 together with most weak hams: 01:06:53.680 --> 01:06:56.917 all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet 01:06:56.926 --> 01:06:59.697 I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, 01:07:00.688 --> 01:07:03.436 for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, 01:07:03.812 --> 01:07:07.134 if like a crab you could go backward. 01:07:08.061 --> 01:07:11.501 Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. 01:07:12.243 --> 01:07:14.859 Will you walk out of the air, my lord? 01:07:14.860 --> 01:07:16.194 Into my grave. 01:07:17.104 --> 01:07:20.007 Indeed, that is out o' the air. 01:07:20.008 --> 01:07:23.069 How pregnant sometimes his replies are! 01:07:24.092 --> 01:07:28.629 My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you. 01:07:28.630 --> 01:07:31.901 You cannot, sir, take from me any thing 01:07:31.936 --> 01:07:34.896 that I will more willingly part withal: 01:07:35.478 --> 01:07:37.135 except my life, 01:07:39.008 --> 01:07:40.903 except my life, 01:07:43.085 --> 01:07:46.879 except my life. 01:07:49.780 --> 01:07:51.726 Fare you well, my lord. 01:07:52.599 --> 01:07:55.552 These tedious old fools! 01:07:56.500 --> 01:07:59.849 You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is. 01:07:59.850 --> 01:08:01.373 God save you, sir! 01:08:02.804 --> 01:08:05.663 - My honoured lord! - My most dear lord! 01:08:08.505 --> 01:08:12.726 My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern? 01:08:13.193 --> 01:08:16.567 Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both? 01:08:16.568 --> 01:08:19.176 As the indifferent children of the earth. 01:08:19.178 --> 01:08:22.691 Happy, in that we are not over-happy; 01:08:22.837 --> 01:08:25.049 On fortune's cap we are not the very button. 01:08:25.050 --> 01:08:27.817 - Nor the soles of her shoes? - Neither, my lord. 01:08:27.819 --> 01:08:31.131 Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours? 01:08:31.133 --> 01:08:32.562 'Faith, her privates we. 01:08:34.415 --> 01:08:36.950 In the secret parts of fortune? 01:08:36.951 --> 01:08:39.077 Most true; she is a strumpet. 01:08:39.078 --> 01:08:41.790 - What's the news? - None, my lord, 01:08:42.323 --> 01:08:44.587 but that the world's grown honest. 01:08:44.663 --> 01:08:46.656 Then is doomsday near: 01:08:48.243 --> 01:08:51.069 but your news is not true. Let me question more in particular: 01:08:51.069 --> 01:08:55.634 what have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune, 01:08:55.635 --> 01:08:57.430 that she sends you to prison hither? 01:08:57.430 --> 01:09:00.310 - Prison, my lord! - Denmark's a prison. 01:09:00.560 --> 01:09:02.188 Then is the world one. 01:09:02.189 --> 01:09:05.962 A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, 01:09:05.962 --> 01:09:08.542 Denmark being one o' the worst. 01:09:09.071 --> 01:09:11.438 We think not so, my lord. 01:09:12.631 --> 01:09:14.336 Why, then, 'tis none to you; 01:09:14.337 --> 01:09:17.685 for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: 01:09:19.508 --> 01:09:21.131 to me it is a prison. 01:09:21.729 --> 01:09:24.853 Why then, your ambition makes it one; 01:09:26.537 --> 01:09:28.964 'tis too narrow for your mind. 01:09:28.965 --> 01:09:30.491 O God, 01:09:30.904 --> 01:09:33.194 I could be bounded in a nut shell, 01:09:33.196 --> 01:09:36.256 and count myself a king of infinite space, 01:09:38.375 --> 01:09:41.372 were it not that I have bad dreams. 01:09:43.243 --> 01:09:45.538 - Shall we to the court? - We'll wait upon you. 01:09:46.529 --> 01:09:47.995 No such matter: 01:09:49.356 --> 01:09:51.917 I will not sort you with the rest of my servants, 01:09:54.006 --> 01:09:56.990 But, in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore? 01:09:57.633 --> 01:09:59.976 To visit you, my lord; no other occasion. 01:09:59.977 --> 01:10:01.477 Were you not sent for? 01:10:03.856 --> 01:10:05.728 Is it your own inclining? 01:10:07.979 --> 01:10:10.135 A free visitation? 01:10:11.405 --> 01:10:13.322 Come, deal justly with me: 01:10:14.494 --> 01:10:16.760 - Come; nay, speak. - What should we say, my lord? 01:10:16.761 --> 01:10:18.164 Why, any thing, but to the purpose. 01:10:18.165 --> 01:10:21.071 You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks 01:10:21.072 --> 01:10:23.384 which your modesties have not craft enough to colour: 01:10:23.385 --> 01:10:25.260 I know the good king and queen have sent for you. 01:10:25.261 --> 01:10:26.537 To what end, my lord? 01:10:26.538 --> 01:10:28.281 That you must teach me. 01:10:29.257 --> 01:10:31.570 But let me conjure you, by the rights of our fellowship, 01:10:31.571 --> 01:10:35.034 be even and direct with me, whether you were sent for, or no? 01:10:37.259 --> 01:10:38.688 What say you? 01:10:38.723 --> 01:10:41.893 Nay, then, I have an eye of you.-- If you love me, hold not off. 01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:45.541 My lord, we were sent for. 01:10:47.602 --> 01:10:49.497 I will tell you why; 01:10:50.881 --> 01:10:54.444 so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, 01:10:55.696 --> 01:10:59.540 and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather. 01:11:02.258 --> 01:11:03.749 I have 01:11:04.037 --> 01:11:05.602 of late-- 01:11:07.430 --> 01:11:09.590 but wherefore I know not-- 01:11:11.289 --> 01:11:13.342 lost all my mirth, 01:11:16.697 --> 01:11:19.083 forgone all custom of exercise; 01:11:19.811 --> 01:11:22.996 and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition 01:11:22.997 --> 01:11:25.489 that this goodly frame, the earth, 01:11:26.431 --> 01:11:29.696 seems to me a sterile promontory, 01:11:32.506 --> 01:11:35.030 this most excellent canopy, the air, 01:11:35.102 --> 01:11:38.973 look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, 01:11:38.974 --> 01:11:43.911 this majestical roof fretted with golden fire... 01:11:45.661 --> 01:11:47.944 why, it appears no other thing to me 01:11:47.945 --> 01:11:52.682 than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. 01:11:56.542 --> 01:11:59.478 What a piece of work is a man! 01:12:02.194 --> 01:12:04.090 how noble in reason! 01:12:05.130 --> 01:12:07.378 how infinite in faculty! 01:12:08.879 --> 01:12:12.629 in form and moving how express and admirable! 01:12:14.026 --> 01:12:16.291 in action how like an angel! 01:12:18.084 --> 01:12:20.754 in apprehension how like a god! 01:12:23.161 --> 01:12:25.254 the beauty of the world! 01:12:26.379 --> 01:12:28.440 the paragon of animals! 01:12:28.817 --> 01:12:31.192 And yet, to me, what is this... 01:12:33.737 --> 01:12:36.191 quintessence of dust? 01:12:38.794 --> 01:12:42.434 man delights not me: 01:12:44.947 --> 01:12:46.359 no, nor woman neither, 01:12:46.360 --> 01:12:48.228 though by your smiling you seem to say so. 01:12:48.291 --> 01:12:50.276 My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts. 01:12:50.277 --> 01:12:53.217 Why did you laugh then, when I said 'man delights not me'? 01:12:53.480 --> 01:12:56.744 To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, 01:12:56.951 --> 01:13:00.433 what lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you: 01:13:00.805 --> 01:13:02.293 we coted them on the way; 01:13:02.294 --> 01:13:05.291 - and hither are they coming, to offer you service. - What players are they? 01:13:05.292 --> 01:13:08.734 Even those you were wont to take delight in, the tragedians of the city. 01:13:10.056 --> 01:13:12.264 He that plays the king shall be welcome; 01:13:14.214 --> 01:13:16.358 his majesty shall have tribute of me; 01:13:17.930 --> 01:13:21.141 It is not very strange; for mine uncle is king of Denmark, 01:13:21.202 --> 01:13:24.401 and those that would make mows at him while my father lived, 01:13:24.402 --> 01:13:27.576 give twenty, forty, fifty, an hundred ducats a-piece for his picture 01:13:27.577 --> 01:13:28.647 in little. 01:13:28.648 --> 01:13:29.700 'Sblood, 01:13:30.119 --> 01:13:31.434 there is something in this more than natural, 01:13:31.435 --> 01:13:33.276 if philosophy could find it out. 01:13:33.277 --> 01:13:34.204 There are the players. 01:13:34.239 --> 01:13:36.275 Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. 01:13:36.493 --> 01:13:38.045 Come then your hands. 01:13:40.994 --> 01:13:45.101 My uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. 01:13:45.102 --> 01:13:46.649 In what, my dear lord? 01:13:46.929 --> 01:13:50.554 I am but mad north-north-west: 01:13:51.736 --> 01:13:56.898 when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. 01:13:57.368 --> 01:13:58.991 Well be with you, gentlemen! 01:13:58.992 --> 01:14:01.837 Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too: at each ear a hearer: 01:14:01.838 --> 01:14:06.803 that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts. 01:14:06.804 --> 01:14:10.709 Happily he's the second time come to them; for they say an old man is twice a child. 01:14:10.868 --> 01:14:12.423 I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players; 01:14:12.424 --> 01:14:13.775 mark it. 01:14:13.776 --> 01:14:16.461 You say right, sir: o' Monday morning; 'twas so indeed. 01:14:16.462 --> 01:14:18.325 My lord, I have news to tell you. 01:14:18.326 --> 01:14:19.992 My lord, I have news to tell you. 01:14:19.993 --> 01:14:24.383 - When Roscius was an actor in Rome,-- - The actors are come hither, my lord. 01:14:24.384 --> 01:14:27.757 - Buz, buz! - Upon mine honour,-- - Then came each actor on his ass,-- 01:14:27.758 --> 01:14:32.675 The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, 01:14:32.676 --> 01:14:37.741 pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, 01:14:37.742 --> 01:14:42.115 tragical-historical, tragicalcomical- historical-pastoral, 01:14:42.116 --> 01:14:44.800 scene individable, or poem unlimited: 01:14:44.801 --> 01:14:48.458 Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. 01:14:48.459 --> 01:14:52.273 O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou! 01:14:52.274 --> 01:14:54.270 What a treasure had he, my lord? 01:14:54.271 --> 01:14:57.021 Why, 'One fair daughter and no more, The which he loved passing well.' 01:14:57.022 --> 01:15:00.740 - Still on my daughter. - Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah? 01:15:00.741 --> 01:15:05.209 If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing well. 01:15:05.210 --> 01:15:07.508 Nay, that follows not. 01:15:07.509 --> 01:15:11.208 - What follows, then, my lord? - You are welcome, masters; welcome, all. 01:15:11.209 --> 01:15:14.088 I am glad to see thee well. Welcome, good friends. 01:15:14.089 --> 01:15:16.301 O, my old friend! 01:15:16.859 --> 01:15:19.354 What, my young lady and mistress! 01:15:19.454 --> 01:15:20.615 By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer 01:15:20.616 --> 01:15:21.677 to heaven than when I last saw you , 01:15:21.678 --> 01:15:22.571 Pray God, your voice, 01:15:22.572 --> 01:15:23.504 be not cracked within the ring. 01:15:23.539 --> 01:15:24.807 That we'll have a speech straight: 01:15:24.842 --> 01:15:28.956 come, give us a taste of your quality; come, a passionate speech. 01:15:28.957 --> 01:15:30.705 What speech, my lord? 01:15:30.706 --> 01:15:33.173 I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted; 01:15:33.174 --> 01:15:37.196 or, if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, pleased not the million; 01:15:37.269 --> 01:15:39.041 'twas caviare to the general: 01:15:39.042 --> 01:15:42.518 One speech in it I chiefly loved: 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido; 01:15:42.550 --> 01:15:45.714 and thereabout of it especially, where he speaks of Priam's slaughter. 01:15:45.715 --> 01:15:48.008 if it live in your memory, begin at this line: 01:15:48.740 --> 01:15:51.236 let me see, let me see-- 01:15:51.237 --> 01:15:54.958 'The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast'-- it is not so:-- 01:15:56.312 --> 01:15:58.312 it begins with Pyrrhus:-- 'The rugged Pyrrhus, 01:15:58.313 --> 01:16:00.706 - "he whose sable arms..." - "whose sable arms"! 01:16:00.707 --> 01:16:04.655 Ehm... Black as his purpose, did the night resemble 01:16:07.062 --> 01:16:09.999 Ehm... When he lay couched in the ominous horse, 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:14.219 Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd 01:16:14.343 --> 01:16:17.489 With heraldry more dismal; head to foot 01:16:17.688 --> 01:16:21.469 - Now is he... - total... 01:16:21.470 --> 01:16:24.278 total gules roasted in wrath 01:16:24.279 --> 01:16:28.954 And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore, 01:16:28.955 --> 01:16:33.064 With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus 01:16:35.802 --> 01:16:38.355 the hellish Pyrrhus... 01:16:38.650 --> 01:16:42.305 Old grandsire Priam seeks.' 01:16:42.306 --> 01:16:43.648 So, proceed you. 01:16:43.649 --> 01:16:45.754 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, 01:16:45.755 --> 01:16:48.247 with good accent and good discretion. 01:16:52.232 --> 01:16:55.001 'Anon he finds him 01:16:55.450 --> 01:16:58.929 Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword, 01:16:58.930 --> 01:17:01.932 Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls, 01:17:01.933 --> 01:17:06.649 Repugnant to command: unequal match'd, 01:17:06.890 --> 01:17:11.013 Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; 01:17:11.014 --> 01:17:15.576 But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword 01:17:15.870 --> 01:17:18.714 The unnerved father falls. 01:17:19.436 --> 01:17:22.586 Then senseless Ilium, 01:17:22.587 --> 01:17:25.730 Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top 01:17:25.731 --> 01:17:29.187 Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash 01:17:29.188 --> 01:17:33.711 Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword, 01:17:33.712 --> 01:17:35.742 Which was declining on the milky head 01:17:35.743 --> 01:17:40.744 Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick: 01:17:42.217 --> 01:17:43.487 So, 01:17:44.222 --> 01:17:48.774 as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood, 01:17:48.866 --> 01:17:52.046 And like a neutral to his will and matter, 01:17:53.836 --> 01:17:55.492 Did nothing. 01:17:56.325 --> 01:18:00.054 But, as we often see, against some storm, 01:18:00.055 --> 01:18:03.020 A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, 01:18:03.021 --> 01:18:07.053 The bold winds speechless and the orb below 01:18:07.054 --> 01:18:09.244 As hush as death, 01:18:09.886 --> 01:18:13.208 anon the dreadful thunder 01:18:13.209 --> 01:18:18.603 Doth rend the region, so, after Pyrrhus' pause, 01:18:18.958 --> 01:18:22.304 Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work; 01:18:22.305 --> 01:18:24.893 And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall 01:18:24.894 --> 01:18:28.457 On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne 01:18:28.458 --> 01:18:32.367 With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword 01:18:32.368 --> 01:18:34.645 Now falls on Priam. 01:18:34.646 --> 01:18:36.396 This is too long. 01:18:36.397 --> 01:18:39.207 It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee, say on: 01:18:39.208 --> 01:18:41.913 he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps: 01:18:41.914 --> 01:18:44.699 say on: come to Hecuba. 01:18:47.269 --> 01:18:49.116 'But who, 01:18:50.737 --> 01:18:53.494 O, who had seen the mobled queen--' 01:18:53.495 --> 01:18:57.417 - 'The mobled queen? - That's good; 'mobled queen' is good. 01:19:00.238 --> 01:19:01.768 'Run 01:19:02.211 --> 01:19:05.377 barefoot up and down, 01:19:06.087 --> 01:19:11.010 threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head 01:19:11.011 --> 01:19:14.489 Where late the diadem stood, 01:19:16.146 --> 01:19:19.919 and for a robe, About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins, 01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:23.928 A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up; 01:19:24.542 --> 01:19:28.005 Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd, 01:19:28.006 --> 01:19:31.444 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced: 01:19:32.834 --> 01:19:35.755 But if the gods themselves did see her then 01:19:36.209 --> 01:19:39.898 When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport 01:19:40.444 --> 01:19:44.302 In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, 01:19:45.680 --> 01:19:49.604 The instant burst of clamour that she made, 01:19:51.129 --> 01:19:54.241 Unless things mortal move them not at all, 01:19:55.318 --> 01:19:59.535 Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, 01:20:01.365 --> 01:20:05.304 And passion in the gods.' 01:20:07.942 --> 01:20:13.020 Look, whether he has not turned his colour and has tears in's eyes. 01:20:13.021 --> 01:20:14.957 Pray you, no more. 01:20:15.306 --> 01:20:16.915 'Tis well: 01:20:17.077 --> 01:20:19.308 I'll have thee speak out the rest soon. 01:20:21.980 --> 01:20:24.039 My lord, will you see the players well bestowed? 01:20:24.040 --> 01:20:25.307 Do you hear, let them be well used; 01:20:25.308 --> 01:20:28.147 for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. 01:20:28.148 --> 01:20:31.836 My lord, I will use them according to their desert. 01:20:31.837 --> 01:20:34.555 God's bodykins, man, much better! 01:20:36.479 --> 01:20:39.431 Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? 01:20:39.557 --> 01:20:41.080 Come, sirs. 01:20:41.115 --> 01:20:43.402 Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow.. 01:20:43.917 --> 01:20:45.681 Dost thou hear me, old friend; 01:20:45.899 --> 01:20:48.352 can you play the Murder of Gonzago? 01:20:48.353 --> 01:20:50.100 - Ay, my lord. - We'll ha't to-morrow night. 01:20:50.101 --> 01:20:54.587 You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, 01:20:54.588 --> 01:20:57.164 which I would set down and insert in't, could you not? 01:20:57.165 --> 01:20:59.140 - Ay, my lord. - Very well. 01:20:59.242 --> 01:21:03.057 Follow that lord; and pray you mock him not. 01:21:03.058 --> 01:21:05.664 Ehm... no. 01:21:08.533 --> 01:21:11.153 My good friends, I'll leave you till night: 01:21:12.907 --> 01:21:14.110 you are welcome to Elsinore. 01:21:14.111 --> 01:21:15.560 Good my lord! 01:21:20.515 --> 01:21:22.245 God be wi' ye; 01:21:39.180 --> 01:21:40.829 Now I am alone. 01:21:50.245 --> 01:21:54.119 O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! 01:21:58.431 --> 01:22:01.453 Is it not monstrous that this player here, 01:22:03.953 --> 01:22:05.953 But in a fiction, 01:22:07.324 --> 01:22:09.671 in a dream of passion, 01:22:11.152 --> 01:22:15.078 Could force his soul so to his own conceit 01:22:15.079 --> 01:22:18.244 That from her working all his visage wann'd, 01:22:21.182 --> 01:22:25.540 Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, 01:22:25.541 --> 01:22:28.154 A broken voice, and his whole function suiting 01:22:28.155 --> 01:22:30.305 With forms to his conceit? 01:22:34.306 --> 01:22:36.541 and all for nothing! 01:22:36.542 --> 01:22:38.211 For Hecuba! 01:22:42.056 --> 01:22:45.014 What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 01:22:45.102 --> 01:22:47.088 That he should weep for her? 01:22:50.241 --> 01:22:51.585 What would he do, 01:22:51.586 --> 01:22:54.430 Had he the motive and the cue for passion 01:22:54.431 --> 01:22:59.337 That I have? He would drown the stage with tears 01:23:00.101 --> 01:23:03.055 And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, 01:23:03.056 --> 01:23:07.147 Make mad the guilty and appal the free, 01:23:08.418 --> 01:23:10.740 Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed 01:23:10.741 --> 01:23:14.803 The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, 01:23:17.837 --> 01:23:21.553 A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, 01:23:23.106 --> 01:23:25.552 Like John-a-dreams, 01:23:25.826 --> 01:23:29.520 unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing; 01:23:29.521 --> 01:23:31.741 no, not for a king, 01:23:34.137 --> 01:23:36.634 Upon whose property and most dear life 01:23:36.635 --> 01:23:38.865 A damn'd defeat was made. 01:23:49.459 --> 01:23:51.214 Am I a coward? 01:23:53.947 --> 01:23:55.789 Who calls me villain? 01:23:56.615 --> 01:23:58.490 breaks my pate across? 01:23:58.865 --> 01:24:02.178 Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face? 01:24:02.553 --> 01:24:03.698 Tweaks me by the nose? 01:24:03.699 --> 01:24:07.958 gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs? who does me this? Ha! 01:24:08.351 --> 01:24:11.925 'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be 01:24:11.926 --> 01:24:16.261 But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall 01:24:16.262 --> 01:24:18.897 To make oppression bitter, or ere this 01:24:18.898 --> 01:24:22.570 I should have fatted all the region kites 01:24:22.571 --> 01:24:24.927 With this slave's offal: 01:24:26.051 --> 01:24:28.363 bloody, bawdy villain! 01:24:28.364 --> 01:24:32.852 Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! 01:24:32.853 --> 01:24:34.987 O, vengeance! 01:24:38.175 --> 01:24:40.321 Why, what an ass am I! 01:24:42.348 --> 01:24:44.424 This is most brave, 01:24:47.721 --> 01:24:51.363 That I, the son of a dear father 01:24:51.861 --> 01:24:53.417 murder'd, 01:24:55.616 --> 01:24:58.379 Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, 01:24:58.552 --> 01:25:02.948 Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, 01:25:03.449 --> 01:25:06.051 And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, 01:25:06.052 --> 01:25:09.915 A scullion! Fie upon't! foh! 01:25:10.073 --> 01:25:11.771 About, my brain! 01:25:15.943 --> 01:25:17.231 I have heard 01:25:17.232 --> 01:25:21.332 That guilty creatures sitting at a play 01:25:22.364 --> 01:25:24.081 Have by the very cunning of the scene 01:25:24.082 --> 01:25:26.221 Been struck so to the soul that presently 01:25:26.222 --> 01:25:29.386 They have proclaim'd their malefactions; 01:25:29.612 --> 01:25:32.426 For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 01:25:33.081 --> 01:25:35.544 With most miraculous organ. 01:25:36.886 --> 01:25:37.911 I'll have these players 01:25:37.912 --> 01:25:40.894 Play something like the murder of my father 01:25:40.895 --> 01:25:42.823 Before mine uncle. 01:25:43.042 --> 01:25:47.394 I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: 01:25:47.395 --> 01:25:49.163 if he but blench, 01:25:50.496 --> 01:25:51.915 I know my course. 01:25:56.144 --> 01:25:59.394 The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power 01:25:59.395 --> 01:26:01.832 To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps 01:26:01.833 --> 01:26:03.863 Out of my weakness and my melancholy, 01:26:03.864 --> 01:26:07.113 As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me: 01:26:09.097 --> 01:26:12.174 I'll have grounds More relative than this: 01:26:13.488 --> 01:26:15.269 the play 's the thing 01:26:15.270 --> 01:26:18.548 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. 01:26:18.675 --> 01:26:20.799 And can you, by no drift of circumstance, 01:26:20.800 --> 01:26:23.799 Get from him why he puts on this confusion, 01:26:23.800 --> 01:26:27.019 He does confess he feels himself distracted; 01:26:27.020 --> 01:26:30.068 But from what cause he will by no means speak. 01:26:30.069 --> 01:26:32.078 Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, 01:26:32.079 --> 01:26:34.766 But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof, 01:26:34.767 --> 01:26:37.520 When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. 01:26:37.521 --> 01:26:39.271 Did he receive you well? 01:26:39.272 --> 01:26:42.734 - Most like a gentleman. - But with much forcing of his disposition. 01:26:42.735 --> 01:26:46.014 Niggard of question; but, of our demands, Most free in his reply. 01:26:46.015 --> 01:26:48.255 Did you assay him? To any pastime? 01:26:48.256 --> 01:26:50.173 Madam, it so fell out, that certain players 01:26:50.174 --> 01:26:53.235 We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him; 01:26:53.236 --> 01:26:56.266 And there did seem in him a kind of joy to hear of it. 01:26:56.267 --> 01:26:57.235 'Tis most true. 01:26:57.236 --> 01:27:01.609 And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties To hear and see the matter. 01:27:01.610 --> 01:27:05.034 With all my heart; and it doth much content me 01:27:05.035 --> 01:27:06.520 To hear him so inclined. 01:27:06.521 --> 01:27:08.487 Good gentlemen, give him a further edge, 01:27:08.488 --> 01:27:11.139 And drive his purpose on to these delights. 01:27:11.140 --> 01:27:12.734 We shall, my lord. 01:27:16.541 --> 01:27:18.930 I have in quick determination Thus set it down: 01:27:18.931 --> 01:27:20.806 he shall with speed to England, 01:27:20.807 --> 01:27:23.389 Haply the seas and countries different 01:27:23.390 --> 01:27:25.243 With variable objects shall expel 01:27:25.244 --> 01:27:29.171 This something-settled matter in his heart, 01:27:29.172 --> 01:27:32.055 Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus 01:27:32.056 --> 01:27:34.741 From fashion of himself. What think you on't? 01:27:34.742 --> 01:27:37.554 It shall do well: but yet do I believe 01:27:37.555 --> 01:27:39.912 The origin and commencement of his grief 01:27:39.913 --> 01:27:42.231 Sprung from neglected love. 01:27:42.489 --> 01:27:44.268 My lord, do as you please; 01:27:44.269 --> 01:27:47.583 But, if you hold it fit, after the play 01:27:47.584 --> 01:27:50.634 Let his queen mother all alone entreat him 01:27:50.635 --> 01:27:54.331 To show his grief: let her be round with him; 01:27:54.332 --> 01:27:57.799 And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear 01:27:57.800 --> 01:28:00.845 Of all their conference. If she find him not, 01:28:00.846 --> 01:28:04.159 To England send him, or confine him 01:28:04.160 --> 01:28:05.795 where your wisdom best shall think. 01:28:05.796 --> 01:28:07.422 It shall be so: 01:28:08.266 --> 01:28:11.764 Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. 01:28:13.797 --> 01:28:16.339 Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, 01:28:16.340 --> 01:28:18.759 trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, 01:28:18.894 --> 01:28:23.206 as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. 01:28:23.207 --> 01:28:28.855 Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, 01:28:28.856 --> 01:28:34.096 thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, 01:28:34.097 --> 01:28:36.770 and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, 01:28:36.771 --> 01:28:38.483 you must acquire and beget a temperance 01:28:38.484 --> 01:28:40.199 that may give it smoothness. 01:28:40.200 --> 01:28:43.548 O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious 01:28:43.549 --> 01:28:46.763 periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, 01:28:46.764 --> 01:28:49.732 to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, 01:28:49.733 --> 01:28:52.039 who for the most part are capable of nothing but 01:28:52.208 --> 01:28:54.699 inexplicable dumbshows and noise: 01:28:54.700 --> 01:28:57.634 I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; 01:28:57.635 --> 01:29:00.563 it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. 01:29:00.564 --> 01:29:02.326 I warrant your honour. 01:29:03.264 --> 01:29:05.794 Be not too tame neither, 01:29:06.108 --> 01:29:08.636 but let your own discretion be your tutor: 01:29:09.120 --> 01:29:12.186 suit the action to the word, the word to the action; 01:29:12.187 --> 01:29:14.240 with this special o'erstep 01:29:14.275 --> 01:29:16.953 you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: 01:29:17.044 --> 01:29:19.056 for any thing so overdone is 01:29:19.057 --> 01:29:21.313 from the purpose of playing, whose end, 01:29:21.314 --> 01:29:26.604 both at the first and last, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; 01:29:29.327 --> 01:29:31.573 to show virtue her own feature, 01:29:32.750 --> 01:29:34.939 scorn her own image 01:29:35.702 --> 01:29:37.981 the very age and body of the time 01:29:38.464 --> 01:29:40.452 his form and pressure. 01:29:40.510 --> 01:29:42.542 Now this overdone, or come tardy off, 01:29:42.543 --> 01:29:44.594 though it make the unskilful laugh 01:29:44.595 --> 01:29:47.478 cannot but make the judicious grieve; 01:29:47.848 --> 01:29:50.062 the censure of the which one must in your allowance 01:29:50.097 --> 01:29:51.823 o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. 01:29:51.824 --> 01:29:55.438 I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. 01:29:56.840 --> 01:29:58.323 Reform it altogether. 01:30:00.269 --> 01:30:03.156 And let those that play your clowns 01:30:03.157 --> 01:30:05.623 speak no more than is set down for them; 01:30:05.624 --> 01:30:07.520 for there be of them that will themselves laugh, 01:30:07.521 --> 01:30:10.686 to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too 01:30:10.687 --> 01:30:12.192 though, in the mean time, some necessary question 01:30:12.193 --> 01:30:13.998 of the play be then to be considered: 01:30:13.999 --> 01:30:14.889 that's villanous, 01:30:14.924 --> 01:30:18.320 and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. 01:30:19.067 --> 01:30:22.101 Go, make you ready. Good, my lord! 01:30:22.740 --> 01:30:24.557 Will the king hear this piece of work? 01:30:24.558 --> 01:30:28.019 And the queen too, and that presently. 01:30:28.114 --> 01:30:29.758 Bid the players make haste. 01:30:33.037 --> 01:30:35.000 Will you two help to hasten them? 01:30:35.001 --> 01:30:36.608 We will, my lord. 01:30:47.058 --> 01:30:49.880 - What ho! Horatio! - Here, sweet lord, at your service. 01:30:49.881 --> 01:30:53.445 Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal. 01:30:53.646 --> 01:30:54.946 O, my dear lord,-- 01:30:55.046 --> 01:30:57.330 Nay, do not think I flatter; Dost thou hear? 01:30:57.475 --> 01:30:59.272 Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice 01:30:59.273 --> 01:31:02.510 And could of men distinguish, her election Hath seal'd thee for herself; 01:31:04.211 --> 01:31:05.115 Give me that man 01:31:05.216 --> 01:31:08.021 That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him 01:31:08.022 --> 01:31:12.542 In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, 01:31:13.220 --> 01:31:15.006 As I do thee.-- Something too much of this.-- 01:31:15.007 --> 01:31:18.893 There is a play to-night before the king; 01:31:19.572 --> 01:31:23.677 One scene of it comes near the circumstance Which I have told thee of my father's death: 01:31:24.365 --> 01:31:26.818 I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, 01:31:26.819 --> 01:31:30.088 Even with the very comment of thy soul Observe mine uncle: 01:31:30.123 --> 01:31:31.758 if his occulted guilt 01:31:31.759 --> 01:31:33.806 Do not itself unkennel in one speech, 01:31:35.919 --> 01:31:38.497 It is a damned ghost that we have seen, 01:31:38.612 --> 01:31:42.194 And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy. 01:31:42.195 --> 01:31:42.982 Well, my lord: 01:31:43.195 --> 01:31:45.481 If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing, 01:31:45.516 --> 01:31:47.362 And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft. 01:31:48.257 --> 01:31:49.450 They are coming to the play. 01:31:49.451 --> 01:31:51.571 I must be idle: Get you a place. 01:32:23.825 --> 01:32:25.484 How fares our cousin Hamlet? 01:32:25.485 --> 01:32:30.984 Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed: 01:32:31.271 --> 01:32:34.796 I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words are not mine. 01:32:34.797 --> 01:32:37.211 No, nor mine now. My lord, 01:32:37.212 --> 01:32:39.678 you played once i' the university, you say? 01:32:39.679 --> 01:32:44.569 That did I, my lord; and was accounted a good actor. 01:32:44.570 --> 01:32:46.497 What did you enact? 01:32:46.498 --> 01:32:49.749 I did enact Julius Caesar. 01:32:50.068 --> 01:32:52.864 I was killed i' the Capitol; 01:32:52.927 --> 01:32:54.873 Brutus killed me. 01:32:54.874 --> 01:32:59.257 It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there. 01:32:59.714 --> 01:33:00.539 Be the players ready? 01:33:00.540 --> 01:33:02.089 Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience. 01:33:02.090 --> 01:33:04.723 Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me. 01:33:04.724 --> 01:33:06.513 No, good mother, 01:33:06.987 --> 01:33:08.946 here's metal more attractive. 01:33:09.109 --> 01:33:11.576 O, ho! do you mark that? 01:33:11.577 --> 01:33:13.752 Lady, shall I lie in your lap? 01:33:13.753 --> 01:33:16.319 - No, my lord. - I mean, my head upon your lap? 01:33:16.320 --> 01:33:19.776 - Ay, my lord. - Do you think I meant country matters? 01:33:20.538 --> 01:33:21.841 I think nothing, my lord. 01:33:21.842 --> 01:33:24.967 That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. 01:33:24.968 --> 01:33:26.926 - What is, my lord? - Nothing. 01:33:27.027 --> 01:33:28.327 You are merry, my lord. 01:33:28.362 --> 01:33:30.325 - Who, I? - Ay, my lord. 01:33:30.326 --> 01:33:34.540 O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do but be merry? 01:33:34.541 --> 01:33:37.170 For, look you, how cheerfully my mother looks, 01:33:37.171 --> 01:33:40.181 and my father died within these two hours. 01:33:40.182 --> 01:33:43.473 Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord. 01:33:43.474 --> 01:33:45.499 So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, 01:33:45.500 --> 01:33:47.828 for I'll have a suit of sables. 01:33:48.189 --> 01:33:49.712 O heavens! 01:33:49.713 --> 01:33:52.731 Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? 01:35:03.303 --> 01:35:04.444 Dead! 01:35:54.638 --> 01:35:55.987 What means this, my lord? 01:35:55.988 --> 01:35:59.373 Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief. 01:35:59.374 --> 01:36:02.379 Belike this show imports the argument of the play. 01:36:02.380 --> 01:36:06.049 We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot keep counsel; they'll tell all. 01:36:08.456 --> 01:36:11.111 For us, and for our tragedy, 01:36:11.307 --> 01:36:14.528 Here stooping to your clemency, 01:36:14.529 --> 01:36:17.750 We beg your hearing patiently. 01:36:19.204 --> 01:36:21.512 Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? 01:36:21.513 --> 01:36:22.933 'Tis brief, my lord. 01:36:22.934 --> 01:36:24.899 As woman's love. 01:36:49.493 --> 01:36:53.597 Full thirty years of past in sacred bands 01:36:53.654 --> 01:36:57.232 Since love our hearts 01:36:57.233 --> 01:37:00.363 and Hymen joined our hands. 01:37:00.364 --> 01:37:03.461 So many journeys may the sun and moon 01:37:03.794 --> 01:37:05.743 Make us again count o'er 01:37:05.744 --> 01:37:07.692 ere love be done! 01:37:09.505 --> 01:37:15.148 'Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too; 01:37:15.440 --> 01:37:20.441 My operant powers their functions leave to do: 01:37:20.865 --> 01:37:25.013 And thou shalt live in this fair world behind, 01:37:25.227 --> 01:37:31.877 Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind 01:37:31.878 --> 01:37:33.817 For husband shalt thou-- 01:37:33.818 --> 01:37:36.008 O, confound the rest! 01:37:36.034 --> 01:37:39.846 Such love must needs be treason in my breast: 01:37:41.651 --> 01:37:44.668 In second husband let me be accurst! 01:37:44.669 --> 01:37:48.566 None wed the second but who kill'd the first. 01:37:50.181 --> 01:37:53.696 A second time I kill my husband dead, 01:37:53.697 --> 01:37:56.755 When second husband kisses me in bed. 01:37:56.756 --> 01:38:00.188 I do believe you think what now you speak; 01:38:00.400 --> 01:38:04.318 But what we do determine oft we break. 01:38:04.606 --> 01:38:07.962 So think thou wilt no second husband wed; 01:38:08.201 --> 01:38:16.020 But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead. 01:38:16.165 --> 01:38:20.737 Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light! 01:38:21.071 --> 01:38:24.676 Sport and repose lock from me day and night! 01:38:25.014 --> 01:38:30.368 Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, 01:38:30.622 --> 01:38:34.149 If, once a widow, ever I be wife! 01:38:34.150 --> 01:38:36.345 If she should break it now! 01:38:36.424 --> 01:38:39.653 'Tis deeply sworn. 01:38:40.745 --> 01:38:43.992 Sweet, leave me here awhile; 01:38:44.573 --> 01:38:48.616 My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile 01:38:48.617 --> 01:38:52.386 The tedious day with sleep. 01:38:52.387 --> 01:38:54.781 Sleep rock thy brain, 01:38:55.999 --> 01:38:59.432 And never come mischance between us twain! 01:38:59.433 --> 01:39:02.418 Madam, how like you this play? 01:39:02.419 --> 01:39:06.074 The lady does protest too much, methinks. 01:39:07.391 --> 01:39:10.635 - O, but she'll keep her word. - Have you heard the argument? 01:39:10.636 --> 01:39:13.933 - Is there no offence in 't? - No, no, they do but jest, 01:39:13.934 --> 01:39:16.043 poison in jest; no offence i' the world. 01:39:16.044 --> 01:39:17.537 What do you call the play? 01:39:17.538 --> 01:39:19.079 The Mouse-trap. 01:39:19.080 --> 01:39:21.055 This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. 01:39:21.056 --> 01:39:23.057 Gonzago is the duke's name; his wife, Baptista: 01:39:23.058 --> 01:39:25.765 You shall see anon; 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o' that? 01:39:25.766 --> 01:39:29.820 your majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not: 01:39:30.296 --> 01:39:33.785 let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. 01:39:33.786 --> 01:39:37.350 This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king. 01:39:37.351 --> 01:39:39.396 You are as good as a chorus, my lord. 01:39:39.397 --> 01:39:41.118 I could interpret between you and your love, 01:39:41.119 --> 01:39:42.608 if I could see the puppets dallying. 01:39:42.609 --> 01:39:45.079 You are keen, my lord, you are keen. 01:39:48.047 --> 01:39:50.426 Begin, murderer; 01:39:51.019 --> 01:39:54.070 pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. 01:39:54.360 --> 01:39:57.719 Come: 'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.' 01:39:58.064 --> 01:40:00.037 Thoughts black, 01:40:00.130 --> 01:40:05.253 hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing; 01:40:05.425 --> 01:40:10.414 Confederate season, else no creature seeing; 01:40:11.168 --> 01:40:15.707 Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, 01:40:15.774 --> 01:40:21.686 With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected, 01:40:22.774 --> 01:40:26.773 Thy natural magic and dire property, 01:40:26.784 --> 01:40:31.704 On wholesome life usurp immediately. 01:40:31.705 --> 01:40:34.127 He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. 01:40:34.737 --> 01:40:37.390 His name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in choice Italian: 01:40:37.391 --> 01:40:41.174 you shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago's wife. 01:40:42.371 --> 01:40:45.107 - The king rises. - What, frighted with false fire! 01:40:45.108 --> 01:40:47.626 - How fares my lord? - Give o'er the play. 01:40:50.021 --> 01:40:51.583 Give me some light. 01:41:01.988 --> 01:41:05.680 - Away! - Lights, lights, lights! 01:41:14.347 --> 01:41:19.040 O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound. 01:41:19.041 --> 01:41:20.654 - Didst perceive? - Very well, my lord. 01:41:20.655 --> 01:41:22.462 Upon the talk of the poisoning? 01:41:22.463 --> 01:41:24.792 - I did very well note him. - Come, some music! 01:41:24.793 --> 01:41:27.086 Come, the recorders! 01:41:27.087 --> 01:41:29.030 For if the king like not the comedy, 01:41:29.327 --> 01:41:31.885 Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy. 01:41:31.886 --> 01:41:33.297 Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you. 01:41:33.298 --> 01:41:35.298 Sir, a whole history. 01:41:35.598 --> 01:41:37.217 - The king, sir,-- - Ay, sir, what of him? 01:41:37.218 --> 01:41:39.686 Is in his retirement marvellous distempered. 01:41:39.687 --> 01:41:41.222 With drink, sir? 01:41:41.223 --> 01:41:43.240 No, my lord, rather with choler. 01:41:43.656 --> 01:41:46.759 Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame 01:41:46.760 --> 01:41:49.477 and start not so wildly from my affair. 01:41:49.478 --> 01:41:52.334 I am tame, sir: pronounce. 01:41:52.335 --> 01:41:55.925 The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of spirit, hath sent me to you. 01:41:55.926 --> 01:41:57.326 - You are welcome. - Nay, good my lord, 01:41:57.327 --> 01:41:58.702 If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer, 01:41:58.703 --> 01:42:00.138 I will do your mother's commands. 01:42:00.139 --> 01:42:02.004 - Oh, oh, oh, sir... sir... I cannot. 01:42:02.005 --> 01:42:02.838 What, my lord? 01:42:02.939 --> 01:42:06.439 Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased. 01:42:06.474 --> 01:42:08.358 - My mother, you say? - Then thus she says, 01:42:08.550 --> 01:42:12.313 your behavior hath struck her into wonder and astonishment. 01:42:12.314 --> 01:42:15.756 O wonderful son, 01:42:16.233 --> 01:42:18.074 that can so astonish a mother! 01:42:19.275 --> 01:42:20.525 Impart. 01:42:20.993 --> 01:42:22.343 She desires to speak with you in her closet, 01:42:22.344 --> 01:42:24.561 ere you go to bed. 01:42:24.562 --> 01:42:28.629 We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. 01:42:32.310 --> 01:42:35.194 Have you any further trade with us? 01:42:35.506 --> 01:42:36.981 My lord, 01:42:37.179 --> 01:42:39.019 you once did love me. 01:42:40.813 --> 01:42:42.714 So I do still, 01:42:43.467 --> 01:42:45.934 by these pickers and stealers. 01:42:45.935 --> 01:42:48.315 Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? 01:42:48.316 --> 01:42:51.091 You do, surely, bar the door upon your own liberty, 01:42:51.092 --> 01:42:53.160 if you deny your griefs to your friend. 01:42:53.161 --> 01:42:56.781 Sir, I lack advancement. 01:42:56.961 --> 01:43:00.768 How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark? 01:43:00.769 --> 01:43:02.419 Ay, but sir, 01:43:02.420 --> 01:43:04.934 'While the grass grows,' 01:43:08.233 --> 01:43:09.868 the proverb is something musty. 01:43:09.869 --> 01:43:12.789 O, the recorders! let me see one. 01:43:14.514 --> 01:43:16.239 To withdraw with you: 01:43:18.409 --> 01:43:20.320 why do you go about to recover the wind of me, 01:43:20.321 --> 01:43:22.189 as if you would drive me into a toil? 01:43:22.190 --> 01:43:25.004 O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, 01:43:25.005 --> 01:43:27.186 my love is too unmannerly. 01:43:29.784 --> 01:43:33.006 I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe? 01:43:33.212 --> 01:43:34.840 - My lord, I cannot. - I pray you. 01:43:35.041 --> 01:43:36.141 Believe me, I cannot. 01:43:36.241 --> 01:43:38.870 - I do beseech you. - I know no touch of it, my lord. 01:43:38.871 --> 01:43:40.534 'Tis as easy as lying. 01:43:40.535 --> 01:43:41.806 govern these ventages with your lingers and thumb, 01:43:41.807 --> 01:43:43.377 give it breath with your mouth, 01:43:43.378 --> 01:43:45.870 and it will discourse most eloquent music. 01:43:47.830 --> 01:43:48.895 Look you, these are the stops. 01:43:48.896 --> 01:43:52.929 But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. 01:43:55.566 --> 01:43:57.452 Why, look you now, 01:43:57.612 --> 01:44:00.364 how unworthy a thing you make of me! 01:44:02.552 --> 01:44:04.478 You would play upon me; 01:44:05.221 --> 01:44:07.531 you would seem to know my stops; 01:44:08.123 --> 01:44:10.614 you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; 01:44:10.615 --> 01:44:12.620 you would sound me from my lowest note 01:44:12.621 --> 01:44:14.058 to the top of my compass: 01:44:14.059 --> 01:44:18.154 and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; 01:44:18.589 --> 01:44:21.017 yet cannot you make it speak? 01:44:21.782 --> 01:44:26.392 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? 01:44:27.432 --> 01:44:31.044 Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, 01:44:31.045 --> 01:44:35.444 you cannot play upon me. 01:44:37.199 --> 01:44:39.501 God bless you, sir! 01:44:40.943 --> 01:44:44.896 My lord, the queen would speak with you... 01:44:49.783 --> 01:44:52.303 and presently. 01:44:56.238 --> 01:45:00.014 Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? 01:45:00.693 --> 01:45:05.133 By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. 01:45:05.987 --> 01:45:08.352 Methinks it is like a weasel. 01:45:08.947 --> 01:45:12.495 It is backed like a weasel. 01:45:13.102 --> 01:45:17.000 - Or like a whale? - Very like a whale. 01:45:19.784 --> 01:45:22.171 Then I will come to my mother by and by. 01:45:22.172 --> 01:45:25.188 They fool me to the top of my bent. 01:45:26.486 --> 01:45:28.202 I will come by and by. 01:45:28.203 --> 01:45:31.839 - I will say so. - By and by is easily said. 01:45:32.701 --> 01:45:34.589 Leave me, friends. 01:45:44.637 --> 01:45:47.375 Tis now the very witching time of night, 01:45:47.801 --> 01:45:51.844 When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out 01:45:51.845 --> 01:45:57.287 Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, 01:45:58.250 --> 01:46:01.770 And do such bitter business as the day 01:46:01.771 --> 01:46:04.134 Would quake to look on. 01:46:05.068 --> 01:46:09.484 Soft! now to my mother. 01:46:10.437 --> 01:46:15.880 I will speak daggers to her, but use none. 01:46:16.189 --> 01:46:20.630 I like him not, nor stands it safe with us 01:46:20.631 --> 01:46:25.939 To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you; 01:46:25.940 --> 01:46:27.855 I your commission will forthwith dispatch, 01:46:27.856 --> 01:46:30.711 And he to England shall along with you: 01:46:31.052 --> 01:46:32.879 The terms of our estate may not endure 01:46:32.880 --> 01:46:36.334 Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow 01:46:36.335 --> 01:46:37.574 Out of his lunacy. 01:46:37.575 --> 01:46:39.302 We will ourselves provide: 01:46:39.355 --> 01:46:41.463 Most holy and religious fear it is 01:46:41.464 --> 01:46:43.775 To keep those many many bodies safe 01:46:43.776 --> 01:46:46.218 That live and feed upon your majesty. 01:46:47.295 --> 01:46:51.057 Never alone did the king sigh, but with a general groan. 01:46:51.278 --> 01:46:53.790 The majesty is a massy wheel, 01:46:53.791 --> 01:46:55.861 Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, 01:46:55.862 --> 01:46:59.035 To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things 01:46:59.036 --> 01:47:02.952 Are mortised and adjoin'd. 01:47:03.192 --> 01:47:06.518 Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage; 01:47:07.064 --> 01:47:09.513 For we will fetters put upon this fear, 01:47:09.514 --> 01:47:12.378 ich now goes too free-footed. 01:47:12.403 --> 01:47:13.909 We will haste us. 01:47:15.531 --> 01:47:18.703 My lord, he's going to his mother's closet: 01:47:18.704 --> 01:47:21.107 Behind the arras I'll convey myself, 01:47:21.108 --> 01:47:22.421 To hear the process. 01:47:22.422 --> 01:47:25.105 and warrant she'll tax him home: 01:47:25.106 --> 01:47:27.467 Fare you well, my liege: 01:47:27.503 --> 01:47:31.067 I'll call upon you ere you go to bed, And tell you what I know. 01:47:31.562 --> 01:47:33.531 Thanks, dear my lord. 01:47:47.400 --> 01:47:50.346 O, my offence is rank 01:47:51.696 --> 01:47:54.475 it smells to heaven; 01:47:56.451 --> 01:47:59.651 It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, 01:48:01.363 --> 01:48:03.573 A brother's murder. 01:48:09.009 --> 01:48:11.075 Pray can I not, 01:48:12.515 --> 01:48:15.859 Though inclination be as sharp as will: 01:48:16.745 --> 01:48:20.706 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; 01:48:21.053 --> 01:48:24.463 And, like a man to double business bound, 01:48:24.464 --> 01:48:26.960 I stand in pause where I shall first begin, 01:48:26.961 --> 01:48:29.034 And both neglect. 01:48:31.751 --> 01:48:34.080 What if this cursed hand 01:48:34.122 --> 01:48:37.808 Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, 01:48:38.398 --> 01:48:40.790 Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 01:48:40.791 --> 01:48:43.880 To wash it white as snow? 01:48:44.765 --> 01:48:47.143 Whereto serves mercy 01:48:47.479 --> 01:48:50.616 But to confront the visage of offence? 01:48:51.234 --> 01:48:54.670 And what's in prayer but this two-fold force, 01:48:54.671 --> 01:48:57.482 To be forestalled ere we come to fall, 01:48:57.483 --> 01:49:02.806 Or pardon'd being down? 01:49:04.323 --> 01:49:06.211 Then I'll look up; 01:49:07.006 --> 01:49:09.152 My fault is past. 01:49:09.565 --> 01:49:14.142 But, O, what form of prayer 01:49:14.143 --> 01:49:18.883 Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'? 01:49:18.884 --> 01:49:23.754 That cannot be; since I am still possess'd 01:49:23.755 --> 01:49:30.602 Of those effects for which I did the murder, 01:49:30.603 --> 01:49:37.936 My crown, mine own ambition and my queen. 01:49:39.624 --> 01:49:44.351 May one be pardon'd and retain the offence? 01:49:45.080 --> 01:49:48.452 In the corrupted currents of this world 01:49:48.453 --> 01:49:52.378 Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, 01:49:52.379 --> 01:49:55.054 And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself 01:49:55.055 --> 01:50:00.989 Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; 01:50:02.548 --> 01:50:05.792 There is no shuffling, 01:50:06.185 --> 01:50:07.698 there the action lies 01:50:07.699 --> 01:50:11.881 In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, 01:50:11.882 --> 01:50:14.507 Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, 01:50:14.508 --> 01:50:16.927 To give in evidence. 01:50:17.361 --> 01:50:19.267 What then? 01:50:19.890 --> 01:50:21.621 what rests? 01:50:23.199 --> 01:50:25.312 Try what repentance can. 01:50:27.745 --> 01:50:29.432 what can it not? 01:50:31.148 --> 01:50:35.775 Yet what can it when one can not repent? 01:50:37.507 --> 01:50:41.288 O wretched state! 01:50:42.143 --> 01:50:45.360 O bosom black as death! 01:50:46.018 --> 01:50:51.165 O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, 01:50:51.653 --> 01:50:53.898 Art more engaged! 01:50:55.814 --> 01:50:59.665 Help, angels! 01:51:00.581 --> 01:51:02.707 Make assay! 01:51:03.918 --> 01:51:06.357 Bow, stubborn knees; 01:51:07.039 --> 01:51:12.557 and, heart with strings of steel, 01:51:13.284 --> 01:51:16.956 Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe! 01:51:22.393 --> 01:51:24.415 All may be well. 01:51:31.071 --> 01:51:33.018 Now might I do it pat, 01:51:36.476 --> 01:51:38.180 now he is praying; 01:51:41.071 --> 01:51:42.342 And now I'll do't. 01:51:45.575 --> 01:51:47.383 And so he goes to heaven; 01:51:47.708 --> 01:51:50.415 And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd: 01:51:50.576 --> 01:51:52.783 A villain kills my father; and for that, 01:51:52.784 --> 01:51:56.115 I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven? 01:51:57.322 --> 01:51:59.851 O, this is hire and salary, not revenge. 01:52:04.921 --> 01:52:08.222 He took my father grossly, full of bread; 01:52:08.316 --> 01:52:11.767 With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; 01:52:13.577 --> 01:52:16.722 And how his audit stands who knows save heaven? 01:52:18.314 --> 01:52:19.429 and am I then revenged, 01:52:19.430 --> 01:52:22.400 To take him in the purging of his soul, 01:52:22.401 --> 01:52:24.916 When he is fit and season'd for his passage? 01:52:26.244 --> 01:52:27.418 No! 01:52:29.536 --> 01:52:31.013 Up, blade, 01:52:32.390 --> 01:52:34.679 and know thou a more horrid hent: 01:52:37.541 --> 01:52:42.027 When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, 01:52:43.134 --> 01:52:45.863 Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed; 01:52:47.960 --> 01:52:51.123 At gaming, swearing, or about some act 01:52:51.124 --> 01:52:53.926 That has no relish of salvation in't; 01:52:55.505 --> 01:53:00.103 Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, 01:53:01.120 --> 01:53:05.199 And that his soul may be as damn'd and black 01:53:05.200 --> 01:53:07.873 As hell, whereto it goes. 01:53:12.585 --> 01:53:14.411 My mother stays: 01:53:18.057 --> 01:53:21.818 This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. 01:53:29.571 --> 01:53:32.382 My words fly up, 01:53:34.505 --> 01:53:36.985 my thoughts remain below: 01:53:43.190 --> 01:53:47.683 Words without thoughts never to heaven go. 01:53:55.608 --> 01:53:58.780 He will come straight. Look you lay home to him: 01:53:58.781 --> 01:54:01.357 Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, 01:54:01.358 --> 01:54:04.129 And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between much heat and him. 01:54:04.130 --> 01:54:07.591 I'll sconce me even here. 01:54:07.592 --> 01:54:09.671 Pray you, be round with him. 01:54:09.672 --> 01:54:13.255 I'll warrant you, fear me not: withdraw, I hear him coming. 01:54:13.271 --> 01:54:15.371 Mother, mother! 01:54:21.928 --> 01:54:23.288 Mother! 01:54:23.289 --> 01:54:24.490 Now, mother, what's the matter? 01:54:24.491 --> 01:54:28.159 Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. 01:54:28.160 --> 01:54:30.230 Mother, you have my father much offended. 01:54:30.231 --> 01:54:32.402 Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. 01:54:32.403 --> 01:54:35.658 - Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. - Why, how now, Hamlet! 01:54:35.659 --> 01:54:37.375 What's the matter now? 01:54:40.810 --> 01:54:42.333 Have you forgot me? 01:54:42.334 --> 01:54:45.380 No, by the rood, not so: 01:54:45.381 --> 01:54:49.740 You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife; 01:54:49.741 --> 01:54:51.591 And--would it were not so!-- 01:54:52.392 --> 01:54:54.001 you are my mother. 01:54:54.954 --> 01:54:57.663 Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak. 01:54:57.774 --> 01:55:00.618 Come, come, and sit you down; 01:55:00.619 --> 01:55:03.239 you shall not budge; You go not till I set you up a glass 01:55:03.240 --> 01:55:05.837 Where you may see the inmost part of you. 01:55:05.838 --> 01:55:07.791 What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me? 01:55:09.557 --> 01:55:12.245 Help, help, ho! 01:55:12.246 --> 01:55:15.735 What, ho! help, help, help! 01:55:15.904 --> 01:55:19.227 How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead! 01:55:28.951 --> 01:55:30.345 What hast thou done? 01:55:30.417 --> 01:55:34.798 Nay, I know not: Is it the king? 01:55:37.417 --> 01:55:40.230 O, what a rash and bloody deed is this! 01:55:40.319 --> 01:55:44.177 A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, 01:55:44.178 --> 01:55:46.885 As kill a king, and marry with his brother. 01:55:47.073 --> 01:55:48.836 As kill a king! 01:55:48.952 --> 01:55:50.937 Ay, lady, 'twas my word. 01:55:52.997 --> 01:55:56.847 Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! 01:55:59.210 --> 01:56:03.659 I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune; 01:56:04.378 --> 01:56:07.414 Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down, 01:56:07.482 --> 01:56:11.082 And let me wring your heart; for so I shall, 01:56:11.083 --> 01:56:12.960 If it be made of penetrable stuff, 01:56:12.961 --> 01:56:16.876 What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue In noise so rude against me? 01:56:16.911 --> 01:56:18.684 Such an act 01:56:18.895 --> 01:56:22.069 That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, 01:56:22.070 --> 01:56:25.721 Calls virtue hypocrite, makes marriage-vows 01:56:25.722 --> 01:56:29.443 - As false as dicers' oaths! - Ay me, what act, 01:56:29.444 --> 01:56:32.741 That roars so loud, and thunders in the index? 01:56:33.108 --> 01:56:36.252 Look here, upon this picture, 01:56:36.313 --> 01:56:40.096 and... on this, 01:56:41.452 --> 01:56:44.031 The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. 01:56:44.032 --> 01:56:47.610 See, what a grace was seated on this brow; 01:56:49.248 --> 01:56:51.308 Hyperion's curls 01:56:52.348 --> 01:56:54.692 the front of Jove himself; 01:56:55.536 --> 01:56:59.497 An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; 01:57:00.077 --> 01:57:02.874 A station like the herald Mercury 01:57:02.918 --> 01:57:05.611 New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; 01:57:05.612 --> 01:57:07.467 A combination and a form indeed, 01:57:07.468 --> 01:57:09.816 Where every god did seem to set his seal, 01:57:09.817 --> 01:57:12.821 To give the world assurance of a man: 01:57:13.626 --> 01:57:15.542 This was your husband. 01:57:17.950 --> 01:57:20.566 Look you now, what follows: 01:57:20.955 --> 01:57:25.043 Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, 01:57:25.044 --> 01:57:27.618 Blasting his wholesome brother. 01:57:27.619 --> 01:57:28.549 Have you eyes? 01:57:28.926 --> 01:57:31.618 Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, 01:57:31.619 --> 01:57:36.156 And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? 01:57:36.225 --> 01:57:38.473 You cannot call it love; for at your age 01:57:38.474 --> 01:57:42.210 The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, 01:57:42.211 --> 01:57:44.359 And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment 01:57:44.360 --> 01:57:48.051 Would step from this to this? What devil was't 01:57:48.052 --> 01:57:51.101 That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind? 01:57:52.241 --> 01:57:55.841 Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, 01:57:55.842 --> 01:57:59.757 Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, 01:57:59.758 --> 01:58:02.416 Or but a sickly part of one true sense 01:58:02.417 --> 01:58:04.921 Could not so mope. 01:58:05.496 --> 01:58:08.088 O shame! where is thy blush? 01:58:08.089 --> 01:58:09.755 O Hamlet, speak no more: 01:58:10.112 --> 01:58:12.922 Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; 01:58:13.276 --> 01:58:15.933 And there I see such black and grained spots 01:58:15.934 --> 01:58:18.078 As will not leave their tinct. 01:58:18.153 --> 01:58:19.883 Nay, but to live 01:58:19.884 --> 01:58:23.645 In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, 01:58:24.503 --> 01:58:28.517 Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love 01:58:28.518 --> 01:58:31.201 - Over the nasty sty,-- - O, speak to me no more; 01:58:31.202 --> 01:58:33.433 These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears; 01:58:33.434 --> 01:58:35.266 No more, sweet Hamlet! 01:58:35.267 --> 01:58:38.272 A murderer and a villain; 01:58:38.273 --> 01:58:42.301 A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe 01:58:42.302 --> 01:58:45.081 Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; 01:58:45.698 --> 01:58:48.390 A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, 01:58:48.391 --> 01:58:51.605 That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, 01:58:51.606 --> 01:58:53.681 - And put it in his pocket! - No more! 01:58:53.682 --> 01:58:56.231 A king of shreds and patches,-- 01:58:59.798 --> 01:59:03.034 Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings, 01:59:03.035 --> 01:59:04.866 You heavenly guards! 01:59:05.290 --> 01:59:09.879 - What would your gracious figure? - Alas, he's mad! 01:59:09.880 --> 01:59:12.486 Do you not come your tardy son to chide, 01:59:12.504 --> 01:59:15.481 That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by 01:59:15.482 --> 01:59:18.458 The important acting of your dread command? 01:59:18.878 --> 01:59:20.197 O, say! 01:59:20.198 --> 01:59:23.341 Do not forget: this visitation 01:59:23.342 --> 01:59:27.494 Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose. 01:59:30.197 --> 01:59:35.091 But, look, amazement on thy mother sits: 01:59:35.536 --> 01:59:40.797 O, step between her and her fighting soul: 01:59:40.963 --> 01:59:44.828 Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works: 01:59:45.360 --> 01:59:47.791 Speak to her, Hamlet. 01:59:48.861 --> 01:59:51.213 How is it with you, lady? 01:59:51.340 --> 01:59:53.871 Alas, how is't with you, 01:59:54.122 --> 01:59:56.403 That you do bend your eye on vacancy 01:59:56.404 --> 01:59:59.664 And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? 02:00:00.677 --> 02:00:03.169 Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep; 02:00:03.170 --> 02:00:06.696 O gentle son, upon the heat and flame of thy distemper 02:00:06.697 --> 02:00:10.391 Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look? 02:00:10.392 --> 02:00:15.776 On him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares! 02:00:18.099 --> 02:00:19.956 Do not look upon me, 02:00:20.181 --> 02:00:23.663 Lest with this piteous action you convert my stern effects: 02:00:23.698 --> 02:00:24.977 then what I have to do 02:00:24.978 --> 02:00:28.558 Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood. 02:00:28.559 --> 02:00:30.952 To whom do you speak this? 02:00:33.225 --> 02:00:34.149 Do you see nothing there? 02:00:34.150 --> 02:00:38.255 - Nothing at all; yet all that is I see. - Nor did you nothing hear? 02:00:38.256 --> 02:00:40.940 No, nothing but ourselves. 02:00:41.103 --> 02:00:43.008 Why, look you there! look, how it steals away! 02:00:43.009 --> 02:00:46.002 My father, in his habit as he lived! 02:00:46.038 --> 02:00:50.585 Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal! 02:00:51.342 --> 02:00:53.347 This the very coinage of your brain: 02:00:53.348 --> 02:00:56.137 This bodiless creation ecstasy 02:00:56.138 --> 02:00:57.956 Is very cunning in. 02:00:58.100 --> 02:01:03.204 Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, 02:01:03.205 --> 02:01:05.948 And makes as healthful music: it is not madness 02:01:05.949 --> 02:01:07.614 That I have utter'd: bring me to the test, 02:01:07.615 --> 02:01:11.038 And I the matter will re-word; which madness Would gambol from. 02:01:11.039 --> 02:01:13.036 Mother, for love of grace, 02:01:13.037 --> 02:01:15.923 Lay not that mattering unction to your soul, 02:01:15.924 --> 02:01:18.060 That not your trespass, but my madness speaks: 02:01:18.061 --> 02:01:20.435 It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, 02:01:20.452 --> 02:01:23.199 Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, 02:01:23.200 --> 02:01:26.255 Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven; 02:01:26.256 --> 02:01:28.619 Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; 02:01:28.620 --> 02:01:31.054 And do not spread the compost on the weeds, 02:01:31.055 --> 02:01:32.498 To make them ranker. 02:01:32.499 --> 02:01:35.455 O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. 02:01:35.456 --> 02:01:37.333 O, throw away the worser part of it, 02:01:37.334 --> 02:01:39.171 And live the purer with the other half. 02:01:46.354 --> 02:01:47.751 Good night, 02:01:50.435 --> 02:01:52.878 but go not to mine uncle's bed; 02:01:52.901 --> 02:01:55.996 Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 02:01:55.997 --> 02:01:58.424 Refrain to-night, and that shall lend a kind of easiness 02:01:58.425 --> 02:02:00.450 To the next abstinence. 02:02:04.234 --> 02:02:06.133 Once more, good night. 02:02:08.796 --> 02:02:11.550 When you are desirous to be bless'd, 02:02:12.005 --> 02:02:13.988 I'll blessing beg of you. 02:02:16.111 --> 02:02:17.831 For this same lord, 02:02:21.100 --> 02:02:22.431 I do repent 02:02:25.242 --> 02:02:27.188 but heaven hath pleased it so, 02:02:27.189 --> 02:02:30.321 To punish me with this and this with me, 02:02:31.715 --> 02:02:34.376 That I must be their scourge and minister. 02:02:36.609 --> 02:02:38.009 I will bestow him, 02:02:38.664 --> 02:02:41.189 and will answer well the death I gave him. 02:02:41.501 --> 02:02:43.339 So, again, good night. 02:02:45.016 --> 02:02:47.610 I must be cruel, only to be kind: 02:02:50.667 --> 02:02:52.335 Thus bad begins 02:02:53.757 --> 02:02:55.882 and worse remains behind. 02:02:57.159 --> 02:02:59.321 - One word more, good lady. - What shall I do? 02:02:59.322 --> 02:03:02.221 Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: 02:03:02.898 --> 02:03:05.047 Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed; 02:03:05.048 --> 02:03:08.351 Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse; 02:03:09.238 --> 02:03:11.061 And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, 02:03:11.062 --> 02:03:13.610 Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, 02:03:13.611 --> 02:03:15.106 Make you to ravel all this matter out, 02:03:15.107 --> 02:03:17.643 That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft. 02:03:17.644 --> 02:03:20.353 Be thou assured, if words be made of breath, 02:03:20.354 --> 02:03:24.189 And breath of life, I have no life to breathe 02:03:24.295 --> 02:03:26.284 What thou hast said to me. 02:03:53.446 --> 02:03:56.335 I must to England; you know that? 02:03:57.821 --> 02:04:01.486 Alack, I had forgot. 02:04:04.228 --> 02:04:06.499 'Tis so concluded on. 02:04:06.641 --> 02:04:08.881 There's letters seal'd 02:04:10.680 --> 02:04:12.472 and my two schoolfellows, 02:04:12.473 --> 02:04:16.847 Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd, 02:04:17.734 --> 02:04:19.698 They bear the mandate 02:04:20.890 --> 02:04:25.515 they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; 02:04:26.266 --> 02:04:28.631 For 'tis the sport to have the engineer 02:04:28.632 --> 02:04:32.774 Hoist with his own petard: 't shall go hard 02:04:33.109 --> 02:04:36.106 But I will delve one yard below their mines, 02:04:36.107 --> 02:04:38.121 And blow them at the moon: 02:04:38.122 --> 02:04:41.115 O, 'tis most sweet, 02:04:41.953 --> 02:04:45.661 When in one line two crafts directly meet. 02:05:02.479 --> 02:05:04.784 This man shall set me packing: 02:05:10.265 --> 02:05:12.802 I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room. 02:05:12.827 --> 02:05:14.505 Mother, good night. 02:05:19.108 --> 02:05:22.412 Indeed this counsellor Is now most still, 02:05:23.116 --> 02:05:24.933 most secret 02:05:25.412 --> 02:05:27.576 and most grave, 02:05:28.402 --> 02:05:32.027 Who was in life a foolish prating knave. 02:05:33.880 --> 02:05:35.551 Come, sir, 02:05:36.421 --> 02:05:39.188 to draw toward an end with you. 02:06:04.254 --> 02:06:05.850 Good night, mother. 02:06:24.953 --> 02:06:30.043 There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves: 02:06:30.044 --> 02:06:32.248 You must translate. 02:06:32.812 --> 02:06:35.181 'tis fit we understand them. 02:06:36.703 --> 02:06:38.197 Where is your son? 02:06:38.345 --> 02:06:43.661 - Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night! - What, Gertrude? 02:06:43.964 --> 02:06:45.686 How does Hamlet? 02:06:45.687 --> 02:06:47.086 Mad 02:06:48.176 --> 02:06:52.342 as the sea and wind, when both contend Which is the mightier: 02:06:53.396 --> 02:06:55.625 in his lawless fit, 02:06:55.823 --> 02:06:58.325 Behind the arras hearing something stir, 02:06:58.326 --> 02:07:00.884 Whips out his weapon, cries, 'A rat, a rat!' 02:07:00.885 --> 02:07:03.915 And, in this brainish apprehension, kills 02:07:03.916 --> 02:07:08.007 The unseen good old man. 02:07:11.856 --> 02:07:13.868 O heavy deed! 02:07:16.075 --> 02:07:18.832 It had been so with us, had we been there: 02:07:20.098 --> 02:07:23.509 His liberty is full of threats to all; 02:07:23.638 --> 02:07:25.941 To you yourself, to us, 02:07:26.519 --> 02:07:28.116 to every one. 02:07:29.637 --> 02:07:32.751 Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd? 02:07:32.815 --> 02:07:34.208 It will be laid to us, 02:07:34.209 --> 02:07:36.170 whose providence Should have kept short, 02:07:36.171 --> 02:07:40.941 restrain'd and out of haunt, This mad young man: 02:07:41.193 --> 02:07:44.433 but so much was our love, 02:07:44.434 --> 02:07:48.393 We would not understand what was most fit; 02:07:48.635 --> 02:07:52.277 But, like the owner of a foul disease, 02:07:52.278 --> 02:07:55.443 To keep it from divulging, let it feed 02:07:55.692 --> 02:07:57.551 Even on the pith of Life. 02:07:57.552 --> 02:08:00.182 - Where is he gone? - To draw apart the body he hath kill'd: 02:08:00.183 --> 02:08:04.575 O'er his madness weeps for what is done. 02:08:04.576 --> 02:08:08.840 O Gertrude, come! The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, 02:08:08.841 --> 02:08:12.636 But we will ship him hence: 02:08:12.637 --> 02:08:16.606 and this vile deed We must, with all our majesty and skill, 02:08:16.607 --> 02:08:22.061 Both countenance and excuse. 02:08:23.583 --> 02:08:24.887 Guildenstern! 02:08:27.254 --> 02:08:31.696 Friends both, go join you with some further aid: 02:08:34.249 --> 02:08:37.544 Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, 02:08:37.656 --> 02:08:40.709 And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him: 02:08:40.710 --> 02:08:42.036 Go seek him out; 02:08:42.037 --> 02:08:48.057 speak fair, and bring the body Into the chapel. 02:08:48.058 --> 02:08:49.707 I pray you, haste in this. 02:08:52.526 --> 02:08:54.226 O, Gertrude, come 02:08:54.772 --> 02:08:56.870 it's call up our wisest friends; 02:08:56.871 --> 02:08:59.046 And let them know, both what we mean to do, 02:08:59.047 --> 02:09:03.711 And what's untimely done... 02:09:05.800 --> 02:09:07.415 Come away! 02:09:08.847 --> 02:09:12.366 My soul is full of discord and dismay. 02:09:30.584 --> 02:09:32.197 Safely stowed. 02:09:32.269 --> 02:09:34.235 Hamlet! Lord Hamlet! 02:09:34.236 --> 02:09:36.628 What noise? 02:09:37.513 --> 02:09:38.981 Here they come. 02:09:43.763 --> 02:09:45.958 What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? 02:09:47.665 --> 02:09:50.423 Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin. 02:09:51.203 --> 02:09:55.411 Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence And bear it to the chapel. 02:09:55.412 --> 02:09:58.258 - Do not believe it. - Believe what? 02:09:58.259 --> 02:10:00.992 That I can keep your counsel and not mine own. 02:10:01.022 --> 02:10:04.436 Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! 02:10:04.644 --> 02:10:07.807 What replication should be made by the son of a king? 02:10:08.847 --> 02:10:11.679 Take you me for a sponge, my lord? 02:10:12.806 --> 02:10:14.366 Ay, sir, 02:10:14.865 --> 02:10:17.378 that soaks up the king's countenance, 02:10:17.516 --> 02:10:20.487 his rewards, his authorities. 02:10:20.488 --> 02:10:25.514 But such officers do the king best service in the end. 02:10:26.026 --> 02:10:27.967 He keeps them, 02:10:28.244 --> 02:10:32.135 like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; 02:10:32.582 --> 02:10:34.661 first mouthed, 02:10:34.662 --> 02:10:36.613 to be last swallowed: 02:10:36.614 --> 02:10:41.172 when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, 02:10:42.008 --> 02:10:45.005 and, sponge, you shall be dry again. 02:10:45.305 --> 02:10:47.171 I understand you not, my lord. 02:10:47.172 --> 02:10:48.858 I am glad of it: 02:10:49.219 --> 02:10:52.320 a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. 02:10:52.803 --> 02:10:56.057 My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. 02:10:56.058 --> 02:11:01.758 The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. 02:11:02.157 --> 02:11:04.242 The king is a thing... 02:11:04.243 --> 02:11:07.836 - A thing, my lord! - Of nothing. 02:11:14.033 --> 02:11:15.741 Bring me to him. 02:11:17.020 --> 02:11:18.665 Hide fox, and all after. 02:11:20.209 --> 02:11:22.697 I have sent to seek him, and to find the body. 02:11:23.593 --> 02:11:26.975 How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! 02:11:27.035 --> 02:11:29.913 Yet must not we put the strong law on him: 02:11:30.285 --> 02:11:32.987 He's loved of the distracted multitude, 02:11:32.988 --> 02:11:36.400 Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes; 02:11:36.446 --> 02:11:39.187 And where tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd, 02:11:39.188 --> 02:11:40.857 But never the offence. 02:11:40.858 --> 02:11:43.351 To bear all smooth and even, 02:11:43.352 --> 02:11:47.155 This sudden sending him away must seem Deliberate pause: 02:11:47.443 --> 02:11:50.947 diseases desperate grown By desperate measure are relieved, 02:11:50.948 --> 02:11:53.353 - Or not at all. - How now! what hath befall'n? 02:11:53.354 --> 02:11:57.925 Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord, We cannot get from him. 02:11:58.381 --> 02:11:58.919 But where is he? 02:11:58.920 --> 02:12:01.608 Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure. 02:12:01.609 --> 02:12:04.831 - Bring him before us. - Guildenstern! bring in my lord. 02:12:09.682 --> 02:12:11.500 Now, Hamlet, 02:12:14.685 --> 02:12:16.970 where's Polonius? 02:12:16.996 --> 02:12:18.364 At supper. 02:12:18.365 --> 02:12:20.759 At supper! where? 02:12:21.056 --> 02:12:24.423 Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: 02:12:24.478 --> 02:12:28.399 a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. 02:12:28.400 --> 02:12:30.846 Your worm is your only emperor for diet. 02:12:30.968 --> 02:12:33.007 we fat all creatures else to fat ourselves, 02:12:33.008 --> 02:12:35.618 - and we fat ourselves for maggots. - Alas, alas! 02:12:35.619 --> 02:12:38.644 A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, 02:12:38.645 --> 02:12:41.436 and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. 02:12:41.660 --> 02:12:43.242 What dost you mean by this? 02:12:43.243 --> 02:12:45.384 Nothing but to show you 02:12:45.385 --> 02:12:49.131 how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. 02:12:49.132 --> 02:12:50.782 Where is Polonius? 02:12:50.783 --> 02:12:52.807 In heaven! 02:12:53.947 --> 02:12:55.610 Send hither to see. 02:12:56.550 --> 02:13:00.465 if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself. 02:13:00.466 --> 02:13:05.040 But indeed, if you find him not within this month, 02:13:05.041 --> 02:13:09.421 you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby. 02:13:09.422 --> 02:13:10.964 Go seek him there. 02:13:14.958 --> 02:13:17.142 He will stay till ye come. 02:13:18.560 --> 02:13:22.921 Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,-- 02:13:22.922 --> 02:13:27.980 Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve,-- 02:13:28.060 --> 02:13:30.934 must send thee hence With fiery quickness. 02:13:30.935 --> 02:13:33.039 therefore prepare thyself. 02:13:33.560 --> 02:13:37.416 The bark is ready, and the wind at help, The associates tend, 02:13:38.261 --> 02:13:42.209 - and every thing is bent for England. - For England! 02:13:42.210 --> 02:13:43.537 - Ay, Hamlet. - Good. 02:13:43.538 --> 02:13:46.674 So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes. 02:13:47.034 --> 02:13:49.401 I see a cherub that sees them. 02:13:51.377 --> 02:13:54.288 Come; for England! Farewell, dear mother. 02:13:54.289 --> 02:13:57.093 Thy loving father, Hamlet. 02:13:57.100 --> 02:13:58.748 My mother, 02:13:58.808 --> 02:14:00.885 father and mother is man and wife, 02:14:00.886 --> 02:14:04.030 man and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. 02:14:05.410 --> 02:14:07.495 Come, for England! 02:14:15.342 --> 02:14:17.629 Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard; 02:14:17.630 --> 02:14:19.992 Delay it not; I'll have him hence to-night: 02:14:19.993 --> 02:14:24.792 For every thing is seal'd and done That else leans on the affair. Away! 02:14:29.670 --> 02:14:31.154 And, England, 02:14:31.577 --> 02:14:33.695 if my love thou hold'st at aught-- 02:14:33.696 --> 02:14:36.660 thou mayst not coldly set Our sovereign purpose; 02:14:38.930 --> 02:14:41.327 The present death of Hamlet. 02:14:42.096 --> 02:14:44.013 Do it, England; 02:14:44.272 --> 02:14:49.227 For like the hectic in my blood he rages, And thou must cure me: 02:14:51.479 --> 02:14:53.498 till I know 'tis done, 02:14:53.834 --> 02:14:58.147 Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun. 02:14:58.339 --> 02:15:02.712 - I will not speak with her. - She is importunate, indeed distract: 02:15:03.439 --> 02:15:04.932 Her mood will needs be pitied. 02:15:04.933 --> 02:15:08.276 - What would she have? - She speaks much of her father; 02:15:08.972 --> 02:15:11.824 says she hears there's tricks i' the world; speaks things in doubt, 02:15:11.825 --> 02:15:14.750 That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing, 02:15:15.170 --> 02:15:18.146 Yet the unshaped use of it doth move The hearers to collection; 02:15:18.147 --> 02:15:20.369 'Twere good she were spoken with; 02:15:20.476 --> 02:15:24.839 for she may strew dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds. 02:15:25.601 --> 02:15:27.128 Let her come in. 02:15:30.353 --> 02:15:32.867 To my sick soul, 02:15:33.265 --> 02:15:35.804 as sin's true nature is, 02:15:35.805 --> 02:15:38.839 Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss: 02:15:40.244 --> 02:15:43.405 So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 02:15:43.683 --> 02:15:46.866 It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. 02:15:46.867 --> 02:15:49.753 Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark? 02:15:51.020 --> 02:15:54.137 How now, Ophelia! 02:15:54.592 --> 02:15:59.751 How should I your true love know 02:15:59.991 --> 02:16:03.451 From another one? 02:16:03.594 --> 02:16:06.993 By his cockle hat and staff, 02:16:06.994 --> 02:16:10.375 And his sandal shoon. 02:16:10.376 --> 02:16:15.024 Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? 02:16:15.060 --> 02:16:17.468 Say you? nay, pray you, mark. 02:16:18.307 --> 02:16:22.606 He is dead and gone, lady, 02:16:23.514 --> 02:16:26.532 He is dead and gone; 02:16:27.310 --> 02:16:30.647 At his head a grass-green turf, 02:16:30.648 --> 02:16:33.530 At his heels a stone. 02:16:33.531 --> 02:16:36.183 - Nay, but, Ophelia... - Pray you, mark. 02:16:37.781 --> 02:16:42.705 White his shroud as the mountain snow, 02:16:44.174 --> 02:16:48.029 Larded with sweet flowers 02:16:49.647 --> 02:16:54.023 Which bewept to the grave did go 02:16:54.025 --> 02:16:58.513 With true-love showers. 02:16:59.040 --> 02:17:02.438 - How do you, pretty lady? - Well, God 'ild you! 02:17:02.657 --> 02:17:05.763 They say the owl was a baker's daughter. 02:17:10.775 --> 02:17:13.379 Lord, we know what we are, 02:17:16.767 --> 02:17:19.592 but know not what we may be. 02:17:22.749 --> 02:17:24.816 God be at your table! 02:17:26.155 --> 02:17:30.209 - Conceit upon her father. - Pray you, let's have no words of this; 02:17:30.209 --> 02:17:32.162 but when they ask you what it means, say you this: 02:17:32.163 --> 02:17:34.296 To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, 02:17:34.297 --> 02:17:36.183 All in the morning betime, 02:17:36.183 --> 02:17:38.114 And I a maid at your window, 02:17:38.115 --> 02:17:40.123 To be your Valentine. 02:17:40.124 --> 02:17:41.938 Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, 02:17:41.939 --> 02:17:43.848 And dupp'd the chamber-door; 02:17:43.849 --> 02:17:47.798 Let in the maid, that out a maid Never departed more. 02:17:48.161 --> 02:17:49.877 Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't: 02:17:49.878 --> 02:17:52.603 By Gis and by Saint Charity, 02:17:52.605 --> 02:17:54.689 Alack, and fie for shame! 02:17:54.690 --> 02:17:58.021 Young men will do't, if they come to't; 02:17:58.058 --> 02:18:00.366 By cock, they are to blame. 02:18:00.375 --> 02:18:03.089 Quoth she, before you tumbled me, 02:18:03.141 --> 02:18:05.437 You promised me to wed. 02:18:05.484 --> 02:18:08.218 So would I ha' done, by yonder sun, 02:18:08.308 --> 02:18:11.142 An thou hadst not come to my bed. 02:18:12.124 --> 02:18:16.603 - How long hath she been thus? - I hope all will be well. 02:18:17.080 --> 02:18:18.727 We must be patient: 02:18:20.636 --> 02:18:24.147 but I cannot choose but weep, 02:18:24.147 --> 02:18:28.058 to think they should lay him i' the cold ground. 02:18:32.129 --> 02:18:36.611 My brother shall know of it: and so I thank you for your good counsel. 02:18:36.612 --> 02:18:39.013 Come, my coach! 02:18:39.084 --> 02:18:42.305 Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night. 02:18:45.243 --> 02:18:46.736 Follow her close. 02:18:50.567 --> 02:18:53.269 Give her good watch, I pray you. 02:18:57.369 --> 02:19:00.732 O, this is the poison of deep grief; 02:19:00.999 --> 02:19:06.951 it springs all from her father's death. 02:19:09.808 --> 02:19:13.054 O Gertrude, Gertrude, 02:19:13.055 --> 02:19:18.268 When sorrows come, they come not single spies But in battalions. 02:19:18.928 --> 02:19:21.050 First, her father slain: 02:19:21.474 --> 02:19:24.680 Next, your son gone; and he most violent author 02:19:24.681 --> 02:19:27.682 Of his own just remove. 02:19:28.370 --> 02:19:31.748 the people muddied, Thick and unwholesome in their 02:19:31.968 --> 02:19:34.545 thoughts and whispers, For good Polonius' death; 02:19:34.546 --> 02:19:39.629 and we have done but greenly, In hugger-mugger to inter him. 02:19:41.206 --> 02:19:42.799 poor Ophelia, 02:19:43.099 --> 02:19:46.475 Divided from herself and her fair judgment, 02:19:46.476 --> 02:19:49.994 Without the which we are pictures, 02:19:51.662 --> 02:19:53.828 or mere beasts. 02:19:55.256 --> 02:19:59.500 Last, and as much containing as all these, 02:19:59.882 --> 02:20:02.817 Her brother is in secret come from France; 02:20:02.818 --> 02:20:06.247 And wants not buzzers to infect his ear 02:20:06.248 --> 02:20:09.193 With pestilent speeches of his father's death; 02:20:10.345 --> 02:20:12.569 Alack, what noise is this? 02:20:12.570 --> 02:20:15.352 Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door. 02:20:16.245 --> 02:20:17.980 Save yourself, my lord: 02:20:17.981 --> 02:20:21.332 Laertes, in a riotous head, O'erbears your officers. 02:20:21.333 --> 02:20:26.556 The rabble call him lord; They cry 'Choose we: Laertes shall be king:' 02:20:27.410 --> 02:20:30.016 Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds: 02:20:30.017 --> 02:20:32.970 'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!' 02:20:32.971 --> 02:20:35.232 How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! 02:20:35.233 --> 02:20:40.939 O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs! 02:20:41.003 --> 02:20:42.395 The doors are broke. 02:20:42.396 --> 02:20:44.480 Thou vile king, Give me my father! 02:20:44.481 --> 02:20:45.439 Calmly, good Laertes. 02:20:45.440 --> 02:20:48.310 That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard, 02:20:48.311 --> 02:20:52.428 What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks so giant-like? 02:20:52.429 --> 02:20:53.892 Let him go, Gertrude; 02:20:53.893 --> 02:20:56.002 do not fear our person: 02:20:56.003 --> 02:20:58.753 There's such divinity doth hedge a king, 02:20:58.754 --> 02:21:00.854 That treason can but peep to what it would, 02:21:00.855 --> 02:21:02.817 Acts little of his will. 02:21:02.818 --> 02:21:07.391 Tell me, Laertes, why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude. 02:21:07.659 --> 02:21:09.415 - Speak, man. - Where is my father? 02:21:09.416 --> 02:21:10.898 - Dead. - But not by him. 02:21:10.899 --> 02:21:13.186 - Let him demand his fill. - How came he dead? 02:21:13.187 --> 02:21:15.186 I'll not be juggled with: 02:21:15.716 --> 02:21:19.317 To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! 02:21:19.318 --> 02:21:22.224 Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! 02:21:22.225 --> 02:21:24.278 I dare damnation. 02:21:24.279 --> 02:21:26.536 To this point I stand, Let come what comes. 02:21:26.537 --> 02:21:29.495 Only I'll be revenged Most thoroughly for my father. 02:21:29.496 --> 02:21:33.197 - Who shall stay you? - My will, not all the world: 02:21:33.198 --> 02:21:37.760 Good Laertes, if you desire to know the certainty of your dear father's death, 02:21:37.761 --> 02:21:40.677 is't writ in your revenge, That, swoopstake, 02:21:40.678 --> 02:21:43.653 you will draw both friend and foe, Winner and loser? 02:21:43.654 --> 02:21:46.663 - None but his enemies. - Will you know them then? 02:21:46.788 --> 02:21:50.024 To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms; 02:21:50.025 --> 02:21:54.176 And like the kind life-rendering pelican, Repast them with my blood. 02:21:54.177 --> 02:21:58.479 Why, now you speak Like a good child and a true gentleman. 02:21:58.480 --> 02:22:04.153 That I am guiltless of your father's death, And am most sensible in grief for it, 02:22:04.154 --> 02:22:06.078 It shall as level to your judgment pierce 02:22:06.079 --> 02:22:07.946 As day does to your eye. 02:22:07.947 --> 02:22:10.922 - Let her come in. - How now! what noise is that? 02:22:15.711 --> 02:22:18.344 O heat, dry up my brains! 02:22:20.451 --> 02:22:23.146 tears seven times salt, 02:22:23.147 --> 02:22:25.724 Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye! 02:22:25.725 --> 02:22:27.253 O rose of May! 02:22:29.417 --> 02:22:34.824 Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! 02:22:34.825 --> 02:22:36.765 O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits 02:22:36.766 --> 02:22:39.093 Should be as moral as an old man's life? 02:22:39.094 --> 02:22:44.495 They bore him barefaced on the bier; 02:22:45.795 --> 02:22:50.405 Hey nony nonny, nonny, no; 02:22:51.293 --> 02:22:58.790 And in his grave rain'd many a tear:-- 02:22:59.713 --> 02:23:03.763 Fare you well, my dove! 02:23:03.764 --> 02:23:05.478 Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge, 02:23:05.479 --> 02:23:09.311 - It could not move thus. - You must sing a-down a-down, An you call him a-down-a. 02:23:09.593 --> 02:23:11.815 This nothing's more than matter. 02:23:12.333 --> 02:23:14.032 There's rosemary, 02:23:15.256 --> 02:23:17.801 that's for remembrance; 02:23:18.772 --> 02:23:22.034 pray, love, remember: 02:23:26.210 --> 02:23:28.453 and there is pansies. 02:23:29.058 --> 02:23:31.040 that's for thoughts. 02:23:32.766 --> 02:23:34.551 A document in madness, 02:23:35.298 --> 02:23:37.527 thoughts and remembrance fitted. 02:23:39.173 --> 02:23:41.142 There's fennel for you, 02:23:41.881 --> 02:23:43.454 and columbines: 02:23:47.038 --> 02:23:48.677 there's rue for you; 02:23:50.523 --> 02:23:52.380 and here's some for me: 02:23:54.640 --> 02:23:56.308 we may call it 02:23:56.418 --> 02:23:59.160 herb-grace o' Sundays: 02:24:01.317 --> 02:24:05.189 O you must wear your rue with a difference. 02:24:11.206 --> 02:24:12.660 There's a daisy: 02:24:14.076 --> 02:24:16.039 I would give you some violets, 02:24:16.981 --> 02:24:18.472 but they withered 02:24:19.065 --> 02:24:20.443 all 02:24:20.610 --> 02:24:22.861 when my father died: 02:24:27.033 --> 02:24:29.000 they say he made a good end,-- 02:24:30.370 --> 02:24:36.626 For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. 02:24:36.627 --> 02:24:41.199 Thought and affliction, passion, 02:24:41.517 --> 02:24:44.970 hell itself, She turns to favour and to prettiness. 02:24:45.536 --> 02:24:51.015 And will he not come again? 02:24:52.370 --> 02:24:58.067 And will he not come again? 02:24:59.510 --> 02:25:02.667 No, no, he is dead: 02:25:03.276 --> 02:25:06.762 Go to thy death-bed: 02:25:07.513 --> 02:25:12.090 He never will come again. 02:25:13.048 --> 02:25:18.321 His beard was as white as snow, 02:25:19.338 --> 02:25:25.135 All flaxen was his poll: 02:25:27.513 --> 02:25:30.567 He is gone, he is gone, 02:25:34.486 --> 02:25:36.630 And we cast away moan: 02:25:38.459 --> 02:25:40.681 God ha' mercy on his soul! 02:25:42.407 --> 02:25:47.425 And of all Christian souls, I pray God. 02:25:50.284 --> 02:25:51.930 God be wi' ye. 02:25:53.547 --> 02:25:56.774 Do you see this, O God? 02:25:57.174 --> 02:25:58.782 Laertes. 02:26:04.104 --> 02:26:06.723 I must commune with your grief, 02:26:06.724 --> 02:26:09.063 Or you deny me right. 02:26:09.791 --> 02:26:13.992 Go but apart, make choice of whom your wisest friends you will. 02:26:13.993 --> 02:26:17.698 And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me: 02:26:17.699 --> 02:26:21.510 If by direct or by collateral hand 02:26:21.511 --> 02:26:26.545 They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give, Our crown, 02:26:27.479 --> 02:26:30.863 our life, and all that we can ours, 02:26:31.452 --> 02:26:33.654 To you in satisfaction; 02:26:34.514 --> 02:26:36.345 but if not, 02:26:36.856 --> 02:26:40.350 Be you content to lend your patience to us, 02:26:40.512 --> 02:26:46.118 And we shall jointly labour with your soul To give it due content. 02:26:48.090 --> 02:26:49.973 Let this be so; 02:26:53.537 --> 02:26:56.085 And where the offence is 02:26:57.014 --> 02:26:59.632 let the great axe fall. 02:27:00.608 --> 02:27:03.233 Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king; 02:27:03.234 --> 02:27:05.340 Tell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras 02:27:05.341 --> 02:27:07.617 Craves the conveyance of a promised march over his kingdom. 02:27:07.618 --> 02:27:10.006 - I will do't, my lord. - Go softly on. 02:27:16.854 --> 02:27:20.001 Sir, whose powers are these? 02:27:20.115 --> 02:27:22.099 They are of Norway, sir. 02:27:22.324 --> 02:27:24.453 How purposed, sir, I pray you? 02:27:24.485 --> 02:27:26.818 Against some part of Poland. 02:27:27.309 --> 02:27:29.222 Who commands them, sir? 02:27:29.309 --> 02:27:32.072 The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras. 02:27:32.421 --> 02:27:35.395 Goes it against the main of Poland, sir, Or for some frontier? 02:27:36.400 --> 02:27:40.380 Truly to speak, and with no addition, We go to gain a little patch of ground 02:27:40.381 --> 02:27:43.783 That hath in it no profit but the name. 02:27:43.964 --> 02:27:47.217 To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; 02:27:47.218 --> 02:27:49.429 Why, then the Pole never will defend it. 02:27:49.430 --> 02:27:52.220 Yes, it is already garrison'd. 02:27:52.652 --> 02:27:55.676 Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats 02:27:55.677 --> 02:27:58.484 Will not debate the question of this straw. 02:27:59.476 --> 02:28:01.529 I humbly thank you, sir. 02:28:01.575 --> 02:28:03.590 God be wi' you, sir. 02:28:22.372 --> 02:28:25.706 How all occasions do inform against me, 02:28:26.467 --> 02:28:29.457 And spur my dull revenge! 02:28:32.397 --> 02:28:37.583 I do not know why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' 02:28:37.584 --> 02:28:39.519 Sith I have cause 02:28:39.877 --> 02:28:41.423 and will 02:28:41.894 --> 02:28:44.939 and strength and means to do't. 02:28:47.091 --> 02:28:49.605 Examples gross as earth exhort me: 02:28:49.606 --> 02:28:54.512 Witness this army of such mass and charge, 02:28:54.831 --> 02:28:58.827 Led by a delicate and tender prince, 02:28:59.619 --> 02:29:03.732 Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd 02:29:03.733 --> 02:29:06.594 Makes mouths at the invisible event, 02:29:07.769 --> 02:29:11.985 Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, 02:29:11.986 --> 02:29:14.600 death and danger dare, 02:29:18.232 --> 02:29:20.456 Even for an egg-shell. 02:29:25.430 --> 02:29:27.689 O, from this time forth, 02:29:30.127 --> 02:29:32.524 My thoughts be bloody, 02:29:34.364 --> 02:29:36.529 or be nothing worth! 02:29:48.508 --> 02:29:52.701 Laertes, was your father dear to you? 02:29:52.702 --> 02:29:56.917 Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart? 02:29:56.918 --> 02:29:58.648 Why ask you this? 02:30:00.165 --> 02:30:02.348 Hamlet comes back. 02:30:03.546 --> 02:30:06.251 what would you undertake, to show yourself your father's son 02:30:06.252 --> 02:30:08.956 in deed more than in words? 02:30:11.182 --> 02:30:13.933 To cut his throat i' the church. 02:30:15.949 --> 02:30:18.883 No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize; 02:30:19.739 --> 02:30:22.031 Revenge should have no bounds. 02:30:26.817 --> 02:30:30.930 But, good Laertes, will you do this, keep close within your chamber. 02:30:30.931 --> 02:30:33.779 Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home: 02:30:33.780 --> 02:30:37.103 We'll set on those shall praise your excellence 02:30:37.104 --> 02:30:40.569 and for your rapier most especially. 02:30:40.570 --> 02:30:43.873 Bring you in fine together And wager on your heads: 02:30:43.999 --> 02:30:48.418 he, being remiss, most generous and free from all contriving, 02:30:48.419 --> 02:30:51.005 Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease, 02:30:51.006 --> 02:30:54.690 Or with a little shuffling, 02:30:54.979 --> 02:30:58.372 you may choose a sword unbated, 02:30:58.420 --> 02:31:01.594 and in a pass of practise requite him for your father. 02:31:01.595 --> 02:31:03.029 I will do't: 02:31:05.436 --> 02:31:09.087 And, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword. 02:31:10.095 --> 02:31:12.678 I bought an unction of a mountebank, 02:31:13.060 --> 02:31:15.354 So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, 02:31:15.355 --> 02:31:17.634 Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, 02:31:17.635 --> 02:31:20.462 can save the thing from death That is but scratch'd withal: 02:31:20.463 --> 02:31:23.569 I'll touch my point with this contagion, that, 02:31:23.570 --> 02:31:26.188 if I gall him slightly, it may be his death. 02:31:27.144 --> 02:31:30.405 Let's further think of this; 02:31:32.110 --> 02:31:35.382 if this should fail, and that our drift look through our bad performance, 02:31:35.383 --> 02:31:37.304 'Twere better not assay'd: 02:31:37.307 --> 02:31:39.983 therefore this project Should have a back or second, 02:31:39.984 --> 02:31:42.391 that might hold, If this should blast in proof. 02:31:42.404 --> 02:31:43.701 Soft! 02:31:45.468 --> 02:31:46.945 I ha't. 02:31:47.807 --> 02:31:49.949 When in your motion you a re hot and dry-- 02:31:49.950 --> 02:31:52.245 As make your bouts more violent to that end-- 02:31:52.246 --> 02:31:54.915 And that he calls for drink, 02:31:55.391 --> 02:32:00.587 I'll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce, 02:32:00.588 --> 02:32:03.304 whereon but sipping, If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck, 02:32:03.305 --> 02:32:06.020 Our purpose may hold there. 02:32:08.369 --> 02:32:10.292 How now, sweet queen! 02:32:10.293 --> 02:32:14.843 One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow; 02:32:15.605 --> 02:32:18.564 your sister's drown'd, Laertes. 02:32:19.919 --> 02:32:24.823 Drown'd! O, where? 02:32:27.624 --> 02:32:29.415 There is a willow 02:32:29.967 --> 02:32:32.396 grows aslant a brook, 02:32:32.758 --> 02:32:35.833 That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; 02:32:35.834 --> 02:32:40.625 There with fantastic garlands did she come 02:32:40.626 --> 02:32:43.274 Of crow-flowers, nettles, 02:32:43.677 --> 02:32:45.703 daisies, and long purples 02:32:45.704 --> 02:32:48.159 That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, 02:32:48.160 --> 02:32:52.361 But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: 02:32:52.911 --> 02:32:56.359 There, on the pendent boughs 02:32:56.360 --> 02:32:59.646 her coronet weeds clambering to hang, 02:32:59.647 --> 02:33:01.920 an envious sliver broke; 02:33:01.953 --> 02:33:05.123 When down her weedy trophies and herself 02:33:05.941 --> 02:33:08.368 Fell in the weeping brook. 02:33:08.369 --> 02:33:09.949 Her clothes 02:33:10.070 --> 02:33:12.180 spread wide and 02:33:13.495 --> 02:33:16.486 mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: 02:33:17.003 --> 02:33:19.833 Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes; 02:33:19.834 --> 02:33:24.339 As one incapable of her own distress, 02:33:25.312 --> 02:33:29.044 Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element: 02:33:29.045 --> 02:33:33.163 but long it could not be 02:33:33.566 --> 02:33:36.662 Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, 02:33:36.868 --> 02:33:39.224 Pull'd the poor wretch from her 02:33:39.493 --> 02:33:41.596 melodious lay 02:33:43.209 --> 02:33:46.314 - To muddy death. - Alas, then, she is drown'd? 02:33:47.465 --> 02:33:48.879 Drown'd. 02:33:51.854 --> 02:33:53.567 Drown'd. 02:34:00.828 --> 02:34:03.626 Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, 02:34:04.006 --> 02:34:05.609 And therefore 02:34:05.983 --> 02:34:08.946 I forbid my tears: but yet 02:34:09.320 --> 02:34:11.079 It is our trick. 02:34:12.515 --> 02:34:15.046 nature her custom holds, 02:34:15.047 --> 02:34:17.808 Let shame say what it will. Adieu, my lord. 02:34:18.541 --> 02:34:23.042 I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, 02:34:24.977 --> 02:34:27.511 But that this folly douts it. 02:34:31.302 --> 02:34:33.062 Let's follow, Gertrude. 02:34:33.199 --> 02:34:36.673 How much I had to do to calm his rage! 02:34:37.564 --> 02:34:41.154 Now fear I this will give it start again; 02:34:46.343 --> 02:34:49.108 Is she to be buried in Christian burial 02:34:49.140 --> 02:34:51.435 that wilfully seeks her own salvation? 02:34:51.436 --> 02:34:53.092 I tell thee she is: 02:34:53.093 --> 02:34:55.912 and therefore make her grave straight: 02:34:56.546 --> 02:35:00.498 How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence? 02:35:00.499 --> 02:35:03.633 Why, 'tis found so. 02:35:03.665 --> 02:35:05.426 It must be 'se offendendo;' 02:35:05.427 --> 02:35:08.948 it cannot be else. For here lies the point: 02:35:09.066 --> 02:35:12.377 if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act: 02:35:12.378 --> 02:35:14.635 and an act hath three branches: 02:35:14.636 --> 02:35:16.541 it is, to act, to do, to perform: 02:35:16.542 --> 02:35:18.415 argal, she drowned herself wittingly. 02:35:18.416 --> 02:35:23.254 - Nay, but hear you, goodman delver... - Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: 02:35:23.682 --> 02:35:25.656 here stands the man; good; 02:35:25.657 --> 02:35:29.018 if the man go to this water, and drown himself, 02:35:29.019 --> 02:35:32.450 it is, will he, nill he, he goes,-- mark you that; 02:35:32.561 --> 02:35:37.197 but if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself: 02:35:37.198 --> 02:35:41.849 Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. 02:35:42.503 --> 02:35:45.495 Cudgel thy brains no more about it. 02:35:47.268 --> 02:35:49.093 Go, get thee to Yaughan 02:35:49.094 --> 02:35:51.050 fetch me a stoup of liquor. 02:35:54.551 --> 02:35:58.535 In youth, when I did love, did love, 02:35:58.536 --> 02:36:01.413 Methought it was very sweet... 02:36:01.928 --> 02:36:05.217 Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making? 02:36:05.218 --> 02:36:09.498 - Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. - 'Tis e'en so 02:36:13.386 --> 02:36:15.757 That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: 02:36:16.238 --> 02:36:18.832 how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were 02:36:18.833 --> 02:36:21.537 Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! 02:36:24.782 --> 02:36:26.740 It might be the pate of a politician, 02:36:28.123 --> 02:36:30.543 one that would circumvent God, might it not? 02:36:30.544 --> 02:36:31.911 It might, my lord. 02:36:32.131 --> 02:36:33.805 and now my Lady Worm's, 02:36:34.485 --> 02:36:35.902 chapless, 02:36:36.594 --> 02:36:39.508 and knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade: 02:36:41.166 --> 02:36:43.822 here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to see't. 02:36:47.319 --> 02:36:48.853 There's another. 02:36:49.306 --> 02:36:51.641 Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? 02:36:54.517 --> 02:36:56.531 Where be his quiddities now, 02:36:56.962 --> 02:36:58.984 his quillets, his tricks? 02:37:00.367 --> 02:37:02.191 why does he suffer this rude knave now 02:37:02.192 --> 02:37:03.940 to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel 02:37:03.941 --> 02:37:06.577 and will not tell him of his action of battery? Ha? 02:37:09.333 --> 02:37:11.043 I will speak to this fellow. 02:37:11.498 --> 02:37:13.395 Whose grave's this, sirrah? 02:37:13.801 --> 02:37:15.274 Mine, sir. 02:37:15.275 --> 02:37:18.935 O, a pit of clay for to be made 02:37:18.936 --> 02:37:21.005 For such a guest is meet. 02:37:21.006 --> 02:37:23.736 I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in't. 02:37:23.756 --> 02:37:26.363 You lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not yours 02:37:26.364 --> 02:37:29.607 for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine. 02:37:30.342 --> 02:37:32.959 'Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: 02:37:32.960 --> 02:37:35.639 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest. 02:37:35.640 --> 02:37:39.936 'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away gain, from me to you. 02:37:41.003 --> 02:37:43.097 What man dost thou dig it for? 02:37:43.098 --> 02:37:44.718 For no man, sir. 02:37:44.832 --> 02:37:46.274 What woman, then? 02:37:46.349 --> 02:37:48.008 For none, neither. 02:37:48.413 --> 02:37:50.279 Who is to be buried in't? 02:37:50.280 --> 02:37:51.859 One that was a woman, sir; but, 02:37:51.860 --> 02:37:54.134 rest her soul, she's dead. 02:37:55.599 --> 02:37:57.433 How absolute the knave is! 02:37:58.058 --> 02:37:59.861 How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 02:37:59.862 --> 02:38:02.869 Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day 02:38:02.870 --> 02:38:06.202 that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras. 02:38:06.581 --> 02:38:08.007 How long is that since? 02:38:08.008 --> 02:38:09.545 Cannot you tell that? 02:38:09.864 --> 02:38:11.757 Every fool can tell that. 02:38:11.896 --> 02:38:14.108 it was the very day that young Hamlet was born; 02:38:14.109 --> 02:38:16.525 he that is mad, and sent into England. 02:38:16.526 --> 02:38:19.298 Ay, marry, why was he sent into England? 02:38:19.299 --> 02:38:21.067 Why, because he was mad: 02:38:21.631 --> 02:38:23.414 he shall recover his wits there; 02:38:23.415 --> 02:38:25.576 - or, if he do not, it's no great matter there. - Why? 02:38:25.577 --> 02:38:29.007 'Twill, a not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he. 02:38:30.890 --> 02:38:33.847 - How came he mad? - Very strangely, they say. 02:38:33.848 --> 02:38:36.883 - How strangely? - Faith, e'en with losing his wits. 02:38:36.884 --> 02:38:40.195 - Upon what ground? - Why, here in Denmark: 02:38:44.408 --> 02:38:47.477 I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years. 02:38:48.734 --> 02:38:51.531 How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot? 02:38:51.532 --> 02:38:54.791 I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die-- 02:38:54.792 --> 02:38:56.880 have many pocky corses now-a-days, 02:38:56.881 --> 02:38:58.703 that will scarce hold the laying in-- 02:38:58.704 --> 02:39:01.552 he will last you some eight year or nine year: 02:39:01.553 --> 02:39:03.621 a tanner will last you nine year. 02:39:03.622 --> 02:39:05.397 Why he more than another? 02:39:05.398 --> 02:39:07.004 Why, sir, his hide is so tanned 02:39:07.005 --> 02:39:08.086 with his trade, 02:39:08.087 --> 02:39:10.404 that he will keep out water a great while; 02:39:10.405 --> 02:39:13.487 and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. 02:39:13.899 --> 02:39:15.874 Here's a skull, sir. 02:39:17.107 --> 02:39:18.875 has lain in the earth 02:39:19.300 --> 02:39:22.346 - three and twenty years. - Whose was it? 02:39:23.692 --> 02:39:27.919 A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was? 02:39:28.502 --> 02:39:30.369 Nay, I know not. 02:39:31.059 --> 02:39:34.020 A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! 02:39:34.212 --> 02:39:36.869 a' poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once. 02:39:37.850 --> 02:39:43.329 This skull, sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. 02:39:44.075 --> 02:39:47.732 - This? - E'en that. 02:39:48.005 --> 02:39:49.732 - Let me see. 02:39:53.957 --> 02:39:57.655 Alas, poor Yorick!! 02:39:58.460 --> 02:40:00.220 I knew him, Horatio: 02:40:02.782 --> 02:40:05.058 a fellow of infinite jest, 02:40:07.225 --> 02:40:08.686 of most excellent fancy: 02:40:08.721 --> 02:40:13.688 he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; 02:40:15.174 --> 02:40:16.691 and now, 02:40:17.453 --> 02:40:20.524 how abhorred in my imagination it is! 02:40:21.609 --> 02:40:24.068 my gorge rims at it. 02:40:26.956 --> 02:40:30.410 Here hung those lips that I have kissed 02:40:31.227 --> 02:40:33.066 I know not how oft. 02:40:33.763 --> 02:40:36.112 Where be your gibes now? 02:40:36.331 --> 02:40:38.597 Your gambols? your songs? 02:40:38.953 --> 02:40:41.578 your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set 02:40:41.579 --> 02:40:43.614 the table on a roar? 02:40:43.888 --> 02:40:46.509 Not one now, to mock your own grinning? 02:40:47.108 --> 02:40:49.049 quite chap-fallen. 02:40:49.514 --> 02:40:52.799 Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, 02:40:53.803 --> 02:40:56.213 let her paint an inch thick, 02:40:56.813 --> 02:40:59.617 to this favour she must come. 02:41:00.568 --> 02:41:02.638 make her laugh at that. 02:41:06.736 --> 02:41:08.785 Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. 02:41:08.786 --> 02:41:10.300 What's that, my lord? 02:41:11.702 --> 02:41:14.610 Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i' the earth? 02:41:14.645 --> 02:41:15.782 E'en so. 02:41:16.307 --> 02:41:19.116 - And smelt so? pah! - E'en so, my lord. 02:41:20.117 --> 02:41:21.883 Imperious Caesar, 02:41:22.373 --> 02:41:24.485 dead and turn'd to clay, 02:41:25.279 --> 02:41:27.680 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 02:41:27.681 --> 02:41:30.872 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. 02:41:31.285 --> 02:41:32.722 Not a jot. 02:41:50.393 --> 02:41:51.990 Here comes the king. 02:41:53.900 --> 02:41:56.775 The queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow? 02:41:58.694 --> 02:42:01.482 And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken 02:42:01.483 --> 02:42:03.252 The corse they follow did with desperate hand 02:42:03.253 --> 02:42:05.144 fordo its own life. 02:42:09.811 --> 02:42:11.565 'Twas of some estate. 02:42:11.847 --> 02:42:13.742 Couch we awhile, and mark. 02:42:19.923 --> 02:42:22.677 - What ceremony else? - That is Laertes, mark. 02:42:22.886 --> 02:42:24.911 What ceremony else? 02:42:25.026 --> 02:42:29.000 Her obsequies have been as far enlarged as we have warrantise: 02:42:29.043 --> 02:42:30.842 her death was doubtful. 02:42:31.323 --> 02:42:34.580 And, but that great command o'ersways the order, 02:42:34.723 --> 02:42:37.069 She should in ground unsanctified have lodged 02:42:37.070 --> 02:42:38.956 Till the last trumpet. 02:42:38.957 --> 02:42:41.242 - Must there no more be done? - No more be done. 02:42:41.990 --> 02:42:44.511 We should profane the service of the dead 02:42:44.671 --> 02:42:47.081 To sing a requiem and such rest to her 02:42:47.082 --> 02:42:49.491 As to peace-parted souls. 02:42:49.492 --> 02:42:51.070 Lay her i' the earth. 02:43:08.696 --> 02:43:13.532 And from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring! 02:43:13.533 --> 02:43:15.917 I tell thee, churlish priest, 02:43:16.376 --> 02:43:18.095 A ministering angel shall my sister be, 02:43:18.096 --> 02:43:20.404 When thou liest howling. 02:43:20.405 --> 02:43:22.057 What, the fair Ophelia! 02:43:22.058 --> 02:43:25.372 Sweets to the sweet. 02:43:25.693 --> 02:43:27.131 Farewell! 02:43:29.234 --> 02:43:32.416 I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife; 02:43:32.472 --> 02:43:36.367 I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, 02:43:37.132 --> 02:43:39.085 And not have strew'd thy grave. 02:43:39.086 --> 02:43:41.034 O, treble woe fall ten 02:43:41.035 --> 02:43:43.322 ten times treble on that cursed head, 02:43:43.323 --> 02:43:49.333 Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense Deprived thee of!, 02:43:49.334 --> 02:43:51.508 Hold off the earth awhile, 02:43:54.294 --> 02:43:56.448 Till I have caught her once more in mine arms. 02:44:01.606 --> 02:44:05.894 Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead, 02:44:06.172 --> 02:44:09.824 Till of this flat a mountain you have made, 02:44:09.825 --> 02:44:13.637 To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head Of blue Olympus. 02:44:13.638 --> 02:44:17.946 What is he whose grief Bears such an emphasis? 02:44:18.512 --> 02:44:22.407 whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wandering stars, 02:44:22.408 --> 02:44:25.706 and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers? 02:44:26.469 --> 02:44:28.058 This is I, 02:44:28.729 --> 02:44:31.509 - Hamlet the Dane. - The devil take thy soul! 02:44:32.924 --> 02:44:35.527 Thou pray'st not well. I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat; 02:44:36.007 --> 02:44:37.402 For, though I am not splenitive and rash, 02:44:37.403 --> 02:44:38.766 Yet have I something in me dangerous, 02:44:38.767 --> 02:44:42.301 Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand. 02:44:42.374 --> 02:44:44.777 - Pluck them asunder. - Hamlet, Hamlet! 02:44:44.778 --> 02:44:47.118 - Gentlemen! - Good my lord, be quiet. 02:44:47.119 --> 02:44:48.984 Why I will fight with him upon this theme 02:44:48.985 --> 02:44:50.687 Until my eyelids will no longer wag. 02:44:50.688 --> 02:44:52.997 O my son, what theme? 02:44:56.114 --> 02:44:58.110 I loved Ophelia. 02:44:58.826 --> 02:45:02.715 forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, 02:45:02.716 --> 02:45:05.517 Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? 02:45:05.518 --> 02:45:07.127 O, he is mad, Laertes. 02:45:07.128 --> 02:45:09.108 For love of God, forbear him. 02:45:09.430 --> 02:45:12.316 'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do: Woo't weep? 02:45:12.341 --> 02:45:13.879 woo't fight? woo't fast? 02:45:13.880 --> 02:45:15.873 woo't tear thyself? 02:45:15.874 --> 02:45:17.876 Woo't drink up eisel? 02:45:17.877 --> 02:45:20.403 eat a crocodile? I'll do't. 02:45:21.666 --> 02:45:24.051 Dost thou come here to whine? 02:45:24.625 --> 02:45:28.182 To outface me with leaping in her grave? 02:45:28.183 --> 02:45:31.312 Be buried quick with her, and so will I: 02:45:32.104 --> 02:45:37.774 And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw millions of acres on us, 02:45:37.775 --> 02:45:40.513 till our ground, Singeing his pate 02:45:40.514 --> 02:45:42.745 against the burning zone, 02:45:42.746 --> 02:45:44.464 Make Ossa like a wart! 02:45:44.465 --> 02:45:48.854 Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. 02:45:48.855 --> 02:45:53.460 This is mere madness: And thus awhile the fit will work on him; 02:45:54.019 --> 02:45:57.898 Anon, his silence will sit drooping. 02:45:59.161 --> 02:46:00.873 Hear you, sir; 02:46:01.325 --> 02:46:03.693 What is the reason that you use me thus? 02:46:03.793 --> 02:46:05.505 I loved you ever 02:46:08.756 --> 02:46:10.741 but it is no matter. 02:46:13.270 --> 02:46:16.293 Let Hercules himself do what he may, 02:46:18.524 --> 02:46:20.567 The cat will mew 02:46:22.886 --> 02:46:25.410 and dog will have his day. 02:46:28.387 --> 02:46:31.162 Good Horatio, wait on him. 02:46:36.114 --> 02:46:38.703 Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech. 02:46:38.704 --> 02:46:41.105 We'll put the matter to the present push. 02:46:41.431 --> 02:46:42.803 Good Gertrude, 02:46:43.131 --> 02:46:45.469 set some watch over your son. 02:46:53.110 --> 02:46:55.742 There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 02:46:56.562 --> 02:46:58.977 Rough-hew them how we will. 02:46:59.432 --> 02:47:01.303 That is most certain. 02:47:03.857 --> 02:47:05.604 So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are dead. 02:47:05.605 --> 02:47:07.109 Why, man, they did make love to this employment 02:47:07.110 --> 02:47:09.089 They are not near my conscience. 02:47:09.090 --> 02:47:13.323 - Why, what a king is this! - Does it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon? 02:47:14.522 --> 02:47:17.594 He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother, 02:47:18.007 --> 02:47:21.007 Popp'd in between the election and my hopes, 02:47:21.657 --> 02:47:24.949 Thrown out his angle for my proper life, And with such cozenage... 02:47:24.984 --> 02:47:28.679 is't not perfect conscience, To quit him with this arm? 02:47:30.823 --> 02:47:35.016 But I am very sorry, good Horatio, That to Laertes I forgot myself. 02:47:36.434 --> 02:47:40.765 For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. 02:47:41.353 --> 02:47:43.256 I'll court his favours. 02:47:44.435 --> 02:47:46.425 But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me 02:47:46.426 --> 02:47:48.241 Into a towering passion. 02:47:48.242 --> 02:47:49.837 - Peace! - Who comes here? 02:47:49.872 --> 02:47:52.366 Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark. 02:47:52.367 --> 02:47:54.592 I humbly thank you, sir. 02:47:54.767 --> 02:47:57.339 - Dost know this water-fly? - No, my lord. 02:47:57.340 --> 02:48:00.536 Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to know him. 02:48:00.537 --> 02:48:01.845 'Tis a chough. 02:48:01.846 --> 02:48:04.197 Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I 02:48:04.198 --> 02:48:06.370 should impart a thing to you from his majesty. 02:48:06.371 --> 02:48:08.811 I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of spirit. 02:48:08.812 --> 02:48:11.656 Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head. 02:48:11.825 --> 02:48:14.410 I thank your lordship, it is very hot. 02:48:14.411 --> 02:48:18.839 Oh no, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is northerly. 02:48:19.538 --> 02:48:21.440 It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed. 02:48:21.441 --> 02:48:26.015 But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion. 02:48:26.016 --> 02:48:31.086 Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, as 'twere,... 02:48:31.087 --> 02:48:33.151 I cannot tell how. 02:48:33.152 --> 02:48:35.594 But, my lord, his majesty bade me 02:48:35.595 --> 02:48:38.513 signify to you that he has laid a great wager on your head. 02:48:38.514 --> 02:48:41.247 - Sir, this is the matter... - I beseech you, remember. 02:48:42.555 --> 02:48:46.042 Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith. 02:48:46.043 --> 02:48:48.653 Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes, 02:48:48.654 --> 02:48:51.879 believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent 02:48:51.880 --> 02:48:54.672 differences, of very soft society and great showing. 02:48:56.645 --> 02:48:58.848 Indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or 02:48:58.849 --> 02:49:00.796 calendar of gentry, 02:49:00.797 --> 02:49:02.941 for you shall find in him the continent of what 02:49:02.942 --> 02:49:04.580 part a gentleman would see. 02:49:06.707 --> 02:49:10.450 The concernancy, sir? 02:49:10.451 --> 02:49:13.826 Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath? 02:49:14.645 --> 02:49:16.283 Sir? 02:49:16.318 --> 02:49:19.706 What imports the nomination of this gentleman? 02:49:20.252 --> 02:49:23.142 - Of Laertes? - Of him, sir. 02:49:24.526 --> 02:49:26.103 I know you are not ignorant. 02:49:26.104 --> 02:49:28.307 I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did, 02:49:28.308 --> 02:49:30.282 it would not much approve me. Well, sir? 02:49:30.283 --> 02:49:32.810 You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is. 02:49:32.811 --> 02:49:35.495 I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence; 02:49:35.496 --> 02:49:37.670 but, to know a man well, 02:49:37.671 --> 02:49:39.647 were to know himself. 02:49:42.383 --> 02:49:45.049 I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation 02:49:45.050 --> 02:49:47.767 laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed. 02:49:47.768 --> 02:49:50.257 - What's his weapon? - Rapier and dagger. 02:49:50.258 --> 02:49:52.180 That's two of his weapons: but, well. 02:49:52.648 --> 02:49:54.870 The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary 02:49:54.871 --> 02:49:57.633 horses: against the which he has imponed, 02:49:57.721 --> 02:50:00.049 as I take it, six French rapiers 02:50:00.050 --> 02:50:03.327 and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so. 02:50:03.349 --> 02:50:08.431 three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, 02:50:08.517 --> 02:50:11.395 most delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit. 02:50:11.396 --> 02:50:13.484 What call you the carriages? 02:50:18.298 --> 02:50:20.360 The carriages, sir, are the hangers. 02:50:22.421 --> 02:50:26.102 But, on. Why is this 'imponed,' as you call it? 02:50:26.684 --> 02:50:28.540 The king, sir, hath laid, 02:50:28.541 --> 02:50:30.306 that in a dozen passes between yourself 02:50:30.307 --> 02:50:33.231 and him, he shall not exceed you three hits: 02:50:33.357 --> 02:50:35.069 it would come to immediate trial, if your lordship 02:50:35.070 --> 02:50:37.324 would vouchsafe the answer. 02:50:37.742 --> 02:50:39.802 How if I answer 'no'? 02:50:42.663 --> 02:50:45.787 I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial. 02:50:48.467 --> 02:50:50.014 Well. 02:50:50.329 --> 02:50:53.118 I shall walk here in the hall: if it please his majesty, 02:50:53.673 --> 02:50:57.231 'tis the breathing time of day with me. I shall win for him an I can, 02:50:57.643 --> 02:51:00.842 if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits. 02:51:00.843 --> 02:51:03.423 Shall I re-deliver you e'en so? 02:51:03.424 --> 02:51:06.884 To this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature will. 02:51:06.885 --> 02:51:08.842 I commend my duty to your lordship. 02:51:08.843 --> 02:51:10.694 Yours, yours. 02:51:13.576 --> 02:51:16.160 This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head. 02:51:16.161 --> 02:51:19.038 He did comply with his mother's dug, before he sucked it. 02:51:19.275 --> 02:51:20.918 You will lose this wager, my lord. 02:51:20.919 --> 02:51:25.193 I do not think so: since he went into France, I have been in continual practise. 02:51:25.549 --> 02:51:27.262 I shall win at the odds. 02:51:29.753 --> 02:51:33.195 But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart. 02:51:34.142 --> 02:51:35.622 - But it is no matter. - Nay, good my lord. 02:51:35.623 --> 02:51:36.457 It is but foolery. 02:51:36.458 --> 02:51:38.253 If your mind dislike any thing, obey it. 02:51:38.254 --> 02:51:41.481 I will forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit. 02:51:41.482 --> 02:51:42.847 Not a whit. 02:51:44.362 --> 02:51:46.435 We defy augury. 02:51:48.937 --> 02:51:52.167 There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. 02:51:54.436 --> 02:51:57.605 If it be now, 'tis not to come. 02:51:59.166 --> 02:52:01.628 If it be not to come, it will be now. 02:52:03.768 --> 02:52:05.632 If it be not now, 02:52:07.123 --> 02:52:08.983 Yet it will come. 02:52:12.095 --> 02:52:14.085 The readiness is all. 02:52:14.858 --> 02:52:19.054 Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me. 02:52:20.410 --> 02:52:22.999 Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong. 02:52:23.196 --> 02:52:25.304 But pardon't, as you are a gentleman. 02:52:25.638 --> 02:52:27.505 This presence knows, And you must needs have heard, 02:52:27.506 --> 02:52:30.178 how I am punish'd With sore distraction. 02:52:30.922 --> 02:52:34.229 What I have done, That might your nature, honour and exception 02:52:34.230 --> 02:52:37.710 Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. 02:52:38.843 --> 02:52:43.329 Sir, in this audience, Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil 02:52:43.334 --> 02:52:47.402 Free me so far in your most generous thoughts, 02:52:47.483 --> 02:52:51.672 That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, And hurt my brother. 02:52:51.673 --> 02:52:53.026 I am satisfied. 02:52:53.027 --> 02:52:57.104 I do receive your offer'd love like love, And will not wrong it. 02:52:57.105 --> 02:52:58.816 I embrace it freely. 02:52:58.817 --> 02:53:01.928 And will this brother's wager frankly play. Give us the foils. Come on. 02:53:01.963 --> 02:53:03.679 Come, one for me. 02:53:05.868 --> 02:53:08.689 I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance 02:53:08.824 --> 02:53:10.994 Your skill shall, like a star 02:53:10.995 --> 02:53:14.032 i' the darkest night, stick fiery off indeed. 02:53:14.098 --> 02:53:16.076 You mock me, sir. 02:53:16.513 --> 02:53:18.110 No, by this hand. 02:53:18.506 --> 02:53:20.678 Give them the foils, young Osric. 02:53:20.679 --> 02:53:22.794 Cousin Hamlet, you know the wager? 02:53:23.397 --> 02:53:26.697 Very well, my lord Your grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side. 02:53:26.698 --> 02:53:29.561 I do not fear it; I have seen you both: 02:53:29.562 --> 02:53:32.123 But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds. 02:53:32.124 --> 02:53:34.279 This is too heavy, let me see another. 02:53:35.730 --> 02:53:36.825 This likes me well. 02:53:36.826 --> 02:53:39.456 - These foils have all a length? - Ay, my good lord. 02:53:39.457 --> 02:53:42.283 If Hamlet give the first or second hit, 02:53:42.284 --> 02:53:46.774 Or quit in answer of the third exchange, 02:53:46.775 --> 02:53:49.195 Let all the battlements their ordnance fire: 02:53:49.196 --> 02:53:51.664 The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; 02:53:51.665 --> 02:53:57.756 And in the cup an union shall he throw, 02:53:57.865 --> 02:54:00.401 Richer than that which four successive kings 02:54:00.402 --> 02:54:02.938 In Denmark's crown have worn. 02:54:07.728 --> 02:54:11.134 And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, The trumpet to the cannoneer without, 02:54:11.135 --> 02:54:13.322 The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth, 02:54:13.323 --> 02:54:16.383 'Now the king dunks to Hamlet.' Come, begin: 02:54:16.384 --> 02:54:19.668 And you, the judges, bear a wary eye. 02:54:32.634 --> 02:54:34.682 - Come on, sir. - Come, my lord. 02:54:34.683 --> 02:54:35.337 - No. - Judgment. 02:54:35.338 --> 02:54:37.554 A hit, a very palpable hit. 02:54:39.473 --> 02:54:42.504 - Well; again. - Stay; give me drink. 02:54:43.559 --> 02:54:46.394 Hamlet, this pearl is thine; 02:54:46.851 --> 02:54:48.586 Here's to thy health. 02:54:48.587 --> 02:54:50.237 Give him the cup. 02:54:56.531 --> 02:54:59.040 I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile. 02:55:16.312 --> 02:55:18.740 - Another hit; what say you? - A touch, a touch, I do confess. 02:55:18.775 --> 02:55:20.369 Our son shall win. 02:55:21.841 --> 02:55:24.138 He's hot, and scant of breath. 02:55:24.204 --> 02:55:26.002 Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows; 02:55:26.037 --> 02:55:28.891 The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet. 02:55:28.892 --> 02:55:31.089 - Good madam! - Gertrude, 02:55:32.697 --> 02:55:34.314 do not drink. 02:55:37.526 --> 02:55:39.221 I will, my lord. 02:55:39.844 --> 02:55:41.831 I pray you, pardon me. 02:55:43.577 --> 02:55:45.431 It is the poison'd cup. 02:55:45.432 --> 02:55:48.454 - It is too late. - I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by. 02:55:48.789 --> 02:55:50.229 Come, let me wipe thy face. 02:55:50.230 --> 02:55:52.458 - My lord, I'll hit him now. - I do not think't. 02:55:52.459 --> 02:55:55.726 And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience. 02:55:55.843 --> 02:55:57.949 Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally; 02:55:57.950 --> 02:55:59.730 I pray you, pass with your best violence; 02:55:59.731 --> 02:56:01.190 I am afeard you make a wanton of me. 02:56:01.292 --> 02:56:02.774 Say you so? come on. 02:56:14.860 --> 02:56:16.449 Nothing, neither way. 02:56:18.369 --> 02:56:19.657 Have at you now! 02:56:36.711 --> 02:56:38.571 Nay, come, again. 02:56:38.806 --> 02:56:40.407 Mio signore! Mio signore! 02:56:42.788 --> 02:56:45.213 My lord! My lord, my lord! 02:56:47.788 --> 02:56:48.713 Look to the queen there, ho! 02:56:55.908 --> 02:56:57.845 They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord? 02:56:57.846 --> 02:56:58.680 How is't, Laertes? 02:56:58.681 --> 02:57:01.474 Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric; 02:57:01.475 --> 02:57:03.548 I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery. 02:57:03.549 --> 02:57:06.143 - How does the queen? - She swounds to see them bleed. 02:57:06.144 --> 02:57:11.030 No, no, the drink, the drink. 02:57:13.419 --> 02:57:15.347 O my dear Hamlet. 02:57:18.604 --> 02:57:21.319 The drink, the drink! 02:57:21.612 --> 02:57:23.723 I am poison'd. 02:57:26.552 --> 02:57:28.038 O villany! 02:57:29.503 --> 02:57:31.090 How! 02:57:31.132 --> 02:57:34.199 - Let the door be lock'd. - Treachery! Seek it out. 02:57:34.940 --> 02:57:36.481 It is here, Hamlet. 02:57:37.355 --> 02:57:40.341 Hamlet, thou art slain. 02:57:40.947 --> 02:57:43.482 No medicine in the world can do thee good; In thee there is not 02:57:43.483 --> 02:57:45.203 half an hour of life; 02:57:45.759 --> 02:57:50.375 The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, unblunted and envenom'd. 02:57:50.844 --> 02:57:53.812 The foul practise hath turn'd itself on me. 02:57:55.005 --> 02:57:56.913 Lo, here I lie, 02:57:56.992 --> 02:57:59.861 Never to rise again. Thy mother's poison'd. 02:58:00.260 --> 02:58:01.836 I can no more. 02:58:02.813 --> 02:58:05.784 The king, the king's to blame! 02:58:14.076 --> 02:58:17.138 O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt. 02:58:19.775 --> 02:58:21.160 Here, 02:58:23.618 --> 02:58:28.523 thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, 02:58:28.524 --> 02:58:30.760 Drink off this potion. 02:58:35.346 --> 02:58:37.230 Is thy union here? 02:58:41.000 --> 02:58:42.939 Follow my mother. 02:58:44.317 --> 02:58:48.257 He is justly served; It is a poison temper'd by himself. 02:58:48.258 --> 02:58:50.917 Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet: 02:58:52.150 --> 02:58:55.065 Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, 02:58:56.040 --> 02:58:58.045 Nor thine on me. 02:59:04.803 --> 02:59:06.821 Heaven make thee free of it! 02:59:08.958 --> 02:59:10.645 I follow thee. 02:59:12.178 --> 02:59:15.503 I am dead, Horatio. 02:59:17.146 --> 02:59:19.207 Wretched queen, adieu! 02:59:20.683 --> 02:59:23.855 You that look pale and tremble at this chance, 02:59:25.088 --> 02:59:28.153 That are but mutes or audience to this act, 02:59:29.553 --> 02:59:35.732 Had I but time...as this fell sergeant, death, Is strict in his arrest... 02:59:36.358 --> 02:59:38.243 O, I could tell you... 02:59:39.668 --> 02:59:41.415 But let it be. 02:59:43.713 --> 02:59:45.706 Horatio, I am dead. 02:59:47.951 --> 02:59:49.508 Thou livest. 02:59:50.944 --> 02:59:54.373 Report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied. 02:59:54.374 --> 02:59:57.913 Never believe it: I am more an antique Roman than a Dane: 02:59:57.914 --> 02:59:59.357 Here's yet some liquor left. 02:59:59.358 --> 03:00:03.272 As thou'rt a man, give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have't. 03:00:07.480 --> 03:00:10.662 O good Horatio, 03:00:13.081 --> 03:00:14.899 what a wounded name, 03:00:15.290 --> 03:00:18.685 Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! 03:00:21.974 --> 03:00:23.904 If thou didst ever 03:00:24.375 --> 03:00:26.360 hold me in thy heart, 03:00:29.556 --> 03:00:32.426 Absent thee from felicity awhile, 03:00:34.621 --> 03:00:37.076 And in this harsh world 03:00:38.450 --> 03:00:40.671 world draw thy breath in pain, 03:00:41.998 --> 03:00:43.766 To tell my story. 03:00:56.374 --> 03:00:57.815 The rest... 03:01:00.593 --> 03:01:02.617 is silence. 03:01:15.911 --> 03:01:18.523 Now cracks a noble heart. 03:01:21.429 --> 03:01:23.893 Good night sweet prince: 03:01:25.045 --> 03:01:29.152 And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!