From 143afe6a94314c911c7dd30421ba5a724c44bbbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Skinner Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 10:09:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] remove post-processing library hepa; pending revision --- cmd/pkger/cmds/list.go | 12 +- .../takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/LICENSE | 21 - .../github.com/markbates/hepa/filter.go | 35 - .../github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/env.go | 42 - .../markbates/hepa/filters/filters.go | 12 - .../markbates/hepa/filters/golang.go | 51 - .../github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/home.go | 31 - .../markbates/hepa/filters/masks.go | 5917 ----------------- .../markbates/hepa/filters/secrets.go | 29 - .../takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/hepa.go | 15 - .../github.com/markbates/hepa/purifier.go | 67 - .../github.com/markbates/hepa/version.go | 4 - pkging/embed/embed.go | 11 - 13 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6246 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/LICENSE delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filter.go delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/env.go delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/filters.go delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/golang.go delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/home.go delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/masks.go delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/secrets.go delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/hepa.go delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/purifier.go delete mode 100644 internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/version.go diff --git a/cmd/pkger/cmds/list.go b/cmd/pkger/cmds/list.go index 0bd844f..ab3598a 100644 --- a/cmd/pkger/cmds/list.go +++ b/cmd/pkger/cmds/list.go @@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ import ( "path/filepath" "github.com/markbates/pkger" - "github.com/markbates/pkger/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa" - "github.com/markbates/pkger/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters" "github.com/markbates/pkger/parser" ) @@ -71,15 +69,7 @@ func (e *listCmd) Exec(args []string) error { return err } - hep := hepa.New() - hep = hepa.With(hep, filters.Home()) - hep = hepa.With(hep, filters.Golang()) - - b, err := hep.Filter(bb.Bytes()) - if err != nil { - return err - } - _, err = os.Stdout.Write(b) + _, err = os.Stdout.Write(bb.Bytes()) return err } diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/LICENSE b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/LICENSE deleted file mode 100644 index 649efd4..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/LICENSE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -The MIT License (MIT) - -Copyright (c) 2019 Mark Bates - -Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy -of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal -in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights -to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell -copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is -furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: - -The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all -copies or substantial portions of the Software. - -THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR -IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, -FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE -AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER -LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, -OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE -SOFTWARE. diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filter.go b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filter.go deleted file mode 100644 index c94b5d4..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filter.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -package hepa - -import "bytes" - -type Filter interface { - Filter([]byte) ([]byte, error) -} - -type FilterFunc func([]byte) ([]byte, error) - -func (f FilterFunc) Filter(b []byte) ([]byte, error) { - return f(b) -} - -func Rinse(p Purifier, s, r []byte) Purifier { - return WithFunc(p, func(b []byte) ([]byte, error) { - b = bytes.ReplaceAll(b, s, r) - return b, nil - }) -} - -func Clean(p Purifier, s []byte) Purifier { - return WithFunc(p, func(b []byte) ([]byte, error) { - if bytes.Contains(b, s) { - return []byte{}, nil - } - return b, nil - }) -} - -func Noop() FilterFunc { - return func(b []byte) ([]byte, error) { - return b, nil - } -} diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/env.go b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/env.go deleted file mode 100644 index 0c9442f..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/env.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -package filters - -import ( - "os" - "strconv" - "strings" -) - -var env = func() map[string]string { - m := map[string]string{} - - for _, line := range os.Environ() { - kv := strings.Split(line, "=") - - k, v := kv[0], kv[1] - kt, vt := strings.TrimSpace(k), strings.TrimSpace(v) - - if len(kt) == 0 || len(vt) == 0 { - continue - } - - switch k { - case "GO111MODULE": - continue - } - - switch v { - case "true", "TRUE", "false", "FALSE", "null", "nil", "NULL": - continue - } - - if _, err := strconv.Atoi(k); err == nil { - continue - } - if _, err := strconv.Atoi(v); err == nil { - continue - } - - m[k] = v - } - return m -}() diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/filters.go b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/filters.go deleted file mode 100644 index 2dc1ecf..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/filters.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -package filters - -type FilterFunc func([]byte) ([]byte, error) - -func (f FilterFunc) Filter(b []byte) ([]byte, error) { - return f(b) -} - -type dir struct { - Dir string - Err error -} diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/golang.go b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/golang.go deleted file mode 100644 index ec0091a..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/golang.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -package filters - -import ( - "bytes" - "os" - "path/filepath" -) - -func Golang() FilterFunc { - return func(b []byte) ([]byte, error) { - gp, err := gopath(home) - if err != nil { - return nil, err - } - - b = bytes.ReplaceAll(b, []byte(gp.Dir), []byte("$GOPATH")) - - gru, err := goroot(gp) - if err != nil { - return nil, err - } - b = bytes.ReplaceAll(b, []byte(gru.Dir), []byte("$GOROOT")) - return b, nil - } -} - -func goroot(gp dir) (dir, error) { - gru, ok := os.LookupEnv("GOROOT") - if !ok { - if gp.Err != nil { - return gp, gp.Err - } - gru = filepath.Join(string(gp.Dir), "go") - } - return dir{ - Dir: gru, - }, nil -} - -func gopath(home dir) (dir, error) { - gp, ok := os.LookupEnv("GOPATH") - if !ok { - if home.Err != nil { - return home, home.Err - } - gp = filepath.Join(string(home.Dir), "go") - } - return dir{ - Dir: gp, - }, nil -} diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/home.go b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/home.go deleted file mode 100644 index 7b9d321..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/home.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -package filters - -import ( - "bytes" - "os" -) - -var home = func() dir { - var d dir - home, ok := os.LookupEnv("HOME") - if !ok { - pwd, err := os.Getwd() - if err != nil { - d.Err = err - return d - } - home = pwd - } - d.Dir = home - - return d -}() - -func Home() FilterFunc { - return func(b []byte) ([]byte, error) { - if home.Err != nil { - return b, home.Err - } - return bytes.ReplaceAll(b, []byte(home.Dir), []byte("$HOME")), nil - } -} diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/masks.go b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/masks.go deleted file mode 100644 index 40b669c..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/masks.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5917 +0,0 @@ -package filters - -import ( - "bufio" - "bytes" - "io" - "math/rand" - "strings" - "time" -) - -func init() { - rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano()) -} - -var masks = func() []string { - var s []string - r := bufio.NewReader(strings.NewReader(hamlet)) - for { - input, _, err := r.ReadLine() - if err != nil && err == io.EOF { - break - } - input = bytes.TrimSpace(input) - input = bytes.ReplaceAll(input, []byte("\t"), []byte(" ")) - if len(input) < 10 || len(input) > 50 { - continue - } - s = append(s, string(input)) - } - rand.Seed(int64(len(s) - 1)) - return s -}() - -func mask() string { - i := rand.Intn(len(masks) - 1) - return masks[i] -} - -const hamlet = ` - HAMLET - - DRAMATIS PERSONAE - -CLAUDIUS king of Denmark. (KING CLAUDIUS:) - -HAMLET son to the late, and nephew to the present king. - -POLONIUS lord chamberlain. (LORD POLONIUS:) - -HORATIO friend to Hamlet. - -LAERTES son to Polonius. - -LUCIANUS nephew to the king. - -VOLTIMAND | - | -CORNELIUS | - | -ROSENCRANTZ | courtiers. - | -GUILDENSTERN | - | -OSRIC | - - A Gentleman, (Gentlemen:) - - A Priest. (First Priest:) - -MARCELLUS | - | officers. -BERNARDO | - -FRANCISCO a soldier. - -REYNALDO servant to Polonius. - Players. - (First Player:) - (Player King:) - (Player Queen:) - - Two Clowns, grave-diggers. - (First Clown:) - (Second Clown:) - -FORTINBRAS prince of Norway. (PRINCE FORTINBRAS:) - - A Captain. - - English Ambassadors. (First Ambassador:) - -GERTRUDE queen of Denmark, and mother to Hamlet. - (QUEEN GERTRUDE:) - -OPHELIA daughter to Polonius. - - Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, - and other Attendants. (Lord:) - (First Sailor:) - (Messenger:) - - Ghost of Hamlet's Father. (Ghost:) - -SCENE Denmark. - - HAMLET - -ACT I - -SCENE I Elsinore. A platform before the castle. - - [FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO] - -BERNARDO Who's there? - -FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. - -BERNARDO Long live the king! - -FRANCISCO Bernardo? - -BERNARDO He. - -FRANCISCO You come most carefully upon your hour. - -BERNARDO 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco. - -FRANCISCO For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold, - And I am sick at heart. - -BERNARDO Have you had quiet guard? - -FRANCISCO Not a mouse stirring. - -BERNARDO Well, good night. - If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, - The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. - -FRANCISCO I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there? - - [Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS] - -HORATIO Friends to this ground. - -MARCELLUS And liegemen to the Dane. - -FRANCISCO Give you good night. - -MARCELLUS O, farewell, honest soldier: - Who hath relieved you? - -FRANCISCO Bernardo has my place. - Give you good night. - - [Exit] - -MARCELLUS Holla! Bernardo! - -BERNARDO Say, - What, is Horatio there? - -HORATIO A piece of him. - -BERNARDO Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. - -MARCELLUS What, has this thing appear'd again to-night? - -BERNARDO I have seen nothing. - -MARCELLUS Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, - And will not let belief take hold of him - Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: - Therefore I have entreated him along - With us to watch the minutes of this night; - That if again this apparition come, - He may approve our eyes and speak to it. - -HORATIO Tush, tush, 'twill not appear. - -BERNARDO Sit down awhile; - And let us once again assail your ears, - That are so fortified against our story - What we have two nights seen. - -HORATIO Well, sit we down, - And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. - -BERNARDO Last night of all, - When yond same star that's westward from the pole - Had made his course to illume that part of heaven - Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, - The bell then beating one,-- - - [Enter Ghost] - -MARCELLUS Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again! - -BERNARDO In the same figure, like the king that's dead. - -MARCELLUS Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. - -BERNARDO Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio. - -HORATIO Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder. - -BERNARDO It would be spoke to. - -MARCELLUS Question it, Horatio. - -HORATIO What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, - Together with that fair and warlike form - In which the majesty of buried Denmark - Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak! - -MARCELLUS It is offended. - -BERNARDO See, it stalks away! - -HORATIO Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak! - - [Exit Ghost] - -MARCELLUS 'Tis gone, and will not answer. - -BERNARDO How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale: - Is not this something more than fantasy? - What think you on't? - -HORATIO Before my God, I might not this believe - Without the sensible and true avouch - Of mine own eyes. - -MARCELLUS Is it not like the king? - -HORATIO As thou art to thyself: - Such was the very armour he had on - When he the ambitious Norway combated; - So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle, - He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. - 'Tis strange. - -MARCELLUS Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, - With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. - -HORATIO In what particular thought to work I know not; - But in the gross and scope of my opinion, - This bodes some strange eruption to our state. - -MARCELLUS Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows, - Why this same strict and most observant watch - So nightly toils the subject of the land, - And why such daily cast of brazen cannon, - And foreign mart for implements of war; - Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task - Does not divide the Sunday from the week; - What might be toward, that this sweaty haste - Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day: - Who is't that can inform me? - -HORATIO That can I; - At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, - Whose image even but now appear'd to us, - Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, - Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride, - Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet-- - For so this side of our known world esteem'd him-- - Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact, - Well ratified by law and heraldry, - Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands - Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror: - Against the which, a moiety competent - Was gaged by our king; which had return'd - To the inheritance of Fortinbras, - Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant, - And carriage of the article design'd, - His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras, - Of unimproved mettle hot and full, - Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there - Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes, - For food and diet, to some enterprise - That hath a stomach in't; which is no other-- - As it doth well appear unto our state-- - But to recover of us, by strong hand - And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands - So by his father lost: and this, I take it, - Is the main motive of our preparations, - The source of this our watch and the chief head - Of this post-haste and romage in the land. - -BERNARDO I think it be no other but e'en so: - Well may it sort that this portentous figure - Comes armed through our watch; so like the king - That was and is the question of these wars. - -HORATIO A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, - A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, - The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead - Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: - As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, - Disasters in the sun; and the moist star - Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands - Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse: - And even the like precurse of fierce events, - As harbingers preceding still the fates - And prologue to the omen coming on, - Have heaven and earth together demonstrated - Unto our climatures and countrymen.-- - But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again! - - [Re-enter Ghost] - - I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion! - If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, - Speak to me: - If there be any good thing to be done, - That may to thee do ease and grace to me, - Speak to me: - - [Cock crows] - - If thou art privy to thy country's fate, - Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak! - Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life - Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, - For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, - Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus. - -MARCELLUS Shall I strike at it with my partisan? - -HORATIO Do, if it will not stand. - -BERNARDO 'Tis here! - -HORATIO 'Tis here! - -MARCELLUS 'Tis gone! - - [Exit Ghost] - - We do it wrong, being so majestical, - To offer it the show of violence; - For it is, as the air, invulnerable, - And our vain blows malicious mockery. - -BERNARDO It was about to speak, when the cock crew. - -HORATIO And then it started like a guilty thing - Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, - The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, - Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat - Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, - Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, - The extravagant and erring spirit hies - To his confine: and of the truth herein - This present object made probation. - -MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. - Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes - Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, - The bird of dawning singeth all night long: - And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; - The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, - No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, - So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. - -HORATIO So have I heard and do in part believe it. - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, - Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill: - Break we our watch up; and by my advice, - Let us impart what we have seen to-night - Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life, - This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. - Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it, - As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? - -MARCELLUS Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know - Where we shall find him most conveniently. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT I - -SCENE II A room of state in the castle. - - [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET, - POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, - and Attendants] - -KING CLAUDIUS Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death - The memory be green, and that it us befitted - To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom - To be contracted in one brow of woe, - Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature - That we with wisest sorrow think on him, - Together with remembrance of ourselves. - Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, - The imperial jointress to this warlike state, - Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,-- - With an auspicious and a dropping eye, - With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, - In equal scale weighing delight and dole,-- - Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd - Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone - With this affair along. For all, our thanks. - Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras, - Holding a weak supposal of our worth, - Or thinking by our late dear brother's death - Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, - Colleagued with the dream of his advantage, - He hath not fail'd to pester us with message, - Importing the surrender of those lands - Lost by his father, with all bonds of law, - To our most valiant brother. So much for him. - Now for ourself and for this time of meeting: - Thus much the business is: we have here writ - To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,-- - Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears - Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress - His further gait herein; in that the levies, - The lists and full proportions, are all made - Out of his subject: and we here dispatch - You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand, - For bearers of this greeting to old Norway; - Giving to you no further personal power - To business with the king, more than the scope - Of these delated articles allow. - Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty. - -CORNELIUS | - | In that and all things will we show our duty. -VOLTIMAND | - -KING CLAUDIUS We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell. - - [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS] - - And now, Laertes, what's the news with you? - You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes? - You cannot speak of reason to the Dane, - And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes, - That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? - The head is not more native to the heart, - The hand more instrumental to the mouth, - Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. - What wouldst thou have, Laertes? - -LAERTES My dread lord, - Your leave and favour to return to France; - From whence though willingly I came to Denmark, - To show my duty in your coronation, - Yet now, I must confess, that duty done, - My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France - And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon. - -KING CLAUDIUS Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius? - -LORD POLONIUS He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave - By laboursome petition, and at last - Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent: - I do beseech you, give him leave to go. - -KING CLAUDIUS Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, - And thy best graces spend it at thy will! - But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,-- - -HAMLET [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind. - -KING CLAUDIUS How is it that the clouds still hang on you? - -HAMLET Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, - And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. - Do not for ever with thy vailed lids - Seek for thy noble father in the dust: - Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, - Passing through nature to eternity. - -HAMLET Ay, madam, it is common. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE If it be, - Why seems it so particular with thee? - -HAMLET Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.' - 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, - Nor customary suits of solemn black, - Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, - No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, - Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, - Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, - That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, - For they are actions that a man might play: - But I have that within which passeth show; - These but the trappings and the suits of woe. - -KING CLAUDIUS 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, - To give these mourning duties to your father: - But, you must know, your father lost a father; - That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound - In filial obligation for some term - To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever - In obstinate condolement is a course - Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief; - It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, - A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, - An understanding simple and unschool'd: - For what we know must be and is as common - As any the most vulgar thing to sense, - Why should we in our peevish opposition - Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven, - A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, - To reason most absurd: whose common theme - Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, - From the first corse till he that died to-day, - 'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth - This unprevailing woe, and think of us - As of a father: for let the world take note, - You are the most immediate to our throne; - And with no less nobility of love - Than that which dearest father bears his son, - Do I impart toward you. For your intent - In going back to school in Wittenberg, - It is most retrograde to our desire: - And we beseech you, bend you to remain - Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, - Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet: - I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg. - -HAMLET I shall in all my best obey you, madam. - -KING CLAUDIUS Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply: - Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come; - This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet - Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof, - No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day, - But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, - And the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again, - Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away. - - [Exeunt all but HAMLET] - -HAMLET O, that this too too solid flesh would melt - Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! - Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd - His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! - How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, - Seem to me all the uses of this world! - Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, - That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature - Possess it merely. That it should come to this! - But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: - So excellent a king; that was, to this, - Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! - Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, - As if increase of appetite had grown - By what it fed on: and yet, within a month-- - Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!-- - A little month, or ere those shoes were old - With which she follow'd my poor father's body, - Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she-- - O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, - Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, - My father's brother, but no more like my father - Than I to Hercules: within a month: - Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears - Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, - She married. O, most wicked speed, to post - With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! - It is not nor it cannot come to good: - But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue. - - [Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO] - -HORATIO Hail to your lordship! - -HAMLET I am glad to see you well: - Horatio,--or I do forget myself. - -HORATIO The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever. - -HAMLET Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you: - And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus? - -MARCELLUS My good lord-- - -HAMLET I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir. - But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg? - -HORATIO A truant disposition, good my lord. - -HAMLET I would not hear your enemy say so, - Nor shall you do mine ear that violence, - To make it truster of your own report - Against yourself: I know you are no truant. - But what is your affair in Elsinore? - We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. - -HORATIO My lord, I came to see your father's funeral. - -HAMLET I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; - I think it was to see my mother's wedding. - -HORATIO Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon. - -HAMLET Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats - Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. - Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven - Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! - My father!--methinks I see my father. - -HORATIO Where, my lord? - -HAMLET In my mind's eye, Horatio. - -HORATIO I saw him once; he was a goodly king. - -HAMLET He was a man, take him for all in all, - I shall not look upon his like again. - -HORATIO My lord, I think I saw him yesternight. - -HAMLET Saw? who? - -HORATIO My lord, the king your father. - -HAMLET The king my father! - -HORATIO Season your admiration for awhile - With an attent ear, till I may deliver, - Upon the witness of these gentlemen, - This marvel to you. - -HAMLET For God's love, let me hear. - -HORATIO Two nights together had these gentlemen, - Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, - In the dead vast and middle of the night, - Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father, - Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe, - Appears before them, and with solemn march - Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd - By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes, - Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distilled - Almost to jelly with the act of fear, - Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me - In dreadful secrecy impart they did; - And I with them the third night kept the watch; - Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time, - Form of the thing, each word made true and good, - The apparition comes: I knew your father; - These hands are not more like. - -HAMLET But where was this? - -MARCELLUS My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. - -HAMLET Did you not speak to it? - -HORATIO My lord, I did; - But answer made it none: yet once methought - It lifted up its head and did address - Itself to motion, like as it would speak; - But even then the morning cock crew loud, - And at the sound it shrunk in haste away, - And vanish'd from our sight. - -HAMLET 'Tis very strange. - -HORATIO As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true; - And we did think it writ down in our duty - To let you know of it. - -HAMLET Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me. - Hold you the watch to-night? - -MARCELLUS | - | We do, my lord. -BERNARDO | - -HAMLET Arm'd, say you? - -MARCELLUS | - | Arm'd, my lord. -BERNARDO | - -HAMLET From top to toe? - -MARCELLUS | - | My lord, from head to foot. -BERNARDO | - -HAMLET Then saw you not his face? - -HORATIO O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up. - -HAMLET What, look'd he frowningly? - -HORATIO A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. - -HAMLET Pale or red? - -HORATIO Nay, very pale. - -HAMLET And fix'd his eyes upon you? - -HORATIO Most constantly. - -HAMLET I would I had been there. - -HORATIO It would have much amazed you. - -HAMLET Very like, very like. Stay'd it long? - -HORATIO While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. - -MARCELLUS | - | Longer, longer. -BERNARDO | - -HORATIO Not when I saw't. - -HAMLET His beard was grizzled--no? - -HORATIO It was, as I have seen it in his life, - A sable silver'd. - -HAMLET I will watch to-night; - Perchance 'twill walk again. - -HORATIO I warrant it will. - -HAMLET If it assume my noble father's person, - I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape - And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all, - If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight, - Let it be tenable in your silence still; - And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, - Give it an understanding, but no tongue: - I will requite your loves. So, fare you well: - Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve, - I'll visit you. - -All Our duty to your honour. - -HAMLET Your loves, as mine to you: farewell. - - [Exeunt all but HAMLET] - - My father's spirit in arms! all is not well; - I doubt some foul play: would the night were come! - Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise, - Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. - - [Exit] - - HAMLET - -ACT I - -SCENE III A room in Polonius' house. - - [Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA] - -LAERTES My necessaries are embark'd: farewell: - And, sister, as the winds give benefit - And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, - But let me hear from you. - -OPHELIA Do you doubt that? - -LAERTES For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour, - Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, - A violet in the youth of primy nature, - Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, - The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more. - -OPHELIA No more but so? - -LAERTES Think it no more; - For nature, crescent, does not grow alone - In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes, - The inward service of the mind and soul - Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now, - And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch - The virtue of his will: but you must fear, - His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; - For he himself is subject to his birth: - He may not, as unvalued persons do, - Carve for himself; for on his choice depends - The safety and health of this whole state; - And therefore must his choice be circumscribed - Unto the voice and yielding of that body - Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you, - It fits your wisdom so far to believe it - As he in his particular act and place - May give his saying deed; which is no further - Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. - Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, - If with too credent ear you list his songs, - Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open - To his unmaster'd importunity. - Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister, - And keep you in the rear of your affection, - Out of the shot and danger of desire. - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, - If she unmask her beauty to the moon: - Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes: - The canker galls the infants of the spring, - Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, - And in the morn and liquid dew of youth - Contagious blastments are most imminent. - Be wary then; best safety lies in fear: - Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. - -OPHELIA I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, - As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, - Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, - Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; - Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, - Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, - And recks not his own rede. - -LAERTES O, fear me not. - I stay too long: but here my father comes. - - [Enter POLONIUS] - - A double blessing is a double grace, - Occasion smiles upon a second leave. - -LORD POLONIUS Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! - The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, - And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee! - And these few precepts in thy memory - See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, - Nor any unproportioned thought his act. - Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. - Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, - Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; - But do not dull thy palm with entertainment - Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware - Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, - Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. - Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; - Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. - Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, - But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; - For the apparel oft proclaims the man, - And they in France of the best rank and station - Are of a most select and generous chief in that. - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; - For loan oft loses both itself and friend, - And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. - This above all: to thine ownself be true, - And it must follow, as the night the day, - Thou canst not then be false to any man. - Farewell: my blessing season this in thee! - -LAERTES Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord. - -LORD POLONIUS The time invites you; go; your servants tend. - -LAERTES Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well - What I have said to you. - -OPHELIA 'Tis in my memory lock'd, - And you yourself shall keep the key of it. - -LAERTES Farewell. - - [Exit] - -LORD POLONIUS What is't, Ophelia, be hath said to you? - -OPHELIA So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet. - -LORD POLONIUS Marry, well bethought: - 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late - Given private time to you; and you yourself - Have of your audience been most free and bounteous: - If it be so, as so 'tis put on me, - And that in way of caution, I must tell you, - You do not understand yourself so clearly - As it behoves my daughter and your honour. - What is between you? give me up the truth. - -OPHELIA He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders - Of his affection to me. - -LORD POLONIUS Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl, - Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. - Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? - -OPHELIA I do not know, my lord, what I should think. - -LORD POLONIUS Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby; - That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, - Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly; - Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, - Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool. - -OPHELIA My lord, he hath importuned me with love - In honourable fashion. - -LORD POLONIUS Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to. - -OPHELIA And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, - With almost all the holy vows of heaven. - -LORD POLONIUS Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, - When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul - Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter, - Giving more light than heat, extinct in both, - Even in their promise, as it is a-making, - You must not take for fire. From this time - Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence; - Set your entreatments at a higher rate - Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet, - Believe so much in him, that he is young - And with a larger tether may he walk - Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia, - Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, - Not of that dye which their investments show, - But mere implorators of unholy suits, - Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, - The better to beguile. This is for all: - I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, - Have you so slander any moment leisure, - As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. - Look to't, I charge you: come your ways. - -OPHELIA I shall obey, my lord. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT I - -SCENE IV The platform. - - [Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS] - -HAMLET The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. - -HORATIO It is a nipping and an eager air. - -HAMLET What hour now? - -HORATIO I think it lacks of twelve. - -HAMLET No, it is struck. - -HORATIO Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the season - Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. - - [A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within] - - What does this mean, my lord? - -HAMLET The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, - Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; - And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, - The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out - The triumph of his pledge. - -HORATIO Is it a custom? - -HAMLET Ay, marry, is't: - But to my mind, though I am native here - And to the manner born, it is a custom - More honour'd in the breach than the observance. - This heavy-headed revel east and west - Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations: - They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase - Soil our addition; and indeed it takes - From our achievements, though perform'd at height, - The pith and marrow of our attribute. - So, oft it chances in particular men, - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, - As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty, - Since nature cannot choose his origin-- - By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, - Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens - The form of plausive manners, that these men, - Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, - Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,-- - Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace, - As infinite as man may undergo-- - Shall in the general censure take corruption - From that particular fault: the dram of eale - Doth all the noble substance of a doubt - To his own scandal. - -HORATIO Look, my lord, it comes! - - [Enter Ghost] - -HAMLET Angels and ministers of grace defend us! - Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, - Be thy intents wicked or charitable, - Thou comest in such a questionable shape - That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, - King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me! - Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell - Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, - Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, - Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, - Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, - To cast thee up again. What may this mean, - That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel - Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, - Making night hideous; and we fools of nature - So horridly to shake our disposition - With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? - Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do? - - [Ghost beckons HAMLET] - -HORATIO It beckons you to go away with it, - As if it some impartment did desire - To you alone. - -MARCELLUS Look, with what courteous action - It waves you to a more removed ground: - But do not go with it. - -HORATIO No, by no means. - -HAMLET It will not speak; then I will follow it. - -HORATIO Do not, my lord. - -HAMLET Why, what should be the fear? - I do not set my life in a pin's fee; - And for my soul, what can it do to that, - Being a thing immortal as itself? - It waves me forth again: I'll follow it. - -HORATIO What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, - Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff - That beetles o'er his base into the sea, - And there assume some other horrible form, - Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason - And draw you into madness? think of it: - The very place puts toys of desperation, - Without more motive, into every brain - That looks so many fathoms to the sea - And hears it roar beneath. - -HAMLET It waves me still. - Go on; I'll follow thee. - -MARCELLUS You shall not go, my lord. - -HAMLET Hold off your hands. - -HORATIO Be ruled; you shall not go. - -HAMLET My fate cries out, - And makes each petty artery in this body - As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. - Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen. - By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me! - I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee. - - [Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET] - -HORATIO He waxes desperate with imagination. - -MARCELLUS Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. - -HORATIO Have after. To what issue will this come? - -MARCELLUS Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. - -HORATIO Heaven will direct it. - -MARCELLUS Nay, let's follow him. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT I - -SCENE V Another part of the platform. - - [Enter GHOST and HAMLET] - -HAMLET Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further. - -Ghost Mark me. - -HAMLET I will. - -Ghost My hour is almost come, - When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames - Must render up myself. - -HAMLET Alas, poor ghost! - -Ghost Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing - To what I shall unfold. - -HAMLET Speak; I am bound to hear. - -Ghost So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. - -HAMLET What? - -Ghost I am thy father's spirit, - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, - And for the day confined to fast in fires, - Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature - Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid - To tell the secrets of my prison-house, - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word - Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, - Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, - Thy knotted and combined locks to part - And each particular hair to stand on end, - Like quills upon the fretful porpentine: - But this eternal blazon must not be - To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! - If thou didst ever thy dear father love-- - -HAMLET O God! - -Ghost Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. - -HAMLET Murder! - -Ghost Murder most foul, as in the best it is; - But this most foul, strange and unnatural. - -HAMLET Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift - As meditation or the thoughts of love, - May sweep to my revenge. - -Ghost I find thee apt; - And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed - That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, - Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear: - 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, - A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark - Is by a forged process of my death - Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth, - The serpent that did sting thy father's life - Now wears his crown. - -HAMLET O my prophetic soul! My uncle! - -Ghost Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, - With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,-- - O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power - So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust - The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: - O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! - From me, whose love was of that dignity - That it went hand in hand even with the vow - I made to her in marriage, and to decline - Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor - To those of mine! - But virtue, as it never will be moved, - Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, - So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, - Will sate itself in a celestial bed, - And prey on garbage. - But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air; - Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, - My custom always of the afternoon, - Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, - With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, - And in the porches of my ears did pour - The leperous distilment; whose effect - Holds such an enmity with blood of man - That swift as quicksilver it courses through - The natural gates and alleys of the body, - And with a sudden vigour doth posset - And curd, like eager droppings into milk, - The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; - And a most instant tetter bark'd about, - Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, - All my smooth body. - Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand - Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd: - Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, - Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd, - No reckoning made, but sent to my account - With all my imperfections on my head: - O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible! - If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; - Let not the royal bed of Denmark be - A couch for luxury and damned incest. - But, howsoever thou pursuest this act, - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive - Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven - And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, - To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once! - The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, - And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire: - Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me. - - [Exit] - -HAMLET O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else? - And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart; - And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, - But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee! - Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat - In this distracted globe. Remember thee! - Yea, from the table of my memory - I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, - All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, - That youth and observation copied there; - And thy commandment all alone shall live - Within the book and volume of my brain, - Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven! - O most pernicious woman! - O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! - My tables,--meet it is I set it down, - That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; - At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark: - - [Writing] - - So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word; - It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.' - I have sworn 't. - -MARCELLUS | - | [Within] My lord, my lord,-- -HORATIO | - -MARCELLUS [Within] Lord Hamlet,-- - -HORATIO [Within] Heaven secure him! - -HAMLET So be it! - -HORATIO [Within] Hillo, ho, ho, my lord! - -HAMLET Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come. - - [Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS] - -MARCELLUS How is't, my noble lord? - -HORATIO What news, my lord? - -HAMLET O, wonderful! - -HORATIO Good my lord, tell it. - -HAMLET No; you'll reveal it. - -HORATIO Not I, my lord, by heaven. - -MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord. - -HAMLET How say you, then; would heart of man once think it? - But you'll be secret? - -HORATIO | - | Ay, by heaven, my lord. -MARCELLUS | - -HAMLET There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark - But he's an arrant knave. - -HORATIO There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave - To tell us this. - -HAMLET Why, right; you are i' the right; - And so, without more circumstance at all, - I hold it fit that we shake hands and part: - You, as your business and desire shall point you; - For every man has business and desire, - Such as it is; and for mine own poor part, - Look you, I'll go pray. - -HORATIO These are but wild and whirling words, my lord. - -HAMLET I'm sorry they offend you, heartily; - Yes, 'faith heartily. - -HORATIO There's no offence, my lord. - -HAMLET Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio, - And much offence too. Touching this vision here, - It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you: - For your desire to know what is between us, - O'ermaster 't as you may. And now, good friends, - As you are friends, scholars and soldiers, - Give me one poor request. - -HORATIO What is't, my lord? we will. - -HAMLET Never make known what you have seen to-night. - -HORATIO | - | My lord, we will not. -MARCELLUS | - -HAMLET Nay, but swear't. - -HORATIO In faith, - My lord, not I. - -MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord, in faith. - -HAMLET Upon my sword. - -MARCELLUS We have sworn, my lord, already. - -HAMLET Indeed, upon my sword, indeed. - -Ghost [Beneath] Swear. - -HAMLET Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there, - truepenny? - Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage-- - Consent to swear. - -HORATIO Propose the oath, my lord. - -HAMLET Never to speak of this that you have seen, - Swear by my sword. - -Ghost [Beneath] Swear. - -HAMLET Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground. - Come hither, gentlemen, - And lay your hands again upon my sword: - Never to speak of this that you have heard, - Swear by my sword. - -Ghost [Beneath] Swear. - -HAMLET Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast? - A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends. - -HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! - -HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. - There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, - Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come; - Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, - How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, - As I perchance hereafter shall think meet - To put an antic disposition on, - That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, - With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake, - Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, - As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,' - Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,' - Or such ambiguous giving out, to note - That you know aught of me: this not to do, - So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear. - -Ghost [Beneath] Swear. - -HAMLET Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! - - [They swear] - - So, gentlemen, - With all my love I do commend me to you: - And what so poor a man as Hamlet is - May do, to express his love and friending to you, - God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together; - And still your fingers on your lips, I pray. - The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, - That ever I was born to set it right! - Nay, come, let's go together. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT II - -SCENE I A room in POLONIUS' house. - - [Enter POLONIUS and REYNALDO] - -LORD POLONIUS Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo. - -REYNALDO I will, my lord. - -LORD POLONIUS You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo, - Before you visit him, to make inquire - Of his behavior. - -REYNALDO My lord, I did intend it. - -LORD POLONIUS Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir, - Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris; - And how, and who, what means, and where they keep, - What company, at what expense; and finding - By this encompassment and drift of question - That they do know my son, come you more nearer - Than your particular demands will touch it: - Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him; - As thus, 'I know his father and his friends, - And in part him: ' do you mark this, Reynaldo? - -REYNALDO Ay, very well, my lord. - -LORD POLONIUS 'And in part him; but' you may say 'not well: - But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild; - Addicted so and so:' and there put on him - What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank - As may dishonour him; take heed of that; - But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips - As are companions noted and most known - To youth and liberty. - -REYNALDO As gaming, my lord. - -LORD POLONIUS Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling, - Drabbing: you may go so far. - -REYNALDO My lord, that would dishonour him. - -LORD POLONIUS 'Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge - You must not put another scandal on him, - That he is open to incontinency; - That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly - That they may seem the taints of liberty, - The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, - A savageness in unreclaimed blood, - Of general assault. - -REYNALDO But, my good lord,-- - -LORD POLONIUS Wherefore should you do this? - -REYNALDO Ay, my lord, - I would know that. - -LORD POLONIUS Marry, sir, here's my drift; - And I believe, it is a fetch of wit: - You laying these slight sullies on my son, - As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you, - Your party in converse, him you would sound, - Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes - The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured - He closes with you in this consequence; - 'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,' - According to the phrase or the addition - Of man and country. - -REYNALDO Very good, my lord. - -LORD POLONIUS And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I - about to say? By the mass, I was about to say - something: where did I leave? - -REYNALDO At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,' - and 'gentleman.' - -LORD POLONIUS At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry; - He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman; - I saw him yesterday, or t' other day, - Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you say, - There was a' gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse; - There falling out at tennis:' or perchance, - 'I saw him enter such a house of sale,' - Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. - See you now; - Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth: - And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, - With windlasses and with assays of bias, - By indirections find directions out: - So by my former lecture and advice, - Shall you my son. You have me, have you not? - -REYNALDO My lord, I have. - -LORD POLONIUS God be wi' you; fare you well. - -REYNALDO Good my lord! - -LORD POLONIUS Observe his inclination in yourself. - -REYNALDO I shall, my lord. - -LORD POLONIUS And let him ply his music. - -REYNALDO Well, my lord. - -LORD POLONIUS Farewell! - - [Exit REYNALDO] - - [Enter OPHELIA] - - How now, Ophelia! what's the matter? - -OPHELIA O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! - -LORD POLONIUS With what, i' the name of God? - -OPHELIA My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, - Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; - No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, - Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle; - Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; - And with a look so piteous in purport - As if he had been loosed out of hell - To speak of horrors,--he comes before me. - -LORD POLONIUS Mad for thy love? - -OPHELIA My lord, I do not know; - But truly, I do fear it. - -LORD POLONIUS What said he? - -OPHELIA He took me by the wrist and held me hard; - Then goes he to the length of all his arm; - And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, - He falls to such perusal of my face - As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so; - At last, a little shaking of mine arm - And thrice his head thus waving up and down, - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound - As it did seem to shatter all his bulk - And end his being: that done, he lets me go: - And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd, - He seem'd to find his way without his eyes; - For out o' doors he went without their helps, - And, to the last, bended their light on me. - -LORD POLONIUS Come, go with me: I will go seek the king. - This is the very ecstasy of love, - Whose violent property fordoes itself - And leads the will to desperate undertakings - As oft as any passion under heaven - That does afflict our natures. I am sorry. - What, have you given him any hard words of late? - -OPHELIA No, my good lord, but, as you did command, - I did repel his fetters and denied - His access to me. - -LORD POLONIUS That hath made him mad. - I am sorry that with better heed and judgment - I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle, - And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy! - By heaven, it is as proper to our age - To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions - As it is common for the younger sort - To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king: - This must be known; which, being kept close, might - move - More grief to hide than hate to utter love. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT II - -SCENE II A room in the castle. - - [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, - GUILDENSTERN, and Attendants] - -KING CLAUDIUS Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern! - Moreover that we much did long to see you, - The need we have to use you did provoke - Our hasty sending. Something have you heard - Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it, - Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man - Resembles that it was. What it should be, - More than his father's death, that thus hath put him - So much from the understanding of himself, - I cannot dream of: I entreat you both, - That, being of so young days brought up with him, - And sith so neighbour'd to his youth and havior, - That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court - Some little time: so by your companies - To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather, - So much as from occasion you may glean, - Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus, - That, open'd, lies within our remedy. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you; - And sure I am two men there are not living - To whom he more adheres. If it will please you - To show us so much gentry and good will - As to expend your time with us awhile, - For the supply and profit of our hope, - Your visitation shall receive such thanks - As fits a king's remembrance. - -ROSENCRANTZ Both your majesties - Might, by the sovereign power you have of us, - Put your dread pleasures more into command - Than to entreaty. - -GUILDENSTERN But we both obey, - And here give up ourselves, in the full bent - To lay our service freely at your feet, - To be commanded. - -KING CLAUDIUS Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz: - And I beseech you instantly to visit - My too much changed son. Go, some of you, - And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is. - -GUILDENSTERN Heavens make our presence and our practises - Pleasant and helpful to him! - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Ay, amen! - - [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and some - Attendants] - - [Enter POLONIUS] - -LORD POLONIUS The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, - Are joyfully return'd. - -KING CLAUDIUS Thou still hast been the father of good news. - -LORD POLONIUS Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege, - I hold my duty, as I hold my soul, - Both to my God and to my gracious king: - And I do think, or else this brain of mine - Hunts not the trail of policy so sure - As it hath used to do, that I have found - The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy. - -KING CLAUDIUS O, speak of that; that do I long to hear. - -LORD POLONIUS Give first admittance to the ambassadors; - My news shall be the fruit to that great feast. - -KING CLAUDIUS Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in. - - [Exit POLONIUS] - - He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found - The head and source of all your son's distemper. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE I doubt it is no other but the main; - His father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage. - -KING CLAUDIUS Well, we shall sift him. - - [Re-enter POLONIUS, with VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS] - - Welcome, my good friends! - Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway? - -VOLTIMAND Most fair return of greetings and desires. - Upon our first, he sent out to suppress - His nephew's levies; which to him appear'd - To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack; - But, better look'd into, he truly found - It was against your highness: whereat grieved, - That so his sickness, age and impotence - Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests - On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys; - Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine - Makes vow before his uncle never more - To give the assay of arms against your majesty. - Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy, - Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee, - And his commission to employ those soldiers, - So levied as before, against the Polack: - With an entreaty, herein further shown, - - [Giving a paper] - - That it might please you to give quiet pass - Through your dominions for this enterprise, - On such regards of safety and allowance - As therein are set down. - -KING CLAUDIUS It likes us well; - And at our more consider'd time well read, - Answer, and think upon this business. - Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour: - Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together: - Most welcome home! - - [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS] - -LORD POLONIUS This business is well ended. - My liege, and madam, to expostulate - What majesty should be, what duty is, - Why day is day, night night, and time is time, - Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. - Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, - And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, - I will be brief: your noble son is mad: - Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, - What is't but to be nothing else but mad? - But let that go. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE More matter, with less art. - -LORD POLONIUS Madam, I swear I use no art at all. - That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity; - And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure; - But farewell it, for I will use no art. - Mad let us grant him, then: and now remains - That we find out the cause of this effect, - Or rather say, the cause of this defect, - For this effect defective comes by cause: - Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend. - I have a daughter--have while she is mine-- - Who, in her duty and obedience, mark, - Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise. - - [Reads] - - 'To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most - beautified Ophelia,'-- - That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is - a vile phrase: but you shall hear. Thus: - - [Reads] - - 'In her excellent white bosom, these, &c.' - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Came this from Hamlet to her? - -LORD POLONIUS Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful. - - [Reads] - - 'Doubt thou the stars are fire; - Doubt that the sun doth move; - Doubt truth to be a liar; - But never doubt I love. - 'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers; - I have not art to reckon my groans: but that - I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu. - 'Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst - this machine is to him, HAMLET.' - This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me, - And more above, hath his solicitings, - As they fell out by time, by means and place, - All given to mine ear. - -KING CLAUDIUS But how hath she - Received his love? - -LORD POLONIUS What do you think of me? - -KING CLAUDIUS As of a man faithful and honourable. - -LORD POLONIUS I would fain prove so. But what might you think, - When I had seen this hot love on the wing-- - As I perceived it, I must tell you that, - Before my daughter told me--what might you, - Or my dear majesty your queen here, think, - If I had play'd the desk or table-book, - Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb, - Or look'd upon this love with idle sight; - What might you think? No, I went round to work, - And my young mistress thus I did bespeak: - 'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star; - This must not be:' and then I precepts gave her, - That she should lock herself from his resort, - Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. - Which done, she took the fruits of my advice; - And he, repulsed--a short tale to make-- - Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, - Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, - Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension, - Into the madness wherein now he raves, - And all we mourn for. - -KING CLAUDIUS Do you think 'tis this? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE It may be, very likely. - -LORD POLONIUS Hath there been such a time--I'd fain know that-- - That I have positively said 'Tis so,' - When it proved otherwise? - -KING CLAUDIUS Not that I know. - -LORD POLONIUS [Pointing to his head and shoulder] - - Take this from this, if this be otherwise: - If circumstances lead me, I will find - Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed - Within the centre. - -KING CLAUDIUS How may we try it further? - -LORD POLONIUS You know, sometimes he walks four hours together - Here in the lobby. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE So he does indeed. - -LORD POLONIUS At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him: - Be you and I behind an arras then; - Mark the encounter: if he love her not - And be not from his reason fall'n thereon, - Let me be no assistant for a state, - But keep a farm and carters. - -KING CLAUDIUS We will try it. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE But, look, where sadly the poor wretch comes reading. - -LORD POLONIUS Away, I do beseech you, both away: - I'll board him presently. - - [Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, and - Attendants] - - [Enter HAMLET, reading] - - O, give me leave: - How does my good Lord Hamlet? - -HAMLET Well, God-a-mercy. - -LORD POLONIUS Do you know me, my lord? - -HAMLET Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. - -LORD POLONIUS Not I, my lord. - -HAMLET Then I would you were so honest a man. - -LORD POLONIUS Honest, my lord! - -HAMLET Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be - one man picked out of ten thousand. - -LORD POLONIUS That's very true, my lord. - -HAMLET For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a - god kissing carrion,--Have you a daughter? - -LORD POLONIUS I have, my lord. - -HAMLET Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a - blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive. - Friend, look to 't. - -LORD POLONIUS [Aside] How say you by that? Still harping on my - daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I - was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and - truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for - love; very near this. I'll speak to him again. - What do you read, my lord? - -HAMLET Words, words, words. - -LORD POLONIUS What is the matter, my lord? - -HAMLET Between who? - -LORD POLONIUS I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. - -HAMLET Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here - that old men have grey beards, that their faces are - wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and - plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of - wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir, - though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet - I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, for - yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab - you could go backward. - -LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method - in 't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord? - -HAMLET Into my grave. - -LORD POLONIUS Indeed, that is out o' the air. - - [Aside] - - How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness - that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity - could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will - leave him, and suddenly contrive the means of - meeting between him and my daughter.--My honourable - lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you. - -HAMLET You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will - more willingly part withal: except my life, except - my life, except my life. - -LORD POLONIUS Fare you well, my lord. - -HAMLET These tedious old fools! - - [Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - -LORD POLONIUS You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is. - -ROSENCRANTZ [To POLONIUS] God save you, sir! - - [Exit POLONIUS] - -GUILDENSTERN My honoured lord! - -ROSENCRANTZ My most dear lord! - -HAMLET My excellent good friends! How dost thou, - Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both? - -ROSENCRANTZ As the indifferent children of the earth. - -GUILDENSTERN Happy, in that we are not over-happy; - On fortune's cap we are not the very button. - -HAMLET Nor the soles of her shoe? - -ROSENCRANTZ Neither, my lord. - -HAMLET Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of - her favours? - -GUILDENSTERN 'Faith, her privates we. - -HAMLET In the secret parts of fortune? O, most true; she - is a strumpet. What's the news? - -ROSENCRANTZ None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. - -HAMLET Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true. - Let me question more in particular: what have you, - my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune, - that she sends you to prison hither? - -GUILDENSTERN Prison, my lord! - -HAMLET Denmark's a prison. - -ROSENCRANTZ Then is the world one. - -HAMLET A goodly one; in which there are many confines, - wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst. - -ROSENCRANTZ We think not so, my lord. - -HAMLET Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing - either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me - it is a prison. - -ROSENCRANTZ Why then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too - narrow for your mind. - -HAMLET O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count - myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I - have bad dreams. - -GUILDENSTERN Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very - substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. - -HAMLET A dream itself is but a shadow. - -ROSENCRANTZ Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a - quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. - -HAMLET Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and - outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we - to the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason. - -ROSENCRANTZ | - | We'll wait upon you. -GUILDENSTERN | - -HAMLET No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest - of my servants, for, to speak to you like an honest - man, I am most dreadfully attended. But, in the - beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore? - -ROSENCRANTZ To visit you, my lord; no other occasion. - -HAMLET Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I - thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are - too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it - your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, - deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak. - -GUILDENSTERN What should we say, my lord? - -HAMLET Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were sent - for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks - which your modesties have not craft enough to colour: - I know the good king and queen have sent for you. - -ROSENCRANTZ To what end, my lord? - -HAMLET That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by - the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of - our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved - love, and by what more dear a better proposer could - charge you withal, be even and direct with me, - whether you were sent for, or no? - -ROSENCRANTZ [Aside to GUILDENSTERN] What say you? - -HAMLET [Aside] Nay, then, I have an eye of you.--If you - love me, hold not off. - -GUILDENSTERN My lord, we were sent for. - -HAMLET I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation - prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king - and queen moult no feather. I have of late--but - wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all - custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily - with my disposition that this goodly frame, the - earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most - excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave - o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted - with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to - me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. - What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! - how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how - express and admirable! in action how like an angel! - in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the - world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, - what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not - me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling - you seem to say so. - -ROSENCRANTZ My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts. - -HAMLET Why did you laugh then, when I said 'man delights not me'? - -ROSENCRANTZ To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what - lenten entertainment the players shall receive from - you: we coted them on the way; and hither are they - coming, to offer you service. - -HAMLET He that plays the king shall be welcome; his majesty - shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight - shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not - sigh gratis; the humourous man shall end his part - in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose - lungs are tickled o' the sere; and the lady shall - say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt - for't. What players are they? - -ROSENCRANTZ Even those you were wont to take delight in, the - tragedians of the city. - -HAMLET How chances it they travel? their residence, both - in reputation and profit, was better both ways. - -ROSENCRANTZ I think their inhibition comes by the means of the - late innovation. - -HAMLET Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was - in the city? are they so followed? - -ROSENCRANTZ No, indeed, are they not. - -HAMLET How comes it? do they grow rusty? - -ROSENCRANTZ Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace: but - there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, - that cry out on the top of question, and are most - tyrannically clapped for't: these are now the - fashion, and so berattle the common stages--so they - call them--that many wearing rapiers are afraid of - goose-quills and dare scarce come thither. - -HAMLET What, are they children? who maintains 'em? how are - they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no - longer than they can sing? will they not say - afterwards, if they should grow themselves to common - players--as it is most like, if their means are no - better--their writers do them wrong, to make them - exclaim against their own succession? - -ROSENCRANTZ 'Faith, there has been much to do on both sides; and - the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to - controversy: there was, for a while, no money bid - for argument, unless the poet and the player went to - cuffs in the question. - -HAMLET Is't possible? - -GUILDENSTERN O, there has been much throwing about of brains. - -HAMLET Do the boys carry it away? - -ROSENCRANTZ Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too. - -HAMLET It is not very strange; for mine uncle is king of - Denmark, and those that would make mows at him while - my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, an - hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in little. - 'Sblood, there is something in this more than - natural, if philosophy could find it out. - - [Flourish of trumpets within] - -GUILDENSTERN There are the players. - -HAMLET Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands, - come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion - and ceremony: let me comply with you in this garb, - lest my extent to the players, which, I tell you, - must show fairly outward, should more appear like - entertainment than yours. You are welcome: but my - uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. - -GUILDENSTERN In what, my dear lord? - -HAMLET I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is - southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. - - [Enter POLONIUS] - -LORD POLONIUS Well be with you, gentlemen! - -HAMLET Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too: at each ear a - hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet - out of his swaddling-clouts. - -ROSENCRANTZ Happily he's the second time come to them; for they - say an old man is twice a child. - -HAMLET I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players; - mark it. You say right, sir: o' Monday morning; - 'twas so indeed. - -LORD POLONIUS My lord, I have news to tell you. - -HAMLET My lord, I have news to tell you. - When Roscius was an actor in Rome,-- - -LORD POLONIUS The actors are come hither, my lord. - -HAMLET Buz, buz! - -LORD POLONIUS Upon mine honour,-- - -HAMLET Then came each actor on his ass,-- - -LORD POLONIUS The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, - comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, - historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical- - comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or - poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor - Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the - liberty, these are the only men. - -HAMLET O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou! - -LORD POLONIUS What a treasure had he, my lord? - -HAMLET Why, - 'One fair daughter and no more, - The which he loved passing well.' - -LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Still on my daughter. - -HAMLET Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah? - -LORD POLONIUS If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter - that I love passing well. - -HAMLET Nay, that follows not. - -LORD POLONIUS What follows, then, my lord? - -HAMLET Why, - 'As by lot, God wot,' - and then, you know, - 'It came to pass, as most like it was,'-- - the first row of the pious chanson will show you - more; for look, where my abridgement comes. - - [Enter four or five Players] - - You are welcome, masters; welcome, all. I am glad - to see thee well. Welcome, good friends. O, my old - friend! thy face is valenced since I saw thee last: - comest thou to beard me in Denmark? What, my young - lady and mistress! By'r lady, your ladyship is - nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the - altitude of a chopine. Pray God, your voice, like - apiece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the - ring. Masters, you are all welcome. We'll e'en - to't like French falconers, fly at any thing we see: - we'll have a speech straight: come, give us a taste - of your quality; come, a passionate speech. - -First Player What speech, my lord? - -HAMLET I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was - never acted; or, if it was, not above once; for the - play, I remember, pleased not the million; 'twas - caviare to the general: but it was--as I received - it, and others, whose judgments in such matters - cried in the top of mine--an excellent play, well - digested in the scenes, set down with as much - modesty as cunning. I remember, one said there - were no sallets in the lines to make the matter - savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might - indict the author of affectation; but called it an - honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very - much more handsome than fine. One speech in it I - chiefly loved: 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido; and - thereabout of it especially, where he speaks of - Priam's slaughter: if it live in your memory, begin - at this line: let me see, let me see-- - 'The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast,'-- - it is not so:--it begins with Pyrrhus:-- - 'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, - Black as his purpose, did the night resemble - When he lay couched in the ominous horse, - Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd - With heraldry more dismal; head to foot - Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd - With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, - Baked and impasted with the parching streets, - That lend a tyrannous and damned light - To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire, - And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore, - With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus - Old grandsire Priam seeks.' - So, proceed you. - -LORD POLONIUS 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and - good discretion. - -First Player 'Anon he finds him - Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword, - Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls, - Repugnant to command: unequal match'd, - Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; - But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword - The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium, - Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top - Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash - Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword, - Which was declining on the milky head - Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick: - So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood, - And like a neutral to his will and matter, - Did nothing. - But, as we often see, against some storm, - A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, - The bold winds speechless and the orb below - As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder - Doth rend the region, so, after Pyrrhus' pause, - Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work; - And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall - On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne - With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword - Now falls on Priam. - Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods, - In general synod 'take away her power; - Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, - And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven, - As low as to the fiends!' - -LORD POLONIUS This is too long. - -HAMLET It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee, - say on: he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he - sleeps: say on: come to Hecuba. - -First Player 'But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen--' - -HAMLET 'The mobled queen?' - -LORD POLONIUS That's good; 'mobled queen' is good. - -First Player 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames - With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head - Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, - About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins, - A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up; - Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd, - 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have - pronounced: - But if the gods themselves did see her then - When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport - In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, - The instant burst of clamour that she made, - Unless things mortal move them not at all, - Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, - And passion in the gods.' - -LORD POLONIUS Look, whether he has not turned his colour and has - tears in's eyes. Pray you, no more. - -HAMLET 'Tis well: I'll have thee speak out the rest soon. - Good my lord, will you see the players well - bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for - they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the - time: after your death you were better have a bad - epitaph than their ill report while you live. - -LORD POLONIUS My lord, I will use them according to their desert. - -HAMLET God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man - after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? - Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less - they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. - Take them in. - -LORD POLONIUS Come, sirs. - -HAMLET Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow. - - [Exit POLONIUS with all the Players but the First] - - Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the - Murder of Gonzago? - -First Player Ay, my lord. - -HAMLET We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need, - study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which - I would set down and insert in't, could you not? - -First Player Ay, my lord. - -HAMLET Very well. Follow that lord; and look you mock him - not. - - [Exit First Player] - - My good friends, I'll leave you till night: you are - welcome to Elsinore. - -ROSENCRANTZ Good my lord! - -HAMLET Ay, so, God be wi' ye; - - [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - - Now I am alone. - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! - Is it not monstrous that this player here, - But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, - Could force his soul so to his own conceit - That from her working all his visage wann'd, - Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, - A broken voice, and his whole function suiting - With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! - For Hecuba! - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, - That he should weep for her? What would he do, - Had he the motive and the cue for passion - That I have? He would drown the stage with tears - And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, - Make mad the guilty and appal the free, - Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed - The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, - A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, - Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, - And can say nothing; no, not for a king, - Upon whose property and most dear life - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? - Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? - Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face? - Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, - As deep as to the lungs? who does me this? - Ha! - 'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be - But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall - To make oppression bitter, or ere this - I should have fatted all the region kites - With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain! - Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! - O, vengeance! - Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, - That I, the son of a dear father murder'd, - Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, - Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, - And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, - A scullion! - Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard - That guilty creatures sitting at a play - Have by the very cunning of the scene - Been struck so to the soul that presently - They have proclaim'd their malefactions; - For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak - With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players - Play something like the murder of my father - Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks; - I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen - May be the devil: and the devil hath power - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps - Out of my weakness and my melancholy, - As he is very potent with such spirits, - Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds - More relative than this: the play 's the thing - Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. - - [Exit] - - HAMLET - -ACT III - -SCENE I A room in the castle. - - [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, - OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN] - -KING CLAUDIUS And can you, by no drift of circumstance, - Get from him why he puts on this confusion, - Grating so harshly all his days of quiet - With turbulent and dangerous lunacy? - -ROSENCRANTZ He does confess he feels himself distracted; - But from what cause he will by no means speak. - -GUILDENSTERN Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, - But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof, - When we would bring him on to some confession - Of his true state. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Did he receive you well? - -ROSENCRANTZ Most like a gentleman. - -GUILDENSTERN But with much forcing of his disposition. - -ROSENCRANTZ Niggard of question; but, of our demands, - Most free in his reply. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Did you assay him? - To any pastime? - -ROSENCRANTZ Madam, it so fell out, that certain players - We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him; - And there did seem in him a kind of joy - To hear of it: they are about the court, - And, as I think, they have already order - This night to play before him. - -LORD POLONIUS 'Tis most true: - And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties - To hear and see the matter. - -KING CLAUDIUS With all my heart; and it doth much content me - To hear him so inclined. - Good gentlemen, give him a further edge, - And drive his purpose on to these delights. - -ROSENCRANTZ We shall, my lord. - - [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - -KING CLAUDIUS Sweet Gertrude, leave us too; - For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, - That he, as 'twere by accident, may here - Affront Ophelia: - Her father and myself, lawful espials, - Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen, - We may of their encounter frankly judge, - And gather by him, as he is behaved, - If 't be the affliction of his love or no - That thus he suffers for. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE I shall obey you. - And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish - That your good beauties be the happy cause - Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues - Will bring him to his wonted way again, - To both your honours. - -OPHELIA Madam, I wish it may. - - [Exit QUEEN GERTRUDE] - -LORD POLONIUS Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you, - We will bestow ourselves. - - [To OPHELIA] - - Read on this book; - That show of such an exercise may colour - Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,-- - 'Tis too much proved--that with devotion's visage - And pious action we do sugar o'er - The devil himself. - -KING CLAUDIUS [Aside] O, 'tis too true! - How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! - The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, - Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it - Than is my deed to my most painted word: - O heavy burthen! - -LORD POLONIUS I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord. - - [Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS] - - [Enter HAMLET] - -HAMLET To be, or not to be: that is the question: - Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer - The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, - Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, - And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; - No more; and by a sleep to say we end - The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks - That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation - Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; - To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; - For in that sleep of death what dreams may come - When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, - Must give us pause: there's the respect - That makes calamity of so long life; - For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, - The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, - The insolence of office and the spurns - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, - When he himself might his quietus make - With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, - To grunt and sweat under a weary life, - But that the dread of something after death, - The undiscover'd country from whose bourn - No traveller returns, puzzles the will - And makes us rather bear those ills we have - Than fly to others that we know not of? - Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; - And thus the native hue of resolution - Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, - And enterprises of great pith and moment - With this regard their currents turn awry, - And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! - The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons - Be all my sins remember'd. - -OPHELIA Good my lord, - How does your honour for this many a day? - -HAMLET I humbly thank you; well, well, well. - -OPHELIA My lord, I have remembrances of yours, - That I have longed long to re-deliver; - I pray you, now receive them. - -HAMLET No, not I; - I never gave you aught. - -OPHELIA My honour'd lord, you know right well you did; - And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed - As made the things more rich: their perfume lost, - Take these again; for to the noble mind - Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - There, my lord. - -HAMLET Ha, ha! are you honest? - -OPHELIA My lord? - -HAMLET Are you fair? - -OPHELIA What means your lordship? - -HAMLET That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should - admit no discourse to your beauty. - -OPHELIA Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than - with honesty? - -HAMLET Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner - transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the - force of honesty can translate beauty into his - likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the - time gives it proof. I did love you once. - -OPHELIA Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. - -HAMLET You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot - so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of - it: I loved you not. - -OPHELIA I was the more deceived. - -HAMLET Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a - breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; - but yet I could accuse me of such things that it - were better my mother had not borne me: I am very - proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at - my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, - imagination to give them shape, or time to act them - in. What should such fellows as I do crawling - between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, - all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. - Where's your father? - -OPHELIA At home, my lord. - -HAMLET Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the - fool no where but in's own house. Farewell. - -OPHELIA O, help him, you sweet heavens! - -HAMLET If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for - thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as - snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a - nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs - marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough - what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, - and quickly too. Farewell. - -OPHELIA O heavenly powers, restore him! - -HAMLET I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God - has given you one face, and you make yourselves - another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and - nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness - your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath - made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages: - those that are married already, all but one, shall - live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a - nunnery, go. - - [Exit] - -OPHELIA O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! - The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; - The expectancy and rose of the fair state, - The glass of fashion and the mould of form, - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! - And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, - That suck'd the honey of his music vows, - Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, - Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; - That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth - Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me, - To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! - - [Re-enter KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS] - -KING CLAUDIUS Love! his affections do not that way tend; - Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little, - Was not like madness. There's something in his soul, - O'er which his melancholy sits on brood; - And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose - Will be some danger: which for to prevent, - I have in quick determination - Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England, - For the demand of our neglected tribute - Haply the seas and countries different - With variable objects shall expel - This something-settled matter in his heart, - Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus - From fashion of himself. What think you on't? - -LORD POLONIUS It shall do well: but yet do I believe - The origin and commencement of his grief - Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia! - You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said; - We heard it all. My lord, do as you please; - But, if you hold it fit, after the play - Let his queen mother all alone entreat him - To show his grief: let her be round with him; - And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear - Of all their conference. If she find him not, - To England send him, or confine him where - Your wisdom best shall think. - -KING CLAUDIUS It shall be so: - Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT III - -SCENE II A hall in the castle. - - [Enter HAMLET and Players] - -HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to - you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, - as many of your players do, I had as lief the - town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air - too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; - for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, - the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget - a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it - offends me to the soul to hear a robustious - periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to - very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who - for the most part are capable of nothing but - inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such - a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it - out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it. - -First Player I warrant your honour. - -HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion - be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the - word to the action; with this special o'erstep not - the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is - from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the - first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the - mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, - scorn her own image, and the very age and body of - the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, - or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful - laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the - censure of the which one must in your allowance - o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be - players that I have seen play, and heard others - praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, - that, neither having the accent of Christians nor - the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so - strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of - nature's journeymen had made men and not made them - well, they imitated humanity so abominably. - -First Player I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, - sir. - -HAMLET O, reform it altogether. And let those that play - your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; - for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to - set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh - too; though, in the mean time, some necessary - question of the play be then to be considered: - that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition - in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready. - - [Exeunt Players] - - [Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN] - - How now, my lord! I will the king hear this piece of work? - -LORD POLONIUS And the queen too, and that presently. - -HAMLET Bid the players make haste. - - [Exit POLONIUS] - - Will you two help to hasten them? - -ROSENCRANTZ | - | We will, my lord. -GUILDENSTERN | - - [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - -HAMLET What ho! Horatio! - - [Enter HORATIO] - -HORATIO Here, sweet lord, at your service. - -HAMLET Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man - As e'er my conversation coped withal. - -HORATIO O, my dear lord,-- - -HAMLET Nay, do not think I flatter; - For what advancement may I hope from thee - That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, - To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? - No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, - And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee - Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? - Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice - And could of men distinguish, her election - Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been - As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, - A man that fortune's buffets and rewards - Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those - Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger - To sound what stop she please. Give me that man - That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him - In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, - As I do thee.--Something too much of this.-- - There is a play to-night before the king; - One scene of it comes near the circumstance - Which I have told thee of my father's death: - I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, - Even with the very comment of thy soul - Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt - Do not itself unkennel in one speech, - It is a damned ghost that we have seen, - And my imaginations are as foul - As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note; - For I mine eyes will rivet to his face, - And after we will both our judgments join - In censure of his seeming. - -HORATIO Well, my lord: - If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing, - And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft. - -HAMLET They are coming to the play; I must be idle: - Get you a place. - - [Danish march. A flourish. Enter KING CLAUDIUS, - QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, - GUILDENSTERN, and others] - -KING CLAUDIUS How fares our cousin Hamlet? - -HAMLET Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat - the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so. - -KING CLAUDIUS I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words - are not mine. - -HAMLET No, nor mine now. - - [To POLONIUS] - - My lord, you played once i' the university, you say? - -LORD POLONIUS That did I, my lord; and was accounted a good actor. - -HAMLET What did you enact? - -LORD POLONIUS I did enact Julius Caesar: I was killed i' the - Capitol; Brutus killed me. - -HAMLET It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf - there. Be the players ready? - -ROSENCRANTZ Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me. - -HAMLET No, good mother, here's metal more attractive. - -LORD POLONIUS [To KING CLAUDIUS] O, ho! do you mark that? - -HAMLET Lady, shall I lie in your lap? - - [Lying down at OPHELIA's feet] - -OPHELIA No, my lord. - -HAMLET I mean, my head upon your lap? - -OPHELIA Ay, my lord. - -HAMLET Do you think I meant country matters? - -OPHELIA I think nothing, my lord. - -HAMLET That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. - -OPHELIA What is, my lord? - -HAMLET Nothing. - -OPHELIA You are merry, my lord. - -HAMLET Who, I? - -OPHELIA Ay, my lord. - -HAMLET O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do - but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my - mother looks, and my father died within these two hours. - -OPHELIA Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord. - -HAMLET So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for - I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two - months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's - hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half - a year: but, by'r lady, he must build churches, - then; or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with - the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is 'For, O, for, O, - the hobby-horse is forgot.' - - [Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters] - - [Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen - embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes - show of protestation unto him. He takes her up, - and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down - upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep, - leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his - crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's - ears, and exit. The Queen returns; finds the King - dead, and makes passionate action. The Poisoner, - with some two or three Mutes, comes in again, - seeming to lament with her. The dead body is - carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with - gifts: she seems loath and unwilling awhile, but - in the end accepts his love] - - [Exeunt] - -OPHELIA What means this, my lord? - -HAMLET Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief. - -OPHELIA Belike this show imports the argument of the play. - - [Enter Prologue] - -HAMLET We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot - keep counsel; they'll tell all. - -OPHELIA Will he tell us what this show meant? - -HAMLET Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you - ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means. - -OPHELIA You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play. - -Prologue For us, and for our tragedy, - Here stooping to your clemency, - We beg your hearing patiently. - - [Exit] - -HAMLET Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? - -OPHELIA 'Tis brief, my lord. - -HAMLET As woman's love. - - [Enter two Players, King and Queen] - -Player King Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round - Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground, - And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen - About the world have times twelve thirties been, - Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands - Unite commutual in most sacred bands. - -Player Queen So many journeys may the sun and moon - Make us again count o'er ere love be done! - But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, - So far from cheer and from your former state, - That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust, - Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must: - For women's fear and love holds quantity; - In neither aught, or in extremity. - Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know; - And as my love is sized, my fear is so: - Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; - Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. - -Player King 'Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too; - My operant powers their functions leave to do: - And thou shalt live in this fair world behind, - Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind - For husband shalt thou-- - -Player Queen O, confound the rest! - Such love must needs be treason in my breast: - In second husband let me be accurst! - None wed the second but who kill'd the first. - -HAMLET [Aside] Wormwood, wormwood. - -Player Queen The instances that second marriage move - Are base respects of thrift, but none of love: - A second time I kill my husband dead, - When second husband kisses me in bed. - -Player King I do believe you think what now you speak; - But what we do determine oft we break. - Purpose is but the slave to memory, - Of violent birth, but poor validity; - Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree; - But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be. - Most necessary 'tis that we forget - To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt: - What to ourselves in passion we propose, - The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. - The violence of either grief or joy - Their own enactures with themselves destroy: - Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; - Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. - This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange - That even our loves should with our fortunes change; - For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, - Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. - The great man down, you mark his favourite flies; - The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. - And hitherto doth love on fortune tend; - For who not needs shall never lack a friend, - And who in want a hollow friend doth try, - Directly seasons him his enemy. - But, orderly to end where I begun, - Our wills and fates do so contrary run - That our devices still are overthrown; - Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own: - So think thou wilt no second husband wed; - But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead. - -Player Queen Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light! - Sport and repose lock from me day and night! - To desperation turn my trust and hope! - An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope! - Each opposite that blanks the face of joy - Meet what I would have well and it destroy! - Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, - If, once a widow, ever I be wife! - -HAMLET If she should break it now! - -Player King 'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile; - My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile - The tedious day with sleep. - - [Sleeps] - -Player Queen Sleep rock thy brain, - And never come mischance between us twain! - - [Exit] - -HAMLET Madam, how like you this play? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE The lady protests too much, methinks. - -HAMLET O, but she'll keep her word. - -KING CLAUDIUS Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in 't? - -HAMLET No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence - i' the world. - -KING CLAUDIUS What do you call the play? - -HAMLET The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play - is the image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is - the duke's name; his wife, Baptista: you shall see - anon; 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o' - that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it - touches us not: let the galled jade wince, our - withers are unwrung. - - [Enter LUCIANUS] - - This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king. - -OPHELIA You are as good as a chorus, my lord. - -HAMLET I could interpret between you and your love, if I - could see the puppets dallying. - -OPHELIA You are keen, my lord, you are keen. - -HAMLET It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge. - -OPHELIA Still better, and worse. - -HAMLET So you must take your husbands. Begin, murderer; - pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come: - 'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.' - -LUCIANUS Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing; - Confederate season, else no creature seeing; - Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, - With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected, - Thy natural magic and dire property, - On wholesome life usurp immediately. - - [Pours the poison into the sleeper's ears] - -HAMLET He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His - name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in - choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murderer - gets the love of Gonzago's wife. - -OPHELIA The king rises. - -HAMLET What, frighted with false fire! - -QUEEN GERTRUDE How fares my lord? - -LORD POLONIUS Give o'er the play. - -KING CLAUDIUS Give me some light: away! - -All Lights, lights, lights! - - [Exeunt all but HAMLET and HORATIO] - -HAMLET Why, let the stricken deer go weep, - The hart ungalled play; - For some must watch, while some must sleep: - So runs the world away. - Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers-- if - the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me--with two - Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a - fellowship in a cry of players, sir? - -HORATIO Half a share. - -HAMLET A whole one, I. - For thou dost know, O Damon dear, - This realm dismantled was - Of Jove himself; and now reigns here - A very, very--pajock. - -HORATIO You might have rhymed. - -HAMLET O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a - thousand pound. Didst perceive? - -HORATIO Very well, my lord. - -HAMLET Upon the talk of the poisoning? - -HORATIO I did very well note him. - -HAMLET Ah, ha! Come, some music! come, the recorders! - For if the king like not the comedy, - Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy. - Come, some music! - - [Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - -GUILDENSTERN Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you. - -HAMLET Sir, a whole history. - -GUILDENSTERN The king, sir,-- - -HAMLET Ay, sir, what of him? - -GUILDENSTERN Is in his retirement marvellous distempered. - -HAMLET With drink, sir? - -GUILDENSTERN No, my lord, rather with choler. - -HAMLET Your wisdom should show itself more richer to - signify this to his doctor; for, for me to put him - to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far - more choler. - -GUILDENSTERN Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame and - start not so wildly from my affair. - -HAMLET I am tame, sir: pronounce. - -GUILDENSTERN The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of - spirit, hath sent me to you. - -HAMLET You are welcome. - -GUILDENSTERN Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right - breed. If it shall please you to make me a - wholesome answer, I will do your mother's - commandment: if not, your pardon and my return - shall be the end of my business. - -HAMLET Sir, I cannot. - -GUILDENSTERN What, my lord? - -HAMLET Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased: but, - sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command; - or, rather, as you say, my mother: therefore no - more, but to the matter: my mother, you say,-- - -ROSENCRANTZ Then thus she says; your behavior hath struck her - into amazement and admiration. - -HAMLET O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother! But - is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's - admiration? Impart. - -ROSENCRANTZ She desires to speak with you in her closet, ere you - go to bed. - -HAMLET We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have - you any further trade with us? - -ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you once did love me. - -HAMLET So I do still, by these pickers and stealers. - -ROSENCRANTZ Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you - do, surely, bar the door upon your own liberty, if - you deny your griefs to your friend. - -HAMLET Sir, I lack advancement. - -ROSENCRANTZ How can that be, when you have the voice of the king - himself for your succession in Denmark? - -HAMLET Ay, but sir, 'While the grass grows,'--the proverb - is something musty. - - [Re-enter Players with recorders] - - O, the recorders! let me see one. To withdraw with - you:--why do you go about to recover the wind of me, - as if you would drive me into a toil? - -GUILDENSTERN O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too - unmannerly. - -HAMLET I do not well understand that. Will you play upon - this pipe? - -GUILDENSTERN My lord, I cannot. - -HAMLET I pray you. - -GUILDENSTERN Believe me, I cannot. - -HAMLET I do beseech you. - -GUILDENSTERN I know no touch of it, my lord. - -HAMLET 'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with - your lingers and thumb, give it breath with your - mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. - Look you, these are the stops. - -GUILDENSTERN But these cannot I command to any utterance of - harmony; I have not the skill. - -HAMLET Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of - me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know - my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my - mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to - the top of my compass: and there is much music, - excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot - you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am - easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what - instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you - cannot play upon me. - - [Enter POLONIUS] - - God bless you, sir! - -LORD POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and - presently. - -HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? - -LORD POLONIUS By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. - -HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel. - -LORD POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel. - -HAMLET Or like a whale? - -LORD POLONIUS Very like a whale. - -HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. They fool - me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by. - -LORD POLONIUS I will say so. - -HAMLET By and by is easily said. - - [Exit POLONIUS] - - Leave me, friends. - - [Exeunt all but HAMLET] - - Tis now the very witching time of night, - When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out - Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, - And do such bitter business as the day - Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother. - O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever - The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: - Let me be cruel, not unnatural: - I will speak daggers to her, but use none; - My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites; - How in my words soever she be shent, - To give them seals never, my soul, consent! - - [Exit] - - HAMLET - -ACT III - -SCENE III A room in the castle. - - [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN] - -KING CLAUDIUS I like him not, nor stands it safe with us - To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you; - I your commission will forthwith dispatch, - And he to England shall along with you: - The terms of our estate may not endure - Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow - Out of his lunacies. - -GUILDENSTERN We will ourselves provide: - Most holy and religious fear it is - To keep those many many bodies safe - That live and feed upon your majesty. - -ROSENCRANTZ The single and peculiar life is bound, - With all the strength and armour of the mind, - To keep itself from noyance; but much more - That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest - The lives of many. The cease of majesty - Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw - What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel, - Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, - To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things - Are mortised and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, - Each small annexment, petty consequence, - Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone - Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. - -KING CLAUDIUS Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage; - For we will fetters put upon this fear, - Which now goes too free-footed. - -ROSENCRANTZ | - | We will haste us. -GUILDENSTERN | - - [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - - [Enter POLONIUS] - -LORD POLONIUS My lord, he's going to his mother's closet: - Behind the arras I'll convey myself, - To hear the process; and warrant she'll tax him home: - And, as you said, and wisely was it said, - 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, - Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear - The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege: - I'll call upon you ere you go to bed, - And tell you what I know. - -KING CLAUDIUS Thanks, dear my lord. - - [Exit POLONIUS] - - O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven; - It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, - A brother's murder. Pray can I not, - Though inclination be as sharp as will: - My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; - And, like a man to double business bound, - I stand in pause where I shall first begin, - And both neglect. What if this cursed hand - Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, - Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens - To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy - But to confront the visage of offence? - And what's in prayer but this two-fold force, - To be forestalled ere we come to fall, - Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up; - My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer - Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'? - That cannot be; since I am still possess'd - Of those effects for which I did the murder, - My crown, mine own ambition and my queen. - May one be pardon'd and retain the offence? - In the corrupted currents of this world - Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, - And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself - Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; - There is no shuffling, there the action lies - In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, - To give in evidence. What then? what rests? - Try what repentance can: what can it not? - Yet what can it when one can not repent? - O wretched state! O bosom black as death! - O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, - Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! - Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel, - Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe! - All may be well. - - [Retires and kneels] - - [Enter HAMLET] - -HAMLET Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; - And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven; - And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd: - A villain kills my father; and for that, - I, his sole son, do this same villain send - To heaven. - O, this is hire and salary, not revenge. - He took my father grossly, full of bread; - With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; - And how his audit stands who knows save heaven? - But in our circumstance and course of thought, - 'Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged, - To take him in the purging of his soul, - When he is fit and season'd for his passage? - No! - Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent: - When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, - Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed; - At gaming, swearing, or about some act - That has no relish of salvation in't; - Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, - And that his soul may be as damn'd and black - As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays: - This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. - - [Exit] - -KING CLAUDIUS [Rising] My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: - Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - - [Exit] - - HAMLET - -ACT III - -SCENE IV The Queen's closet. - - [Enter QUEEN MARGARET and POLONIUS] - -LORD POLONIUS He will come straight. Look you lay home to him: - Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, - And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between - Much heat and him. I'll sconce me even here. - Pray you, be round with him. - -HAMLET [Within] Mother, mother, mother! - -QUEEN GERTRUDE I'll warrant you, - Fear me not: withdraw, I hear him coming. - - [POLONIUS hides behind the arras] - - [Enter HAMLET] - -HAMLET Now, mother, what's the matter? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. - -HAMLET Mother, you have my father much offended. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. - -HAMLET Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Why, how now, Hamlet! - -HAMLET What's the matter now? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Have you forgot me? - -HAMLET No, by the rood, not so: - You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife; - And--would it were not so!--you are my mother. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak. - -HAMLET Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge; - You go not till I set you up a glass - Where you may see the inmost part of you. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me? - Help, help, ho! - -LORD POLONIUS [Behind] What, ho! help, help, help! - -HAMLET [Drawing] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead! - - [Makes a pass through the arras] - -LORD POLONIUS [Behind] O, I am slain! - - [Falls and dies] - -QUEEN GERTRUDE O me, what hast thou done? - -HAMLET Nay, I know not: - Is it the king? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE O, what a rash and bloody deed is this! - -HAMLET A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, - As kill a king, and marry with his brother. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE As kill a king! - -HAMLET Ay, lady, 'twas my word. - - [Lifts up the array and discovers POLONIUS] - - Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! - I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune; - Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger. - Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down, - And let me wring your heart; for so I shall, - If it be made of penetrable stuff, - If damned custom have not brass'd it so - That it is proof and bulwark against sense. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue - In noise so rude against me? - -HAMLET Such an act - That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, - Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose - From the fair forehead of an innocent love - And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows - As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed - As from the body of contraction plucks - The very soul, and sweet religion makes - A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow: - Yea, this solidity and compound mass, - With tristful visage, as against the doom, - Is thought-sick at the act. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Ay me, what act, - That roars so loud, and thunders in the index? - -HAMLET Look here, upon this picture, and on this, - The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; - An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; - A station like the herald Mercury - New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; - A combination and a form indeed, - Where every god did seem to set his seal, - To give the world assurance of a man: - This was your husband. Look you now, what follows: - Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, - Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? - Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, - And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? - You cannot call it love; for at your age - The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, - And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment - Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have, - Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense - Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err, - Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd - But it reserved some quantity of choice, - To serve in such a difference. What devil was't - That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind? - Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, - Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, - Or but a sickly part of one true sense - Could not so mope. - O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, - If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, - To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, - And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame - When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, - Since frost itself as actively doth burn - And reason panders will. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE O Hamlet, speak no more: - Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; - And there I see such black and grained spots - As will not leave their tinct. - -HAMLET Nay, but to live - In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, - Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love - Over the nasty sty,-- - -QUEEN GERTRUDE O, speak to me no more; - These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears; - No more, sweet Hamlet! - -HAMLET A murderer and a villain; - A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe - Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; - A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, - That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, - And put it in his pocket! - -QUEEN GERTRUDE No more! - -HAMLET A king of shreds and patches,-- - - [Enter Ghost] - - Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings, - You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, he's mad! - -HAMLET Do you not come your tardy son to chide, - That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by - The important acting of your dread command? O, say! - -Ghost Do not forget: this visitation - Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose. - But, look, amazement on thy mother sits: - O, step between her and her fighting soul: - Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works: - Speak to her, Hamlet. - -HAMLET How is it with you, lady? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, how is't with you, - That you do bend your eye on vacancy - And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? - Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep; - And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm, - Your bedded hair, like life in excrements, - Starts up, and stands on end. O gentle son, - Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper - Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look? - -HAMLET On him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares! - His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones, - Would make them capable. Do not look upon me; - Lest with this piteous action you convert - My stern effects: then what I have to do - Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE To whom do you speak this? - -HAMLET Do you see nothing there? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Nothing at all; yet all that is I see. - -HAMLET Nor did you nothing hear? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE No, nothing but ourselves. - -HAMLET Why, look you there! look, how it steals away! - My father, in his habit as he lived! - Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal! - - [Exit Ghost] - -QUEEN GERTRUDE This the very coinage of your brain: - This bodiless creation ecstasy - Is very cunning in. - -HAMLET Ecstasy! - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, - And makes as healthful music: it is not madness - That I have utter'd: bring me to the test, - And I the matter will re-word; which madness - Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, - Lay not that mattering unction to your soul, - That not your trespass, but my madness speaks: - It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, - Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, - Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven; - Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; - And do not spread the compost on the weeds, - To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue; - For in the fatness of these pursy times - Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, - Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. - -HAMLET O, throw away the worser part of it, - And live the purer with the other half. - Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed; - Assume a virtue, if you have it not. - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, - Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, - That to the use of actions fair and good - He likewise gives a frock or livery, - That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night, - And that shall lend a kind of easiness - To the next abstinence: the next more easy; - For use almost can change the stamp of nature, - And either [ ] the devil, or throw him out - With wondrous potency. Once more, good night: - And when you are desirous to be bless'd, - I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord, - - [Pointing to POLONIUS] - - I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so, - To punish me with this and this with me, - That I must be their scourge and minister. - I will bestow him, and will answer well - The death I gave him. So, again, good night. - I must be cruel, only to be kind: - Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. - One word more, good lady. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE What shall I do? - -HAMLET Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: - Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed; - Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse; - And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, - Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, - Make you to ravel all this matter out, - That I essentially am not in madness, - But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know; - For who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise, - Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib, - Such dear concernings hide? who would do so? - No, in despite of sense and secrecy, - Unpeg the basket on the house's top. - Let the birds fly, and, like the famous ape, - To try conclusions, in the basket creep, - And break your own neck down. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Be thou assured, if words be made of breath, - And breath of life, I have no life to breathe - What thou hast said to me. - -HAMLET I must to England; you know that? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Alack, - I had forgot: 'tis so concluded on. - -HAMLET There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows, - Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd, - They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, - And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; - For 'tis the sport to have the engineer - Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard - But I will delve one yard below their mines, - And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet, - When in one line two crafts directly meet. - This man shall set me packing: - I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room. - Mother, good night. Indeed this counsellor - Is now most still, most secret and most grave, - Who was in life a foolish prating knave. - Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you. - Good night, mother. - - [Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging in POLONIUS] - - HAMLET - -ACT IV - -SCENE I A room in the castle. - - [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, - and GUILDENSTERN] - -KING CLAUDIUS There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves: - You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them. - Where is your son? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Bestow this place on us a little while. - - [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - - Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night! - -KING CLAUDIUS What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend - Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit, - Behind the arras hearing something stir, - Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!' - And, in this brainish apprehension, kills - The unseen good old man. - -KING CLAUDIUS O heavy deed! - It had been so with us, had we been there: - His liberty is full of threats to all; - To you yourself, to us, to every one. - Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd? - It will be laid to us, whose providence - Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt, - This mad young man: but so much was our love, - We would not understand what was most fit; - But, like the owner of a foul disease, - To keep it from divulging, let it feed - Even on the pith of Life. Where is he gone? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE To draw apart the body he hath kill'd: - O'er whom his very madness, like some ore - Among a mineral of metals base, - Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done. - -KING CLAUDIUS O Gertrude, come away! - The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, - But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed - We must, with all our majesty and skill, - Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern! - - [Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - - Friends both, go join you with some further aid: - Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, - And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him: - Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body - Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this. - - [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - - Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends; - And let them know, both what we mean to do, - And what's untimely done [ ] - Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, - As level as the cannon to his blank, - Transports his poison'd shot, may miss our name, - And hit the woundless air. O, come away! - My soul is full of discord and dismay. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT IV - -SCENE II Another room in the castle. - - [Enter HAMLET] - -HAMLET Safely stowed. - -ROSENCRANTZ: | - | [Within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet! -GUILDENSTERN: | - -HAMLET What noise? who calls on Hamlet? - O, here they come. - - [Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - -ROSENCRANTZ What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? - -HAMLET Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin. - -ROSENCRANTZ Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence - And bear it to the chapel. - -HAMLET Do not believe it. - -ROSENCRANTZ Believe what? - -HAMLET That I can keep your counsel and not mine own. - Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what - replication should be made by the son of a king? - -ROSENCRANTZ Take you me for a sponge, my lord? - -HAMLET Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his - rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the - king best service in the end: he keeps them, like - an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to - be last swallowed: when he needs what you have - gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you - shall be dry again. - -ROSENCRANTZ I understand you not, my lord. - -HAMLET I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a - foolish ear. - -ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go - with us to the king. - -HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with - the body. The king is a thing-- - -GUILDENSTERN A thing, my lord! - -HAMLET Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT IV - -SCENE III Another room in the castle. - - [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, attended] - -KING CLAUDIUS I have sent to seek him, and to find the body. - How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! - Yet must not we put the strong law on him: - He's loved of the distracted multitude, - Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes; - And where tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd, - But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even, - This sudden sending him away must seem - Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown - By desperate appliance are relieved, - Or not at all. - - [Enter ROSENCRANTZ] - - How now! what hath befall'n? - -ROSENCRANTZ Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord, - We cannot get from him. - -KING CLAUDIUS But where is he? - -ROSENCRANTZ Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure. - -KING CLAUDIUS Bring him before us. - -ROSENCRANTZ Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord. - - [Enter HAMLET and GUILDENSTERN] - -KING CLAUDIUS Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? - -HAMLET At supper. - -KING CLAUDIUS At supper! where? - -HAMLET Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain - convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your - worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all - creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for - maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but - variable service, two dishes, but to one table: - that's the end. - -KING CLAUDIUS Alas, alas! - -HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a - king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. - -KING CLAUDIUS What dost you mean by this? - -HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a - progress through the guts of a beggar. - -KING CLAUDIUS Where is Polonius? - -HAMLET In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger - find him not there, seek him i' the other place - yourself. But indeed, if you find him not within - this month, you shall nose him as you go up the - stairs into the lobby. - -KING CLAUDIUS Go seek him there. - - [To some Attendants] - -HAMLET He will stay till ye come. - - [Exeunt Attendants] - -KING CLAUDIUS Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,-- - Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve - For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence - With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself; - The bark is ready, and the wind at help, - The associates tend, and every thing is bent - For England. - -HAMLET For England! - -KING CLAUDIUS Ay, Hamlet. - -HAMLET Good. - -KING CLAUDIUS So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes. - -HAMLET I see a cherub that sees them. But, come; for - England! Farewell, dear mother. - -KING CLAUDIUS Thy loving father, Hamlet. - -HAMLET My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man - and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England! - - [Exit] - -KING CLAUDIUS Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard; - Delay it not; I'll have him hence to-night: - Away! for every thing is seal'd and done - That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste. - - [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] - - And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught-- - As my great power thereof may give thee sense, - Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red - After the Danish sword, and thy free awe - Pays homage to us--thou mayst not coldly set - Our sovereign process; which imports at full, - By letters congruing to that effect, - The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; - For like the hectic in my blood he rages, - And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done, - Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun. - - [Exit] - - HAMLET - -ACT IV - -SCENE IV A plain in Denmark. - - [Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching] - -PRINCE FORTINBRAS Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king; - Tell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras - Craves the conveyance of a promised march - Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous. - If that his majesty would aught with us, - We shall express our duty in his eye; - And let him know so. - -Captain I will do't, my lord. - -PRINCE FORTINBRAS Go softly on. - - [Exeunt FORTINBRAS and Soldiers] - - [Enter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others] - -HAMLET Good sir, whose powers are these? - -Captain They are of Norway, sir. - -HAMLET How purposed, sir, I pray you? - -Captain Against some part of Poland. - -HAMLET Who commands them, sir? - -Captain The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras. - -HAMLET Goes it against the main of Poland, sir, - Or for some frontier? - -Captain Truly to speak, and with no addition, - We go to gain a little patch of ground - That hath in it no profit but the name. - To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; - Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole - A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee. - -HAMLET Why, then the Polack never will defend it. - -Captain Yes, it is already garrison'd. - -HAMLET Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats - Will not debate the question of this straw: - This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace, - That inward breaks, and shows no cause without - Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir. - -Captain God be wi' you, sir. - - [Exit] - -ROSENCRANTZ Wilt please you go, my lord? - -HAMLET I'll be with you straight go a little before. - - [Exeunt all except HAMLET] - - How all occasions do inform against me, - And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, - If his chief good and market of his time - Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. - Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, - Looking before and after, gave us not - That capability and god-like reason - To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be - Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple - Of thinking too precisely on the event, - A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom - And ever three parts coward, I do not know - Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' - Sith I have cause and will and strength and means - To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: - Witness this army of such mass and charge - Led by a delicate and tender prince, - Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd - Makes mouths at the invisible event, - Exposing what is mortal and unsure - To all that fortune, death and danger dare, - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great - Is not to stir without great argument, - But greatly to find quarrel in a straw - When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, - That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, - Excitements of my reason and my blood, - And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see - The imminent death of twenty thousand men, - That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, - Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot - Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, - Which is not tomb enough and continent - To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, - My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! - - [Exit] - - HAMLET - -ACT IV - -SCENE V Elsinore. A room in the castle. - - [Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE, HORATIO, and a Gentleman] - -QUEEN GERTRUDE I will not speak with her. - -Gentleman She is importunate, indeed distract: - Her mood will needs be pitied. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE What would she have? - -Gentleman She speaks much of her father; says she hears - There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart; - Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt, - That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing, - Yet the unshaped use of it doth move - The hearers to collection; they aim at it, - And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts; - Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures - yield them, - Indeed would make one think there might be thought, - Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily. - -HORATIO 'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew - Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Let her come in. - - [Exit HORATIO] - - To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, - Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss: - So full of artless jealousy is guilt, - It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. - - [Re-enter HORATIO, with OPHELIA] - -OPHELIA Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE How now, Ophelia! - -OPHELIA [Sings] - - How should I your true love know - From another one? - By his cockle hat and staff, - And his sandal shoon. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? - -OPHELIA Say you? nay, pray you, mark. - - [Sings] - - He is dead and gone, lady, - He is dead and gone; - At his head a grass-green turf, - At his heels a stone. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Nay, but, Ophelia,-- - -OPHELIA Pray you, mark. - - [Sings] - - White his shroud as the mountain snow,-- - - [Enter KING CLAUDIUS] - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, look here, my lord. - -OPHELIA [Sings] - - Larded with sweet flowers - Which bewept to the grave did go - With true-love showers. - -KING CLAUDIUS How do you, pretty lady? - -OPHELIA Well, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a baker's - daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not - what we may be. God be at your table! - -KING CLAUDIUS Conceit upon her father. - -OPHELIA Pray you, let's have no words of this; but when they - ask you what it means, say you this: - - [Sings] - - To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, - All in the morning betime, - And I a maid at your window, - To be your Valentine. - Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, - And dupp'd the chamber-door; - Let in the maid, that out a maid - Never departed more. - -KING CLAUDIUS Pretty Ophelia! - -OPHELIA Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't: - - [Sings] - - By Gis and by Saint Charity, - Alack, and fie for shame! - Young men will do't, if they come to't; - By cock, they are to blame. - Quoth she, before you tumbled me, - You promised me to wed. - So would I ha' done, by yonder sun, - An thou hadst not come to my bed. - -KING CLAUDIUS How long hath she been thus? - -OPHELIA I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I - cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him - i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it: - and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my - coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; - good night, good night. - - [Exit] - -KING CLAUDIUS Follow her close; give her good watch, - I pray you. - - [Exit HORATIO] - - O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs - All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude, - When sorrows come, they come not single spies - But in battalions. First, her father slain: - Next, your son gone; and he most violent author - Of his own just remove: the people muddied, - Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers, - For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly, - In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia - Divided from herself and her fair judgment, - Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts: - Last, and as much containing as all these, - Her brother is in secret come from France; - Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds, - And wants not buzzers to infect his ear - With pestilent speeches of his father's death; - Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd, - Will nothing stick our person to arraign - In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this, - Like to a murdering-piece, in many places - Gives me superfluous death. - - [A noise within] - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Alack, what noise is this? - -KING CLAUDIUS Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door. - - [Enter another Gentleman] - - What is the matter? - -Gentleman Save yourself, my lord: - The ocean, overpeering of his list, - Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste - Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, - O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord; - And, as the world were now but to begin, - Antiquity forgot, custom not known, - The ratifiers and props of every word, - They cry 'Choose we: Laertes shall be king:' - Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds: - 'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!' - -QUEEN GERTRUDE How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! - O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs! - -KING CLAUDIUS The doors are broke. - - [Noise within] - - [Enter LAERTES, armed; Danes following] - -LAERTES Where is this king? Sirs, stand you all without. - -Danes No, let's come in. - -LAERTES I pray you, give me leave. - -Danes We will, we will. - - [They retire without the door] - -LAERTES I thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king, - Give me my father! - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Calmly, good Laertes. - -LAERTES That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard, - Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot - Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow - Of my true mother. - -KING CLAUDIUS What is the cause, Laertes, - That thy rebellion looks so giant-like? - Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person: - There's such divinity doth hedge a king, - That treason can but peep to what it would, - Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes, - Why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude. - Speak, man. - -LAERTES Where is my father? - -KING CLAUDIUS Dead. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE But not by him. - -KING CLAUDIUS Let him demand his fill. - -LAERTES How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with: - To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! - Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! - I dare damnation. To this point I stand, - That both the worlds I give to negligence, - Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged - Most thoroughly for my father. - -KING CLAUDIUS Who shall stay you? - -LAERTES My will, not all the world: - And for my means, I'll husband them so well, - They shall go far with little. - -KING CLAUDIUS Good Laertes, - If you desire to know the certainty - Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge, - That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe, - Winner and loser? - -LAERTES None but his enemies. - -KING CLAUDIUS Will you know them then? - -LAERTES To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms; - And like the kind life-rendering pelican, - Repast them with my blood. - -KING CLAUDIUS Why, now you speak - Like a good child and a true gentleman. - That I am guiltless of your father's death, - And am most sensible in grief for it, - It shall as level to your judgment pierce - As day does to your eye. - -Danes [Within] Let her come in. - -LAERTES How now! what noise is that? - - [Re-enter OPHELIA] - - O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt, - Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye! - By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight, - Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May! - Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! - O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits - Should be as moral as an old man's life? - Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine, - It sends some precious instance of itself - After the thing it loves. - -OPHELIA [Sings] - - They bore him barefaced on the bier; - Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny; - And in his grave rain'd many a tear:-- - Fare you well, my dove! - -LAERTES Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge, - It could not move thus. - -OPHELIA [Sings] - - You must sing a-down a-down, - An you call him a-down-a. - O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false - steward, that stole his master's daughter. - -LAERTES This nothing's more than matter. - -OPHELIA There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, - love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts. - -LAERTES A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted. - -OPHELIA There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue - for you; and here's some for me: we may call it - herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with - a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you - some violets, but they withered all when my father - died: they say he made a good end,-- - - [Sings] - - For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. - -LAERTES Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself, - She turns to favour and to prettiness. - -OPHELIA [Sings] - - And will he not come again? - And will he not come again? - No, no, he is dead: - Go to thy death-bed: - He never will come again. - - His beard was as white as snow, - All flaxen was his poll: - He is gone, he is gone, - And we cast away moan: - God ha' mercy on his soul! - - And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' ye. - - [Exit] - -LAERTES Do you see this, O God? - -KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, I must commune with your grief, - Or you deny me right. Go but apart, - Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will. - And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me: - If by direct or by collateral hand - They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give, - Our crown, our life, and all that we can ours, - To you in satisfaction; but if not, - Be you content to lend your patience to us, - And we shall jointly labour with your soul - To give it due content. - -LAERTES Let this be so; - His means of death, his obscure funeral-- - No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, - No noble rite nor formal ostentation-- - Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth, - That I must call't in question. - -KING CLAUDIUS So you shall; - And where the offence is let the great axe fall. - I pray you, go with me. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT IV - -SCENE VI Another room in the castle. - - [Enter HORATIO and a Servant] - -HORATIO What are they that would speak with me? - -Servant Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you. - -HORATIO Let them come in. - - [Exit Servant] - - I do not know from what part of the world - I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet. - - [Enter Sailors] - -First Sailor God bless you, sir. - -HORATIO Let him bless thee too. - -First Sailor He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for - you, sir; it comes from the ambassador that was - bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am - let to know it is. - -HORATIO [Reads] 'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked - this, give these fellows some means to the king: - they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old - at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us - chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on - a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded - them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so - I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with - me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they - did; I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king - have the letters I have sent; and repair thou to me - with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I - have words to speak in thine ear will make thee - dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of - the matter. These good fellows will bring thee - where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their - course for England: of them I have much to tell - thee. Farewell. - 'He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.' - Come, I will make you way for these your letters; - And do't the speedier, that you may direct me - To him from whom you brought them. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT IV - -SCENE VII Another room in the castle. - - [Enter KING CLAUDIUS and LAERTES] - -KING CLAUDIUS Now must your conscience my acquaintance seal, - And you must put me in your heart for friend, - Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear, - That he which hath your noble father slain - Pursued my life. - -LAERTES It well appears: but tell me - Why you proceeded not against these feats, - So crimeful and so capital in nature, - As by your safety, wisdom, all things else, - You mainly were stirr'd up. - -KING CLAUDIUS O, for two special reasons; - Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd, - But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother - Lives almost by his looks; and for myself-- - My virtue or my plague, be it either which-- - She's so conjunctive to my life and soul, - That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, - I could not but by her. The other motive, - Why to a public count I might not go, - Is the great love the general gender bear him; - Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, - Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone, - Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows, - Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind, - Would have reverted to my bow again, - And not where I had aim'd them. - -LAERTES And so have I a noble father lost; - A sister driven into desperate terms, - Whose worth, if praises may go back again, - Stood challenger on mount of all the age - For her perfections: but my revenge will come. - -KING CLAUDIUS Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think - That we are made of stuff so flat and dull - That we can let our beard be shook with danger - And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more: - I loved your father, and we love ourself; - And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine-- - - [Enter a Messenger] - - How now! what news? - -Messenger Letters, my lord, from Hamlet: - This to your majesty; this to the queen. - -KING CLAUDIUS From Hamlet! who brought them? - -Messenger Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not: - They were given me by Claudio; he received them - Of him that brought them. - -KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, you shall hear them. Leave us. - - [Exit Messenger] - - [Reads] - - 'High and mighty, You shall know I am set naked on - your kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see - your kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your - pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden - and more strange return. 'HAMLET.' - What should this mean? Are all the rest come back? - Or is it some abuse, and no such thing? - -LAERTES Know you the hand? - -KING CLAUDIUS 'Tis Hamlets character. 'Naked! - And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.' - Can you advise me? - -LAERTES I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come; - It warms the very sickness in my heart, - That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, - 'Thus didest thou.' - -KING CLAUDIUS If it be so, Laertes-- - As how should it be so? how otherwise?-- - Will you be ruled by me? - -LAERTES Ay, my lord; - So you will not o'errule me to a peace. - -KING CLAUDIUS To thine own peace. If he be now return'd, - As checking at his voyage, and that he means - No more to undertake it, I will work him - To an exploit, now ripe in my device, - Under the which he shall not choose but fall: - And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe, - But even his mother shall uncharge the practise - And call it accident. - -LAERTES My lord, I will be ruled; - The rather, if you could devise it so - That I might be the organ. - -KING CLAUDIUS It falls right. - You have been talk'd of since your travel much, - And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality - Wherein, they say, you shine: your sum of parts - Did not together pluck such envy from him - As did that one, and that, in my regard, - Of the unworthiest siege. - -LAERTES What part is that, my lord? - -KING CLAUDIUS A very riband in the cap of youth, - Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes - The light and careless livery that it wears - Than settled age his sables and his weeds, - Importing health and graveness. Two months since, - Here was a gentleman of Normandy:-- - I've seen myself, and served against, the French, - And they can well on horseback: but this gallant - Had witchcraft in't; he grew unto his seat; - And to such wondrous doing brought his horse, - As he had been incorpsed and demi-natured - With the brave beast: so far he topp'd my thought, - That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks, - Come short of what he did. - -LAERTES A Norman was't? - -KING CLAUDIUS A Norman. - -LAERTES Upon my life, Lamond. - -KING CLAUDIUS The very same. - -LAERTES I know him well: he is the brooch indeed - And gem of all the nation. - -KING CLAUDIUS He made confession of you, - And gave you such a masterly report - For art and exercise in your defence - And for your rapier most especially, - That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed, - If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation, - He swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye, - If you opposed them. Sir, this report of his - Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy - That he could nothing do but wish and beg - Your sudden coming o'er, to play with him. - Now, out of this,-- - -LAERTES What out of this, my lord? - -KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, was your father dear to you? - Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, - A face without a heart? - -LAERTES Why ask you this? - -KING CLAUDIUS Not that I think you did not love your father; - But that I know love is begun by time; - And that I see, in passages of proof, - Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. - There lives within the very flame of love - A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it; - And nothing is at a like goodness still; - For goodness, growing to a plurisy, - Dies in his own too much: that we would do - We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes - And hath abatements and delays as many - As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; - And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, - That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer:-- - Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake, - To show yourself your father's son in deed - More than in words? - -LAERTES To cut his throat i' the church. - -KING CLAUDIUS No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize; - Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes, - Will you do this, keep close within your chamber. - Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home: - We'll put on those shall praise your excellence - And set a double varnish on the fame - The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together - And wager on your heads: he, being remiss, - Most generous and free from all contriving, - Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease, - Or with a little shuffling, you may choose - A sword unbated, and in a pass of practise - Requite him for your father. - -LAERTES I will do't: - And, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword. - I bought an unction of a mountebank, - So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, - Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, - Collected from all simples that have virtue - Under the moon, can save the thing from death - That is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point - With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, - It may be death. - -KING CLAUDIUS Let's further think of this; - Weigh what convenience both of time and means - May fit us to our shape: if this should fail, - And that our drift look through our bad performance, - 'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project - Should have a back or second, that might hold, - If this should blast in proof. Soft! let me see: - We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings: I ha't. - When in your motion you are hot and dry-- - As make your bouts more violent to that end-- - And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him - A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, - If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck, - Our purpose may hold there. - - [Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE] - - How now, sweet queen! - -QUEEN GERTRUDE One woe doth tread upon another's heel, - So fast they follow; your sister's drown'd, Laertes. - -LAERTES Drown'd! O, where? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE There is a willow grows aslant a brook, - That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; - There with fantastic garlands did she come - Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples - That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, - But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: - There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds - Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; - When down her weedy trophies and herself - Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; - And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: - Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes; - As one incapable of her own distress, - Or like a creature native and indued - Unto that element: but long it could not be - Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, - Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay - To muddy death. - -LAERTES Alas, then, she is drown'd? - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Drown'd, drown'd. - -LAERTES Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, - And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet - It is our trick; nature her custom holds, - Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, - The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord: - I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, - But that this folly douts it. - - [Exit] - -KING CLAUDIUS Let's follow, Gertrude: - How much I had to do to calm his rage! - Now fear I this will give it start again; - Therefore let's follow. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT V - -SCENE I A churchyard. - - [Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c] - -First Clown Is she to be buried in Christian burial that - wilfully seeks her own salvation? - -Second Clown I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave - straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it - Christian burial. - -First Clown How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her - own defence? - -Second Clown Why, 'tis found so. - -First Clown It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else. For - here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly, - it argues an act: and an act hath three branches: it - is, to act, to do, to perform: argal, she drowned - herself wittingly. - -Second Clown Nay, but hear you, goodman delver,-- - -First Clown Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here - stands the man; good; if the man go to this water, - and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he - goes,--mark you that; but if the water come to him - and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he - that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. - -Second Clown But is this law? - -First Clown Ay, marry, is't; crowner's quest law. - -Second Clown Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been - a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o' - Christian burial. - -First Clown Why, there thou say'st: and the more pity that - great folk should have countenance in this world to - drown or hang themselves, more than their even - Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient - gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: - they hold up Adam's profession. - -Second Clown Was he a gentleman? - -First Clown He was the first that ever bore arms. - -Second Clown Why, he had none. - -First Clown What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the - Scripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:' - could he dig without arms? I'll put another - question to thee: if thou answerest me not to the - purpose, confess thyself-- - -Second Clown Go to. - -First Clown What is he that builds stronger than either the - mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? - -Second Clown The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a - thousand tenants. - -First Clown I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows - does well; but how does it well? it does well to - those that do in: now thou dost ill to say the - gallows is built stronger than the church: argal, - the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come. - -Second Clown 'Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or - a carpenter?' - -First Clown Ay, tell me that, and unyoke. - -Second Clown Marry, now I can tell. - -First Clown To't. - -Second Clown Mass, I cannot tell. - - [Enter HAMLET and HORATIO, at a distance] - -First Clown Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull - ass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when - you are asked this question next, say 'a - grave-maker: 'the houses that he makes last till - doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan: fetch me a - stoup of liquor. - - [Exit Second Clown] - - [He digs and sings] - - In youth, when I did love, did love, - Methought it was very sweet, - To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove, - O, methought, there was nothing meet. - -HAMLET Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he - sings at grave-making? - -HORATIO Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. - -HAMLET 'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath - the daintier sense. - -First Clown [Sings] - - But age, with his stealing steps, - Hath claw'd me in his clutch, - And hath shipped me intil the land, - As if I had never been such. - - [Throws up a skull] - -HAMLET That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: - how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were - Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It - might be the pate of a politician, which this ass - now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, - might it not? - -HORATIO It might, my lord. - -HAMLET Or of a courtier; which could say 'Good morrow, - sweet lord! How dost thou, good lord?' This might - be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord - such-a-one's horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not? - -HORATIO Ay, my lord. - -HAMLET Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and - knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade: - here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to - see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, - but to play at loggats with 'em? mine ache to think on't. - -First Clown: [Sings] - - A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, - For and a shrouding sheet: - O, a pit of clay for to be made - For such a guest is meet. - - [Throws up another skull] - -HAMLET There's another: why may not that be the skull of a - lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, - his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he - suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the - sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of - his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be - in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, - his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, - his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and - the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine - pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him - no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than - the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The - very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in - this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha? - -HORATIO Not a jot more, my lord. - -HAMLET Is not parchment made of sheepskins? - -HORATIO Ay, my lord, and of calf-skins too. - -HAMLET They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance - in that. I will speak to this fellow. Whose - grave's this, sirrah? - -First Clown Mine, sir. - - [Sings] - - O, a pit of clay for to be made - For such a guest is meet. - -HAMLET I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in't. - -First Clown You lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not - yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine. - -HAMLET 'Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: - 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest. - -First Clown 'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away gain, from me to - you. - -HAMLET What man dost thou dig it for? - -First Clown For no man, sir. - -HAMLET What woman, then? - -First Clown For none, neither. - -HAMLET Who is to be buried in't? - -First Clown One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead. - -HAMLET How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the - card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, - Horatio, these three years I have taken a note of - it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the - peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he - gaffs his kibe. How long hast thou been a - grave-maker? - -First Clown Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day - that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras. - -HAMLET How long is that since? - -First Clown Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it - was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that - is mad, and sent into England. - -HAMLET Ay, marry, why was he sent into England? - -First Clown Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits - there; or, if he do not, it's no great matter there. - -HAMLET Why? - -First Clown 'Twill, a not be seen in him there; there the men - are as mad as he. - -HAMLET How came he mad? - -First Clown Very strangely, they say. - -HAMLET How strangely? - -First Clown Faith, e'en with losing his wits. - -HAMLET Upon what ground? - -First Clown Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man - and boy, thirty years. - -HAMLET How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot? - -First Clown I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we - have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce - hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year - or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year. - -HAMLET Why he more than another? - -First Clown Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that - he will keep out water a great while; and your water - is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. - Here's a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth - three and twenty years. - -HAMLET Whose was it? - -First Clown A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was? - -HAMLET Nay, I know not. - -First Clown A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a - flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, - sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. - -HAMLET This? - -First Clown E'en that. - -HAMLET Let me see. - - [Takes the skull] - - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow - of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath - borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how - abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at - it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know - not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your - gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, - that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one - now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? - Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let - her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must - come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell - me one thing. - -HORATIO What's that, my lord? - -HAMLET Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i' - the earth? - -HORATIO E'en so. - -HAMLET And smelt so? pah! - - [Puts down the skull] - -HORATIO E'en so, my lord. - -HAMLET To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may - not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, - till he find it stopping a bung-hole? - -HORATIO 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. - -HAMLET No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with - modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as - thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, - Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of - earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he - was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel? - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, - Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: - O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, - Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw! - But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. - - [Enter Priest, &c. in procession; the Corpse of - OPHELIA, LAERTES and Mourners following; KING - CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, their trains, &c] - - The queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow? - And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken - The corse they follow did with desperate hand - Fordo its own life: 'twas of some estate. - Couch we awhile, and mark. - - [Retiring with HORATIO] - -LAERTES What ceremony else? - -HAMLET That is Laertes, - A very noble youth: mark. - -LAERTES What ceremony else? - -First Priest Her obsequies have been as far enlarged - As we have warrantise: her death was doubtful; - And, but that great command o'ersways the order, - She should in ground unsanctified have lodged - Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers, - Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her; - Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants, - Her maiden strewments and the bringing home - Of bell and burial. - -LAERTES Must there no more be done? - -First Priest No more be done: - We should profane the service of the dead - To sing a requiem and such rest to her - As to peace-parted souls. - -LAERTES Lay her i' the earth: - And from her fair and unpolluted flesh - May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, - A ministering angel shall my sister be, - When thou liest howling. - -HAMLET What, the fair Ophelia! - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Sweets to the sweet: farewell! - - [Scattering flowers] - - I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife; - I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, - And not have strew'd thy grave. - -LAERTES O, treble woe - Fall ten times treble on that cursed head, - Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense - Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile, - Till I have caught her once more in mine arms: - - [Leaps into the grave] - - Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead, - Till of this flat a mountain you have made, - To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head - Of blue Olympus. - -HAMLET [Advancing] What is he whose grief - Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow - Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand - Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I, - Hamlet the Dane. - - [Leaps into the grave] - -LAERTES The devil take thy soul! - - [Grappling with him] - -HAMLET Thou pray'st not well. - I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat; - For, though I am not splenitive and rash, - Yet have I something in me dangerous, - Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand. - -KING CLAUDIUS Pluck them asunder. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Hamlet, Hamlet! - -All Gentlemen,-- - -HORATIO Good my lord, be quiet. - - [The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave] - -HAMLET Why I will fight with him upon this theme - Until my eyelids will no longer wag. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE O my son, what theme? - -HAMLET I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers - Could not, with all their quantity of love, - Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? - -KING CLAUDIUS O, he is mad, Laertes. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE For love of God, forbear him. - -HAMLET 'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do: - Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself? - Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile? - I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine? - To outface me with leaping in her grave? - Be buried quick with her, and so will I: - And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw - Millions of acres on us, till our ground, - Singeing his pate against the burning zone, - Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, - I'll rant as well as thou. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE This is mere madness: - And thus awhile the fit will work on him; - Anon, as patient as the female dove, - When that her golden couplets are disclosed, - His silence will sit drooping. - -HAMLET Hear you, sir; - What is the reason that you use me thus? - I loved you ever: but it is no matter; - Let Hercules himself do what he may, - The cat will mew and dog will have his day. - - [Exit] - -KING CLAUDIUS I pray you, good Horatio, wait upon him. - - [Exit HORATIO] - - [To LAERTES] - - Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech; - We'll put the matter to the present push. - Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son. - This grave shall have a living monument: - An hour of quiet shortly shall we see; - Till then, in patience our proceeding be. - - [Exeunt] - - HAMLET - -ACT V - -SCENE II A hall in the castle. - - [Enter HAMLET and HORATIO] - -HAMLET So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other; - You do remember all the circumstance? - -HORATIO Remember it, my lord? - -HAMLET Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting, - That would not let me sleep: methought I lay - Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly, - And praised be rashness for it, let us know, - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, - When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us - There's a divinity that shapes our ends, - Rough-hew them how we will,-- - -HORATIO That is most certain. - -HAMLET Up from my cabin, - My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark - Groped I to find out them; had my desire. - Finger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew - To mine own room again; making so bold, - My fears forgetting manners, to unseal - Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,-- - O royal knavery!--an exact command, - Larded with many several sorts of reasons - Importing Denmark's health and England's too, - With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life, - That, on the supervise, no leisure bated, - No, not to stay the grinding of the axe, - My head should be struck off. - -HORATIO Is't possible? - -HAMLET Here's the commission: read it at more leisure. - But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed? - -HORATIO I beseech you. - -HAMLET Being thus be-netted round with villanies,-- - Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, - They had begun the play--I sat me down, - Devised a new commission, wrote it fair: - I once did hold it, as our statists do, - A baseness to write fair and labour'd much - How to forget that learning, but, sir, now - It did me yeoman's service: wilt thou know - The effect of what I wrote? - -HORATIO Ay, good my lord. - -HAMLET An earnest conjuration from the king, - As England was his faithful tributary, - As love between them like the palm might flourish, - As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear - And stand a comma 'tween their amities, - And many such-like 'As'es of great charge, - That, on the view and knowing of these contents, - Without debatement further, more or less, - He should the bearers put to sudden death, - Not shriving-time allow'd. - -HORATIO How was this seal'd? - -HAMLET Why, even in that was heaven ordinant. - I had my father's signet in my purse, - Which was the model of that Danish seal; - Folded the writ up in form of the other, - Subscribed it, gave't the impression, placed it safely, - The changeling never known. Now, the next day - Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent - Thou know'st already. - -HORATIO So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. - -HAMLET Why, man, they did make love to this employment; - They are not near my conscience; their defeat - Does by their own insinuation grow: - 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes - Between the pass and fell incensed points - Of mighty opposites. - -HORATIO Why, what a king is this! - -HAMLET Does it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon-- - He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother, - Popp'd in between the election and my hopes, - Thrown out his angle for my proper life, - And with such cozenage--is't not perfect conscience, - To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd, - To let this canker of our nature come - In further evil? - -HORATIO It must be shortly known to him from England - What is the issue of the business there. - -HAMLET It will be short: the interim is mine; - And a man's life's no more than to say 'One.' - But I am very sorry, good Horatio, - That to Laertes I forgot myself; - For, by the image of my cause, I see - The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours. - But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me - Into a towering passion. - -HORATIO Peace! who comes here? - - [Enter OSRIC] - -OSRIC Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark. - -HAMLET I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly? - -HORATIO No, my good lord. - -HAMLET Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to - know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a - beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at - the king's mess: 'tis a chough; but, as I say, - spacious in the possession of dirt. - -OSRIC Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I - should impart a thing to you from his majesty. - -HAMLET I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of - spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head. - -OSRIC I thank your lordship, it is very hot. - -HAMLET No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is - northerly. - -OSRIC It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed. - -HAMLET But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my - complexion. - -OSRIC Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry,--as - 'twere,--I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his - majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a - great wager on your head: sir, this is the matter,-- - -HAMLET I beseech you, remember-- - - [HAMLET moves him to put on his hat] - -OSRIC Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith. - Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes; believe - me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent - differences, of very soft society and great showing: - indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or - calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the - continent of what part a gentleman would see. - -HAMLET Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; - though, I know, to divide him inventorially would - dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw - neither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the - verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of - great article; and his infusion of such dearth and - rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his - semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace - him, his umbrage, nothing more. - -OSRIC Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him. - -HAMLET The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman - in our more rawer breath? - -OSRIC Sir? - -HORATIO Is't not possible to understand in another tongue? - You will do't, sir, really. - -HAMLET What imports the nomination of this gentleman? - -OSRIC Of Laertes? - -HORATIO His purse is empty already; all's golden words are spent. - -HAMLET Of him, sir. - -OSRIC I know you are not ignorant-- - -HAMLET I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did, - it would not much approve me. Well, sir? - -OSRIC You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is-- - -HAMLET I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with - him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to - know himself. - -OSRIC I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation - laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed. - -HAMLET What's his weapon? - -OSRIC Rapier and dagger. - -HAMLET That's two of his weapons: but, well. - -OSRIC The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary - horses: against the which he has imponed, as I take - it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their - assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: three of the - carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very - responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, - and of very liberal conceit. - -HAMLET What call you the carriages? - -HORATIO I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done. - -OSRIC The carriages, sir, are the hangers. - -HAMLET The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we - could carry cannon by our sides: I would it might - be hangers till then. But, on: six Barbary horses - against six French swords, their assigns, and three - liberal-conceited carriages; that's the French bet - against the Danish. Why is this 'imponed,' as you call it? - -OSRIC The king, sir, hath laid, that in a dozen passes - between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you - three hits: he hath laid on twelve for nine; and it - would come to immediate trial, if your lordship - would vouchsafe the answer. - -HAMLET How if I answer 'no'? - -OSRIC I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial. - -HAMLET Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his - majesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me; let - the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the - king hold his purpose, I will win for him an I can; - if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits. - -OSRIC Shall I re-deliver you e'en so? - -HAMLET To this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature will. - -OSRIC I commend my duty to your lordship. - -HAMLET Yours, yours. - - [Exit OSRIC] - - He does well to commend it himself; there are no - tongues else for's turn. - -HORATIO This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head. - -HAMLET He did comply with his dug, before he sucked it. - Thus has he--and many more of the same bevy that I - know the dressy age dotes on--only got the tune of - the time and outward habit of encounter; a kind of - yesty collection, which carries them through and - through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do - but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out. - - [Enter a Lord] - -Lord My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young - Osric, who brings back to him that you attend him in - the hall: he sends to know if your pleasure hold to - play with Laertes, or that you will take longer time. - -HAMLET I am constant to my purpose; they follow the king's - pleasure: if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now - or whensoever, provided I be so able as now. - -Lord The king and queen and all are coming down. - -HAMLET In happy time. - -Lord The queen desires you to use some gentle - entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play. - -HAMLET She well instructs me. - - [Exit Lord] - -HORATIO You will lose this wager, my lord. - -HAMLET I do not think so: since he went into France, I - have been in continual practise: I shall win at the - odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here - about my heart: but it is no matter. - -HORATIO Nay, good my lord,-- - -HAMLET It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of - gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman. - -HORATIO If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will - forestall their repair hither, and say you are not - fit. - -HAMLET Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special - providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, - 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be - now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the - readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he - leaves, what is't to leave betimes? - - [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES, - Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, &c] - -KING CLAUDIUS Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me. - - [KING CLAUDIUS puts LAERTES' hand into HAMLET's] - -HAMLET Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong; - But pardon't, as you are a gentleman. - This presence knows, - And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd - With sore distraction. What I have done, - That might your nature, honour and exception - Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. - Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet: - If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, - And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes, - Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it. - Who does it, then? His madness: if't be so, - Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd; - His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy. - Sir, in this audience, - Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil - Free me so far in your most generous thoughts, - That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, - And hurt my brother. - -LAERTES I am satisfied in nature, - Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most - To my revenge: but in my terms of honour - I stand aloof; and will no reconcilement, - Till by some elder masters, of known honour, - I have a voice and precedent of peace, - To keep my name ungored. But till that time, - I do receive your offer'd love like love, - And will not wrong it. - -HAMLET I embrace it freely; - And will this brother's wager frankly play. - Give us the foils. Come on. - -LAERTES Come, one for me. - -HAMLET I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance - Your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night, - Stick fiery off indeed. - -LAERTES You mock me, sir. - -HAMLET No, by this hand. - -KING CLAUDIUS Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet, - You know the wager? - -HAMLET Very well, my lord - Your grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side. - -KING CLAUDIUS I do not fear it; I have seen you both: - But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds. - -LAERTES This is too heavy, let me see another. - -HAMLET This likes me well. These foils have all a length? - - [They prepare to play] - -OSRIC Ay, my good lord. - -KING CLAUDIUS Set me the stoops of wine upon that table. - If Hamlet give the first or second hit, - Or quit in answer of the third exchange, - Let all the battlements their ordnance fire: - The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; - And in the cup an union shall he throw, - Richer than that which four successive kings - In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups; - And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, - The trumpet to the cannoneer without, - The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth, - 'Now the king dunks to Hamlet.' Come, begin: - And you, the judges, bear a wary eye. - -HAMLET Come on, sir. - -LAERTES Come, my lord. - - [They play] - -HAMLET One. - -LAERTES No. - -HAMLET Judgment. - -OSRIC A hit, a very palpable hit. - -LAERTES Well; again. - -KING CLAUDIUS Stay; give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine; - Here's to thy health. - - [Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within] - - Give him the cup. - -HAMLET I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile. Come. - - [They play] - - Another hit; what say you? - -LAERTES A touch, a touch, I do confess. - -KING CLAUDIUS Our son shall win. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE He's fat, and scant of breath. - Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows; - The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet. - -HAMLET Good madam! - -KING CLAUDIUS Gertrude, do not drink. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE I will, my lord; I pray you, pardon me. - -KING CLAUDIUS [Aside] It is the poison'd cup: it is too late. - -HAMLET I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE Come, let me wipe thy face. - -LAERTES My lord, I'll hit him now. - -KING CLAUDIUS I do not think't. - -LAERTES [Aside] And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience. - -HAMLET Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally; - I pray you, pass with your best violence; - I am afeard you make a wanton of me. - -LAERTES Say you so? come on. - - [They play] - -OSRIC Nothing, neither way. - -LAERTES Have at you now! - - [LAERTES wounds HAMLET; then in scuffling, they - change rapiers, and HAMLET wounds LAERTES] - -KING CLAUDIUS Part them; they are incensed. - -HAMLET Nay, come, again. - - [QUEEN GERTRUDE falls] - -OSRIC Look to the queen there, ho! - -HORATIO They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord? - -OSRIC How is't, Laertes? - -LAERTES Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric; - I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery. - -HAMLET How does the queen? - -KING CLAUDIUS She swounds to see them bleed. - -QUEEN GERTRUDE No, no, the drink, the drink,--O my dear Hamlet,-- - The drink, the drink! I am poison'd. - - [Dies] - -HAMLET O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd: - Treachery! Seek it out. - -LAERTES It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain; - No medicine in the world can do thee good; - In thee there is not half an hour of life; - The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, - Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practise - Hath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie, - Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd: - I can no more: the king, the king's to blame. - -HAMLET The point!--envenom'd too! - Then, venom, to thy work. - - [Stabs KING CLAUDIUS] - -All Treason! treason! - -KING CLAUDIUS O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt. - -HAMLET Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, - Drink off this potion. Is thy union here? - Follow my mother. - - [KING CLAUDIUS dies] - -LAERTES He is justly served; - It is a poison temper'd by himself. - Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet: - Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, - Nor thine on me. - - [Dies] - -HAMLET Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee. - I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu! - You that look pale and tremble at this chance, - That are but mutes or audience to this act, - Had I but time--as this fell sergeant, death, - Is strict in his arrest--O, I could tell you-- - But let it be. Horatio, I am dead; - Thou livest; report me and my cause aright - To the unsatisfied. - -HORATIO Never believe it: - I am more an antique Roman than a Dane: - Here's yet some liquor left. - -HAMLET As thou'rt a man, - Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have't. - O good Horatio, what a wounded name, - Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! - If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart - Absent thee from felicity awhile, - And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, - To tell my story. - - [March afar off, and shot within] - - What warlike noise is this? - -OSRIC Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland, - To the ambassadors of England gives - This warlike volley. - -HAMLET O, I die, Horatio; - The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit: - I cannot live to hear the news from England; - But I do prophesy the election lights - On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; - So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, - Which have solicited. The rest is silence. - - [Dies] - -HORATIO Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: - And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! - Why does the drum come hither? - - [March within] - - [Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors, - and others] - -PRINCE FORTINBRAS Where is this sight? - -HORATIO What is it ye would see? - If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search. - -PRINCE FORTINBRAS This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death, - What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, - That thou so many princes at a shot - So bloodily hast struck? - -First Ambassador The sight is dismal; - And our affairs from England come too late: - The ears are senseless that should give us hearing, - To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd, - That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead: - Where should we have our thanks? - -HORATIO Not from his mouth, - Had it the ability of life to thank you: - He never gave commandment for their death. - But since, so jump upon this bloody question, - You from the Polack wars, and you from England, - Are here arrived give order that these bodies - High on a stage be placed to the view; - And let me speak to the yet unknowing world - How these things came about: so shall you hear - Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, - Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, - Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, - And, in this upshot, purposes mistook - Fall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I - Truly deliver. - -PRINCE FORTINBRAS Let us haste to hear it, - And call the noblest to the audience. - For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune: - I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, - Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me. - -HORATIO Of that I shall have also cause to speak, - And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more; - But let this same be presently perform'd, - Even while men's minds are wild; lest more mischance - On plots and errors, happen. - -PRINCE FORTINBRAS Let four captains - Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage; - For he was likely, had he been put on, - To have proved most royally: and, for his passage, - The soldiers' music and the rites of war - Speak loudly for him. - Take up the bodies: such a sight as this - Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. - Go, bid the soldiers shoot. - - [A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead - bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off]` diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/secrets.go b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/secrets.go deleted file mode 100644 index 1367b63..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters/secrets.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -package filters - -import ( - "bytes" - "strings" -) - -func Secrets() FilterFunc { - return func(b []byte) ([]byte, error) { - for k, v := range env { - for _, s := range secretSuffixes { - if !strings.HasSuffix(k, s) { - continue - } - b = bytes.ReplaceAll(b, []byte(v), []byte(mask())) - break - } - } - return b, nil - } -} - -var secretSuffixes = []string{ - "_KEY", - "_SECRET", - "_TOKEN", - "_PASSWORD", - "_PASS", -} diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/hepa.go b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/hepa.go deleted file mode 100644 index afc4c01..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/hepa.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -package hepa - -func WithFunc(p Purifier, fn FilterFunc) Purifier { - c := New() - c.parent = &p - c.filter = fn - return c -} - -func With(p Purifier, f Filter) Purifier { - c := New() - c.parent = &p - c.filter = f - return c -} diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/purifier.go b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/purifier.go deleted file mode 100644 index d62a5fa..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/purifier.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ -package hepa - -import ( - "bufio" - "bytes" - "io" - - "github.com/markbates/pkger/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters" -) - -type Purifier struct { - parent *Purifier - filter Filter -} - -func (p Purifier) Filter(b []byte) ([]byte, error) { - if p.filter == nil { - p.filter = filters.Home() - } - b, err := p.filter.Filter(b) - if err != nil { - return b, err - } - if p.parent != nil { - return p.parent.Filter(b) - } - return b, nil -} - -func (p Purifier) Clean(r io.Reader) ([]byte, error) { - bb := &bytes.Buffer{} - - if p.filter == nil { - if p.parent != nil { - return p.parent.Clean(r) - } - _, err := io.Copy(bb, r) - return bb.Bytes(), err - } - - home := filters.Home() - reader := bufio.NewReader(r) - for { - input, _, err := reader.ReadLine() - if err != nil && err == io.EOF { - break - } - input, err = p.Filter(input) - if err != nil { - return nil, err - } - input, err = home(input) - if err != nil { - return nil, err - } - bb.Write(input) - // if len(input) > 0 { - bb.Write([]byte("\n")) - // } - } - - return bb.Bytes(), nil -} - -func New() Purifier { - return Purifier{} -} diff --git a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/version.go b/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/version.go deleted file mode 100644 index c8619a6..0000000 --- a/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/version.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -package hepa - -// Version of hepa -const Version = "v0.0.1" diff --git a/pkging/embed/embed.go b/pkging/embed/embed.go index 5eaf307..3ed7e7e 100644 --- a/pkging/embed/embed.go +++ b/pkging/embed/embed.go @@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ import ( "io" "github.com/markbates/pkger/here" - "github.com/markbates/pkger/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa" - "github.com/markbates/pkger/internal/takeon/github.com/markbates/hepa/filters" ) func Decode(src []byte) ([]byte, error) { @@ -31,15 +29,6 @@ func Decode(src []byte) ([]byte, error) { } func Encode(b []byte) ([]byte, error) { - hep := hepa.New() - hep = hepa.With(hep, filters.Home()) - hep = hepa.With(hep, filters.Golang()) - - b, err := hep.Filter(b) - if err != nil { - return nil, err - } - bb := &bytes.Buffer{} gz := gzip.NewWriter(bb) From c78e87acb0c8ee310bb3f925e6ca640e28394472 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Skinner Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 09:31:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Updating documentation to reflect the paths generated without the hepa library --- README.md | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2730fe2..32215ea 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ Paths: * Packages can specified in at the beginning of a path with a `:` seperator. github.com/markbates/pkger:/cmd/pkger/main.go * There are no relative paths. All paths are absolute to the modules root. +* Fully-qualified paths are embedded into the metadata of your static assets. If this behavior is undesirable, a preference is to build in a containerized environ, like docker, where the path strings are not ex-filtrating data about your development environment. ``` -"github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo:/go.mod" => $GOPATH/pkg/mod/github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo@v0.14.7/go.mod +"github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo:/go.mod" => /go/pkg/mod/github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo@v0.14.7/go.mod ``` ## CLI @@ -284,26 +285,26 @@ $ pkger parse ".": [ { "file": { - "Abs": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/foo/bar/baz", + "Abs": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/foo/bar/baz", "Path": { "Pkg": "app", "Name": "/foo/bar/baz" }, "Here": { - "Dir": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", + "Dir": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", "ImportPath": "app", "Module": { "Path": "app", "Main": true, - "Dir": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", - "GoMod": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/go.mod", + "Dir": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", + "GoMod": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/go.mod", "GoVersion": "1.13" }, "Name": "main" } }, "pos": { - "Filename": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/main.go", + "Filename": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/main.go", "Offset": 629, "Line": 47, "Column": 27 @@ -313,26 +314,26 @@ $ pkger parse }, { "file": { - "Abs": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/foo/bar/baz/biz.txt", + "Abs": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/foo/bar/baz/biz.txt", "Path": { "Pkg": "app", "Name": "/foo/bar/baz/biz.txt" }, "Here": { - "Dir": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", + "Dir": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", "ImportPath": "app", "Module": { "Path": "app", "Main": true, - "Dir": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", - "GoMod": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/go.mod", + "Dir": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", + "GoMod": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/go.mod", "GoVersion": "1.13" }, "Name": "main" } }, "pos": { - "Filename": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/main.go", + "Filename": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/main.go", "Offset": 706, "Line": 51, "Column": 25 @@ -388,38 +389,38 @@ $ pkger list -json "ImportPath": "app", "Files": [ { - "Abs": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/assets", + "Abs": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/assets", "Path": { "Pkg": "app", "Name": "/assets" }, "Here": { - "Dir": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/assets", + "Dir": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/assets", "ImportPath": "", "Module": { "Path": "app", "Main": true, - "Dir": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", - "GoMod": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/go.mod", + "Dir": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", + "GoMod": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/go.mod", "GoVersion": "1.13" }, "Name": "assets" } }, { - "Abs": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/assets/css", + "Abs": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/assets/css", "Path": { "Pkg": "app", "Name": "/assets/css" }, "Here": { - "Dir": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/assets", + "Dir": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/assets", "ImportPath": "", "Module": { "Path": "app", "Main": true, - "Dir": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", - "GoMod": "$GOPATH/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/go.mod", + "Dir": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref", + "GoMod": "/go/src/github.com/markbates/pkger/pkging/pkgtest/testdata/ref/go.mod", "GoVersion": "1.13" }, "Name": "assets"