The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

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Title: The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke The First ('Bad') Quarto
Author: William Shakespeare
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THE [TP]
Tragicall Historie of
HAMLET
Prince of Denmarke

By William Shake-speare.

As it hath beene diuerse times acted by his Highnesse ser-
uants in the Cittie of London: as also in the two V-
niuersities of Cambridge and Oxford, and else-where

[Illustration]

At London printed for N.L. and Iohn Trundell.
1603.
[TPv]

[Illustration] [B1]

The Tragicall Historie of
HAMLET
Prince of Denmarke.

Enter two Centinels.

1. Stand: who is that?
2. T'is I.
1. O you come most carefully vpon your watch,
2. And if you meet Marcellus and Horatio,
The partners of my watch, bid them make haste.
1. I will: See who goes there.
Enter Horatio and Marcellus.
Hor. Friends to this ground.
Mar. And leegemen to the Dane,
O farewell honest souldier, who hath releeued you?
1. Barnardo hath my place, giue you goodnight.
Mar. Holla, Barnardo.
2. Say, is Horatio there?
Hor. A peece of him.
2. Welcome Horatio, welcome good Marcellus.
Mar. What hath this thing appear'd againe to night.
2. I haue seene nothing.
Mar. Horatio says tis but our fantasie,
And wil not let beliefe take hold of him,
Touching this dreaded sight twice seene by vs,
Therefore I haue intreated him a long with vs [B1v]
To watch the minutes of this night,
That if againe this apparition come,
He may approoue our eyes, and speake to it.
Hor. Tut, t'will not appeare.
2. Sit downe I pray, and let vs once againe
Assaile your eares that are so fortified,
What we haue two nights seene.
Hor. Wel, sit we downe, and let vs heare Bernardo speake
of this.
2. Last night of al, when yonder starre that's west-
ward from the pole, had made his course to
Illumine that part of heauen. Where now it burnes,
The bell then towling one.

Enter Ghost.

Mar. Breake off your talke, see where it comes againe.
2. In the same figure like the King that's dead,
Mar. Thou art a scholler, speake to it Horatio.
2. Lookes it not like the king?
Hor. Most like, it horrors mee with feare and wonder.
2. It would be spoke to.
Mar. Question it Horatio.
Hor. What art thou that thus vsurps the state, in
Which the Maiestie of buried Denmarke did sometimes
Walke? By heauen I charge thee speake.
Mar. It is offended. exit Ghost.
2. See, it stalkes away.
Hor. Stay, speake, speake, by heauen I charge thee
speake.
Mar. Tis gone and makes no answer.
2. How now Horatio, you tremble and looke pale,
Is not this something more than fantasie?
What thinke you on't?
Hor. Afore my God, I might not this beleeue, without
the sensible and true auouch of my owne eyes.
Mar. Is it not like the King? [B2]
Hor. As thou art to thy selfe,
Such was the very armor he had on,
When he