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FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.04.29.93*END* - 280 - 281 - 282 - 283 - 284 - 285 This etext was prepared by Dianne Bean. - 286 - 287 - 288 - 289 - 290 - 291 HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK - 292 - 293 by William Shakespeare - 294 - 295 - 296 - 297 - 298 PERSONS REPRESENTED. - 299 - 300 Claudius, King of Denmark. - 301 Hamlet, Son to the former, and Nephew to the present King. - 302 Polonius, Lord Chamberlain. - 303 Horatio, Friend to Hamlet. - 304 Laertes, Son to Polonius. - 305 Voltimand, Courtier. - 306 Cornelius, Courtier. - 307 Rosencrantz, Courtier. - 308 Guildenstern, Courtier. - 309 Osric, Courtier. - 310 A Gentleman, Courtier. - 311 A Priest. - 312 Marcellus, Officer. - 313 Bernardo, Officer. - 314 Francisco, a Soldier - 315 Reynaldo, Servant to Polonius. - 316 Players. - 317 Two Clowns, Grave-diggers. - 318 Fortinbras, Prince of Norway. - 319 A Captain. - 320 English Ambassadors. - 321 Ghost of Hamlet's Father. - 322 - 323 Gertrude, Queen of Denmark, and Mother of Hamlet. - 324 Ophelia, Daughter to Polonius. - 325 - 326 Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, and other - 327 Attendants. - 328 - 329 SCENE. Elsinore. - 330 - 331 - 332 - 333 ACT I. - 334 - 335 Scene I. Elsinore. A platform before the Castle. - 336 - 337 [Francisco at his post. Enter to him Bernardo.] - 338 - 339 Ber. - 340 Who's there? - 341 - 342 Fran. - 343 Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. - 344 - 345 Ber. - 346 Long live the king! - 347 - 348 Fran. - 349 Bernardo? - 350 - 351 Ber. - 352 He. - 353 - 354 Fran. - 355 You come most carefully upon your hour. - 356 - 357 Ber. - 358 'Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to bed, Francisco. - 359 - 360 Fran. - 361 For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold, - 362 And I am sick at heart. - 363 - 364 Ber. - 365 Have you had quiet guard? - 366 - 367 Fran. - 368 Not a mouse stirring. - 369 - 370 Ber. - 371 Well, good night. - 372 If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, - 373 The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. - 374 - 375 Fran. - 376 I think I hear them.--Stand, ho! Who is there? - 377 - 378 [Enter Horatio and Marcellus.] - 379 - 380 Hor. - 381 Friends to this ground. - 382 - 383 Mar. - 384 And liegemen to the Dane. - 385 - 386 Fran. - 387 Give you good-night. - 388 - 389 Mar. - 390 O, farewell, honest soldier; - 391 Who hath reliev'd you? - 392 - 393 Fran. - 394 Bernardo has my place. - 395 Give you good-night. - 396 - 397 [Exit.] - 398 - 399 Mar. - 400 Holla! Bernardo! - 401 - 402 Ber. - 403 Say. - 404 What, is Horatio there? - 405 - 406 Hor. - 407 A piece of him. - 408 - 409 Ber. - 410 Welcome, Horatio:--Welcome, good Marcellus. - 411 - 412 Mar. - 413 What, has this thing appear'd again to-night? - 414 - 415 Ber. - 416 I have seen nothing. - 417 - 418 Mar. - 419 Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, - 420 And will not let belief take hold of him - 421 Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: - 422 Therefore I have entreated him along - 423 With us to watch the minutes of this night; - 424 That, if again this apparition come - 425 He may approve our eyes and speak to it. - 426 - 427 Hor. - 428 Tush, tush, 'twill not appear. - 429 - 430 Ber. - 431 Sit down awhile, - 432 And let us once again assail your ears, - 433 That are so fortified against our story, - 434 What we two nights have seen. - 435 - 436 Hor. - 437 Well, sit we down, - 438 And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. - 439 - 440 Ber. - 441 Last night of all, - 442 When yond same star that's westward from the pole - 443 Had made his course to illume that part of heaven - 444 Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, - 445 The bell then beating one,-- - 446 - 447 Mar. - 448 Peace, break thee off; look where it comes again! - 449 - 450 [Enter Ghost, armed.] - 451 - 452 Ber. - 453 In the same figure, like the king that's dead. - 454 - 455 Mar. - 456 Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. - 457 - 458 Ber. - 459 Looks it not like the King? mark it, Horatio. - 460 - 461 Hor. - 462 Most like:--it harrows me with fear and wonder. - 463 - 464 Ber. - 465 It would be spoke to. - 466 - 467 Mar. - 468 Question it, Horatio. - 469 - 470 Hor. - 471 What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night, - 472 Together with that fair and warlike form - 473 In which the majesty of buried Denmark - 474 Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee, speak! - 475 - 476 Mar. - 477 It is offended. - 478 - 479 Ber. - 480 See, it stalks away! - 481 - 482 Hor. - 483 Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee speak! - 484 - 485 [Exit Ghost.] - 486 - 487 Mar. - 488 'Tis gone, and will not answer. - 489 - 490 Ber. - 491 How now, Horatio! You tremble and look pale: - 492 Is not this something more than fantasy? - 493 What think you on't? - 494 - 495 Hor. - 496 Before my God, I might not this believe - 497 Without the sensible and true avouch - 498 Of mine own eyes. - 499 - 500 Mar. - 501 Is it not like the King? - 502 - 503 Hor. - 504 As thou art to thyself: - 505 Such was the very armour he had on - 506 When he the ambitious Norway combated; - 507 So frown'd he once when, in an angry parle, - 508 He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. - 509 'Tis strange. - 510 - 511 Mar. - 512 Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, - 513 With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. - 514 - 515 Hor. - 516 In what particular thought to work I know not; - 517 But, in the gross and scope of my opinion, - 518 This bodes some strange eruption to our state. - 519 - 520 Mar. - 521 Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows, - 522 Why this same strict and most observant watch - 523 So nightly toils the subject of the land; - 524 And why such daily cast of brazen cannon, - 525 And foreign mart for implements of war; - 526 Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task - 527 Does not divide the Sunday from the week; - 528 What might be toward, that this sweaty haste - 529 Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day: - 530 Who is't that can inform me? - 531 - 532 Hor. - 533 That can I; - 534 At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, - 535 Whose image even but now appear'd to us, - 536 Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, - 537 Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride, - 538 Dar'd to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet,-- - 539 For so this side of our known world esteem'd him,-- - 540 Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal'd compact, - 541 Well ratified by law and heraldry, - 542 Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands, - 543 Which he stood seiz'd of, to the conqueror: - 544 Against the which, a moiety competent - 545 Was gaged by our king; which had return'd - 546 To the inheritance of Fortinbras, - 547 Had he been vanquisher; as by the same cov'nant, - 548 And carriage of the article design'd, - 549 His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras, - 550 Of unimproved mettle hot and full, - 551 Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there, - 552 Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes, - 553 For food and diet, to some enterprise - 554 That hath a stomach in't; which is no other,-- - 555 As it doth well appear unto our state,-- - 556 But to recover of us, by strong hand, - 557 And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands - 558 So by his father lost: and this, I take it, - 559 Is the main motive of our preparations, - 560 The source of this our watch, and the chief head - 561 Of this post-haste and romage in the land. - 562 - 563 Ber. - 564 I think it be no other but e'en so: - 565 Well may it sort, that this portentous figure - 566 Comes armed through our watch; so like the king - 567 That was and is the question of these wars. - 568 - 569 Hor. - 570 A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. - 571 In the most high and palmy state of Rome, - 572 A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, - 573 The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead - 574 Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; - 575 As, stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, - 576 Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, - 577 Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, - 578 Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse: - 579 And even the like precurse of fierce events,-- - 580 As harbingers preceding still the fates, - 581 And prologue to the omen coming on,-- - 582 Have heaven and earth together demonstrated - 583 Unto our climature and countrymen.-- - 584 But, soft, behold! lo, where it comes again! - 585 - 586 [Re-enter Ghost.] - 587 - 588 I'll cross it, though it blast me.--Stay, illusion! - 589 If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, - 590 Speak to me: - 591 If there be any good thing to be done, - 592 That may to thee do ease, and, race to me, - 593 Speak to me: - 594 If thou art privy to thy country's fate, - 595 Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, - 596 O, speak! - 597 Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life - 598 Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, - 599 For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, - 600 [The cock crows.] - 601 Speak of it:--stay, and speak!--Stop it, Marcellus! - 602 - 603 Mar. - 604 Shall I strike at it with my partisan? - 605 - 606 Hor. - 607 Do, if it will not stand. - 608 - 609 Ber. - 610 'Tis here! - 611 - 612 Hor. - 613 'Tis here! - 614 - 615 Mar. - 616 'Tis gone! - 617 - 618 [Exit Ghost.] - 619 - 620 We do it wrong, being so majestical, - 621 To offer it the show of violence; - 622 For it is, as the air, invulnerable, - 623 And our vain blows malicious mockery. - 624 - 625 Ber. - 626 It was about to speak, when the cock crew. - 627 - 628 Hor. - 629 And then it started, like a guilty thing - 630 Upon a fearful summons. I have heard - 631 The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, - 632 Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat - 633 Awake the god of day; and at his warning, - 634 Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, - 635 The extravagant and erring spirit hies - 636 To his confine: and of the truth herein - 637 This present object made probation. - 638 - 639 Mar. - 640 It faded on the crowing of the cock. - 641 Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes - 642 Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, - 643 The bird of dawning singeth all night long; - 644 And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; - 645 The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, - 646 No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm; - 647 So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. - 648 - 649 Hor. - 650 So have I heard, and do in part believe it. - 651 But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, - 652 Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill: - 653 Break we our watch up: and by my advice, - 654 Let us impart what we have seen to-night - 655 Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life, - 656 This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him: - 657 Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it, - 658 As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? - 659 - 660 Mar. - 661 Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know - 662 Where we shall find him most conveniently. - 663 - 664 [Exeunt.] - 665 - 666 - 667 - 668 Scene II. Elsinore. A room of state in the Castle. - 669 - 670 [Enter the King, Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Voltimand, - 671 Cornelius, Lords, and Attendant.] - 672 - 673 King. - 674 Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death - 675 The memory be green, and that it us befitted - 676 To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom - 677 To be contracted in one brow of woe; - 678 Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature - 679 That we with wisest sorrow think on him, - 680 Together with remembrance of ourselves. - 681 Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, - 682 Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state, - 683 Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,-- - 684 With an auspicious and one dropping eye, - 685 With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, - 686 In equal scale weighing delight and dole,-- - 687 Taken to wife; nor have we herein barr'd - 688 Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone - 689 With this affair along:--or all, our thanks. - 690 Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras, - 691 Holding a weak supposal of our worth, - 692 Or thinking by our late dear brother's death - 693 Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, - 694 Colleagued with this dream of his advantage, - 695 He hath not fail'd to pester us with message, - 696 Importing the surrender of those lands - 697 Lost by his father, with all bonds of law, - 698 To our most valiant brother. So much for him,-- - 699 Now for ourself and for this time of meeting: - 700 Thus much the business is:--we have here writ - 701 To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,-- - 702 Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears - 703 Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress - 704 His further gait herein; in that the levies, - 705 The lists, and full proportions are all made - 706 Out of his subject:--and we here dispatch - 707 You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand, - 708 For bearers of this greeting to old Norway; - 709 Giving to you no further personal power - 710 To business with the king, more than the scope - 711 Of these dilated articles allow. - 712 Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty. - 713 - 714 Cor. and Volt. - 715 In that and all things will we show our duty. - 716 - 717 King. - 718 We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell. - 719 - 720 [Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius.] - 721 - 722 And now, Laertes, what's the news with you? - 723 You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes? - 724 You cannot speak of reason to the Dane, - 725 And lose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes, - 726 That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? - 727 The head is not more native to the heart, - 728 The hand more instrumental to the mouth, - 729 Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. - 730 What wouldst thou have, Laertes? - 731 - 732 Laer. - 733 Dread my lord, - 734 Your leave and favour to return to France; - 735 From whence though willingly I came to Denmark, - 736 To show my duty in your coronation; - 737 Yet now, I must confess, that duty done, - 738 My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France, - 739 And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon. - 740 - 741 King. - 742 Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius? - 743 - 744 Pol. - 745 He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave - 746 By laboursome petition; and at last - 747 Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent: - 748 I do beseech you, give him leave to go. - 749 - 750 King. - 751 Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, - 752 And thy best graces spend it at thy will!-- - 753 But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son-- - 754 - 755 Ham. - 756 [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind! - 757 - 758 King. - 759 How is it that the clouds still hang on you? - 760 - 761 Ham. - 762 Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. - 763 - 764 Queen. - 765 Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, - 766 And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. - 767 Do not for ever with thy vailed lids - 768 Seek for thy noble father in the dust: - 769 Thou know'st 'tis common,--all that lives must die, - 770 Passing through nature to eternity. - 771 - 772 Ham. - 773 Ay, madam, it is common. - 774 - 775 Queen. - 776 If it be, - 777 Why seems it so particular with thee? - 778 - 779 Ham. - 780 Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems. - 781 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, - 782 Nor customary suits of solemn black, - 783 Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, - 784 No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, - 785 Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, - 786 Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief, - 787 That can denote me truly: these, indeed, seem; - 788 For they are actions that a man might play; - 789 But I have that within which passeth show; - 790 These but the trappings and the suits of woe. - 791 - 792 King. - 793 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, - 794 To give these mourning duties to your father; - 795 But, you must know, your father lost a father; - 796 That father lost, lost his; and the survivor bound, - 797 In filial obligation, for some term - 798 To do obsequious sorrow: but to persevere - 799 In obstinate condolement is a course - 800 Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief; - 801 It shows a will most incorrect to heaven; - 802 A heart unfortified, a mind impatient; - 803 An understanding simple and unschool'd; - 804 For what we know must be, and is as common - 805 As any the most vulgar thing to sense, - 806 Why should we, in our peevish opposition, - 807 Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven, - 808 A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, - 809 To reason most absurd; whose common theme - 810 Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, - 811 From the first corse till he that died to-day, - 812 'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth - 813 This unprevailing woe; and think of us - 814 As of a father: for let the world take note - 815 You are the most immediate to our throne; - 816 And with no less nobility of love - 817 Than that which dearest father bears his son - 818 Do I impart toward you. For your intent - 819 In going back to school in Wittenberg, - 820 It is most retrograde to our desire: - 821 And we beseech you bend you to remain - 822 Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye, - 823 Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son. - 824 - 825 Queen. - 826 Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet: - 827 I pray thee stay with us; go not to Wittenberg. - 828 - 829 Ham. - 830 I shall in all my best obey you, madam. - 831 - 832 King. - 833 Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply: - 834 Be as ourself in Denmark.--Madam, come; - 835 This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet - 836 Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof, - 837 No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day - 838 But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell; - 839 And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again, - 840 Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away. - 841 - 842 [Exeunt all but Hamlet.] - 843 - 844 Ham. - 845 O that this too too solid flesh would melt, - 846 Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! - 847 Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd - 848 His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! - 849 How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable - 850 Seem to me all the uses of this world! - 851 Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, - 852 That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature - 853 Possess it merely. That it should come to this! - 854 But two months dead!--nay, not so much, not two: - 855 So excellent a king; that was, to this, - 856 Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, - 857 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven - 858 Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! - 859 Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him - 860 As if increase of appetite had grown - 861 By what it fed on: and yet, within a month,-- - 862 Let me not think on't,--Frailty, thy name is woman!-- - 863 A little month; or ere those shoes were old - 864 With which she followed my poor father's body - 865 Like Niobe, all tears;--why she, even she,-- - 866 O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason, - 867 Would have mourn'd longer,--married with mine uncle, - 868 My father's brother; but no more like my father - 869 Than I to Hercules: within a month; - 870 Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears - 871 Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, - 872 She married:-- O, most wicked speed, to post - 873 With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! - 874 It is not, nor it cannot come to good; - 875 But break my heart,--for I must hold my tongue! - 876 - 877 [Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo.] - 878 - 879 Hor. - 880 Hail to your lordship! - 881 - 882 Ham. - 883 I am glad to see you well: - 884 Horatio,--or I do forget myself. - 885 - 886 Hor. - 887 The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever. - 888 - 889 Ham. - 890 Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you: - 891 And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio?-- - 892 Marcellus? - 893 - 894 Mar. - 895 My good lord,-- - 896 - 897 Ham. - 898 I am very glad to see you.--Good even, sir.-- - 899 But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg? - 900 - 901 Hor. - 902 A truant disposition, good my lord. - 903 - 904 Ham. - 905 I would not hear your enemy say so; - 906 Nor shall you do my ear that violence, - 907 To make it truster of your own report - 908 Against yourself: I know you are no truant. - 909 But what is your affair in Elsinore? - 910 We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. - 911 - 912 Hor. - 913 My lord, I came to see your father's funeral. - 914 - 915 Ham. - 916 I prithee do not mock me, fellow-student. - 917 I think it was to see my mother's wedding. - 918 - 919 Hor. - 920 Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon. - 921 - 922 Ham. - 923 Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats - 924 Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. - 925 Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven - 926 Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!-- - 927 My father,--methinks I see my father. - 928 - 929 Hor. - 930 Where, my lord? - 931 - 932 Ham. - 933 In my mind's eye, Horatio. - 934 - 935 Hor. - 936 I saw him once; he was a goodly king. - 937 - 938 Ham. - 939 He was a man, take him for all in all, - 940 I shall not look upon his like again. - 941 - 942 Hor. - 943 My lord, I think I saw him yesternight. - 944 - 945 Ham. - 946 Saw who? - 947 - 948 Hor. - 949 My lord, the king your father. - 950 - 951 Ham. - 952 The King my father! - 953 - 954 Hor. - 955 Season your admiration for awhile - 956 With an attent ear, till I may deliver, - 957 Upon the witness of these gentlemen, - 958 This marvel to you. - 959 - 960 Ham. - 961 For God's love let me hear. - 962 - 963 Hor. - 964 Two nights together had these gentlemen, - 965 Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch - 966 In the dead vast and middle of the night, - 967 Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father, - 968 Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe, - 969 Appears before them and with solemn march - 970 Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd - 971 By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes, - 972 Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distill'd - 973 Almost to jelly with the act of fear, - 974 Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to me - 975 In dreadful secrecy impart they did; - 976 And I with them the third night kept the watch: - 977 Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time, - 978 Form of the thing, each word made true and good, - 979 The apparition comes: I knew your father; - 980 These hands are not more like. - 981 - 982 Ham. - 983 But where was this? - 984 - 985 Mar. - 986 My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. - 987 - 988 Ham. - 989 Did you not speak to it? - 990 - 991 Hor. - 992 My lord, I did; - 993 But answer made it none: yet once methought - 994 It lifted up it head, and did address - 995 Itself to motion, like as it would speak: - 996 But even then the morning cock crew loud, - 997 And at the sound it shrunk in haste away, - 998 And vanish'd from our sight. - 999 - 1000 Ham. - 1001 'Tis very strange. - 1002 - 1003 Hor. - 1004 As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true; - 1005 And we did think it writ down in our duty - 1006 To let you know of it. - 1007 - 1008 Ham. - 1009 Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me. - 1010 Hold you the watch to-night? - 1011 - 1012 Mar. and Ber. - 1013 We do, my lord. - 1014 - 1015 Ham. - 1016 Arm'd, say you? - 1017 - 1018 Both. - 1019 Arm'd, my lord. - 1020 - 1021 Ham. - 1022 From top to toe? - 1023 - 1024 Both. - 1025 My lord, from head to foot. - 1026 - 1027 Ham. - 1028 Then saw you not his face? - 1029 - 1030 Hor. - 1031 O, yes, my lord: he wore his beaver up. - 1032 - 1033 Ham. - 1034 What, look'd he frowningly? - 1035 - 1036 Hor. - 1037 A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. - 1038 - 1039 Ham. - 1040 Pale or red? - 1041 - 1042 Hor. - 1043 Nay, very pale. - 1044 - 1045 Ham. - 1046 And fix'd his eyes upon you? - 1047 - 1048 Hor. - 1049 Most constantly. - 1050 - 1051 Ham. - 1052 I would I had been there. - 1053 - 1054 Hor. - 1055 It would have much amaz'd you. - 1056 - 1057 Ham. - 1058 Very like, very like. Stay'd it long? - 1059 - 1060 Hor. - 1061 While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. - 1062 - 1063 Mar. and Ber. - 1064 Longer, longer. - 1065 - 1066 Hor. - 1067 Not when I saw't. - 1068 - 1069 Ham. - 1070 His beard was grizzled,--no? - 1071 - 1072 Hor. - 1073 It was, as I have seen it in his life, - 1074 A sable silver'd. - 1075 - 1076 Ham. - 1077 I will watch to-night; - 1078 Perchance 'twill walk again. - 1079 - 1080 Hor. - 1081 I warr'nt it will. - 1082 - 1083 Ham. - 1084 If it assume my noble father's person, - 1085 I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape - 1086 And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all, - 1087 If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight, - 1088 Let it be tenable in your silence still; - 1089 And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, - 1090 Give it an understanding, but no tongue: - 1091 I will requite your loves. So, fare ye well: - 1092 Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve, - 1093 I'll visit you. - 1094 - 1095 All. - 1096 Our duty to your honour. - 1097 - 1098 Ham. - 1099 Your loves, as mine to you: farewell. - 1100 - 1101 [Exeunt Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo.] - 1102 - 1103 My father's spirit in arms! All is not well; - 1104 I doubt some foul play: would the night were come! - 1105 Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise, - 1106 Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. - 1107 - 1108 [Exit.] - 1109 - 1110 - 1111 - 1112 Scene III. A room in Polonius's house. - 1113 - 1114 [Enter Laertes and Ophelia.] - 1115 - 1116 Laer. - 1117 My necessaries are embark'd: farewell: - 1118 And, sister, as the winds give benefit - 1119 And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, - 1120 But let me hear from you. - 1121 - 1122 Oph. - 1123 Do you doubt that? - 1124 - 1125 Laer. - 1126 For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour, - 1127 Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood: - 1128 A violet in the youth of primy nature, - 1129 Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting; - 1130 The perfume and suppliance of a minute; - 1131 No more. - 1132 - 1133 Oph. - 1134 No more but so? - 1135 - 1136 Laer. - 1137 Think it no more: - 1138 For nature, crescent, does not grow alone - 1139 In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes, - 1140 The inward service of the mind and soul - 1141 Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now; - 1142 And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch - 1143 The virtue of his will: but you must fear, - 1144 His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; - 1145 For he himself is subject to his birth: - 1146 He may not, as unvalu'd persons do, - 1147 Carve for himself; for on his choice depends - 1148 The safety and health of this whole state; - 1149 And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd - 1150 Unto the voice and yielding of that body - 1151 Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you, - 1152 It fits your wisdom so far to believe it - 1153 As he in his particular act and place - 1154 May give his saying deed; which is no further - 1155 Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. - 1156 Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain - 1157 If with too credent ear you list his songs, - 1158 Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open - 1159 To his unmaster'd importunity. - 1160 Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister; - 1161 And keep you in the rear of your affection, - 1162 Out of the shot and danger of desire. - 1163 The chariest maid is prodigal enough - 1164 If she unmask her beauty to the moon: - 1165 Virtue itself scopes not calumnious strokes: - 1166 The canker galls the infants of the spring - 1167 Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd: - 1168 And in the morn and liquid dew of youth - 1169 Contagious blastments are most imminent. - 1170 Be wary then; best safety lies in fear: - 1171 Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. - 1172 - 1173 Oph. - 1174 I shall th' effect of this good lesson keep - 1175 As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, - 1176 Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, - 1177 Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; - 1178 Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, - 1179 Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads - 1180 And recks not his own read. - 1181 - 1182 Laer. - 1183 O, fear me not. - 1184 I stay too long:--but here my father comes. - 1185 - 1186 [Enter Polonius.] - 1187 - 1188 A double blessing is a double grace; - 1189 Occasion smiles upon a second leave. - 1190 - 1191 Pol. - 1192 Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! - 1193 The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, - 1194 And you are stay'd for. There,--my blessing with thee! - 1195 - 1196 [Laying his hand on Laertes's head.] - 1197 - 1198 And these few precepts in thy memory - 1199 Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, - 1200 Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. - 1201 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. - 1202 Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, - 1203 Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel; - 1204 But do not dull thy palm with entertainment - 1205 Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware - 1206 Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, - 1207 Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. - 1208 Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: - 1209 Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. - 1210 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, - 1211 But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: - 1212 For the apparel oft proclaims the man; - 1213 And they in France of the best rank and station - 1214 Are most select and generous chief in that. - 1215 Neither a borrower nor a lender be: - 1216 For loan oft loses both itself and friend; - 1217 And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. - 1218 This above all,--to thine own self be true; - 1219 And it must follow, as the night the day, - 1220 Thou canst not then be false to any man. - 1221 Farewell: my blessing season this in thee! - 1222 - 1223 Laer. - 1224 Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord. - 1225 - 1226 Pol. - 1227 The time invites you; go, your servants tend. - 1228 - 1229 Laer. - 1230 Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well - 1231 What I have said to you. - 1232 - 1233 Oph. - 1234 'Tis in my memory lock'd, - 1235 And you yourself shall keep the key of it. - 1236 - 1237 Laer. - 1238 Farewell. - 1239 - 1240 [Exit.] - 1241 - 1242 Pol. - 1243 What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you? - 1244 - 1245 Oph. - 1246 So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet. - 1247 - 1248 Pol. - 1249 Marry, well bethought: - 1250 'Tis told me he hath very oft of late - 1251 Given private time to you; and you yourself - 1252 Have of your audience been most free and bounteous; - 1253 If it be so,--as so 'tis put on me, - 1254 And that in way of caution,--I must tell you - 1255 You do not understand yourself so clearly - 1256 As it behooves my daughter and your honour. - 1257 What is between you? give me up the truth. - 1258 - 1259 Oph. - 1260 He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders - 1261 Of his affection to me. - 1262 - 1263 Pol. - 1264 Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl, - 1265 Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. - 1266 Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? - 1267 - 1268 Oph. - 1269 I do not know, my lord, what I should think. - 1270 - 1271 Pol. - 1272 Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby; - 1273 That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, - 1274 Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly; - 1275 Or,--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, - 1276 Wronging it thus,--you'll tender me a fool. - 1277 - 1278 Oph. - 1279 My lord, he hath importun'd me with love - 1280 In honourable fashion. - 1281 - 1282 Pol. - 1283 Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to. - 1284 - 1285 Oph. - 1286 And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, - 1287 With almost all the holy vows of heaven. - 1288 - 1289 Pol. - 1290 Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, - 1291 When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul - 1292 Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter, - 1293 Giving more light than heat,--extinct in both, - 1294 Even in their promise, as it is a-making,-- - 1295 You must not take for fire. From this time - 1296 Be something scanter of your maiden presence; - 1297 Set your entreatments at a higher rate - 1298 Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet, - 1299 Believe so much in him, that he is young; - 1300 And with a larger tether may he walk - 1301 Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia, - 1302 Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,-- - 1303 Not of that dye which their investments show, - 1304 But mere implorators of unholy suits, - 1305 Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, - 1306 The better to beguile. This is for all,-- - 1307 I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth - 1308 Have you so slander any moment leisure - 1309 As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. - 1310 Look to't, I charge you; come your ways. - 1311 - 1312 Oph. - 1313 I shall obey, my lord. - 1314 - 1315 [Exeunt.] - 1316 - 1317 - 1318 - 1319 Scene IV. The platform. - 1320 - 1321 [Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus.] - 1322 - 1323 Ham. - 1324 The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. - 1325 - 1326 Hor. - 1327 It is a nipping and an eager air. - 1328 - 1329 Ham. - 1330 What hour now? - 1331 - 1332 Hor. - 1333 I think it lacks of twelve. - 1334 - 1335 Mar. - 1336 No, it is struck. - 1337 - 1338 Hor. - 1339 Indeed? I heard it not: then draws near the season - 1340 Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. - 1341 - 1342 [A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off within.] - 1343 - 1344 What does this mean, my lord? - 1345 - 1346 Ham. - 1347 The King doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, - 1348 Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; - 1349 And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, - 1350 The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out - 1351 The triumph of his pledge. - 1352 - 1353 Hor. - 1354 Is it a custom? - 1355 - 1356 Ham. - 1357 Ay, marry, is't; - 1358 But to my mind,--though I am native here, - 1359 And to the manner born,--it is a custom - 1360 More honour'd in the breach than the observance. - 1361 This heavy-headed revel east and west - 1362 Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations: - 1363 They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase - 1364 Soil our addition; and, indeed, it takes - 1365 From our achievements, though perform'd at height, - 1366 The pith and marrow of our attribute. - 1367 So oft it chances in particular men - 1368 That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, - 1369 As in their birth,--wherein they are not guilty, - 1370 Since nature cannot choose his origin,-- - 1371 By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, - 1372 Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason; - 1373 Or by some habit, that too much o'er-leavens - 1374 The form of plausive manners;--that these men,-- - 1375 Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, - 1376 Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,-- - 1377 Their virtues else,--be they as pure as grace, - 1378 As infinite as man may undergo,-- - 1379 Shall in the general censure take corruption - 1380 From that particular fault: the dram of eale - 1381 Doth all the noble substance often doubt - 1382 To his own scandal. - 1383 - 1384 Hor. - 1385 Look, my lord, it comes! - 1386 - 1387 [Enter Ghost.] - 1388 - 1389 Ham. - 1390 Angels and ministers of grace defend us!-- - 1391 Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, - 1392 Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, - 1393 Be thy intents wicked or charitable, - 1394 Thou com'st in such a questionable shape - 1395 That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, - 1396 King, father, royal Dane; O, answer me! - 1397 Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell - 1398 Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, - 1399 Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, - 1400 Wherein we saw thee quietly in-urn'd, - 1401 Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws - 1402 To cast thee up again! What may this mean, - 1403 That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, - 1404 Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, - 1405 Making night hideous, and we fools of nature - 1406 So horridly to shake our disposition - 1407 With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? - 1408 Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do? - 1409 - 1410 [Ghost beckons Hamlet.] - 1411 - 1412 Hor. - 1413 It beckons you to go away with it, - 1414 As if it some impartment did desire - 1415 To you alone. - 1416 - 1417 Mar. - 1418 Look with what courteous action - 1419 It waves you to a more removed ground: - 1420 But do not go with it! - 1421 - 1422 Hor. - 1423 No, by no means. - 1424 - 1425 Ham. - 1426 It will not speak; then will I follow it. - 1427 - 1428 Hor. - 1429 Do not, my lord. - 1430 - 1431 Ham. - 1432 Why, what should be the fear? - 1433 I do not set my life at a pin's fee; - 1434 And for my soul, what can it do to that, - 1435 Being a thing immortal as itself? - 1436 It waves me forth again;--I'll follow it. - 1437 - 1438 Hor. - 1439 What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, - 1440 Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff - 1441 That beetles o'er his base into the sea, - 1442 And there assume some other horrible form - 1443 Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason, - 1444 And draw you into madness? think of it: - 1445 The very place puts toys of desperation, - 1446 Without more motive, into every brain - 1447 That looks so many fadoms to the sea - 1448 And hears it roar beneath. - 1449 - 1450 Ham. - 1451 It waves me still.-- - 1452 Go on; I'll follow thee. - 1453 - 1454 Mar. - 1455 You shall not go, my lord. - 1456 - 1457 Ham. - 1458 Hold off your hands. - 1459 - 1460 Hor. - 1461 Be rul'd; you shall not go. - 1462 - 1463 Ham. - 1464 My fate cries out, - 1465 And makes each petty artery in this body - 1466 As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.-- - 1467 - 1468 [Ghost beckons.] - 1469 - 1470 Still am I call'd;--unhand me, gentlemen;-- - 1471 - 1472 [Breaking free from them.] - 1473 - 1474 By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!-- - 1475 I say, away!--Go on; I'll follow thee. - 1476 - 1477 [Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet.] - 1478 - 1479 Hor. - 1480 He waxes desperate with imagination. - 1481 - 1482 Mar. - 1483 Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. - 1484 - 1485 Hor. - 1486 Have after.--To what issue will this come? - 1487 - 1488 Mar. - 1489 Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. - 1490 - 1491 Hor. - 1492 Heaven will direct it. - 1493 - 1494 Mar. - 1495 Nay, let's follow him. - 1496 - 1497 [Exeunt.] - 1498 - 1499 - 1500 - 1501 Scene V. A more remote part of the Castle. - 1502 - 1503 [Enter Ghost and Hamlet.] - 1504 - 1505 Ham. - 1506 Whither wilt thou lead me? speak! I'll go no further. - 1507 - 1508 Ghost. - 1509 Mark me. - 1510 - 1511 Ham. - 1512 I will. - 1513 - 1514 Ghost. - 1515 My hour is almost come, - 1516 When I to sulph'uous and tormenting flames - 1517 Must render up myself. - 1518 - 1519 Ham. - 1520 Alas, poor ghost! - 1521 - 1522 Ghost. - 1523 Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing - 1524 To what I shall unfold. - 1525 - 1526 Ham. - 1527 Speak; I am bound to hear. - 1528 - 1529 Ghost. - 1530 So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. - 1531 - 1532 Ham. - 1533 What? - 1534 - 1535 Ghost. - 1536 I am thy father's spirit; - 1537 Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, - 1538 And for the day confin'd to wastein fires, - 1539 Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature - 1540 Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid - 1541 To tell the secrets of my prison-house, - 1542 I could a tale unfold whose lightest word - 1543 Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood; - 1544 Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; - 1545 Thy knotted and combined locks to part, - 1546 And each particular hair to stand on end - 1547 Like quills upon the fretful porcupine: - 1548 But this eternal blazon must not be - 1549 To ears of flesh and blood.--List, list, O, list!-- - 1550 If thou didst ever thy dear father love-- - 1551 - 1552 Ham. - 1553 O God! - 1554 - 1555 Ghost. - 1556 Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. - 1557 - 1558 Ham. - 1559 Murder! - 1560 - 1561 Ghost. - 1562 Murder most foul, as in the best it is; - 1563 But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. - 1564 - 1565 Ham. - 1566 Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift - 1567 As meditation or the thoughts of love, - 1568 May sweep to my revenge. - 1569 - 1570 Ghost. - 1571 I find thee apt; - 1572 And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed - 1573 That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, - 1574 Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear. - 1575 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, - 1576 A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark - 1577 Is by a forged process of my death - 1578 Rankly abus'd; but know, thou noble youth, - 1579 The serpent that did sting thy father's life - 1580 Now wears his crown. - 1581 - 1582 Ham. - 1583 O my prophetic soul! - 1584 Mine uncle! - 1585 - 1586 Ghost. - 1587 Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, - 1588 With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,-- - 1589 O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power - 1590 So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust - 1591 The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: - 1592 O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! - 1593 From me, whose love was of that dignity - 1594 That it went hand in hand even with the vow - 1595 I made to her in marriage; and to decline - 1596 Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor - 1597 To those of mine! - 1598 But virtue, as it never will be mov'd, - 1599 Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven; - 1600 So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, - 1601 Will sate itself in a celestial bed - 1602 And prey on garbage. - 1603 But soft! methinks I scent the morning air; - 1604 Brief let me be.--Sleeping within my orchard, - 1605 My custom always of the afternoon, - 1606 Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, - 1607 With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, - 1608 And in the porches of my ears did pour - 1609 The leperous distilment; whose effect - 1610 Holds such an enmity with blood of man - 1611 That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through - 1612 The natural gates and alleys of the body; - 1613 And with a sudden vigour it doth posset - 1614 And curd, like eager droppings into milk, - 1615 The thin and wholesome blood; so did it mine; - 1616 And a most instant tetter bark'd about, - 1617 Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust - 1618 All my smooth body. - 1619 Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, - 1620 Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd: - 1621 Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, - 1622 Unhous'led, disappointed, unanel'd; - 1623 No reckoning made, but sent to my account - 1624 With all my imperfections on my head: - 1625 O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible! - 1626 If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; - 1627 Let not the royal bed of Denmark be - 1628 A couch for luxury and damned incest. - 1629 But, howsoever thou pursu'st this act, - 1630 Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive - 1631 Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven, - 1632 And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, - 1633 To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once! - 1634 The glowworm shows the matin to be near, - 1635 And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire: - 1636 Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me. - 1637 - 1638 [Exit.] - 1639 - 1640 Ham. - 1641 O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else? - 1642 And shall I couple hell? O, fie!--Hold, my heart; - 1643 And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, - 1644 But bear me stiffly up.--Remember thee! - 1645 Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat - 1646 In this distracted globe. Remember thee! - 1647 Yea, from the table of my memory - 1648 I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, - 1649 All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, - 1650 That youth and observation copied there; - 1651 And thy commandment all alone shall live - 1652 Within the book and volume of my brain, - 1653 Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!-- - 1654 O most pernicious woman! - 1655 O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! - 1656 My tables,--meet it is I set it down, - 1657 That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; - 1658 At least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark: - 1659 - 1660 [Writing.] - 1661 - 1662 So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word; - 1663 It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me:' - 1664 I have sworn't. - 1665 - 1666 Hor. - 1667 [Within.] My lord, my lord,-- - 1668 - 1669 Mar. - 1670 [Within.] Lord Hamlet,-- - 1671 - 1672 Hor. - 1673 [Within.] Heaven secure him! - 1674 - 1675 Ham. - 1676 So be it! - 1677 - 1678 Mar. - 1679 [Within.] Illo, ho, ho, my lord! - 1680 - 1681 Ham. - 1682 Hillo, ho, ho, boy! Come, bird, come. - 1683 - 1684 [Enter Horatio and Marcellus.] - 1685 - 1686 Mar. - 1687 How is't, my noble lord? - 1688 - 1689 Hor. - 1690 What news, my lord? - 1691 - 1692 Ham. - 1693 O, wonderful! - 1694 - 1695 Hor. - 1696 Good my lord, tell it. - 1697 - 1698 Ham. - 1699 No; you'll reveal it. - 1700 - 1701 Hor. - 1702 Not I, my lord, by heaven. - 1703 - 1704 Mar. - 1705 Nor I, my lord. - 1706 - 1707 Ham. - 1708 How say you then; would heart of man once think it?-- - 1709 But you'll be secret? - 1710 - 1711 Hor. and Mar. - 1712 Ay, by heaven, my lord. - 1713 - 1714 Ham. - 1715 There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark - 1716 But he's an arrant knave. - 1717 - 1718 Hor. - 1719 There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave - 1720 To tell us this. - 1721 - 1722 Ham. - 1723 Why, right; you are i' the right; - 1724 And so, without more circumstance at all, - 1725 I hold it fit that we shake hands and part: - 1726 You, as your business and desires shall point you,-- - 1727 For every man hath business and desire, - 1728 Such as it is;--and for my own poor part, - 1729 Look you, I'll go pray. - 1730 - 1731 Hor. - 1732 These are but wild and whirling words, my lord. - 1733 - 1734 Ham. - 1735 I'm sorry they offend you, heartily; - 1736 Yes, faith, heartily. - 1737 - 1738 Hor. - 1739 There's no offence, my lord. - 1740 - 1741 Ham. - 1742 Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio, - 1743 And much offence too. Touching this vision here,-- - 1744 It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you: - 1745 For your desire to know what is between us, - 1746 O'ermaster't as you may. And now, good friends, - 1747 As you are friends, scholars, and soldiers, - 1748 Give me one poor request. - 1749 - 1750 Hor. - 1751 What is't, my lord? we will. - 1752 - 1753 Ham. - 1754 Never make known what you have seen to-night. - 1755 - 1756 Hor. and Mar. - 1757 My lord, we will not. - 1758 - 1759 Ham. - 1760 Nay, but swear't. - 1761 - 1762 Hor. - 1763 In faith, - 1764 My lord, not I. - 1765 - 1766 Mar. - 1767 Nor I, my lord, in faith. - 1768 - 1769 Ham. - 1770 Upon my sword. - 1771 - 1772 Mar. - 1773 We have sworn, my lord, already. - 1774 - 1775 Ham. - 1776 Indeed, upon my sword, indeed. - 1777 - 1778 Ghost. - 1779 [Beneath.] Swear. - 1780 - 1781 Ham. - 1782 Ha, ha boy! say'st thou so? art thou there, truepenny?-- - 1783 Come on!--you hear this fellow in the cellarage,-- - 1784 Consent to swear. - 1785 - 1786 Hor. - 1787 Propose the oath, my lord. - 1788 - 1789 Ham. - 1790 Never to speak of this that you have seen, - 1791 Swear by my sword. - 1792 - 1793 Ghost. - 1794 [Beneath.] Swear. - 1795 - 1796 Ham. - 1797 Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground.-- - 1798 Come hither, gentlemen, - 1799 And lay your hands again upon my sword: - 1800 Never to speak of this that you have heard, - 1801 Swear by my sword. - 1802 - 1803 Ghost. - 1804 [Beneath.] Swear. - 1805 - 1806 Ham. - 1807 Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast? - 1808 A worthy pioner!--Once more remove, good friends. - 1809 - 1810 Hor. - 1811 O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! - 1812 - 1813 Ham. - 1814 And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. - 1815 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, - 1816 Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - 1817 But come;-- - 1818 Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, - 1819 How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,-- - 1820 As I, perchance, hereafter shall think meet - 1821 To put an antic disposition on,-- - 1822 That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, - 1823 With arms encumber'd thus, or this head-shake, - 1824 Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, - 1825 As 'Well, well, we know'; or 'We could, an if we would';-- - 1826 Or 'If we list to speak'; or 'There be, an if they might';-- - 1827 Or such ambiguous giving out, to note - 1828 That you know aught of me:--this is not to do, - 1829 So grace and mercy at your most need help you, - 1830 Swear. - 1831 - 1832 Ghost. - 1833 [Beneath.] Swear. - 1834 - 1835 Ham. - 1836 Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!--So, gentlemen, - 1837 With all my love I do commend me to you: - 1838 And what so poor a man as Hamlet is - 1839 May do, to express his love and friending to you, - 1840 God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together; - 1841 And still your fingers on your lips, I pray. - 1842 The time is out of joint:--O cursed spite, - 1843 That ever I was born to set it right!-- - 1844 Nay, come, let's go together. - 1845 - 1846 [Exeunt.] - 1847 - 1848 - 1849 - 1850 Act II. - 1851 - 1852 Scene I. A room in Polonius's house. - 1853 - 1854 [Enter Polonius and Reynaldo.] - 1855 - 1856 Pol. - 1857 Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo. - 1858 - 1859 Rey. - 1860 I will, my lord. - 1861 - 1862 Pol. - 1863 You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo, - 1864 Before You visit him, to make inquiry - 1865 Of his behaviour. - 1866 - 1867 Rey. - 1868 My lord, I did intend it. - 1869 - 1870 Pol. - 1871 Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir, - 1872 Enquire me first what Danskers are in Paris; - 1873 And how, and who, what means, and where they keep, - 1874 What company, at what expense; and finding, - 1875 By this encompassment and drift of question, - 1876 That they do know my son, come you more nearer - 1877 Than your particular demands will touch it: - 1878 Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him; - 1879 As thus, 'I know his father and his friends, - 1880 And in part him;--do you mark this, Reynaldo? - 1881 - 1882 Rey. - 1883 Ay, very well, my lord. - 1884 - 1885 Pol. - 1886 'And in part him;--but,' you may say, 'not well: - 1887 But if't be he I mean, he's very wild; - 1888 Addicted so and so;' and there put on him - 1889 What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank - 1890 As may dishonour him; take heed of that; - 1891 But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips - 1892 As are companions noted and most known - 1893 To youth and liberty. - 1894 - 1895 Rey. - 1896 As gaming, my lord. - 1897 - 1898 Pol. - 1899 Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling, - 1900 Drabbing:--you may go so far. - 1901 - 1902 Rey. - 1903 My lord, that would dishonour him. - 1904 - 1905 Pol. - 1906 Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge. - 1907 You must not put another scandal on him, - 1908 That he is open to incontinency; - 1909 That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly - 1910 That they may seem the taints of liberty; - 1911 The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind; - 1912 A savageness in unreclaimed blood, - 1913 Of general assault. - 1914 - 1915 Rey. - 1916 But, my good lord,-- - 1917 - 1918 Pol. - 1919 Wherefore should you do this? - 1920 - 1921 Rey. - 1922 Ay, my lord, - 1923 I would know that. - 1924 - 1925 Pol. - 1926 Marry, sir, here's my drift; - 1927 And I believe it is a fetch of warrant: - 1928 You laying these slight sullies on my son - 1929 As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, - 1930 Mark you, - 1931 Your party in converse, him you would sound, - 1932 Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes - 1933 The youth you breathe of guilty, be assur'd - 1934 He closes with you in this consequence; - 1935 'Good sir,' or so; or 'friend,' or 'gentleman'-- - 1936 According to the phrase or the addition - 1937 Of man and country. - 1938 - 1939 Rey. - 1940 Very good, my lord. - 1941 - 1942 Pol. - 1943 And then, sir, does he this,--he does--What was I about to say?-- - 1944 By the mass, I was about to say something:--Where did I leave? - 1945 - 1946 Rey. - 1947 At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,' and - 1948 gentleman.' - 1949 - 1950 Pol. - 1951 At--closes in the consequence'--ay, marry! - 1952 He closes with you thus:--'I know the gentleman; - 1953 I saw him yesterday, or t'other day, - 1954 Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you say, - 1955 There was he gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse; - 1956 There falling out at tennis': or perchance, - 1957 'I saw him enter such a house of sale,'-- - 1958 Videlicet, a brothel,--or so forth.-- - 1959 See you now; - 1960 Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth: - 1961 And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, - 1962 With windlaces, and with assays of bias, - 1963 By indirections find directions out: - 1964 So, by my former lecture and advice, - 1965 Shall you my son. You have me, have you not? - 1966 - 1967 Rey. - 1968 My lord, I have. - 1969 - 1970 Pol. - 1971 God b' wi' you, fare you well. - 1972 - 1973 Rey. - 1974 Good my lord! - 1975 - 1976 Pol. - 1977 Observe his inclination in yourself. - 1978 - 1979 Rey. - 1980 I shall, my lord. - 1981 - 1982 Pol. - 1983 And let him ply his music. - 1984 - 1985 Rey. - 1986 Well, my lord. - 1987 - 1988 Pol. - 1989 Farewell! - 1990 - 1991 [Exit Reynaldo.] - 1992 - 1993 [Enter Ophelia.] - 1994 - 1995 How now, Ophelia! what's the matter? - 1996 - 1997 Oph. - 1998 Alas, my lord, I have been so affrighted! - 1999 - 2000 Pol. - 2001 With what, i' the name of God? - 2002 - 2003 Oph. - 2004 My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber, - 2005 Lord Hamlet,--with his doublet all unbrac'd; - 2006 No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, - 2007 Ungart'red, and down-gyved to his ankle; - 2008 Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; - 2009 And with a look so piteous in purport - 2010 As if he had been loosed out of hell - 2011 To speak of horrors,--he comes before me. - 2012 - 2013 Pol. - 2014 Mad for thy love? - 2015 - 2016 Oph. - 2017 My lord, I do not know; - 2018 But truly I do fear it. - 2019 - 2020 Pol. - 2021 What said he? - 2022 - 2023 Oph. - 2024 He took me by the wrist, and held me hard; - 2025 Then goes he to the length of all his arm; - 2026 And with his other hand thus o'er his brow, - 2027 He falls to such perusal of my face - 2028 As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so; - 2029 At last,--a little shaking of mine arm, - 2030 And thrice his head thus waving up and down,-- - 2031 He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound - 2032 As it did seem to shatter all his bulk - 2033 And end his being: that done, he lets me go: - 2034 And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd - 2035 He seem'd to find his way without his eyes; - 2036 For out o' doors he went without their help, - 2037 And to the last bended their light on me. - 2038 - 2039 Pol. - 2040 Come, go with me: I will go seek the king. - 2041 This is the very ecstasy of love; - 2042 Whose violent property fordoes itself, - 2043 And leads the will to desperate undertakings, - 2044 As oft as any passion under heaven - 2045 That does afflict our natures. I am sorry,-- - 2046 What, have you given him any hard words of late? - 2047 - 2048 Oph. - 2049 No, my good lord; but, as you did command, - 2050 I did repel his letters and denied - 2051 His access to me. - 2052 - 2053 Pol. - 2054 That hath made him mad. - 2055 I am sorry that with better heed and judgment - 2056 I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle, - 2057 And meant to wreck thee; but beshrew my jealousy! - 2058 It seems it as proper to our age - 2059 To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions - 2060 As it is common for the younger sort - 2061 To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king: - 2062 This must be known; which, being kept close, might move - 2063 More grief to hide than hate to utter love. - 2064 - 2065 [Exeunt.] - 2066 - 2067 - 2068 - 2069 Scene II. A room in the Castle. - 2070 - 2071 [Enter King, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Attendants.] - 2072 - 2073 King. - 2074 Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern! - 2075 Moreover that we much did long to see you, - 2076 The need we have to use you did provoke - 2077 Our hasty sending. Something have you heard - 2078 Of Hamlet's transformation; so I call it, - 2079 Since nor the exterior nor the inward man - 2080 Resembles that it was. What it should be, - 2081 More than his father's death, that thus hath put him - 2082 So much from the understanding of himself, - 2083 I cannot dream of: I entreat you both - 2084 That, being of so young days brought up with him, - 2085 And since so neighbour'd to his youth and humour, - 2086 That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court - 2087 Some little time: so by your companies - 2088 To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather, - 2089 So much as from occasion you may glean, - 2090 Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus, - 2091 That, open'd, lies within our remedy. - 2092 - 2093 Queen. - 2094 Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you, - 2095 And sure I am two men there are not living - 2096 To whom he more adheres. If it will please you - 2097 To show us so much gentry and good-will - 2098 As to expend your time with us awhile, - 2099 For the supply and profit of our hope, - 2100 Your visitation shall receive such thanks - 2101 As fits a king's remembrance. - 2102 - 2103 Ros. - 2104 Both your majesties - 2105 Might, by the sovereign power you have of us, - 2106 Put your dread pleasures more into command - 2107 Than to entreaty. - 2108 - 2109 Guil. - 2110 We both obey, - 2111 And here give up ourselves, in the full bent, - 2112 To lay our service freely at your feet, - 2113 To be commanded. - 2114 - 2115 King. - 2116 Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern. - 2117 - 2118 Queen. - 2119 Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz: - 2120 And I beseech you instantly to visit - 2121 My too-much-changed son.--Go, some of you, - 2122 And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is. - 2123 - 2124 Guil. - 2125 Heavens make our presence and our practices - 2126 Pleasant and helpful to him! - 2127 - 2128 Queen. - 2129 Ay, amen! - 2130 - 2131 [Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and some Attendants]. - 2132 - 2133 [Enter Polonius.] - 2134 - 2135 Pol. - 2136 Th' ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, - 2137 Are joyfully return'd. - 2138 - 2139 King. - 2140 Thou still hast been the father of good news. - 2141 - 2142 Pol. - 2143 Have I, my lord? Assure you, my good liege, - 2144 I hold my duty, as I hold my soul, - 2145 Both to my God and to my gracious king: - 2146 And I do think,--or else this brain of mine - 2147 Hunts not the trail of policy so sure - 2148 As it hath us'd to do,--that I have found - 2149 The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy. - 2150 - 2151 King. - 2152 O, speak of that; that do I long to hear. - 2153 - 2154 Pol. - 2155 Give first admittance to the ambassadors; - 2156 My news shall be the fruit to that great feast. - 2157 - 2158 King. - 2159 Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in. - 2160 - 2161 [Exit Polonius.] - 2162 - 2163 He tells me, my sweet queen, he hath found - 2164 The head and source of all your son's distemper. - 2165 - 2166 Queen. - 2167 I doubt it is no other but the main,-- - 2168 His father's death and our o'erhasty marriage. - 2169 - 2170 King. - 2171 Well, we shall sift him. - 2172 - 2173 [Enter Polonius, with Voltimand and Cornelius.] - 2174 - 2175 Welcome, my good friends! - 2176 Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway? - 2177 - 2178 Volt. - 2179 Most fair return of greetings and desires. - 2180 Upon our first, he sent out to suppress - 2181 His nephew's levies; which to him appear'd - 2182 To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack; - 2183 But, better look'd into, he truly found - 2184 It was against your highness; whereat griev'd,-- - 2185 That so his sickness, age, and impotence - 2186 Was falsely borne in hand,--sends out arrests - 2187 On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys; - 2188 Receives rebuke from Norway; and, in fine, - 2189 Makes vow before his uncle never more - 2190 To give th' assay of arms against your majesty. - 2191 Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy, - 2192 Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee; - 2193 And his commission to employ those soldiers, - 2194 So levied as before, against the Polack: - 2195 With an entreaty, herein further shown, - 2196 [Gives a paper.] - 2197 That it might please you to give quiet pass - 2198 Through your dominions for this enterprise, - 2199 On such regards of safety and allowance - 2200 As therein are set down. - 2201 - 2202 King. - 2203 It likes us well; - 2204 And at our more consider'd time we'll read, - 2205 Answer, and think upon this business. - 2206 Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour: - 2207 Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together: - 2208 Most welcome home! - 2209 - 2210 [Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius.] - 2211 - 2212 Pol. - 2213 This business is well ended.-- - 2214 My liege, and madam,--to expostulate - 2215 What majesty should be, what duty is, - 2216 Why day is day, night is night, and time is time. - 2217 Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. - 2218 Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, - 2219 And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, - 2220 I will be brief:--your noble son is mad: - 2221 Mad call I it; for to define true madness, - 2222 What is't but to be nothing else but mad? - 2223 But let that go. - 2224 - 2225 Queen. - 2226 More matter, with less art. - 2227 - 2228 Pol. - 2229 Madam, I swear I use no art at all. - 2230 That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity; - 2231 And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure; - 2232 But farewell it, for I will use no art. - 2233 Mad let us grant him then: and now remains - 2234 That we find out the cause of this effect; - 2235 Or rather say, the cause of this defect, - 2236 For this effect defective comes by cause: - 2237 Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. - 2238 Perpend. - 2239 I have a daughter,--have whilst she is mine,-- - 2240 Who, in her duty and obedience, mark, - 2241 Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise. - 2242 [Reads.] - 2243 'To the celestial, and my soul's idol, the most beautified - 2244 Ophelia,'-- - 2245 That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is a vile - 2246 phrase: but you shall hear. Thus: - 2247 [Reads.] - 2248 'In her excellent white bosom, these, &c.' - 2249 - 2250 Queen. - 2251 Came this from Hamlet to her? - 2252 - 2253 Pol. - 2254 Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful. - 2255 [Reads.] - 2256 'Doubt thou the stars are fire; - 2257 Doubt that the sun doth move; - 2258 Doubt truth to be a liar; - 2259 But never doubt I love. - 2260 'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers; I have not art to - 2261 reckon my groans: but that I love thee best, O most best, believe - 2262 it. Adieu. - 2263 'Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this machine is to him, - 2264 HAMLET.' - 2265 This, in obedience, hath my daughter show'd me; - 2266 And more above, hath his solicitings, - 2267 As they fell out by time, by means, and place, - 2268 All given to mine ear. - 2269 - 2270 King. - 2271 But how hath she - 2272 Receiv'd his love? - 2273 - 2274 Pol. - 2275 What do you think of me? - 2276 - 2277 King. - 2278 As of a man faithful and honourable. - 2279 - 2280 Pol. - 2281 I would fain prove so. But what might you think, - 2282 When I had seen this hot love on the wing,-- - 2283 As I perceiv'd it, I must tell you that, - 2284 Before my daughter told me,-- what might you, - 2285 Or my dear majesty your queen here, think, - 2286 If I had play'd the desk or table-book, - 2287 Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb; - 2288 Or look'd upon this love with idle sight;-- - 2289 What might you think? No, I went round to work, - 2290 And my young mistress thus I did bespeak: - 2291 'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy sphere; - 2292 This must not be:' and then I precepts gave her, - 2293 That she should lock herself from his resort, - 2294 Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. - 2295 Which done, she took the fruits of my advice; - 2296 And he, repulsed,--a short tale to make,-- - 2297 Fell into a sadness; then into a fast; - 2298 Thence to a watch; thence into a weakness; - 2299 Thence to a lightness; and, by this declension, - 2300 Into the madness wherein now he raves, - 2301 And all we wail for. - 2302 - 2303 King. - 2304 Do you think 'tis this? - 2305 - 2306 Queen. - 2307 It may be, very likely. - 2308 - 2309 Pol. - 2310 Hath there been such a time,--I'd fain know that-- - 2311 That I have positively said ''Tis so,' - 2312 When it prov'd otherwise? - 2313 - 2314 King. - 2315 Not that I know. - 2316 - 2317 Pol. - 2318 Take this from this, if this be otherwise: - 2319 [Points to his head and shoulder.] - 2320 If circumstances lead me, I will find - 2321 Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed - 2322 Within the centre. - 2323 - 2324 King. - 2325 How may we try it further? - 2326 - 2327 Pol. - 2328 You know sometimes he walks for hours together - 2329 Here in the lobby. - 2330 - 2331 Queen. - 2332 So he does indeed. - 2333 - 2334 Pol. - 2335 At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him: - 2336 Be you and I behind an arras then; - 2337 Mark the encounter: if he love her not, - 2338 And he not from his reason fall'n thereon - 2339 Let me be no assistant for a state, - 2340 But keep a farm and carters. - 2341 - 2342 King. - 2343 We will try it. - 2344 - 2345 Queen. - 2346 But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading. - 2347 - 2348 Pol. - 2349 Away, I do beseech you, both away - 2350 I'll board him presently:--O, give me leave. - 2351 - 2352 [Exeunt King, Queen, and Attendants.] - 2353 - 2354 [Enter Hamlet, reading.] - 2355 - 2356 How does my good Lord Hamlet? - 2357 - 2358 Ham. - 2359 Well, God-a-mercy. - 2360 - 2361 Pol. - 2362 Do you know me, my lord? - 2363 - 2364 Ham. - 2365 Excellent well; you're a fishmonger. - 2366 - 2367 Pol. - 2368 Not I, my lord. - 2369 - 2370 Ham. - 2371 Then I would you were so honest a man. - 2372 - 2373 Pol. - 2374 Honest, my lord! - 2375 - 2376 Ham. - 2377 Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man - 2378 picked out of ten thousand. - 2379 - 2380 Pol. - 2381 That's very true, my lord. - 2382 - 2383 Ham. - 2384 For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god-kissing - 2385 carrion,--Have you a daughter? - 2386 - 2387 Pol. - 2388 I have, my lord. - 2389 - 2390 Ham. - 2391 Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a blessing, but not - 2392 as your daughter may conceive:--friend, look to't. - 2393 - 2394 Pol. - 2395 How say you by that?--[Aside.] Still harping on my daughter:--yet - 2396 he knew me not at first; he said I was a fishmonger: he is far - 2397 gone, far gone: and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity - 2398 for love; very near this. I'll speak to him again.--What do you - 2399 read, my lord? - 2400 - 2401 Ham. - 2402 Words, words, words. - 2403 - 2404 Pol. - 2405 What is the matter, my lord? - 2406 - 2407 Ham. - 2408 Between who? - 2409 - 2410 Pol. - 2411 I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. - 2412 - 2413 Ham. - 2414 Slanders, sir: for the satirical slave says here that old men - 2415 have grey beards; that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes - 2416 purging thick amber and plum-tree gum; and that they have a - 2417 plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams: all which, - 2418 sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it - 2419 not honesty to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir, - 2420 should be old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward. - 2421 - 2422 Pol. - 2423 [Aside.] Though this be madness, yet there is a method in't.-- - 2424 Will you walk out of the air, my lord? - 2425 - 2426 Ham. - 2427 Into my grave? - 2428 - 2429 Pol. - 2430 Indeed, that is out o' the air. [Aside.] How pregnant sometimes - 2431 his replies are! a happiness that often madness hits on, which - 2432 reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of. I - 2433 will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between - 2434 him and my daughter.--My honourable lord, I will most humbly take - 2435 my leave of you. - 2436 - 2437 Ham. - 2438 You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more - 2439 willingly part withal,--except my life, except my life, except my - 2440 life. - 2441 - 2442 Pol. - 2443 Fare you well, my lord. - 2444 - 2445 Ham. - 2446 These tedious old fools! - 2447 - 2448 [Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] - 2449 - 2450 Pol. - 2451 You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is. - 2452 - 2453 Ros. - 2454 [To Polonius.] God save you, sir! - 2455 - 2456 [Exit Polonius.] - 2457 - 2458 Guil. - 2459 My honoured lord! - 2460 - 2461 Ros. - 2462 My most dear lord! - 2463 - 2464 Ham. - 2465 My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern? Ah, - 2466 Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both? - 2467 - 2468 Ros. - 2469 As the indifferent children of the earth. - 2470 - 2471 Guil. - 2472 Happy in that we are not over-happy; - 2473 On fortune's cap we are not the very button. - 2474 - 2475 Ham. - 2476 Nor the soles of her shoe? - 2477 - 2478 Ros. - 2479 Neither, my lord. - 2480 - 2481 Ham. - 2482 Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her - 2483 favours? - 2484 - 2485 Guil. - 2486 Faith, her privates we. - 2487 - 2488 Ham. - 2489 In the secret parts of fortune? O, most true; she is a - 2490 strumpet. What's the news? - 2491 - 2492 Ros. - 2493 None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. - 2494 - 2495 Ham. - 2496 Then is doomsday near; but your news is not true. Let me - 2497 question more in particular: what have you, my good friends, - 2498 deserved at the hands of fortune, that she sends you to prison - 2499 hither? - 2500 - 2501 Guil. - 2502 Prison, my lord! - 2503 - 2504 Ham. - 2505 Denmark's a prison. - 2506 - 2507 Ros. - 2508 Then is the world one. - 2509 - 2510 Ham. - 2511 A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and - 2512 dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst. - 2513 - 2514 Ros. - 2515 We think not so, my lord. - 2516 - 2517 Ham. - 2518 Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good - 2519 or bad but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison. - 2520 - 2521 Ros. - 2522 Why, then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too narrow for your - 2523 mind. - 2524 - 2525 Ham. - 2526 O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a - 2527 king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. - 2528 - 2529 Guil. - 2530 Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of - 2531 the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. - 2532 - 2533 Ham. - 2534 A dream itself is but a shadow. - 2535 - 2536 Ros. - 2537 Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that - 2538 it is but a shadow's shadow. - 2539 - 2540 Ham. - 2541 Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretch'd - 2542 heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we to the court? for, by my - 2543 fay, I cannot reason. - 2544 - 2545 Ros. and Guild. - 2546 We'll wait upon you. - 2547 - 2548 Ham. - 2549 No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest of my - 2550 servants; for, to speak to you like an honest man, I am most - 2551 dreadfully attended. But, in the beaten way of friendship, what - 2552 make you at Elsinore? - 2553 - 2554 Ros. - 2555 To visit you, my lord; no other occasion. - 2556 - 2557 Ham. - 2558 Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you: - 2559 and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were - 2560 you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free - 2561 visitation? Come, deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak. - 2562 - 2563 Guil. - 2564 What should we say, my lord? - 2565 - 2566 Ham. - 2567 Why, anything--but to the purpose. You were sent for; and - 2568 there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties - 2569 have not craft enough to colour: I know the good king and queen - 2570 have sent for you. - 2571 - 2572 Ros. - 2573 To what end, my lord? - 2574 - 2575 Ham. - 2576 That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by the rights - 2577 of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the - 2578 obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by what more dear a - 2579 better proposer could charge you withal, be even and direct with - 2580 me, whether you were sent for or no. - 2581 - 2582 Ros. - 2583 [To Guildenstern.] What say you? - 2584 - 2585 Ham. - 2586 [Aside.] Nay, then, I have an eye of you.--If you love me, hold - 2587 not off. - 2588 - 2589 Guil. - 2590 My lord, we were sent for. - 2591 - 2592 Ham. - 2593 I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your - 2594 discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no - 2595 feather. I have of late,--but wherefore I know not,--lost all my - 2596 mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so - 2597 heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, - 2598 seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the - 2599 air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical - 2600 roof fretted with golden fire,--why, it appears no other thing - 2601 to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a - 2602 piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in - 2603 faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in - 2604 action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the - 2605 beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what - 2606 is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman - 2607 neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. - 2608 - 2609 Ros. - 2610 My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts. - 2611 - 2612 Ham. - 2613 Why did you laugh then, when I said 'Man delights not me'? - 2614 - 2615 Ros. - 2616 To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what lenten - 2617 entertainment the players shall receive from you: we coted them - 2618 on the way; and hither are they coming to offer you service. - 2619 - 2620 Ham. - 2621 He that plays the king shall be welcome,--his majesty shall - 2622 have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and - 2623 target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall - 2624 end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose - 2625 lungs are tickle o' the sere; and the lady shall say her mind - 2626 freely, or the blank verse shall halt for't. What players are - 2627 they? - 2628 - 2629 Ros. - 2630 Even those you were wont to take such delight in,--the - 2631 tragedians of the city. - 2632 - 2633 Ham. - 2634 How chances it they travel? their residence, both in - 2635 reputation and profit, was better both ways. - 2636 - 2637 Ros. - 2638 I think their inhibition comes by the means of the late - 2639 innovation. - 2640 - 2641 Ham. - 2642 Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was in the - 2643 city? Are they so followed? - 2644 - 2645 Ros. - 2646 No, indeed, are they not. - 2647 - 2648 Ham. - 2649 How comes it? do they grow rusty? - 2650 - 2651 Ros. - 2652 Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace: but there is, - 2653 sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top - 2654 of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for't: these are - 2655 now the fashion; and so berattle the common stages,--so they call - 2656 them,--that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills and - 2657 dare scarce come thither. - 2658 - 2659 Ham. - 2660 What, are they children? who maintains 'em? How are they - 2661 escoted? Will they pursue the quality no longer than they can - 2662 sing? will they not say afterwards, if they should grow - 2663 themselves to common players,--as it is most like, if their means - 2664 are no better,--their writers do them wrong to make them exclaim - 2665 against their own succession? - 2666 - 2667 Ros. - 2668 Faith, there has been much to do on both sides; and the nation - 2669 holds it no sin to tarre them to controversy: there was, for - 2670 awhile, no money bid for argument unless the poet and the player - 2671 went to cuffs in the question. - 2672 - 2673 Ham. - 2674 Is't possible? - 2675 - 2676 Guil. - 2677 O, there has been much throwing about of brains. - 2678 - 2679 Ham. - 2680 Do the boys carry it away? - 2681 - 2682 Ros. - 2683 Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too. - 2684 - 2685 Ham. - 2686 It is not very strange; for my uncle is king of Denmark, and - 2687 those that would make mouths at him while my father lived, give - 2688 twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in - 2689 little. 'Sblood, there is something in this more than natural, if - 2690 philosophy could find it out. - 2691 - 2692 [Flourish of trumpets within.] - 2693 - 2694 Guil. - 2695 There are the players. - 2696 - 2697 Ham. - 2698 Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands, come: the - 2699 appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony: let me comply - 2700 with you in this garb; lest my extent to the players, which I - 2701 tell you must show fairly outward, should more appear like - 2702 entertainment than yours. You are welcome: but my uncle-father - 2703 and aunt-mother are deceived. - 2704 - 2705 Guil. - 2706 In what, my dear lord? - 2707 - 2708 Ham. - 2709 I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I - 2710 know a hawk from a handsaw. - 2711 - 2712 [Enter Polonius.] - 2713 - 2714 Pol. - 2715 Well be with you, gentlemen! - 2716 - 2717 Ham. - 2718 Hark you, Guildenstern;--and you too;--at each ear a hearer: that - 2719 great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling clouts. - 2720 - 2721 Ros. - 2722 Happily he's the second time come to them; for they say an old - 2723 man is twice a child. - 2724 - 2725 Ham. - 2726 I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players; mark it.--You - 2727 say right, sir: o' Monday morning; 'twas so indeed. - 2728 - 2729 Pol. - 2730 My lord, I have news to tell you. - 2731 - 2732 Ham. - 2733 My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in - 2734 Rome,-- - 2735 - 2736 Pol. - 2737 The actors are come hither, my lord. - 2738 - 2739 Ham. - 2740 Buzz, buzz! - 2741 - 2742 Pol. - 2743 Upon my honour,-- - 2744 - 2745 Ham. - 2746 Then came each actor on his ass,-- - 2747 - 2748 Pol. - 2749 The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, - 2750 history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, - 2751 tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene - 2752 individable, or poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy nor - 2753 Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are - 2754 the only men. - 2755 - 2756 Ham. - 2757 O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou! - 2758 - 2759 Pol. - 2760 What treasure had he, my lord? - 2761 - 2762 Ham. - 2763 Why-- - 2764 'One fair daughter, and no more, - 2765 The which he loved passing well.' - 2766 - 2767 - 2768 Pol. - 2769 [Aside.] Still on my daughter. - 2770 - 2771 Ham. - 2772 Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah? - 2773 - 2774 Pol. - 2775 If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I - 2776 love passing well. - 2777 - 2778 Ham. - 2779 Nay, that follows not. - 2780 - 2781 Pol. - 2782 What follows, then, my lord? - 2783 - 2784 Ham. - 2785 Why-- - 2786 'As by lot, God wot,' - 2787 and then, you know, - 2788 'It came to pass, as most like it was--' - 2789 The first row of the pious chanson will show you more; for look - 2790 where my abridgment comes. - 2791 - 2792 [Enter four or five Players.] - 2793 - 2794 You are welcome, masters; welcome, all:--I am glad to see thee - 2795 well.--welcome, good friends.--O, my old friend! Thy face is - 2796 valanc'd since I saw thee last; comest thou to beard me in - 2797 Denmark?--What, my young lady and mistress! By'r lady, your - 2798 ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the - 2799 altitude of a chopine. Pray God, your voice, like a piece of - 2800 uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the ring.--Masters, you are - 2801 all welcome. We'll e'en to't like French falconers, fly at - 2802 anything we see: we'll have a speech straight: come, give us a - 2803 taste of your quality: come, a passionate speech. - 2804 - 2805 I Play. - 2806 What speech, my lord? - 2807 - 2808 Ham. - 2809 I heard thee speak me a speech once,--but it was never acted; - 2810 or if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, pleased - 2811 not the million, 'twas caviare to the general; but it was,--as I - 2812 received it, and others, whose judgments in such matters cried in - 2813 the top of mine,--an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, - 2814 set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember, one said - 2815 there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savoury, - 2816 nor no matter in the phrase that might indite the author of - 2817 affectation; but called it an honest method, as wholesome as - 2818 sweet, and by very much more handsome than fine. One speech in it - 2819 I chiefly loved: 'twas AEneas' tale to Dido, and thereabout of it - 2820 especially where he speaks of Priam's slaughter: if it live in - 2821 your memory, begin at this line;--let me see, let me see:-- - 2822 - 2823 The rugged Pyrrhus, like th' Hyrcanian beast,-- - 2824 - 2825 it is not so:-- it begins with Pyrrhus:-- - 2826 - 2827 'The rugged Pyrrhus,--he whose sable arms, - 2828 Black as his purpose, did the night resemble - 2829 When he lay couched in the ominous horse,-- - 2830 Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd - 2831 With heraldry more dismal; head to foot - 2832 Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd - 2833 With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, - 2834 Bak'd and impasted with the parching streets, - 2835 That lend a tyrannous and a damned light - 2836 To their vile murders: roasted in wrath and fire, - 2837 And thus o'ersized with coagulate gore, - 2838 With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus - 2839 Old grandsire Priam seeks.' - 2840 - 2841 So, proceed you. - 2842 - 2843 Pol. - 2844 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and good - 2845 discretion. - 2846 - 2847 I Play. - 2848 Anon he finds him, - 2849 Striking too short at Greeks: his antique sword, - 2850 Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls, - 2851 Repugnant to command: unequal match'd, - 2852 Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; - 2853 But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword - 2854 The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium, - 2855 Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top - 2856 Stoops to his base; and with a hideous crash - 2857 Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for lo! his sword, - 2858 Which was declining on the milky head - 2859 Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick: - 2860 So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood; - 2861 And, like a neutral to his will and matter, - 2862 Did nothing. - 2863 But as we often see, against some storm, - 2864 A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, - 2865 The bold winds speechless, and the orb below - 2866 As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder - 2867 Doth rend the region; so, after Pyrrhus' pause, - 2868 A roused vengeance sets him new a-work; - 2869 And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall - 2870 On Mars's armour, forg'd for proof eterne, - 2871 With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword - 2872 Now falls on Priam.-- - 2873 Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods, - 2874 In general synod, take away her power; - 2875 Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, - 2876 And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven, - 2877 As low as to the fiends! - 2878 - 2879 Pol. - 2880 This is too long. - 2881 - 2882 Ham. - 2883 It shall to the barber's, with your beard.--Pr'ythee say on.-- - 2884 He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps:--say on; come - 2885 to Hecuba. - 2886 - 2887 I Play. - 2888 But who, O who, had seen the mobled queen,-- - 2889 - 2890 Ham. - 2891 'The mobled queen'? - 2892 - 2893 Pol. - 2894 That's good! 'Mobled queen' is good. - 2895 - 2896 I Play. - 2897 Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames - 2898 With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head - 2899 Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, - 2900 About her lank and all o'erteemed loins, - 2901 A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;-- - 2902 Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd, - 2903 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounc'd: - 2904 But if the gods themselves did see her then, - 2905 When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport - 2906 In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, - 2907 The instant burst of clamour that she made,-- - 2908 Unless things mortal move them not at all,-- - 2909 Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, - 2910 And passion in the gods. - 2911 - 2912 Pol. - 2913 Look, whether he has not turn'd his colour, and has tears in's - 2914 eyes.--Pray you, no more! - 2915 - 2916 Ham. - 2917 'Tis well. I'll have thee speak out the rest of this soon.-- - 2918 Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you - 2919 hear? Let them be well used; for they are the abstracts and brief - 2920 chronicles of the time; after your death you were better have a - 2921 bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. - 2922 - 2923 Pol. - 2924 My lord, I will use them according to their desert. - 2925 - 2926 Ham. - 2927 Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his - 2928 desert, and who should scape whipping? Use them after your own - 2929 honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in - 2930 your bounty. Take them in. - 2931 - 2932 Pol. - 2933 Come, sirs. - 2934 - 2935 Ham. - 2936 Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow. - 2937 - 2938 [Exeunt Polonius with all the Players but the First.] - 2939 - 2940 Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can you play 'The Murder of - 2941 Gonzago'? - 2942 - 2943 I Play. - 2944 Ay, my lord. - 2945 - 2946 Ham. - 2947 We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a - 2948 speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I would set down and - 2949 insert in't? could you not? - 2950 - 2951 I Play. - 2952 Ay, my lord. - 2953 - 2954 Ham. - 2955 Very well.--Follow that lord; and look you mock him not. - 2956 - 2957 [Exit First Player.] - 2958 - 2959 --My good friends [to Ros. and Guild.], I'll leave you till - 2960 night: you are welcome to Elsinore. - 2961 - 2962 Ros. - 2963 Good my lord! - 2964 - 2965 [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] - 2966 - 2967 Ham. - 2968 Ay, so, God b' wi' ye! - 2969 Now I am alone. - 2970 O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! - 2971 Is it not monstrous that this player here, - 2972 But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, - 2973 Could force his soul so to his own conceit - 2974 That from her working all his visage wan'd; - 2975 Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, - 2976 A broken voice, and his whole function suiting - 2977 With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! - 2978 For Hecuba? - 2979 What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, - 2980 That he should weep for her? What would he do, - 2981 Had he the motive and the cue for passion - 2982 That I have? He would drown the stage with tears - 2983 And cleave the general ear with horrid speech; - 2984 Make mad the guilty, and appal the free; - 2985 Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, - 2986 The very faculties of eyes and ears. - 2987 Yet I, - 2988 A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, - 2989 Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, - 2990 And can say nothing; no, not for a king - 2991 Upon whose property and most dear life - 2992 A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? - 2993 Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? - 2994 Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? - 2995 Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat - 2996 As deep as to the lungs? who does me this, ha? - 2997 'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be - 2998 But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall - 2999 To make oppression bitter; or ere this - 3000 I should have fatted all the region kites - 3001 With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain! - 3002 Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! - 3003 O, vengeance! - 3004 Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, - 3005 That I, the son of a dear father murder'd, - 3006 Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, - 3007 Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words - 3008 And fall a-cursing like a very drab, - 3009 A scullion! - 3010 Fie upon't! foh!--About, my brain! I have heard - 3011 That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, - 3012 Have by the very cunning of the scene - 3013 Been struck so to the soul that presently - 3014 They have proclaim'd their malefactions; - 3015 For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak - 3016 With most miraculous organ, I'll have these players - 3017 Play something like the murder of my father - 3018 Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; - 3019 I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, - 3020 I know my course. The spirit that I have seen - 3021 May be the devil: and the devil hath power - 3022 To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps - 3023 Out of my weakness and my melancholy,-- - 3024 As he is very potent with such spirits,-- - 3025 Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds - 3026 More relative than this.--the play's the thing - 3027 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. - 3028 - 3029 [Exit.] - 3030 - 3031 - 3032 - 3033 - 3034 ACT III. - 3035 - 3036 Scene I. A room in the Castle. - 3037 - 3038 [Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and - 3039 Guildenstern.] - 3040 - 3041 King. - 3042 And can you, by no drift of circumstance, - 3043 Get from him why he puts on this confusion, - 3044 Grating so harshly all his days of quiet - 3045 With turbulent and dangerous lunacy? - 3046 - 3047 Ros. - 3048 He does confess he feels himself distracted, - 3049 But from what cause he will by no means speak. - 3050 - 3051 Guil. - 3052 Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, - 3053 But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof - 3054 When we would bring him on to some confession - 3055 Of his true state. - 3056 - 3057 Queen. - 3058 Did he receive you well? - 3059 - 3060 Ros. - 3061 Most like a gentleman. - 3062 - 3063 Guil. - 3064 But with much forcing of his disposition. - 3065 - 3066 Ros. - 3067 Niggard of question; but, of our demands, - 3068 Most free in his reply. - 3069 - 3070 Queen. - 3071 Did you assay him - 3072 To any pastime? - 3073 - 3074 Ros. - 3075 Madam, it so fell out that certain players - 3076 We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him, - 3077 And there did seem in him a kind of joy - 3078 To hear of it: they are about the court, - 3079 And, as I think, they have already order - 3080 This night to play before him. - 3081 - 3082 Pol. - 3083 'Tis most true; - 3084 And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties - 3085 To hear and see the matter. - 3086 - 3087 King. - 3088 With all my heart; and it doth much content me - 3089 To hear him so inclin'd.-- - 3090 Good gentlemen, give him a further edge, - 3091 And drive his purpose on to these delights. - 3092 - 3093 Ros. - 3094 We shall, my lord. - 3095 - 3096 [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] - 3097 - 3098 King. - 3099 Sweet Gertrude, leave us too; - 3100 For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, - 3101 That he, as 'twere by accident, may here - 3102 Affront Ophelia: - 3103 Her father and myself,--lawful espials,-- - 3104 Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen, - 3105 We may of their encounter frankly judge; - 3106 And gather by him, as he is behav'd, - 3107 If't be the affliction of his love or no - 3108 That thus he suffers for. - 3109 - 3110 Queen. - 3111 I shall obey you:-- - 3112 And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish - 3113 That your good beauties be the happy cause - 3114 Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues - 3115 Will bring him to his wonted way again, - 3116 To both your honours. - 3117 - 3118 Oph. - 3119 Madam, I wish it may. - 3120 - 3121 [Exit Queen.] - 3122 - 3123 Pol. - 3124 Ophelia, walk you here.--Gracious, so please you, - 3125 We will bestow ourselves.--[To Ophelia.] Read on this book; - 3126 That show of such an exercise may colour - 3127 Your loneliness.--We are oft to blame in this,-- - 3128 'Tis too much prov'd,--that with devotion's visage - 3129 And pious action we do sugar o'er - 3130 The Devil himself. - 3131 - 3132 King. - 3133 [Aside.] O, 'tis too true! - 3134 How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! - 3135 The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, - 3136 Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it - 3137 Than is my deed to my most painted word: - 3138 O heavy burden! - 3139 - 3140 Pol. - 3141 I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord. - 3142 - 3143 [Exeunt King and Polonius.] - 3144 - 3145 [Enter Hamlet.] - 3146 - 3147 Ham. - 3148 To be, or not to be,--that is the question:-- - 3149 Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer - 3150 The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune - 3151 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, - 3152 And by opposing end them?--To die,--to sleep,-- - 3153 No more; and by a sleep to say we end - 3154 The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks - 3155 That flesh is heir to,--'tis a consummation - 3156 Devoutly to be wish'd. To die,--to sleep;-- - 3157 To sleep! perchance to dream:--ay, there's the rub; - 3158 For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, - 3159 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, - 3160 Must give us pause: there's the respect - 3161 That makes calamity of so long life; - 3162 For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, - 3163 The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, - 3164 The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, - 3165 The insolence of office, and the spurns - 3166 That patient merit of the unworthy takes, - 3167 When he himself might his quietus make - 3168 With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear, - 3169 To grunt and sweat under a weary life, - 3170 But that the dread of something after death,-- - 3171 The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn - 3172 No traveller returns,--puzzles the will, - 3173 And makes us rather bear those ills we have - 3174 Than fly to others that we know not of? - 3175 Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; - 3176 And thus the native hue of resolution - 3177 Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; - 3178 And enterprises of great pith and moment, - 3179 With this regard, their currents turn awry, - 3180 And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! - 3181 The fair Ophelia!--Nymph, in thy orisons - 3182 Be all my sins remember'd. - 3183 - 3184 Oph. - 3185 Good my lord, - 3186 How does your honour for this many a day? - 3187 - 3188 Ham. - 3189 I humbly thank you; well, well, well. - 3190 - 3191 Oph. - 3192 My lord, I have remembrances of yours - 3193 That I have longed long to re-deliver. - 3194 I pray you, now receive them. - 3195 - 3196 Ham. - 3197 No, not I; - 3198 I never gave you aught. - 3199 - 3200 Oph. - 3201 My honour'd lord, you know right well you did; - 3202 And with them words of so sweet breath compos'd - 3203 As made the things more rich; their perfume lost, - 3204 Take these again; for to the noble mind - 3205 Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - 3206 There, my lord. - 3207 - 3208 Ham. - 3209 Ha, ha! are you honest? - 3210 - 3211 Oph. - 3212 My lord? - 3213 - 3214 Ham. - 3215 Are you fair? - 3216 - 3217 Oph. - 3218 What means your lordship? - 3219 - 3220 Ham. - 3221 That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no - 3222 discourse to your beauty. - 3223 - 3224 Oph. - 3225 Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty? - 3226 - 3227 Ham. - 3228 Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform - 3229 honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can - 3230 translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox, - 3231 but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once. - 3232 - 3233 Oph. - 3234 Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. - 3235 - 3236 Ham. - 3237 You should not have believ'd me; for virtue cannot so - 3238 inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it: I loved you - 3239 not. - 3240 - 3241 Oph. - 3242 I was the more deceived. - 3243 - 3244 Ham. - 3245 Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of - 3246 sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse - 3247 me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: - 3248 I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my - 3249 beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give - 3250 them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I - 3251 do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; - 3252 believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your - 3253 father? - 3254 - 3255 Oph. - 3256 At home, my lord. - 3257 - 3258 Ham. - 3259 Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool - 3260 nowhere but in's own house. Farewell. - 3261 - 3262 Oph. - 3263 O, help him, you sweet heavens! - 3264 - 3265 Ham. - 3266 If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry,-- - 3267 be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape - 3268 calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt - 3269 needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what - 3270 monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go; and quickly too. - 3271 Farewell. - 3272 - 3273 Oph. - 3274 O heavenly powers, restore him! - 3275 - 3276 Ham. - 3277 I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God hath - 3278 given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you - 3279 amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your - 3280 wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made - 3281 me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages: those that are - 3282 married already, all but one, shall live; the rest shall keep as - 3283 they are. To a nunnery, go. - 3284 - 3285 [Exit.] - 3286 - 3287 Oph. - 3288 O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! - 3289 The courtier's, scholar's, soldier's, eye, tongue, sword, - 3290 The expectancy and rose of the fair state, - 3291 The glass of fashion and the mould of form, - 3292 The observ'd of all observers,--quite, quite down! - 3293 And I, of ladies most deject and wretched - 3294 That suck'd the honey of his music vows, - 3295 Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, - 3296 Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; - 3297 That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth - 3298 Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me, - 3299 To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! - 3300 - 3301 [Re-enter King and Polonius.] - 3302 - 3303 King. - 3304 Love! his affections do not that way tend; - 3305 Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little, - 3306 Was not like madness. There's something in his soul - 3307 O'er which his melancholy sits on brood; - 3308 And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose - 3309 Will be some danger: which for to prevent, - 3310 I have in quick determination - 3311 Thus set it down:--he shall with speed to England - 3312 For the demand of our neglected tribute: - 3313 Haply the seas, and countries different, - 3314 With variable objects, shall expel - 3315 This something-settled matter in his heart; - 3316 Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus - 3317 From fashion of himself. What think you on't? - 3318 - 3319 Pol. - 3320 It shall do well: but yet do I believe - 3321 The origin and commencement of his grief - 3322 Sprung from neglected love.--How now, Ophelia! - 3323 You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said; - 3324 We heard it all.--My lord, do as you please; - 3325 But if you hold it fit, after the play, - 3326 Let his queen mother all alone entreat him - 3327 To show his grief: let her be round with him; - 3328 And I'll be plac'd, so please you, in the ear - 3329 Of all their conference. If she find him not, - 3330 To England send him; or confine him where - 3331 Your wisdom best shall think. - 3332 - 3333 King. - 3334 It shall be so: - 3335 Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. - 3336 - 3337 [Exeunt.] - 3338 - 3339 - 3340 - 3341 Scene II. A hall in the Castle. - 3342 - 3343 [Enter Hamlet and certain Players.] - 3344 - 3345 Ham. - 3346 Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, - 3347 trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your - 3348 players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do - 3349 not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all - 3350 gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, - 3351 whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a - 3352 temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the - 3353 soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to - 3354 tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, - 3355 for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb - 3356 shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing - 3357 Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you avoid it. - 3358 - 3359 I Player. - 3360 I warrant your honour. - 3361 - 3362 Ham. - 3363 Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your - 3364 tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with - 3365 this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of - 3366 nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, - 3367 whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as - 3368 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own image, - 3369 scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his - 3370 form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though - 3371 it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious - 3372 grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance, - 3373 o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I - 3374 have seen play,--and heard others praise, and that highly,--not - 3375 to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of - 3376 Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so - 3377 strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's - 3378 journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated - 3379 humanity so abominably. - 3380 - 3381 I Player. - 3382 I hope we have reform'd that indifferently with us, sir. - 3383 - 3384 Ham. - 3385 O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns - 3386 speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them - 3387 that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren - 3388 spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary - 3389 question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous - 3390 and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go - 3391 make you ready. - 3392 - 3393 [Exeunt Players.] - 3394 - 3395 [Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.] - 3396 - 3397 How now, my lord! will the king hear this piece of work? - 3398 - 3399 Pol. - 3400 And the queen too, and that presently. - 3401 - 3402 Ham. - 3403 Bid the players make haste. - 3404 - 3405 [Exit Polonius.] - 3406 - 3407 Will you two help to hasten them? - 3408 - 3409 Ros. and Guil. - 3410 We will, my lord. - 3411 - 3412 [Exeunt Ros. and Guil.] - 3413 - 3414 Ham. - 3415 What, ho, Horatio! - 3416 - 3417 [Enter Horatio.] - 3418 - 3419 Hor. - 3420 Here, sweet lord, at your service. - 3421 - 3422 Ham. - 3423 Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man - 3424 As e'er my conversation cop'd withal. - 3425 - 3426 Hor. - 3427 O, my dear lord,-- - 3428 - 3429 Ham. - 3430 Nay, do not think I flatter; - 3431 For what advancement may I hope from thee, - 3432 That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits, - 3433 To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? - 3434 No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp; - 3435 And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee - 3436 Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? - 3437 Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, - 3438 And could of men distinguish, her election - 3439 Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been - 3440 As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing; - 3441 A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards - 3442 Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and bles'd are those - 3443 Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled - 3444 That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger - 3445 To sound what stop she please. Give me that man - 3446 That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him - 3447 In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, - 3448 As I do thee.--Something too much of this.-- - 3449 There is a play to-night before the king; - 3450 One scene of it comes near the circumstance, - 3451 Which I have told thee, of my father's death: - 3452 I pr'ythee, when thou see'st that act a-foot, - 3453 Even with the very comment of thy soul - 3454 Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt - 3455 Do not itself unkennel in one speech, - 3456 It is a damned ghost that we have seen; - 3457 And my imaginations are as foul - 3458 As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note; - 3459 For I mine eyes will rivet to his face; - 3460 And, after, we will both our judgments join - 3461 In censure of his seeming. - 3462 - 3463 Hor. - 3464 Well, my lord: - 3465 If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing, - 3466 And scape detecting, I will pay the theft. - 3467 - 3468 Ham. - 3469 They are coming to the play. I must be idle: - 3470 Get you a place. - 3471 - 3472 [Danish march. A flourish. Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, - 3473 Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and others.] - 3474 - 3475 King. - 3476 How fares our cousin Hamlet? - 3477 - 3478 Ham. - 3479 Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat the air, - 3480 promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so. - 3481 - 3482 King. - 3483 I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words are not - 3484 mine. - 3485 - 3486 Ham. - 3487 No, nor mine now. My lord, you play'd once i' the university, you - 3488 say? [To Polonius.] - 3489 - 3490 Pol. - 3491 That did I, my lord, and was accounted a good actor. - 3492 - 3493 Ham. - 3494 What did you enact? - 3495 - 3496 Pol. - 3497 I did enact Julius Caesar; I was kill'd i' the Capitol; Brutus - 3498 killed me. - 3499 - 3500 Ham. - 3501 It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there.--Be - 3502 the players ready? - 3503 - 3504 Ros. - 3505 Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience. - 3506 - 3507 Queen. - 3508 Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me. - 3509 - 3510 Ham. - 3511 No, good mother, here's metal more attractive. - 3512 - 3513 Pol. - 3514 O, ho! do you mark that? [To the King.] - 3515 - 3516 Ham. - 3517 Lady, shall I lie in your lap? - 3518 [Lying down at Ophelia's feet.] - 3519 - 3520 Oph. - 3521 No, my lord. - 3522 - 3523 Ham. - 3524 I mean, my head upon your lap? - 3525 - 3526 Oph. - 3527 Ay, my lord. - 3528 - 3529 Ham. - 3530 Do you think I meant country matters? - 3531 - 3532 Oph. - 3533 I think nothing, my lord. - 3534 - 3535 Ham. - 3536 That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. - 3537 - 3538 Oph. - 3539 What is, my lord? - 3540 - 3541 Ham. - 3542 Nothing. - 3543 - 3544 Oph. - 3545 You are merry, my lord. - 3546 - 3547 Ham. - 3548 Who, I? - 3549 - 3550 Oph. - 3551 Ay, my lord. - 3552 - 3553 Ham. - 3554 O, your only jig-maker! What should a man do but be merry? - 3555 for look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died - 3556 within 's two hours. - 3557 - 3558 Oph. - 3559 Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord. - 3560 - 3561 Ham. - 3562 So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a - 3563 suit of sables. O heavens! die two months ago, and not forgotten - 3564 yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life - 3565 half a year: but, by'r lady, he must build churches then; or else - 3566 shall he suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose - 3567 epitaph is 'For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot!' - 3568 - 3569 [Trumpets sound. The dumb show enters.] - 3570 - 3571 [Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen embracing - 3572 him and he her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation - 3573 unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her - 3574 neck: lays him down upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing - 3575 him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his - 3576 crown, kisses it, pours poison in the king's ears, and exit. The - 3577 Queen returns, finds the King dead, and makes passionate action. - 3578 The Poisoner with some three or four Mutes, comes in again, - 3579 seeming to lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The - 3580 Poisoner wooes the Queen with gifts; she seems loth and unwilling - 3581 awhile, but in the end accepts his love.] - 3582 - 3583 [Exeunt.] - 3584 - 3585 Oph. - 3586 What means this, my lord? - 3587 - 3588 Ham. - 3589 Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief. - 3590 - 3591 Oph. - 3592 Belike this show imports the argument of the play. - 3593 - 3594 [Enter Prologue.] - 3595 - 3596 Ham. - 3597 We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot keep counsel; - 3598 they'll tell all. - 3599 - 3600 Oph. - 3601 Will he tell us what this show meant? - 3602 - 3603 Ham. - 3604 Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you ashamed to - 3605 show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means. - 3606 - 3607 Oph. - 3608 You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play. - 3609 - 3610 Pro. - 3611 For us, and for our tragedy, - 3612 Here stooping to your clemency, - 3613 We beg your hearing patiently. - 3614 - 3615 Ham. - 3616 Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? - 3617 - 3618 Oph. - 3619 'Tis brief, my lord. - 3620 - 3621 Ham. - 3622 As woman's love. - 3623 - 3624 [Enter a King and a Queen.] - 3625 - 3626 P. King. - 3627 Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round - 3628 Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground, - 3629 And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen - 3630 About the world have times twelve thirties been, - 3631 Since love our hearts, and Hymen did our hands, - 3632 Unite commutual in most sacred bands. - 3633 - 3634 P. Queen. - 3635 So many journeys may the sun and moon - 3636 Make us again count o'er ere love be done! - 3637 But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, - 3638 So far from cheer and from your former state. - 3639 That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust, - 3640 Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must: - 3641 For women's fear and love holds quantity; - 3642 In neither aught, or in extremity. - 3643 Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know; - 3644 And as my love is siz'd, my fear is so: - 3645 Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; - 3646 Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. - 3647 - 3648 P. King. - 3649 Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too; - 3650 My operant powers their functions leave to do: - 3651 And thou shalt live in this fair world behind, - 3652 Honour'd, belov'd, and haply one as kind - 3653 For husband shalt thou,-- - 3654 - 3655 P. Queen. - 3656 O, confound the rest! - 3657 Such love must needs be treason in my breast: - 3658 In second husband let me be accurst! - 3659 None wed the second but who kill'd the first. - 3660 - 3661 Ham. - 3662 [Aside.] Wormwood, wormwood! - 3663 - 3664 P. Queen. - 3665 The instances that second marriage move - 3666 Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. - 3667 A second time I kill my husband dead - 3668 When second husband kisses me in bed. - 3669 - 3670 P. King. - 3671 I do believe you think what now you speak; - 3672 But what we do determine oft we break. - 3673 Purpose is but the slave to memory; - 3674 Of violent birth, but poor validity: - 3675 Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree; - 3676 But fall unshaken when they mellow be. - 3677 Most necessary 'tis that we forget - 3678 To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt: - 3679 What to ourselves in passion we propose, - 3680 The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. - 3681 The violence of either grief or joy - 3682 Their own enactures with themselves destroy: - 3683 Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; - 3684 Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. - 3685 This world is not for aye; nor 'tis not strange - 3686 That even our loves should with our fortunes change; - 3687 For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, - 3688 Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. - 3689 The great man down, you mark his favourite flies, - 3690 The poor advanc'd makes friends of enemies; - 3691 And hitherto doth love on fortune tend: - 3692 For who not needs shall never lack a friend; - 3693 And who in want a hollow friend doth try, - 3694 Directly seasons him his enemy. - 3695 But, orderly to end where I begun,-- - 3696 Our wills and fates do so contrary run - 3697 That our devices still are overthrown; - 3698 Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own: - 3699 So think thou wilt no second husband wed; - 3700 But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead. - 3701 - 3702 P. Queen. - 3703 Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light! - 3704 Sport and repose lock from me day and night! - 3705 To desperation turn my trust and hope! - 3706 An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope! - 3707 Each opposite that blanks the face of joy - 3708 Meet what I would have well, and it destroy! - 3709 Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, - 3710 If, once a widow, ever I be wife! - 3711 - 3712 Ham. - 3713 If she should break it now! [To Ophelia.] - 3714 - 3715 P. King. - 3716 'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile; - 3717 My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile - 3718 The tedious day with sleep. - 3719 [Sleeps.] - 3720 - 3721 P. Queen. - 3722 Sleep rock thy brain, - 3723 And never come mischance between us twain! - 3724 - 3725 [Exit.] - 3726 - 3727 Ham. - 3728 Madam, how like you this play? - 3729 - 3730 Queen. - 3731 The lady protests too much, methinks. - 3732 - 3733 Ham. - 3734 O, but she'll keep her word. - 3735 - 3736 King. - 3737 Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in't? - 3738 - 3739 Ham. - 3740 No, no! They do but jest, poison in jest; no offence i' the - 3741 world. - 3742 - 3743 King. - 3744 What do you call the play? - 3745 - 3746 Ham. - 3747 The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the - 3748 image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is the duke's name; - 3749 his wife, Baptista: you shall see anon; 'tis a knavish piece of - 3750 work: but what o' that? your majesty, and we that have free - 3751 souls, it touches us not: let the gall'd jade wince; our withers - 3752 are unwrung. - 3753 - 3754 [Enter Lucianus.] - 3755 - 3756 This is one Lucianus, nephew to the King. - 3757 - 3758 Oph. - 3759 You are a good chorus, my lord. - 3760 - 3761 Ham. - 3762 I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see - 3763 the puppets dallying. - 3764 - 3765 Oph. - 3766 You are keen, my lord, you are keen. - 3767 - 3768 Ham. - 3769 It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge. - 3770 - 3771 Oph. - 3772 Still better, and worse. - 3773 - 3774 Ham. - 3775 So you must take your husbands.--Begin, murderer; pox, leave - 3776 thy damnable faces, and begin. Come:--'The croaking raven doth - 3777 bellow for revenge.' - 3778 - 3779 Luc. - 3780 Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing; - 3781 Confederate season, else no creature seeing; - 3782 Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, - 3783 With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected, - 3784 Thy natural magic and dire property - 3785 On wholesome life usurp immediately. - 3786 - 3787 [Pours the poison into the sleeper's ears.] - 3788 - 3789 Ham. - 3790 He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His name's Gonzago: - 3791 The story is extant, and written in very choice Italian; you - 3792 shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago's wife. - 3793 - 3794 Oph. - 3795 The King rises. - 3796 - 3797 Ham. - 3798 What, frighted with false fire! - 3799 - 3800 Queen. - 3801 How fares my lord? - 3802 - 3803 Pol. - 3804 Give o'er the play. - 3805 - 3806 King. - 3807 Give me some light:--away! - 3808 - 3809 All. - 3810 Lights, lights, lights! - 3811 - 3812 [Exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio.] - 3813 - 3814 Ham. - 3815 Why, let the strucken deer go weep, - 3816 The hart ungalled play; - 3817 For some must watch, while some must sleep: - 3818 So runs the world away.-- - 3819 Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers--if the rest of my - 3820 fortunes turn Turk with me,--with two Provincial roses on my - 3821 razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir? - 3822 - 3823 Hor. - 3824 Half a share. - 3825 - 3826 Ham. - 3827 A whole one, I. - 3828 For thou dost know, O Damon dear, - 3829 This realm dismantled was - 3830 Of Jove himself; and now reigns here - 3831 A very, very--pajock. - 3832 - 3833 Hor. - 3834 You might have rhymed. - 3835 - 3836 Ham. - 3837 O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand - 3838 pound! Didst perceive? - 3839 - 3840 Hor. - 3841 Very well, my lord. - 3842 - 3843 Ham. - 3844 Upon the talk of the poisoning?-- - 3845 - 3846 Hor. - 3847 I did very well note him. - 3848 - 3849 Ham. - 3850 Ah, ha!--Come, some music! Come, the recorders!-- - 3851 For if the king like not the comedy, - 3852 Why then, belike he likes it not, perdy. - 3853 Come, some music! - 3854 - 3855 [Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] - 3856 - 3857 Guil. - 3858 Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you. - 3859 - 3860 Ham. - 3861 Sir, a whole history. - 3862 - 3863 Guil. - 3864 The king, sir-- - 3865 - 3866 Ham. - 3867 Ay, sir, what of him? - 3868 - 3869 Guil. - 3870 Is, in his retirement, marvellous distempered. - 3871 - 3872 Ham. - 3873 With drink, sir? - 3874 - 3875 Guil. - 3876 No, my lord; rather with choler. - 3877 - 3878 Ham. - 3879 Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to - 3880 the doctor; for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps - 3881 plunge him into far more choler. - 3882 - 3883 Guil. - 3884 Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame, and start - 3885 not so wildly from my affair. - 3886 - 3887 Ham. - 3888 I am tame, sir:--pronounce. - 3889 - 3890 Guil. - 3891 The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of spirit, - 3892 hath sent me to you. - 3893 - 3894 Ham. - 3895 You are welcome. - 3896 - 3897 Guil. - 3898 Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right breed. - 3899 If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer, I will do - 3900 your mother's commandment: if not, your pardon and my return - 3901 shall be the end of my business. - 3902 - 3903 Ham. - 3904 Sir, I cannot. - 3905 - 3906 Guil. - 3907 What, my lord? - 3908 - 3909 Ham. - 3910 Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased: but, sir, such - 3911 answer as I can make, you shall command; or rather, as you say, - 3912 my mother: therefore no more, but to the matter: my mother, you - 3913 say,-- - 3914 - 3915 Ros. - 3916 Then thus she says: your behaviour hath struck her into - 3917 amazement and admiration. - 3918 - 3919 Ham. - 3920 O wonderful son, that can so stonish a mother!--But is there no - 3921 sequel at the heels of this mother's admiration? - 3922 - 3923 Ros. - 3924 She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed. - 3925 - 3926 Ham. - 3927 We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have you any - 3928 further trade with us? - 3929 - 3930 Ros. - 3931 My lord, you once did love me. - 3932 - 3933 Ham. - 3934 And so I do still, by these pickers and stealers. - 3935 - 3936 Ros. - 3937 Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you do, surely, - 3938 bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to - 3939 your friend. - 3940 - 3941 Ham. - 3942 Sir, I lack advancement. - 3943 - 3944 Ros. - 3945 How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself - 3946 for your succession in Denmark? - 3947 - 3948 Ham. - 3949 Ay, sir, but 'While the grass grows'--the proverb is something - 3950 musty. - 3951 - 3952 [Re-enter the Players, with recorders.] - 3953 - 3954 O, the recorders:--let me see one.--To withdraw with you:--why do - 3955 you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me - 3956 into a toil? - 3957 - 3958 Guil. - 3959 O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too unmannerly. - 3960 - 3961 Ham. - 3962 I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe? - 3963 - 3964 Guil. - 3965 My lord, I cannot. - 3966 - 3967 Ham. - 3968 I pray you. - 3969 - 3970 Guil. - 3971 Believe me, I cannot. - 3972 - 3973 Ham. - 3974 I do beseech you. - 3975 - 3976 Guil. - 3977 I know, no touch of it, my lord. - 3978 - 3979 Ham. - 3980 'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your - 3981 finger and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will - 3982 discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops. - 3983 - 3984 Guil. - 3985 But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony; I - 3986 have not the skill. - 3987 - 3988 Ham. - 3989 Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You - 3990 would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would - 3991 pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my - 3992 lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, - 3993 excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it - 3994 speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a - 3995 pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, - 3996 you cannot play upon me. - 3997 - 3998 [Enter Polonius.] - 3999 - 4000 God bless you, sir! - 4001 - 4002 Pol. - 4003 My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. - 4004 - 4005 Ham. - 4006 Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? - 4007 - 4008 Pol. - 4009 By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. - 4010 - 4011 Ham. - 4012 Methinks it is like a weasel. - 4013 - 4014 Pol. - 4015 It is backed like a weasel. - 4016 - 4017 Ham. - 4018 Or like a whale. - 4019 - 4020 Pol. - 4021 Very like a whale. - 4022 - 4023 Ham. - 4024 Then will I come to my mother by and by.--They fool me to the - 4025 top of my bent.--I will come by and by. - 4026 - 4027 Pol. - 4028 I will say so. - 4029 - 4030 [Exit.] - 4031 - 4032 Ham. - 4033 By-and-by is easily said. - 4034 - 4035 [Exit Polonius.] - 4036 - 4037 --Leave me, friends. - 4038 - 4039 [Exeunt Ros, Guil., Hor., and Players.] - 4040 - 4041 'Tis now the very witching time of night, - 4042 When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out - 4043 Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, - 4044 And do such bitter business as the day - 4045 Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother.-- - 4046 O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever - 4047 The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: - 4048 Let me be cruel, not unnatural; - 4049 I will speak daggers to her, but use none; - 4050 My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites,-- - 4051 How in my words somever she be shent, - 4052 To give them seals never, my soul, consent! - 4053 - 4054 [Exit.] - 4055 - 4056 - 4057 - 4058 Scene III. A room in the Castle. - 4059 - 4060 [Enter King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.] - 4061 - 4062 King. - 4063 I like him not; nor stands it safe with us - 4064 To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you; - 4065 I your commission will forthwith dispatch, - 4066 And he to England shall along with you: - 4067 The terms of our estate may not endure - 4068 Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow - 4069 Out of his lunacies. - 4070 - 4071 Guil. - 4072 We will ourselves provide: - 4073 Most holy and religious fear it is - 4074 To keep those many many bodies safe - 4075 That live and feed upon your majesty. - 4076 - 4077 Ros. - 4078 The single and peculiar life is bound, - 4079 With all the strength and armour of the mind, - 4080 To keep itself from 'noyance; but much more - 4081 That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest - 4082 The lives of many. The cease of majesty - 4083 Dies not alone; but like a gulf doth draw - 4084 What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel, - 4085 Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, - 4086 To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things - 4087 Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, - 4088 Each small annexment, petty consequence, - 4089 Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone - 4090 Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. - 4091 - 4092 King. - 4093 Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage; - 4094 For we will fetters put upon this fear, - 4095 Which now goes too free-footed. - 4096 - 4097 Ros and Guil. - 4098 We will haste us. - 4099 - 4100 [Exeunt Ros. and Guil.] - 4101 - 4102 [Enter Polonius.] - 4103 - 4104 Pol. - 4105 My lord, he's going to his mother's closet: - 4106 Behind the arras I'll convey myself - 4107 To hear the process; I'll warrant she'll tax him home: - 4108 And, as you said, and wisely was it said, - 4109 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, - 4110 Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear - 4111 The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege: - 4112 I'll call upon you ere you go to bed, - 4113 And tell you what I know. - 4114 - 4115 King. - 4116 Thanks, dear my lord. - 4117 - 4118 [Exit Polonius.] - 4119 - 4120 O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; - 4121 It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,-- - 4122 A brother's murder!--Pray can I not, - 4123 Though inclination be as sharp as will: - 4124 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; - 4125 And, like a man to double business bound, - 4126 I stand in pause where I shall first begin, - 4127 And both neglect. What if this cursed hand - 4128 Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,-- - 4129 Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens - 4130 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy - 4131 But to confront the visage of offence? - 4132 And what's in prayer but this twofold force,-- - 4133 To be forestalled ere we come to fall, - 4134 Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up; - 4135 My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer - 4136 Can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!-- - 4137 That cannot be; since I am still possess'd - 4138 Of those effects for which I did the murder,-- - 4139 My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. - 4140 May one be pardon'd and retain the offence? - 4141 In the corrupted currents of this world - 4142 Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; - 4143 And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself - 4144 Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; - 4145 There is no shuffling;--there the action lies - 4146 In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, - 4147 Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, - 4148 To give in evidence. What then? what rests? - 4149 Try what repentance can: what can it not? - 4150 Yet what can it when one cannot repent? - 4151 O wretched state! O bosom black as death! - 4152 O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, - 4153 Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay: - 4154 Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart, with strings of steel, - 4155 Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe! - 4156 All may be well. - 4157 - 4158 [Retires and kneels.] - 4159 - 4160 [Enter Hamlet.] - 4161 - 4162 Ham. - 4163 Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; - 4164 And now I'll do't;--and so he goes to heaven; - 4165 And so am I reveng'd.--that would be scann'd: - 4166 A villain kills my father; and for that, - 4167 I, his sole son, do this same villain send - 4168 To heaven. - 4169 O, this is hire and salary, not revenge. - 4170 He took my father grossly, full of bread; - 4171 With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; - 4172 And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven? - 4173 But in our circumstance and course of thought, - 4174 'Tis heavy with him: and am I, then, reveng'd, - 4175 To take him in the purging of his soul, - 4176 When he is fit and season'd for his passage? - 4177 No. - 4178 Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent: - 4179 When he is drunk asleep; or in his rage; - 4180 Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed; - 4181 At gaming, swearing; or about some act - 4182 That has no relish of salvation in't;-- - 4183 Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven; - 4184 And that his soul may be as damn'd and black - 4185 As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays: - 4186 This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. - 4187 - 4188 [Exit.] - 4189 - 4190 [The King rises and advances.] - 4191 - 4192 King. - 4193 My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: - 4194 Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - 4195 - 4196 [Exit.] - 4197 - 4198 - 4199 - 4200 Scene IV. Another room in the castle. - 4201 - 4202 [Enter Queen and Polonius.] - 4203 - 4204 Pol. - 4205 He will come straight. Look you lay home to him: - 4206 Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, - 4207 And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between - 4208 Much heat and him. I'll silence me e'en here. - 4209 Pray you, be round with him. - 4210 - 4211 Ham. - 4212 [Within.] Mother, mother, mother! - 4213 - 4214 Queen. - 4215 I'll warrant you: - 4216 Fear me not:--withdraw; I hear him coming. - 4217 - 4218 [Polonius goes behind the arras.] - 4219 - 4220 [Enter Hamlet.] - 4221 - 4222 Ham. - 4223 Now, mother, what's the matter? - 4224 - 4225 Queen. - 4226 Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. - 4227 - 4228 Ham. - 4229 Mother, you have my father much offended. - 4230 - 4231 Queen. - 4232 Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. - 4233 - 4234 Ham. - 4235 Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. - 4236 - 4237 Queen. - 4238 Why, how now, Hamlet! - 4239 - 4240 Ham. - 4241 What's the matter now? - 4242 - 4243 Queen. - 4244 Have you forgot me? - 4245 - 4246 Ham. - 4247 No, by the rood, not so: - 4248 You are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife, - 4249 And,--would it were not so!--you are my mother. - 4250 - 4251 Queen. - 4252 Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak. - 4253 - 4254 Ham. - 4255 Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge; - 4256 You go not till I set you up a glass - 4257 Where you may see the inmost part of you. - 4258 - 4259 Queen. - 4260 What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?-- - 4261 Help, help, ho! - 4262 - 4263 Pol. - 4264 [Behind.] What, ho! help, help, help! - 4265 - 4266 Ham. - 4267 How now? a rat? [Draws.] - 4268 Dead for a ducat, dead! - 4269 - 4270 [Makes a pass through the arras.] - 4271 - 4272 Pol. - 4273 [Behind.] O, I am slain! - 4274 - 4275 [Falls and dies.] - 4276 - 4277 Queen. - 4278 O me, what hast thou done? - 4279 - 4280 Ham. - 4281 Nay, I know not: is it the king? - 4282 - 4283 [Draws forth Polonius.] - 4284 - 4285 Queen. - 4286 O, what a rash and bloody deed is this! - 4287 - 4288 Ham. - 4289 A bloody deed!--almost as bad, good mother, - 4290 As kill a king and marry with his brother. - 4291 - 4292 Queen. - 4293 As kill a king! - 4294 - 4295 Ham. - 4296 Ay, lady, 'twas my word.-- - 4297 Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! - 4298 [To Polonius.] - 4299 I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune; - 4300 Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.-- - 4301 Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down, - 4302 And let me wring your heart: for so I shall, - 4303 If it be made of penetrable stuff; - 4304 If damned custom have not braz'd it so - 4305 That it is proof and bulwark against sense. - 4306 - 4307 Queen. - 4308 What have I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tongue - 4309 In noise so rude against me? - 4310 - 4311 Ham. - 4312 Such an act - 4313 That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; - 4314 Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose - 4315 From the fair forehead of an innocent love, - 4316 And sets a blister there; makes marriage-vows - 4317 As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed - 4318 As from the body of contraction plucks - 4319 The very soul, and sweet religion makes - 4320 A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow; - 4321 Yea, this solidity and compound mass, - 4322 With tristful visage, as against the doom, - 4323 Is thought-sick at the act. - 4324 - 4325 Queen. - 4326 Ah me, what act, - 4327 That roars so loud, and thunders in the index? - 4328 - 4329 Ham. - 4330 Look here upon this picture, and on this,-- - 4331 The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. - 4332 See what a grace was seated on this brow; - 4333 Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; - 4334 An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; - 4335 A station like the herald Mercury - 4336 New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill: - 4337 A combination and a form, indeed, - 4338 Where every god did seem to set his seal, - 4339 To give the world assurance of a man; - 4340 This was your husband.--Look you now what follows: - 4341 Here is your husband, like a milldew'd ear - 4342 Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? - 4343 Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, - 4344 And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? - 4345 You cannot call it love; for at your age - 4346 The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, - 4347 And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment - 4348 Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have, - 4349 Else could you not have motion: but sure that sense - 4350 Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err; - 4351 Nor sense to ecstacy was ne'er so thrall'd - 4352 But it reserv'd some quantity of choice - 4353 To serve in such a difference. What devil was't - 4354 That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind? - 4355 Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, - 4356 Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, - 4357 Or but a sickly part of one true sense - 4358 Could not so mope. - 4359 O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, - 4360 If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, - 4361 To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, - 4362 And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame - 4363 When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, - 4364 Since frost itself as actively doth burn, - 4365 And reason panders will. - 4366 - 4367 Queen. - 4368 O Hamlet, speak no more: - 4369 Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; - 4370 And there I see such black and grained spots - 4371 As will not leave their tinct. - 4372 - 4373 Ham. - 4374 Nay, but to live - 4375 In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, - 4376 Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love - 4377 Over the nasty sty,-- - 4378 - 4379 Queen. - 4380 O, speak to me no more; - 4381 These words like daggers enter in mine ears; - 4382 No more, sweet Hamlet. - 4383 - 4384 Ham. - 4385 A murderer and a villain; - 4386 A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe - 4387 Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; - 4388 A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, - 4389 That from a shelf the precious diadem stole - 4390 And put it in his pocket! - 4391 - 4392 Queen. - 4393 No more. - 4394 - 4395 Ham. - 4396 A king of shreds and patches!-- - 4397 - 4398 [Enter Ghost.] - 4399 - 4400 Save me and hover o'er me with your wings, - 4401 You heavenly guards!--What would your gracious figure? - 4402 - 4403 Queen. - 4404 Alas, he's mad! - 4405 - 4406 Ham. - 4407 Do you not come your tardy son to chide, - 4408 That, laps'd in time and passion, lets go by - 4409 The important acting of your dread command? - 4410 O, say! - 4411 - 4412 Ghost. - 4413 Do not forget. This visitation - 4414 Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose. - 4415 But, look, amazement on thy mother sits: - 4416 O, step between her and her fighting soul,-- - 4417 Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works,-- - 4418 Speak to her, Hamlet. - 4419 - 4420 Ham. - 4421 How is it with you, lady? - 4422 - 4423 Queen. - 4424 Alas, how is't with you, - 4425 That you do bend your eye on vacancy, - 4426 And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? - 4427 Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep; - 4428 And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm, - 4429 Your bedded hairs, like life in excrements, - 4430 Start up and stand an end. O gentle son, - 4431 Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper - 4432 Sprinkle cool patience! Whereon do you look? - 4433 - 4434 Ham. - 4435 On him, on him! Look you how pale he glares! - 4436 His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones, - 4437 Would make them capable.--Do not look upon me; - 4438 Lest with this piteous action you convert - 4439 My stern effects: then what I have to do - 4440 Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood. - 4441 - 4442 Queen. - 4443 To whom do you speak this? - 4444 - 4445 Ham. - 4446 Do you see nothing there? - 4447 - 4448 Queen. - 4449 Nothing at all; yet all that is I see. - 4450 - 4451 Ham. - 4452 Nor did you nothing hear? - 4453 - 4454 Queen. - 4455 No, nothing but ourselves. - 4456 - 4457 Ham. - 4458 Why, look you there! look how it steals away! - 4459 My father, in his habit as he liv'd! - 4460 Look, where he goes, even now out at the portal! - 4461 - 4462 [Exit Ghost.] - 4463 - 4464 Queen. - 4465 This is the very coinage of your brain: - 4466 This bodiless creation ecstasy - 4467 Is very cunning in. - 4468 - 4469 Ham. - 4470 Ecstasy! - 4471 My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, - 4472 And makes as healthful music: it is not madness - 4473 That I have utter'd: bring me to the test, - 4474 And I the matter will re-word; which madness - 4475 Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, - 4476 Lay not that flattering unction to your soul - 4477 That not your trespass, but my madness speaks: - 4478 It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, - 4479 Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, - 4480 Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven; - 4481 Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; - 4482 And do not spread the compost on the weeds, - 4483 To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue; - 4484 For in the fatness of these pursy times - 4485 Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, - 4486 Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good. - 4487 - 4488 Queen. - 4489 O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. - 4490 - 4491 Ham. - 4492 O, throw away the worser part of it, - 4493 And live the purer with the other half. - 4494 Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed; - 4495 Assume a virtue, if you have it not. - 4496 That monster custom, who all sense doth eat, - 4497 Of habits evil, is angel yet in this,-- - 4498 That to the use of actions fair and good - 4499 He likewise gives a frock or livery - 4500 That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night; - 4501 And that shall lend a kind of easiness - 4502 To the next abstinence: the next more easy; - 4503 For use almost can change the stamp of nature, - 4504 And either curb the devil, or throw him out - 4505 With wondrous potency. Once more, good-night: - 4506 And when you are desirous to be bles'd, - 4507 I'll blessing beg of you.--For this same lord - 4508 [Pointing to Polonius.] - 4509 I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so, - 4510 To punish me with this, and this with me, - 4511 That I must be their scourge and minister. - 4512 I will bestow him, and will answer well - 4513 The death I gave him. So again, good-night.-- - 4514 I must be cruel, only to be kind: - 4515 Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.-- - 4516 One word more, good lady. - 4517 - 4518 Queen. - 4519 What shall I do? - 4520 - 4521 Ham. - 4522 Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: - 4523 Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed; - 4524 Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse; - 4525 And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, - 4526 Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, - 4527 Make you to ravel all this matter out, - 4528 That I essentially am not in madness, - 4529 But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know; - 4530 For who that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise, - 4531 Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib, - 4532 Such dear concernings hide? who would do so? - 4533 No, in despite of sense and secrecy, - 4534 Unpeg the basket on the house's top, - 4535 Let the birds fly, and, like the famous ape, - 4536 To try conclusions, in the basket creep - 4537 And break your own neck down. - 4538 - 4539 Queen. - 4540 Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath, - 4541 And breath of life, I have no life to breathe - 4542 What thou hast said to me. - 4543 - 4544 Ham. - 4545 I must to England; you know that? - 4546 - 4547 Queen. - 4548 Alack, - 4549 I had forgot: 'tis so concluded on. - 4550 - 4551 Ham. - 4552 There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,-- - 4553 Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,-- - 4554 They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way - 4555 And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; - 4556 For 'tis the sport to have the enginer - 4557 Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard - 4558 But I will delve one yard below their mines - 4559 And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet, - 4560 When in one line two crafts directly meet.-- - 4561 This man shall set me packing: - 4562 I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.-- - 4563 Mother, good-night.--Indeed, this counsellor - 4564 Is now most still, most secret, and most grave, - 4565 Who was in life a foolish peating knave. - 4566 Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you:-- - 4567 Good night, mother. - 4568 - 4569 [Exeunt severally; Hamlet, dragging out Polonius.] - 4570 - 4571 - 4572 - 4573 ACT IV. - 4574 - 4575 Scene I. A room in the Castle. - 4576 - 4577 [Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] - 4578 - 4579 King. - 4580 There's matter in these sighs. These profound heaves - 4581 You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them. - 4582 Where is your son? - 4583 - 4584 Queen. - 4585 Bestow this place on us a little while. - 4586 - 4587 [To Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who go out.] - 4588 - 4589 Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night! - 4590 - 4591 King. - 4592 What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet? - 4593 - 4594 Queen. - 4595 Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend - 4596 Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit - 4597 Behind the arras hearing something stir, - 4598 Whips out his rapier, cries 'A rat, a rat!' - 4599 And in this brainish apprehension, kills - 4600 The unseen good old man. - 4601 - 4602 King. - 4603 O heavy deed! - 4604 It had been so with us, had we been there: - 4605 His liberty is full of threats to all; - 4606 To you yourself, to us, to every one. - 4607 Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd? - 4608 It will be laid to us, whose providence - 4609 Should have kept short, restrain'd, and out of haunt - 4610 This mad young man. But so much was our love - 4611 We would not understand what was most fit; - 4612 But, like the owner of a foul disease, - 4613 To keep it from divulging, let it feed - 4614 Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone? - 4615 - 4616 Queen. - 4617 To draw apart the body he hath kill'd: - 4618 O'er whom his very madness, like some ore - 4619 Among a mineral of metals base, - 4620 Shows itself pure: he weeps for what is done. - 4621 - 4622 King. - 4623 O Gertrude, come away! - 4624 The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch - 4625 But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed - 4626 We must with all our majesty and skill - 4627 Both countenance and excuse.--Ho, Guildenstern! - 4628 - 4629 [Re-enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] - 4630 - 4631 Friends both, go join you with some further aid: - 4632 Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, - 4633 And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him: - 4634 Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body - 4635 Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this. - 4636 - 4637 [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] - 4638 - 4639 Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends; - 4640 And let them know both what we mean to do - 4641 And what's untimely done: so haply slander,-- - 4642 Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, - 4643 As level as the cannon to his blank, - 4644 Transports his poison'd shot,--may miss our name, - 4645 And hit the woundless air.--O, come away! - 4646 My soul is full of discord and dismay. - 4647 - 4648 [Exeunt.] - 4649 - 4650 Scene II. Another room in the Castle. - 4651 - 4652 [Enter Hamlet.] - 4653 - 4654 Ham. - 4655 Safely stowed. - 4656 - 4657 Ros. and Guil. - 4658 [Within.] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet! - 4659 - 4660 Ham. - 4661 What noise? who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come. - 4662 - 4663 [Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] - 4664 - 4665 Ros. - 4666 What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? - 4667 - 4668 Ham. - 4669 Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin. - 4670 - 4671 Ros. - 4672 Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence, - 4673 And bear it to the chapel. - 4674 - 4675 Ham. - 4676 Do not believe it. - 4677 - 4678 Ros. - 4679 Believe what? - 4680 - 4681 Ham. - 4682 That I can keep your counsel, and not mine own. Besides, to be - 4683 demanded of a sponge!--what replication should be made by the son - 4684 of a king? - 4685 - 4686 Ros. - 4687 Take you me for a sponge, my lord? - 4688 - 4689 Ham. - 4690 Ay, sir; that soaks up the King's countenance, his rewards, - 4691 his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in - 4692 the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; - 4693 first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have - 4694 gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry - 4695 again. - 4696 - 4697 Ros. - 4698 I understand you not, my lord. - 4699 - 4700 Ham. - 4701 I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. - 4702 - 4703 Ros. - 4704 My lord, you must tell us where the body is and go with us to - 4705 the king. - 4706 - 4707 Ham. - 4708 The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. - 4709 The king is a thing,-- - 4710 - 4711 Guil. - 4712 A thing, my lord! - 4713 - 4714 Ham. - 4715 Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after. - 4716 - 4717 [Exeunt.] - 4718 - 4719 - 4720 - 4721 Scene III. Another room in the Castle. - 4722 - 4723 [Enter King,attended.] - 4724 - 4725 King. - 4726 I have sent to seek him and to find the body. - 4727 How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! - 4728 Yet must not we put the strong law on him: - 4729 He's lov'd of the distracted multitude, - 4730 Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes; - 4731 And where 'tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd, - 4732 But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even, - 4733 This sudden sending him away must seem - 4734 Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown - 4735 By desperate appliance are reliev'd, - 4736 Or not at all. - 4737 - 4738 [Enter Rosencrantz.] - 4739 - 4740 How now! what hath befall'n? - 4741 - 4742 Ros. - 4743 Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord, - 4744 We cannot get from him. - 4745 - 4746 King. - 4747 But where is he? - 4748 - 4749 Ros. - 4750 Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure. - 4751 - 4752 King. - 4753 Bring him before us. - 4754 - 4755 Ros. - 4756 Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord. - 4757 - 4758 [Enter Hamlet and Guildenstern.] - 4759 - 4760 King. - 4761 Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? - 4762 - 4763 Ham. - 4764 At supper. - 4765 - 4766 King. - 4767 At supper! where? - 4768 - 4769 Ham. - 4770 Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain - 4771 convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your - 4772 only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and - 4773 we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar - 4774 is but variable service,--two dishes, but to one table: that's - 4775 the end. - 4776 - 4777 King. - 4778 Alas, alas! - 4779 - 4780 Ham. - 4781 A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat - 4782 of the fish that hath fed of that worm. - 4783 - 4784 King. - 4785 What dost thou mean by this? - 4786 - 4787 Ham. - 4788 Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through - 4789 the guts of a beggar. - 4790 - 4791 King. - 4792 Where is Polonius? - 4793 - 4794 Ham. - 4795 In heaven: send thither to see: if your messenger find him not - 4796 there, seek him i' the other place yourself. But, indeed, if you - 4797 find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up - 4798 the stairs into the lobby. - 4799 - 4800 King. - 4801 Go seek him there. [To some Attendants.] - 4802 - 4803 Ham. - 4804 He will stay till you come. - 4805 - 4806 [Exeunt Attendants.] - 4807 - 4808 King. - 4809 Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,-- - 4810 Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve - 4811 For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence - 4812 With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself; - 4813 The bark is ready, and the wind at help, - 4814 The associates tend, and everything is bent - 4815 For England. - 4816 - 4817 Ham. - 4818 For England! - 4819 - 4820 King. - 4821 Ay, Hamlet. - 4822 - 4823 Ham. - 4824 Good. - 4825 - 4826 King. - 4827 So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes. - 4828 - 4829 Ham. - 4830 I see a cherub that sees them.--But, come; for England!-- - 4831 Farewell, dear mother. - 4832 - 4833 King. - 4834 Thy loving father, Hamlet. - 4835 - 4836 Ham. - 4837 My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is - 4838 one flesh; and so, my mother.--Come, for England! - 4839 - 4840 [Exit.] - 4841 - 4842 King. - 4843 Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard; - 4844 Delay it not; I'll have him hence to-night: - 4845 Away! for everything is seal'd and done - 4846 That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste. - 4847 - 4848 [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] - 4849 - 4850 And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught,-- - 4851 As my great power thereof may give thee sense, - 4852 Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red - 4853 After the Danish sword, and thy free awe - 4854 Pays homage to us,--thou mayst not coldly set - 4855 Our sovereign process; which imports at full, - 4856 By letters conjuring to that effect, - 4857 The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; - 4858 For like the hectic in my blood he rages, - 4859 And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done, - 4860 Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun. - 4861 - 4862 [Exit.] - 4863 - 4864 - 4865 - 4866 Scene IV. A plain in Denmark. - 4867 - 4868 [Enter Fortinbras, and Forces marching.] - 4869 - 4870 For. - 4871 Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish king: - 4872 Tell him that, by his license, Fortinbras - 4873 Craves the conveyance of a promis'd march - 4874 Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous. - 4875 If that his majesty would aught with us, - 4876 We shall express our duty in his eye; - 4877 And let him know so. - 4878 - 4879 Capt. - 4880 I will do't, my lord. - 4881 - 4882 For. - 4883 Go softly on. - 4884 - 4885 [Exeunt all For. and Forces.] - 4886 - 4887 [Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, &c.] - 4888 - 4889 Ham. - 4890 Good sir, whose powers are these? - 4891 - 4892 Capt. - 4893 They are of Norway, sir. - 4894 - 4895 Ham. - 4896 How purpos'd, sir, I pray you? - 4897 - 4898 Capt. - 4899 Against some part of Poland. - 4900 - 4901 Ham. - 4902 Who commands them, sir? - 4903 - 4904 Capt. - 4905 The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras. - 4906 - 4907 Ham. - 4908 Goes it against the main of Poland, sir, - 4909 Or for some frontier? - 4910 - 4911 Capt. - 4912 Truly to speak, and with no addition, - 4913 We go to gain a little patch of ground - 4914 That hath in it no profit but the name. - 4915 To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; - 4916 Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole - 4917 A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee. - 4918 - 4919 Ham. - 4920 Why, then the Polack never will defend it. - 4921 - 4922 Capt. - 4923 Yes, it is already garrison'd. - 4924 - 4925 Ham. - 4926 Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats - 4927 Will not debate the question of this straw: - 4928 This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace, - 4929 That inward breaks, and shows no cause without - 4930 Why the man dies.--I humbly thank you, sir. - 4931 - 4932 Capt. - 4933 God b' wi' you, sir. - 4934 - 4935 [Exit.] - 4936 - 4937 Ros. - 4938 Will't please you go, my lord? - 4939 - 4940 Ham. - 4941 I'll be with you straight. Go a little before. - 4942 - 4943 [Exeunt all but Hamlet.] - 4944 - 4945 How all occasions do inform against me - 4946 And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, - 4947 If his chief good and market of his time - 4948 Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. - 4949 Sure he that made us with such large discourse, - 4950 Looking before and after, gave us not - 4951 That capability and godlike reason - 4952 To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be - 4953 Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple - 4954 Of thinking too precisely on the event,-- - 4955 A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom - 4956 And ever three parts coward,--I do not know - 4957 Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' - 4958 Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means - 4959 To do't. Examples, gross as earth, exhort me: - 4960 Witness this army, of such mass and charge, - 4961 Led by a delicate and tender prince; - 4962 Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, - 4963 Makes mouths at the invisible event; - 4964 Exposing what is mortal and unsure - 4965 To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, - 4966 Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great - 4967 Is not to stir without great argument, - 4968 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw - 4969 When honour's at the stake. How stand I, then, - 4970 That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, - 4971 Excitements of my reason and my blood, - 4972 And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see - 4973 The imminent death of twenty thousand men - 4974 That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, - 4975 Go to their graves like beds; fight for a plot - 4976 Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, - 4977 Which is not tomb enough and continent - 4978 To hide the slain?--O, from this time forth, - 4979 My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! - 4980 - 4981 [Exit.] - 4982 - 4983 - 4984 - 4985 Scene V. Elsinore. A room in the Castle. - 4986 - 4987 [Enter Queen and Horatio.] - 4988 - 4989 Queen. - 4990 I will not speak with her. - 4991 - 4992 Gent. - 4993 She is importunate; indeed distract: - 4994 Her mood will needs be pitied. - 4995 - 4996 Queen. - 4997 What would she have? - 4998 - 4999 Gent. - 5000 She speaks much of her father; says she hears - 5001 There's tricks i' the world, and hems, and beats her heart; - 5002 Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt, - 5003 That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing, - 5004 Yet the unshaped use of it doth move - 5005 The hearers to collection; they aim at it, - 5006 And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts; - 5007 Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures yield them, - 5008 Indeed would make one think there might be thought, - 5009 Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily. - 5010 'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew - 5011 Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds. - 5012 - 5013 Queen. - 5014 Let her come in. - 5015 - 5016 [Exit Horatio.] - 5017 - 5018 To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, - 5019 Each toy seems Prologue to some great amiss: - 5020 So full of artless jealousy is guilt, - 5021 It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. - 5022 - 5023 [Re-enter Horatio with Ophelia.] - 5024 - 5025 Oph. - 5026 Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark? - 5027 - 5028 Queen. - 5029 How now, Ophelia? - 5030 - 5031 Oph. [Sings.] - 5032 How should I your true love know - 5033 From another one? - 5034 By his cockle bat and' staff - 5035 And his sandal shoon. - 5036 - 5037 Queen. - 5038 Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? - 5039 - 5040 Oph. - 5041 Say you? nay, pray you, mark. - 5042 [Sings.] - 5043 He is dead and gone, lady, - 5044 He is dead and gone; - 5045 At his head a grass green turf, - 5046 At his heels a stone. - 5047 - 5048 Queen. - 5049 Nay, but Ophelia-- - 5050 - 5051 Oph. - 5052 Pray you, mark. - 5053 [Sings.] - 5054 White his shroud as the mountain snow, - 5055 - 5056 [Enter King.] - 5057 - 5058 Queen. - 5059 Alas, look here, my lord! - 5060 - 5061 Oph. - 5062 [Sings.] - 5063 Larded all with sweet flowers; - 5064 Which bewept to the grave did go - 5065 With true-love showers. - 5066 - 5067 King. - 5068 How do you, pretty lady? - 5069 - 5070 Oph. - 5071 Well, God dild you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. - 5072 Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at - 5073 your table! - 5074 - 5075 King. - 5076 Conceit upon her father. - 5077 - 5078 Oph. - 5079 Pray you, let's have no words of this; but when they ask you what - 5080 it means, say you this: - 5081 [Sings.] - 5082 To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day - 5083 All in the morning bedtime, - 5084 And I a maid at your window, - 5085 To be your Valentine. - 5086 - 5087 Then up he rose and donn'd his clothes, - 5088 And dupp'd the chamber door, - 5089 Let in the maid, that out a maid - 5090 Never departed more. - 5091 - 5092 King. - 5093 Pretty Ophelia! - 5094 - 5095 Oph. - 5096 Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't: - 5097 [Sings.] - 5098 By Gis and by Saint Charity, - 5099 Alack, and fie for shame! - 5100 Young men will do't if they come to't; - 5101 By cock, they are to blame. - 5102 - 5103 Quoth she, before you tumbled me, - 5104 You promis'd me to wed. - 5105 So would I ha' done, by yonder sun, - 5106 An thou hadst not come to my bed. - 5107 - 5108 King. - 5109 How long hath she been thus? - 5110 - 5111 Oph. - 5112 I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I cannot - 5113 choose but weep, to think they would lay him i' the cold ground. - 5114 My brother shall know of it: and so I thank you for your good - 5115 counsel.--Come, my coach!--Good night, ladies; good night, sweet - 5116 ladies; good night, good night. - 5117 - 5118 [Exit.] - 5119 - 5120 King. - 5121 Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you. - 5122 - 5123 [Exit Horatio.] - 5124 - 5125 O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs - 5126 All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude, - 5127 When sorrows come, they come not single spies, - 5128 But in battalions! First, her father slain: - 5129 Next, your son gone; and he most violent author - 5130 Of his own just remove: the people muddied, - 5131 Thick and and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers - 5132 For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly - 5133 In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia - 5134 Divided from herself and her fair judgment, - 5135 Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts: - 5136 Last, and as much containing as all these, - 5137 Her brother is in secret come from France; - 5138 Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds, - 5139 And wants not buzzers to infect his ear - 5140 With pestilent speeches of his father's death; - 5141 Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd, - 5142 Will nothing stick our person to arraign - 5143 In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this, - 5144 Like to a murdering piece, in many places - 5145 Give, me superfluous death. - 5146 - 5147 [A noise within.] - 5148 - 5149 Queen. - 5150 Alack, what noise is this? - 5151 - 5152 King. - 5153 Where are my Switzers? let them guard the door. - 5154 - 5155 [Enter a Gentleman.] - 5156 - 5157 What is the matter? - 5158 - 5159 Gent. - 5160 Save yourself, my lord: - 5161 The ocean, overpeering of his list, - 5162 Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste - 5163 Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, - 5164 O'erbears your offices. The rabble call him lord; - 5165 And, as the world were now but to begin, - 5166 Antiquity forgot, custom not known, - 5167 The ratifiers and props of every word, - 5168 They cry 'Choose we! Laertes shall be king!' - 5169 Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it to the clouds, - 5170 'Laertes shall be king! Laertes king!' - 5171 - 5172 Queen. - 5173 How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! - 5174 O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs! - 5175 - 5176 [A noise within.] - 5177 - 5178 King. - 5179 The doors are broke. - 5180 - 5181 [Enter Laertes, armed; Danes following.] - 5182 - 5183 Laer. - 5184 Where is this king?--Sirs, stand you all without. - 5185 - 5186 Danes. - 5187 No, let's come in. - 5188 - 5189 Laer. - 5190 I pray you, give me leave. - 5191 - 5192 Danes. - 5193 We will, we will. - 5194 - 5195 [They retire without the door.] - 5196 - 5197 Laer. - 5198 I thank you:--keep the door.--O thou vile king, - 5199 Give me my father! - 5200 - 5201 Queen. - 5202 Calmly, good Laertes. - 5203 - 5204 Laer. - 5205 That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard; - 5206 Cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlot - 5207 Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow - 5208 Of my true mother. - 5209 - 5210 King. - 5211 What is the cause, Laertes, - 5212 That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?-- - 5213 Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person: - 5214 There's such divinity doth hedge a king, - 5215 That treason can but peep to what it would, - 5216 Acts little of his will.--Tell me, Laertes, - 5217 Why thou art thus incens'd.--Let him go, Gertrude:-- - 5218 Speak, man. - 5219 - 5220 Laer. - 5221 Where is my father? - 5222 - 5223 King. - 5224 Dead. - 5225 - 5226 Queen. - 5227 But not by him. - 5228 - 5229 King. - 5230 Let him demand his fill. - 5231 - 5232 Laer. - 5233 How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with: - 5234 To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! - 5235 Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! - 5236 I dare damnation:--to this point I stand,-- - 5237 That both the worlds, I give to negligence, - 5238 Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd - 5239 Most throughly for my father. - 5240 - 5241 King. - 5242 Who shall stay you? - 5243 - 5244 Laer. - 5245 My will, not all the world: - 5246 And for my means, I'll husband them so well, - 5247 They shall go far with little. - 5248 - 5249 King. - 5250 Good Laertes, - 5251 If you desire to know the certainty - 5252 Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge - 5253 That, sweepstake, you will draw both friend and foe, - 5254 Winner and loser? - 5255 - 5256 Laer. - 5257 None but his enemies. - 5258 - 5259 King. - 5260 Will you know them then? - 5261 - 5262 Laer. - 5263 To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms; - 5264 And, like the kind life-rendering pelican, - 5265 Repast them with my blood. - 5266 - 5267 King. - 5268 Why, now you speak - 5269 Like a good child and a true gentleman. - 5270 That I am guiltless of your father's death, - 5271 And am most sensibly in grief for it, - 5272 It shall as level to your judgment pierce - 5273 As day does to your eye. - 5274 - 5275 Danes. - 5276 [Within] Let her come in. - 5277 - 5278 Laer. - 5279 How now! What noise is that? - 5280 - 5281 [Re-enter Ophelia, fantastically dressed with straws and - 5282 flowers.] - 5283 - 5284 O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt, - 5285 Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!-- - 5286 By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight, - 5287 Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May! - 5288 Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!-- - 5289 O heavens! is't possible a young maid's wits - 5290 Should be as mortal as an old man's life? - 5291 Nature is fine in love; and where 'tis fine, - 5292 It sends some precious instance of itself - 5293 After the thing it loves. - 5294 - 5295 Oph. - 5296 [Sings.] - 5297 They bore him barefac'd on the bier - 5298 Hey no nonny, nonny, hey nonny - 5299 And on his grave rain'd many a tear.-- - 5300 - 5301 Fare you well, my dove! - 5302 - 5303 Laer. - 5304 Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge, - 5305 It could not move thus. - 5306 - 5307 Oph. - 5308 You must sing 'Down a-down, an you call him a-down-a.' O, - 5309 how the wheel becomes it! It is the false steward, that stole his - 5310 master's daughter. - 5311 - 5312 Laer. - 5313 This nothing's more than matter. - 5314 - 5315 Oph. - 5316 There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, - 5317 remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. - 5318 - 5319 Laer. - 5320 A document in madness,--thoughts and remembrance fitted. - 5321 - 5322 Oph. - 5323 There's fennel for you, and columbines:--there's rue for you; - 5324 and here's some for me:--we may call it herb of grace o' - 5325 Sundays:--O, you must wear your rue with a difference.--There's a - 5326 daisy:--I would give you some violets, but they wither'd all when - 5327 my father died:--they say he made a good end,-- - 5328 [Sings.] - 5329 For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy,-- - 5330 - 5331 Laer. - 5332 Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself, - 5333 She turns to favour and to prettiness. - 5334 - 5335 Oph. - 5336 [Sings.] - 5337 And will he not come again? - 5338 And will he not come again? - 5339 No, no, he is dead, - 5340 Go to thy death-bed, - 5341 He never will come again. - 5342 - 5343 His beard was as white as snow, - 5344 All flaxen was his poll: - 5345 He is gone, he is gone, - 5346 And we cast away moan: - 5347 God ha' mercy on his soul! - 5348 - 5349 And of all Christian souls, I pray God.--God b' wi' ye. - 5350 - 5351 [Exit.] - 5352 - 5353 Laer. - 5354 Do you see this, O God? - 5355 - 5356 King. - 5357 Laertes, I must commune with your grief, - 5358 Or you deny me right. Go but apart, - 5359 Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will, - 5360 And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me. - 5361 If by direct or by collateral hand - 5362 They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give, - 5363 Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours, - 5364 To you in satisfaction; but if not, - 5365 Be you content to lend your patience to us, - 5366 And we shall jointly labour with your soul - 5367 To give it due content. - 5368 - 5369 Laer. - 5370 Let this be so; - 5371 His means of death, his obscure burial,-- - 5372 No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, - 5373 No noble rite nor formal ostentation,-- - 5374 Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth, - 5375 That I must call't in question. - 5376 - 5377 King. - 5378 So you shall; - 5379 And where the offence is let the great axe fall. - 5380 I pray you go with me. - 5381 - 5382 [Exeunt.] - 5383 - 5384 - 5385 - 5386 Scene VI. Another room in the Castle. - 5387 - 5388 [Enter Horatio and a Servant.] - 5389 - 5390 Hor. - 5391 What are they that would speak with me? - 5392 - 5393 Servant. - 5394 Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you. - 5395 - 5396 Hor. - 5397 Let them come in. - 5398 - 5399 [Exit Servant.] - 5400 - 5401 I do not know from what part of the world - 5402 I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet. - 5403 - 5404 [Enter Sailors.] - 5405 - 5406 I Sailor. - 5407 God bless you, sir. - 5408 - 5409 Hor. - 5410 Let him bless thee too. - 5411 - 5412 Sailor. - 5413 He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for you, - 5414 sir,--it comes from the ambassador that was bound for England; if - 5415 your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is. - 5416 - 5417 Hor. - 5418 [Reads.] 'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked - 5419 this, give these fellows some means to the king: they have - 5420 letters for him. Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of - 5421 very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too - 5422 slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, and in the grapple I - 5423 boarded them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so I - 5424 alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with me like thieves - 5425 of mercy: but they knew what they did; I am to do a good turn for - 5426 them. Let the king have the letters I have sent; and repair thou - 5427 to me with as much haste as thou wouldst fly death. I have words - 5428 to speak in thine ear will make thee dumb; yet are they much too - 5429 light for the bore of the matter. These good fellows will bring - 5430 thee where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course - 5431 for England: of them I have much to tell thee. Farewell. - 5432 He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.' - 5433 - 5434 Come, I will give you way for these your letters; - 5435 And do't the speedier, that you may direct me - 5436 To him from whom you brought them. - 5437 - 5438 [Exeunt.] - 5439 - 5440 - 5441 - 5442 Scene VII. Another room in the Castle. - 5443 - 5444 [Enter King and Laertes.] - 5445 - 5446 King. - 5447 Now must your conscience my acquittance seal, - 5448 And you must put me in your heart for friend, - 5449 Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear, - 5450 That he which hath your noble father slain - 5451 Pursu'd my life. - 5452 - 5453 Laer. - 5454 It well appears:--but tell me - 5455 Why you proceeded not against these feats, - 5456 So crimeful and so capital in nature, - 5457 As by your safety, wisdom, all things else, - 5458 You mainly were stirr'd up. - 5459 - 5460 King. - 5461 O, for two special reasons; - 5462 Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd, - 5463 But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother - 5464 Lives almost by his looks; and for myself,-- - 5465 My virtue or my plague, be it either which,-- - 5466 She's so conjunctive to my life and soul, - 5467 That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, - 5468 I could not but by her. The other motive, - 5469 Why to a public count I might not go, - 5470 Is the great love the general gender bear him; - 5471 Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, - 5472 Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone, - 5473 Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows, - 5474 Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind, - 5475 Would have reverted to my bow again, - 5476 And not where I had aim'd them. - 5477 - 5478 Laer. - 5479 And so have I a noble father lost; - 5480 A sister driven into desperate terms,-- - 5481 Whose worth, if praises may go back again, - 5482 Stood challenger on mount of all the age - 5483 For her perfections:--but my revenge will come. - 5484 - 5485 King. - 5486 Break not your sleeps for that:--you must not think - 5487 That we are made of stuff so flat and dull - 5488 That we can let our beard be shook with danger, - 5489 And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more: - 5490 I lov'd your father, and we love ourself; - 5491 And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine,-- - 5492 - 5493 [Enter a Messenger.] - 5494 - 5495 How now! What news? - 5496 - 5497 Mess. - 5498 Letters, my lord, from Hamlet: - 5499 This to your majesty; this to the queen. - 5500 - 5501 King. - 5502 From Hamlet! Who brought them? - 5503 - 5504 Mess. - 5505 Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not: - 5506 They were given me by Claudio:--he receiv'd them - 5507 Of him that brought them. - 5508 - 5509 King. - 5510 Laertes, you shall hear them. - 5511 Leave us. - 5512 - 5513 [Exit Messenger.] - 5514 - 5515 [Reads]'High and mighty,--You shall know I am set naked on your - 5516 kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes: - 5517 when I shall, first asking your pardon thereunto, recount the - 5518 occasions of my sudden and more strange return. HAMLET.' - 5519 - 5520 What should this mean? Are all the rest come back? - 5521 Or is it some abuse, and no such thing? - 5522 - 5523 Laer. - 5524 Know you the hand? - 5525 - 5526 King. - 5527 'Tis Hamlet's character:--'Naked!'-- - 5528 And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.' - 5529 Can you advise me? - 5530 - 5531 Laer. - 5532 I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come; - 5533 It warms the very sickness in my heart - 5534 That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, - 5535 'Thus didest thou.' - 5536 - 5537 King. - 5538 If it be so, Laertes,-- - 5539 As how should it be so? how otherwise?-- - 5540 Will you be rul'd by me? - 5541 - 5542 Laer. - 5543 Ay, my lord; - 5544 So you will not o'errule me to a peace. - 5545 - 5546 King. - 5547 To thine own peace. If he be now return'd-- - 5548 As checking at his voyage, and that he means - 5549 No more to undertake it,--I will work him - 5550 To exploit, now ripe in my device, - 5551 Under the which he shall not choose but fall: - 5552 And for his death no wind shall breathe; - 5553 But even his mother shall uncharge the practice - 5554 And call it accident. - 5555 - 5556 Laer. - 5557 My lord, I will be rul'd; - 5558 The rather if you could devise it so - 5559 That I might be the organ. - 5560 - 5561 King. - 5562 It falls right. - 5563 You have been talk'd of since your travel much, - 5564 And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality - 5565 Wherein they say you shine: your sum of parts - 5566 Did not together pluck such envy from him - 5567 As did that one; and that, in my regard, - 5568 Of the unworthiest siege. - 5569 - 5570 Laer. - 5571 What part is that, my lord? - 5572 - 5573 King. - 5574 A very riband in the cap of youth, - 5575 Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes - 5576 The light and careless livery that it wears - 5577 Than settled age his sables and his weeds, - 5578 Importing health and graveness.--Two months since, - 5579 Here was a gentleman of Normandy,-- - 5580 I've seen myself, and serv'd against, the French, - 5581 And they can well on horseback: but this gallant - 5582 Had witchcraft in't: he grew unto his seat; - 5583 And to such wondrous doing brought his horse, - 5584 As had he been incorps'd and demi-natur'd - 5585 With the brave beast: so far he topp'd my thought - 5586 That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks, - 5587 Come short of what he did. - 5588 - 5589 Laer. - 5590 A Norman was't? - 5591 - 5592 King. - 5593 A Norman. - 5594 - 5595 Laer. - 5596 Upon my life, Lamond. - 5597 - 5598 King. - 5599 The very same. - 5600 - 5601 Laer. - 5602 I know him well: he is the brooch indeed - 5603 And gem of all the nation. - 5604 - 5605 King. - 5606 He made confession of you; - 5607 And gave you such a masterly report - 5608 For art and exercise in your defence, - 5609 And for your rapier most especially, - 5610 That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed - 5611 If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation - 5612 He swore, had neither motion, guard, nor eye, - 5613 If you oppos'd them. Sir, this report of his - 5614 Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy - 5615 That he could nothing do but wish and beg - 5616 Your sudden coming o'er, to play with him. - 5617 Now, out of this,-- - 5618 - 5619 Laer. - 5620 What out of this, my lord? - 5621 - 5622 King. - 5623 Laertes, was your father dear to you? - 5624 Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, - 5625 A face without a heart? - 5626 - 5627 Laer. - 5628 Why ask you this? - 5629 - 5630 King. - 5631 Not that I think you did not love your father; - 5632 But that I know love is begun by time, - 5633 And that I see, in passages of proof, - 5634 Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. - 5635 There lives within the very flame of love - 5636 A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it; - 5637 And nothing is at a like goodness still; - 5638 For goodness, growing to a plurisy, - 5639 Dies in his own too much: that we would do, - 5640 We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes, - 5641 And hath abatements and delays as many - 5642 As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; - 5643 And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, - 5644 That hurts by easing. But to the quick o' the ulcer:-- - 5645 Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake - 5646 To show yourself your father's son in deed - 5647 More than in words? - 5648 - 5649 Laer. - 5650 To cut his throat i' the church. - 5651 - 5652 King. - 5653 No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize; - 5654 Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes, - 5655 Will you do this, keep close within your chamber. - 5656 Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home: - 5657 We'll put on those shall praise your excellence - 5658 And set a double varnish on the fame - 5659 The Frenchman gave you; bring you in fine together - 5660 And wager on your heads: he, being remiss, - 5661 Most generous, and free from all contriving, - 5662 Will not peruse the foils; so that with ease, - 5663 Or with a little shuffling, you may choose - 5664 A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice, - 5665 Requite him for your father. - 5666 - 5667 Laer. - 5668 I will do't: - 5669 And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword. - 5670 I bought an unction of a mountebank, - 5671 So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, - 5672 Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, - 5673 Collected from all simples that have virtue - 5674 Under the moon, can save the thing from death - 5675 This is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point - 5676 With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, - 5677 It may be death. - 5678 - 5679 King. - 5680 Let's further think of this; - 5681 Weigh what convenience both of time and means - 5682 May fit us to our shape: if this should fail, - 5683 And that our drift look through our bad performance. - 5684 'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project - 5685 Should have a back or second, that might hold - 5686 If this did blast in proof. Soft! let me see:-- - 5687 We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings,-- - 5688 I ha't: - 5689 When in your motion you are hot and dry,-- - 5690 As make your bouts more violent to that end,-- - 5691 And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepar'd him - 5692 A chalice for the nonce; whereon but sipping, - 5693 If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck, - 5694 Our purpose may hold there. - 5695 - 5696 [Enter Queen.] - 5697 - 5698 How now, sweet queen! - 5699 - 5700 Queen. - 5701 One woe doth tread upon another's heel, - 5702 So fast they follow:--your sister's drown'd, Laertes. - 5703 - 5704 Laer. - 5705 Drown'd! O, where? - 5706 - 5707 Queen. - 5708 There is a willow grows aslant a brook, - 5709 That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; - 5710 There with fantastic garlands did she come - 5711 Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, - 5712 That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, - 5713 But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. - 5714 There, on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds - 5715 Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke; - 5716 When down her weedy trophies and herself - 5717 Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; - 5718 And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; - 5719 Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes; - 5720 As one incapable of her own distress, - 5721 Or like a creature native and indu'd - 5722 Unto that element: but long it could not be - 5723 Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, - 5724 Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay - 5725 To muddy death. - 5726 - 5727 Laer. - 5728 Alas, then she is drown'd? - 5729 - 5730 Queen. - 5731 Drown'd, drown'd. - 5732 - 5733 Laer. - 5734 Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, - 5735 And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet - 5736 It is our trick; nature her custom holds, - 5737 Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, - 5738 The woman will be out.--Adieu, my lord: - 5739 I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, - 5740 But that this folly douts it. - 5741 - 5742 [Exit.] - 5743 - 5744 King. - 5745 Let's follow, Gertrude; - 5746 How much I had to do to calm his rage! - 5747 Now fear I this will give it start again; - 5748 Therefore let's follow. - 5749 - 5750 [Exeunt.] - 5751 - 5752 - 5753 - 5754 ACT V. - 5755 - 5756 Scene I. A churchyard. - 5757 - 5758 [Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c.] - 5759 - 5760 1 Clown. - 5761 Is she to be buried in Christian burial when she wilfully - 5762 seeks her own salvation? - 5763 - 5764 2 Clown. - 5765 I tell thee she is; and therefore make her grave straight: the - 5766 crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial. - 5767 - 5768 1 Clown. - 5769 How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence? - 5770 - 5771 2 Clown. - 5772 Why, 'tis found so. - 5773 - 5774 1 Clown. - 5775 It must be se offendendo; it cannot be else. For here lies - 5776 the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act: and an - 5777 act hath three branches; it is to act, to do, and to perform: - 5778 argal, she drowned herself wittingly. - 5779 - 5780 2 Clown. - 5781 Nay, but hear you, goodman delver,-- - 5782 - 5783 1 Clown. - 5784 Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here stands the - 5785 man; good: if the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, - 5786 will he, nill he, he goes,--mark you that: but if the water come - 5787 to him and drown him, he drowns not himself; argal, he that is - 5788 not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. - 5789 - 5790 2 Clown. - 5791 But is this law? - 5792 - 5793 1 Clown. - 5794 Ay, marry, is't--crowner's quest law. - 5795 - 5796 2 Clown. - 5797 Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been a - 5798 gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o' Christian burial. - 5799 - 5800 1 Clown. - 5801 Why, there thou say'st: and the more pity that great folk - 5802 should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves - 5803 more than their even Christian.--Come, my spade. There is no - 5804 ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: they - 5805 hold up Adam's profession. - 5806 - 5807 2 Clown. - 5808 Was he a gentleman? - 5809 - 5810 1 Clown. - 5811 He was the first that ever bore arms. - 5812 - 5813 2 Clown. - 5814 Why, he had none. - 5815 - 5816 1 Clown. - 5817 What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the Scripture? - 5818 The Scripture says Adam digg'd: could he dig without arms? I'll - 5819 put another question to thee: if thou answerest me not to the - 5820 purpose, confess thyself,-- - 5821 - 5822 2 Clown. - 5823 Go to. - 5824 - 5825 1 Clown. - 5826 What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the - 5827 shipwright, or the carpenter? - 5828 - 5829 2 Clown. - 5830 The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants. - 5831 - 5832 1 Clown. - 5833 I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows does well; - 5834 but how does it well? it does well to those that do ill: now, - 5835 thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger than the - 5836 church; argal, the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come. - 5837 - 5838 2 Clown. - 5839 Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter? - 5840 - 5841 1 Clown. - 5842 Ay, tell me that, and unyoke. - 5843 - 5844 2 Clown. - 5845 Marry, now I can tell. - 5846 - 5847 1 Clown. - 5848 To't. - 5849 - 5850 2 Clown. - 5851 Mass, I cannot tell. - 5852 - 5853 [Enter Hamlet and Horatio, at a distance.] - 5854 - 5855 1 Clown. - 5856 Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will - 5857 not mend his pace with beating; and when you are asked this - 5858 question next, say 'a grave-maker;' the houses he makes last - 5859 till doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan; fetch me a stoup of - 5860 liquor. - 5861 - 5862 [Exit Second Clown.] - 5863 - 5864 [Digs and sings.] - 5865 - 5866 In youth when I did love, did love, - 5867 Methought it was very sweet; - 5868 To contract, O, the time for, ah, my behove, - 5869 O, methought there was nothing meet. - 5870 - 5871 Ham. - 5872 Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at - 5873 grave-making? - 5874 - 5875 Hor. - 5876 Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. - 5877 - 5878 Ham. - 5879 'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath the daintier - 5880 sense. - 5881 - 5882 1 Clown. - 5883 [Sings.] - 5884 But age, with his stealing steps, - 5885 Hath claw'd me in his clutch, - 5886 And hath shipp'd me into the land, - 5887 As if I had never been such. - 5888 - 5889 [Throws up a skull.] - 5890 - 5891 Ham. - 5892 That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the - 5893 knave jowls it to the ground,as if 'twere Cain's jawbone, that - 5894 did the first murder! This might be the pate of a politician, - 5895 which this ass now o'erreaches; one that would circumvent God, - 5896 might it not? - 5897 - 5898 Hor. - 5899 It might, my lord. - 5900 - 5901 Ham. - 5902 Or of a courtier, which could say 'Good morrow, sweet lord! - 5903 How dost thou, good lord?' This might be my lord such-a-one, that - 5904 praised my lord such-a-one's horse when he meant to beg - 5905 it,--might it not? - 5906 - 5907 Hor. - 5908 Ay, my lord. - 5909 - 5910 Ham. - 5911 Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and knocked - 5912 about the mazard with a sexton's spade: here's fine revolution, - 5913 an we had the trick to see't. Did these bones cost no more the - 5914 breeding but to play at loggets with 'em? mine ache to think - 5915 on't. - 5916 - 5917 1 Clown. - 5918 [Sings.] - 5919 A pickaxe and a spade, a spade, - 5920 For and a shrouding sheet; - 5921 O, a pit of clay for to be made - 5922 For such a guest is meet. - 5923 - 5924 [Throws up another skull]. - 5925 - 5926 Ham. - 5927 There's another: why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? - 5928 Where be his quiddits now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, - 5929 and his tricks? why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock - 5930 him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him - 5931 of his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be in's time a - 5932 great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his - 5933 fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of - 5934 his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine - 5935 pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him no more of - 5936 his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth - 5937 of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will - 5938 scarcely lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself have no - 5939 more, ha? - 5940 - 5941 Hor. - 5942 Not a jot more, my lord. - 5943 - 5944 Ham. - 5945 Is not parchment made of sheep-skins? - 5946 - 5947 Hor. - 5948 Ay, my lord, And of calf-skins too. - 5949 - 5950 Ham. - 5951 They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance in that. I - 5952 will speak to this fellow.--Whose grave's this, sir? - 5953 - 5954 1 Clown. - 5955 Mine, sir. - 5956 [Sings.] - 5957 O, a pit of clay for to be made - 5958 For such a guest is meet. - 5959 - 5960 Ham. - 5961 I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in't. - 5962 - 5963 1 Clown. - 5964 You lie out on't, sir, and therefore 'tis not yours: for my part, - 5965 I do not lie in't, yet it is mine. - 5966 - 5967 Ham. - 5968 Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: 'tis for - 5969 the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest. - 5970 - 5971 1 Clown. - 5972 'Tis a quick lie, sir; 't will away again from me to you. - 5973 - 5974 Ham. - 5975 What man dost thou dig it for? - 5976 - 5977 1 Clown. - 5978 For no man, sir. - 5979 - 5980 Ham. - 5981 What woman then? - 5982 - 5983 1 Clown. - 5984 For none neither. - 5985 - 5986 Ham. - 5987 Who is to be buried in't? - 5988 - 5989 1 Clown. - 5990 One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead. - 5991 - 5992 Ham. - 5993 How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the card, or - 5994 equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three - 5995 years I have taken note of it, the age is grown so picked that - 5996 the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he - 5997 galls his kibe.--How long hast thou been a grave-maker? - 5998 - 5999 1 Clown. - 6000 Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our - 6001 last King Hamlet overcame Fortinbras. - 6002 - 6003 Ham. - 6004 How long is that since? - 6005 - 6006 1 Clown. - 6007 Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it was the - 6008 very day that young Hamlet was born,--he that is mad, and sent - 6009 into England. - 6010 - 6011 Ham. - 6012 Ay, marry, why was be sent into England? - 6013 - 6014 1 Clown. - 6015 Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits there; - 6016 or, if he do not, it's no great matter there. - 6017 - 6018 Ham. - 6019 Why? - 6020 - 6021 1 Clown. - 6022 'Twill not he seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he. - 6023 - 6024 Ham. - 6025 How came he mad? - 6026 - 6027 1 Clown. - 6028 Very strangely, they say. - 6029 - 6030 Ham. - 6031 How strangely? - 6032 - 6033 1 Clown. - 6034 Faith, e'en with losing his wits. - 6035 - 6036 Ham. - 6037 Upon what ground? - 6038 - 6039 1 Clown. - 6040 Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man and boy, - 6041 thirty years. - 6042 - 6043 Ham. - 6044 How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot? - 6045 - 6046 1 Clown. - 6047 Faith, if he be not rotten before he die,--as we have many - 6048 pocky corses now-a-days that will scarce hold the laying in,--he - 6049 will last you some eight year or nine year: a tanner will last - 6050 you nine year. - 6051 - 6052 Ham. - 6053 Why he more than another? - 6054 - 6055 1 Clown. - 6056 Why, sir, his hide is so tann'd with his trade that he will - 6057 keep out water a great while; and your water is a sore decayer of - 6058 your whoreson dead body. Here's a skull now; this skull hath lain - 6059 in the earth three-and-twenty years. - 6060 - 6061 Ham. - 6062 Whose was it? - 6063 - 6064 1 Clown. - 6065 A whoreson, mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was? - 6066 - 6067 Ham. - 6068 Nay, I know not. - 6069 - 6070 1 Clown. - 6071 A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! 'a pour'd a flagon of - 6072 Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was Yorick's - 6073 skull, the king's jester. - 6074 - 6075 Ham. - 6076 This? - 6077 - 6078 1 Clown. - 6079 E'en that. - 6080 - 6081 Ham. - 6082 Let me see. [Takes the skull.] Alas, poor Yorick!--I knew him, - 6083 Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he - 6084 hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred - 6085 in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those - 6086 lips that I have kiss'd I know not how oft. Where be your gibes - 6087 now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that - 6088 were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your - 6089 own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now, get you to my lady's - 6090 chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this - 6091 favour she must come; make her laugh at that.--Pr'ythee, Horatio, - 6092 tell me one thing. - 6093 - 6094 Hor. - 6095 What's that, my lord? - 6096 - 6097 Ham. - 6098 Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i' the earth? - 6099 - 6100 Hor. - 6101 E'en so. - 6102 - 6103 Ham. - 6104 And smelt so? Pah! - 6105 - 6106 [Throws down the skull.] - 6107 - 6108 Hor. - 6109 E'en so, my lord. - 6110 - 6111 Ham. - 6112 To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not - 6113 imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it - 6114 stopping a bung-hole? - 6115 - 6116 Hor. - 6117 'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so. - 6118 - 6119 Ham. - 6120 No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty - 6121 enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, - 6122 Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is - 6123 earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he - 6124 was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? - 6125 Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, - 6126 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. - 6127 O, that that earth which kept the world in awe - 6128 Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw! - 6129 But soft! but soft! aside!--Here comes the king. - 6130 - 6131 [Enter priests, &c, in procession; the corpse of Ophelia, - 6132 Laertes, and Mourners following; King, Queen, their Trains, &c.] - 6133 - 6134 The queen, the courtiers: who is that they follow? - 6135 And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken - 6136 The corse they follow did with desperate hand - 6137 Fordo it own life: 'twas of some estate. - 6138 Couch we awhile and mark. - 6139 - 6140 [Retiring with Horatio.] - 6141 - 6142 Laer. - 6143 What ceremony else? - 6144 - 6145 Ham. - 6146 That is Laertes, - 6147 A very noble youth: mark. - 6148 - 6149 Laer. - 6150 What ceremony else? - 6151 - 6152 1 Priest. - 6153 Her obsequies have been as far enlarg'd - 6154 As we have warranties: her death was doubtful; - 6155 And, but that great command o'ersways the order, - 6156 She should in ground unsanctified have lodg'd - 6157 Till the last trumpet; for charitable prayers, - 6158 Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her, - 6159 Yet here she is allowed her virgin rites, - 6160 Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home - 6161 Of bell and burial. - 6162 - 6163 Laer. - 6164 Must there no more be done? - 6165 - 6166 1 Priest. - 6167 No more be done; - 6168 We should profane the service of the dead - 6169 To sing a requiem and such rest to her - 6170 As to peace-parted souls. - 6171 - 6172 Laer. - 6173 Lay her i' the earth;-- - 6174 And from her fair and unpolluted flesh - 6175 May violets spring!--I tell thee, churlish priest, - 6176 A ministering angel shall my sister be - 6177 When thou liest howling. - 6178 - 6179 Ham. - 6180 What, the fair Ophelia? - 6181 - 6182 Queen. - 6183 Sweets to the sweet: farewell. - 6184 [Scattering flowers.] - 6185 I hop'd thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife; - 6186 I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, - 6187 And not have strew'd thy grave. - 6188 - 6189 Laer. - 6190 O, treble woe - 6191 Fall ten times treble on that cursed head - 6192 Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense - 6193 Depriv'd thee of!--Hold off the earth awhile, - 6194 Till I have caught her once more in mine arms: - 6195 [Leaps into the grave.] - 6196 Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead, - 6197 Till of this flat a mountain you have made, - 6198 To o'ertop old Pelion or the skyish head - 6199 Of blue Olympus. - 6200 - 6201 Ham. - 6202 [Advancing.] - 6203 What is he whose grief - 6204 Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow - 6205 Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand - 6206 Like wonder-wounded hearers? this is I, - 6207 Hamlet the Dane. - 6208 [Leaps into the grave.] - 6209 - 6210 Laer. - 6211 The devil take thy soul! - 6212 [Grappling with him.] - 6213 - 6214 Ham. - 6215 Thou pray'st not well. - 6216 I pr'ythee, take thy fingers from my throat; - 6217 For, though I am not splenetive and rash, - 6218 Yet have I in me something dangerous, - 6219 Which let thy wiseness fear: away thy hand! - 6220 - 6221 King. - 6222 Pluck them asunder. - 6223 - 6224 Queen. - 6225 Hamlet! Hamlet! - 6226 - 6227 All. - 6228 Gentlemen!-- - 6229 - 6230 Hor. - 6231 Good my lord, be quiet. - 6232 - 6233 [The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave.] - 6234 - 6235 Ham. - 6236 Why, I will fight with him upon this theme - 6237 Until my eyelids will no longer wag. - 6238 - 6239 Queen. - 6240 O my son, what theme? - 6241 - 6242 Ham. - 6243 I lov'd Ophelia; forty thousand brothers - 6244 Could not, with all their quantity of love, - 6245 Make up my sum.--What wilt thou do for her? - 6246 - 6247 King. - 6248 O, he is mad, Laertes. - 6249 - 6250 Queen. - 6251 For love of God, forbear him! - 6252 - 6253 Ham. - 6254 'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do: - 6255 Woul't weep? woul't fight? woul't fast? woul't tear thyself? - 6256 Woul't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile? - 6257 I'll do't.--Dost thou come here to whine? - 6258 To outface me with leaping in her grave? - 6259 Be buried quick with her, and so will I: - 6260 And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw - 6261 Millions of acres on us, till our ground, - 6262 Singeing his pate against the burning zone, - 6263 Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, - 6264 I'll rant as well as thou. - 6265 - 6266 Queen. - 6267 This is mere madness: - 6268 And thus a while the fit will work on him; - 6269 Anon, as patient as the female dove, - 6270 When that her golden couplets are disclos'd, - 6271 His silence will sit drooping. - 6272 - 6273 Ham. - 6274 Hear you, sir; - 6275 What is the reason that you use me thus? - 6276 I lov'd you ever: but it is no matter; - 6277 Let Hercules himself do what he may, - 6278 The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. - 6279 - 6280 [Exit.] - 6281 - 6282 King. - 6283 I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him.-- - 6284 - 6285 [Exit Horatio.] - 6286 [To Laertes] - 6287 Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech; - 6288 We'll put the matter to the present push.-- - 6289 Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- - 6290 This grave shall have a living monument: - 6291 An hour of quiet shortly shall we see; - 6292 Till then in patience our proceeding be. - 6293 - 6294 [Exeunt.] - 6295 - 6296 - 6297 - 6298 Scene II. A hall in the Castle. - 6299 - 6300 [Enter Hamlet and Horatio.] - 6301 - 6302 Ham. - 6303 So much for this, sir: now let me see the other; - 6304 You do remember all the circumstance? - 6305 - 6306 Hor. - 6307 Remember it, my lord! - 6308 - 6309 Ham. - 6310 Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting - 6311 That would not let me sleep: methought I lay - 6312 Worse than the mutinies in the bilboes. Rashly, - 6313 And prais'd be rashness for it,--let us know, - 6314 Our indiscretion sometime serves us well, - 6315 When our deep plots do fail; and that should teach us - 6316 There's a divinity that shapes our ends, - 6317 Rough-hew them how we will. - 6318 - 6319 Hor. - 6320 That is most certain. - 6321 - 6322 Ham. - 6323 Up from my cabin, - 6324 My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark - 6325 Grop'd I to find out them: had my desire; - 6326 Finger'd their packet; and, in fine, withdrew - 6327 To mine own room again: making so bold, - 6328 My fears forgetting manners, to unseal - 6329 Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio, - 6330 O royal knavery! an exact command,-- - 6331 Larded with many several sorts of reasons, - 6332 Importing Denmark's health, and England's too, - 6333 With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,-- - 6334 That, on the supervise, no leisure bated, - 6335 No, not to stay the grinding of the axe, - 6336 My head should be struck off. - 6337 - 6338 Hor. - 6339 Is't possible? - 6340 - 6341 Ham. - 6342 Here's the commission: read it at more leisure. - 6343 But wilt thou bear me how I did proceed? - 6344 - 6345 Hor. - 6346 I beseech you. - 6347 - 6348 Ham. - 6349 Being thus benetted round with villanies,-- - 6350 Or I could make a prologue to my brains, - 6351 They had begun the play,--I sat me down; - 6352 Devis'd a new commission; wrote it fair: - 6353 I once did hold it, as our statists do, - 6354 A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much - 6355 How to forget that learning; but, sir, now - 6356 It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know - 6357 The effect of what I wrote? - 6358 - 6359 Hor. - 6360 Ay, good my lord. - 6361 - 6362 Ham. - 6363 An earnest conjuration from the king,-- - 6364 As England was his faithful tributary; - 6365 As love between them like the palm might flourish; - 6366 As peace should still her wheaten garland wear - 6367 And stand a comma 'tween their amities; - 6368 And many such-like as's of great charge,-- - 6369 That, on the view and know of these contents, - 6370 Without debatement further, more or less, - 6371 He should the bearers put to sudden death, - 6372 Not shriving-time allow'd. - 6373 - 6374 Hor. - 6375 How was this seal'd? - 6376 - 6377 Ham. - 6378 Why, even in that was heaven ordinant. - 6379 I had my father's signet in my purse, - 6380 Which was the model of that Danish seal: - 6381 Folded the writ up in the form of the other; - 6382 Subscrib'd it: gave't the impression; plac'd it safely, - 6383 The changeling never known. Now, the next day - 6384 Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent - 6385 Thou know'st already. - 6386 - 6387 Hor. - 6388 So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. - 6389 - 6390 Ham. - 6391 Why, man, they did make love to this employment; - 6392 They are not near my conscience; their defeat - 6393 Does by their own insinuation grow: - 6394 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes - 6395 Between the pass and fell incensed points - 6396 Of mighty opposites. - 6397 - 6398 Hor. - 6399 Why, what a king is this! - 6400 - 6401 Ham. - 6402 Does it not, thinks't thee, stand me now upon,-- - 6403 He that hath kill'd my king, and whor'd my mother; - 6404 Popp'd in between the election and my hopes; - 6405 Thrown out his angle for my proper life, - 6406 And with such cozenage--is't not perfect conscience - 6407 To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd - 6408 To let this canker of our nature come - 6409 In further evil? - 6410 - 6411 Hor. - 6412 It must be shortly known to him from England - 6413 What is the issue of the business there. - 6414 - 6415 Ham. - 6416 It will be short: the interim is mine; - 6417 And a man's life is no more than to say One. - 6418 But I am very sorry, good Horatio, - 6419 That to Laertes I forgot myself; - 6420 For by the image of my cause I see - 6421 The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours: - 6422 But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me - 6423 Into a towering passion. - 6424 - 6425 Hor. - 6426 Peace; who comes here? - 6427 - 6428 [Enter Osric.] - 6429 - 6430 Osr. - 6431 Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark. - 6432 - 6433 Ham. - 6434 I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly? - 6435 - 6436 Hor. - 6437 No, my good lord. - 6438 - 6439 Ham. - 6440 Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to know him. He - 6441 hath much land, and fertile: let a beast be lord of beasts, and - 6442 his crib shall stand at the king's mess; 'tis a chough; but, as I - 6443 say, spacious in the possession of dirt. - 6444 - 6445 Osr. - 6446 Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should - 6447 impart a thing to you from his majesty. - 6448 - 6449 Ham. - 6450 I will receive it with all diligence of spirit. Put your - 6451 bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head. - 6452 - 6453 Osr. - 6454 I thank your lordship, t'is very hot. - 6455 - 6456 Ham. - 6457 No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is northerly. - 6458 - 6459 Osr. - 6460 It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed. - 6461 - 6462 Ham. - 6463 Methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion. - 6464 - 6465 Osr. - 6466 Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry,--as 'twere--I cannot - 6467 tell how. But, my lord, his majesty bade me signify to you that - 6468 he has laid a great wager on your head. Sir, this is the - 6469 matter,-- - 6470 - 6471 Ham. - 6472 I beseech you, remember,-- - 6473 [Hamlet moves him to put on his hat.] - 6474 - 6475 Osr. - 6476 Nay, in good faith; for mine ease, in good faith. Sir, here - 6477 is newly come to court Laertes; believe me, an absolute - 6478 gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very soft - 6479 society and great showing: indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he - 6480 is the card or calendar of gentry; for you shall find in him the - 6481 continent of what part a gentleman would see. - 6482 - 6483 Ham. - 6484 Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you;--though, I - 6485 know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of - 6486 memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. - 6487 But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great - 6488 article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make - 6489 true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else - 6490 would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. - 6491 - 6492 Osr. - 6493 Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him. - 6494 - 6495 Ham. - 6496 The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman in our more - 6497 rawer breath? - 6498 - 6499 Osr. - 6500 Sir? - 6501 - 6502 Hor. - 6503 Is't not possible to understand in another tongue? You will do't, - 6504 sir, really. - 6505 - 6506 Ham. - 6507 What imports the nomination of this gentleman? - 6508 - 6509 Osr. - 6510 Of Laertes? - 6511 - 6512 Hor. - 6513 His purse is empty already; all's golden words are spent. - 6514 - 6515 Ham. - 6516 Of him, sir. - 6517 - 6518 Osr. - 6519 I know, you are not ignorant,-- - 6520 - 6521 Ham. - 6522 I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did, it would not - 6523 much approve me.--Well, sir. - 6524 - 6525 Osr. - 6526 You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is,-- - 6527 - 6528 Ham. - 6529 I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in - 6530 excellence; but to know a man well were to know himself. - 6531 - 6532 Osr. - 6533 I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation laid on - 6534 him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed. - 6535 - 6536 Ham. - 6537 What's his weapon? - 6538 - 6539 Osr. - 6540 Rapier and dagger. - 6541 - 6542 Ham. - 6543 That's two of his weapons:--but well. - 6544 - 6545 Osr. - 6546 The king, sir, hath wager'd with him six Barbary horses: - 6547 against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French - 6548 rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and - 6549 so: three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, - 6550 very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of - 6551 very liberal conceit. - 6552 - 6553 Ham. - 6554 What call you the carriages? - 6555 - 6556 Hor. - 6557 I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done. - 6558 - 6559 Osr. - 6560 The carriages, sir, are the hangers. - 6561 - 6562 Ham. - 6563 The phrase would be more german to the matter if we could - 6564 carry cannon by our sides. I would it might be hangers till then. - 6565 But, on: six Barbary horses against six French swords, their - 6566 assigns, and three liberal conceited carriages: that's the French - 6567 bet against the Danish: why is this all imponed, as you call it? - 6568 - 6569 Osr. - 6570 The king, sir, hath laid that, in a dozen passes between - 6571 your and him, he shall not exceed you three hits: he hath - 6572 laid on twelve for nine; and it would come to immediate trial - 6573 if your lordship would vouchsafe the answer. - 6574 - 6575 Ham. - 6576 How if I answer no? - 6577 - 6578 Osr. - 6579 I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial. - 6580 - 6581 Ham. - 6582 Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his majesty, - 6583 it is the breathing time of day with me: let the foils be - 6584 brought, the gentleman willing, and the king hold his purpose, - 6585 I will win for him if I can; if not, I will gain nothing but my - 6586 shame and the odd hits. - 6587 - 6588 Osr. - 6589 Shall I re-deliver you e'en so? - 6590 - 6591 Ham. - 6592 To this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature will. - 6593 - 6594 Osr. - 6595 I commend my duty to your lordship. - 6596 - 6597 Ham. - 6598 Yours, yours. - 6599 - 6600 [Exit Osric.] - 6601 - 6602 He does well to commend it himself; there are no tongues else - 6603 for's turn. - 6604 - 6605 Hor. - 6606 This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head. - 6607 - 6608 Ham. - 6609 He did comply with his dug before he suck'd it. Thus has he,--and - 6610 many more of the same bevy that I know the drossy age dotes on,-- - 6611 only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter; - 6612 a kind of yesty collection, which carries them through and - 6613 through the most fanned and winnowed opinions; and do but blow - 6614 them to their trial, the bubbles are out, - 6615 - 6616 [Enter a Lord.] - 6617 - 6618 Lord. - 6619 My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young Osric, - 6620 who brings back to him that you attend him in the hall: he sends - 6621 to know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that you - 6622 will take longer time. - 6623 - 6624 Ham. - 6625 I am constant to my purposes; they follow the king's pleasure: - 6626 if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now or whensoever, provided - 6627 I be so able as now. - 6628 - 6629 Lord. - 6630 The King and Queen and all are coming down. - 6631 - 6632 Ham. - 6633 In happy time. - 6634 - 6635 Lord. - 6636 The queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to - 6637 Laertes before you fall to play. - 6638 - 6639 Ham. - 6640 She well instructs me. - 6641 - 6642 [Exit Lord.] - 6643 - 6644 Hor. - 6645 You will lose this wager, my lord. - 6646 - 6647 Ham. - 6648 I do not think so; since he went into France I have been in - 6649 continual practice: I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not - 6650 think how ill all's here about my heart: but it is no matter. - 6651 - 6652 Hor. - 6653 Nay, good my lord,-- - 6654 - 6655 Ham. - 6656 It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving as - 6657 would perhaps trouble a woman. - 6658 - 6659 Hor. - 6660 If your mind dislike anything, obey it: I will forestall their - 6661 repair hither, and say you are not fit. - 6662 - 6663 Ham. - 6664 Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in - 6665 the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be - 6666 not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: - 6667 the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, - 6668 what is't to leave betimes? - 6669 - 6670 [Enter King, Queen, Laertes, Lords, Osric, and Attendants with - 6671 foils &c.] - 6672 - 6673 King. - 6674 Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me. - 6675 - 6676 [The King puts Laertes' hand into Hamlet's.] - 6677 - 6678 Ham. - 6679 Give me your pardon, sir: I have done you wrong: - 6680 But pardon't, as you are a gentleman. - 6681 This presence knows, and you must needs have heard, - 6682 How I am punish'd with sore distraction. - 6683 What I have done - 6684 That might your nature, honour, and exception - 6685 Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. - 6686 Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet: - 6687 If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, - 6688 And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, - 6689 Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it. - 6690 Who does it, then? His madness: if't be so, - 6691 Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd; - 6692 His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy. - 6693 Sir, in this audience, - 6694 Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil - 6695 Free me so far in your most generous thoughts - 6696 That I have shot my arrow o'er the house - 6697 And hurt my brother. - 6698 - 6699 Laer. - 6700 I am satisfied in nature, - 6701 Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most - 6702 To my revenge. But in my terms of honour - 6703 I stand aloof; and will no reconcilement - 6704 Till by some elder masters of known honour - 6705 I have a voice and precedent of peace - 6706 To keep my name ungor'd. But till that time - 6707 I do receive your offer'd love like love, - 6708 And will not wrong it. - 6709 - 6710 Ham. - 6711 I embrace it freely; - 6712 And will this brother's wager frankly play.-- - 6713 Give us the foils; come on. - 6714 - 6715 Laer. - 6716 Come, one for me. - 6717 - 6718 Ham. - 6719 I'll be your foil, Laertes; in mine ignorance - 6720 Your skill shall, like a star in the darkest night, - 6721 Stick fiery off indeed. - 6722 - 6723 Laer. - 6724 You mock me, sir. - 6725 - 6726 Ham. - 6727 No, by this hand. - 6728 - 6729 King. - 6730 Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet, - 6731 You know the wager? - 6732 - 6733 Ham. - 6734 Very well, my lord; - 6735 Your grace has laid the odds o' the weaker side. - 6736 - 6737 King. - 6738 I do not fear it; I have seen you both; - 6739 But since he's better'd, we have therefore odds. - 6740 - 6741 Laer. - 6742 This is too heavy, let me see another. - 6743 - 6744 Ham. - 6745 This likes me well. These foils have all a length? - 6746 - 6747 [They prepare to play.] - 6748 - 6749 Osr. - 6750 Ay, my good lord. - 6751 - 6752 King. - 6753 Set me the stoups of wine upon that table,-- - 6754 If Hamlet give the first or second hit, - 6755 Or quit in answer of the third exchange, - 6756 Let all the battlements their ordnance fire; - 6757 The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; - 6758 And in the cup an union shall he throw, - 6759 Richer than that which four successive kings - 6760 In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups; - 6761 And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, - 6762 The trumpet to the cannoneer without, - 6763 The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth, - 6764 'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.'--Come, begin:-- - 6765 And you, the judges, bear a wary eye. - 6766 - 6767 Ham. - 6768 Come on, sir. - 6769 - 6770 Laer. - 6771 Come, my lord. - 6772 - 6773 [They play.] - 6774 - 6775 Ham. - 6776 One. - 6777 - 6778 Laer. - 6779 No. - 6780 - 6781 Ham. - 6782 Judgment! - 6783 - 6784 Osr. - 6785 A hit, a very palpable hit. - 6786 - 6787 Laer. - 6788 Well;--again. - 6789 - 6790 King. - 6791 Stay, give me drink.--Hamlet, this pearl is thine; - 6792 Here's to thy health.-- - 6793 - 6794 [Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within.] - 6795 - 6796 Give him the cup. - 6797 - 6798 Ham. - 6799 I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile.-- - 6800 Come.--Another hit; what say you? - 6801 - 6802 [They play.] - 6803 - 6804 Laer. - 6805 A touch, a touch, I do confess. - 6806 - 6807 King. - 6808 Our son shall win. - 6809 - 6810 Queen. - 6811 He's fat, and scant of breath.-- - 6812 Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows: - 6813 The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet. - 6814 - 6815 Ham. - 6816 Good madam! - 6817 - 6818 King. - 6819 Gertrude, do not drink. - 6820 - 6821 Queen. - 6822 I will, my lord; I pray you pardon me. - 6823 - 6824 King. - 6825 [Aside.] It is the poison'd cup; it is too late. - 6826 - 6827 Ham. - 6828 I dare not drink yet, madam; by-and-by. - 6829 - 6830 Queen. - 6831 Come, let me wipe thy face. - 6832 - 6833 Laer. - 6834 My lord, I'll hit him now. - 6835 - 6836 King. - 6837 I do not think't. - 6838 - 6839 Laer. - 6840 [Aside.] And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience. - 6841 - 6842 Ham. - 6843 Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally; - 6844 I pray you pass with your best violence: - 6845 I am afeard you make a wanton of me. - 6846 - 6847 Laer. - 6848 Say you so? come on. - 6849 - 6850 [They play.] - 6851 - 6852 Osr. - 6853 Nothing, neither way. - 6854 - 6855 Laer. - 6856 Have at you now! - 6857 - 6858 [Laertes wounds Hamlet; then, in scuffling, they - 6859 change rapiers, and Hamlet wounds Laertes.] - 6860 - 6861 King. - 6862 Part them; they are incens'd. - 6863 - 6864 Ham. - 6865 Nay, come again! - 6866 - 6867 [The Queen falls.] - 6868 - 6869 Osr. - 6870 Look to the queen there, ho! - 6871 - 6872 Hor. - 6873 They bleed on both sides.--How is it, my lord? - 6874 - 6875 Osr. - 6876 How is't, Laertes? - 6877 - 6878 Laer. - 6879 Why, as a woodcock to my own springe, Osric; - 6880 I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery. - 6881 - 6882 Ham. - 6883 How does the Queen? - 6884 - 6885 King. - 6886 She swoons to see them bleed. - 6887 - 6888 Queen. - 6889 No, no! the drink, the drink!--O my dear Hamlet!-- - 6890 The drink, the drink!--I am poison'd. - 6891 - 6892 [Dies.] - 6893 - 6894 Ham. - 6895 O villany!--Ho! let the door be lock'd: - 6896 Treachery! seek it out. - 6897 - 6898 [Laertes falls.] - 6899 - 6900 Laer. - 6901 It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain; - 6902 No medicine in the world can do thee good; - 6903 In thee there is not half an hour of life; - 6904 The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, - 6905 Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practice - 6906 Hath turn'd itself on me; lo, here I lie, - 6907 Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd: - 6908 I can no more:--the king, the king's to blame. - 6909 - 6910 Ham. - 6911 The point envenom'd too!-- - 6912 Then, venom, to thy work. - 6913 - 6914 [Stabs the King.] - 6915 - 6916 Osric and Lords. - 6917 Treason! treason! - 6918 - 6919 King. - 6920 O, yet defend me, friends! I am but hurt. - 6921 - 6922 Ham. - 6923 Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, - 6924 Drink off this potion.--Is thy union here? - 6925 Follow my mother. - 6926 - 6927 [King dies.] - 6928 - 6929 Laer. - 6930 He is justly serv'd; - 6931 It is a poison temper'd by himself.-- - 6932 Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet: - 6933 Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, - 6934 Nor thine on me! - 6935 - 6936 [Dies.] - 6937 - 6938 Ham. - 6939 Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.-- - 6940 I am dead, Horatio.--Wretched queen, adieu!-- - 6941 You that look pale and tremble at this chance, - 6942 That are but mutes or audience to this act, - 6943 Had I but time,--as this fell sergeant, death, - 6944 Is strict in his arrest,--O, I could tell you,-- - 6945 But let it be.--Horatio, I am dead; - 6946 Thou liv'st; report me and my cause aright - 6947 To the unsatisfied. - 6948 - 6949 Hor. - 6950 Never believe it: - 6951 I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.-- - 6952 Here's yet some liquor left. - 6953 - 6954 Ham. - 6955 As thou'rt a man, - 6956 Give me the cup; let go; by heaven, I'll have't.-- - 6957 O good Horatio, what a wounded name, - 6958 Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! - 6959 If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, - 6960 Absent thee from felicity awhile, - 6961 And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, - 6962 To tell my story.-- - 6963 - 6964 [March afar off, and shot within.] - 6965 - 6966 What warlike noise is this? - 6967 - 6968 Osr. - 6969 Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland, - 6970 To the ambassadors of England gives - 6971 This warlike volley. - 6972 - 6973 Ham. - 6974 O, I die, Horatio; - 6975 The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit: - 6976 I cannot live to hear the news from England; - 6977 But I do prophesy the election lights - 6978 On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; - 6979 So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, - 6980 Which have solicited.--the rest is silence. - 6981 - 6982 [Dies.] - 6983 - 6984 Hor. - 6985 Now cracks a noble heart.--Good night, sweet prince, - 6986 And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! - 6987 Why does the drum come hither? - 6988 - 6989 [March within.] - 6990 - 6991 [Enter Fortinbras, the English Ambassadors, and others.] - 6992 - 6993 Fort. - 6994 Where is this sight? - 6995 - 6996 Hor. - 6997 What is it you will see? - 6998 If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search. - 6999 - 7000 Fort. - 7001 This quarry cries on havoc.--O proud death, - 7002 What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, - 7003 That thou so many princes at a shot - 7004 So bloodily hast struck? - 7005 - 7006 1 Ambassador. - 7007 The sight is dismal; - 7008 And our affairs from England come too late: - 7009 The ears are senseless that should give us hearing, - 7010 To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd - 7011 That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead: - 7012 Where should we have our thanks? - 7013 - 7014 Hor. - 7015 Not from his mouth, - 7016 Had it the ability of life to thank you: - 7017 He never gave commandment for their death. - 7018 But since, so jump upon this bloody question, - 7019 You from the Polack wars, and you from England, - 7020 Are here arriv'd, give order that these bodies - 7021 High on a stage be placed to the view; - 7022 And let me speak to the yet unknowing world - 7023 How these things came about: so shall you hear - 7024 Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts; - 7025 Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; - 7026 Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause; - 7027 And, in this upshot, purposes mistook - 7028 Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this can I - 7029 Truly deliver. - 7030 - 7031 Fort. - 7032 Let us haste to hear it, - 7033 And call the noblest to the audience. - 7034 For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune: - 7035 I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, - 7036 Which now, to claim my vantage doth invite me. - 7037 - 7038 Hor. - 7039 Of that I shall have also cause to speak, - 7040 And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more: - 7041 But let this same be presently perform'd, - 7042 Even while men's minds are wild: lest more mischance - 7043 On plots and errors happen. - 7044 - 7045 Fort. - 7046 Let four captains - 7047 Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage; - 7048 For he was likely, had he been put on, - 7049 To have prov'd most royally: and, for his passage, - 7050 The soldiers' music and the rites of war - 7051 Speak loudly for him.-- - 7052 Take up the bodies.--Such a sight as this - 7053 Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. - 7054 Go, bid the soldiers shoot. - 7055 - 7056 [A dead march.] - 7057 - 7058 [Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after the which a peal of - 7059 ordnance is shot off.] - 7060 - 7061 - 7062 - 7063 - 7064 - 7065 The End of Project Gutenberg Etext of Hamlet by Shakespeare - 7066 PG has multiple editions of William Shakespeare's Complete Works diff --git a/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Julius Caesar.txt b/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Julius Caesar.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d9e96df..0000000 --- a/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Julius Caesar.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4937 +0,0 @@ - 1 - 2 Project Gutenberg Etext of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare - 3 PG has multiple editions of William Shakespeare's Complete Works - 4 - 5 - 6 Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check - 7 the copyright laws for your country before posting these files!! - 8 - 9 Please take a look at the important information in this header. - 10 We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an - 11 electronic path open for the next readers. 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FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.04.29.93*END* - 281 - 282 - 283 - 284 - 285 - 286 This etext was prepared by the PG Shakespeare Team, - 287 a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers. - 288 - 289 - 290 - 291 - 292 - 293 JULIUS CAESAR - 294 - 295 by William Shakespeare - 296 - 297 - 298 - 299 - 300 PERSONS REPRESENTED - 301 - 302 JULIUS CAESAR - 303 OCTAVIUS CAESAR, Triumvir after his death. - 304 MARCUS ANTONIUS, " " " - 305 M. AEMIL. LEPIDUS " " " - 306 CICERO, PUBLIUS, POPILIUS LENA, Senators. - 307 MARCUS BRUTUS, Conspirator against Caesar. - 308 CASSIUS, " " " - 309 CASCA, " " " - 310 TREBONIUS, " " " - 311 LIGARIUS, " " " - 312 DECIUS BRUTUS, " " " - 313 METELLUS CIMBER, " " " - 314 CINNA, " " " - 315 FLAVIUS, tribune - 316 MARULLUS, tribune - 317 ARTEMIDORUS, a Sophist of Cnidos. - 318 A Soothsayer - 319 CINNA, a poet. Another Poet. - 320 LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, young CATO, and VOLUMNIUS, Friends - 321 to Brutus and Cassius. - 322 - 323 VARRO, CLITUS, CLAUDIUS, STRATO, LUCIUS, DARDANIUS, Servants to - 324 Brutus - 325 PINDARUS, Servant to Cassius - 326 The Ghost of Caesar - 327 Senators, Citizens, Soldiers, Commoners, Messengers, and - 328 Servants - 329 - 330 CALPURNIA, wife to Caesar - 331 PORTIA, wife to Brutus - 332 - 333 SCENE: Rome, the conspirators' camp near Sardis, and the plains - 334 of Philippi. - 335 - 336 - 337 ACT I. - 338 - 339 SCENE I. Rome. A street. - 340 - 341 [Enter Flavius, Marullus, and a Throng of Citizens.] - 342 - 343 FLAVIUS. - 344 Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home! - 345 Is this a holiday? What! know you not, - 346 Being mechanical, you ought not walk - 347 Upon a laboring day without the sign - 348 Of your profession?--Speak, what trade art thou? - 349 - 350 FIRST CITIZEN. - 351 Why, sir, a carpenter. - 352 - 353 MARULLUS. - 354 Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? - 355 What dost thou with thy best apparel on?-- - 356 You, sir; what trade are you? - 357 - 358 SECOND CITIZEN. - 359 Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you - 360 would say, a cobbler. - 361 - 362 MARULLUS. - 363 But what trade art thou? Answer me directly. - 364 - 365 SECOND CITIZEN. - 366 A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe - 367 conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles. - 368 - 369 MARULLUS. - 370 What trade, thou knave? Thou naughty knave, what trade? - 371 - 372 SECOND CITIZEN. - 373 Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me; yet, - 374 if you be out, sir, I can mend you. - 375 - 376 MARULLUS. - 377 What mean'st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow! - 378 - 379 SECOND CITIZEN. - 380 Why, sir, cobble you. - 381 - 382 FLAVIUS. - 383 Thou art a cobbler, art thou? - 384 - 385 SECOND CITIZEN. - 386 Truly, Sir, all that I live by is with the awl; I meddle with - 387 no tradesman's matters, nor women's matters, but with awl. - 388 I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in - 389 great danger, I re-cover them. As proper men as ever trod upon - 390 neat's-leather have gone upon my handiwork. - 391 - 392 FLAVIUS. - 393 But wherefore art not in thy shop today? - 394 Why dost thou lead these men about the streets? - 395 - 396 SECOND CITIZEN. - 397 Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes to get myself into more - 398 work. But indeed, sir, we make holiday to see Caesar and to - 399 rejoice in his triumph. - 400 - 401 MARULLUS. - 402 Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? - 403 What tributaries follow him to Rome, - 404 To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? - 405 You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! - 406 O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, - 407 Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft - 408 Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, - 409 To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, - 410 Your infants in your arms, and there have sat - 411 The livelong day with patient expectation - 412 To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. - 413 And when you saw his chariot but appear, - 414 Have you not made an universal shout - 415 That Tiber trembled underneath her banks - 416 To hear the replication of your sounds - 417 Made in her concave shores? - 418 And do you now put on your best attire? - 419 And do you now cull out a holiday? - 420 And do you now strew flowers in his way - 421 That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? - 422 Be gone! - 423 Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, - 424 Pray to the gods to intermit the plague - 425 That needs must light on this ingratitude. - 426 - 427 FLAVIUS. - 428 Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault, - 429 Assemble all the poor men of your sort, - 430 Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears - 431 Into the channel, till the lowest stream - 432 Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. - 433 - 434 [Exeunt CITIZENS.] - 435 - 436 See whether their basest metal be not moved; - 437 They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. - 438 Go you down that way towards the Capitol; - 439 This way will I. Disrobe the images, - 440 If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies. - 441 - 442 MARULLUS. - 443 May we do so? - 444 You know it is the feast of Lupercal. - 445 - 446 FLAVIUS. - 447 It is no matter; let no images - 448 Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about - 449 And drive away the vulgar from the streets; - 450 So do you too, where you perceive them thick. - 451 These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing - 452 Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, - 453 Who else would soar above the view of men, - 454 And keep us all in servile fearfulness. - 455 - 456 [Exeunt.] - 457 - 458 - 459 - 460 SCENE II. The same. A public place. - 461 - 462 [Enter, in procession, with music, Caesar; Antony, for the - 463 course; Calpurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and - 464 Casca; a great crowd following, among them a Soothsayer.] - 465 - 466 CAESAR. - 467 Calpurnia,-- - 468 - 469 CASCA. - 470 Peace, ho! Caesar speaks. - 471 - 472 [Music ceases.] - 473 - 474 CAESAR. - 475 Calpurnia,-- - 476 - 477 CALPURNIA. - 478 Here, my lord. - 479 - 480 CAESAR. - 481 Stand you directly in Antonius' way, - 482 When he doth run his course.--Antonius,-- - 483 - 484 ANTONY. - 485 Caesar, my lord? - 486 - 487 CAESAR. - 488 Forget not in your speed, Antonius, - 489 To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say, - 490 The barren, touched in this holy chase, - 491 Shake off their sterile curse. - 492 - 493 ANTONY. - 494 I shall remember. - 495 When Caesar says "Do this," it is perform'd. - 496 - 497 CAESAR. - 498 Set on; and leave no ceremony out. - 499 - 500 [Music.] - 501 - 502 SOOTHSAYER. - 503 Caesar! - 504 - 505 CAESAR. - 506 Ha! Who calls? - 507 - 508 CASCA. - 509 Bid every noise be still.--Peace yet again! - 510 - 511 [Music ceases.] - 512 - 513 CAESAR. - 514 Who is it in the press that calls on me? - 515 I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music, - 516 Cry "Caesar"! Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear. - 517 - 518 SOOTHSAYER. - 519 Beware the Ides of March. - 520 - 521 CAESAR. - 522 What man is that? - 523 - 524 BRUTUS. - 525 A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March. - 526 - 527 CAESAR. - 528 Set him before me; let me see his face. - 529 - 530 CASSIUS. - 531 Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar. - 532 - 533 CAESAR. - 534 What say'st thou to me now? Speak once again. - 535 - 536 SOOTHSAYER. - 537 Beware the Ides of March. - 538 - 539 CAESAR. - 540 He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass. - 541 - 542 [Sennet. Exeunt all but BRUTUS and CASSIUS.] - 543 - 544 CASSIUS. - 545 Will you go see the order of the course? - 546 - 547 BRUTUS. - 548 Not I. - 549 - 550 CASSIUS. - 551 I pray you, do. - 552 - 553 BRUTUS. - 554 I am not gamesome; I do lack some part - 555 Of that quick spirit that is in Antony. - 556 Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires; - 557 I'll leave you. - 558 - 559 CASSIUS. - 560 Brutus, I do observe you now of late: - 561 I have not from your eyes that gentleness - 562 And show of love as I was wont to have: - 563 You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand - 564 Over your friend that loves you. - 565 - 566 BRUTUS. - 567 Cassius, - 568 Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look, - 569 I turn the trouble of my countenance - 570 Merely upon myself. Vexed I am - 571 Of late with passions of some difference, - 572 Conceptions only proper to myself, - 573 Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors; - 574 But let not therefore my good friends be grieved-- - 575 Among which number, Cassius, be you one-- - 576 Nor construe any further my neglect, - 577 Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, - 578 Forgets the shows of love to other men. - 579 - 580 CASSIUS. - 581 Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion; - 582 By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried - 583 Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations. - 584 Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face? - 585 - 586 BRUTUS. - 587 No, Cassius, for the eye sees not itself - 588 But by reflection, by some other thing. - 589 - 590 CASSIUS. - 591 'Tis just: - 592 And it is very much lamented, Brutus, - 593 That you have no such mirrors as will turn - 594 Your hidden worthiness into your eye, - 595 That you might see your shadow. I have heard - 596 Where many of the best respect in Rome,-- - 597 Except immortal Caesar!-- speaking of Brutus, - 598 And groaning underneath this age's yoke, - 599 Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes. - 600 - 601 BRUTUS. - 602 Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, - 603 That you would have me seek into myself - 604 For that which is not in me? - 605 - 606 CASSIUS. - 607 Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear; - 608 And since you know you cannot see yourself - 609 So well as by reflection, I, your glass, - 610 Will modestly discover to yourself - 611 That of yourself which you yet know not of. - 612 And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus; - 613 Were I a common laugher, or did use - 614 To stale with ordinary oaths my love - 615 To every new protester; if you know - 616 That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard - 617 And after scandal them; or if you know - 618 That I profess myself, in banqueting, - 619 To all the rout, then hold me dangerous. - 620 - 621 [Flourish and shout.] - 622 - 623 BRUTUS. - 624 What means this shouting? I do fear the people - 625 Choose Caesar for their king. - 626 - 627 CASSIUS. - 628 Ay, do you fear it? - 629 Then must I think you would not have it so. - 630 - 631 BRUTUS. - 632 I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well, - 633 But wherefore do you hold me here so long? - 634 What is it that you would impart to me? - 635 If it be aught toward the general good, - 636 Set honor in one eye and death i' the other - 637 And I will look on both indifferently; - 638 For let the gods so speed me as I love - 639 The name of honor more than I fear death. - 640 - 641 CASSIUS. - 642 I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, - 643 As well as I do know your outward favor. - 644 Well, honor is the subject of my story. - 645 I cannot tell what you and other men - 646 Think of this life; but, for my single self, - 647 I had as lief not be as live to be - 648 In awe of such a thing as I myself. - 649 I was born free as Caesar; so were you: - 650 We both have fed as well; and we can both - 651 Endure the winter's cold as well as he: - 652 For once, upon a raw and gusty day, - 653 The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, - 654 Caesar said to me, "Darest thou, Cassius, now - 655 Leap in with me into this angry flood - 656 And swim to yonder point?" Upon the word, - 657 Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, - 658 And bade him follow: so indeed he did. - 659 The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it - 660 With lusty sinews, throwing it aside - 661 And stemming it with hearts of controversy; - 662 But ere we could arrive the point proposed, - 663 Caesar cried, "Help me, Cassius, or I sink! - 664 I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, - 665 Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder - 666 The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber - 667 Did I the tired Caesar: and this man - 668 Is now become a god; and Cassius is - 669 A wretched creature, and must bend his body, - 670 If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. - 671 He had a fever when he was in Spain; - 672 And when the fit was on him I did mark - 673 How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake: - 674 His coward lips did from their color fly; - 675 And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world - 676 Did lose his luster. I did hear him groan: - 677 Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans - 678 Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, - 679 Alas, it cried, "Give me some drink, Titinius," - 680 As a sick girl.--Ye gods, it doth amaze me, - 681 A man of such a feeble temper should - 682 So get the start of the majestic world, - 683 And bear the palm alone. - 684 - 685 [Shout. Flourish.] - 686 - 687 BRUTUS. - 688 Another general shout! - 689 I do believe that these applauses are - 690 For some new honors that are heap'd on Caesar. - 691 - 692 CASSIUS. - 693 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world - 694 Like a Colossus; and we petty men - 695 Walk under his huge legs and peep about - 696 To find ourselves dishonorable graves. - 697 Men at some time are masters of their fates: - 698 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, - 699 But in ourselves,that we are underlings. - 700 "Brutus" and "Caesar": what should be in that "Caesar"? - 701 Why should that name be sounded more than yours? - 702 Write them together, yours is as fair a name; - 703 Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; - 704 Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them, - 705 "Brutus" will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar." - 706 Now, in the names of all the gods at once, - 707 Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed - 708 That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed! - 709 Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! - 710 When went there by an age since the great flood, - 711 But it was famed with more than with one man? - 712 When could they say, till now, that talk'd of Rome, - 713 That her wide walls encompass'd but one man? - 714 Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough, - 715 When there is in it but one only man. - 716 O, you and I have heard our fathers say - 717 There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd - 718 Th' eternal devil to keep his state in Rome, - 719 As easily as a king! - 720 - 721 BRUTUS. - 722 That you do love me, I am nothing jealous; - 723 What you would work me to, I have some aim: - 724 How I have thought of this, and of these times, - 725 I shall recount hereafter; for this present, - 726 I would not, so with love I might entreat you, - 727 Be any further moved. What you have said, - 728 I will consider; what you have to say, - 729 I will with patience hear; and find a time - 730 Both meet to hear and answer such high things. - 731 Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this: - 732 Brutus had rather be a villager - 733 Than to repute himself a son of Rome - 734 Under these hard conditions as this time - 735 Is like to lay upon us. - 736 - 737 CASSIUS. - 738 I am glad that my weak words - 739 Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus. - 740 - 741 BRUTUS. - 742 The games are done, and Caesar is returning. - 743 - 744 CASSIUS. - 745 As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve; - 746 And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you - 747 What hath proceeded worthy note today. - 748 - 749 [Re-enter Caesar and his Train.] - 750 - 751 BRUTUS. - 752 I will do so.--But, look you, Cassius, - 753 The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow, - 754 And all the rest look like a chidden train: - 755 Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero - 756 Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes - 757 As we have seen him in the Capitol, - 758 Being cross'd in conference by some senators. - 759 - 760 CASSIUS. - 761 Casca will tell us what the matter is. - 762 - 763 CAESAR. - 764 Antonius,-- - 765 - 766 ANTONY. - 767 Caesar? - 768 - 769 CAESAR. - 770 Let me have men about me that are fat; - 771 Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: - 772 Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; - 773 He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - 774 - 775 ANTONY. - 776 Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous; - 777 He is a noble Roman and well given. - 778 - 779 CAESAR. - 780 Would he were fatter! But I fear him not: - 781 Yet, if my name were liable to fear, - 782 I do not know the man I should avoid - 783 So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; - 784 He is a great observer, and he looks - 785 Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, - 786 As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music: - 787 Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort - 788 As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit - 789 That could be moved to smile at any thing. - 790 Such men as he be never at heart's ease - 791 Whiles they behold a greater than themselves; - 792 And therefore are they very dangerous. - 793 I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd - 794 Than what I fear, for always I am Caesar. - 795 Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf, - 796 And tell me truly what thou think'st of him. - 797 - 798 [Exeunt Caesar and his Train. Casca stays.] - 799 - 800 CASCA. - 801 You pull'd me by the cloak; would you speak with me? - 802 - 803 BRUTUS. - 804 Ay, Casca, tell us what hath chanced today, - 805 That Caesar looks so sad. - 806 - 807 CASCA. - 808 Why, you were with him, were you not? - 809 - 810 BRUTUS. - 811 I should not then ask Casca what had chanced. - 812 - 813 CASCA. - 814 Why, there was a crown offer'd him; and being offer'd him, - 815 he put it by with the back of his hand, thus; and then the - 816 people fell a-shouting. - 817 - 818 BRUTUS. - 819 What was the second noise for? - 820 - 821 CASCA. - 822 Why, for that too. - 823 - 824 CASSIUS. - 825 They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for? - 826 - 827 CASCA. - 828 Why, for that too. - 829 - 830 BRUTUS. - 831 Was the crown offer'd him thrice? - 832 - 833 CASCA. - 834 Ay, marry, was't, and he put it by thrice, every time gentler - 835 than other; and at every putting-by mine honest neighbors - 836 shouted. - 837 - 838 CASSIUS. - 839 Who offer'd him the crown? - 840 - 841 CASCA. - 842 Why, Antony. - 843 - 844 BRUTUS. - 845 Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca. - 846 - 847 CASCA. - 848 I can as well be hang'd, as tell the manner of it: it was - 849 mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a - 850 crown;--yet 'twas not a crown neither, 'twas one of these - 851 coronets;--and, as I told you, he put it by once: but, for all - 852 that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he - 853 offered it to him again: then he put it by again: but, to my - 854 thinking, he was very loath to lay his fingers off it. And then - 855 he offered it the third time; he put it the third time by; and - 856 still, as he refused it, the rabblement shouted, and clapp'd - 857 their chopt hands, and threw up their sweaty night-caps, and - 858 uttered such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused - 859 the crown, that it had almost choked Caesar, for he swooned and - 860 fell down at it: and for mine own part, I durst not laugh for - 861 fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. - 862 - 863 CASSIUS. - 864 But, soft! I pray you. What, did Caesar swoon? - 865 - 866 CASCA. - 867 He fell down in the market-place, and foam'd at mouth, and was - 868 speechless. - 869 - 870 BRUTUS. - 871 'Tis very like: he hath the falling-sickness. - 872 - 873 CASSIUS. - 874 No, Caesar hath it not; but you, and I, - 875 And honest Casca, we have the falling-sickness. - 876 - 877 CASCA. - 878 I know not what you mean by that; but I am sure Caesar fell - 879 down. If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, - 880 according as he pleased and displeased them, as they use to do - 881 the players in the theatre, I am no true man. - 882 - 883 BRUTUS. - 884 What said he when he came unto himself? - 885 - 886 CASCA. - 887 Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the common - 888 herd was glad he refused the crown, he pluck'd me ope his - 889 doublet, and offered them his throat to cut: an I had been a - 890 man of any occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word, - 891 I would I might go to hell among the rogues:--and so he fell. - 892 When he came to himself again, he said, if he had done or said - 893 any thing amiss, he desired their worships to think it was his - 894 infirmity. Three or four wenches where I stood cried, "Alas, - 895 good soul!" and forgave him with all their hearts. But there's - 896 no heed to be taken of them: if Caesar had stabb'd their - 897 mothers, they would have done no less. - 898 - 899 BRUTUS. - 900 And, after that he came, thus sad away? - 901 - 902 CASCA. - 903 Ay. - 904 - 905 CASSIUS. - 906 Did Cicero say any thing? - 907 - 908 CASCA. - 909 Ay, he spoke Greek. - 910 - 911 CASSIUS. - 912 To what effect? - 913 - 914 CASCA. - 915 Nay, an I tell you that, I'll ne'er look you i' the face - 916 again: but those that understood him smiled at one another and - 917 shook their heads; but for mine own part, it was Greek to me. I - 918 could tell you more news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling - 919 scarfs off Caesar's images, are put to silence. Fare you well. - 920 There was more foolery yet, if could remember it. - 921 - 922 CASSIUS. - 923 Will you sup with me tonight, Casca? - 924 - 925 CASCA. - 926 No, I am promised forth. - 927 - 928 CASSIUS. - 929 Will you dine with me tomorrow? - 930 - 931 CASCA. - 932 Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your dinner worth - 933 the eating. - 934 - 935 CASSIUS. - 936 Good; I will expect you. - 937 - 938 CASCA. - 939 Do so; farewell both. - 940 - 941 [Exit CASCA.] - 942 - 943 BRUTUS. - 944 What a blunt fellow is this grown to be! - 945 He was quick mettle when he went to school. - 946 - 947 CASSIUS. - 948 So is he now in execution - 949 Of any bold or noble enterprise, - 950 However he puts on this tardy form. - 951 This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, - 952 Which gives men stomach to digest his words - 953 With better appetite. - 954 - 955 BRUTUS. - 956 And so it is. For this time I will leave you: - 957 Tomorrow, if you please to speak with me, - 958 I will come home to you; or, if you will, - 959 Come home to me, and I will wait for you. - 960 - 961 CASSIUS. - 962 I will do so: till then, think of the world.-- - 963 - 964 [Exit Brutus.] - 965 - 966 Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see, - 967 Thy honorable metal may be wrought, - 968 From that it is disposed: therefore 'tis meet - 969 That noble minds keep ever with their likes; - 970 For who so firm that cannot be seduced? - 971 Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves Brutus; - 972 If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius, - 973 He should not humor me. I will this night, - 974 In several hands, in at his windows throw, - 975 As if they came from several citizens, - 976 Writings all tending to the great opinion - 977 That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely - 978 Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at: - 979 And after this let Caesar seat him sure; - 980 For we will shake him, or worse days endure. - 981 - 982 [Exit.] - 983 - 984 - 985 - 986 SCENE III. The same. A street. - 987 - 988 [Thunder and lightning. Enter, from opposite sides, CASCA, with - 989 his sword drawn, and CICERO.] - 990 - 991 CICERO. - 992 Good even, Casca: brought you Caesar home? - 993 Why are you breathless, and why stare you so? - 994 - 995 CASCA. - 996 Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth - 997 Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero, - 998 I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds - 999 Have rived the knotty oaks; and I have seen - 1000 Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, - 1001 To be exalted with the threatening clouds: - 1002 But never till tonight, never till now, - 1003 Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. - 1004 Either there is a civil strife in heaven, - 1005 Or else the world too saucy with the gods, - 1006 Incenses them to send destruction. - 1007 - 1008 CICERO. - 1009 Why, saw you anything more wonderful? - 1010 - 1011 CASCA. - 1012 A common slave--you'd know him well by sight-- - 1013 Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn - 1014 Like twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand - 1015 Not sensible of fire remain'd unscorch'd. - 1016 Besides,--I ha' not since put up my sword,-- - 1017 Against the Capitol I met a lion, - 1018 Who glared upon me, and went surly by, - 1019 Without annoying me: and there were drawn - 1020 Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women, - 1021 Transformed with their fear; who swore they saw - 1022 Men, all in fire, walk up and down the streets. - 1023 And yesterday the bird of night did sit - 1024 Even at noonday upon the marketplace, - 1025 Howling and shrieking. When these prodigies - 1026 Do so conjointly meet, let not men say - 1027 "These are their reasons; they are natural"; - 1028 For I believe they are portentous things - 1029 Unto the climate that they point upon. - 1030 - 1031 CICERO. - 1032 Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time. - 1033 But men may construe things after their fashion, - 1034 Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. - 1035 Comes Caesar to the Capitol tomorrow? - 1036 - 1037 CASCA. - 1038 He doth, for he did bid Antonius - 1039 Send word to you he would be there to-morrow. - 1040 - 1041 CICERO. - 1042 Good then, Casca: this disturbed sky - 1043 Is not to walk in. - 1044 - 1045 CASCA. - 1046 Farewell, Cicero. - 1047 - 1048 [Exit Cicero.] - 1049 - 1050 [Enter Cassius.] - 1051 - 1052 CASSIUS. - 1053 Who's there? - 1054 - 1055 CASCA. - 1056 A Roman. - 1057 - 1058 CASSIUS. - 1059 Casca, by your voice. - 1060 - 1061 CASCA. - 1062 Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this! - 1063 - 1064 CASSIUS. - 1065 A very pleasing night to honest men. - 1066 - 1067 CASCA. - 1068 Who ever knew the heavens menace so? - 1069 - 1070 CASSIUS. - 1071 Those that have known the earth so full of faults. - 1072 For my part, I have walk'd about the streets, - 1073 Submitting me unto the perilous night; - 1074 And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see, - 1075 Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone; - 1076 And when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open - 1077 The breast of heaven, I did present myself - 1078 Even in the aim and very flash of it. - 1079 - 1080 CASCA. - 1081 But wherefore did you so much tempt the Heavens? - 1082 It is the part of men to fear and tremble, - 1083 When the most mighty gods by tokens send - 1084 Such dreadful heralds to astonish us. - 1085 - 1086 CASSIUS. - 1087 You are dull, Casca;and those sparks of life - 1088 That should be in a Roman you do want, - 1089 Or else you use not. You look pale and gaze, - 1090 And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder, - 1091 To see the strange impatience of the Heavens: - 1092 But if you would consider the true cause - 1093 Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts, - 1094 Why birds and beasts,from quality and kind; - 1095 Why old men, fools, and children calculate;-- - 1096 Why all these things change from their ordinance, - 1097 Their natures, and preformed faculties - 1098 To monstrous quality;--why, you shall find - 1099 That Heaven hath infused them with these spirits, - 1100 To make them instruments of fear and warning - 1101 Unto some monstrous state. Now could I, Casca, - 1102 Name to thee a man most like this dreadful night; - 1103 That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars, - 1104 As doth the lion in the Capitol; - 1105 A man no mightier than thyself or me - 1106 In personal action; yet prodigious grown, - 1107 And fearful, as these strange eruptions are. - 1108 - 1109 CASCA. - 1110 'Tis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius? - 1111 - 1112 CASSIUS. - 1113 Let it be who it is: for Romans now - 1114 Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors; - 1115 But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead, - 1116 And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits; - 1117 Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish. - 1118 - 1119 CASCA. - 1120 Indeed they say the senators to-morrow - 1121 Mean to establish Caesar as a king; - 1122 And he shall wear his crown by sea and land, - 1123 In every place save here in Italy. - 1124 - 1125 CASSIUS. - 1126 I know where I will wear this dagger then; - 1127 Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius: - 1128 Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong; - 1129 Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat: - 1130 Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, - 1131 Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron - 1132 Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; - 1133 But life, being weary of these worldly bars, - 1134 Never lacks power to dismiss itself. - 1135 If I know this, know all the world besides, - 1136 That part of tyranny that I do bear - 1137 I can shake off at pleasure. - 1138 - 1139 [Thunders still.] - 1140 - 1141 CASCA. - 1142 So can I: - 1143 So every bondman in his own hand bears - 1144 The power to cancel his captivity. - 1145 - 1146 CASSIUS. - 1147 And why should Caesar be a tyrant then? - 1148 Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf, - 1149 But that he sees the Romans are but sheep: - 1150 He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. - 1151 Those that with haste will make a mighty fire - 1152 Begin it with weak straws: what trash is Rome, - 1153 What rubbish, and what offal, when it serves - 1154 For the base matter to illuminate - 1155 So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief, - 1156 Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this - 1157 Before a willing bondman: then I know - 1158 My answer must be made; but I am arm'd, - 1159 And dangers are to me indifferent. - 1160 - 1161 CASCA. - 1162 You speak to Casca; and to such a man - 1163 That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand: - 1164 Be factious for redress of all these griefs; - 1165 And I will set this foot of mine as far - 1166 As who goes farthest. - 1167 - 1168 CASSIUS. - 1169 There's a bargain made. - 1170 Now know you, Casca, I have moved already - 1171 Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans - 1172 To undergo with me an enterprise - 1173 Of honorable-dangerous consequence; - 1174 And I do know by this, they stay for me - 1175 In Pompey's Porch: for now, this fearful night, - 1176 There is no stir or walking in the streets; - 1177 And the complexion of the element - 1178 Is favor'd like the work we have in hand, - 1179 Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible. - 1180 - 1181 CASCA. - 1182 Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste. - 1183 - 1184 CASSIUS. - 1185 'Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait; - 1186 He is a friend.-- - 1187 - 1188 [Enter Cinna.] - 1189 - 1190 Cinna, where haste you so? - 1191 - 1192 CINNA. - 1193 To find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber? - 1194 - 1195 CASSIUS. - 1196 No, it is Casca, one incorporate - 1197 To our attempts. Am I not stay'd for, Cinna? - 1198 - 1199 CINNA. - 1200 I am glad on't. What a fearful night is this! - 1201 There's two or three of us have seen strange sights. - 1202 - 1203 CASSIUS. - 1204 Am I not stay'd for? tell me. - 1205 - 1206 CINNA. - 1207 Yes, - 1208 You are. O Cassius, if you could but win - 1209 The noble Brutus to our party,-- - 1210 - 1211 CASSIUS. - 1212 Be you content. Good Cinna, take this paper, - 1213 And look you lay it in the praetor's chair, - 1214 Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this - 1215 In at his window; set this up with wax - 1216 Upon old Brutus' statue: all this done, - 1217 Repair to Pompey's Porch, where you shall find us. - 1218 Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there? - 1219 - 1220 CINNA. - 1221 All but Metellus Cimber, and he's gone - 1222 To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie - 1223 And so bestow these papers as you bade me. - 1224 - 1225 CASSIUS. - 1226 That done, repair to Pompey's theatre.-- - 1227 - 1228 [Exit Cinna.] - 1229 - 1230 Come, Casca, you and I will yet, ere day, - 1231 See Brutus at his house: three parts of him - 1232 Is ours already; and the man entire, - 1233 Upon the next encounter, yields him ours. - 1234 - 1235 CASCA. - 1236 O, he sits high in all the people's hearts! - 1237 And that which would appear offense in us, - 1238 His countenance, like richest alchemy, - 1239 Will change to virtue and to worthiness. - 1240 - 1241 CASSIUS. - 1242 Him, and his worth, and our great need of him, - 1243 You have right well conceited. Let us go, - 1244 For it is after midnight; and, ere day, - 1245 We will awake him, and be sure of him. - 1246 - 1247 [Exeunt.] - 1248 - 1249 - 1250 - 1251 ACT II. - 1252 - 1253 SCENE I. Rome. BRUTUS'S orchard. - 1254 - 1255 [Enter Brutus.] - 1256 - 1257 BRUTUS. - 1258 What, Lucius, ho!-- - 1259 I cannot, by the progress of the stars, - 1260 Give guess how near to day.--Lucius, I say!-- - 1261 I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.-- - 1262 When, Lucius, when! Awake, I say! What, Lucius! - 1263 - 1264 [Enter Lucius.] - 1265 - 1266 LUCIUS. - 1267 Call'd you, my lord? - 1268 - 1269 BRUTUS. - 1270 Get me a taper in my study, Lucius: - 1271 When it is lighted, come and call me here. - 1272 - 1273 LUCIUS. - 1274 I will, my lord. - 1275 - 1276 [Exit.] - 1277 - 1278 BRUTUS. - 1279 It must be by his death: and, for my part, - 1280 I know no personal cause to spurn at him, - 1281 But for the general. He would be crown'd: - 1282 How that might change his nature, there's the question: - 1283 It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; - 1284 And that craves wary walking. Crown him?--that: - 1285 And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, - 1286 That at his will he may do danger with. - 1287 Th' abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins - 1288 Remorse from power; and, to speak truth of Caesar, - 1289 I have not known when his affections sway'd - 1290 More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof, - 1291 That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, - 1292 Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; - 1293 But, when he once attains the upmost round, - 1294 He then unto the ladder turns his back, - 1295 Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees - 1296 By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; - 1297 Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel - 1298 Will bear no color for the thing he is, - 1299 Fashion it thus,--that what he is, augmented, - 1300 Would run to these and these extremities: - 1301 And therefore think him as a serpent's egg - 1302 Which hatch'd, would, as his kind grow mischievous; - 1303 And kill him in the shell. - 1304 - 1305 [Re-enter Lucius.] - 1306 - 1307 LUCIUS. - 1308 The taper burneth in your closet, sir. - 1309 Searching the window for a flint I found - 1310 This paper thus seal'd up, and I am sure - 1311 It did not lie there when I went to bed. - 1312 - 1313 BRUTUS. - 1314 Get you to bed again; it is not day. - 1315 Is not tomorrow, boy, the Ides of March? - 1316 - 1317 LUCIUS. - 1318 I know not, sir. - 1319 - 1320 BRUTUS. - 1321 Look in the calendar, and bring me word. - 1322 - 1323 LUCIUS. - 1324 I will, sir. - 1325 - 1326 [Exit.] - 1327 - 1328 BRUTUS. - 1329 The exhalations, whizzing in the air - 1330 Give so much light that I may read by them.-- - 1331 - 1332 [Opens the letter and reads.] - 1333 "Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake and see thyself. - 1334 Shall Rome, &c. Speak, strike, redress--! - 1335 Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake!--" - 1336 - 1337 Such instigations have been often dropp'd - 1338 Where I have took them up. - 1339 "Shall Rome, & c." Thus must I piece it out: - 1340 Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome? - 1341 My ancestors did from the streets of Rome - 1342 The Tarquin drive, when he was call'd a king.-- - 1343 "Speak, strike, redress!"--Am I entreated, then, - 1344 To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise, - 1345 If the redress will follow, thou receivest - 1346 Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus! - 1347 - 1348 [Re-enter Lucius.] - 1349 - 1350 LUCIUS. - 1351 Sir, March is wasted fifteen days. - 1352 - 1353 [Knocking within.] - 1354 - 1355 BRUTUS. - 1356 'Tis good. Go to the gate, somebody knocks.-- - 1357 - 1358 [Exit Lucius.] - 1359 - 1360 Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar - 1361 I have not slept. - 1362 Between the acting of a dreadful thing - 1363 And the first motion, all the interim is - 1364 Like a phantasma or a hideous dream: - 1365 The genius and the mortal instruments - 1366 Are then in council; and the state of man, - 1367 Like to a little kingdom, suffers then - 1368 The nature of an insurrection. - 1369 - 1370 [Re-enter Lucius]. - 1371 - 1372 LUCIUS. - 1373 Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door, - 1374 Who doth desire to see you. - 1375 - 1376 BRUTUS. - 1377 Is he alone? - 1378 - 1379 LUCIUS. - 1380 No, sir, there are more with him. - 1381 - 1382 BRUTUS. - 1383 Do you know them? - 1384 - 1385 LUCIUS. - 1386 No, sir, their hats are pluck'd about their ears, - 1387 And half their faces buried in their cloaks, - 1388 That by no means I may discover them - 1389 By any mark of favor. - 1390 - 1391 BRUTUS. - 1392 Let 'em enter.-- - 1393 - 1394 [Exit Lucius.] - 1395 They are the faction.--O conspiracy, - 1396 Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, - 1397 When evils are most free? O, then, by day - 1398 Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough - 1399 To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy; - 1400 Hide it in smiles and affability: - 1401 For if thou pass, thy native semblance on, - 1402 Not Erebus itself were dim enough - 1403 To hide thee from prevention. - 1404 - 1405 [Enter Cassius, Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus Cimber, and - 1406 Trebonius. - 1407 - 1408 CASSIUS. - 1409 I think we are too bold upon your rest: - 1410 Good morrow, Brutus; do we trouble you? - 1411 - 1412 BRUTUS. - 1413 I have been up this hour, awake all night. - 1414 Know I these men that come along with you? - 1415 - 1416 CASSIUS. - 1417 Yes, every man of them; and no man here - 1418 But honors you; and every one doth wish - 1419 You had but that opinion of yourself - 1420 Which every noble Roman bears of you. - 1421 This is Trebonius. - 1422 - 1423 BRUTUS. - 1424 He is welcome hither. - 1425 - 1426 CASSIUS. - 1427 This Decius Brutus. - 1428 - 1429 BRUTUS. - 1430 He is welcome too. - 1431 - 1432 CASSIUS. - 1433 This, Casca; this, Cinna; and this, Metellus Cimber. - 1434 - 1435 BRUTUS. - 1436 They are all welcome.-- - 1437 What watchful cares do interpose themselves - 1438 Betwixt your eyes and night? - 1439 - 1440 CASSIUS. - 1441 Shall I entreat a word? - 1442 - 1443 [BRUTUS and CASSIUS whisper apart.] - 1444 - 1445 DECIUS. - 1446 Here lies the east: doth not the day break here? - 1447 - 1448 CASCA. - 1449 No. - 1450 - 1451 CINNA. - 1452 O, pardon, sir, it doth, and yon grey lines - 1453 That fret the clouds are messengers of day. - 1454 - 1455 CASCA. - 1456 You shall confess that you are both deceived. - 1457 Here, as I point my sword, the Sun arises; - 1458 Which is a great way growing on the South, - 1459 Weighing the youthful season of the year. - 1460 Some two months hence, up higher toward the North - 1461 He first presents his fire; and the high East - 1462 Stands, as the Capitol, directly here. - 1463 - 1464 BRUTUS. - 1465 Give me your hands all over, one by one. - 1466 - 1467 CASSIUS. - 1468 And let us swear our resolution. - 1469 - 1470 BRUTUS. - 1471 No, not an oath: if not the face of men, - 1472 The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse-- - 1473 If these be motives weak, break off betimes, - 1474 And every man hence to his idle bed; - 1475 So let high-sighted tyranny range on, - 1476 Till each man drop by lottery. But if these, - 1477 As I am sure they do, bear fire enough - 1478 To kindle cowards, and to steel with valour - 1479 The melting spirits of women; then, countrymen, - 1480 What need we any spur but our own cause - 1481 To prick us to redress? what other bond - 1482 Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word, - 1483 And will not palter? and what other oath - 1484 Than honesty to honesty engaged, - 1485 That this shall be, or we will fall for it? - 1486 Swear priests, and cowards, and men cautelous, - 1487 Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls - 1488 That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear - 1489 Such creatures as men doubt: but do not stain - 1490 The even virtue of our enterprise, - 1491 Nor th' insuppressive mettle of our spirits, - 1492 To think that or our cause or our performance - 1493 Did need an oath; when every drop of blood - 1494 That every Roman bears, and nobly bears, - 1495 Is guilty of a several bastardy, - 1496 If he do break the smallest particle - 1497 Of any promise that hath pass'd from him. - 1498 - 1499 CASSIUS. - 1500 But what of Cicero? Shall we sound him? - 1501 I think he will stand very strong with us. - 1502 - 1503 CASCA. - 1504 Let us not leave him out. - 1505 - 1506 CINNA. - 1507 No, by no means. - 1508 - 1509 METELLUS. - 1510 O, let us have him! for his silver hairs - 1511 Will purchase us a good opinion, - 1512 And buy men's voices to commend our deeds: - 1513 It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands; - 1514 Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear, - 1515 But all be buried in his gravity. - 1516 - 1517 BRUTUS. - 1518 O, name him not! let us not break with him; - 1519 For he will never follow any thing - 1520 That other men begin. - 1521 - 1522 CASSIUS. - 1523 Then leave him out. - 1524 - 1525 CASCA. - 1526 Indeed, he is not fit. - 1527 - 1528 DECIUS. - 1529 Shall no man else be touch'd but only Caesar? - 1530 - 1531 CASSIUS. - 1532 Decius, well urged.--I think it is not meet, - 1533 Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar, - 1534 Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him - 1535 A shrewd contriver; and you know his means, - 1536 If he improve them, may well stretch so far - 1537 As to annoy us all: which to prevent, - 1538 Let Antony and Caesar fall together. - 1539 - 1540 BRUTUS. - 1541 Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, - 1542 To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs, - 1543 Like wrath in death, and envy afterwards; - 1544 For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. - 1545 Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius. - 1546 We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar; - 1547 And in the spirit of men there is no blood: - 1548 O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit, - 1549 And not dismember Caesar! But, alas, - 1550 Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends, - 1551 Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; - 1552 Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, - 1553 Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds; - 1554 And let our hearts, as subtle masters do, - 1555 Stir up their servants to an act of rage, - 1556 And after seem to chide 'em. This shall mark - 1557 Our purpose necessary, and not envious; - 1558 Which so appearing to the common eyes, - 1559 We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers. - 1560 And for Mark Antony, think not of him; - 1561 For he can do no more than Caesar's arm - 1562 When Caesar's head is off. - 1563 - 1564 CASSIUS. - 1565 Yet I do fear him; - 1566 For in th' ingrafted love he bears to Caesar-- - 1567 - 1568 BRUTUS. - 1569 Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him: - 1570 If he love Caesar, all that he can do - 1571 Is to himself,--take thought and die for Caesar. - 1572 And that were much he should; for he is given - 1573 To sports, to wildness, and much company. - 1574 - 1575 TREBONIUS. - 1576 There is no fear in him; let him not die; - 1577 For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter. - 1578 - 1579 [Clock strikes.] - 1580 - 1581 BRUTUS. - 1582 Peace! count the clock. - 1583 - 1584 CASSIUS. - 1585 The clock hath stricken three. - 1586 - 1587 TREBONIUS. - 1588 'Tis time to part. - 1589 - 1590 CASSIUS. - 1591 But it is doubtful yet - 1592 Whether Caesar will come forth today or no; - 1593 For he is superstitious grown of late, - 1594 Quite from the main opinion he held once - 1595 Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies. - 1596 It may be these apparent prodigies, - 1597 The unaccustom'd terror of this night, - 1598 And the persuasion of his augurers - 1599 May hold him from the Capitol to-day. - 1600 - 1601 DECIUS. - 1602 Never fear that: if he be so resolved, - 1603 I can o'ersway him, for he loves to hear - 1604 That unicorns may be betray'd with trees, - 1605 And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, - 1606 Lions with toils, and men with flatterers: - 1607 But when I tell him he hates flatterers, - 1608 He says he does, being then most flattered. - 1609 Let me work; - 1610 For I can give his humor the true bent, - 1611 And I will bring him to the Capitol. - 1612 - 1613 CASSIUS. - 1614 Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him. - 1615 - 1616 BRUTUS. - 1617 By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost? - 1618 - 1619 CINNA. - 1620 Be that the uttermost; and fail not then. - 1621 - 1622 METELLUS. - 1623 Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard, - 1624 Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey: - 1625 I wonder none of you have thought of him. - 1626 - 1627 BRUTUS. - 1628 Now, good Metellus, go along by him: - 1629 He loves me well, and I have given him reason; - 1630 Send him but hither, and I'll fashion him. - 1631 - 1632 CASSIUS. - 1633 The morning comes upon 's. We'll leave you, Brutus;-- - 1634 And, friends, disperse yourselves, but all remember - 1635 What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans. - 1636 - 1637 BRUTUS. - 1638 Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily; - 1639 Let not our looks put on our purposes, - 1640 But bear it as our Roman actors do, - 1641 With untired spirits and formal constancy: - 1642 And so, good morrow to you every one.-- - 1643 - 1644 [Exeunt all but Brutus.] - 1645 - 1646 Boy! Lucius!--Fast asleep? It is no matter; - 1647 Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber: - 1648 Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, - 1649 Which busy care draws in the brains of men; - 1650 Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. - 1651 - 1652 [Enter Portia.] - 1653 - 1654 PORTIA. - 1655 Brutus, my lord! - 1656 - 1657 BRUTUS. - 1658 Portia, what mean you? wherefore rise you now? - 1659 It is not for your health thus to commit - 1660 Your weak condition to the raw-cold morning. - 1661 - 1662 PORTIA. - 1663 Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus, - 1664 Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper, - 1665 You suddenly arose, and walk'd about, - 1666 Musing and sighing, with your arms across; - 1667 And, when I ask'd you what the matter was, - 1668 You stared upon me with ungentle looks: - 1669 I urged you further; then you scratch'd your head, - 1670 And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot: - 1671 Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not; - 1672 But, with an angry wafture of your hand, - 1673 Gave sign for me to leave you. So I did; - 1674 Fearing to strengthen that impatience - 1675 Which seem'd too much enkindled; and withal - 1676 Hoping it was but an effect of humour, - 1677 Which sometime hath his hour with every man. - 1678 It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep; - 1679 And, could it work so much upon your shape - 1680 As it hath much prevail'd on your condition, - 1681 I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord, - 1682 Make me acquainted with your cause of grief. - 1683 - 1684 BRUTUS. - 1685 I am not well in health, and that is all. - 1686 - 1687 PORTIA. - 1688 Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health, - 1689 He would embrace the means to come by it. - 1690 - 1691 BRUTUS. - 1692 Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed. - 1693 - 1694 PORTIA. - 1695 Is Brutus sick? and is it physical - 1696 To walk unbraced and suck up the humours - 1697 Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick, - 1698 And will he steal out of his wholesome bed - 1699 To dare the vile contagion of the night, - 1700 And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air - 1701 To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus; - 1702 You have some sick offense within your mind, - 1703 Which, by the right and virtue of my place, - 1704 I ought to know of: and, upon my knees, - 1705 I charge you, by my once commended beauty, - 1706 By all your vows of love, and that great vow - 1707 Which did incorporate and make us one, - 1708 That you unfold to me, yourself, your half, - 1709 Why you are heavy, and what men to-night - 1710 Have had resort to you; for here have been - 1711 Some six or seven, who did hide their faces - 1712 Even from darkness. - 1713 - 1714 BRUTUS. - 1715 Kneel not, gentle Portia. - 1716 - 1717 PORTIA. - 1718 I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus. - 1719 Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, - 1720 Is it excepted I should know no secrets - 1721 That appertain to you? Am I yourself - 1722 But, as it were, in sort or limitation,-- - 1723 To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, - 1724 And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs - 1725 Of your good pleasure? If it be no more, - 1726 Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife. - 1727 - 1728 BRUTUS. - 1729 You are my true and honorable wife; - 1730 As dear to me as are the ruddy drops - 1731 That visit my sad heart. - 1732 - 1733 PORTIA. - 1734 If this were true, then should I know this secret. - 1735 I grant I am a woman; but withal - 1736 A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife: - 1737 I grant I am a woman; but withal - 1738 A woman well reputed, Cato's daughter. - 1739 Think you I am no stronger than my sex, - 1740 Being so father'd and so husbanded? - 1741 Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em. - 1742 I have made strong proof of my constancy, - 1743 Giving myself a voluntary wound - 1744 Here in the thigh: can I bear that with patience - 1745 And not my husband's secrets? - 1746 - 1747 BRUTUS. - 1748 O ye gods, - 1749 Render me worthy of this noble wife! - 1750 - 1751 [Knocking within.] - 1752 - 1753 Hark, hark, one knocks: Portia, go in awhile; - 1754 And by and by thy bosom shall partake - 1755 The secrets of my heart: - 1756 All my engagements I will construe to thee, - 1757 All the charactery of my sad brows. - 1758 Leave me with haste. - 1759 - 1760 [Exit Portia.] - 1761 - 1762 --Lucius, who's that knocks? - 1763 - 1764 [Re-enter Lucius with Ligarius.] - 1765 - 1766 LUCIUS. - 1767 Here is a sick man that would speak with you. - 1768 - 1769 BRUTUS. - 1770 Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of.-- - 1771 Boy, stand aside.--Caius Ligarius,--how? - 1772 - 1773 LIGARIUS. - 1774 Vouchsafe good-morrow from a feeble tongue. - 1775 - 1776 BRUTUS. - 1777 O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius, - 1778 To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick! - 1779 - 1780 LIGARIUS. - 1781 I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand - 1782 Any exploit worthy the name of honour. - 1783 - 1784 BRUTUS. - 1785 Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, - 1786 Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. - 1787 - 1788 LIGARIUS. - 1789 By all the gods that Romans bow before, - 1790 I here discard my sickness. Soul of Rome! - 1791 Brave son, derived from honorable loins! - 1792 Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up - 1793 My mortified spirit. Now bid me run, - 1794 And I will strive with things impossible; - 1795 Yea, get the better of them. What's to do? - 1796 - 1797 BRUTUS. - 1798 A piece of work that will make sick men whole. - 1799 - 1800 LIGARIUS. - 1801 But are not some whole that we must make sick? - 1802 - 1803 BRUTUS. - 1804 That must we also. What it is, my Caius, - 1805 I shall unfold to thee, as we are going, - 1806 To whom it must be done. - 1807 - 1808 LIGARIUS. - 1809 Set on your foot; - 1810 And with a heart new-fired I follow you, - 1811 To do I know not what: but it sufficeth - 1812 That Brutus leads me on. - 1813 - 1814 BRUTUS. - 1815 Follow me then. - 1816 - 1817 [Exeunt.] - 1818 - 1819 - 1820 - 1821 SCENE II. A room in Caesar's palace. - 1822 - 1823 [Thunder and lightning. Enter Caesar, in his nightgown.] - 1824 - 1825 CAESAR. - 1826 Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight: - 1827 Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out, - 1828 "Help, ho! They murder Caesar!"--Who's within? - 1829 - 1830 [Enter a Servant.] - 1831 - 1832 SERVANT. - 1833 My lord? - 1834 - 1835 CAESAR. - 1836 Go bid the priests do present sacrifice, - 1837 And bring me their opinions of success. - 1838 - 1839 SERVANT. - 1840 I will, my lord. - 1841 - 1842 [Exit.] - 1843 - 1844 [Enter Calpurnia.] - 1845 - 1846 CALPURNIA. - 1847 What mean you, Caesar? Think you to walk forth? - 1848 You shall not stir out of your house to-day. - 1849 - 1850 CAESAR. - 1851 Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten me - 1852 Ne'er look but on my back; when they shall see - 1853 The face of Caesar, they are vanished. - 1854 - 1855 CALPURNIA. - 1856 Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, - 1857 Yet now they fright me. There is one within, - 1858 Besides the things that we have heard and seen, - 1859 Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch. - 1860 A lioness hath whelped in the streets; - 1861 And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead; - 1862 Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds, - 1863 In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, - 1864 Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol; - 1865 The noise of battle hurtled in the air, - 1866 Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan; - 1867 And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets. - 1868 O Caesar,these things are beyond all use, - 1869 And I do fear them! - 1870 - 1871 CAESAR. - 1872 What can be avoided - 1873 Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods? - 1874 Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions - 1875 Are to the world in general as to Caesar. - 1876 - 1877 CALPURNIA. - 1878 When beggars die, there are no comets seen; - 1879 The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. - 1880 - 1881 CAESAR. - 1882 Cowards die many times before their deaths; - 1883 The valiant never taste of death but once. - 1884 Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, - 1885 It seems to me most strange that men should fear; - 1886 Seeing that death, a necessary end, - 1887 Will come when it will come.-- - 1888 - 1889 [Re-enter Servant.] - 1890 - 1891 What say the augurers? - 1892 - 1893 SERVANT. - 1894 They would not have you to stir forth to-day. - 1895 Plucking the entrails of an offering forth, - 1896 They could not find a heart within the beast. - 1897 - 1898 CAESAR. - 1899 The gods do this in shame of cowardice: - 1900 Caesar should be a beast without a heart, - 1901 If he should stay at home today for fear. - 1902 No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well - 1903 That Caesar is more dangerous than he: - 1904 We are two lions litter'd in one day, - 1905 And I the elder and more terrible; - 1906 And Caesar shall go forth. - 1907 - 1908 CALPURNIA. - 1909 Alas, my lord, - 1910 Your wisdom is consumed in confidence! - 1911 Do not go forth to-day: call it my fear - 1912 That keeps you in the house, and not your own. - 1913 We'll send Mark Antony to the Senate-house, - 1914 And he shall say you are not well to-day: - 1915 Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this. - 1916 - 1917 CAESAR. - 1918 Mark Antony shall say I am not well, - 1919 And, for thy humor, I will stay at home. - 1920 - 1921 [Enter Decius.] - 1922 - 1923 Here's Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so. - 1924 - 1925 DECIUS. - 1926 Caesar, all hail! Good morrow, worthy Caesar: - 1927 I come to fetch you to the Senate-house. - 1928 - 1929 CAESAR. - 1930 And you are come in very happy time - 1931 To bear my greeting to the Senators, - 1932 And tell them that I will not come to-day. - 1933 Cannot, is false; and that I dare not, falser: - 1934 I will not come to-day. Tell them so, Decius. - 1935 - 1936 CALPURNIA. - 1937 Say he is sick. - 1938 - 1939 CAESAR. - 1940 Shall Caesar send a lie? - 1941 Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far, - 1942 To be afeard to tell grey-beards the truth?-- - 1943 Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come. - 1944 - 1945 DECIUS. - 1946 Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause, - 1947 Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so. - 1948 - 1949 CAESAR. - 1950 The cause is in my will; I will not come: - 1951 That is enough to satisfy the Senate. - 1952 But, for your private satisfaction, - 1953 Because I love you, I will let you know: - 1954 Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home: - 1955 She dreamt to-night she saw my statua, - 1956 Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts, - 1957 Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans - 1958 Came smiling and did bathe their hands in it: - 1959 And these does she apply for warnings and portents - 1960 And evils imminent; and on her knee - 1961 Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day. - 1962 - 1963 DECIUS. - 1964 This dream is all amiss interpreted: - 1965 It was a vision fair and fortunate. - 1966 Your statue spouting blood in many pipes, - 1967 In which so many smiling Romans bathed, - 1968 Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck - 1969 Reviving blood; and that great men shall press - 1970 For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance. - 1971 This by Calpurnia's dream is signified. - 1972 - 1973 CAESAR. - 1974 And this way have you well expounded it. - 1975 - 1976 DECIUS. - 1977 I have, when you have heard what I can say; - 1978 And know it now: The Senate have concluded - 1979 To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar. - 1980 If you shall send them word you will not come, - 1981 Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock - 1982 Apt to be render'd, for someone to say - 1983 "Break up the Senate till another time, - 1984 When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams." - 1985 If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper - 1986 "Lo, Caesar is afraid"? - 1987 Pardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love - 1988 To your proceeding bids me tell you this; - 1989 And reason to my love is liable. - 1990 - 1991 CAESAR. - 1992 How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia! - 1993 I am ashamed I did yield to them. - 1994 Give me my robe, for I will go. - 1995 - 1996 [Enter Publius, Brutus, Ligarius, Metellus, Casca, - 1997 Trebonius, and Cinna.] - 1998 - 1999 And look where Publius is come to fetch me. - 2000 - 2001 PUBLIUS. - 2002 Good morrow, Caesar. - 2003 - 2004 CAESAR. - 2005 Welcome, Publius.-- - 2006 What, Brutus, are you stirr'd so early too?-- - 2007 Good morrow, Casca.--Caius Ligarius, - 2008 Caesar was ne'er so much your enemy - 2009 As that same ague which hath made you lean.-- - 2010 What is't o'clock? - 2011 - 2012 BRUTUS. - 2013 Caesar, 'tis strucken eight. - 2014 - 2015 CAESAR. - 2016 I thank you for your pains and courtesy. - 2017 - 2018 [Enter Antony.] - 2019 - 2020 See! Antony, that revels long o'nights, - 2021 Is notwithstanding up.--Good morrow, Antony. - 2022 - 2023 ANTONY. - 2024 So to most noble Caesar. - 2025 - 2026 CAESAR. - 2027 Bid them prepare within: - 2028 I am to blame to be thus waited for.-- - 2029 Now, Cinna;--now, Metellus;--what, Trebonius! - 2030 I have an hour's talk in store for you: - 2031 Remember that you call on me to-day; - 2032 Be near me, that I may remember you. - 2033 - 2034 TREBONIUS. - 2035 Caesar, I will. [Aside.] and so near will I be, - 2036 That your best friends shall wish I had been further. - 2037 - 2038 CAESAR. - 2039 Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me; - 2040 And we, like friends, will straightway go together. - 2041 - 2042 BRUTUS. - 2043 [Aside.] That every like is not the same, O Caesar, - 2044 The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon! - 2045 - 2046 [Exeunt.] - 2047 - 2048 - 2049 - 2050 SCENE III. A street near the Capitol. - 2051 - 2052 [Enter Artemidorus, reading paper.] - 2053 - 2054 ARTEMIDORUS. - 2055 "Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come - 2056 not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark - 2057 well Metellus Cimber; Decius Brutus loves thee not; thou hast - 2058 wrong'd Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men, - 2059 and it is bent against Caesar. If thou be'st not immortal, look - 2060 about you: security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods - 2061 defend thee! - 2062 Thy lover, Artemidorus." - 2063 Here will I stand till Caesar pass along, - 2064 And as a suitor will I give him this. - 2065 My heart laments that virtue cannot live - 2066 Out of the teeth of emulation.-- - 2067 If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live; - 2068 If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive. - 2069 - 2070 [Exit.] - 2071 - 2072 - 2073 - 2074 SCENE IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of - 2075 Brutus. - 2076 - 2077 [Enter Portia and Lucius.] - 2078 - 2079 PORTIA. - 2080 I pr'ythee, boy, run to the Senate-house; - 2081 Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone. - 2082 Why dost thou stay? - 2083 - 2084 LUCIUS. - 2085 To know my errand, madam. - 2086 - 2087 PORTIA. - 2088 I would have had thee there, and here again, - 2089 Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.-- - 2090 [Aside.] O constancy, be strong upon my side! - 2091 Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! - 2092 I have a man's mind, but a woman's might. - 2093 How hard it is for women to keep counsel!-- - 2094 Art thou here yet? - 2095 - 2096 LUCIUS. - 2097 Madam, what should I do? - 2098 Run to the Capitol, and nothing else? - 2099 And so return to you, and nothing else? - 2100 - 2101 PORTIA. - 2102 Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well, - 2103 For he went sickly forth: and take good note - 2104 What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him. - 2105 Hark, boy! what noise is that? - 2106 - 2107 LUCIUS. - 2108 I hear none, madam. - 2109 - 2110 PORTIA. - 2111 Pr'ythee, listen well: - 2112 I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray, - 2113 And the wind brings it from the Capitol. - 2114 - 2115 LUCIUS. - 2116 Sooth, madam, I hear nothing. - 2117 - 2118 [Enter Artemidorus.] - 2119 - 2120 PORTIA. - 2121 Come hither, fellow: - 2122 Which way hast thou been? - 2123 - 2124 ARTEMIDORUS. - 2125 At mine own house, good lady. - 2126 - 2127 PORTIA. - 2128 What is't o'clock? - 2129 - 2130 ARTEMIDORUS. - 2131 About the ninth hour, lady. - 2132 - 2133 PORTIA. - 2134 Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol? - 2135 - 2136 ARTEMIDORUS. - 2137 Madam, not yet: I go to take my stand - 2138 To see him pass on to the Capitol. - 2139 - 2140 PORTIA. - 2141 Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not? - 2142 - 2143 ARTEMIDORUS. - 2144 That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar - 2145 To be so good to Caesar as to hear me, - 2146 I shall beseech him to befriend himself. - 2147 - 2148 PORTIA. - 2149 Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him? - 2150 - 2151 ARTEMIDORUS. - 2152 None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance. - 2153 Good morrow to you.--Here the street is narrow: - 2154 The throng that follows Caesar at the heels, - 2155 Of Senators, of Praetors, common suitors, - 2156 Will crowd a feeble man almost to death: - 2157 I'll get me to a place more void, and there - 2158 Speak to great Caesar as he comes along. - 2159 - 2160 [Exit.] - 2161 - 2162 PORTIA. - 2163 I must go in.--[Aside.] Ah me, how weak a thing - 2164 The heart of woman is!--O Brutus, - 2165 The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!-- - 2166 Sure, the boy heard me.--Brutus hath a suit - 2167 That Caesar will not grant.--O, I grow faint.-- - 2168 Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord; - 2169 Say I am merry: come to me again, - 2170 And bring me word what he doth say to thee. - 2171 - 2172 [Exeunt.] - 2173 - 2174 - 2175 - 2176 ACT III. - 2177 - 2178 SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting. - 2179 - 2180 [A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol, among - 2181 them Artemidorus and the Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter Caesar, - 2182 Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Decius, Metellus, Trebonius, Cinna, - 2183 Antony, Lepidus, Popilius, Publius, and others.] - 2184 - 2185 CAESAR. - 2186 The Ides of March are come. - 2187 - 2188 SOOTHSAYER. - 2189 Ay, Caesar; but not gone. - 2190 - 2191 ARTEMIDORUS. - 2192 Hail, Caesar! read this schedule. - 2193 - 2194 DECIUS. - 2195 Trebonius doth desire you to o'er-read, - 2196 At your best leisure, this his humble suit. - 2197 - 2198 ARTEMIDORUS. - 2199 O Caesar, read mine first; for mine's a suit - 2200 That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar. - 2201 - 2202 CAESAR. - 2203 What touches us ourself shall be last served. - 2204 - 2205 ARTEMIDORUS. - 2206 Delay not, Caesar; read it instantly. - 2207 - 2208 CAESAR. - 2209 What, is the fellow mad? - 2210 - 2211 PUBLIUS. - 2212 Sirrah, give place. - 2213 - 2214 CASSIUS. - 2215 What, urge you your petitions in the street? - 2216 Come to the Capitol. - 2217 - 2218 [Caesar enters the Capitol, the rest following. All the Senators - 2219 rise.] - 2220 - 2221 POPILIUS. - 2222 I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive. - 2223 - 2224 CASSIUS. - 2225 What enterprise, Popilius? - 2226 - 2227 POPILIUS. - 2228 Fare you well. - 2229 Advances to Caesar. - 2230 - 2231 BRUTUS. - 2232 What said Popilius Lena? - 2233 - 2234 CASSIUS. - 2235 He wish'd to-day our enterprise might thrive. - 2236 I fear our purpose is discovered. - 2237 - 2238 BRUTUS. - 2239 Look, how he makes to Caesar: mark him. - 2240 - 2241 CASSIUS. - 2242 Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.-- - 2243 Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known, - 2244 Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back, - 2245 For I will slay myself. - 2246 - 2247 BRUTUS. - 2248 Cassius, be constant: - 2249 Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes; - 2250 For, look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change. - 2251 - 2252 CASSIUS. - 2253 Trebonius knows his time, for, look you, Brutus, - 2254 He draws Mark Antony out of the way. - 2255 - 2256 [Exeunt Antony and Trebonius. Caesar and the Senators take their - 2257 seats.] - 2258 - 2259 DECIUS. - 2260 Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go, - 2261 And presently prefer his suit to Caesar. - 2262 - 2263 BRUTUS. - 2264 He is address'd; press near and second him. - 2265 - 2266 CINNA. - 2267 Casca, you are the first that rears your hand. - 2268 - 2269 CASCA. - 2270 Are we all ready? - 2271 - 2272 CAESAR. - 2273 What is now amiss - 2274 That Caesar and his Senate must redress? - 2275 - 2276 METELLUS. - 2277 Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar, - 2278 Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat - 2279 An humble heart. - 2280 - 2281 [Kneeling.] - 2282 - 2283 CAESAR. - 2284 I must prevent thee, Cimber. - 2285 These couchings and these lowly courtesies - 2286 Might fire the blood of ordinary men, - 2287 And turn pre-ordinance and first decree - 2288 Into the law of children. Be not fond, - 2289 To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood - 2290 That will be thaw'd from the true quality - 2291 With that which melteth fools; I mean, sweet words, - 2292 Low-crooked curtsies, and base spaniel-fawning. - 2293 Thy brother by decree is banished: - 2294 If thou dost bend, and pray, and fawn for him, - 2295 I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. - 2296 - 2297 METELLUS. - 2298 Caesar, thou dost me wrong. - 2299 - 2300 CAESAR. - 2301 Caesar did never wrong but with just cause, - 2302 Nor without cause will he be satisfied. - 2303 - 2304 METELLUS. - 2305 Is there no voice more worthy than my own, - 2306 To sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear - 2307 For the repealing of my banish'd brother? - 2308 - 2309 BRUTUS. - 2310 I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar; - 2311 Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may - 2312 Have an immediate freedom of repeal. - 2313 - 2314 CAESAR. - 2315 What, Brutus? - 2316 - 2317 CASSIUS. - 2318 Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon: - 2319 As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall, - 2320 To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber. - 2321 - 2322 CAESAR. - 2323 I could be well moved, if I were as you; - 2324 If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: - 2325 But I am constant as the northern star, - 2326 Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality - 2327 There is no fellow in the firmament. - 2328 The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks, - 2329 They are all fire, and every one doth shine; - 2330 But there's but one in all doth hold his place: - 2331 So in the world; 'tis furnish'd well with men, - 2332 And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive; - 2333 Yet in the number I do know but one - 2334 That unassailable holds on his rank, - 2335 Unshaked of motion: and that I am he, - 2336 Let me a little show it, even in this,-- - 2337 That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd, - 2338 And constant do remain to keep him so. - 2339 - 2340 CINNA. - 2341 O Caesar,-- - 2342 - 2343 CAESAR. - 2344 Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus? - 2345 - 2346 DECIUS. - 2347 Great Caesar,-- - 2348 - 2349 CAESAR. - 2350 Doth not Brutus bootless kneel? - 2351 - 2352 CASCA. - 2353 Speak, hands, for me! - 2354 - 2355 [Casca stabs Caesar in the neck. Caesar catches hold of his arm. - 2356 He is then stabbed by several other Conspirators, and at last by - 2357 Marcus Brutus.] - 2358 - 2359 CAESAR. - 2360 Et tu, Brute?-- Then fall, Caesar! - 2361 - 2362 [Dies. The Senators and People retire in confusion.] - 2363 - 2364 CINNA. - 2365 Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!-- - 2366 Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets. - 2367 - 2368 CASSIUS. - 2369 Some to the common pulpits and cry out, - 2370 "Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!" - 2371 - 2372 BRUTUS. - 2373 People and Senators, be not affrighted; - 2374 Fly not; stand still; ambition's debt is paid. - 2375 - 2376 CASCA. - 2377 Go to the pulpit, Brutus. - 2378 - 2379 DECIUS. - 2380 And Cassius too. - 2381 - 2382 BRUTUS. - 2383 Where's Publius? - 2384 - 2385 CINNA. - 2386 Here, quite confounded with this mutiny. - 2387 - 2388 METELLUS. - 2389 Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar's - 2390 Should chance-- - 2391 - 2392 BRUTUS. - 2393 Talk not of standing.--Publius, good cheer! - 2394 There is no harm intended to your person, - 2395 Nor to no Roman else: so tell them, Publius. - 2396 - 2397 CASSIUS. - 2398 And leave us, Publius; lest that the people - 2399 Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief. - 2400 - 2401 BRUTUS. - 2402 Do so;--and let no man abide this deed - 2403 But we the doers. - 2404 - 2405 [Re-enter Trebonius.] - 2406 - 2407 CASSIUS. - 2408 Where's Antony? - 2409 - 2410 TREBONIUS. - 2411 Fled to his house amazed. - 2412 Men, wives, and children stare, cry out, and run, - 2413 As it were doomsday. - 2414 - 2415 BRUTUS. - 2416 Fates, we will know your pleasures: - 2417 That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time - 2418 And drawing days out, that men stand upon. - 2419 - 2420 CASCA. - 2421 Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life - 2422 Cuts off so many years of fearing death. - 2423 - 2424 BRUTUS. - 2425 Grant that, and then is death a benefit: - 2426 So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged - 2427 His time of fearing death.--Stoop, Romans, stoop, - 2428 And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood - 2429 Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords: - 2430 Then walk we forth, even to the market-place, - 2431 And waving our red weapons o'er our heads, - 2432 Let's all cry, "Peace, freedom, and liberty!" - 2433 - 2434 CASSIUS. - 2435 Stoop then, and wash. How many ages hence - 2436 Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er - 2437 In States unborn and accents yet unknown! - 2438 - 2439 BRUTUS. - 2440 How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport, - 2441 That now on Pompey's basis lies along - 2442 No worthier than the dust! - 2443 - 2444 CASSIUS. - 2445 So oft as that shall be, - 2446 So often shall the knot of us be call'd - 2447 The men that gave their country liberty. - 2448 - 2449 DECIUS. - 2450 What, shall we forth? - 2451 - 2452 CASSIUS. - 2453 Ay, every man away: - 2454 Brutus shall lead; and we will grace his heels - 2455 With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome. - 2456 - 2457 BRUTUS. - 2458 Soft, who comes here? - 2459 - 2460 [Enter a Servant.] - 2461 - 2462 A friend of Antony's. - 2463 - 2464 SERVANT. - 2465 Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel; - 2466 Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down; - 2467 And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say: - 2468 Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest; - 2469 Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving; - 2470 Say I love Brutus and I honor him; - 2471 Say I fear'd Caesar, honour'd him, and loved him. - 2472 If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony - 2473 May safely come to him, and be resolved - 2474 How Caesar hath deserved to lie in death, - 2475 Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead - 2476 So well as Brutus living; but will follow - 2477 The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus - 2478 Thorough the hazards of this untrod state - 2479 With all true faith. So says my master Antony. - 2480 - 2481 BRUTUS. - 2482 Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman; - 2483 I never thought him worse. - 2484 Tell him, so please him come unto this place, - 2485 He shall be satisfied and, by my honour, - 2486 Depart untouch'd. - 2487 - 2488 SERVANT. - 2489 I'll fetch him presently. - 2490 - 2491 [Exit.] - 2492 - 2493 BRUTUS. - 2494 I know that we shall have him well to friend. - 2495 - 2496 CASSIUS. - 2497 I wish we may: but yet have I a mind - 2498 That fears him much; and my misgiving still - 2499 Falls shrewdly to the purpose. - 2500 - 2501 BRUTUS. - 2502 But here comes Antony.-- - 2503 - 2504 [Re-enter Antony.] - 2505 - 2506 Welcome, Mark Antony. - 2507 - 2508 ANTONY. - 2509 O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low? - 2510 Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, - 2511 Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.-- - 2512 I know not, gentlemen, what you intend, - 2513 Who else must be let blood, who else is rank: - 2514 If I myself, there is no hour so fit - 2515 As Caesar's death-hour, nor no instrument - 2516 Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich - 2517 With the most noble blood of all this world. - 2518 I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard, - 2519 Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke, - 2520 Fulfill your pleasure. Live a thousand years, - 2521 I shall not find myself so apt to die: - 2522 No place will please me so, no means of death, - 2523 As here by Caesar, and by you cut off, - 2524 The choice and master spirits of this age. - 2525 - 2526 BRUTUS. - 2527 O Antony, beg not your death of us! - 2528 Though now we must appear bloody and cruel, - 2529 As, by our hands and this our present act - 2530 You see we do; yet see you but our hands - 2531 And this the bleeding business they have done: - 2532 Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful; - 2533 And pity to the general wrong of Rome-- - 2534 As fire drives out fire, so pity pity-- - 2535 Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part, - 2536 To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony; - 2537 Our arms in strength of amity, and our hearts - 2538 Of brothers' temper, do receive you in - 2539 With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence. - 2540 - 2541 CASSIUS. - 2542 Your voice shall be as strong as any man's - 2543 In the disposing of new dignities. - 2544 - 2545 BRUTUS. - 2546 Only be patient till we have appeased - 2547 The multitude, beside themselves with fear, - 2548 And then we will deliver you the cause - 2549 Why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him, - 2550 Have thus proceeded. - 2551 - 2552 ANTONY. - 2553 I doubt not of your wisdom. - 2554 Let each man render me his bloody hand: - 2555 First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you;-- - 2556 Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand;-- - 2557 Now, Decius Brutus, yours;--now yours, Metellus;-- - 2558 Yours, Cinna;--and, my valiant Casca, yours;-- - 2559 Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius. - 2560 Gentlemen all--alas, what shall I say? - 2561 My credit now stands on such slippery ground, - 2562 That one of two bad ways you must conceit me, - 2563 Either a coward or a flatterer.-- - 2564 That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true: - 2565 If then thy spirit look upon us now, - 2566 Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death - 2567 To see thy Antony making his peace, - 2568 Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,-- - 2569 Most noble!--in the presence of thy corse? - 2570 Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds, - 2571 Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood, - 2572 It would become me better than to close - 2573 In terms of friendship with thine enemies. - 2574 Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay'd, brave hart; - 2575 Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand, - 2576 Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy death.-- - 2577 O world, thou wast the forest to this hart; - 2578 And this, indeed, O world, the heart of thee.-- - 2579 How like a deer strucken by many princes, - 2580 Dost thou here lie! - 2581 - 2582 CASSIUS. - 2583 Mark Antony,-- - 2584 - 2585 ANTONY. - 2586 Pardon me, Caius Cassius: - 2587 The enemies of Caesar shall say this; - 2588 Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty. - 2589 - 2590 CASSIUS. - 2591 I blame you not for praising Caesar so; - 2592 But what compact mean you to have with us? - 2593 Will you be prick'd in number of our friends, - 2594 Or shall we on, and not depend on you? - 2595 - 2596 ANTONY. - 2597 Therefore I took your hands; but was indeed - 2598 Sway'd from the point, by looking down on Caesar. - 2599 Friends am I with you all, and love you all, - 2600 Upon this hope, that you shall give me reasons - 2601 Why and wherein Caesar was dangerous. - 2602 - 2603 BRUTUS. - 2604 Or else were this a savage spectacle: - 2605 Our reasons are so full of good regard - 2606 That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar, - 2607 You should be satisfied. - 2608 - 2609 ANTONY. - 2610 That's all I seek: - 2611 And am moreover suitor that I may - 2612 Produce his body to the market-place; - 2613 And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend, - 2614 Speak in the order of his funeral. - 2615 - 2616 BRUTUS. - 2617 You shall, Mark Antony. - 2618 - 2619 CASSIUS. - 2620 Brutus, a word with you. - 2621 [Aside to Brutus.] You know not what you do; do not consent - 2622 That Antony speak in his funeral: - 2623 Know you how much the people may be moved - 2624 By that which he will utter? - 2625 - 2626 BRUTUS. - 2627 [Aside to Cassius.] By your pardon: - 2628 I will myself into the pulpit first, - 2629 And show the reason of our Caesar's death: - 2630 What Antony shall speak, I will protest - 2631 He speaks by leave and by permission; - 2632 And that we are contented Caesar shall - 2633 Have all true rights and lawful ceremonies. - 2634 It shall advantage more than do us wrong. - 2635 - 2636 CASSIUS. - 2637 [Aside to Brutus.] I know not what may fall; I like it not. - 2638 - 2639 BRUTUS. - 2640 Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar's body. - 2641 You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, - 2642 But speak all good you can devise of Caesar; - 2643 And say you do't by our permission; - 2644 Else shall you not have any hand at all - 2645 About his funeral: and you shall speak - 2646 In the same pulpit whereto I am going, - 2647 After my speech is ended. - 2648 - 2649 ANTONY. - 2650 Be it so; - 2651 I do desire no more. - 2652 - 2653 BRUTUS. - 2654 Prepare the body, then, and follow us. - 2655 - 2656 [Exeunt all but Antony.] - 2657 - 2658 ANTONY. - 2659 O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, - 2660 That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! - 2661 Thou art the ruins of the noblest man - 2662 That ever lived in the tide of times. - 2663 Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! - 2664 Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,-- - 2665 Which, like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips - 2666 To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue,-- - 2667 A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; - 2668 Domestic fury and fierce civil strife - 2669 Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; - 2670 Blood and destruction shall be so in use, - 2671 And dreadful objects so familiar, - 2672 That mothers shall but smile when they behold - 2673 Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war; - 2674 All pity choked with custom of fell deeds: - 2675 And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, - 2676 With Ate' by his side come hot from Hell, - 2677 Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice - 2678 Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war, - 2679 That this foul deed shall smell above the earth - 2680 With carrion men, groaning for burial.-- - 2681 - 2682 [Enter a Servant]. - 2683 - 2684 You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not? - 2685 - 2686 SERVANT. - 2687 I do, Mark Antony. - 2688 - 2689 ANTONY. - 2690 Caesar did write for him to come to Rome. - 2691 - 2692 SERVANT. - 2693 He did receive his letters, and is coming; - 2694 And bid me say to you by word of mouth,-- - 2695 [Seeing the body.] O Caesar!-- - 2696 - 2697 ANTONY. - 2698 Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep. - 2699 Passion, I see, is catching; for mine eyes, - 2700 Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine, - 2701 Began to water. Is thy master coming? - 2702 - 2703 SERVANT. - 2704 He lies tonight within seven leagues of Rome. - 2705 - 2706 ANTONY. - 2707 Post back with speed, and tell him what hath chanced. - 2708 Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome, - 2709 No Rome of safety for Octavius yet; - 2710 Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet stay awhile; - 2711 Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corse - 2712 Into the market-place: there shall I try, - 2713 In my oration, how the people take - 2714 The cruel issue of these bloody men; - 2715 According to the which thou shalt discourse - 2716 To young Octavius of the state of things. - 2717 Lend me your hand. - 2718 - 2719 [Exeunt with Caesar's body.] - 2720 - 2721 - 2722 - 2723 SCENE II. The same. The Forum. - 2724 - 2725 [Enter Brutus and Cassius, with a throng of Citizens.] - 2726 - 2727 CITIZENS. - 2728 We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied. - 2729 - 2730 BRUTUS. - 2731 Then follow me, and give me audience, friends.-- - 2732 Cassius, go you into the other street - 2733 And part the numbers.-- - 2734 Those that will hear me speak, let 'em stay here; - 2735 Those that will follow Cassius, go with him; - 2736 And public reasons shall be rendered - 2737 Of Caesar's death. - 2738 - 2739 FIRST CITIZEN. - 2740 I will hear Brutus speak. - 2741 - 2742 SECOND CITIZEN. - 2743 I will hear Cassius; and compare their reasons, - 2744 When severally we hear them rendered. - 2745 - 2746 [Exit Cassius, with some of the Citizens. Brutus goes into the - 2747 rostrum.] - 2748 - 2749 THIRD CITIZEN. - 2750 The noble Brutus is ascended: silence! - 2751 - 2752 BRUTUS. - 2753 Be patient till the last. - 2754 Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause; and be - 2755 silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have - 2756 respect to mine honor, that you may believe: censure me in your - 2757 wisdom; and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. - 2758 If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to - 2759 him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If - 2760 then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is - 2761 my answer,--Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome - 2762 more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than - 2763 that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen? As Caesar loved me, I - 2764 weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was - 2765 valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. - 2766 There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his - 2767 valour; and death for his ambition. Who is here so base that - 2768 would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who - 2769 is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him - 2770 have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his - 2771 country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a - 2772 reply. - 2773 - 2774 CITIZENS. - 2775 None, Brutus, none. - 2776 - 2777 BRUTUS. - 2778 Then none have I offended. I have done no more to Caesar - 2779 than you shall do to Brutus. The question of his death is - 2780 enroll'd in the Capitol, his glory not extenuated, wherein he - 2781 was worthy;, nor his offenses enforced, for which he suffered - 2782 death. - 2783 - 2784 [Enter Antony and others, with Caesar's body.] - 2785 - 2786 Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony, who, though he had - 2787 no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a - 2788 place in the commonwealth; as which of you shall not? With this - 2789 I depart-- that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I - 2790 have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country - 2791 to need my death. - 2792 - 2793 CITIZENS. - 2794 Live, Brutus! live, live! - 2795 - 2796 FIRST CITIZEN. - 2797 Bring him with triumph home unto his house. - 2798 - 2799 SECOND CITIZEN. - 2800 Give him a statue with his ancestors. - 2801 - 2802 THIRD CITIZEN. - 2803 Let him be Caesar. - 2804 - 2805 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 2806 Caesar's better parts - 2807 Shall be crown'd in Brutus. - 2808 - 2809 FIRST CITIZEN. - 2810 We'll bring him to his house with shouts and clamours. - 2811 - 2812 BRUTUS. - 2813 My countrymen,-- - 2814 - 2815 SECOND CITIZEN. - 2816 Peace! silence! Brutus speaks. - 2817 - 2818 FIRST CITIZEN. - 2819 Peace, ho! - 2820 - 2821 BRUTUS. - 2822 Good countrymen, let me depart alone, - 2823 And, for my sake, stay here with Antony: - 2824 Do grace to Caesar's corpse, and grace his speech - 2825 Tending to Caesar's glory; which Mark Antony, - 2826 By our permission, is allow'd to make. - 2827 I do entreat you, not a man depart, - 2828 Save I alone, till Antony have spoke. - 2829 - 2830 [Exit.] - 2831 - 2832 FIRST CITIZEN. - 2833 Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony. - 2834 - 2835 THIRD CITIZEN. - 2836 Let him go up into the public chair; - 2837 We'll hear him.--Noble Antony, go up. - 2838 - 2839 ANTONY. - 2840 For Brutus' sake, I am beholding to you. - 2841 - 2842 [Goes up.] - 2843 - 2844 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 2845 What does he say of Brutus? - 2846 - 2847 THIRD CITIZEN. - 2848 He says, for Brutus' sake, - 2849 He finds himself beholding to us all. - 2850 - 2851 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 2852 'Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here. - 2853 - 2854 FIRST CITIZEN. - 2855 This Caesar was a tyrant. - 2856 - 2857 THIRD CITIZEN. - 2858 Nay, that's certain: - 2859 We are blest that Rome is rid of him. - 2860 - 2861 SECOND CITIZEN. - 2862 Peace! let us hear what Antony can say. - 2863 - 2864 ANTONY. - 2865 You gentle Romans,-- - 2866 - 2867 CITIZENS. - 2868 Peace, ho! let us hear him. - 2869 - 2870 ANTONY. - 2871 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; - 2872 I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. - 2873 The evil that men do lives after them; - 2874 The good is oft interred with their bones: - 2875 So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus - 2876 Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: - 2877 If it were so, it was a grievous fault; - 2878 And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. - 2879 Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,-- - 2880 For Brutus is an honourable man; - 2881 So are they all, all honorable men,-- - 2882 Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. - 2883 He was my friend, faithful and just to me: - 2884 But Brutus says he was ambitious; - 2885 And Brutus is an honourable man. - 2886 He hath brought many captives home to Rome, - 2887 Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: - 2888 Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? - 2889 When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: - 2890 Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: - 2891 Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; - 2892 And Brutus is an honourable man. - 2893 You all did see that on the Lupercal - 2894 I thrice presented him a kingly crown, - 2895 Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? - 2896 Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; - 2897 And, sure, he is an honourable man. - 2898 I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, - 2899 But here I am to speak what I do know. - 2900 You all did love him once,--not without cause: - 2901 What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?-- - 2902 O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, - 2903 And men have lost their reason!--Bear with me; - 2904 My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, - 2905 And I must pause till it come back to me. - 2906 - 2907 FIRST CITIZEN. - 2908 Methinks there is much reason in his sayings. - 2909 - 2910 SECOND CITIZEN. - 2911 If thou consider rightly of the matter, - 2912 Caesar has had great wrong. - 2913 - 2914 THIRD CITIZEN. - 2915 Has he not, masters? - 2916 I fear there will a worse come in his place. - 2917 - 2918 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 2919 Mark'd ye his words? He would not take the crown; - 2920 Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious. - 2921 - 2922 FIRST CITIZEN. - 2923 If it be found so, some will dear abide it. - 2924 - 2925 SECOND CITIZEN. - 2926 Poor soul! his eyes are red as fire with weeping. - 2927 - 2928 THIRD CITIZEN. - 2929 There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony. - 2930 - 2931 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 2932 Now mark him; he begins again to speak. - 2933 - 2934 ANTONY. - 2935 But yesterday the word of Caesar might - 2936 Have stood against the world: now lies he there, - 2937 And none so poor to do him reverence. - 2938 O masters, if I were disposed to stir - 2939 Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, - 2940 I should do Brutus wrong and Cassius wrong, - 2941 Who, you all know, are honourable men: - 2942 I will not do them wrong; I rather choose - 2943 To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you, - 2944 Than I will wrong such honourable men. - 2945 But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar,-- - 2946 I found it in his closet,--'tis his will: - 2947 Let but the commons hear this testament,-- - 2948 Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,-- - 2949 And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, - 2950 And dip their napkins in his sacred blood; - 2951 Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, - 2952 And, dying, mention it within their wills, - 2953 Bequeathing it as a rich legacy - 2954 Unto their issue. - 2955 - 2956 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 2957 We'll hear the will: read it, Mark Antony. - 2958 - 2959 CITIZENS. - 2960 The will, the will! We will hear Caesar's will. - 2961 - 2962 ANTONY. - 2963 Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it; - 2964 It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you. - 2965 You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; - 2966 And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, - 2967 It will inflame you, it will make you mad. - 2968 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs; - 2969 For if you should, O, what would come of it! - 2970 - 2971 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 2972 Read the will! we'll hear it, Antony; - 2973 You shall read us the will,--Caesar's will! - 2974 - 2975 ANTONY. - 2976 Will you be patient? will you stay awhile? - 2977 I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it: - 2978 I fear I wrong the honorable men - 2979 Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar; I do fear it. - 2980 - 2981 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 2982 They were traitors: honourable men! - 2983 - 2984 CITIZENS. - 2985 The will! The testament! - 2986 - 2987 SECOND CITIZEN. - 2988 They were villains, murderers. The will! read the will! - 2989 - 2990 ANTONY. - 2991 You will compel me, then, to read the will? - 2992 Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar, - 2993 And let me show you him that made the will. - 2994 Shall I descend? and will you give me leave? - 2995 - 2996 CITIZENS. - 2997 Come down. - 2998 - 2999 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3000 Descend. - 3001 - 3002 [He comes down.] - 3003 - 3004 THIRD CITIZEN. - 3005 You shall have leave. - 3006 - 3007 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 3008 A ring! stand round. - 3009 - 3010 FIRST CITIZEN. - 3011 Stand from the hearse, stand from the body. - 3012 - 3013 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3014 Room for Antony!--most noble Antony! - 3015 - 3016 ANTONY. - 3017 Nay, press not so upon me; stand far' off. - 3018 - 3019 CITIZENS. - 3020 Stand back; room! bear back. - 3021 - 3022 ANTONY. - 3023 If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. - 3024 You all do know this mantle: I remember - 3025 The first time ever Caesar put it on; - 3026 'Twas on a Summer's evening, in his tent, - 3027 That day he overcame the Nervii. - 3028 Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through: - 3029 See what a rent the envious Casca made: - 3030 Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd; - 3031 And as he pluck'd his cursed steel away, - 3032 Mark how the blood of Caesar follow'd it,-- - 3033 As rushing out of doors, to be resolved - 3034 If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no; - 3035 For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: - 3036 Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! - 3037 This was the most unkindest cut of all; - 3038 For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, - 3039 Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, - 3040 Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart; - 3041 And, in his mantle muffling up his face, - 3042 Even at the base of Pompey's statua, - 3043 Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell. - 3044 O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! - 3045 Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, - 3046 Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. - 3047 O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel - 3048 The dint of pity: these are gracious drops. - 3049 Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold - 3050 Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here, - 3051 Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors. - 3052 - 3053 FIRST CITIZEN. - 3054 O piteous spectacle! - 3055 - 3056 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3057 O noble Caesar! - 3058 - 3059 THIRD CITIZEN. - 3060 O woeful day! - 3061 - 3062 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 3063 O traitors, villains! - 3064 - 3065 FIRST CITIZEN. - 3066 O most bloody sight! - 3067 - 3068 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3069 We will be revenged. - 3070 - 3071 CITIZENS. - 3072 Revenge,--about,--seek,--burn,--fire,--kill,--slay,--let not a - 3073 traitor live! - 3074 - 3075 ANTONY. - 3076 Stay, countrymen. - 3077 - 3078 FIRST CITIZEN. - 3079 Peace there! hear the noble Antony. - 3080 - 3081 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3082 We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him. - 3083 - 3084 ANTONY. - 3085 Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up - 3086 To such a sudden flood of mutiny. - 3087 They that have done this deed are honourable: - 3088 What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, - 3089 That made them do it; they're wise and honourable, - 3090 And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. - 3091 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: - 3092 I am no orator, as Brutus is; - 3093 But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, - 3094 That love my friend; and that they know full well - 3095 That gave me public leave to speak of him: - 3096 For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, - 3097 Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, - 3098 To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; - 3099 I tell you that which you yourselves do know; - 3100 Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor dumb mouths, - 3101 And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, - 3102 And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony - 3103 Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue - 3104 In every wound of Caesar, that should move - 3105 The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. - 3106 - 3107 CITIZENS. - 3108 We'll mutiny. - 3109 - 3110 FIRST CITIZEN. - 3111 We'll burn the house of Brutus. - 3112 - 3113 THIRD CITIZEN. - 3114 Away, then! come, seek the conspirators. - 3115 - 3116 ANTONY. - 3117 Yet hear me, countrymen; yet hear me speak. - 3118 - 3119 CITIZENS. - 3120 Peace, ho! hear Antony; most noble Antony! - 3121 - 3122 ANTONY. - 3123 Why, friends, you go to do you know not what. - 3124 Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? - 3125 Alas, you know not; I must tell you then: - 3126 You have forgot the will I told you of. - 3127 - 3128 CITIZENS. - 3129 Most true; the will!--let's stay, and hear the will. - 3130 - 3131 ANTONY. - 3132 Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. - 3133 To every Roman citizen he gives, - 3134 To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. - 3135 - 3136 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3137 Most noble Caesar!--we'll revenge his death. - 3138 - 3139 THIRD CITIZEN. - 3140 O, royal Caesar! - 3141 - 3142 ANTONY. - 3143 Hear me with patience. - 3144 - 3145 CITIZENS. - 3146 Peace, ho! - 3147 - 3148 ANTONY. - 3149 Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, - 3150 His private arbors, and new-planted orchards, - 3151 On this side Tiber: he hath left them you, - 3152 And to your heirs forever; common pleasures, - 3153 To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. - 3154 Here was a Caesar! when comes such another? - 3155 - 3156 FIRST CITIZEN. - 3157 Never, never.--Come, away, away! - 3158 We'll burn his body in the holy place, - 3159 And with the brands fire the traitors' houses. - 3160 Take up the body. - 3161 - 3162 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3163 Go, fetch fire. - 3164 - 3165 THIRD CITIZEN. - 3166 Pluck down benches. - 3167 - 3168 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 3169 Pluck down forms, windows, any thing. - 3170 - 3171 [Exeunt Citizens, with the body.] - 3172 - 3173 ANTONY. - 3174 Now let it work.--Mischief, thou art afoot, - 3175 Take thou what course thou wilt!-- - 3176 - 3177 [Enter a Servant.] - 3178 - 3179 How now, fellow? - 3180 - 3181 SERVANT. - 3182 Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome. - 3183 - 3184 ANTONY. - 3185 Where is he? - 3186 - 3187 SERVANT. - 3188 He and Lepidus are at Caesar's house. - 3189 - 3190 ANTONY. - 3191 And thither will I straight to visit him: - 3192 He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry, - 3193 And in this mood will give us any thing. - 3194 - 3195 SERVANT. - 3196 I heard 'em say Brutus and Cassius - 3197 Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome. - 3198 - 3199 ANTONY. - 3200 Belike they had some notice of the people, - 3201 How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius. - 3202 - 3203 [Exeunt.] - 3204 - 3205 - 3206 - 3207 SCENE III. The same. A street. - 3208 - 3209 [Enter Cinna, the poet.] - 3210 - 3211 CINNA. - 3212 I dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar, - 3213 And things unluckily charge my fantasy: - 3214 I have no will to wander forth of doors, - 3215 Yet something leads me forth. - 3216 - 3217 [Enter Citizens.] - 3218 - 3219 FIRST CITIZEN. - 3220 What is your name? - 3221 - 3222 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3223 Whither are you going? - 3224 - 3225 THIRD CITIZEN. - 3226 Where do you dwell? - 3227 - 3228 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 3229 Are you a married man or a bachelor? - 3230 - 3231 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3232 Answer every man directly. - 3233 - 3234 FIRST CITIZEN. - 3235 Ay, and briefly. - 3236 - 3237 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 3238 Ay, and wisely. - 3239 - 3240 THIRD CITIZEN. - 3241 Ay, and truly; you were best. - 3242 - 3243 CINNA. - 3244 What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I dwell? Am I - 3245 a married man or a bachelor? Then, to answer every man directly - 3246 and briefly, wisely and truly. Wisely I say I am a bachelor. - 3247 - 3248 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3249 That's as much as to say they are fools that marry; you'll bear - 3250 me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed; directly. - 3251 - 3252 CINNA. - 3253 Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral. - 3254 - 3255 FIRST CITIZEN. - 3256 As a friend, or an enemy? - 3257 - 3258 CINNA. - 3259 As a friend. - 3260 - 3261 SECOND CITIZEN. - 3262 That matter is answered directly. - 3263 - 3264 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 3265 For your dwelling,--briefly. - 3266 - 3267 CINNA. - 3268 Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol. - 3269 - 3270 THIRD CITIZEN. - 3271 Your name, sir, truly. - 3272 - 3273 CINNA. - 3274 Truly, my name is Cinna. - 3275 - 3276 FIRST CITIZEN. - 3277 Tear him to pieces! he's a conspirator. - 3278 - 3279 CINNA. - 3280 I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet. - 3281 - 3282 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 3283 Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses. - 3284 - 3285 CINNA. - 3286 I am not Cinna the conspirator. - 3287 - 3288 FOURTH CITIZEN. - 3289 It is no matter, his name's Cinna; pluck but his - 3290 name out of his heart, and turn him going. - 3291 - 3292 THIRD CITIZEN. - 3293 Tear him, tear him! Come; brands, ho! firebrands. To - 3294 Brutus', to Cassius'; burn all. Some to Decius' house, and some - 3295 to Casca's, some to Ligarius': away, go! - 3296 - 3297 [Exeunt.] - 3298 - 3299 - 3300 - 3301 ACT IV. - 3302 - 3303 SCENE I. Rome. A room in Antony's house. - 3304 - 3305 [Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus, seated at a table.] - 3306 - 3307 ANTONY. - 3308 These many then shall die; their names are prick'd. - 3309 - 3310 OCTAVIUS. - 3311 Your brother too must die: consent you, Lepidus? - 3312 - 3313 LEPIDUS. - 3314 I do consent,-- - 3315 - 3316 OCTAVIUS. - 3317 Prick him down, Antony. - 3318 - 3319 LEPIDUS. - 3320 --Upon condition Publius shall not live, - 3321 Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony. - 3322 - 3323 ANTONY. - 3324 He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. - 3325 But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house; - 3326 Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine - 3327 How to cut off some charge in legacies. - 3328 - 3329 LEPIDUS. - 3330 What, shall I find you here? - 3331 - 3332 OCTAVIUS. - 3333 Or here, or at the Capitol. - 3334 - 3335 [Exit Lepidus.] - 3336 - 3337 ANTONY. - 3338 This is a slight unmeritable man, - 3339 Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit, - 3340 The three-fold world divided, he should stand - 3341 One of the three to share it? - 3342 - 3343 OCTAVIUS. - 3344 So you thought him; - 3345 And took his voice who should be prick'd to die, - 3346 In our black sentence and proscription. - 3347 - 3348 ANTONY. - 3349 Octavius, I have seen more days than you: - 3350 And, though we lay these honors on this man, - 3351 To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads, - 3352 He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold, - 3353 To groan and sweat under the business, - 3354 Either led or driven, as we point the way; - 3355 And having brought our treasure where we will, - 3356 Then take we down his load and turn him off, - 3357 Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears - 3358 And graze in commons. - 3359 - 3360 OCTAVIUS. - 3361 You may do your will; - 3362 But he's a tried and valiant soldier. - 3363 - 3364 ANTONY. - 3365 So is my horse, Octavius;and for that - 3366 I do appoint him store of provender: - 3367 It is a creature that I teach to fight, - 3368 To wind, to stop, to run directly on, - 3369 His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit. - 3370 And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so; - 3371 He must be taught, and train'd, and bid go forth: - 3372 A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds - 3373 On objects, arts, and imitations, - 3374 Which, out of use and staled by other men, - 3375 Begin his fashion: do not talk of him - 3376 But as a property. And now, Octavius, - 3377 Listen great things. Brutus and Cassius - 3378 Are levying powers: we must straight make head; - 3379 Therefore let our alliance be combined, - 3380 Our best friends made, our means stretch'd; - 3381 And let us presently go sit in council, - 3382 How covert matters may be best disclosed, - 3383 And open perils surest answered. - 3384 - 3385 OCTAVIUS. - 3386 Let us do so: for we are at the stake, - 3387 And bay'd about with many enemies; - 3388 And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, - 3389 Millions of mischiefs. - 3390 - 3391 [Exeunt.] - 3392 - 3393 - 3394 - 3395 SCENE II. Before Brutus' tent, in the camp near Sardis. - 3396 - 3397 [Drum. Enter Brutus, Lucilius, Titinius, and Soldiers; Pindarus - 3398 meeting them; Lucius at some distance.] - 3399 - 3400 BRUTUS. - 3401 Stand, ho! - 3402 - 3403 LUCILIUS. - 3404 Give the word, ho! and stand. - 3405 - 3406 BRUTUS. - 3407 What now, Lucilius! is Cassius near? - 3408 - 3409 LUCILIUS. - 3410 He is at hand; and Pindarus is come - 3411 To do you salutation from his master. - 3412 - 3413 [Pindarus gives a letter to Brutus.] - 3414 - 3415 BRUTUS. - 3416 He greets me well.--Your master, Pindarus, - 3417 In his own change, or by ill officers, - 3418 Hath given me some worthy cause to wish - 3419 Things done, undone: but, if he be at hand, - 3420 I shall be satisfied. - 3421 - 3422 PINDARUS. - 3423 I do not doubt - 3424 But that my noble master will appear - 3425 Such as he is, full of regard and honour. - 3426 - 3427 BRUTUS. - 3428 He is not doubted.--A word, Lucilius: - 3429 How he received you, let me be resolved. - 3430 - 3431 LUCILIUS. - 3432 With courtesy and with respect enough; - 3433 But not with such familiar instances, - 3434 Nor with such free and friendly conference, - 3435 As he hath used of old. - 3436 - 3437 BRUTUS. - 3438 Thou hast described - 3439 A hot friend cooling: ever note, Lucilius, - 3440 When love begins to sicken and decay, - 3441 It useth an enforced ceremony. - 3442 There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; - 3443 But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, - 3444 Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; - 3445 But, when they should endure the bloody spur, - 3446 They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades - 3447 Sink in the trial. Comes his army on? - 3448 - 3449 LUCILIUS. - 3450 They meant his night in Sard is to be quarter'd: - 3451 The greater part, the Horse in general, - 3452 Are come with Cassius. - 3453 - 3454 [March within.] - 3455 - 3456 BRUTUS. - 3457 Hark! he is arrived. - 3458 March gently on to meet him. - 3459 - 3460 [Enter Cassius and Soldiers.] - 3461 - 3462 CASSIUS. - 3463 Stand, ho! - 3464 - 3465 BRUTUS. - 3466 Stand, ho! Speak the word along. - 3467 - 3468 FIRST SOLDIER. - 3469 Stand! - 3470 - 3471 SECOND SOLDIER. - 3472 Stand! - 3473 - 3474 THIRD SOLDIER. - 3475 Stand! - 3476 - 3477 CASSIUS. - 3478 Most noble brother, you have done me wrong. - 3479 - 3480 BRUTUS. - 3481 Judge me, you gods! wrong I mine enemies? - 3482 And, if not so, how should I wrong a brother? - 3483 - 3484 CASSIUS. - 3485 Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs; - 3486 And when you do them-- - 3487 - 3488 BRUTUS. - 3489 Cassius, be content; - 3490 Speak your griefs softly, I do know you well. - 3491 Before the eyes of both our armies here, - 3492 Which should perceive nothing but love from us, - 3493 Let us not wrangle; bid them move away; - 3494 Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs, - 3495 And I will give you audience. - 3496 - 3497 CASSIUS. - 3498 Pindarus, - 3499 Bid our commanders lead their charges off - 3500 A little from this ground. - 3501 - 3502 BRUTUS. - 3503 Lucilius, do you the like; and let no man - 3504 Come to our tent till we have done our conference.-- - 3505 Lucius and Titinius, guard our door. - 3506 - 3507 [Exeunt.] - 3508 - 3509 - 3510 - 3511 SCENE III. within the tent of Brutus. - 3512 - 3513 [Enter Brutus and Cassius.] - 3514 - 3515 CASSIUS. - 3516 That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this: - 3517 You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella - 3518 For taking bribes here of the Sardians; - 3519 Whereas my letters, praying on his side - 3520 Because I knew the man, were slighted off. - 3521 - 3522 BRUTUS. - 3523 You wrong'd yourself to write in such a case. - 3524 - 3525 CASSIUS. - 3526 In such a time as this it is not meet - 3527 That every nice offense should bear his comment. - 3528 - 3529 BRUTUS. - 3530 Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself - 3531 Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm, - 3532 To sell and mart your offices for gold - 3533 To undeservers. - 3534 - 3535 CASSIUS. - 3536 I an itching palm! - 3537 You know that you are Brutus that speak this, - 3538 Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last. - 3539 - 3540 BRUTUS. - 3541 The name of Cassius honors this corruption, - 3542 And chastisement doth therefore hide his head. - 3543 - 3544 CASSIUS. - 3545 Chastisement! - 3546 - 3547 BRUTUS. - 3548 Remember March, the Ides of March remember: - 3549 Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? - 3550 What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, - 3551 And not for justice? What! shall one of us, - 3552 That struck the foremost man of all this world - 3553 But for supporting robbers,--shall we now - 3554 Contaminate our fingers with base bribes - 3555 And sell the mighty space of our large honours - 3556 For so much trash as may be grasped thus? - 3557 I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, - 3558 Than such a Roman. - 3559 - 3560 CASSIUS. - 3561 Brutus, bay not me, - 3562 I'll not endure it: you forget yourself, - 3563 To hedge me in; I am a soldier, ay, - 3564 Older in practice, abler than yourself - 3565 To make conditions. - 3566 - 3567 BRUTUS. - 3568 Go to; you are not, Cassius. - 3569 - 3570 CASSIUS. - 3571 I am. - 3572 - 3573 BRUTUS. - 3574 I say you are not. - 3575 - 3576 CASSIUS. - 3577 Urge me no more, I shall forget myself; - 3578 Have mind upon your health, tempt me no farther. - 3579 - 3580 BRUTUS. - 3581 Away, slight man! - 3582 - 3583 CASSIUS. - 3584 Is't possible? - 3585 - 3586 BRUTUS. - 3587 Hear me, for I will speak. - 3588 Must I give way and room to your rash choler? - 3589 Shall I be frighted when a madman stares? - 3590 - 3591 CASSIUS. - 3592 O gods, ye gods! must I endure all this? - 3593 - 3594 BRUTUS. - 3595 All this? ay, more: fret till your proud heart break; - 3596 Go show your slaves how choleric you are, - 3597 And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge? - 3598 Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch - 3599 Under your testy humour? By the gods, - 3600 You shall digest the venom of your spleen, - 3601 Though it do split you; for, from this day forth, - 3602 I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, - 3603 When you are waspish. - 3604 - 3605 CASSIUS. - 3606 Is it come to this? - 3607 - 3608 BRUTUS. - 3609 You say you are a better soldier: - 3610 Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, - 3611 And it shall please me well: for mine own part, - 3612 I shall be glad to learn of abler men. - 3613 - 3614 CASSIUS. - 3615 You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus. - 3616 I said, an elder soldier, not a better: - 3617 Did I say "better"? - 3618 - 3619 BRUTUS. - 3620 If you did, I care not. - 3621 - 3622 CASSIUS. - 3623 When Caesar lived, he durst not thus have moved me. - 3624 - 3625 BRUTUS. - 3626 Peace, peace! you durst not so have tempted him. - 3627 - 3628 CASSIUS. - 3629 I durst not? - 3630 - 3631 BRUTUS. - 3632 No. - 3633 - 3634 CASSIUS. - 3635 What, durst not tempt him? - 3636 - 3637 BRUTUS. - 3638 For your life you durst not. - 3639 - 3640 CASSIUS. - 3641 Do not presume too much upon my love; - 3642 I may do that I shall be sorry for. - 3643 - 3644 BRUTUS. - 3645 You have done that you should be sorry for. - 3646 There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, - 3647 For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, - 3648 That they pass by me as the idle wind - 3649 Which I respect not. I did send to you - 3650 For certain sums of gold, which you denied me;-- - 3651 For I can raise no money by vile means: - 3652 By Heaven, I had rather coin my heart, - 3653 And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring - 3654 From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash - 3655 By any indirection:--I did send - 3656 To you for gold to pay my legions, - 3657 Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius? - 3658 Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so? - 3659 When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous - 3660 To lock such rascal counters from his friends, - 3661 Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts, - 3662 Dash him to pieces! - 3663 - 3664 CASSIUS. - 3665 I denied you not. - 3666 - 3667 BRUTUS. - 3668 You did. - 3669 - 3670 CASSIUS. - 3671 I did not. He was but a fool - 3672 That brought my answer back. Brutus hath rived my heart: - 3673 A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, - 3674 But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. - 3675 - 3676 BRUTUS. - 3677 I do not, till you practise them on me. - 3678 - 3679 CASSIUS. - 3680 You love me not. - 3681 - 3682 BRUTUS. - 3683 I do not like your faults. - 3684 - 3685 CASSIUS. - 3686 A friendly eye could never see such faults. - 3687 - 3688 BRUTUS. - 3689 A flatterer's would not, though they do appear - 3690 As huge as high Olympus. - 3691 - 3692 CASSIUS. - 3693 Come, Antony and young Octavius, come, - 3694 Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, - 3695 For Cassius is a-weary of the world; - 3696 Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother; - 3697 Check'd like a bondman; all his faults observed, - 3698 Set in a note-book, learn'd and conn'd by rote, - 3699 To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep - 3700 My spirit from mine eyes!--There is my dagger, - 3701 And here my naked breast; within, a heart - 3702 Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold: - 3703 If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth; - 3704 I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart: - 3705 Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know, - 3706 When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better - 3707 Than ever thou lovedst Cassius. - 3708 - 3709 BRUTUS. - 3710 Sheathe your dagger: - 3711 Be angry when you will, it shall have scope; - 3712 Do what you will, dishonor shall be humour. - 3713 O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb - 3714 That carries anger as the flint bears fire; - 3715 Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, - 3716 And straight is cold again. - 3717 - 3718 CASSIUS. - 3719 Hath Cassius lived - 3720 To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus, - 3721 When grief, and blood ill-temper'd, vexeth him? - 3722 - 3723 BRUTUS. - 3724 When I spoke that, I was ill-temper'd too. - 3725 - 3726 CASSIUS. - 3727 Do you confess so much? Give me your hand. - 3728 - 3729 BRUTUS. - 3730 And my heart too. - 3731 - 3732 CASSIUS. - 3733 O Brutus,-- - 3734 - 3735 BRUTUS. - 3736 What's the matter? - 3737 - 3738 CASSIUS. - 3739 --Have not you love enough to bear with me, - 3740 When that rash humor which my mother gave me - 3741 Makes me forgetful? - 3742 - 3743 BRUTUS. - 3744 Yes, Cassius; and from henceforth, - 3745 When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, - 3746 He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so. - 3747 - 3748 [Noise within.] - 3749 - 3750 POET. - 3751 [Within.] Let me go in to see the generals: - 3752 There is some grudge between 'em; 'tis not meet - 3753 They be alone. - 3754 - 3755 LUCILIUS. - 3756 [Within.] You shall not come to them. - 3757 - 3758 POET. - 3759 [Within.] Nothing but death shall stay me. - 3760 - 3761 [Enter Poet, followed by Lucilius, and Titinius.] - 3762 - 3763 CASSIUS. - 3764 How now! What's the matter? - 3765 - 3766 POET. - 3767 For shame, you generals! what do you mean? - 3768 Love, and be friends, as two such men should be; - 3769 For I have seen more years, I'm sure, than ye. - 3770 - 3771 CASSIUS. - 3772 Ha, ha! How vilely doth this cynic rhyme! - 3773 - 3774 BRUTUS. - 3775 Get you hence, sirrah; saucy fellow, hence! - 3776 - 3777 CASSIUS. - 3778 Bear with him, Brutus; 'tis his fashion. - 3779 - 3780 BRUTUS. - 3781 I'll know his humor when he knows his time: - 3782 What should the wars do with these jigging fools?-- - 3783 Companion, hence! - 3784 - 3785 CASSIUS. - 3786 Away, away, be gone! - 3787 - 3788 [Exit Poet.] - 3789 - 3790 BRUTUS. - 3791 Lucilius and Titinius, bid the commanders - 3792 Prepare to lodge their companies tonight. - 3793 - 3794 CASSIUS. - 3795 And come yourselves and bring Messala with you - 3796 Immediately to us. - 3797 - 3798 [Exeunt Lucilius and Titinius.] - 3799 - 3800 BRUTUS. - 3801 Lucius, a bowl of wine! - 3802 - 3803 [Exit Lucius.] - 3804 - 3805 CASSIUS. - 3806 I did not think you could have been so angry. - 3807 - 3808 BRUTUS. - 3809 O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs. - 3810 - 3811 CASSIUS. - 3812 Of your philosophy you make no use, - 3813 If you give place to accidental evils. - 3814 - 3815 BRUTUS. - 3816 No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead. - 3817 - 3818 CASSIUS. - 3819 Ha! Portia! - 3820 - 3821 BRUTUS. - 3822 She is dead. - 3823 - 3824 CASSIUS. - 3825 How 'scaped I killing, when I cross'd you so?-- - 3826 O insupportable and touching loss!-- - 3827 Upon what sickness? - 3828 - 3829 BRUTUS. - 3830 Impatient of my absence, - 3831 And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony - 3832 Have made themselves so strong;--for with her death - 3833 That tidings came;--with this she fell distract, - 3834 And, her attendants absent, swallow'd fire. - 3835 - 3836 CASSIUS. - 3837 And died so? - 3838 - 3839 BRUTUS. - 3840 Even so. - 3841 - 3842 CASSIUS. - 3843 O ye immortal gods! - 3844 - 3845 [Re-enter Lucius, with wine and a taper.] - 3846 - 3847 BRUTUS. - 3848 Speak no more of her.--Give me a bowl of wine.-- - 3849 In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. - 3850 - 3851 [Drinks.] - 3852 - 3853 CASSIUS. - 3854 My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. - 3855 Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; - 3856 I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love. - 3857 - 3858 [Drinks.] - 3859 - 3860 BRUTUS. - 3861 Come in, Titinius!-- - 3862 - 3863 [Exit Lucius.] - 3864 - 3865 [Re-enter Titinius, with Messala.] - 3866 - 3867 Welcome, good Messala.-- - 3868 Now sit we close about this taper here, - 3869 And call in question our necessities. - 3870 - 3871 CASSIUS. - 3872 Portia, art thou gone? - 3873 - 3874 BRUTUS. - 3875 No more, I pray you.-- - 3876 Messala, I have here received letters, - 3877 That young Octavius and Mark Antony - 3878 Come down upon us with a mighty power, - 3879 Bending their expedition toward Philippi. - 3880 - 3881 MESSALA. - 3882 Myself have letters of the selfsame tenour. - 3883 - 3884 BRUTUS. - 3885 With what addition? - 3886 - 3887 MESSALA. - 3888 That by proscription and bills of outlawry - 3889 Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus - 3890 Have put to death an hundred Senators. - 3891 - 3892 BRUTUS. - 3893 There in our letters do not well agree: - 3894 Mine speak of seventy Senators that died - 3895 By their proscriptions, Cicero being one. - 3896 - 3897 CASSIUS. - 3898 Cicero one! - 3899 - 3900 MESSALA. - 3901 Cicero is dead, - 3902 And by that order of proscription.-- - 3903 Had you your letters from your wife, my lord? - 3904 - 3905 BRUTUS. - 3906 No, Messala. - 3907 - 3908 MESSALA. - 3909 Nor nothing in your letters writ of her? - 3910 - 3911 BRUTUS. - 3912 Nothing, Messala. - 3913 - 3914 MESSALA. - 3915 That, methinks, is strange. - 3916 - 3917 BRUTUS. - 3918 Why ask you? hear you aught of her in yours? - 3919 - 3920 MESSALA. - 3921 No, my lord. - 3922 - 3923 BRUTUS. - 3924 Now, as you are a Roman, tell me true. - 3925 - 3926 MESSALA. - 3927 Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell: - 3928 For certain she is dead, and by strange manner. - 3929 - 3930 BRUTUS. - 3931 Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala: - 3932 With meditating that she must die once, - 3933 I have the patience to endure it now. - 3934 - 3935 MESSALA. - 3936 Even so great men great losses should endure. - 3937 - 3938 CASSIUS. - 3939 I have as much of this in art as you, - 3940 But yet my nature could not bear it so. - 3941 - 3942 BRUTUS. - 3943 Well, to our work alive. What do you think - 3944 Of marching to Philippi presently? - 3945 - 3946 CASSIUS. - 3947 I do not think it good. - 3948 - 3949 BRUTUS. - 3950 Your reason? - 3951 - 3952 CASSIUS. - 3953 This it is: - 3954 'Tis better that the enemy seek us;: - 3955 So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers, - 3956 Doing himself offense; whilst we, lying still, - 3957 Are full of rest, defense, and nimbleness. - 3958 - 3959 BRUTUS. - 3960 Good reasons must, of force, give place to better. - 3961 The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground - 3962 Do stand but in a forced affection; - 3963 For they have grudged us contribution: - 3964 The enemy, marching along by them, - 3965 By them shall make a fuller number up, - 3966 Come on refresh'd, new-added, and encouraged; - 3967 From which advantage shall we cut him off, - 3968 If at Philippi we do face him there, - 3969 These people at our back. - 3970 - 3971 CASSIUS. - 3972 Hear me, good brother. - 3973 - 3974 BRUTUS. - 3975 Under your pardon. You must note besides, - 3976 That we have tried the utmost of our friends, - 3977 Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe: - 3978 The enemy increaseth every day; - 3979 We, at the height, are ready to decline. - 3980 There is a tide in the affairs of men - 3981 Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; - 3982 Omitted, all the voyage of their life - 3983 Is bound in shallows and in miseries. - 3984 On such a full sea are we now afloat; - 3985 And we must take the current when it serves, - 3986 Or lose our ventures. - 3987 - 3988 CASSIUS. - 3989 Then, with your will, go on: - 3990 We'll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi. - 3991 - 3992 BRUTUS. - 3993 The deep of night is crept upon our talk, - 3994 And nature must obey necessity; - 3995 Which we will niggard with a little rest. - 3996 There is no more to say? - 3997 - 3998 CASSIUS. - 3999 No more. Good night: - 4000 Early to-morrow will we rise, and hence. - 4001 - 4002 BRUTUS. - 4003 Lucius!--My gown.--Farewell now, good Messala:-- - 4004 Good night, Titinius:--noble, noble Cassius, - 4005 Good night, and good repose. - 4006 - 4007 CASSIUS. - 4008 O my dear brother! - 4009 This was an ill beginning of the night. - 4010 Never come such division 'tween our souls! - 4011 Let it not, Brutus. - 4012 - 4013 BRUTUS. - 4014 Every thing is well. - 4015 - 4016 CASSIUS. - 4017 Good night, my lord. - 4018 - 4019 BRUTUS. - 4020 Good night, good brother. - 4021 - 4022 TITINIUS. MESSALA. - 4023 Good night, Lord Brutus. - 4024 - 4025 BRUTUS. - 4026 Farewell, everyone.-- - 4027 - 4028 [Exeunt Cassius, Titinius, and Messala.] - 4029 - 4030 [Re-enter Lucius, with the gown.] - 4031 - 4032 Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument? - 4033 - 4034 LUCIUS. - 4035 Here in the tent. - 4036 - 4037 BRUTUS. - 4038 What, thou speak'st drowsily: - 4039 Poor knave, I blame thee not, thou art o'er-watch'd. - 4040 Call Claudius and some other of my men; - 4041 I'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent. - 4042 - 4043 LUCIUS. - 4044 Varro and Claudius! - 4045 - 4046 [Enter Varro and Claudius.] - 4047 - 4048 VARRO. - 4049 Calls my lord? - 4050 - 4051 BRUTUS. - 4052 I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep; - 4053 It may be I shall raise you by-and-by - 4054 On business to my brother Cassius. - 4055 - 4056 VARRO. - 4057 So please you, we will stand and watch your pleasure. - 4058 - 4059 BRUTUS. - 4060 I would not have it so; lie down, good sirs: - 4061 It may be I shall otherwise bethink me.-- - 4062 Look, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so; - 4063 I put it in the pocket of my gown. - 4064 - 4065 [Servants lie down.] - 4066 - 4067 LUCIUS. - 4068 I was sure your lordship did not give it me. - 4069 - 4070 BRUTUS. - 4071 Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful. - 4072 Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile, - 4073 And touch thy instrument a strain or two? - 4074 - 4075 LUCIUS. - 4076 Ay, my lord, an't please you. - 4077 - 4078 BRUTUS. - 4079 It does, my boy: - 4080 I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing. - 4081 - 4082 LUCIUS. - 4083 It is my duty, sir. - 4084 - 4085 BRUTUS. - 4086 I should not urge thy duty past thy might; - 4087 I know young bloods look for a time of rest. - 4088 - 4089 LUCIUS. - 4090 I have slept, my lord, already. - 4091 - 4092 BRUTUS. - 4093 It was well done; and thou shalt sleep again; - 4094 I will not hold thee long: if I do live, - 4095 I will be good to thee.-- - 4096 - 4097 [Lucius plays and sings till he falls asleep.] - 4098 - 4099 This is a sleepy tune.--O murderous Slumber, - 4100 Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy, - 4101 That plays thee music?--Gentle knave, good night; - 4102 I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee: - 4103 If thou dost nod, thou breakst thy instrument; - 4104 I'll take it from thee; and, good boy, good night.-- - 4105 Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn'd down - 4106 Where I left reading? Here it is, I think. - 4107 - 4108 [Enter the Ghost of Caesar.] - 4109 - 4110 How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here? - 4111 I think it is the weakness of mine eyes - 4112 That shapes this monstrous apparition. - 4113 It comes upon me.--Art thou any thing? - 4114 Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil, - 4115 That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare? - 4116 Speak to me what thou art. - 4117 - 4118 GHOST. - 4119 Thy evil spirit, Brutus. - 4120 - 4121 BRUTUS. - 4122 Why comest thou? - 4123 - 4124 GHOST. - 4125 To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi. - 4126 - 4127 BRUTUS. - 4128 Well; then I shall see thee again? - 4129 - 4130 GHOST. - 4131 Ay, at Philippi. - 4132 - 4133 BRUTUS. - 4134 Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then. - 4135 - 4136 [Ghost vanishes.] - 4137 Now I have taken heart, thou vanishest: - 4138 Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee.-- - 4139 Boy! Lucius!--Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake!--Claudius! - 4140 - 4141 LUCIUS. - 4142 The strings, my lord, are false. - 4143 - 4144 BRUTUS. - 4145 He thinks he still is at his instrument.-- - 4146 Lucius, awake! - 4147 - 4148 LUCIUS. - 4149 My lord? - 4150 - 4151 BRUTUS. - 4152 Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so criedst out? - 4153 - 4154 LUCIUS. - 4155 My lord, I do not know that I did cry. - 4156 - 4157 BRUTUS. - 4158 Yes, that thou didst: didst thou see any thing? - 4159 - 4160 LUCIUS. - 4161 Nothing, my lord. - 4162 - 4163 BRUTUS. - 4164 Sleep again, Lucius.--Sirrah Claudius!-- - 4165 [To Varro.] Fellow thou, awake! - 4166 - 4167 VARRO. - 4168 My lord? - 4169 - 4170 CLAUDIUS. - 4171 My lord? - 4172 - 4173 BRUTUS. - 4174 Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep? - 4175 - 4176 VARRO. CLAUDIUS. - 4177 Did we, my lord? - 4178 - 4179 BRUTUS. - 4180 Ay: saw you any thing? - 4181 - 4182 VARRO. - 4183 No, my lord, I saw nothing. - 4184 - 4185 CLAUDIUS. - 4186 Nor I, my lord. - 4187 - 4188 BRUTUS. - 4189 Go and commend me to my brother Cassius; - 4190 Bid him set on his powers betimes before, - 4191 And we will follow. - 4192 - 4193 VARRO. CLAUDIUS. - 4194 It shall be done, my lord. - 4195 - 4196 [Exeunt.] - 4197 - 4198 - 4199 - 4200 ACT V. - 4201 - 4202 SCENE I. The plains of Philippi. - 4203 - 4204 [Enter Octavius, Antony, and their Army.] - 4205 - 4206 OCTAVIUS. - 4207 Now, Antony, our hopes are answered. - 4208 You said the enemy would not come down, - 4209 But keep the hills and upper regions: - 4210 It proves not so; their battles are at hand: - 4211 They mean to warn us at Philippi here, - 4212 Answering before we do demand of them. - 4213 - 4214 ANTONY. - 4215 Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know - 4216 Wherefore they do it: they could be content - 4217 To visit other places; and come down - 4218 With fearful bravery, thinking by this face - 4219 To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage; - 4220 But 'tis not so. - 4221 - 4222 [Enter a Messenger.] - 4223 - 4224 MESSENGER. - 4225 Prepare you, generals: - 4226 The enemy comes on in gallant show; - 4227 Their bloody sign of battle is hung out, - 4228 And something to be done immediately. - 4229 - 4230 ANTONY. - 4231 Octavius, lead your battle softly on, - 4232 Upon the left hand of the even field. - 4233 - 4234 OCTAVIUS. - 4235 Upon the right hand I; keep thou the left. - 4236 - 4237 ANTONY. - 4238 Why do you cross me in this exigent? - 4239 - 4240 OCTAVIUS. - 4241 I do not cross you; but I will do so. - 4242 - 4243 [March. Drum. Enter Brutus, Cassius, and their Army; - 4244 Lucilius, Titinius, Messala, and Others.] - 4245 - 4246 BRUTUS. - 4247 They stand, and would have parley. - 4248 - 4249 CASSIUS. - 4250 Stand fast, Titinius: we must out and talk. - 4251 - 4252 OCTAVIUS. - 4253 Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle? - 4254 - 4255 ANTONY. - 4256 No, Caesar, we will answer on their charge. - 4257 Make forth; the generals would have some words. - 4258 - 4259 OCTAVIUS. - 4260 Stir not until the signal. - 4261 - 4262 BRUTUS. - 4263 Words before blows: is it so, countrymen? - 4264 - 4265 OCTAVIUS. - 4266 Not that we love words better, as you do. - 4267 - 4268 BRUTUS. - 4269 Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius. - 4270 - 4271 ANTONY. - 4272 In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words: - 4273 Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart, - 4274 Crying, "Long live! Hail, Caesar!" - 4275 - 4276 CASSIUS. - 4277 Antony, - 4278 The posture of your blows are yet unknown; - 4279 But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, - 4280 And leave them honeyless. - 4281 - 4282 ANTONY. - 4283 Not stingless too. - 4284 - 4285 BRUTUS. - 4286 O, yes, and soundless too, - 4287 For you have stol'n their buzzing, Antony, - 4288 And very wisely threat before you sting. - 4289 - 4290 ANTONY. - 4291 Villains, you did not so when your vile daggers - 4292 Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar: - 4293 You show'd your teeth like apes, and fawn'd like hounds, - 4294 And bow'd like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet; - 4295 Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind - 4296 Struck Caesar on the neck. O flatterers! - 4297 - 4298 CASSIUS. - 4299 Flatterers!--Now, Brutus, thank yourself: - 4300 This tongue had not offended so to-day, - 4301 If Cassius might have ruled. - 4302 - 4303 OCTAVIUS. - 4304 Come, come, the cause: if arguing makes us sweat, - 4305 The proof of it will turn to redder drops. - 4306 Look,-- - 4307 I draw a sword against conspirators: - 4308 When think you that the sword goes up again? - 4309 Never, till Caesar's three and thirty wounds - 4310 Be well avenged; or till another Caesar - 4311 Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors. - 4312 - 4313 BRUTUS. - 4314 Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors' hands, - 4315 Unless thou bring'st them with thee. - 4316 - 4317 OCTAVIUS. - 4318 So I hope; - 4319 I was not born to die on Brutus' sword. - 4320 - 4321 BRUTUS. - 4322 O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain, - 4323 Young man, thou couldst not die more honourably. - 4324 - 4325 CASSIUS. - 4326 A peevish school boy, worthless of such honour, - 4327 Join'd with a masker and a reveller! - 4328 - 4329 ANTONY. - 4330 Old Cassius still! - 4331 - 4332 OCTAVIUS. - 4333 Come, Antony; away!-- - 4334 Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth: - 4335 If you dare fight today, come to the field; - 4336 If not, when you have stomachs. - 4337 - 4338 [Exeunt Octavius, Antony, and their Army.] - 4339 - 4340 CASSIUS. - 4341 Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! - 4342 The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. - 4343 - 4344 BRUTUS. - 4345 Ho, Lucilius! Hark, a word with you. - 4346 - 4347 LUCILIUS. - 4348 My lord? - 4349 - 4350 [Brutus and Lucilius talk apart.] - 4351 - 4352 CASSIUS. - 4353 Messala,-- - 4354 - 4355 MESSALA. - 4356 What says my General? - 4357 - 4358 CASSIUS. - 4359 Messala, - 4360 This is my birth-day; as this very day - 4361 Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala: - 4362 Be thou my witness that against my will, - 4363 As Pompey was, am I compell'd to set - 4364 Upon one battle all our liberties. - 4365 You know that I held Epicurus strong, - 4366 And his opinion: now I change my mind, - 4367 And partly credit things that do presage. - 4368 Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign - 4369 Two mighty eagles fell; and there they perch'd, - 4370 Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands; - 4371 Who to Philippi here consorted us: - 4372 This morning are they fled away and gone; - 4373 And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites - 4374 Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us, - 4375 As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem - 4376 A canopy most fatal, under which - 4377 Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost. - 4378 - 4379 MESSALA. - 4380 Believe not so. - 4381 - 4382 CASSIUS. - 4383 I but believe it partly; - 4384 For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved - 4385 To meet all perils very constantly. - 4386 - 4387 BRUTUS. - 4388 Even so, Lucilius. - 4389 - 4390 CASSIUS. - 4391 Now, most noble Brutus, - 4392 The gods to-day stand friendly, that we may, - 4393 Lovers in peace, lead on our days to age! - 4394 But, since th' affairs of men rest still incertain, - 4395 Let's reason with the worst that may befall. - 4396 If we do lose this battle, then is this - 4397 The very last time we shall speak together: - 4398 What are you then determined to do? - 4399 - 4400 BRUTUS. - 4401 Even by the rule of that philosophy - 4402 By which I did blame Cato for the death - 4403 Which he did give himself;--I know not how, - 4404 But I do find it cowardly and vile, - 4405 For fear of what might fall, so to prevent - 4406 The time of life;--arming myself with patience - 4407 To stay the providence of some high powers - 4408 That govern us below. - 4409 - 4410 CASSIUS. - 4411 Then, if we lose this battle, - 4412 You are contented to be led in triumph - 4413 Thorough the streets of Rome? - 4414 - 4415 BRUTUS. - 4416 No, Cassius, no: think not, thou noble Roman, - 4417 That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome; - 4418 He bears too great a mind. But this same day - 4419 Must end that work the Ides of March begun; - 4420 And whether we shall meet again I know not. - 4421 Therefore our everlasting farewell take: - 4422 For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius! - 4423 If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; - 4424 If not, why, then this parting was well made. - 4425 - 4426 CASSIUS. - 4427 For ever and for ever farewell, Brutus! - 4428 If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; - 4429 If not, 'tis true this parting was well made. - 4430 - 4431 BRUTUS. - 4432 Why then, lead on. O, that a man might know - 4433 The end of this day's business ere it come! - 4434 But it sufficeth that the day will end, - 4435 And then the end is known.--Come, ho! away! - 4436 - 4437 [Exeunt.] - 4438 - 4439 - 4440 - 4441 SCENE II. The same. The field of battle. - 4442 - 4443 [Alarum. Enter Brutus and Messala.] - 4444 - 4445 BRUTUS. - 4446 Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills - 4447 Unto the legions on the other side: - 4448 Let them set on at once; for I perceive - 4449 But cold demeanor in Octavius' wing, - 4450 And sudden push gives them the overthrow. - 4451 Ride, ride, Messala: let them all come down. - 4452 - 4453 [Exeunt.] - 4454 - 4455 - 4456 - 4457 SCENE III. Another part of the field. - 4458 - 4459 [Alarum. Enter Cassius and Titinius.] - 4460 - 4461 CASSIUS. - 4462 O, look, Titinius, look, the villains fly! - 4463 Myself have to mine own turn'd enemy: - 4464 This ensign here of mine was turning back; - 4465 I slew the coward, and did take it from him. - 4466 - 4467 TITINIUS. - 4468 O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early; - 4469 Who, having some advantage on Octavius, - 4470 Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil, - 4471 Whilst we by Antony are all enclosed. - 4472 - 4473 [Enter Pindarus.] - 4474 - 4475 PINDARUS. - 4476 Fly further off, my lord, fly further off; - 4477 Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord: - 4478 Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far' off. - 4479 - 4480 CASSIUS. - 4481 This hill is far enough.--Look, look, Titinius; - 4482 Are those my tents where I perceive the fire? - 4483 - 4484 TITINIUS. - 4485 They are, my lord. - 4486 - 4487 CASSIUS. - 4488 Titinius, if thou lovest me, - 4489 Mount thou my horse and hide thy spurs in him, - 4490 Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops - 4491 And here again; that I may rest assured - 4492 Whether yond troops are friend or enemy. - 4493 - 4494 TITINIUS. - 4495 I will be here again, even with a thought. - 4496 - 4497 [Exit.] - 4498 - 4499 CASSIUS. - 4500 Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill: - 4501 My sight was ever thick: regard Titinius, - 4502 And tell me what thou notest about the field.-- - 4503 - 4504 [Pindarus goes up.] - 4505 - 4506 This day I breathed first: time is come round, - 4507 And where I did begin, there shall I end; - 4508 My life is run his compass.--Sirrah, what news? - 4509 - 4510 PINDARUS. - 4511 [Above.] O my lord! - 4512 - 4513 CASSIUS. - 4514 What news? - 4515 - 4516 PINDARUS. - 4517 [Above.] Titinius is enclosed round about - 4518 With horsemen, that make to him on the spur: - 4519 Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him.-- - 4520 Now, Titinius!--Now some 'light. O, he 'lights too: - 4521 He's ta'en; [Shout.] and, hark! they shout for joy. - 4522 - 4523 CASSIUS. - 4524 Come down; behold no more.-- - 4525 O, coward that I am, to live so long, - 4526 To see my best friend ta'en before my face! - 4527 - 4528 [Pindarus descends.] - 4529 - 4530 Come hither, sirrah: - 4531 In Parthia did I take thee prisoner; - 4532 And then I swore thee, saving of thy life, - 4533 That whatsoever I did bid thee do, - 4534 Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath; - 4535 Now be a freeman; and with this good sword, - 4536 That ran through Caesar's bowels, search this bosom. - 4537 Stand not to answer: here, take thou the hilts; - 4538 And when my face is cover'd, as 'tis now, - 4539 Guide thou the sword.--Caesar, thou art revenged, - 4540 Even with the sword that kill'd thee. - 4541 - 4542 [Dies.] - 4543 - 4544 PINDARUS. - 4545 So, I am free, yet would not so have been, - 4546 Durst I have done my will.--O Cassius! - 4547 Far from this country Pindarus shall run, - 4548 Where never Roman shall take note of him. - 4549 - 4550 [Exit.] - 4551 - 4552 [Re-enter Titinius with Messala.] - 4553 - 4554 MESSALA. - 4555 It is but change, Titinius; for Octavius - 4556 Is overthrown by noble Brutus' power, - 4557 As Cassius' legions are by Antony. - 4558 - 4559 TITINIUS. - 4560 These tidings would well comfort Cassius. - 4561 - 4562 MESSALA. - 4563 Where did you leave him? - 4564 - 4565 TITINIUS. - 4566 All disconsolate, - 4567 With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill. - 4568 - 4569 MESSALA. - 4570 Is not that he that lies upon the ground? - 4571 - 4572 TITINIUS. - 4573 He lies not like the living. O my heart! - 4574 - 4575 MESSALA. - 4576 Is not that he? - 4577 - 4578 TITINIUS. - 4579 No, this was he, Messala, - 4580 But Cassius is no more.--O setting Sun, - 4581 As in thy red rays thou dost sink to night, - 4582 So in his red blood Cassius' day is set, - 4583 The sun of Rome is set! Our day is gone; - 4584 Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done! - 4585 Mistrust of my success hath done this deed. - 4586 - 4587 MESSALA. - 4588 Mistrust of good success hath done this deed. - 4589 O hateful Error, Melancholy's child! - 4590 Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men - 4591 The things that are not? O Error, soon conceived, - 4592 Thou never comest unto a happy birth, - 4593 But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee! - 4594 - 4595 TITINIUS. - 4596 What, Pindarus! where art thou, Pindarus? - 4597 - 4598 MESSALA. - 4599 Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet - 4600 The noble Brutus, thrusting this report - 4601 Into his ears: I may say, thrusting it; - 4602 For piercing steel and darts envenomed - 4603 Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus - 4604 As tidings of this sight. - 4605 - 4606 TITINIUS. - 4607 Hie you, Messala, - 4608 And I will seek for Pindarus the while.-- - 4609 - 4610 [Exit Messala.] - 4611 Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius? - 4612 Did I not meet thy friends? And did not they - 4613 Put on my brows this wreath of victory, - 4614 And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts? - 4615 Alas, thou hast misconstrued every thing! - 4616 But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow; - 4617 Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I - 4618 Will do his bidding.--Brutus, come apace, - 4619 And see how I regarded Caius Cassius.-- - 4620 By your leave, gods: this is a Roman's part: - 4621 Come, Cassius' sword, and find Titinius' heart. - 4622 - 4623 [Dies.] - 4624 - 4625 [Alarum. Re-enter Messala, with Brutus, young Cato, - 4626 Strato, Volumnius, and Lucilius.] - 4627 - 4628 BRUTUS. - 4629 Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie? - 4630 - 4631 MESSALA. - 4632 Lo, yonder, and Titinius mourning it. - 4633 - 4634 BRUTUS. - 4635 Titinius' face is upward. - 4636 - 4637 CATO. - 4638 He is slain. - 4639 - 4640 BRUTUS. - 4641 O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet! - 4642 Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords - 4643 In our own proper entrails. - 4644 - 4645 [Low alarums.] - 4646 - 4647 CATO. - 4648 Brave Titinius! - 4649 Look whether he have not crown'd dead Cassius! - 4650 - 4651 BRUTUS. - 4652 Are yet two Romans living such as these?-- - 4653 The last of all the Romans, fare thee well! - 4654 It is impossible that ever Rome - 4655 Should breed thy fellow.--Friends, I owe more tears - 4656 To this dead man than you shall see me pay.-- - 4657 I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time.-- - 4658 Come therefore, and to Thassos send his body: - 4659 His funerals shall not be in our camp, - 4660 Lest it discomfort us.--Lucilius, come;-- - 4661 And come, young Cato;--let us to the field.-- - 4662 Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on:-- - 4663 'Tis three o'clock; and Romans, yet ere night - 4664 We shall try fortune in a second fight. - 4665 - 4666 [Exeunt.] - 4667 - 4668 - 4669 - 4670 SCENE IV. Another part of the field. - 4671 - 4672 [Alarum. Enter, fighting, Soldiers of both armies; then Brutus, - 4673 young Cato, Lucilius, and Others.] - 4674 - 4675 BRUTUS. - 4676 Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads! - 4677 - 4678 CATO. - 4679 What bastard doth not? Who will go with me? - 4680 I will proclaim my name about the field:-- - 4681 I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho! - 4682 A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend; - 4683 I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho! - 4684 - 4685 [Charges the enemy.] - 4686 - 4687 BRUTUS. - 4688 And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I; - 4689 Brutus, my country's friend; know me for Brutus! - 4690 - 4691 [Exit, charging the enemy. Cato is overpowered, and falls.] - 4692 - 4693 LUCILIUS. - 4694 O young and noble Cato, art thou down? - 4695 Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius; - 4696 And mayst be honour'd, being Cato's son. - 4697 - 4698 FIRST SOLDIER. - 4699 Yield, or thou diest. - 4700 - 4701 LUCILIUS. - 4702 Only I yield to die: - 4703 There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight; - 4704 [Offering money.] - 4705 Kill Brutus, and be honour'd in his death. - 4706 - 4707 FIRST SOLDIER. - 4708 We must not. A noble prisoner! - 4709 - 4710 SECOND SOLDIER. - 4711 Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta'en. - 4712 - 4713 FIRST SOLDIER. - 4714 I'll tell the news. Here comes the General.-- - 4715 - 4716 [Enter Antony.] - 4717 - 4718 Brutus is ta'en, Brutus is ta'en, my lord. - 4719 - 4720 ANTONY. - 4721 Where is he? - 4722 - 4723 LUCILIUS. - 4724 Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough: - 4725 I dare assure thee that no enemy - 4726 Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus: - 4727 The gods defend him from so great a shame! - 4728 When you do find him, or alive or dead, - 4729 He will be found like Brutus, like himself. - 4730 - 4731 ANTONY. - 4732 This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you, - 4733 A prize no less in worth. Keep this man safe, - 4734 Give him all kindness; I had rather have - 4735 Such men my friends than enemies. Go on, - 4736 And see whether Brutus be alive or dead; - 4737 And bring us word unto Octavius' tent - 4738 How everything is chanced. - 4739 - 4740 [Exeunt.] - 4741 - 4742 - 4743 - 4744 SCENE V. Another part of the field. - 4745 - 4746 [Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato, and Volumnius.] - 4747 - 4748 BRUTUS. - 4749 Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock. - 4750 - 4751 CLITUS. - 4752 Statilius show'd the torch-light; but, my lord, - 4753 He came not back: he is or ta'en or slain. - 4754 - 4755 BRUTUS. - 4756 Sit thee down, Clitus: slaying is the word; - 4757 It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus. - 4758 - 4759 [Whispering.] - 4760 - 4761 CLITUS. - 4762 What, I, my lord? No, not for all the world. - 4763 - 4764 BRUTUS. - 4765 Peace then! no words. - 4766 - 4767 CLITUS. - 4768 I'll rather kill myself. - 4769 - 4770 BRUTUS. - 4771 Hark thee, Dardanius. - 4772 - 4773 [Whispers him.] - 4774 - 4775 DARDANIUS. - 4776 Shall I do such a deed? - 4777 - 4778 CLITUS. - 4779 O Dardanius! - 4780 - 4781 DARDANIUS. - 4782 O Clitus! - 4783 - 4784 CLITUS. - 4785 What ill request did Brutus make to thee? - 4786 - 4787 DARDANIUS. - 4788 To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates. - 4789 - 4790 CLITUS. - 4791 Now is that noble vessel full of grief, - 4792 That it runs over even at his eyes. - 4793 - 4794 BRUTUS. - 4795 Come hither, good Volumnius; list a word. - 4796 - 4797 VOLUMNIUS. - 4798 What says my lord? - 4799 - 4800 BRUTUS. - 4801 Why, this, Volumnius: - 4802 The ghost of Caesar hath appear'd to me - 4803 Two several times by night; at Sardis once, - 4804 And this last night here in Philippi fields: - 4805 I know my hour is come. - 4806 - 4807 VOLUMNIUS. - 4808 Not so, my lord. - 4809 - 4810 BRUTUS. - 4811 Nay I am sure it is, Volumnius. - 4812 Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes; - 4813 Our enemies have beat us to the pit: - 4814 - 4815 [Low alarums.] - 4816 - 4817 It is more worthy to leap in ourselves - 4818 Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius, - 4819 Thou know'st that we two went to school together; - 4820 Even for that our love of old, I pr'ythee, - 4821 Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it. - 4822 - 4823 VOLUMNIUS. - 4824 That's not an office for a friend, my lord. - 4825 - 4826 [Alarums still.] - 4827 - 4828 CLITUS. - 4829 Fly, fly, my lord! there is no tarrying here. - 4830 - 4831 BRUTUS. - 4832 Farewell to you;--and you;--and you, Volumnius.-- - 4833 Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep; - 4834 Farewell to thee too, Strato.--Countrymen, - 4835 My heart doth joy, that yet in all my life - 4836 I found no man but he was true to me. - 4837 I shall have glory by this losing day, - 4838 More than Octavius and Mark Antony - 4839 By this vile conquest shall attain unto. - 4840 So, fare you well at once; for Brutus' tongue - 4841 Hath almost ended his life's history: - 4842 Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest - 4843 That have but labour'd to attain this hour. - 4844 - 4845 [Alarums. Cry within, "Fly, fly, fly!"] - 4846 - 4847 CLITUS. - 4848 Fly, my lord, fly! - 4849 - 4850 BRUTUS. - 4851 Hence! I will follow.-- - 4852 - 4853 [Exeunt Clitus, Dardanius, and Volumnius.] - 4854 - 4855 I pr'ythee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord: - 4856 Thou art a fellow of a good respect; - 4857 Thy life hath had some smack of honor in it: - 4858 Hold, then, my sword, and turn away thy face, - 4859 While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato? - 4860 - 4861 STRATO. - 4862 Give me your hand first: fare you well, my lord. - 4863 - 4864 BRUTUS. - 4865 Farewell, good Strato.--Caesar, now be still: - 4866 I kill'd not thee with half so good a will. - 4867 - 4868 [He runs on his sword, and dies.] - 4869 - 4870 [Alarum. Retreat. Enter Octavius, Antony, Messala, Lucilius, and - 4871 Army.] - 4872 - 4873 OCTAVIUS. - 4874 What man is that? - 4875 - 4876 MESSALA. - 4877 My master's man.--Strato, where is thy master? - 4878 - 4879 STRATO. - 4880 Free from the bondage you are in, Messala: - 4881 The conquerors can but make a fire of him; - 4882 For Brutus only overcame himself, - 4883 And no man else hath honour by his death. - 4884 - 4885 LUCILIUS. - 4886 So Brutus should be found.--I thank thee, Brutus, - 4887 That thou hast proved Lucilius' saying true. - 4888 - 4889 OCTAVIUS. - 4890 All that served Brutus, I will entertain them.-- - 4891 Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me? - 4892 - 4893 STRATO. - 4894 Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you. - 4895 - 4896 OCTAVIUS. - 4897 Do so, good Messala. - 4898 - 4899 MESSALA. - 4900 How died my master, Strato? - 4901 - 4902 STRATO. - 4903 I held the sword, and he did run on it. - 4904 - 4905 MESSALA. - 4906 Octavius, then take him to follow thee, - 4907 That did the latest service to my master. - 4908 - 4909 ANTONY. - 4910 This was the noblest Roman of them all: - 4911 All the conspirators, save only he, - 4912 Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; - 4913 He only, in a general-honest thought - 4914 And common good to all, made one of them. - 4915 His life was gentle; and the elements - 4916 So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up - 4917 And say to all the world, "This was a man!" - 4918 - 4919 OCTAVIUS. - 4920 According to his virtue let us use him - 4921 With all respect and rites of burial. - 4922 Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie, - 4923 Most like a soldier, order'd honorably.-- - 4924 So, call the field to rest; and let's away, - 4925 To part the glories of this happy day. - 4926 - 4927 [Exeunt.] - 4928 - 4929 THE END - 4930 - 4931 - 4932 - 4933 - 4934 - 4935 End of Project Gutenberg Etext of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare - 4936 PG has multiple editions of William Shakespeare's Complete Works - 4937 diff --git a/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Macbeth.txt b/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Macbeth.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 792dc3a..0000000 --- a/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Macbeth.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3667 +0,0 @@ - 1 ***The Project Gutenberg's Etext of Shakespeare's First Folio*** - 2 ********************The Tragedie of Macbeth********************* - 3 - 4 This is our 3rd edition of most of these plays. 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FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.04.29.93*END* - 280 - 281 - 282 - 283 - 284 - 285 Project Gutenberg's Etext of Shakespeare's The Tragedie of Macbeth - 286 - 287 - 288 - 289 - 290 - 291 Executive Director's Notes: - 292 - 293 In addition to the notes below, and so you will *NOT* think all - 294 the spelling errors introduced by the printers of the time have - 295 been corrected, here are the first few lines of Hamlet, as they - 296 are presented herein: - 297 - 298 Barnardo. Who's there? - 299 Fran. Nay answer me: Stand & vnfold - 300 your selfe - 301 - 302 Bar. Long liue the King - 303 - 304 *** - 305 - 306 As I understand it, the printers often ran out of certain words - 307 or letters they had often packed into a "cliche". . .this is the - 308 original meaning of the term cliche. . .and thus, being unwilling - 309 to unpack the cliches, and thus you will see some substitutions - 310 that look very odd. . .such as the exchanges of u for v, v for u, - 311 above. . .and you may wonder why they did it this way, presuming - 312 Shakespeare did not actually write the play in this manner. . . . - 313 - 314 The answer is that they MAY have packed "liue" into a cliche at a - 315 time when they were out of "v"'s. . .possibly having used "vv" in - 316 place of some "w"'s, etc. This was a common practice of the day, - 317 as print was still quite expensive, and they didn't want to spend - 318 more on a wider selection of characters than they had to. - 319 - 320 You will find a lot of these kinds of "errors" in this text, as I - 321 have mentioned in other times and places, many "scholars" have an - 322 extreme attachment to these errors, and many have accorded them a - 323 very high place in the "canon" of Shakespeare. My father read an - 324 assortment of these made available to him by Cambridge University - 325 in England for several months in a glass room constructed for the - 326 purpose. To the best of my knowledge he read ALL those available - 327 . . .in great detail. . .and determined from the various changes, - 328 that Shakespeare most likely did not write in nearly as many of a - 329 variety of errors we credit him for, even though he was in/famous - 330 for signing his name with several different spellings. - 331 - 332 So, please take this into account when reading the comments below - 333 made by our volunteer who prepared this file: you may see errors - 334 that are "not" errors. . . . - 335 - 336 So. . .with this caveat. . .we have NOT changed the canon errors, - 337 here is the Project Gutenberg Etext of Shakespeare's The Tragedie - 338 of Macbeth. - 339 - 340 Michael S. 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So if you don't like that - 361 you can delete everything within the brackets if you want a - 362 purer Shakespeare. - 363 - 364 Another thing that you should be aware of is that there are textual - 365 differences between various copies of the first folio. So there may - 366 be differences (other than what I have mentioned above) between - 367 this and other first folio editions. This is due to the printer's - 368 habit of setting the type and running off a number of copies and - 369 then proofing the printed copy and correcting the type and then - 370 continuing the printing run. The proof run wasn't thrown away but - 371 incorporated into the printed copies. This is just the way it is. - 372 The text I have used was a composite of more than 30 different - 373 First Folio editions' best pages. - 374 - 375 If you find any scanning errors, out and out typos, punctuation - 376 errors, or if you disagree with my spelling choices please feel - 377 free to email me those errors. I wish to make this the best - 378 etext possible. My email address for right now are haradda@aol.com - 379 and davidr@inconnect.com. I hope that you enjoy this. - 380 - 381 David Reed - 382 - 383 The Tragedie of Macbeth - 384 - 385 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. - 386 - 387 Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches. - 388 - 389 1. When shall we three meet againe? - 390 In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? - 391 2. When the Hurley-burley's done, - 392 When the Battaile's lost, and wonne - 393 - 394 3. That will be ere the set of Sunne - 395 - 396 1. Where the place? - 397 2. Vpon the Heath - 398 - 399 3. There to meet with Macbeth - 400 - 401 1. I come, Gray-Malkin - 402 - 403 All. Padock calls anon: faire is foule, and foule is faire, - 404 Houer through the fogge and filthie ayre. - 405 - 406 Exeunt. - 407 - 408 - 409 Scena Secunda. - 410 - 411 Alarum within. Enter King Malcome, Donalbaine, Lenox, with - 412 attendants, - 413 meeting a bleeding Captaine. - 414 - 415 King. What bloody man is that? he can report, - 416 As seemeth by his plight, of the Reuolt - 417 The newest state - 418 - 419 Mal. This is the Serieant, - 420 Who like a good and hardie Souldier fought - 421 'Gainst my Captiuitie: Haile braue friend; - 422 Say to the King, the knowledge of the Broyle, - 423 As thou didst leaue it - 424 - 425 Cap. Doubtfull it stood, - 426 As two spent Swimmers, that doe cling together, - 427 And choake their Art: The mercilesse Macdonwald - 428 (Worthie to be a Rebell, for to that - 429 The multiplying Villanies of Nature - 430 Doe swarme vpon him) from the Westerne Isles - 431 Of Kernes and Gallowgrosses is supply'd, - 432 And Fortune on his damned Quarry smiling, - 433 Shew'd like a Rebells Whore: but all's too weake: - 434 For braue Macbeth (well hee deserues that Name) - 435 Disdayning Fortune, with his brandisht Steele, - 436 Which smoak'd with bloody execution - 437 (Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his passage, - 438 Till hee fac'd the Slaue: - 439 Which neu'r shooke hands, nor bad farwell to him, - 440 Till he vnseam'd him from the Naue toth' Chops, - 441 And fix'd his Head vpon our Battlements - 442 - 443 King. O valiant Cousin, worthy Gentleman - 444 - 445 Cap. As whence the Sunne 'gins his reflection, - 446 Shipwracking Stormes, and direfull Thunders: - 447 So from that Spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, - 448 Discomfort swells: Marke King of Scotland, marke, - 449 No sooner Iustice had, with Valour arm'd, - 450 Compell'd these skipping Kernes to trust their heeles, - 451 But the Norweyan Lord, surueying vantage, - 452 With furbusht Armes, and new supplyes of men, - 453 Began a fresh assault - 454 - 455 King. Dismay'd not this our Captaines, Macbeth and - 456 Banquoh? - 457 Cap. Yes, as Sparrowes, Eagles; - 458 Or the Hare, the Lyon: - 459 If I say sooth, I must report they were - 460 As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks, - 461 So they doubly redoubled stroakes vpon the Foe: - 462 Except they meant to bathe in reeking Wounds, - 463 Or memorize another Golgotha, - 464 I cannot tell: but I am faint, - 465 My Gashes cry for helpe - 466 - 467 King. So well thy words become thee, as thy wounds, - 468 They smack of Honor both: Goe get him Surgeons. - 469 Enter Rosse and Angus. - 470 - 471 Who comes here? - 472 Mal. The worthy Thane of Rosse - 473 - 474 Lenox. What a haste lookes through his eyes? - 475 So should he looke, that seemes to speake things strange - 476 - 477 Rosse. God saue the King - 478 - 479 King. Whence cam'st thou, worthy Thane? - 480 Rosse. From Fiffe, great King, - 481 Where the Norweyan Banners flowt the Skie, - 482 And fanne our people cold. - 483 Norway himselfe, with terrible numbers, - 484 Assisted by that most disloyall Traytor, - 485 The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismall Conflict, - 486 Till that Bellona's Bridegroome, lapt in proofe, - 487 Confronted him with selfe-comparisons, - 488 Point against Point, rebellious Arme 'gainst Arme, - 489 Curbing his lauish spirit: and to conclude, - 490 The Victorie fell on vs - 491 - 492 King. Great happinesse - 493 - 494 Rosse. That now Sweno, the Norwayes King, - 495 Craues composition: - 496 Nor would we deigne him buriall of his men, - 497 Till he disbursed, at Saint Colmes ynch, - 498 Ten thousand Dollars, to our generall vse - 499 - 500 King. No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceiue - 501 Our Bosome interest: Goe pronounce his present death, - 502 And with his former Title greet Macbeth - 503 - 504 Rosse. Ile see it done - 505 - 506 King. What he hath lost, Noble Macbeth hath wonne. - 507 - 508 Exeunt. - 509 - 510 - 511 Scena Tertia. - 512 - 513 Thunder. Enter the three Witches. - 514 - 515 1. Where hast thou beene, Sister? - 516 2. Killing Swine - 517 - 518 3. Sister, where thou? - 519 1. A Saylors Wife had Chestnuts in her Lappe, - 520 And mouncht, & mouncht, and mouncht: - 521 Giue me, quoth I. - 522 Aroynt thee, Witch, the rumpe-fed Ronyon cryes. - 523 Her Husband's to Aleppo gone, Master o'th' Tiger: - 524 But in a Syue Ile thither sayle, - 525 And like a Rat without a tayle, - 526 Ile doe, Ile doe, and Ile doe - 527 - 528 2. Ile giue thee a Winde - 529 - 530 1. Th'art kinde - 531 - 532 3. And I another - 533 - 534 1. I my selfe haue all the other, - 535 And the very Ports they blow, - 536 All the Quarters that they know, - 537 I'th' Ship-mans Card. - 538 Ile dreyne him drie as Hay: - 539 Sleepe shall neyther Night nor Day - 540 Hang vpon his Pent-house Lid: - 541 He shall liue a man forbid: - 542 Wearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, - 543 Shall he dwindle, peake, and pine: - 544 Though his Barke cannot be lost, - 545 Yet it shall be Tempest-tost. - 546 Looke what I haue - 547 - 548 2. Shew me, shew me - 549 - 550 1. Here I haue a Pilots Thumbe, - 551 Wrackt, as homeward he did come. - 552 - 553 Drum within. - 554 - 555 3. A Drumme, a Drumme: - 556 Macbeth doth come - 557 - 558 All. The weyward Sisters, hand in hand, - 559 Posters of the Sea and Land, - 560 Thus doe goe, about, about, - 561 Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, - 562 And thrice againe, to make vp nine. - 563 Peace, the Charme's wound vp. - 564 Enter Macbeth and Banquo. - 565 - 566 Macb. So foule and faire a day I haue not seene - 567 - 568 Banquo. How farre is't call'd to Soris? What are these, - 569 So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre, - 570 That looke not like th' Inhabitants o'th' Earth, - 571 And yet are on't? Liue you, or are you aught - 572 That man may question? you seeme to vnderstand me, - 573 By each at once her choppie finger laying - 574 Vpon her skinnie Lips: you should be Women, - 575 And yet your Beards forbid me to interprete - 576 That you are so - 577 - 578 Mac. Speake if you can: what are you? - 579 1. All haile Macbeth, haile to thee Thane of Glamis - 580 - 581 2. All haile Macbeth, haile to thee Thane of Cawdor - 582 - 583 3. All haile Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter - 584 - 585 Banq. Good Sir, why doe you start, and seeme to feare - 586 Things that doe sound so faire? i'th' name of truth - 587 Are ye fantasticall, or that indeed - 588 Which outwardly ye shew? My Noble Partner - 589 You greet with present Grace, and great prediction - 590 Of Noble hauing, and of Royall hope, - 591 That he seemes wrapt withall: to me you speake not. - 592 If you can looke into the Seedes of Time, - 593 And say, which Graine will grow, and which will not, - 594 Speake then to me, who neyther begge, nor feare - 595 Your fauors, nor your hate - 596 - 597 1. Hayle - 598 - 599 2. Hayle - 600 - 601 3. Hayle - 602 - 603 1. Lesser than Macbeth, and greater - 604 - 605 2. Not so happy, yet much happyer - 606 - 607 3. Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none: - 608 So all haile Macbeth, and Banquo - 609 - 610 1. Banquo, and Macbeth, all haile - 611 - 612 Macb. Stay you imperfect Speakers, tell me more: - 613 By Sinells death, I know I am Thane of Glamis, - 614 But how, of Cawdor? the Thane of Cawdor liues - 615 A prosperous Gentleman: And to be King, - 616 Stands not within the prospect of beleefe, - 617 No more then to be Cawdor. Say from whence - 618 You owe this strange Intelligence, or why - 619 Vpon this blasted Heath you stop our way - 620 With such Prophetique greeting? - 621 Speake, I charge you. - 622 - 623 Witches vanish. - 624 - 625 Banq. The Earth hath bubbles, as the Water ha's, - 626 And these are of them: whither are they vanish'd? - 627 Macb. Into the Ayre: and what seem'd corporall, - 628 Melted, as breath into the Winde. - 629 Would they had stay'd - 630 - 631 Banq. Were such things here, as we doe speake about? - 632 Or haue we eaten on the insane Root, - 633 That takes the Reason Prisoner? - 634 Macb. Your Children shall be Kings - 635 - 636 Banq. You shall be King - 637 - 638 Macb. And Thane of Cawdor too: went it not so? - 639 Banq. Toth' selfe-same tune and words: who's here? - 640 Enter Rosse and Angus. - 641 - 642 Rosse. The King hath happily receiu'd, Macbeth, - 643 The newes of thy successe: and when he reades - 644 Thy personall Venture in the Rebels sight, - 645 His Wonders and his Prayses doe contend, - 646 Which should be thine, or his: silenc'd with that, - 647 In viewing o're the rest o'th' selfe-same day, - 648 He findes thee in the stout Norweyan Rankes, - 649 Nothing afeard of what thy selfe didst make - 650 Strange Images of death, as thick as Tale - 651 Can post with post, and euery one did beare - 652 Thy prayses in his Kingdomes great defence, - 653 And powr'd them downe before him - 654 - 655 Ang. Wee are sent, - 656 To giue thee from our Royall Master thanks, - 657 Onely to harrold thee into his sight, - 658 Not pay thee - 659 - 660 Rosse. And for an earnest of a greater Honor, - 661 He bad me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor: - 662 In which addition, haile most worthy Thane, - 663 For it is thine - 664 - 665 Banq. What, can the Deuill speake true? - 666 Macb. The Thane of Cawdor liues: - 667 Why doe you dresse me in borrowed Robes? - 668 Ang. Who was the Thane, liues yet, - 669 But vnder heauie Iudgement beares that Life, - 670 Which he deserues to loose. - 671 Whether he was combin'd with those of Norway, - 672 Or did lyne the Rebell with hidden helpe, - 673 And vantage; or that with both he labour'd - 674 In his Countreyes wracke, I know not: - 675 But Treasons Capitall, confess'd, and prou'd, - 676 Haue ouerthrowne him - 677 - 678 Macb. Glamys, and Thane of Cawdor: - 679 The greatest is behinde. Thankes for your paines. - 680 Doe you not hope your Children shall be Kings, - 681 When those that gaue the Thane of Cawdor to me, - 682 Promis'd no lesse to them - 683 - 684 Banq. That trusted home, - 685 Might yet enkindle you vnto the Crowne, - 686 Besides the Thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: - 687 And oftentimes, to winne vs to our harme, - 688 The Instruments of Darknesse tell vs Truths, - 689 Winne vs with honest Trifles, to betray's - 690 In deepest consequence. - 691 Cousins, a word, I pray you - 692 - 693 Macb. Two Truths are told, - 694 As happy Prologues to the swelling Act - 695 Of the Imperiall Theame. I thanke you Gentlemen: - 696 This supernaturall solliciting - 697 Cannot be ill; cannot be good. - 698 If ill? why hath it giuen me earnest of successe, - 699 Commencing in a Truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. - 700 If good? why doe I yeeld to that suggestion, - 701 Whose horrid Image doth vnfixe my Heire, - 702 And make my seated Heart knock at my Ribbes, - 703 Against the vse of Nature? Present Feares - 704 Are lesse then horrible Imaginings: - 705 My Thought, whose Murther yet is but fantasticall, - 706 Shakes so my single state of Man, - 707 That Function is smother'd in surmise, - 708 And nothing is, but what is not - 709 - 710 Banq. Looke how our Partner's rapt - 711 - 712 Macb. If Chance will haue me King, - 713 Why Chance may Crowne me, - 714 Without my stirre - 715 - 716 Banq. New Honors come vpon him - 717 Like our strange Garments, cleaue not to their mould, - 718 But with the aid of vse - 719 - 720 Macb. Come what come may, - 721 Time, and the Houre, runs through the roughest Day - 722 - 723 Banq. Worthy Macbeth, wee stay vpon your leysure - 724 - 725 Macb. Giue me your fauour: - 726 My dull Braine was wrought with things forgotten. - 727 Kinde Gentlemen, your paines are registred, - 728 Where euery day I turne the Leafe, - 729 To reade them. - 730 Let vs toward the King: thinke vpon - 731 What hath chanc'd: and at more time, - 732 The Interim hauing weigh'd it, let vs speake - 733 Our free Hearts each to other - 734 - 735 Banq. Very gladly - 736 - 737 Macb. Till then enough: - 738 Come friends. - 739 - 740 Exeunt. - 741 - 742 - 743 Scena Quarta. - 744 - 745 Flourish. Enter King, Lenox, Malcolme, Donalbaine, and - 746 Attendants. - 747 - 748 King. Is execution done on Cawdor? - 749 Or not those in Commission yet return'd? - 750 Mal. My Liege, they are not yet come back. - 751 But I haue spoke with one that saw him die: - 752 Who did report, that very frankly hee - 753 Confess'd his Treasons, implor'd your Highnesse Pardon, - 754 And set forth a deepe Repentance: - 755 Nothing in his Life became him, - 756 Like the leauing it. Hee dy'de, - 757 As one that had beene studied in his death, - 758 To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd, - 759 As 'twere a carelesse Trifle - 760 - 761 King. There's no Art, - 762 To finde the Mindes construction in the Face. - 763 He was a Gentleman, on whom I built - 764 An absolute Trust. - 765 Enter Macbeth, Banquo, Rosse, and Angus. - 766 - 767 O worthyest Cousin, - 768 The sinne of my Ingratitude euen now - 769 Was heauie on me. Thou art so farre before, - 770 That swiftest Wing of Recompence is slow, - 771 To ouertake thee. Would thou hadst lesse deseru'd, - 772 That the proportion both of thanks, and payment, - 773 Might haue beene mine: onely I haue left to say, - 774 More is thy due, then more then all can pay - 775 - 776 Macb. The seruice, and the loyaltie I owe, - 777 In doing it, payes it selfe. - 778 Your Highnesse part, is to receiue our Duties: - 779 And our Duties are to your Throne, and State, - 780 Children, and Seruants; which doe but what they should, - 781 By doing euery thing safe toward your Loue - 782 And Honor - 783 - 784 King. Welcome hither: - 785 I haue begun to plant thee, and will labour - 786 To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo, - 787 That hast no lesse deseru'd, nor must be knowne - 788 No lesse to haue done so: Let me enfold thee, - 789 And hold thee to my Heart - 790 - 791 Banq. There if I grow, - 792 The Haruest is your owne - 793 - 794 King. My plenteous Ioyes, - 795 Wanton in fulnesse, seeke to hide themselues - 796 In drops of sorrow. Sonnes, Kinsmen, Thanes, - 797 And you whose places are the nearest, know, - 798 We will establish our Estate vpon - 799 Our eldest, Malcolme, whom we name hereafter, - 800 The Prince of Cumberland: which Honor must - 801 Not vnaccompanied, inuest him onely, - 802 But signes of Noblenesse, like Starres, shall shine - 803 On all deseruers. From hence to Envernes, - 804 And binde vs further to you - 805 - 806 Macb. The Rest is Labor, which is not vs'd for you: - 807 Ile be my selfe the Herbenger, and make ioyfull - 808 The hearing of my Wife, with your approach: - 809 So humbly take my leaue - 810 - 811 King. My worthy Cawdor - 812 - 813 Macb. The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step, - 814 On which I must fall downe, or else o're-leape, - 815 For in my way it lyes. Starres hide your fires, - 816 Let not Light see my black and deepe desires: - 817 The Eye winke at the Hand: yet let that bee, - 818 Which the Eye feares, when it is done to see. - 819 Enter. - 820 - 821 King. True worthy Banquo: he is full so valiant, - 822 And in his commendations, I am fed: - 823 It is a Banquet to me. Let's after him, - 824 Whose care is gone before, to bid vs welcome: - 825 It is a peerelesse Kinsman. - 826 - 827 Flourish. Exeunt. - 828 - 829 - 830 Scena Quinta. - 831 - 832 Enter Macbeths Wife alone with a Letter. - 833 - 834 Lady. They met me in the day of successe: and I haue - 835 learn'd by the perfect'st report, they haue more in them, then - 836 mortall knowledge. When I burnt in desire to question them - 837 further, they made themselues Ayre, into which they vanish'd. - 838 Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came Missiues from - 839 the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title - 840 before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to - 841 the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be. This - 842 haue I thought good to deliuer thee (my dearest Partner of - 843 Greatnesse) that thou might'st not loose the dues of reioycing - 844 by being ignorant of what Greatnesse is promis'd thee. Lay - 845 it to thy heart and farewell. - 846 Glamys thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be - 847 What thou art promis'd: yet doe I feare thy Nature, - 848 It is too full o'th' Milke of humane kindnesse, - 849 To catch the neerest way. Thou would'st be great, - 850 Art not without Ambition, but without - 851 The illnesse should attend it. What thou would'st highly, - 852 That would'st thou holily: would'st not play false, - 853 And yet would'st wrongly winne. - 854 Thould'st haue, great Glamys, that which cryes, - 855 Thus thou must doe, if thou haue it; - 856 And that which rather thou do'st feare to doe, - 857 Then wishest should be vndone. High thee hither, - 858 That I may powre my Spirits in thine Eare, - 859 And chastise with the valour of my Tongue - 860 All that impeides thee from the Golden Round, - 861 Which Fate and Metaphysicall ayde doth seeme - 862 To haue thee crown'd withall. - 863 Enter Messenger. - 864 - 865 What is your tidings? - 866 Mess. The King comes here to Night - 867 - 868 Lady. Thou'rt mad to say it. - 869 Is not thy Master with him? who, wer't so, - 870 Would haue inform'd for preparation - 871 - 872 Mess. So please you, it is true: our Thane is comming: - 873 One of my fellowes had the speed of him; - 874 Who almost dead for breath, had scarcely more - 875 Then would make vp his Message - 876 - 877 Lady. Giue him tending, - 878 He brings great newes, - 879 - 880 Exit Messenger. - 881 - 882 The Rauen himselfe is hoarse, - 883 That croakes the fatall entrance of Duncan - 884 Vnder my Battlements. Come you Spirits, - 885 That tend on mortall thoughts, vnsex me here, - 886 And fill me from the Crowne to the Toe, top-full - 887 Of direst Crueltie: make thick my blood, - 888 Stop vp th' accesse, and passage to Remorse, - 889 That no compunctious visitings of Nature - 890 Shake my fell purpose, nor keepe peace betweene - 891 Th' effect, and hit. Come to my Womans Brests, - 892 And take my Milke for Gall, you murth'ring Ministers, - 893 Where-euer, in your sightlesse substances, - 894 You wait on Natures Mischiefe. Come thick Night, - 895 And pall thee in the dunnest smoake of Hell, - 896 - 897 That my keene Knife see not the Wound it makes, - 898 Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, - 899 To cry, hold, hold. - 900 Enter Macbeth. - 901 - 902 Great Glamys, worthy Cawdor, - 903 Greater then both, by the all-haile hereafter, - 904 Thy Letters haue transported me beyond - 905 This ignorant present, and I feele now - 906 The future in the instant - 907 - 908 Macb. My dearest Loue, - 909 Duncan comes here to Night - 910 - 911 Lady. And when goes hence? - 912 Macb. To morrow, as he purposes - 913 - 914 Lady. O neuer, - 915 Shall Sunne that Morrow see. - 916 Your Face, my Thane, is as a Booke, where men - 917 May reade strange matters, to beguile the time. - 918 Looke like the time, beare welcome in your Eye, - 919 Your Hand, your Tongue: looke like th' innocent flower, - 920 But be the Serpent vnder't. He that's comming, - 921 Must be prouided for: and you shall put - 922 This Nights great Businesse into my dispatch, - 923 Which shall to all our Nights, and Dayes to come, - 924 Giue solely soueraigne sway, and Masterdome - 925 - 926 Macb. We will speake further, - 927 Lady. Onely looke vp cleare: - 928 To alter fauor, euer is to feare: - 929 Leaue all the rest to me. - 930 - 931 Exeunt. - 932 - 933 - 934 Scena Sexta. - 935 - 936 Hoboyes, and Torches. Enter King, Malcolme, Donalbaine, - 937 Banquo, Lenox, - 938 Macduff, Rosse, Angus, and Attendants. - 939 - 940 King. This Castle hath a pleasant seat, - 941 The ayre nimbly and sweetly recommends it selfe - 942 Vnto our gentle sences - 943 - 944 Banq. This Guest of Summer, - 945 The Temple-haunting Barlet does approue, - 946 By his loued Mansonry, that the Heauens breath - 947 Smells wooingly here: no Iutty frieze, - 948 Buttrice, nor Coigne of Vantage, but this Bird - 949 Hath made his pendant Bed, and procreant Cradle, - 950 Where they must breed, and haunt: I haue obseru'd - 951 The ayre is delicate. - 952 Enter Lady. - 953 - 954 King. See, see our honor'd Hostesse: - 955 The Loue that followes vs, sometime is our trouble, - 956 Which still we thanke as Loue. Herein I teach you, - 957 How you shall bid God-eyld vs for your paines, - 958 And thanke vs for your trouble - 959 - 960 Lady. All our seruice, - 961 In euery point twice done, and then done double, - 962 Were poore, and single Businesse, to contend - 963 Against those Honors deepe, and broad, - 964 Wherewith your Maiestie loades our House: - 965 For those of old, and the late Dignities, - 966 Heap'd vp to them, we rest your Ermites - 967 - 968 King. Where's the Thane of Cawdor? - 969 We courst him at the heeles, and had a purpose - 970 To be his Purueyor: But he rides well, - 971 And his great Loue (sharpe as his Spurre) hath holp him - 972 To his home before vs: Faire and Noble Hostesse - 973 We are your guest to night - 974 - 975 La. Your Seruants euer, - 976 Haue theirs, themselues, and what is theirs in compt, - 977 To make their Audit at your Highnesse pleasure, - 978 Still to returne your owne - 979 - 980 King. Giue me your hand: - 981 Conduct me to mine Host we loue him highly, - 982 And shall continue, our Graces towards him. - 983 By your leaue Hostesse. - 984 - 985 Exeunt. - 986 - 987 Scena Septima. - 988 - 989 Hoboyes. Torches. Enter a Sewer, and diuers Seruants with Dishes - 990 and - 991 Seruice ouer the Stage. Then enter Macbeth - 992 - 993 Macb. If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twer well, - 994 It were done quickly: If th' Assassination - 995 Could trammell vp the Consequence, and catch - 996 With his surcease, Successe: that but this blow - 997 Might be the be all, and the end all. Heere, - 998 But heere, vpon this Banke and Schoole of time, - 999 Wee'ld iumpe the life to come. But in these Cases, - 1000 We still haue iudgement heere, that we but teach - 1001 Bloody Instructions, which being taught, returne - 1002 To plague th' Inuenter, this euen-handed Iustice - 1003 Commends th' Ingredience of our poyson'd Challice - 1004 To our owne lips. Hee's heere in double trust; - 1005 First, as I am his Kinsman, and his Subiect, - 1006 Strong both against the Deed: Then, as his Host, - 1007 Who should against his Murtherer shut the doore, - 1008 Not beare the knife my selfe. Besides, this Duncane - 1009 Hath borne his Faculties so meeke; hath bin - 1010 So cleere in his great Office, that his Vertues - 1011 Will pleade like Angels, Trumpet-tongu'd against - 1012 The deepe damnation of his taking off: - 1013 And Pitty, like a naked New-borne-Babe, - 1014 Striding the blast, or Heauens Cherubin, hors'd - 1015 Vpon the sightlesse Curriors of the Ayre, - 1016 Shall blow the horrid deed in euery eye, - 1017 That teares shall drowne the winde. I haue no Spurre - 1018 To pricke the sides of my intent, but onely - 1019 Vaulting Ambition, which ore-leapes it selfe, - 1020 And falles on th' other. - 1021 Enter Lady. - 1022 - 1023 How now? What Newes? - 1024 La. He has almost supt: why haue you left the chamber? - 1025 Mac. Hath he ask'd for me? - 1026 La. Know you not, he ha's? - 1027 Mac. We will proceed no further in this Businesse: - 1028 He hath Honour'd me of late, and I haue bought - 1029 Golden Opinions from all sorts of people, - 1030 Which would be worne now in their newest glosse, - 1031 Not cast aside so soone - 1032 - 1033 La. Was the hope drunke, - 1034 Wherein you drest your selfe? Hath it slept since? - 1035 And wakes it now to looke so greene, and pale, - 1036 At what it did so freely? From this time, - 1037 Such I account thy loue. Art thou affear'd - 1038 To be the same in thine owne Act, and Valour, - 1039 As thou art in desire? Would'st thou haue that - 1040 Which thou esteem'st the Ornament of Life, - 1041 And liue a Coward in thine owne Esteeme? - 1042 Letting I dare not, wait vpon I would, - 1043 Like the poore Cat i'th' Addage - 1044 - 1045 Macb. Prythee peace: - 1046 I dare do all that may become a man, - 1047 Who dares do more, is none - 1048 - 1049 La. What Beast was't then - 1050 That made you breake this enterprize to me? - 1051 When you durst do it, then you were a man: - 1052 And to be more then what you were, you would - 1053 Be so much more the man. Nor time, nor place - 1054 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: - 1055 They haue made themselues, and that their fitnesse now - 1056 Do's vnmake you. I haue giuen Sucke, and know - 1057 How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me, - 1058 I would, while it was smyling in my Face, - 1059 Haue pluckt my Nipple from his Bonelesse Gummes, - 1060 And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne - 1061 As you haue done to this - 1062 - 1063 Macb. If we should faile? - 1064 Lady. We faile? - 1065 But screw your courage to the sticking place, - 1066 And wee'le not fayle: when Duncan is asleepe, - 1067 (Whereto the rather shall his dayes hard Iourney - 1068 Soundly inuite him) his two Chamberlaines - 1069 Will I with Wine, and Wassell, so conuince, - 1070 That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, - 1071 Shall be a Fume, and the Receit of Reason - 1072 A Lymbeck onely: when in Swinish sleepe, - 1073 Their drenched Natures lyes as in a Death, - 1074 What cannot you and I performe vpon - 1075 Th' vnguarded Duncan? What not put vpon - 1076 His spungie Officers? who shall beare the guilt - 1077 Of our great quell - 1078 - 1079 Macb. Bring forth Men-Children onely: - 1080 For thy vndaunted Mettle should compose - 1081 Nothing but Males. Will it not be receiu'd, - 1082 When we haue mark'd with blood those sleepie two - 1083 Of his owne Chamber, and vs'd their very Daggers, - 1084 That they haue don't? - 1085 Lady. Who dares receiue it other, - 1086 As we shall make our Griefes and Clamor rore, - 1087 Vpon his Death? - 1088 Macb. I am settled, and bend vp - 1089 Each corporall Agent to this terrible Feat. - 1090 Away, and mock the time with fairest show, - 1091 False Face must hide what the false Heart doth know. - 1092 - 1093 Exeunt. - 1094 - 1095 - 1096 Actus Secundus. Scena Prima. - 1097 - 1098 Enter Banquo, and Fleance, with a Torch before him. - 1099 - 1100 Banq. How goes the Night, Boy? - 1101 Fleance. The Moone is downe: I haue not heard the - 1102 Clock - 1103 - 1104 Banq. And she goes downe at Twelue - 1105 - 1106 Fleance. I take't, 'tis later, Sir - 1107 - 1108 Banq. Hold, take my Sword: - 1109 There's Husbandry in Heauen, - 1110 Their Candles are all out: take thee that too. - 1111 A heauie Summons lyes like Lead vpon me, - 1112 And yet I would not sleepe: - 1113 Mercifull Powers, restraine in me the cursed thoughts - 1114 That Nature giues way to in repose. - 1115 Enter Macbeth, and a Seruant with a Torch. - 1116 - 1117 Giue me my Sword: who's there? - 1118 Macb. A Friend - 1119 - 1120 Banq. What Sir, not yet at rest? the King's a bed. - 1121 He hath beene in vnusuall Pleasure, - 1122 And sent forth great Largesse to your Offices. - 1123 This Diamond he greetes your Wife withall, - 1124 By the name of most kind Hostesse, - 1125 And shut vp in measurelesse content - 1126 - 1127 Mac. Being vnprepar'd, - 1128 Our will became the seruant to defect, - 1129 Which else should free haue wrought - 1130 - 1131 Banq. All's well. - 1132 I dreamt last Night of the three weyward Sisters: - 1133 To you they haue shew'd some truth - 1134 - 1135 Macb. I thinke not of them: - 1136 Yet when we can entreat an houre to serue, - 1137 We would spend it in some words vpon that Businesse, - 1138 If you would graunt the time - 1139 - 1140 Banq. At your kind'st leysure - 1141 - 1142 Macb. If you shall cleaue to my consent, - 1143 When 'tis, it shall make Honor for you - 1144 - 1145 Banq. So I lose none, - 1146 In seeking to augment it, but still keepe - 1147 My Bosome franchis'd, and Allegeance cleare, - 1148 I shall be counsail'd - 1149 - 1150 Macb. Good repose the while - 1151 - 1152 Banq. Thankes Sir: the like to you. - 1153 - 1154 Exit Banquo. - 1155 - 1156 Macb. Goe bid thy Mistresse, when my drinke is ready, - 1157 She strike vpon the Bell. Get thee to bed. - 1158 Enter. - 1159 - 1160 Is this a Dagger, which I see before me, - 1161 The Handle toward my Hand? Come, let me clutch thee: - 1162 I haue thee not, and yet I see thee still. - 1163 Art thou not fatall Vision, sensible - 1164 To feeling, as to sight? or art thou but - 1165 A Dagger of the Minde, a false Creation, - 1166 Proceeding from the heat-oppressed Braine? - 1167 I see thee yet, in forme as palpable, - 1168 As this which now I draw. - 1169 Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going, - 1170 And such an Instrument I was to vse. - 1171 Mine Eyes are made the fooles o'th' other Sences, - 1172 Or else worth all the rest: I see thee still; - 1173 And on thy Blade, and Dudgeon, Gouts of Blood, - 1174 Which was not so before. There's no such thing: - 1175 It is the bloody Businesse, which informes - 1176 Thus to mine Eyes. Now o're the one halfe World - 1177 Nature seemes dead, and wicked Dreames abuse - 1178 The Curtain'd sleepe: Witchcraft celebrates - 1179 Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther, - 1180 Alarum'd by his Centinell, the Wolfe, - 1181 Whose howle's his Watch, thus with his stealthy pace, - 1182 With Tarquins rauishing sides, towards his designe - 1183 Moues like a Ghost. Thou sowre and firme-set Earth - 1184 Heare not my steps, which they may walke, for feare - 1185 Thy very stones prate of my where-about, - 1186 And take the present horror from the time, - 1187 Which now sutes with it. Whiles I threat, he liues: - 1188 Words to the heat of deedes too cold breath giues. - 1189 - 1190 A Bell rings. - 1191 - 1192 I goe, and it is done: the Bell inuites me. - 1193 Heare it not, Duncan, for it is a Knell, - 1194 That summons thee to Heauen, or to Hell. - 1195 Enter. - 1196 - 1197 - 1198 Scena Secunda. - 1199 - 1200 Enter Lady. - 1201 - 1202 La. That which hath made the[m] drunk, hath made me bold: - 1203 What hath quench'd them, hath giuen me fire. - 1204 Hearke, peace: it was the Owle that shriek'd, - 1205 The fatall Bell-man, which giues the stern'st good-night. - 1206 He is about it, the Doores are open: - 1207 And the surfeted Groomes doe mock their charge - 1208 With Snores. I haue drugg'd their Possets, - 1209 That Death and Nature doe contend about them, - 1210 Whether they liue, or dye. - 1211 Enter Macbeth. - 1212 - 1213 Macb. Who's there? what hoa? - 1214 Lady. Alack, I am afraid they haue awak'd, - 1215 And 'tis not done: th' attempt, and not the deed, - 1216 Confounds vs: hearke: I lay'd their Daggers ready, - 1217 He could not misse 'em. Had he not resembled - 1218 My Father as he slept, I had don't. - 1219 My Husband? - 1220 Macb. I haue done the deed: - 1221 Didst thou not heare a noyse? - 1222 Lady. I heard the Owle schreame, and the Crickets cry. - 1223 Did not you speake? - 1224 Macb. When? - 1225 Lady. Now - 1226 - 1227 Macb. As I descended? - 1228 Lady. I - 1229 - 1230 Macb. Hearke, who lyes i'th' second Chamber? - 1231 Lady. Donalbaine - 1232 - 1233 Mac. This is a sorry sight - 1234 - 1235 Lady. A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight - 1236 - 1237 Macb. There's one did laugh in's sleepe, - 1238 And one cry'd Murther, that they did wake each other: - 1239 I stood, and heard them: But they did say their Prayers, - 1240 And addrest them againe to sleepe - 1241 - 1242 Lady. There are two lodg'd together - 1243 - 1244 Macb. One cry'd God blesse vs, and Amen the other, - 1245 As they had seene me with these Hangmans hands: - 1246 Listning their feare, I could not say Amen, - 1247 When they did say God blesse vs - 1248 - 1249 Lady. Consider it not so deepely - 1250 - 1251 Mac. But wherefore could not I pronounce Amen? - 1252 I had most need of Blessing, and Amen stuck in my throat - 1253 - 1254 Lady. These deeds must not be thought - 1255 After these wayes: so, it will make vs mad - 1256 - 1257 Macb. Me thought I heard a voyce cry, Sleep no more: - 1258 Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the innocent Sleepe, - 1259 Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care, - 1260 The death of each dayes Life, sore Labors Bath, - 1261 Balme of hurt Mindes, great Natures second Course, - 1262 Chiefe nourisher in Life's Feast - 1263 - 1264 Lady. What doe you meane? - 1265 Macb. Still it cry'd, Sleepe no more to all the House: - 1266 Glamis hath murther'd Sleepe, and therefore Cawdor - 1267 Shall sleepe no more: Macbeth shall sleepe no more - 1268 - 1269 Lady. Who was it, that thus cry'd? why worthy Thane, - 1270 You doe vnbend your Noble strength, to thinke - 1271 So braine-sickly of things: Goe get some Water, - 1272 And wash this filthie Witnesse from your Hand. - 1273 Why did you bring these Daggers from the place? - 1274 They must lye there: goe carry them, and smeare - 1275 The sleepie Groomes with blood - 1276 - 1277 Macb. Ile goe no more: - 1278 I am afraid, to thinke what I haue done: - 1279 Looke on't againe, I dare not - 1280 - 1281 Lady. Infirme of purpose: - 1282 Giue me the Daggers: the sleeping, and the dead, - 1283 Are but as Pictures: 'tis the Eye of Childhood, - 1284 That feares a painted Deuill. If he doe bleed, - 1285 Ile guild the Faces of the Groomes withall, - 1286 For it must seeme their Guilt. - 1287 Enter. - 1288 - 1289 Knocke within. - 1290 - 1291 Macb. Whence is that knocking? - 1292 How is't with me, when euery noyse appalls me? - 1293 What Hands are here? hah: they pluck out mine Eyes. - 1294 Will all great Neptunes Ocean wash this blood - 1295 Cleane from my Hand? no: this my Hand will rather - 1296 The multitudinous Seas incarnardine, - 1297 Making the Greene one, Red. - 1298 Enter Lady. - 1299 - 1300 Lady. My Hands are of your colour: but I shame - 1301 To weare a Heart so white. - 1302 - 1303 Knocke. - 1304 - 1305 I heare a knocking at the South entry: - 1306 Retyre we to our Chamber: - 1307 A little Water cleares vs of this deed. - 1308 How easie is it then? your Constancie - 1309 Hath left you vnattended. - 1310 - 1311 Knocke. - 1312 - 1313 Hearke, more knocking. - 1314 Get on your Night-Gowne, least occasion call vs, - 1315 And shew vs to be Watchers: be not lost - 1316 So poorely in your thoughts - 1317 - 1318 Macb. To know my deed, - 1319 - 1320 Knocke. - 1321 - 1322 'Twere best not know my selfe. - 1323 Wake Duncan with thy knocking: - 1324 I would thou could'st. - 1325 - 1326 Exeunt. - 1327 - 1328 - 1329 Scena Tertia. - 1330 - 1331 Enter a Porter. Knocking within. - 1332 - 1333 Porter. Here's a knocking indeede: if a man were - 1334 Porter of Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the - 1335 Key. - 1336 - 1337 Knock. - 1338 - 1339 Knock, Knock, Knock. Who's there - 1340 i'th' name of Belzebub? Here's a Farmer, that hang'd - 1341 himselfe on th' expectation of Plentie: Come in time, haue - 1342 Napkins enow about you, here you'le sweat for't. - 1343 - 1344 Knock. - 1345 - 1346 Knock, knock. Who's there in th' other Deuils Name? - 1347 Faith here's an Equiuocator, that could sweare in both - 1348 the Scales against eyther Scale, who committed Treason - 1349 enough for Gods sake, yet could not equiuocate to Heauen: - 1350 oh come in, Equiuocator. - 1351 - 1352 Knock. - 1353 - 1354 Knock, Knock, Knock. Who's there? 'Faith here's an English - 1355 Taylor come hither, for stealing out of a French Hose: - 1356 Come in Taylor, here you may rost your Goose. - 1357 Knock. - 1358 - 1359 Knock, Knock. Neuer at quiet: What are you? but this - 1360 place is too cold for Hell. Ile Deuill-Porter it no further: - 1361 I had thought to haue let in some of all Professions, that - 1362 goe the Primrose way to th' euerlasting Bonfire. - 1363 - 1364 Knock. - 1365 - 1366 Anon, anon, I pray you remember the Porter. - 1367 Enter Macduff, and Lenox. - 1368 - 1369 Macd. Was it so late, friend, ere you went to Bed, - 1370 That you doe lye so late? - 1371 Port. Faith Sir, we were carowsing till the second Cock: - 1372 And Drinke, Sir, is a great prouoker of three things - 1373 - 1374 Macd. What three things does Drinke especially - 1375 prouoke? - 1376 Port. Marry, Sir, Nose-painting, Sleepe, and Vrine. - 1377 Lecherie, Sir, it prouokes, and vnprouokes: it prouokes - 1378 the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore - 1379 much Drinke may be said to be an Equiuocator with Lecherie: - 1380 it makes him, and it marres him; it sets him on, - 1381 and it takes him off; it perswades him, and dis-heartens - 1382 him; makes him stand too, and not stand too: in conclusion, - 1383 equiuocates him in a sleepe, and giuing him the Lye, - 1384 leaues him - 1385 - 1386 Macd. I beleeue, Drinke gaue thee the Lye last Night - 1387 - 1388 Port. That it did, Sir, i'the very Throat on me: but I - 1389 requited him for his Lye, and (I thinke) being too strong - 1390 for him, though he tooke vp my Legges sometime, yet I - 1391 made a Shift to cast him. - 1392 Enter Macbeth. - 1393 - 1394 Macd. Is thy Master stirring? - 1395 Our knocking ha's awak'd him: here he comes - 1396 - 1397 Lenox. Good morrow, Noble Sir - 1398 - 1399 Macb. Good morrow both - 1400 - 1401 Macd. Is the King stirring, worthy Thane? - 1402 Macb. Not yet - 1403 - 1404 Macd. He did command me to call timely on him, - 1405 I haue almost slipt the houre - 1406 - 1407 Macb. Ile bring you to him - 1408 - 1409 Macd. I know this is a ioyfull trouble to you: - 1410 But yet 'tis one - 1411 - 1412 Macb. The labour we delight in, Physicks paine: - 1413 This is the Doore - 1414 - 1415 Macd. Ile make so bold to call, for 'tis my limitted - 1416 seruice. - 1417 - 1418 Exit Macduffe. - 1419 - 1420 Lenox. Goes the King hence to day? - 1421 Macb. He does: he did appoint so - 1422 - 1423 Lenox. The Night ha's been vnruly: - 1424 Where we lay, our Chimneys were blowne downe, - 1425 And (as they say) lamentings heard i'th' Ayre; - 1426 Strange Schreemes of Death, - 1427 And Prophecying, with Accents terrible, - 1428 Of dyre Combustion, and confus'd Euents, - 1429 New hatch'd toth' wofull time. - 1430 The obscure Bird clamor'd the liue-long Night. - 1431 Some say, the Earth was Feuorous, - 1432 And did shake - 1433 - 1434 Macb. 'Twas a rough Night - 1435 - 1436 Lenox. My young remembrance cannot paralell - 1437 A fellow to it. - 1438 Enter Macduff. - 1439 - 1440 Macd. O horror, horror, horror, - 1441 Tongue nor Heart cannot conceiue, nor name thee - 1442 - 1443 Macb. and Lenox. What's the matter? - 1444 Macd. Confusion now hath made his Master-peece: - 1445 Most sacrilegious Murther hath broke ope - 1446 The Lords anoynted Temple, and stole thence - 1447 The Life o'th' Building - 1448 - 1449 Macb. What is't you say, the Life? - 1450 Lenox. Meane you his Maiestie? - 1451 Macd. Approch the Chamber, and destroy your sight - 1452 With a new Gorgon. Doe not bid me speake: - 1453 See, and then speake your selues: awake, awake, - 1454 - 1455 Exeunt. Macbeth and Lenox. - 1456 - 1457 Ring the Alarum Bell: Murther, and Treason, - 1458 Banquo, and Donalbaine: Malcolme awake, - 1459 Shake off this Downey sleepe, Deaths counterfeit, - 1460 And looke on Death it selfe: vp, vp, and see - 1461 The great Doomes Image: Malcolme, Banquo, - 1462 As from your Graues rise vp, and walke like Sprights, - 1463 To countenance this horror. Ring the Bell. - 1464 - 1465 Bell rings. Enter Lady. - 1466 - 1467 Lady. What's the Businesse? - 1468 That such a hideous Trumpet calls to parley - 1469 The sleepers of the House? speake, speake - 1470 - 1471 Macd. O gentle Lady, - 1472 'Tis not for you to heare what I can speake: - 1473 The repetition in a Womans eare, - 1474 Would murther as it fell. - 1475 Enter Banquo. - 1476 - 1477 O Banquo, Banquo, Our Royall Master's murther'd - 1478 - 1479 Lady. Woe, alas: - 1480 What, in our House? - 1481 Ban. Too cruell, any where. - 1482 Deare Duff, I prythee contradict thy selfe, - 1483 And say, it is not so. - 1484 Enter Macbeth, Lenox, and Rosse. - 1485 - 1486 Macb. Had I but dy'd an houre before this chance, - 1487 I had liu'd a blessed time: for from this instant, - 1488 There's nothing serious in Mortalitie: - 1489 All is but Toyes: Renowne and Grace is dead, - 1490 The Wine of Life is drawne, and the meere Lees - 1491 Is left this Vault, to brag of. - 1492 Enter Malcolme and Donalbaine. - 1493 - 1494 Donal. What is amisse? - 1495 Macb. You are, and doe not know't: - 1496 The Spring, the Head, the Fountaine of your Blood - 1497 Is stopt, the very Source of it is stopt - 1498 - 1499 Macd. Your Royall Father's murther'd - 1500 - 1501 Mal. Oh, by whom? - 1502 Lenox. Those of his Chamber, as it seem'd, had don't: - 1503 Their Hands and Faces were all badg'd with blood, - 1504 So were their Daggers, which vnwip'd, we found - 1505 Vpon their Pillowes: they star'd, and were distracted, - 1506 No mans Life was to be trusted with them - 1507 - 1508 Macb. O, yet I doe repent me of my furie, - 1509 That I did kill them - 1510 - 1511 Macd. Wherefore did you so? - 1512 Macb. Who can be wise, amaz'd, temp'rate, & furious, - 1513 Loyall, and Neutrall, in a moment? No man: - 1514 Th' expedition of my violent Loue - 1515 Out-run the pawser, Reason. Here lay Duncan, - 1516 His Siluer skinne, lac'd with His Golden Blood, - 1517 And his gash'd Stabs, look'd like a Breach in Nature, - 1518 For Ruines wastfull entrance: there the Murtherers, - 1519 Steep'd in the Colours of their Trade; their Daggers - 1520 Vnmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refraine, - 1521 That had a heart to loue; and in that heart, - 1522 Courage, to make's loue knowne? - 1523 Lady. Helpe me hence, hoa - 1524 - 1525 Macd. Looke to the Lady - 1526 - 1527 Mal. Why doe we hold our tongues, - 1528 That most may clayme this argument for ours? - 1529 Donal. What should be spoken here, - 1530 Where our Fate hid in an augure hole, - 1531 May rush, and seize vs? Let's away, - 1532 Our Teares are not yet brew'd - 1533 - 1534 Mal. Nor our strong Sorrow - 1535 Vpon the foot of Motion - 1536 - 1537 Banq. Looke to the Lady: - 1538 And when we haue our naked Frailties hid, - 1539 That suffer in exposure; let vs meet, - 1540 And question this most bloody piece of worke, - 1541 To know it further. Feares and scruples shake vs: - 1542 In the great Hand of God I stand, and thence, - 1543 Against the vndivulg'd pretence, I fight - 1544 Of Treasonous Mallice - 1545 - 1546 Macd. And so doe I - 1547 - 1548 All. So all - 1549 - 1550 Macb. Let's briefely put on manly readinesse, - 1551 And meet i'th' Hall together - 1552 - 1553 All. Well contented. - 1554 - 1555 Exeunt. - 1556 - 1557 Malc. What will you doe? - 1558 Let's not consort with them: - 1559 To shew an vnfelt Sorrow, is an Office - 1560 Which the false man do's easie. - 1561 Ile to England - 1562 - 1563 Don. To Ireland, I: - 1564 Our seperated fortune shall keepe vs both the safer: - 1565 Where we are, there's Daggers in mens smiles; - 1566 The neere in blood, the neerer bloody - 1567 - 1568 Malc. This murtherous Shaft that's shot, - 1569 Hath not yet lighted: and our safest way, - 1570 Is to auoid the ayme. Therefore to Horse, - 1571 And let vs not be daintie of leaue-taking, - 1572 But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft, - 1573 Which steales it selfe, when there's no mercie left. - 1574 - 1575 Exeunt. - 1576 - 1577 - 1578 - 1579 Scena Quarta. - 1580 - 1581 Enter Rosse, with an Old man. - 1582 - 1583 Old man. Threescore and ten I can remember well, - 1584 Within the Volume of which Time, I haue seene - 1585 Houres dreadfull, and things strange: but this sore Night - 1586 Hath trifled former knowings - 1587 - 1588 Rosse. Ha, good Father, - 1589 Thou seest the Heauens, as troubled with mans Act, - 1590 Threatens his bloody Stage: byth' Clock 'tis Day, - 1591 And yet darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe: - 1592 Is't Nights predominance, or the Dayes shame, - 1593 That Darknesse does the face of Earth intombe, - 1594 When liuing Light should kisse it? - 1595 Old man. 'Tis vnnaturall, - 1596 Euen like the deed that's done: On Tuesday last, - 1597 A Faulcon towring in her pride of place, - 1598 Was by a Mowsing Owle hawkt at, and kill'd - 1599 - 1600 Rosse. And Duncans Horses, - 1601 (A thing most strange, and certaine) - 1602 Beauteous, and swift, the Minions of their Race, - 1603 Turn'd wilde in nature, broke their stalls, flong out, - 1604 Contending 'gainst Obedience, as they would - 1605 Make Warre with Mankinde - 1606 - 1607 Old man. 'Tis said, they eate each other - 1608 - 1609 Rosse. They did so: - 1610 To th' amazement of mine eyes that look'd vpon't. - 1611 Enter Macduffe. - 1612 - 1613 Heere comes the good Macduffe. - 1614 How goes the world Sir, now? - 1615 Macd. Why see you not? - 1616 Ross. Is't known who did this more then bloody deed? - 1617 Macd. Those that Macbeth hath slaine - 1618 - 1619 Ross. Alas the day, - 1620 What good could they pretend? - 1621 Macd. They were subborned, - 1622 Malcolme, and Donalbaine the Kings two Sonnes - 1623 Are stolne away and fled, which puts vpon them - 1624 Suspition of the deed - 1625 - 1626 Rosse. 'Gainst Nature still, - 1627 Thriftlesse Ambition, that will rauen vp - 1628 Thine owne liues meanes: Then 'tis most like, - 1629 The Soueraignty will fall vpon Macbeth - 1630 - 1631 Macd. He is already nam'd, and gone to Scone - 1632 To be inuested - 1633 - 1634 Rosse. Where is Duncans body? - 1635 Macd. Carried to Colmekill, - 1636 The Sacred Store-house of his Predecessors, - 1637 And Guardian of their Bones - 1638 - 1639 Rosse. Will you to Scone? - 1640 Macd. No Cosin, Ile to Fife - 1641 - 1642 Rosse. Well, I will thither - 1643 - 1644 Macd. Well may you see things wel done there: Adieu - 1645 Least our old Robes sit easier then our new - 1646 - 1647 Rosse. Farewell, Father - 1648 - 1649 Old M. Gods benyson go with you, and with those - 1650 That would make good of bad, and Friends of Foes. - 1651 - 1652 Exeunt. omnes - 1653 - 1654 Actus Tertius. Scena Prima. - 1655 - 1656 Enter Banquo. - 1657 - 1658 Banq. Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, - 1659 As the weyard Women promis'd, and I feare - 1660 Thou playd'st most fowly for't: yet it was saide - 1661 It should not stand in thy Posterity, - 1662 But that my selfe should be the Roote, and Father - 1663 Of many Kings. If there come truth from them, - 1664 As vpon thee Macbeth, their Speeches shine, - 1665 Why by the verities on thee made good, - 1666 May they not be my Oracles as well, - 1667 And set me vp in hope. But hush, no more. - 1668 - 1669 Senit sounded. Enter Macbeth as King, Lady Lenox, Rosse, Lords, - 1670 and - 1671 Attendants. - 1672 - 1673 Macb. Heere's our chiefe Guest - 1674 - 1675 La. If he had beene forgotten, - 1676 It had bene as a gap in our great Feast, - 1677 And all-thing vnbecomming - 1678 - 1679 Macb. To night we hold a solemne Supper sir, - 1680 And Ile request your presence - 1681 - 1682 Banq. Let your Highnesse - 1683 Command vpon me, to the which my duties - 1684 Are with a most indissoluble tye - 1685 For euer knit - 1686 - 1687 Macb. Ride you this afternoone? - 1688 Ban. I, my good Lord - 1689 - 1690 Macb. We should haue else desir'd your good aduice - 1691 (Which still hath been both graue, and prosperous) - 1692 In this dayes Councell: but wee'le take to morrow. - 1693 Is't farre you ride? - 1694 Ban. As farre, my Lord, as will fill vp the time - 1695 'Twixt this, and Supper. Goe not my Horse the better, - 1696 I must become a borrower of the Night, - 1697 For a darke houre, or twaine - 1698 - 1699 Macb. Faile not our Feast - 1700 - 1701 Ban. My Lord, I will not - 1702 - 1703 Macb. We heare our bloody Cozens are bestow'd - 1704 In England, and in Ireland, not confessing - 1705 Their cruell Parricide, filling their hearers - 1706 With strange inuention. But of that to morrow, - 1707 When therewithall, we shall haue cause of State, - 1708 Crauing vs ioyntly. Hye you to Horse: - 1709 Adieu, till you returne at Night. - 1710 Goes Fleance with you? - 1711 Ban. I, my good Lord: our time does call vpon's - 1712 - 1713 Macb. I wish your Horses swift, and sure of foot: - 1714 And so I doe commend you to their backs. - 1715 Farwell. - 1716 - 1717 Exit Banquo. - 1718 - 1719 Let euery man be master of his time, - 1720 Till seuen at Night, to make societie - 1721 The sweeter welcome: - 1722 We will keepe our selfe till Supper time alone: - 1723 While then, God be with you. - 1724 - 1725 Exeunt. Lords. - 1726 - 1727 Sirrha, a word with you: Attend those men - 1728 Our pleasure? - 1729 Seruant. They are, my Lord, without the Pallace - 1730 Gate - 1731 - 1732 Macb. Bring them before vs. - 1733 - 1734 Exit Seruant. - 1735 - 1736 To be thus, is nothing, but to be safely thus - 1737 Our feares in Banquo sticke deepe, - 1738 And in his Royaltie of Nature reignes that - 1739 Which would be fear'd. 'Tis much he dares, - 1740 And to that dauntlesse temper of his Minde, - 1741 He hath a Wisdome, that doth guide his Valour, - 1742 To act in safetie. There is none but he, - 1743 Whose being I doe feare: and vnder him, - 1744 My Genius is rebuk'd, as it is said - 1745 Mark Anthonies was by Caesar. He chid the Sisters, - 1746 When first they put the Name of King vpon me, - 1747 And bad them speake to him. Then Prophet-like, - 1748 They hayl'd him Father to a Line of Kings. - 1749 Vpon my Head they plac'd a fruitlesse Crowne, - 1750 And put a barren Scepter in my Gripe, - 1751 Thence to be wrencht with an vnlineall Hand, - 1752 No Sonne of mine succeeding: if't be so, - 1753 For Banquo's Issue haue I fil'd my Minde, - 1754 For them, the gracious Duncan haue I murther'd, - 1755 Put Rancours in the Vessell of my Peace - 1756 Onely for them, and mine eternall Iewell - 1757 Giuen to the common Enemie of Man, - 1758 To make them Kings, the Seedes of Banquo Kings. - 1759 Rather then so, come Fate into the Lyst, - 1760 And champion me to th' vtterance. - 1761 Who's there? - 1762 Enter Seruant, and two Murtherers. - 1763 - 1764 Now goe to the Doore, and stay there till we call. - 1765 - 1766 Exit Seruant. - 1767 - 1768 Was it not yesterday we spoke together? - 1769 Murth. It was, so please your Highnesse - 1770 - 1771 Macb. Well then, - 1772 Now haue you consider'd of my speeches: - 1773 Know, that it was he, in the times past, - 1774 Which held you so vnder fortune, - 1775 Which you thought had been our innocent selfe. - 1776 This I made good to you, in our last conference, - 1777 Past in probation with you: - 1778 How you were borne in hand, how crost: - 1779 The Instruments: who wrought with them: - 1780 And all things else, that might - 1781 To halfe a Soule, and to a Notion craz'd, - 1782 Say, Thus did Banquo - 1783 - 1784 1.Murth. You made it knowne to vs - 1785 - 1786 Macb. I did so: - 1787 And went further, which is now - 1788 Our point of second meeting. - 1789 Doe you finde your patience so predominant, - 1790 In your nature, that you can let this goe? - 1791 Are you so Gospell'd, to pray for this good man, - 1792 And for his Issue, whose heauie hand - 1793 Hath bow'd you to the Graue, and begger'd - 1794 Yours for euer? - 1795 1.Murth. We are men, my Liege - 1796 - 1797 Macb. I, in the Catalogue ye goe for men, - 1798 As Hounds, and Greyhounds, Mungrels, Spaniels, Curres, - 1799 Showghes, Water-Rugs, and Demy-Wolues are clipt - 1800 All by the Name of Dogges: the valued file - 1801 Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, - 1802 The House-keeper, the Hunter, euery one - 1803 According to the gift, which bounteous Nature - 1804 Hath in him clos'd: whereby he does receiue - 1805 Particular addition, from the Bill, - 1806 That writes them all alike: and so of men. - 1807 Now, if you haue a station in the file, - 1808 Not i'th' worst ranke of Manhood, say't, - 1809 And I will put that Businesse in your Bosomes, - 1810 Whose execution takes your Enemie off, - 1811 Grapples you to the heart; and loue of vs, - 1812 Who weare our Health but sickly in his Life, - 1813 Which in his Death were perfect - 1814 - 1815 2.Murth. I am one, my Liege, - 1816 Whom the vile Blowes and Buffets of the World - 1817 Hath so incens'd, that I am recklesse what I doe, - 1818 To spight the World - 1819 - 1820 1.Murth. And I another, - 1821 So wearie with Disasters, tugg'd with Fortune, - 1822 That I would set my Life on any Chance, - 1823 To mend it, or be rid on't - 1824 - 1825 Macb. Both of you know Banquo was your Enemie - 1826 - 1827 Murth. True, my Lord - 1828 - 1829 Macb. So is he mine: and in such bloody distance, - 1830 That euery minute of his being, thrusts - 1831 Against my neer'st of Life: and though I could - 1832 With bare-fac'd power sweepe him from my sight, - 1833 And bid my will auouch it; yet I must not, - 1834 For certaine friends that are both his, and mine, - 1835 Whose loues I may not drop, but wayle his fall, - 1836 Who I my selfe struck downe: and thence it is, - 1837 That I to your assistance doe make loue, - 1838 Masking the Businesse from the common Eye, - 1839 For sundry weightie Reasons - 1840 - 1841 2.Murth. We shall, my Lord, - 1842 Performe what you command vs - 1843 - 1844 1.Murth. Though our Liues- - 1845 Macb. Your Spirits shine through you. - 1846 Within this houre, at most, - 1847 I will aduise you where to plant your selues, - 1848 Acquaint you with the perfect Spy o'th' time, - 1849 The moment on't, for't must be done to Night, - 1850 And something from the Pallace: alwayes thought, - 1851 That I require a clearenesse; and with him, - 1852 To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke: - 1853 Fleans , his Sonne, that keepes him companie, - 1854 Whose absence is no lesse materiall to me, - 1855 Then is his Fathers, must embrace the fate - 1856 Of that darke houre: resolue your selues apart, - 1857 Ile come to you anon - 1858 - 1859 Murth. We are resolu'd, my Lord - 1860 - 1861 Macb. Ile call vpon you straight: abide within, - 1862 It is concluded: Banquo, thy Soules flight, - 1863 If it finde Heauen, must finde it out to Night. - 1864 - 1865 Exeunt. - 1866 - 1867 - 1868 Scena Secunda. - 1869 - 1870 Enter Macbeths Lady, and a Seruant. - 1871 - 1872 Lady. Is Banquo gone from Court? - 1873 Seruant. I, Madame, but returnes againe to Night - 1874 - 1875 Lady. Say to the King, I would attend his leysure, - 1876 For a few words - 1877 - 1878 Seruant. Madame, I will. - 1879 Enter. - 1880 - 1881 Lady. Nought's had, all's spent. - 1882 Where our desire is got without content: - 1883 'Tis safer, to be that which we destroy, - 1884 Then by destruction dwell in doubtfull ioy. - 1885 Enter Macbeth. - 1886 - 1887 How now, my Lord, why doe you keepe alone? - 1888 Of sorryest Fancies your Companions making, - 1889 Vsing those Thoughts, which should indeed haue dy'd - 1890 With them they thinke on: things without all remedie - 1891 Should be without regard: what's done, is done - 1892 - 1893 Macb. We haue scorch'd the Snake, not kill'd it: - 1894 Shee'le close, and be her selfe, whilest our poore Mallice - 1895 Remaines in danger of her former Tooth. - 1896 But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, - 1897 Both the Worlds suffer, - 1898 Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and sleepe - 1899 In the affliction of these terrible Dreames, - 1900 That shake vs Nightly: Better be with the dead, - 1901 Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue sent to peace, - 1902 Then on the torture of the Minde to lye - 1903 In restlesse extasie. - 1904 Duncane is in his Graue: - 1905 After Lifes fitfull Feuer, he sleepes well, - 1906 Treason ha's done his worst: nor Steele, nor Poyson, - 1907 Mallice domestique, forraine Leuie, nothing, - 1908 Can touch him further - 1909 - 1910 Lady. Come on: - 1911 Gentle my Lord, sleeke o're your rugged Lookes, - 1912 Be bright and Iouiall among your Guests to Night - 1913 - 1914 Macb. So shall I Loue, and so I pray be you: - 1915 Let your remembrance apply to Banquo, - 1916 Present him Eminence, both with Eye and Tongue: - 1917 Vnsafe the while, that wee must laue - 1918 Our Honors in these flattering streames, - 1919 And make our Faces Vizards to our Hearts, - 1920 Disguising what they are - 1921 - 1922 Lady. You must leaue this - 1923 - 1924 Macb. O, full of Scorpions is my Minde, deare Wife: - 1925 Thou know'st, that Banquo and his Fleans liues - 1926 - 1927 Lady. But in them, Natures Coppie's not eterne - 1928 - 1929 Macb. There's comfort yet, they are assaileable, - 1930 Then be thou iocund: ere the Bat hath flowne - 1931 His Cloyster'd flight, ere to black Heccats summons - 1932 The shard-borne Beetle, with his drowsie hums, - 1933 Hath rung Nights yawning Peale, - 1934 There shall be done a deed of dreadfull note - 1935 - 1936 Lady. What's to be done? - 1937 Macb. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest Chuck, - 1938 Till thou applaud the deed: Come, seeling Night, - 1939 Skarfe vp the tender Eye of pittifull Day, - 1940 And with thy bloodie and inuisible Hand - 1941 Cancell and teare to pieces that great Bond, - 1942 Which keepes me pale. Light thickens, - 1943 And the Crow makes Wing toth' Rookie Wood: - 1944 Good things of Day begin to droope, and drowse, - 1945 Whiles Nights black Agents to their Prey's doe rowse. - 1946 Thou maruell'st at my words: but hold thee still, - 1947 Things bad begun, make strong themselues by ill: - 1948 So prythee goe with me. - 1949 - 1950 Exeunt. - 1951 - 1952 - 1953 Scena Tertia. - 1954 - 1955 Enter three Murtherers. - 1956 - 1957 1. But who did bid thee ioyne with vs? - 1958 3. Macbeth - 1959 - 1960 2. He needes not our mistrust, since he deliuers - 1961 Our Offices, and what we haue to doe, - 1962 To the direction iust - 1963 - 1964 1. Then stand with vs: - 1965 The West yet glimmers with some streakes of Day. - 1966 Now spurres the lated Traueller apace, - 1967 To gayne the timely Inne, and neere approches - 1968 The subiect of our Watch - 1969 - 1970 3. Hearke, I heare Horses - 1971 - 1972 Banquo within. Giue vs a Light there, hoa - 1973 - 1974 2. Then 'tis hee: - 1975 The rest, that are within the note of expectation, - 1976 Alreadie are i'th' Court - 1977 - 1978 1. His Horses goe about - 1979 - 1980 3. Almost a mile: but he does vsually, - 1981 So all men doe, from hence toth' Pallace Gate - 1982 Make it their Walke. - 1983 Enter Banquo and Fleans, with a Torch. - 1984 - 1985 2. A Light, a Light - 1986 - 1987 3. 'Tis hee - 1988 - 1989 1. Stand too't - 1990 - 1991 Ban. It will be Rayne to Night - 1992 - 1993 1. Let it come downe - 1994 - 1995 Ban. O, Trecherie! - 1996 Flye good Fleans, flye, flye, flye, - 1997 Thou may'st reuenge. O Slaue! - 1998 3. Who did strike out the Light? - 1999 1. Was't not the way? - 2000 3. There's but one downe: the Sonne is fled - 2001 - 2002 2. We haue lost - 2003 Best halfe of our Affaire - 2004 - 2005 1. Well, let's away, and say how much is done. - 2006 - 2007 Exeunt. - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 Scaena Quarta. - 2011 - 2012 Banquet prepar'd. Enter Macbeth, Lady, Rosse, Lenox, Lords, and - 2013 Attendants. - 2014 - 2015 Macb. You know your owne degrees, sit downe: - 2016 At first and last, the hearty welcome - 2017 - 2018 Lords. Thankes to your Maiesty - 2019 - 2020 Macb. Our selfe will mingle with Society, - 2021 And play the humble Host: - 2022 Our Hostesse keepes her State, but in best time - 2023 We will require her welcome - 2024 - 2025 La. Pronounce it for me Sir, to all our Friends, - 2026 For my heart speakes, they are welcome. - 2027 Enter first Murtherer. - 2028 - 2029 Macb. See they encounter thee with their harts thanks - 2030 Both sides are euen: heere Ile sit i'th' mid'st, - 2031 Be large in mirth, anon wee'l drinke a Measure - 2032 The Table round. There's blood vpon thy face - 2033 - 2034 Mur. 'Tis Banquo's then - 2035 - 2036 Macb. 'Tis better thee without, then he within. - 2037 Is he dispatch'd? - 2038 Mur. My Lord his throat is cut, that I did for him - 2039 - 2040 Mac. Thou art the best o'th' Cut-throats, - 2041 Yet hee's good that did the like for Fleans: - 2042 If thou did'st it, thou art the Non-pareill - 2043 - 2044 Mur. Most Royall Sir - 2045 Fleans is scap'd - 2046 - 2047 Macb. Then comes my Fit againe: - 2048 I had else beene perfect; - 2049 Whole as the Marble, founded as the Rocke, - 2050 As broad, and generall, as the casing Ayre: - 2051 But now I am cabin'd, crib'd, confin'd, bound in - 2052 To sawcy doubts, and feares. But Banquo's safe? - 2053 Mur. I, my good Lord: safe in a ditch he bides, - 2054 With twenty trenched gashes on his head; - 2055 The least a Death to Nature - 2056 - 2057 Macb. Thankes for that: - 2058 There the growne Serpent lyes, the worme that's fled - 2059 Hath Nature that in time will Venom breed, - 2060 No teeth for th' present. Get thee gone, to morrow - 2061 Wee'l heare our selues againe. - 2062 - 2063 Exit Murderer. - 2064 - 2065 Lady. My Royall Lord, - 2066 You do not giue the Cheere, the Feast is sold - 2067 That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a making: - 2068 'Tis giuen, with welcome: to feede were best at home: - 2069 From thence, the sawce to meate is Ceremony, - 2070 Meeting were bare without it. - 2071 Enter the Ghost of Banquo, and sits in Macbeths place. - 2072 - 2073 Macb. Sweet Remembrancer: - 2074 Now good digestion waite on Appetite, - 2075 And health on both - 2076 - 2077 Lenox. May't please your Highnesse sit - 2078 - 2079 Macb. Here had we now our Countries Honor, roof'd, - 2080 Were the grac'd person of our Banquo present: - 2081 Who, may I rather challenge for vnkindnesse, - 2082 Then pitty for Mischance - 2083 - 2084 Rosse. His absence (Sir) - 2085 Layes blame vpon his promise. Pleas't your Highnesse - 2086 To grace vs with your Royall Company? - 2087 Macb. The Table's full - 2088 - 2089 Lenox. Heere is a place reseru'd Sir - 2090 - 2091 Macb. Where? - 2092 Lenox. Heere my good Lord. - 2093 What is't that moues your Highnesse? - 2094 Macb. Which of you haue done this? - 2095 Lords. What, my good Lord? - 2096 Macb. Thou canst not say I did it: neuer shake - 2097 Thy goary lockes at me - 2098 - 2099 Rosse. Gentlemen rise, his Highnesse is not well - 2100 - 2101 Lady. Sit worthy Friends: my Lord is often thus, - 2102 And hath beene from his youth. Pray you keepe Seat, - 2103 The fit is momentary, vpon a thought - 2104 He will againe be well. If much you note him - 2105 You shall offend him, and extend his Passion, - 2106 Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man? - 2107 Macb. I, and a bold one, that dare looke on that - 2108 Which might appall the Diuell - 2109 - 2110 La. O proper stuffe: - 2111 This is the very painting of your feare: - 2112 This is the Ayre-drawne-Dagger which you said - 2113 Led you to Duncan. O, these flawes and starts - 2114 (Impostors to true feare) would well become - 2115 A womans story, at a Winters fire - 2116 Authoriz'd by her Grandam: shame it selfe, - 2117 Why do you make such faces? When all's done - 2118 You looke but on a stoole - 2119 - 2120 Macb. Prythee see there: - 2121 Behold, looke, loe, how say you: - 2122 Why what care I, if thou canst nod, speake too. - 2123 If Charnell houses, and our Graues must send - 2124 Those that we bury, backe; our Monuments - 2125 Shall be the Mawes of Kytes - 2126 - 2127 La. What? quite vnmann'd in folly - 2128 - 2129 Macb. If I stand heere, I saw him - 2130 - 2131 La. Fie for shame - 2132 - 2133 Macb. Blood hath bene shed ere now, i'th' olden time - 2134 Ere humane Statute purg'd the gentle Weale: - 2135 I, and since too, Murthers haue bene perform'd - 2136 Too terrible for the eare. The times has bene, - 2137 That when the Braines were out, the man would dye, - 2138 And there an end: But now they rise againe - 2139 With twenty mortall murthers on their crownes, - 2140 And push vs from our stooles. This is more strange - 2141 Then such a murther is - 2142 - 2143 La. My worthy Lord - 2144 Your Noble Friends do lacke you - 2145 - 2146 Macb. I do forget: - 2147 Do not muse at me my most worthy Friends, - 2148 I haue a strange infirmity, which is nothing - 2149 To those that know me. Come, loue and health to all, - 2150 Then Ile sit downe: Giue me some Wine, fill full: - 2151 Enter Ghost. - 2152 - 2153 I drinke to th' generall ioy o'th' whole Table, - 2154 And to our deere Friend Banquo, whom we misse: - 2155 Would he were heere: to all, and him we thirst, - 2156 And all to all - 2157 - 2158 Lords. Our duties, and the pledge - 2159 - 2160 Mac. Auant, & quit my sight, let the earth hide thee: - 2161 Thy bones are marrowlesse, thy blood is cold: - 2162 Thou hast no speculation in those eyes - 2163 Which thou dost glare with - 2164 - 2165 La. Thinke of this good Peeres - 2166 But as a thing of Custome: 'Tis no other, - 2167 Onely it spoyles the pleasure of the time - 2168 - 2169 Macb. What man dare, I dare: - 2170 Approach thou like the rugged Russian Beare, - 2171 The arm'd Rhinoceros, or th' Hircan Tiger, - 2172 Take any shape but that, and my firme Nerues - 2173 Shall neuer tremble. Or be aliue againe, - 2174 And dare me to the Desart with thy Sword: - 2175 If trembling I inhabit then, protest mee - 2176 The Baby of a Girle. Hence horrible shadow, - 2177 Vnreall mock'ry hence. Why so, being gone - 2178 I am a man againe: pray you sit still - 2179 - 2180 La. You haue displac'd the mirth, - 2181 Broke the good meeting, with most admir'd disorder - 2182 - 2183 Macb. Can such things be, - 2184 And ouercome vs like a Summers Clowd, - 2185 Without our speciall wonder? You make me strange - 2186 Euen to the disposition that I owe, - 2187 When now I thinke you can behold such sights, - 2188 And keepe the naturall Rubie of your Cheekes, - 2189 When mine is blanch'd with feare - 2190 - 2191 Rosse. What sights, my Lord? - 2192 La. I pray you speake not: he growes worse & worse - 2193 Question enrages him: at once, goodnight. - 2194 Stand not vpon the order of your going, - 2195 But go at once - 2196 - 2197 Len. Good night, and better health - 2198 Attend his Maiesty - 2199 - 2200 La. A kinde goodnight to all. - 2201 - 2202 Exit Lords. - 2203 - 2204 Macb. It will haue blood they say: - 2205 Blood will haue Blood: - 2206 Stones haue beene knowne to moue, & Trees to speake: - 2207 Augures, and vnderstood Relations, haue - 2208 By Maggot Pyes, & Choughes, & Rookes brought forth - 2209 The secret'st man of Blood. What is the night? - 2210 La. Almost at oddes with morning, which is which - 2211 - 2212 Macb. How say'st thou that Macduff denies his person - 2213 At our great bidding - 2214 - 2215 La. Did you send to him Sir? - 2216 Macb. I heare it by the way: But I will send: - 2217 There's not a one of them but in his house - 2218 I keepe a Seruant Feed. I will to morrow - 2219 (And betimes I will) to the weyard Sisters. - 2220 More shall they speake: for now I am bent to know - 2221 By the worst meanes, the worst, for mine owne good, - 2222 All causes shall giue way. I am in blood - 2223 Stept in so farre, that should I wade no more, - 2224 Returning were as tedious as go ore: - 2225 Strange things I haue in head, that will to hand, - 2226 Which must be acted, ere they may be scand - 2227 - 2228 La. You lacke the season of all Natures, sleepe - 2229 - 2230 Macb. Come, wee'l to sleepe: My strange & self-abuse - 2231 Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse: - 2232 We are yet but yong indeed. - 2233 - 2234 Exeunt. - 2235 - 2236 - 2237 Scena Quinta. - 2238 - 2239 Thunder. Enter the three Witches, meeting Hecat. - 2240 - 2241 1. Why how now Hecat, you looke angerly? - 2242 Hec. Haue I not reason (Beldams) as you are? - 2243 Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare - 2244 To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth, - 2245 In Riddles, and Affaires of death; - 2246 And I the Mistris of your Charmes, - 2247 The close contriuer of all harmes, - 2248 Was neuer call'd to beare my part, - 2249 Or shew the glory of our Art? - 2250 And which is worse, all you haue done - 2251 Hath bene but for a wayward Sonne, - 2252 Spightfull, and wrathfull, who (as others do) - 2253 Loues for his owne ends, not for you. - 2254 But make amends now: Get you gon, - 2255 And at the pit of Acheron - 2256 Meete me i'th' Morning: thither he - 2257 Will come, to know his Destinie. - 2258 Your Vessels, and your Spels prouide, - 2259 Your Charmes, and euery thing beside; - 2260 I am for th' Ayre: This night Ile spend - 2261 Vnto a dismall, and a Fatall end. - 2262 Great businesse must be wrought ere Noone. - 2263 Vpon the Corner of the Moone - 2264 There hangs a vap'rous drop, profound, - 2265 Ile catch it ere it come to ground; - 2266 And that distill'd by Magicke slights, - 2267 Shall raise such Artificiall Sprights, - 2268 As by the strength of their illusion, - 2269 Shall draw him on to his Confusion. - 2270 He shall spurne Fate, scorne Death, and beare - 2271 His hopes 'boue Wisedome, Grace, and Feare: - 2272 And you all know, Security - 2273 Is Mortals cheefest Enemie. - 2274 - 2275 Musicke, and a Song. - 2276 - 2277 Hearke, I am call'd: my little Spirit see - 2278 Sits in Foggy cloud, and stayes for me. - 2279 - 2280 Sing within. Come away, come away, &c. - 2281 - 2282 1 Come, let's make hast, shee'l soone be - 2283 Backe againe. - 2284 - 2285 Exeunt. - 2286 - 2287 - 2288 Scaena Sexta. - 2289 - 2290 Enter Lenox, and another Lord. - 2291 - 2292 Lenox. My former Speeches, - 2293 Haue but hit your Thoughts - 2294 Which can interpret farther: Onely I say - 2295 Things haue bin strangely borne. The gracious Duncan - 2296 Was pittied of Macbeth: marry he was dead: - 2297 And the right valiant Banquo walk'd too late, - 2298 Whom you may say (if't please you) Fleans kill'd, - 2299 For Fleans fled: Men must not walke too late. - 2300 Who cannot want the thought, how monstrous - 2301 It was for Malcolme, and for Donalbane - 2302 To kill their gracious Father? Damned Fact, - 2303 How it did greeue Macbeth? Did he not straight - 2304 In pious rage, the two delinquents teare, - 2305 That were the Slaues of drinke, and thralles of sleepe? - 2306 Was not that Nobly done? I, and wisely too: - 2307 For 'twould haue anger'd any heart aliue - 2308 To heare the men deny't. So that I say, - 2309 He ha's borne all things well, and I do thinke, - 2310 That had he Duncans Sonnes vnder his Key, - 2311 (As, and't please Heauen he shall not) they should finde - 2312 What 'twere to kill a Father: So should Fleans. - 2313 But peace; for from broad words, and cause he fayl'd - 2314 His presence at the Tyrants Feast, I heare - 2315 Macduffe liues in disgrace. Sir, can you tell - 2316 Where he bestowes himselfe? - 2317 Lord. The Sonnes of Duncane - 2318 (From whom this Tyrant holds the due of Birth) - 2319 Liues in the English Court, and is receyu'd - 2320 Of the most Pious Edward, with such grace, - 2321 That the maleuolence of Fortune, nothing - 2322 Takes from his high respect. Thither Macduffe - 2323 Is gone, to pray the Holy King, vpon his ayd - 2324 To wake Northumberland, and warlike Seyward, - 2325 That by the helpe of these (with him aboue) - 2326 To ratifie the Worke) we may againe - 2327 Giue to our Tables meate, sleepe to our Nights: - 2328 Free from our Feasts, and Banquets bloody kniues; - 2329 Do faithfull Homage, and receiue free Honors, - 2330 All which we pine for now. And this report - 2331 Hath so exasperate their King, that hee - 2332 Prepares for some attempt of Warre - 2333 - 2334 Len. Sent he to Macduffe? - 2335 Lord. He did: and with an absolute Sir, not I - 2336 The clowdy Messenger turnes me his backe, - 2337 And hums; as who should say, you'l rue the time - 2338 That clogges me with this Answer - 2339 - 2340 Lenox. And that well might - 2341 Aduise him to a Caution, t' hold what distance - 2342 His wisedome can prouide. Some holy Angell - 2343 Flye to the Court of England, and vnfold - 2344 His Message ere he come, that a swift blessing - 2345 May soone returne to this our suffering Country, - 2346 Vnder a hand accurs'd - 2347 - 2348 Lord. Ile send my Prayers with him. - 2349 - 2350 Exeunt. - 2351 - 2352 Actus Quartus. Scena Prima. - 2353 - 2354 Thunder. Enter the three Witches. - 2355 - 2356 1 Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd - 2357 - 2358 2 Thrice, and once the Hedge-Pigge whin'd - 2359 - 2360 3 Harpier cries, 'tis time, 'tis time - 2361 - 2362 1 Round about the Caldron go: - 2363 In the poysond Entrailes throw - 2364 Toad, that vnder cold stone, - 2365 Dayes and Nights, ha's thirty one: - 2366 Sweltred Venom sleeping got, - 2367 Boyle thou first i'th' charmed pot - 2368 - 2369 All. Double, double, toile and trouble; - 2370 Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble - 2371 - 2372 2 Fillet of a Fenny Snake, - 2373 In the Cauldron boyle and bake: - 2374 Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge, - 2375 Wooll of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge: - 2376 Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting, - 2377 Lizards legge, and Howlets wing: - 2378 For a Charme of powrefull trouble, - 2379 Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble - 2380 - 2381 All. Double, double, toyle and trouble, - 2382 Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble - 2383 - 2384 3 Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolfe, - 2385 Witches Mummey, Maw, and Gulfe - 2386 Of the rauin'd salt Sea sharke: - 2387 Roote of Hemlocke, digg'd i'th' darke: - 2388 Liuer of Blaspheming Iew, - 2389 Gall of Goate, and Slippes of Yew, - 2390 Sliuer'd in the Moones Ecclipse: - 2391 Nose of Turke, and Tartars lips: - 2392 Finger of Birth-strangled Babe, - 2393 Ditch-deliuer'd by a Drab, - 2394 Make the Grewell thicke, and slab. - 2395 Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron, - 2396 For th' Ingredience of our Cawdron - 2397 - 2398 All. Double, double, toyle and trouble, - 2399 Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble - 2400 - 2401 2 Coole it with a Baboones blood, - 2402 Then the Charme is firme and good. - 2403 Enter Hecat, and the other three Witches. - 2404 - 2405 Hec. O well done: I commend your paines, - 2406 And euery one shall share i'th' gaines: - 2407 And now about the Cauldron sing - 2408 Like Elues and Fairies in a Ring, - 2409 Inchanting all that you put in. - 2410 - 2411 Musicke and a Song. Blacke Spirits, &c. - 2412 - 2413 2 By the pricking of my Thumbes, - 2414 Something wicked this way comes: - 2415 Open Lockes, who euer knockes. - 2416 Enter Macbeth. - 2417 - 2418 Macb. How now you secret, black, & midnight Hags? - 2419 What is't you do? - 2420 All. A deed without a name - 2421 - 2422 Macb. I coniure you, by that which you Professe, - 2423 (How ere you come to know it) answer me: - 2424 Though you vntye the Windes, and let them fight - 2425 Against the Churches: Though the yesty Waues - 2426 Confound and swallow Nauigation vp: - 2427 Though bladed Corne be lodg'd, & Trees blown downe, - 2428 Though Castles topple on their Warders heads: - 2429 Though Pallaces, and Pyramids do slope - 2430 Their heads to their Foundations: Though the treasure - 2431 Of Natures Germaine, tumble altogether, - 2432 Euen till destruction sicken: Answer me - 2433 To what I aske you - 2434 - 2435 1 Speake - 2436 - 2437 2 Demand - 2438 - 2439 3 Wee'l answer - 2440 - 2441 1 Say, if th'hadst rather heare it from our mouthes, - 2442 Or from our Masters - 2443 - 2444 Macb. Call 'em: let me see 'em - 2445 - 2446 1 Powre in Sowes blood, that hath eaten - 2447 Her nine Farrow: Greaze that's sweaten - 2448 From the Murderers Gibbet, throw - 2449 Into the Flame - 2450 - 2451 All. Come high or low: - 2452 Thy Selfe and Office deaftly show. - 2453 Thunder. 1. Apparation, an Armed Head. - 2454 - 2455 Macb. Tell me, thou vnknowne power - 2456 - 2457 1 He knowes thy thought: - 2458 Heare his speech, but say thou nought - 2459 - 2460 1 Appar. Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth: - 2461 Beware Macduffe, - 2462 Beware the Thane of Fife: dismisse me. Enough. - 2463 - 2464 He Descends. - 2465 - 2466 Macb. What ere thou art, for thy good caution, thanks - 2467 Thou hast harp'd my feare aright. But one word more - 2468 - 2469 1 He will not be commanded: heere's another - 2470 More potent then the first. - 2471 - 2472 Thunder. 2 Apparition, a Bloody Childe. - 2473 - 2474 2 Appar. Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth - 2475 - 2476 Macb. Had I three eares, Il'd heare thee - 2477 - 2478 Appar. Be bloody, bold, & resolute: - 2479 Laugh to scorne - 2480 The powre of man: For none of woman borne - 2481 Shall harme Macbeth. - 2482 - 2483 Descends. - 2484 - 2485 Mac. Then liue Macduffe: what need I feare of thee? - 2486 But yet Ile make assurance: double sure, - 2487 And take a Bond of Fate: thou shalt not liue, - 2488 That I may tell pale-hearted Feare, it lies; - 2489 And sleepe in spight of Thunder. - 2490 - 2491 Thunder 3 Apparation, a Childe Crowned, with a Tree in his hand. - 2492 - 2493 What is this, that rises like the issue of a King, - 2494 And weares vpon his Baby-brow, the round - 2495 And top of Soueraignty? - 2496 All. Listen, but speake not too't - 2497 - 2498 3 Appar. Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care: - 2499 Who chafes, who frets, or where Conspirers are: - 2500 Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill - 2501 Great Byrnam Wood, to high Dunsmane Hill - 2502 Shall come against him. - 2503 - 2504 Descend. - 2505 - 2506 Macb. That will neuer bee: - 2507 Who can impresse the Forrest, bid the Tree - 2508 Vnfixe his earth-bound Root? Sweet boadments, good: - 2509 Rebellious dead, rise neuer till the Wood - 2510 Of Byrnan rise, and our high plac'd Macbeth - 2511 Shall liue the Lease of Nature, pay his breath - 2512 To time, and mortall Custome. Yet my Hart - 2513 Throbs to know one thing: Tell me, if your Art - 2514 Can tell so much: Shall Banquo's issue euer - 2515 Reigne in this Kingdome? - 2516 All. Seeke to know no more - 2517 - 2518 Macb. I will be satisfied. Deny me this, - 2519 And an eternall Curse fall on you: Let me know. - 2520 Why sinkes that Caldron? & what noise is this? - 2521 - 2522 Hoboyes - 2523 - 2524 1 Shew - 2525 - 2526 2 Shew - 2527 - 2528 3 Shew - 2529 - 2530 All. Shew his Eyes, and greeue his Hart, - 2531 Come like shadowes, so depart. - 2532 - 2533 A shew of eight Kings, and Banquo last, with a glasse in his hand. - 2534 - 2535 Macb. Thou art too like the Spirit of Banquo: Down: - 2536 Thy Crowne do's seare mine Eye-bals. And thy haire - 2537 Thou other Gold-bound-brow, is like the first: - 2538 A third, is like the former. Filthy Hagges, - 2539 Why do you shew me this? - A fourth? Start eyes! - 2540 What will the Line stretch out to'th' cracke of Doome? - 2541 Another yet? A seauenth? Ile see no more: - 2542 And yet the eighth appeares, who beares a glasse, - 2543 Which shewes me many more: and some I see, - 2544 That two-fold Balles, and trebble Scepters carry. - 2545 Horrible sight: Now I see 'tis true, - 2546 For the Blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles vpon me, - 2547 And points at them for his. What? is this so? - 2548 1 I Sir, all this is so. But why - 2549 Stands Macbeth thus amazedly? - 2550 Come Sisters, cheere we vp his sprights, - 2551 And shew the best of our delights. - 2552 Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound, - 2553 While you performe your Antique round: - 2554 That this great King may kindly say, - 2555 Our duties, did his welcome pay. - 2556 - 2557 Musicke. The Witches Dance, and vanish. - 2558 - 2559 Macb. Where are they? Gone? - 2560 Let this pernitious houre, - 2561 Stand aye accursed in the Kalender. - 2562 Come in, without there. - 2563 Enter Lenox. - 2564 - 2565 Lenox. What's your Graces will - 2566 - 2567 Macb. Saw you the Weyard Sisters? - 2568 Lenox. No my Lord - 2569 - 2570 Macb. Came they not by you? - 2571 Lenox. No indeed my Lord - 2572 - 2573 Macb. Infected be the Ayre whereon they ride, - 2574 And damn'd all those that trust them. I did heare - 2575 The gallopping of Horse. Who was't came by? - 2576 Len. 'Tis two or three my Lord, that bring you word: - 2577 Macduff is fled to England - 2578 - 2579 Macb. Fled to England? - 2580 Len. I, my good Lord - 2581 - 2582 Macb. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits: - 2583 The flighty purpose neuer is o're-tooke - 2584 Vnlesse the deed go with it. From this moment, - 2585 The very firstlings of my heart shall be - 2586 The firstlings of my hand. And euen now - 2587 To Crown my thoughts with Acts: be it thoght & done: - 2588 The Castle of Macduff, I will surprize. - 2589 Seize vpon Fife; giue to th' edge o'th' Sword - 2590 His Wife, his Babes, and all vnfortunate Soules - 2591 That trace him in his Line. No boasting like a Foole, - 2592 This deed Ile do, before this purpose coole, - 2593 But no more sights. Where are these Gentlemen? - 2594 Come bring me where they are. - 2595 - 2596 Exeunt. - 2597 - 2598 Scena Secunda. - 2599 - 2600 Enter Macduffes Wife, her Son, and Rosse. - 2601 - 2602 Wife. What had he done, to make him fly the Land? - 2603 Rosse. You must haue patience Madam - 2604 - 2605 Wife. He had none: - 2606 His flight was madnesse: when our Actions do not, - 2607 Our feares do make vs Traitors - 2608 - 2609 Rosse. You know not - 2610 Whether it was his wisedome, or his feare - 2611 - 2612 Wife. Wisedom? to leaue his wife, to leaue his Babes, - 2613 His Mansion, and his Titles, in a place - 2614 From whence himselfe do's flye? He loues vs not, - 2615 He wants the naturall touch. For the poore Wren - 2616 (The most diminitiue of Birds) will fight, - 2617 Her yong ones in her Nest, against the Owle: - 2618 All is the Feare, and nothing is the Loue; - 2619 As little is the Wisedome, where the flight - 2620 So runnes against all reason - 2621 - 2622 Rosse. My deerest Cooz, - 2623 I pray you schoole your selfe. But for your Husband, - 2624 He is Noble, Wise, Iudicious, and best knowes - 2625 The fits o'th' Season. I dare not speake much further, - 2626 But cruell are the times, when we are Traitors - 2627 And do not know our selues: when we hold Rumor - 2628 From what we feare, yet know not what we feare, - 2629 But floate vpon a wilde and violent Sea - 2630 Each way, and moue. I take my leaue of you: - 2631 Shall not be long but Ile be heere againe: - 2632 Things at the worst will cease, or else climbe vpward, - 2633 To what they were before. My pretty Cosine, - 2634 Blessing vpon you - 2635 - 2636 Wife. Father'd he is, - 2637 And yet hee's Father-lesse - 2638 - 2639 Rosse. I am so much a Foole, should I stay longer - 2640 It would be my disgrace, and your discomfort. - 2641 I take my leaue at once. - 2642 - 2643 Exit Rosse. - 2644 - 2645 Wife. Sirra, your Fathers dead, - 2646 And what will you do now? How will you liue? - 2647 Son. As Birds do Mother - 2648 - 2649 Wife. What with Wormes, and Flyes? - 2650 Son. With what I get I meane, and so do they - 2651 - 2652 Wife. Poore Bird, - 2653 Thou'dst neuer Feare the Net, nor Lime, - 2654 The Pitfall, nor the Gin - 2655 - 2656 Son. Why should I Mother? - 2657 Poore Birds they are not set for: - 2658 My Father is not dead for all your saying - 2659 - 2660 Wife. Yes, he is dead: - 2661 How wilt thou do for a Father? - 2662 Son. Nay how will you do for a Husband? - 2663 Wife. Why I can buy me twenty at any Market - 2664 - 2665 Son. Then you'l by 'em to sell againe - 2666 - 2667 Wife. Thou speak'st withall thy wit, - 2668 And yet I'faith with wit enough for thee - 2669 - 2670 Son. Was my Father a Traitor, Mother? - 2671 Wife. I, that he was - 2672 - 2673 Son. What is a Traitor? - 2674 Wife. Why one that sweares, and lyes - 2675 - 2676 Son. And be all Traitors, that do so - 2677 - 2678 Wife. Euery one that do's so, is a Traitor, - 2679 And must be hang'd - 2680 - 2681 Son. And must they all be hang'd, that swear and lye? - 2682 Wife. Euery one - 2683 - 2684 Son. Who must hang them? - 2685 Wife. Why, the honest men - 2686 - 2687 Son. Then the Liars and Swearers are Fools: for there - 2688 are Lyars and Swearers enow, to beate the honest men, - 2689 and hang vp them - 2690 - 2691 Wife. Now God helpe thee, poore Monkie: - 2692 But how wilt thou do for a Father? - 2693 Son. If he were dead, youl'd weepe for him: if you - 2694 would not, it were a good signe, that I should quickely - 2695 haue a new Father - 2696 - 2697 Wife. Poore pratler, how thou talk'st? - 2698 Enter a Messenger. - 2699 - 2700 Mes. Blesse you faire Dame: I am not to you known, - 2701 Though in your state of Honor I am perfect; - 2702 I doubt some danger do's approach you neerely. - 2703 If you will take a homely mans aduice, - 2704 Be not found heere: Hence with your little ones - 2705 To fright you thus. Me thinkes I am too sauage: - 2706 To do worse to you, were fell Cruelty, - 2707 Which is too nie your person. Heauen preserue you, - 2708 I dare abide no longer. - 2709 - 2710 Exit Messenger - 2711 - 2712 Wife. Whether should I flye? - 2713 I haue done no harme. But I remember now - 2714 I am in this earthly world: where to do harme - 2715 Is often laudable, to do good sometime - 2716 Accounted dangerous folly. Why then (alas) - 2717 Do I put vp that womanly defence, - 2718 To say I haue done no harme? - 2719 What are these faces? - 2720 Enter Murtherers. - 2721 - 2722 Mur. Where is your Husband? - 2723 Wife. I hope in no place so vnsanctified, - 2724 Where such as thou may'st finde him - 2725 - 2726 Mur. He's a Traitor - 2727 - 2728 Son. Thou ly'st thou shagge-ear'd Villaine - 2729 - 2730 Mur. What you Egge? - 2731 Yong fry of Treachery? - 2732 Son. He ha's kill'd me Mother, - 2733 Run away I pray you. - 2734 - 2735 Exit crying Murther. - 2736 - 2737 - 2738 Scaena Tertia. - 2739 - 2740 Enter Malcolme and Macduffe. - 2741 - 2742 Mal. Let vs seeke out some desolate shade, & there - 2743 Weepe our sad bosomes empty - 2744 - 2745 Macd. Let vs rather - 2746 Hold fast the mortall Sword: and like good men, - 2747 Bestride our downfall Birthdome: each new Morne, - 2748 New Widdowes howle, new Orphans cry, new sorowes - 2749 Strike heauen on the face, that it resounds - 2750 As if it felt with Scotland, and yell'd out - 2751 Like Syllable of Dolour - 2752 - 2753 Mal. What I beleeue, Ile waile; - 2754 What know, beleeue; and what I can redresse, - 2755 As I shall finde the time to friend: I wil. - 2756 What you haue spoke, it may be so perchance. - 2757 This Tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, - 2758 Was once thought honest: you haue lou'd him well, - 2759 He hath not touch'd you yet. I am yong, but something - 2760 You may discerne of him through me, and wisedome - 2761 To offer vp a weake, poore innocent Lambe - 2762 T' appease an angry God - 2763 - 2764 Macd. I am not treacherous - 2765 - 2766 Malc. But Macbeth is. - 2767 A good and vertuous Nature may recoyle - 2768 In an Imperiall charge. But I shall craue your pardon: - 2769 That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose; - 2770 Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. - 2771 Though all things foule, would wear the brows of grace - 2772 Yet Grace must still looke so - 2773 - 2774 Macd. I haue lost my Hopes - 2775 - 2776 Malc. Perchance euen there - 2777 Where I did finde my doubts. - 2778 Why in that rawnesse left you Wife, and Childe? - 2779 Those precious Motiues, those strong knots of Loue, - 2780 Without leaue-taking. I pray you, - 2781 Let not my Iealousies, be your Dishonors, - 2782 But mine owne Safeties: you may be rightly iust, - 2783 What euer I shall thinke - 2784 - 2785 Macd. Bleed, bleed poore Country, - 2786 Great Tyrrany, lay thou thy basis sure, - 2787 For goodnesse dare not check thee: wear y thy wrongs, - 2788 The Title, is affear'd. Far thee well Lord, - 2789 I would not be the Villaine that thou think'st, - 2790 For the whole Space that's in the Tyrants Graspe, - 2791 And the rich East to boot - 2792 - 2793 Mal. Be not offended: - 2794 I speake not as in absolute feare of you: - 2795 I thinke our Country sinkes beneath the yoake, - 2796 It weepes, it bleeds, and each new day a gash - 2797 Is added to her wounds. I thinke withall, - 2798 There would be hands vplifted in my right: - 2799 And heere from gracious England haue I offer - 2800 Of goodly thousands. But for all this, - 2801 When I shall treade vpon the Tyrants head, - 2802 Or weare it on my Sword; yet my poore Country - 2803 Shall haue more vices then it had before, - 2804 More suffer, and more sundry wayes then euer, - 2805 By him that shall succeede - 2806 - 2807 Macd. What should he be? - 2808 Mal. It is my selfe I meane: in whom I know - 2809 All the particulars of Vice so grafted, - 2810 That when they shall be open'd, blacke Macbeth - 2811 Will seeme as pure as Snow, and the poore State - 2812 Esteeme him as a Lambe, being compar'd - 2813 With my confinelesse harmes - 2814 - 2815 Macd. Not in the Legions - 2816 Of horrid Hell, can come a Diuell more damn'd - 2817 In euils, to top Macbeth - 2818 - 2819 Mal. I grant him Bloody, - 2820 Luxurious, Auaricious, False, Deceitfull, - 2821 Sodaine, Malicious, smacking of euery sinne - 2822 That ha's a name. But there's no bottome, none - 2823 In my Voluptuousnesse: Your Wiues, your Daughters, - 2824 Your Matrons, and your Maides, could not fill vp - 2825 The Cesterne of my Lust, and my Desire - 2826 All continent Impediments would ore-beare - 2827 That did oppose my will. Better Macbeth, - 2828 Then such an one to reigne - 2829 - 2830 Macd. Boundlesse intemperance - 2831 In Nature is a Tyranny: It hath beene - 2832 Th' vntimely emptying of the happy Throne, - 2833 And fall of many Kings. But feare not yet - 2834 To take vpon you what is yours: you may - 2835 Conuey your pleasures in a spacious plenty, - 2836 And yet seeme cold. The time you may so hoodwinke: - 2837 We haue willing Dames enough: there cannot be - 2838 That Vulture in you, to deuoure so many - 2839 As will to Greatnesse dedicate themselues, - 2840 Finding it so inclinde - 2841 - 2842 Mal. With this, there growes - 2843 In my most ill-composd Affection, such - 2844 A stanchlesse Auarice, that were I King, - 2845 I should cut off the Nobles for their Lands, - 2846 Desire his Iewels, and this others House, - 2847 And my more-hauing, would be as a Sawce - 2848 To make me hunger more, that I should forge - 2849 Quarrels vniust against the Good and Loyall, - 2850 Destroying them for wealth - 2851 - 2852 Macd. This Auarice - 2853 stickes deeper: growes with more pernicious roote - 2854 Then Summer-seeming Lust: and it hath bin - 2855 The Sword of our slaine Kings: yet do not feare, - 2856 Scotland hath Foysons, to fill vp your will - 2857 Of your meere Owne. All these are portable, - 2858 With other Graces weigh'd - 2859 - 2860 Mal. But I haue none. The King-becoming Graces, - 2861 As Iustice, Verity, Temp'rance, Stablenesse, - 2862 Bounty, Perseuerance, Mercy, Lowlinesse, - 2863 Deuotion, Patience, Courage, Fortitude, - 2864 I haue no rellish of them, but abound - 2865 In the diuision of each seuerall Crime, - 2866 Acting it many wayes. Nay, had I powre, I should - 2867 Poure the sweet Milke of Concord, into Hell, - 2868 Vprore the vniuersall peace, confound - 2869 All vnity on earth - 2870 - 2871 Macd. O Scotland, Scotland - 2872 - 2873 Mal. If such a one be fit to gouerne, speake: - 2874 I am as I haue spoken - 2875 - 2876 Mac. Fit to gouern? No not to liue. O Natio[n] miserable! - 2877 With an vntitled Tyrant, bloody Sceptred, - 2878 When shalt thou see thy wholsome dayes againe? - 2879 Since that the truest Issue of thy Throne - 2880 By his owne Interdiction stands accust, - 2881 And do's blaspheme his breed? Thy Royall Father - 2882 Was a most Sainted-King: the Queene that bore thee, - 2883 Oftner vpon her knees, then on her feet, - 2884 Dy'de euery day she liu'd. Fare thee well, - 2885 These Euils thou repeat'st vpon thy selfe, - 2886 Hath banish'd me from Scotland. O my Brest, - 2887 Thy hope ends heere - 2888 - 2889 Mal. Macduff, this Noble passion - 2890 Childe of integrity, hath from my soule - 2891 Wip'd the blacke Scruples, reconcil'd my thoughts - 2892 To thy good Truth, and Honor. Diuellish Macbeth, - 2893 By many of these traines, hath sought to win me - 2894 Into his power: and modest Wisedome pluckes me - 2895 From ouer-credulous hast: but God aboue - 2896 Deale betweene thee and me; For euen now - 2897 I put my selfe to thy Direction, and - 2898 Vnspeake mine owne detraction. Heere abiure - 2899 The taints, and blames I laide vpon my selfe, - 2900 For strangers to my Nature. I am yet - 2901 Vnknowne to Woman, neuer was forsworne, - 2902 Scarsely haue coueted what was mine owne. - 2903 At no time broke my Faith, would not betray - 2904 The Deuill to his Fellow, and delight - 2905 No lesse in truth then life. My first false speaking - 2906 Was this vpon my selfe. What I am truly - 2907 Is thine, and my poore Countries to command: - 2908 Whither indeed, before they heere approach - 2909 Old Seyward with ten thousand warlike men - 2910 Already at a point, was setting foorth: - 2911 Now wee'l together, and the chance of goodnesse - 2912 Be like our warranted Quarrell. Why are you silent? - 2913 Macd. Such welcome, and vnwelcom things at once - 2914 'Tis hard to reconcile. - 2915 Enter a Doctor. - 2916 - 2917 Mal. Well, more anon. Comes the King forth - 2918 I pray you? - 2919 Doct. I Sir: there are a crew of wretched Soules - 2920 That stay his Cure: their malady conuinces - 2921 The great assay of Art. But at his touch, - 2922 Such sanctity hath Heauen giuen his hand, - 2923 They presently amend. - 2924 Enter. - 2925 - 2926 Mal. I thanke you Doctor - 2927 - 2928 Macd. What's the Disease he meanes? - 2929 Mal. Tis call'd the Euill. - 2930 A most myraculous worke in this good King, - 2931 Which often since my heere remaine in England, - 2932 I haue seene him do: How he solicites heauen - 2933 Himselfe best knowes: but strangely visited people - 2934 All swolne and Vlcerous, pittifull to the eye, - 2935 The meere dispaire of Surgery, he cures, - 2936 Hanging a golden stampe about their neckes, - 2937 Put on with holy Prayers, and 'tis spoken - 2938 To the succeeding Royalty he leaues - 2939 The healing Benediction. With this strange vertue, - 2940 He hath a heauenly guift of Prophesie, - 2941 And sundry Blessings hang about his Throne, - 2942 That speake him full of Grace. - 2943 Enter Rosse. - 2944 - 2945 Macd. See who comes heere - 2946 - 2947 Malc. My Countryman: but yet I know him not - 2948 - 2949 Macd. My euer gentle Cozen, welcome hither - 2950 - 2951 Malc. I know him now. Good God betimes remoue - 2952 The meanes that makes vs Strangers - 2953 - 2954 Rosse. Sir, Amen - 2955 - 2956 Macd. Stands Scotland where it did? - 2957 Rosse. Alas poore Countrey, - 2958 Almost affraid to know it selfe. It cannot - 2959 Be call'd our Mother, but our Graue; where nothing - 2960 But who knowes nothing, is once seene to smile: - 2961 Where sighes, and groanes, and shrieks that rent the ayre - 2962 Are made, not mark'd: Where violent sorrow seemes - 2963 A Moderne extasie: The Deadmans knell, - 2964 Is there scarse ask'd for who, and good mens liues - 2965 Expire before the Flowers in their Caps, - 2966 Dying, or ere they sicken - 2967 - 2968 Macd. Oh Relation; too nice, and yet too true - 2969 - 2970 Malc. What's the newest griefe? - 2971 Rosse. That of an houres age, doth hisse the speaker, - 2972 Each minute teemes a new one - 2973 - 2974 Macd. How do's my Wife? - 2975 Rosse. Why well - 2976 - 2977 Macd. And all my Children? - 2978 Rosse. Well too - 2979 - 2980 Macd. The Tyrant ha's not batter'd at their peace? - 2981 Rosse. No, they were wel at peace, when I did leaue 'em - 2982 Macd. Be not a niggard of your speech: How gos't? - 2983 Rosse. When I came hither to transport the Tydings - 2984 Which I haue heauily borne, there ran a Rumour - 2985 Of many worthy Fellowes, that were out, - 2986 Which was to my beleefe witnest the rather, - 2987 For that I saw the Tyrants Power a-foot. - 2988 Now is the time of helpe: your eye in Scotland - 2989 Would create Soldiours, make our women fight, - 2990 To doffe their dire distresses - 2991 - 2992 Malc. Bee't their comfort - 2993 We are comming thither: Gracious England hath - 2994 Lent vs good Seyward, and ten thousand men, - 2995 An older, and a better Souldier, none - 2996 That Christendome giues out - 2997 - 2998 Rosse. Would I could answer - 2999 This comfort with the like. But I haue words - 3000 That would be howl'd out in the desert ayre, - 3001 Where hearing should not latch them - 3002 - 3003 Macd. What concerne they, - 3004 The generall cause, or is it a Fee-griefe - 3005 Due to some single brest? - 3006 Rosse. No minde that's honest - 3007 But in it shares some woe, though the maine part - 3008 Pertaines to you alone - 3009 - 3010 Macd. If it be mine - 3011 Keepe it not from me, quickly let me haue it - 3012 - 3013 Rosse. Let not your eares dispise my tongue for euer, - 3014 Which shall possesse them with the heauiest sound - 3015 that euer yet they heard - 3016 - 3017 Macd. Humh: I guesse at it - 3018 - 3019 Rosse. Your Castle is surpriz'd: your Wife, and Babes - 3020 Sauagely slaughter'd: To relate the manner - 3021 Were on the Quarry of these murther'd Deere - 3022 To adde the death of you - 3023 - 3024 Malc. Mercifull Heauen: - 3025 What man, ne're pull your hat vpon your browes: - 3026 Giue sorrow words; the griefe that do's not speake, - 3027 Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it breake - 3028 - 3029 Macd. My Children too? - 3030 Ro. Wife, Children, Seruants, all that could be found - 3031 - 3032 Macd. And I must be from thence? My wife kil'd too? - 3033 Rosse. I haue said - 3034 - 3035 Malc. Be comforted. - 3036 Let's make vs Med'cines of our great Reuenge, - 3037 To cure this deadly greefe - 3038 - 3039 Macd. He ha's no Children. All my pretty ones? - 3040 Did you say All? Oh Hell-Kite! All? - 3041 What, All my pretty Chickens, and their Damme - 3042 At one fell swoope? - 3043 Malc. Dispute it like a man - 3044 - 3045 Macd. I shall do so: - 3046 But I must also feele it as a man; - 3047 I cannot but remember such things were - 3048 That were most precious to me: Did heauen looke on, - 3049 And would not take their part? Sinfull Macduff, - 3050 They were all strooke for thee: Naught that I am, - 3051 Not for their owne demerits, but for mine - 3052 Fell slaughter on their soules: Heauen rest them now - 3053 - 3054 Mal. Be this the Whetstone of your sword, let griefe - 3055 Conuert to anger: blunt not the heart, enrage it - 3056 - 3057 Macd. O I could play the woman with mine eyes, - 3058 And Braggart with my tongue. But gentle Heauens, - 3059 Cut short all intermission: Front to Front, - 3060 Bring thou this Fiend of Scotland, and my selfe - 3061 Within my Swords length set him, if he scape - 3062 Heauen forgiue him too - 3063 - 3064 Mal. This time goes manly: - 3065 Come go we to the King, our Power is ready, - 3066 Our lacke is nothing but our leaue. Macbeth - 3067 Is ripe for shaking, and the Powres aboue - 3068 Put on their Instruments: Receiue what cheere you may, - 3069 The Night is long, that neuer findes the Day. - 3070 - 3071 Exeunt. - 3072 - 3073 Actus Quintus. Scena Prima. - 3074 - 3075 Enter a Doctor of Physicke, and a Wayting Gentlewoman. - 3076 - 3077 Doct. I haue too Nights watch'd with you, but can - 3078 perceiue no truth in your report. When was it shee last - 3079 walk'd? - 3080 Gent. Since his Maiesty went into the Field, I haue - 3081 seene her rise from her bed, throw her Night-Gown vppon - 3082 her, vnlocke her Closset, take foorth paper, folde it, - 3083 write vpon't, read it, afterwards Seale it, and againe returne - 3084 to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleepe - 3085 - 3086 Doct. A great perturbation in Nature, to receyue at - 3087 once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching. - 3088 In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking, and other - 3089 actuall performances, what (at any time) haue you heard - 3090 her say? - 3091 Gent. That Sir, which I will not report after her - 3092 - 3093 Doct. You may to me, and 'tis most meet you should - 3094 - 3095 Gent. Neither to you, nor any one, hauing no witnesse - 3096 to confirme my speech. - 3097 Enter Lady, with a Taper. - 3098 - 3099 Lo you, heere she comes: This is her very guise, and vpon - 3100 my life fast asleepe: obserue her, stand close - 3101 - 3102 Doct. How came she by that light? - 3103 Gent. Why it stood by her: she ha's light by her continually, - 3104 'tis her command - 3105 - 3106 Doct. You see her eyes are open - 3107 - 3108 Gent. I, but their sense are shut - 3109 - 3110 Doct. What is it she do's now? - 3111 Looke how she rubbes her hands - 3112 - 3113 Gent. It is an accustom'd action with her, to seeme - 3114 thus washing her hands: I haue knowne her continue in - 3115 this a quarter of an houre - 3116 - 3117 Lad. Yet heere's a spot - 3118 - 3119 Doct. Heark, she speaks, I will set downe what comes - 3120 from her, to satisfie my remembrance the more strongly - 3121 - 3122 La. Out damned spot: out I say. One: Two: Why - 3123 then 'tis time to doo't: Hell is murky. Fye, my Lord, fie, - 3124 a Souldier, and affear'd? what need we feare? who knowes - 3125 it, when none can call our powre to accompt: yet who - 3126 would haue thought the olde man to haue had so much - 3127 blood in him - 3128 - 3129 Doct. Do you marke that? - 3130 Lad. The Thane of Fife, had a wife: where is she now? - 3131 What will these hands ne're be cleane? No more o'that - 3132 my Lord, no more o'that: you marre all with this starting - 3133 - 3134 Doct. Go too, go too: - 3135 You haue knowne what you should not - 3136 - 3137 Gent. She ha's spoke what shee should not, I am sure - 3138 of that: Heauen knowes what she ha's knowne - 3139 - 3140 La. Heere's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes - 3141 of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. - 3142 Oh, oh, oh - 3143 - 3144 Doct. What a sigh is there? The hart is sorely charg'd - 3145 - 3146 Gent. I would not haue such a heart in my bosome, - 3147 for the dignity of the whole body - 3148 - 3149 Doct. Well, well, well - 3150 - 3151 Gent. Pray God it be sir - 3152 - 3153 Doct. This disease is beyond my practise: yet I haue - 3154 knowne those which haue walkt in their sleep, who haue - 3155 dyed holily in their beds - 3156 - 3157 Lad. Wash your hands, put on your Night-Gowne, - 3158 looke not so pale: I tell you yet againe Banquo's buried; - 3159 he cannot come out on's graue - 3160 - 3161 Doct. Euen so? - 3162 Lady. To bed, to bed: there's knocking at the gate: - 3163 Come, come, come, come, giue me your hand: What's - 3164 done, cannot be vndone. To bed, to bed, to bed. - 3165 - 3166 Exit Lady. - 3167 - 3168 Doct. Will she go now to bed? - 3169 Gent. Directly - 3170 - 3171 Doct. Foule whisp'rings are abroad: vnnaturall deeds - 3172 Do breed vnnaturall troubles: infected mindes - 3173 To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets: - 3174 More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian: - 3175 God, God forgiue vs all. Looke after her, - 3176 Remoue from her the meanes of all annoyance, - 3177 And still keepe eyes vpon her: So goodnight, - 3178 My minde she ha's mated, and amaz'd my sight. - 3179 I thinke, but dare not speake - 3180 - 3181 Gent. Good night good Doctor. - 3182 - 3183 Exeunt. - 3184 - 3185 - 3186 Scena Secunda. - 3187 - 3188 Drum and Colours. Enter Menteth, Cathnes, Angus, Lenox, - 3189 Soldiers. - 3190 - 3191 Ment. The English powre is neere, led on by Malcolm, - 3192 His Vnkle Seyward, and the good Macduff. - 3193 Reuenges burne in them: for their deere causes - 3194 Would to the bleeding, and the grim Alarme - 3195 Excite the mortified man - 3196 - 3197 Ang. Neere Byrnan wood - 3198 Shall we well meet them, that way are they comming - 3199 - 3200 Cath. Who knowes if Donalbane be with his brother? - 3201 Len. For certaine Sir, he is not: I haue a File - 3202 Of all the Gentry; there is Seywards Sonne, - 3203 And many vnruffe youths, that euen now - 3204 Protest their first of Manhood - 3205 - 3206 Ment. What do's the Tyrant - 3207 - 3208 Cath. Great Dunsinane he strongly Fortifies: - 3209 Some say hee's mad: Others, that lesser hate him, - 3210 Do call it valiant Fury, but for certaine - 3211 He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause - 3212 Within the belt of Rule - 3213 - 3214 Ang. Now do's he feele - 3215 His secret Murthers sticking on his hands, - 3216 Now minutely Reuolts vpbraid his Faith-breach: - 3217 Those he commands, moue onely in command, - 3218 Nothing in loue: Now do's he feele his Title - 3219 Hang loose about him, like a Giants Robe - 3220 Vpon a dwarfish Theefe - 3221 - 3222 Ment. Who then shall blame - 3223 His pester'd Senses to recoyle, and start, - 3224 When all that is within him, do's condemne - 3225 It selfe, for being there - 3226 - 3227 Cath. Well, march we on, - 3228 To giue Obedience, where 'tis truly ow'd: - 3229 Meet we the Med'cine of the sickly Weale, - 3230 And with him poure we in our Countries purge, - 3231 Each drop of vs - 3232 - 3233 Lenox. Or so much as it needes, - 3234 To dew the Soueraigne Flower, and drowne the Weeds: - 3235 Make we our March towards Birnan. - 3236 - 3237 Exeunt. marching. - 3238 - 3239 - 3240 Scaena Tertia. - 3241 - 3242 Enter Macbeth, Doctor, and Attendants. - 3243 - 3244 Macb. Bring me no more Reports, let them flye all: - 3245 Till Byrnane wood remoue to Dunsinane, - 3246 I cannot taint with Feare. What's the Boy Malcolme? - 3247 Was he not borne of woman? The Spirits that know - 3248 All mortall Consequences, haue pronounc'd me thus: - 3249 Feare not Macbeth, no man that's borne of woman - 3250 Shall ere haue power vpon thee. Then fly false Thanes, - 3251 And mingle with the English Epicures, - 3252 The minde I sway by, and the heart I beare, - 3253 Shall neuer sagge with doubt, nor shake with feare. - 3254 Enter Seruant. - 3255 - 3256 The diuell damne thee blacke, thou cream-fac'd Loone: - 3257 Where got'st thou that Goose-looke - 3258 - 3259 Ser. There is ten thousand - 3260 - 3261 Macb. Geese Villaine? - 3262 Ser. Souldiers Sir - 3263 - 3264 Macb. Go pricke thy face, and ouer-red thy feare - 3265 Thou Lilly-liuer'd Boy. What Soldiers, Patch? - 3266 Death of thy Soule, those Linnen cheekes of thine - 3267 Are Counsailers to feare. What Soldiers Whay-face? - 3268 Ser. The English Force, so please you - 3269 - 3270 Macb. Take thy face hence. Seyton, I am sick at hart, - 3271 When I behold: Seyton, I say, this push - 3272 Will cheere me euer, or dis-eate me now. - 3273 I haue liu'd long enough: my way of life - 3274 Is falne into the Seare, the yellow Leafe, - 3275 And that which should accompany Old-Age, - 3276 As Honor, Loue, Obedience, Troopes of Friends, - 3277 I must not looke to haue: but in their steed, - 3278 Curses, not lowd but deepe, Mouth-honor, breath - 3279 Which the poore heart would faine deny, and dare not. - 3280 Seyton? - 3281 Enter Seyton. - 3282 - 3283 Sey. What's your gracious pleasure? - 3284 Macb. What Newes more? - 3285 Sey. All is confirm'd my Lord, which was reported - 3286 - 3287 Macb. Ile fight, till from my bones, my flesh be hackt. - 3288 Giue me my Armor - 3289 - 3290 Seyt. 'Tis not needed yet - 3291 - 3292 Macb. Ile put it on: - 3293 Send out moe Horses, skirre the Country round, - 3294 Hang those that talke of Feare. Giue me mine Armor: - 3295 How do's your Patient, Doctor? - 3296 Doct. Not so sicke my Lord, - 3297 As she is troubled with thicke-comming Fancies - 3298 That keepe her from her rest - 3299 - 3300 Macb. Cure of that: - 3301 Can'st thou not Minister to a minde diseas'd, - 3302 Plucke from the Memory a rooted Sorrow, - 3303 Raze out the written troubles of the Braine, - 3304 And with some sweet Obliuious Antidote - 3305 Cleanse the stufft bosome, of that perillous stuffe - 3306 Which weighes vpon the heart? - 3307 Doct. Therein the Patient - 3308 Must minister to himselfe - 3309 - 3310 Macb. Throw Physicke to the Dogs, Ile none of it. - 3311 Come, put mine Armour on: giue me my Staffe: - 3312 Seyton, send out: Doctor, the Thanes flye from me: - 3313 Come sir, dispatch. If thou could'st Doctor, cast - 3314 The Water of my Land, finde her Disease, - 3315 And purge it to a sound and pristine Health, - 3316 I would applaud thee to the very Eccho, - 3317 That should applaud againe. Pull't off I say, - 3318 What Rubarb, Cyme, or what Purgatiue drugge - 3319 Would scowre these English hence: hear'st y of them? - 3320 Doct. I my good Lord: your Royall Preparation - 3321 Makes vs heare something - 3322 - 3323 Macb. Bring it after me: - 3324 I will not be affraid of Death and Bane, - 3325 Till Birnane Forrest come to Dunsinane - 3326 - 3327 Doct. Were I from Dunsinane away, and cleere, - 3328 Profit againe should hardly draw me heere. - 3329 - 3330 Exeunt. - 3331 - 3332 Scena Quarta. - 3333 - 3334 Drum and Colours. Enter Malcolme, Seyward, Macduffe, - 3335 Seywards Sonne, - 3336 Menteth, Cathnes, Angus, and Soldiers Marching. - 3337 - 3338 Malc. Cosins, I hope the dayes are neere at hand - 3339 That Chambers will be safe - 3340 - 3341 Ment. We doubt it nothing - 3342 - 3343 Seyw. What wood is this before vs? - 3344 Ment. The wood of Birnane - 3345 - 3346 Malc. Let euery Souldier hew him downe a Bough, - 3347 And bear't before him, thereby shall we shadow - 3348 The numbers of our Hoast, and make discouery - 3349 Erre in report of vs - 3350 - 3351 Sold. It shall be done - 3352 - 3353 Syw. We learne no other, but the confident Tyrant - 3354 Keepes still in Dunsinane, and will indure - 3355 Our setting downe befor't - 3356 - 3357 Malc. 'Tis his maine hope: - 3358 For where there is aduantage to be giuen, - 3359 Both more and lesse haue giuen him the Reuolt, - 3360 And none serue with him, but constrained things, - 3361 Whose hearts are absent too - 3362 - 3363 Macd. Let our iust Censures - 3364 Attend the true euent, and put we on - 3365 Industrious Souldiership - 3366 - 3367 Sey. The time approaches, - 3368 That will with due decision make vs know - 3369 What we shall say we haue, and what we owe: - 3370 Thoughts speculatiue, their vnsure hopes relate, - 3371 But certaine issue, stroakes must arbitrate, - 3372 Towards which, aduance the warre. - 3373 - 3374 Exeunt. marching - 3375 - 3376 Scena Quinta. - 3377 - 3378 Enter Macbeth, Seyton, & Souldiers, with Drum and Colours. - 3379 - 3380 Macb. Hang out our Banners on the outward walls, - 3381 The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength - 3382 Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye, - 3383 Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp: - 3384 Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours, - 3385 We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard, - 3386 And beate them backward home. What is that noyse? - 3387 - 3388 A Cry within of Women. - 3389 - 3390 Sey. It is the cry of women, my good Lord - 3391 - 3392 Macb. I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares: - 3393 The time ha's beene, my sences would haue cool'd - 3394 To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire - 3395 Would at a dismall Treatise rowze, and stirre - 3396 As life were in't. I haue supt full with horrors, - 3397 Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thoughts - 3398 Cannot once start me. Wherefore was that cry? - 3399 Sey. The Queene (my Lord) is dead - 3400 - 3401 Macb. She should haue dy'de heereafter; - 3402 There would haue beene a time for such a word: - 3403 To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, - 3404 Creepes in this petty pace from day to day, - 3405 To the last Syllable of Recorded time: - 3406 And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles - 3407 The way to dusty death. Out, out, breefe Candle, - 3408 Life's but a walking Shadow, a poore Player, - 3409 That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage, - 3410 And then is heard no more. It is a Tale - 3411 Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury - 3412 Signifying nothing. - 3413 Enter a Messenger. - 3414 - 3415 Thou com'st to vse thy Tongue: thy Story quickly - 3416 - 3417 Mes. Gracious my Lord, - 3418 I should report that which I say I saw, - 3419 But know not how to doo't - 3420 - 3421 Macb. Well, say sir - 3422 - 3423 Mes. As I did stand my watch vpon the Hill - 3424 I look'd toward Byrnane, and anon me thought - 3425 The Wood began to moue - 3426 - 3427 Macb. Lyar, and Slaue - 3428 - 3429 Mes. Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so: - 3430 Within this three Mile may you see it comming. - 3431 I say, a mouing Groue - 3432 - 3433 Macb. If thou speak'st false, - 3434 Vpon the next Tree shall thou hang aliue - 3435 Till Famine cling thee: If thy speech be sooth, - 3436 I care not if thou dost for me as much. - 3437 I pull in Resolution, and begin - 3438 To doubt th' Equiuocation of the Fiend, - 3439 That lies like truth. Feare not, till Byrnane Wood - 3440 Do come to Dunsinane, and now a Wood - 3441 Comes toward Dunsinane. Arme, Arme, and out, - 3442 If this which he auouches, do's appeare, - 3443 There is nor flying hence, nor tarrying here. - 3444 I 'ginne to be a-weary of the Sun, - 3445 And wish th' estate o'th' world were now vndon. - 3446 Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke, - 3447 At least wee'l dye with Harnesse on our backe. - 3448 - 3449 Exeunt. - 3450 - 3451 Scena Sexta. - 3452 - 3453 Drumme and Colours. Enter Malcolme, Seyward, Macduffe, and - 3454 their Army, - 3455 with Boughes. - 3456 - 3457 Mal. Now neere enough: - 3458 Your leauy Skreenes throw downe, - 3459 And shew like those you are: You (worthy Vnkle) - 3460 Shall with my Cosin your right Noble Sonne - 3461 Leade our first Battell. Worthy Macduffe, and wee - 3462 Shall take vpon's what else remaines to do, - 3463 According to our order - 3464 - 3465 Sey. Fare you well: - 3466 Do we but finde the Tyrants power to night, - 3467 Let vs be beaten, if we cannot fight - 3468 - 3469 Macd. Make all our Trumpets speak, giue the[m] all breath - 3470 Those clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death. - 3471 - 3472 Exeunt. - 3473 - 3474 Alarums continued. - 3475 - 3476 - 3477 Scena Septima. - 3478 - 3479 Enter Macbeth. - 3480 - 3481 Macb. They haue tied me to a stake, I cannot flye, - 3482 But Beare-like I must fight the course. What's he - 3483 That was not borne of Woman? Such a one - 3484 Am I to feare, or none. - 3485 Enter young Seyward. - 3486 - 3487 Y.Sey. What is thy name? - 3488 Macb. Thou'lt be affraid to heare it - 3489 - 3490 Y.Sey. No: though thou call'st thy selfe a hoter name - 3491 Then any is in hell - 3492 - 3493 Macb. My name's Macbeth - 3494 - 3495 Y.Sey. The diuell himselfe could not pronounce a Title - 3496 More hatefull to mine eare - 3497 - 3498 Macb. No: nor more fearefull - 3499 - 3500 Y.Sey. Thou lyest abhorred Tyrant, with my Sword - 3501 Ile proue the lye thou speak'st. - 3502 - 3503 Fight, and young Seyward slaine. - 3504 - 3505 Macb. Thou was't borne of woman; - 3506 But Swords I smile at, Weapons laugh to scorne, - 3507 Brandish'd by man that's of a Woman borne. - 3508 Enter. - 3509 - 3510 Alarums. Enter Macduffe. - 3511 - 3512 Macd. That way the noise is: Tyrant shew thy face, - 3513 If thou beest slaine, and with no stroake of mine, - 3514 My Wife and Childrens Ghosts will haunt me still: - 3515 I cannot strike at wretched Kernes, whose armes - 3516 Are hyr'd to beare their Staues; either thou Macbeth, - 3517 Or else my Sword with an vnbattered edge - 3518 I sheath againe vndeeded. There thou should'st be, - 3519 By this great clatter, one of greatest note - 3520 Seemes bruited. Let me finde him Fortune, - 3521 And more I begge not. - 3522 - 3523 Exit. Alarums. - 3524 - 3525 Enter Malcolme and Seyward. - 3526 - 3527 Sey. This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred: - 3528 The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight, - 3529 The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre, - 3530 The day almost it selfe professes yours, - 3531 And little is to do - 3532 - 3533 Malc. We haue met with Foes - 3534 That strike beside vs - 3535 - 3536 Sey. Enter Sir, the Castle. - 3537 - 3538 Exeunt. Alarum - 3539 - 3540 Enter Macbeth. - 3541 - 3542 Macb. Why should I play the Roman Foole, and dye - 3543 On mine owne sword? whiles I see liues, the gashes - 3544 Do better vpon them. - 3545 Enter Macduffe. - 3546 - 3547 Macd. Turne Hell-hound, turne - 3548 - 3549 Macb. Of all men else I haue auoyded thee: - 3550 But get thee backe, my soule is too much charg'd - 3551 With blood of thine already - 3552 - 3553 Macd. I haue no words, - 3554 My voice is in my Sword, thou bloodier Villaine - 3555 Then tearmes can giue thee out. - 3556 - 3557 Fight: Alarum - 3558 - 3559 Macb. Thou loosest labour - 3560 As easie may'st thou the intrenchant Ayre - 3561 With thy keene Sword impresse, as make me bleed: - 3562 Let fall thy blade on vulnerable Crests, - 3563 I beare a charmed Life, which must not yeeld - 3564 To one of woman borne - 3565 - 3566 Macd. Dispaire thy Charme, - 3567 And let the Angell whom thou still hast seru'd - 3568 Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb - 3569 Vntimely ript - 3570 - 3571 Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so; - 3572 For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: - 3573 And be these Iugling Fiends no more beleeu'd, - 3574 That palter with vs in a double sence, - 3575 That keepe the word of promise to our eare, - 3576 And breake it to our hope. Ile not fight with thee - 3577 - 3578 Macd. Then yeeld thee Coward, - 3579 And liue to be the shew, and gaze o'th' time. - 3580 Wee'l haue thee, as our rarer Monsters are - 3581 Painted vpon a pole, and vnder-writ, - 3582 Heere may you see the Tyrant - 3583 - 3584 Macb. I will not yeeld - 3585 To kisse the ground before young Malcolmes feet, - 3586 And to be baited with the Rabbles curse. - 3587 Though Byrnane wood be come to Dunsinane, - 3588 And thou oppos'd, being of no woman borne, - 3589 Yet I will try the last. Before my body, - 3590 I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, - 3591 And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough. - 3592 - 3593 Exeunt. fighting. Alarums. - 3594 - 3595 Enter Fighting, and Macbeth slaine. - 3596 - 3597 Retreat, and Flourish. Enter with Drumme and Colours, Malcolm, - 3598 Seyward, - 3599 Rosse, Thanes, & Soldiers. - 3600 - 3601 Mal. I would the Friends we misse, were safe arriu'd - 3602 - 3603 Sey. Some must go off: and yet by these I see, - 3604 So great a day as this is cheapely bought - 3605 - 3606 Mal. Macduffe is missing, and your Noble Sonne - 3607 - 3608 Rosse. Your son my Lord, ha's paid a souldiers debt, - 3609 He onely liu'd but till he was a man, - 3610 The which no sooner had his Prowesse confirm'd - 3611 In the vnshrinking station where he fought, - 3612 But like a man he dy'de - 3613 - 3614 Sey. Then he is dead? - 3615 Rosse. I, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow - 3616 Must not be measur'd by his worth, for then - 3617 It hath no end - 3618 - 3619 Sey. Had he his hurts before? - 3620 Rosse. I, on the Front - 3621 - 3622 Sey. Why then, Gods Soldier be he: - 3623 Had I as many Sonnes, as I haue haires, - 3624 I would not wish them to a fairer death: - 3625 And so his Knell is knoll'd - 3626 - 3627 Mal. Hee's worth more sorrow, - 3628 and that Ile spend for him - 3629 - 3630 Sey. He's worth no more, - 3631 They say he parted well, and paid his score, - 3632 And so God be with him. Here comes newer comfort. - 3633 Enter Macduffe, with Macbeths head. - 3634 - 3635 Macd. Haile King, for so thou art. - 3636 Behold where stands - 3637 Th' Vsurpers cursed head: the time is free: - 3638 I see thee compast with thy Kingdomes Pearle, - 3639 That speake my salutation in their minds: - 3640 Whose voyces I desire alowd with mine. - 3641 Haile King of Scotland - 3642 - 3643 All. Haile King of Scotland. - 3644 - 3645 Flourish. - 3646 - 3647 Mal. We shall not spend a large expence of time, - 3648 Before we reckon with your seuerall loues, - 3649 And make vs euen with you. My Thanes and Kinsmen - 3650 Henceforth be Earles, the first that euer Scotland - 3651 In such an Honor nam'd: What's more to do, - 3652 Which would be planted newly with the time, - 3653 As calling home our exil'd Friends abroad, - 3654 That fled the Snares of watchfull Tyranny, - 3655 Producing forth the cruell Ministers - 3656 Of this dead Butcher, and his Fiend-like Queene; - 3657 Who (as 'tis thought) by selfe and violent hands, - 3658 Tooke off her life. 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I wish to make this the best - 378 etext possible. My email address for right now are haradda@aol.com - 379 and davidr@inconnect.com. I hope that you enjoy this. - 380 - 381 David Reed - 382 - 383 The Merchant of Venice - 384 - 385 Actus primus. - 386 - 387 Enter Anthonio, Salarino, and Salanio. - 388 - 389 Anthonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad, - 390 It wearies me: you say it wearies you; - 391 But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, - 392 What stuffe 'tis made of, whereof it is borne, - 393 I am to learne: and such a Want-wit sadnesse makes of - 394 mee, - 395 That I haue much ado to know my selfe - 396 - 397 Sal. Your minde is tossing on the Ocean, - 398 There where your Argosies with portly saile - 399 Like Signiors and rich Burgers on the flood, - 400 Or as it were the Pageants of the sea, - 401 Do ouer-peere the pettie Traffiquers - 402 That curtsie to them, do them reuerence - 403 As they flye by them with their wouen wings - 404 - 405 Salar. Beleeue me sir, had I such venture forth, - 406 The better part of my affections, would - 407 Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still - 408 Plucking the grasse to know where sits the winde, - 409 Peering in Maps for ports, and peers, and rodes: - 410 And euery obiect that might make me feare - 411 Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt - 412 Would make me sad - 413 - 414 Sal. My winde cooling my broth, - 415 Would blow me to an Ague, when I thought - 416 What harme a winde too great might doe at sea. - 417 I should not see the sandie houre-glasse runne, - 418 But I should thinke of shallows, and of flats, - 419 And see my wealthy Andrew docks in sand, - 420 Vailing her high top lower then her ribs - 421 To kisse her buriall; should I goe to Church - 422 And see the holy edifice of stone, - 423 And not bethinke me straight of dangerous rocks, - 424 Which touching but my gentle Vessels side - 425 Would scatter all her spices on the streame, - 426 Enrobe the roring waters with my silkes, - 427 And in a word, but euen now worth this, - 428 And now worth nothing. Shall I haue the thought - 429 To thinke on this, and shall I lacke the thought - 430 That such a thing bechaunc'd would make me sad? - 431 But tell me, I know Anthonio - 432 Is sad to thinke vpon his merchandize - 433 - 434 Anth. Beleeue me no, I thanke my fortune for it, - 435 My ventures are not in one bottome trusted, - 436 Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate - 437 Vpon the fortune of this present yeere: - 438 Therefore my merchandize makes me not sad - 439 - 440 Sola. Why then you are in loue - 441 - 442 Anth. Fie, fie - 443 - 444 Sola. Not in loue neither: then let vs say you are sad - 445 Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easie - 446 For you to laugh and leape, and say you are merry - 447 Because you are not sad. Now by two-headed Ianus, - 448 Nature hath fram'd strange fellowes in her time: - 449 Some that will euermore peepe through their eyes, - 450 And laugh like Parrats at a bag-piper. - 451 And other of such vineger aspect, - 452 That they'll not shew their teeth in way of smile, - 453 Though Nestor sweare the iest be laughable. - 454 Enter Bassanio, Lorenso, and Gratiano. - 455 - 456 Sola. Heere comes Bassanio, - 457 Your most noble Kinsman, - 458 Gratiano, and Lorenso. Faryewell, - 459 We leaue you now with better company - 460 - 461 Sala. I would haue staid till I had made you merry, - 462 If worthier friends had not preuented me - 463 - 464 Ant. Your worth is very deere in my regard. - 465 I take it your owne busines calls on you, - 466 And you embrace th' occasion to depart - 467 - 468 Sal. Good morrow my good Lords - 469 - 470 Bass. Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? - 471 You grow exceeding strange: must it be so? - 472 Sal. Wee'll make our leysures to attend on yours. - 473 - 474 Exeunt. Salarino, and Solanio. - 475 - 476 Lor. My Lord Bassanio, since you haue found Anthonio - 477 We two will leaue you, but at dinner time - 478 I pray you haue in minde where we must meete - 479 - 480 Bass. I will not faile you - 481 - 482 Grat. You looke not well signior Anthonio, - 483 You haue too much respect vpon the world: - 484 They loose it that doe buy it with much care, - 485 Beleeue me you are maruellously chang'd - 486 - 487 Ant. I hold the world but as the world Gratiano, - 488 A stage, where euery man must play a part, - 489 And mine a sad one - 490 - 491 Grati. Let me play the foole, - 492 With mirth and laughter let old wrinckles come, - 493 And let my Liuer rather heate with wine, - 494 Then my heart coole with mortifying grones. - 495 Why should a man whose bloud is warme within, - 496 Sit like his Grandsire, cut in Alablaster? - 497 Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies - 498 By being peeuish? I tell thee what Anthonio, - 499 I loue thee, and it is my loue that speakes: - 500 There are a sort of men, whose visages - 501 Do creame and mantle like a standing pond, - 502 And do a wilfull stilnesse entertaine, - 503 With purpose to be drest in an opinion - 504 Of wisedome, grauity, profound conceit, - 505 As who should say, I am sir an Oracle, - 506 And when I ope my lips, let no dogge barke. - 507 O my Anthonio, I do know of these - 508 That therefore onely are reputed wise, - 509 For saying nothing; when I am verie sure - 510 If they should speake, would almost dam those eares - 511 Which hearing them would call their brothers fooles: - 512 Ile tell thee more of this another time. - 513 But fish not with this melancholly baite - 514 For this foole Gudgin, this opinion: - 515 Come good Lorenzo, faryewell a while, - 516 Ile end my exhortation after dinner - 517 - 518 Lor. Well, we will leaue you then till dinner time. - 519 I must be one of these same dumbe wise men. - 520 For Gratiano neuer let's me speake - 521 - 522 Gra. Well, keepe me company but two yeares mo, - 523 Thou shalt not know the sound of thine owne tongue - 524 - 525 Ant. Far you well, Ile grow a talker for this geare - 526 - 527 Gra. Thankes ifaith, for silence is onely commendable - 528 In a neats tongue dri'd, and a maid not vendible. - 529 Enter. - 530 - 531 Ant. It is that any thing now - 532 - 533 Bas. Gratiano speakes an infinite deale of nothing, - 534 more then any man in all Venice, his reasons are two - 535 graines of wheate hid in two bushels of chaffe: you shall - 536 seeke all day ere you finde them, & when you haue them - 537 they are not worth the search - 538 - 539 An. Well: tel me now, what Lady is the same - 540 To whom you swore a secret Pilgrimage - 541 That you to day promis'd to tel me of? - 542 Bas. Tis not vnknowne to you Anthonio - 543 How much I haue disabled mine estate, - 544 By something shewing a more swelling port - 545 Then my faint meanes would grant continuance: - 546 Nor do I now make mone to be abridg'd - 547 From such a noble rate, but my cheefe care - 548 Is to come fairely off from the great debts - 549 Wherein my time something too prodigall - 550 Hath left me gag'd: to you Anthonio - 551 I owe the most in money, and in loue, - 552 And from your loue I haue a warrantie - 553 To vnburthen all my plots and purposes, - 554 How to get cleere of all the debts I owe - 555 - 556 An. I pray you good Bassanio let me know it, - 557 And if it stand as you your selfe still do, - 558 Within the eye of honour, be assur'd - 559 My purse, my person, my extreamest meanes - 560 Lye all vnlock'd to your occasions - 561 - 562 Bass. In my schoole dayes, when I had lost one shaft - 563 I shot his fellow of the selfesame flight - 564 The selfesame way, with more aduised watch - 565 To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both, - 566 I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, - 567 Because what followes is pure innocence. - 568 I owe you much, and like a wilfull youth, - 569 That which I owe is lost: but if you please - 570 To shoote another arrow that selfe way - 571 Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, - 572 As I will watch the ayme: Or to finde both, - 573 Or bring your latter hazard backe againe, - 574 And thankfully rest debter for the first - 575 - 576 An. You know me well, and herein spend but time - 577 To winde about my loue with circumstance, - 578 And out of doubt you doe more wrong - 579 In making question of my vttermost - 580 Then if you had made waste of all I haue: - 581 Then doe but say to me what I should doe - 582 That in your knowledge may by me be done, - 583 And I am prest vnto it: therefore speake - 584 - 585 Bass. In Belmont is a Lady richly left, - 586 And she is faire, and fairer then that word, - 587 Of wondrous vertues, sometimes from her eyes - 588 I did receiue faire speechlesse messages: - 589 Her name is Portia, nothing vndervallewd - 590 To Cato's daughter, Brutus Portia, - 591 Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth, - 592 For the four windes blow in from euery coast - 593 Renowned sutors, and her sunny locks - 594 Hang on her temples like a golden fleece, - 595 Which makes her seat of Belmont Cholchos strond, - 596 And many Iasons come in quest of her. - 597 O my Anthonio, had I but the meanes - 598 To hold a riuall place with one of them, - 599 I haue a minde presages me such thrift, - 600 That I should questionlesse be fortunate - 601 - 602 Anth. Thou knowst that all my fortunes are at sea, - 603 Neither haue I money, nor commodity - 604 To raise a present summe, therefore goe forth - 605 Try what my credit can in Venice doe, - 606 That shall be rackt euen to the vttermost, - 607 To furnish thee to Belmont to faire Portia. - 608 Goe presently enquire, and so will I - 609 Where money is, and I no question make - 610 To haue it of my trust, or for my sake. - 611 - 612 Exeunt. - 613 - 614 Enter Portia with her waiting woman Nerissa. - 615 - 616 Portia. By my troth Nerrissa, my little body is a wearie - 617 of this great world - 618 - 619 Ner. You would be sweet Madam, if your miseries - 620 were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are: - 621 and yet for ought I see, they are as sicke that surfet with - 622 too much, as they that starue with nothing; it is no smal - 623 happinesse therefore to bee seated in the meane, superfluitie - 624 comes sooner by white haires, but competencie - 625 liues longer - 626 - 627 Portia. Good sentences, and well pronounc'd - 628 - 629 Ner. They would be better if well followed - 630 - 631 Portia. If to doe were as easie as to know what were - 632 good to doe, Chappels had beene Churches, and poore - 633 mens cottages Princes Pallaces: it is a good Diuine that - 634 followes his owne instructions; I can easier teach twentie - 635 what were good to be done, then be one of the twentie - 636 to follow mine owne teaching: the braine may deuise - 637 lawes for the blood, but a hot temper leapes ore a - 638 colde decree, such a hare is madnesse the youth, to skip - 639 ore the meshes of good counsaile the cripple; but this - 640 reason is not in fashion to choose me a husband: O mee, - 641 the word choose, I may neither choose whom I would, - 642 nor refuse whom I dislike, so is the wil of a liuing daughter - 643 curb'd by the will of a dead father: it is not hard Nerrissa, - 644 that I cannot choose one, nor refuse none - 645 - 646 Ner. Your father was euer vertuous, and holy men - 647 at their death haue good inspirations, therefore the lotterie - 648 that hee hath deuised in these three chests of gold, - 649 siluer, and leade, whereof who chooses his meaning, - 650 chooses you, wil no doubt neuer be chosen by any rightly, - 651 but one who you shall rightly loue: but what warmth - 652 is there in your affection towards any of these Princely - 653 suters that are already come? - 654 Por. I pray thee ouer-name them, and as thou namest - 655 them, I will describe them, and according to my description - 656 leuell at my affection - 657 - 658 Ner. First there is the Neopolitane Prince - 659 - 660 Por. I that's a colt indeede, for he doth nothing but - 661 talke of his horse, and hee makes it a great appropriation - 662 to his owne good parts that he can shoo him himselfe: - 663 I am much afraid my Ladie his mother plaid false - 664 with a Smyth - 665 - 666 Ner. Than is there the Countie Palentine - 667 - 668 Por. He doth nothing but frowne (as who should - 669 say, and you will not haue me, choose: he heares merrie - 670 tales and smiles not, I feare hee will proue the weeping - 671 Phylosopher when he growes old, being so full of vnmannerly - 672 sadnesse in his youth.) I had rather to be married - 673 to a deaths head with a bone in his mouth, then to either - 674 of these: God defend me from these two - 675 - 676 Ner. How say you by the French Lord, Mounsier - 677 Le Boune? - 678 Por. God made him, and therefore let him passe for a - 679 man, in truth I know it is a sinne to be a mocker, but he, - 680 why he hath a horse better then the Neopolitans, a better - 681 bad habite of frowning then the Count Palentine, he - 682 is euery man in no man, if a Trassell sing, he fals straight - 683 a capring, he will fence with his owne shadow. If I should - 684 marry him, I should marry twentie husbands: if hee - 685 would despise me, I would forgiue him, for if he loue me - 686 to madnesse, I should neuer requite him - 687 - 688 Ner. What say you then to Fauconbridge, the yong - 689 Baron of England? - 690 Por. You know I say nothing to him, for hee vnderstands - 691 not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latine, French, - 692 nor Italian, and you will come into the Court & sweare - 693 that I haue a poore pennie-worth in the English: hee is a - 694 proper mans picture, but alas who can conuerse with a - 695 dumbe show? how odly he is suited, I thinke he bought - 696 his doublet in Italie, his round hose in France, his bonnet - 697 in Germanie, and his behauiour euery where - 698 - 699 Ner. What thinke you of the other Lord his neighbour? - 700 Por. That he hath a neighbourly charitie in him, for - 701 he borrowed a boxe of the eare of the Englishman, and - 702 swore he would pay him againe when hee was able: I - 703 thinke the Frenchman became his suretie, and seald vnder - 704 for another - 705 - 706 Ner. How like you the yong Germaine, the Duke of - 707 Saxonies Nephew? - 708 Por. Very vildely in the morning when hee is sober, - 709 and most vildely in the afternoone when hee is drunke: - 710 when he is best, he is a little worse then a man, and when - 711 he is worst, he is little better then a beast: and the worst - 712 fall that euer fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without - 713 him - 714 - 715 Ner. If he should offer to choose, and choose the right - 716 Casket, you should refuse to performe your Fathers will, - 717 if you should refuse to accept him - 718 - 719 Por. Therefore for feare of the worst, I pray thee set - 720 a deepe glasse of Reinish-wine on the contrary Casket, - 721 for if the diuell be within, and that temptation without, - 722 I know he will choose it. I will doe any thing Nerrissa - 723 ere I will be married to a spunge - 724 - 725 Ner. You neede not feare Lady the hauing any of - 726 these Lords, they haue acquainted me with their determinations, - 727 which is indeede to returne to their home, - 728 and to trouble you with no more suite, vnlesse you may - 729 be won by some other sort then your Fathers imposition, - 730 depending on the Caskets - 731 - 732 Por. If I liue to be as olde as Sibilla, I will dye as - 733 chaste as Diana: vnlesse I be obtained by the manner - 734 of my Fathers will: I am glad this parcell of wooers - 735 are so reasonable, for there is not one among them but - 736 I doate on his verie absence: and I wish them a faire departure - 737 - 738 Ner. Doe you not remember Ladie in your Fathers - 739 time, a Venecian, a Scholler and a Souldior that - 740 came hither in companie of the Marquesse of Mountferrat? - 741 Por. Yes, yes, it was Bassanio, as I thinke, so was hee - 742 call'd - 743 - 744 Ner. True Madam, hee of all the men that euer my - 745 foolish eyes look'd vpon, was the best deseruing a faire - 746 Lady - 747 - 748 Por. I remember him well, and I remember him worthy - 749 of thy praise. - 750 Enter a Seruingman. - 751 - 752 Ser. The four Strangers seeke you Madam to take - 753 their leaue: and there is a fore-runner come from a fift, - 754 the Prince of Moroco, who brings word the Prince his - 755 Maister will be here to night - 756 - 757 Por. If I could bid the fift welcome with so good - 758 heart as I can bid the other foure farewell, I should be - 759 glad of his approach: if he haue the condition of a Saint, - 760 and the complexion of a diuell, I had rather hee should - 761 shriue me then wiue me. Come Nerrissa, sirra go before; - 762 whiles wee shut the gate vpon one wooer, another - 763 knocks at the doore. - 764 - 765 Exeunt. - 766 - 767 Enter Bassanio with Shylocke the Iew. - 768 - 769 Shy. Three thousand ducates, well - 770 - 771 Bass. I sir, for three months - 772 - 773 Shy. For three months, well - 774 - 775 Bass. For the which, as I told you, - 776 Anthonio shall be bound - 777 - 778 Shy. Anthonio shall become bound, well - 779 - 780 Bass. May you sted me? Will you pleasure me? - 781 Shall I know your answere - 782 - 783 Shy. Three thousand ducats for three months, - 784 and Anthonio bound - 785 - 786 Bass. Your answere to that - 787 - 788 Shy. Anthonio is a good man - 789 - 790 Bass. Haue you heard any imputation to the contrary - 791 - 792 Shy. Ho no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a - 793 good man, is to haue you vnderstand me that he is sufficient, - 794 yet his meanes are in supposition: he hath an Argosie - 795 bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies, I vnderstand - 796 moreouer vpon the Ryalta, he hath a third at Mexico, - 797 a fourth for England, and other ventures hee hath - 798 squandred abroad, but ships are but boords, Saylers but - 799 men, there be land rats, and water rats, water theeues, - 800 and land theeues, I meane Pyrats, and then there is the - 801 perrill of waters, windes, and rocks: the man is not withstanding - 802 sufficient, three thousand ducats, I thinke I may - 803 take his bond - 804 - 805 Bas. Be assured you may - 806 - 807 Iew. I will be assured I may: and that I may be assured, - 808 I will bethinke mee, may I speake with Anthonio? - 809 Bass. If it please you to dine with vs - 810 - 811 Iew. Yes, to smell porke, to eate of the habitation - 812 which your Prophet the Nazarite coniured the diuell - 813 into: I will buy with you, sell with you, talke with - 814 you, walke with you, and so following: but I will - 815 not eate with you, drinke with you, nor pray with you. - 816 What newes on the Ryalta, who is he comes here? - 817 Enter Anthonio. - 818 - 819 Bass. This is signior Anthonio - 820 - 821 Iew. How like a fawning publican he lookes. - 822 I hate him for he is a Christian: - 823 But more, for that in low simplicitie - 824 He lends out money gratis, and brings downe - 825 The rate of vsance here with vs in Venice. - 826 If I can catch him once vpon the hip, - 827 I will feede fat the ancient grudge I beare him. - 828 He hates our sacred Nation, and he railes - 829 Euen there where Merchants most doe congregate - 830 On me, my bargaines, and my well-worne thrift, - 831 Which he cals interrest: Cursed by my Trybe - 832 If I forgiue him - 833 - 834 Bass. Shylock, doe you heare - 835 - 836 Shy. I am debating of my present store, - 837 And by the neere gesse of my memorie - 838 I cannot instantly raise vp the grosse - 839 Of full three thousand ducats: what of that? - 840 Tuball a wealthy Hebrew of my Tribe - 841 Will furnish me: but soft, how many months - 842 Doe you desire? Rest you faire good signior, - 843 Your worship was the last man in our mouthes - 844 - 845 Ant. Shylocke, albeit I neither lend nor borrow - 846 By taking, nor by giuing of excesse, - 847 Yet to supply the ripe wants of my friend, - 848 Ile breake a custome: is he yet possest - 849 How much he would? - 850 Shy. I, I, three thousand ducats - 851 - 852 Ant. And for three months - 853 - 854 Shy. I had forgot, three months, you told me so. - 855 Well then, your bond: and let me see, but heare you, - 856 Me thoughts you said, you neither lend nor borrow - 857 Vpon aduantage - 858 - 859 Ant. I doe neuer vse it - 860 - 861 Shy. When Iacob graz'd his vncle Labans sheepe, - 862 This Iacob from our holy Abram was - 863 (As his wise mother wrought in his behalfe) - 864 The third possesser; I, he was the third - 865 - 866 Ant. And what of him, did he take interrest? - 867 Shy. No, not take interest, not as you would say - 868 Directly interest, marke what Iacob did, - 869 When Laban and himselfe were compremyz'd - 870 That all the eanelings which were streakt and pied - 871 Should fall as Iacobs hier, the Ewes being rancke, - 872 In end of Autumne turned to the Rammes, - 873 And when the worke of generation was - 874 Betweene these woolly breeders in the act, - 875 The skilfull shepheard pil'd me certaine wands, - 876 And in the dooing of the deede of kinde, - 877 He stucke them vp before the fulsome Ewes, - 878 Who then conceauing, did in eaning time - 879 Fall party-colour'd lambs, and those were Iacobs. - 880 This was a way to thriue, and he was blest: - 881 And thrift is blessing if men steale it not - 882 - 883 Ant. This was a venture sir that Iacob seru'd for, - 884 A thing not in his power to bring to passe, - 885 But sway'd and fashion'd by the hand of heauen. - 886 Was this inserted to make interrest good? - 887 Or is your gold and siluer Ewes and Rams? - 888 Shy. I cannot tell, I make it breede as fast, - 889 But note me signior - 890 - 891 Ant. Marke you this Bassanio, - 892 The diuell can cite Scripture for his purpose, - 893 An euill soule producing holy witnesse, - 894 Is like a villaine with a smiling cheeke, - 895 A goodly apple rotten at the heart. - 896 O what a goodly outside falsehood hath - 897 - 898 Shy. Three thousand ducats, 'tis a good round sum. - 899 Three months from twelue, then let me see the rate - 900 - 901 Ant. Well Shylocke, shall we be beholding to you? - 902 Shy. Signior Anthonio, many a time and oft - 903 In the Ryalto you haue rated me - 904 About my monies and my vsances: - 905 Still haue I borne it with a patient shrug, - 906 (For suffrance is the badge of all our Tribe.) - 907 You call me misbeleeuer, cut-throate dog, - 908 And spet vpon my Iewish gaberdine, - 909 And all for vse of that which is mine owne. - 910 Well then, it now appeares you neede my helpe: - 911 Goe to then, you come to me, and you say, - 912 Shylocke, we would haue moneyes, you say so: - 913 You that did voide your rume vpon my beard, - 914 And foote me as you spurne a stranger curre - 915 Ouer your threshold, moneyes is your suite. - 916 What should I say to you? Should I not say, - 917 Hath a dog money? Is it possible - 918 A curre should lend three thousand ducats? or - 919 Shall I bend low, and in a bond-mans key - 920 With bated breath, and whispring humblenesse, - 921 Say this: Faire sir, you spet on me on Wednesday last; - 922 You spurn'd me such a day; another time - 923 You cald me dog: and for these curtesies - 924 Ile lend you thus much moneyes - 925 - 926 Ant. I am as like to call thee so againe, - 927 To spet on thee againe, to spurne thee too. - 928 If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not - 929 As to thy friends, for when did friendship take - 930 A breede of barraine mettall of his friend? - 931 But lend it rather to thine enemie, - 932 Who if he breake, thou maist with better face - 933 Exact the penalties - 934 - 935 Shy. Why looke you how you storme, - 936 I would be friends with you, and haue your loue, - 937 Forget the shames that you haue staind me with, - 938 Supplie your present wants, and take no doite - 939 Of vsance for my moneyes, and youle not heare me, - 940 This is kinde I offer - 941 - 942 Bass. This were kindnesse - 943 - 944 Shy. This kindnesse will I showe, - 945 Goe with me to a Notarie, seale me there - 946 Your single bond, and in a merrie sport - 947 If you repaie me not on such a day, - 948 In such a place, such sum or sums as are - 949 Exprest in the condition, let the forfeite - 950 Be nominated for an equall pound - 951 Of your faire flesh, to be cut off and taken - 952 In what part of your bodie it pleaseth me - 953 - 954 Ant. Content infaith, Ile seale to such a bond, - 955 And say there is much kindnesse in the Iew - 956 - 957 Bass. You shall not seale to such a bond for me, - 958 Ile rather dwell in my necessitie - 959 - 960 Ant. Why feare not man, I will not forfaite it, - 961 Within these two months, that's a month before - 962 This bond expires, I doe expect returne - 963 Of thrice three times the valew of this bond - 964 - 965 Shy. O father Abram, what these Christians are, - 966 Whose owne hard dealings teaches them suspect - 967 The thoughts of others: Praie you tell me this, - 968 If he should breake his daie, what should I gaine - 969 By the exaction of the forfeiture? - 970 A pound of mans flesh taken from a man, - 971 Is not so estimable, profitable neither - 972 As flesh of Muttons, Beefes, or Goates, I say - 973 To buy his fauour, I extend this friendship, - 974 If he will take it, so: if not adiew, - 975 And for my loue I praie you wrong me not - 976 - 977 Ant. Yes Shylocke, I will seale vnto this bond - 978 - 979 Shy. Then meete me forthwith at the Notaries, - 980 Giue him direction for this merrie bond, - 981 And I will goe and purse the ducats straite. - 982 See to my house left in the fearefull gard - 983 Of an vnthriftie knaue: and presentlie - 984 Ile be with you. - 985 Enter. - 986 - 987 Ant. Hie thee gentle Iew. This Hebrew will turne - 988 Christian, he growes kinde - 989 - 990 Bass. I like not faire tearmes, and a villaines minde - 991 - 992 Ant. Come on, in this there can be no dismaie, - 993 My Shippes come home a month before the daie. - 994 - 995 Exeunt. - 996 - 997 - 998 Actus Secundus. - 999 - 1000 Enter Morochus a tawnie Moore all in white, and three or foure - 1001 followers - 1002 accordingly, with Portia, Nerrissa, and their traine. Flo. Cornets. - 1003 - 1004 Mor. Mislike me not for my complexion, - 1005 The shadowed liuerie of the burnisht sunne, - 1006 To whom I am a neighbour, and neere bred. - 1007 Bring me the fairest creature North-ward borne, - 1008 Where Phoebus fire scarce thawes the ysicles, - 1009 And let vs make incision for your loue, - 1010 To proue whose blood is reddest, his or mine. - 1011 I tell thee Ladie this aspect of mine - 1012 Hath feard the valiant, (by my loue I sweare) - 1013 The best regarded Virgins of our Clyme - 1014 Haue lou'd it to: I would not change this hue, - 1015 Except to steale your thoughts my gentle Queene - 1016 - 1017 Por. In tearmes of choise I am not solie led - 1018 By nice direction of a maidens eies: - 1019 Besides, the lottrie of my destenie - 1020 Bars me the right of voluntarie choosing: - 1021 But if my Father had not scanted me, - 1022 And hedg'd me by his wit to yeelde my selfe - 1023 His wife, who wins me by that meanes I told you, - 1024 Your selfe (renowned Prince) than stood as faire - 1025 As any commer I haue look'd on yet - 1026 For my affection - 1027 - 1028 Mor. Euen for that I thanke you, - 1029 Therefore I pray you leade me to the Caskets - 1030 To trie my fortune: By this Symitare - 1031 That slew the Sophie, and a Persian Prince - 1032 That won three fields of Sultan Solyman, - 1033 I would ore-stare the sternest eies that looke: - 1034 Out-braue the heart most daring on the earth: - 1035 Plucke the yong sucking Cubs from the she Beare, - 1036 Yea, mocke the Lion when he rores for pray - 1037 To win the Ladie. But alas, the while - 1038 If Hercules and Lychas plaie at dice - 1039 Which is the better man, the greater throw - 1040 May turne by fortune from the weaker hand: - 1041 So is Alcides beaten by his rage, - 1042 And so may I, blinde fortune leading me - 1043 Misse that which one vnworthier may attaine, - 1044 And die with grieuing - 1045 - 1046 Port. You must take your chance, - 1047 And either not attempt to choose at all, - 1048 Or sweare before you choose, if you choose wrong - 1049 Neuer to speake to Ladie afterward - 1050 In way of marriage, therefore be aduis'd - 1051 - 1052 Mor. Nor will not, come bring me vnto my chance - 1053 - 1054 Por. First forward to the temple, after dinner - 1055 Your hazard shall be made - 1056 - 1057 Mor. Good fortune then, - 1058 - 1059 Cornets. - 1060 - 1061 To make me blest or cursed'st among men. - 1062 - 1063 Exeunt. - 1064 - 1065 Enter the Clowne alone. - 1066 - 1067 Clo. Certainely, my conscience will serue me to run - 1068 from this Iew my Maister: the fiend is at mine elbow, - 1069 and tempts me, saying to me, Iobbe, Launcelet Iobbe, good - 1070 Launcelet, or good Iobbe, or good Launcelet Iobbe, vse - 1071 your legs, take the start, run awaie: my conscience saies - 1072 no; take heede honest Launcelet, take heed honest Iobbe, - 1073 or as afore-said honest Launcelet Iobbe, doe not runne, - 1074 scorne running with thy heeles; well, the most coragious - 1075 fiend bids me packe, fia saies the fiend, away saies - 1076 the fiend, for the heauens rouse vp a braue minde saies - 1077 the fiend, and run; well, my conscience hanging about - 1078 the necke of my heart, saies verie wisely to me: my honest - 1079 friend Launcelet, being an honest mans sonne, or rather - 1080 an honest womans sonne, for indeede my Father did - 1081 something smack, something grow too; he had a kinde of - 1082 taste; wel, my conscience saies Lancelet bouge not, bouge - 1083 saies the fiend, bouge not saies my conscience, conscience - 1084 say I you counsaile well, fiend say I you counsaile well, - 1085 to be rul'd by my conscience I should stay with the Iew - 1086 my Maister, (who God blesse the marke) is a kinde of diuell; - 1087 and to run away from the Iew I should be ruled by - 1088 the fiend, who sauing your reuerence is the diuell himselfe: - 1089 certainely the Iew is the verie diuell incarnation, - 1090 and in my conscience, my conscience is a kinde of hard - 1091 conscience, to offer to counsaile me to stay with the Iew; - 1092 the fiend giues the more friendly counsaile: I will runne - 1093 fiend, my heeles are at your commandement, I will - 1094 runne. - 1095 Enter old Gobbe with a Basket. - 1096 - 1097 Gob. Maister yong-man, you I praie you, which is the - 1098 waie to Maister Iewes? - 1099 Lan. O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who - 1100 being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows - 1101 me not, I will trie confusions with him - 1102 - 1103 - 1104 Gob. Maister yong Gentleman, I praie you which is - 1105 the waie to Maister Iewes - 1106 - 1107 Laun. Turne vpon your right hand at the next turning, - 1108 but at the next turning of all on your left; marrie - 1109 at the verie next turning, turne of no hand, but turn down - 1110 indirectlie to the Iewes house - 1111 - 1112 Gob. Be Gods sonties 'twill be a hard waie to hit, can - 1113 you tell me whether one Launcelet that dwels with him - 1114 dwell with him or no - 1115 - 1116 Laun. Talke you of yong Master Launcelet, marke - 1117 me now, now will I raise the waters; talke you of yong - 1118 Maister Launcelet? - 1119 Gob. No Maister sir, but a poore mans sonne, his Father - 1120 though I say't is an honest exceeding poore man, - 1121 and God be thanked well to liue - 1122 - 1123 Lan. Well, let his Father be what a will, wee talke of - 1124 yong Maister Launcelet - 1125 - 1126 Gob. Your worships friend and Launcelet - 1127 - 1128 Laun. But I praie you ergo old man, ergo I beseech you, - 1129 talke you of yong Maister Launcelet - 1130 - 1131 Gob. Of Launcelet, ant please your maistership - 1132 - 1133 Lan. Ergo Maister Lancelet, talke not of maister Lancelet - 1134 Father, for the yong gentleman according to fates and - 1135 destinies, and such odde sayings, the sisters three, & such - 1136 branches of learning, is indeede deceased, or as you - 1137 would say in plaine tearmes, gone to heauen - 1138 - 1139 Gob. Marrie God forbid, the boy was the verie staffe - 1140 of my age, my verie prop - 1141 - 1142 Lau. Do I look like a cudgell or a houell-post, a staffe - 1143 or a prop: doe you know me Father - 1144 - 1145 Gob. Alacke the day, I know you not yong Gentleman, - 1146 but I praie you tell me, is my boy God rest his soule - 1147 aliue or dead - 1148 - 1149 Lan. Doe you not know me Father - 1150 - 1151 Gob. Alacke sir I am sand blinde, I know you not - 1152 - 1153 Lan. Nay, indeede if you had your eies you might - 1154 faile of the knowing me: it is a wise Father that knowes - 1155 his owne childe. Well, old man, I will tell you newes of - 1156 your son, giue me your blessing, truth will come to light, - 1157 murder cannot be hid long, a mans sonne may, but in the - 1158 end truth will out - 1159 - 1160 Gob. Praie you sir stand vp, I am sure you are not - 1161 Lancelet my boy - 1162 - 1163 Lan. Praie you let's haue no more fooling about - 1164 it, but giue mee your blessing: I am Lancelet your - 1165 boy that was, your sonne that is, your childe that - 1166 shall be - 1167 - 1168 Gob. I cannot thinke you are my sonne - 1169 - 1170 Lan. I know not what I shall thinke of that: but I am - 1171 Lancelet the Iewes man, and I am sure Margerie your wife - 1172 is my mother - 1173 - 1174 Gob. Her name is Margerie indeede, Ile be sworne if - 1175 thou be Lancelet, thou art mine owne flesh and blood: - 1176 Lord worshipt might he be, what a beard hast thou got; - 1177 thou hast got more haire on thy chin, then Dobbin my - 1178 philhorse has on his taile - 1179 - 1180 Lan. It should seeme then that Dobbins taile - 1181 growes backeward. I am sure he had more haire of his - 1182 taile then I haue of my face when I last saw him - 1183 - 1184 Gob. Lord how art thou chang'd: how doost thou - 1185 and thy Master agree, I haue brought him a present; how - 1186 gree you now? - 1187 Lan. Well, well, but for mine owne part, as I haue set - 1188 vp my rest to run awaie, so I will not rest till I haue run - 1189 some ground; my Maister's a verie Iew, giue him a present, - 1190 giue him a halter, I am famisht in his seruice. You - 1191 may tell euerie finger I haue with my ribs: Father I am - 1192 glad you are come, giue me your present to one Maister - 1193 Bassanio, who indeede giues rare new Liuories, if I serue - 1194 not him, I will run as far as God has anie ground. O rare - 1195 fortune, here comes the man, to him Father, for I am a - 1196 Iew if I serue the Iew anie longer. - 1197 Enter Bassanio with a follower or two. - 1198 - 1199 Bass. You may doe so, but let it be so hasted that - 1200 supper be readie at the farthest by fiue of the clocke: - 1201 see these Letters deliuered, put the Liueries to making, - 1202 and desire Gratiano to come anone to my lodging - 1203 - 1204 Lan. To him Father - 1205 - 1206 Gob. God blesse your worship - 1207 - 1208 Bass. Gramercie, would'st thou ought with me - 1209 - 1210 Gob. Here's my sonne sir, a poore boy - 1211 - 1212 Lan. Not a poore boy sir, but the rich Iewes man that - 1213 would sir as my Father shall specifie - 1214 - 1215 Gob. He hath a great infection sir, as one would say - 1216 to serue - 1217 - 1218 Lan. Indeede the short and the long is, I serue the - 1219 Iew, and haue a desire as my Father shall specifie - 1220 - 1221 Gob. His Maister and he (sauing your worships reuerence) - 1222 are scarce catercosins - 1223 - 1224 Lan. To be briefe, the verie truth is, that the Iew - 1225 hauing done me wrong, doth cause me as my Father being - 1226 I hope an old man shall frutifie vnto you - 1227 - 1228 Gob. I haue here a dish of Doues that I would bestow - 1229 vpon your worship, and my suite is - 1230 - 1231 Lan. In verie briefe, the suite is impertinent to my - 1232 selfe, as your worship shall know by this honest old man, - 1233 and though I say it, though old man, yet poore man my - 1234 Father - 1235 - 1236 Bass. One speake for both, what would you? - 1237 Lan. Serue you sir - 1238 - 1239 Gob. That is the verie defect of the matter sir - 1240 - 1241 Bass. I know thee well, thou hast obtain'd thy suite, - 1242 Shylocke thy Maister spoke with me this daie, - 1243 And hath prefer'd thee, if it be preferment - 1244 To leaue a rich Iewes seruice, to become - 1245 The follower of so poore a Gentleman - 1246 - 1247 Clo. The old prouerbe is verie well parted betweene - 1248 my Maister Shylocke and you sir, you haue the grace of - 1249 God sir, and he hath enough - 1250 - 1251 Bass. Thou speak'st well; go Father with thy Son, - 1252 Take leaue of thy old Maister, and enquire - 1253 My lodging out, giue him a Liuerie - 1254 More garded then his fellowes: see it done - 1255 - 1256 Clo. Father in, I cannot get a seruice, no, I haue nere - 1257 a tongue in my head, well: if anie man in Italie haue a - 1258 fairer table which doth offer to sweare vpon a booke, I - 1259 shall haue good fortune; goe too, here's a simple line - 1260 of life, here's a small trifle of wiues, alas, fifteene wiues - 1261 is nothing, a leuen widdowes and nine maides is a simple - 1262 comming in for one man, and then to scape drowning - 1263 thrice, and to be in perill of my life with the edge - 1264 of a featherbed, here are simple scapes: well, if Fortune - 1265 be a woman, she's a good wench for this gere: Father - 1266 come, Ile take my leaue of the Iew in the twinkling. - 1267 - 1268 Exit Clowne. - 1269 - 1270 Bass. I praie thee good Leonardo thinke on this, - 1271 These things being bought and orderly bestowed - 1272 Returne in haste, for I doe feast to night - 1273 My best esteemd acquaintance, hie thee goe - 1274 - 1275 Leon. my best endeuors shall be done herein. - 1276 - 1277 Exit Le. - 1278 - 1279 Enter Gratiano. - 1280 - 1281 Gra. Where's your Maister - 1282 - 1283 Leon. Yonder sir he walkes - 1284 - 1285 Gra. Signior Bassanio - 1286 - 1287 Bas. Gratiano - 1288 - 1289 Gra. I haue a sute to you - 1290 - 1291 Bass. You haue obtain'd it - 1292 - 1293 Gra. You must not denie me, I must goe with you to - 1294 Belmont - 1295 - 1296 Bass. Why then you must: but heare thee Gratiano, - 1297 Thou art to wilde, to rude, and bold of voyce, - 1298 Parts that become thee happily enough, - 1299 And in such eyes as ours appeare not faults; - 1300 But where they are not knowne, why there they show - 1301 Something too liberall, pray thee take paine - 1302 To allay with some cold drops of modestie - 1303 Thy skipping spirit, least through thy wilde behauiour - 1304 I be misconsterd in the place I goe to, - 1305 And loose my hopes - 1306 - 1307 Gra. Signor Bassanio, heare me, - 1308 If I doe not put on a sober habite, - 1309 Talke with respect, and sweare but now and than, - 1310 Weare prayer bookes in my pocket, looke demurely, - 1311 Nay more, while grace is saying hood mine eyes - 1312 Thus with my hat, and sigh and say Amen: - 1313 Vse all the obseruance of ciuillitie - 1314 Like one well studied in a sad ostent - 1315 To please his Grandam, neuer trust me more - 1316 - 1317 Bas. Well, we shall see your bearing - 1318 - 1319 Gra. Nay but I barre to night, you shall not gage me - 1320 By what we doe to night - 1321 - 1322 Bas. No that were pittie, - 1323 I would intreate you rather to put on - 1324 Your boldest suite of mirth, for we haue friends - 1325 That purpose merriment: but far you well, - 1326 I haue some businesse - 1327 - 1328 Gra. And I must to Lorenso and the rest, - 1329 But we will visite you at supper time. - 1330 - 1331 Exeunt. - 1332 - 1333 Enter Iessica and the Clowne. - 1334 - 1335 Ies. I am sorry thou wilt leaue my Father so, - 1336 Our house is hell, and thou a merrie diuell - 1337 Did'st rob it of some taste of tediousnesse; - 1338 But far thee well, there is a ducat for thee, - 1339 And Lancelet, soone at supper shalt thou see - 1340 Lorenzo, who is thy new Maisters guest, - 1341 Giue him this Letter, doe it secretly, - 1342 And so farewell: I would not haue my Father - 1343 see me talke with thee - 1344 - 1345 - 1346 Clo. Adue, teares exhibit my tongue, most beautifull - 1347 Pagan, most sweete Iew, if a Christian doe not play the - 1348 knaue and get thee, I am much deceiued; but adue, these - 1349 foolish drops doe somewhat drowne my manly spirit: - 1350 adue. - 1351 Enter. - 1352 - 1353 Ies. Farewell good Lancelet. - 1354 Alacke, what hainous sinne is it in me - 1355 To be ashamed to be my Fathers childe, - 1356 But though I am a daughter to his blood, - 1357 I am not to his manners: O Lorenzo, - 1358 If thou keepe promise I shall end this strife, - 1359 Become a Christian, and thy louing wife. - 1360 Enter. - 1361 - 1362 Enter Gratiano, Lorenzo, Salarino, and Salanio. - 1363 - 1364 Lor. Nay, we will slinke away in supper time, - 1365 Disguise vs at my lodging, and returne all in an houre - 1366 - 1367 Gra. We haue not made good preparation - 1368 - 1369 Sal. We haue not spoke vs yet of Torch-bearers - 1370 - 1371 Sol. 'Tis vile vnlesse it may be quaintly ordered, - 1372 And better in my minde not vndertooke - 1373 - 1374 Lor. 'Tis now but foure of clock, we haue two houres - 1375 To furnish vs; friend Lancelet what's the newes. - 1376 Enter Lancelet with a Letter. - 1377 - 1378 Lan. And it shall please you to breake vp this, shall it - 1379 seeme to signifie - 1380 - 1381 Lor. I know the hand, in faith 'tis a faire hand - 1382 And whiter then the paper it writ on, - 1383 Is the faire hand that writ - 1384 - 1385 Gra. Loue newes in faith - 1386 - 1387 Lan. By your leaue sir - 1388 - 1389 Lor. Whither goest thou? - 1390 Lan. Marry sir to bid my old Master the Iew to sup - 1391 to night with my new Master the Christian - 1392 - 1393 Lor. Hold here, take this, tell gentle Iessica - 1394 I will not faile her, speake it priuately: - 1395 Go Gentlemen, will you prepare you for this Maske to - 1396 night, - 1397 I am prouided of a Torch-bearer. - 1398 - 1399 Exit. Clowne - 1400 - 1401 Sal. I marry, ile be gone about it strait - 1402 - 1403 Sol. And so will I - 1404 - 1405 Lor. Meete me and Gratiano at Gratianos lodging - 1406 Some houre hence - 1407 - 1408 Sal. 'Tis good we do so. - 1409 Enter. - 1410 - 1411 Gra. Was not that Letter from faire Iessica? - 1412 Lor. I must needes tell thee all, she hath directed - 1413 How I shall take her from her Fathers house, - 1414 What gold and iewels she is furnisht with, - 1415 What Pages suite she hath in readinesse: - 1416 If ere the Iew her Father come to heauen, - 1417 It will be for his gentle daughters sake; - 1418 And neuer dare misfortune crosse her foote, - 1419 Vnlesse she doe it vnder this excuse, - 1420 That she is issue to a faithlesse Iew: - 1421 Come goe with me, pervse this as thou goest, - 1422 Faire Iessica shall be my Torch-bearer. - 1423 Enter. - 1424 - 1425 Enter Iew, and his man that was the Clowne. - 1426 - 1427 Iew. Well, thou shall see, thy eyes shall be thy iudge, - 1428 The difference of old Shylocke and Bassanio; - 1429 What Iessica, thou shalt not gurmandize - 1430 As thou hast done with me: what Iessica? - 1431 And sleepe, and snore, and rend apparrell out. - 1432 Why Iessica I say - 1433 - 1434 Clo. Why Iessica - 1435 - 1436 Shy. Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call - 1437 - 1438 Clo. Your worship was wont to tell me - 1439 I could doe nothing without bidding. - 1440 Enter Iessica. - 1441 - 1442 Ies. Call you? what is your will? - 1443 Shy. I am bid forth to supper Iessica, - 1444 There are my Keyes: but wherefore should I go? - 1445 I am not bid for loue, they flatter me, - 1446 But yet Ile goe in hate, to feede vpon - 1447 The prodigall Christian. Iessica my girle, - 1448 Looke to my house, I am right loath to goe, - 1449 There is some ill a bruing towards my rest, - 1450 For I did dreame of money bags to night - 1451 - 1452 Clo. I beseech you sir goe, my yong Master - 1453 Doth expect your reproach - 1454 - 1455 Shy. So doe I his - 1456 - 1457 Clo. And they haue conspired together, I will not say - 1458 you shall see a Maske, but if you doe, then it was not for - 1459 nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on blacke monday - 1460 last, at six a clocke ith morning, falling out that yeere on - 1461 ashwensday was foure yeere in th' afternoone - 1462 - 1463 Shy. What are their maskes? heare you me Iessica, - 1464 Lock vp my doores, and when you heare the drum - 1465 And the vile squealing of the wry-neckt Fife, - 1466 Clamber not you vp to the casements then, - 1467 Nor thrust your head into the publique streete - 1468 To gaze on Christian fooles with varnisht faces: - 1469 But stop my houses eares, I meane my casements, - 1470 Let not the sound of shallow fopperie enter - 1471 My sober house. By Iacobs staffe I sweare, - 1472 I haue no minde of feasting forth to night: - 1473 But I will goe: goe you before me sirra, - 1474 Say I will come - 1475 - 1476 Clo. I will goe before sir, - 1477 Mistris looke out at window for all this; - 1478 There will come a Christian by, - 1479 Will be worth a Iewes eye - 1480 - 1481 Shy. What saies that foole of Hagars off-spring? - 1482 ha - 1483 - 1484 Ies. His words were farewell mistris, nothing else - 1485 - 1486 Shy. The patch is kinde enough, but a huge feeder: - 1487 Snaile-slow in profit, but he sleepes by day - 1488 More then the wilde-cat: drones hiue not with me, - 1489 Therefore I part with him, and part with him - 1490 To one that I would haue him helpe to waste - 1491 His borrowed purse. Well Iessica goe in, - 1492 Perhaps I will returne immediately; - 1493 Doe as I bid you, shut dores after you, fast binde, fast - 1494 finde, - 1495 A prouerbe neuer stale in thriftie minde. - 1496 Enter. - 1497 - 1498 Ies. Farewell, and if my fortune be not crost, - 1499 I haue a Father, you a daughter lost. - 1500 Enter. - 1501 - 1502 Enter the Maskers, Gratiano and Salino. - 1503 - 1504 Gra. This is the penthouse vnder which Lorenzo - 1505 Desired vs to make a stand - 1506 - 1507 Sal. His houre is almost past - 1508 - 1509 Gra. And it is meruaile he out-dwels his houre, - 1510 For louers euer run before the clocke - 1511 - 1512 Sal. O ten times faster Venus Pidgions flye - 1513 To steale loues bonds new made, then they are wont - 1514 To keepe obliged faith vnforfaited - 1515 - 1516 Gra. That euer holds, who riseth from a feast - 1517 With that keene appetite that he sits downe? - 1518 Where is the horse that doth vntread againe - 1519 His tedious measures with the vnbated fire, - 1520 That he did pace them first: all things that are, - 1521 Are with more spirit chased then enioy'd. - 1522 How like a yonger or a prodigall - 1523 The skarfed barke puts from her natiue bay, - 1524 Hudg'd and embraced by the strumpet winde: - 1525 How like a prodigall doth she returne - 1526 With ouer-wither'd ribs and ragged sailes, - 1527 Leane, rent, and begger'd by the strumpet winde? - 1528 Enter Lorenzo. - 1529 - 1530 Salino. Heere comes Lorenzo, more of this hereafter - 1531 - 1532 Lor. Sweete friends, your patience for my long abode, - 1533 Not I, but my affaires haue made you wait; - 1534 When you shall please to play the theeues for wiues - 1535 Ile watch as long for you then: approach - 1536 Here dwels my father Iew. Hoa, who's within? - 1537 - 1538 Iessica aboue. - 1539 - 1540 Iess. Who are you? tell me for more certainty, - 1541 Albeit Ile sweare that I do know your tongue - 1542 - 1543 Lor. Lorenzo, and thy Loue - 1544 - 1545 Ies. Lorenzo certaine, and my loue indeed, - 1546 For who loue I so much? and now who knowes - 1547 But you Lorenzo, whether I am yours? - 1548 Lor. Heauen and thy thoughts are witness that thou - 1549 art - 1550 - 1551 Ies. Heere, catch this casket, it is worth the paines, - 1552 I am glad 'tis night, you do not looke on me, - 1553 For I am much asham'd of my exchange: - 1554 But loue is blinde, and louers cannot see - 1555 The pretty follies that themselues commit, - 1556 For if they could, Cupid himselfe would blush - 1557 To see me thus transformed to a boy - 1558 - 1559 Lor. Descend, for you must be my torch-bearer - 1560 - 1561 Ies. What, must I hold a Candle to my shames? - 1562 They in themselues goodsooth are too too light. - 1563 Why, 'tis an office of discouery Loue, - 1564 And I should be obscur'd - 1565 - 1566 Lor. So you are sweet, - 1567 Euen in the louely garnish of a boy: but come at once, - 1568 For the close night doth play the run-away, - 1569 And we are staid for at Bassanio's feast - 1570 - 1571 Ies. I will make fast the doores and guild my selfe - 1572 With some more ducats, and be with you straight - 1573 - 1574 Gra. Now by my hood, a gentle, and no Iew - 1575 - 1576 Lor. Beshrew me but I loue her heartily. - 1577 For she is wise, if I can iudge of her. - 1578 And faire she is, if that mine eyes be true, - 1579 And true she is, as she hath prou'd her selfe: - 1580 And therefore like her selfe, wise, faire, and true, - 1581 Shall she be placed in my constant soule. - 1582 Enter Iessica. - 1583 - 1584 What, art thou come? on gentlemen, away, - 1585 Our masking mates by this time for vs stay. - 1586 Enter. - 1587 - 1588 Enter Anthonio. - 1589 - 1590 Ant. Who's there? - 1591 Gra. Signior Anthonio? - 1592 Ant. Fie, fie, Gratiano, where are all the rest? - 1593 'Tis nine a clocke, our friends all stay for you, - 1594 No maske to night, the winde is come about, - 1595 Bassanio presently will goe aboord, - 1596 I haue sent twenty out to seeke for you - 1597 - 1598 Gra. I am glad on't, I desire no more delight - 1599 Then to be vnder saile, and gone to night. - 1600 - 1601 Exeunt. - 1602 - 1603 Enter Portia with Morrocho, and both their traines. - 1604 - 1605 Por. Goe, draw aside the curtaines, and discouer - 1606 The seuerall Caskets to this noble Prince: - 1607 Now make your choyse - 1608 - 1609 Mor. The first of gold, who this inscription beares, - 1610 Who chooseth me, shall gaine what men desire. - 1611 The second siluer, which this promise carries, - 1612 Who chooseth me, shall get as much as he deserues. - 1613 This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt, - 1614 Who chooseth me, must giue and hazard all he hath. - 1615 How shall I know if I doe choose the right? - 1616 How shall I know if I doe choose the right - 1617 - 1618 Por. The one of them containes my picture Prince, - 1619 If you choose that, then I am yours withall - 1620 - 1621 Mor. Some God direct my iudgement, let me see, - 1622 I will suruay the inscriptions, backe againe: - 1623 What saies this leaden casket? - 1624 Who chooseth me, must giue and hazard all he hath. - 1625 Must giue, for what? for lead, hazard for lead? - 1626 This casket threatens men that hazard all - 1627 Doe it in hope of faire aduantages: - 1628 A golden minde stoopes not to showes of drosse, - 1629 Ile then nor giue nor hazard ought for lead. - 1630 What saies the Siluer with her virgin hue? - 1631 Who chooseth me, shall get as much as he deserues. - 1632 As much as he deserues; pause there Morocho, - 1633 And weigh thy value with an euen hand, - 1634 If thou beest rated by thy estimation - 1635 Thou doost deserue enough, and yet enough - 1636 May not extend so farre as to the Ladie: - 1637 And yet to be afeard of my deseruing, - 1638 Were but a weake disabling of my selfe. - 1639 As much as I deserue, why that's the Lady. - 1640 I doe in birth deserue her, and in fortunes, - 1641 In graces, and in qualities of breeding: - 1642 But more then these, in loue I doe deserue. - 1643 What if I strai'd no farther, but chose here? - 1644 Let's see once more this saying grau'd in gold. - 1645 Who chooseth me shall gaine what many men desire: - 1646 Why that's the Lady, all the world desires her: - 1647 From the foure corners of the earth they come - 1648 To kisse this shrine, this mortall breathing Saint. - 1649 The Hircanion deserts, and the vaste wildes - 1650 Of wide Arabia are as throughfares now - 1651 For Princes to come view faire Portia. - 1652 The waterie Kingdome, whose ambitious head - 1653 Spets in the face of heauen, is no barre - 1654 To stop the forraine spirits, but they come - 1655 As ore a brooke to see faire Portia. - 1656 One of these three containes her heauenly picture. - 1657 Is't like that Lead containes her? 'twere damnation - 1658 To thinke so base a thought, it were too grose - 1659 To rib her searecloath in the obscure graue: - 1660 Or shall I thinke in Siluer she's immur'd - 1661 Being ten times vndervalued to tride gold; - 1662 O sinfull thought, neuer so rich a Iem - 1663 Was set in worse then gold! They haue in England - 1664 A coyne that beares the figure of an Angell - 1665 Stampt in gold, but that's insculpt vpon: - 1666 But here an Angell in a golden bed - 1667 Lies all within. Deliuer me the key: - 1668 Here doe I choose, and thriue I as I may - 1669 - 1670 Por. There take it Prince, and if my forme lye there - 1671 Then I am yours - 1672 - 1673 Mor. O hell! what haue we here, a carrion death, - 1674 Within whose emptie eye there is a written scroule; - 1675 Ile reade the writing. - 1676 All that glisters is not gold, - 1677 Often haue you heard that told; - 1678 Many a man his life hath sold - 1679 But my outside to behold; - 1680 Guilded timber doe wormes infold: - 1681 Had you beene as wise as bold, - 1682 Yong in limbs, in iudgement old, - 1683 Your answere had not beene inscrold, - 1684 Fareyouwell, your suite is cold, - 1685 Mor. Cold indeede, and labour lost, - 1686 Then farewell heate, and welcome frost: - 1687 Portia adew, I haue too grieu'd a heart - 1688 To take a tedious leaue: thus loosers part. - 1689 Enter. - 1690 - 1691 Por. A gentle riddance: draw the curtaines, go: - 1692 Let all of his complexion choose me so. - 1693 - 1694 Exeunt. - 1695 - 1696 Enter Salarino and Solanio. - 1697 - 1698 Flo. Cornets - 1699 - 1700 Sal. Why man I saw Bassanio vnder sayle; - 1701 With him is Gratiano gone along; - 1702 And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not - 1703 - 1704 Sol. The villaine Iew with outcries raisd the Duke. - 1705 Who went with him to search Bassanios ship - 1706 - 1707 Sal. He comes too late, the ship was vndersaile; - 1708 But there the Duke was giuen to vnderstand - 1709 That in a Gondilo were seene together - 1710 Lorenzo and his amorous Iessica. - 1711 Besides, Anthonio certified the Duke - 1712 They were not with Bassanio in his ship - 1713 - 1714 Sol. I neuer heard a passion so confusd, - 1715 So strange, outragious, and so variable, - 1716 As the dogge Iew did vtter in the streets; - 1717 My daughter, O my ducats, O my daughter, - 1718 Fled with a Christian, O my Christian ducats! - 1719 Iustice, the law, my ducats, and my daughter; - 1720 A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats, - 1721 Of double ducats, stolne from me by my daughter, - 1722 And iewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones, - 1723 Stolne by my daughter: iustice, finde the girle, - 1724 She hath the stones vpon her, and the ducats - 1725 - 1726 Sal. Why all the boyes in Venice follow him, - 1727 Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats - 1728 - 1729 Sol. Let good Anthonio looke he keepe his day - 1730 Or he shall pay for this - 1731 - 1732 Sal. Marry well remembred, - 1733 I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday, - 1734 Who told me, in the narrow seas that part - 1735 The French and English, there miscaried - 1736 A vessell of our countrey richly fraught: - 1737 I thought vpon Anthonio when he told me, - 1738 And wisht in silence that it were not his - 1739 - 1740 Sol. You were best to tell Anthonio what you heare. - 1741 Yet doe not suddainely, for it may grieue him - 1742 - 1743 Sal. A kinder Gentleman treads not the earth, - 1744 I saw Bassanio and Anthonio part, - 1745 Bassanio told him he would make some speede - 1746 Of his returne: he answered, doe not so, - 1747 Slubber not businesse for my sake Bassanio, - 1748 But stay the very riping of the time, - 1749 And for the Iewes bond which he hath of me, - 1750 Let it not enter in your minde of loue: - 1751 Be merry, and imploy your chiefest thoughts - 1752 To courtship, and such faire ostents of loue - 1753 As shall conueniently become you there; - 1754 And euen there his eye being big with teares, - 1755 Turning his face, he put his hand behinde him, - 1756 And with affection wondrous sencible - 1757 He wrung Bassanios hand, and so they parted - 1758 - 1759 Sol. I thinke he onely loues the world for him, - 1760 I pray thee let vs goe and finde him out - 1761 And quicken his embraced heauinesse - 1762 With some delight or other - 1763 - 1764 Sal. Doe we so. - 1765 - 1766 Exeunt. - 1767 - 1768 Enter Nerrissa and a Seruiture. - 1769 - 1770 Ner. Quick, quick I pray thee, draw the curtain strait, - 1771 The Prince of Arragon hath tane his oath, - 1772 And comes to his election presently. - 1773 Enter Arragon, his traine, and Portia. Flor. Cornets. - 1774 - 1775 Por. Behold, there stand the caskets noble Prince, - 1776 If you choose that wherein I am contain'd, - 1777 Straight shall our nuptiall rights be solemniz'd: - 1778 But if thou faile, without more speech my Lord, - 1779 You must be gone from hence immediately - 1780 - 1781 Ar. I am enioynd by oath to obserue three things; - 1782 First, neuer to vnfold to any one - 1783 Which casket 'twas I chose; next, if I faile - 1784 Of the right casket, neuer in my life - 1785 To wooe a maide in way of marriage: - 1786 Lastly, if I doe faile in fortune of my choyse, - 1787 Immediately to leaue you, and be gone - 1788 - 1789 Por. To these iniunctions euery one doth sweare - 1790 That comes to hazard for my worthlesse selfe - 1791 - 1792 Ar. And so haue I addrest me, fortune now - 1793 To my hearts hope: gold, siluer, and base lead. - 1794 Who chooseth me must giue and hazard all he hath. - 1795 You shall looke fairer ere I giue or hazard. - 1796 What saies the golden chest, ha, let me see. - 1797 Who chooseth me, shall gaine what many men desire: - 1798 What many men desire, that many may be meant - 1799 By the foole multitude that choose by show, - 1800 Not learning more then the fond eye doth teach, - 1801 Which pries not to th' interior, but like the Martlet - 1802 Builds in the weather on the outward wall, - 1803 Euen in the force and rode of casualtie. - 1804 I will not choose what many men desire, - 1805 Because I will not iumpe with common spirits, - 1806 And ranke me with the barbarous multitudes. - 1807 Why then to thee thou Siluer treasure house, - 1808 Tell me once more, what title thou doost beare; - 1809 Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserues: - 1810 And well said too; for who shall goe about - 1811 To cosen Fortune, and be honourable - 1812 Without the stampe of merrit, let none presume - 1813 To weare an vndeserued dignitie: - 1814 O that estates, degrees, and offices, - 1815 Were not deriu'd corruptly, and that cleare honour - 1816 Were purchast by the merrit of the wearer; - 1817 How many then should couer that stand bare? - 1818 How many be commanded that command? - 1819 How much low pleasantry would then be gleaned - 1820 From the true seede of honor? And how much honor - 1821 Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times, - 1822 To be new varnisht: Well, but to my choise. - 1823 Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserues. - 1824 I will assume desert; giue me a key for this, - 1825 And instantly vnlocke my fortunes here - 1826 - 1827 Por. Too long a pause for that which you finde there - 1828 - 1829 Ar. What's here, the portrait of a blinking idiot - 1830 Presenting me a scedule, I will reade it: - 1831 How much vnlike art thou to Portia? - 1832 How much vnlike my hopes and my deseruings? - 1833 Who chooseth me, shall haue as much as he deserues. - 1834 Did I deserue no more then a fooles head, - 1835 Is that my prize, are my deserts no better? - 1836 Por. To offend and iudge are distinct offices, - 1837 And of opposed natures - 1838 - 1839 Ar. What is here? - 1840 The fier seauen times tried this, - 1841 Seauen times tried that iudgement is, - 1842 That did neuer choose amis, - 1843 Some there be that shadowes kisse, - 1844 Such haue but a shadowes blisse: - 1845 There be fooles aliue Iwis - 1846 Siluer'd o're, and so was this: - 1847 Take what wife you will to bed, - 1848 I will euer be your head: - 1849 So be gone, you are sped - 1850 - 1851 Ar. Still more foole I shall appeare - 1852 By the time I linger here, - 1853 With one fooles head I came to woo, - 1854 But I goe away with two. - 1855 Sweet adue, Ile keepe my oath, - 1856 Patiently to beare my wroath - 1857 - 1858 Por. Thus hath the candle sing'd the moath: - 1859 O these deliberate fooles when they doe choose, - 1860 They haue the wisdome by their wit to loose - 1861 - 1862 Ner. The ancient saying is no heresie, - 1863 Hanging and wiuing goes by destinie - 1864 - 1865 Por. Come draw the curtaine Nerrissa. - 1866 Enter Messenger. - 1867 - 1868 Mes. Where is my Lady? - 1869 Por. Here, what would my Lord? - 1870 Mes. Madam, there is a-lighted at your gate - 1871 A yong Venetian, one that comes before - 1872 To signifie th' approaching of his Lord, - 1873 From whom he bringeth sensible regreets; - 1874 To wit (besides commends and curteous breath) - 1875 Gifts of rich value; yet I haue not seene - 1876 So likely an Embassador of loue. - 1877 A day in Aprill neuer came so sweete - 1878 To show how costly Sommer was at hand, - 1879 As this fore-spurrer comes before his Lord - 1880 - 1881 Por. No more I pray thee, I am halfe a-feard - 1882 Thou wilt say anone he is some kin to thee, - 1883 Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him: - 1884 Come, come Nerryssa, for I long to see - 1885 Quicke Cupids Post, that comes so mannerly - 1886 - 1887 Ner. Bassanio Lord, loue if thy will it be. - 1888 - 1889 Exeunt. - 1890 - 1891 - 1892 Actus Tertius. - 1893 - 1894 Enter Solanio and Salarino. - 1895 - 1896 Sol. Now, what newes on the Ryalto? - 1897 Sal. Why yet it liues there vncheckt, that Anthonio - 1898 hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; the - 1899 Goodwins I thinke they call the place, a very dangerous - 1900 flat, and fatall, where the carcasses of many a tall ship, lye - 1901 buried, as they say, if my gossips report be an honest woman - 1902 of her word - 1903 - 1904 Sol. I would she were as lying a gossip in that, as euer - 1905 knapt Ginger, or made her neighbours beleeue she wept - 1906 for the death of a third husband: but it is true, without - 1907 any slips of prolixity, or crossing the plaine high-way of - 1908 talke, that the good Anthonio, the honest Anthonio; o that - 1909 I had a title good enough to keepe his name company! - 1910 Sal. Come, the full stop - 1911 - 1912 Sol. Ha, what sayest thou, why the end is, he hath lost - 1913 a ship - 1914 - 1915 Sal. I would it might proue the end of his losses - 1916 - 1917 Sol. Let me say Amen betimes, least the diuell crosse - 1918 my praier, for here he comes in the likenes of a Iew. How - 1919 now Shylocke, what newes among the Merchants? - 1920 Enter Shylocke. - 1921 - 1922 Shy. You knew none so well, none so well as you, of - 1923 my daughters flight - 1924 - 1925 Sal. That's certaine, I for my part knew the Tailor - 1926 that made the wings she flew withall - 1927 - 1928 Sol. And Shylocke for his owne part knew the bird was - 1929 fledg'd, and then it is the complexion of them al to leaue - 1930 the dam - 1931 - 1932 Shy. She is damn'd for it - 1933 - 1934 Sal. That's certaine, if the diuell may be her Iudge - 1935 - 1936 Shy. My owne flesh and blood to rebell - 1937 - 1938 Sol. Out vpon it old carrion, rebels it at these yeeres - 1939 - 1940 Shy. I say my daughter is my flesh and bloud - 1941 - 1942 Sal. There is more difference betweene thy flesh and - 1943 hers, then betweene Iet and Iuorie, more betweene your - 1944 bloods, then there is betweene red wine and rennish: but - 1945 tell vs, doe you heare whether Anthonio haue had anie - 1946 losse at sea or no? - 1947 Shy. There I haue another bad match, a bankrout, a - 1948 prodigall, who dare scarce shew his head on the Ryalto, - 1949 a begger that was vsd to come so smug vpon the Mart: - 1950 let him look to his bond, he was wont to call me Vsurer, - 1951 let him looke to his bond, he was wont to lend money - 1952 for a Christian curtsie, let him looke to his bond - 1953 - 1954 Sal. Why I am sure if he forfaite, thou wilt not take - 1955 his flesh, what's that good for? - 1956 Shy. To baite fish withall, if it will feede nothing - 1957 else, it will feede my reuenge; he hath disgrac'd me, and - 1958 hindred me halfe a million, laught at my losses, mockt at - 1959 my gaines, scorned my Nation, thwarted my bargaines, - 1960 cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and what's the - 1961 reason? I am a Iewe: Hath not a Iew eyes? hath not a - 1962 Iew hands, organs, dementions, sences, affections, passions, - 1963 fed with the same foode, hurt with the same weapons, - 1964 subiect to the same diseases, healed by the same - 1965 meanes, warmed and cooled by the same Winter and - 1966 Sommer as a Christian is: if you pricke vs doe we not - 1967 bleede? if you tickle vs, doe we not laugh? if you poison - 1968 vs doe we not die? and if you wrong vs shall we not reuenge? - 1969 if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you - 1970 in that. If a Iew wrong a Christian, what is his humility, - 1971 reuenge? If a Christian wrong a Iew, what should his sufferance - 1972 be by Christian example, why reuenge? The villanie - 1973 you teach me I will execute, and it shall goe hard - 1974 but I will better the instruction. - 1975 Enter a man from Anthonio. - 1976 - 1977 Gentlemen, my maister Anthonio is at his house, and - 1978 desires to speake with you both - 1979 - 1980 Sal. We haue beene vp and downe to seeke him. - 1981 Enter Tuball. - 1982 - 1983 Sol. Here comes another of the Tribe, a third cannot - 1984 be matcht, vnlesse the diuell himselfe turne Iew. - 1985 - 1986 Exeunt. Gentlemen - 1987 - 1988 Shy. How now Tuball, what newes from Genowa? hast - 1989 thou found my daughter? - 1990 Tub. I often came where I did heare of her, but cannot - 1991 finde her - 1992 - 1993 Shy. Why there, there, there, there, a diamond gone - 1994 cost me two thousand ducats in Franckford, the curse neuer - 1995 fell vpon our Nation till now, I neuer felt it till now, - 1996 two thousand ducats in that, and other precious, precious - 1997 iewels: I would my daughter were dead at my foot, - 1998 and the iewels in her eare: would she were hearst at my - 1999 foote, and the duckets in her coffin: no newes of them, - 2000 why so? and I know not how much is spent in the search: - 2001 why thou losse vpon losse, the theefe gone with so - 2002 much, and so much to finde the theefe, and no satisfaction, - 2003 no reuenge, nor no ill luck stirring but what lights - 2004 a my shoulders, no sighes but a my breathing, no teares - 2005 but a my shedding - 2006 - 2007 Tub. Yes, other men haue ill lucke too, Anthonio as I - 2008 heard in Genowa? - 2009 Shy. What, what, what, ill lucke, ill lucke - 2010 - 2011 Tub. Hath an Argosie cast away comming from Tripolis - 2012 - 2013 Shy. I thanke God, I thanke God, is it true, is it true? - 2014 Tub. I spoke with some of the Saylers that escaped - 2015 the wracke - 2016 - 2017 Shy. I thanke thee good Tuball, good newes, good - 2018 newes: ha, ha, here in Genowa - 2019 - 2020 Tub. Your daughter spent in Genowa, as I heard, one - 2021 night fourescore ducats - 2022 - 2023 Shy. Thou stick'st a dagger in me, I shall neuer see my - 2024 gold againe, fourescore ducats at a sitting, fourescore ducats - 2025 - 2026 Tub. There came diuers of Anthonios creditors in my - 2027 company to Venice, that sweare hee cannot choose but - 2028 breake - 2029 - 2030 Shy. I am very glad of it, ile plague him, ile torture - 2031 him, I am glad of it, - 2032 Tub. One of them shewed me a ring that hee had of - 2033 your daughter for a Monkie - 2034 - 2035 Shy. Out vpon her, thou torturest me Tuball, it was - 2036 my Turkies, I had it of Leah when I was a Batcheler: I - 2037 would not haue giuen it for a wildernesse of Monkies - 2038 - 2039 Tub. But Anthonio is certainely vndone - 2040 - 2041 Shy. Nay, that's true, that's very true, goe Tuball, see - 2042 me an Officer, bespeake him a fortnight before, I will - 2043 haue the heart of him if he forfeit, for were he out of Venice, - 2044 I can make what merchandize I will: goe Tuball, - 2045 and meete me at our Sinagogue, goe good Tuball, at our - 2046 Sinagogue Tuball. - 2047 - 2048 Exeunt. - 2049 - 2050 Enter Bassanio, Portia, Gratiano, and all their traine. - 2051 - 2052 Por. I pray you tarrie, pause a day or two - 2053 Before you hazard, for in choosing wrong - 2054 I loose your companie; therefore forbeare a while, - 2055 There's something tels me (but it is not loue) - 2056 I would not loose you, and you know your selfe, - 2057 Hate counsailes not in such a quallitie; - 2058 But least you should not vnderstand me well, - 2059 And yet a maiden hath no tongue, but thought, - 2060 I would detaine you here some month or two - 2061 Before you venture for me. I could teach you - 2062 How to choose right, but then I am forsworne, - 2063 So will I neuer be, so may you misse me, - 2064 But if you doe, youle make me wish a sinne, - 2065 That I had beene forsworne: Beshrow your eyes, - 2066 They haue ore-lookt me and deuided me, - 2067 One halfe of me is yours, the other halfe yours, - 2068 Mine owne I would say: but of mine then yours, - 2069 And so all yours; O these naughtie times - 2070 Puts bars betweene the owners and their rights. - 2071 And so though yours, not yours (proue it so) - 2072 Let Fortune goe to hell for it, not I. - 2073 I speake too long, but 'tis to peize the time, - 2074 To ich it, and to draw it out in length, - 2075 To stay you from election - 2076 - 2077 Bass. Let me choose, - 2078 For as I am, I liue vpon the racke - 2079 - 2080 Por. Vpon the racke Bassanio, then confesse - 2081 What treason there is mingled with your loue - 2082 - 2083 Bass. None but that vglie treason of mistrust. - 2084 Which makes me feare the enioying of my loue: - 2085 There may as well be amitie and life, - 2086 'Tweene snow and fire, as treason and my loue - 2087 - 2088 Por. I, but I feare you speake vpon the racke, - 2089 Where men enforced doth speake any thing - 2090 - 2091 Bass. Promise me life, and ile confesse the truth - 2092 - 2093 Por. Well then, confesse and liue - 2094 - 2095 Bass. Confesse and loue - 2096 Had beene the verie sum of my confession: - 2097 O happie torment, when my torturer - 2098 Doth teach me answers for deliuerance: - 2099 But let me to my fortune and the caskets - 2100 - 2101 Por. Away then, I am lockt in one of them, - 2102 If you doe loue me, you will finde me out. - 2103 Nerryssa and the rest, stand all aloofe, - 2104 Let musicke sound while he doth make his choise, - 2105 Then if he loose he makes a Swan-like end, - 2106 Fading in musique. That the comparison - 2107 May stand more proper, my eye shall be the streame - 2108 And watrie death-bed for him: he may win, - 2109 And what is musique than? Than musique is - 2110 Euen as the flourish, when true subiects bowe - 2111 To a new crowned Monarch: Such it is, - 2112 As are those dulcet sounds in breake of day, - 2113 That creepe into the dreaming bride-groomes eare, - 2114 And summon him to marriage. Now he goes - 2115 With no lesse presence, but with much more loue - 2116 Then yong Alcides, when he did redeeme - 2117 The virgine tribute, paied by howling Troy - 2118 To the Sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice, - 2119 The rest aloofe are the Dardanian wiues: - 2120 With bleared visages come forth to view - 2121 The issue of th' exploit: Goe Hercules, - 2122 Liue thou, I liue with much more dismay - 2123 I view the sight, then thou that mak'st the fray. - 2124 - 2125 Here Musicke. A Song the whilst Bassanio comments on the - 2126 Caskets to - 2127 himselfe. - 2128 - 2129 Tell me where is fancie bred, - 2130 Or in the heart, or in the head: - 2131 How begot, how nourished. Replie, replie. - 2132 It is engendred in the eyes, - 2133 With gazing fed, and Fancie dies, - 2134 In the cradle where it lies: - 2135 Let vs all ring Fancies knell. - 2136 Ile begin it. - 2137 Ding, dong, bell - 2138 - 2139 All. Ding, dong, bell - 2140 - 2141 Bass. So may the outward showes be least themselues - 2142 The world is still deceiu'd with ornament. - 2143 In Law, what Plea so tainted and corrupt, - 2144 But being season'd with a gracious voice, - 2145 Obscures the show of euill? In Religion, - 2146 What damned error, but some sober brow - 2147 Will blesse it, and approue it with a text, - 2148 Hiding the grosenesse with faire ornament: - 2149 There is no voice so simple, but assumes - 2150 Some marke of vertue on his outward parts; - 2151 How manie cowards, whose hearts are all as false - 2152 As stayers of sand, weare yet vpon their chins - 2153 The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, - 2154 Who inward searcht, haue lyuers white as milke, - 2155 And these assume but valors excrement, - 2156 To render them redoubted. Looke on beautie, - 2157 And you shall see 'tis purchast by the weight, - 2158 Which therein workes a miracle in nature, - 2159 Making them lightest that weare most of it: - 2160 So are those crisped snakie golden locks - 2161 Which makes such wanton gambols with the winde - 2162 Vpon supposed fairenesse, often knowne - 2163 To be the dowrie of a second head, - 2164 The scull that bred them in the Sepulcher. - 2165 Thus ornament is but the guiled shore - 2166 To a most dangerous sea: the beautious scarfe - 2167 Vailing an Indian beautie; In a word, - 2168 The seeming truth which cunning times put on - 2169 To intrap the wisest. Therefore then thou gaudie gold, - 2170 Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee, - 2171 Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge - 2172 'Tweene man and man: but thou, thou meager lead - 2173 Which rather threatnest then dost promise ought, - 2174 Thy palenesse moues me more then eloquence, - 2175 And here choose I, ioy be the consequence - 2176 - 2177 Por. How all the other passions fleet to ayre, - 2178 As doubtfull thoughts, and rash imbrac'd despaire: - 2179 And shuddring feare, and greene-eyed iealousie. - 2180 O loue be moderate, allay thy extasie, - 2181 In measure raine thy ioy, scant this excesse, - 2182 I feele too much thy blessing, make it lesse, - 2183 For feare I surfeit - 2184 - 2185 Bas. What finde I here? - 2186 Faire Portias counterfeit. What demie God - 2187 Hath come so neere creation? moue these eies? - 2188 Or whether riding on the bals of mine - 2189 Seeme they in motion? Here are seuer'd lips - 2190 Parted with suger breath, so sweet a barre - 2191 Should sunder such sweet friends: here in her haires - 2192 The Painter plaies the Spider, and hath wouen - 2193 A golden mesh t' intrap the hearts of men - 2194 Faster then gnats in cobwebs: but her eies, - 2195 How could he see to doe them? hauing made one, - 2196 Me thinkes it should haue power to steale both his - 2197 And leaue it selfe vnfurnisht: Yet looke how farre - 2198 The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow - 2199 In vnderprising it, so farre this shadow - 2200 Doth limpe behinde the substance. Here's the scroule, - 2201 The continent, and summarie of my fortune. - 2202 You that choose not by the view - 2203 Chance as faire, and choose as true: - 2204 Since this fortune fals to you, - 2205 Be content, and seeke no new. - 2206 If you be well pleasd with this, - 2207 And hold your fortune for your blisse, - 2208 Turne you where your Lady is, - 2209 And claime her with a louing kisse - 2210 - 2211 Bass. A gentle scroule: Faire Lady, by your leaue, - 2212 I come by note to giue, and to receiue, - 2213 Like one of two contending in a prize - 2214 That thinks he hath done well in peoples eies: - 2215 Hearing applause and vniuersall shout, - 2216 Giddie in spirit, still gazing in a doubt - 2217 Whether those peales of praise be his or no. - 2218 So thrice faire Lady stand I euen so, - 2219 As doubtfull whether what I see be true, - 2220 Vntill confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you - 2221 - 2222 Por. You see my Lord Bassiano where I stand, - 2223 Such as I am; though for my selfe alone - 2224 I would not be ambitious in my wish, - 2225 To wish my selfe much better, yet for you, - 2226 I would be trebled twenty times my selfe, - 2227 A thousand times more faire, ten thousand times - 2228 More rich, that onely to stand high in your account, - 2229 I might in vertues, beauties, liuings, friends, - 2230 Exceed account: but the full summe of me - 2231 Is sum of nothing: which to terme in grosse, - 2232 Is an vnlessoned girle, vnschool'd, vnpractiz'd, - 2233 Happy in this, she is not yet so old - 2234 But she may learne: happier then this, - 2235 Shee is not bred so dull but she can learne; - 2236 Happiest of all, is that her gentle spirit - 2237 Commits it selfe to yours to be directed, - 2238 As from her Lord, her Gouernour, her King. - 2239 My selfe, and what is mine, to you and yours - 2240 Is now conuerted. But now I was the Lord - 2241 Of this faire mansion, master of my seruants, - 2242 Queene ore my selfe: and euen now, but now, - 2243 This house, these seruants, and this same my selfe - 2244 Are yours, my Lord, I giue them with this ring, - 2245 Which when you part from, loose, or giue away, - 2246 Let it presage the ruine of your loue, - 2247 And be my vantage to exclaime on you - 2248 - 2249 Bass. Maddam, you haue bereft me of all words, - 2250 Onely my bloud speakes to you in my vaines, - 2251 And there is such confusion in my powers, - 2252 As after some oration fairely spoke - 2253 By a beloued Prince, there doth appeare - 2254 Among the buzzing pleased multitude, - 2255 Where euery something being blent together, - 2256 Turnes to a wilde of nothing, saue of ioy - 2257 Exprest, and not exprest: but when this ring - 2258 Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence, - 2259 O then be bold to say Bassanio's dead - 2260 - 2261 Ner. My Lord and Lady, it is now our time - 2262 That haue stood by and seene our wishes prosper, - 2263 To cry good ioy, good ioy my Lord and Lady - 2264 - 2265 Gra. My Lord Bassanio, and my gentle Lady, - 2266 I wish you all the ioy that you can wish: - 2267 For I am sure you can wish none from me: - 2268 And when your Honours meane to solemnize - 2269 The bargaine of your faith: I doe beseech you - 2270 Euen at that time I may be married too - 2271 - 2272 Bass. With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife - 2273 - 2274 Gra. I thanke your Lordship, you haue got me one. - 2275 My eyes my Lord can looke as swift as yours: - 2276 You saw the mistres, I beheld the maid: - 2277 You lou'd, I lou'd for intermission, - 2278 No more pertaines to me my Lord then you; - 2279 Your fortune stood vpon the caskets there, - 2280 And so did mine too, as the matter falls: - 2281 For wooing heere vntill I swet againe, - 2282 And swearing till my very rough was dry - 2283 With oathes of loue, at last, if promise last, - 2284 I got a promise of this faire one heere - 2285 To haue her loue: prouided that your fortune - 2286 Atchieu'd her mistresse - 2287 - 2288 Por. Is this true Nerrissa? - 2289 Ner. Madam it is so, so you stand pleas'd withall - 2290 - 2291 Bass. And doe you Gratiano meane good faith? - 2292 Gra. Yes faith my Lord - 2293 - 2294 Bass. Our feast shall be much honored in your marriage - 2295 - 2296 Gra. Weele play with them the first boy for a thousand - 2297 ducats - 2298 - 2299 Ner. What and stake downe? - 2300 Gra. No, we shal nere win at that sport, and stake - 2301 downe. - 2302 But who comes heere? Lorenzo and his Infidell? - 2303 What and my old Venetian friend Salerio? - 2304 Enter Lorenzo, Iessica, and Salerio. - 2305 - 2306 Bas. Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hether, - 2307 If that the youth of my new interest heere - 2308 Haue power to bid you welcome: by your leaue - 2309 I bid my verie friends and Countrimen - 2310 Sweet Portia welcome - 2311 - 2312 Por. So do I my Lord, they are intirely welcome - 2313 - 2314 Lor. I thanke your honor; for my part my Lord, - 2315 My purpose was not to haue seene you heere, - 2316 But meeting with Salerio by the way, - 2317 He did intreate mee past all saying nay - 2318 To come with him along - 2319 - 2320 Sal. I did my Lord, - 2321 And I haue reason for it, Signior Anthonio - 2322 Commends him to you - 2323 - 2324 Bass. Ere I ope his Letter - 2325 I pray you tell me how my good friend doth - 2326 - 2327 Sal. Not sicke my Lord, vnlesse it be in minde, - 2328 Nor wel, vnlesse in minde: his Letter there - 2329 Wil shew you his estate. - 2330 - 2331 Opens the Letter. - 2332 - 2333 Gra. Nerrissa, cheere yond stranger, bid her welcom. - 2334 Your hand Salerio, what's the newes from Venice? - 2335 How doth that royal Merchant good Anthonio; - 2336 I know he will be glad of our successe, - 2337 We are the Iasons, we haue won the fleece - 2338 - 2339 Sal. I would you had won the fleece that hee hath - 2340 lost - 2341 - 2342 Por. There are some shrewd contents in yond same - 2343 Paper, - 2344 That steales the colour from Bassianos cheeke, - 2345 Some deere friend dead, else nothing in the world - 2346 Could turne so much the constitution - 2347 Of any constant man. What, worse and worse? - 2348 With leaue Bassanio I am halfe your selfe, - 2349 And I must freely haue the halfe of any thing - 2350 That this same paper brings you - 2351 - 2352 Bass. O sweet Portia, - 2353 Heere are a few of the vnpleasant'st words - 2354 That euer blotted paper. Gentle Ladie - 2355 When I did first impart my loue to you, - 2356 I freely told you all the wealth I had - 2357 Ran in my vaines: I was a Gentleman, - 2358 And then I told you true: and yet deere Ladie, - 2359 Rating my selfe at nothing, you shall see - 2360 How much I was a Braggart, when I told you - 2361 My state was nothing, I should then haue told you - 2362 That I was worse then nothing: for indeede - 2363 I haue ingag'd my selfe to a deere friend, - 2364 Ingag'd my friend to his meere enemie - 2365 To feede my meanes. Heere is a Letter Ladie, - 2366 The paper as the bodie of my friend, - 2367 And euerie word in it a gaping wound - 2368 Issuing life blood. But is it true Salerio, - 2369 Hath all his ventures faild, what not one hit, - 2370 From Tripolis, from Mexico and England, - 2371 From Lisbon, Barbary, and India, - 2372 And not one vessell scape the dreadfull touch - 2373 Of Merchant-marring rocks? - 2374 Sal. Not one my Lord. - 2375 Besides, it should appeare, that if he had - 2376 The present money to discharge the Iew, - 2377 He would not take it: neuer did I know - 2378 A creature that did beare the shape of man - 2379 So keene and greedy to confound a man. - 2380 He plyes the Duke at morning and at night, - 2381 And doth impeach the freedome of the state - 2382 If they deny him iustice. Twenty Merchants, - 2383 The Duke himselfe, and the Magnificoes - 2384 Of greatest port haue all perswaded with him, - 2385 But none can driue him from the enuious plea - 2386 Of forfeiture, of iustice, and his bond - 2387 - 2388 Iessi. When I was with him, I haue heard him sweare - 2389 To Tuball and to Chus, his Countri-men, - 2390 That he would rather haue Anthonio's flesh, - 2391 Then twenty times the value of the summe - 2392 That he did owe him: and I know my Lord, - 2393 If law, authoritie, and power denie not, - 2394 It will goe hard with poore Anthonio - 2395 - 2396 Por. Is it your deere friend that is thus in trouble? - 2397 Bass. The deerest friend to me, the kindest man, - 2398 The best condition'd, and vnwearied spirit - 2399 In doing curtesies: and one in whom - 2400 The ancient Romane honour more appeares - 2401 Then any that drawes breath in Italie - 2402 - 2403 Por. What summe owes he the Iew? - 2404 Bass. For me three thousand ducats - 2405 - 2406 Por. What, no more? - 2407 Pay him sixe thousand, and deface the bond: - 2408 Double sixe thousand, and then treble that, - 2409 Before a friend of this description - 2410 Shall lose a haire through Bassanio's fault. - 2411 First goe with me to Church, and call me wife, - 2412 And then away to Venice to your friend: - 2413 For neuer shall you lie by Portias side - 2414 With an vnquiet soule. You shall haue gold - 2415 To pay the petty debt twenty times ouer. - 2416 When it is payd, bring your true friend along, - 2417 My maid Nerrissa, and my selfe meane time - 2418 Will liue as maids and widdowes; come away, - 2419 For you shall hence vpon your wedding day: - 2420 Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheere, - 2421 Since you are deere bought, I will loue you deere. - 2422 But let me heare the letter of your friend. - 2423 Sweet Bassanio, my ships haue all miscarried, my Creditors - 2424 grow cruell, my estate is very low, my bond to the Iew is - 2425 forfeit, and since in paying it, it is impossible I should liue, all - 2426 debts are cleerd between you and I, if I might see you at my - 2427 death: notwithstanding, vse your pleasure, if your loue doe not - 2428 perswade you to come, let not my letter - 2429 - 2430 Por. O loue! dispach all busines and be gone - 2431 - 2432 Bass. Since I haue your good leaue to goe away, - 2433 I will make hast; but till I come againe, - 2434 No bed shall ere be guilty of my stay, - 2435 Nor rest be interposer twixt vs twaine. - 2436 - 2437 Exeunt. - 2438 - 2439 Enter the Iew, and Solanio, and Anthonio, and the Iaylor. - 2440 - 2441 Iew. Iaylor, looke to him, tell not me of mercy, - 2442 This is the foole that lends out money gratis. - 2443 Iaylor, looke to him - 2444 - 2445 Ant. Heare me yet good Shylok - 2446 - 2447 Iew. Ile haue my bond, speake not against my bond, - 2448 I haue sworne an oath that I will haue my bond: - 2449 Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, - 2450 But since I am a dog, beware my phangs, - 2451 The Duke shall grant me iustice, I do wonder - 2452 Thou naughty Iaylor, that thou art so fond - 2453 To come abroad with him at his request - 2454 - 2455 Ant. I pray thee heare me speake - 2456 - 2457 Iew. Ile haue my bond, I will not heare thee speake, - 2458 Ile haue my bond, and therefore speake no more, - 2459 Ile not be made a soft and dull ey'd foole, - 2460 To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yeeld - 2461 To Christian intercessors: follow not, - 2462 Ile haue no speaking, I will haue my bond. - 2463 - 2464 Exit Iew. - 2465 - 2466 Sol. It is the most impenetrable curre - 2467 That euer kept with men - 2468 - 2469 Ant. Let him alone, - 2470 Ile follow him no more with bootlesse prayers: - 2471 He seekes my life, his reason well I know; - 2472 I oft deliuer'd from his forfeitures - 2473 Many that haue at times made mone to me, - 2474 Therefore he hates me - 2475 - 2476 Sol. I am sure the Duke will neuer grant - 2477 this forfeiture to hold - 2478 - 2479 An. The Duke cannot deny the course of law: - 2480 For the commoditie that strangers haue - 2481 With vs in Venice, if it be denied, - 2482 Will much impeach the iustice of the State, - 2483 Since that the trade and profit of the citty - 2484 Consisteth of all Nations. Therefore goe, - 2485 These greefes and losses haue so bated mee, - 2486 That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh - 2487 To morrow, to my bloudy Creditor. - 2488 Well Iaylor, on, pray God Bassanio come - 2489 To see me pay his debt, and then I care not. - 2490 - 2491 Exeunt. - 2492 - 2493 Enter Portia, Nerrissa, Lorenzo, Iessica, and a man of Portias. - 2494 - 2495 Lor. Madam, although I speake it in your presence, - 2496 You haue a noble and a true conceit - 2497 Of god-like amity, which appeares most strongly - 2498 In bearing thus the absence of your Lord. - 2499 But if you knew to whom you shew this honour, - 2500 How true a Gentleman you send releefe, - 2501 How deere a louer of my Lord your husband, - 2502 I know you would be prouder of the worke - 2503 Then customary bounty can enforce you - 2504 - 2505 Por. I neuer did repent for doing good, - 2506 Nor shall not now: for in companions - 2507 That do conuerse and waste the time together, - 2508 Whose soules doe beare an egal yoke of loue. - 2509 There must be needs a like proportion - 2510 Of lyniaments, of manners, and of spirit; - 2511 Which makes me thinke that this Anthonio - 2512 Being the bosome louer of my Lord, - 2513 Must needs be like my Lord. If it be so, - 2514 How little is the cost I haue bestowed - 2515 In purchasing the semblance of my soule; - 2516 From out the state of hellish cruelty, - 2517 This comes too neere the praising of my selfe, - 2518 Therefore no more of it: heere other things - 2519 Lorenso I commit into your hands, - 2520 The husbandry and mannage of my house, - 2521 Vntill my Lords returne; for mine owne part - 2522 I haue toward heauen breath'd a secret vow, - 2523 To liue in prayer and contemplation, - 2524 Onely attended by Nerrissa heere, - 2525 Vntill her husband and my Lords returne: - 2526 There is a monastery too miles off, - 2527 And there we will abide. I doe desire you - 2528 Not to denie this imposition, - 2529 The which my loue and some necessity - 2530 Now layes vpon you - 2531 - 2532 Lorens. Madame, with all my heart, - 2533 I shall obey you in all faire commands - 2534 - 2535 Por. My people doe already know my minde, - 2536 And will acknowledge you and Iessica - 2537 In place of Lord Bassanio and my selfe. - 2538 So far you well till we shall meete againe - 2539 - 2540 Lor. Faire thoughts & happy houres attend on you - 2541 - 2542 Iessi. I wish your Ladiship all hearts content - 2543 - 2544 Por. I thanke you for your wish, and am well pleas'd - 2545 To wish it backe on you: faryouwell Iessica. - 2546 - 2547 Exeunt. - 2548 - 2549 Now Balthaser, as I haue euer found thee honest true, - 2550 So let me finde thee still: take this same letter, - 2551 And vse thou all the indeauor of a man, - 2552 In speed to Mantua, see thou render this - 2553 Into my cosins hand, Doctor Belario, - 2554 And looke what notes and garments he doth giue thee, - 2555 Bring them I pray thee with imagin'd speed - 2556 Vnto the Tranect, to the common Ferrie - 2557 Which trades to Venice; waste no time in words, - 2558 But get thee gone, I shall be there before thee - 2559 - 2560 Balth. Madam, I goe with all conuenient speed - 2561 - 2562 Por. Come on Nerissa, I haue worke in hand - 2563 That you yet know not of; wee'll see our husbands - 2564 Before they thinke of vs? - 2565 Nerrissa. Shall they see vs? - 2566 Portia. They shall Nerrissa: but in such a habit, - 2567 That they shall thinke we are accomplished - 2568 With that we lacke; Ile hold thee any wager - 2569 When we are both accoutered like yong men, - 2570 Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, - 2571 And weare my dagger with the brauer grace, - 2572 And speake betweene the change of man and boy, - 2573 With a reede voyce, and turne two minsing steps - 2574 Into a manly stride; and speake of frayes - 2575 Like a fine bragging youth: and tell quaint lyes - 2576 How honourable Ladies sought my loue, - 2577 Which I denying, they fell sicke and died. - 2578 I could not doe withall: then Ile repent, - 2579 And wish for all that, that I had not kil'd them; - 2580 And twentie of these punie lies Ile tell, - 2581 That men shall sweare I haue discontinued schoole - 2582 Aboue a twelue moneth: I haue within my minde - 2583 A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Iacks, - 2584 Which I will practise - 2585 - 2586 Nerris. Why, shall wee turne to men? - 2587 Portia. Fie, what a questions that? - 2588 If thou wert nere a lewd interpreter: - 2589 But come, Ile tell thee all my whole deuice - 2590 When I am in my coach, which stayes for vs - 2591 At the Parke gate; and therefore haste away, - 2592 For we must measure twentie miles to day. - 2593 - 2594 Exeunt. - 2595 - 2596 Enter Clowne and Iessica. - 2597 - 2598 Clown. Yes truly; for looke you, the sinnes of the Father - 2599 are to be laid vpon the children, therefore I promise - 2600 you, I feare you, I was alwaies plaine with you, and so - 2601 now I speake my agitation of the matter: therfore be of - 2602 good cheere, for truly I thinke you are damn'd, there is - 2603 but one hope in it that can doe you anie good, and that is - 2604 but a kinde of bastard hope neither - 2605 - 2606 Iessica. And what hope is that I pray thee? - 2607 Clow. Marrie you may partlie hope that your father - 2608 got you not, that you are not the Iewes daughter - 2609 - 2610 Ies. That were a kinde of bastard hope indeed, so the - 2611 sins of my mother should be visited vpon me - 2612 - 2613 Clow. Truly then I feare you are damned both by father - 2614 and mother: thus when I shun Scilla your father, I - 2615 fall into Charibdis your mother; well, you are gone both - 2616 waies - 2617 - 2618 Ies. I shall be sau'd by my husband, he hath made me - 2619 a Christian - 2620 - 2621 Clow. Truly the more to blame he, we were Christians - 2622 enow before, e'ne as many as could wel liue one by another: - 2623 this making of Christians will raise the price of - 2624 Hogs, if wee grow all to be porke-eaters, wee shall not - 2625 shortlie haue a rasher on the coales for money. - 2626 Enter Lorenzo. - 2627 - 2628 Ies. Ile tell my husband Lancelet what you say, heere - 2629 he comes - 2630 - 2631 Loren. I shall grow iealous of you shortly Lancelet, - 2632 if you thus get my wife into corners? - 2633 Ies. Nay, you need not feare vs Lorenzo, Launcelet - 2634 and I are out, he tells me flatly there is no mercy for mee - 2635 in heauen, because I am a Iewes daughter: and hee saies - 2636 you are no good member of the common wealth, for - 2637 in conuerting Iewes to Christians, you raise the price - 2638 of Porke - 2639 - 2640 Loren. I shall answere that better to the Commonwealth, - 2641 than you can the getting vp of the Negroes bellie: - 2642 the Moore is with childe by you Launcelet? - 2643 Clow. It is much that the Moore should be more then - 2644 reason: but if she be lesse then an honest woman, shee is - 2645 indeed more then I tooke her for - 2646 - 2647 Loren. How euerie foole can play vpon the word, I - 2648 thinke the best grace of witte will shortly turne into silence, - 2649 and discourse grow commendable in none onely - 2650 but Parrats: goe in sirra, bid them prepare for dinner? - 2651 Clow. That is done sir, they haue all stomacks? - 2652 Loren. Goodly Lord, what a witte-snapper are you, - 2653 then bid them prepare dinner - 2654 - 2655 Clow. That is done to sir, onely couer is the word - 2656 - 2657 Loren. Will you couer than sir? - 2658 Clow. Not so sir neither, I know my dutie - 2659 - 2660 Loren. Yet more quarreling with occasion, wilt thou - 2661 shew the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant; I pray - 2662 thee vnderstand a plaine man in his plaine meaning: goe - 2663 to thy fellowes, bid them couer the table, serue in the - 2664 meat, and we will come in to dinner - 2665 - 2666 Clow. For the table sir, it shall be seru'd in, for the - 2667 meat sir, it shall bee couered, for your comming in to - 2668 dinner sir, why let it be as humors and conceits shall gouerne. - 2669 - 2670 Exit Clowne. - 2671 - 2672 Lor. O deare discretion, how his words are suted, - 2673 The foole hath planted in his memory - 2674 An Armie of good words, and I doe know - 2675 A many fooles that stand in better place, - 2676 Garnisht like him, that for a tricksie word - 2677 Defie the matter: how cheer'st thou Iessica, - 2678 And now good sweet say thy opinion, - 2679 How dost thou like the Lord Bassiano's wife? - 2680 Iessi. Past all expressing, it is very meete - 2681 The Lord Bassanio liue an vpright life - 2682 For hauing such a blessing in his Lady, - 2683 He findes the ioyes of heauen heere on earth, - 2684 And if on earth he doe not meane it, it - 2685 Is reason he should neuer come to heauen? - 2686 Why, if two gods should play some heauenly match, - 2687 And on the wager lay two earthly women, - 2688 And Portia one: there must be something else - 2689 Paund with the other, for the poore rude world - 2690 Hath not her fellow - 2691 - 2692 Loren. Euen such a husband - 2693 Hast thou of me, as she is for a wife - 2694 - 2695 Ies. Nay, but aske my opinion to of that? - 2696 Lor. I will anone, first let vs goe to dinner? - 2697 Ies. Nay, let me praise you while I haue a stomacke? - 2698 Lor. No pray thee, let it serue for table talke, - 2699 Then how som ere thou speakst 'mong other things, - 2700 I shall digest it? - 2701 Iessi. Well, Ile set you forth. - 2702 - 2703 Exeunt. - 2704 - 2705 - 2706 Actus Quartus. - 2707 - 2708 Enter the Duke, the Magnificoes, Anthonio, Bassanio, and - 2709 Gratiano - 2710 - 2711 Duke. What, is Anthonio heere? - 2712 Ant. Ready, so please your grace? - 2713 Duke. I am sorry for thee, thou art come to answere - 2714 A stonie aduersary, an inhumane wretch, - 2715 Vncapable of pitty, voyd, and empty - 2716 From any dram of mercie - 2717 - 2718 Ant. I haue heard - 2719 Your Grace hath tane great paines to qualifie - 2720 His rigorous course: but since he stands obdurate, - 2721 And that no lawful meanes can carrie me - 2722 Out of his enuies reach, I do oppose - 2723 My patience to his fury, and am arm'd - 2724 To suffer with a quietnesse of spirit, - 2725 The very tiranny and rage of his - 2726 - 2727 Du. Go one and cal the Iew into the Court - 2728 - 2729 Sal. He is ready at the doore, he comes my Lord. - 2730 Enter Shylocke. - 2731 - 2732 Du. Make roome, and let him stand before our face. - 2733 Shylocke the world thinkes, and I thinke so to - 2734 That thou but leadest this fashion of thy mallice - 2735 To the last houre of act, and then 'tis thought - 2736 Thou'lt shew thy mercy and remorse more strange, - 2737 Than is thy strange apparant cruelty; - 2738 And where thou now exact'st the penalty, - 2739 Which is a pound of this poore Merchants flesh, - 2740 Thou wilt not onely loose the forfeiture, - 2741 But touch'd with humane gentlenesse and loue: - 2742 Forgiue a moytie of the principall, - 2743 Glancing an eye of pitty on his losses - 2744 That haue of late so hudled on his backe, - 2745 Enow to presse a royall Merchant downe; - 2746 And plucke commiseration of his state - 2747 From brassie bosomes, and rough hearts of flints, - 2748 From stubborne Turkes and Tarters neuer traind - 2749 To offices of tender curtesie, - 2750 We all expect a gentle answer Iew? - 2751 Iew. I haue possest your grace of what I purpose, - 2752 And by our holy Sabbath haue I sworne - 2753 To haue the due and forfeit of my bond. - 2754 If you denie it, let the danger light - 2755 Vpon your Charter, and your Cities freedome. - 2756 You'l aske me why I rather choose to haue - 2757 A weight of carrion flesh, then to receiue - 2758 Three thousand Ducats? Ile not answer that: - 2759 But say it is my humor; Is it answered? - 2760 What if my house be troubled with a Rat, - 2761 And I be pleas'd to giue ten thousand Ducates - 2762 To haue it bain'd? What, are you answer'd yet? - 2763 Some men there are loue not a gaping Pigge: - 2764 Some that are mad, if they behold a Cat: - 2765 And others, when the bag-pipe sings i'th nose, - 2766 Cannot containe their Vrine for affection. - 2767 Masters of passion swayes it to the moode - 2768 Of what it likes or loaths, now for your answer: - 2769 As there is no firme reason to be rendred - 2770 Why he cannot abide a gaping Pigge? - 2771 Why he a harmlesse necessarie Cat? - 2772 Why he a woollen bag-pipe: but of force - 2773 Must yeeld to such ineuitable shame, - 2774 As to offend himselfe being offended: - 2775 So can I giue no reason, nor I will not, - 2776 More then a lodg'd hate, and a certaine loathing - 2777 I beare Anthonio, that I follow thus - 2778 A loosing suite against him? Are you answered? - 2779 Bass. This is no answer thou vnfeeling man, - 2780 To excuse the currant of thy cruelty - 2781 - 2782 Iew. I am not bound to please thee with my answer - 2783 - 2784 Bass. Do all men kil the things they do not loue? - 2785 Iew. Hates any man the thing he would not kill? - 2786 Bass. Euerie offence is not a hate at first - 2787 - 2788 Iew. What wouldst thou haue a Serpent sting thee - 2789 twice? - 2790 Ant. I pray you thinke you question with the Iew: - 2791 You may as well go stand vpon the beach, - 2792 And bid the maine flood baite his vsuall height, - 2793 Or euen as well vse question with the Wolfe, - 2794 The Ewe bleate for the Lambe: - 2795 You may as well forbid the Mountaine Pines - 2796 To wagge their high tops, and to make no noise - 2797 When they are fretted with the gusts of heauen: - 2798 You may as well do any thing most hard, - 2799 As seeke to soften that, then which what harder? - 2800 His Iewish heart. Therefore I do beseech you - 2801 Make no more offers, vse no farther meanes, - 2802 But with all briefe and plaine conueniencie - 2803 Let me haue iudgement, and the Iew his will - 2804 - 2805 Bas. For thy three thousand Ducates heere is six - 2806 - 2807 Iew. If euerie Ducat in sixe thousand Ducates - 2808 Were in sixe parts, and euery part a Ducate, - 2809 I would not draw them, I would haue my bond? - 2810 Du. How shalt thou hope for mercie, rendring none? - 2811 Iew. What iudgement shall I dread doing no wrong? - 2812 You haue among you many a purchast slaue, - 2813 Which like your Asses, and your Dogs and Mules, - 2814 You vse in abiect and in slauish parts, - 2815 Because you bought them. Shall I say to you, - 2816 Let them be free, marrie them to your heires? - 2817 Why sweate they vnder burthens? Let their beds - 2818 Be made as soft as yours: and let their pallats - 2819 Be season'd with such Viands: you will answer - 2820 The slaues are ours. So do I answer you. - 2821 The pound of flesh which I demand of him - 2822 Is deerely bought, 'tis mine, and I will haue it. - 2823 If you deny me; fie vpon your Law, - 2824 There is no force in the decrees of Venice; - 2825 I stand for iudgement, answer, Shall I haue it? - 2826 Du. Vpon my power I may dismisse this Court, - 2827 Vnlesse Bellario a learned Doctor, - 2828 Whom I haue sent for to determine this, - 2829 Come heere to day - 2830 - 2831 Sal. My Lord, heere stayes without - 2832 A Messenger with Letters from the Doctor, - 2833 New come from Padua - 2834 - 2835 Du. Bring vs the Letters, Call the Messengers - 2836 - 2837 Bass. Good cheere Anthonio. What man, corage yet: - 2838 The Iew shall haue my flesh, blood, bones, and all, - 2839 Ere thou shalt loose for me one drop of blood - 2840 - 2841 Ant. I am a tainted Weather of the flocke, - 2842 Meetest for death, the weakest kinde of fruite - 2843 Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me; - 2844 You cannot better be employ'd Bassanio, - 2845 Then to liue still, and write mine Epitaph. - 2846 Enter Nerrissa. - 2847 - 2848 Du. Came you from Padua from Bellario? - 2849 Ner. From both. - 2850 My Lord Bellario greets your Grace - 2851 - 2852 Bas. Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly? - 2853 Iew. To cut the forfeiture from that bankrout there - 2854 - 2855 Gra. Not on thy soale: but on thy soule harsh Iew - 2856 Thou mak'st thy knife keene: but no mettall can, - 2857 No, not the hangmans Axe beare halfe the keennesse - 2858 Of thy sharpe enuy. Can no prayers pierce thee? - 2859 Iew. No, none that thou hast wit enough to make - 2860 - 2861 Gra. O be thou damn'd, inexecrable dogge, - 2862 And for thy life let iustice be accus'd: - 2863 Thou almost mak'st me wauer in my faith; - 2864 To hold opinion with Pythagoras, - 2865 That soules of Animals infuse themselues - 2866 Into the trunkes of men. Thy currish spirit - 2867 Gouern'd a Wolfe, who hang'd for humane slaughter, - 2868 Euen from the gallowes did his fell soule fleet; - 2869 And whil'st thou layest in thy vnhallowed dam, - 2870 Infus'd it selfe in thee: For thy desires - 2871 Are Woluish, bloody, steru'd, and rauenous - 2872 - 2873 Iew. Till thou canst raile the seale from off my bond - 2874 Thou but offend'st thy Lungs to speake so loud: - 2875 Repaire thy wit good youth, or it will fall - 2876 To endlesse ruine. I stand heere for Law - 2877 - 2878 Du. This Letter from Bellario doth commend - 2879 A yong and Learned Doctor in our Court; - 2880 Where is he? - 2881 Ner. He attendeth heere hard by - 2882 To know your answer, whether you'l admit him - 2883 - 2884 Du. With all my heart. Some three or four of you - 2885 Go giue him curteous conduct to this place, - 2886 Meane time the Court shall heare Bellarioes Letter. - 2887 Your Grace shall vnderstand, that at the receite of your - 2888 Letter I am very sicke: but in the instant that your messenger - 2889 came, in louing visitation, was with me a yong Doctor - 2890 of Rome, his name is Balthasar: I acquainted him with - 2891 the cause in Controuersie, betweene the Iew and Anthonio - 2892 the Merchant: We turn'd ore many Bookes together: hee is - 2893 furnished with my opinion, which bettred with his owne learning, - 2894 the greatnesse whereof I cannot enough commend, comes - 2895 with him at my importunity, to fill vp your Graces request in - 2896 my sted. I beseech you, let his lacke of years be no impediment - 2897 to let him lacke a reuerend estimation: for I neuer knewe so - 2898 yong a body, with so old a head. I leaue him to your gracious - 2899 acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his commendation. - 2900 Enter Portia for Balthazar. - 2901 - 2902 Duke. You heare the learn'd Bellario what he writes, - 2903 And heere (I take it) is the Doctor come. - 2904 Giue me your hand: Came you from old Bellario? - 2905 Por. I did my Lord - 2906 - 2907 Du. You are welcome: take your place; - 2908 Are you acquainted with the difference - 2909 That holds this present question in the Court - 2910 - 2911 Por. I am enformed throughly of the cause. - 2912 Which is the Merchant heere? and which the Iew? - 2913 Du. Anthonio and old Shylocke, both stand forth - 2914 - 2915 Por. Is your name Shylocke? - 2916 Iew. Shylocke is my name - 2917 - 2918 Por. Of a strange nature is the sute you follow, - 2919 Yet in such rule, that the Venetian Law - 2920 Cannot impugne you as you do proceed. - 2921 You stand within his danger, do you not? - 2922 Ant. I, so he sayes - 2923 - 2924 Por. Do you confesse the bond? - 2925 Ant. I do - 2926 - 2927 Por. Then must the Iew be mercifull - 2928 - 2929 Iew. On what compulsion must I ? Tell me that - 2930 - 2931 Por. The quality of mercy is not strain'd, - 2932 It droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen - 2933 Vpon the place beneath. It is twice blest, - 2934 It blesseth him that giues, and him that takes, - 2935 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes - 2936 The throned Monarch better then his Crowne. - 2937 His Scepter shewes the force of temporall power, - 2938 The attribute to awe and Maiestie, - 2939 Wherein doth sit the dread and feare of Kings: - 2940 But mercy is aboue this sceptred sway, - 2941 It is enthroned in the hearts of Kings, - 2942 It is an attribute to God himselfe; - 2943 And earthly power doth then shew likest Gods - 2944 When mercie seasons Iustice. Therefore Iew, - 2945 Though Iustice be thy plea, consider this, - 2946 That in the course of Iustice, none of vs - 2947 Should see saluation: we do pray for mercie, - 2948 And that same prayer, doth teach vs all to render - 2949 The deeds of mercie. I haue spoke thus much - 2950 To mittigate the iustice of thy plea: - 2951 Which if thou follow, this strict course of Venice - 2952 Must needes giue sentence 'gainst the Merchant there - 2953 - 2954 Shy. My deeds vpon my head, I craue the Law, - 2955 The penaltie and forfeite of my bond - 2956 - 2957 Por. Is he not able to discharge the money? - 2958 Bas. Yes, heere I tender it for him in the Court, - 2959 Yea, twice the summe, if that will not suffice, - 2960 I will be bound to pay it ten times ore, - 2961 On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: - 2962 If this will not suffice, it must appeare - 2963 That malice beares downe truth. And I beseech you - 2964 Wrest once the Law to your authority. - 2965 To do a great right, do a little wrong, - 2966 And curbe this cruell diuell of his will - 2967 - 2968 Por. It must not be, there is no power in Venice - 2969 Can alter a decree established: - 2970 'Twill be recorded for a President, - 2971 And many an error by the same example, - 2972 Will rush into the state: It cannot be - 2973 - 2974 Iew. A Daniel come to iudgement, yea a Daniel. - 2975 O wise young Iudge, how do I honour thee - 2976 - 2977 Por. I pray you let me looke vpon the bond - 2978 - 2979 Iew. Heere 'tis most reuerend Doctor, heere it is - 2980 - 2981 Por. Shylocke, there's thrice thy monie offered thee - 2982 - 2983 Shy. An oath, an oath, I haue an oath in heauen: - 2984 Shall I lay periurie vpon my soule? - 2985 No not for Venice - 2986 - 2987 Por. Why this bond is forfeit, - 2988 And lawfully by this the Iew may claime - 2989 A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off - 2990 Neerest the Merchants heart; be mercifull, - 2991 Take thrice thy money, bid me teare the bond - 2992 - 2993 Iew. When it is paid according to the tenure. - 2994 It doth appeare you are a worthy Iudge: - 2995 You know the Law, your exposition - 2996 Hath beene most sound. I charge you by the Law, - 2997 Whereof you are a well-deseruing pillar, - 2998 Proceede to iudgement: By my soule I sweare, - 2999 There is no power in the tongue of man - 3000 To alter me: I stay heere on my bond - 3001 - 3002 An. Most heartily I do beseech the Court - 3003 To giue the iudgement - 3004 - 3005 Por. Why then thus it is: - 3006 You must prepare your bosome for his knife - 3007 - 3008 Iew. O noble Iudge, O excellent yong man - 3009 - 3010 Por. For the intent and purpose of the Law - 3011 Hath full relation to the penaltie, - 3012 Which heere appeareth due vpon the bond - 3013 - 3014 Iew. 'Tis verie true: O wise and vpright Iudge, - 3015 How much more elder art thou then thy lookes? - 3016 Por. Therefore lay bare your bosome - 3017 - 3018 Iew. I, his brest, - 3019 So sayes the bond, doth it not noble Iudge? - 3020 Neerest his heart, those are the very words - 3021 - 3022 Por. It is so: Are there ballance heere to weigh the - 3023 flesh? - 3024 Iew. I haue them ready - 3025 - 3026 Por. Haue by some Surgeon Shylock on your charge - 3027 To stop his wounds, least he should bleede to death - 3028 - 3029 Iew. It is not nominated in the bond? - 3030 Por. It is not so exprest: but what of that? - 3031 'Twere good you do so much for charitie - 3032 - 3033 Iew. I cannot finde it, 'tis not in the bond - 3034 - 3035 Por. Come Merchant, haue you any thing to say? - 3036 Ant. But little: I am arm'd and well prepar'd. - 3037 Giue me your hand Bassanio, fare you well. - 3038 Greeue not that I am falne to this for you: - 3039 For heerein fortune shewes her selfe more kinde - 3040 Then is her custome. It is still her vse - 3041 To let the wretched man out-liue his wealth, - 3042 To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow - 3043 An age of pouerty. From which lingring penance - 3044 Of such miserie, doth she cut me off: - 3045 Commend me to your honourable Wife, - 3046 Tell her the processe of Anthonio's end: - 3047 Say how I lou'd you; speake me faire in death: - 3048 And when the tale is told, bid her be iudge, - 3049 Whether Bassanio had not once a Loue: - 3050 Repent not you that you shall loose your friend, - 3051 And he repents not that he payes your debt. - 3052 For if the Iew do cut but deepe enough, - 3053 Ile pay it instantly, with all my heart - 3054 - 3055 Bas. Anthonio, I am married to a wife, - 3056 Which is as deere to me as life it selfe, - 3057 But life it selfe, my wife, and all the world, - 3058 Are not with me esteem'd aboue thy life. - 3059 I would loose all, I sacrifice them all - 3060 Heere to this deuill, to deliuer you - 3061 - 3062 Por. Your wife would giue you little thanks for that - 3063 If she were by to heare you make the offer - 3064 - 3065 Gra. I haue a wife whom I protest I loue, - 3066 I would she were in heauen, so she could - 3067 Intreat some power to change this currish Iew - 3068 - 3069 Ner. 'Tis well you offer it behinde her backe, - 3070 The wish would make else an vnquiet house - 3071 - 3072 Iew. These be the Christian husbands: I haue a daughter - 3073 Would any of the stocke of Barrabas - 3074 Had beene her husband, rather then a Christian. - 3075 We trifle time, I pray thee pursue sentence - 3076 - 3077 Por. A pound of that same marchants flesh is thine, - 3078 The Court awards it, and the law doth giue it - 3079 - 3080 Iew. Most rightfull Iudge - 3081 - 3082 Por. And you must cut this flesh from off his breast, - 3083 The Law allowes it, and the Court awards it - 3084 - 3085 Iew. Most learned Iudge, a sentence, come prepare - 3086 - 3087 Por. Tarry a little, there is something else, - 3088 This bond doth giue thee heere no iot of bloud, - 3089 The words expresly are a pound of flesh: - 3090 Then take thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh, - 3091 But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed - 3092 One drop of Christian bloud, thy lands and goods - 3093 Are by the Lawes of Venice confiscate - 3094 Vnto the state of Venice - 3095 - 3096 Gra. O vpright Iudge, - 3097 Marke Iew, o learned Iudge - 3098 - 3099 Shy. Is that the law? - 3100 Por. Thy selfe shalt see the Act: - 3101 For as thou vrgest iustice, be assur'd - 3102 Thou shalt haue iustice more then thou desirest - 3103 - 3104 Gra. O learned Iudge, mark Iew, a learned Iudge - 3105 - 3106 Iew. I take this offer then, pay the bond thrice, - 3107 And let the Christian goe - 3108 - 3109 Bass. Heere is the money - 3110 - 3111 Por. Soft, the Iew shall haue all iustice, soft, no haste, - 3112 He shall haue nothing but the penalty - 3113 - 3114 Gra. O Iew, an vpright Iudge, a learned Iudge - 3115 - 3116 Por. Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh, - 3117 Shed thou no bloud, nor cut thou lesse nor more - 3118 But iust a pound of flesh: if thou tak'st more - 3119 Or lesse then a iust pound, be it so much - 3120 As makes it light or heauy in the substance, - 3121 Or the deuision of the twentieth part - 3122 Of one poore scruple, nay if the scale doe turne - 3123 But in the estimation of a hayre, - 3124 Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate - 3125 - 3126 Gra. A second Daniel, a Daniel Iew, - 3127 Now infidell I haue thee on the hip - 3128 - 3129 Por. Why doth the Iew pause, take thy forfeiture - 3130 - 3131 Shy. Giue me my principall, and let me goe - 3132 - 3133 Bass. I haue it ready for thee, heere it is - 3134 - 3135 Por. He hath refus'd it in the open Court, - 3136 He shall haue meerly iustice and his bond - 3137 - 3138 Gra. A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel, - 3139 I thanke thee Iew for teaching me that word - 3140 - 3141 Shy. Shall I not haue barely my principall? - 3142 Por. Thou shalt haue nothing but the forfeiture, - 3143 To be taken so at thy perill Iew - 3144 - 3145 Shy. Why then the Deuill giue him good of it: - 3146 Ile stay no longer question - 3147 - 3148 Por. Tarry Iew, - 3149 The Law hath yet another hold on you. - 3150 It is enacted in the Lawes of Venice, - 3151 If it be proued against an Alien, - 3152 That by direct, or indirect attempts - 3153 He seeke the life of any Citizen, - 3154 The party gainst the which he doth contriue, - 3155 Shall seaze one halfe his goods, the other halfe - 3156 Comes to the priuie coffer of the State, - 3157 And the offenders life lies in the mercy - 3158 Of the Duke onely, gainst all other voice. - 3159 In which predicament I say thou standst: - 3160 For it appeares by manifest proceeding, - 3161 That indirectly, and directly to, - 3162 Thou hast contriu'd against the very life - 3163 Of the defendant: and thou hast incur'd - 3164 The danger formerly by me rehearst. - 3165 Downe therefore, and beg mercy of the Duke - 3166 - 3167 Gra. Beg that thou maist haue leaue to hang thy selfe, - 3168 And yet thy wealth being forfeit to the state, - 3169 Thou hast not left the value of a cord, - 3170 Therefore thou must be hang'd at the states charge - 3171 - 3172 Duk. That thou shalt see the difference of our spirit, - 3173 I pardon thee thy life before thou aske it: - 3174 For halfe thy wealth, it is Anthonio's - 3175 The other halfe comes to the generall state, - 3176 Which humblenesse may driue vnto a fine - 3177 - 3178 Por. I for the state, not for Anthonio - 3179 - 3180 Shy. Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that, - 3181 You take my house, when you do take the prop - 3182 That doth sustaine my house: you take my life - 3183 When you doe take the meanes whereby I liue - 3184 - 3185 Por. What mercy can you render him Anthonio? - 3186 Gra. A halter gratis, nothing else for Gods sake - 3187 - 3188 Ant. So please my Lord the Duke, and all the Court - 3189 To quit the fine for one halfe of his goods, - 3190 I am content: so he will let me haue - 3191 The other halfe in vse, to render it - 3192 Vpon his death, vnto the Gentleman - 3193 That lately stole his daughter. - 3194 Two things prouided more, that for this fauour - 3195 He presently become a Christian: - 3196 The other, that he doe record a gift - 3197 Heere in the Court of all he dies possest - 3198 Vnto his sonne Lorenzo, and his daughter - 3199 - 3200 Duk. He shall doe this, or else I doe recant - 3201 The pardon that I late pronounced heere - 3202 - 3203 Por. Art thou contented Iew? what dost thou say? - 3204 Shy. I am content - 3205 - 3206 Por. Clarke, draw a deed of gift - 3207 - 3208 Shy. I pray you giue me leaue to goe from hence, - 3209 I am not well, send the deed after me, - 3210 And I will signe it - 3211 - 3212 Duke. Get thee gone, but doe it - 3213 - 3214 Gra. In christning thou shalt haue two godfathers, - 3215 Had I been iudge, thou shouldst haue had ten more, - 3216 To bring thee to the gallowes, not to the font. - 3217 Enter. - 3218 - 3219 Du. Sir I intreat you with me home to dinner - 3220 - 3221 Por. I humbly doe desire your Grace of pardon, - 3222 I must away this night toward Padua, - 3223 And it is meete I presently set forth - 3224 - 3225 Duk. I am sorry that your leysure serues you not: - 3226 Anthonio, gratifie this gentleman, - 3227 For in my minde you are much bound to him. - 3228 - 3229 Exit Duke and his traine. - 3230 - 3231 Bass. Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend - 3232 Haue by your wisedome beene this day acquitted - 3233 Of greeuous penalties, in lieu whereof, - 3234 Three thousand Ducats due vnto the Iew - 3235 We freely cope your curteous paines withall - 3236 - 3237 An. And stand indebted ouer and aboue - 3238 In loue and seruice to you euermore - 3239 - 3240 Por. He is well paid that is well satisfied, - 3241 And I deliuering you, am satisfied, - 3242 And therein doe account my selfe well paid, - 3243 My minde was neuer yet more mercinarie. - 3244 I pray you know me when we meete againe, - 3245 I wish you well, and so I take my leaue - 3246 - 3247 Bass. Deare sir, of force I must attempt you further, - 3248 Take some remembrance of vs as a tribute, - 3249 Not as fee: grant me two things, I pray you - 3250 Not to denie me, and to pardon me - 3251 - 3252 Por. You presse mee farre, and therefore I will yeeld, - 3253 Giue me your gloues, Ile weare them for your sake, - 3254 And for your loue Ile take this ring from you, - 3255 Doe not draw backe your hand, ile take no more, - 3256 And you in loue shall not deny me this? - 3257 Bass. This ring good sir, alas it is a trifle, - 3258 I will not shame my selfe to giue you this - 3259 - 3260 Por. I wil haue nothing else but onely this, - 3261 And now methinkes I haue a minde to it - 3262 - 3263 Bas. There's more depends on this then on the valew, - 3264 The dearest ring in Venice will I giue you, - 3265 And finde it out by proclamation, - 3266 Onely for this I pray you pardon me - 3267 - 3268 Por. I see sir you are liberall in offers, - 3269 You taught me first to beg, and now me thinkes - 3270 You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd - 3271 - 3272 Bas. Good sir, this ring was giuen me by my wife, - 3273 And when she put it on, she made me vow - 3274 That I should neither sell, nor giue, nor lose it - 3275 - 3276 Por. That scuse serues many men to saue their gifts, - 3277 And if your wife be not a mad woman, - 3278 And know how well I haue deseru'd this ring, - 3279 Shee would not hold out enemy for euer - 3280 For giuing it to me: well, peace be with you. - 3281 - 3282 Exeunt. - 3283 - 3284 Ant. My L[ord]. Bassanio, let him haue the ring, - 3285 Let his deseruings and my loue withall - 3286 Be valued against your wiues commandement - 3287 - 3288 Bass. Goe Gratiano, run and ouer-take him, - 3289 Giue him the ring, and bring him if thou canst - 3290 Vnto Anthonios house, away, make haste. - 3291 - 3292 Exit Grati. - 3293 - 3294 Come, you and I will thither presently, - 3295 And in the morning early will we both - 3296 Flie toward Belmont, come Anthonio. - 3297 - 3298 Exeunt. - 3299 - 3300 Enter Portia and Nerrissa. - 3301 - 3302 Por. Enquire the Iewes house out, giue him this deed, - 3303 And let him signe it, wee'll away to night, - 3304 And be a day before our husbands home: - 3305 This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo. - 3306 Enter Gratiano. - 3307 - 3308 Gra. Faire sir, you are well ore-tane: - 3309 My L[ord]. Bassanio vpon more aduice, - 3310 Hath sent you heere this ring, and doth intreat - 3311 Your company at dinner - 3312 - 3313 Por. That cannot be; - 3314 His ring I doe accept most thankfully, - 3315 And so I pray you tell him: furthermore, - 3316 I pray you shew my youth old Shylockes house - 3317 - 3318 Gra. That will I doe - 3319 - 3320 Ner. Sir, I would speake with you: - 3321 Ile see if I can get my husbands ring - 3322 Which I did make him sweare to keepe for euer - 3323 - 3324 Por. Thou maist I warrant, we shal haue old swearing - 3325 That they did giue the rings away to men; - 3326 But weele out-face them, and out-sweare them to: - 3327 Away, make haste, thou know'st where I will tarry - 3328 - 3329 Ner. Come good sir, will you shew me to this house. - 3330 - 3331 Exeunt. - 3332 - 3333 - 3334 Actus Quintus. - 3335 - 3336 Enter Lorenzo and Iessica. - 3337 - 3338 Lor. The moone shines bright. In such a night as this, - 3339 When the sweet winde did gently kisse the trees, - 3340 And they did make no noyse, in such a night - 3341 Troylus me thinkes mounted the Troian walls, - 3342 And sigh'd his soule toward the Grecian tents - 3343 Where Cressed lay that night - 3344 - 3345 Ies. In such a night - 3346 Did Thisbie fearefully ore-trip the dewe, - 3347 And saw the Lyons shadow ere himselfe, - 3348 And ranne dismayed away - 3349 - 3350 Loren. In such a night - 3351 Stood Dido with a Willow in her hand - 3352 Vpon the wilde sea bankes, and waft her Loue - 3353 To come againe to Carthage - 3354 - 3355 Ies. In such a night - 3356 Medea gathered the inchanted hearbs - 3357 That did renew old Eson - 3358 - 3359 Loren. In such a night - 3360 Did Iessica steale from the wealthy Iewe, - 3361 And with an Vnthrift Loue did runne from Venice, - 3362 As farre as Belmont - 3363 - 3364 Ies. In such a night - 3365 Did young Lorenzo sweare he lou'd her well, - 3366 Stealing her soule with many vowes of faith, - 3367 And nere a true one - 3368 - 3369 Loren. In such a night - 3370 Did pretty Iessica (like a little shrow) - 3371 Slander her Loue, and he forgaue it her - 3372 - 3373 Iessi. I would out-night you did no body come: - 3374 But harke, I heare the footing of a man. - 3375 Enter Messenger. - 3376 - 3377 Lor. Who comes so fast in silence of the night? - 3378 Mes. A friend - 3379 - 3380 Loren. A friend, what friend? your name I pray you friend? - 3381 Mes. Stephano is my name, and I bring word - 3382 My Mistresse will before the breake of day - 3383 Be heere at Belmont, she doth stray about - 3384 By holy crosses where she kneeles and prayes - 3385 For happy wedlocke houres - 3386 - 3387 Loren. Who comes with her? - 3388 Mes. None but a holy Hermit and her maid: - 3389 I pray you is my Master yet return'd? - 3390 Loren. He is not, nor we haue not heard from him, - 3391 But goe we in I pray thee Iessica, - 3392 And ceremoniously let vs prepare - 3393 Some welcome for the Mistresse of the house, - 3394 Enter Clowne. - 3395 - 3396 Clo. Sola, sola: wo ha ho, sola, sola - 3397 - 3398 Loren. Who calls? - 3399 Clo. Sola, did you see M[aster]. Lorenzo, & M[aster]. Lorenzo, - 3400 sola, - 3401 Lor. Leaue hollowing man, heere - 3402 - 3403 Clo. Sola, where, where? - 3404 Lor. Heere? - 3405 Clo. Tel him ther's a Post come from my Master, with - 3406 his horne full of good newes, my Master will be here ere - 3407 morning sweete soule - 3408 - 3409 Loren. Let's in, and there expect their comming. - 3410 And yet no matter: why should we goe in? - 3411 My friend Stephen, signifie pray you - 3412 Within the house, your Mistresse is at hand, - 3413 And bring your musique foorth into the ayre. - 3414 How sweet the moone-light sleepes vpon this banke, - 3415 Heere will we sit, and let the sounds of musicke - 3416 Creepe in our eares soft stilnes, and the night - 3417 Become the tutches of sweet harmonie: - 3418 Sit Iessica, looke how the floore of heauen - 3419 Is thicke inlayed with pattens of bright gold, - 3420 There's not the smallest orbe which thou beholdst - 3421 But in his motion like an Angell sings, - 3422 Still quiring to the young eyed Cherubins; - 3423 Such harmonie is in immortall soules, - 3424 But whilst this muddy vesture of decay - 3425 Doth grosly close in it, we cannot heare it: - 3426 Come hoe, and wake Diana with a hymne, - 3427 With sweetest tutches pearce your Mistresse eare, - 3428 And draw her home with musicke - 3429 - 3430 Iessi. I am neuer merry when I heare sweet musique. - 3431 - 3432 Play musicke. - 3433 - 3434 Lor. The reason is, your spirits are attentiue: - 3435 For doe but note a wilde and wanton heard - 3436 Or race of youthful and vnhandled colts, - 3437 Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, - 3438 Which is the hot condition of their bloud, - 3439 If they but heare perchance a trumpet sound, - 3440 Or any ayre of musicke touch their eares, - 3441 You shall perceiue them make a mutuall stand, - 3442 Their sauage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, - 3443 By the sweet power of musicke: therefore the Poet - 3444 Did faine that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. - 3445 Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, - 3446 But musicke for time doth change his nature, - 3447 The man that hath no musicke in himselfe, - 3448 Nor is not moued with concord of sweet sounds, - 3449 Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoyles, - 3450 The motions of his spirit are dull as night, - 3451 And his affections darke as Erobus, - 3452 Let no such man be trusted: marke the musicke. - 3453 Enter Portia and Nerrissa. - 3454 - 3455 Por. That light we see is burning in my hall: - 3456 How farre that little candell throwes his beames, - 3457 So shines a good deed in a naughty world - 3458 - 3459 Ner. When the moone shone we did not see the candle? - 3460 Por. So doth the greater glory dim the lesse, - 3461 A substitute shines brightly as a King - 3462 Vntill a King be by, and then his state - 3463 Empties it selfe, as doth an inland brooke - 3464 Into the maine of waters: musique, harke. - 3465 - 3466 Musicke. - 3467 - 3468 Ner. It is your musicke Madame of the house - 3469 - 3470 Por. Nothing is good I see without respect, - 3471 Methinkes it sounds much sweeter then by day? - 3472 Ner. Silence bestowes that vertue on it Madam - 3473 - 3474 Por. The Crow doth sing as sweetly as the Larke - 3475 When neither is attended: and I thinke - 3476 The Nightingale if she should sing by day - 3477 When euery Goose is cackling, would be thought - 3478 No better a Musitian then the Wren? - 3479 How many things by season, season'd are - 3480 To their right praise, and true perfection: - 3481 Peace, how the Moone sleepes with Endimion, - 3482 And would not be awak'd. - 3483 - 3484 Musicke ceases. - 3485 - 3486 Lor. That is the voice, - 3487 Or I am much deceiu'd of Portia - 3488 - 3489 Por. He knowes me as the blinde man knowes the - 3490 Cuckow by the bad voice? - 3491 Lor. Deere Lady welcome home? - 3492 Por. We haue bene praying for our husbands welfare - 3493 Which speed we hope the better for our words, - 3494 Are they return'd? - 3495 Lor. Madam, they are not yet: - 3496 But there is come a Messenger before - 3497 To signifie their comming - 3498 - 3499 Por. Go in Nerrissa, - 3500 Giue order to my seruants, that they take - 3501 No note at all of our being absent hence, - 3502 Nor you Lorenzo, Iessica nor you. - 3503 - 3504 A Tucket sounds. - 3505 - 3506 Lor. Your husband is at hand, I heare his Trumpet, - 3507 We are no tell-tales Madam, feare you not - 3508 - 3509 Por. This night methinkes is but the daylight sicke, - 3510 It lookes a little paler, 'tis a day, - 3511 Such as the day is, when the Sun is hid. - 3512 Enter Bassanio, Anthonio, Gratiano, and their Followers. - 3513 - 3514 Bas. We should hold day with the Antipodes, - 3515 If you would walke in absence of the sunne - 3516 - 3517 Por. Let me giue light, but let me not be light, - 3518 For a light wife doth make a heauie husband, - 3519 And neuer be Bassanio so for me, - 3520 But God sort all: you are welcome home my Lord - 3521 - 3522 Bass. I thanke you Madam, giue welcom to my friend - 3523 This is the man, this is Anthonio, - 3524 To whom I am so infinitely bound - 3525 - 3526 Por. You should in all sence be much bound to him, - 3527 For as I heare he was much bound for you - 3528 - 3529 Anth. No more then I am wel acquitted of - 3530 - 3531 Por. Sir, you are verie welcome to our house: - 3532 It must appeare in other waies then words, - 3533 Therefore I scant this breathing curtesie - 3534 - 3535 Gra. By yonder Moone I sweare you do me wrong, - 3536 Infaith I gaue it to the Iudges Clearke, - 3537 Would he were gelt that had it for my part, - 3538 Since you do take it Loue so much at hart - 3539 - 3540 Por. A quarrel hoe alreadie, what's the matter? - 3541 Gra. About a hoope of Gold, a paltry Ring - 3542 That she did giue me, whose Poesie was - 3543 For all the world like Cutlers Poetry - 3544 Vpon a knife; Loue mee, and leaue mee not - 3545 - 3546 Ner. What talke you of the Poesie or the valew: - 3547 You swore to me when I did giue it you, - 3548 That you would weare it til the houre of death, - 3549 And that it should lye with you in your graue, - 3550 Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths, - 3551 You should haue beene respectiue and haue kept it. - 3552 Gaue it a Iudges Clearke: but wel I know - 3553 The Clearke wil nere weare haire on's face that had it - 3554 - 3555 Gra. He wil, and if he liue to be a man - 3556 - 3557 Nerrissa. I, if a Woman liue to be a man - 3558 - 3559 Gra. Now by this hand I gaue it to a youth, - 3560 A kinde of boy, a little scrubbed boy, - 3561 No higher then thy selfe, the Iudges Clearke, - 3562 A prating boy that begg'd it as a Fee, - 3563 I could not for my heart deny it him - 3564 - 3565 Por. You were too blame, I must be plaine with you, - 3566 To part so slightly with your wiues first gift, - 3567 A thing stucke on with oathes vpon your finger, - 3568 And so riueted with faith vnto your flesh. - 3569 I gaue my Loue a Ring, and made him sweare - 3570 Neuer to part with it, and heere he stands: - 3571 I dare be sworne for him, he would not leaue it, - 3572 Nor plucke it from his finger, for the wealth - 3573 That the world masters. Now in faith Gratiano, - 3574 You giue your wife too vnkinde a cause of greefe, - 3575 And 'twere to me I should be mad at it - 3576 - 3577 Bass. Why I were best to cut my left hand off, - 3578 And sweare I lost the Ring defending it - 3579 - 3580 Gra. My Lord Bassanio gaue his Ring away - 3581 Vnto the Iudge that beg'd it, and indeede - 3582 Deseru'd it too: and then the Boy his Clearke - 3583 That tooke some paines in writing, he begg'd mine, - 3584 And neyther man nor master would take ought - 3585 But the two Rings - 3586 - 3587 Por. What Ring gaue you my Lord? - 3588 Not that I hope which you receiu'd of me - 3589 - 3590 Bass. If I could adde a lie vnto a fault, - 3591 I would deny it: but you see my finger - 3592 Hath not the Ring vpon it, it is gone - 3593 - 3594 Por. Euen so voide is your false heart of truth. - 3595 By heauen I wil nere come in your bed - 3596 Vntil I see the Ring - 3597 - 3598 Ner. Nor I in yours, til I againe see mine - 3599 - 3600 Bass. Sweet Portia, - 3601 If you did know to whom I gaue the Ring, - 3602 If you did know for whom I gaue the Ring, - 3603 And would conceiue for what I gaue the Ring, - 3604 And how vnwillingly I left the Ring, - 3605 When nought would be accepted but the Ring, - 3606 You would abate the strength of your displeasure? - 3607 Por. If you had knowne the vertue of the Ring, - 3608 Or halfe her worthinesse that gaue the Ring, - 3609 Or your owne honour to containe the Ring, - 3610 You would not then haue parted with the Ring: - 3611 What man is there so much vnreasonable, - 3612 If you had pleas'd to haue defended it - 3613 With any termes of Zeale: wanted the modestie - 3614 To vrge the thing held as a ceremonie: - 3615 Nerrissa teaches me what to beleeue, - 3616 Ile die for't, but some Woman had the Ring? - 3617 Bass. No by mine honor Madam, by my soule - 3618 No Woman had it, but a ciuill Doctor, - 3619 Which did refuse three thousand Ducates of me, - 3620 And beg'd the Ring; the which I did denie him, - 3621 And suffer'd him to go displeas'd away: - 3622 Euen he that had held vp the verie life - 3623 Of my deere friend. What should I say sweete Lady? - 3624 I was inforc'd to send it after him, - 3625 I was beset with shame and curtesie, - 3626 My honor would not let ingratitude - 3627 So much besmeare it. Pardon me good Lady, - 3628 And by these blessed Candles of the night, - 3629 Had you bene there, I thinke you would haue beg'd - 3630 The Ring of me, to giue the worthie Doctor? - 3631 Por. Let not that Doctor ere come neere my house, - 3632 Since he hath got the iewell that I loued, - 3633 And that which you did sweare to keepe for me, - 3634 I will become as liberall as you, - 3635 Ile not deny him any thing I haue, - 3636 No, not my body, nor my husbands bed: - 3637 Know him I shall, I am well sure of it. - 3638 Lie not a night from home. Watch me like Argos, - 3639 If you doe not, if I be left alone, - 3640 Now by mine honour which is yet mine owne, - 3641 Ile haue the Doctor for my bedfellow - 3642 - 3643 Nerrissa. And I his Clarke: therefore be well aduis'd - 3644 How you doe leaue me to mine owne protection - 3645 - 3646 Gra. Well, doe you so: let not me take him then, - 3647 For if I doe, ile mar the yong Clarks pen - 3648 - 3649 Ant. I am th' vnhappy subiect of these quarrels - 3650 - 3651 Por. Sir, grieue not you, - 3652 You are welcome notwithstanding - 3653 - 3654 Bas. Portia, forgiue me this enforced wrong, - 3655 And in the hearing of these manie friends - 3656 I sweare to thee, euen by thine owne faire eyes - 3657 Wherein I see my selfe - 3658 - 3659 Por. Marke you but that? - 3660 In both my eyes he doubly sees himselfe: - 3661 In each eye one, sweare by your double selfe, - 3662 And there's an oath of credit - 3663 - 3664 Bas. Nay, but heare me. - 3665 Pardon this fault, and by my soule I sweare - 3666 I neuer more will breake an oath with thee - 3667 - 3668 Anth. I once did lend my bodie for thy wealth, - 3669 Which but for him that had your husbands ring - 3670 Had quite miscarried. I dare be bound againe, - 3671 My soule vpon the forfeit, that your Lord - 3672 Will neuer more breake faith aduisedlie - 3673 - 3674 Por. Then you shall be his suretie: giue him this, - 3675 And bid him keepe it better then the other - 3676 - 3677 Ant. Heere Lord Bassanio, swear to keep this ring - 3678 - 3679 Bass. By heauen it is the same I gaue the Doctor - 3680 - 3681 Por. I had it of him: pardon Bassanio, - 3682 For by this ring the Doctor lay with me - 3683 - 3684 Ner. And pardon me my gentle Gratiano, - 3685 For that same scrubbed boy the Doctors Clarke - 3686 In liew of this, last night did lye with me - 3687 - 3688 Gra. Why this is like the mending of high waies - 3689 In Sommer, where the waies are faire enough: - 3690 What, are we Cuckolds ere we haue deseru'd it - 3691 - 3692 Por. Speake not so grossely, you are all amaz'd; - 3693 Heere is a letter, reade it at your leysure, - 3694 It comes from Padua from Bellario, - 3695 There you shall finde that Portia was the Doctor, - 3696 Nerrissa there her Clarke. Lorenzo heere - 3697 Shall witnesse I set forth as soone as you, - 3698 And but eu'n now return'd: I haue not yet - 3699 Entred my house. Anthonio you are welcome, - 3700 And I haue better newes in store for you - 3701 Then you expect: vnseale this letter soone, - 3702 There you shall finde three of your Argosies - 3703 Are richly come to harbour sodainlie. - 3704 You shall not know by what strange accident - 3705 I chanced on this letter - 3706 - 3707 Antho. I am dumbe - 3708 - 3709 Bass. Were you the Doctor, and I knew you not? - 3710 Gra. Were you the Clark that is to make me cuckold - 3711 - 3712 Ner. I, but the Clark that neuer meanes to doe it, - 3713 Vnlesse he liue vntill he be a man - 3714 - 3715 Bass. (Sweet Doctor) you shall be my bedfellow, - 3716 When I am absent, then lie with my wife - 3717 - 3718 An. (Sweet Ladie) you haue giuen me life & liuing; - 3719 For heere I reade for certaine that my ships - 3720 Are safelie come to Rode - 3721 - 3722 Por. How now Lorenzo? - 3723 My Clarke hath some good comforts to for you - 3724 - 3725 Ner. I, and Ile giue them him without a fee. - 3726 There doe I giue to you and Iessica - 3727 From the rich Iewe, a speciall deed of gift - 3728 After his death, of all he dies possess'd of - 3729 - 3730 Loren. Faire Ladies you drop Manna in the way - 3731 Of starued people - 3732 - 3733 Por. It is almost morning, - 3734 And yet I am sure you are not satisfied - 3735 Of these euents at full. Let vs goe in, - 3736 And charge vs there vpon intergatories, - 3737 And we will answer all things faithfully - 3738 - 3739 Gra. Let it be so, the first intergatory - 3740 That my Nerrissa shall be sworne on, is, - 3741 Whether till the next night she had rather stay, - 3742 Or goe to bed, now being two houres to day, - 3743 But were the day come, I should wish it darke, - 3744 Till I were couching with the Doctors Clarke. - 3745 Well, while I liue, Ile feare no other thing - 3746 So sore, as keeping safe Nerrissas ring. - 3747 - 3748 Exeunt. - 3749 - 3750 FINIS. The Merchant of Venice. diff --git a/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Othello.txt b/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Othello.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 19ff440..0000000 --- a/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Othello.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5042 +0,0 @@ - 1 ***The Project Gutenberg's Etext of Shakespeare's First Folio*** - 2 **********The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice********** - 3 - 4 This is our 3rd edition of most of these plays. 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I wish to make this the best - 378 etext possible. My email address for right now are haradda@aol.com - 379 and davidr@inconnect.com. I hope that you enjoy this. - 380 - 381 David Reed - 382 - 383 The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice - 384 - 385 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. - 386 - 387 Enter Rodorigo, and Iago. - 388 - 389 Rodorigo. Neuer tell me, I take it much vnkindly - 390 That thou (Iago) who hast had my purse, - 391 As if y strings were thine, should'st know of this - 392 - 393 Ia. But you'l not heare me. If euer I did dream - 394 Of such a matter, abhorre me - 395 - 396 Rodo. Thou told'st me, - 397 Thou did'st hold him in thy hate - 398 - 399 Iago. Despise me - 400 If I do not. Three Great-ones of the Cittie, - 401 (In personall suite to make me his Lieutenant) - 402 Off-capt to him: and by the faith of man - 403 I know my price, I am worth no worsse a place. - 404 But he (as louing his owne pride, and purposes) - 405 Euades them, with a bumbast Circumstance, - 406 Horribly stufft with Epithites of warre, - 407 Non-suites my Mediators. For certes, saies he, - 408 I haue already chose my Officer. And what was he? - 409 For-sooth, a great Arithmatician, - 410 One Michaell Cassio, a Florentine, - 411 (A Fellow almost damn'd in a faire Wife) - 412 That neuer set a Squadron in the Field, - 413 Nor the deuision of a Battaile knowes - 414 More then a Spinster. Vnlesse the Bookish Theoricke: - 415 Wherein the Tongued Consuls can propose - 416 As Masterly as he. Meere pratle (without practise) - 417 Is all his Souldiership. But he (Sir) had th' election; - 418 And I (of whom his eies had seene the proofe - 419 At Rhodes, at Ciprus, and on others grounds - 420 Christen'd, and Heathen) must be be-leed, and calm'd - 421 By Debitor, and Creditor. This Counter-caster, - 422 He (in good time) must his Lieutenant be, - 423 And I (blesse the marke) his Mooreships Auntient - 424 - 425 Rod. By heauen, I rather would haue bin his hangman - 426 - 427 Iago. Why, there's no remedie. - 428 'Tis the cursse of Seruice; - 429 Preferment goes by Letter, and affection, - 430 And not by old gradation, where each second - 431 Stood Heire to'th' first. Now Sir, be iudge your selfe, - 432 Whether I in any iust terme am Affin'd - 433 To loue the Moore? - 434 Rod. I would not follow him then - 435 - 436 Iago. O Sir content you. - 437 I follow him, to serue my turne vpon him. - 438 We cannot all be Masters, nor all Masters - 439 Cannot be truely follow'd. You shall marke - 440 Many a dutious and knee-crooking knaue; - 441 That (doting on his owne obsequious bondage) - 442 Weares out his time, much like his Masters Asse, - 443 For naught but Prouender, & when he's old Casheer'd. - 444 Whip me such honest knaues. Others there are - 445 Who trym'd in Formes, and visages of Dutie, - 446 Keepe yet their hearts attending on themselues, - 447 And throwing but showes of Seruice on their Lords - 448 Doe well thriue by them. - 449 And when they haue lin'd their Coates - 450 Doe themselues Homage. - 451 These Fellowes haue some soule, - 452 And such a one do I professe my selfe. For (Sir) - 453 It is as sure as you are Rodorigo, - 454 Were I the Moore, I would not be Iago: - 455 In following him, I follow but my selfe. - 456 Heauen is my Iudge, not I for loue and dutie, - 457 But seeming so, for my peculiar end: - 458 For when my outward Action doth demonstrate - 459 The natiue act, and figure of my heart - 460 In Complement externe, 'tis not long after - 461 But I will weare my heart vpon my sleeue - 462 For Dawes to pecke at; I am not what I am - 463 - 464 Rod. What a fall Fortune do's the Thicks-lips owe - 465 If he can carry't thus? - 466 Iago. Call vp her Father: - 467 Rowse him, make after him, poyson his delight, - 468 Proclaime him in the Streets. Incense her kinsmen, - 469 And though he in a fertile Clymate dwell, - 470 Plague him with Flies: though that his Ioy be Ioy, - 471 Yet throw such chances of vexation on't, - 472 As it may loose some colour - 473 - 474 Rodo. Heere is her Fathers house, Ile call aloud - 475 - 476 Iago. Doe, with like timerous accent, and dire yell, - 477 As when (by Night and Negligence) the Fire - 478 Is spied in populus Citties - 479 - 480 Rodo. What hoa: Brabantio, Signior Brabantio, hoa - 481 - 482 Iago. Awake: what hoa, Brabantio: Theeues, Theeues. - 483 Looke to your house, your daughter, and your Bags, - 484 Theeues, Theeues - 485 - 486 Bra. Aboue. What is the reason of this terrible - 487 Summons? What is the matter there? - 488 Rodo. Signior is all your Familie within? - 489 Iago. Are your Doores lock'd? - 490 Bra. Why? Wherefore ask you this? - 491 Iago. Sir, y'are rob'd, for shame put on your Gowne, - 492 Your heart is burst, you haue lost halfe your soule - 493 Euen now, now, very now, an old blacke Ram - 494 Is tupping your white Ewe. Arise, arise, - 495 Awake the snorting Cittizens with the Bell, - 496 Or else the deuill will make a Grand-sire of you. - 497 Arise I say - 498 - 499 Bra. What, haue you lost your wits? - 500 Rod. Most reuerend Signior, do you know my voice? - 501 Bra. Not I: what are you? - 502 Rod. My name is Rodorigo - 503 - 504 Bra. The worsser welcome: - 505 I haue charg'd thee not to haunt about my doores: - 506 In honest plainenesse thou hast heard me say, - 507 My Daughter is not for thee. And now in madnesse - 508 (Being full of Supper, and distempring draughtes) - 509 Vpon malitious knauerie, dost thou come - 510 To start my quiet - 511 - 512 Rod. Sir, Sir, Sir - 513 - 514 Bra. But thou must needs be sure, - 515 My spirits and my place haue in their power - 516 To make this bitter to thee - 517 - 518 Rodo. Patience good Sir - 519 - 520 Bra. What tell'st thou me of Robbing? - 521 This is Venice: my house is not a Grange - 522 - 523 Rodo. Most graue Brabantio, - 524 In simple and pure soule, I come to you - 525 - 526 Ia. Sir: you are one of those that will not serue God, - 527 if the deuill bid you. Because we come to do you seruice, - 528 and you thinke we are Ruffians, you'le haue your Daughter - 529 couer'd with a Barbary horse, you'le haue your Nephewes - 530 neigh to you, you'le haue Coursers for Cozens: - 531 and Gennets for Germaines - 532 - 533 Bra. What prophane wretch art thou? - 534 Ia. I am one Sir, that comes to tell you, your Daughter - 535 and the Moore, are making the Beast with two backs - 536 - 537 Bra. Thou art a Villaine - 538 - 539 Iago. You are a Senator - 540 - 541 Bra. This thou shalt answere. I know thee Rodorigo - 542 - 543 Rod. Sir, I will answere any thing. But I beseech you - 544 If't be your pleasure, and most wise consent, - 545 (As partly I find it is) that your faire Daughter, - 546 At this odde Euen and dull watch o'th' night - 547 Transported with no worse nor better guard, - 548 But with a knaue of common hire, a Gundelier, - 549 To the grosse claspes of a Lasciuious Moore: - 550 If this be knowne to you, and your Allowance, - 551 We then haue done you bold, and saucie wrongs. - 552 But if you know not this, my Manners tell me, - 553 We haue your wrong rebuke. Do not beleeue - 554 That from the sence of all Ciuilitie, - 555 I thus would play and trifle with your Reuerence. - 556 Your Daughter (if you haue not giuen her leaue) - 557 I say againe, hath made a grosse reuolt, - 558 Tying her Dutie, Beautie, Wit, and Fortunes - 559 In an extrauagant, and wheeling Stranger, - 560 Of here, and euery where: straight satisfie your selfe. - 561 If she be in her Chamber, or your house, - 562 Let loose on me the Iustice of the State - 563 For thus deluding you - 564 - 565 Bra. Strike on the Tinder, hoa: - 566 Giue me a Taper: call vp all my people, - 567 This Accident is not vnlike my dreame, - 568 Beleefe of it oppresses me alreadie. - 569 Light, I say, light. - 570 Enter. - 571 - 572 Iag. Farewell: for I must leaue you. - 573 It seemes not meete, nor wholesome to my place - 574 To be producted, (as if I stay, I shall,) - 575 Against the Moore. For I do know the State, - 576 (How euer this may gall him with some checke) - 577 Cannot with safetie cast-him. For he's embark'd - 578 With such loud reason to the Cyprus Warres, - 579 (Which euen now stands in Act) that for their soules - 580 Another of his Fadome, they haue none, - 581 To lead their Businesse. In which regard, - 582 Though I do hate him as I do hell paines, - 583 Yet, for necessitie of present life, - 584 I must show out a Flag, and signe of Loue, - 585 (Which is indeed but signe) that you shal surely find him - 586 Lead to the Sagitary the raised Search: - 587 And there will I be with him. So farewell. - 588 - 589 Enter. - 590 - 591 Enter Brabantio, with Seruants and Torches. - 592 - 593 Bra. It is too true an euill. Gone she is, - 594 And what's to come of my despised time, - 595 Is naught but bitternesse. Now Rodorigo, - 596 Where didst thou see her? (Oh vnhappie Girle) - 597 With the Moore saist thou? (Who would be a Father?) - 598 How didst thou know 'twas she? (Oh she deceaues me - 599 Past thought:) what said she to you? Get moe Tapers. - 600 Raise all my Kindred. Are they married thinke you? - 601 Rodo. Truely I thinke they are - 602 - 603 Bra. Oh Heauen: how got she out? - 604 Oh treason of the blood. - 605 Fathers, from hence trust not your Daughters minds - 606 By what you see them act. Is there not Charmes, - 607 By which the propertie of Youth, and Maidhood - 608 May be abus'd? Haue you not read Rodorigo, - 609 Of some such thing? - 610 Rod. Yes Sir: I haue indeed - 611 - 612 Bra. Call vp my Brother: oh would you had had her. - 613 Some one way, some another. Doe you know - 614 Where we may apprehend her, and the Moore? - 615 Rod. I thinke I can discouer him, if you please - 616 To get good Guard, and go along with me - 617 - 618 Bra. Pray you lead on. At euery house Ile call, - 619 (I may command at most) get Weapons (hoa) - 620 And raise some speciall Officers of might: - 621 On good Rodorigo, I will deserue your paines. - 622 - 623 Exeunt. - 624 - 625 - 626 Scena Secunda. - 627 - 628 Enter Othello, Iago, Attendants, with Torches. - 629 - 630 Ia. Though in the trade of Warre I haue slaine men, - 631 Yet do I hold it very stuffe o'th' conscience - 632 To do no contriu'd Murder: I lacke Iniquitie - 633 Sometime to do me seruice. Nine, or ten times - 634 I had thought t'haue yerk'd him here vnder the Ribbes - 635 - 636 Othello. 'Tis better as it is - 637 - 638 Iago. Nay but he prated, - 639 And spoke such scuruy, and prouoking termes - 640 Against your Honor, that with the little godlinesse I haue - 641 I did full hard forbeare him. But I pray you Sir, - 642 Are you fast married? Be assur'd of this, - 643 That the Magnifico is much belou'd, - 644 And hath in his effect a voice potentiall - 645 As double as the Dukes: He will diuorce you. - 646 Or put vpon you, what restraint or greeuance, - 647 The Law (with all his might, to enforce it on) - 648 Will giue him Cable - 649 - 650 Othel. Let him do his spight; - 651 My Seruices, which I haue done the Signorie - 652 Shall out-tongue his Complaints. 'Tis yet to know, - 653 Which when I know, that boasting is an Honour, - 654 I shall promulgate. I fetch my life and being, - 655 From Men of Royall Seige. And my demerites - 656 May speake (vnbonnetted) to as proud a Fortune - 657 As this that I haue reach'd. For know Iago, - 658 But that I loue the gentle Desdemona, - 659 I would not my vnhoused free condition - 660 Put into Circumscription, and Confine, - 661 For the Seas worth. But looke, what Lights come yond? - 662 - 663 Enter Cassio, with Torches. - 664 - 665 Iago. Those are the raised Father, and his Friends: - 666 You were best go in - 667 - 668 Othel. Not I: I must be found. - 669 My Parts, my Title, and my perfect Soule - 670 Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they? - 671 Iago. By Ianus, I thinke no - 672 - 673 Othel. The Seruants of the Dukes? - 674 And my Lieutenant? - 675 The goodnesse of the Night vpon you (Friends) - 676 What is the Newes? - 677 Cassio. The Duke do's greet you (Generall) - 678 And he requires your haste, Post-haste appearance, - 679 Euen on the instant - 680 - 681 Othello. What is the matter, thinke you? - 682 Cassio. Something from Cyprus, as I may diuine: - 683 It is a businesse of some heate. The Gallies - 684 Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers - 685 This very night, at one anothers heeles: - 686 And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met, - 687 Are at the Dukes already. You haue bin hotly call'd for, - 688 When being not at your Lodging to be found, - 689 The Senate hath sent about three seuerall Quests, - 690 To search you out - 691 - 692 Othel. 'Tis well I am found by you: - 693 I will but spend a word here in the house, - 694 And goe with you - 695 - 696 Cassio. Aunciant, what makes he heere? - 697 Iago. Faith, he to night hath boarded a Land Carract, - 698 If it proue lawfull prize, he's made for euer - 699 - 700 Cassio. I do not vnderstand - 701 - 702 Iago. He's married - 703 - 704 Cassio. To who? - 705 Iago. Marry to- Come Captaine, will you go? - 706 Othel. Haue with you - 707 - 708 Cassio. Here comes another Troope to seeke for you. - 709 - 710 Enter Brabantio, Rodorigo, with Officers, and Torches. - 711 - 712 Iago. It is Brabantio: Generall be aduis'd, - 713 He comes to bad intent - 714 - 715 Othello. Holla, stand there - 716 - 717 Rodo. Signior, it is the Moore - 718 - 719 Bra. Downe with him, Theefe - 720 - 721 Iago. You, Rodorigo? Come Sir, I am for you - 722 - 723 Othe. Keepe vp your bright Swords, for the dew will - 724 rust them. Good Signior, you shall more command with - 725 yeares, then with your Weapons - 726 - 727 Bra. Oh thou foule Theefe, - 728 Where hast thou stow'd my Daughter? - 729 Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchaunted her - 730 For Ile referre me to all things of sense, - 731 (If she in Chaines of Magick were not bound) - 732 Whether a Maid, so tender, Faire, and Happie, - 733 So opposite to Marriage, that she shun'd - 734 The wealthy curled Deareling of our Nation, - 735 Would euer haue (t' encurre a generall mocke) - 736 Run from her Guardage to the sootie bosome, - 737 Of such a thing as thou: to feare, not to delight? - 738 Iudge me the world, if 'tis not grosse in sense, - 739 That thou hast practis'd on her with foule Charmes, - 740 Abus'd her delicate Youth, with Drugs or Minerals, - 741 That weakens Motion. Ile haue't disputed on, - 742 'Tis probable, and palpable to thinking; - 743 I therefore apprehend and do attach thee, - 744 For an abuser of the World, a practiser - 745 Of Arts inhibited, and out of warrant; - 746 Lay hold vpon him, if he do resist - 747 Subdue him, at his perill - 748 - 749 Othe. Hold your hands - 750 Both you of my inclining, and the rest. - 751 Were it my Cue to fight, I should haue knowne it - 752 Without a Prompter. Whether will you that I goe - 753 To answere this your charge? - 754 Bra. To Prison, till fit time - 755 Of Law, and course of direct Session - 756 Call thee to answer - 757 - 758 Othe. What if I do obey? - 759 How may the Duke be therewith satisfi'd, - 760 Whose Messengers are heere about my side, - 761 Vpon some present businesse of the State, - 762 To bring me to him - 763 - 764 Officer. 'Tis true most worthy Signior, - 765 The Dukes in Counsell, and your Noble selfe, - 766 I am sure is sent for - 767 - 768 Bra. How? The Duke in Counsell? - 769 In this time of the night? Bring him away; - 770 Mine's not an idle Cause. The Duke himselfe, - 771 Or any of my Brothers of the State, - 772 Cannot but feele this wrong, as 'twere their owne: - 773 For if such Actions may haue passage free, - 774 Bond-slaues, and Pagans shall our Statesmen be. - 775 - 776 Exeunt. - 777 - 778 Scaena Tertia. - 779 - 780 Enter Duke, Senators, and Officers. - 781 - 782 Duke. There's no composition in this Newes, - 783 That giues them Credite - 784 - 785 1.Sen. Indeed, they are disproportioned; - 786 My Letters say, a Hundred and seuen Gallies - 787 - 788 Duke. And mine a Hundred fortie - 789 - 790 2.Sena. And mine two Hundred: - 791 But though they iumpe not on a iust accompt, - 792 (As in these Cases where the ayme reports, - 793 'Tis oft with difference) yet do they all confirme - 794 A Turkish Fleete, and bearing vp to Cyprus - 795 - 796 Duke. Nay, it is possible enough to iudgement: - 797 I do not so secure me in the Error, - 798 But the maine Article I do approue - 799 In fearefull sense - 800 - 801 Saylor within. What hoa, what hoa, what hoa. - 802 - 803 Enter Saylor. - 804 - 805 Officer. A Messenger from the Gallies - 806 - 807 Duke. Now? What's the businesse? - 808 Sailor. The Turkish Preparation makes for Rhodes, - 809 So was I bid report here to the State, - 810 By Signior Angelo - 811 - 812 Duke. How say you by this change? - 813 1.Sen. This cannot be - 814 By no assay of reason. 'Tis a Pageant - 815 To keepe vs in false gaze, when we consider - 816 Th' importancie of Cyprus to the Turke; - 817 And let our selues againe but vnderstand, - 818 That as it more concernes the Turke then Rhodes, - 819 So may he with more facile question beare it, - 820 For that it stands not in such Warrelike brace, - 821 But altogether lackes th' abilities - 822 That Rhodes is dress'd in. If we make thought of this, - 823 We must not thinke the Turke is so vnskillfull, - 824 To leaue that latest, which concernes him first, - 825 Neglecting an attempt of ease, and gaine - 826 To wake, and wage a danger profitlesse - 827 - 828 Duke. Nay, in all confidence he's not for Rhodes - 829 - 830 Officer. Here is more Newes. - 831 - 832 Enter a Messenger. - 833 - 834 Messen. The Ottamites, Reueren'd, and Gracious, - 835 Steering with due course toward the Ile of Rhodes, - 836 Haue there inioynted them with an after Fleete - 837 - 838 1.Sen. I, so I thought: how many, as you guesse? - 839 Mess. Of thirtie Saile: and now they do re-stem - 840 Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance - 841 Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano, - 842 Your trustie and most Valiant Seruitour, - 843 With his free dutie, recommends you thus, - 844 And prayes you to beleeue him - 845 - 846 Duke. 'Tis certaine then for Cyprus: - 847 Marcus Luccicos is not he in Towne? - 848 1.Sen. He's now in Florence - 849 - 850 Duke. Write from vs, - 851 To him, Post, Post-haste, dispatch - 852 - 853 1.Sen. Here comes Brabantio, and the Valiant Moore. - 854 - 855 Enter Brabantio, Othello, Cassio, Iago, Rodorigo, and Officers. - 856 - 857 Duke. Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you, - 858 Against the generall Enemy Ottoman. - 859 I did not see you: welcome gentle Signior, - 860 We lack't your Counsaile, and your helpe to night - 861 - 862 Bra. So did I yours: Good your Grace pardon me. - 863 Neither my place, nor ought I heard of businesse - 864 Hath rais'd me from my bed; nor doth the generall care - 865 Take hold on me. For my perticular griefe - 866 Is of so flood-gate, and ore-bearing Nature, - 867 That it engluts, and swallowes other sorrowes, - 868 And it is still it selfe - 869 - 870 Duke. Why? What's the matter? - 871 Bra. My Daughter: oh my Daughter! - 872 Sen. Dead? - 873 Bra. I, to me. - 874 She is abus'd, stolne from me, and corrupted - 875 By Spels, and Medicines, bought of Mountebanks; - 876 For Nature, so prepostrously to erre, - 877 (Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,) - 878 Sans witch-craft could not - 879 - 880 Duke. Who ere he be, that in this foule proceeding - 881 Hath thus beguil'd your Daughter of her selfe, - 882 And you of her; the bloodie Booke of Law, - 883 You shall your selfe read, in the bitter letter, - 884 After your owne sense: yea, though our proper Son - 885 Stood in your Action - 886 - 887 Bra. Humbly I thanke your Grace, - 888 Here is the man; this Moore, whom now it seemes - 889 Your speciall Mandate, for the State affaires - 890 Hath hither brought - 891 - 892 All. We are verie sorry for't - 893 - 894 Duke. What in your owne part, can you say to this? - 895 Bra. Nothing, but this is so - 896 - 897 Othe. Most Potent, Graue, and Reueren'd Signiors, - 898 My very Noble, and approu'd good Masters; - 899 That I haue tane away this old mans Daughter, - 900 It is most true: true I haue married her; - 901 The verie head, and front of my offending, - 902 Hath this extent; no more. Rude am I, in my speech, - 903 And little bless'd with the soft phrase of Peace; - 904 For since these Armes of mine, had seuen yeares pith, - 905 Till now, some nine Moones wasted, they haue vs'd - 906 Their deerest action, in the Tented Field: - 907 And little of this great world can I speake, - 908 More then pertaines to Feats of Broiles, and Battaile, - 909 And therefore little shall I grace my cause, - 910 In speaking for my selfe. Yet, (by your gratious patience) - 911 I will a round vn-varnish'd Tale deliuer, - 912 Of my whole course of Loue. - 913 What Drugges, what Charmes, - 914 What Coniuration, and what mighty Magicke, - 915 (For such proceeding I am charg'd withall) - 916 I won his Daughter - 917 - 918 Bra. A Maiden, neuer bold: - 919 Of Spirit so still, and quiet, that her Motion - 920 Blush'd at her selfe, and she, in spight of Nature, - 921 Of Yeares, of Country, Credite, euery thing - 922 To fall in Loue, with what she fear'd to looke on; - 923 It is a iudgement main'd, and most imperfect. - 924 That will confesse Perfection so could erre - 925 Against all rules of Nature, and must be driuen - 926 To find out practises of cunning hell - 927 Why this should be. I therefore vouch againe, - 928 That with some Mixtures, powrefull o're the blood, - 929 Or with some Dram, (coniur'd to this effect) - 930 He wrought vpon her. - 931 To vouch this, is no proofe, - 932 Without more wider, and more ouer Test - 933 Then these thin habits, and poore likely-hoods - 934 Of moderne seeming, do prefer against him - 935 - 936 Sen. But Othello, speake, - 937 Did you, by indirect, and forced courses - 938 Subdue, and poyson this yong Maides affections? - 939 Or came it by request, and such faire question - 940 As soule, to soule affordeth? - 941 Othel. I do beseech you, - 942 Send for the Lady to the Sagitary, - 943 And let her speake of me before her Father; - 944 If you do finde me foule, in her report, - 945 The Trust, the Office, I do hold of you, - 946 Not onely take away, but let your Sentence - 947 Euen fall vpon my life - 948 - 949 Duke. Fetch Desdemona hither - 950 - 951 Othe. Aunciant, conduct them: - 952 You best know the place. - 953 And tell she come, as truely as to heauen, - 954 I do confesse the vices of my blood, - 955 So iustly to your Graue eares, Ile present - 956 How I did thriue in this faire Ladies loue, - 957 And she in mine - 958 - 959 Duke. Say it Othello - 960 - 961 Othe. Her Father lou'd me, oft inuited me: - 962 Still question'd me the Storie of my life, - 963 From yeare to yeare: the Battaile, Sieges, Fortune, - 964 That I haue past. - 965 I ran it through, euen from my boyish daies, - 966 Toth' very moment that he bad me tell it. - 967 Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances: - 968 Of mouing Accidents by Flood and Field, - 969 Of haire-breadth scapes i'th' imminent deadly breach; - 970 Of being taken by the Insolent Foe, - 971 And sold to slauery. Of my redemption thence, - 972 And portance in my Trauellours historie. - 973 Wherein of Antars vast, and Desarts idle, - 974 Rough Quarries, Rocks, Hills, whose head touch heauen, - 975 It was my hint to speake. Such was my Processe, - 976 And of the Canibals that each others eate, - 977 The Antropophague, and men whose heads - 978 Grew beneath their shoulders. These things to heare, - 979 Would Desdemona seriously incline: - 980 But still the house Affaires would draw her hence: - 981 Which euer as she could with haste dispatch, - 982 She'l'd come againe, and with a greedie eare - 983 Deuoure vp my discourse. Which I obseruing, - 984 Tooke once a pliant houre, and found good meanes - 985 To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, - 986 That I would all my Pilgrimage dilate, - 987 Whereof by parcels she had something heard, - 988 But not instinctiuely: I did consent, - 989 And often did beguile her of her teares, - 990 When I did speake of some distressefull stroke - 991 That my youth suffer'd: My Storie being done, - 992 She gaue me for my paines a world of kisses: - 993 She swore in faith 'twas strange: 'twas passing strange, - 994 'Twas pittifull: 'twas wondrous pittifull. - 995 She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd - 996 That Heauen had made her such a man. She thank'd me, - 997 And bad me, if I had a Friend that lou'd her, - 998 I should but teach him how to tell my Story, - 999 And that would wooe her. Vpon this hint I spake, - 1000 She lou'd me for the dangers I had past, - 1001 And I lou'd her, that she did pitty them. - 1002 This onely is the witch-craft I haue vs'd. - 1003 Here comes the Ladie: Let her witnesse it. - 1004 - 1005 Enter Desdemona, Iago, Attendants. - 1006 - 1007 Duke. I thinke this tale would win my Daughter too, - 1008 Good Brabantio, take vp this mangled matter at the best: - 1009 Men do their broken Weapons rather vse, - 1010 Then their bare hands - 1011 - 1012 Bra. I pray you heare her speake? - 1013 If she confesse that she was halfe the wooer, - 1014 Destruction on my head, if my bad blame - 1015 Light on the man. Come hither gentle Mistris, - 1016 Do you perceiue in all this Noble Companie, - 1017 Where most you owe obedience? - 1018 Des. My Noble Father, - 1019 I do perceiue heere a diuided dutie. - 1020 To you I am bound for life, and education: - 1021 My life and education both do learne me, - 1022 How to respect you. You are the Lord of duty, - 1023 I am hitherto your Daughter. But heere's my Husband; - 1024 And so much dutie, as my Mother shew'd - 1025 To you, preferring you before her Father: - 1026 So much I challenge, that I may professe - 1027 Due to the Moore my Lord - 1028 - 1029 Bra. God be with you: I haue done. - 1030 Please it your Grace, on to the State Affaires; - 1031 I had rather to adopt a Child, then get it. - 1032 Come hither Moore; - 1033 I here do giue thee that with all my heart, - 1034 Which but thou hast already, with all my heart - 1035 I would keepe from thee. For your sake (Iewell) - 1036 I am glad at soule, I haue no other Child, - 1037 For thy escape would teach me Tirranie - 1038 To hang clogges on them. I haue done my Lord - 1039 - 1040 Duke. Let me speake like your selfe: - 1041 And lay a Sentence, - 1042 Which as a grise, or step may helpe these Louers. - 1043 When remedies are past, the griefes are ended - 1044 By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. - 1045 To mourne a Mischeefe that is past and gon, - 1046 Is the next way to draw new mischiefe on. - 1047 What cannot be preseru'd, when Fortune takes: - 1048 Patience, her Iniury a mock'ry makes. - 1049 The rob'd that smiles, steales something from the Thiefe, - 1050 He robs himselfe, that spends a bootelesse griefe - 1051 - 1052 Bra. So let the Turke of Cyprus vs beguile, - 1053 We loose it not so long as we can smile: - 1054 He beares the Sentence well, that nothing beares, - 1055 But the free comfort which from thence he heares. - 1056 But he beares both the Sentence, and the sorrow, - 1057 That to pay griefe, must of poore Patience borrow. - 1058 These Sentences, to Sugar, or to Gall, - 1059 Being strong on both sides, are Equiuocall. - 1060 But words are words, I neuer yet did heare: - 1061 That the bruized heart was pierc'd through the eares. - 1062 I humbly beseech you proceed to th' Affaires of State - 1063 - 1064 Duke. The Turke with a most mighty Preparation - 1065 makes for Cyprus: Othello, the Fortitude of the place is - 1066 best knowne to you. And though we haue there a Substitute - 1067 of most allowed sufficiencie; yet opinion, a more - 1068 soueraigne Mistris of Effects, throwes a more safer - 1069 voice on you: you must therefore be content to slubber - 1070 the glosse of your new Fortunes, with this more stubborne, - 1071 and boystrous expedition - 1072 - 1073 Othe. The Tirant Custome, most Graue Senators, - 1074 Hath made the flinty and Steele Coach of Warre - 1075 My thrice-driuen bed of Downe. I do agnize - 1076 A Naturall and prompt Alacratie, - 1077 I finde in hardnesse: and do vndertake - 1078 This present Warres against the Ottamites. - 1079 Most humbly therefore bending to your State, - 1080 I craue fit disposition for my Wife, - 1081 Due reference of Place, and Exhibition, - 1082 With such Accomodation and besort - 1083 As leuels with her breeding - 1084 - 1085 Duke. Why at her Fathers? - 1086 Bra. I will not haue it so - 1087 - 1088 Othe. Nor I - 1089 - 1090 Des. Nor would I there recide, - 1091 To put my Father in impatient thoughts - 1092 By being in his eye. Most Gracious Duke, - 1093 To my vnfolding, lend your prosperous eare, - 1094 And let me finde a Charter in your voice - 1095 T' assist my simplenesse - 1096 - 1097 Duke. What would you Desdemona? - 1098 Des. That I loue the Moore, to liue with him, - 1099 My downe-right violence, and storme of Fortunes, - 1100 May trumpet to the world. My heart's subdu'd - 1101 Euen to the very quality of my Lord; - 1102 I saw Othello's visage in his mind, - 1103 And to his Honours and his valiant parts, - 1104 Did I my soule and Fortunes consecrate. - 1105 So that (deere Lords) if I be left behind - 1106 A Moth of Peace, and he go to the Warre, - 1107 The Rites for why I loue him, are bereft me: - 1108 And I a heauie interim shall support - 1109 By his deere absence. Let me go with him - 1110 - 1111 Othe. Let her haue your voice. - 1112 Vouch with me Heauen, I therefore beg it not - 1113 To please the pallate of my Appetite: - 1114 Nor to comply with heat the yong affects - 1115 In my defunct, and proper satisfaction. - 1116 But to be free, and bounteous to her minde: - 1117 And Heauen defend your good soules, that you thinke - 1118 I will your serious and great businesse scant - 1119 When she is with me. No, when light wing'd Toyes - 1120 Of feather'd Cupid, seele with wanton dulnesse - 1121 My speculatiue, and offic'd Instrument: - 1122 That my Disports corrupt, and taint my businesse: - 1123 Let House-wiues make a Skillet of my Helme, - 1124 And all indigne, and base aduersities, - 1125 Make head against my Estimation - 1126 - 1127 Duke. Be it as you shall priuately determine, - 1128 Either for her stay, or going: th' Affaire cries hast: - 1129 And speed must answer it - 1130 - 1131 Sen. You must away to night - 1132 - 1133 Othe. With all my heart - 1134 - 1135 Duke. At nine i'th' morning, here wee'l meete againe. - 1136 Othello, leaue some Officer behind - 1137 And he shall our Commission bring to you: - 1138 And such things else of qualitie and respect - 1139 As doth import you - 1140 - 1141 Othe. So please your Grace, my Ancient, - 1142 A man he is of honesty and trust: - 1143 To his conueyance I assigne my wife, - 1144 With what else needfull, your good Grace shall think - 1145 To be sent after me - 1146 - 1147 Duke. Let it be so: - 1148 Good night to euery one. And Noble Signior, - 1149 If Vertue no delighted Beautie lacke, - 1150 Your Son-in-law is farre more Faire then Blacke - 1151 - 1152 Sen. Adieu braue Moore, vse Desdemona well - 1153 - 1154 Bra. Looke to her (Moore) if thou hast eies to see: - 1155 She ha's deceiu'd her Father, and may thee. - 1156 Enter. - 1157 - 1158 Othe. My life vpon her faith. Honest Iago, - 1159 My Desdemona must I leaue to thee: - 1160 I prythee let thy wife attend on her, - 1161 And bring them after in the best aduantage. - 1162 Come Desdemona, I haue but an houre - 1163 Of Loue, of wordly matter, and direction - 1164 To spend with thee. We must obey the time. - 1165 Enter. - 1166 - 1167 Rod. Iago - 1168 - 1169 Iago. What saist thou Noble heart? - 1170 Rod. What will I do, think'st thou? - 1171 Iago. Why go to bed and sleepe - 1172 - 1173 Rod. I will incontinently drowne my selfe - 1174 - 1175 Iago. If thou do'st, I shall neuer loue thee after. Why - 1176 thou silly Gentleman? - 1177 Rod. It is sillynesse to liue, when to liue is torment: - 1178 and then haue we a prescription to dye, when death is - 1179 our Physition - 1180 - 1181 Iago. Oh villanous: I haue look'd vpon the world - 1182 for foure times seuen yeares, and since I could distinguish - 1183 betwixt a Benefit, and an Iniurie: I neuer found man that - 1184 knew how to loue himselfe. Ere I would say, I would - 1185 drowne my selfe for the loue of a Gynney Hen, I would - 1186 change my Humanity with a Baboone - 1187 - 1188 Rod. What should I do? I confesse it is my shame - 1189 to be so fond, but it is not in my vertue to amend it - 1190 - 1191 Iago. Vertue? A figge, 'tis in our selues that we are - 1192 thus, or thus. Our Bodies are our Gardens, to the which, - 1193 our Wills are Gardiners. So that if we will plant Nettels, - 1194 or sowe Lettice: Set Hisope, and weede vp Time: - 1195 Supplie it with one gender of Hearbes, or distract it with - 1196 many: either to haue it sterrill with idlenesse, or manured - 1197 with Industry, why the power, and Corrigeable authoritie - 1198 of this lies in our Wills. If the braine of our liues - 1199 had not one Scale of Reason, to poize another of Sensualitie, - 1200 the blood, and basenesse of our Natures would - 1201 conduct vs to most prepostrous Conclusions. But we - 1202 haue Reason to coole our raging Motions, our carnall - 1203 Stings, or vnbitted Lusts: whereof I take this, that you - 1204 call Loue, to be a Sect, or Seyen - 1205 - 1206 Rod. It cannot be - 1207 - 1208 Iago. It is meerly a Lust of the blood, and a permission - 1209 of the will. Come, be a man: drowne thy selfe? Drown - 1210 Cats, and blind Puppies. I haue profest me thy Friend, - 1211 and I confesse me knit to thy deseruing, with Cables of - 1212 perdurable toughnesse. I could neuer better steed thee - 1213 then now. Put Money in thy purse: follow thou the - 1214 Warres, defeate thy fauour, with an vsurp'd Beard. I say - 1215 put Money in thy purse. It cannot be long that Desdemona - 1216 should continue her loue to the Moore. Put Money in - 1217 thy purse: nor he his to her. It was a violent Commencement - 1218 in her, and thou shalt see an answerable Sequestration, - 1219 put but Money in thy purse. These Moores - 1220 are changeable in their wils: fill thy purse with Money. - 1221 The Food that to him now is as lushious as Locusts, - 1222 shalbe to him shortly, as bitter as Coloquintida. She - 1223 must change for youth: when she is sated with his body - 1224 she will find the errors of her choice. Therefore, put Money - 1225 in thy purse. If thou wilt needs damne thy selfe, do - 1226 it a more delicate way then drowning. Make all the Money - 1227 thou canst: If Sanctimonie, and a fraile vow, betwixt - 1228 an erring Barbarian, and super-subtle Venetian be - 1229 not too hard for my wits, and all the Tribe of hell, thou - 1230 shalt enioy her: therefore make Money: a pox of drowning - 1231 thy selfe, it is cleane out of the way. Seeke thou rather - 1232 to be hang'd in Compassing thy ioy, then to be - 1233 drown'd, and go without her - 1234 - 1235 Rodo. Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, if I depend on - 1236 the issue? - 1237 Iago. Thou art sure of me: Go make Money: I haue - 1238 told thee often, and I re-tell thee againe, and againe, I - 1239 hate the Moore. My cause is hearted; thine hath no lesse - 1240 reason. Let vs be coniunctiue in our reuenge, against - 1241 him. If thou canst Cuckold him, thou dost thy selfe a - 1242 pleasure, me a sport. There are many Euents in the - 1243 Wombe of Time, which wilbe deliuered. Trauerse, go, - 1244 prouide thy Money. We will haue more of this to morrow. - 1245 Adieu - 1246 - 1247 Rod. Where shall we meete i'th' morning? - 1248 Iago. At my Lodging - 1249 - 1250 Rod. Ile be with thee betimes - 1251 - 1252 Iago. Go too, farewell. Do you heare Rodorigo? - 1253 Rod. Ile sell all my Land. - 1254 Enter. - 1255 - 1256 Iago. Thus do I euer make my Foole, my purse: - 1257 For I mine owne gain'd knowledge should prophane - 1258 If I would time expend with such Snipe, - 1259 But for my Sport, and Profit: I hate the Moore, - 1260 And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets - 1261 She ha's done my Office. I know not if't be true, - 1262 But I, for meere suspition in that kinde, - 1263 Will do, as if for Surety. He holds me well, - 1264 The better shall my purpose worke on him: - 1265 Cassio's a proper man: Let me see now, - 1266 To get his Place, and to plume vp my will - 1267 In double Knauery. How? How? Let's see. - 1268 After some time, to abuse Othello's eares, - 1269 That he is too familiar with his wife: - 1270 He hath a person, and a smooth dispose - 1271 To be suspected: fram'd to make women false. - 1272 The Moore is of a free, and open Nature, - 1273 That thinkes men honest, that but seeme to be so, - 1274 And will as tenderly be lead by'th' Nose - 1275 As Asses are: - 1276 I hau't: it is engendred: Hell, and Night, - 1277 Must bring this monstrous Birth, to the worlds light. - 1278 - 1279 Actus Secundus. Scena Prima. - 1280 - 1281 Enter Montano, and two Gentlemen. - 1282 - 1283 Mon. What from the Cape, can you discerne at Sea? - 1284 1.Gent. Nothing at all, it is a high wrought Flood: - 1285 I cannot 'twixt the Heauen, and the Maine, - 1286 Descry a Saile - 1287 - 1288 Mon. Me thinks, the wind hath spoke aloud at Land, - 1289 A fuller blast ne're shooke our Battlements: - 1290 If it hath ruffiand so vpon the Sea, - 1291 What ribbes of Oake, when Mountaines melt on them, - 1292 Can hold the Morties. What shall we heare of this? - 1293 2 A Segregation of the Turkish Fleet: - 1294 For do but stand vpon the Foaming Shore, - 1295 The chidden Billow seemes to pelt the Clowds, - 1296 The winde-shak'd-Surge, with high & monstrous Maine - 1297 Seemes to cast water on the burning Beare, - 1298 And quench the Guards of th' euer-fixed Pole: - 1299 I neuer did like mollestation view - 1300 On the enchafed Flood - 1301 - 1302 Men. If that the Turkish Fleete - 1303 Be not enshelter'd, and embay'd, they are drown'd, - 1304 It is impossible to beare it out. - 1305 Enter a Gentleman. - 1306 - 1307 3 Newes Laddes: our warres are done: - 1308 The desperate Tempest hath so bang'd the Turkes, - 1309 That their designement halts. A Noble ship of Venice, - 1310 Hath seene a greeuous wracke and sufferance - 1311 On most part of their Fleet - 1312 - 1313 Mon. How? Is this true? - 1314 3 The Ship is heere put in: A Verennessa, Michael Cassio - 1315 Lieutenant to the warlike Moore, Othello, - 1316 Is come on Shore: the Moore himselfe at Sea, - 1317 And is in full Commission heere for Cyprus - 1318 - 1319 Mon. I am glad on't: - 1320 'Tis a worthy Gouernour - 1321 - 1322 3 But this same Cassio, though he speake of comfort, - 1323 Touching the Turkish losse, yet he lookes sadly, - 1324 And praye the Moore be safe; for they were parted - 1325 With fowle and violent Tempest - 1326 - 1327 Mon. Pray Heauens he be: - 1328 For I haue seru'd him, and the man commands - 1329 Like a full Soldier. Let's to the Sea-side (hoa) - 1330 As well to see the Vessell that's come in, - 1331 As to throw-out our eyes for braue Othello, - 1332 Euen till we make the Maine, and th' Eriall blew, - 1333 An indistinct regard - 1334 - 1335 Gent. Come, let's do so; - 1336 For euery Minute is expectancie - 1337 Of more Arriuancie. - 1338 Enter Cassio. - 1339 - 1340 Cassi. Thankes you, the valiant of the warlike Isle, - 1341 That so approoue the Moore: Oh let the Heauens - 1342 Giue him defence against the Elements, - 1343 For I haue lost him on a dangerous Sea - 1344 - 1345 Mon. Is he well ship'd? - 1346 Cassio. His Barke is stoutly Timber'd, and his Pylot - 1347 Of verie expert, and approu'd Allowance; - 1348 Therefore my hope's (not surfetted to death) - 1349 Stand in bold Cure - 1350 - 1351 Within. A Saile, a Saile, a Saile - 1352 - 1353 Cassio. What noise? - 1354 Gent. The Towne is empty; on the brow o'th' Sea - 1355 Stand rankes of People and they cry, a Saile - 1356 - 1357 Cassio. My hopes do shape him for the Gouernor - 1358 - 1359 Gent. They do discharge their Shot of Courtesie, - 1360 Our Friends, at least - 1361 - 1362 Cassio. I pray you Sir, go forth, - 1363 And giue vs truth who 'tis that is arriu'd - 1364 - 1365 Gent. I shall. - 1366 Enter. - 1367 - 1368 Mon. But good Lieutenant, is your Generall wiu'd? - 1369 Cassio. Most fortunately: he hath atchieu'd a Maid - 1370 That paragons description, and wilde Fame: - 1371 One that excels the quirkes of Blazoning pens, - 1372 And in th' essentiall Vesture of Creation, - 1373 Do's tyre the Ingeniuer. - 1374 Enter Gentleman. - 1375 - 1376 How now? Who ha's put in? - 1377 Gent. 'Tis one Iago, Auncient to the Generall - 1378 - 1379 Cassio. Ha's had most fauourable, and happie speed: - 1380 Tempests themselues, high Seas, and howling windes, - 1381 The gutter'd-Rockes, and Congregated Sands, - 1382 Traitors ensteep'd, to enclogge the guiltlesse Keele, - 1383 As hauing sence of Beautie, do omit - 1384 Their mortall Natures, letting go safely by - 1385 The Diuine Desdemona - 1386 - 1387 Mon. What is she? - 1388 Cassio. She that I spake of: - 1389 Our great Captains Captaine, - 1390 Left in the conduct of the bold Iago, - 1391 Whose footing heere anticipates our thoughts, - 1392 A Senights speed. Great Ioue, Othello guard, - 1393 And swell his Saile with thine owne powrefull breath, - 1394 That he may blesse this Bay with his tall Ship, - 1395 Make loues quicke pants in Desdemonaes Armes, - 1396 Giue renew'd fire to our extincted Spirits. - 1397 - 1398 Enter Desdemona, Iago, Rodorigo, and Aemilia. - 1399 - 1400 Oh behold, - 1401 The Riches of the Ship is come on shore: - 1402 You men of Cyprus, let her haue your knees. - 1403 Haile to thee Ladie: and the grace of Heauen, - 1404 Before, behinde thee, and on euery hand - 1405 Enwheele thee round - 1406 - 1407 Des. I thanke you, Valiant Cassio, - 1408 What tydings can you tell of my Lord? - 1409 Cas. He is not yet arriu'd, nor know I ought - 1410 But that he's well, and will be shortly heere - 1411 - 1412 Des. Oh, but I feare: - 1413 How lost you company? - 1414 Cassio. The great Contention of Sea, and Skies - 1415 Parted our fellowship. But hearke, a Saile - 1416 - 1417 Within. A Saile, a Saile - 1418 - 1419 Gent. They giue this greeting to the Cittadell: - 1420 This likewise is a Friend - 1421 - 1422 Cassio. See for the Newes: - 1423 Good Ancient, you are welcome. Welcome Mistris: - 1424 Let it not gaule your patience (good Iago) - 1425 That I extend my Manners. 'Tis my breeding, - 1426 That giues me this bold shew of Curtesie - 1427 - 1428 Iago. Sir, would she giue you so much of her lippes, - 1429 As of her tongue she oft bestowes on me, - 1430 You would haue enough - 1431 - 1432 Des. Alas: she ha's no speech - 1433 - 1434 Iago. Infaith too much: - 1435 I finde it still, when I haue leaue to sleepe. - 1436 Marry before your Ladyship, I grant, - 1437 She puts her tongue a little in her heart, - 1438 And chides with thinking - 1439 - 1440 aemil. You haue little cause to say so - 1441 - 1442 Iago. Come on, come on: you are Pictures out of - 1443 doore: Bells in your Parlours: Wilde-Cats in your Kitchens: - 1444 Saints in your Iniuries: Diuels being offended: - 1445 Players in your Huswiferie, and Huswiues in your - 1446 Beds - 1447 - 1448 Des. Oh, fie vpon thee, Slanderer - 1449 - 1450 Iago. Nay, it is true: or else I am a Turke, - 1451 You rise to play, and go to bed to worke. - 1452 Aemil. You shall not write my praise - 1453 - 1454 Iago. No, let me not - 1455 - 1456 Desde. What would'st write of me, if thou should'st - 1457 praise me? - 1458 Iago. Oh, gentle Lady, do not put me too't, - 1459 For I am nothing, if not Criticall - 1460 - 1461 Des. Come on, assay. - 1462 There's one gone to the Harbour? - 1463 Iago. I Madam - 1464 - 1465 Des. I am not merry: but I do beguile - 1466 The thing I am, by seeming otherwise. - 1467 Come, how would'st thou praise me? - 1468 Iago. I am about it, but indeed my inuention comes - 1469 from my pate, as Birdlyme do's from Freeze, it pluckes - 1470 out Braines and all. But my Muse labours, and thus she - 1471 is deliuer'd. - 1472 If she be faire, and wise: fairenesse, and wit, - 1473 The ones for vse, the other vseth it - 1474 - 1475 Des. Well prais'd: - 1476 How if she be Blacke and Witty? - 1477 Iago. If she be blacke, and thereto haue a wit, - 1478 She'le find a white, that shall her blacknesse fit - 1479 - 1480 Des. Worse, and worse. - 1481 Aemil. How if Faire, and Foolish? - 1482 Iago. She neuer yet was foolish that was faire, - 1483 For euen her folly helpt her to an heire - 1484 - 1485 Desde. These are old fond Paradoxes, to make Fooles - 1486 laugh i'th' Alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou - 1487 for her that's Foule, and Foolish - 1488 - 1489 Iago. There's none so foule and foolish thereunto, - 1490 But do's foule pranks, which faire, and wise-ones do - 1491 - 1492 Desde. Oh heauy ignorance: thou praisest the worst - 1493 best. But what praise could'st thou bestow on a deseruing - 1494 woman indeed? One, that in the authorithy of her - 1495 merit, did iustly put on the vouch of very malice it - 1496 selfe - 1497 - 1498 Iago. She that was euer faire, and neuer proud, - 1499 Had Tongue at will, and yet was neuer loud: - 1500 Neuer lackt Gold, and yet went neuer gay, - 1501 Fled from her wish, and yet said now I may. - 1502 She that being angred, her reuenge being nie, - 1503 Bad her wrong stay, and her displeasure flie: - 1504 She that in wisedome neuer was so fraile, - 1505 To change the Cods-head for the Salmons taile: - 1506 She that could thinke, and neu'r disclose her mind, - 1507 See Suitors following, and not looke behind: - 1508 She was a wight, (if euer such wightes were) - 1509 Des. To do what? - 1510 Iago. To suckle Fooles, and chronicle small Beere - 1511 - 1512 Desde. Oh most lame and impotent conclusion. Do - 1513 not learne of him aemillia, though he be thy husband. - 1514 How say you (Cassio) is he not a most prophane, and liberall - 1515 Counsailor? - 1516 Cassio. He speakes home (Madam) you may rellish - 1517 him more in the Souldier, then in the Scholler - 1518 - 1519 Iago. He takes her by the palme: I, well said, whisper. - 1520 With as little a web as this, will I ensnare as great - 1521 a Fly as Cassio. I smile vpon her, do: I will giue thee - 1522 in thine owne Courtship. You say true, 'tis so indeed. - 1523 If such tricks as these strip you out of your Lieutenantrie, - 1524 it had beene better you had not kiss'd your three fingers - 1525 so oft, which now againe you are most apt to play - 1526 the Sir, in. Very good: well kiss'd, and excellent Curtsie: - 1527 'tis so indeed. Yet againe, your fingers to your - 1528 lippes? Would they were Cluster-pipes for your - 1529 sake. - 1530 The Moore I know his Trumpet - 1531 - 1532 Cassio. 'Tis truely so - 1533 - 1534 Des. Let's meete him, and recieue him - 1535 - 1536 Cassio. Loe, where he comes. - 1537 Enter Othello, and Attendants. - 1538 - 1539 Oth. O, my faire Warriour - 1540 - 1541 Des. My deere Othello - 1542 - 1543 Othe. It giues me wonder great, as my content - 1544 To see you heere before me. - 1545 Oh my Soules Ioy: - 1546 If after euery Tempest, come such Calmes, - 1547 May the windes blow, till they haue waken'd death: - 1548 And let the labouring Barke climbe hills of Seas - 1549 Olympus high: and duck againe as low, - 1550 As hell's from Heauen. If it were now to dye, - 1551 'Twere now to be most happy. For I feare, - 1552 My Soule hath her content so absolute, - 1553 That not another comfort like to this, - 1554 Succeedes in vnknowne Fate - 1555 - 1556 Des. The Heauens forbid - 1557 But that our Loues - 1558 And Comforts should encrease - 1559 Euen as our dayes do grow - 1560 - 1561 Othe. Amen to that (sweet Powers) - 1562 I cannot speake enough of this content, - 1563 It stoppes me heere: it is too much of ioy. - 1564 And this, and this the greatest discords be - 1565 That ere our hearts shall make - 1566 - 1567 Iago. Oh you are well tun'd now: But Ile set downe - 1568 the peggs that make this Musicke, as honest as I am - 1569 - 1570 Othe. Come: let vs to the Castle. - 1571 Newes (Friends) our Warres are done: - 1572 The Turkes are drown'd. - 1573 How do's my old Acquaintance of this Isle? - 1574 (Hony) you shall be well desir'd in Cyprus, - 1575 I haue found great loue among'st them. Oh my Sweet, - 1576 I prattle out of fashion, and I doate - 1577 In mine owne comforts. I prythee, good Iago, - 1578 Go to the Bay, and disimbarke my Coffers: - 1579 Bring thou the Master to the Cittadell, - 1580 He is a good one, and his worthynesse - 1581 Do's challenge much respect. Come Desdemona, - 1582 Once more well met at Cyprus. - 1583 - 1584 Exit Othello and Desdemona. - 1585 - 1586 Iago. Do thou meet me presently at the Harbour. - 1587 Come thither, if thou be'st Valiant, (as they say base men - 1588 being in Loue, haue then a Nobilitie in their Natures, - 1589 more then is natiue to them) list-me; the Lieutenant to - 1590 night watches on the Court of Guard. First, I must tell - 1591 thee this: Desdemona, is directly in loue with him - 1592 - 1593 Rod. With him? Why, 'tis not possible - 1594 - 1595 Iago. Lay thy finger thus: and let thy soule be instructed. - 1596 Marke me with what violence she first lou'd - 1597 the Moore, but for bragging, and telling her fantasticall - 1598 lies. To loue him still for prating, let not thy discreet - 1599 heart thinke it. Her eye must be fed. And what delight - 1600 shall she haue to looke on the diuell? When the Blood - 1601 is made dull with the Act of Sport, there should be a - 1602 game to enflame it, and to giue Satiety a fresh appetite. - 1603 Louelinesse in fauour, simpathy in yeares, Manners, - 1604 and Beauties: all which the Moore is defectiue in. Now - 1605 for want of these requir'd Conueniences, her delicate - 1606 tendernesse wil finde it selfe abus'd, begin to heaue the, - 1607 gorge, disrellish and abhorre the Moore, very Nature wil - 1608 instruct her in it, and compell her to some second choice. - 1609 Now Sir, this granted (as it is a most pregnant and vnforc'd - 1610 position) who stands so eminent in the degree of - 1611 this Fortune, as Cassio do's: a knaue very voluble: no - 1612 further conscionable, then in putting on the meere forme - 1613 of Ciuill, and Humaine seeming, for the better compasse - 1614 of his salt, and most hidden loose Affection? Why none, - 1615 why none: A slipper, and subtle knaue, a finder of occasion: - 1616 that he's an eye can stampe, and counterfeit Aduantages, - 1617 though true Aduantage neuer present it selfe. - 1618 A diuelish knaue: besides, the knaue is handsome, young: - 1619 and hath all those requisites in him, that folly and greene - 1620 mindes looke after. A pestilent compleat knaue, and the - 1621 woman hath found him already - 1622 - 1623 Rodo. I cannot beleeue that in her, she's full of most - 1624 bless'd condition - 1625 - 1626 Iago. Bless'd figges-end. The Wine she drinkes is - 1627 made of grapes. If shee had beene bless'd, shee would - 1628 neuer haue lou'd the Moore: Bless'd pudding. Didst thou - 1629 not see her paddle with the palme of his hand? Didst not - 1630 marke that? - 1631 Rod. Yes, that I did: but that was but curtesie - 1632 - 1633 Iago . Leacherie by this hand: an Index, and obscure - 1634 prologue to the History of Lust and foule Thoughts. - 1635 They met so neere with their lippes, that their breathes - 1636 embrac'd together. Villanous thoughts Rodorigo, when - 1637 these mutabilities so marshall the way, hard at hand - 1638 comes the Master, and maine exercise, th' incorporate - 1639 conclusion: Pish. But Sir, be you rul'd by me. I haue - 1640 brought you from Venice. Watch you to night: for - 1641 the Command, Ile lay't vpon you. Cassio knowes you - 1642 not: Ile not be farre from you. Do you finde some occasion - 1643 to anger Cassio, either by speaking too loud, or - 1644 tainting his discipline, or from what other course - 1645 you please, which the time shall more fauorably minister - 1646 - 1647 Rod. Well - 1648 - 1649 Iago. Sir, he's rash, and very sodaine in Choller: and - 1650 happely may strike at you, prouoke him that he may: for - 1651 euen out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to Mutiny. - 1652 Whose qualification shall come into no true taste againe, - 1653 but by the displanting of Cassio. So shall you - 1654 haue a shorter iourney to your desires, by the meanes I - 1655 shall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment - 1656 most profitably remoued, without the which there were - 1657 no expectation of our prosperitie - 1658 - 1659 Rodo. I will do this, if you can bring it to any opportunity - 1660 - 1661 Iago. I warrant thee. Meete me by and by at the - 1662 Cittadell. I must fetch his Necessaries a Shore. Farewell - 1663 - 1664 Rodo. Adieu. - 1665 Enter. - 1666 - 1667 Iago. That Cassio loues her, I do well beleeu't: - 1668 That she loues him, 'tis apt, and of great Credite. - 1669 The Moore (howbeit that I endure him not) - 1670 Is of a constant, louing, Noble Nature, - 1671 And I dare thinke, he'le proue to Desdemona - 1672 A most deere husband. Now I do loue her too, - 1673 Not out of absolute Lust, (though peraduenture - 1674 I stand accomptant for as great a sin) - 1675 But partely led to dyet my Reuenge, - 1676 For that I do suspect the lustie Moore - 1677 Hath leap'd into my Seate. The thought whereof, - 1678 Doth (like a poysonous Minerall) gnaw my Inwardes: - 1679 And nothing can, or shall content my Soule - 1680 Till I am eeuen'd with him, wife, for wife. - 1681 Or fayling so, yet that I put the Moore, - 1682 At least into a Ielouzie so strong - 1683 That iudgement cannot cure. Which thing to do, - 1684 If this poore Trash of Venice, whom I trace - 1685 For his quicke hunting, stand the putting on, - 1686 Ile haue our Michael Cassio on the hip, - 1687 Abuse him to the Moore, in the right garbe - 1688 (For I feare Cassio with my Night-Cape too) - 1689 Make the Moore thanke me, loue me, and reward me, - 1690 For making him egregiously an Asse, - 1691 And practising vpon his peace, and quiet, - 1692 Euen to madnesse. 'Tis heere: but yet confus'd, - 1693 Knaueries plaine face, is neuer seene, till vs'd. - 1694 Enter. - 1695 - 1696 - 1697 Scena Secunda. - 1698 - 1699 Enter Othello's Herald with a Proclamation. - 1700 - 1701 Herald. It is Othello's pleasure, our Noble and Valiant - 1702 Generall. That vpon certaine tydings now arriu'd, - 1703 importing the meere perdition of the Turkish Fleete: - 1704 euery man put himselfe into Triumph. Some to daunce, - 1705 some to make Bonfires, each man, to what Sport and - 1706 Reuels his addition leads him. For besides these beneficiall - 1707 Newes, it is the Celebration of his Nuptiall. So - 1708 much was his pleasure should be proclaimed. All offices - 1709 are open, & there is full libertie of Feasting from this - 1710 present houre of fiue, till the Bell haue told eleuen. - 1711 Blesse the Isle of Cyprus, and our Noble Generall Othello. - 1712 Enter. - 1713 - 1714 Enter Othello, Desdemona, Cassio, and Attendants. - 1715 - 1716 Othe. Good Michael, looke you to the guard to night. - 1717 Let's teach our selues that Honourable stop, - 1718 Not to out-sport discretion - 1719 - 1720 Cas. Iago, hath direction what to do. - 1721 But notwithstanding with my personall eye - 1722 Will I looke to't - 1723 - 1724 Othe. Iago, is most honest: - 1725 Michael, goodnight. To morrow with your earliest, - 1726 Let me haue speech with you. Come my deere Loue, - 1727 The purchase made, the fruites are to ensue, - 1728 That profit's yet to come 'tweene me, and you. - 1729 Goodnight. - 1730 Enter. - 1731 - 1732 Enter Iago. - 1733 - 1734 Cas. Welcome Iago: we must to the Watch - 1735 - 1736 Iago. Not this houre Lieutenant: 'tis not yet ten - 1737 o'th' clocke. Our Generall cast vs thus earely for the - 1738 loue of his Desdemona: Who, let vs not therefore blame; - 1739 he hath not yet made wanton the night with her: and - 1740 she is sport for Ioue - 1741 - 1742 Cas. She's a most exquisite Lady - 1743 - 1744 Iago. And Ile warrant her, full of Game - 1745 - 1746 Cas. Indeed shes a most fresh and delicate creature - 1747 - 1748 Iago. What an eye she ha's? - 1749 Me thinkes it sounds a parley to prouocation - 1750 - 1751 Cas. An inuiting eye: - 1752 And yet me thinkes right modest - 1753 - 1754 Iago. And when she speakes, - 1755 Is it not an Alarum to Loue? - 1756 Cas. She is indeed perfection - 1757 - 1758 Iago. Well: happinesse to their Sheetes. Come Lieutenant, - 1759 I haue a stope of Wine, and heere without are a - 1760 brace of Cyprus Gallants, that would faine haue a measure - 1761 to the health of blacke Othello - 1762 - 1763 Cas. Not to night, good Iago, I haue very poore, - 1764 and vnhappie Braines for drinking. I could well wish - 1765 Curtesie would inuent some other Custome of entertainment - 1766 - 1767 Iago. Oh, they are our Friends: but one Cup, Ile - 1768 drinke for you - 1769 - 1770 Cassio. I haue drunke but one Cup to night, and that - 1771 was craftily qualified too: and behold what inouation - 1772 it makes heere. I am infortunate in the infirmity, and - 1773 dare not taske my weakenesse with any more - 1774 - 1775 Iago. What man? 'Tis a night of Reuels, the Gallants - 1776 desire it - 1777 - 1778 Cas. Where are they? - 1779 Iago. Heere, at the doore: I pray you call them in - 1780 - 1781 Cas. Ile do't, but it dislikes me. - 1782 Enter. - 1783 - 1784 Iago. If I can fasten but one Cup vpon him - 1785 With that which he hath drunke to night alreadie, - 1786 He'l be as full of Quarrell, and offence - 1787 As my yong Mistris dogge. - 1788 Now my sicke Foole Rodorigo, - 1789 Whom Loue hath turn'd almost the wrong side out, - 1790 To Desdemona hath to night Carrows'd. - 1791 Potations, pottle-deepe; and he's to watch. - 1792 Three else of Cyprus, Noble swelling Spirites, - 1793 (That hold their Honours in a wary distance, - 1794 The very Elements of this Warrelike Isle) - 1795 Haue I to night fluster'd with flowing Cups, - 1796 And they Watch too. - 1797 Now 'mongst this Flocke of drunkards - 1798 Am I put to our Cassio in some Action - 1799 That may offend the Isle. But here they come. - 1800 Enter Cassio, Montano, and Gentlemen. - 1801 - 1802 If Consequence do but approue my dreame, - 1803 My Boate sailes freely, both with winde and Streame - 1804 - 1805 Cas. 'Fore heauen, they haue giuen me a rowse already - 1806 - 1807 Mon. Good-faith a litle one: not past a pint, as I am a - 1808 Souldier - 1809 - 1810 Iago. Some Wine hoa. - 1811 And let me the Cannakin clinke, clinke: - 1812 And let me the Cannakin clinke. - 1813 A Souldiers a man: Oh, mans life's but a span, - 1814 Why then let a Souldier drinke. - 1815 Some Wine Boyes - 1816 - 1817 Cas. 'Fore Heauen: an excellent Song - 1818 - 1819 Iago. I learn'd it in England: where indeed they are - 1820 most potent in Potting. Your Dane, your Germaine, - 1821 and your swag-belly'd Hollander, (drinke hoa) are - 1822 nothing to your English - 1823 - 1824 Cassio. Is your Englishmen so exquisite in his drinking? - 1825 Iago. Why, he drinkes you with facillitie, your Dane - 1826 dead drunke. He sweates not to ouerthrow your Almaine. - 1827 He giues your Hollander a vomit, ere the next - 1828 Pottle can be fill'd - 1829 - 1830 Cas. To the health of our Generall - 1831 - 1832 Mon. I am for it Lieutenant: and Ile do you Iustice - 1833 - 1834 Iago. Oh sweet England. - 1835 King Stephen was anda worthy Peere, - 1836 His Breeches cost him but a Crowne, - 1837 He held them Six pence all to deere, - 1838 With that he cal'd the Tailor Lowne: - 1839 He was a wight of high Renowne, - 1840 And thou art but of low degree: - 1841 'Tis Pride that pulls the Country downe, - 1842 And take thy awl'd Cloake about thee. - 1843 Some Wine hoa - 1844 - 1845 Cassio. Why this is a more exquisite Song then the other - 1846 - 1847 Iago. Will you heare't againe? - 1848 Cas. No: for I hold him to be vnworthy of his Place, - 1849 that do's those things. Well: heau'ns aboue all: and - 1850 there be soules must be saued, and there be soules must - 1851 not be saued - 1852 - 1853 Iago. It's true, good Lieutenant - 1854 - 1855 Cas. For mine owne part, no offence to the Generall, - 1856 nor any man of qualitie: I hope to be saued - 1857 - 1858 Iago. And so do I too Lieutenant - 1859 - 1860 Cassio. I: (but by your leaue) not before me. The - 1861 Lieutenant is to be saued before the Ancient. Let's haue - 1862 no more of this: let's to our Affaires. Forgiue vs our - 1863 sinnes: Gentlemen let's looke to our businesse. Do not - 1864 thinke Gentlemen, I am drunke: this is my Ancient, this - 1865 is my right hand, and this is my left. I am not drunke - 1866 now: I can stand well enough, and I speake well enough - 1867 - 1868 Gent. Excellent well - 1869 - 1870 Cas. Why very well then: you must not thinke then, - 1871 that I am drunke. - 1872 Enter. - 1873 - 1874 Monta. To th' Platforme (Masters) come, let's set the - 1875 Watch - 1876 - 1877 Iago. You see this Fellow, that is gone before, - 1878 He's a Souldier, fit to stand by Caesar, - 1879 And giue direction. And do but see his vice, - 1880 'Tis to his vertue, a iust Equinox, - 1881 The one as long as th' other. 'Tis pittie of him: - 1882 I feare the trust Othello puts him in, - 1883 On some odde time of his infirmitie - 1884 Will shake this Island - 1885 - 1886 Mont. But is he often thus? - 1887 Iago. 'Tis euermore his prologue to his sleepe, - 1888 He'le watch the Horologe a double Set, - 1889 If Drinke rocke not his Cradle - 1890 - 1891 Mont. It were well - 1892 The Generall were put in mind of it: - 1893 Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature - 1894 Prizes the vertue that appeares in Cassio, - 1895 And lookes not on his euills: is not this true? - 1896 Enter Rodorigo. - 1897 - 1898 Iago. How now Rodorigo? - 1899 I pray you after the Lieutenant, go - 1900 - 1901 Mon. And 'tis great pitty, that the Noble Moore - 1902 Should hazard such a Place, as his owne Second - 1903 With one of an ingraft Infirmitie, - 1904 It were an honest Action, to say so - 1905 To the Moore - 1906 - 1907 Iago. Not I, for this faire Island, - 1908 I do loue Cassio well: and would do much - 1909 To cure him of this euill, But hearke, what noise? - 1910 Enter Cassio pursuing Rodorigo. - 1911 - 1912 Cas. You Rogue: you Rascall - 1913 - 1914 Mon. What's the matter Lieutenant? - 1915 Cas. A Knaue teach me my dutie? Ile beate the - 1916 Knaue in to a Twiggen-Bottle - 1917 - 1918 Rod. Beate me? - 1919 Cas. Dost thou prate, Rogue? - 1920 Mon. Nay, good Lieutenant: - 1921 I pray you Sir, hold your hand - 1922 - 1923 Cassio. Let me go (Sir) - 1924 Or Ile knocke you o're the Mazard - 1925 - 1926 Mon. Come, come: you're drunke - 1927 - 1928 Cassio. Drunke? - 1929 Iago. Away I say: go out and cry a Mutinie. - 1930 Nay good Lieutenant. Alas Gentlemen: - 1931 Helpe hoa. Lieutenant. Sir Montano: - 1932 Helpe Masters. Heere's a goodly Watch indeed. - 1933 Who's that which rings the Bell: Diablo, hoa: - 1934 The Towne will rise. Fie, fie Lieutenant, - 1935 You'le be asham'd for euer. - 1936 Enter Othello, and Attendants. - 1937 - 1938 Othe. What is the matter heere? - 1939 Mon. I bleed still, I am hurt to th' death. He dies - 1940 - 1941 Othe. Hold for your liues - 1942 - 1943 Iag. Hold hoa: Lieutenant, Sir Montano, Gentlemen: - 1944 Haue you forgot all place of sense and dutie? - 1945 Hold. The Generall speaks to you: hold for shame - 1946 - 1947 Oth. Why how now hoa? From whence ariseth this? - 1948 Are we turn'd Turkes? and to our selues do that - 1949 Which Heauen hath forbid the Ottamittes. - 1950 For Christian shame, put by this barbarous Brawle: - 1951 He that stirs next, to carue for his owne rage, - 1952 Holds his soule light: He dies vpon his Motion. - 1953 Silence that dreadfull Bell, it frights the Isle, - 1954 From her propriety. What is the matter, Masters? - 1955 Honest Iago, that lookes dead with greeuing, - 1956 Speake: who began this? On thy loue I charge thee? - 1957 Iago. I do not know: Friends all, but now, euen now. - 1958 In Quarter, and in termes like Bride, and Groome - 1959 Deuesting them for Bed: and then, but now: - 1960 (As if some Planet had vnwitted men) - 1961 Swords out, and tilting one at others breastes, - 1962 In opposition bloody. I cannot speake - 1963 Any begining to this peeuish oddes. - 1964 And would, in Action glorious, I had lost - 1965 Those legges, that brought me to a part of it - 1966 - 1967 Othe. How comes it (Michaell) you are thus forgot? - 1968 Cas. I pray you pardon me, I cannot speake - 1969 - 1970 Othe. Worthy Montano, you were wont to be ciuill: - 1971 The grauitie, and stillnesse of your youth - 1972 The world hath noted. And your name is great - 1973 In mouthes of wisest Censure. What's the matter - 1974 That you vnlace your reputation thus, - 1975 And spend your rich opinion, for the name - 1976 Of a night-brawler? Giue me answer to it - 1977 - 1978 Mon. Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger, - 1979 Your Officer Iago, can informe you, - 1980 While I spare speech which something now offends me. - 1981 Of all that I do know, nor know I ought - 1982 By me, that's said, or done amisse this night, - 1983 Vnlesse selfe-charitie be sometimes a vice, - 1984 And to defend our selues, it be a sinne - 1985 When violence assailes vs - 1986 - 1987 Othe. Now by Heauen, - 1988 My blood begins my safer Guides to rule, - 1989 And passion (hauing my best iudgement collied) - 1990 Assaies to leade the way. If I once stir, - 1991 Or do but lift this Arme, the best of you - 1992 Shall sinke in my rebuke. Giue me to know - 1993 How this foule Rout began: Who set it on, - 1994 And he that is approu'd in this offence, - 1995 Though he had twinn'd with me, both at a birth, - 1996 Shall loose me. What in a Towne of warre, - 1997 Yet wilde, the peoples hearts brim-full of feare, - 1998 To Manage priuate, and domesticke Quarrell? - 1999 In night, and on the Court and Guard of safetie? - 2000 'Tis monstrous: Iago, who began't? - 2001 Mon. If partially Affin'd, or league in office, - 2002 Thou dost deliuer more, or lesse then Truth, - 2003 Thou art no Souldier - 2004 - 2005 Iago. Touch me not so neere, - 2006 I had rather haue this tongue cut from my mouth, - 2007 Then it should do offence to Michaell Cassio. - 2008 Yet I perswade my selfe, to speake the truth - 2009 Shall nothing wrong him. This it is Generall: - 2010 Montano and my selfe being in speech, - 2011 There comes a Fellow, crying out for helpe, - 2012 And Cassio following him with determin'd Sword - 2013 To execute vpon him. Sir, this Gentleman, - 2014 Steppes in to Cassio, and entreats his pause: - 2015 My selfe, the crying Fellow did pursue, - 2016 Least by his clamour (as it so fell out) - 2017 The Towne might fall in fright. He, (swift of foote) - 2018 Out-ran my purpose: and I return'd then rather - 2019 For that I heard the clinke, and fall of Swords, - 2020 And Cassio high in oath: Which till to night - 2021 I nere might say before. When I came backe - 2022 (For this was briefe) I found them close together - 2023 At blow, and thrust, euen as againe they were - 2024 When you your selfe did part them. - 2025 More of this matter cannot I report, - 2026 But Men are Men: The best sometimes forget, - 2027 Though Cassio did some little wrong to him, - 2028 As men in rage strike those that wish them best, - 2029 Yet surely Cassio, I beleeue receiu'd - 2030 From him that fled, some strange Indignitie, - 2031 Which patience could not passe - 2032 - 2033 Othe. I know Iago - 2034 Thy honestie, and loue doth mince this matter, - 2035 Making it light to Cassio: Cassio, I loue thee, - 2036 But neuer more be Officer of mine. - 2037 Enter Desdemona attended. - 2038 - 2039 Looke if my gentle Loue be not rais'd vp: - 2040 Ile make thee an example - 2041 - 2042 Des. What is the matter (Deere?) - 2043 Othe. All's well, Sweeting: - 2044 Come away to bed. Sir for your hurts, - 2045 My selfe will be your Surgeon. Lead him off: - 2046 Iago, looke with care about the Towne, - 2047 And silence those whom this vil'd brawle distracted. - 2048 Come Desdemona, 'tis the Soldiers life, - 2049 To haue their Balmy slumbers wak'd with strife. - 2050 Enter. - 2051 - 2052 Iago. What are you hurt Lieutenant? - 2053 Cas. I, past all Surgery - 2054 - 2055 Iago. Marry Heauen forbid - 2056 - 2057 Cas. Reputation, Reputation, Reputation: Oh I haue - 2058 lost my Reputation. I haue lost the immortall part of - 2059 myselfe, and what remaines is bestiall. My Reputation, - 2060 Iago, my Reputation - 2061 - 2062 Iago. As I am an honest man I had thought you had - 2063 receiued some bodily wound; there is more sence in that - 2064 then in Reputation. Reputation is an idle, and most false - 2065 imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deseruing. - 2066 You haue lost no Reputation at all, vnlesse you - 2067 repute your selfe such a looser. What man, there are - 2068 more wayes to recouer the Generall againe. You are - 2069 but now cast in his moode, (a punishment more in policie, - 2070 then in malice) euen so as one would beate his offencelesse - 2071 dogge, to affright an Imperious Lyon. Sue to - 2072 him againe, and he's yours - 2073 - 2074 Cas. I will rather sue to be despis'd, then to deceiue - 2075 so good a Commander, with so slight, so drunken, and so - 2076 indiscreet an Officer. Drunke? And speake Parrat? And - 2077 squabble? Swagger? Sweare? And discourse Fustian - 2078 with ones owne shadow? Oh thou invisible spirit of - 2079 Wine, if thou hast no name to be knowne by, let vs call - 2080 thee Diuell - 2081 - 2082 Iago. What was he that you follow'd with your - 2083 Sword? What had he done to you? - 2084 Cas. I know not - 2085 - 2086 Iago. Is't possible? - 2087 Cas. I remember a masse of things, but nothing distinctly: - 2088 a Quarrell, but nothing wherefore. Oh, that - 2089 men should put an Enemie in their mouthes, to steale away - 2090 their Braines? that we should with ioy, pleasance, - 2091 reuell and applause, transforme our selues into Beasts - 2092 - 2093 Iago. Why? But you are now well enough: how - 2094 came you thus recouered? - 2095 Cas. It hath pleas'd the diuell drunkennesse, to giue - 2096 place to the diuell wrath, one vnperfectnesse, shewes me - 2097 another to make me frankly despise my selfe - 2098 - 2099 Iago. Come, you are too seuere a Moraller. As the - 2100 Time, the Place, & the Condition of this Country stands - 2101 I could hartily wish this had not befalne: but since it is, as - 2102 it is, mend it for your owne good - 2103 - 2104 Cas. I will aske him for my Place againe, he shall tell - 2105 me, I am a drunkard: had I as many mouthes as Hydra, - 2106 such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible - 2107 man, by and by a Foole, and presently a Beast. Oh - 2108 strange! Euery inordinate cup is vnbless'd, and the Ingredient - 2109 is a diuell - 2110 - 2111 Iago. Come, come: good wine, is a good familiar - 2112 Creature, if it be well vs'd: exclaime no more against it. - 2113 And good Lieutenant, I thinke, you thinke I loue - 2114 you - 2115 - 2116 Cassio. I haue well approued it, Sir. I drunke? - 2117 Iago. You, or any man liuing, may be drunke at a - 2118 time man. I tell you what you shall do: Our General's - 2119 Wife, is now the Generall. I may say so, in this respect, - 2120 for that he hath deuoted, and giuen vp himselfe to the - 2121 Contemplation, marke: and deuotement of her parts - 2122 and Graces. Confesse your selfe freely to her: Importune - 2123 her helpe to put you in your place againe. She is - 2124 of so free, so kinde, so apt, so blessed a disposition, - 2125 she holds it a vice in her goodnesse, not to do more - 2126 then she is requested. This broken ioynt betweene - 2127 you, and her husband, entreat her to splinter. And my - 2128 Fortunes against any lay worth naming, this cracke of - 2129 your Loue, shall grow stronger, then it was before - 2130 - 2131 Cassio. You aduise me well - 2132 - 2133 Iago. I protest in the sinceritie of Loue, and honest - 2134 kindnesse - 2135 - 2136 Cassio. I thinke it freely: and betimes in the morning, - 2137 I will beseech the vertuous Desdemona to vndertake - 2138 for me: I am desperate of my Fortunes if they check me - 2139 - 2140 Iago. You are in the right: good night Lieutenant, I - 2141 must to the Watch - 2142 - 2143 Cassio. Good night, honest Iago. - 2144 - 2145 Exit Cassio. - 2146 - 2147 Iago. And what's he then, - 2148 That saies I play the Villaine? - 2149 When this aduise is free I giue, and honest, - 2150 Proball to thinking, and indeed the course - 2151 To win the Moore againe. - 2152 For 'tis most easie - 2153 Th' inclyning Desdemona to subdue - 2154 In any honest Suite. She's fram'd as fruitefull - 2155 As the free Elements. And then for her - 2156 To win the Moore, were to renownce his Baptisme, - 2157 All Seales, and Simbols of redeemed sin: - 2158 His Soule is so enfetter'd to her Loue, - 2159 That she may make, vnmake, do what she list, - 2160 Euen as her Appetite shall play the God, - 2161 With his weake Function. How am I then a Villaine, - 2162 To Counsell Cassio to this paralell course, - 2163 Directly to his good? Diuinitie of hell, - 2164 When diuels will the blackest sinnes put on, - 2165 They do suggest at first with heauenly shewes, - 2166 As I do now. For whiles this honest Foole - 2167 Plies Desdemona, to repaire his Fortune, - 2168 And she for him, pleades strongly to the Moore, - 2169 Ile powre this pestilence into his eare: - 2170 That she repeales him, for her bodies Lust, - 2171 And by how much she striues to do him good, - 2172 She shall vndo her Credite with the Moore. - 2173 So will I turne her vertue into pitch. - 2174 And out of her owne goodnesse make the Net, - 2175 That shall en-mash them all. - 2176 How now Rodorigo? - 2177 Enter Rodorigo. - 2178 - 2179 Rodorigo. I do follow heere in the Chace, not - 2180 like a Hound that hunts, but one that filles vp the - 2181 Crie. My Money is almost spent; I haue bin to night - 2182 exceedingly well Cudgell'd: And I thinke the issue - 2183 will bee, I shall haue so much experience for my paines; - 2184 And so, with no money at all, and a little more Wit, returne - 2185 againe to Venice - 2186 - 2187 Iago. How poore are they that haue not Patience? - 2188 What wound did euer heale but by degrees? - 2189 Thou know'st we worke by Wit, and not by Witchcraft - 2190 And Wit depends on dilatory time: - 2191 Dos't not go well? Cassio hath beaten thee, - 2192 And thou by that small hurt hath casheer'd Cassio: - 2193 Though other things grow faire against the Sun, - 2194 Yet Fruites that blossome first, will first be ripe: - 2195 Content thy selfe, a-while. Introth 'tis Morning; - 2196 Pleasure, and Action, make the houres seeme short. - 2197 Retire thee, go where thou art Billited: - 2198 Away, I say, thou shalt know more heereafter: - 2199 Nay get thee gone. - 2200 - 2201 Exit Roderigo. - 2202 - 2203 Two things are to be done: - 2204 My Wife must moue for Cassio to her Mistris: - 2205 Ile set her on my selfe, a while, to draw the Moor apart, - 2206 And bring him iumpe, when he may Cassio finde - 2207 Soliciting his wife: I, that's the way: - 2208 Dull not Deuice, by coldnesse, and delay. - 2209 Enter. - 2210 - 2211 - 2212 Actus Tertius. Scena Prima. - 2213 - 2214 Enter Cassio, Musitians, and Clowne. - 2215 - 2216 Cassio. Masters, play heere, I wil content your paines, - 2217 Something that's briefe: and bid, goodmorrow General - 2218 - 2219 Clo. Why Masters, haue your Instruments bin in Naples, - 2220 that they speake i'th' Nose thus? - 2221 Mus. How Sir? how? - 2222 Clo. Are these I pray you, winde Instruments? - 2223 Mus. I marry are they sir - 2224 - 2225 Clo. Oh, thereby hangs a tale - 2226 - 2227 Mus. Whereby hangs a tale, sir? - 2228 Clow. Marry sir, by many a winde Instrument that I - 2229 know. But Masters, heere's money for you: and the Generall - 2230 so likes your Musick, that he desires you for loues - 2231 sake to make no more noise with it - 2232 - 2233 Mus. Well Sir, we will not - 2234 - 2235 Clo. If you haue any Musicke that may not be heard, - 2236 too't againe. But (as they say) to heare Musicke, the Generall - 2237 do's not greatly care - 2238 - 2239 Mus. We haue none such, sir - 2240 - 2241 Clow. Then put vp your Pipes in your bagge, for Ile - 2242 away. Go, vanish into ayre, away. - 2243 - 2244 Exit Mu. - 2245 - 2246 Cassio. Dost thou heare me, mine honest Friend? - 2247 Clo. No, I heare not your honest Friend: - 2248 I heare you - 2249 - 2250 Cassio. Prythee keepe vp thy Quillets, ther's a poore - 2251 peece of Gold for thee: if the Gentlewoman that attends - 2252 the Generall be stirring, tell her, there's one Cassio entreats - 2253 her a little fauour of Speech. Wilt thou do this? - 2254 Clo. She is stirring sir: if she will stirre hither, I shall - 2255 seeme to notifie vnto her. - 2256 - 2257 Exit Clo. - 2258 - 2259 Enter Iago. - 2260 - 2261 In happy time, Iago - 2262 - 2263 Iago. You haue not bin a-bed then? - 2264 Cassio. Why no: the day had broke before we parted. - 2265 I haue made bold (Iago) to send in to your wife: - 2266 My suite to her is, that she will to vertuous Desdemona - 2267 Procure me some accesse - 2268 - 2269 Iago. Ile send her to you presently: - 2270 And Ile deuise a meane to draw the Moore - 2271 Out of the way, that your conuerse and businesse - 2272 May be more free. - 2273 - 2274 Exit - 2275 - 2276 Cassio. I humbly thanke you for't. I neuer knew - 2277 A Florentine more kinde, and honest. - 2278 Enter aemilia. - 2279 - 2280 Aemil. Goodmorrow (good Lieutenant) I am sorrie - 2281 For your displeasure: but all will sure be well. - 2282 The Generall and his wife are talking of it, - 2283 And she speakes for you stoutly. The Moore replies, - 2284 That he you hurt is of great Fame in Cyprus, - 2285 And great Affinitie: and that in wholsome Wisedome - 2286 He might not but refuse you. But he protests he loues you - 2287 And needs no other Suitor, but his likings - 2288 To bring you in againe - 2289 - 2290 Cassio. Yet I beseech you, - 2291 If you thinke fit, or that it may be done, - 2292 Giue me aduantage of some breefe Discourse - 2293 With Desdemon alone. - 2294 Aemil. Pray you come in: - 2295 I will bestow you where you shall haue time - 2296 To speake your bosome freely - 2297 - 2298 Cassio. I am much bound to you. - 2299 - 2300 Scoena Secunda. - 2301 - 2302 Enter Othello, Iago, and Gentlemen. - 2303 - 2304 Othe. These Letters giue (Iago) to the Pylot, - 2305 And by him do my duties to the Senate: - 2306 That done, I will be walking on the Workes, - 2307 Repaire there to mee - 2308 - 2309 Iago. Well, my good Lord, Ile doo't - 2310 - 2311 Oth. This Fortification (Gentlemen) shall we see't? - 2312 Gent. Well waite vpon your Lordship. - 2313 - 2314 Exeunt. - 2315 - 2316 Scoena Tertia. - 2317 - 2318 Enter Desdemona, Cassio, and aemilia. - 2319 - 2320 Des. Be thou assur'd (good Cassio) I will do - 2321 All my abilities in thy behalfe. - 2322 Aemil. Good Madam do: - 2323 I warrant it greeues my Husband, - 2324 As if the cause were his - 2325 - 2326 Des. Oh that's an honest Fellow, Do not doubt Cassio - 2327 But I will haue my Lord, and you againe - 2328 As friendly as you were - 2329 - 2330 Cassio. Bounteous Madam, - 2331 What euer shall become of Michael Cassio, - 2332 He's neuer any thing but your true Seruant - 2333 - 2334 Des. I know't: I thanke you: you do loue my Lord: - 2335 You haue knowne him long, and be you well assur'd - 2336 He shall in strangenesse stand no farther off, - 2337 Then in a politique distance - 2338 - 2339 Cassio. I, but Lady, - 2340 That policie may either last so long, - 2341 Or feede vpon such nice and waterish diet, - 2342 Or breede it selfe so out of Circumstances, - 2343 That I being absent, and my place supply'd, - 2344 My Generall will forget my Loue, and Seruice - 2345 - 2346 Des. Do not doubt that: before aemilia here, - 2347 I giue thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee, - 2348 If I do vow a friendship, Ile performe it - 2349 To the last Article. My Lord shall neuer rest, - 2350 Ile watch him tame, and talke him out of patience; - 2351 His Bed shall seeme a Schoole, his Boord a Shrift, - 2352 Ile intermingle euery thing he do's - 2353 With Cassio's suite: Therefore be merry Cassio, - 2354 For thy Solicitor shall rather dye, - 2355 Then giue thy cause away. - 2356 Enter Othello, and Iago. - 2357 - 2358 Aemil. Madam, heere comes my Lord - 2359 - 2360 Cassio. Madam, Ile take my leaue - 2361 - 2362 Des. Why stay, and heare me speake - 2363 - 2364 Cassio. Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease, - 2365 Vnfit for mine owne purposes - 2366 - 2367 Des. Well, do your discretion. - 2368 - 2369 Exit Cassio. - 2370 - 2371 Iago. Hah? I like not that - 2372 - 2373 Othel. What dost thou say? - 2374 Iago. Nothing my Lord; or if- I know not what - 2375 - 2376 Othel. Was not that Cassio parted from my wife? - 2377 Iago. Cassio my Lord? No sure, I cannot thinke it - 2378 That he would steale away so guilty-like, - 2379 Seeing your comming - 2380 - 2381 Oth. I do beleeue 'twas he - 2382 - 2383 Des. How now my Lord? - 2384 I haue bin talking with a Suitor heere, - 2385 A man that languishes in your displeasure - 2386 - 2387 Oth. Who is't you meane? - 2388 Des. Why your Lieutenant Cassio: Good my Lord, - 2389 If I haue any grace, or power to moue you, - 2390 His present reconciliation take. - 2391 For if he be not one, that truly loues you, - 2392 That erres in Ignorance, and not in Cunning, - 2393 I haue no iudgement in an honest face. - 2394 I prythee call him backe - 2395 - 2396 Oth. Went he hence now? - 2397 Des. I sooth; so humbled, - 2398 That he hath left part of his greefe with mee - 2399 To suffer with him. Good Loue, call him backe - 2400 - 2401 Othel. Not now (sweet Desdemon) some other time - 2402 - 2403 Des. But shall't be shortly? - 2404 Oth. The sooner (Sweet) for you - 2405 - 2406 Des. Shall't be to night, at Supper? - 2407 Oth. No, not to night - 2408 - 2409 Des. To morrow Dinner then? - 2410 Oth. I shall not dine at home: - 2411 I meete the Captaines at the Cittadell - 2412 - 2413 Des. Why then to morrow night, on Tuesday morne, - 2414 On Tuesday noone, or night; on Wensday Morne. - 2415 I prythee name the time, but let it not - 2416 Exceed three dayes. Infaith hee's penitent: - 2417 And yet his Trespasse, in our common reason - 2418 (Saue that they say the warres must make example) - 2419 Out of her best, is not almost a fault - 2420 T' encurre a priuate checke. When shall he come? - 2421 Tell me Othello. I wonder in my Soule - 2422 What you would aske me, that I should deny, - 2423 Or stand so mam'ring on? What? Michael Cassio, - 2424 That came a woing with you? and so many a time - 2425 (When I haue spoke of you dispraisingly) - 2426 Hath tane your part, to haue so much to do - 2427 To bring him in? Trust me, I could do much - 2428 - 2429 Oth. Prythee no more: Let him come when he will: - 2430 I will deny thee nothing - 2431 - 2432 Des. Why, this is not a Boone: - 2433 'Tis as I should entreate you weare your Gloues, - 2434 Or feede on nourishing dishes, or keepe you warme, - 2435 Or sue to you, to do a peculiar profit - 2436 To your owne person. Nay, when I haue a suite - 2437 Wherein I meane to touch your Loue indeed, - 2438 It shall be full of poize, and difficult waight, - 2439 And fearefull to be granted - 2440 - 2441 Oth. I will deny thee nothing. - 2442 Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, - 2443 To leaue me but a little to my selfe - 2444 - 2445 Des. Shall I deny you? No: farewell my Lord - 2446 - 2447 Oth. Farewell my Desdemona, Ile come to thee strait - 2448 - 2449 Des. aemilia come; be as your Fancies teach you: - 2450 What ere you be, I am obedient. - 2451 Enter. - 2452 - 2453 Oth. Excellent wretch: Perdition catch my Soule - 2454 But I do loue thee: and when I loue thee not, - 2455 Chaos is come againe - 2456 - 2457 Iago. My Noble Lord - 2458 - 2459 Oth. What dost thou say, Iago? - 2460 Iago. Did Michael Cassio - 2461 When he woo'd my Lady, know of your loue? - 2462 Oth. He did, from first to last: - 2463 Why dost thou aske? - 2464 Iago. But for a satisfaction of my Thought, - 2465 No further harme - 2466 - 2467 Oth. Why of thy thought, Iago? - 2468 Iago. I did not thinke he had bin acquainted with hir - 2469 - 2470 Oth. O yes, and went betweene vs very oft - 2471 - 2472 Iago. Indeed? - 2473 Oth. Indeed? I indeed. Discern'st thou ought in that? - 2474 Is he not honest? - 2475 Iago. Honest, my Lord? - 2476 Oth. Honest? I, Honest - 2477 - 2478 Iago. My Lord, for ought I know - 2479 - 2480 Oth. What do'st thou thinke? - 2481 Iago. Thinke, my Lord? - 2482 Oth. Thinke, my Lord? Alas, thou ecchos't me; - 2483 As if there were some Monster in thy thought - 2484 Too hideous to be shewne. Thou dost mean somthing: - 2485 I heard thee say euen now, thou lik'st not that, - 2486 When Cassio left my wife. What didd'st not like? - 2487 And when I told thee, he was of my Counsaile, - 2488 Of my whole course of wooing; thou cried'st, Indeede? - 2489 And didd'st contract, and purse thy brow together, - 2490 As if thou then hadd'st shut vp in thy Braine - 2491 Some horrible Conceite. If thou do'st loue me, - 2492 Shew me thy thought - 2493 - 2494 Iago. My Lord, you know I loue you - 2495 - 2496 Oth. I thinke thou do'st: - 2497 And for I know thou'rt full of Loue, and Honestie, - 2498 And weigh'st thy words before thou giu'st them breath, - 2499 Therefore these stops of thine, fright me the more: - 2500 For such things in a false disloyall Knaue - 2501 Are trickes of Custome: but in a man that's iust, - 2502 They're close dilations, working from the heart, - 2503 That Passion cannot rule - 2504 - 2505 Iago. For Michael Cassio, - 2506 I dare be sworne, I thinke that he is honest - 2507 - 2508 Oth. I thinke so too - 2509 - 2510 Iago. Men should be what they seeme, - 2511 Or those that be not, would they might seeme none - 2512 - 2513 Oth. Certaine, men should be what they seeme - 2514 - 2515 Iago. Why then I thinke Cassio's an honest man - 2516 - 2517 Oth. Nay, yet there's more in this? - 2518 I prythee speake to me, as to thy thinkings, - 2519 As thou dost ruminate, and giue thy worst of thoughts - 2520 The worst of words - 2521 - 2522 Iago. Good my Lord pardon me, - 2523 Though I am bound to euery Acte of dutie, - 2524 I am not bound to that: All Slaues are free: - 2525 Vtter my Thoughts? Why say, they are vild, and falce? - 2526 As where's that Palace, whereinto foule things - 2527 Sometimes intrude not? Who ha's that breast so pure, - 2528 Wherein vncleanly Apprehensions - 2529 Keepe Leetes, and Law-dayes, and in Sessions sit - 2530 With meditations lawfull? - 2531 Oth. Thou do'st conspire against thy Friend (Iago) - 2532 If thou but think'st him wrong'd, and mak'st his eare - 2533 A stranger to thy Thoughts - 2534 - 2535 Iago. I do beseech you, - 2536 Though I perchance am vicious in my guesse - 2537 (As I confesse it is my Natures plague - 2538 To spy into Abuses, and of my iealousie - 2539 Shapes faults that are not) that your wisedome - 2540 From one, that so imperfectly conceits, - 2541 Would take no notice, nor build your selfe a trouble - 2542 Out of his scattering, and vnsure obseruance: - 2543 It were not for your quiet, nor your good, - 2544 Nor for my Manhood, Honesty, and Wisedome, - 2545 To let you know my thoughts - 2546 - 2547 Oth. What dost thou meane? - 2548 Iago. Good name in Man, & woman (deere my Lord) - 2549 Is the immediate Iewell of their Soules; - 2550 Who steales my purse, steales trash: - 2551 'Tis something, nothing; - 2552 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has bin slaue to thousands: - 2553 But he that filches from me my good Name, - 2554 Robs me of that, which not enriches him, - 2555 And makes me poore indeed - 2556 - 2557 Oth. Ile know thy Thoughts - 2558 - 2559 Iago. You cannot, if my heart were in your hand, - 2560 Nor shall not, whil'st 'tis in my custodie - 2561 - 2562 Oth. Ha? - 2563 Iago. Oh, beware my Lord, of iealousie, - 2564 It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke - 2565 The meate it feeds on. That Cuckold liues in blisse, - 2566 Who certaine of his Fate, loues not his wronger: - 2567 But oh, what damned minutes tels he ore, - 2568 Who dotes, yet doubts: Suspects, yet soundly loues? - 2569 Oth. O miserie - 2570 - 2571 Iago. Poore, and Content, is rich, and rich enough, - 2572 But Riches finelesse, is as poore as Winter, - 2573 To him that euer feares he shall be poore: - 2574 Good Heauen, the Soules of all my Tribe defend - 2575 From Iealousie - 2576 - 2577 Oth. Why? why is this? - 2578 Think'st thou, I'ld make a Life of Iealousie; - 2579 To follow still the changes of the Moone - 2580 With fresh suspitions? No: to be once in doubt, - 2581 Is to be resolu'd: Exchange me for a Goat, - 2582 When I shall turne the businesse of my Soule - 2583 To such exufflicate, and blow'd Surmises, - 2584 Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me Iealious, - 2585 To say my wife is faire, feeds well, loues company, - 2586 Is free of Speech, Sings, Playes, and Dances: - 2587 Where Vertue is, these are more vertuous. - 2588 Nor from mine owne weake merites, will I draw - 2589 The smallest feare, or doubt of her reuolt, - 2590 For she had eyes, and chose me. No Iago, - 2591 Ile see before I doubt; when I doubt, proue; - 2592 And on the proofe, there is no more but this, - 2593 Away at once with Loue, or Iealousie - 2594 - 2595 Ia. I am glad of this: For now I shall haue reason - 2596 To shew the Loue and Duty that I beare you - 2597 With franker spirit. Therefore (as I am bound) - 2598 Receiue it from me. I speake not yet of proofe: - 2599 Looke to your wife, obserue her well with Cassio, - 2600 Weare your eyes, thus: not Iealious, nor Secure: - 2601 I would not haue your free, and Noble Nature, - 2602 Out of selfe-Bounty, be abus'd: Looke too't: - 2603 I know our Country disposition well: - 2604 In Venice, they do let Heauen see the prankes - 2605 They dare not shew their Husbands. - 2606 Their best Conscience, - 2607 Is not to leaue't vndone, but kept vnknowne - 2608 - 2609 Oth. Dost thou say so? - 2610 Iago. She did deceiue her Father, marrying you, - 2611 And when she seem'd to shake, and feare your lookes, - 2612 She lou'd them most - 2613 - 2614 Oth. And so she did - 2615 - 2616 Iago. Why go too then: - 2617 Shee that so young could giue out such a Seeming - 2618 To seele her Fathers eyes vp, close as Oake, - 2619 He thought 'twas Witchcraft. - 2620 But I am much too blame: - 2621 I humbly do beseech you of your pardon - 2622 For too much louing you - 2623 - 2624 Oth. I am bound to thee for euer - 2625 - 2626 Iago. I see this hath a little dash'd your Spirits: - 2627 Oth. Not a iot, not a iot - 2628 - 2629 Iago. Trust me, I feare it has: - 2630 I hope you will consider what is spoke - 2631 Comes from your Loue. - 2632 But I do see y'are moou'd: - 2633 I am to pray you, not to straine my speech - 2634 To grosser issues, nor to larger reach, - 2635 Then to Suspition - 2636 - 2637 Oth. I will not - 2638 - 2639 Iago. Should you do so (my Lord) - 2640 My speech should fall into such vilde successe, - 2641 Which my Thoughts aym'd not. - 2642 Cassio's my worthy Friend: - 2643 My Lord, I see y'are mou'd - 2644 - 2645 Oth. No, not much mou'd: - 2646 I do not thinke but Desdemona's honest - 2647 - 2648 Iago. Long liue she so; - 2649 And long liue you to thinke so - 2650 - 2651 Oth. And yet how Nature erring from it selfe - 2652 - 2653 Iago. I, there's the point: - 2654 As (to be bold with you) - 2655 Not to affect many proposed Matches - 2656 Of her owne Clime, Complexion, and Degree, - 2657 Whereto we see in all things, Nature tends: - 2658 Foh, one may smel in such, a will most ranke, - 2659 Foule disproportions, Thoughts vnnaturall. - 2660 But (pardon me) I do not in position - 2661 Distinctly speake of her, though I may feare - 2662 Her will, recoyling to her better iudgement, - 2663 May fal to match you with her Country formes, - 2664 And happily repent - 2665 - 2666 Oth. Farewell, farewell: - 2667 If more thou dost perceiue, let me know more: - 2668 Set on thy wife to obserue. - 2669 Leaue me Iago - 2670 - 2671 Iago. My Lord, I take my leaue - 2672 - 2673 Othel. Why did I marry? - 2674 This honest Creature (doubtlesse) - 2675 Sees, and knowes more, much more then he vnfolds - 2676 - 2677 Iago. My Lord, I would I might intreat your Honor - 2678 To scan this thing no farther: Leaue it to time, - 2679 Although 'tis fit that Cassio haue his Place; - 2680 For sure he filles it vp with great Ability; - 2681 Yet if you please, to him off a-while: - 2682 You shall by that perceiue him, and his meanes: - 2683 Note if your Lady straine his Entertainment - 2684 With any strong, or vehement importunitie, - 2685 Much will be seene in that: In the meane time, - 2686 Let me be thought too busie in my feares, - 2687 (As worthy cause I haue to feare I am) - 2688 And hold her free, I do beseech your Honor - 2689 - 2690 Oth. Feare not my gouernment - 2691 - 2692 Iago. I once more take my leaue. - 2693 Enter. - 2694 - 2695 Oth. This Fellow's of exceeding honesty, - 2696 And knowes all Quantities with a learn'd Spirit - 2697 Of humane dealings. If I do proue her Haggard, - 2698 Though that her Iesses were my deere heart-strings, - 2699 I'ld whistle her off, and let her downe the winde - 2700 To prey at Fortune. Haply, for I am blacke, - 2701 And haue not those soft parts of Conuersation - 2702 That Chamberers haue: Or for I am declin'd - 2703 Into the vale of yeares (yet that's not much) - 2704 Shee's gone. I am abus'd, and my releefe - 2705 Must be to loath her. Oh Curse of Marriage! - 2706 That we can call these delicate Creatures ours, - 2707 And not their Appetites? I had rather be a Toad, - 2708 And liue vpon the vapour of a Dungeon, - 2709 Then keepe a corner in the thing I loue - 2710 For others vses. Yet 'tis the plague to Great-ones, - 2711 Prerogatiu'd are they lesse then the Base, - 2712 'Tis destiny vnshunnable, like death: - 2713 Euen then, this forked plague is Fated to vs, - 2714 When we do quicken. Looke where she comes: - 2715 Enter Desdemona and aemilia. - 2716 - 2717 If she be false, Heauen mock'd it selfe: - 2718 Ile not beleeue't - 2719 - 2720 Des. How now, my deere Othello? - 2721 Your dinner, and the generous Islanders - 2722 By you inuited, do attend your presence - 2723 - 2724 Oth. I am too blame - 2725 - 2726 Des. Why do you speake so faintly? - 2727 Are you not well? - 2728 Oth. I haue a paine vpon my Forehead, heere - 2729 - 2730 Des. Why that's with watching, 'twill away againe. - 2731 Let me but binde it hard, within this houre - 2732 It will be well - 2733 - 2734 Oth. Your Napkin is too little: - 2735 Let it alone: Come, Ile go in with you. - 2736 Enter. - 2737 - 2738 Des. I am very sorry that you are not well. - 2739 Aemil. I am glad I haue found this Napkin: - 2740 This was her first remembrance from the Moore, - 2741 My wayward Husband hath a hundred times - 2742 Woo'd me to steale it. But she so loues the Token, - 2743 (For he coniur'd her, she should euer keepe it) - 2744 That she reserues it euermore about her, - 2745 To kisse, and talke too. Ile haue the worke tane out, - 2746 And giu't Iago: what he will do with it - 2747 Heauen knowes, not I: - 2748 I nothing, but to please his Fantasie. - 2749 Enter Iago. - 2750 - 2751 Iago. How now? What do you heere alone? - 2752 Aemil. Do not you chide: I haue a thing for you - 2753 - 2754 Iago. You haue a thing for me? - 2755 It is a common thing- - 2756 Aemil. Hah? - 2757 Iago. To haue a foolish wife. - 2758 Aemil. Oh, is that all? What will you giue me now - 2759 For that same Handkerchiefe - 2760 - 2761 Iago. What Handkerchiefe? - 2762 Aemil. What Handkerchiefe? - 2763 Why that the Moore first gaue to Desdemona, - 2764 That which so often you did bid me steale - 2765 - 2766 Iago. Hast stolne it from her? - 2767 Aemil. No: but she let it drop by negligence, - 2768 And to th' aduantage, I being heere, took't vp: - 2769 Looke, heere 'tis - 2770 - 2771 Iago. A good wench, giue it me. - 2772 Aemil. What will you do with't, that you haue bene - 2773 so earnest to haue me filch it? - 2774 Iago. Why, what is that to you? - 2775 Aemil. If it be not for some purpose of import, - 2776 Giu't me againe. Poore Lady, shee'l run mad - 2777 When she shall lacke it - 2778 - 2779 Iago. Be not acknowne on't: - 2780 I haue vse for it. Go, leaue me. - 2781 - 2782 Exit aemil. - 2783 - 2784 I will in Cassio's Lodging loose this Napkin, - 2785 And let him finde it. Trifles light as ayre, - 2786 Are to the iealious, confirmations strong, - 2787 As proofes of holy Writ. This may do something. - 2788 The Moore already changes with my poyson: - 2789 Dangerous conceites, are in their Natures poysons, - 2790 Which at the first are scarse found to distaste: - 2791 But with a little acte vpon the blood, - 2792 Burne like the Mines of Sulphure. I did say so. - 2793 Enter Othello. - 2794 - 2795 Looke where he comes: Not Poppy, nor Mandragora, - 2796 Nor all the drowsie Syrrups of the world - 2797 Shall euer medicine thee to that sweete sleepe - 2798 Which thou owd'st yesterday - 2799 - 2800 Oth. Ha, ha, false to mee? - 2801 Iago. Why how now Generall? No more of that - 2802 - 2803 Oth. Auant, be gone: Thou hast set me on the Racke: - 2804 I sweare 'tis better to be much abus'd, - 2805 Then but to know't a little - 2806 - 2807 Iago. How now, my Lord? - 2808 Oth. What sense had I, in her stolne houres of Lust? - 2809 I saw't not, thought it not: it harm'd not me: - 2810 I slept the next night well, fed well, was free, and merrie. - 2811 I found not Cassio's kisses on her Lippes: - 2812 He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolne, - 2813 Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all - 2814 - 2815 Iago. I am sorry to heare this? - 2816 Oth. I had beene happy, if the generall Campe, - 2817 Pyoners and all, had tasted her sweet Body, - 2818 So I had nothing knowne. Oh now, for euer - 2819 Farewell the Tranquill minde; farewell Content; - 2820 Farewell the plumed Troopes, and the bigge Warres, - 2821 That makes Ambition, Vertue! Oh farewell, - 2822 Farewell the neighing Steed, and the shrill Trumpe, - 2823 The Spirit-stirring Drum, th' Eare-piercing Fife, - 2824 The Royall Banner, and all Qualitie, - 2825 Pride, Pompe, and Circumstance of glorious Warre: - 2826 And O you mortall Engines, whose rude throates - 2827 Th' immortall Ioues dread Clamours, counterfet, - 2828 Farewell: Othello's Occupation's gone - 2829 - 2830 Iago. Is't possible my Lord? - 2831 Oth. Villaine, be sure thou proue my Loue a Whore; - 2832 Be sure of it: Giue me the Occular proofe, - 2833 Or by the worth of mine eternall Soule, - 2834 Thou had'st bin better haue bin borne a Dog - 2835 Then answer my wak'd wrath - 2836 - 2837 Iago. Is't come to this? - 2838 Oth. Make me to see't: or (at the least) so proue it, - 2839 That the probation beare no Hindge, nor Loope, - 2840 To hang a doubt on: Or woe vpon thy life - 2841 - 2842 Iago. My Noble Lord - 2843 - 2844 Oth. If thou dost slander her, and torture me, - 2845 Neuer pray more: Abandon all remorse - 2846 On Horrors head, Horrors accumulate: - 2847 Do deeds to make Heauen weepe, all Earth amaz'd; - 2848 For nothing canst thou to damnation adde, - 2849 Greater then that - 2850 - 2851 Iago. O Grace! O Heauen forgiue me! - 2852 Are you a Man? Haue you a Soule? or Sense? - 2853 God buy you: take mine Office. Oh wretched Foole, - 2854 That lou'st to make thine Honesty, a Vice! - 2855 Oh monstrous world! Take note, take note (O World) - 2856 To be direct and honest, is not safe. - 2857 I thanke you for this profit, and from hence - 2858 Ile loue no Friend, sith Loue breeds such offence - 2859 - 2860 Oth. Nay stay: thou should'st be honest - 2861 - 2862 Iago. I should be wise; for Honestie's a Foole, - 2863 And looses that it workes for - 2864 - 2865 Oth. By the World, - 2866 I thinke my Wife be honest, and thinke she is not: - 2867 I thinke that thou art iust, and thinke thou art not: - 2868 Ile haue some proofe. My name that was as fresh - 2869 As Dians Visage, is now begrim'd and blacke - 2870 As mine owne face. If there be Cords, or Kniues, - 2871 Poyson, or Fire, or suffocating streames, - 2872 Ile not indure it. Would I were satisfied - 2873 - 2874 Iago. I see you are eaten vp with Passion: - 2875 I do repent me, that I put it to you. - 2876 You would be satisfied? - 2877 Oth. Would? Nay, and I will - 2878 - 2879 Iago. And may: but how? How satisfied, my Lord? - 2880 Would you the super-vision grossely gape on? - 2881 Behold her top'd? - 2882 Oth. Death, and damnation. Oh! - 2883 Iago. It were a tedious difficulty, I thinke, - 2884 To bring them to that Prospect: Damne them then, - 2885 If euer mortall eyes do see them boulster - 2886 More then their owne. What then? How then? - 2887 What shall I say? Where's Satisfaction? - 2888 It is impossible you should see this, - 2889 Were they as prime as Goates, as hot as Monkeyes, - 2890 As salt as Wolues in pride, and Fooles as grosse - 2891 As Ignorance, made drunke. But yet, I say, - 2892 If imputation, and strong circumstances, - 2893 Which leade directly to the doore of Truth, - 2894 Will giue you satisfaction, you might haue't - 2895 - 2896 Oth. Giue me a liuing reason she's disloyall - 2897 - 2898 Iago. I do not like the Office. - 2899 But sith I am entred in this cause so farre - 2900 (Prick'd too't by foolish Honesty, and Loue) - 2901 I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately, - 2902 And being troubled with a raging tooth, - 2903 I could not sleepe. There are a kinde of men, - 2904 So loose of Soule, that in their sleepes will mutter - 2905 Their Affayres: one of this kinde is Cassio: - 2906 In sleepe I heard him say, sweet Desdemona, - 2907 Let vs be wary, let vs hide our Loues, - 2908 And then (Sir) would he gripe, and wring my hand: - 2909 Cry, oh sweet Creature: then kisse me hard, - 2910 As if he pluckt vp kisses by the rootes, - 2911 That grew vpon my lippes, laid his Leg ore my Thigh, - 2912 And sigh, and kisse, and then cry cursed Fate, - 2913 That gaue thee to the Moore - 2914 - 2915 Oth. O monstrous! monstrous! - 2916 Iago. Nay, this was but his Dreame - 2917 - 2918 Oth. But this denoted a fore-gone conclusion, - 2919 'Tis a shrew'd doubt, though it be but a Dreame - 2920 - 2921 Iago. And this may helpe to thicken other proofes, - 2922 That do demonstrate thinly - 2923 - 2924 Oth. Ile teare her all to peeces - 2925 - 2926 Iago. Nay yet be wise; yet we see nothing done, - 2927 She may be honest yet: Tell me but this, - 2928 Haue you not sometimes seene a Handkerchiefe - 2929 Spotted with Strawberries, in your wiues hand? - 2930 Oth. I gaue her such a one: 'twas my first gift - 2931 - 2932 Iago. I know not that: but such a Handkerchiefe - 2933 (I am sure it was your wiues) did I to day - 2934 See Cassio wipe his Beard with - 2935 - 2936 Oth. If it be that - 2937 - 2938 Iago. If it be that, or any, it was here. - 2939 It speakes against her with the other proofes - 2940 - 2941 Othel. O that the Slaue had forty thousand liues: - 2942 One is too poore, too weake for my reuenge. - 2943 Now do I see 'tis true. Looke heere Iago, - 2944 All my fond loue thus do I blow to Heauen. 'Tis gone. - 2945 Arise blacke vengeance, from the hollow hell, - 2946 Yeeld vp (O Loue) thy Crowne, and hearted Throne - 2947 To tyrannous Hate. Swell bosome with thy fraught, - 2948 For 'tis of Aspickes tongues - 2949 - 2950 Iago. Yet be content - 2951 - 2952 Oth. Oh blood, blood, blood - 2953 - 2954 Iago. Patience I say: your minde may change - 2955 - 2956 Oth. Neuer Iago. Like to the Ponticke Sea, - 2957 Whose Icie Current, and compulsiue course, - 2958 Neu'r keepes retyring ebbe, but keepes due on - 2959 To the Proponticke, and the Hellespont: - 2960 Euen so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace - 2961 Shall neu'r looke backe, neu'r ebbe to humble Loue, - 2962 Till that a capeable, and wide Reuenge - 2963 Swallow them vp. Now by yond Marble Heauen, - 2964 In the due reuerence of a Sacred vow, - 2965 I heere engage my words - 2966 - 2967 Iago. Do not rise yet: - 2968 Witnesse you euer-burning Lights aboue, - 2969 You Elements, that clip vs round about, - 2970 Witnesse that heere Iago doth giue vp - 2971 The execution of his wit, hands, heart, - 2972 To wrong'd Othello's Seruice. Let him command, - 2973 And to obey shall be in me remorse, - 2974 What bloody businesse euer - 2975 - 2976 Oth. I greet thy loue, - 2977 Not with vaine thanks, but with acceptance bounteous, - 2978 And will vpon the instant put thee too't. - 2979 Within these three dayes let me heare thee say, - 2980 That Cassio's not aliue - 2981 - 2982 Iago. My Friend is dead: - 2983 'Tis done at your Request. - 2984 But let her liue - 2985 - 2986 Oth. Damne her lewde Minx: - 2987 O damne her, damne her. - 2988 Come go with me a-part, I will withdraw - 2989 To furnish me with some swift meanes of death - 2990 For the faire Diuell. - 2991 Now art thou my Lieutenant - 2992 - 2993 Iago. I am your owne for euer. - 2994 - 2995 Exeunt. - 2996 - 2997 - 2998 Scaena Quarta. - 2999 - 3000 Enter Desdemona, aemilia, and Clown. - 3001 - 3002 Des. Do you know Sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio - 3003 lyes? - 3004 Clow. I dare not say he lies any where - 3005 - 3006 Des. Why man? - 3007 Clo. He's a Soldier, and for me to say a Souldier lyes, - 3008 'tis stabbing - 3009 - 3010 Des. Go too: where lodges he? - 3011 Clo. To tell you where he lodges, is to tel you where - 3012 I lye - 3013 - 3014 Des. Can any thing be made of this? - 3015 Clo. I know not where he lodges, and for mee to deuise - 3016 a lodging, and say he lies heere, or he lies there, were - 3017 to lye in mine owne throat - 3018 - 3019 Des. Can you enquire him out? and be edified by report? - 3020 Clo. I will Catechize the world for him, that is, make - 3021 Questions, and by them answer - 3022 - 3023 Des. Seeke him, bidde him come hither: tell him, I - 3024 haue moou'd my Lord on his behalfe, and hope all will - 3025 be well - 3026 - 3027 Clo. To do this, is within the compasse of mans Wit, - 3028 and therefore I will attempt the doing it. - 3029 - 3030 Exit Clo. - 3031 - 3032 Des. Where should I loose the Handkerchiefe, aemilia? - 3033 Aemil. I know not Madam - 3034 - 3035 Des. Beleeue me, I had rather haue lost my purse - 3036 Full of Cruzadoes. And but my Noble Moore - 3037 Is true of minde, and made of no such basenesse, - 3038 As iealious Creatures are, it were enough - 3039 To put him to ill-thinking. - 3040 Aemil. Is he not iealious? - 3041 Des. Who, he? I thinke the Sun where he was borne, - 3042 Drew all such humors from him. - 3043 Aemil. Looke where he comes. - 3044 Enter Othello. - 3045 - 3046 Des. I will not leaue him now, till Cassio be - 3047 Call'd to him. How is't with you, my Lord? - 3048 Oth. Well my good Lady. Oh hardnes to dissemble! - 3049 How do you, Desdemona? - 3050 Des. Well, my good Lord - 3051 - 3052 Oth. Giue me your hand. - 3053 This hand is moist, my Lady - 3054 - 3055 Des. It hath felt no age, nor knowne no sorrow - 3056 - 3057 Oth. This argues fruitfulnesse, and liberall heart: - 3058 Hot, hot, and moyst. This hand of yours requires - 3059 A sequester from Liberty: Fasting, and Prayer, - 3060 Much Castigation, Exercise deuout, - 3061 For heere's a yong, and sweating Diuell heere - 3062 That commonly rebels: 'Tis a good hand, - 3063 A franke one - 3064 - 3065 Des. You may (indeed) say so: - 3066 For 'twas that hand that gaue away my heart - 3067 - 3068 Oth. A liberall hand. The hearts of old, gaue hands: - 3069 But our new Heraldry is hands, not hearts - 3070 - 3071 Des. I cannot speake of this: - 3072 Come, now your promise - 3073 - 3074 Oth. What promise, Chucke? - 3075 Des. I haue sent to bid Cassio come speake with you - 3076 - 3077 Oth. I haue a salt and sorry Rhewme offends me: - 3078 Lend me thy Handkerchiefe - 3079 - 3080 Des. Heere my Lord - 3081 - 3082 Oth. That which I gaue you - 3083 - 3084 Des. I haue it not about me - 3085 - 3086 Oth. Not? - 3087 Des. No indeed, my Lord - 3088 - 3089 Oth. That's a fault: That Handkerchiefe - 3090 Did an aegyptian to my Mother giue: - 3091 She was a Charmer, and could almost read - 3092 The thoughts of people. She told her, while she kept it, - 3093 'T would make her Amiable, and subdue my Father - 3094 Intirely to her loue: But if she lost it, - 3095 Or made a Guift of it, my Fathers eye - 3096 Should hold her loathed, and his Spirits should hunt - 3097 After new Fancies. She dying, gaue it me, - 3098 And bid me (when my Fate would haue me Wiu'd) - 3099 To giue it her. I did so; and take heede on't, - 3100 Make it a Darling, like your precious eye: - 3101 To loose't, or giue't away, were such perdition, - 3102 As nothing else could match - 3103 - 3104 Des. Is't possible? - 3105 Oth. 'Tis true: There's Magicke in the web of it: - 3106 A Sybill that had numbred in the world - 3107 The Sun to course, two hundred compasses, - 3108 In her Prophetticke furie sow'd the Worke: - 3109 The Wormes were hallowed, that did breede the Silke, - 3110 And it was dyde in Mummey, which the Skilfull - 3111 Conseru'd of Maidens hearts - 3112 - 3113 Des. Indeed? Is't true? - 3114 Oth. Most veritable, therefore looke too't well - 3115 - 3116 Des. Then would to Heauen, that I had neuer seene't? - 3117 Oth. Ha? wherefore? - 3118 Des. Why do you speake so startingly, and rash? - 3119 Oth. Is't lost? Is't gon? Speak, is't out o'th' way? - 3120 Des. Blesse vs - 3121 - 3122 Oth. Say you? - 3123 Des. It is not lost: but what and if it were? - 3124 Oth. How? - 3125 Des. I say it is not lost - 3126 - 3127 Oth. Fetcht, let me see't - 3128 - 3129 Des. Why so I can: but I will not now: - 3130 This is a tricke to put me from my suite, - 3131 Pray you let Cassio be receiu'd againe - 3132 - 3133 Oth. Fetch me the Handkerchiefe, - 3134 My minde mis-giues - 3135 - 3136 Des. Come, come: you'l neuer meete a more sufficient - 3137 man - 3138 - 3139 Oth. The Handkerchiefe - 3140 - 3141 Des. A man that all his time - 3142 Hath founded his good Fortunes on your loue; - 3143 Shar'd dangers with you - 3144 - 3145 Oth. The Handkerchiefe - 3146 - 3147 Des. Insooth, you are too blame - 3148 - 3149 Oth. Away. - 3150 - 3151 Exit Othello. - 3152 - 3153 Aemil. Is not this man iealious? - 3154 Des. I neu'r saw this before. - 3155 Sure, there's some wonder in this Handkerchiefe, - 3156 I am most vnhappy in the losse of it. - 3157 Aemil. 'Tis not a yeare or two shewes vs a man: - 3158 They are all but Stomackes, and we all but Food, - 3159 They eate vs hungerly, and when they are full - 3160 They belch vs. - 3161 Enter Iago, and Cassio. - 3162 - 3163 Looke you, Cassio and my Husband - 3164 - 3165 Iago. There is no other way: 'tis she must doo't: - 3166 And loe the happinesse: go, and importune her - 3167 - 3168 Des. How now (good Cassio) what's the newes with - 3169 you? - 3170 Cassio. Madam, my former suite. I do beseech you, - 3171 That by your vertuous meanes, I may againe - 3172 Exist, and be a member of his loue, - 3173 Whom I, with all the Office of my heart - 3174 Intirely honour, I would not be delayd. - 3175 If my offence, be of such mortall kinde, - 3176 That nor my Seruice past, nor present Sorrowes, - 3177 Nor purpos'd merit in futurity, - 3178 Can ransome me into his loue againe, - 3179 But to know so, must be my benefit: - 3180 So shall I cloath me in a forc'd content, - 3181 And shut my selfe vp in some other course - 3182 To Fortunes Almes - 3183 - 3184 Des. Alas (thrice-gentle Cassio) - 3185 My Aduocation is not now in Tune; - 3186 My Lord, is not my Lord; nor should I know him, - 3187 Were he in Fauour, as in Humour alter'd. - 3188 So helpe me euery spirit sanctified, - 3189 As I haue spoken for you all my best, - 3190 And stood within the blanke of his displeasure - 3191 For my free speech. You must awhile be patient: - 3192 What I can do, I will: and more I will - 3193 Then for my selfe, I dare. Let that suffice you - 3194 - 3195 Iago. Is my Lord angry? - 3196 Aemil. He went hence but now: - 3197 And certainly in strange vnquietnesse - 3198 - 3199 Iago. Can he be angry? I haue seen the Cannon - 3200 When it hath blowne his Rankes into the Ayre, - 3201 And like the Diuell from his very Arme - 3202 Puff't his owne Brother: And is he angry? - 3203 Something of moment then: I will go meet him, - 3204 There's matter in't indeed, if he be angry. - 3205 - 3206 Exit - 3207 - 3208 Des. I prythee do so. Something sure of State, - 3209 Either from Venice, or some vnhatch'd practise - 3210 Made demonstrable heere in Cyprus, to him, - 3211 Hath pudled his cleare Spirit: and in such cases, - 3212 Mens Natures wrangle with inferiour things, - 3213 Though great ones are their obiect. 'Tis euen so. - 3214 For let our finger ake, and it endues - 3215 Our other healthfull members, euen to a sense - 3216 Of paine. Nay, we must thinke men are not Gods, - 3217 Nor of them looke for such obseruancie - 3218 As fits the Bridall. Beshrew me much, aemilia, - 3219 I was (vnhandsome Warrior, as I am) - 3220 Arraigning his vnkindnesse with my soule: - 3221 But now I finde, I had suborn'd the Witnesse, - 3222 And he's Indited falsely. - 3223 Aemil. Pray heauen it bee - 3224 State matters, as you thinke, and no Conception, - 3225 Nor no Iealious Toy, concerning you - 3226 - 3227 Des. Alas the day, I neuer gaue him cause. - 3228 Aemil. But Iealious soules will not be answer'd so; - 3229 They are not euer iealious for the cause, - 3230 But iealious, for they're iealious. It is a Monster - 3231 Begot vpon it selfe, borne on it selfe - 3232 - 3233 Des. Heauen keepe the Monster from Othello's mind. - 3234 Aemil. Lady, Amen - 3235 - 3236 Des. I will go seeke him. Cassio, walke heere about: - 3237 If I doe finde him fit, Ile moue your suite, - 3238 And seeke to effect it to my vttermost. - 3239 - 3240 Exit - 3241 - 3242 Cas. I humbly thanke your Ladyship. - 3243 Enter Bianca. - 3244 - 3245 Bian. 'Saue you (Friend Cassio.) - 3246 Cassio. What make you from home? - 3247 How is't with you, my most faire Bianca? - 3248 Indeed (sweet Loue) I was comming to your house - 3249 - 3250 Bian. And I was going to your Lodging, Cassio. - 3251 What? keepe a weeke away? Seuen dayes, and Nights? - 3252 Eight score eight houres? And Louers absent howres - 3253 More tedious then the Diall, eight score times? - 3254 Oh weary reck'ning - 3255 - 3256 Cassio. Pardon me, Bianca: - 3257 I haue this while with leaden thoughts beene prest, - 3258 But I shall in a more continuate time - 3259 Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca - 3260 Take me this worke out - 3261 - 3262 Bianca. Oh Cassio, whence came this? - 3263 This is some Token from a newer Friend, - 3264 To the felt-Absence: now I feele a Cause: - 3265 Is't come to this? Well, well - 3266 - 3267 Cassio. Go too, woman: - 3268 Throw your vilde gesses in the Diuels teeth, - 3269 From whence you haue them. You are iealious now, - 3270 That this is from some Mistris, some remembrance; - 3271 No, in good troth Bianca - 3272 - 3273 Bian. Why, who's is it? - 3274 Cassio. I know not neither: - 3275 I found it in my Chamber, - 3276 I like the worke well; Ere it be demanded - 3277 (As like enough it will) I would haue it coppied: - 3278 Take it, and doo't, and leaue me for this time - 3279 - 3280 Bian. Leaue you? Wherefore? - 3281 Cassio. I do attend heere on the Generall, - 3282 And thinke it no addition, nor my wish - 3283 To haue him see me woman'd - 3284 - 3285 Bian. Why, I pray you? - 3286 Cassio. Not that I loue you not - 3287 - 3288 Bian. But that you do not loue me. - 3289 I pray you bring me on the way a little, - 3290 And say, if I shall see you soone at night? - 3291 Cassio. 'Tis but a little way that I can bring you, - 3292 For I attend heere: But Ile see you soone - 3293 - 3294 Bian. 'Tis very good: I must be circumstanc'd. - 3295 - 3296 Exeunt. omnes. - 3297 - 3298 - 3299 Actus Quartus. Scena Prima. - 3300 - 3301 Enter Othello, and Iago. - 3302 - 3303 Iago. Will you thinke so? - 3304 Oth. Thinke so, Iago? - 3305 Iago. What, to kisse in priuate? - 3306 Oth. An vnauthoriz'd kisse? - 3307 Iago. Or to be naked with her Friend in bed, - 3308 An houre, or more, not meaning any harme? - 3309 Oth. Naked in bed (Iago) and not meane harme? - 3310 It is hypocrisie against the Diuell: - 3311 They that meane vertuously, and yet do so, - 3312 The Diuell their vertue tempts, and they tempt Heauen - 3313 - 3314 Iago. If they do nothing, 'tis a Veniall slip: - 3315 But if I giue my wife a Handkerchiefe - 3316 - 3317 Oth. What then? - 3318 Iago. Why then 'tis hers (my Lord) and being hers, - 3319 She may (I thinke) bestow't on any man - 3320 - 3321 Oth. She is Protectresse of her honor too: - 3322 May she giue that? - 3323 Iago. Her honor is an Essence that's not seene, - 3324 They haue it very oft, that haue it not. - 3325 But for the Handkerchiefe - 3326 - 3327 Othe. By heauen, I would most gladly haue forgot it: - 3328 Thou saidst (oh, it comes ore my memorie, - 3329 As doth the Rauen o're the infectious house: - 3330 Boading to all) he had my Handkerchiefe - 3331 - 3332 Iago . I: what of that? - 3333 Othe. That's not so good now - 3334 - 3335 Iag. What if I had said, I had seene him do you wrong? - 3336 Or heard him say (as Knaues be such abroad, - 3337 Who hauing by their owne importunate suit, - 3338 Or voluntary dotage of some Mistris, - 3339 Conuinced or supply'd them, cannot chuse - 3340 But they must blab.) - 3341 Oth. Hath he said any thing? - 3342 Iago. He hath (my Lord) but be you well assur'd, - 3343 No more then he'le vn-sweare - 3344 - 3345 Oth. What hath he said? - 3346 Iago. Why, that he did: I know not what he did - 3347 - 3348 Othe. What? What? - 3349 Iago. Lye - 3350 - 3351 Oth. With her? - 3352 Iago. With her? On her: what you will - 3353 - 3354 Othe. Lye with her? lye on her? We say lye on her, - 3355 when they be-lye-her. Lye with her: that's fullsome: - 3356 Handkerchiefe: Confessions: Handkerchiefe. To confesse, - 3357 and be hang'd for his labour. First, to be hang'd, - 3358 and then to confesse: I tremble at it. Nature would not - 3359 inuest her selfe in such shadowing passion, without some - 3360 Instruction. It is not words that shakes me thus, (pish) - 3361 Noses, Eares, and Lippes: is't possible. Confesse? Handkerchiefe? - 3362 O diuell. - 3363 - 3364 Falls in a Traunce. - 3365 - 3366 Iago. Worke on, - 3367 My Medicine workes. Thus credulous Fooles are caught, - 3368 And many worthy, and chast Dames euen thus, - 3369 (All guiltlesse) meete reproach: what hoa? My Lord? - 3370 My Lord, I say: Othello. - 3371 Enter Cassio. - 3372 - 3373 How now Cassio? - 3374 Cas. What's the matter? - 3375 Iago. My Lord is falne into an Epilepsie, - 3376 This is his second Fit: he had one yesterday - 3377 - 3378 Cas. Rub him about the Temples - 3379 - 3380 Iago. The Lethargie must haue his quyet course: - 3381 If not, he foames at mouth: and by and by - 3382 Breakes out to sauage madnesse. Looke, he stirres: - 3383 Do you withdraw your selfe a little while, - 3384 He will recouer straight: when he is gone, - 3385 I would on great occasion, speake with you. - 3386 How is it Generall? Haue you not hurt your head? - 3387 Othe. Dost thou mocke me? - 3388 Iago. I mocke you not, by Heauen: - 3389 Would you would beare your Fortune like a Man - 3390 - 3391 Othe. A Horned man's a Monster, and a Beast - 3392 - 3393 Iago. Ther's many a Beast then in a populous Citty, - 3394 And many a ciuill Monster - 3395 - 3396 Othe. Did he confesse it? - 3397 Iago. Good Sir, be a man: - 3398 Thinke euery bearded fellow that's but yoak'd - 3399 May draw with you. There's Millions now aliue, - 3400 That nightly lye in those vnproper beds, - 3401 Which they dare sweare peculiar. Your case is better. - 3402 Oh, 'tis the spight of hell, the Fiends Arch-mock, - 3403 To lip a wanton in a secure Cowch; - 3404 And to suppose her chast. No, let me know, - 3405 And knowing what I am, I know what she shallbe - 3406 - 3407 Oth. Oh, thou art wise: 'tis certaine - 3408 - 3409 Iago. Stand you a while apart, - 3410 Confine your selfe but in a patient List, - 3411 Whil'st you were heere, o're-whelmed with your griefe - 3412 (A passion most resulting such a man) - 3413 Cassio came hither: I shifted him away, - 3414 And layd good scuses vpon your Extasie, - 3415 Bad him anon returne: and heere speake with me, - 3416 The which he promis'd. Do but encaue your selfe, - 3417 And marke the Fleeres, the Gybes, and notable Scornes - 3418 That dwell in euery Region of his face. - 3419 For I will make him tell the Tale anew; - 3420 Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when - 3421 He hath, and is againe to cope your wife. - 3422 I say, but marke his gesture: marry Patience, - 3423 Or I shall say y'are all in all in Spleene, - 3424 And nothing of a man - 3425 - 3426 Othe. Do'st thou heare, Iago, - 3427 I will be found most cunning in my Patience: - 3428 But (do'st thou heare) most bloody - 3429 - 3430 Iago. That's not amisse, - 3431 But yet keepe time in all: will you withdraw? - 3432 Now will I question Cassio of Bianca, - 3433 A Huswife that by selling her desires - 3434 Buyes her selfe Bread, and Cloath. It is a Creature - 3435 That dotes on Cassio, (as 'tis the Strumpets plague - 3436 To be-guile many, and be be-guil'd by one) - 3437 He, when he heares of her, cannot restraine - 3438 From the excesse of Laughter. Heere he comes. - 3439 Enter Cassio. - 3440 - 3441 As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad: - 3442 And his vnbookish Ielousie must conserue - 3443 Poore Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behauiours - 3444 Quite in the wrong. How do you Lieutenant? - 3445 Cas. The worser, that you giue me the addition, - 3446 Whose want euen killes me - 3447 - 3448 Iago. Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on't: - 3449 Now, if this Suit lay in Bianca's dowre, - 3450 How quickely should you speed? - 3451 Cas. Alas poore Caitiffe - 3452 - 3453 Oth. Looke how he laughes already - 3454 - 3455 Iago. I neuer knew woman loue man so - 3456 - 3457 Cas. Alas poore Rogue, I thinke indeed she loues me - 3458 - 3459 Oth. Now he denies it faintly: and laughes it out - 3460 - 3461 Iago. Do you heare Cassio? - 3462 Oth. Now he importunes him - 3463 To tell it o're: go too, well said, well said - 3464 - 3465 Iago. She giues it out, that you shall marry her. - 3466 Do you intend it? - 3467 Cas. Ha, ha, ha - 3468 - 3469 Oth. Do ye triumph, Romaine? do you triumph? - 3470 Cas. I marry. What? A customer; prythee beare - 3471 Some Charitie to my wit, do not thinke it - 3472 So vnwholesome. Ha, ha, ha - 3473 - 3474 Oth. So, so, so, so: they laugh, that winnes - 3475 - 3476 Iago. Why the cry goes, that you marry her - 3477 - 3478 Cas. Prythee say true - 3479 - 3480 Iago. I am a very Villaine else - 3481 - 3482 Oth. Haue you scoar'd me? Well - 3483 - 3484 Cas. This is the Monkeys owne giuing out: - 3485 She is perswaded I will marry her - 3486 Out of her owne loue & flattery, not out of my promise - 3487 - 3488 Oth. Iago becomes me: now he begins the story - 3489 - 3490 Cassio. She was heere euen now: she haunts me in euery - 3491 place. I was the other day talking on the Seabanke - 3492 with certaine Venetians, and thither comes the - 3493 Bauble, and falls me thus about my neck - 3494 - 3495 Oth. Crying oh deere Cassio, as it were: his iesture imports - 3496 it - 3497 - 3498 Cassio. So hangs, and lolls, and weepes vpon me: - 3499 So shakes, and pulls me. Ha, ha, ha - 3500 - 3501 Oth. Now he tells how she pluckt him to my Chamber: - 3502 oh, I see that nose of yours, but not that dogge, I - 3503 shall throw it to - 3504 - 3505 Cassio. Well, I must leaue her companie - 3506 - 3507 Iago. Before me: looke where she comes. - 3508 Enter Bianca. - 3509 - 3510 Cas. 'Tis such another Fitchew: marry a perfum'd one? - 3511 What do you meane by this haunting of me? - 3512 Bian. Let the diuell, and his dam haunt you: what - 3513 did you meane by that same Handkerchiefe, you gaue - 3514 me euen now? I was a fine Foole to take it: I must take - 3515 out the worke? A likely piece of worke, that you should - 3516 finde it in your Chamber, and know not who left it there. - 3517 This is some Minxes token, & I must take out the worke? - 3518 There, giue it your Hobbey-horse, wheresoeuer you had - 3519 it, Ile take out no worke on't - 3520 - 3521 Cassio. How now, my sweete Bianca? - 3522 How now? How now? - 3523 Othe. By Heauen, that should be my Handkerchiefe - 3524 - 3525 Bian. If you'le come to supper to night you may, if - 3526 you will not come when you are next prepar'd for. - 3527 - 3528 Exit - 3529 - 3530 Iago. After her: after her - 3531 - 3532 Cas. I must, shee'l rayle in the streets else - 3533 - 3534 Iago. Will you sup there? - 3535 Cassio. Yes, I intend so - 3536 - 3537 Iago. Well, I may chance to see you: for I would very - 3538 faine speake with you - 3539 - 3540 Cas. Prythee come: will you? - 3541 Iago. Go too; say no more - 3542 - 3543 Oth. How shall I murther him, Iago - 3544 - 3545 Iago. Did you perceiue how he laugh'd at his vice? - 3546 Oth. Oh, Iago - 3547 - 3548 Iago. And did you see the Handkerchiefe? - 3549 Oth. Was that mine? - 3550 Iago. Yours by this hand: and to see how he prizes - 3551 the foolish woman your wife: she gaue it him and, he - 3552 hath giu'n it his whore - 3553 - 3554 Oth. I would haue him nine yeeres a killing: - 3555 A fine woman, a faire woman, a sweete woman? - 3556 Iago. Nay, you must forget that - 3557 - 3558 Othello. I, let her rot and perish, and be damn'd to - 3559 night, for she shall not liue. No, my heart is turn'd to - 3560 stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand. Oh, the world - 3561 hath not a sweeter Creature: she might lye by an Emperours - 3562 side, and command him Taskes - 3563 - 3564 Iago. Nay, that's not your way - 3565 - 3566 Othe. Hang her, I do but say what she is: so delicate - 3567 with her Needle: an admirable Musitian. Oh she will - 3568 sing the Sauagenesse out of a Beare: of so high and plenteous - 3569 wit, and inuention? - 3570 Iago. She's the worse for all this - 3571 - 3572 Othe. Oh, a thousand, a thousand times: - 3573 And then of so gentle a condition? - 3574 Iago. I too gentle - 3575 - 3576 Othe. Nay that's certaine: - 3577 But yet the pitty of it, Iago: oh Iago, the pitty of it - 3578 Iago - 3579 - 3580 Iago. If you are so fond ouer her iniquitie: giue her - 3581 pattent to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes neere - 3582 no body - 3583 - 3584 Oth. I will chop her into Messes: Cuckold me? - 3585 Iago. Oh, 'tis foule in her - 3586 - 3587 Oth. With mine Officer? - 3588 Iago. That's fouler - 3589 - 3590 Othe. Get me some poyson, Iago, this night. Ile not - 3591 expostulate with her: least her body and beautie vnprouide - 3592 my mind againe: this night Iago - 3593 - 3594 Iago. Do it not with poyson, strangle her in her bed, - 3595 Euen the bed she hath contaminated - 3596 - 3597 Oth. Good, good: - 3598 The Iustice of it pleases: very good - 3599 - 3600 Iago. And for Cassio, let me be his vndertaker: - 3601 You shall heare more by midnight. - 3602 Enter Lodouico, Desdemona, and Attendants. - 3603 - 3604 Othe. Excellent good: What Trumpet is that same? - 3605 Iago. I warrant something from Venice, - 3606 'Tis Lodouico, this, comes from the Duke. - 3607 See, your wife's with him - 3608 - 3609 Lodo. Saue you worthy Generall - 3610 - 3611 Othe. With all my heart Sir - 3612 - 3613 Lod. The Duke, and the Senators of Venice greet you - 3614 - 3615 Othe. I kisse the Instrument of their pleasures - 3616 - 3617 Des. And what's the newes, good cozen Lodouico - 3618 Iago. I am very glad to see you Signior: - 3619 Welcome to Cyprus - 3620 - 3621 Lod. I thanke you: how do's Lieutenant Cassio? - 3622 Iago. Liues Sir, - 3623 Des. Cozen, there's falne betweene him, & my Lord, - 3624 An vnkind breach: but you shall make all well - 3625 - 3626 Othe. Are you sure of that? - 3627 Des. My Lord? - 3628 Othe. This faile you not to do, as you will- - 3629 Lod. He did not call: he's busie in the paper, - 3630 Is there deuision 'twixt my Lord, and Cassio? - 3631 Des. A most vnhappy one: I would do much - 3632 T' attone, them, for the loue I beare to Cassio - 3633 - 3634 Oth. Fire, and brimestone - 3635 - 3636 Des. My Lord - 3637 - 3638 Oth. Are you wise? - 3639 Des. What is he angrie? - 3640 Lod. May be the Letter mou'd him. - 3641 For as I thinke, they do command him home, - 3642 Deputing Cassio in his Gouernment - 3643 - 3644 Des. Trust me, I am glad on't - 3645 - 3646 Othe. Indeed? - 3647 Des. My Lord? - 3648 Othe. I am glad to see you mad - 3649 - 3650 Des. Why, sweete Othello? - 3651 Othe. Diuell - 3652 - 3653 Des. I haue not deseru'd this - 3654 - 3655 Lod. My Lord, this would not be beleeu'd in Venice, - 3656 Though I should sweare I saw't. 'Tis very much, - 3657 Make her amends: she weepes - 3658 - 3659 Othe. Oh diuell, diuell: - 3660 If that the Earth could teeme with womans teares, - 3661 Each drop she falls, would proue a Crocodile: - 3662 Out of my sight - 3663 - 3664 Des. I will not stay to offend you - 3665 - 3666 Lod. Truely obedient Lady: - 3667 I do beseech your Lordship call her backe - 3668 - 3669 Othe. Mistris - 3670 - 3671 Des. My Lord - 3672 - 3673 Othe. What would you with her, Sir? - 3674 Lod. Who I, my Lord? - 3675 Othe. I, you did wish, that I would make her turne: - 3676 Sir, she can turne, and turne: and yet go on - 3677 And turne againe. And she can weepe, Sir, weepe. - 3678 And she's obedient: as you say obedient. - 3679 Very obedient: proceed you in your teares. - 3680 Concerning this Sir, (oh well-painted passion) - 3681 I am commanded home: get you away: - 3682 Ile send for you anon. Sir I obey the Mandate, - 3683 And will returne to Venice. Hence, auaunt: - 3684 Cassio shall haue my Place. And Sir, to night - 3685 I do entreat, that we may sup together. - 3686 You are welcome Sir to Cyprus. - 3687 Goates, and Monkeys. - 3688 Enter. - 3689 - 3690 Lod. Is this the Noble Moore, whom our full Senate - 3691 Call all in all sufficient? Is this the Nature - 3692 Whom Passion could not shake? Whose solid vertue - 3693 The shot of Accident, nor dart of Chance - 3694 Could neither graze, nor pierce? - 3695 Iago. He is much chang'd - 3696 - 3697 Lod. Are his wits safe? Is he not light of Braine? - 3698 Iago. He's that he is: I may not breath my censure. - 3699 What he might be: if what he might, he is not, - 3700 I would to heauen he were - 3701 - 3702 Lod. What? Strike his wife? - 3703 Iago. 'Faith that was not so well: yet would I knew - 3704 That stroke would proue the worst - 3705 - 3706 Lod. Is it his vse? - 3707 Or did the Letters, worke vpon his blood, - 3708 And new create his fault? - 3709 Iago. Alas, alas: - 3710 It is not honestie in me to speake - 3711 What I haue seene, and knowne. You shall obserue him, - 3712 And his owne courses will denote him so, - 3713 That I may saue my speech: do but go after - 3714 And marke how he continues - 3715 - 3716 Lod. I am sorry that I am deceiu'd in him. - 3717 - 3718 Exeunt. - 3719 - 3720 - 3721 Scena Secunda. - 3722 - 3723 Enter Othello and aemilia. - 3724 - 3725 Othe. You haue seene nothing then? - 3726 Aemil. Nor euer heard: nor euer did suspect - 3727 - 3728 Othe. Yes, you haue seene Cassio, and she together - 3729 - 3730 Aemi. But then I saw no harme: and then I heard, - 3731 Each syllable that breath made vp betweene them - 3732 - 3733 Othe. What? Did they neuer whisper? - 3734 Aemil. Neuer my Lord - 3735 - 3736 Othe. Nor send you out o'th' way? - 3737 Aemil. Neuer - 3738 - 3739 Othe. To fetch her Fan, her Gloues, her Mask, nor nothing? - 3740 Aemil. Neuer my Lord - 3741 - 3742 Othe. That's strange. - 3743 Aemil. I durst (my Lord) to wager, she is honest: - 3744 Lay downe my Soule at stake: If you thinke other, - 3745 Remoue your thought. It doth abuse your bosome: - 3746 If any wretch haue put this in your head, - 3747 Let Heauen requit it with the Serpents curse, - 3748 For if she be not honest, chaste, and true, - 3749 There's no man happy. The purest of their Wiues - 3750 Is foule as Slander - 3751 - 3752 Othe. Bid her come hither: go. - 3753 - 3754 Exit aemilia. - 3755 - 3756 She saies enough: yet she's a simple Baud - 3757 That cannot say as much. This is a subtile Whore: - 3758 A Closset Locke and Key of Villanous Secrets, - 3759 And yet she'le kneele, and pray: I haue seene her do't. - 3760 Enter Desdemona, and aemilia. - 3761 - 3762 Des. My Lord, what is your will? - 3763 Othe. Pray you Chucke come hither - 3764 - 3765 Des. What is your pleasure? - 3766 Oth. Let me see your eyes: looke in my face - 3767 - 3768 Des. What horrible Fancie's this? - 3769 Othe. Some of your Function Mistris: - 3770 Leaue Procreants alone, and shut the doore: - 3771 Cough, or cry hem; if any body come: - 3772 Your Mystery, your Mystery: May dispatch. - 3773 - 3774 Exit aemi. - 3775 - 3776 Des. Vpon my knee, what doth your speech import? - 3777 I vnderstand a Fury in your words - 3778 - 3779 Othe. Why? What art thou? - 3780 Des. Your wife my Lord: your true and loyall wife - 3781 - 3782 Othello. Come sweare it: damne thy selfe, least - 3783 being like one of Heauen, the diuells themselues should - 3784 feare to ceaze thee. Therefore be double damn'd: sweare - 3785 thou art honest - 3786 - 3787 Des. Heauen doth truely know it - 3788 - 3789 Othe. Heauen truely knowes, that thou art false as hell - 3790 - 3791 Des. To whom my Lord? - 3792 With whom? How am I false? - 3793 Othe. Ah Desdemon, away, away, away - 3794 - 3795 Des. Alas the heauy day: why do you weepe? - 3796 Am I the motiue of these teares my Lord? - 3797 If happely you my Father do suspect, - 3798 An Instrument of this your calling backe, - 3799 Lay not your blame on me: if you haue lost him, - 3800 I haue lost him too - 3801 - 3802 Othe. Had it pleas'd Heauen, - 3803 To try me with Affliction, had they rain'd - 3804 All kind of Sores, and Shames on my bare-head: - 3805 Steep'd me in pouertie to the very lippes. - 3806 Giuen to Captiuitie, me, and my vtmost hopes, - 3807 I should haue found in some place of my Soule - 3808 A drop of patience. But alas, to make me - 3809 The fixed Figure for the time of Scorne, - 3810 To point his slow, and mouing finger at. - 3811 Yet could I beare that too, well, very well: - 3812 But there where I haue garnerd vp my heart, - 3813 Where either I must liue, or beare no life, - 3814 The Fountaine from the which my currant runnes, - 3815 Or else dries vp: to be discarded thence, - 3816 Or keepe it as a Cesterne, for foule Toades - 3817 To knot and gender in. Turne thy complexion there: - 3818 Patience, thou young and Rose-lip'd Cherubin, - 3819 I heere looke grim as hell - 3820 - 3821 Des. I hope my Noble Lord esteemes me honest - 3822 - 3823 Othe. Oh I, as Sommer Flyes are in the Shambles, - 3824 That quicken euen with blowing. Oh thou weed: - 3825 Who art so louely faire, and smell'st so sweete, - 3826 That the Sense akes at thee, - 3827 Would thou had'st neuer bin borne - 3828 - 3829 Des. Alas, what ignorant sin haue I committed? - 3830 Othe. Was this faire Paper? This most goodly Booke - 3831 Made to write Whore vpon? What commited, - 3832 Committed? Oh, thou publicke Commoner, - 3833 I should make very Forges of my cheekes, - 3834 That would to Cynders burne vp Modestie, - 3835 Did I but speake thy deedes. What commited? - 3836 Heauen stoppes the Nose at it, and the Moone winks: - 3837 The baudy winde that kisses all it meetes, - 3838 Is hush'd within the hollow Myne of Earth - 3839 And will not hear't. What commited? - 3840 Des. By Heauen you do me wrong - 3841 - 3842 Othe. Are not you a Strumpet? - 3843 Des. No, as I am a Christian. - 3844 If to preserue this vessell for my Lord, - 3845 From any other foule vnlawfull touch - 3846 Be not to be a Strumpet, I am none - 3847 - 3848 Othe. What, not a Whore? - 3849 Des. No, as I shall be sau'd - 3850 - 3851 Othe. Is't possible? - 3852 Des. Oh Heauen forgiue vs - 3853 - 3854 Othe. I cry you mercy then. - 3855 I tooke you for that cunning Whore of Venice, - 3856 That married with Othello. You Mistris, - 3857 Enter aemilia. - 3858 - 3859 That haue the office opposite to Saint Peter, - 3860 And keepes the gate of hell. You, you: I you. - 3861 We haue done our course: there's money for your paines: - 3862 I pray you turne the key, and keepe our counsaile. - 3863 Enter. - 3864 - 3865 Aemil. Alas, what do's this Gentleman conceiue? - 3866 How do you Madam? how do you my good Lady? - 3867 Des. Faith, halfe a sleepe - 3868 - 3869 Aemi. Good Madam, - 3870 What's the matter with my Lord? - 3871 Des. With who? - 3872 Aemil. Why, with my Lord, Madam? - 3873 Des. Who is thy Lord? - 3874 Aemil. He that is yours, sweet Lady - 3875 - 3876 Des. I haue none: do not talke to me, aemilia, - 3877 I cannot weepe: nor answeres haue I none, - 3878 But what should go by water. Prythee to night, - 3879 Lay on my bed my wedding sheetes, remember, - 3880 And call thy husband hither. - 3881 Aemil. Heere's a change indeed. - 3882 Enter. - 3883 - 3884 Des. 'Tis meete I should be vs'd so: very meete. - 3885 How haue I bin behau'd, that he might sticke - 3886 The small'st opinion on my least misvse? - 3887 Enter Iago, and aemilia. - 3888 - 3889 Iago. What is your pleasure Madam? - 3890 How is't with you? - 3891 Des. I cannot tell: those that do teach yong Babes - 3892 Do it with gentle meanes, and easie taskes. - 3893 He might haue chid me so; for in good faith - 3894 I am a Child to chiding - 3895 - 3896 Iago. What is the matter Lady? - 3897 Aemil. Alas (Iago) my Lord hath so bewhor'd her, - 3898 Throwne such dispight, and heauy termes vpon her - 3899 That true hearts cannot beare it - 3900 - 3901 Des. Am I that name, Iago? - 3902 Iago. What name, (faire Lady?) - 3903 Des. Such as she said my Lord did say I was. - 3904 Aemil. He call'd her whore: a Begger in his drinke: - 3905 Could not haue laid such termes vpon his Callet - 3906 - 3907 Iago. Why did he so? - 3908 Des. I do not know: I am sure I am none such - 3909 - 3910 Iago. Do not weepe, do not weepe: alas the day. - 3911 Aemil. Hath she forsooke so many Noble Matches? - 3912 Her Father? And her Country? And her Friends? - 3913 To be call'd Whore? Would it not make one weepe? - 3914 Des. It is my wretched Fortune - 3915 - 3916 Iago. Beshrew him for't: - 3917 How comes this Tricke vpon him? - 3918 Des. Nay, Heauen doth know - 3919 - 3920 Aemi. I will be hang'd, if some eternall Villaine, - 3921 Some busie and insinuating Rogue, - 3922 Some cogging, cozening Slaue, to get some Office, - 3923 Haue not deuis'd this Slander: I will be hang'd else - 3924 - 3925 Iago. Fie, there is no such man: it is impossible - 3926 - 3927 Des. If any such there be, Heauen pardon him. - 3928 Aemil. A halter pardon him: - 3929 And hell gnaw his bones. - 3930 Why should he call her Whore? - 3931 Who keepes her companie? - 3932 What Place? What Time? - 3933 What Forme? What liklyhood? - 3934 The Moore's abus'd by some most villanous Knaue, - 3935 Some base notorious Knaue, some scuruy Fellow. - 3936 Oh Heauens, that such companions thou'd'st vnfold, - 3937 And put in euery honest hand a whip - 3938 To lash the Rascalls naked through the world, - 3939 Euen from the East to th' West - 3940 - 3941 Iago. Speake within doore. - 3942 Aemil. Oh fie vpon them: some such Squire he was - 3943 That turn'd your wit, the seamy-side without, - 3944 And made you to suspect me with the Moore - 3945 - 3946 Iago. You are a Foole: go too - 3947 - 3948 Des. Alas Iago, - 3949 What shall I do to win my Lord againe? - 3950 Good Friend, go to him: for by this light of Heauen, - 3951 I know not how I lost him. Heere I kneele: - 3952 If ere my will did trespasse 'gainst his Loue, - 3953 Either in discourse of thought, or actuall deed, - 3954 Or that mine Eyes, mine Eares, or any Sence - 3955 Delighted them: or any other Forme. - 3956 Or that I do not yet, and euer did, - 3957 And euer will, (though he do shake me off - 3958 To beggerly diuorcement) Loue him deerely, - 3959 Comfort forsweare me. Vnkindnesse may do much, - 3960 And his vnkindnesse may defeat my life, - 3961 But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore, - 3962 It do's abhorre me now I speake the word, - 3963 To do the Act, that might the addition earne, - 3964 Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me - 3965 - 3966 Iago. I pray you be content: 'tis but his humour: - 3967 The businesse of the State do's him offence - 3968 - 3969 Des. If 'twere no other - 3970 - 3971 Iago. It is but so, I warrant, - 3972 Hearke how these Instruments summon to supper: - 3973 The Messengers of Venice staies the meate, - 3974 Go in, and weepe not: all things shall be well. - 3975 - 3976 Exeunt. Desdemona and aemilia. - 3977 - 3978 Enter Rodorigo. - 3979 - 3980 How now Rodorigo? - 3981 Rod. I do not finde - 3982 That thou deal'st iustly with me - 3983 - 3984 Iago. What in the contrarie? - 3985 Rodori. Euery day thou dafts me with some deuise - 3986 Iago, and rather, as it seemes to me now, keep'st from - 3987 me all conueniencie, then suppliest me with the least aduantage - 3988 of hope: I will indeed no longer endure it. Nor - 3989 am I yet perswaded to put vp in peace, what already I - 3990 haue foolishly suffred - 3991 - 3992 Iago. Will you heare me Rodorigo? - 3993 Rodori. I haue heard too much: and your words and - 3994 Performances are no kin together - 3995 - 3996 Iago. You charge me most vniustly - 3997 - 3998 Rodo. With naught but truth: I haue wasted my - 3999 selfe out of my meanes. The Iewels you haue had from - 4000 me to deliuer Desdemona, would halfe haue corrupted a - 4001 Votarist. You haue told me she hath receiu'd them, - 4002 and return'd me expectations and comforts of sodaine - 4003 respect, and acquaintance, but I finde none - 4004 - 4005 Iago. Well, go too: very well - 4006 - 4007 Rod. Very well, go too: I cannot go too, (man) nor - 4008 'tis not very well. Nay I think it is scuruy: and begin to - 4009 finde my selfe fopt in it - 4010 - 4011 Iago. Very well - 4012 - 4013 Rodor. I tell you, 'tis not very well: I will make my - 4014 selfe knowne to Desdemona. If she will returne me my - 4015 Iewels, I will giue ouer my Suit, and repent my vnlawfull - 4016 solicitation. If not, assure your selfe, I will seeke - 4017 satisfaction of you - 4018 - 4019 Iago. You haue said now - 4020 - 4021 Rodo. I: and said nothing but what I protest intendment - 4022 of doing - 4023 - 4024 Iago. Why, now I see there's mettle in thee: and - 4025 euen from this instant do build on thee a better opinion - 4026 then euer before: giue me thy hand Rodorigo. - 4027 Thou hast taken against me a most iust exception: - 4028 but yet I protest I haue dealt most directly in thy - 4029 Affaire - 4030 - 4031 Rod. It hath not appeer'd - 4032 - 4033 Iago. I grant indeed it hath not appeer'd: and - 4034 your suspition is not without wit and iudgement. - 4035 But Rodorigo, if thou hast that in thee indeed, which - 4036 I haue greater reason to beleeue now then euer (I - 4037 meane purpose, Courage, and Valour) this night - 4038 shew it. If thou the next night following enioy not - 4039 Desdemona, take me from this world with Treacherie, - 4040 and deuise Engines for my life - 4041 - 4042 Rod. Well: what is it? Is it within, reason and compasse? - 4043 Iago. Sir, there is especiall Commission come from - 4044 Venice to depute Cassio in Othello's place - 4045 - 4046 Rod. Is that true? Why then Othello and Desdemona - 4047 returne againe to Venice - 4048 - 4049 Iago. Oh no: he goes into Mauritania and taketh - 4050 away with him the faire Desdemona, vnlesse his abode - 4051 be lingred heere by some accident. Wherein - 4052 none can be so determinate, as the remouing of - 4053 Cassio - 4054 - 4055 Rod. How do you meane remouing him? - 4056 Iago. Why, by making him vncapable of Othello's - 4057 place: knocking out his braines - 4058 - 4059 Rod. And that you would haue me to do - 4060 - 4061 Iago. I: if you dare do your selfe a profit, and a - 4062 right. He sups to night with a Harlotry: and thither - 4063 will I go to him. He knowes not yet of his Honourable - 4064 Fortune, if you will watch his going thence (which - 4065 I will fashion to fall out betweene twelue and one) - 4066 you may take him at your pleasure. I will be neere - 4067 to second your Attempt, and he shall fall betweene - 4068 vs. Come, stand not amaz'd at it, but go along with - 4069 me: I will shew you such a necessitie in his death, that - 4070 you shall thinke your selfe bound to put it on him. It - 4071 is now high supper time: and the night growes to wast. - 4072 About it - 4073 - 4074 Rod. I will heare further reason for this - 4075 - 4076 Iago. And you shalbe satisfi'd. - 4077 - 4078 Exeunt. - 4079 - 4080 - 4081 Scena Tertia. - 4082 - 4083 Enter Othello, Lodouico, Desdemona, aemilia, and Atendants. - 4084 - 4085 Lod. I do beseech you Sir, trouble your selfe no further - 4086 - 4087 Oth. Oh pardon me: 'twill do me good to walke - 4088 - 4089 Lodoui. Madam, good night: I humbly thanke your - 4090 Ladyship - 4091 - 4092 Des. Your Honour is most welcome - 4093 - 4094 Oth. Will you walke Sir? Oh Desdemona - 4095 - 4096 Des. My Lord - 4097 - 4098 Othello. Get you to bed on th' instant, I will be return'd - 4099 forthwith: dismisse your Attendant there: look't - 4100 be done. - 4101 Enter. - 4102 - 4103 Des. I will my Lord - 4104 - 4105 Aem. How goes it now? He lookes gentler then he did - 4106 - 4107 Des. He saies he will returne incontinent, - 4108 And hath commanded me to go to bed, - 4109 And bid me to dismisse you - 4110 - 4111 Aemi. Dismisse me? - 4112 Des. It was his bidding: therefore good aemilia, - 4113 Giue me my nightly wearing, and adieu. - 4114 We must not now displease him. - 4115 Aemil. I, would you had neuer seene him - 4116 - 4117 Des. So would not I: my loue doth so approue him, - 4118 That euen his stubbornesse, his checks, his frownes, - 4119 (Prythee vn-pin me) haue grace and fauour - 4120 - 4121 Aemi. I haue laid those Sheetes you bad me on the bed - 4122 - 4123 Des. All's one: good Father, how foolish are our minds? - 4124 If I do die before, prythee shrow'd me - 4125 In one of these same Sheetes. - 4126 Aemil. Come, come: you talke - 4127 - 4128 Des. My Mother had a Maid call'd Barbarie, - 4129 She was in loue: and he she lou'd prou'd mad, - 4130 And did forsake her. She had a Song of Willough, - 4131 An old thing 'twas: but it express'd her Fortune, - 4132 And she dy'd singing it. That Song to night, - 4133 Will not go from my mind: I haue much to do, - 4134 But to go hang my head all at one side - 4135 And sing it like poore Barbarie: prythee dispatch - 4136 - 4137 Aemi. Shall I go fetch your Night-gowne? - 4138 Des. No, vn-pin me here, - 4139 This Lodouico is a proper man. - 4140 Aemil. A very handsome man - 4141 - 4142 Des. He speakes well. - 4143 Aemil. I know a Lady in Venice would haue walk'd - 4144 barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip - 4145 - 4146 Des. The poore Soule sat singing, by a Sicamour tree. - 4147 Sing all a greene Willough: - 4148 Her hand on her bosome her head on her knee, - 4149 Sing Willough, Willough, Willough. - 4150 The fresh Streames ran by her, and murmur'd her moanes - 4151 Sing Willough, &c. - 4152 Her salt teares fell from her, and softned the stones, - 4153 Sing Willough, &c. (Lay by these) - 4154 Willough, Willough. (Prythee high thee: he'le come anon) - 4155 Sing all a greene Willough must be my Garland. - 4156 Let no body blame him, his scorne I approue. - 4157 (Nay that's not next. Harke, who is't that knocks? - 4158 Aemil. It's the wind - 4159 - 4160 Des. I call'd my Loue false Loue: but what said he then? - 4161 Sing Willough, &c. - 4162 If I court mo women, you'le couch with mo men. - 4163 So get thee gone, good night: mine eyes do itch: - 4164 Doth that boade weeping? - 4165 Aemil. 'Tis neyther heere, nor there - 4166 - 4167 Des. I haue heard it said so. O these Men, these men! - 4168 Do'st thou in conscience thinke (tell me aemilia) - 4169 That there be women do abuse their husbands - 4170 In such grosse kinde? - 4171 Aemil. There be some such, no question - 4172 - 4173 Des. Would'st thou do such a deed for all the world? - 4174 Aemil. Why, would not you? - 4175 Des. No, by this Heauenly light. - 4176 Aemil. Nor I neither, by this Heauenly light: - 4177 I might doo't as well i'th' darke - 4178 - 4179 Des. Would'st thou do such a deed for al the world? - 4180 Aemil. The world's a huge thing: - 4181 It is a great price, for a small vice - 4182 - 4183 Des. Introth, I thinke thou would'st not. - 4184 Aemil. Introth I thinke I should, and vndoo't when - 4185 I had done. Marry, I would not doe such a thing for a - 4186 ioynt Ring, nor for measures of Lawne, nor for Gownes, - 4187 Petticoats, nor Caps, nor any petty exhibition. But for - 4188 all the whole world: why, who would not make her husband - 4189 a Cuckold, to make him a Monarch? I should venture - 4190 Purgatory for't - 4191 - 4192 Des. Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong - 4193 For the whole world. - 4194 Aemil. Why, the wrong is but a wrong i'th' world; - 4195 and hauing the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in - 4196 your owne world, and you might quickly make it right - 4197 - 4198 Des. I do not thinke there is any such woman. - 4199 Aemil. Yes, a dozen: and as many to'th' vantage, as - 4200 would store the world they plaid for. - 4201 But I do thinke it is their Husbands faults - 4202 If Wiues do fall: (Say, that they slacke their duties, - 4203 And powre our Treasures into forraigne laps; - 4204 Or else breake out in peeuish Iealousies, - 4205 Throwing restraint vpon vs: Or say they strike vs, - 4206 Or scant our former hauing in despight) - 4207 Why we haue galles: and though we haue some Grace, - 4208 Yet haue we some Reuenge. Let Husbands know, - 4209 Their wiues haue sense like them: They see, and smell, - 4210 And haue their Palats both for sweet, and sowre, - 4211 As Husbands haue. What is it that they do, - 4212 When they change vs for others? Is it Sport? - 4213 I thinke it is: and doth Affection breed it? - 4214 I thinke it doth. Is't Frailty that thus erres? - 4215 It is so too. And haue not we Affections? - 4216 Desires for Sport? and Frailty, as men haue? - 4217 Then let them vse vs well: else let them know, - 4218 The illes we do, their illes instruct vs so - 4219 - 4220 Des. Good night, good night: - 4221 Heauen me such vses send, - 4222 Not to picke bad, from bad; but by bad, mend. - 4223 - 4224 Exeunt. - 4225 - 4226 Actus Quintus. Scena Prima. - 4227 - 4228 Enter Iago, and Rodorigo. - 4229 - 4230 Iago. Heere, stand behinde this Barke, - 4231 Straight will he come: - 4232 Weare thy good Rapier bare, and put it home: - 4233 Quicke, quicke, feare nothing; Ile be at thy Elbow, - 4234 It makes vs, or it marres vs, thinke on that, - 4235 And fixe most firme thy Resolution - 4236 - 4237 Rod. Be neere at hand, I may miscarry in't - 4238 - 4239 Iago. Heere, at thy hand: Be bold, & take thy stand - 4240 - 4241 Rod. I haue no great deuotion to the deed, - 4242 And yet he hath giuen me satisfying Reasons: - 4243 'Tis but a man gone. Forth my Sword: he dies - 4244 - 4245 Iago. I haue rub'd this yong Quat almost to the sense, - 4246 And he growes angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio, - 4247 Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, - 4248 Euery way makes my gaine. Liue Rodorigo, - 4249 He calles me to a restitution large - 4250 Of Gold, and Iewels, that I bob'd from him, - 4251 As Guifts to Desdemona. - 4252 It must not be: If Cassio do remaine, - 4253 He hath a dayly beauty in his life, - 4254 That makes me vgly: and besides, the Moore - 4255 May vnfold me to him: there stand I in much perill: - 4256 No, he must dye. But so, I heard him comming. - 4257 Enter Cassio. - 4258 - 4259 Rod. I know his gate, 'tis he: Villaine thou dyest - 4260 - 4261 Cas. That thrust had beene mine enemy indeed, - 4262 But that my Coate is better then thou know'st: - 4263 I will make proofe of thine - 4264 - 4265 Rod. Oh, I am slaine - 4266 - 4267 Cassio. I am maym'd for euer: - 4268 Helpe hoa: Murther, murther. - 4269 Enter Othello. - 4270 - 4271 Oth. The voyce of Cassio. Iago keepes his word - 4272 - 4273 Rod. O Villaine that I am - 4274 - 4275 Oth. It is euen so - 4276 - 4277 Cas. Oh helpe hoa: Light, a Surgeon - 4278 - 4279 Oth. 'Tis he: O braue Iago, honest, and iust, - 4280 That hast such Noble sense of thy Friends wrong, - 4281 Thou teachest me. Minion, your deere lyes dead, - 4282 And your vnblest Fate highes: Strumpet I come: - 4283 For of my heart, those Charmes thine Eyes, are blotted. - 4284 Thy Bed lust-stain'd, shall with Lusts blood bee spotted. - 4285 - 4286 Exit Othello. - 4287 - 4288 Enter Lodouico and Gratiano. - 4289 - 4290 Cas. What hoa? no Watch? No passage? - 4291 Murther, Murther - 4292 - 4293 Gra. 'Tis some mischance, the voyce is very direfull - 4294 - 4295 Cas. Oh helpe - 4296 - 4297 Lodo. Hearke - 4298 - 4299 Rod. Oh wretched Villaine - 4300 - 4301 Lod. Two or three groane. 'Tis heauy night; - 4302 These may be counterfeits: Let's think't vnsafe - 4303 To come into the cry, without more helpe - 4304 - 4305 Rod. Nobody come: then shall I bleed to death. - 4306 Enter Iago. - 4307 - 4308 Lod. Hearke - 4309 - 4310 Gra. Here's one comes in his shirt, with Light, and - 4311 Weapons - 4312 - 4313 Iago. Who's there? - 4314 Who's noyse is this that cries on murther? - 4315 Lodo. We do not know - 4316 - 4317 Iago. Do not you heare a cry? - 4318 Cas. Heere, heere: for heauen sake helpe me - 4319 - 4320 Iago. What's the matter? - 4321 Gra. This is Othello's Ancient, as I take it - 4322 - 4323 Lodo. The same indeede, a very valiant Fellow - 4324 - 4325 Iago. What are you heere, that cry so greeuously? - 4326 Cas. Iago? Oh I am spoyl'd, vndone by Villaines: - 4327 Giue me some helpe - 4328 - 4329 Iago. O mee, Lieutenant! - 4330 What Villaines haue done this? - 4331 Cas. I thinke that one of them is heereabout. - 4332 And cannot make away - 4333 - 4334 Iago. Oh treacherous Villaines: - 4335 What are you there? Come in, and giue some helpe - 4336 - 4337 Rod. O helpe me there - 4338 - 4339 Cassio. That's one of them - 4340 - 4341 Iago. Oh murd'rous Slaue! O Villaine! - 4342 Rod. O damn'd Iago! O inhumane Dogge! - 4343 Iago. Kill men i'th' darke? - 4344 Where be these bloody Theeues? - 4345 How silent is this Towne? Hoa, murther, murther. - 4346 What may you be? Are you of good, or euill? - 4347 Lod. As you shall proue vs, praise vs - 4348 - 4349 Iago. Signior Lodouico? - 4350 Lod. He Sir - 4351 - 4352 Iago. I cry you mercy: here's Cassio hurt by Villaines - 4353 - 4354 Gra. Cassio? - 4355 Iago. How is't Brother? - 4356 Cas. My Legge is cut in two - 4357 - 4358 Iago. Marry heauen forbid: - 4359 Light Gentlemen, Ile binde it with my shirt. - 4360 Enter Bianca. - 4361 - 4362 Bian. What is the matter hoa? Who is't that cry'd? - 4363 Iago. Who is't that cry'd? - 4364 Bian. Oh my deere Cassio, - 4365 My sweet Cassio: Oh Cassio, Cassio, Cassio - 4366 - 4367 Iago. O notable Strumpet. Cassio, may you suspect - 4368 Who they should be, that haue thus mangled you? - 4369 Cas. No - 4370 - 4371 Gra. I am sorry to finde you thus; - 4372 I haue beene to seeke you - 4373 - 4374 Iago. Lend me a Garter. So: - Oh for a Chaire - 4375 To beare him easily hence - 4376 - 4377 Bian. Alas he faints. Oh Cassio, Cassio, Cassio - 4378 - 4379 Iago. Gentlemen all, I do suspect this Trash - 4380 To be a party in this Iniurie. - 4381 Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come; - 4382 Lend me a Light: know we this face, or no? - 4383 Alas my Friend, and my deere Countryman - 4384 Rodorigo? No: Yes sure: Yes, 'tis Rodorigo - 4385 - 4386 Gra. What, of Venice? - 4387 Iago. Euen he Sir: Did you know him? - 4388 Gra. Know him? I - 4389 - 4390 Iago. Signior Gratiano? I cry your gentle pardon: - 4391 These bloody accidents must excuse my Manners, - 4392 That so neglected you - 4393 - 4394 Gra. I am glad to see you - 4395 - 4396 Iago. How do you Cassio? Oh, a Chaire, a Chaire - 4397 - 4398 Gra. Rodorigo? - 4399 Iago. He, he, 'tis he: - 4400 Oh that's well said, the Chaire. - 4401 Some good man beare him carefully from hence, - 4402 Ile fetch the Generall's Surgeon. For you Mistris, - 4403 Saue you your labour. He that lies slaine heere (Cassio) - 4404 Was my deere friend. What malice was between you - 4405 - 4406 Cas. None in the world: nor do I know the man? - 4407 Iago. What? looke you pale? Oh beare him o'th' Ayre. - 4408 Stay you good Gentlemen. Looke you pale, Mistris? - 4409 Do you perceiue the gastnesse of her eye? - 4410 Nay, if you stare, we shall heare more anon. - 4411 Behold her well: I pray you looke vpon her: - 4412 Do you see Gentlemen? Nay, guiltinesse will speake - 4413 Though tongues were out of vse. - 4414 Aemil. Alas, what is the matter? - 4415 What is the matter, Husband? - 4416 Iago. Cassio hath heere bin set on in the darke - 4417 By Rodorigo, and Fellowes that are scap'd: - 4418 He's almost slaine, and Rodorigo quite dead. - 4419 Aemil. Alas good Gentleman: alas good Cassio - 4420 - 4421 Iago. This is the fruits of whoring. Prythe aemilia, - 4422 Go know of Cassio where he supt to night. - 4423 What, do you shake at that? - 4424 Bian. He supt at my house, but I therefore shake not - 4425 - 4426 Iago. O did he so? I charge you go with me. - 4427 Aemil. Oh fie vpon thee Strumpet - 4428 - 4429 Bian. I am no Strumpet, but of life as honest, - 4430 As you that thus abuse me. - 4431 Aemil. As I? Fie vpon thee - 4432 - 4433 Iago. Kinde Gentlemen: - 4434 Let's go see poore Cassio drest. - 4435 Come Mistris, you must tel's another Tale. - 4436 aemilia, run you to the Cittadell, - 4437 And tell my Lord and Lady, what hath happ'd: - 4438 Will you go on afore? This is the night - 4439 That either makes me, or foredoes me quight. - 4440 - 4441 Exeunt. - 4442 - 4443 Scoena Secunda. - 4444 - 4445 Enter Othello, and Desdemona in her bed. - 4446 - 4447 Oth. It is the Cause, it is the Cause (my Soule) - 4448 Let me not name it to you, you chaste Starres, - 4449 It is the Cause. Yet Ile not shed her blood, - 4450 Nor scarre that whiter skin of hers, then Snow, - 4451 And smooth as Monumentall Alablaster: - 4452 Yet she must dye, else shee'l betray more men: - 4453 Put out the Light, and then put out the Light: - 4454 If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister, - 4455 I can againe thy former light restore, - 4456 Should I repent me. But once put out thy Light, - 4457 Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature, - 4458 I know not where is that Promethaean heate - 4459 That can thy Light re-Lume. - 4460 When I haue pluck'd thy Rose, - 4461 I cannot giue it vitall growth againe, - 4462 It needs must wither. Ile smell thee on the Tree. - 4463 Oh Balmy breath, that dost almost perswade - 4464 Iustice to breake her Sword. One more, one more: - 4465 Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee, - 4466 And loue thee after. One more, and that's the last. - 4467 So sweet, was ne're so fatall. I must weepe, - 4468 But they are cruell Teares: This sorrow's heauenly, - 4469 It strikes, where it doth loue. She wakes - 4470 - 4471 Des. Who's there? Othello? - 4472 Othel. I Desdemona - 4473 - 4474 Des. Will you come to bed, my Lord? - 4475 Oth. Haue you pray'd to night, Desdemon? - 4476 Des. I my Lord - 4477 - 4478 Oth. If you bethinke your selfe of any Crime - 4479 Vnreconcil'd as yet to Heauen, and Grace, - 4480 Solicite for it straight - 4481 - 4482 Des. Alacke, my Lord, - 4483 What may you meane by that? - 4484 Oth. Well, do it, and be breefe, I will walke by: - 4485 I would not kill thy vnprepared Spirit, - 4486 No, Heauens fore-fend) I would not kill thy Soule - 4487 - 4488 Des. Talke you of killing? - 4489 Oth. I, I do - 4490 - 4491 Des. Then Heauen haue mercy on mee - 4492 - 4493 Oth. Amen, with all my heart - 4494 - 4495 Des. If you say, I hope you will not kill me - 4496 - 4497 Oth. Humh - 4498 - 4499 Des. And yet I feare you: for you're fatall then - 4500 When your eyes rowle so. - 4501 Why I should feare, I know not, - 4502 Since guiltinesse I know not: But yet I feele I feare - 4503 - 4504 Oth. Thinke on thy sinnes - 4505 - 4506 Des. They are Loues I beare to you - 4507 - 4508 Oth. I, and for that thou dy'st - 4509 - 4510 Des. That death's vnnaturall, that kils for louing. - 4511 Alas, why gnaw you so your nether-lip? - 4512 Some bloody passion shakes your very Frame: - 4513 These are portents: but yet I hope, I hope, - 4514 They do not point on me - 4515 - 4516 Oth. Peace, and be still - 4517 - 4518 Des. I will so: What's the matter? - 4519 Oth. That Handkerchiefe - 4520 Which I so lou'd, and gaue thee, thou gau'st to Cassio - 4521 - 4522 Des. No by my Life, and Soule: send for the man, - 4523 And aske him - 4524 - 4525 Oth. Sweet Soule, take heed, take heed of Periury, - 4526 Thou art on thy death-bed - 4527 - 4528 Des. I, but not yet to dye - 4529 - 4530 Oth. Presently. - 4531 Therefore confesse thee freely of thy sinne: - 4532 For to deny each Article with Oath, - 4533 Cannot remoue, nor choake the strong Conception - 4534 That I do grone withall. Thou art to dye - 4535 - 4536 Des. O Heauen haue mercy on me - 4537 - 4538 Oth. I say, Amen - 4539 - 4540 Des. And haue you mercy too. I neuer did - 4541 Offend you in my life: neuer lou'd Cassio, - 4542 But with such generall warrantie of Heauen, - 4543 As I might loue. I neuer gaue him Token - 4544 - 4545 Oth. By Heauen I saw my Handkerchiefe in's hand. - 4546 O periur'd woman, thou do'st stone my heart, - 4547 And makes me call, what I intend to do, - 4548 A Murther, which I thought a Sacrifice. - 4549 I saw the Handkerchiefe - 4550 - 4551 Des. He found it then: - 4552 I neuer gaue it him: Send, for him hither: - 4553 Let him confesse a truth - 4554 - 4555 Oth. He hath confest - 4556 - 4557 Des. What, my Lord? - 4558 Oth. That he hath vs'd thee - 4559 - 4560 Des. How? vnlawfully? - 4561 Oth. I - 4562 - 4563 Des. He will not say so - 4564 - 4565 Oth. No: his mouth is stopp'd: - 4566 Honest Iago hath 'tane order for't - 4567 - 4568 Des. Oh, my feare interprets. What is he dead? - 4569 Oth. Had all his haires bin liues, my great Reuenge - 4570 Had stomacke for them all - 4571 - 4572 Des. Alas, he is betray'd, and I vndone - 4573 - 4574 Oth. Out Strumpet: weep'st thou for him to my face? - 4575 Des. O banish me, my Lord, but kill me not - 4576 - 4577 Oth. Downe Strumpet - 4578 - 4579 Des. Kill me to morrow, let me liue to night - 4580 - 4581 Oth. Nay, if you striue - 4582 - 4583 Des. But halfe an houre - 4584 - 4585 Oth. Being done, there is no pawse - 4586 - 4587 Des. But while I say one prayer - 4588 - 4589 Oth. It is too late. - 4590 - 4591 Smothers her. - 4592 - 4593 aemilia at the doore. - 4594 - 4595 Aemil. My Lord, my Lord? What hoa? - 4596 My Lord, my Lord - 4597 - 4598 Oth. What noise is this? Not dead? not yet quite dead? - 4599 I that am cruell, am yet mercifull, - 4600 I would not haue thee linger in thy paine? - 4601 So, so. - 4602 Aemil. within. What hoa? my Lord, my Lord? - 4603 Oth. Who's there? - 4604 Aemil. Oh good my Lord, I would speake a word - 4605 with you - 4606 - 4607 Oth. Yes: 'Tis aemilia: by and by. Shee's dead. - 4608 'Tis like she comes to speake of Cassio's death: - 4609 The noise was high. Hah, no more moouing? - 4610 Still as the Graue. Shall she come in? Wer't good? - 4611 I thinke she stirres againe. No, what's best to do? - 4612 If she come in, shee'l sure speake to my wife: - 4613 My wife, my wife: what wife? I haue no wife. - 4614 Oh insupportable! Oh heauy houre! - 4615 Me thinkes, it should be now a huge Eclipse - 4616 Of Sunne, and Moone; and that th' affrighted Globe - 4617 Did yawne at Alteration. - 4618 Aemil. I do beseech you - 4619 That I may speake with you. Oh good my Lord - 4620 - 4621 Oth. I had forgot thee: oh come in aemilia. - 4622 Soft, by and by, let me the Curtaines draw. - 4623 Where art thou? What's the matter with thee now? - 4624 Enter aemilia. - 4625 - 4626 Aemil. Oh my good Lord, yonders foule Murthers - 4627 done - 4628 - 4629 Oth. What? now? - 4630 Aemil. But now, my Lord - 4631 - 4632 Oth. It is the very error of the Moone, - 4633 She comes more neerer Earth then she was wont, - 4634 And makes men mad. - 4635 Aemil. Cassio, my Lord, hath kill'd - 4636 A young Venetian, call'd Rodorigo - 4637 - 4638 Oth. Rodorigo kill'd? and Cassio kill'd? - 4639 Aemil. No, Cassio is not kill'd - 4640 - 4641 Oth. Not Cassio kill'd? Then Murther's out of tune, - 4642 And sweet Reuenge growes harsh - 4643 - 4644 Des. O falsely, falsely murder'd. - 4645 Aemil. Alas! what cry is that? - 4646 Oth. That? What? - 4647 Aemil. Out, and alas, that was my Ladies voice. - 4648 Helpe, helpe hoa, helpe. Oh Ladie speake againe, - 4649 Sweet Desdemona, oh sweet Mistris, speake - 4650 - 4651 Des. A guiltlesse death, I dye. - 4652 Aemil. Oh who hath done this deed? - 4653 Des. No body: I my selfe, farewell: - 4654 Commend me to my kinde Lord: oh farewell - 4655 - 4656 Oth. Why, how should she be murdred? - 4657 Aemil. Alas: who knowes? - 4658 Oth. You heare her say her selfe, it was not I. - 4659 Aemil. She said so: I must needs report the truth - 4660 - 4661 Oth. She's like a Liar gone to burning hell, - 4662 'Twas I that kill'd her. - 4663 Aemil. Oh the more Angell she, and you the blacker - 4664 Diuell - 4665 - 4666 Oth. She turn'd to folly: and she was a whore. - 4667 Aemil. Thou do'st bely her, and thou art a diuell - 4668 - 4669 Oth. She was false as water. - 4670 Aemil. Thou art rash as fire, to say - 4671 That she was false. Oh she was heauenly true - 4672 - 4673 Oth. Cassio did top her: Ask thy husband else. - 4674 O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell: - 4675 But that I did proceed vpon iust grounds - 4676 To this extremity. Thy Husband knew it all. - 4677 Aemil. My Husband? - 4678 Oth. Thy Husband. - 4679 Aemil. That she was false to Wedlocke? - 4680 Oth. I, with Cassio: had she bin true, - 4681 If Heauen would make me such another world, - 4682 Of one entyre and perfect Chrysolite, - 4683 I'ld not haue sold her for it. - 4684 Aemil. My Husband? - 4685 Oth. I, 'twas he that told me on her first, - 4686 An honest man he is, and hates the slime - 4687 That stickes on filthy deeds. - 4688 Aemil. My Husband? - 4689 Oth. What needs this itterance, Woman? - 4690 I say, thy Husband. - 4691 Aemil. Oh Mistris, - 4692 Villany hath made mockes with loue: - 4693 My Husband say she was false? - 4694 Oth. He, Woman; - 4695 I say thy Husband: Do'st vnderstand the word? - 4696 My Friend, thy Husband; honest, honest Iago. - 4697 Aemil. If he say so, may his pernicious Soule - 4698 Rot halfe a graine a day: he lyes to'th' heart, - 4699 She was too fond of her most filthy Bargaine - 4700 - 4701 Oth. Hah? - 4702 Aemil. Do thy worst: - 4703 This deede of thine is no more worthy Heauen, - 4704 Then thou was't worthy her - 4705 - 4706 Oth. Peace, you were best. - 4707 Aemil. Thou hast not halfe that powre to do me harm, - 4708 As I haue to be hurt. Oh Gull, oh dolt, - 4709 As ignorant as durt: thou hast done a deed - 4710 (I care not for thy Sword) Ile make thee known, - 4711 Though I lost twenty liues. Helpe, helpe, hoa, helpe: - 4712 The Moore hath kill'd my Mistris. Murther, murther. - 4713 Enter Montano, Gratiano, and Iago. - 4714 - 4715 Mon. What is the matter? How now Generall? - 4716 Aemil. Oh, are you come, Iago: you haue done well, - 4717 That men must lay their Murthers on your necke - 4718 - 4719 Gra. What is the matter? - 4720 Aemil. Disproue this Villaine, if thou bee'st a man: - 4721 He sayes, thou told'st him that his wife was false: - 4722 I know thou did'st not: thou'rt not such a Villain. - 4723 Speake, for my heart is full - 4724 - 4725 Iago. I told him what I thought, - 4726 And told no more - 4727 Then what he found himselfe was apt, and true. - 4728 Aemil. But did you euer tell him, - 4729 She was false? - 4730 Iago. I did. - 4731 Aemil. You told a Lye an odious damned Lye: - 4732 Vpon my Soule, a Lye; a wicked Lye. - 4733 Shee false with Cassio? - 4734 Did you say with Cassio? - 4735 Iago. With Cassio, Mistris? - 4736 Go too, charme your tongue - 4737 - 4738 Emil. I will not charme my Tongue; - 4739 I am bound to speake, - 4740 My Mistris heere lyes murthered in her bed - 4741 - 4742 All. Oh Heauens, forefend - 4743 - 4744 Emil. And your reports haue set the Murder on - 4745 - 4746 Othello. Nay stare not Masters, - 4747 It is true indeede - 4748 - 4749 Gra. 'Tis a strange Truth - 4750 - 4751 Mont. O monstrous Acte - 4752 - 4753 Emil. Villany, villany, villany: - 4754 I thinke vpon't, I thinke: I smel't: O Villany: - 4755 I thought so then: Ile kill my selfe for greefe. - 4756 O villany! villany! - 4757 Iago. What, are you mad? - 4758 I charge you get you home - 4759 - 4760 Emil. Good Gentlemen, let me haue leaue to speake: - 4761 'Tis proper I obey him; but not now: - 4762 Perchance Iago, I will ne're go home - 4763 - 4764 Oth. Oh, oh, oh - 4765 - 4766 Emil. Nay, lay thee downe, and roare: - 4767 For thou hast kill'd the sweetest innocent, - 4768 That ere did lift vp eye - 4769 - 4770 Oth. Oh she was fowle! - 4771 I scarse did know you Vnkle, there lies your Neece, - 4772 Whose breath (indeed) these hands haue newly stopp'd: - 4773 I know this acte shewes horrible and grim - 4774 - 4775 Gra. Poore Desdemon: - 4776 I am glad thy Father's dead, - 4777 Thy Match was mortall to him: and pure greefe - 4778 Shore his old thred in twaine. Did he liue now, - 4779 This sight would make him do a desperate turne: - 4780 Yea, curse his better Angell from his side, - 4781 And fall to Reprobance - 4782 - 4783 Oth. 'Tis pittifull: but yet Iago knowes - 4784 That she with Cassio, hath the Act of shame - 4785 A thousand times committed. Cassio confest it, - 4786 And she did gratifie his amorous workes - 4787 With that Recognizance and pledge of Loue - 4788 Which I first gaue her: I saw it in his hand: - 4789 It was a Handkerchiefe, an Antique Token - 4790 My Father gaue my Mother - 4791 - 4792 Emil. Oh Heauen! oh heauenly Powres! - 4793 Iago. Come, hold your peace - 4794 - 4795 Emil. 'Twill out, 'twill out. I peace? - 4796 No, I will speake as liberall as the North; - 4797 Let Heauen, and Men, and Diuels, let them all, - 4798 All, all, crie shame against me, yet Ile speake - 4799 - 4800 Iago. Be wise, and get you home - 4801 - 4802 Emil. I will not - 4803 - 4804 Gra. Fye, your Sword vpon a Woman - 4805 - 4806 Emil. Oh thou dull Moore, - 4807 That Handkerchiefe thou speak'st of - 4808 I found by Fortune, and did giue my Husband: - 4809 For often, with a solemne earnestnesse, - 4810 (More then indeed belong'd to such a Trifle) - 4811 He begg'd of me, to steale't - 4812 - 4813 Iago. Villanous Whore - 4814 - 4815 Emil. She giue it Cassio? No, alas I found it, - 4816 And I did giu't my Husband - 4817 - 4818 Iago. Filth, thou lyest - 4819 - 4820 Emil. By Heauen I do not, I do not Gentlemen: - 4821 Oh murd'rous Coxcombe, what should such a Foole - 4822 Do with so good a wife? - 4823 Oth. Are there no stones in Heauen, - 4824 But what serues for the Thunder? - 4825 Precious Villaine - 4826 - 4827 Gra. The woman falles: - 4828 Sure he hath kill'd his Wife - 4829 - 4830 Emil. I, I: oh lay me by my Mistris side - 4831 - 4832 Gra. Hee's gone, but his wife's kill'd - 4833 - 4834 Mon. 'Tis a notorious Villain: take you this weapon - 4835 Which I haue recouer'd from the Moore: - 4836 Come guard the doore without, let him not passe, - 4837 But kill him rather. Ile after that same villaine, - 4838 For 'tis a damned Slaue. - 4839 Enter. - 4840 - 4841 Oth. I am not valiant neither: - 4842 But euery Punie whipster gets my Sword. - 4843 But why should Honor out-liue Honesty? - 4844 Let it go all. - 4845 Aemil. What did thy Song boad Lady? - 4846 Hearke, canst thou heare me? I will play the Swan, - 4847 And dye in Musicke: Willough, Willough, Willough. - 4848 Moore, she was chaste: She lou'd thee, cruell Moore, - 4849 So come my Soule to blisse, as I speake true: - 4850 So speaking as I thinke, alas, I dye - 4851 - 4852 Oth. I haue another weapon in this Chamber, - 4853 It was a Sword of Spaine, the Ice brookes temper: - 4854 Oh heere it is: Vnkle I must come forth - 4855 - 4856 Gra. If thou attempt it, it will cost thee deere; - 4857 Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer - 4858 - 4859 Oth. Looke in vpon me then, and speake with me, - 4860 Or naked as I am I will assault thee - 4861 - 4862 Gra. What is the matter? - 4863 Othel. Behold, I haue a weapon: - 4864 A better neuer did it selfe sustaine - 4865 Vpon a Soldiers Thigh. I haue seene the day, - 4866 That with this little Arme, and this good Sword, - 4867 I haue made my way through more impediments - 4868 Then twenty times your stop. But (oh vaine boast) - 4869 Who can controll his Fate? 'Tis not so now. - 4870 Be not affraid, though you do see me weapon'd: - 4871 Heere is my iournies end, heere is my butt - 4872 And verie Sea-marke of my vtmost Saile. - 4873 Do you go backe dismaid? 'Tis a lost feare: - 4874 Man but a Rush against Othello's brest, - 4875 And he retires. Where should Othello go? - 4876 Now: how dost thou looke now? Oh ill-Starr'd wench, - 4877 Pale as thy Smocke: when we shall meete at compt, - 4878 This looke of thine will hurle my Soule from Heauen, - 4879 And Fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my Girle? - 4880 Euen like thy Chastity. O cursed, cursed Slaue! - 4881 Whip me ye Diuels, - 4882 From the possession of this Heauenly sight: - 4883 Blow me about in windes, roast me in Sulphure, - 4884 Wash me in steepe-downe gulfes of Liquid fire. - 4885 Oh Desdemon! dead Desdemon: dead. Oh, oh! - 4886 Enter Lodouico, Cassio, Montano, and Iago, with Officers. - 4887 - 4888 Lod. Where is this rash, and most vnfortunate man? - 4889 Oth. That's he that was Othello: heere I am - 4890 - 4891 Lod. Where is that Viper? - 4892 Bring the Villaine forth - 4893 - 4894 Oth. I look down towards his feet; but that's a Fable, - 4895 If that thou bee'st a Diuell, I cannot kill thee - 4896 - 4897 Lod. Wrench his Sword from him - 4898 - 4899 Iago. I bleed Sir, but not kill'd - 4900 - 4901 Othel. I am not sorry neither, Il'd haue thee liue: - 4902 For in my sense, 'tis happinesse to die - 4903 - 4904 Lod. Oh thou Othello, that was once so good, - 4905 Falne in the practise of a cursed Slaue, - 4906 What shall be saide to thee - 4907 - 4908 Oth. Why any thing: - 4909 An honourable Murderer, if you will: - 4910 For nought I did in hate, but all in Honour - 4911 - 4912 Lod. This wretch hath part confest his Villany: - 4913 Did you and he consent in Cassio's death - 4914 - 4915 Oth. I - 4916 - 4917 Cas. Deere Generall, I neuer gaue you cause - 4918 - 4919 Oth. I do beleeue it, and I aske your pardon: - 4920 Will you, I pray, demand that demy-Diuell, - 4921 Why he hath thus ensnar'd my Soule and Body - 4922 - 4923 Iag. Demand me nothing: what you know, you know: - 4924 From this time forth, I neuer will speake word - 4925 - 4926 Lod. What? not to pray? - 4927 Gra. Torments will ope your lips - 4928 - 4929 Oth. Well, thou dost best - 4930 - 4931 Lod. Sir, - 4932 You shall vnderstand what hath befalne, - 4933 (Which, as I thinke, you know not) heere is a Letter - 4934 Found in the pocket of the slaine Rodorigo, - 4935 And heere another, the one of them imports - 4936 The death of Cassio, to be vndertooke - 4937 By Rodorigo - 4938 - 4939 Oth. O Villaine! - 4940 Cassio. Most Heathenish, and most grosse - 4941 - 4942 Lod. Now, heere's another discontented paper - 4943 Found in his pocket too: and this it seemes - 4944 Rodorigo meant t'haue sent this damned villaine: - 4945 But that (belike) Iago in the interim - 4946 Came in, and satisfi'd him - 4947 - 4948 Oth. Oh thou pernitious Caitiffe; - 4949 How came you (Cassio) by that Handkerchiefe - 4950 That was my wiues? - 4951 Cassio. I found it in my Chamber: - 4952 And he himselfe confest it but euen now, - 4953 That there he dropt it for a speciall purpose, - 4954 Which wrought to his desire - 4955 - 4956 Othel. O Foole, foole, foole! - 4957 Cassio. There is besides, in Rodorigo's Letter, - 4958 How he vpbraides Iago, that he made him - 4959 Braue me vpon the Watch: whereon it came - 4960 That I was cast: and euen but now he spake - 4961 (After long seeming dead) Iago hurt him, - 4962 Iago set him on - 4963 - 4964 Lod. You must forsake this roome, and go with vs: - 4965 Your Power, and your Command is taken off, - 4966 And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this Slaue, - 4967 If there be any cunning Crueltie, - 4968 That can torment him much, and hold him long, - 4969 It shall be his. You shall close Prisoner rest, - 4970 Till that the Nature of your fault be knowne - 4971 To the Venetian State. Come, bring away - 4972 - 4973 Oth. Soft you; a word or two before you goe: - 4974 I haue done the State some seruice, and they know't: - 4975 No more of that. I pray you in your Letters, - 4976 When you shall these vnluckie deeds relate, - 4977 Speake of me, as I am. Nothing extenuate, - 4978 Nor set downe ought in malice. - 4979 Then must you speake, - 4980 Of one that lou'd not wisely, but too well: - 4981 Of one, not easily Iealious, but being wrought, - 4982 Perplexed in the extreame: Of one, whose hand - 4983 (Like the base Iudean) threw a Pearle away - 4984 Richer then all his Tribe: Of one, whose subdu'd Eyes, - 4985 Albeit vn-vsed to the melting moode, - 4986 Drops teares as fast as the Arabian Trees - 4987 Their Medicinable gumme. Set you downe this: - 4988 And say besides, that in Aleppo once, - 4989 Where a malignant, and a Turbond-Turke - 4990 Beate a Venetian, and traduc'd the State, - 4991 I tooke by th' throat the circumcised Dogge, - 4992 And smoate him, thus - 4993 - 4994 Lod. Oh bloody period - 4995 - 4996 Gra. All that is spoke, is marr'd - 4997 - 4998 Oth. I kist thee, ere I kill'd thee: No way but this, - 4999 Killing my selfe, to dye vpon a kisse. - 5000 - 5001 Dyes - 5002 - 5003 Cas. This did I feare, but thought he had no weapon: - 5004 For he was great of heart - 5005 - 5006 Lod. Oh Sparton Dogge: - 5007 More fell then Anguish, Hunger, or the Sea: - 5008 Looke on the Tragicke Loading of this bed: - 5009 This is thy worke: - 5010 The Obiect poysons Sight, - 5011 Let it be hid. Gratiano, keepe the house, - 5012 And seize vpon the Fortunes of the Moore, - 5013 For they succeede on you. To you, Lord Gouernor, - 5014 Remaines the Censure of this hellish villaine: - 5015 The Time, the Place, the Torture, oh inforce it: - 5016 My selfe will straight aboord, and to the State, - 5017 This heauie Act, with heauie heart relate. - 5018 - 5019 Exeunt. - 5020 - 5021 - 5022 FINIS. - 5023 - 5024 The Names of the Actors. - 5025 - 5026 Othello, the Moore. - 5027 Brabantio, Father to Desdemona. - 5028 Cassio, an Honourable Lieutenant. - 5029 Iago, a Villaine. - 5030 Rodorigo, a gull'd Gentleman. - 5031 Duke of Venice. - 5032 Senators. - 5033 Montano, Gouernour of Cyprus. - 5034 Gentlemen of Cyprus. - 5035 Lodouico, and Gratiano, two Noble Venetians. - 5036 Saylors. - 5037 Clowne. - 5038 Desdemona, Wife to Othello. - 5039 Aemilia, Wife to Iago. - 5040 Bianca, a Curtezan. - 5041 - 5042 THE TRAGEDIE OF Othello, the Moore of Venice. diff --git a/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Romeo and Juliet.txt b/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Romeo and Juliet.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 417a866..0000000 --- a/src/main/resources/shakespeare/Romeo and Juliet.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4853 +0,0 @@ - 1 The Project Gutenberg EBook of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare - 2 - 3 This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with - 4 almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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YOU ARE ENCOURAGED!! - 39 TO GIVE IT AWAY TO ANYONE YOU LIKE, BUT NO CHARGES ARE ALLOWED!! - 40 - 41 - 42 - 43 - 44 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - 45 - 46 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet - 47 - 48 The Library of the Future Complete Works of William Shakespeare - 49 Library of the Future is a TradeMark (TM) of World Library Inc. - 50 - 51 - 52 <> - 60 - 61 - 62 - 63 - 64 1595 - 65 - 66 THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET - 67 - 68 by William Shakespeare - 69 - 70 - 71 - 72 Dramatis Personae - 73 - 74 Chorus. - 75 - 76 - 77 Escalus, Prince of Verona. - 78 - 79 Paris, a young Count, kinsman to the Prince. - 80 - 81 Montague, heads of two houses at variance with each other. - 82 - 83 Capulet, heads of two houses at variance with each other. - 84 - 85 An old Man, of the Capulet family. - 86 - 87 Romeo, son to Montague. - 88 - 89 Tybalt, nephew to Lady Capulet. - 90 - 91 Mercutio, kinsman to the Prince and friend to Romeo. - 92 - 93 Benvolio, nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo - 94 - 95 Tybalt, nephew to Lady Capulet. - 96 - 97 Friar Laurence, Franciscan. - 98 - 99 Friar John, Franciscan. - 100 - 101 Balthasar, servant to Romeo. - 102 - 103 Abram, servant to Montague. - 104 - 105 Sampson, servant to Capulet. - 106 - 107 Gregory, servant to Capulet. - 108 - 109 Peter, servant to Juliet's nurse. - 110 - 111 An Apothecary. - 112 - 113 Three Musicians. - 114 - 115 An Officer. - 116 - 117 - 118 Lady Montague, wife to Montague. - 119 - 120 Lady Capulet, wife to Capulet. - 121 - 122 Juliet, daughter to Capulet. - 123 - 124 Nurse to Juliet. - 125 - 126 - 127 Citizens of Verona; Gentlemen and Gentlewomen of both houses; - 128 Maskers, Torchbearers, Pages, Guards, Watchmen, Servants, and - 129 Attendants. - 130 - 131 SCENE.--Verona; Mantua. - 132 - 133 - 134 - 135 THE PROLOGUE - 136 - 137 Enter Chorus. - 138 - 139 - 140 Chor. Two households, both alike in dignity, - 141 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, - 142 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, - 143 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. - 144 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes - 145 A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; - 146 Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows - 147 Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. - 148 The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, - 149 And the continuance of their parents' rage, - 150 Which, but their children's end, naught could remove, - 151 Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; - 152 The which if you with patient ears attend, - 153 What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. - 154 [Exit.] - 155 - 156 - 157 - 158 - 159 ACT I. Scene I. - 160 Verona. A public place. - 161 - 162 Enter Sampson and Gregory (with swords and bucklers) of the house - 163 of Capulet. - 164 - 165 - 166 Samp. Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals. - 167 - 168 Greg. No, for then we should be colliers. - 169 - 170 Samp. I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw. - 171 - 172 Greg. Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar. - 173 - 174 Samp. I strike quickly, being moved. - 175 - 176 Greg. But thou art not quickly moved to strike. - 177 - 178 Samp. A dog of the house of Montague moves me. - 179 - 180 Greg. To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand. - 181 Therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away. - 182 - 183 Samp. A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take - 184 the wall of any man or maid of Montague's. - 185 - 186 Greg. That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes to the - 187 wall. - 188 - 189 Samp. 'Tis true; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, - 190 are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore I will push Montague's men - 191 from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall. - 192 - 193 Greg. The quarrel is between our masters and us their men. - 194 - 195 Samp. 'Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant. When I have - 196 fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids- I will cut off - 197 their heads. - 198 - 199 Greg. The heads of the maids? - 200 - 201 Samp. Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads. - 202 Take it in what sense thou wilt. - 203 - 204 Greg. They must take it in sense that feel it. - 205 - 206 Samp. Me they shall feel while I am able to stand; and 'tis known I - 207 am a pretty piece of flesh. - 208 - 209 Greg. 'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst - 210 been poor-John. Draw thy tool! Here comes two of the house of - 211 Montagues. - 212 - 213 Enter two other Servingmen [Abram and Balthasar]. - 214 - 215 - 216 Samp. My naked weapon is out. Quarrel! I will back thee. - 217 - 218 Greg. How? turn thy back and run? - 219 - 220 Samp. Fear me not. - 221 - 222 Greg. No, marry. I fear thee! - 223 - 224 Samp. Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin. - 225 - 226 Greg. I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list. - 227 - 228 Samp. Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is - 229 disgrace to them, if they bear it. - 230 - 231 Abr. Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? - 232 - 233 Samp. I do bite my thumb, sir. - 234 - 235 Abr. Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? - 236 - 237 Samp. [aside to Gregory] Is the law of our side if I say ay? - 238 - 239 Greg. [aside to Sampson] No. - 240 - 241 Samp. No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir; but I bite my - 242 thumb, sir. - 243 - 244 Greg. Do you quarrel, sir? - 245 - 246 Abr. Quarrel, sir? No, sir. - 247 - 248 Samp. But if you do, sir, am for you. I serve as good a man as - 249 you. - 250 - 251 Abr. No better. - 252 - 253 Samp. Well, sir. - 254 - 255 Enter Benvolio. - 256 - 257 - 258 Greg. [aside to Sampson] Say 'better.' Here comes one of my - 259 master's kinsmen. - 260 - 261 Samp. Yes, better, sir. - 262 - 263 Abr. You lie. - 264 - 265 Samp. Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow. - 266 They fight. - 267 - 268 Ben. Part, fools! [Beats down their swords.] - 269 Put up your swords. You know not what you do. - 270 - 271 Enter Tybalt. - 272 - 273 - 274 Tyb. What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? - 275 Turn thee Benvolio! look upon thy death. - 276 - 277 Ben. I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, - 278 Or manage it to part these men with me. - 279 - 280 Tyb. What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word - 281 As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. - 282 Have at thee, coward! They fight. - 283 - 284 Enter an officer, and three or four Citizens with clubs or - 285 partisans. - 286 - 287 - 288 Officer. Clubs, bills, and partisans! Strike! beat them down! - 289 - 290 Citizens. Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues! - 291 - 292 Enter Old Capulet in his gown, and his Wife. - 293 - 294 - 295 Cap. What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho! - 296 - 297 Wife. A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword? - 298 - 299 Cap. My sword, I say! Old Montague is come - 300 And flourishes his blade in spite of me. - 301 - 302 Enter Old Montague and his Wife. - 303 - 304 - 305 Mon. Thou villain Capulet!- Hold me not, let me go. - 306 - 307 M. Wife. Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. - 308 - 309 Enter Prince Escalus, with his Train. - 310 - 311 - 312 Prince. Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, - 313 Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel- - 314 Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts, - 315 That quench the fire of your pernicious rage - 316 With purple fountains issuing from your veins! - 317 On pain of torture, from those bloody hands - 318 Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground - 319 And hear the sentence of your moved prince. - 320 Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word - 321 By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, - 322 Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets - 323 And made Verona's ancient citizens - 324 Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments - 325 To wield old partisans, in hands as old, - 326 Cank'red with peace, to part your cank'red hate. - 327 If ever you disturb our streets again, - 328 Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. - 329 For this time all the rest depart away. - 330 You, Capulet, shall go along with me; - 331 And, Montague, come you this afternoon, - 332 To know our farther pleasure in this case, - 333 To old Freetown, our common judgment place. - 334 Once more, on pain of death, all men depart. - 335 Exeunt [all but Montague, his Wife, and Benvolio]. - 336 - 337 Mon. Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach? - 338 Speak, nephew, were you by when it began? - 339 - 340 Ben. Here were the servants of your adversary - 341 And yours, close fighting ere I did approach. - 342 I drew to part them. In the instant came - 343 The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepar'd; - 344 Which, as he breath'd defiance to my ears, - 345 He swung about his head and cut the winds, - 346 Who, nothing hurt withal, hiss'd him in scorn. - 347 While we were interchanging thrusts and blows, - 348 Came more and more, and fought on part and part, - 349 Till the Prince came, who parted either part. - 350 - 351 M. Wife. O, where is Romeo? Saw you him to-day? - 352 Right glad I am he was not at this fray. - 353 - 354 Ben. Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun - 355 Peer'd forth the golden window of the East, - 356 A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad; - 357 Where, underneath the grove of sycamore - 358 That westward rooteth from the city's side, - 359 So early walking did I see your son. - 360 Towards him I made; but he was ware of me - 361 And stole into the covert of the wood. - 362 I- measuring his affections by my own, - 363 Which then most sought where most might not be found, - 364 Being one too many by my weary self- - 365 Pursu'd my humour, not Pursuing his, - 366 And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me. - 367 - 368 Mon. Many a morning hath he there been seen, - 369 With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew, - 370 Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs; - 371 But all so soon as the all-cheering sun - 372 Should in the furthest East bean to draw - 373 The shady curtains from Aurora's bed, - 374 Away from light steals home my heavy son - 375 And private in his chamber pens himself, - 376 Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight - 377 And makes himself an artificial night. - 378 Black and portentous must this humour prove - 379 Unless good counsel may the cause remove. - 380 - 381 Ben. My noble uncle, do you know the cause? - 382 - 383 Mon. I neither know it nor can learn of him - 384 - 385 Ben. Have you importun'd him by any means? - 386 - 387 Mon. Both by myself and many other friend; - 388 But he, his own affections' counsellor, - 389 Is to himself- I will not say how true- - 390 But to himself so secret and so close, - 391 So far from sounding and discovery, - 392 As is the bud bit with an envious worm - 393 Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air - 394 Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. - 395 Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, - 396 We would as willingly give cure as know. - 397 - 398 Enter Romeo. - 399 - 400 - 401 Ben. See, where he comes. So please you step aside, - 402 I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. - 403 - 404 Mon. I would thou wert so happy by thy stay - 405 To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away, - 406 Exeunt [Montague and Wife]. - 407 - 408 Ben. Good morrow, cousin. - 409 - 410 Rom. Is the day so young? - 411 - 412 Ben. But new struck nine. - 413 - 414 Rom. Ay me! sad hours seem long. - 415 Was that my father that went hence so fast? - 416 - 417 Ben. It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? - 418 - 419 Rom. Not having that which having makes them short. - 420 - 421 Ben. In love? - 422 - 423 Rom. Out- - 424 - 425 Ben. Of love? - 426 - 427 Rom. Out of her favour where I am in love. - 428 - 429 Ben. Alas that love, so gentle in his view, - 430 Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! - 431 - 432 Rom. Alas that love, whose view is muffled still, - 433 Should without eyes see pathways to his will! - 434 Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here? - 435 Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. - 436 Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. - 437 Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! - 438 O anything, of nothing first create! - 439 O heavy lightness! serious vanity! - 440 Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! - 441 Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! - 442 Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is - 443 This love feel I, that feel no love in this. - 444 Dost thou not laugh? - 445 - 446 Ben. No, coz, I rather weep. - 447 - 448 Rom. Good heart, at what? - 449 - 450 Ben. At thy good heart's oppression. - 451 - 452 Rom. Why, such is love's transgression. - 453 Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, - 454 Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest - 455 With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown - 456 Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. - 457 Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; - 458 Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; - 459 Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears. - 460 What is it else? A madness most discreet, - 461 A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. - 462 Farewell, my coz. - 463 - 464 Ben. Soft! I will go along. - 465 An if you leave me so, you do me wrong. - 466 - 467 Rom. Tut! I have lost myself; I am not here: - 468 This is not Romeo, he's some other where. - 469 - 470 Ben. Tell me in sadness, who is that you love? - 471 - 472 Rom. What, shall I groan and tell thee? - 473 - 474 Ben. Groan? Why, no; - 475 But sadly tell me who. - 476 - 477 Rom. Bid a sick man in sadness make his will. - 478 Ah, word ill urg'd to one that is so ill! - 479 In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman. - 480 - 481 Ben. I aim'd so near when I suppos'd you lov'd. - 482 - 483 Rom. A right good markman! And she's fair I love. - 484 - 485 Ben. A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. - 486 - 487 Rom. Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit - 488 With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, - 489 And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd, - 490 From Love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd. - 491 She will not stay the siege of loving terms, - 492 Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, - 493 Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. - 494 O, she's rich in beauty; only poor - 495 That, when she dies, with beauty dies her store. - 496 - 497 Ben. Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste? - 498 - 499 Rom. She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste; - 500 For beauty, starv'd with her severity, - 501 Cuts beauty off from all posterity. - 502 She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, - 503 To merit bliss by making me despair. - 504 She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow - 505 Do I live dead that live to tell it now. - 506 - 507 Ben. Be rul'd by me: forget to think of her. - 508 - 509 Rom. O, teach me how I should forget to think! - 510 - 511 Ben. By giving liberty unto thine eyes. - 512 Examine other beauties. - 513 - 514 Rom. 'Tis the way - 515 To call hers (exquisite) in question more. - 516 These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows, - 517 Being black puts us in mind they hide the fair. - 518 He that is strucken blind cannot forget - 519 The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. - 520 Show me a mistress that is passing fair, - 521 What doth her beauty serve but as a note - 522 Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? - 523 Farewell. Thou canst not teach me to forget. - 524 - 525 Ben. I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. Exeunt. - 526 - 527 - 528 - 529 - 530 Scene II. - 531 A Street. - 532 - 533 Enter Capulet, County Paris, and [Servant] -the Clown. - 534 - 535 - 536 Cap. But Montague is bound as well as I, - 537 In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, - 538 For men so old as we to keep the peace. - 539 - 540 Par. Of honourable reckoning are you both, - 541 And pity 'tis you liv'd at odds so long. - 542 But now, my lord, what say you to my suit? - 543 - 544 Cap. But saying o'er what I have said before: - 545 My child is yet a stranger in the world, - 546 She hath not seen the change of fourteen years; - 547 Let two more summers wither in their pride - 548 Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride. - 549 - 550 Par. Younger than she are happy mothers made. - 551 - 552 Cap. And too soon marr'd are those so early made. - 553 The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she; - 554 She is the hopeful lady of my earth. - 555 But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; - 556 My will to her consent is but a part. - 557 An she agree, within her scope of choice - 558 Lies my consent and fair according voice. - 559 This night I hold an old accustom'd feast, - 560 Whereto I have invited many a guest, - 561 Such as I love; and you among the store, - 562 One more, most welcome, makes my number more. - 563 At my poor house look to behold this night - 564 Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light. - 565 Such comfort as do lusty young men feel - 566 When well apparell'd April on the heel - 567 Of limping Winter treads, even such delight - 568 Among fresh female buds shall you this night - 569 Inherit at my house. Hear all, all see, - 570 And like her most whose merit most shall be; - 571 Which, on more view of many, mine, being one, - 572 May stand in number, though in reck'ning none. - 573 Come, go with me. [To Servant, giving him a paper] Go, - 574 sirrah, trudge about - 575 Through fair Verona; find those persons out - 576 Whose names are written there, and to them say, - 577 My house and welcome on their pleasure stay- - 578 Exeunt [Capulet and Paris]. - 579 - 580 Serv. Find them out whose names are written here? It is written - 581 that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard and the tailor - 582 with his last, the fisher with his pencil and the painter - 583 with his nets; but I am sent to find those persons whose names are - 584 here writ, and can never find what names the writing person - 585 hath here writ. I must to the learned. In good time! - 586 - 587 Enter Benvolio and Romeo. - 588 - 589 - 590 Ben. Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; - 591 One pain is lessoned by another's anguish; - 592 Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; - 593 One desperate grief cures with another's languish. - 594 Take thou some new infection to thy eye, - 595 And the rank poison of the old will die. - 596 - 597 Rom. Your plantain leaf is excellent for that. - 598 - 599 Ben. For what, I pray thee? - 600 - 601 Rom. For your broken shin. - 602 - 603 Ben. Why, Romeo, art thou mad? - 604 - 605 Rom. Not mad, but bound more than a madman is; - 606 Shut up in Prison, kept without my food, - 607 Whipp'd and tormented and- God-den, good fellow. - 608 - 609 Serv. God gi' go-den. I pray, sir, can you read? - 610 - 611 Rom. Ay, mine own fortune in my misery. - 612 - 613 Serv. Perhaps you have learned it without book. But I pray, can - 614 you read anything you see? - 615 - 616 Rom. Ay, If I know the letters and the language. - 617 - 618 Serv. Ye say honestly. Rest you merry! - 619 - 620 Rom. Stay, fellow; I can read. He reads. - 621 - 622 'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters; - 623 County Anselmo and his beauteous sisters; - 624 The lady widow of Vitruvio; - 625 Signior Placentio and His lovely nieces; - 626 Mercutio and his brother Valentine; - 627 Mine uncle Capulet, his wife, and daughters; - 628 My fair niece Rosaline and Livia; - 629 Signior Valentio and His cousin Tybalt; - 630 Lucio and the lively Helena.' - 631 - 632 [Gives back the paper.] A fair assembly. Whither should they - 633 come? - 634 - 635 Serv. Up. - 636 - 637 Rom. Whither? - 638 - 639 Serv. To supper, to our house. - 640 - 641 Rom. Whose house? - 642 - 643 Serv. My master's. - 644 - 645 Rom. Indeed I should have ask'd you that before. - 646 - 647 Serv. Now I'll tell you without asking. My master is the great - 648 rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray - 649 come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry! Exit. - 650 - 651 Ben. At this same ancient feast of Capulet's - 652 Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lov'st; - 653 With all the admired beauties of Verona. - 654 Go thither, and with unattainted eye - 655 Compare her face with some that I shall show, - 656 And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. - 657 - 658 Rom. When the devout religion of mine eye - 659 Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires; - 660 And these, who, often drown'd, could never die, - 661 Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars! - 662 One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun - 663 Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun. - 664 - 665 Ben. Tut! you saw her fair, none else being by, - 666 Herself pois'd with herself in either eye; - 667 But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd - 668 Your lady's love against some other maid - 669 That I will show you shining at this feast, - 670 And she shall scant show well that now seems best. - 671 - 672 Rom. I'll go along, no such sight to be shown, - 673 But to rejoice in splendour of my own. [Exeunt.] - 674 - 675 - 676 - 677 - 678 Scene III. - 679 Capulet's house. - 680 - 681 Enter Capulet's Wife, and Nurse. - 682 - 683 - 684 Wife. Nurse, where's my daughter? Call her forth to me. - 685 - 686 Nurse. Now, by my maidenhead at twelve year old, - 687 I bade her come. What, lamb! what ladybird! - 688 God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet! - 689 - 690 Enter Juliet. - 691 - 692 - 693 Jul. How now? Who calls? - 694 - 695 Nurse. Your mother. - 696 - 697 Jul. Madam, I am here. - 698 What is your will? - 699 - 700 Wife. This is the matter- Nurse, give leave awhile, - 701 We must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again; - 702 I have rememb'red me, thou's hear our counsel. - 703 Thou knowest my daughter's of a pretty age. - 704 - 705 Nurse. Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. - 706 - 707 Wife. She's not fourteen. - 708 - 709 Nurse. I'll lay fourteen of my teeth- - 710 And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four- - 711 She is not fourteen. How long is it now - 712 To Lammastide? - 713 - 714 Wife. A fortnight and odd days. - 715 - 716 Nurse. Even or odd, of all days in the year, - 717 Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen. - 718 Susan and she (God rest all Christian souls!) - 719 Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God; - 720 She was too good for me. But, as I said, - 721 On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen; - 722 That shall she, marry; I remember it well. - 723 'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years; - 724 And she was wean'd (I never shall forget it), - 725 Of all the days of the year, upon that day; - 726 For I had then laid wormwood to my dug, - 727 Sitting in the sun under the dovehouse wall. - 728 My lord and you were then at Mantua. - 729 Nay, I do bear a brain. But, as I said, - 730 When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple - 731 Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, - 732 To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug! - 733 Shake, quoth the dovehouse! 'Twas no need, I trow, - 734 To bid me trudge. - 735 And since that time it is eleven years, - 736 For then she could stand high-lone; nay, by th' rood, - 737 She could have run and waddled all about; - 738 For even the day before, she broke her brow; - 739 And then my husband (God be with his soul! - 740 'A was a merry man) took up the child. - 741 'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face? - 742 Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit; - 743 Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidam, - 744 The pretty wretch left crying, and said 'Ay.' - 745 To see now how a jest shall come about! - 746 I warrant, an I should live a thousand yeas, - 747 I never should forget it. 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he, - 748 And, pretty fool, it stinted, and said 'Ay.' - 749 - 750 Wife. Enough of this. I pray thee hold thy peace. - 751 - 752 Nurse. Yes, madam. Yet I cannot choose but laugh - 753 To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.' - 754 And yet, I warrant, it bad upon it brow - 755 A bump as big as a young cock'rel's stone; - 756 A perilous knock; and it cried bitterly. - 757 'Yea,' quoth my husband, 'fall'st upon thy face? - 758 Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age; - 759 Wilt thou not, Jule?' It stinted, and said 'Ay.' - 760 - 761 Jul. And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I. - 762 - 763 Nurse. Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace! - 764 Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nurs'd. - 765 An I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish. - 766 - 767 Wife. Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme - 768 I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet, - 769 How stands your disposition to be married? - 770 - 771 Jul. It is an honour that I dream not of. - 772 - 773 Nurse. An honour? Were not I thine only nurse, - 774 I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat. - 775 - 776 Wife. Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you, - 777 Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, - 778 Are made already mothers. By my count, - 779 I was your mother much upon these years - 780 That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief: - 781 The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. - 782 - 783 Nurse. A man, young lady! lady, such a man - 784 As all the world- why he's a man of wax. - 785 - 786 Wife. Verona's summer hath not such a flower. - 787 - 788 Nurse. Nay, he's a flower, in faith- a very flower. - 789 - 790 Wife. What say you? Can you love the gentleman? - 791 This night you shall behold him at our feast. - 792 Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, - 793 And find delight writ there with beauty's pen; - 794 Examine every married lineament, - 795 And see how one another lends content; - 796 And what obscur'd in this fair volume lies - 797 Find written in the margent of his eyes, - 798 This precious book of love, this unbound lover, - 799 To beautify him only lacks a cover. - 800 The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride - 801 For fair without the fair within to hide. - 802 That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, - 803 That in gold clasps locks in the golden story; - 804 So shall you share all that he doth possess, - 805 By having him making yourself no less. - 806 - 807 Nurse. No less? Nay, bigger! Women grow by men - 808 - 809 Wife. Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love? - 810 - 811 Jul. I'll look to like, if looking liking move; - 812 But no more deep will I endart mine eye - 813 Than your consent gives strength to make it fly. - 814 - 815 Enter Servingman. - 816 - 817 - 818 Serv. Madam, the guests are come, supper serv'd up, you call'd, - 819 my young lady ask'd for, the nurse curs'd in the pantry, and - 820 everything in extremity. I must hence to wait. I beseech you - 821 follow straight. - 822 - 823 Wife. We follow thee. Exit [Servingman]. - 824 Juliet, the County stays. - 825 - 826 Nurse. Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days. - 827 Exeunt. - 828 - 829 - 830 - 831 - 832 Scene IV. - 833 A street. - 834 - 835 Enter Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, with five or six other Maskers; - 836 Torchbearers. - 837 - 838 - 839 Rom. What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse? - 840 Or shall we on without apology? - 841 - 842 Ben. The date is out of such prolixity. - 843 We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf, - 844 Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, - 845 Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper; - 846 Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke - 847 After the prompter, for our entrance; - 848 But, let them measure us by what they will, - 849 We'll measure them a measure, and be gone. - 850 - 851 Rom. Give me a torch. I am not for this ambling. - 852 Being but heavy, I will bear the light. - 853 - 854 Mer. Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. - 855 - 856 Rom. Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes - 857 With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead - 858 So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. - 859 - 860 Mer. You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings - 861 And soar with them above a common bound. - 862 - 863 Rom. I am too sore enpierced with his shaft - 864 To soar with his light feathers; and so bound - 865 I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. - 866 Under love's heavy burthen do I sink. - 867 - 868 Mer. And, to sink in it, should you burthen love- - 869 Too great oppression for a tender thing. - 870 - 871 Rom. Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, - 872 Too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn. - 873 - 874 Mer. If love be rough with you, be rough with love. - 875 Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. - 876 Give me a case to put my visage in. - 877 A visor for a visor! What care I - 878 What curious eye doth quote deformities? - 879 Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me. - 880 - 881 Ben. Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in - 882 But every man betake him to his legs. - 883 - 884 Rom. A torch for me! Let wantons light of heart - 885 Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels; - 886 For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase, - 887 I'll be a candle-holder and look on; - 888 The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done. - 889 - 890 Mer. Tut! dun's the mouse, the constable's own word! - 891 If thou art Dun, we'll draw thee from the mire - 892 Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st - 893 Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho! - 894 - 895 Rom. Nay, that's not so. - 896 - 897 Mer. I mean, sir, in delay - 898 We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. - 899 Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits - 900 Five times in that ere once in our five wits. - 901 - 902 Rom. And we mean well, in going to this masque; - 903 But 'tis no wit to go. - 904 - 905 Mer. Why, may one ask? - 906 - 907 Rom. I dreamt a dream to-night. - 908 - 909 Mer. And so did I. - 910 - 911 Rom. Well, what was yours? - 912 - 913 Mer. That dreamers often lie. - 914 - 915 Rom. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. - 916 - 917 Mer. O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. - 918 She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes - 919 In shape no bigger than an agate stone - 920 On the forefinger of an alderman, - 921 Drawn with a team of little atomies - 922 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; - 923 Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs, - 924 The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; - 925 Her traces, of the smallest spider's web; - 926 Her collars, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams; - 927 Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film; - 928 Her wagoner, a small grey-coated gnat, - 929 Not half so big as a round little worm - 930 Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid; - 931 Her chariot is an empty hazelnut, - 932 Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, - 933 Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. - 934 And in this state she 'gallops night by night - 935 Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; - 936 O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on cursies straight; - 937 O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees; - 938 O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream, - 939 Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, - 940 Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are. - 941 Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, - 942 And then dreams he of smelling out a suit; - 943 And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail - 944 Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep, - 945 Then dreams he of another benefice. - 946 Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, - 947 And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, - 948 Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, - 949 Of healths five fadom deep; and then anon - 950 Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, - 951 And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two - 952 And sleeps again. This is that very Mab - 953 That plats the manes of horses in the night - 954 And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish, hairs, - 955 Which once untangled much misfortune bodes - 956 This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs, - 957 That presses them and learns them first to bear, - 958 Making them women of good carriage. - 959 This is she- - 960 - 961 Rom. Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace! - 962 Thou talk'st of nothing. - 963 - 964 Mer. True, I talk of dreams; - 965 Which are the children of an idle brain, - 966 Begot of nothing but vain fantasy; - 967 Which is as thin of substance as the air, - 968 And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes - 969 Even now the frozen bosom of the North - 970 And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, - 971 Turning his face to the dew-dropping South. - 972 - 973 Ben. This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves. - 974 Supper is done, and we shall come too late. - 975 - 976 Rom. I fear, too early; for my mind misgives - 977 Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, - 978 Shall bitterly begin his fearful date - 979 With this night's revels and expire the term - 980 Of a despised life, clos'd in my breast, - 981 By some vile forfeit of untimely death. - 982 But he that hath the steerage of my course - 983 Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen! - 984 - 985 Ben. Strike, drum. - 986 They march about the stage. [Exeunt.] - 987 - 988 - 989 - 990 - 991 Scene V. - 992 Capulet's house. - 993 - 994 Servingmen come forth with napkins. - 995 - 996 1. Serv. Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? - 997 He shift a trencher! he scrape a trencher! - 998 2. Serv. When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's - 999 hands, and they unwash'd too, 'tis a foul thing. - 1000 1. Serv. Away with the join-stools, remove the court-cubbert, - 1001 look to the plate. Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane and, as - 1002 thou loves me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and - 1003 Nell. - 1004 Anthony, and Potpan! - 1005 2. Serv. Ay, boy, ready. - 1006 1. Serv. You are look'd for and call'd for, ask'd for and - 1007 sought for, in the great chamber. - 1008 3. Serv. We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys! - 1009 Be brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all. Exeunt. - 1010 - 1011 Enter the Maskers, Enter, [with Servants,] Capulet, his Wife, - 1012 Juliet, Tybalt, and all the Guests - 1013 and Gentlewomen to the Maskers. - 1014 - 1015 - 1016 Cap. Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes - 1017 Unplagu'd with corns will have a bout with you. - 1018 Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all - 1019 Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, - 1020 She I'll swear hath corns. Am I come near ye now? - 1021 Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day - 1022 That I have worn a visor and could tell - 1023 A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear, - 1024 Such as would please. 'Tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone! - 1025 You are welcome, gentlemen! Come, musicians, play. - 1026 A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls. - 1027 Music plays, and they dance. - 1028 More light, you knaves! and turn the tables up, - 1029 And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot. - 1030 Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well. - 1031 Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet, - 1032 For you and I are past our dancing days. - 1033 How long is't now since last yourself and I - 1034 Were in a mask? - 1035 2. Cap. By'r Lady, thirty years. - 1036 - 1037 Cap. What, man? 'Tis not so much, 'tis not so much! - 1038 'Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio, - 1039 Come Pentecost as quickly as it will, - 1040 Some five-and-twenty years, and then we mask'd. - 1041 2. Cap. 'Tis more, 'tis more! His son is elder, sir; - 1042 His son is thirty. - 1043 - 1044 Cap. Will you tell me that? - 1045 His son was but a ward two years ago. - 1046 - 1047 Rom. [to a Servingman] What lady's that, which doth enrich the - 1048 hand Of yonder knight? - 1049 - 1050 Serv. I know not, sir. - 1051 - 1052 Rom. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! - 1053 It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night - 1054 Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear- - 1055 Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! - 1056 So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows - 1057 As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. - 1058 The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand - 1059 And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. - 1060 Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! - 1061 For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. - 1062 - 1063 Tyb. This, by his voice, should be a Montague. - 1064 Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave - 1065 Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, - 1066 To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? - 1067 Now, by the stock and honour of my kin, - 1068 To strike him dead I hold it not a sin. - 1069 - 1070 Cap. Why, how now, kinsman? Wherefore storm you so? - 1071 - 1072 Tyb. Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe; - 1073 A villain, that is hither come in spite - 1074 To scorn at our solemnity this night. - 1075 - 1076 Cap. Young Romeo is it? - 1077 - 1078 Tyb. 'Tis he, that villain Romeo. - 1079 - 1080 Cap. Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone. - 1081 'A bears him like a portly gentleman, - 1082 And, to say truth, Verona brags of him - 1083 To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth. - 1084 I would not for the wealth of all this town - 1085 Here in my house do him disparagement. - 1086 Therefore be patient, take no note of him. - 1087 It is my will; the which if thou respect, - 1088 Show a fair presence and put off these frowns, - 1089 An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. - 1090 - 1091 Tyb. It fits when such a villain is a guest. - 1092 I'll not endure him. - 1093 - 1094 Cap. He shall be endur'd. - 1095 What, goodman boy? I say he shall. Go to! - 1096 Am I the master here, or you? Go to! - 1097 You'll not endure him? God shall mend my soul! - 1098 You'll make a mutiny among my guests! - 1099 You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man! - 1100 - 1101 Tyb. Why, uncle, 'tis a shame. - 1102 - 1103 Cap. Go to, go to! - 1104 You are a saucy boy. Is't so, indeed? - 1105 This trick may chance to scathe you. I know what. - 1106 You must contrary me! Marry, 'tis time.- - 1107 Well said, my hearts!- You are a princox- go! - 1108 Be quiet, or- More light, more light!- For shame! - 1109 I'll make you quiet; what!- Cheerly, my hearts! - 1110 - 1111 Tyb. Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting - 1112 Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting. - 1113 I will withdraw; but this intrusion shall, - 1114 Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall. Exit. - 1115 - 1116 Rom. If I profane with my unworthiest hand - 1117 This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: - 1118 My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand - 1119 To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. - 1120 - 1121 Jul. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, - 1122 Which mannerly devotion shows in this; - 1123 For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, - 1124 And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. - 1125 - 1126 Rom. Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? - 1127 - 1128 Jul. Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in pray'r. - 1129 - 1130 Rom. O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do! - 1131 They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. - 1132 - 1133 Jul. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. - 1134 - 1135 Rom. Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. - 1136 Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg'd. [Kisses her.] - 1137 - 1138 Jul. Then have my lips the sin that they have took. - 1139 - 1140 Rom. Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd! - 1141 Give me my sin again. [Kisses her.] - 1142 - 1143 Jul. You kiss by th' book. - 1144 - 1145 Nurse. Madam, your mother craves a word with you. - 1146 - 1147 Rom. What is her mother? - 1148 - 1149 Nurse. Marry, bachelor, - 1150 Her mother is the lady of the house. - 1151 And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous. - 1152 I nurs'd her daughter that you talk'd withal. - 1153 I tell you, he that can lay hold of her - 1154 Shall have the chinks. - 1155 - 1156 Rom. Is she a Capulet? - 1157 O dear account! my life is my foe's debt. - 1158 - 1159 Ben. Away, be gone; the sport is at the best. - 1160 - 1161 Rom. Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest. - 1162 - 1163 Cap. Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone; - 1164 We have a trifling foolish banquet towards. - 1165 Is it e'en so? Why then, I thank you all. - 1166 I thank you, honest gentlemen. Good night. - 1167 More torches here! [Exeunt Maskers.] Come on then, let's to bed. - 1168 Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late; - 1169 I'll to my rest. - 1170 Exeunt [all but Juliet and Nurse]. - 1171 - 1172 Jul. Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman? - 1173 - 1174 Nurse. The son and heir of old Tiberio. - 1175 - 1176 Jul. What's he that now is going out of door? - 1177 - 1178 Nurse. Marry, that, I think, be young Petruchio. - 1179 - 1180 Jul. What's he that follows there, that would not dance? - 1181 - 1182 Nurse. I know not. - 1183 - 1184 Jul. Go ask his name.- If he be married, - 1185 My grave is like to be my wedding bed. - 1186 - 1187 Nurse. His name is Romeo, and a Montague, - 1188 The only son of your great enemy. - 1189 - 1190 Jul. My only love, sprung from my only hate! - 1191 Too early seen unknown, and known too late! - 1192 Prodigious birth of love it is to me - 1193 That I must love a loathed enemy. - 1194 - 1195 Nurse. What's this? what's this? - 1196 - 1197 Jul. A rhyme I learnt even now - 1198 Of one I danc'd withal. - 1199 One calls within, 'Juliet.' - 1200 - 1201 Nurse. Anon, anon! - 1202 Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone. Exeunt. - 1203 - 1204 - 1205 - 1206 - 1207 PROLOGUE - 1208 - 1209 Enter Chorus. - 1210 - 1211 - 1212 Chor. Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, - 1213 And young affection gapes to be his heir; - 1214 That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, - 1215 With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair. - 1216 Now Romeo is belov'd, and loves again, - 1217 Alike bewitched by the charm of looks; - 1218 But to his foe suppos'd he must complain, - 1219 And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks. - 1220 Being held a foe, he may not have access - 1221 To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear, - 1222 And she as much in love, her means much less - 1223 To meet her new beloved anywhere; - 1224 But passion lends them power, time means, to meet, - 1225 Temp'ring extremities with extreme sweet. - 1226 Exit. - 1227 - 1228 - 1229 - 1230 - 1231 ACT II. Scene I. - 1232 A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard. - 1233 - 1234 Enter Romeo alone. - 1235 - 1236 - 1237 Rom. Can I go forward when my heart is here? - 1238 Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. - 1239 [Climbs the wall and leaps down within it.] - 1240 - 1241 Enter Benvolio with Mercutio. - 1242 - 1243 - 1244 Ben. Romeo! my cousin Romeo! Romeo! - 1245 - 1246 Mer. He is wise, - 1247 And, on my life, hath stol'n him home to bed. - 1248 - 1249 Ben. He ran this way, and leapt this orchard wall. - 1250 Call, good Mercutio. - 1251 - 1252 Mer. Nay, I'll conjure too. - 1253 Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover! - 1254 Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh; - 1255 Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied! - 1256 Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove'; - 1257 Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, - 1258 One nickname for her purblind son and heir, - 1259 Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim - 1260 When King Cophetua lov'd the beggar maid! - 1261 He heareth not, he stirreth not, be moveth not; - 1262 The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. - 1263 I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes. - 1264 By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, - 1265 By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh, - 1266 And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, - 1267 That in thy likeness thou appear to us! - 1268 - 1269 Ben. An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him. - 1270 - 1271 Mer. This cannot anger him. 'Twould anger him - 1272 To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle - 1273 Of some strange nature, letting it there stand - 1274 Till she had laid it and conjur'd it down. - 1275 That were some spite; my invocation - 1276 Is fair and honest: in his mistress' name, - 1277 I conjure only but to raise up him. - 1278 - 1279 Ben. Come, he hath hid himself among these trees - 1280 To be consorted with the humorous night. - 1281 Blind is his love and best befits the dark. - 1282 - 1283 Mer. If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. - 1284 Now will he sit under a medlar tree - 1285 And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit - 1286 As maids call medlars when they laugh alone. - 1287 O, Romeo, that she were, O that she were - 1288 An open et cetera, thou a pop'rin pear! - 1289 Romeo, good night. I'll to my truckle-bed; - 1290 This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep. - 1291 Come, shall we go? - 1292 - 1293 Ben. Go then, for 'tis in vain - 1294 'To seek him here that means not to be found. - 1295 Exeunt. - 1296 - 1297 - 1298 - 1299 - 1300 Scene II. - 1301 Capulet's orchard. - 1302 - 1303 Enter Romeo. - 1304 - 1305 - 1306 Rom. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. - 1307 - 1308 Enter Juliet above at a window. - 1309 - 1310 But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? - 1311 It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! - 1312 Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, - 1313 Who is already sick and pale with grief - 1314 That thou her maid art far more fair than she. - 1315 Be not her maid, since she is envious. - 1316 Her vestal livery is but sick and green, - 1317 And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off. - 1318 It is my lady; O, it is my love! - 1319 O that she knew she were! - 1320 She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that? - 1321 Her eye discourses; I will answer it. - 1322 I am too bold; 'tis not to me she speaks. - 1323 Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, - 1324 Having some business, do entreat her eyes - 1325 To twinkle in their spheres till they return. - 1326 What if her eyes were there, they in her head? - 1327 The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars - 1328 As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven - 1329 Would through the airy region stream so bright - 1330 That birds would sing and think it were not night. - 1331 See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! - 1332 O that I were a glove upon that hand, - 1333 That I might touch that cheek! - 1334 - 1335 Jul. Ay me! - 1336 - 1337 Rom. She speaks. - 1338 O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art - 1339 As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, - 1340 As is a winged messenger of heaven - 1341 Unto the white-upturned wond'ring eyes - 1342 Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him - 1343 When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds - 1344 And sails upon the bosom of the air. - 1345 - 1346 Jul. O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? - 1347 Deny thy father and refuse thy name! - 1348 Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, - 1349 And I'll no longer be a Capulet. - 1350 - 1351 Rom. [aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? - 1352 - 1353 Jul. 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. - 1354 Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. - 1355 What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, - 1356 Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part - 1357 Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! - 1358 What's in a name? That which we call a rose - 1359 By any other name would smell as sweet. - 1360 So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, - 1361 Retain that dear perfection which he owes - 1362 Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name; - 1363 And for that name, which is no part of thee, - 1364 Take all myself. - 1365 - 1366 Rom. I take thee at thy word. - 1367 Call me but love, and I'll be new baptiz'd; - 1368 Henceforth I never will be Romeo. - 1369 - 1370 Jul. What man art thou that, thus bescreen'd in night, - 1371 So stumblest on my counsel? - 1372 - 1373 Rom. By a name - 1374 I know not how to tell thee who I am. - 1375 My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, - 1376 Because it is an enemy to thee. - 1377 Had I it written, I would tear the word. - 1378 - 1379 Jul. My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words - 1380 Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound. - 1381 Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? - 1382 - 1383 Rom. Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. - 1384 - 1385 Jul. How cam'st thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? - 1386 The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, - 1387 And the place death, considering who thou art, - 1388 If any of my kinsmen find thee here. - 1389 - 1390 Rom. With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; - 1391 For stony limits cannot hold love out, - 1392 And what love can do, that dares love attempt. - 1393 Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me. - 1394 - 1395 Jul. If they do see thee, they will murther thee. - 1396 - 1397 Rom. Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye - 1398 Than twenty of their swords! Look thou but sweet, - 1399 And I am proof against their enmity. - 1400 - 1401 Jul. I would not for the world they saw thee here. - 1402 - 1403 Rom. I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight; - 1404 And but thou love me, let them find me here. - 1405 My life were better ended by their hate - 1406 Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. - 1407 - 1408 Jul. By whose direction found'st thou out this place? - 1409 - 1410 Rom. By love, that first did prompt me to enquire. - 1411 He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes. - 1412 I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far - 1413 As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea, - 1414 I would adventure for such merchandise. - 1415 - 1416 Jul. Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face; - 1417 Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek - 1418 For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. - 1419 Fain would I dwell on form- fain, fain deny - 1420 What I have spoke; but farewell compliment! - 1421 Dost thou love me, I know thou wilt say 'Ay'; - 1422 And I will take thy word. Yet, if thou swear'st, - 1423 Thou mayst prove false. At lovers' perjuries, - 1424 They say Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, - 1425 If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. - 1426 Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won, - 1427 I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, - 1428 So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. - 1429 In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, - 1430 And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light; - 1431 But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true - 1432 Than those that have more cunning to be strange. - 1433 I should have been more strange, I must confess, - 1434 But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, - 1435 My true-love passion. Therefore pardon me, - 1436 And not impute this yielding to light love, - 1437 Which the dark night hath so discovered. - 1438 - 1439 Rom. Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, - 1440 That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops- - 1441 - 1442 Jul. O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, - 1443 That monthly changes in her circled orb, - 1444 Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. - 1445 - 1446 Rom. What shall I swear by? - 1447 - 1448 Jul. Do not swear at all; - 1449 Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, - 1450 Which is the god of my idolatry, - 1451 And I'll believe thee. - 1452 - 1453 Rom. If my heart's dear love- - 1454 - 1455 Jul. Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, - 1456 I have no joy of this contract to-night. - 1457 It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden; - 1458 Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be - 1459 Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night! - 1460 This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, - 1461 May prove a beauteous flow'r when next we meet. - 1462 Good night, good night! As sweet repose and rest - 1463 Come to thy heart as that within my breast! - 1464 - 1465 Rom. O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? - 1466 - 1467 Jul. What satisfaction canst thou have to-night? - 1468 - 1469 Rom. Th' exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine. - 1470 - 1471 Jul. I gave thee mine before thou didst request it; - 1472 And yet I would it were to give again. - 1473 - 1474 Rom. Would'st thou withdraw it? For what purpose, love? - 1475 - 1476 Jul. But to be frank and give it thee again. - 1477 And yet I wish but for the thing I have. - 1478 My bounty is as boundless as the sea, - 1479 My love as deep; the more I give to thee, - 1480 The more I have, for both are infinite. - 1481 I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu! - 1482 [Nurse] calls within. - 1483 Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true. - 1484 Stay but a little, I will come again. [Exit.] - 1485 - 1486 Rom. O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard, - 1487 Being in night, all this is but a dream, - 1488 Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. - 1489 - 1490 Enter Juliet above. - 1491 - 1492 - 1493 Jul. Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. - 1494 If that thy bent of love be honourable, - 1495 Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow, - 1496 By one that I'll procure to come to thee, - 1497 Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite; - 1498 And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay - 1499 And follow thee my lord throughout the world. - 1500 - 1501 Nurse. (within) Madam! - 1502 - 1503 Jul. I come, anon.- But if thou meanest not well, - 1504 I do beseech thee- - 1505 - 1506 Nurse. (within) Madam! - 1507 - 1508 Jul. By-and-by I come.- - 1509 To cease thy suit and leave me to my grief. - 1510 To-morrow will I send. - 1511 - 1512 Rom. So thrive my soul- - 1513 - 1514 Jul. A thousand times good night! Exit. - 1515 - 1516 Rom. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light! - 1517 Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; - 1518 But love from love, towards school with heavy looks. - 1519 - 1520 Enter Juliet again, [above]. - 1521 - 1522 - 1523 Jul. Hist! Romeo, hist! O for a falconer's voice - 1524 To lure this tassel-gentle back again! - 1525 Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud; - 1526 Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, - 1527 And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine - 1528 With repetition of my Romeo's name. - 1529 Romeo! - 1530 - 1531 Rom. It is my soul that calls upon my name. - 1532 How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, - 1533 Like softest music to attending ears! - 1534 - 1535 Jul. Romeo! - 1536 - 1537 Rom. My dear? - 1538 - 1539 Jul. At what o'clock to-morrow - 1540 Shall I send to thee? - 1541 - 1542 Rom. By the hour of nine. - 1543 - 1544 Jul. I will not fail. 'Tis twenty years till then. - 1545 I have forgot why I did call thee back. - 1546 - 1547 Rom. Let me stand here till thou remember it. - 1548 - 1549 Jul. I shall forget, to have thee still stand there, - 1550 Rememb'ring how I love thy company. - 1551 - 1552 Rom. And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget, - 1553 Forgetting any other home but this. - 1554 - 1555 Jul. 'Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone- - 1556 And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, - 1557 That lets it hop a little from her hand, - 1558 Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, - 1559 And with a silk thread plucks it back again, - 1560 So loving-jealous of his liberty. - 1561 - 1562 Rom. I would I were thy bird. - 1563 - 1564 Jul. Sweet, so would I. - 1565 Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. - 1566 Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, - 1567 That I shall say good night till it be morrow. - 1568 [Exit.] - 1569 - 1570 Rom. Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! - 1571 Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest! - 1572 Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell, - 1573 His help to crave and my dear hap to tell. - 1574 Exit - 1575 - 1576 - 1577 - 1578 - 1579 Scene III. - 1580 Friar Laurence's cell. - 1581 - 1582 Enter Friar, [Laurence] alone, with a basket. - 1583 - 1584 - 1585 Friar. The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night, - 1586 Check'ring the Eastern clouds with streaks of light; - 1587 And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels - 1588 From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels. - 1589 Non, ere the sun advance his burning eye - 1590 The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry, - 1591 I must up-fill this osier cage of ours - 1592 With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers. - 1593 The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb. - 1594 What is her burying gave, that is her womb; - 1595 And from her womb children of divers kind - 1596 We sucking on her natural bosom find; - 1597 Many for many virtues excellent, - 1598 None but for some, and yet all different. - 1599 O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies - 1600 In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities; - 1601 For naught so vile that on the earth doth live - 1602 But to the earth some special good doth give; - 1603 Nor aught so good but, strain'd from that fair use, - 1604 Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. - 1605 Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, - 1606 And vice sometime's by action dignified. - 1607 Within the infant rind of this small flower - 1608 Poison hath residence, and medicine power; - 1609 For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; - 1610 Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. - 1611 Two such opposed kings encamp them still - 1612 In man as well as herbs- grace and rude will; - 1613 And where the worser is predominant, - 1614 Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. - 1615 - 1616 Enter Romeo. - 1617 - 1618 - 1619 Rom. Good morrow, father. - 1620 - 1621 Friar. Benedicite! - 1622 What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? - 1623 Young son, it argues a distempered head - 1624 So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed. - 1625 Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, - 1626 And where care lodges sleep will never lie; - 1627 But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain - 1628 Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. - 1629 Therefore thy earliness doth me assure - 1630 Thou art uprous'd with some distemp'rature; - 1631 Or if not so, then here I hit it right- - 1632 Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night. - 1633 - 1634 Rom. That last is true-the sweeter rest was mine. - 1635 - 1636 Friar. God pardon sin! Wast thou with Rosaline? - 1637 - 1638 Rom. With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No. - 1639 I have forgot that name, and that name's woe. - 1640 - 1641 Friar. That's my good son! But where hast thou been then? - 1642 - 1643 Rom. I'll tell thee ere thou ask it me again. - 1644 I have been feasting with mine enemy, - 1645 Where on a sudden one hath wounded me - 1646 That's by me wounded. Both our remedies - 1647 Within thy help and holy physic lies. - 1648 I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo, - 1649 My intercession likewise steads my foe. - 1650 - 1651 Friar. Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift - 1652 Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. - 1653 - 1654 Rom. Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set - 1655 On the fair daughter of rich Capulet; - 1656 As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine, - 1657 And all combin'd, save what thou must combine - 1658 By holy marriage. When, and where, and how - 1659 We met, we woo'd, and made exchange of vow, - 1660 I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, - 1661 That thou consent to marry us to-day. - 1662 - 1663 Friar. Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here! - 1664 Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, - 1665 So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies - 1666 Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. - 1667 Jesu Maria! What a deal of brine - 1668 Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline! - 1669 How much salt water thrown away in waste, - 1670 To season love, that of it doth not taste! - 1671 The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears, - 1672 Thy old groans ring yet in mine ancient ears. - 1673 Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit - 1674 Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet. - 1675 If e'er thou wast thyself, and these woes thine, - 1676 Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline. - 1677 And art thou chang'd? Pronounce this sentence then: - 1678 Women may fall when there's no strength in men. - 1679 - 1680 Rom. Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline. - 1681 - 1682 Friar. For doting, not for loving, pupil mine. - 1683 - 1684 Rom. And bad'st me bury love. - 1685 - 1686 Friar. Not in a grave - 1687 To lay one in, another out to have. - 1688 - 1689 Rom. I pray thee chide not. She whom I love now - 1690 Doth grace for grace and love for love allow. - 1691 The other did not so. - 1692 - 1693 Friar. O, she knew well - 1694 Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell. - 1695 But come, young waverer, come go with me. - 1696 In one respect I'll thy assistant be; - 1697 For this alliance may so happy prove - 1698 To turn your households' rancour to pure love. - 1699 - 1700 Rom. O, let us hence! I stand on sudden haste. - 1701 - 1702 Friar. Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. - 1703 Exeunt. - 1704 - 1705 - 1706 - 1707 - 1708 Scene IV. - 1709 A street. - 1710 - 1711 Enter Benvolio and Mercutio. - 1712 - 1713 - 1714 Mer. Where the devil should this Romeo be? - 1715 Came he not home to-night? - 1716 - 1717 Ben. Not to his father's. I spoke with his man. - 1718 - 1719 Mer. Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, - 1720 Torments him so that he will sure run mad. - 1721 - 1722 Ben. Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, - 1723 Hath sent a letter to his father's house. - 1724 - 1725 Mer. A challenge, on my life. - 1726 - 1727 Ben. Romeo will answer it. - 1728 - 1729 Mer. Any man that can write may answer a letter. - 1730 - 1731 Ben. Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he dares, - 1732 being dared. - 1733 - 1734 Mer. Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead! stabb'd with a white - 1735 wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a love song; the - 1736 very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's - 1737 butt-shaft; and is he a man to encounter Tybalt? - 1738 - 1739 Ben. Why, what is Tybalt? - 1740 - 1741 Mer. More than Prince of Cats, I can tell you. O, he's the - 1742 courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you sing - 1743 pricksong-keeps time, distance, and proportion; rests me his - 1744 minim rest, one, two, and the third in your bosom! the very - 1745 butcher of a silk button, a duellist, a duellist! a gentleman - 1746 of the very first house, of the first and second cause. Ah, the - 1747 immortal passado! the punto reverse! the hay. - 1748 - 1749 Ben. The what? - 1750 - 1751 Mer. The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting fantasticoes- - 1752 these new tuners of accent! 'By Jesu, a very good blade! a very - 1753 tall man! a very good whore!' Why, is not this a lamentable thing, - 1754 grandsir, that we should be thus afflicted with these strange - 1755 flies, these fashion-mongers, these pardona-mi's, who stand - 1756 so much on the new form that they cannot sit at ease on the old - 1757 bench? O, their bones, their bones! - 1758 - 1759 Enter Romeo. - 1760 - 1761 - 1762 Ben. Here comes Romeo! here comes Romeo! - 1763 - 1764 Mer. Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, flesh, how - 1765 art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch - 1766 flowed in. Laura, to his lady, was but a kitchen wench (marry, she - 1767 had a better love to berhyme her), Dido a dowdy, Cleopatra a gypsy, - 1768 Helen and Hero hildings and harlots, This be a gray eye or so, - 1769 but not to the purpose. Signior Romeo, bon jour! There's a French - 1770 salutation to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit - 1771 fairly last night. - 1772 - 1773 Rom. Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you? - 1774 - 1775 Mer. The slip, sir, the slip. Can you not conceive? - 1776 - 1777 Rom. Pardon, good Mercutio. My business was great, and in such a - 1778 case as mine a man may strain courtesy. - 1779 - 1780 Mer. That's as much as to say, such a case as yours constrains a - 1781 man to bow in the hams. - 1782 - 1783 Rom. Meaning, to cursy. - 1784 - 1785 Mer. Thou hast most kindly hit it. - 1786 - 1787 Rom. A most courteous exposition. - 1788 - 1789 Mer. Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. - 1790 - 1791 Rom. Pink for flower. - 1792 - 1793 Mer. Right. - 1794 - 1795 Rom. Why, then is my pump well-flower'd. - 1796 - 1797 Mer. Well said! Follow me this jest now till thou hast worn out - 1798 thy pump, that, when the single sole of it is worn, the jest may - 1799 remain, after the wearing, solely singular. - 1800 - 1801 Rom. O single-sold jest, solely singular for the singleness! - 1802 - 1803 Mer. Come between us, good Benvolio! My wits faint. - 1804 - 1805 Rom. Swits and spurs, swits and spurs! or I'll cry a match. - 1806 - 1807 Mer. Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done; for - 1808 thou hast more of the wild goose in one of thy wits than, I am - 1809 sure, I have in my whole five. Was I with you there for the goose? - 1810 - 1811 Rom. Thou wast never with me for anything when thou wast not - 1812 there for the goose. - 1813 - 1814 Mer. I will bite thee by the ear for that jest. - 1815 - 1816 Rom. Nay, good goose, bite not! - 1817 - 1818 Mer. Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce. - 1819 - 1820 Rom. And is it not, then, well serv'd in to a sweet goose? - 1821 - 1822 Mer. O, here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch - 1823 narrow to an ell broad! - 1824 - 1825 Rom. I stretch it out for that word 'broad,' which, added to - 1826 the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. - 1827 - 1828 Mer. Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? Now - 1829 art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art thou what thou art, by - 1830 art as well as by nature. For this drivelling love is like a - 1831 great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in - 1832 a hole. - 1833 - 1834 Ben. Stop there, stop there! - 1835 - 1836 Mer. Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. - 1837 - 1838 Ben. Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. - 1839 - 1840 Mer. O, thou art deceiv'd! I would have made it short; for I - 1841 was come to the whole depth of my tale, and meant indeed to - 1842 occupy the argument no longer. - 1843 - 1844 Rom. Here's goodly gear! - 1845 - 1846 Enter Nurse and her Man [Peter]. - 1847 - 1848 - 1849 Mer. A sail, a sail! - 1850 - 1851 Ben. Two, two! a shirt and a smock. - 1852 - 1853 Nurse. Peter! - 1854 - 1855 Peter. Anon. - 1856 - 1857 Nurse. My fan, Peter. - 1858 - 1859 Mer. Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the fairer face of - 1860 the two. - 1861 - 1862 Nurse. God ye good morrow, gentlemen. - 1863 - 1864 Mer. God ye good-den, fair gentlewoman. - 1865 - 1866 Nurse. Is it good-den? - 1867 - 1868 Mer. 'Tis no less, I tell ye; for the bawdy hand of the dial is - 1869 now upon the prick of noon. - 1870 - 1871 Nurse. Out upon you! What a man are you! - 1872 - 1873 Rom. One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to mar. - 1874 - 1875 Nurse. By my troth, it is well said. 'For himself to mar,' - 1876 quoth 'a? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I may find the - 1877 young Romeo? - 1878 - 1879 Rom. I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when you - 1880 have found him than he was when you sought him. I am the youngest - 1881 of that name, for fault of a worse. - 1882 - 1883 Nurse. You say well. - 1884 - 1885 Mer. Yea, is the worst well? Very well took, i' faith! wisely, - 1886 wisely. - 1887 - 1888 Nurse. If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with you. - 1889 - 1890 Ben. She will endite him to some supper. - 1891 - 1892 Mer. A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! So ho! - 1893 - 1894 Rom. What hast thou found? - 1895 - 1896 Mer. No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie, that is - 1897 something stale and hoar ere it be spent - 1898 He walks by them and sings. - 1899 - 1900 An old hare hoar, - 1901 And an old hare hoar, - 1902 Is very good meat in Lent; - 1903 But a hare that is hoar - 1904 Is too much for a score - 1905 When it hoars ere it be spent. - 1906 - 1907 Romeo, will you come to your father's? We'll to dinner thither. - 1908 - 1909 Rom. I will follow you. - 1910 - 1911 Mer. Farewell, ancient lady. Farewell, - 1912 [sings] lady, lady, lady. - 1913 Exeunt Mercutio, Benvolio. - 1914 - 1915 Nurse. Marry, farewell! I Pray you, Sir, what saucy merchant - 1916 was this that was so full of his ropery? - 1917 - 1918 Rom. A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk and - 1919 will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. - 1920 - 1921 Nurse. An 'a speak anything against me, I'll take him down, an - 1922 'a - 1923 were lustier than he is, and twenty such jacks; and if I cannot, - 1924 I'll find those that shall. Scurvy knave! I am none of his - 1925 flirt-gills; I am none of his skains-mates. And thou must - 1926 stand by too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure! - 1927 - 1928 Peter. I saw no man use you at his pleasure. If I had, my - 1929 weapon should quickly have been out, I warrant you. I dare draw as - 1930 soon as another man, if I see occasion in a good quarrel, and the - 1931 law on my side. - 1932 - 1933 Nurse. Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every part about me - 1934 quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word; and, as I told you, - 1935 my young lady bid me enquire you out. What she bid me say, I - 1936 will keep to myself; but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead - 1937 her into a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of - 1938 behaviour, as they say; for the gentlewoman is young; and - 1939 therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were - 1940 an ill thing to be off'red to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing. - 1941 - 1942 Rom. Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I protest unto - 1943 thee- - 1944 - 1945 Nurse. Good heart, and I faith I will tell her as much. Lord, - 1946 Lord! she will be a joyful woman. - 1947 - 1948 Rom. What wilt thou tell her, nurse? Thou dost not mark me. - 1949 - 1950 Nurse. I will tell her, sir, that you do protest, which, as I - 1951 take it, is a gentlemanlike offer. - 1952 - 1953 Rom. Bid her devise - 1954 Some means to come to shrift this afternoon; - 1955 And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell - 1956 Be shriv'd and married. Here is for thy pains. - 1957 - 1958 Nurse. No, truly, sir; not a penny. - 1959 - 1960 Rom. Go to! I say you shall. - 1961 - 1962 Nurse. This afternoon, sir? Well, she shall be there. - 1963 - 1964 Rom. And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall. - 1965 Within this hour my man shall be with thee - 1966 And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair, - 1967 Which to the high topgallant of my joy - 1968 Must be my convoy in the secret night. - 1969 Farewell. Be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains. - 1970 Farewell. Commend me to thy mistress. - 1971 - 1972 Nurse. Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir. - 1973 - 1974 Rom. What say'st thou, my dear nurse? - 1975 - 1976 Nurse. Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, - 1977 Two may keep counsel, putting one away? - 1978 - 1979 Rom. I warrant thee my man's as true as steel. - 1980 - 1981 Nurse. Well, sir, my mistress is the sweetest lady. Lord, Lord! - 1982 when 'twas a little prating thing- O, there is a nobleman in - 1983 town, one Paris, that would fain lay knife aboard; but she, - 1984 good soul, had as lieve see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I - 1985 anger her sometimes, and tell her that Paris is the properer man; - 1986 but I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks as pale as any - 1987 clout in the versal world. Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both - 1988 with a letter? - 1989 - 1990 Rom. Ay, nurse; what of that? Both with an R. - 1991 - 1992 Nurse. Ah, mocker! that's the dog's name. R is for the- No; I - 1993 know it begins with some other letter; and she hath the prettiest - 1994 sententious of it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you - 1995 good to hear it. - 1996 - 1997 Rom. Commend me to thy lady. - 1998 - 1999 Nurse. Ay, a thousand times. [Exit Romeo.] Peter! - 2000 - 2001 Peter. Anon. - 2002 - 2003 Nurse. Peter, take my fan, and go before, and apace. - 2004 Exeunt. - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 Scene V. - 2010 Capulet's orchard. - 2011 - 2012 Enter Juliet. - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 Jul. The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse; - 2016 In half an hour she 'promis'd to return. - 2017 Perchance she cannot meet him. That's not so. - 2018 O, she is lame! Love's heralds should be thoughts, - 2019 Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams - 2020 Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. - 2021 Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw Love, - 2022 And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. - 2023 Now is the sun upon the highmost hill - 2024 Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve - 2025 Is three long hours; yet she is not come. - 2026 Had she affections and warm youthful blood, - 2027 She would be as swift in motion as a ball; - 2028 My words would bandy her to my sweet love, - 2029 And his to me, - 2030 But old folks, many feign as they were dead- - 2031 Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead. - 2032 - 2033 Enter Nurse [and Peter]. - 2034 - 2035 O God, she comes! O honey nurse, what news? - 2036 Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away. - 2037 - 2038 Nurse. Peter, stay at the gate. - 2039 [Exit Peter.] - 2040 - 2041 Jul. Now, good sweet nurse- O Lord, why look'st thou sad? - 2042 Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily; - 2043 If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news - 2044 By playing it to me with so sour a face. - 2045 - 2046 Nurse. I am aweary, give me leave awhile. - 2047 Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce have I had! - 2048 - 2049 Jul. I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news. - 2050 Nay, come, I pray thee speak. Good, good nurse, speak. - 2051 - 2052 Nurse. Jesu, what haste! Can you not stay awhile? - 2053 Do you not see that I am out of breath? - 2054 - 2055 Jul. How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath - 2056 To say to me that thou art out of breath? - 2057 The excuse that thou dost make in this delay - 2058 Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse. - 2059 Is thy news good or bad? Answer to that. - 2060 Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance. - 2061 Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad? - 2062 - 2063 Nurse. Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not how to - 2064 choose a man. Romeo? No, not he. Though his face be better - 2065 than any man's, yet his leg excels all men's; and for a hand and a - 2066 foot, and a body, though they be not to be talk'd on, yet - 2067 they are past compare. He is not the flower of courtesy, but, I'll - 2068 warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy ways, wench; serve - 2069 God. - 2070 What, have you din'd at home? - 2071 - 2072 Jul. No, no. But all this did I know before. - 2073 What says he of our marriage? What of that? - 2074 - 2075 Nurse. Lord, how my head aches! What a head have I! - 2076 It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces. - 2077 My back o' t' other side,- ah, my back, my back! - 2078 Beshrew your heart for sending me about - 2079 To catch my death with jauncing up and down! - 2080 - 2081 Jul. I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well. - 2082 Sweet, sweet, Sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love? - 2083 - 2084 Nurse. Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, - 2085 and a kind, and a handsome; and, I warrant, a virtuous- Where - 2086 is your mother? - 2087 - 2088 Jul. Where is my mother? Why, she is within. - 2089 Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest! - 2090 'Your love says, like an honest gentleman, - 2091 "Where is your mother?"' - 2092 - 2093 Nurse. O God's Lady dear! - 2094 Are you so hot? Marry come up, I trow. - 2095 Is this the poultice for my aching bones? - 2096 Henceforward do your messages yourself. - 2097 - 2098 Jul. Here's such a coil! Come, what says Romeo? - 2099 - 2100 Nurse. Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day? - 2101 - 2102 Jul. I have. - 2103 - 2104 Nurse. Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell; - 2105 There stays a husband to make you a wife. - 2106 Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks: - 2107 They'll be in scarlet straight at any news. - 2108 Hie you to church; I must another way, - 2109 To fetch a ladder, by the which your love - 2110 Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark. - 2111 I am the drudge, and toil in your delight; - 2112 But you shall bear the burthen soon at night. - 2113 Go; I'll to dinner; hie you to the cell. - 2114 - 2115 Jul. Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell. - 2116 Exeunt. - 2117 - 2118 - 2119 - 2120 - 2121 Scene VI. - 2122 Friar Laurence's cell. - 2123 - 2124 Enter Friar [Laurence] and Romeo. - 2125 - 2126 - 2127 Friar. So smile the heavens upon this holy act - 2128 That after-hours with sorrow chide us not! - 2129 - 2130 Rom. Amen, amen! But come what sorrow can, - 2131 It cannot countervail the exchange of joy - 2132 That one short minute gives me in her sight. - 2133 Do thou but close our hands with holy words, - 2134 Then love-devouring death do what he dare- - 2135 It is enough I may but call her mine. - 2136 - 2137 Friar. These violent delights have violent ends - 2138 And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, - 2139 Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey - 2140 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness - 2141 And in the taste confounds the appetite. - 2142 Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; - 2143 Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. - 2144 - 2145 Enter Juliet. - 2146 - 2147 Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot - 2148 Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. - 2149 A lover may bestride the gossamer - 2150 That idles in the wanton summer air, - 2151 And yet not fall; so light is vanity. - 2152 - 2153 Jul. Good even to my ghostly confessor. - 2154 - 2155 Friar. Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both. - 2156 - 2157 Jul. As much to him, else is his thanks too much. - 2158 - 2159 Rom. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy - 2160 Be heap'd like mine, and that thy skill be more - 2161 To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath - 2162 This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue - 2163 Unfold the imagin'd happiness that both - 2164 Receive in either by this dear encounter. - 2165 - 2166 Jul. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, - 2167 Brags of his substance, not of ornament. - 2168 They are but beggars that can count their worth; - 2169 But my true love is grown to such excess - 2170 cannot sum up sum of half my wealth. - 2171 - 2172 Friar. Come, come with me, and we will make short work; - 2173 For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone - 2174 Till Holy Church incorporate two in one. - 2175 [Exeunt.] - 2176 - 2177 - 2178 - 2179 - 2180 ACT III. Scene I. - 2181 A public place. - 2182 - 2183 Enter Mercutio, Benvolio, and Men. - 2184 - 2185 - 2186 Ben. I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire. - 2187 The day is hot, the Capulets abroad. - 2188 And if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl, - 2189 For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. - 2190 - 2191 Mer. Thou art like one of these fellows that, when he enters - 2192 the confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table and - 2193 says 'God send me no need of thee!' and by the operation of the - 2194 second cup draws him on the drawer, when indeed there is no need. - 2195 - 2196 Ben. Am I like such a fellow? - 2197 - 2198 Mer. Come, come, thou art as hot a jack in thy mood as any in - 2199 Italy; and as soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be - 2200 moved. - 2201 - 2202 Ben. And what to? - 2203 - 2204 Mer. Nay, an there were two such, we should have none shortly, - 2205 for one would kill the other. Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a - 2206 man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. - 2207 Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no - 2208 other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes. What eye but such an - 2209 eye would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels - 2210 as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath been beaten as - 2211 addle as an egg for quarrelling. Thou hast quarrell'd with a - 2212 man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog - 2213 that hath lain asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall out with a - 2214 tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter, with - 2215 another for tying his new shoes with an old riband? And yet thou wilt - 2216 tutor me from quarrelling! - 2217 - 2218 Ben. An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man should - 2219 buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. - 2220 - 2221 Mer. The fee simple? O simple! - 2222 - 2223 Enter Tybalt and others. - 2224 - 2225 - 2226 Ben. By my head, here come the Capulets. - 2227 - 2228 Mer. By my heel, I care not. - 2229 - 2230 Tyb. Follow me close, for I will speak to them. - 2231 Gentlemen, good den. A word with one of you. - 2232 - 2233 Mer. And but one word with one of us? - 2234 Couple it with something; make it a word and a blow. - 2235 - 2236 Tyb. You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you will give me - 2237 occasion. - 2238 - 2239 Mer. Could you not take some occasion without giving - 2240 - 2241 Tyb. Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo. - 2242 - 2243 Mer. Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? An thou make - 2244 minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords. Here's my - 2245 fiddlestick; here's that shall make you dance. Zounds, consort! - 2246 - 2247 Ben. We talk here in the public haunt of men. - 2248 Either withdraw unto some private place - 2249 And reason coldly of your grievances, - 2250 Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us. - 2251 - 2252 Mer. Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. - 2253 I will not budge for no man's pleasure, - 2254 - 2255 Enter Romeo. - 2256 - 2257 - 2258 Tyb. Well, peace be with you, sir. Here comes my man. - 2259 - 2260 Mer. But I'll be hang'd, sir, if he wear your livery. - 2261 Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower! - 2262 Your worship in that sense may call him man. - 2263 - 2264 Tyb. Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford - 2265 No better term than this: thou art a villain. - 2266 - 2267 Rom. Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee - 2268 Doth much excuse the appertaining rage - 2269 To such a greeting. Villain am I none. - 2270 Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not. - 2271 - 2272 Tyb. Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries - 2273 That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw. - 2274 - 2275 Rom. I do protest I never injur'd thee, - 2276 But love thee better than thou canst devise - 2277 Till thou shalt know the reason of my love; - 2278 And so good Capulet, which name I tender - 2279 As dearly as mine own, be satisfied. - 2280 - 2281 Mer. O calm, dishonourable, vile submission! - 2282 Alla stoccata carries it away. [Draws.] - 2283 Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk? - 2284 - 2285 Tyb. What wouldst thou have with me? - 2286 - 2287 Mer. Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives. - 2288 That I - 2289 mean to make bold withal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, - 2290 - 2291 dry-beat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out - 2292 of his pitcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your - 2293 ears ere it be out. - 2294 - 2295 Tyb. I am for you. [Draws.] - 2296 - 2297 Rom. Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up. - 2298 - 2299 Mer. Come, sir, your passado! - 2300 [They fight.] - 2301 - 2302 Rom. Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons. - 2303 Gentlemen, for shame! forbear this outrage! - 2304 Tybalt, Mercutio, the Prince expressly hath - 2305 Forbid this bandying in Verona streets. - 2306 Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio! - 2307 Tybalt under Romeo's arm thrusts Mercutio in, and flies - 2308 [with his Followers]. - 2309 - 2310 Mer. I am hurt. - 2311 A plague o' both your houses! I am sped. - 2312 Is he gone and hath nothing? - 2313 - 2314 Ben. What, art thou hurt? - 2315 - 2316 Mer. Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, 'tis enough. - 2317 Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon. - 2318 [Exit Page.] - 2319 - 2320 Rom. Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much. - 2321 - 2322 Mer. No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; - 2323 but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me to-morrow, and you - 2324 shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this - 2325 world. A plague o' both your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a - 2326 mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a rogue, - 2327 a - 2328 villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil - 2329 came you between us? I was hurt under your arm. - 2330 - 2331 Rom. I thought all for the best. - 2332 - 2333 Mer. Help me into some house, Benvolio, - 2334 Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses! - 2335 They have made worms' meat of me. I have it, - 2336 And soundly too. Your houses! - 2337 [Exit. [supported by Benvolio]. - 2338 - 2339 Rom. This gentleman, the Prince's near ally, - 2340 My very friend, hath got this mortal hurt - 2341 In my behalf- my reputation stain'd - 2342 With Tybalt's slander- Tybalt, that an hour - 2343 Hath been my kinsman. O sweet Juliet, - 2344 Thy beauty hath made me effeminate - 2345 And in my temper soft'ned valour's steel - 2346 - 2347 Enter Benvolio. - 2348 - 2349 - 2350 Ben. O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead! - 2351 That gallant spirit hath aspir'd the clouds, - 2352 Which too untimely here did scorn the earth. - 2353 - 2354 Rom. This day's black fate on moe days doth depend; - 2355 This but begins the woe others must end. - 2356 - 2357 Enter Tybalt. - 2358 - 2359 - 2360 Ben. Here comes the furious Tybalt back again. - 2361 - 2362 Rom. Alive in triumph, and Mercutio slain? - 2363 Away to heaven respective lenity, - 2364 And fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now! - 2365 Now, Tybalt, take the 'villain' back again - 2366 That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul - 2367 Is but a little way above our heads, - 2368 Staying for thine to keep him company. - 2369 Either thou or I, or both, must go with him. - 2370 - 2371 Tyb. Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, - 2372 Shalt with him hence. - 2373 - 2374 Rom. This shall determine that. - 2375 They fight. Tybalt falls. - 2376 - 2377 Ben. Romeo, away, be gone! - 2378 The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. - 2379 Stand not amaz'd. The Prince will doom thee death - 2380 If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away! - 2381 - 2382 Rom. O, I am fortune's fool! - 2383 - 2384 Ben. Why dost thou stay? - 2385 Exit Romeo. - 2386 Enter Citizens. - 2387 - 2388 - 2389 Citizen. Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio? - 2390 Tybalt, that murtherer, which way ran he? - 2391 - 2392 Ben. There lies that Tybalt. - 2393 - 2394 Citizen. Up, sir, go with me. - 2395 I charge thee in the Prince's name obey. - 2396 - 2397 - 2398 Enter Prince [attended], Old Montague, Capulet, their Wives, - 2399 and [others]. - 2400 - 2401 - 2402 Prince. Where are the vile beginners of this fray? - 2403 - 2404 Ben. O noble Prince. I can discover all - 2405 The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl. - 2406 There lies the man, slain by young Romeo, - 2407 That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio. - 2408 - 2409 Cap. Wife. Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child! - 2410 O Prince! O husband! O, the blood is spill'd - 2411 Of my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true, - 2412 For blood of ours shed blood of Montague. - 2413 O cousin, cousin! - 2414 - 2415 Prince. Benvolio, who began this bloody fray? - 2416 - 2417 Ben. Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did stay. - 2418 Romeo, that spoke him fair, bid him bethink - 2419 How nice the quarrel was, and urg'd withal - 2420 Your high displeasure. All this- uttered - 2421 With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd- - 2422 Could not take truce with the unruly spleen - 2423 Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts - 2424 With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast; - 2425 Who, all as hot, turns deadly point to point, - 2426 And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats - 2427 Cold death aside and with the other sends - 2428 It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity - 2429 Retorts it. Romeo he cries aloud, - 2430 'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and swifter than his tongue, - 2431 His agile arm beats down their fatal points, - 2432 And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm - 2433 An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life - 2434 Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled; - 2435 But by-and-by comes back to Romeo, - 2436 Who had but newly entertain'd revenge, - 2437 And to't they go like lightning; for, ere I - 2438 Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain; - 2439 And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly. - 2440 This is the truth, or let Benvolio die. - 2441 - 2442 Cap. Wife. He is a kinsman to the Montague; - 2443 Affection makes him false, he speaks not true. - 2444 Some twenty of them fought in this black strife, - 2445 And all those twenty could but kill one life. - 2446 I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give. - 2447 Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live. - 2448 - 2449 Prince. Romeo slew him; he slew Mercutio. - 2450 Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe? - 2451 - 2452 Mon. Not Romeo, Prince; he was Mercutio's friend; - 2453 His fault concludes but what the law should end, - 2454 The life of Tybalt. - 2455 - 2456 Prince. And for that offence - 2457 Immediately we do exile him hence. - 2458 I have an interest in your hate's proceeding, - 2459 My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding; - 2460 But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine - 2461 That you shall all repent the loss of mine. - 2462 I will be deaf to pleading and excuses; - 2463 Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. - 2464 Therefore use none. Let Romeo hence in haste, - 2465 Else, when he is found, that hour is his last. - 2466 Bear hence this body, and attend our will. - 2467 Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. - 2468 Exeunt. - 2469 - 2470 - 2471 - 2472 - 2473 Scene II. - 2474 Capulet's orchard. - 2475 - 2476 Enter Juliet alone. - 2477 - 2478 - 2479 Jul. Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, - 2480 Towards Phoebus' lodging! Such a wagoner - 2481 As Phaeton would whip you to the West - 2482 And bring in cloudy night immediately. - 2483 Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, - 2484 That runaway eyes may wink, and Romeo - 2485 Leap to these arms untalk'd of and unseen. - 2486 Lovers can see to do their amorous rites - 2487 By their own beauties; or, if love be blind, - 2488 It best agrees with night. Come, civil night, - 2489 Thou sober-suited matron, all in black, - 2490 And learn me how to lose a winning match, - 2491 Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods. - 2492 Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks, - 2493 With thy black mantle till strange love, grown bold, - 2494 Think true love acted simple modesty. - 2495 Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; - 2496 For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night - 2497 Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back. - 2498 Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-brow'd night; - 2499 Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, - 2500 Take him and cut him out in little stars, - 2501 And he will make the face of heaven so fine - 2502 That all the world will be in love with night - 2503 And pay no worship to the garish sun. - 2504 O, I have bought the mansion of a love, - 2505 But not possess'd it; and though I am sold, - 2506 Not yet enjoy'd. So tedious is this day - 2507 As is the night before some festival - 2508 To an impatient child that hath new robes - 2509 And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse, - 2510 - 2511 Enter Nurse, with cords. - 2512 - 2513 And she brings news; and every tongue that speaks - 2514 But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence. - 2515 Now, nurse, what news? What hast thou there? the cords - 2516 That Romeo bid thee fetch? - 2517 - 2518 Nurse. Ay, ay, the cords. - 2519 [Throws them down.] - 2520 - 2521 Jul. Ay me! what news? Why dost thou wring thy hands - 2522 - 2523 Nurse. Ah, weraday! he's dead, he's dead, he's dead! - 2524 We are undone, lady, we are undone! - 2525 Alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead! - 2526 - 2527 Jul. Can heaven be so envious? - 2528 - 2529 Nurse. Romeo can, - 2530 Though heaven cannot. O Romeo, Romeo! - 2531 Who ever would have thought it? Romeo! - 2532 - 2533 Jul. What devil art thou that dost torment me thus? - 2534 This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell. - 2535 Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but 'I,' - 2536 And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more - 2537 Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. - 2538 I am not I, if there be such an 'I'; - 2539 Or those eyes shut that make thee answer 'I.' - 2540 If be be slain, say 'I'; or if not, 'no.' - 2541 Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe. - 2542 - 2543 Nurse. I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes, - 2544 (God save the mark!) here on his manly breast. - 2545 A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse; - 2546 Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood, - 2547 All in gore-blood. I swounded at the sight. - 2548 - 2549 Jul. O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! - 2550 To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty! - 2551 Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here, - 2552 And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! - 2553 - 2554 Nurse. O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had! - 2555 O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman - 2556 That ever I should live to see thee dead! - 2557 - 2558 Jul. What storm is this that blows so contrary? - 2559 Is Romeo slaught'red, and is Tybalt dead? - 2560 My dear-lov'd cousin, and my dearer lord? - 2561 Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom! - 2562 For who is living, if those two are gone? - 2563 - 2564 Nurse. Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; - 2565 Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished. - 2566 - 2567 Jul. O God! Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood? - 2568 - 2569 Nurse. It did, it did! alas the day, it did! - 2570 - 2571 Jul. O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! - 2572 Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? - 2573 Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! - 2574 Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! - 2575 Despised substance of divinest show! - 2576 Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st- - 2577 A damned saint, an honourable villain! - 2578 O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell - 2579 When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend - 2580 In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? - 2581 Was ever book containing such vile matter - 2582 So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell - 2583 In such a gorgeous palace! - 2584 - 2585 Nurse. There's no trust, - 2586 No faith, no honesty in men; all perjur'd, - 2587 All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. - 2588 Ah, where's my man? Give me some aqua vitae. - 2589 These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old. - 2590 Shame come to Romeo! - 2591 - 2592 Jul. Blister'd be thy tongue - 2593 For such a wish! He was not born to shame. - 2594 Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit; - 2595 For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd - 2596 Sole monarch of the universal earth. - 2597 O, what a beast was I to chide at him! - 2598 - 2599 Nurse. Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin? - 2600 - 2601 Jul. Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? - 2602 Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name - 2603 When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? - 2604 But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? - 2605 That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband. - 2606 Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring! - 2607 Your tributary drops belong to woe, - 2608 Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy. - 2609 My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain; - 2610 And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband. - 2611 All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then? - 2612 Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death, - 2613 That murd'red me. I would forget it fain; - 2614 But O, it presses to my memory - 2615 Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds! - 2616 'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo- banished.' - 2617 That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,' - 2618 Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death - 2619 Was woe enough, if it had ended there; - 2620 Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship - 2621 And needly will be rank'd with other griefs, - 2622 Why followed not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,' - 2623 Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both, - 2624 Which modern lamentation might have mov'd? - 2625 But with a rearward following Tybalt's death, - 2626 'Romeo is banished'- to speak that word - 2627 Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, - 2628 All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished'- - 2629 There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, - 2630 In that word's death; no words can that woe sound. - 2631 Where is my father and my mother, nurse? - 2632 - 2633 Nurse. Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse. - 2634 Will you go to them? I will bring you thither. - 2635 - 2636 Jul. Wash they his wounds with tears? Mine shall be spent, - 2637 When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. - 2638 Take up those cords. Poor ropes, you are beguil'd, - 2639 Both you and I, for Romeo is exil'd. - 2640 He made you for a highway to my bed; - 2641 But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed. - 2642 Come, cords; come, nurse. I'll to my wedding bed; - 2643 And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead! - 2644 - 2645 Nurse. Hie to your chamber. I'll find Romeo - 2646 To comfort you. I wot well where he is. - 2647 Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night. - 2648 I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell. - 2649 - 2650 Jul. O, find him! give this ring to my true knight - 2651 And bid him come to take his last farewell. - 2652 Exeunt. - 2653 - 2654 - 2655 - 2656 - 2657 Scene III. - 2658 Friar Laurence's cell. - 2659 - 2660 Enter Friar [Laurence]. - 2661 - 2662 - 2663 Friar. Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man. - 2664 Affliction is enanmour'd of thy parts, - 2665 And thou art wedded to calamity. - 2666 - 2667 Enter Romeo. - 2668 - 2669 - 2670 Rom. Father, what news? What is the Prince's doom - 2671 What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand - 2672 That I yet know not? - 2673 - 2674 Friar. Too familiar - 2675 Is my dear son with such sour company. - 2676 I bring thee tidings of the Prince's doom. - 2677 - 2678 Rom. What less than doomsday is the Prince's doom? - 2679 - 2680 Friar. A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips- - 2681 Not body's death, but body's banishment. - 2682 - 2683 Rom. Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death'; - 2684 For exile hath more terror in his look, - 2685 Much more than death. Do not say 'banishment.' - 2686 - 2687 Friar. Hence from Verona art thou banished. - 2688 Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. - 2689 - 2690 Rom. There is no world without Verona walls, - 2691 But purgatory, torture, hell itself. - 2692 Hence banished is banish'd from the world, - 2693 And world's exile is death. Then 'banishment' - 2694 Is death misterm'd. Calling death 'banishment,' - 2695 Thou cut'st my head off with a golden axe - 2696 And smilest upon the stroke that murders me. - 2697 - 2698 Friar. O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness! - 2699 Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind Prince, - 2700 Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law, - 2701 And turn'd that black word death to banishment. - 2702 This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not. - 2703 - 2704 Rom. 'Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here, - 2705 Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog - 2706 And little mouse, every unworthy thing, - 2707 Live here in heaven and may look on her; - 2708 But Romeo may not. More validity, - 2709 More honourable state, more courtship lives - 2710 In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize - 2711 On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand - 2712 And steal immortal blessing from her lips, - 2713 Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, - 2714 Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin; - 2715 But Romeo may not- he is banished. - 2716 This may flies do, when I from this must fly; - 2717 They are free men, but I am banished. - 2718 And sayest thou yet that exile is not death? - 2719 Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife, - 2720 No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, - 2721 But 'banished' to kill me- 'banished'? - 2722 O friar, the damned use that word in hell; - 2723 Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart, - 2724 Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, - 2725 A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd, - 2726 To mangle me with that word 'banished'? - 2727 - 2728 Friar. Thou fond mad man, hear me a little speak. - 2729 - 2730 Rom. O, thou wilt speak again of banishment. - 2731 - 2732 Friar. I'll give thee armour to keep off that word; - 2733 Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, - 2734 To comfort thee, though thou art banished. - 2735 - 2736 Rom. Yet 'banished'? Hang up philosophy! - 2737 Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, - 2738 Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom, - 2739 It helps not, it prevails not. Talk no more. - 2740 - 2741 Friar. O, then I see that madmen have no ears. - 2742 - 2743 Rom. How should they, when that wise men have no eyes? - 2744 - 2745 Friar. Let me dispute with thee of thy estate. - 2746 - 2747 Rom. Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel. - 2748 Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, - 2749 An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, - 2750 Doting like me, and like me banished, - 2751 Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair, - 2752 And fall upon the ground, as I do now, - 2753 Taking the measure of an unmade grave. - 2754 Knock [within]. - 2755 - 2756 Friar. Arise; one knocks. Good Romeo, hide thyself. - 2757 - 2758 Rom. Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans, - 2759 Mist-like infold me from the search of eyes. Knock. - 2760 - 2761 Friar. Hark, how they knock! Who's there? Romeo, arise; - 2762 Thou wilt be taken.- Stay awhile!- Stand up; Knock. - 2763 Run to my study.- By-and-by!- God's will, - 2764 What simpleness is this.- I come, I come! Knock. - 2765 Who knocks so hard? Whence come you? What's your will - 2766 - 2767 Nurse. [within] Let me come in, and you shall know my errand. - 2768 I come from Lady Juliet. - 2769 - 2770 Friar. Welcome then. - 2771 - 2772 Enter Nurse. - 2773 - 2774 - 2775 Nurse. O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar - 2776 Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo? - 2777 - 2778 Friar. There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk. - 2779 - 2780 Nurse. O, he is even in my mistress' case, - 2781 Just in her case! - 2782 - 2783 Friar. O woeful sympathy! - 2784 Piteous predicament! - 2785 - 2786 Nurse. Even so lies she, - 2787 Blubb'ring and weeping, weeping and blubbering. - 2788 Stand up, stand up! Stand, an you be a man. - 2789 For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand! - 2790 Why should you fall into so deep an O? - 2791 - 2792 Rom. (rises) Nurse- - 2793 - 2794 Nurse. Ah sir! ah sir! Well, death's the end of all. - 2795 - 2796 Rom. Spakest thou of Juliet? How is it with her? - 2797 Doth not she think me an old murtherer, - 2798 Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy - 2799 With blood remov'd but little from her own? - 2800 Where is she? and how doth she! and what says - 2801 My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love? - 2802 - 2803 Nurse. O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps; - 2804 And now falls on her bed, and then starts up, - 2805 And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries, - 2806 And then down falls again. - 2807 - 2808 Rom. As if that name, - 2809 Shot from the deadly level of a gun, - 2810 Did murther her; as that name's cursed hand - 2811 Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me, - 2812 In what vile part of this anatomy - 2813 Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack - 2814 The hateful mansion. [Draws his dagger.] - 2815 - 2816 Friar. Hold thy desperate hand. - 2817 Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art; - 2818 Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote - 2819 The unreasonable fury of a beast. - 2820 Unseemly woman in a seeming man! - 2821 Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! - 2822 Thou hast amaz'd me. By my holy order, - 2823 I thought thy disposition better temper'd. - 2824 Hast thou slain Tybalt? Wilt thou slay thyself? - 2825 And slay thy lady that in thy life lives, - 2826 By doing damned hate upon thyself? - 2827 Why railest thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth? - 2828 Since birth and heaven and earth, all three do meet - 2829 In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose. - 2830 Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit, - 2831 Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all, - 2832 And usest none in that true use indeed - 2833 Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit. - 2834 Thy noble shape is but a form of wax - 2835 Digressing from the valour of a man; - 2836 Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury, - 2837 Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish; - 2838 Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, - 2839 Misshapen in the conduct of them both, - 2840 Like powder in a skilless soldier's flask, - 2841 is get afire by thine own ignorance, - 2842 And thou dismemb'red with thine own defence. - 2843 What, rouse thee, man! Thy Juliet is alive, - 2844 For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead. - 2845 There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee, - 2846 But thou slewest Tybalt. There art thou happy too. - 2847 The law, that threat'ned death, becomes thy friend - 2848 And turns it to exile. There art thou happy. - 2849 A pack of blessings light upon thy back; - 2850 Happiness courts thee in her best array; - 2851 But, like a misbhav'd and sullen wench, - 2852 Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love. - 2853 Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. - 2854 Go get thee to thy love, as was decreed, - 2855 Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her. - 2856 But look thou stay not till the watch be set, - 2857 For then thou canst not pass to Mantua, - 2858 Where thou shalt live till we can find a time - 2859 To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, - 2860 Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back - 2861 With twenty hundred thousand times more joy - 2862 Than thou went'st forth in lamentation. - 2863 Go before, nurse. Commend me to thy lady, - 2864 And bid her hasten all the house to bed, - 2865 Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto. - 2866 Romeo is coming. - 2867 - 2868 Nurse. O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night - 2869 To hear good counsel. O, what learning is! - 2870 My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come. - 2871 - 2872 Rom. Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide. - 2873 - 2874 Nurse. Here is a ring she bid me give you, sir. - 2875 Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late. Exit. - 2876 - 2877 Rom. How well my comfort is reviv'd by this! - 2878 - 2879 Friar. Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state: - 2880 Either be gone before the watch be set, - 2881 Or by the break of day disguis'd from hence. - 2882 Sojourn in Mantua. I'll find out your man, - 2883 And he shall signify from time to time - 2884 Every good hap to you that chances here. - 2885 Give me thy hand. 'Tis late. Farewell; good night. - 2886 - 2887 Rom. But that a joy past joy calls out on me, - 2888 It were a grief so brief to part with thee. - 2889 Farewell. - 2890 Exeunt. - 2891 - 2892 - 2893 - 2894 - 2895 Scene IV. - 2896 Capulet's house - 2897 - 2898 Enter Old Capulet, his Wife, and Paris. - 2899 - 2900 - 2901 Cap. Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily - 2902 That we have had no time to move our daughter. - 2903 Look you, she lov'd her kinsman Tybalt dearly, - 2904 And so did I. Well, we were born to die. - 2905 'Tis very late; she'll not come down to-night. - 2906 I promise you, but for your company, - 2907 I would have been abed an hour ago. - 2908 - 2909 Par. These times of woe afford no tune to woo. - 2910 Madam, good night. Commend me to your daughter. - 2911 - 2912 Lady. I will, and know her mind early to-morrow; - 2913 To-night she's mew'd up to her heaviness. - 2914 - 2915 Cap. Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender - 2916 Of my child's love. I think she will be rul'd - 2917 In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not. - 2918 Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed; - 2919 Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love - 2920 And bid her (mark you me?) on Wednesday next- - 2921 But, soft! what day is this? - 2922 - 2923 Par. Monday, my lord. - 2924 - 2925 Cap. Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon. - 2926 Thursday let it be- a Thursday, tell her - 2927 She shall be married to this noble earl. - 2928 Will you be ready? Do you like this haste? - 2929 We'll keep no great ado- a friend or two; - 2930 For hark you, Tybalt being slain so late, - 2931 It may be thought we held him carelessly, - 2932 Being our kinsman, if we revel much. - 2933 Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends, - 2934 And there an end. But what say you to Thursday? - 2935 - 2936 Par. My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow. - 2937 - 2938 Cap. Well, get you gone. A Thursday be it then. - 2939 Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed; - 2940 Prepare her, wife, against this wedding day. - 2941 Farewell, My lord.- Light to my chamber, ho! - 2942 Afore me, It is so very very late - 2943 That we may call it early by-and-by. - 2944 Good night. - 2945 Exeunt - 2946 - 2947 - 2948 - 2949 - 2950 Scene V. - 2951 Capulet's orchard. - 2952 - 2953 Enter Romeo and Juliet aloft, at the Window. - 2954 - 2955 - 2956 Jul. Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. - 2957 It was the nightingale, and not the lark, - 2958 That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear. - 2959 Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree. - 2960 Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. - 2961 - 2962 Rom. It was the lark, the herald of the morn; - 2963 No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks - 2964 Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East. - 2965 Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day - 2966 Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. - 2967 I must be gone and live, or stay and die. - 2968 - 2969 Jul. Yond light is not daylight; I know it, I. - 2970 It is some meteor that the sun exhales - 2971 To be to thee this night a torchbearer - 2972 And light thee on the way to Mantua. - 2973 Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone. - 2974 - 2975 Rom. Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death. - 2976 I am content, so thou wilt have it so. - 2977 I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye, - 2978 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow; - 2979 Nor that is not the lark whose notes do beat - 2980 The vaulty heaven so high above our heads. - 2981 I have more care to stay than will to go. - 2982 Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so. - 2983 How is't, my soul? Let's talk; it is not day. - 2984 - 2985 Jul. It is, it is! Hie hence, be gone, away! - 2986 It is the lark that sings so out of tune, - 2987 Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. - 2988 Some say the lark makes sweet division; - 2989 This doth not so, for she divideth us. - 2990 Some say the lark and loathed toad chang'd eyes; - 2991 O, now I would they had chang'd voices too, - 2992 Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray, - 2993 Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day! - 2994 O, now be gone! More light and light it grows. - 2995 - 2996 Rom. More light and light- more dark and dark our woes! - 2997 - 2998 Enter Nurse. - 2999 - 3000 - 3001 Nurse. Madam! - 3002 - 3003 Jul. Nurse? - 3004 - 3005 Nurse. Your lady mother is coming to your chamber. - 3006 The day is broke; be wary, look about. - 3007 - 3008 Jul. Then, window, let day in, and let life out. - 3009 [Exit.] - 3010 - 3011 Rom. Farewell, farewell! One kiss, and I'll descend. - 3012 He goeth down. - 3013 - 3014 Jul. Art thou gone so, my lord, my love, my friend? - 3015 I must hear from thee every day in the hour, - 3016 For in a minute there are many days. - 3017 O, by this count I shall be much in years - 3018 Ere I again behold my Romeo! - 3019 - 3020 Rom. Farewell! - 3021 I will omit no opportunity - 3022 That may convey my greetings, love, to thee. - 3023 - 3024 Jul. O, think'st thou we shall ever meet again? - 3025 - 3026 Rom. I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve - 3027 For sweet discourses in our time to come. - 3028 - 3029 Jul. O God, I have an ill-divining soul! - 3030 Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, - 3031 As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. - 3032 Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. - 3033 - 3034 Rom. And trust me, love, in my eye so do you. - 3035 Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu! - 3036 Exit. - 3037 - 3038 Jul. O Fortune, Fortune! all men call thee fickle. - 3039 If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him - 3040 That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, Fortune, - 3041 For then I hope thou wilt not keep him long - 3042 But send him back. - 3043 - 3044 Lady. [within] Ho, daughter! are you up? - 3045 - 3046 Jul. Who is't that calls? It is my lady mother. - 3047 Is she not down so late, or up so early? - 3048 What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither? - 3049 - 3050 Enter Mother. - 3051 - 3052 - 3053 Lady. Why, how now, Juliet? - 3054 - 3055 Jul. Madam, I am not well. - 3056 - 3057 Lady. Evermore weeping for your cousin's death? - 3058 What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? - 3059 An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live. - 3060 Therefore have done. Some grief shows much of love; - 3061 But much of grief shows still some want of wit. - 3062 - 3063 Jul. Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss. - 3064 - 3065 Lady. So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend - 3066 Which you weep for. - 3067 - 3068 Jul. Feeling so the loss, - 3069 I cannot choose but ever weep the friend. - 3070 - 3071 Lady. Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death - 3072 As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him. - 3073 - 3074 Jul. What villain, madam? - 3075 - 3076 Lady. That same villain Romeo. - 3077 - 3078 Jul. [aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder.- - 3079 God pardon him! I do, with all my heart; - 3080 And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart. - 3081 - 3082 Lady. That is because the traitor murderer lives. - 3083 - 3084 Jul. Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands. - 3085 Would none but I might venge my cousin's death! - 3086 - 3087 Lady. We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not. - 3088 Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua, - 3089 Where that same banish'd runagate doth live, - 3090 Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram - 3091 That he shall soon keep Tybalt company; - 3092 And then I hope thou wilt be satisfied. - 3093 - 3094 Jul. Indeed I never shall be satisfied - 3095 With Romeo till I behold him- dead- - 3096 Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex'd. - 3097 Madam, if you could find out but a man - 3098 To bear a poison, I would temper it; - 3099 That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof, - 3100 Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors - 3101 To hear him nam'd and cannot come to him, - 3102 To wreak the love I bore my cousin Tybalt - 3103 Upon his body that hath slaughter'd him! - 3104 - 3105 Lady. Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man. - 3106 But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl. - 3107 - 3108 Jul. And joy comes well in such a needy time. - 3109 What are they, I beseech your ladyship? - 3110 - 3111 Lady. Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child; - 3112 One who, to put thee from thy heaviness, - 3113 Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy - 3114 That thou expects not nor I look'd not for. - 3115 - 3116 Jul. Madam, in happy time! What day is that? - 3117 - 3118 Lady. Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn - 3119 The gallant, young, and noble gentleman, - 3120 The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church, - 3121 Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride. - 3122 - 3123 Jul. Now by Saint Peter's Church, and Peter too, - 3124 He shall not make me there a joyful bride! - 3125 I wonder at this haste, that I must wed - 3126 Ere he that should be husband comes to woo. - 3127 I pray you tell my lord and father, madam, - 3128 I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear - 3129 It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, - 3130 Rather than Paris. These are news indeed! - 3131 - 3132 Lady. Here comes your father. Tell him so yourself, - 3133 And see how be will take it at your hands. - 3134 - 3135 Enter Capulet and Nurse. - 3136 - 3137 - 3138 Cap. When the sun sets the air doth drizzle dew, - 3139 But for the sunset of my brother's son - 3140 It rains downright. - 3141 How now? a conduit, girl? What, still in tears? - 3142 Evermore show'ring? In one little body - 3143 Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind: - 3144 For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, - 3145 Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is - 3146 Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs, - 3147 Who, raging with thy tears and they with them, - 3148 Without a sudden calm will overset - 3149 Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife? - 3150 Have you delivered to her our decree? - 3151 - 3152 Lady. Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks. - 3153 I would the fool were married to her grave! - 3154 - 3155 Cap. Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife. - 3156 How? Will she none? Doth she not give us thanks? - 3157 Is she not proud? Doth she not count her blest, - 3158 Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought - 3159 So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom? - 3160 - 3161 Jul. Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. - 3162 Proud can I never be of what I hate, - 3163 But thankful even for hate that is meant love. - 3164 - 3165 Cap. How, how, how, how, choplogic? What is this? - 3166 'Proud'- and 'I thank you'- and 'I thank you not'- - 3167 And yet 'not proud'? Mistress minion you, - 3168 Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds, - 3169 But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next - 3170 To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church, - 3171 Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. - 3172 Out, you green-sickness carrion I out, you baggage! - 3173 You tallow-face! - 3174 - 3175 Lady. Fie, fie! what, are you mad? - 3176 - 3177 Jul. Good father, I beseech you on my knees, - 3178 Hear me with patience but to speak a word. - 3179 - 3180 Cap. Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch! - 3181 I tell thee what- get thee to church a Thursday - 3182 Or never after look me in the face. - 3183 Speak not, reply not, do not answer me! - 3184 My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest - 3185 That God had lent us but this only child; - 3186 But now I see this one is one too much, - 3187 And that we have a curse in having her. - 3188 Out on her, hilding! - 3189 - 3190 Nurse. God in heaven bless her! - 3191 You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so. - 3192 - 3193 Cap. And why, my Lady Wisdom? Hold your tongue, - 3194 Good Prudence. Smatter with your gossips, go! - 3195 - 3196 Nurse. I speak no treason. - 3197 - 3198 Cap. O, God-i-god-en! - 3199 - 3200 Nurse. May not one speak? - 3201 - 3202 Cap. Peace, you mumbling fool! - 3203 Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl, - 3204 For here we need it not. - 3205 - 3206 Lady. You are too hot. - 3207 - 3208 Cap. God's bread I it makes me mad. Day, night, late, early, - 3209 At home, abroad, alone, in company, - 3210 Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been - 3211 To have her match'd; and having now provided - 3212 A gentleman of princely parentage, - 3213 Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd, - 3214 Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts, - 3215 Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man- - 3216 And then to have a wretched puling fool, - 3217 A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender, - 3218 To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love; - 3219 I am too young, I pray you pardon me'! - 3220 But, an you will not wed, I'll pardon you. - 3221 Graze where you will, you shall not house with me. - 3222 Look to't, think on't; I do not use to jest. - 3223 Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise: - 3224 An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend; - 3225 An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, - 3226 For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee, - 3227 Nor what is mine shall never do thee good. - 3228 Trust to't. Bethink you. I'll not be forsworn. Exit. - 3229 - 3230 Jul. Is there no pity sitting in the clouds - 3231 That sees into the bottom of my grief? - 3232 O sweet my mother, cast me not away! - 3233 Delay this marriage for a month, a week; - 3234 Or if you do not, make the bridal bed - 3235 In that dim monument where Tybalt lies. - 3236 - 3237 Lady. Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word. - 3238 Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. Exit. - 3239 - 3240 Jul. O God!- O nurse, how shall this be prevented? - 3241 My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven. - 3242 How shall that faith return again to earth - 3243 Unless that husband send it me from heaven - 3244 By leaving earth? Comfort me, counsel me. - 3245 Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems - 3246 Upon so soft a subject as myself! - 3247 What say'st thou? Hast thou not a word of joy? - 3248 Some comfort, nurse. - 3249 - 3250 Nurse. Faith, here it is. - 3251 Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing - 3252 That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you; - 3253 Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. - 3254 Then, since the case so stands as now it doth, - 3255 I think it best you married with the County. - 3256 O, he's a lovely gentleman! - 3257 Romeo's a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam, - 3258 Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye - 3259 As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart, - 3260 I think you are happy in this second match, - 3261 For it excels your first; or if it did not, - 3262 Your first is dead- or 'twere as good he were - 3263 As living here and you no use of him. - 3264 - 3265 Jul. Speak'st thou this from thy heart? - 3266 - 3267 Nurse. And from my soul too; else beshrew them both. - 3268 - 3269 Jul. Amen! - 3270 - 3271 Nurse. What? - 3272 - 3273 Jul. Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much. - 3274 Go in; and tell my lady I am gone, - 3275 Having displeas'd my father, to Laurence' cell, - 3276 To make confession and to be absolv'd. - 3277 - 3278 Nurse. Marry, I will; and this is wisely done. Exit. - 3279 - 3280 Jul. Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend! - 3281 Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, - 3282 Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue - 3283 Which she hath prais'd him with above compare - 3284 So many thousand times? Go, counsellor! - 3285 Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. - 3286 I'll to the friar to know his remedy. - 3287 If all else fail, myself have power to die. Exit. - 3288 - 3289 - 3290 - 3291 - 3292 ACT IV. Scene I. - 3293 Friar Laurence's cell. - 3294 - 3295 Enter Friar, [Laurence] and County Paris. - 3296 - 3297 - 3298 Friar. On Thursday, sir? The time is very short. - 3299 - 3300 Par. My father Capulet will have it so, - 3301 And I am nothing slow to slack his haste. - 3302 - 3303 Friar. You say you do not know the lady's mind. - 3304 Uneven is the course; I like it not. - 3305 - 3306 Par. Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death, - 3307 And therefore have I little talk'd of love; - 3308 For Venus smiles not in a house of tears. - 3309 Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous - 3310 That she do give her sorrow so much sway, - 3311 And in his wisdom hastes our marriage - 3312 To stop the inundation of her tears, - 3313 Which, too much minded by herself alone, - 3314 May be put from her by society. - 3315 Now do you know the reason of this haste. - 3316 - 3317 Friar. [aside] I would I knew not why it should be slow'd.- - 3318 Look, sir, here comes the lady toward my cell. - 3319 - 3320 Enter Juliet. - 3321 - 3322 - 3323 Par. Happily met, my lady and my wife! - 3324 - 3325 Jul. That may be, sir, when I may be a wife. - 3326 - 3327 Par. That may be must be, love, on Thursday next. - 3328 - 3329 Jul. What must be shall be. - 3330 - 3331 Friar. That's a certain text. - 3332 - 3333 Par. Come you to make confession to this father? - 3334 - 3335 Jul. To answer that, I should confess to you. - 3336 - 3337 Par. Do not deny to him that you love me. - 3338 - 3339 Jul. I will confess to you that I love him. - 3340 - 3341 Par. So will ye, I am sure, that you love me. - 3342 - 3343 Jul. If I do so, it will be of more price, - 3344 Being spoke behind your back, than to your face. - 3345 - 3346 Par. Poor soul, thy face is much abus'd with tears. - 3347 - 3348 Jul. The tears have got small victory by that, - 3349 For it was bad enough before their spite. - 3350 - 3351 Par. Thou wrong'st it more than tears with that report. - 3352 - 3353 Jul. That is no slander, sir, which is a truth; - 3354 And what I spake, I spake it to my face. - 3355 - 3356 Par. Thy face is mine, and thou hast sland'red it. - 3357 - 3358 Jul. It may be so, for it is not mine own. - 3359 Are you at leisure, holy father, now, - 3360 Or shall I come to you at evening mass - 3361 - 3362 Friar. My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now. - 3363 My lord, we must entreat the time alone. - 3364 - 3365 Par. God shield I should disturb devotion! - 3366 Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye. - 3367 Till then, adieu, and keep this holy kiss. Exit. - 3368 - 3369 Jul. O, shut the door! and when thou hast done so, - 3370 Come weep with me- past hope, past cure, past help! - 3371 - 3372 Friar. Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief; - 3373 It strains me past the compass of my wits. - 3374 I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it, - 3375 On Thursday next be married to this County. - 3376 - 3377 Jul. Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this, - 3378 Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it. - 3379 If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, - 3380 Do thou but call my resolution wise - 3381 And with this knife I'll help it presently. - 3382 God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands; - 3383 And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo's seal'd, - 3384 Shall be the label to another deed, - 3385 Or my true heart with treacherous revolt - 3386 Turn to another, this shall slay them both. - 3387 Therefore, out of thy long-experienc'd time, - 3388 Give me some present counsel; or, behold, - 3389 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife - 3390 Shall play the empire, arbitrating that - 3391 Which the commission of thy years and art - 3392 Could to no issue of true honour bring. - 3393 Be not so long to speak. I long to die - 3394 If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy. - 3395 - 3396 Friar. Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, - 3397 Which craves as desperate an execution - 3398 As that is desperate which we would prevent. - 3399 If, rather than to marry County Paris - 3400 Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, - 3401 Then is it likely thou wilt undertake - 3402 A thing like death to chide away this shame, - 3403 That cop'st with death himself to scape from it; - 3404 And, if thou dar'st, I'll give thee remedy. - 3405 - 3406 Jul. O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, - 3407 From off the battlements of yonder tower, - 3408 Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk - 3409 Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears, - 3410 Or shut me nightly in a charnel house, - 3411 O'ercover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, - 3412 With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; - 3413 Or bid me go into a new-made grave - 3414 And hide me with a dead man in his shroud- - 3415 Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble- - 3416 And I will do it without fear or doubt, - 3417 To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love. - 3418 - 3419 Friar. Hold, then. Go home, be merry, give consent - 3420 To marry Paris. Wednesday is to-morrow. - 3421 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone; - 3422 Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. - 3423 Take thou this vial, being then in bed, - 3424 And this distilled liquor drink thou off; - 3425 When presently through all thy veins shall run - 3426 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse - 3427 Shall keep his native progress, but surcease; - 3428 No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest; - 3429 The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade - 3430 To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall - 3431 Like death when he shuts up the day of life; - 3432 Each part, depriv'd of supple government, - 3433 Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death; - 3434 And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death - 3435 Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours, - 3436 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep. - 3437 Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes - 3438 To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead. - 3439 Then, as the manner of our country is, - 3440 In thy best robes uncovered on the bier - 3441 Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault - 3442 Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie. - 3443 In the mean time, against thou shalt awake, - 3444 Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift; - 3445 And hither shall he come; and he and I - 3446 Will watch thy waking, and that very night - 3447 Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. - 3448 And this shall free thee from this present shame, - 3449 If no inconstant toy nor womanish fear - 3450 Abate thy valour in the acting it. - 3451 - 3452 Jul. Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear! - 3453 - 3454 Friar. Hold! Get you gone, be strong and prosperous - 3455 In this resolve. I'll send a friar with speed - 3456 To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord. - 3457 - 3458 Jul. Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford. - 3459 Farewell, dear father. - 3460 Exeunt. - 3461 - 3462 - 3463 - 3464 - 3465 Scene II. - 3466 Capulet's house. - 3467 - 3468 Enter Father Capulet, Mother, Nurse, and Servingmen, - 3469 two or three. - 3470 - 3471 - 3472 Cap. So many guests invite as here are writ. - 3473 [Exit a Servingman.] - 3474 Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. - 3475 - 3476 Serv. You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they can - 3477 lick their fingers. - 3478 - 3479 Cap. How canst thou try them so? - 3480 - 3481 Serv. Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own - 3482 fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not - 3483 with me. - 3484 - 3485 Cap. Go, begone. - 3486 Exit Servingman. - 3487 We shall be much unfurnish'd for this time. - 3488 What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence? - 3489 - 3490 Nurse. Ay, forsooth. - 3491 - 3492 Cap. Well, be may chance to do some good on her. - 3493 A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is. - 3494 - 3495 Enter Juliet. - 3496 - 3497 - 3498 Nurse. See where she comes from shrift with merry look. - 3499 - 3500 Cap. How now, my headstrong? Where have you been gadding? - 3501 - 3502 Jul. Where I have learnt me to repent the sin - 3503 Of disobedient opposition - 3504 To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd - 3505 By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here - 3506 To beg your pardon. Pardon, I beseech you! - 3507 Henceforward I am ever rul'd by you. - 3508 - 3509 Cap. Send for the County. Go tell him of this. - 3510 I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning. - 3511 - 3512 Jul. I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell - 3513 And gave him what becomed love I might, - 3514 Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty. - 3515 - 3516 Cap. Why, I am glad on't. This is well. Stand up. - 3517 This is as't should be. Let me see the County. - 3518 Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither. - 3519 Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar, - 3520 All our whole city is much bound to him. - 3521 - 3522 Jul. Nurse, will you go with me into my closet - 3523 To help me sort such needful ornaments - 3524 As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow? - 3525 - 3526 Mother. No, not till Thursday. There is time enough. - 3527 - 3528 Cap. Go, nurse, go with her. We'll to church to-morrow. - 3529 Exeunt Juliet and Nurse. - 3530 - 3531 Mother. We shall be short in our provision. - 3532 'Tis now near night. - 3533 - 3534 Cap. Tush, I will stir about, - 3535 And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife. - 3536 Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her. - 3537 I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone. - 3538 I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho! - 3539 They are all forth; well, I will walk myself - 3540 To County Paris, to prepare him up - 3541 Against to-morrow. My heart is wondrous light, - 3542 Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd. - 3543 Exeunt. - 3544 - 3545 - 3546 - 3547 - 3548 Scene III. - 3549 Juliet's chamber. - 3550 - 3551 Enter Juliet and Nurse. - 3552 - 3553 - 3554 Jul. Ay, those attires are best; but, gentle nurse, - 3555 I pray thee leave me to myself to-night; - 3556 For I have need of many orisons - 3557 To move the heavens to smile upon my state, - 3558 Which, well thou knowest, is cross and full of sin. - 3559 - 3560 Enter Mother. - 3561 - 3562 - 3563 Mother. What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help? - 3564 - 3565 Jul. No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries - 3566 As are behooffull for our state to-morrow. - 3567 So please you, let me now be left alone, - 3568 And let the nurse this night sit up with you; - 3569 For I am sure you have your hands full all - 3570 In this so sudden business. - 3571 - 3572 Mother. Good night. - 3573 Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. - 3574 Exeunt [Mother and Nurse.] - 3575 - 3576 Jul. Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. - 3577 I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins - 3578 That almost freezes up the heat of life. - 3579 I'll call them back again to comfort me. - 3580 Nurse!- What should she do here? - 3581 My dismal scene I needs must act alone. - 3582 Come, vial. - 3583 What if this mixture do not work at all? - 3584 Shall I be married then to-morrow morning? - 3585 No, No! This shall forbid it. Lie thou there. - 3586 Lays down a dagger. - 3587 What if it be a poison which the friar - 3588 Subtilly hath minist'red to have me dead, - 3589 Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd - 3590 Because he married me before to Romeo? - 3591 I fear it is; and yet methinks it should not, - 3592 For he hath still been tried a holy man. - 3593 I will not entertain so bad a thought. - 3594 How if, when I am laid into the tomb, - 3595 I wake before the time that Romeo - 3596 Come to redeem me? There's a fearful point! - 3597 Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, - 3598 To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, - 3599 And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? - 3600 Or, if I live, is it not very like - 3601 The horrible conceit of death and night, - 3602 Together with the terror of the place- - 3603 As in a vault, an ancient receptacle - 3604 Where for this many hundred years the bones - 3605 Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd; - 3606 Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, - 3607 Lies fest'ring in his shroud; where, as they say, - 3608 At some hours in the night spirits resort- - 3609 Alack, alack, is it not like that I, - 3610 So early waking- what with loathsome smells, - 3611 And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, - 3612 That living mortals, hearing them, run mad- - 3613 O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, - 3614 Environed with all these hideous fears, - 3615 And madly play with my forefathers' joints, - 3616 And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud., - 3617 And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone - 3618 As with a club dash out my desp'rate brains? - 3619 O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost - 3620 Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body - 3621 Upon a rapier's point. Stay, Tybalt, stay! - 3622 Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee. - 3623 - 3624 She [drinks and] falls upon her bed within the curtains. - 3625 - 3626 - 3627 - 3628 - 3629 Scene IV. - 3630 Capulet's house. - 3631 - 3632 Enter Lady of the House and Nurse. - 3633 - 3634 - 3635 Lady. Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, nurse. - 3636 - 3637 Nurse. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. - 3638 - 3639 Enter Old Capulet. - 3640 - 3641 - 3642 Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crow'd, - 3643 The curfew bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock. - 3644 Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica; - 3645 Spare not for cost. - 3646 - 3647 Nurse. Go, you cot-quean, go, - 3648 Get you to bed! Faith, you'll be sick to-morrow - 3649 For this night's watching. - 3650 - 3651 Cap. No, not a whit. What, I have watch'd ere now - 3652 All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick. - 3653 - 3654 Lady. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time; - 3655 But I will watch you from such watching now. - 3656 Exeunt Lady and Nurse. - 3657 - 3658 Cap. A jealous hood, a jealous hood! - 3659 - 3660 - 3661 Enter three or four [Fellows, with spits and logs and baskets. - 3662 - 3663 What is there? Now, fellow, - 3664 - 3665 Fellow. Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. - 3666 - 3667 Cap. Make haste, make haste. [Exit Fellow.] Sirrah, fetch drier - 3668 logs. - 3669 Call Peter; he will show thee where they are. - 3670 - 3671 Fellow. I have a head, sir, that will find out logs - 3672 And never trouble Peter for the matter. - 3673 - 3674 Cap. Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha! - 3675 Thou shalt be loggerhead. [Exit Fellow.] Good faith, 'tis day. - 3676 The County will be here with music straight, - 3677 For so he said he would. Play music. - 3678 I hear him near. - 3679 Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say! - 3680 - 3681 Enter Nurse. - 3682 Go waken Juliet; go and trim her up. - 3683 I'll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste, - 3684 Make haste! The bridegroom he is come already: - 3685 Make haste, I say. - 3686 [Exeunt.] - 3687 - 3688 - 3689 - 3690 - 3691 Scene V. - 3692 Juliet's chamber. - 3693 - 3694 [Enter Nurse.] - 3695 - 3696 - 3697 Nurse. Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! Fast, I warrant her, she. - 3698 Why, lamb! why, lady! Fie, you slug-abed! - 3699 Why, love, I say! madam! sweetheart! Why, bride! - 3700 What, not a word? You take your pennyworths now! - 3701 Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant, - 3702 The County Paris hath set up his rest - 3703 That you shall rest but little. God forgive me! - 3704 Marry, and amen. How sound is she asleep! - 3705 I needs must wake her. Madam, madam, madam! - 3706 Ay, let the County take you in your bed! - 3707 He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be? - 3708 [Draws aside the curtains.] - 3709 What, dress'd, and in your clothes, and down again? - 3710 I must needs wake you. Lady! lady! lady! - 3711 Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady's dead! - 3712 O weraday that ever I was born! - 3713 Some aqua-vitae, ho! My lord! my lady! - 3714 - 3715 Enter Mother. - 3716 - 3717 - 3718 Mother. What noise is here? - 3719 - 3720 Nurse. O lamentable day! - 3721 - 3722 Mother. What is the matter? - 3723 - 3724 Nurse. Look, look! O heavy day! - 3725 - 3726 Mother. O me, O me! My child, my only life! - 3727 Revive, look up, or I will die with thee! - 3728 Help, help! Call help. - 3729 - 3730 Enter Father. - 3731 - 3732 - 3733 Father. For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come. - 3734 - 3735 Nurse. She's dead, deceas'd; she's dead! Alack the day! - 3736 - 3737 Mother. Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead! - 3738 - 3739 Cap. Ha! let me see her. Out alas! she's cold, - 3740 Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; - 3741 Life and these lips have long been separated. - 3742 Death lies on her like an untimely frost - 3743 Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. - 3744 - 3745 Nurse. O lamentable day! - 3746 - 3747 Mother. O woful time! - 3748 - 3749 Cap. Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, - 3750 Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak. - 3751 - 3752 - 3753 Enter Friar [Laurence] and the County [Paris], with Musicians. - 3754 - 3755 - 3756 Friar. Come, is the bride ready to go to church? - 3757 - 3758 Cap. Ready to go, but never to return. - 3759 O son, the night before thy wedding day - 3760 Hath Death lain with thy wife. See, there she lies, - 3761 Flower as she was, deflowered by him. - 3762 Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; - 3763 My daughter he hath wedded. I will die - 3764 And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's. - 3765 - 3766 Par. Have I thought long to see this morning's face, - 3767 And doth it give me such a sight as this? - 3768 - 3769 Mother. Accurs'd, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! - 3770 Most miserable hour that e'er time saw - 3771 In lasting labour of his pilgrimage! - 3772 But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, - 3773 But one thing to rejoice and solace in, - 3774 And cruel Death hath catch'd it from my sight! - 3775 - 3776 Nurse. O woe? O woful, woful, woful day! - 3777 Most lamentable day, most woful day - 3778 That ever ever I did yet behold! - 3779 O day! O day! O day! O hateful day! - 3780 Never was seen so black a day as this. - 3781 O woful day! O woful day! - 3782 - 3783 Par. Beguil'd, divorced, wronged, spited, slain! - 3784 Most detestable Death, by thee beguil'd, - 3785 By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown! - 3786 O love! O life! not life, but love in death - 3787 - 3788 Cap. Despis'd, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd! - 3789 Uncomfortable time, why cam'st thou now - 3790 To murther, murther our solemnity? - 3791 O child! O child! my soul, and not my child! - 3792 Dead art thou, dead! alack, my child is dead, - 3793 And with my child my joys are buried! - 3794 - 3795 Friar. Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not - 3796 In these confusions. Heaven and yourself - 3797 Had part in this fair maid! now heaven hath all, - 3798 And all the better is it for the maid. - 3799 Your part in her you could not keep from death, - 3800 But heaven keeps his part in eternal life. - 3801 The most you sought was her promotion, - 3802 For 'twas your heaven she should be advanc'd; - 3803 And weep ye now, seeing she is advanc'd - 3804 Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself? - 3805 O, in this love, you love your child so ill - 3806 That you run mad, seeing that she is well. - 3807 She's not well married that lives married long, - 3808 But she's best married that dies married young. - 3809 Dry up your tears and stick your rosemary - 3810 On this fair corse, and, as the custom is, - 3811 In all her best array bear her to church; - 3812 For though fond nature bids us all lament, - 3813 Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment. - 3814 - 3815 Cap. All things that we ordained festival - 3816 Turn from their office to black funeral- - 3817 Our instruments to melancholy bells, - 3818 Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; - 3819 Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; - 3820 Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; - 3821 And all things change them to the contrary. - 3822 - 3823 Friar. Sir, go you in; and, madam, go with him; - 3824 And go, Sir Paris. Every one prepare - 3825 To follow this fair corse unto her grave. - 3826 The heavens do low'r upon you for some ill; - 3827 Move them no more by crossing their high will. - 3828 Exeunt. Manent Musicians [and Nurse]. - 3829 1. Mus. Faith, we may put up our pipes and be gone. - 3830 - 3831 Nurse. Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up! - 3832 For well you know this is a pitiful case. [Exit.] - 3833 1. Mus. Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended. - 3834 - 3835 Enter Peter. - 3836 - 3837 - 3838 Pet. Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heart's ease,' 'Heart's ease'! - 3839 O, an you will have me live, play 'Heart's ease.' - 3840 1. Mus. Why 'Heart's ease'', - 3841 - 3842 Pet. O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My heart is - 3843 full of woe.' O, play me some merry dump to comfort me. - 3844 1. Mus. Not a dump we! 'Tis no time to play now. - 3845 - 3846 Pet. You will not then? - 3847 1. Mus. No. - 3848 - 3849 Pet. I will then give it you soundly. - 3850 1. Mus. What will you give us? - 3851 - 3852 Pet. No money, on my faith, but the gleek. I will give you the - 3853 minstrel. - 3854 1. Mus. Then will I give you the serving-creature. - 3855 - 3856 Pet. Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on your pate. - 3857 I will carry no crotchets. I'll re you, I'll fa you. Do you - 3858 note me? - 3859 1. Mus. An you re us and fa us, you note us. - 3860 2. Mus. Pray you put up your dagger, and put out your wit. - 3861 - 3862 Pet. Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you with an - 3863 iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer me like men. - 3864 - 3865 'When griping grief the heart doth wound, - 3866 And doleful dumps the mind oppress, - 3867 Then music with her silver sound'- - 3868 - 3869 Why 'silver sound'? Why 'music with her silver sound'? - 3870 What say you, Simon Catling? - 3871 1. Mus. Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound. - 3872 - 3873 Pet. Pretty! What say You, Hugh Rebeck? - 3874 2. Mus. I say 'silver sound' because musicians sound for silver. - 3875 - 3876 Pet. Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost? - 3877 3. Mus. Faith, I know not what to say. - 3878 - 3879 Pet. O, I cry you mercy! you are the singer. I will say for you. It - 3880 is 'music with her silver sound' because musicians have no - 3881 gold for sounding. - 3882 - 3883 'Then music with her silver sound - 3884 With speedy help doth lend redress.' [Exit. - 3885 - 3886 1. Mus. What a pestilent knave is this same? - 3887 2. Mus. Hang him, Jack! Come, we'll in here, tarry for the - 3888 mourners, and stay dinner. - 3889 Exeunt. - 3890 - 3891 - 3892 - 3893 - 3894 ACT V. Scene I. - 3895 Mantua. A street. - 3896 - 3897 Enter Romeo. - 3898 - 3899 - 3900 Rom. If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep - 3901 My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. - 3902 My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, - 3903 And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit - 3904 Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. - 3905 I dreamt my lady came and found me dead - 3906 (Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think!) - 3907 And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips - 3908 That I reviv'd and was an emperor. - 3909 Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd, - 3910 When but love's shadows are so rich in joy! - 3911 - 3912 Enter Romeo's Man Balthasar, booted. - 3913 - 3914 News from Verona! How now, Balthasar? - 3915 Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar? - 3916 How doth my lady? Is my father well? - 3917 How fares my Juliet? That I ask again, - 3918 For nothing can be ill if she be well. - 3919 - 3920 Man. Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. - 3921 Her body sleeps in Capel's monument, - 3922 And her immortal part with angels lives. - 3923 I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault - 3924 And presently took post to tell it you. - 3925 O, pardon me for bringing these ill news, - 3926 Since you did leave it for my office, sir. - 3927 - 3928 Rom. Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars! - 3929 Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper - 3930 And hire posthorses. I will hence to-night. - 3931 - 3932 Man. I do beseech you, sir, have patience. - 3933 Your looks are pale and wild and do import - 3934 Some misadventure. - 3935 - 3936 Rom. Tush, thou art deceiv'd. - 3937 Leave me and do the thing I bid thee do. - 3938 Hast thou no letters to me from the friar? - 3939 - 3940 Man. No, my good lord. - 3941 - 3942 Rom. No matter. Get thee gone - 3943 And hire those horses. I'll be with thee straight. - 3944 Exit [Balthasar]. - 3945 Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night. - 3946 Let's see for means. O mischief, thou art swift - 3947 To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! - 3948 I do remember an apothecary, - 3949 And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted - 3950 In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, - 3951 Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks, - 3952 Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; - 3953 And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, - 3954 An alligator stuff'd, and other skins - 3955 Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves - 3956 A beggarly account of empty boxes, - 3957 Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, - 3958 Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses - 3959 Were thinly scattered, to make up a show. - 3960 Noting this penury, to myself I said, - 3961 'An if a man did need a poison now - 3962 Whose sale is present death in Mantua, - 3963 Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.' - 3964 O, this same thought did but forerun my need, - 3965 And this same needy man must sell it me. - 3966 As I remember, this should be the house. - 3967 Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. What, ho! apothecary! - 3968 - 3969 Enter Apothecary. - 3970 - 3971 - 3972 Apoth. Who calls so loud? - 3973 - 3974 Rom. Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor. - 3975 Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have - 3976 A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear - 3977 As will disperse itself through all the veins - 3978 That the life-weary taker mall fall dead, - 3979 And that the trunk may be discharg'd of breath - 3980 As violently as hasty powder fir'd - 3981 Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. - 3982 - 3983 Apoth. Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law - 3984 Is death to any he that utters them. - 3985 - 3986 Rom. Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness - 3987 And fearest to die? Famine is in thy cheeks, - 3988 Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, - 3989 Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back: - 3990 The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law; - 3991 The world affords no law to make thee rich; - 3992 Then be not poor, but break it and take this. - 3993 - 3994 Apoth. My poverty but not my will consents. - 3995 - 3996 Rom. I pay thy poverty and not thy will. - 3997 - 3998 Apoth. Put this in any liquid thing you will - 3999 And drink it off, and if you had the strength - 4000 Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight. - 4001 - 4002 Rom. There is thy gold- worse poison to men's souls, - 4003 Doing more murther in this loathsome world, - 4004 Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. - 4005 I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. - 4006 Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh. - 4007 Come, cordial and not poison, go with me - 4008 To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee. - 4009 Exeunt. - 4010 - 4011 - 4012 - 4013 - 4014 Scene II. - 4015 Verona. Friar Laurence's cell. - 4016 - 4017 Enter Friar John to Friar Laurence. - 4018 - 4019 - 4020 John. Holy Franciscan friar, brother, ho! - 4021 - 4022 Enter Friar Laurence. - 4023 - 4024 - 4025 Laur. This same should be the voice of Friar John. - 4026 Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo? - 4027 Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter. - 4028 - 4029 John. Going to find a barefoot brother out, - 4030 One of our order, to associate me - 4031 Here in this city visiting the sick, - 4032 And finding him, the searchers of the town, - 4033 Suspecting that we both were in a house - 4034 Where the infectious pestilence did reign, - 4035 Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth, - 4036 So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd. - 4037 - 4038 Laur. Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo? - 4039 - 4040 John. I could not send it- here it is again- - 4041 Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, - 4042 So fearful were they of infection. - 4043 - 4044 Laur. Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, - 4045 The letter was not nice, but full of charge, - 4046 Of dear import; and the neglecting it - 4047 May do much danger. Friar John, go hence, - 4048 Get me an iron crow and bring it straight - 4049 Unto my cell. - 4050 - 4051 John. Brother, I'll go and bring it thee. Exit. - 4052 - 4053 Laur. Now, must I to the monument alone. - 4054 Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake. - 4055 She will beshrew me much that Romeo - 4056 Hath had no notice of these accidents; - 4057 But I will write again to Mantua, - 4058 And keep her at my cell till Romeo come- - 4059 Poor living corse, clos'd in a dead man's tomb! Exit. - 4060 - 4061 - 4062 - 4063 - 4064 Scene III. - 4065 Verona. A churchyard; in it the monument of the Capulets. - 4066 - 4067 Enter Paris and his Page with flowers and [a torch]. - 4068 - 4069 - 4070 Par. Give me thy torch, boy. Hence, and stand aloof. - 4071 Yet put it out, for I would not be seen. - 4072 Under yond yew tree lay thee all along, - 4073 Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground. - 4074 So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread - 4075 (Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves) - 4076 But thou shalt hear it. Whistle then to me, - 4077 As signal that thou hear'st something approach. - 4078 Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go. - 4079 - 4080 Page. [aside] I am almost afraid to stand alone - 4081 Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure. [Retires.] - 4082 - 4083 Par. Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew - 4084 (O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones) - 4085 Which with sweet water nightly I will dew; - 4086 Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans. - 4087 The obsequies that I for thee will keep - 4088 Nightly shall be to strew, thy grave and weep. - 4089 Whistle Boy. - 4090 The boy gives warning something doth approach. - 4091 What cursed foot wanders this way to-night - 4092 To cross my obsequies and true love's rite? - 4093 What, with a torch? Muffle me, night, awhile. [Retires.] - 4094 - 4095 Enter Romeo, and Balthasar with a torch, a mattock, - 4096 and a crow of iron. - 4097 - 4098 - 4099 Rom. Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron. - 4100 Hold, take this letter. Early in the morning - 4101 See thou deliver it to my lord and father. - 4102 Give me the light. Upon thy life I charge thee, - 4103 Whate'er thou hearest or seest, stand all aloof - 4104 And do not interrupt me in my course. - 4105 Why I descend into this bed of death - 4106 Is partly to behold my lady's face, - 4107 But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger - 4108 A precious ring- a ring that I must use - 4109 In dear employment. Therefore hence, be gone. - 4110 But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry - 4111 In what I farther shall intend to do, - 4112 By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint - 4113 And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs. - 4114 The time and my intents are savage-wild, - 4115 More fierce and more inexorable far - 4116 Than empty tigers or the roaring sea. - 4117 - 4118 Bal. I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you. - 4119 - 4120 Rom. So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that. - 4121 Live, and be prosperous; and farewell, good fellow. - 4122 - 4123 Bal. [aside] For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout. - 4124 His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt. [Retires.] - 4125 - 4126 Rom. Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, - 4127 Gorg'd with the dearest morsel of the earth, - 4128 Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, - 4129 And in despite I'll cram thee with more food. - 4130 Romeo opens the tomb. - 4131 - 4132 Par. This is that banish'd haughty Montague - 4133 That murd'red my love's cousin- with which grief - 4134 It is supposed the fair creature died- - 4135 And here is come to do some villanous shame - 4136 To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him. - 4137 Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague! - 4138 Can vengeance be pursu'd further than death? - 4139 Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee. - 4140 Obey, and go with me; for thou must die. - 4141 - 4142 Rom. I must indeed; and therefore came I hither. - 4143 Good gentle youth, tempt not a desp'rate man. - 4144 Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone; - 4145 Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth, - 4146 But not another sin upon my head - 4147 By urging me to fury. O, be gone! - 4148 By heaven, I love thee better than myself, - 4149 For I come hither arm'd against myself. - 4150 Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say - 4151 A madman's mercy bid thee run away. - 4152 - 4153 Par. I do defy thy, conjuration - 4154 And apprehend thee for a felon here. - 4155 - 4156 Rom. Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee, boy! - 4157 They fight. - 4158 - 4159 Page. O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch. - 4160 [Exit. Paris falls.] - 4161 - 4162 Par. O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, - 4163 Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. [Dies.] - 4164 - 4165 Rom. In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face. - 4166 Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris! - 4167 What said my man when my betossed soul - 4168 Did not attend him as we rode? I think - 4169 He told me Paris should have married Juliet. - 4170 Said he not so? or did I dream it so? - 4171 Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet - 4172 To think it was so? O, give me thy hand, - 4173 One writ with me in sour misfortune's book! - 4174 I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. - 4175 A grave? O, no, a lanthorn, slaught'red youth, - 4176 For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes - 4177 This vault a feasting presence full of light. - 4178 Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd. - 4179 [Lays him in the tomb.] - 4180 How oft when men are at the point of death - 4181 Have they been merry! which their keepers call - 4182 A lightning before death. O, how may I - 4183 Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife! - 4184 Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, - 4185 Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. - 4186 Thou art not conquer'd. Beauty's ensign yet - 4187 Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, - 4188 And death's pale flag is not advanced there. - 4189 Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet? - 4190 O, what more favour can I do to thee - 4191 Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain - 4192 To sunder his that was thine enemy? - 4193 Forgive me, cousin.' Ah, dear Juliet, - 4194 Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe - 4195 That unsubstantial Death is amorous, - 4196 And that the lean abhorred monster keeps - 4197 Thee here in dark to be his paramour? - 4198 For fear of that I still will stay with thee - 4199 And never from this palace of dim night - 4200 Depart again. Here, here will I remain - 4201 With worms that are thy chambermaids. O, here - 4202 Will I set up my everlasting rest - 4203 And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars - 4204 From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! - 4205 Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you - 4206 The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss - 4207 A dateless bargain to engrossing death! - 4208 Come, bitter conduct; come, unsavoury guide! - 4209 Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on - 4210 The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! - 4211 Here's to my love! [Drinks.] O true apothecary! - 4212 Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. Falls. - 4213 - 4214 Enter Friar [Laurence], with lanthorn, crow, and spade. - 4215 - 4216 - 4217 Friar. Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night - 4218 Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there? - 4219 - 4220 Bal. Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well. - 4221 - 4222 Friar. Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend, - 4223 What torch is yond that vainly lends his light - 4224 To grubs and eyeless skulls? As I discern, - 4225 It burneth in the Capels' monument. - 4226 - 4227 Bal. It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master, - 4228 One that you love. - 4229 - 4230 Friar. Who is it? - 4231 - 4232 Bal. Romeo. - 4233 - 4234 Friar. How long hath he been there? - 4235 - 4236 Bal. Full half an hour. - 4237 - 4238 Friar. Go with me to the vault. - 4239 - 4240 Bal. I dare not, sir. - 4241 My master knows not but I am gone hence, - 4242 And fearfully did menace me with death - 4243 If I did stay to look on his intents. - 4244 - 4245 Friar. Stay then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me. - 4246 O, much I fear some ill unthrifty thing. - 4247 - 4248 Bal. As I did sleep under this yew tree here, - 4249 I dreamt my master and another fought, - 4250 And that my master slew him. - 4251 - 4252 Friar. Romeo! - 4253 Alack, alack, what blood is this which stains - 4254 The stony entrance of this sepulchre? - 4255 What mean these masterless and gory swords - 4256 To lie discolour'd by this place of peace? [Enters the tomb.] - 4257 Romeo! O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too? - 4258 And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour - 4259 Is guilty of this lamentable chance! The lady stirs. - 4260 Juliet rises. - 4261 - 4262 Jul. O comfortable friar! where is my lord? - 4263 I do remember well where I should be, - 4264 And there I am. Where is my Romeo? - 4265 - 4266 Friar. I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest - 4267 Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep. - 4268 A greater power than we can contradict - 4269 Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away. - 4270 Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; - 4271 And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee - 4272 Among a sisterhood of holy nuns. - 4273 Stay not to question, for the watch is coming. - 4274 Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay. - 4275 - 4276 Jul. Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. - 4277 Exit [Friar]. - 4278 What's here? A cup, clos'd in my true love's hand? - 4279 Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. - 4280 O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop - 4281 To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. - 4282 Haply some poison yet doth hang on them - 4283 To make me die with a restorative. [Kisses him.] - 4284 Thy lips are warm! - 4285 - 4286 Chief Watch. [within] Lead, boy. Which way? - 4287 Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! - 4288 [Snatches Romeo's dagger.] - 4289 This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die. - 4290 She stabs herself and falls [on Romeo's body]. - 4291 - 4292 Enter [Paris's] Boy and Watch. - 4293 - 4294 - 4295 Boy. This is the place. There, where the torch doth burn. - 4296 - 4297 Chief Watch. 'the ground is bloody. Search about the churchyard. - 4298 Go, some of you; whoe'er you find attach. - 4299 [Exeunt some of the Watch.] - 4300 Pitiful sight! here lies the County slain; - 4301 And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead, - 4302 Who here hath lain this two days buried. - 4303 Go, tell the Prince; run to the Capulets; - 4304 Raise up the Montagues; some others search. - 4305 [Exeunt others of the Watch.] - 4306 We see the ground whereon these woes do lie, - 4307 But the true ground of all these piteous woes - 4308 We cannot without circumstance descry. - 4309 - 4310 Enter [some of the Watch,] with Romeo's Man [Balthasar]. - 4311 - 4312 2. Watch. Here's Romeo's man. We found him in the churchyard. - 4313 - 4314 Chief Watch. Hold him in safety till the Prince come hither. - 4315 - 4316 Enter Friar [Laurence] and another Watchman. - 4317 - 4318 3. Watch. Here is a friar that trembles, sighs, and weeps. - 4319 We took this mattock and this spade from him - 4320 As he was coming from this churchyard side. - 4321 - 4322 Chief Watch. A great suspicion! Stay the friar too. - 4323 - 4324 Enter the Prince [and Attendants]. - 4325 - 4326 - 4327 Prince. What misadventure is so early up, - 4328 That calls our person from our morning rest? - 4329 - 4330 Enter Capulet and his Wife [with others]. - 4331 - 4332 - 4333 Cap. What should it be, that they so shriek abroad? - 4334 - 4335 Wife. The people in the street cry 'Romeo,' - 4336 Some 'Juliet,' and some 'Paris'; and all run, - 4337 With open outcry, toward our monument. - 4338 - 4339 Prince. What fear is this which startles in our ears? - 4340 - 4341 Chief Watch. Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain; - 4342 And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before, - 4343 Warm and new kill'd. - 4344 - 4345 Prince. Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes. - 4346 - 4347 Chief Watch. Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man, - 4348 With instruments upon them fit to open - 4349 These dead men's tombs. - 4350 - 4351 Cap. O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds! - 4352 This dagger hath mista'en, for, lo, his house - 4353 Is empty on the back of Montague, - 4354 And it missheathed in my daughter's bosom! - 4355 - 4356 Wife. O me! this sight of death is as a bell - 4357 That warns my old age to a sepulchre. - 4358 - 4359 Enter Montague [and others]. - 4360 - 4361 - 4362 Prince. Come, Montague; for thou art early up - 4363 To see thy son and heir more early down. - 4364 - 4365 Mon. Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night! - 4366 Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath. - 4367 What further woe conspires against mine age? - 4368 - 4369 Prince. Look, and thou shalt see. - 4370 - 4371 Mon. O thou untaught! what manners is in this, - 4372 To press before thy father to a grave? - 4373 - 4374 Prince. Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, - 4375 Till we can clear these ambiguities - 4376 And know their spring, their head, their true descent; - 4377 And then will I be general of your woes - 4378 And lead you even to death. Meantime forbear, - 4379 And let mischance be slave to patience. - 4380 Bring forth the parties of suspicion. - 4381 - 4382 Friar. I am the greatest, able to do least, - 4383 Yet most suspected, as the time and place - 4384 Doth make against me, of this direful murther; - 4385 And here I stand, both to impeach and purge - 4386 Myself condemned and myself excus'd. - 4387 - 4388 Prince. Then say it once what thou dost know in this. - 4389 - 4390 Friar. I will be brief, for my short date of breath - 4391 Is not so long as is a tedious tale. - 4392 Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet; - 4393 And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife. - 4394 I married them; and their stol'n marriage day - 4395 Was Tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely death - 4396 Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from this city; - 4397 For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pin'd. - 4398 You, to remove that siege of grief from her, - 4399 Betroth'd and would have married her perforce - 4400 To County Paris. Then comes she to me - 4401 And with wild looks bid me devise some mean - 4402 To rid her from this second marriage, - 4403 Or in my cell there would she kill herself. - 4404 Then gave I her (so tutored by my art) - 4405 A sleeping potion; which so took effect - 4406 As I intended, for it wrought on her - 4407 The form of death. Meantime I writ to Romeo - 4408 That he should hither come as this dire night - 4409 To help to take her from her borrowed grave, - 4410 Being the time the potion's force should cease. - 4411 But he which bore my letter, Friar John, - 4412 Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight - 4413 Return'd my letter back. Then all alone - 4414 At the prefixed hour of her waking - 4415 Came I to take her from her kindred's vault; - 4416 Meaning to keep her closely at my cell - 4417 Till I conveniently could send to Romeo. - 4418 But when I came, some minute ere the time - 4419 Of her awaking, here untimely lay - 4420 The noble Paris and true Romeo dead. - 4421 She wakes; and I entreated her come forth - 4422 And bear this work of heaven with patience; - 4423 But then a noise did scare me from the tomb, - 4424 And she, too desperate, would not go with me, - 4425 But, as it seems, did violence on herself. - 4426 All this I know, and to the marriage - 4427 Her nurse is privy; and if aught in this - 4428 Miscarried by my fault, let my old life - 4429 Be sacrific'd, some hour before his time, - 4430 Unto the rigour of severest law. - 4431 - 4432 Prince. We still have known thee for a holy man. - 4433 Where's Romeo's man? What can he say in this? - 4434 - 4435 Bal. I brought my master news of Juliet's death; - 4436 And then in post he came from Mantua - 4437 To this same place, to this same monument. - 4438 This letter he early bid me give his father, - 4439 And threat'ned me with death, going in the vault, - 4440 If I departed not and left him there. - 4441 - 4442 Prince. Give me the letter. I will look on it. - 4443 Where is the County's page that rais'd the watch? - 4444 Sirrah, what made your master in this place? - 4445 - 4446 Boy. He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave; - 4447 And bid me stand aloof, and so I did. - 4448 Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb; - 4449 And by-and-by my master drew on him; - 4450 And then I ran away to call the watch. - 4451 - 4452 Prince. This letter doth make good the friar's words, - 4453 Their course of love, the tidings of her death; - 4454 And here he writes that he did buy a poison - 4455 Of a poor pothecary, and therewithal - 4456 Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet. - 4457 Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montage, - 4458 See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, - 4459 That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! - 4460 And I, for winking at you, discords too, - 4461 Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punish'd. - 4462 - 4463 Cap. O brother Montague, give me thy hand. - 4464 This is my daughter's jointure, for no more - 4465 Can I demand. - 4466 - 4467 Mon. But I can give thee more; - 4468 For I will raise her Statue in pure gold, - 4469 That whiles Verona by that name is known, - 4470 There shall no figure at such rate be set - 4471 As that of true and faithful Juliet. - 4472 - 4473 Cap. As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie- - 4474 Poor sacrifices of our enmity! - 4475 - 4476 Prince. A glooming peace this morning with it brings. - 4477 The sun for sorrow will not show his head. - 4478 Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; - 4479 Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished; - 4480 For never was a story of more woe - 4481 Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. - 4482 Exeunt omnes. - 4483 - 4484 THE END - 4485 - 4486 - 4487 - 4488 - 4489 - 4490 - 4491 - 4492 - 4493 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare - 4494 - 4495 *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROMEO AND JULIET *** - 4496 - 4497 ***** This file should be named 1112.txt or 1112.zip ***** - 4498 This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - 4499 http://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/1/1112/ - 4500 - 4501 - 4502 - 4503 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions - 4504 will be renamed. - 4505 - 4506 Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no - 4507 one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation - 4508 (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without - 4509 permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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